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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-30
LITERARY NOTES.

Forty unpublished letters of Richard
Cromwell are soon to be printed in the En-
glish Historical Review
''Elissa" is the the title of Mr.. Rider Hag-
CARDS forthcoming novel. The scene is laid
in the center of Africa about 1900 3. G.
Mr.. Bret Harte's new photographed
sketch entitled How / Went to the Mines -
is to be published in the Youths Com
panion
Those who possess copies of the first edi-
ton of "Alice in Wonderland" says a Lon
don letter, may be interested to know that
they are now worth from $50 to $50, accord
ing to their condition
Mr.. H. G. Wells, the novelist, has said
that his ideal of work was to spend a year
on q book burn it at the end, and devote
another year to rewriting it. This it Is
minated is what he has done with the
story which he has been engaged for the
last two years
An enthusiastic person in Dundee has
collected Lang library, consisting entirely
of the works of Andrew Lang, and has a
catalogue of 65S volumes with which Mr..
Lang has In some way had to do, as author,
editor or contributor. This. includes his
magazine contributions, but probably not
his newspaper work, which must be the
most voluminouS of all.
1t is stated that L. Chapman, Dickens S
publisher, once said to Dickens, take a
pinch of snuff and handed him a box con-
tanning 91, 40O-about $1,000. "Pickwick'' was
not popular just at first but when the
sales improved the publishers began to
make substantial acknowledgment and al
together paid for the book 81 200 more than
was stipulated for. They could we'll afford
to do thiS
Philadelphia papers announce the engage
ment of Owen Wister, the short-story
writer, ard his cousin, Miss Wister Miss
Wister is said to be one of the most accom-
plished and popular OF the younger girls in
Philadelphia society. Her fiance is equal
ly well known in the social world besides
being one of the most accomplished of the
younger men of letters who claim that city
as their birthplace.
James Lane Allen was recently asked by
a Detroit reporter if when an author has
an interesting plot he is not liable to make
himself the hero. Never neverg' replied
Mr.. Allen warmly, as though urged by fire.
quent accusations of 9his into a forcible
denial. ''At least / never draw my charac-
ters from any real persons, never. Yet 1t
is the constant aim of every sincere writer
TO have his people as true to humanity as
possible. 1t stands 10 reason that If [ drew
the picture of a person whom | have known
giving merely the characteristics that in
tercourse with him has disclosed to me,
should be giving picture that must be out
Of proportion and inadequate. Imagination
is necessary to fill in the parts that / can
not know from personal acquaintance. An
artist often uses many models-head and
feet from third. A novelist 5.ould do the
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Duty and responsibility were married in
the garden of Eden.-Ram's Horn.
If girl is born beautiful she is as good
as born married.-French Proverb.
The man who trusts men will make fewer
mistakes than he who distrusts them.-Ca-
YOUR.
Earth has nothing more tender than a
woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
Luther.
Marry your son when you like, but your
daughter as soon as you can.-French
Proverb.
The future not being born, my friend. we
will abstain from baptizing it-George
Meredith.
We enjoy ourselves only in our work-in
our doing, and our best doing is our best
enJoyment--Jacobi. -
Affection is more matter of habit than
Of sentiment, horrid as this may sound.
PHILADELPHIA Times.
Pas mighty cross to me when he's got tn
rheumatism. Guess he thinks he 'herited it
from me,-Little Pluto Smith.
Bill-He's got good square head on his
shoulders Jill-Sort of a hollow square
isn't it?-YonkerS Statesman.
Man always meets trouble half way and
then stands on a corner expecting happiness
to come afOng.-Emma Carleton.
Handicapped.-"Who is your favorite au-
thor?" Pardon me, sir, but / am an au-
thor myself. ''-Cleveland Flaindealer.
Is it that woman needs her religion
more than a man does his that it is so much
more to her than 1t is to him?-Truth.
If you want to find out who the silent
partner is just walk in and assail the firms
business standing.-Richmond Dispatch.
When good man has an overbearing
wife all other wives have a mysterious feel
ing that things are being made even.-Chi-
cago Record.
YES" SAID the widow, II shall paint the
house yellow for dear Georges sake. He
liked the coior, and--and you know he died
of liver trouble.-Judge.
I The hen is not good example for hui
mainly; she sets when she wants to, but
heaven and earth can't make her set when
she doesn't want to.-Detroit Free Press.
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able skepticism who refuses to believe that
any New Jersey man of the name of Smith
is sufficiently fascinating TO cause a woman
and a widow at that, to forget herself and
the world for six years. The proof of the
truth of hypnotism lies in another direction.
The charming Mrs. Humphrey-Smith-Pi Piper
the word Charming is used advisedly-
fixing her soft and fearful eyes upon that
jury of twelve good men and true, who an
hour before would have jeered at hypno-
tism, told them her hypnotic tale, and those
twelve good men believed her and let her go
free. Here was hypnotism, indeed. Not
only did she work her spell upon the jury,
but upon the audience. which rose to its
feet and gave three cheers at the verdict.
She forgot to include the judge in her COM
pelling gaze and he was left paralyzed, not
hypnotized When such things as this can
be the most prejudiced must acknowledge
that the ways of the human creature are
mysterious, and that If the influence of Mrs.
Humphrey-Smith-Pi on that New Jersey
jury was not hypnotic it was something
equally curious and unaccountable.
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of the robber barons from whom they have
their origin. The Armenian can always get
the better of the Kurd in all business trans
actions, 6 fact which no one knows better
than the Kurd himself He offsets the ex-
tortions of the Armenians by robbery. Any
sort of an excuse for pillage is his oppor-
tunity. In country without much law it is
natural that these two races, which have
been hostile to each other, and whose char
acteristics are so at variance should come
into collision without the incentive of differ
ent religious beliefs. As it was the hatred
of race, not the blind zeal of religion which
fired the Czechs to assail the German be-
cause he wore the high hat so in Armenia
race hatreds, stimulated by antagonisms
growing out of trade, may account for the
cruel outbreaks in that country.
1t is fortunate for us that we have es-
capped the century feuds of race by the har-
monious blending of the Caucasian races
which have come to this country. A few
Instances of race antagonisms in commu-
mites made up of immigrants from the war;
ring races in Europe over church affairs
may serve to warn us of the dangers which
would lie in keeping alive here the feuds of
blood in other lands. The Welfare of the
Republic demands a common citizenship,
know as distinctively American, rather
than American with hyphenated prefix.
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THE CENTURY FEUDs OF RACES.

As a rule. we know little of race antipa-
thies in this country. There is prejudice
AGAINST the colored man, but it is not based
,,non the hatreds which for centuries have
kent races intact and at war with each
other in the old world. in the current num-
Der of the Atlantic Monthly writer under
takes to show that colored men who are
mechanics have been driven from employ
ment by labor unions which they are not
permitted to join. This may have been so
in the past, but at the present time, IN
MANY branches of industry, colored men are
admitted to labor unions. 1t is not easy for
them to get into some of them, but the most
rigid of unions in regard to membership, the
Typographical, does not exclude them in its
regulations The foreman of union office
In Superior Wis, is colored man. The
objection to colored men is prejudice
which yields to the sense of justice when a
competent man of good character applies
for membership.
The race feuds of the old world are of a
different character, because time does not
efface them. The difference which caused
the recent riots in the Austrian Assembly
were due to a war of races, breaking out
of the contention of centuries between Ger
mans and Czechs. The races do not min
gle: they are like powder and fire. The
well.to-do German in Austria wears the tall
hat. To the Poles and Hungarians 1t is said
to be artistically offensive. doubtless be-
| cause it is the elegant headgear in the opin-
| ion of the German. Not long since. DR..
n a town
wearing tall hat No sooner did he make
his appearance than he was set upon by a
furious mob, which threatened to tear him
| limb from Enthusiastically because of his
hat, which they damned down over his
eyes. 1t was not the hat in itself, we are
told. which so exasperated the Czechs, but
because it was regarded as the defiant
badge of the well-to-do German in Austria.
The tall hat stood for race antipathies
which are centuries old.
DR.. Hepworth, in one Of his interesting
letters TO the New York Herald from Ar
menia, gives another Illustration of race
antipathies which have survived the centu-
| ries The conflict between the Armenians
| and Turks, he maintains, Is not due to re-
ligious differences, but to those of race. The
Armenian boasts of his ancestry. His ma
tional record runs back to the days when
the ark rested on Ararat, mountain in
| the vicinity. He never intermarries. He
has had a dynasty of his own in the far
away past but he has lost so many bat
ties in centuries that he no longer has mil
| itary spirit. He has become the merchant
and money lender of the land: sharper than
Hebrew or Greek, he can always outwit the
Kurd. The Arnenians are the thrifty race
of the country. and own the property. With
out them there would be no revenues from
which to collect taxes The Kurds, who are
far the stronger race in Armenia. also hold
their ancestry in high esteem. They are
I Turks in religion only. They are not a
thrifty people. but they hold the arrogance
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A Georgia editor describes a defaulter who
had skipped out ''as six feet tall and $10,-
0OJ short
George NJ. Pullman's library in his Chi
cago house contained sic volumes appraised
at s24024 The other contents Of the library
We're appraised at $l6,239.
The wife of the Grand Francais,, NJ.
De Lesseps, spends the greater part of the
year at La Chesnage, where her husband
died. She receives a pension of $4,000 O.
year from the Suez Canal Company.
The 'Deacon's One.Hoss Shay" has been
outdone by the coloneis 'one- boss sleigh.
sleigh made by Col. David Moseley in
1776 has been in the family service ever
since 1t is now owned by Edward Moseley
of Westfield Mass, great-grandson. 1t is
a low backed affair and a "hansum cutter
even now.
Italy is congratulating itself that there
were only 500 duels fought last year in the
whole country. OF these 100 had serious
consequences. Only one duellist was killed
outright on the spot; six others died of
wounds OF the 1913 serious duels seventy
FIVE were between soldiers, fifteen between
officers and in thirteen officers fought SOL
diers.
Corea's Emperor, now that he has buried
the ashes of his late consort. is looking
about for a new wife The Corean people do
not care whom he selects but wish him to
marry soon so that they may have lawful
marriages again, all marrying and giving
in marriage throughout the country having
come to an end according to custom the
moment the late Queen was murdered more
than two years ago.
A newspaper woman in Washington called
on Mrs. John Sherman the other day to get
some information, but found that she was
not at home. We'll, hasn't she a secretary
who can tell me about ii? said the news
paper woman. Certainly, madam an
swered the man servant; this way. please =
And leading the way along the hail he
threw omen a door and ushered her into the
presence of the secretary of state. The Sec
rotary laughed heartily when the quick
witted newspaper woman explained the sit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-30
IDLE CoNyICTs.

The proposition of State Geologist Batch
ley to utilize convict labor in the manu-
facture of paving brick and the preparation
of broken stone for roads has the merit of
novelty and manifestly good motive. Not
withstanding some obvious objections to the
plan, it is feasible, and could be carried
out if the people and the State were earn
estly in favor of it,. Given several
hundred convicts who ought to have en-
ployment of some kind, and extensive beds
OF clay and deposits of shale and stone,
there is no insuperable difficulty in bringing
the labor to bear upon the raw material in
such a way as to make it productive. If
the plan were adopted and adhered 10 for
few years it might result in making In
diana the most advanced State in the Union
in respect of paved streets and good roads.
1t is not likely, however, that this PROPOSE
ton or any other resembling it will be
adopted. 1t would require a higher degree
of craftsmanship and courage than the
average legislature possesses, and more
reasonableness than the opponents of con-
Wet labor are likely to show. The effect of
the combined operation of these two in
AOCllCCS - " hCcp up 1t COIlulIlOH VI lOlS-
ness among the convicts which is democrat
izing to them, costly TO the State and dis
creditable to our civilization. Indiana has
recently gained considerable credit for it's
reformatory prison legislation. No penal
system can fairly be called reformatory that
requires or permits unemployment of con-
victs. Such policy isequally cruel to the
convicts and to the State-to the former
because it inflicts punishment which tends
to destroy their minds and bodies and
makes them involuntary pupils in a state
school for crime, and to the State because
it requires the people to maintain in un-
productive idleness a large number of per-
sons who should be at least self-supporting
A State which, instead of giving its convicts
a chance to become reformed. or at least
improved, through the healthy influence of
productive labor, and which, on the con-
trary, places them in a condition most fruit
full of vice and crime is itself guilty of a
crime which is as costly to the people as
it is revolving to the moral sense A prison
full of idle convicts is hurniliating COM
mentary on the boosted philanthropy, prog
ress and craftsmanship of the closing years
of the nineteenth century.
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EARLY METAL WORKERS.
Antiquity of the Art Established By
Discovered Inscriptions.
SeIf-Culture.


The earliest miners and metal workers
of whom we have record were the Aryan
peoples of Euro-Asan origin, who, though
Of pastoral and arboreal habits, We're IA
miliar with the metals and worked with
thern-at least with the metals gold, silver
and bronze Chaideans and Assyrians, as
we now know from the cuneiform inscrip-
items which go back 5000 Il. C., We're I'M
doubtedly expert in the use of metals, while
the Egyptians had an intimate knowledge
of the arts and sciences. In the brick and
other Inscriptions recently discovered arti-
sans are seen "a work with curious details
of their methods and tools. Potters, in
deed had obtained emnence in their art
and the Egyptians had certainly a knowl-
edge of chemistry, as the samples of their
tools forceps, blow-pipes, etc, prove. Gold
tween 4CC0 and 5000 b. c., as we find from
some newly discovered and ingenious
weighing balances. Many centuries older
than the pyramids, which date from fifty
to sixty centuries back, we have examples
of engineering in Memphis which could not
have been constructed without tools AMI
necessarily an acquaintance of metals. The
word metals is OF Semetic origin--the
Hebrew word meta s. TO forge, indicates
an early acquaintance with the fusing OF
ores and the malleahility of metals
How these early primitive people dtscov-
cred the uses of things must Of course.
particularly after they left pastoral aid
tent life and began to build cities Tho
Arabs are credited with being early ac-
quainted with the alloys, though alchemy.
as a scieI &c, dates only from the siXt~ enth
century.
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uation, and acted as his wife's private sec
rotary long enough to give the information
that was desired
Thomas A. Edison. jr., has gone into the
inventing business himself. and has brought
out new incandescent lamp. which New
York company is exploiting Edison. ST.,
however, regards the proceeding as Il joke,
saying: II may be that Tom will make a
success OF his scheme but ] am not alto
gether sanguine. The persons he has inter-
eSted ars making use of him for his name.
made a mistake the hoy is gaining expert
ence."
"A Washington dispatch says: Miss Mar
garet Long, the second daughter Of the sec
rotary of the navy, has just passed brill
| liant examination and matriculated in the
senior class of the Medical School of Johns
Hopkins University at Baltimore She in
tends to continue her studies in this insti-
tuition until she is prepared to practice
medicine at her home, Boston. Soon after
her fathers nomination for the Cabinet she
announced her intention of fitting herself
for profession.
AT New England Society dinner. some
years ago, Mark Twain had just finished
4 piquant address, when Mr. Evarts arose,
showed both of his hands down in his
trousers pockets. as was his habit, and
laughingly remarked: Doesn't it strike
this company as little unusual that a pro-
tessional humorist should be funny? Mark
Twain waited until the laughter excited by
out; Doesn't II strike this company as a
little unusual that lawyer should have
his hancs in his own pockets?' and the
laughter was louder than ever.
II love the ground you walk on"
This was the tale he told.
They lived up by the Klondike,
And the ground was full of gold.
-Washin0ton Star
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SIBERIAN EMIGRANTs.
PitiabIe SulRerings In u Typhoid Camp
ON the Great Road.
ID To


Reviewing the temporary camp pitched
upon either side of US, we could perceive
tEat it contained perhaps three hundred
SOUS 1t was only natural to find that they
had mostly come from southern Russia,
but had Jeen waiting where we found them
six long weeks, in nope OF further trans
mission to the neighbOrhoOd of YeneSelSk.
They had much OF which to complain and
recounted how they had suffered numerical
ly from epidemcs. Cholera, typnus and
other loatnSome enemies of mankind had
waiked-Were walking-at their ease among
them; so per cent. had died. Most had en-
sconced themselves in the lee of the en-
bankment, which at this point began TO rise
to meet bridge that spans the small river
on which Atchinsk StanuS.
Beside them were the railway trenches
water-filled; clouds of mosquitoes filleu the
air. These the coionistS attempted TO drive
away by smoking, or by sitting closely
round the fires that formed the center of
eacn family circle; or again, some plucked
short haIf-charred sticks out of the fire.
and, blowing on them, served by the heat
engendered 10 protect their faces; while
others sought refuge in shawls and hand
kerchiefs, so wrapping up their heads that
only an eye rema.-Aed visible Not far re-
moved, in little heaps, lay their " ora pos
SeSsiOnS-a square box or two wrapped Ill
Sacking forming the groundwork, on and
around which were bags and bundles tied
with rope, united, split, bursting, empty. a
few branches bent hoopWise, with either
end stuck In the ground, and interviewer
with yet other leafy branches, formed their
rude dwellings, Some, more fortunate, had
imprcviSed q tent of dirty cloth, into winch
they could just crawl. Others had adopted
the device of the surfacemen and appropri-
ated sleepers for hut-buiding purposes See
them squatting there in WEAKNESS of soul,
killing time as best they may around a sam
ovar, perhaps the family heirloom that once
saw better days.
Thus, then, they sat by the low fires in
dark-brown homespun kaftans, fieecy
shubas or padded Jackets And as they sat
they talked | know not what about, per-
chance some memories of home while far
to the west the last rays of the declining
LING hA he wi
glow We sat by the car window and
watched them in the stiffness of the night;
now and again they would start up when
keeping late vigil those soft, weird, minor
melodies that are the priceless possessions
of the Russian folk. Ard when the dying
strains of the song scared to high-ptched
note held by the female voices, while the
men prolonged ii an octave lower, It seemed
like some sad musical Interrogation. why
had they left Poltava to die on the Siberian
Stappp pr
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Noah Brooks, who was a trusted news
days of Lincoln, has spent his summers in
Maine for several years. While in the State
he investigated the workings of the pro-
hibitory law, which has been on the statute
books since 1859 continuously. Prohibition
is now part of the Constitution. Maine is
q rural State, it's largest city not having
$4,000 inhabitants. In letter to the New
York Times Mr.. Brooks says the prohibitory
law is "a dead letter; at least it is so far
imperative that it's utter inefficiency tends
to bring all law into contempt" He de-
clares: so far as my observation goes
there is more drunkenness among young
men and boys in the towns and villages of
Maine than in any other State of which 1
have any knowledge" This, he says, is
due to the fact that 1.-The aspect of mystery
and secrecy thrown over the surreptitiOus
sale of liquor in the smaller towns of any
prohibition State invariably allures thought
less lads to experiments to beat the law
It is not that officers are negligent of duty
so much as that public opinion in the larger
places is not actively in favor of the en-
forcement of the law as it is of other
statutes dealing with recognized evils. Nor
can it be said that Maine is not good field
for the trial of prohibition. On the con-
trary, it is most favorable, there being no
large cities and a very small foreign ele-
ment.
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The statement of the New York Times
that the recent cruise of our war ships in
south Atlantic waters has developed serious
mechanical defects in some of them, no
tably in the Indiana, is disquieting, 10 say
the least. These ships have cost an enor-
nous sum of money. and if they are de-
lective in essential respects it is a serious
matter. 1t is to be hoped the statement
may prove to be without foundation.
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The inheritance tax law of Illinois,
against the constitutionality of which Cen
eral Harrison argued in the United States
Supreme Court on Friday. provides that in
all estates devised by will to others than
the children grandchildren or wife or hus-
band of the testator, where the value of the
bequeathed property exceeds $1,000. ) per
cent. of it must go to the State. The law
does not interfere at all with requests to
relatives of the degree above named, but
the tax applies in all other cases. except
requests to churches and charitable or
CARNATIONS. Similar laws exist in nineteen
or twenty other States. and the principle
has been pretty generally recognized. Dur
ing the war and for few. years afterwards
the United States imposed stamp tax of
so cents on every will that was probated