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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07
MISS WILLARD'S LAST DELIVERANCE
ON PROHIBITION.

It is not too much to say that the death
Of no other American woman could have
called forth so many deserved tributes from
press and platform as that Of the late Miss
Willard; for that matter, none in the world
who was not conspicuous as a queen or
otherwise than on personal merit. To her
native ability she added the graces of UNI
selfshness and all that is implied in conse-
Grafton to the good of others. She came of
a long line of distinguished ancestors, both
on the paternal and maternal side. Her
father and mother were both highly edu-
Gated, and the accident of her rural child
hood contributed more to the formation of
the character which gave her the COM
manding position she reached than the same
years in school, training under the re-
straints of city life could possibly have
done. To the physical and spiritual devel-
opment of her childhood home, as a rollick-
ing happy girl, she later added the ac-
complishments of scholar, first in summer
schools of high grade, then of European
schools and travel, hence it was not sur
prising that as dean of her alma mater she
early stood at the head of her calling.
But her life work was in the field of tenn
perance and what she considered properly
belonging to it. 1t is not strange. when
called to the presidency of the National w.
C. T. u. in this city in 1879, that she should
fall in line with the temperance thought of
the period Temperance as an aggressive
work had been practically suspended for
nearly twenty years; the exciting events
which led up to the civil war, then the war
itself, and then the questions involved in
reconstruction, having absorbed public at
tention to such an extent that there was no
aggressive temperance organization in the
country when the w. C. T. u. was or
ganized. AT first this organization held it.
self religiously aloof from everything but
the moral phase of the work, but the saloon
was so defiant that it soon demanded pro-
hibition as the only or the chief remedy for
intemperance.
1t was an untrodden road. Nothing of the
kind had ever been reached, to abide. Some
saw parallel in the overthrow of slavery,
but slavery was a local offense; besides, it
was overthrow as a war measure purely,
and, from the nature of the case, once
overthrow it's restoration was an impos-
sibility Party politics had nothing to do
with IT, Even the party then in power had
pledged itself not to modest 1t where it ex-
listed. With all these difficulties before her
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sTATE Press oPINIoN.

The Dingiey bill is doing much of its own
talking now.-Lafayette Courier.
This is a good time for the average Amer
lean citizen to keep his head cool and his
powder dry.-Middletown News.
The advantage of having a President
whose brain doesn't work on the hair-trig-
ger principle was never more apparent.
Goshen Times. $3.50
Stand by the President and wait. That
is the Platform upon which Congress ls
standing, and it is good enough for every
body else to adopt.-Michlgan City News.
If President Mckinley will send word to
Spain requesting that Cuba be given polit-
ical freedom, he will find the Nation as one
man standing at his side.-Lafayette Call.
If the second year of McKinley's admin
istration enjoys as much increase of pros
perity as the first the wall of the last croak-
er Wiz be forever silenced-Elwood Call
Leader.
The great hope OF labor is in varied and
busy industries. These insure steady work
and good wages Blind, indeed, is the
workingman to his own interest when he
votes against the policy OF the Republican
party-Huntington Herald.
SPANS almost penuiless and bankrupt
condition will not prevent her going TO war
with the United States. She IS in the came
condition as shoestring gambler at crap
table with one chip. She's liable TO make
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Publishers, Notes.

Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons are to
publish on Feb. 26 e. w. Hornungs latest
tale, Young Blood
Estes & Lauriat announce a novel of Ten
nessee life, entitled THE Valley PATH" by
Will Allen DromgOole.
Lamson, Wolfe & Co., Boston, announce
the early issue of volume by Grover Flint,
entitled Marching with Gomez being a
war correspondents field note book, kept
during four months with the Cuban army
An historical Introduction is by John Fiske.
Caleb West" Mr.. F! Hopkinson Smith s
capital story, which HAS been running in
the Atlantic Monthly, will be brought out
In book, probably in March, by Houghton,
Mifiin & Co. with several illustrations
which Mr.. Smith is very enthusiastic over.
Its title will be Caleb West, Master Diver"
The G. w. Dillingham; Company announces
"A Pedigree in Pawn" by Arthur Henry
syTHy %o ODD G GHdmS novels By
John A. Peters; The Twentieth Century
Cook Book" by Mrs. G: F: Moritz and Miss
Regeneration" by Henry and Herbert
Bowers.
Eastern Journeys" is the title of book
by the late Charles A. Dana, which is to
& Co. This book, which will be uniform
with Mr.. Dana's Art of Newspaper Max
ing" describes travels in Russia and the
Caucasus and to Jerusalem. The AppletonS
will soon issue a new book by Sara jean
nette Duncan, entitled "A Voyage of Con-
ISOLATION
ldl WHO IS dI present tie guest
of Mr.. Andrew Carnegie at the Villa Alter
ton, Cannes, has written a new religious
book which will be published by Messrs.
Dodd, Mead & Co. about Easter. 1t is en-
titled THE Companions of the Sorrowful
Way and is of the same devotional char
acter as THE Upper Room - which is in it's
fftieth thousand. DR.. Watson hopes to pub
lish volume of fiction in the autumn.
Mr.. 1. Zangwilrs latest book, ''Dreamers
of the Ghetto to be published March Is
(Harper's), is q collection of biographical
sketches dramatically treated. Characters
so different as Spinoza the philosopher,
Heine the poet Sabbath levi the Turkish
messiah, and many more some learned, 9TH
erS illiterate, are depicted. each against the
background of the particular environment
that with more or less of restrictions, con-
Stitutes the ghetto of his period and coun-
try. The book is dedicated to lola.
The Baker & Taylor Company New York;
announce for early publication new book
by Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong, entitled ''The
Twentieth Century City" The author S
name has been made familiar by his former
books, ''Our Country and The New Era. .
In his new book the writer points out the
fundamental cause and chief characteristic
of modern material civilization, and calls
attention to the fact that its great prob
lens meet in the city. He finds in the
teachings of Jesus principles capable of
solving the great problems of modern So
ciety, and shows that it is the duty of the
churches to make the needed application,
suggesting at the same time practicable
methods by which this application may be
made.
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Cleo the Magnificent.

Mr.. Louis Zangwill is a writer of more
than ordinary originality, and a master Of
form. He has creative power and uses it
to good purpose. His latest work novel
entitled Cleo the Magnificent" is largely a.
character study of a man whose life has
been singularly cast. Morgan bruce was the
son of wealthy banker, who intended him
for a business career, but. the young man
had the soul of a poet and literary ambi-
ton A literary friend introduces him to
cleo the Magnificent" a woman who is
beautiful and bad, fascinating and unprin-
clpled. Her ambition is to become an ac-
tresS. She fascinates the young man, Who
not knowing her true character, invests her
with imaginary virtues and genius and fin
ally marries her. She goes on the stage and
fails. Their means becoming exhausted
they go to the home of her parents, where
he finds she is the hayward adventurous
daughter of common people, They soon
grow apart, Cleo goes back to man whose
mistress she had been, and bruce returns to
his own pursuits. His eyes being opened and
his judgment restored, he takes up litera-
ture, succeeds, marries a jewel of woman
and is happy. The story is a strong charac-
ter study and abOunds with realistic pas
sages and graphic pen pictures. New York:
q. w. Dillingham; Company.
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BOOKS OF THE. TIME.
Robinson CrusOe's Island, a Bird
Hunters story.

An interesting and instructive book in its
way, especially for young readers. is Cru
soes Island-A Bird Hunters Story" by
+. A Ober, author of Camps in the Carib-
Bees etc. The author was sent out by
the Smithsonian Institution to make an or
astrological investigation of the Lesser An
TILES and when that work was completed
he bethought him of an early boyhood de-
sire to visit Robinson CrusoeS island The
common belief is that this was the island
OF Juan Fernandez, in the Pacific ocean, a
long way south of the equator. The author
maintains that this is a mistake, and proves
II almost conclusively. His theory prac-
tlcally established, is that Alexander Sell
klrk and Robinson Crusoe were two distinct
persons, Crusoe having been born in 1892
and Selkirk in 1876; that Selkirk was
wrecked on the island of Juan Fernandez
and Crusoe on that of Tobago, in the Carib-
bean sea, near the mouth of the Orinoco
river and north of the equator. The proofs
winch he cites in support of this view, some
OF OF them from Defoe's own work and others
from outside historical sources are interest
ing, ana leave little doubt that Tobago was
CruSoe's island At all events this is the
island the author visited, and he spent
qulte lengtn OF time there alone, explor-
Ing Its sohtudes and monarch of ali he sur
'Veyed as really as Robinson CruSoe himself
was. In this book he gives a description
OF what ne maintains was the veritable ISL
ana IN winch CruSoe lived his lonely life
the scene of his wreck his cave his bower
MS man Friday, the birds and trees he
must nave seen, etc. The authors own eX-
perences We're interesting, and his narra-
tlon OF them is instructive The work is
published in the Home Reading Series by
ID. Appleton & Co.
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FOUNDER OF THE w. C T. U.
Mrs. Mcclellan Brown Instead of Miss
Frances willard.

CINCINNATI. o., March 6. = The En-
quirer to-day publishes the following: Many
persons have been speaking of Miss Fran
ces Willard as the founder of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The
founder of the n. w. c. T. U. resides in
this city. Mrs. Mcclellan Brown was in
strumental in calling the first convention
inaugurating the movement, in Columbus,
in February, 1874, and in August following
she went to Chautauqua Assembly with a
full plan of organization, which she had
incorporated by committee from various
States present at that assembly. BY her cor
respondence the first convention was called
at Cleveland in November, 1874, where Miss
Willard first entered the work and was
made secretary of the convention. Mrs.
Brown at that time declined the nomination
for the presidency. Mrs. Anna Wtten-
meyer, of Philadelphia. was president for
five years preceding Miss Wizards success
sion to the presidency in 1879. Mrs. Brown
was in 1874 the right worthy vi e tenlplar
of the Good Tempiars which have con-
stituency of 100000 paying members. Mrs.
Brown still holds the copyright of the crigi-
nal plan of work of the w. G. r.. L.. dated
Jan. u, 1875, and bearing the signature of
Librarian Spofford and the Official seal.
Mrs Brown formerly resided III Alliance
and later at Pittsburg.
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a scratch play and double up. If she loses
she isn't out much.-Washingto Gazette.
Expressions from all quarters show COM
plete confidence, irrespective of party on
the part Of the great mass Of citizens in
the Presidents wisdom. and equal conf
dence that he will maintain the honor of
the Nation in this crisis, whatever may be
the developments.-Fcrt Wayne Gazette.
The Dingley law is now but fairly Begin
ming to get in its work. The end of the
SECOND year of President McKinleys term
vail, we opine, present condition of at
1alrS that Will make even PopulistS glad,
and yet we realize that enormous results
must be accomplished to produce that state
In 1896 we said the Republicans would
carry the State and elect the successor to
Senator Voorhees, and have at least two
thirds of the representatives in Congress-
And now We say the Republicans viii carry
the State anu the Legislature and retain
their present number in CongreSs-New AL
bany Tribune.
Whether free trade is or is not the wisest
economic policy for Great Britain, there is
no doubt that protection affords the Ameri-
can people peculiar and undoubted advan-
taSeS tnat they do not propose to sacrifice
to any free-trade theory however logical
comprehensive and convincing it may be.
-Terre Haute Express.
Now that the first wave of feeling growing
out of the sinking of the Maine has passed
the American people are willing to await
the action of the President and Congress.
If it is to be war, the men and the money
will be forthcoming; if it be honorable
peace, the Nation will abide the verdict.
Henry County Republican.
of felicity.-New Castle Courier.
The American public will commend the ac-
ton of the Senate in increasing the reward
to $3.50 in each case made against the as
sassins of Baker, the colored postmaster at
Lake City, S. c. But the government should
not stop there. 1t should hunt the Grim
Richmond Item
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07

'"The New Puritanism'' is the title of a
book devoted to the sermons of Lyman Alb
bott and several other progressive Congre-
gationalist preachers during the semi-cen-
tennial of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, n
Y. The preachers-Abbott Bradford, Berry
Gordon, GLADDEN. and Tucker-are represent
atives of the new idea in theology which
is pervading the more influential Congre-
gationaI churches in the East. 1t is not
Unitarianism, but a modified trinitarianisnl
Invested of Calvinism and it's harsh doc
trines. This. is the new Puritanism. 1t is
the result of the new Biblical scholarship
AS DR.. Gordon puts it: Christian thinkers
are learning that there are two great
abuses in the old theology. Willingness ia
be damned for the glory of God may be
the sign of a humble spirit; but it is in
reality the supreme insult to God For il
assumes that the glory of God and the veal
of man Incompatible interests. To ex-
alt God high to Danish Him from the
world is a terrible error. To refuse to see
God in the natural life of men is the first
step toward atheism. For a God wholly
above the world-poWers. wholly apart from
the normal interests of man, wholly tran
scendent, is practically no God at all. "
Published by Fords, Howard q Hubert
New York.
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Alamo and other Verse.

The Journal has received a copy of poems
bearing the above title, accompanied by the
personal card of tire author, Mr.. e. Nc
Queen Gray, Authors Club, London The
book also carries internal evidence of hav-
ing been written by an Englishmap,t some
of the poems being intensely patriotic from
an English point of view. 1t is Cohgy fair
to say, however. that others are very patri-
otto from an American point of view, the
author seeming to be as good an American
as he is or was Englshman. The longest
poem in the volume, Alamo" describes
that historic battle and massacre in a truly
heroic strain, and leaves the reader with
blood tingllng in contemplation of the I'M
awaiting bravery of the unfortunate Tex
ans. The other poems deal with a variety
of topics, objective or subjective. in a way
that evinces poetic instinct and literary
skill. The volume is published in good form
by the author at Florence, N. M, and can
be had at the book stores or ordered of
him by mail at 70 cents per copy. He states
in preface that the proceeds of its sale
will go to the formation of d free library
fund at Florence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07
THE BUILDING AND LOAN LEAGUE.

The annual meeting of the Building AS
ISOLATION League of Indiana, held in this
city Friday, shows that the organization
has come into the hands of men who have
an appreciation of the Importance of that
very general method of collecting and in
vesting the savings of the people. The pro-
ceedings indicate that in Indiana the build
ing and loan association has passed the
experimental and speculative stage and
has entered that larger and more per-
manent era when the security of the
deposits and the interests of borrow
ers are both considered. AS matter
of fact, conservative policy will protect
both depositor and borrower. since a very
high rate of interest on loans will either
drive away the prudent man who would
borrow or so embarrass the inconsiderate
borrower that he cannot meet his obliga-
tions bringing ruin to himself and loss to
the depositor The day of the purely specu-
lative association, organized for the sole
benefit of the managers, has passed. The
association which is to survive and do a
prosperous business must be prudently and
intelligently managed. More and more the
association must come TO the basis OF a
savings institution, with no higher rates of
interest than money can be obtained for
elsewhere.
The act of the last Legislature has re-
quirements which enforce a generally uni
form policy. The most of the evils which
became abuses during the early days of the
system have been removed The unfortu-
nate shareholder cannot be deprived of his
investment, and the company which puts
away per centum of all receipts to meet
running expenses and get new business has
become unpopular. At the same time there
is a large number of entirely reliable assoc
Citations whose consistent conservatism
commends them to those who would save a
few dollars. All things considered, it is
cause for congratulation that the institu-
ton throughout the State has passed
through the critical period and a series Of
hard years with so little loss in the aggre-
gate That comparatively so little has been
lost warrants the conclusion that the build
ing and loan associations Of Indiana will do
a much larger business in the future than
in the past.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07

Justice Bradley. of Washington, has in
troduced new style in hangings by SEN
fencing two convicted murderers to be
hanged on Thursday instead of the tradi-
tional Friday He said he did not propose
to strengthen the unreasonable popular
prejudice against Friday as 'hangman's
day. and that there was no reason why a
day in the week, except Sunday. The trou-
BILE is, so many are not hanged ON any day
of the week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07

The statement which Secretary Bliss
makes to the effect that the free-home-
stead amendment of the Senate will cost
the treasury $S6,0o0,00o, is very important
enc. So long as the United States owned
lands it was good policy to give them away,
but it is not wise 20 invest large sums in
reservations to give away. The Offering of
lands practically free of cost has had it's
disadvantages. one of which has been ex-
cessive production cutting prices and bring
ing into competition with the lands in the
older States those which can almost be had
for the asking
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MayIOu.

''Maylou." by Frances Raymond, is rather
a psychological study than a narrative of
action. 1t is a story of the warfare be-
tween woman's spiritual and material ma
ture, her better and worse self. Maylou,
the heroine, is a beautiful young women
who, weak without viciousness. has gone
aStray, and become a social outcaSt, but
stin possesses some true nobility of char
acter and desire for higher life. The story
of her struggles for a better life has a touch
of realism and pathos, and the subject,
though a delicate one, is judiciously ham
died. The moral of the story makes for
charity towards the erring. New York: c.
w. Dillingham; Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07

The retention of General Lee, a Demo-
crat, in the important office of consul gem
eral to Cuba by Republican administra-
ton is without a parallel in our recent
history. and it is worthy of remark that
he has much better support from this adj
ministration than he had from the one
under which he was appointed. General
Lee is an American, and this is an Ameri-
can administration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07
In Search of ReIigion.

This is purpose novel by Rev. Dennis
Hird, of the English Church Clark Goode,
rich student at Oxford serious and gay at
times, passes through variety of expert
ences in the hunt for true religion.
Finally, through the influence of an inter-
esting young woman whom he met doing
charity work in the London slums, and who
makes a profound impression on his life be-
fore she dies, he is induced to devote his
great wealth to the establishment of a CO.
operative commonwealth for the benefit and
relief of the poor. All this is related in the
form of a story, which, in spite of a love
episode, is somber and heavy. New York:
G. p. Putnam'S Sons
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girl cousins grow up together, one anliable
and unselfish, the other rather Maynard,
though not vicious. The amiable one mar
RES, and the other subsequently falls in love
with the husband and he with her. There
IS no wrong between them. except the for
bidden love. but that leads the unmarried
girl to break off an engagement which she
should have kept. Later q tragedy makes
the married man widower and he and the
single girl are about TO set married when
her conscience suddenly slnites her and she
refuses to take advants GO of the death of
ner cousin to consummate her own happi-
ness. Other characters and incidents fill
out a story of considerable interest. New
York: r. f. Fenno & Co
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07

1t is not surprising to read in an inter
esting dispatch from Madrid that the Span
ish people are amazingly ignorant of the
power and resources of the United States
and equally confident of their own super
iority. Nothing but dense ignorance of this
sort could make them imagine that Spain
could hold her own in war with the
United States f4s
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The Golden Crocodile.

This is a story of mining camps and
miners &fe. interspersed with some re-
mantle episodes and stirring adventures. 1t
opens in Grizzly Hollow, near the head of
Roaring Fork canyon, and shifts from place
to place as required by the plot. which
turns largely on the location, Identification
and recovered possession of an exceedingly
valuable claim by young E.nglishman. The
story is well told and the pictures of mir
ing life have a touch of realism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07

The closing sentence of ex-President
Cleveland's recent letter in favor of sound
money is significant. II am so earnest he
says, "in my desire to see our country
blessed with safe money and suitable
financial system that am OF the opinion
we ought to give patriotic and consistent
support to any plan which insures this re-
suit and which has the elements that
promise its successful advocacy" This
means that if the defeat of free silver and
Organism can only be accomplished by sup
porting Republican candidates, sound
money Democrats should do that.
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blown Away.

This is a fantastic extravaganza of which
the author Richard Mansfield, says in a
preface: 1T was written as a purely child
ish and innocent pastime. 1t was never in
tended for publication, and there exists no
adequate reason why it should have been
published. 1t relates no story. 1t has no
point policy or purpose" The author
would not thank any other person for say
ing this. However, it is an amusing pro-
duction and contains material for some good
laughs. Boston: L. c. Page & Co.