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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23

sentiment prevailed for years before our
trouble with Spain that money expended in
keeping UP a military establishment and a
reserve of arms. equipments, tentage etc.
was money wasted we have learned bet
ter since last April. when 700 men were
called into service to find no clothing. no
tents and no camp equipage. We should
profit by that experience. The same ex-
perience should lead Congress to provide for
standing army of seventy thousand men,
as General Miles suggests, upon the ground
of economy. The people. too must have
learned by this time that a standing army
with sufficient number of men TO meet
any emergency at the outset is necessary
and that those who compose it are not to
be regarded as idlers Al numerous and effec-
tive police, composed Of men who are sure
of their positions so long as they are faith
full and efficient. gives positive security to
life and property
The future of the volunteer organization
presents much more diff1cult problem
With all its commendable patriotism and
zeal the defects of the present organization
in most States have been brought to light
1t appears that the basis of organization is
weak. The weakness begins with the man
ner of selecting officers. While a large ma
jority of the line officers have learned their
duties, it cannot be denied that a consid-
cradle minority have been incompetent and
would not have been appointed if ascer-
tanned fitness had been required for COM
mission. They could learn the drill bu,
that is only Of minor Importance compared
with the value of a knowledge OF what is
necessary to take care of men in camp and
to keep their accounts. This sort of incom-
potency is illustrated by the fact that mus
ter out is delayed in several States because
company officers have not made up their
final accounts after a period Of fifty days.
If States are to have an effective National
Guard this defect must be remedied most
radically. Every officer should be appointed
by the Governor, and only those men should
be selected who. upon examination. show a
knowledge of the duties which will devolve
upon them and capacity to command.
Such officers should be paid to attend a
school for officers held every year, with
competent instructors, and such of them as
fail to attend or to pass examination
upon the instruction they have received
should he dropped. Efficient and faithful
officers will enforce discipline and make a
good regiment. Any organization of the
National Guard which does not begin with
the securing of officers of ascertained fit
ness will not come up to the requirements
of the present time. Further, none but
young men of good repute and good habits
should be enlisted. Young men who are
known to the local police as disturbers
should not be enlisted Now that railroad
corporations, manufacturers and merchants
will not employ men of Incorporate habits,
the State should bar such from it's military
organizations IS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23

In reviewing Edwin Caskoden's novel,
when Knighthood Was in Flower" the
Chicago Inter Ocean says, with calm assur-
ance, that 1.-The author of this charming
love story is believed to be a Chicagoan"
The reviewer evidently does not read papers
that print literary information or he would
know that the author is Mr. Charles Major,
an Indianian born and bred and probably
thankful that fate did not land him in the
city on the lake. But lack of information
does not account for the assumption that
the writer belongs to Chicago. There is
certainly no internal evidence in the tale
that could lead to such a supposition. The
Chicago mind is not given to the research
necessary to the production of historical
fiction, nor are its writer's gifted with the
Imagination that creates romance out of the
dry bones of history. In fact, it has but few
writers of fiction of any sort. The hot
house flavor of Mr.. Chatfield-Chatfieid
Taylors innocuous society tales, and the
metallic hardness of Henry Fuller's real
ism surely do not suggest the characteristics
shown in the love story Of Mary Tudor, and
when Taylor. and Fuller. and Garland. the
portrdyer OF the SrOSSer SIDE OF rural lie.
are mentioned the list of Chicago novelsts
comes to an end With all its achievements
and pretensions in other directions, Chicago
is not great in the literary field. Even Mr..
Howells, with his anxiety to do justice TO
all quarters is obliged to admit that it has
few qualities of literary center. And
this leads to the reflection that it is not to
great cities that one must look first for the
producers of literature. but TO the smaller
cities and towns and even to villages. There
is something in the great centers of popu-
lation like New York and Chicago that in
terferes with the contemplative spirit that
the writer of the best literature must pos
sess. Even If the leisure is sufficient the re-
pose is lacking. Whatever may be the
inducements that draw the writers Of books
to the large cities. in majority of cases
they have made their regulations before
going, and to do good work later are apt to
find it necessary to seek rural seclusion- In
his recent talk on literary centers. Mr..
HowelIs said there might be. and were.
many such centers throughout the country.
He did not mention Indianapolis. but he
might well have done 50 because It Is the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23

All, papa. cried out the "terribIe infant t,
now ] know how long you are to be absen,
from home--twenty-four days.
The late Col. Joseph NJ. Bennett of Phil
adelphia, In addition to his bequest of prom
erty worth $4,000 to the University 40
Pennsylvania to further the scheme Of "a
education. gave to the Methodist Episconal
Orphanage in Philadelphia several lots ~
land with buildings thereon, and directed
that the income of the residue OF his estate
after the payment OF requests to various
persons and the distribution OF $4,000 equal
~ among five other charities. be paid an
nually to the orphanage.
The literature of the Dreyfus affair is as
Stunning the most extraordinary proportions
The newspaper ventures to which il has
given rise will form an interesting chapter
in the history of Partisan journalism Two
new daily papers devoted almost exclusively
to the various aspects of the controversy
have recently been founded. Apart from
great output of books and pamphlets NJ
Stock, the publisher Who Ii will be remem-
bered, was a witness in the lola trial has
already list of over forty books dealing
with the affair. And the end is not Vet
Several fresh works are in the press in
Guiding life of Lieutenant Colonel Pic
quart by NJ. Francis de Pressense. of the
Temps, and popular history of the Drey-
fus affair by Capt. Paul Marin
The worlu rolls round, mistrust it not,
Befalls again what once befell.
All things return. both sphere and mote
And I shall hear my bluebird's note,
And dream the dream of Auburn-d dell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23
LITERARY NOTES.

The handwriting of r. d. Blackmore,
the novelist, is so fine as often to neces-
state the use of a magnifying glass by his
printers.
Jeremiah Curtin, the translator of most
of Sienkiewiczs books, is one of the best
linguists ever graduated from Harvard. lie
speaks eighteen languages.
Jokai, the Hungarian novelist is like
Tolstoi. a lover of farming and devotes
much of his time to the produ of
grapes and a peculiar kind of win Iich
he gets from them.
DR.. Weir Mitchell's novel, 1.-THE !. VEN
lures of FRANCOIS" was issued simultan-
eously in New York, London. Canada and
Australia. In New York the twenty-fifth
thousand was on the press before publica-
ton.
Mr. Frank Harris, the editor of the Sat
urday Review, introduces his book on
Shakespeare in n strange way. 81 have
sought" he says, ito do in this book for
Shakespeare the same labor of love that
Strauss and Renan did for Jesus"
The reviewer in Literature notes as a de-
feet of a certain book of verse that it has
no fresh air in it. The poet, he says, seems
TO have been always indoors with his ques-
tionings and problems, and adds: Nothing
is more fatal to poetry 1t is astonishing,
until one has grown accustomed TO it, to
see how every great poet-Virgil, Dante,
Shakespeare, whom you Willis forever es-
Il
conscious of the sun in the heaven and the
wind in the trees it is as near proof as
may be that he is no poet"
1.-Two Kinds of Women" is the title Of
Mr.. Barre's new play-which was written,
by the way, before THE Little Minister
Mr.. Richard Hovey has been appointed an
instructor in English literature at Barnard
College for the present college year. Speak
ing of this, writer in the Literary World
says: "a better choice could not have been
made, for, besides being a writer of books
himself. Mr.. Hovey has for years been a
close student of literature. He is said to
know more about versificatiOn than any
other man in this country, and he is, be-
Sides an excellent lecturer and one of the
best interpreters of literature that I have
ever heard"
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, author of Hugh
Wynne Quaker" and THE Adventures of
Francois, is now in his SEVENTEEN year,
and presents a remarkable instance of a
mans achieving distinction in literature
and eminence in an exacting profession
His poems. novels and stories have not
been written in the slippered leisure of
the professional man fallen into the lux
uriouS armchair enjoyment of honorS
earned by hard work in an active life.
They are the serious, if mentally relaxa-
an interchangeable practitioner who has
learned the thrift of time. His numerous
medical and therapeutical works. no less
than his contributions to polite literature
are monument to DIR. Mitchell'S marvel
GUS industry and versatility
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The fact that Queen Victoria has allowed
her grandchildren to play tennis on Sunday
is the cause of a newspaper discussion in
England.
Edwin Clawston, the owner of an ostrich
farm in South Pasadena, Cal. has succeed
ed in Matching ostrich eggs with an incuba-
tor. The process takes forty days.
L. B. Walker, the founder of the town OF
Walker, near which the recent Indian out
break centered. is in San Francisco, and
says that the red men of the Bear island
country are the worst in the United States.
In his address to the Harvard students
the other day the Rev. DIR. Edward Everett
Hale laid down three rules which he said
had been the greatest help to him in life.
They We're: Be in the open air all you can,
rub against the rank and file daily, and
every day hold intimate conversation with
a superior
The Denver & Rio Grande is probably the
only railroad in the world that keeps a
chaplain. John Brunton, once a brakeman
and later an engineer, holds that position.
He is an ordained minister. and devotes his
time to charitable and mission work among
the employees. The railroad company finds
that 1t pays them.
There seems to be some mystery as to the
whereabouts of DR.. Moritz Busch, the Bos-
well of Prince Bismarck. whose biography
of his hero was published week or two
ago. 1t is not surmised that the Emperor
has arisen in his wrath and had the Ger
man Pepys placed under lock and key but
none the less the doctors usual haunts
know him not, and even his publishers can
not trace him.
Edouard Rod, the novelist. has been en-
gagged by the Cercle Francois de l'Univer-
site Harvard to give a course of lectures on
French literature under its direction be-
fore Harvard University during the coming
academic year. This annual series Of lee
lures was started last year 0y NJ Rene
Doumic NJ. Paul Bourget, of the French
Academy. viii probably be the cercle lee
turer in the year 1900
1T is said that once when Bismarck was
leaving home, in 1866, . says the Philadelphia
Record This youngest son asked him how
long he was to be away. He replied that he
did not know At that moment a servant
came in TO inquire how many bottles 81
s cognac were TO be packed up IN the prince s
luggage. Twenty-fous.' was the answer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23
SCIENTIFIC.

A French physicist finds that the pressure
in a vacuum varies under the influence of
an electric current, being neither constant
nor uniform.
One of the most notable of recorded 'heat
waves was that experienced in South Aus
tralia in January 1896. At Gundaboola Sta
tion on the Darling river, the mean tenn
perature for twenty-four days was 120 de-
greeS in the shade
Marloid, a new insulating material, is
made of raw-hide; which is boiled in oil for
one to ten minutes. 1t can be given any
desired degree of hardness, may be polished
on either side, and can be turned, drilled,
etc. By immersion in salt or alum sOlu-
tion it can be softened so as to be bent into
any desired shape.
Steel capsules, each containing about a
twelfth of an ounce of compressed carbonic
acid gas, are supplied by a Zurich firm un-
der the name of "sodor." The gas is in
tended for effervescing drinks, and it is
used in special glass bottle, whose stopper
on closing pierces the capsule. The bottles
withstand a pressure of fifty atmospheres,
while the capsules are proof against at least
five hundred atmospheres.
A South African plant, the auragia albeus,
is extensively cultivated in New Zealand on
account of its remarkable property of de-
stroyirig moths, which are attracted to it
by profusion OF odorous whitish flowers.
VHOie oWdiIuS VI liiS lASSClS WHICH, SettuSi
upon the bushes during a summer evening
have disappeared before the following
morning. The action of the flower is entire
ly mechanical. the nectar being at the base
of the deep calyx, which is guarded by two
powerful jaws that close firmly upon the
prohoscis thrust inward in search of the
sweets, holding the insect prisoner until it
dies.
The influence of gravity on the blood cir
cuIation is very perfectly resisted in the
cat, dog, monkey and man. But DR.. Leon
ard Hill of London, shows that when an eel
or grass snake is suspended tail downward
the blood disappears from the heart in a
few minutes, and a chloralized tame rabbit
duced after ten minutes or so and is soon
at the point of death. In both cases pres
sure on the lower part of the body or a
plunge into water restores the circulation.
The latter fact is thought to give simple
explanation of the benefit of baths to de-
bilitated men, the hydrostatic pressure not
only acting on the blood VESSELS but caus-
ing the abdominal organs to float upward
The crude method of recording sunshine
by lines burnt upon cards has been i'm
proved upon by Prof. Calendar. The new
instrument, which was exhibited at the
British Association meeting. is essentially a
recording bolometer, showing the difference
between blackened and bright platinum
thermometer in continuous curve traced
with pen and ink on revolving drum. This
curve Is q strictly cumulative record of
the heat received at the earth's surface
throughout the day instead OF merely the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23
THE FUTURE MILITARY FORCE.

From this time until the matter shall be
settled by legislation much will be said
about the military organization of the flu
ture. Several men of experience have sug-
gested that while the volunteer organiza-
tions have been most effective when the
theater of war was confined to the United
States. they are not adapted to foreign war
or to garrison and police duty 1t seems
TO have been the idea OF the authors of the
Constitution that the militia should be used
only in an emergency like invasion or a
domestic Instruction against the govern
ment AS much of the call for soldiers here
after is likely to be for service in our recent
acquisitions. to preserve order. it seems
that the first duty of Congress should be to
increase the regular army as a standing
force 10 maintain peace and as reliable
force in the event of war. If the United
States had had regular army of fifty
thousand seasoned men when the late war
broke out. equipped as it should have been,
what was done in Cuba in July could have
been done in May.
Demagogues and even good, but narrow
men have used their influence to make the
people believe that a standing army calls
for useless expenditure of money. Hostile
influences in Congress for years have pre-
vented a proper organization OF the small
army which we have HAD More than that.
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rid Of him. The circumstance that he was
no longer agreeable to her. however, did
not affect the attractiveness Of the ring.
That she declined to give up. She said II
was given to her for keeps" and she in
tended to keep it. Smith protested: he said
he went with the ring, or the ring with
him. just as she preferred. She rejected
both ends of the proposition. and then
Smith brought suit to recover possession Of
the ornament. AS an offset Miss Stuart $
mother presented bill for coal and gas
utilized, and the value of the entertainment
furnished by her daughter during the prog
ress of the courtship. A trial resulted, and
the court has decided in favor Of the de-
PENDANT. She retains the ring, and if Smith
is rash enough 10 put his trust in another
sweetheart he will buy another ring. Mean
while the case win serve as a warning to
other young men Of Jeffersonvile who think
of becoming engaged. and will lead either 10
the purchase of inexpensive imitation gems
or to formal understanding that change
of mind means a return of the circlet. 1t
will no longer do for the enamored swain
to assume that the girl will not value his
gifts when she ceases to care for him. 1t
is an unsentimental age, and girls are fond
of diamonds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

When you bury anmosty. don't set up
headstone over it's grave-Emerson.
When a person has no health he spends
his time in taking care of it.--Boston Tran
script.
The pace which kills business woman is
the work she does at home.-New York
World.
At present the words war ship and wor-
ship are practically synonymous.-Philadel-
phia Times
Leisure for men of business, and business
for men of leisure. would cure many COM.
plants.-Mrs. Thrale.
What are you worrying about now?" II
belong to the Don't Worry Club and can't
pay my dues. Truth.
Wealth does not bring true happiness: but
it brings an imitatio that fools everybody
but the experts.-Puck-
1t is sometimes easier to prove a lie than
it is to prove the truth. but you can't prove
it as long.-Atchison Globe.
Freddy-Why does Cholly look so sad
lately? Is he in love? Teddy-Yes, and the
girl he loves isnt.-Harpers Bazaar.
1t might be we'll to remember that one
little apple did the world more harm than
all the cider ever made.-Chicago News
There are more spoiled men and women
than spoiled children-only we do not hear
so much about them.-Boston Transcript
We may be little perplexed at times as
to what our own duty is, but we always
know what other people ought to dow. l..
Wilson.
II hear he refused to take chloroform
when he was operated on Yes, said he d
rather take it when he paid his bill. DE
trOit Journal.
A woman has to have lot more patience
to let the cat in and out than she has for
her husband, because if she didn't it would
leave her.-NeW York Press.
Who is wise? He that learns from every
one. Who is powerful? He that governs
his passions. Who is rich? He that is con-
tent. Who is that? Nobody.-Benjamin
Franklin.
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Atchison Globe.

1t is not generally known that an Atchison
mother testified before the commission to
investigate the conduct of the war. She
Alger, and no questions asked her on the
stand could shake it. She related with WV
idness the suffering her boy endured be-
cause he had to wash without soap. She
told in voice choked with emotion of q
time when he found a fly in his coffee, ana
related that often he had no towel to wipe
on after bathing. The tears rolled down her
face as she read letters from him in which
he said he had been compelled to go on long
marches, and that he had had no pie since
he left home, except those he bought from
pie vendors. Friends of Secretary Alger
who were on the board tried to head her OF
and confuse her, but without avail A
mothers heart prompted her 10 go on with
he-Whole Of the damning tale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23

tains long article which shows that New
York is not only wide-open city, but that
the Croker regime, which permitted the
most depraved dives to be open in violation
of law, has already given freedom to more
depraved exhibitions than have before been
known, conditioned on the payment of a
much larger amount for immunity. That
paper declares that in ten months. ''around
and through and over and under Tam
manys administration. runs a branching
trail OF vice, corruption, filth and extor-
ton"
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sumner of 1896 During that campaign he
made a great many speeches. After his
election there came new class Of engage
nents. and after his Inauguration official
duties. These. onerous enough at all times,
have been greatly increased by the war.
great Yet after all this he starts out on an
extended tour. travels thousands of miles,
makes scores of speeches. shakes hands
with thousands of people, attends banquets
and receptions. and returns to Washington
apparently as fresh as ever. He may be
drawing on his vitality more than the pub
lie knows. but he does not show it yet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23

At the recent convention OF fire chiefs In
st. Louis William McDevitt. inspector of
insurance Of Philadelphia, delivered an adj
dress on the subject of infiammable and ex-
plosve properties of smoke in a burning
building He said that the least draught
allowed TO enter a room filled with smoke
weEld cause an explosion. Smoke has an
other property which should be taken into
account by fire fighters. namely. that of act
Ing as a vehicle or communicant Of flame.
The so-caled leaping of flames often seen
at fires Is really a sort of combustion Of
smoke. by which the flame is sometimes
carried a surprising distance.