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The Republican., 1900-08-23

she could get the back fire going. The
horses had smelled the smoke and
were quivering with excitement. She
loosed them from the plow and they
broke away from her and galloped
off across the prairie at the highest
speed. She glanced after them with
dismay. One more chance of life gone,
she thought. 1t had occurred to her
as she was trying to plow that she
might possibly take her sister and the
babe, one at time on one of the
horses, to some place of safety, but
now she could not do that. She stood
for moment dazed and undecided,
then another plan suggested itself.
One thinks very quickly in time like
this; hours seem ages; moments
seem days. Up the canyon a few rods
there was an old dugout built well up
on the side of the canyon, where
there was no tall grass and so no
chance for the fire to come. If she
could just reach this in time! She
ran into the house and found her sis
ter awake. Pheme had rot much
urea III " SDcHu III WOTuS. SO she Sdlu
briefly and hastily, "There's big fire
coming, and I'm going to take you
and the baby to the old dug-out down
the canyon AS she spoke she took
Maggie up in her arms and started.
"Oh! take the baby frst-take the
baby first" walled the sick sister, but
Pheme paid no attention. When they
got outside of the door and Maggie
caught sight of the red flames so
near, she tainted away at once.
Pheme did not have time to get water
to restore her. Trembling with ia
tigue she hastened on through the
tall grass to the old dug-out. She
reached it, laid her sister down and
hurried back for the baby. The
flames were now quite close to the
house. The baby was wide awake and
smiled up at her as she took him in
her arms. When he caught sight of
the flames he crowed with delight,
thinking no doubt that this was some
new and pretty plaything that had
been arranged specially for him.
Pheme was by this time so weak
with the excitement and overexertion
that she could hardly drag herself
along. She could hear the flames close
behind her, but dared not look
around. A little faster now and all
The Republican., 1900-08-23
A RESCUE AT SEA.
Perilous situation Relieved by the
Timely Utterances of a SPELL
Binder.

"Help! Help"
In panic the passengers rushed to the
side of the ship, and gazed helplessly at
those struggling in the waves, says Harpers
Bazaar
1t was indeed perilous situation.
What was to be done? There seemed to be
no rope at hand, and there was trouble in
lowering the lifeboat, and, as is usually the
case, none of the sailors could swim.
A lawyer suggested writ of habeas cor
pus, but that was found impracticable, as
there was not judge on board, and no one
to serve such a writ, anyway.
At that instant man Of commanding
presence pushed into the frenzied crowd
and struck an attitude, close to the rail.
The drowning ones recognized him as
famous political orator, and their spirits
rose
Fellow citizens" he began, "we face
crisis!"
The next moment cry Of JOY went up.
For the people in the water We're hang
ing on his words, in which position they con-
tinued till tlkt boats were lowered.
The Republican., 1900-08-23

Discussion over our prize-money
awards in the Spanish war brings out
some old stories on that subject, the
following being from the Argonaut:
At the battle of Trafalgar a sailor
found kneeling by his gun, as his ship
was about to engage the enemy was
asked by the first lieutenant if he was
afraid. Afraid" answered Jack,
with an expression of the utmost
disdain; "r", your honor: I'm only
praying that the enemy's shot may
be distributed liks the prize money
the greatest part among the officers"
Detroit Free Press.
The Republican., 1900-08-23
A Timely Suggestion.

Instead of laying a wager for the
loser of political bet to push the win
ner across the country in a wheelbar-
row, people who want to make freaks
of themselves, says the Chicago Record,
should agree to do a weeks work
cleaning the streets or something
EQUALLY useful.
The Republican., 1900-08-23
Trichinae in German Meats.

A Nuremberg Germany paper,
commenting on the fact that II of the
13 pigs that were found in the markets
of that city last year afflicted with
trichinae came from Prussia, concludes
that the policy of excluding meat from
America is foolish, and that the only
safeguard lies in careful inspection.
The Republican., 1900-08-23
Expressed His Sympathy.

A story about little Prince Edward
of York appears in the British Week
ly. Not long ago he was taken over
British man-of-war and was much
interested in large, heavily built
chest which was shown him. What
does that hold?" he asked the tall
officer who accompanied him. Pow
der" was the reply. The little boy
looked sympathetically at the stall
wart figure and observed: "Then do
YOU take powders, too?"
The Republican., 1900-08-23

The Plumber-I believe that we will all
follow the same vocation in the next world
as we do in this.
The Carpenter-Well, if that is true,
you will be out of job.
why so?"
'"What use will they have for plumbers
where there is no water"'-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Republican., 1900-08-23
IT'S ALL IN A NAME.
One Reason Why the Conservative
Negro Whitewater Lost His
Occupation.

whats in a name?" asked Shakes
peare. Everything, may be answered, and
no one has made the answer more plain to
the ordinary mortal than Booker T. Wash
ington, the noted colored orator, says the
Chicago Times Herald. While lecturing in
Omaha last winter he paused in the midst
of his remarks and asked:
How many, negro boys in Omaha are
learning a mechanical trade?"
And from the vast audience came the re-
ply:
Not one"
Then Mr.. Washington proceeded to tell
the negro boys what they should do The
old colored man with his brush and pail of
whitewash once made a good living But
he was a whitewasher The first thing
he knew a white man came along with an
assortment of brushes and several colors of
wash under fancy names. The white man
called himself an interior decorator"
and the old colored mans job was gone for.
ever.
you negro boys" continued Mr. Wash.
ington, must become interior decorators,
for the whtewashing job is done.'
The Republican., 1900-08-23
the
Deadly
Under=Current

which grasps one without warning,
the mucous membrane which lines
the entire body suddenly becomes
weakened in some spot and disease
is established. 1t may be of the
lungs, the head, throat, stomach.
bowels, or any other organ. Where
ever it is, and whatever it seems, it
all springs from the same cause
The Republican., 1900-08-23

Assistart-The Irish stew has burned.
Chei--Well, put some spice in it and add
"a la Francois" to its name on the menu
Puck.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

carried our umbrellas. and days when we wish
we hadn't
Nowadays the only way to be conspicuous is
to be inconspicuous
A good memory is often a drawback; straw
berries taste Just as they did last year.
When small boy can't find any other noise to
make he gets a rock and hammers tin gutter
with Ii.
All through life we act more absurdly under
the sights imagine receive than under
those really inflicted on
A law should be made to prevent morbid peo-
pie from writing novels and plays. or else they
should be sued and locked up.
The man who takes the road his wife wants to
drive on generally reminds her of 1t every time
he comes to a rut or mud-puddle.
If IT were not so expensive, the best way to
clean house would be to burn the house up with
everything in it and begin all over again.
AS rule the person who says he has no
choice about the spring chicken never looks
thoroughly satisfied with the piece he gets.
Woman is supposed to adorn the hearth and
make home happy; yet there many women
who would rather see their husbands freeze to
death than open CRATE in May after they've
cleaned house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20
THE VALUE OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Evidence continues to accumulate TO the
value of the Philippines. BY this is meant
what might be called their intrinsic value.
as every body recognizes their great value
in giving the United States point of want
age in the trade of the Orient, control of
which is to be the competitive commercial
prize of the twentieth century. No pa
triotic American who looks to the future
commercial expansion of the country can
be Indifferent TO this consideration. But II
becomes more, and it is more evident that
the islands have great value Of their own.
Under Spanish rule their resources were
unknown even to Spain, and they are but
just beginning to be fairly estimated.
Those of the Island of Luzon are better
known than those of any other island.
yet an Associated Press dispatch from
Manila says that Americans are just be-
ginning to recognize that ''in the Island of
Mindanao they have a wonderful empire.
possibly the most valuable of all the Phil
ippine possessions and capable Of being
made a second Cuba in commercial value"
III dUulIlOu 10 anu iuiHci di
resources the islands possess great wealth
in timber Colonel Hilder, who has just
returned from third visit there in the
interest of the Smithsonian Institution,
thinks the greatest and most profitable in
dustry of the future In the islands will be
connected with the marketing Of their mag
nifcent timber. An Indiana soldier, now
in the Philippines. writing to his father
concerning a railroad which he is assisting
in guarding. says Items Of thousands of
the ties lying across the road bed are of
the richest mahogany, rosewood and other
valuable timbers." With stable self-gov-
eminent established in the islands under
the protecting folds of the stars and
stripes they may develop a degree of pros
perity hitherto unknown in that part of
the world.
1t should make every patriotic American
blush with shame to know that what is
left of opposition to American rule in the
Philippines is kept alive by the Democratic
party in the United States and their allies
among the native Filipino politicians.
General Schwan, who has just returned
from a years service in the Philippines
as chief Of staff to General Otis, says:
1.-THE native leaders have been melting the
ex-soldiers to continue on the warpath,
assuring them that an American election
was soon coming. and Mckinley would be
defeated and the Americans withdrawn
from the Philippines" Thus the rightful
sovereignty of the United States in these
valuable possessions is defied. and the
establishment of free government and pros
perity prevented by the Vaccinations Of
Filipino bandits and their aiders and abet-
tors In this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

1t was demonstrated during the encamp-
ment that the veterans of the war for the
Union are very temperate body of men.
Only one man claiming to be Grand Army
man appeared about Tomlinson Hall under
the influence of intoxicating liquor. Doubt
less many Of them, when soldiers, would
drink when they could get liquor. Indeed,
1t is recalled that many excellent people,
while the war was on, bewailed the ten
dency of the young soldiers to fill canteens
with liquid that is under the ban of the
total abstinence societies. and that if they
did not make Rome howl they made the
place they were in exceedingly unpleasant
for people desiring sleep or who were of
nervous organization. Many Of them are
not total abstainers now, but in Indiana
no more temperate body Of men can be
found than the veterans Of 1S61-65. Should
not this fact tend to relieve the anxiety Of
those who worry lest our soldiers IN dis
tant lands shall all become drunkards?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20
THE ART OF BookMAkING.

People with "inside" knowledge of the
be told that many well-known publishing
firms have no printing establishments of
their own, but hire the typesetting, bind
ing, etc, done in the large job printing
houses. 1t might seem that by this method
all books would look alike, but as a mat
ter of fact each publishers books are as
likely, under this system, to have charac-
teristic marks by which they are as readily
recognized as If made in the shops Of the
firms whose imprint they bear. Notwith-
fishing business there is a great difference
in the mechanical features of books issued
and there is great effort on the part Of
those who issue them to secure the best
work. Curiously enough, though the largest
number of publishers belongs in New York.
and several Of the older houses there have
extensive plants OF their own, it is said
to be recognized fact that the best book
printing in the United States is done in
Boston. A Boston letter in New York
paper Is authority Tor the statement tnat
of eighty books at this moment under way
in one of the largest printing houses Of
the former city sixty are being printed for
New York publishers. The excellence of
the work there is said to be due to the
traditions which have come down through
two or three of the old establishments in
which printing was always regarded a
fine art, but the great bulk Of the work
for outside publishers is not done, it is said,
by these old firms, but by newer establish
ments. which have profited by their teach
ings. Several of these younger printers are
mentioned, and in this connection is this
paragraph of local interest: I'm the field
of esthetic printing with an antique cachet.
of the Kelmscott sort, Boston had a not
able accession some years ago in Mr.. j. M.
Bowles, once of Indianapolis, and the editor
of Modern Art He is great student and
connoisseur in this field" Readers of books
are becoming critical of the volumes that
come into their hands; the paper, the type,
the binding have become matters Of i'm
portance. AS they grow more exacting the
efforts of the printers will increase. and it
will come about, as 1t should do. that only
those books whose mechanical features
meet the requirements will get themselves
rao1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

Of the status OF medicine as a science, OF
It's great antiquity In China and of the vol
luminous literature of the profession in that
country. inaccessible as yet to the West on
account of the difference of language. but
he added: 'T hope that the time will soon
come when this barrier viii be surmounted
and the vast contributions to medicine
from Chinese sources will be made avail
able to the whole world Thus. while
some American statesmen are devising
ways and means to keep our doors barred
against China, Minister WI Ting Fang
hopes the time is not far distant when the
Western world will become better acquaint-
least exact and most empirical of all
sciences. that of medicine, should be will
ing to draw light and knowledge from any
quarter. A people who practiced printing
for more than three hundred years before
ii was discovered" I'm Europe may have
some Information hidden away regarding
other matters which are not the exclusive
monopoly Of Western nations. In conclud-
ing his address to the young women grad
yates WI Ting Fang said:
Horace Greeley. one of your noted men
in Journalism, used TO advise all young
men TO go West to seek their fortunes, be-
lieving, with Bishop Berkeley, that west
ward the course of empire takes its way.
If you were to ask my advice to-day,
would say, with Horace Greeley, Go West,
young ladies, and stop not on this side Of
the Pacific, but rather push on till you
gain the further shore" China has, 1t Is
a 400
100000, and half of that number, at least,
are women. While men physicians are
numerous and the male portion of the
community is thus well taken care of, the
number of women doctors with the reQui-
site medical training is very small. If.
therefore, you should find the profession
too crowded In this country, my advice to
you Is go to China. There Is room enough
and work enough in my country for you all.
Thus far the practice Of medicine by
Americans in China has been used princi-
pally as an aid to the introduction of Chris
tianity. the establishment of hospitals and
the treatment of the sick being found help
full in that respect. The Chinese minister
politely ignores the method of attacking
the religion of his country from a medical
ambush and invites woman physicians to
come as a matter of business, assuring
them that there is room enough and work
enough for all. The allusion to an over
crowded profession seems to be a repetition
of the sly dig at the male members of the
medical profession who try TO keep its
doors barred against women much as some
of our statesmen do those of the United
States against China. Altogether, Hon.
WI Ting Fang is developing into a very
versatile all-around orator
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

An article on another page describing the
passion play Of Oberammergau gives q
clear idea of its thoroughly religious char
acter. Not only is the play itself. dealing
as 1t does with the most tremendous event
of Christendom. reverent and worshipful
production, but its rendition and fits sur
roundings are in keeping and suggestive
only OF lofty and pious sentiments and
emotions. 1t is. in fact. purely religious
service In which the actors take part with
as deep sense OF conservation as any
minister in the pulpit possesses. The place
is isolated and free from all sensationalism.
and the play as produced there once in ten
years is worth going far to see. A recent
dispatch announced that Daniel Frohman.
the New York theatrical manager. was
going abroad to see this wonderful per-
Torrance with a view to presenting It next
winter on the American stage A few
years ago. when some enterprising New
Yorker proposed to do this, popular protest
was 20 strong that the plan was never
carried out. Public sentiment in regard
to such mattsrs n. perhaps. more lax now
than then. but Il u doubtful even new u
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20
OF CURRENT FICTION.

1t Is not assured that good people are al
ways happy. but IL is certain that happy
people are good.-The Action and tbs
Word.
The silence OF those who have loved US
Is sometimes eloquent as a tombstone OF
that which has been buried beneath it
Diana Tempest.
once heard the Cardinal de Polignac
remark with great deal Of gravity that
he thought women must have been per-
plexity TO God ever since the CREATION
For the Sake OF the Duchess.
Unless a woman has TO earn her living
by teaching. what does IL matter 20 her
how much hydrogen there is I'm drop OK
rainwater, or IN what year HanniDai
crossed the Alps?-The Farringdons.
did you ever notice Mrs. Brookheids
walk? Well. that's what trails nan
after woman. a swinging walk hike hers:
with its implied appeal for the support OK
a mans arm.-The Action and the Word.
1t is certainly a satisfaction TO see our
selves repeated in our children. We feel
that the type win not be lost. Each new
edition OF ourselves lessons a neutral fear
lest a work OF value and Importance should
lapse cut OF print--Diana Tempest
Anybody could rule this country. I could
rule A. I should write down On piece OK
paper an wanted the people % 90. est :
SOD Urn 70 pr1nt % - nnny eop'e> 49,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

mend to the schools that they give atten-
ton to the "educationar' literature Of GER
tain patent medicine companies. with
prizes going to the purchaser OF given
number of packages? So many things are
educational In these days. Railroad compa-
MES. for instance, issue a variety OF at
tractive and really instructive literature.
No doubt they would be glad to issue
series of prizes IL their books and PAM
phlets could be introduced into the public
schools by official order. Not few rner-
chants have a prize system already In OPP
Grafton. together with variety of book
lets concerning their wares. They viii nat
urally wish to enjoy equal privileges with
other business enterprises and go before
the schools on the same terms.
The Journal has no quarrel with any OF
its contemporaries over their methods of
advertising. If they care to attract atten-
ton to their papers by means OF cheap
picture books and buttons and other eccen-
trio devices instead Of expanding their
money and their energies In the improve
ment of their papers that is their own at
fair. The Journal does think. however, that
the School Board has shown itself lacking
in Judgment and discretion by its action in
this matter. II 1t can be worked" so east
ly in one matter, what confidence can the
public have in It? The board should not
permit the public schools to be manipu-
lated in the interest Of anybody's business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

notable works of George Sand. LamartIne.
victor Hugo and Dumas the elder These
wristbands were given TO Madame Hugo to
De disposed OF at charity sale and were
bought up by Victor Hugo. Each OF the
lnkstands is accompanied by an autograph
letter testifying to fits authenticity and
bearing the date.
The beautiful hair that has been Bern
hardt's pride in so many of her stage char
acters has been sacrificed for her last great
venture and with the exception of one
flowing lock on the forehead her hair is
now as short as a mans. The scissors were
not used until every expedient had been
tried, thirty-six wigs being used in an ef-
tort 10 retain the long, silky head-cover.
Ing. The hair has been carefully nut away
In casket, pour les amis." as she says.
ana she is now able to look the Due de
Heichstadt as she wishes
Ex-President Chester A. Arthur's eldest
son, Chester Alan Arthur, is a married
man. The bride is Mrs. Myra Fithian
Andrews, the beautiful granddaughter OF
slippery Dick" Connolly. Tweed's con-
troller. The wedding took place In Paris
recently. Thus two famous political fami-
Hes are curiously united. The former Mrs.
Andrews was known TO New Workers as
the wife OF Clarence Andrews. clubnan
ana manager OF the Society OF Musical
Arts He met her in Paris, where Sip
perry Dicks" daughter, Mrs. Judge Fithian.
and her beautiful girl were leading
members Of the American colony. Mrs.
ANDREWS met young Chester Alan Arthur
eight years ago. He was fellow-passen-
ger with Mr. and Mrs. Andrews on a trip
from Europe in Mr.. Eugene Higgins's
yacht. Mr.. Arthur has latterly lived al
most entirely abroad. Shortly after Mrs.
Andrews's divorce was granted last June
ner engagement 10 Mr.. Arthur was ru-
mored.
This world is but a fleeting show,
And yet there's not a man
But wants to see as much OF the
Performance as he can.
Philadelphia Press.
bird that can sing but that won't sing
should be made TO sing" his part.
Inc man that can't sing but that will sing
should be stopped right at the start.
Judge.