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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10
THE ETHICS OF ATHLETICS.

When the two most prominent periodicals
in the country devoted to the publication
of important and serious topics have each
an article touching the ethics OF amateur
athletics, the large number of people who
have passed the meridian of life may well
be astonishe6 that what they regard as
frivolity has become the subject of ethical
treatment. Yet such is the case. The cur
rent number of the Forum contains an ar
ticle entitled Ethics Of Ancient and Mod
ern Athletics" by Mr.. Price Collier, a
graduate of Harvard, who was nine years
a Unitarian minister. an officer in the navy
during the Spanish-American war, and is
al essayist. This article relating to ath-
leties is given a place in the magazine be-
tween one entitled "Crispi and Italian
Unity and another. The Small College
estimation of the editor modern athletics
is one of the serious matters in the larger
affairs OF the world. If athletics is not
thus important, why should the article be
given a place with 'The Government and
Good Roads, The Political and CONNER
cial Future of Asia and Taxes on Street.
railway Franchises" =.
Mr.. Collier seems To have expended much
time in studying the practices at athletic
games during the time OF the Roman en-
pire. with a view OF proving that athletes
are more honorable and fairer practice pre-
walls now than then. lie shows that in the
great Roman games foul play was APP
plauded. and If a race was won by tripping
UP a fellow-runner the man doing it was
awarded the prize. Even those who lost in
the race besought the judges with tears to
bestow upon them some honors TO heal
their wounded feelings. The writer tries 10
imagine a college athlete OF Harvard or
Yale claiming a game by a foul or begging
a prize which he did not win. Mr.. Collier
admits that there are streaks of rowdyism,
OF trickery and unfair play in our college
and school games even now. but they arc
UNPOPULAR. s%elf-control. good temper and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10


hculty tolerates Chicago and It's ways. he
might be suspected OF devising a new
method Of literary ADVERTISING.
Here is one Of the prayers Of Robert
Louis Stevenson contained I'm Graham Bal
tours new Life 'sThe dav returns and
brings Us the petty round Of irritating con-
Germs and duties. Help Us 90 play the man.
help US to perform them with laughter and
kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with
industry. Give us 10 20 blithely on our
business all this day, bring us 10 our rest
ing beds weary and content and uudishon-
ored. and grant us IN the end the gift Of
sleep Amen"
In a lecture delivered In Indianapolis a
year or so ago Mr.. w. d. Howells con-
fessed that pleasant words concerning his
writings were as welcome in his later as in
his earlier literary career. lie has. there
fore, IL NAV be assumed, derived much
satisfaction from the reception accorded 90
his book. Literary Friends and Acquaint-
ances," issued n few months ago. lie is
quoted as saying that none of his books
has brought him the tribute OF cordial APP
probation which was evoked by this vol
ume.
"The sale OF books of fiction has in
creased enormously in the past five years.
says a writer in the Review Of Reviews.
This is true as regards the absolute num-
Der Of novels sold, and is still more strlk-
ingly true when the demand for fiction is
compared with the sale OF otneF DOCKS
written and published Tor the general
reader. Indeed, some very well-infOrmed
publishers assert that the demand for bio
graphical works, volumes OF essays, books
of travel and the various other classitica-
lions outside fiction has actually not in
creased at all in the past five years
Mary HaTtwell CatherwOod's new novel,
"Lazarre." has brought TO light many in
teresting things about Eleazar Williams,
the American Dauphin. 1t has recently
been learned that Mrs. Frances ]. Tall
madge, Of Sheboygan. Wis. has I'm her pos
session a valuable old painting left with her
family by Williams, and said TO be the por-
trait of Louis XVI, father OF the Dauphin.
The Prince de J~oinville brought tx 10 this
country and gave il To Eleazar Williams.
Mrs. Tallmadge has frequently been ap-
preached by collectors desiring to purchase
this picture, but she declines TO part
with IL.
When Mary Anderson asked the poet
Longfellow what she could do TO cultivate
her taste. he told her ito read one good
poem every day" No better training In
true cultivation exists, says the Philadel-
phia Press. The man or woman who daily
reads one good poem viii find personal
taste ennoblCd, elevated and purified. There
IS that about great verse which raises each
who yields to its spell into the serene air.
all breathing human passion far above, the
petty worries and the passing d~isappoint-
ments of life fade under its influence. 1t
recalls us all to the deeper surge and the
wider tides Of emotion. The hour and the
individual fade and are lost in the wider
experience of the race.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Kipling has completed a new short
story. dealing with the Transvaal war,
which Will appear at an early date.
Dickens's first great success came with
~"Pickwick'' when he was tw~enty-four,
Thackeray's at thirty-six with VANITY
Fair" George EliOts at forty with Adam
Bede,' and Sir Walter Scott at forty-three
with 'Waverley.'
The widow Of the late publisher. George
Smith. has in her possession the autograph
manuscripts Of the Bronte novels. the man
uscript Of Browning The Ring and the
Book and the manuscript of Mrs. Brown
ing SOnnets from the portuguese.
Miss Frances Aymer Mathews, the author
Of the lively tale. My Lady Peggy Goes
to Town" Will not give her photograph
for reproduction in newspapers or maya
ment and insists that her likeness Will in
duce no one TO buy her books
Mr.. Barring Gould's industry shows no
sign OF diminishing. Despite the fact that
he is nearly sixty-eight years old and has
been writing steadily and frequently for
forty-seVen years, one OF the English mag
azines announces the first chapters OF d
new novel from his pen.
Eliza Orzeszko. the authoress OF "The
Argonauts.' Is said to be the greatest fe-
male writer and thinker in the Slav world
nj present. and the FIRST literary artist
among the women of Europe. Her works.
contained III forty odd volumes touch on
the most vital subjects in the world about
her. Madame OrZeszkO Is about nifty years
old.
Henry y. Fuller. the Chicago author.
has published a new book called Under
the Skylight,' and feels called upon 10
DENY having portrayed In it an actual In
diVidual. IL Ii were any other ChicagOan
than the fastidious Fuller. who with diff
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10
"a PROGRESSIVE EaUILIBRIUM.r

An Englishman who is a friend of the
United States contributes an interesting
article to the Atlantic Monthly, in which
he sets forth the hostility of continental
Europe to this Nation because of it's sue
cessful competition in the worlds markets.
The farmers of Europe have long been hos
tile to American farmers, but the hostility
to the American manufacturer is new and
surprising. The writer says that the prop
osition TO combine continental Europe
against the producers OF the United States
is already regarded as impracticable, yet
he fears that If the United States continues
it's present policy the industrial interests,
including agriculture, are doomed to a
dwindling which will be disastrous. He,
therefore, urges that the United States
seek TO restore the reciprocal trade ar
engagements of the Harrison administrat ton
which were thrown away by the German
Wilson tariff act in order 10 save Europe
from industrial difficulties.
This suggestion is not so important as
some OF tho statements OF the English
writer regarding the conditions in Europe
and the United States. alone of all the
countries in the world" says the English
man. the United States maintains a pro-
g~ressive equilibrium between the farmer
and the artisan In England trade has
gained what agriculture has lost. Ia con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

The last census Of India shows remark
able gains in the Christian population Of
that vast country. In 1852 the native Chris
tians in India, Burmah and Ceylon were
12S,0OO; in 1862, 213, 1S2; in 1872, S1S,363. In 1881
the census showed that the Protestant
Christians alone were $751; $50. In 1891 the
Christian population in India was 2~,2S4,172.
In thirty years the number OF mission sta
tions has increased three-fold, while the
number Of Christians has increased five
fold. These facts go to correct the quite
general impression that Christian missions
in the East make little impression upon the
natives. This may be true OF China, but
the reverse is true OF India, where the
missionary has the moral support of the
British government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

All love is at the expense of love, and
calls for heroes.-The Portion of Labor.
To some temperaments a danger sign is
Hills.
Marriage is not the end of love, but it is
the true end Of a love story.-Rosalynde's
Lovers.
In order to be happy a woman needs only
a good digestion, a satisfactory complexion
and a lover.-The Spinster Book.
Any man who's got a woman wrapped
around his finger has also got her wrapped
al ound his throat--The Cavalier.
If idleness is the parent of vice, it is also
the sire of many harmless virtues begotten
Observation-Disclosures Lovers.
There are but two sorts OF women in the
w~orld-those who take the strength out or
a man and those who put it back.-kim.
No gold or precious stones of any mines
of earth can equal the light of the star OF
happiness in one human soul.-The Portion
of Labor.
When a young girl falls in love with a
woman who to her is old. it may be a
ridiculous form of emotion, but It has
always a spice of nobility in it; il has all
the elements of that ideal worship and
passionate devotedness which draw out
character and mold ii for finer and loftier
fiights.-Her Grace's Secret.
It's the most discouraging thing in life.
this following the fashion-for them that
foot the bills. anyway. There's no good
in saving your clothes any more. If, by
chance, there's anything that escapes wear,
why, let but the mex year come and fash
ion won't have naught to say TO it. and a
body must ever be Shaving for something
~new.-AIaggie McLanehan.
If 1 were a preacher I would
thump the cushions and cry out: BE in
dependent. = o > Shake off all the props
= " " tradition and authority offer you.
and go alOne-crawl. stumble, stagger, but
go alone. You won't learn TO walk without
tumbles, and knocks, and bruises; but
you'n never learn 10 walk at all so long
as there are props."-The Benefactress.
The soul of the idiot knows. understands,
waits, and some day viii stand side by side
with the soul Of the wise, and God shall
call them brothers. So also has the maniac
who raves within his cell a soul that is
calm, for the soul does not go mad. How
do such souls pass the long Imprisonment
/ wonder. till their hideoUs Jailer opens TO
them the door?-The Strength Of the Hills.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

Western authors have achieved much
distinction in recent years, and their merits
have been widely recognized, even in quar-
tiers where their territory was formerly
looked upon as a literary wilderness. Not
only have their books enjoyed a wide cir
culation, but personal prominence has come
to them through their success. The greater
number Of these writer's who have come to
be classed as celebrities are producers of
fiction. Authors of more serious books,
professional, technical, philosophical and
the like, have been, for some reason it is
not necessary to inquire into too closely,
recipients of fewer honors. Yet, though
the names of some of the latter class have
failed to become household words, it does
not follow that their writings nave not nae
wide circulation and much influence. The
Journal has in mind at least one gentle
man whose productions nave been volumi-
nous, widely circulated, of excellent literary
quality and of an Importance which can
hardly be overvalued by those who have
benefited by t. The individual in question
is Mr.. F. d. Coburn. secretary of the Kan
sas State Board Of Agriculture. The Jour-
nal has not the privilege of a personal ac-
quaintance with Mr.. Coburn, but has for
years taken note of his literary work pub
lished by him in his official capacity. The
word literary" is used advisedly in this
connection. Although, doubtless, it will
seem to the average patron of literature"
especially if he be youthful and therefore
sure OF all things, that so prosaic a subject
as agriculture cannot serve as a theme for
real literature. and that a man cannot
write about the corn or the wheat crop or
the Kansas hog in a manner which will
entitle his work TO be named in the same
day with THE Ma from Illinois" or
''When Chivalry Was in Bloom'-that
knowing and scornful person is, neverthe-
less, in error. The Journal bears witness
that Mr.. Coburn's skilled pen and exuber-
ant fancy have invested the subjects named
and others kindred to them with a charm
which is quite frequently lacking from the
latest novel of phenomenal circulation.
When this gifted secretary writes about
Kansas corn IL is in such fetching language
that green oceans of waving stalks spread
before the readers eyes or innumerable
elevators filled with the shelled product
are as wildly seen; Kansas wheat Is fairly
materialized 10 the vision. while the Kan
sas hog becomes, il not precisely a thing Of
beauty. yet a thing greatly TO be desired in
a multiplied form. When the secretary
woevil, or the poultry industry, or cattle
raising. OF any OF the innumerable topics
that hls office forces upon his attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

King Edwards life has been insured fof
81, 100000 until the coronation.
For twenty years past Senator Hoar has
never failed to devote three hours every
day to reading.
Sir John Ramsden, the richest of all
English baronets. has an income which is
estimated to be $4,000 per annum.
Emperor William sleeps on a regulation
camp bed such as his officers use. The bed
clothes are of the rough regimental pattern
He retireS at II D. m. and is UP and dressed
soon after > g. m.
Mrs. Phoebe a. Hearst has agreed to pay
the expenses Of a department of anthro-
pology at the University Of California.
which will be devoted especially to the
study of the Indians of the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Annie l.. Diggs, of Kansas, who
wrote a touching poem on Our Little
Brown Brothers Across the Blue Sea-" is
now criticising President Roosevelt in her
paper for inviting Booker L. Washington to
dinner.
TIL late Judge Edward Coffin Lewis. Of
Waterbury, Conn.,, left an estate valued at
50, 100000 and divided evenly between three
children and a grandchild. He directed
that no part Of the estate should be in
vested in railroad securities.
In 1876 Fred Wellhouse. the Kansas ZAP
pie king" was a wage Garner. He knew a
good deal about orchards, however, and
began on a small scale TO raise fruit. Now
he has 1.2+0 acres OF orchards and his ap-
pie crop this year is 60.00 bushels.
The Kaiser is said to be in u very unsat-
isfactory physical condition. He suffers
from abnormal nervous symptoms, c0mpli-
Gated by other conditions-the result Of
long-continued anxiety and strain conse-
quent upon his ~multitudinous iabors IN
keeping himself abreast with the work IN
almost all the great state departments.
Bishop Sbaretti, OF Havana. having set
tied the question OF church property in
Cuba, has been appointed delegate extraor-
binary TO the Philippines. whittier he viii
go about the END OK the year 10 settle the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

In view OF the experience OF Buffalo. the
Chicago Chronicle says that the day of big
safer 10 say that the frequency Of such
exhibits stands in the way OF their success.
Since the Chicago worlds fair we have had
several ~pretentious exhibitions. promoted
fn most cases by the aid Of the general gov
N The St. Louis exhibition should
be made a grand affair. and doubtless will
be. but. following the Buffalo exhibition so
closely. it must be a magnificent display to
draw the crowds that went to Chicago.
Congress should go out OF the business of
encouraging local exhibits OF minor i'm
Dortance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

tinental Europe the landlord-farmer is In
aggressive hostility to the manufacturer.
If the cheaper food Of America is allowed
to enter with low customs duties the farm
ers suffer. If high duties are imposed upon
American foods the artisan suffers. and
wages cannot be reduced TO insure that
cheaper production which will enable Eu-
ropc to compete in the worlds markets.
The admission that we maintain an
equilibrium between the farmer and the
artisan" is too valuable to be lost sight of
at the present time. Because of that
equilibrium the farmer is most prosperous
when the artisan is fully employed. There
was never a period in the history of the
country when the factories were idle and
the farmers prosperous. When artisans
and wage-earners in general are hunting
employment in vain the farmer mortgages
his farm and lives upon the proceeds. 1t
Is to the advantage of the farmer also
that the American wage-earner receives
more than twice the average compensation
of the European wage-earner because he
has twice as much money with which to
purchase. So long as the American wage
Garner has full employment and high wages
he is the best customer the farmer can
have. The products of the factory may
cost the farmer a little more under the
system which protects the manufactures
from European competition, and, again.
they may not, but the American farmer
cannot permit this valuable home con-
sumner to be crippled by hostile competition
To please Germany and France trade
treaties might be negotiated which would
enable the competitors in those countries
to fill our markets with their cheaper no.
siery, cutlery, glass. pottery and a hundred
other articles which our manufacturer
can produce in abundance. The market
would be glutted, and production would be
curtailed in this country. This would be to
the advantage of the European competitor,
their half wages, be able to purchase
enough moro of wheat and meat to COM
pensate the American farmer for the loss
of the once full-wage American artisan?
The extent of this country, its increasing
population and the unequaled capacity Of
millions of people to purchase when en-
ployed makes this the best market in the
world. Shall we pursue the policy which
has established 1.-The progressive equilibrium
between the farmer and the artisan" or
shall we destroy it to pacify Europeans
or please theoretical free-traders at home?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

The luxuriousness OF the hospitality
which Pierpont Morgan extended TO the
Episcopal clergymen who were his guests
from New York 20 San Francisco and back
on the occasion OF the late Episcopal con-
yentien doubtless presented a marked con-
trast 20 the straitened circumstance OF
the first seventy. sent out by twOs. TO
preach the gospel. but no man was bound
TO accept Mr.. Morgan's generous bounty;
consequently the general verdict regarding
the Baltimore divine who shared all the
luxury and then took occasion in a ser
mon to denounce the luxuriOusness OF the
hospitality as sinful viii be that he must
Be q very mean person.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

Because labor is costly, the machine has
been perfected, greatly reducing the cost
Of production. while in the countries with
has not kept pace with the movement in
the United States. Another cause IS the
system OF large factories and combination
Of capital, while in France the small manu-
facturcr continues. 1t is the extensive
plant that has done the most to give us
the lead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

ms compelling arguments, his forceful
logic, his skillful manner Of presenting his
case, carry all before him. The Journal IS
Obliged TO admit that a measure of fiction
may be mingled with what purports TO be
plain facts and statistics in these writings.
The very enthusiasm with which he ap-
proaches his theme, the fervor of his agri-
cultural feelings, would naturally lead to a
certain luxuriance of speech and play of
the imagination. There is reason TO sus-
pect, for instance, that the Kansas hog as
1t appears on the pages of his official es-
says and booklets, is not all that his fancy
paints it. But this is neither here nor
there. The point is that Mr.. Coburn has
gone on in the even tenor of his way, bring
ing celebrity TO his State and doing much to
offset the ~disrepute into which it was
brought by injudicious and misguided citi-
zens. y novel with a million circulation
could not have brought half the real benefit
to Kansas, though, no doubt, Mr.. Coburn
would have won greater profits than his
office has brought him.
AS If literary talent were not sufficient,
Mr.. Coburn is gifted as a.l artist. Witness
his artistic and poetical portrayals of corn
and wheat crops, around which his affec-
tions are most obviously entwined. y
glamour Of sentiment even hovers over the
maternal hog and her numerous brood,
which appears on the last page of his latest
booklet. Loving the hog as a glory TO Kan
sas, he cannot refrain from putting soul
into her.
If Kansas does not appreciate Mr.. CO.
burn and his services it should make haste
to do SO. or he will presently enter a wider
field and be lost to that State forever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

TIL school superintendent of Indiana,
ing in this city. deserve distinct recogni-
ton for their voluntary service to public
instruction by spending time and money
In attending such a meeting. Upon no one
class OF schoolmen does the success of the
common school depend so much as upon
superintendents. who are the directors of
the battle. There may be good schools
under an inefficient superintendent. but. if
not trammeled, there can scarcely be in
ferior schools over which an accomplished
and energetic superintendent presides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

On a fair trial in a Virginia court Mr..
John n. Chanler, former husband of Amelie
Rives and the rightful owner of large
wealth, has been declared sane. The de-
cision was reached mainly on the testi-
mony of insanity experts, though MI.
CHAMBERS conduct was a strong point in his
favor. One witness who was sworn to
prove that Mr.. Chanler was mentally I'M
balanced testified that the only popularity
he had ever noticed in him was the fact
that he did not like mint juleps. But even
a Virginia court could not find him insane
on that ground.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-10

In the meeting OF an Audubon society in
an Indiana village not long since the farm
ers present took part in the discussion. All
were opposed to the killing OF birds on their
lands and all agreed that they would be
glad to have hunters or anybody else kill
of the rabbits. which are a nuisance. This
opinion OF farmers goes to sustain the de-
cision OF Justice Stout TO the effect that
rabbits are not game. meaning such game
as 1t is Illegal to kill. Speaking Of rab-
bits. what has become of the Belgian hare,
through the propagation of which fortunes
were to be made? TWO years ago the Bel
glan rabbit was much In the newspapers.