The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-04

dutQOr OF MctcdRue.' He Is very YOUTH
ful and rather unliterary looking.
In Self-Culture for May is an essay by
Mrs. Carina B. C. Eaglesfeld on Country
Life as a Factor in Character Develop
ment." Another indianapolis contributor to
this excellent magazine is Minor Morris. NJ.
d.. who writes of Brain and Drawn"
Curiously enough. he touches incidentally on
the theme treated by Mrs. Eaglesfield. He
says: 1T Is almost a rule that great intel
fields of literature. art and science we OBJ
serve now closely 10 nature these great
minds lived and worked Shakespeare.
Goethe, beethoven, Wordswdrth-all Were in
sympathetic communion with the source Of
all that is best and beautiful in life. Hux-
ley every year sought the solitude of the
Alps Tor companionship with nature. while
Darwin lived exclusively in the fields"
The pathos of President Lincoln's life
comes out strongly in the letters published
In McCiure's Magazine, and gathered by
Miss Tarbell from various sources, mainly
the unpublished records of the War Depart
ment. The difficulty of finding a general
for the army who would fight is the main
theme or undercurrent Of these letters, bur
ghmpses OF the cares laid upon him through
the complications Of the civil service are
shown in such letters as the following, adj
dressed TO Governor Morton Of Indiana, in
eeived: have no recollection of either
John r. Cravens or Cyrus NJ. Allen hav-
ing been named to me for appointment un-
der the tax law. The latter particularly
has been my friend. and 1 am sorry to learn
that he is not yours. No appointment has
been or will be made by me for the purpose
OF stabbing you"
Universal Brotherhood, "a magazine de-
voted to the brotherhood of humanity, the
th~eosophical movement, philosophy, science
and art" is one of the periodicals from
whose pages the uninitiated and worldly
reader plaa ms 1fttIa opl;obtannoent Ttc MN
tributors treat of themes which to him are
incomprehensible. This inability to make
plain their sideas seems to be COM
pretended by the writer's if this plant
from the current number may be taken as
an Indication: oh, for a power to read and
write in the language of color-form SYM
bols as Of old, Oh, that we were sufficiently
awake-'through pity enlightened'-to have
transmission of soul-truths and realities,
and that we had instead a beautiful soul
like fire among us whenever beheld in its
every varying transformations and combi-
nations"
Governor Roosevelt's story of the San
tiago campaign now running In Scribner's
Magazine makes very good reading. In adj
dition to an account of the fighting he tells
a good many anecdotes of which this Is a
specimen: One day we were visited by a
travelling Russian, Prince X, a large. blond
man, smooth and 1mpenetraDle. L intro
duced him to one of the regular army Off
GERS, a capital fighter and an excellent fell
low, who, however. viewed foreign inter-
national politics from a strictly transmits
sissippi standpoint. He hailed the Russian
with frank kindness and took him of to
show him around the trenches. chatting
volubly, and calling him Prince much as
Kentuckians call one another Colonel AS
/ returned / heard him remarking: You
see, Prince, the great result OF this war
Is that it has united the two branches of the
AnglO-SQXOn DeODle. and now that tnCV are
together they can whip the world, Prince!
they can whip the world!-being evidently
filled with the pleasing belief that the Rus
sian would cordially sympathize with this
view."
Everybody must have felt at times the
unreasonableness of the social rule forbid
ding shop-talk and requiring each In
dividual to select subjects for conversation
as far removed as possible from his daily
occupation-in other words, to avoid talking
on the theme they understand best. and
on which they might discourse to edification.
The rule. as most social regulations are. is
doubtless based on the sound general prin-
ciple that a man who talks about his own
business is in danger of becoming a bore.
but there is also the danger that he may
be a bore If he talks of things he doesn't
know. = writer in the current international
Magazine (Chicago) touches on this point
and makes this sensible modification of the
injunction: Il would change IL TO never
estingly discuss music than the musician.
only omit his list Of pupils, his %favorite
method? Who can speak so delightfully."- of
child-life or the development of the human
mind as the teacher, If only the schoolroom
technic be omitted? The world cares moth
Ing for how, why, when or where we do our
work, but the world is interested not so
suits"
In a recent number OF the Open Court
(Chicago) was an article written by one
TIL a. n@-
tion." in which considerable attention was
given to the m-ismanagement of the affairs
of the red men by the government. The
current issue of the Open Court contains
this paragraph: DIR. w. l.. Hailmann, the
late superintendent of Indian schools under
Cleveland). writes concerning the article by
Mr.. Heinemann that 1T is most Instructive,
true to the core and will do much to clear
the atmosphere adding: Il do not, however,
think it quite severe enough on the political
corruption which p0iSonS every phase OF the
work and 'on the lack of conscience dis
interior. senator's, representatives and local
party bosses. But all the statements made
by Mr.; Heinemann are good and true and
Hailmann was national superintendent of
Indian schools for four years and was a
candidate for reappointment. During that
voice was ever raised in faintest protest
against the corruption and lack or con-
science now mentlOneO. Gan II De ludt MS
eyes were only opened after he was out of
office? -
A great many things have been written
about Admiral Dewey within the last year.
but people are not yet tired Of reading about
him, and the chapter of anecdotes told by
Oscar King Davis in the May number Of
McClure's have the merit of freshness and
of throwing a new light on the famous off,
GER. Even the personal description gives
a different idea of him from the one al
ready held. Mr.. King says: Many pictures
of Admiral Dewey have been published in
the last few months, but very few of Them
show much of the man as he Is. Most Of
them show a long, narrow face. with high,
slightly receding forehead and Roman nose.
AS a matter of fact. there Is more breadth
and less length TO the face than these pic
lures show. 1t is a square, face. and its
most prominent feature Is the rugged un-
derjaw. The eyes are wide apart. and set
well back under heavy brows. The fore
head is high, broad and bold. The nose is
large. and the mouth generous, but firm.
tache than the admiral wore last summer.
Mustache and hair are almost white. The
complexion Is dark, as are the eyes. He Is
not a big man physically, but he Is aston
ishingly quick in his actions. His shoulders
are so square and his broad back rs SO
might envy him them His step is quick
and springy; his whole bearing Is one OF
alertness and readiness. His mental process
is lightning-like." The article is well worth
reading.
IN THE AIR.
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