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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05
THE STATE AS A MEDICAL DIREC,
TOR.

The Charlottesville Journal quotes DR.. w.
T. Colt, vice president of the State Board
of Medical Registration and Examination,
as saying:
/ wish the people were better informed
on this question of the crusade against the
osteopaths by the State Board of Health.
There isn't any crusade at all. There are
many of the osteopaths who hold license We
granted. What we insist on, however, is
that all who practice the healing art a
profession shall be suitably prepared for
such work. They must take course in
medicine at some recognized school. Then
they can practice osteopathy if SO minded
and the Board of Health will certainly never
object. But Ii Is dangerous and ridiculous
for a man who is ignorant of the human
body and the science of medicine and sur
gerry to start out and attempt to cure every
case of sickness that conlidingly comes to
him. Yet many osteopathS have tackled
cases of which they knew nothing and have
caused no end of trouble. 1t Is not the os-
teopaths We are after; 1t is the ignorant
practitioner.
AS there are five members of the board,
representing four different schools of medi-
cine, it is not known whether the views ex-
pressed by DIR. Colt are those of a majority
of the members or not. AS doctors have
been known to disagree, there may be as
many opinions regarding the matter i'll ques-
ton as there are members of the board.
Dr. Colts statement is frank and seems to
be free from a proscriptive spirit. II is Of
interest to learn that there are osteopaths
Holding licenses to practice granted by this
board representing four different schools.
The law creating the board is very explicit
In excluding the idea of a partisan or pro-
scriptive measure. 1t provides that each of
the four schools or systems of medicine hav-
ing the largest numerical representation in
the State shall have at least one representa-
tive on the board 1t also provides that the
board shall be nonpartisan. and not more
than three shall be members of any one
political party" and finally, it says: Moth
ing in this act shall be so construed as to
discriminate against any school or system
of medicine" Yet, Notwithstanding these
anti-proscriptive provisions and their posi-
bly, fair construction by the board. the whole
law and the system of registration and
license for which il provides SAVIOR of pa
The Journal is always in favor of genuine
educational progress and of maintaining the
highest possible standards In the so-called
learned professions, as In other walks Of life,
but 1t doubts the wisdom and propriety OF
this kind OF legislation. Personal liberty
and exemption from meddesome and pater-
nal legislation are even more important than
high standards Of education, especially IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

contributions to the Early History of the
PRESBYTERIAN Church in Indiana, Together
with Biographical Notices of the Pioneer
Ministers" is the rather elaborate title OF a
volume of which Rev. Hanford A. Edison, of
Indianapolis is the author, and the Winona
Publishing Company stevenson Building,
Indianapolis), are publishers. This story of
the early days among Presbyterians in In
diana has evidently been prepared with
great care and with hearty appreciation of
the forefathers and their times. Says DIR.
Edison in the preface: 1.-THE study took me
into an unknown land / was surprised at
every step. Courage, self-sacrifice, piety
were to be expected; but 1 found
besides a beautiful social life, un-
common learning, undoubted genius
for affairs and gifts of utterance in
every way memorable" The book Is largely
made up from original material, the author
having been singuarly fortunate in getting
hold of travellers diaries and correspond
ence reaching back TO the beginning of our
local history. The biographical notices are
vivid, minute and frequently extended light
ing up lives which we cannot afford to for
get. Samuel Thornton Scott, the pastor Of
Gen. William Henry Harrison. William w.
Martin John Todd John M. Dickey George
Bush Isaac Reed, James H. Johnson, John
Finley Grove, John Matthews, Erasmus
Darwin Manchester and many other pioneers
are SA6lClleu Will SylupdlHCllC llu6lllys Lie
local history of Vincennes, Madison New
Albany, Jeffersonville, Indianapolis and
other centerS of early Presbyterian effort IS
treated in eXtenso, and much information
wholly fresh and new has been gathered.
Readers will be specially interested in the
indianapolis chapter and in the account of
George Bush whose distinguished and err
ratio career. as scholar and author, began
while he was in charge of the First Church
IN this city. The last chapter on Indiana
EreSuy terians and Education is full of new
material, and many among the best in
formed readers may be surprised to see what
theological and literary center southern
Indiana was in the early days, and what
toll and money and genius too were freely
devoted by the pioneers to the of
sound learning. There is also appendix,
including photography, which Is unique,
If not exhaustive, showing, among other
things, how busy were the pens of Indiana
authors in the early days. OF one of them,
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote to DR.. Edison
that she made him one of the characters of
her Nina Gordon DR.. Edsons personal
interest in and familiarity with his subject,
his habit of accurate statement and his high
literary ability enminently qualify him for
writing a work of this character. In pro-
ducng it he has made valuable contribu-
ton not only to the literature of the church
but to- the history of Indiana. 1t is a book
that should be in every library. In all its
mechanical details the Winona Publishing
Company has made the volume a very cred
liable piece of work. For sale by local book
dealers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Close students of coming events think
they see a possibility of clash between
England and the United States regarding
American control of the Nicaragua canal.
Under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850 the
United States is barred from exercising such
control, but the present concession from
Niearauga is very different from that of 1919,
which led to that treaty. 1t is the interest
of England to insist that the treaty is still
ia force, while the United States has al
ready taken the position that it is obsolete
and imperative. When the question does
arise it will be very important and knotty
one. Perhaps England's anxiety for the
friendship and cooperation of the United
States in her Asiatic policy may lead her to
withdraw her objections to our exclusive
control of the canal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Francisco Petrarca, or, as he is known TO
English readers, Petrarch, was eminent in
the history of literature. both as one of the
four classical Italian poets and also as the
first true reviver of learning in medieval
Europe. Born in 1904 and dying In 1874, his
literary career covered the period of the
greatest activity in the revival of modern
learning and was itself a distinctive feature
of the period. His life and works possess
enduring interest for students of literature.
The purpose Of this volume, "Petrarch, the
First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters,
is essentially historical. 1t is not piece or
literary criticism and it is only incidentally
a biography. Its real purpose is to throw
light upon the development of modern lit
erature. 1t views Petrarch not as poet,
nor even, primarily, as a many-sided man
of genius but as the mirror of his age.
Petrarch knew almost every one worth
knowing in his time. and few historical
sources can rival his letters in value ard
interest. This volume contains, besides a
sketch Of his life, q selection from his cor
respondence with Boccaccio and other
friends designed to illustrate the beginnings
Of the modern renaissance in literature. The
translation from the original Latin is done
by Professors James H. Robinson and Henry
w. Rolfe. G. =. Putnam's Sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

ceedingly ignorant The details Of the din
ner are given in full and the mixture OF
lavish provision, costly dishes and utter
lack of taste and refinement shows that
ancient Rome had its vulgar rich. equally
with modern cities. As a specimen OF the
style the following. taken at random may
drunk to safety he says: Il was unable TO
eat another mouthfu: and so turning TO my
companion, ! tried to draw as much in
formation out OF him as possible and to get
the run OF the gossip of the house. asking
In the first place. who the woman was who
was darting here. and there about the
wife. Her name Is Fortunate. She has
money to burn now. but little while ago
excuse me for saying so. but really In those
days you would not have taken q piece
of bread from her hand: And now, with
top notch and is all the world to Trimal-
chio.-in fact. if she should say it was night
at MONDAY he'd believe her. AS for Tri-
malchio himself he's so rich that he doesn't
know how much money he's got; but this
jade has an eye to everything, even the
self. She doesn't drink. She's as straight
as a String-in fact a really smart woman;
but she has an awfully sharp tongue,
regular magple on perch. II she likes
any one she likes him way down to the
ground, and if she doesn't like him she just
hates him. Trimalchio's estates are SO large
that II would tire a bird to fly over them
and he has heaps on heaps of cash. Take
his silver plate, for instance. Why, there's
AloIc VI II III MS Olht0 IMAM ulpeb
persons have in their entire outfit; and his
slaves,-well, they're SO numerous that I
don't think that tenth part of them would
recognize their own master In fact, when
1t comes TO money he can buy up any one
of these chumps here ten times over; and
there's no reason for his paying out money
for anything at all, because he produces
everything on his own place-wool and ce-
dar wood and pepper--why, If you We're
to ask for hons milk you'd get it. But you
are not to suppose that his associates here
are to be sneeZed at, for they've got plenty
of rocks too. Just look at that man who
has the last place at the table. Even he
has to-day his little eight hundred thousand,
and yet he started out with nothing. It
wasn't very long ago that he a porter
carrying wood on his back through the
street. But, as the saying goes. he found
fairy's wishing cap. ! never grudge
man his good luck " And so the gossip runs
on and the guests talk about their neigh
borS about the weather, about the hard
times, about the public games. about the
education of their children, etc. The chief
value of the work is in its strong presen-
tation of some phases of ancient Roman
life The translation from the Latin to-
gether with an introduction and biograph-
ical sketch of Petronius, are done by Henry
t. Peck. Dodd, Mead q Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Henry Seton Merriman averages half q
dozen epigrams to every page of his story
of "Roden's Corner" which isn't story Of
anybody's corner lot or corner of the town,
but of a shrewd, calculating financial agent,
Roden who with a German chemist Won
Holtzen, secured corner" on the manu-
facture of malgamite. Malgamite is a con-
venient chemical discovery Of Mr.. Merri-
mans. which is an Indispensable factor in
the making of paper, and which also kills
off all the workmen who are employed in
it's making. The story is criticism on the
British habit of joining charitable organiza-
tions having all sorts of peculiar objects.
Through Lord Terribly the willy malgamite
men foist their scheme on the public as q
great charity to the workingmen. After
while Tony Cornish nephew OF the noble-
man, and Major White, who are on the
board OF directors, find out that they have
been deceived, and ire really engaged in
wholesale murder instead of charity, and
through their efforts the corner is broken
up and more humane system of malgamite
making IS substituted. Incidental TO this
Prof. Won HolZen makes a couple of at
tempts on Cornish's life and in the last ona
is permitted to fall head first into a canal,
where he is drowned in the mud at the
bottom. There are other greWsome pages
in the story, but these features are cleverly
kept in the background. Cornish also falls
in love with Rodens sister. and they are
happily married as a fitting finale. But
Major White is introduced in way which
makes the reader consider him blockhead
and wonder why he is brought into the story
at all. Later on, however, he develops a
wonderful ability to deliver crisp, epigram-
matte speeches; and his part in the tale is
croaned by his whipping a dozen would-be
asSasSins of Tony Cornish. The latter char
acter is the best drawn in the story The
women are welI-told of, too. The story is
of much interest throughout. 1t has a
clever and unusual plot, and there is as
much dry detail as other writer's might have
subject Mr. Merrimans style is pleasant
and at times very spirited. Harper & Broth
ers f
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

The recommendation of the secretary of
war to the effect that the United States
construct railroad connecting the prin-
cipal towns in Cuba. to the end that occupa-
ton may be afforded the people and to teach
them habits of industry. is in the nature of
an innovation recognizing the sociallstic
dogma that the state is under obligation
70 furnish the people with employment 1t
may be wise. but is there not danger that
the Cubans who now need assistance may
be led TO infer that the United States will
feed them whether they work or not, and
that such an inference will lead them to re-
fuse to work? The lack of judgment In dis
pensing public charity has multiplied pau
pers in some parts Of this State. What eff
feet VIII the general issue of rations to Gu
bans have upon their future? Are we Great
ing permanent army of paupers? There
IL danger that this is the case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05
.Jerome,s second Thoughts.'

Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is
Jerome K. Jerome's new book, which is in
tended, evidently, as a series of after
thoughts in the same line as his Idle
Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" The Second
Thoughts do not have that pessimism
which marked their predecessors, although
Mr.. Jerome drops considerably into that
cynical humor which is so peculiarly his.
The new series of essays is good reading
Jerome seldom writes anything that is not
worth while. This new volume seems to be
the views Of the Idle Fellow, after he has
been toned down by matrimony, and he fire.
quently cites the wise remarks of bright
child, whose name doubtless Is Jerome, for
in the idle Thoughts" children were not
referred 70 in such a cheerful way. The
titles to the new essays are good. For In
stance there Is one "On the Inadvisability
of Glowing Advice" another ION the No
bility of Ourselves" and one "On the Ex-
ceptional Merit Attaching TO Things We
Meant to Do" The many people who adj
rr'ra Mr. Jeromes writings will be delighted
with his Second Thoughts" Dodd Mead A
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Frank Norris, who wrote Moran of the
Lady Lefty" certainly is gifted with
marvellous Imagination, for q man
who can crowd so much adventure
into so little space, and tell the story as well
as he does, must have a special mental de-
partment for developing the adventures. TO
outline the plot would be to tell the story,
almost. The hero is 'shanghied" after
leaving a pink tea in San Francisco, car
ried on board q tramp schooner, compelled
to work before the mast, finds Moran"
who Is a girl In mems clothes, on an ADAM
doned coal ship, and falls in love with her.
They have tremendous string Of fights and
other troubles at sea, find one hundred and
ChSnaman, who steals the ambergris, and
a dead whale, and when the hero gets back
to San Francisco the girl iS murdered by a
Chinaman, who steals the amebrgris, and
the story leaves Ross Wilbur, the heros
standing on the shores of the broad Pacific,
watching the. schooner bearing. his dead
sweetheart drive out to sea. The reader.
having by this time become familiar with
Mr.. Norriss faculty for producing the unex-
pected, is left to wonder whether Wilbur
goes back to San Francisco, or sits forever
by the seaside. Doubleday & Mcclure COM
Dany.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05
The newspaper men and correspondents {

The newspaper men and correspondents of
Washington must be accorded the credit of
having established the most unique organi-
cation and remarkable series of entertain
ments of which the social world has any
account. The dinners and entertainments
of the Gridiron Club have developed a de-
gree OK originality and briliancy that differ
entiate them from any others ever given.
An organization whose invitations are ae-
cepted by the President an Vice Presie
dent Of the United States, by Cabinet min
listers, foreign ambassadors, senators, SUI
preme Judges. in short by everybody who ia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

The committee which was created by bill
OF the last Legislature to visit the State Re
formatory, charitable and penal institutions
aud ascertain their needs composed of Sem
ator Goodwine and Representatives Roots
and Herod seems to be proceeding with it's
duties in very intelligent manner. The
committee does not consider it to be duty
to examine tho conditions of the institu-
items, but to investigate their financial re-
quirements. with a view to the publication,
for the information of the Legislature, of
estimates of what the institutions require
which will cover the smallest items of ex-
4enditure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Importance and interest when forced 70
recognize such an influence. There is as
yet, however, no reason for believing the
administration viii medde at all, or that 1t
prefers Steele over HanIy. Beveridge Tay-
Tor, Posey or any other thorough Republican
whom the legislators may Acknowledgements
Courier.
Disquieting news from indianapolis is to
the effect that the spoils mongering pollti-
clans are trying to have Governor Mount
partisanize and so prostitute the state in
stitutions They are said to be offering him
the senatorishp if he will yield to their
opportunities. Governor Mount ought to be
the elected senator. though il would be
loss to the State to have him leave the
gubernatoral office. for he would make
truly great member of the highest legisa-
tive body, and be one of a very few rep
resentatives in that body Of the most NUM-
constitute over one-half of the total popula-
ton of the United States.-Terre Haute
Gazette (Dem)
Indiana will have cause for pride if either
of the gentlemen prominently named for
United States Senator shall be chosen by
the General Assembly. Posey, Beveridge,
Hanly, are all true and able Republicans
and gifted orators. But Judge Robert S.
Taylor of Fort WAYNE, seems at present
to have a stronger hold than either on the
judgment of the party. He is ripe in years
and learning His judicial experience and
his long and thorough acquaintance with
the political questions of the country en-
inently fit him for the Senate. His clear
and logical reasoning powers, and his con-
sentative patriotic attitude in matters of
national policy are qualities that will be
needed in the Senate in settling the diff
cult problems growing out of our enlarged
duties and responsibilities since the Span
ish war If the Senate is to represent the
sober second thought of the people. such
men as Judge Taylor are needed in it. He
has ably advocated all the great principles
OF the Republican party in every campaign
are positive and sound, and the result of
deep study of that subject With Fair
banks and Taylor in the Senate, Indiana
would stand second to none of her sister
States IN that august body.-Rising Sun
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Reports from recruiting officers of the reg
ular army show that during the month of
November there were nearly four thousand
enlistments and over seven thousand re-
1ections. OF the enlistments 1882 were in
the general recruiting service and about two
thousand special were eniistments for par
ticular regiments. The figures indicate an
increase rather than diminution of interest
In the regular army service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

That poverty-stricken bunch of men in
GLIDING Calvin S. Brice and Andrew Car
negie might be able to pay Mr. Thurlow
Weed Barnes his little million if they were
given long time on well-secured notes.
No doubt, aft,r the manner of railroad
magnates. they have little plan for the
payment of the mans claim as soon as 10
has been nettod in the sale of newsboy
privileges on the new Chinese railroad. The
man who attempts to collect the extortion-
ate sum of 100000 off of some twenty-five
or thirty millionaries should be classed
among the cold-blooded browbeaters of the
country. A man like that would. foreclose
a mortgage on the property Of a trust!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05
The WAY of the WIG.

The Fat Mani believe my wife looks on
me as a piece of furniture.
The Thin Man-Very likely; but how did
you find Ii out?
she told me the other day that my chin
was so handsome that / ought to grow
beard to protect it from the weather."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Africa, It's Partition and It's Future,
is a book of twelve papers, which originally
appeared in the New York Independent. re-
lating to the Dark Continent. The first and
ablest also the briefest, of the series was
written by Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer
He not only tells Of the possessions of each
of the European governments in Africa but
gives accurate information respecting their
government, conditions and prospects. M.
n Stead editor Of the Review Of Reviews,
tells OF THE British Empire in Africa.s
Great Britain holds the best OF Africa; -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

An Eastern editor regrets that the round
robin letter which Colonel Roosevelt wrote
and all the officers signed is not to be found
in the report of the secretary of war. That
is due to the fact that it was not regular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

The remarkable Mr.. Stead, of London,
writing from Rome, says that 1t is unpleas-
ant for an Anglo-Saxon to hear the Anglo
Saxon denounced IN Europe because of the
conduct of the United States. If Mr.. Stead
cannot stand that sort of criticism, let him
become an Italian or Turk
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

The evidence increases that the Republic
an victories in November have been fol-
lowed by an unprecedented Improvement in
business. It would not have been thus if
the Silverites had carried the Northwestern
States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

Mr.. Bryan has at last confessed that
which intelligent students of his makeup
had known all along-that he cannot dis
cuss public questions" He is at last alive
to the situation, even if he is politically
dead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

The faculty of the University of Wiscon-
sin has notified the glee club that its annual
trip about the country concert-giving will
not be permitted. The ground for this ac-
ton is that such tour interferes with the
regular work of the university. 1t is well
foIrn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

ut isn't the priceless things of life that
woman yearns for" said the Cornfed Phil
osopher, $50 much as the less-price things
at the bargain sales
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

This is not the first time that General
Carl Schurz opposed annexation. When
General Grant, as far-seeing statesman,
saw the Importance of annexing Haiti, Gen
eral schurz was one of the bitterest leaders
of the opposition.