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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

Since the making of calendars became a
fine art no household can have too many
of them. They have a place in every room
and form one Of its decorations. The art
printing house of Raphael Tuck & Sons
long ago became noted for its work in this
line, but this season it excels its record
in the production of handsome and snowy
calendars. The most gorgeous one, the
alma Mater" celebrates the colleges II
is composed OF six large panels. each
decorated with the full length figure Of a
young woman wearing a gown OF the
colors, respectively, of Yale. Pennsylvania
University, Chicago University. Harvard.
Princeton and Columbia Another striking
one, the GLORY of the Year." has embossed
floral decorations. with appropriate quota
tons from Shakespeare on each panel. In
"Grecian Graces" the female figure Is used
in a classical way, with accompanying
architectural designs and bits OF verse.
Guardian Angels" follows the procession
of the months with angels figures. There
is also a handsome Longfeilow calendar,
with selections from that poets verses.
Attractive booklets accompanying the cards
are Echoes Of Friendship" a collection OF
verses from Longfellow. and a decorated
engagement book with blanks for the
users memoranda. There is also a variety
of Christmas and New Years cards OF
novel and attractive design. The color
work of all these publications is OF the
best class. Tuck & Sons are now estab-
lished at 122 Fifth avenue, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17
VALLEY FORGE ASSOCIATION.
1t Will Hold Its First Convention at
Philadelphia This Week.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. lion
Wednesday next the Valley Forge National
Park Association will hold its first conven-
ton in Independence Hall. Delegates from
the thirteen original States will be in at
tendance, representing the Following patri-
otto societies: Colonial Danes, Daughters
Of the American Revolution, Society of the
War of 1872. Daughters of the Revolution,
Society OF Colonial Wars. Brotherhood of
the Union, New England Society, Junior
Order OF American Mechanics, Montgomery
County Historical Society, Chester County
Historical Society and a number of other
organizations.
In the evening a mass meeting will be
held in the Academy of Music. at which
Senator Boise Penrose and other we'll
known men will deliver addresses. The pur-
pose of the association is to arouse public
sentiment for the preservation of Valley
Forge. the historic camping ground of Gen.
Washington and the continental army dur
ing the winter of 177z-7S. A bill is now be-
fore Congress which provides for the ac-
QUESTION of Valley Forge by the govern
ment and it's preservation as a military
park under control Of the Wa Department.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

"Chloris of the Island a new story by
II. B. Marriott-Watson is so full of adj
ventures and hair-breadth escapes as to
leave one fairly GREATNESS at the end.
There is not one seconds pause in the in
tensity and stirring quality of the action.
An elopement, smuggling. with ell of its
mysterious accessories; a wooing SO stormy
and varied that il rings the changes con-
stantly on all the emotions, from hate to
alteration, are but a few of the elements
that go to make up this fascinating tale
of adventure. Chloris herself is charming
enough TO be a satisfactory motive for all
the daring OF the hero. What without her
would be merely a bewildering series of
desperate situations is welded by her un-
tanned sweetness and lo~vableness into a
whole of unusual power and romantic in
terest. Warburton. the hero. is bluff. often
to the point of brutality. but courage as
indomitable and picturesque as his suf-
fees to render all other qualities mere de-
tails and makes him appeal to the readers
imagination as he did to that of Chloris.
Lovers of the romantic will find a salts
factory feast in this story. Harper &
Bros, publishers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

The apportionncnt OF representatives in
Congress TO the States for the next decade
is a very important matter. 1t may be
added that never before has the subject
aroused so much popular interest as at
the present time. AS the subject comes
TO the front it will attract more interest.
At the outset 1t can be said that an appor-
tionment which would deprive Maine. In
diana, Kansas and Nebraska Of a member
each and leave those States with the pres
ent representation hat have disfranchised
a half or a third of their voters, will call
forth the vigorous condemnation of Repub-
licans the country over. Most Republicans,
and many Democrats, If the Chicago
Chronicle speaks for a constituency, re-
gard the full representation of the disfran-
chising States as a violation of the federal
Constitution, and consequently a danger
Gus precedent. They regard it as a viola
ton of the principle of equal representa-
ton to allow a representative to $4,000
people in South Carolina, while in all the
States of the North there is but one rep
resentative to 5000. This injustice will
be emphasized If those DISTINGUISHING
States are permitted to have full repre-
sentation on half the voting population.
while Indiana is deprived of a member be-
cause its fraction is not so large as in
some other States, but larger by nearly
100 per cent. than the voting population
in districts in Mississippi. South Carolina,
Louisiana and North Carolina.
The reason given for not enforcing the
Constitution regarding Acknowledgement is
that to do so will irritate the South. What
part of the South? In the last election
not one voter in four went to the polls, and
those who did go voted for the same mar
row and prejudiced partisans who have
represented the South in the House for
twenty-five years. The extreme kindness
of the President and the consideration
shown that section in legislation by Re-
publican Congresses seem not to have mod
ifed the bitter partisanship of the South
ern representative. He fights sound cur
rency and other useful legislation as siren
uously as he did twenty-five years ago. The
friendliness of the President did not tenn
per the hostility Of Southern representa-
tives in the late campaign. So far as the
growing business interests of the South
and the men connected with them are con-
cerned. there is reason to believe that they
would regard with favor the curtailing of
the power of the Southern Democrats in
Congress to infict injury upon the ma
terial interests of the country. The one
point, however. which Congress must avoid
is the proposition to deprive certain North
ern States of one representative while
those with half the voting population to
each district retain the same number of
representatives that they had during the
last decade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

Sisters Vocation and Other Girls Sto-
ries" is a collection of pretty, well-told
little incidents of girl life by Josephine
Dodge Daskam, in which there is promise
Of hat gift of story telling that has
reached a higher stage of development in
Miss Daskam's Smith College Stories
and various other charming bits of fc-
ton. These particular tales deal princi-
pally with the proneness of girls TO long
for what they have not and to treat with
airy disregard the treasures which they
possess. This is especially we'll illustrated i'm
"A Taste of Bohemia" and "a Fair Ex-
change" Each contains a little sermon
well disguised by a most interesting story.
but none the less convincing for that. 1.-THE
Singers Story and THE Flesh Pots OF
Egypt are the most artistic things in the
book. Simplicity, wholesomeness and the
kind of interest that will hold young peo-
pie are none too often found in com
bination, and this little volume, containing
all three qualities, should be a boon 10
the buyers of books for girls. Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

Few people realize the astounding
progress made in the world of science in
the last one hundred years. They know in
a general way that the telephone, the tele-
graph and cable, the steamboat and rail
way, the dynamo and application of cleo
tricity to manifold uses. the advancement
in surgery and medicine are the result of
scientific investigation and experiment, but
not all persons can recall the names of the
scientists to whom the world ives 50 much
or when or under what circumstances the
discoveries came to light. Henry Smith
Williams in The Story of the Nineteenth
Century Science" tells just what the lay
man wants to know, and he does IL in plain,
everyday English, a desideratum in these
days of complex technical words which
worry The scientist to manufacture and
and Latin to understand. Mr.. Williams
tells of the condition of science towards
The close of the eighteenth century and the
opening of the nineteenth. and devotes
chapters to the progress in astronomy,
paleontology, geology, meteorology. phys
les, chemistry, biology, anatomy and physi-
ology and scientific psychology, closing
with a chapter On unsolved problems
solar and telluric. physical and life.
Besides being an Interesting contribution
TO the literature of the day the book is
valuable for reference, and will no doubt
find its way into many libraries. 1t is in
6exe6 in such manner as TO show what
each scientist mas done or what he is noted
for. In the text are brief sketches of the
most famous savants, with q resume of
their researches and experiments. There
also are many portraits of eminent scien-
lists. Among the latter Baron Alexander
Won Humboldt. whose discoveries IN ter
~restrial magnetism and study of heat dis
tribution anT climatic effect added 20 the
world's stole of knowledge, is given the
place of honor as the frontispiece. Hmm
boldt was famous in his particular line.
but he did not do more for science than
49, -.
deal 10 Sir William Herschell and his sister
Caroline the latter for the encouragement
and assistance given her brother. 70 Sir
John Herschell, DIR. Oilers. Bessel. Piazzi.
Harding. Leverrier. Gale. Henckc and
m.any of a later period In each field of
science Mr.. Williams has picked out men
whose achievements hay lived in history.
Harper & Brothers, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

Love and Mr.. Lewisham.' by H. G.
Wells, is called 1.-The story of a very young
couple" but will appeal to the majority
of its readers as the story of a very young
man. A most pathetic and sorrowful lit
tie story it is, too, of a boy so full of am
bition, SO full of eagerness to find an out
let for the intellectual force he feels pent
up within him, that the twenty-four hours
are not long enough TO fit his schedule of
work. He ~begrudges the time spent in eat
ing, in sleeping, in anything that takes him
from the ~self-imposed strenuousness of his
training for a life of mental activity and
absolute asceticism. Then comes the girl.
She herself and all that follows are but in
cidents i'm the boys development; that is
the theme of the story, and a most artis-
tically treated theme ii is. We are made
to love the boy, TO sorrow over his dis
appointments, to tremble for the apparent
instability Of his joys. and. finally. to re-
joice over his sudden and rather unexpect-
cd development into a man. 1t is an I'M
usual book, full of quiet power, insight.
humor and a subtle but very real kind of
rathos. The Frederick A. Stokes Company,
New York, publishers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17
BRITISH

1.-The United States nave many able men,
but no one of conspicuous merit" is the
positive and excathedra style in which
we are disposed of in the london Daily
Mail Year Book. The statement is not as
uncomplimentary as it was probably in
tended TO be. From a practical point of
view a country that has many able men
but none OF conspicuous merit is probably
better equipped for national progress and
competition than one that has a few men
of conspicuous merit and outside of these
not many able men. 1t is the average that
tells. and certainly no other country has a
greater number of men of decided If not
conspicuous ability in all walks of life than
the United States. We nave scores of rail-
road men equal to the best in England, our
civil engineers easily excel the English, our
manufacturers are beating them on their
own soil. our professional men-lawyers.
doctors, preachers and educators-are equal
to any in the world, and the same is true
of every important vocation. The great
number of really able Americans in all
THESE Walks DrlnSS the average up very
high. And how is it in craftsmanship and
public life. to which probably the statement
above quoted was intended to apply more
particularly? A fair comparison would
doubtless show that the same condition pre-
walls there. There are as many persons of
conspicuous ability and merit among our
public men as there are among British
statesmen. There are more brains in the
United States Senate than in the House of
Lords, and more exceptionally bright men
in the House of Representatives than there
are in the House of Commons, though the
latter has nearly twice as many members.
The House of Lords is composed largely of
titled nobodies. Some of the lords spiritual.
two bishops and twenty-four archbishops,
are doubtless fairly able men, though an
equal number of American preachers would
probably o~utclass them in brains, but of
blood, dukes. marquises. earls, viscounts
and barons to the aggregate number of $50,
how many have ever been heard of out
side OF English social or sporting circles?
The number of peers of conspicuous merit
bears a very small proportion to the entire
body. Lord Salisbury, the present premier,
is a very able man. but we have had secre-
taries of state just as able and as conspicu-
ously meritorious. In short, the comment
quoted simply illustrates British egotism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17
L Go A-Marketing.

This volume, by Henrietta Sowle, is made
up from a series of articles contributed
originally to the Boston Transcript. In a
preface the author explains that this COM
p~ilation of persifiage and cookery is not
intended to be the whole culinary library
of any housekeeper. but that the house
keeper who owns this will need as many
of the old-time "cook books as ever. Its
mission is supplementary, and is meant to
supply suggestions for 'those dark and
dreary days when the h~ousekeeper wants
something good but does not know just
what" Furthermore it does not deal with
the kindergarten methods. but assumes
that the housekeeper already knows her
business with considerable ~thoroughness.
Though treating of such an extremely
practical subject as the food we eat, the
book is written in graceful style, with
pleasant incidental common or things in
general and with n distinct literary flavor.
L. is a useful and interesting addition to
the household library. 1t is published in
form by Little, Brown & Co,
Boston, and is the latest issue in their adj
mirable series of works on cookery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

The latest addition to Small. Maynard
& Co.'S attractive series of Beacon
Biographies is the life of James Feni-
more Cooper" written by w. B. Shubrick
Clymer. Many persons have read Cooper's
novels who know little or nothing about
their author; they are acquainted with
Misunderstanding" and his brethren, but
have no information about the man who
introduced the world to those personages.
This is the more remarkable since in these
days 1t seems to be considered necessary
that the reader Of a book shall at once be-
come intimately acquainted with the
writer's personality. But one elaborate
biography of Cooper has ever been writ
ten and somehow he does not figure in
literary gossip and "reminiscences as do
many of his contemporaries. Few people
have the time for reading long and ex-
haustive biographies, but this dainty little
book, which can be read in half an hour,
tempts by Its very appearance and is likely
to find place on many a shelf. Mr.. Clymer
has done his work well, getting, as he
does, all the essential facts into the limited
space. He does not claim to offer anything
new, except a few hitherto unpublished let
tiers, but he has nevertheless done a serv-
ice to the reading public in putting into
such convenient shape the history of a
distinguished American man of letters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17
Hi. wisdom the Defender.

The name of the author of this book Is
given as Simon Newcomb. and II is said
to have been written by the celebrated
scientist of that name. The late Prof. Simon
Newcomb was one OF the most celebrated
astronomers and mathematician OF the
time, and a voluminous writer on scientific
subjects. This book is a novel without
plot and a work of fiction that deals
largely with science. 1t is a story OF
the airship of the future. 1t purports
TO record discoveries and events that oc-
Cured about the middle of the twentieth
century. His Wisdom" at the begin
ming of the story in 1871 is a professor at
Harvard University. In a secret workshop
IN Cambridge he has for years patiently
laborcd TO perfect his IDEAS. When he does
reach the desired end he does not pro-
claim his discoveries to the world. for he
readily sees the tremendous effect such
an announcement would have upon all the
nations and their industries. How he sue
ceeds m keeping his proceedings a mys-
terry, and the trouble he has. even with
the government and foreign ambassadors
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FLOOD OF TALK.
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ments, which is lone mostly in the lower
staff grades.
COMMISSION QUESTION.

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.)
ments, which is done mostly in the lower
staff grades.
COMMISSION QUESTION.
To fill these new commissioned Offices it
is provided that it shall be done, so far
as practicable, by promotion among the
officers now in the regular army, and
where that cannot be done, as in the case
of the lowest grades in the line, appoint
ments may be made from among the vol
unteer officers now in the service, a suf-
ficient number of vacancies being held for
the next graduating class from the West
Point Military Academy. but no volunteer
shall be commissioned TO q higher grade
than that of first or second lieutenant Of
the line. In certain staff corps, the judge
advocate, the QuartermaSter, the SubSiSt-
ence, the medical. the pay and the sig
nal, volunteer officers who were commits
stoned after April, p, 1898, the requirements
not being the same in each, may be ap-
pointed. In the first named the volunteer
must have served as a judge advocate; in
the second and third they are required only
to lave been commissioned in the volun-
teers after the date specified; in the fourth
no special provision is made as TO voluT-
teers. it not being required, as surgeons are
appointed from civil life anyway; in the
fifth they must have served as additional
paymasters. and in the sixth they must
have served in that corps. but not neceS-
sarily as commissioned officers. No ca
villains entirely destitute OF army service In
the volunteers can be appointed to any
rank in the army save in the medical corps
or as chaplains- However, volunteers who
fulfill the requirements are not barred
by any age limitations in the bill as II
passed the House.
Altogether these provisions as to vol.
unteers who may want to enter
the regulars appear fair. They are
restricted to the lowest grades q
commissions, so that they will not step
over men who have served I'm the ner-
manent establishment for years. The abb
sence OF an age limitation is criticised m
scme quarters. but common sense says that
III the government accepts the services of d
man as a volunteer his age, whatever IL is,
should be no bar TO his appointment in the
permanent establishment If the volunteer
officer wants TO enter it and is otherwise
qualified. To legislate differently would
be TO discourage volunteering hereafter.
As the bill stands IL Is not as liberal to
| volunteers as the legislation that followed
| the civil war, for that allowed volunteers
| to enter and they did enter all ranks from
: second lieutenant to colonel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

Good story writer's. like poets. are born.
not made. yet something may be gained
from Intelligent instruction This book. by
Charles Il. Barrett. is a practical treatise
on the art of the short-story. designed to
present concretely the rules of that art and
to aid in developing the talent where il
exists 1t is not a collection OF untried
theories. but rather a working manual.
being based upon deductions made by the
author in the course of some years as a
writer and critic OF short stories.
In different chapters the author traces the
development and growth or the short
story from the moment the tale Is dimly
conceived until IL Is completed and ready
for the editors Judgment. In this way he
treats of the plot, OF titles. OF the use OF
facts. OF characters, methods, OF narration,
climax and conclusion, style. etc. The hook
Is calculated to be helpful TO the novice I'm
short story writing and is interesting from
a literary point OF view. New York: h
Baker & TAYLOR Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

assert their Importance. If Mr.. Money
should speak a couple Of hours he would
not have a dozen listeners and If he should
speak until doomsday he would not change
a vote. Yet the thing which senator's re-
we're as senatorial courtesy" and the
people ridicule as senseless and ridiculous
permits such a waste of valuable time and
such a spectacle of senatorial inefficiency
through devotion 10 a longtime precedent
''the privilege of free discussion as a
venerable senator recently designated the
right to hlibuster. in reply to the remark
of a member of the other branch to the
effect that the Senate is a deliberative, but
not a legislative body. 1t is not free dis
cussion to permit a senator to make a
speech simply to hinder action because the
speech would not be made except to pre-
vent a vote. Congress Is created to legis-
late. and any action on the part of the
minority to prevent legislation is an evil
which demands a remedy.
A large part of the members of the Senate
are men who are held in high esteem for
their ability and intelligence. yet 1t is a
fact that the country has come to regard
the Senate as an incapable body. 1t is a
fact that can easily be demonstrated that
most important measures that become
laws are in the Senate. 1t took
out of the gold standard act of the last
session several of the important features
carried through the House by the Repub-
licans with a slender majority. This ses-
sion the House has passed four important
bills. The period of debate is fixed, the
time divided and a vote taken when the
season for debate has expired. That 1t is
so is due to Republican reform. Why can
not a majority of the able men In the
Senate do as much for that body? Why
cannot the majority make a rule providing
that debate upon a given proposition shall
end at a fixed date? Why will the majority
continue to be overruled by regard for a
courtesy which is used by those to whom it
is extended as a menace by a small minor
ity made up of such men as Money of
Mississippi, Allen of Nebraska, Butler Of
North Carolina. and Tillman Of South
Carolina?