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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
BUSINESS EDUCATION.

The British government and people seem
quite disposed of late to adopt American
ideas and improvements 1t has been a
good while since Sydney Smith wrote I'm
the four quarters of the globe, who reads
an American book or goes to an American
play, or looks at an American picture or
statue?" Englishmen do all Of these things
row. and are not ashamed to admit that
they derive entertainment and instruction
therefrom- Latterly they have learned by
sad experience that American business
methods are resulting in the capture of
the worlds markets, and they are trying
to find out the secret of American success.
II does not follow that they can appropriate
the secret or initiate the methods when
they do discover them, but they deserve
credit for willingness to learn.
1t seems they have been investigating our
system of commercial education and busi-
ness colleges A recent dispatch stated that
Mr.. Tower, acting British minister at
Washington, had made a report on this sub
ject to the British Foreign Office (which
has attracted wide attention in England,
as the system is more particularly an Amer
lean product" In the form in which it
exists 1t is peculiarly and exclusively an
American product. All European countries
have their methods of training young men
for commercial life, some of them very
practical and thorough. but no other coun-
try has distinctively commercial colleges
such as exist in the United States. or
thorough commercial courses in colleges and
universities. Data furnished Mr.. Tower by
United States Commissioner of Education
Harris showed that, besides private COM
mercial colleges, there are now in the
United States 172 universities and colleges
having commercial courses Most of the
States have a commercial branch in their
state universities and also in their agri-
cultural colleges, and many high schools
and academies have a course in business
training. Nothing of this kind is found in
the educational system of England. where
academic training and commercial training
are regarded as belonging to entirely differ
ent fields of education. Each system has its
advantages and each may profit by the
other. Perhaps 1t might be said that the
English system of apprenticing boys to
business without any theoretical knowledge
or general culture is too intensely practical,
while the American system may be a little
weak on the practical side. In business, as
| in science or any other branch of knowl-
edge. there should be a judicious mingling
| of theory with practice If Englishmen can
profit by studying our cornmercial-college
| system. Americans can profit equally by
| initiating their thoroughness in business
training and in knowledge of practical de-
tails.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

Miss Mary II. Krout spent yesterday in
Indianapolis on her way from New York,
where she has been for several months. She
leaves this morning for her home, in Craw-
fordsville and will remain there few days
before going to San Francisco, from which
place she expects to sail for China late in
July. During her absence she will CORE
spond with number of newspapers. includ-
ing the Journal. While in New York Miss
Krout, at the request of a well-known pub
fishing house, wrote a book for children,
entitled "Alice's Trip to the Hawaiian
Islands" She also read the final proofs of
her book entitled "A Looker-on in London"
which will be brought out In the fall. She
is under contract to prepare a volume on
the Philippines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

malignants object to their color. The best
place in the world for American citizens of
African descent is right here in the United
States, and especially in the South. where
their labor Is an absolute necessity. No
greater misfortune could befall the South
the colored people If some of them want to
try their fortunes in Cuba, or in the Phil
ippines. either soldiers or civilians. they
have the same right to do so as other Amer
lean citizens, but there should be an end
of the talk about colonizing them. The So
called race problem is working itself out
very satisfactorily, and fifty years hence
will never be heard of except as matter Of
remote history
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

and that to-day. in the frantic process Of
keeping up with current books he has
no time to enjoy at all. He would read
Scott. and Thackeray, and Dickens-yes,
and Charles Reade and Anthony Trollope,
and George Eliot. and he would know. be-
cause of the winnowing process of time.
just which books of the minor novelists are
now worth knowing. Out of the whole list,
for example, that william Black has left.
he would read "A Daughter of Heth,' "A
Princess of Thule and Three Feathers"
and he would let the rest alone. Out of all
that Wflkie Collins wrote he would confine
himself to 1.-The Woman in White and
Man and Wife" This much by way of IL
lustration. One can come down nearer to
the present time and apply the principle
10 living writers, and, instead of wasting
time upon the latest books of Thomas
Hardy and George Moore and Anthony
Hope, say with confidence that four books
OF the first, three books of the second, and
one book of the third are all those he need
peruse.
commend this suggestion to reading
clubs, and. indeed, TO everyone who at the
present time is running his memory and
extensively acquiring real dislike for lit
erature by attempting TO do what it is
quite impossible to do. If carried out by
the general public Ii would prevent authors
from converting themselves into literary
sausage machines. 1t would discourage i'm
beetles from writing anything at all, and
1t would give to literature certain dignity
and distinction which are with every year
becoming more and more impossible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
KEEPING UP WITH BOOKS.
A Very Improbable and Unnecessary
Proceeding.
Raford Ryk,

Rafford Ryke. in New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Why should any one think it necessary
to keep up with books" at all in the sense
in which that phrase is generally used? In
other words, what particular merit is there
in knowing or protesting to know all about
a book within the first six weeks after its
appearance from the press? Looking back
over the past five or six years. one can see
very clearly that after the immediate log
rolling ended and after the noise of the
literary tom-toms died away and after the
pack of critics left the volumes that for the
moment interested them and rushed off in
search of fresher game, there were left
dozen volumes only to represent the sur
vival of the fitteSt. This is true to-day;
ii is true of the last half dozen years: and
ii has been always true. Now suppose, in
stead of trying TO keep up with the cur
rent books" one should let the current
books alone and try TO keep up with the
real books of, say, half a dozen years ago.
This would be not only possible, but very
easy and extremely profitable, because in
that case one would be certain that he was
economic his time, and he would have only
so much reading TO do as could be done
with leisurely discrimination and critical In
telligence. One might extend this principle
little further and say that IL would be
very much better for a person who is be-
occupation of his life to go still further back
and TO proceed leisurely through all the
very best literature of the past, OF which.
after all, there Is not so very much. III one
began his reading with the productions OF
the present century rather than with the
tain of enjoying everything that he read
and of cultivatfng at the same time dis
eliminating literary taste. There would be
so much that he would be certain to enjoy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

One of the citizens of Windham, VT, who
has recently bought a farm through which
flows a fine trout brook has put up nice
sign bearing this legand: Fish and be
id. Worms behind the barn"
John Walter. of the London Times, left
as a legacy TO his daughter one of the adj
vertising columns of the paper. Ii is re-
ported that so far the column has brought
her a steady income Of $50 a day.
William Oxley Thompson. the new presi-
dent Of Ohio State University, spent ten
years in getting his diploma from Mus
kingum College. being so poor that TO get
one years study he had sometimes TO work
three years 10 save the money required
lions Herald says that President Warren
writes that in New Zealand it is proposed
TO form an egg league I'm aid of the TWEEN
tieth century fund. 1t Is figured out that
with ten thousand hens at work in the col
ony the handsome sum Of $4,000 could al
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

Perhaps the most foolish idea put forward
by any speaker on the Fourth OF July was
that by ex-senator Butler. of South Caro-
ina. that the government should use negro
troops to conquer the Philippines and should
then appropriate 100000 to colonize the
Islands with negroes. The suggestion is not
only foolish ard impracticable. but unpatri-
otto and unstatesmanlike. II has nothing
whatever to commend It. Every now and
then some person feels moved by deep anx-
iety for the solution of "the race problem
TO suggest come way OF getting rid OF the
colofed people Deportation and COLOMBIA
ton OF them in foreign countries IL an old
and stale suggestion. We. every little while
II comes TO the front as a new and wise
scheme. II has never received serious at
fenfion except from the few cranks who
make II. and never viii. The mass OF the
American people are not 80 foolish as 70
favor getting rid Of several millions of loyal
patriotic citisens simply because . few
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
METER COMPANY ORGANIZED.


The Indiana Meter Company. of this city.
was yesterday Incorporated with a capital
stock of $500 The company will manu-
facture gas and water meters. The incor-
porators are John w. Minor. Henry Ia
Ddthmer, Cyrus c. Barrett, Calvin @.
Udell, James M. Swan. James r. Brennan.
Agnes /. Dithmer and John w. Minor. jr.
The w. f. Epperson Circle Heading Com
pany and the Ladoga Electric Light and
Power Company, both of I,adoga. filed ar
t.cles of consolidation and Incorporation as
the W. F. Epperson Circled Heading and
Light Company. of Ladoga. The capital
stock is $1,000 and the incorporators are
w. F. Epperson. W. s. Epperson, William
f.. Hostetter. 8. F. Kyle and II. f. Daush-
erty The officers are: President, j. Il.
N[cCinnis; vice president w. S. Epperson;
secretary, Lou Marie Cox; treasurer. j. Il.
McCinnis.
The New Albany Bowling Club was also
Incorporated. The incorporators are Frank
Zinsmester, Robert w. Morris, j. II. Faw-
catt, Thomas McCulloch, George r. Stein
hauer, Charles Day and Evan B. Stotsen-
burg.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
What Is commencement For.


A growing number of Western colleges
enjoyable exhibition of youthful sentiment
at the close of the years work into an
additional opportunity for the forces of the
lecture bureau. The reason for the change
is given as the tiresome monotony of the
graduates essays and orations. For our
part. ana We believe we voice the senti-
ment or the greater part of the public we
md no greater monotony in the sentiments
or young college graduates than in those
or OLD lecturers. and the former have the
advantage OF being always hopeful and gem
orally brief: We can understand how a
wearied college instructor might get tired,
AFTER thirty years Of experience of listening
TO college essays. But a college facultv
should remember what a commencement is
for. The public does not lack for occasions
the products of the college, and to hear
its children say what they think of the
world. Give us back the old commence
ment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
CENTRAL-AVENUE BRIDGE.
County Commissioners Are stu In
the Notion Of Building q New One.

The County Commissioners INDUCED in
more bridge talk" yesterday and as a re-
suit OF conference held in the morning
the board decided to go ahead and build
a bridge over Fall creek at Central ave-
nue. If 1t is possible to get reasonable
figures from bidders. The members of the
board have concluded that IL would be dan
gerous to trust the present Central-ayenue
bridge another winter.
IL is probable that I'm few DAVIS the
board Will advertise for bids on three kinds
OF pridges-a stone structure, a steel-plated
girder bridge and a Melan arch bridge
Commissioners McGregor insists that a
stone bridge can be built cheaper
than steel structure. The board has in
structed the county engineer to prepare
plans and specifications. which will be pub
lished for the benefit of bidders. Engineer
Coyner has been talking TO the board about
bridge he has in mind, a steel structure
which can be. built without the use of piers
In the stream. The bridge would be a single
span, two hundred feet in length. The board
may ask for estimates on this style OF
bridge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

consideration for the comfort Of their en-
ployes. but a consideration manifested at
considerable cost to themselves. To close one
of these large establishments even for a
few hours involves the loss of a certain
amount Of custom, and tc let this go, espe-
cially when all other stores not fol-
lowing their example. indicates a gener-
osity that the employees benefited and citi-
zens generally should appreciate. Shop
pers should do their part by timing their
visits down town according to the OPEN
door schedule
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

and started down the street as fast "a she
could go. IL Is said that a passing street car
was so badly Jared by the explosion that a
man standing on the platform was almost
thrown from the car and several pa ssengers
are said 10 have been cut by particles Of
glass. Two bicyclists. who were passing
were thrown from their wheels. An electric
fan in the drug store. in some manner had
the places cut on. as IL with a metal fnstru-
ment, aid then slivered. No one seemed to
Know whether or not the fan was running
at the time The time OF the accident is in,
oicated by the drugstore clock. which
me husband OF Mrs. Ford, who is so bad
ly injured, is employed at the New YORK
store.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
Politics i'm the District.
Washington Special.


The citizens Of Washington have taste
OF o, real politics only once in four years, and
men, aitnolgh the prizes are seats i'm the
OF great violence Is waged-one that shakes
the social fabric of the District of Columbia
from center to circumference/The contest
could not be more desperate if the fate of
the Nation were dependent on the result.
what the natives of Washington would do
IL they were TO be suddenly given fun
rights of citizenship Is a proposition the
good people hereabouts do not like to con-
slider Speculation in that field is worse than
nightmare. If a mere taste of political
weak tea drives half the population to the
verge of insanity what would big dose
OF the real article do? The peace-loyjng
members of the community turn pale at
the suggestion of suffrage i'm the District
They are already trembling at the prospect
OIL the impending tumult and are putting
lnslr cyclone cellars in readiness for the
visitation. The citizens who have been
prominently mentioned for election as
delegates already include half the city direc-
tory and six months will elapse before a
selection can be made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
HENRY D. PIERCE ARRESTED.


Henry Douglass Pierce was yesterday aft
e-noon arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal Boyd on the charge of violation OF
the revenue law. Some time ago Mr..
Pierce sold some property and declined to
affix a revenue stamp to the deed until COM
PEELED to. Information was filed before
United States Commissioner Moores before
Mr.. Pierce affixed the stamp and the war
rant was issued in consequence or that In
formation. Owing to the absence OF Mr..
Pierce from the city IL had not been served
before. The hearing will be before Commits
sioner Moores next Monday afternoon at
2 o'clock and Mr.. Pierce has been released
on his own recognizance. The penalty for
this offense is not more than so line. I'M
p.isonment for six months, or both.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
Half Holidays for Clerks.

Three of the prominent stores OF this
city have announced a weekly half holi-
day for their employees during the months
of July and August L. s. Ayres * CO. viii
continue 10 close their establishment at
noon on Saturdays. while the New York
Store and H. p. WATSON & Co. will give
their employees a half holiday each Friday
afternoon Beginning to-day the latter
stores will remain closed from Friday noon
until Saturday morning. All OF the ABOVE
fi-ms have been willing TO allow their en-
Moves a half holiday each week. but up TO
this time IL has been impossible 10 secure
the cooperation OF the other stores IN the
movement Friday afternoon Is chosen by
W'asson's and the New York Store for the
half holiday rather than Saturday because
II is felt that the trade Will not admit or
Saturday closing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
GEO. w. JULIAN STRICKEN
REPORTED DANGEROUSLY ILL AT
HIS HOME IN IRvINGTON.
He Suffered q Stroke OF Paralysis
Yesterday Afternoon and He
Condition IL Alarming.

George W. Julian, who has been one OF
the most prominent men in the country, was
yesterday afternoon stricken with paralysis
at his home on Central avenue, Irvington,
and at midnight last night was in a coma
tose condition. Mr.. Julian has been I'm fair
ly good health for some time, and the stroke
was unexpected. DIR. Thompson was at once
called, but Mr.. Julian's advanced age
eighty-two years-is against him. His
career has been eventful one. He is
self-educated man and read law with John
s. Newman. of CenterviIle. He entered
politics first as the representative i'm the
Legislature from Wayne county i'm 1s45. and
three years later became the leader of the
Free Soil party In the Sixth, or ''Old Burnt
district"
He was elected to Congress in lS49 and was
an ardent anti-slavery meriber Of the House.
In the Senate of that Congress were Clay.
Webster and Calhoun, and 1t was one of the
most famous congresses i'm the history of
the country. Mr.. Julian represented his
district for many years, and in that time
rose to great prominence. At one time he
was a candidate for Vice President. He
Is one of the few survivors of important
committees and OF Congress which dealt
with most important steps I'm the history
of the country. Mr.. Julian served the
committee on the conduct of the war. After
his retirement from Congress he became az
filiated with the Greeley wing of the Demo-
cratic party and has since considered him.
self a member of the party. The only pub
lie office he has held since his retirement
from Congress was that of surveyor general
of New Mexico, to which he was appointed in
1885 by President Cleveland He has been
a frequent contributor Of political articles TO
magazines and reviews. and in 1892 he pub
lished The Life of Joshua r. Giddings -
His later years have been spent quietly at
Irvington and of his three children two
live here. His son Fred Is resident OF
New York. and the two who live i'm this
city are Paul Julian and Mrs. Grace Julian
Clark His physician. DIR. Thompson stated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

Congressman Champ Clark. of Missouri.
is another Democrat who does not wish TO
be classed as 4 Little American" In con-
Guiding a speech at Lexington. KY, on the
Fourth OF July. he said:
III America had never done anything
worthy of remembrance except presenting
Dewey to mankind her reason for being
would be indicated. He Is the very flower
of American chivalry in the closing days
OF the nineteenth century. In far-reach-
ing consequences his victory AT Mania
ranks with the skirmish at Concord and
Lexington with the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence, the adoption of the Constitution
and Washingtons inauguration. AS the
mighty Frederick said of his Industrious
predecessor, the Great Elector. so II may
be said OF Dewey. with equal truth, This
man did great things"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

Captain Dyer, of Massachusetts. who has
just returned from service in the Philip
pines. adds his testimony as to the con-
duct of the American anti-expansionists In
giving aid and comfort to the insurgents.
He says the latter derive their principal
encouragement from the reports they get
of opposition to the war. and they are led
TO believe that IL they hold out a while long,
er the present administration will Be over
threwn and then they will have things their
ourn NAV
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

Vacation schools are becoming an institu-
ton In every large city They afford in
struction of different sort from that given
In the regular schools and combine 1t with
pleasure In such way that. according to
all accounts. "the children cry for it,
Though the efforts of number of ener-
getic ladies one OF these schools has been
arranged for in Indianapolis and will open
on Monday. 1t would be well If there were
more than one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

No doubt II was very annoying to Rear
Admiral Cromwell late commandant of the
port of Havana, to be put in quarantine
on his arrival at New York, but regula-
tions of that kind should be strictly en-
forced, and his omission to provide him.
ing Havana brought him under the opera
tion OF the rule the same as any other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
Melancholy Collection.
New York Evening Sun.

81 must be looking pretty forlorn to-day"
said woman TO her companion in a rail-
way coach lately. 81 can always see rlyself
others me in the books the train
boy leaves to tempt me. The first book he
handed me to-day was "A Struggle for Ex-
istence." On his next trip through the car
he tried me with "Alone in the World. /"
Now he seems to feel he has found the very
thing TO suit my case. It's 1.-The Forsaken
Bride -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

Our British friends are sometimes very
amusing. A London dispatch says it was
freely rumored there during the Interna-
tional Council of Women that one woman
had come from this country with man.
date from the Irish party In America to
oppose any attempt TO further Anglo
Saxon alliance. and that she brought large
sum OF money for the purpose The ghost
Of the old Fenian scare seems to be still
walking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
Not Possible Before.


Philadelphia Press.
The English Bible Society, which in these
matters acts with the American Bible So
ciety, has translated the Bible into Tagal
Wool and Ilacuno, three languages in the
Philippines. This translation was impossible
under the Spanish It's preparation. publica-
ton and distribution are the result of the
first year of American supremacy in the
archiDelagO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07
Scientific Discussion.

Watts-Did you see that story about an
arrowhead being brought up from a depth
of more than fifteen hundred feet under
ground?
Potts-Yes. Strikes me the fellow that
shot 1t that deep into the earth must have
been a pretty good man In his time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-07

There are yet some living people who do
not understand the game of baseball and
to whom the language of the game is as
a foreign tongue. Such persons, however,
much prefer to encounter a column of base
ball talk TO a column of golf lingo 1t has
a less mysterious and terrible sound.