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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20
MAY BECOME A SEA AGAIN.
Engineering May Make n Transform
alton in the Great Sahara Desert.

<OAlOO ~4aiAs
Few people realize how completely of late
years the surface aspect Of this weakened
cid globe of ours has been altered and i'm
proved The world of to-day, in fact.
glory of fold and frill and furbeiow differs
from her savage sister running in pestilen-
tial woods. As art has transformed the
Only the Mime. Rachael" who has made
the earth. II not exactly beautiful for;
place wherein to dwell, is no charlatan
with a drayload of cosmetics and a glib
tongue, but a civil engineer owning nothing
more harmless than a few mysterious-look-
ing Instruments and a measuring tape. And
the marvel OF it all is this, that what has
been done is but an infinitesimal fraction
of that which may. and doubtless will. be
done. Who can doubt, for instance, that
the great Sahara desert-that mole upon
the worlds face-will one day be but a
memory? 1t was an inland sea once. 1t
would not be a very difficult matter to con-
vert it into one again.
A canal sixty miles long, connecting with
the Atlantic the vast depression which runs
close up to the coast nearly midway be-
tween the twentieth and thirtieth parallels
of latitude would do the business beauti-
fully. TIL water would not, of course, cover
the entire surface OF the desert. Here and
there are portions lying above the sea
level. These would become the islands of
the new Sahara ocean What would be the
results that would ensue upon this stupen-
dous transformation? Some would be good
and some bad. Among the latter may be
mentioned the proba bic destruction OF the
vineyards of southern Europe, which de-
pend for their existence upon the warm. dry
winds from the great African desert. AS
some compensation for this. however, the
mercantile marine of the nations affected
would be enabled to gain easy access to
vast regions now given over TO barbarism,
and a series of more or less f1ourishing sea-
port towns would spring up all along the
southern border of Morocco and Algeria,
where the western watershed of the Nile
sinks into the desert, and on the northern
frontier OF the Congo Free State
In a similar manner the greater portion OF
the central Australian desert, covering an
be flooded. The island continent would Their
be reconverted into a gigantic atoll. and
would resemble. roughly. an oval dish, OF
which the depressed central portion would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20

natl. where they ave been visiting for sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. Ben Hunt. of Franklin. Ind, visited
friends and relatives here last week
Misses Edna Bennett and Mary Dwyer are
visiting at st. Mary's of the Woods
Mr.. Parker and family attends the old
settlers picnic at Clermont last week.
Mrs. Robert T.. Bennett and children viii
spend several weeks at Franklin, Ind.
Miss Lola Miller. OF Hope. Ind. is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Heller, on Division street.
Mrs. Hall, of Sowing Green. KY, is Wis
iting Mrs. l.. Salisbury, on Division street
The w. e. T. u. will meet Tuesday after
noon with Mrs. Fenter, on Silver avenue.
Mrs. Wilson. who has been visiting in the
country for several weeks, is home again.
Miss Parker. who has been attending sum-
mer school at Cornell University, Is home
again.
Mrs. Hartman. of Tell City, Ind. is the
guest OF Mr.. Frank Weber. on North Blaine
avenue.
The Sisters of ST. Benedict, of Ferdinand.
this week.
Mrs. James Lampkin returned home last
week from a visit of two weeks In Law
renceburg.
guest of her mother. Mrs. Modling, on OIL
YER avenue.
Miss Gertrude Rogers has accepted a po-
sition as teacher of elocution in the Metro
pOIltdu SCHOOl OI NluSiC.
The jubilee festival of Assumption Church,
held on the lawn of the church Aug. 10, III
and IL, cleared over $500.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Trinity Church
will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Joel Baker, On River avenue.
Mrs. George S. Leachman visited in Bowl
ing Green, Ind, last week. Mr.. w. ID. Long
accompanied Mrs. Leachman home.
The families of Hills Wheeler and Charles
Robertson returned home from Acton Park,
rvA4ra fA1x- 0ra n 0nftaO a ThnrC6aV
Mrs. Gump and daughter, Mrs. Winders,
of Muncie, will come tomorrow TO visit Mr..
and Mrs. T. j. Jennings, en- Standard ave-
nue..
Mrs. O. D. Mosher and children, of In
dianola, Neb, are guests at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. K. Mitchell, on DIVISION
street.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Methodist Church will give an ice
cream social at the parsonage Tuesday
evening.
Mrs. Molie Kerr, of Chicago. who has
been visiting Mrs. A. ID. Crull, has gone TO
Dublin. Ind, for a brief visit before return
ing home.
Misses Margaret Helt, Gertrude Helligoss,
Mabel Benson, Hattie Phipps and William
Helt returned home from Niagara Falls
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peeks will celebrate their
fiftieth wedding anniversary on Wednesday
evening, Aug. %, at their home, on Warren
avenue. No invitations have been issued.
The stewards of the First NJ. f. Church
will give a lawn festival at the home of
Charles Robertson. at Reisner and West
Morris streets. Wednesday evening, Aug. 30.
Mr.. d. Webb was called to Bedford, Ind,
by the death of his father last week. His
brother, James Webb, and daughters, Mrs.
Lawson and Miss Mabel Webb, accom-
panied him.
The Mission Church will hold an old-fash-
toned basket meeting to-day in the grove at
the terminus of the Michigan-street car
line, beginning at 10 o'clock and lasting all
day. The children of the Mission Sunday
school will go out in wagons. All churches
have been invited to participate.
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Haughyillc.

Mrs. ]. d. Kidd is visiting In Farmland.
Mrs. Samuel Bartle is visiting her sister
IN Farmland.
Miss Dinis. of Tilden. Ind, Is the guest
OF friends and relatives.
Mr.. Willis Harmon. who has been quite III
with typhoid fever, Is convalescing.
Miss Mary Johnson is visiting in the coun-
try, the guest OF Miss Maud Gibson.
Mrs. Abner Peck. who has been visiting
relatives in the country, is home again.
Miss Nora Eagen v'ill spend her vacation
At Benton Harbor and Chicago this week.
Mrs. a. Kidd. who has been visiting rela-
tives in Haughville, has returned to her
home at Toledo. o.
Misses Della and Jeanette Jones. of Ham
ilton, O.. and Myrtle Spencer, of the city,
will visit Mrs. Tomlinson this week
Announcement is made of the engage
ment OF Miss Mamie Armstrong and Mr..
Ralph Elliott, the marriage to occur Aug. %.
Miss Margaret Tansel and Mr.. Luther
Mohler were married Friday afternoon and
will reside with Mrs. Mothers aunt, Mrs
W. Wilson, on Bismarck street. Miss Tan
sci and Mr.. Mohler were employed at the
Central Hospital for the Insane.
The Mikado festival. at the Town Hall,
Friday evening. was a financial and social
success. Hale Harmon sat on a throne and
was an ideal Mikado. and was waited on
by Misses Bessie White. Bessie Tyler and
Delhe We 1ifee. in Japanese costumes. The
church was prettily decorated with Japanese
lanterns and fans. and the women wore
little fans in their hair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20
GUNS DOING TIME"
A Queer Spanish Custom of furnishing
or R~ewarding Weapons.
9 volaz in tho San .Iuan News

Hasilis Yelez. in the San Juan News.
Four years ago l called at the Spanish
artillery barracks, San Francisco Square,
this city, for the purpose of visiting an Of
ficer friend of mine. While waiting for him
at the entrance L happened TO see a Mauser
rifle hanging by the gun sling TO a nall IN
such a good piece abandoned and getting
rusty, so L asked a Spanish soldier what
was wrong with the gum.
Why, it is IN for three years"
What do you mean by that?'-I asked.
"Well, 1 mean what 1 say. That gun was
sentenced by a court-martial for bruising a
some time ago.. 1t went of without the trlg-
ger being pulled"
Still 1 don't understand you are
We'll. it Is SO, just the same. Why, If
you ever happen to go to San Cristobai
Castle you will see a gun "a cannon) which
was rewarded (pieces of ordnance in the
Spanish army being punished as well as
rewarded for behavior) for sinking one of
the English war vessels when the city was
attacked a hundred years ago: That can,
non has been knighted by her Majesty and
Is entitled to be called His Excellency," like
a regular general, and whenever We pass 1t
we have to present armS!"
Since then l have been asking every OF
ficer whom / knew whether the story was
true or not, and they hey have all afhrmed VIVA !
cavalry officer, Who thus: well,
some time ago they used to reward and
S1adis Know " how Well Moro Castle behaved
when the Dutch attacked the city two GEN.
tuuries ago. Well. MORO has been knighted
since then, and you probably hear the band
playing the Marcia Real every afternoon,
the same march they play when the gov
ernor general approaches"
I nave seen a good many mules sentenced
to death for having kicked either officers
or privates, and a Spanish soldier told me
that while he was at Cadiz, Spain, he saw
a large rifled gun sentenced TO death" for
having burst and killed some gunners with
the breech block, and it was smelted and
made into another gun. / am told, too.
that at some arsenals and castles, or bar
racks, there are lots of pieces doing time"
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be covered with water ana only the rim
inhabited. In this connection 1t may be m
tuaiIy been formed for submerging. the
Yuma desert, in southern California III the
plan as at present proposed is carried OUT a
tract of absolutely uninhabitabfe territory,
comprising nearly 1900 square miles. and
the greater portion of which lies between
500 and LOCO feet below sea level. VIII be
A few Englishmen-known as Little
Englanders'-still blame the government
for insisting upon the r~eeonguest OF the su-
haps. But capable judges believe that IL
would have been little less than suicidal TO
into the hands of France, for the simple
reason that her engineers. by diverting the
course of the Nile at Abu HaTned or Ber-
ber-no very difficult task-could at any time
turn all upper Egypt into a desert. 1t has
even been suggested that.it might be posi-
ble-by turning its waters into one of the
many lateral ravines which run at right
angles to the present course of the river-to
find a new outlet for it into the Red sea.
and to thereby transform, in process OF
time. that sheet of water into a great fresh
water lake.
To accomplish this it would. of course, DC
necessary TO build a giant dam across its
southern meek" near Perrin. and TO regu-
late. or rather stop altogether. the inward
flow OF the Mediterranean through the Suez
canal-a big task. but one not entirely inn
possible OF accomplishment The above are
examples Of big schemes. There are many
others that might be mentioned. including.
OF course, the Panama and Nicaraguan
canals. and the French war canal be-
tween the mouths of the Loire and the
Rhone, which, when completed, will enable
their ironclads to dodge round behind
Gibraltar when passing from the Atlantic
to the Mediterranean or vice versa.
But 1t is the comparatively little engi-
neering feats which have slowly but surely
altered in the past and will alter In the fu-
ture the face of the earth. Even so small
a matter, for instance, as the proposed sea-
wall at Southend will certainly deepen the
estuary of the Thames, and may c%once!v.-
ably do away with the Goodwin sands. A
scheme was recently mooted TO cut 4 snip
canal through the center of Irelani. be-
ginning at Dublin and finishing at Galway,
1t would be no very difficult Iear 10 accom-
plish, for most of the country through
which it would pass is fat and togey.
But just consider the result. Ireland would
no longer be one island, but two. anu riony
of the best of Moore's melodies would have
TO be rewritten. To alludc TO 'Erin's green
ISLE would be a palPable -nisnomer. Even
this, however, would be better than to Rave
the silver Thames" transformed INTO a
huge ditch, with ocean g~ravtounds' and
tramp" cargo steamers bcichIng smoke
through Cliveden woods or over
village. Yet such an evenSlai ~ :s by nc
means impossible. FOR it mas already been
bruited to construct a ship canal nom
Bristol to London by way of the Severn and
the Thames.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20
SUBURBAN NEWS NOTES.


Mrs. J. A. Hundley. Who has been visiting
in Martinsville is home again.
Mr.. Leonard Traub, who has been visit
ing in Nation, Is home again.
Mrs. Joseph Gilchrist will go to st. Louis
soon for a visit with friends and relatives.
Miss Eva Lingle. who has been visiting
In Delaware, Ind, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. ]. j. Traub is in Mattoon. H.. called
there by the illness Of her daughter, Mrs.
Cox
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Baptist
Church met Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Talmage.
Misses Kate Smith, Of McCordsville, and
Lulu and Ruth Bills. OF Forteville. visited
DR.. and Mrs. B. A. Brown last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. MeHose moved to Delaware,
o.. last week Mr. McHose has taken a
place.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist
Church Will meet Wednesday afternoon at
the church TO hear Mrs. NJ. E. Sullivan, of
Fletcher-place Church, in the city, talk on
missions"
Mrs. w. W. Reynolds entertained at even
ing tea Friday, in honor of Mr.: and Mrs.
Cheney and Miss Cheney, of Toronto,
Canada. The other guests were Rev. ana
Mrs. c. Tfnsley and daughter. of the city.
A bicycle club was organized Tuesday
evening at the home of DIR. and Mrs. Il. A.
Brown. The club will hereafter be known
as the f. C.. y. Club, and the feature of
the club will be social rides. The members
are: Mr.. and Mrs. A. Kemper, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. Harrison. Mr.. and Mrs. f. Talmage,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hale, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Hamilton. Mr.. Gus Leftwick, DIR. and
Mrs. r. A. Brown, Lester Brown, Fay Hall
and Bessie kemper. To-day the club will
ride to McCordsville.
A woman's auxiliary to the Railroad
Young Mems Christian Association was or
ganized Friday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. Sites. on Station street. The pro-
moters are Mrs. w. W. Reynolds, Mrs. T..
W. Murray, Mrs. William O'Neil. Mrs. John
Shaw. Mrs. b. A Brown, Mrs. s. Oldridge,
Mrs. s. Hundley. Mrs. George Sites, Mrs.
Steele Nrs Bert Gum, Mrs. G. Whistier'
Mrs. r. NJ. Morley, Mrs. Frank Engle, Mrs.
ID. W. freshman. Mrs. Daisy Thompson,
Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs. +. Stogsdall. Mrs. Ed
ward Hall. Mrs. Joseph Gilchrist. The OBJ
ject OF the organization will be to assist in
q systematic work for the benefit of the
railroad men. The following officers We're
elected at the meeting: President, Mrs. c.
w. Titus: vice presidents. Mrs. Sarah
Oldridge, Mrs. T.. w. Murray. Mrs. Joseph
Gilchirst, Mrs. Kirk; secretarv Mrs. Tai
mage: treasurer. Mrs. Stogsdale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20
The Generous American People.

Leslie > weekly.
1t is impossible to frame an Indictment
against a people who are given TO noble
deeds. Over against the walls Of the pessi-
miSts and the loud alarms Of the Atkinsons
and others of that line about the degeneracy
of the American people, may be set a few
shining facts which show that love for
humanity and a large and abundant faith in
the future of the race still abide with US.
Here is the will of the late Robert c.. Bill
ings. of Boston. with requests to colleges,
hospitals and charities amounting TO nearly
100000. Here is the will of Mrs. Catherine
W.. White, of Chicago, by which the Art In
stitute of that city is made richer by go 900.
Here is the gift of $4,000 by Mr.: Henry
Walters, Of Baltimore. to provide that city
with two public lighthouses. Mrs. Lydia
Bradley, of Peoria, ILL.,, deeds several farms
in various parts of that State to the Bradley
Institute. b. H. Duke of Durham, n. c.,
gives Trinity College of that place $4,000.
making a total of $4,000 from the same
source within the past year. These are a
few of the good deeds taught up from the
record Of a single week. They are worth a
ton of arguments from the alarmist fac
tories
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20

LOndon Letter III dsnlnSton FOSt.
Two little stories are told about that
stanchest exponent of Democratic and Re
publican institutions. Susan b. Anthony.
On one occasion she actually undertook to
introduce one OF the greatest lords in the
kingdom to two poor little girl employees
on a London paper. and. as IL this were
not sufficiently heinous. she told him frank
~ that she had forgotten his name. He did
not tell IL 10 her, and IL Gibson could have
caught the expression of his lordship's face
he might have produced his masterpiece.
At another time she was invited to a
swell luncheon to meet the Princess
Christian. the Queens daughter. After
shaking hands with her n talking a few
minute Miss Anthony sat down. Presently
someone came and told her she must not
sit while royalty was standing. Some Of
her friends say that her eighty years and
the fatigue from the strain OF the past
weeks justified her in sitting. Others say
that she could have stood up two hours IL
she had had a suffrage speech to make, but
that the awful breach OF etiquette was due
10 that spirit Of her Quaker ancestors which
made them face death rather than take OF
their hat TO a king. Miss Anthony herself
only laughs and refuses to be interviewed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20
"Making Out" I'm Georgia.

Atlanta Constitution.
One of the old-time darkies. on being asked
how he was making out" replied in this
fashion:
.'Well, sub. times is mighty tight wild me,
but / manage to make a livin',"
What are you doing now?"
"Well, sub, I keeps de pot b'ilin' by dom
a little plowin'. a little votin' en- a little bap-
tizin'; en- wen dey'S nuttin' doin' at dem
three I hangs roun' de white folks en- waits
'twell dey gifts in de notion ter run fer office
ag'ini'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20
West Indianapolis.

Mrs. Brand is visiting in Lawrenceburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ball are visiting in
Greencastle.
Miss Mae Mccain Is visiting her grand
parents. In Waldron-
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ID. Crull. of Nordyke ave-
nue.. are visiting I'm Franklin.
Mrs. Anna Mills. who has been IN Chicago
for several weeks, Is home again.
Mr.. Fred Leachman. who has been visit
Ing In Bagcsd. KY. is home again.
Misses Imogene and Lulu Hoss returned
home last week from Feesburg and cincin-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20


The most exquisitely colored cat in the
city is probably the property Of a Front
street wholesale grocer, and is a Maltese,
with broad tiger stripes and patches under
the blue. She has an interesting little fam
lily, one of them her exact image. But
neither beauty of form or color determine
the value of a cat in a downtown house.
Commonplace Tabithas, calico cats, yellow
cats, white cats, gaunt old tiger stripes
which bear the evidences of many a battle,
commonplace black and white cats, are held
in equal esteem by the establishments
wherein they hold a working partnership.
Two of the t-know cats in the city are
the property Of a wholesale grocery In the
gore between California and Market streets.
and are plain. honest. gray grimalkins,
with nothing notable about them except
that one has a kink i'm her tail owing to an
accident received in early life. No cat in the
city is more esteemed or more tenderiy
cared for than the gentle gray and white
puss belonging to a wholesale house 'front.'
Ing Market street in the next block above.
age, but Is "honorably retired in recogni-
ton OF her long life of usefulness. and will
receive her saucer OF milk three times a day
as long as she lives
The difficulty of keeping a really hand
some cat or a good hunter is a matter OF
serious complaint in the wholesale portion
OF the city. One rich frm OF foreign COM
mission merchants on California street has
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-09-27
Death Of WILL HASS.
Welt known Young Citizen of Terrell
County Dies,

A Welt Known Young Citizen of Terrell
County Dies.
On last Friday night the grim reaper
entered the nome of Mr.. II. P. Hass
of Herod, and in response to his call
the spirIGof Mr.. Will Hass went to
it's eternal home. The death of this
young man will bring pang Of sorrow
to the hearts of many friends besides
the grief it has entailed upon the
members of the immediate family,
VIII Hass spent his schOolhOod days
in Dawson, and afterwards entered in
to business life here. He was warm
hearted boy, and numbered his friends
by the score. Several years ago the
firm of bass Bros q Co. was formed at
HerOd, of which he was member. III
health attacked him, and for long
while prior TO his death he was unable
to attend to any business. Recently
his condition grew worse, and on last
Friday night he finally succumbed to
the ravages of disease. Acute muscu-
lar rheumatism was the malady.
His body was brought from his
fathers home Saturday afternoon and
inferred in the city cemetery, Rev. }.
r. Hawkins performing the last rites.
We join with host of friends in ex-
tending sincere sympathy to the grief
stricken family.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-09-27
DINNER AND DRILL.

Baptist Ladies' and Guards will Combine
in an Entertainment Friday Night.
The Dewey dinner which will be Civ
en- by the ladies of the Baptist church,
mention of which was made in last
weeks News, will occur at the Guard
armory on next Friday evening, the Goth
inst. Dinner will be served on board
the war vessels of the ASlatic squadron
at p. m.
The Baptist ladies are noted for
excellence in all things appertaining to
the kitchens output, and their supper
Friday evening will prove no exception
to the rule. They will serve an excellent
meal at a reasonable cost. and will no
doubt be literally patronized
During the evening the snnu'l prize
drill of the Guards for the j. p. Stew
ems medal will take place, and will con-
tribute much to the evenings entertain
ident.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-09-27
$4,000 FOR SCHOOLS.
City Council Will Levy Taxes for That
Amount This Year.

AT the regular monthly session of the
board of city school commissioners
Thursday the secretary of the board was
instructed to notify the city council to
provide in their tax levy this fall for the
sum of 81 900 for school purposes the
ensuing year. This is the same amcEut
that was required of the city council
for the schools the past year. 1t is
estimated that the total cost of the
city schools for the year just begun
will be 1921, and the remaining SO, 231
will be derived from the book fees aud
the state fuhd.
The building committee of the board
was instructed to have some repairs
made on the roof of the high school
building, and to furnish all of the rooms
with new stoves.
Commissioners Melton, Rainey and
Farnum were appointed to visit the
schools the ensuing month.