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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-06

10000 for Scepter, the remarkable English
flly owned by r. s. Sievier. She Is re-
garded as the fastest horse that England
has produced in years. A three-year-old,
she has already won the 1000 guinea and
loo guinea stakes, and her owner has an
nounced his willingness to race her against
any horse in the world, weight for age. for
$4,000 a side. Mr.. Vanderbllt's offers were
refused.
Abandoned street cars are utilized as sum-
mer homes in certain localities in Cali
fornia. AZ Arktown, a summer settlement
near Belvidere, the cars have been run OH
to scows which are anchored in the bay
The number OF these car houseboats has
increased until the unique watering place
has a goodly population. The cars are Mt
ted with dining and sleeping. apartments.
Since not a drop of rain falls for weeks to-
Gether, most OF the time is spent out OF
doors. Carville. neal San francisco, con-
sists also of car homes. but they, rest on
terra frma, and are easily shifted TO suit
the whims of their occupants.
Lord Kitchener received a part OF his
education at a school about four miles from
Montreux. not far from the point where
the Rhone enters the Lake of Geneva.
Grand-Clos, as the school was called, num-
bered some thirteen boys, and the head
master was a clergyman of the name OF
Bennett. A former master of the school de-
scribes Kitchener at the age of fifteen: He
was of medium height. broad-chested, a
very model of strength. but not passionate
ly addicted to sports. Solitary in his habits,
not cumming especially witt any OF his
school-fellows, he worked quietly and
steadily and proved always amenable to
discipline"
According to Professor Davis, OF Harvard
University, the a~ncients had quite accurate
ideas concerning the size Of the earth. In
his new book. Elementary Physical Geog-
raphy." he says that the earliest recorded
measurement OF the size of the earth was
made by a Greek philosopher in the third
century B. c., who found its diameter TO
be about 5000 miles. The knowledge thus
gained by the wise men of the ancient
Mediterranean countries concerning the size
and shape of the earth was unknown TO the
rest of the world and was afterwards for
gotten, but it was regained about the time
of Columbus" AS a matter of fact the
diameter of the earth is but little over 1900
miles.
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For some reason which he has not made
known Archbishop Williams, of the see OF
Boston. recently declined the honor of a
degree proffered by Harvard University.
Comment in college circles on this circum-
stance calls to mind the fact hat some
years ago Grover Cleveland, while Presi-
dent, refused the same honor on the ground
that, not being himself a college graduate,
it seemed to him presumptuous to receive
what he regarded as a distinctive mark OF
scholarship. Since then he has come to
understand hat the degree of LII D. IN
this country has always been Intended to
mark a citizen for distinguished services to
mankind in IN capacity, quite irrespective
of scholarly attachments, and has accepted
from Princeton what he did not take from
Harvard The declining of an honorary de-
gree is an unusual occurrence. Though the
persons to whom they are rendered some
times privately affect an indifference or
disinclination to the honor, especially
when bestowed by the smaller colleges, they
are a token OF appreciation and a genuine
compliment which few hesitate to accept
when given the opportunity.
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moment. IL the King were suffering from
marked diabetes OF Bright's disease, his
progress would certainly have been less
rapid. and the result would In all probabil-
ity have been fatal by this time.
This. then. shows the injustice OF the
criticism OF the surgeons IN charge OF fres-
ident Mckinley's case. The King had an
abscess arising from an Inflammation about
the intestine. and I'm order TO avoid perl
tonitis Inflammation Of the membrane or
sack surrounding the intestines), or seplo
infection (blood poisining). or both. crain-
age would be absolutely necessary. In Pres
ident Mckinley's case no pus was present.
THE surgeons were dealing with aOso-
lutely clean wounds. II n drainage Tune
had been employed in his case IL wonlo
have been necessary TO extend * into me
lesser peritoneal cavity Chat part or the
cavity behind the stOmach). which would
have been extremely difficult. Drainage In
the President case would not have warded
of the gangrene, which appeared along the
''The autopsy in President McKinley's
case demonstrated the fact that everything
had been done by the surgeons that was
operating surgeon OF ripe experience IN
stomach surgery would have resorted 10
methods differing in any way from those
employed by Drs. Mann. Mynter and Park
Had King Edward been operated upon oy
these same surgeons they would. have en-
ployed drainage. and would in all p~robaot-
ity have handled the case exactly as the
English surgeons have done.
LAS the Kings general physical condition
Is eXcellent IN every way SnONAhS Ae AD.
betes or Bright's disease, the p~rognosis IS
extremely favorable. Recovery is practi-
cally assured. 4 second operation Will PROP
ably not be resorted TO unless, after COM
plete recovery of the present wound, the
appendix should give further trouble AS a
general rule. such severe Inflammation OF
the appendix in the Kings case causes
complete destruction OF the organ. so that
il never gives rise to further symptoms. Oc-
casionally it gives further trouble, but IN
the majority OF cases IL is entirely de-
stroyed.
1.-THE operation which caused such world
wide CONSERVATION and resulted in sucn
great disappointment and financial loss IN
England a few days ago. was a compare
lively simple one. II was merely the open
ing of an abscess. If the abscess had been
near the surface a very small incision
would have suffced. Because the abscess
was covered by a thick abdominal wall,
which in the Kings case was much thick
ened by the presence OF adipose tissue, or
fat. a larger incision was necessary. Otner-
wise. the operation was no more comph-
Gated than the opening OF an PRIMARY
| hOilh
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AN INDIANIAN's ESTIMATE.

The statement of Gen. w. w. Dudley,
mace before the Senate pension committee
on May II. TO the effect that there were
2,069, 600 individual enlistments in the Union
army. has caused considerable comment
and surprise in the limited circles that are
liable TO secure the reports Of such hear
ings. The general estimates have put the
entire individual enlistments-that is, the
number of different persons who belonged
10 the service-at q figure considerably
higher. The fetal number of men regu-
larry mustered into the service was 2,77S,-
COT. while the total number serving as
militia for periods OF two weeks TO sixty
days increased the number 10 2.S9S. SO4. OF
the 2.036, 100 men who enlisted for three
years $4,000 re-enlisted in the field during
the winter OF 1864. More than 200, 900 men
re-enlisted in the Veteran Reserve Corps
and in Hancock's Veteran Corps. Here
are $500 men whose names were twice on
the rolls. Nearly all OF the carly three
months men re-enlisted. Thos, who have
had occasion 10 examine the records OF
men in the Union army must have noted
the large number who not only re-enlisted,
but wrote their names upon muster rolls
three times. Mr.. Joseph W. Krilley. who
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BANKING BY TELEPHONE.
A Little scheme Adopted by New York
Suburban Trust Companies.

New York Evening Post.
A novel device for avoiding the IMPOSE
ton Of New York clearinghouse charges
for the collection of country checks has
been adopted by two or three trust COM
panies located in suburban territory. The
practice as followed involves giving a Gus
toner credit at a New York bank for funds
deposited at some New Jersey point. As
admitted by a director OF one out-of-town
trust company, the procedure follows this
order:
A man deposits 800. 900 in a trust COM
pany located thirty miles from New York.
On opening his account he is given two
check books, one on the out-of-town trust
company, the other on a New York bank
with whom he has no direct relation. The
bank is Immediately advised 10 honor the
checks tina he draws. charging their
amount daily to the trust company's ac-
count. This done, the man checks at pleas
ure upon his New Jersey funds, the New
York bank notifying the New Jersey trust
company each night by telephone how the
account stands.
This. in short, is the latest development
Of banking by telephone Its Sonxe-
are as follows: You see, the clearing
house people cannot reach US. for We do not
cash New Jersey CheckS AT par only items
drawn on the New York depositary. The
system was devised 10 relieve our custom
ers of the necessity Of paying the one-tenth
of / per cent. charge exacted by clearing
house banks for collecting our checks, and,
while 1t may violate the spirit OF the rules.
il comes within the letter OF the law SO
far as the New York bank is concerned.
Then, too. there is very little risk about
the matter, for IL our customer draws TOO
heavily for the New York bank TO honor
without question, five minutes at the tele-
phone will straighten out all difficulties.
OF course, 1t would not be pracucaple 10
extend such facilities to very small depos-
itors, but the man whose account is worth
having need never be at a disadvantage so
far as paying the out-of-town check col
lection rebate is concerned. We can fix
him up all right"
Another incident, which happened only a
few days ago, shows the same practice IN
another light: A man who kept a large
account with a New Jersey trust company
had occasion to strengthen his balance at
a New York bank. He wanted to certify
for a large amount. and fell some $4,000
New Jersey check for that sum meant pay
ing $40 In collection charges, so, explaining
matters to an officer of the bank. he asked
to have a credit for $4,000 transferred from
the New Jersey account 10 his own, Civ
ing the bank a check 10 protect IT. The
arranged, and certified the customers
check for 10000 more than his account
showed, making good the difference out or
the trust companys FUNDS.
Although not generally known, some
suburban trust companies have an officer
This is done by the officers indorsing on
the New Jersey check, Good at such and
such New York bank" The check is then
collected as New York exchange.
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Every now and then some one is heard to
the day are so trivial hat they are beneath
the notice of the truly intellectual. but
there is reason TO suspect that these dissat-
isfed ones fail TO look In the right direction
for the literary pabulum that they profess
to desire. For there are magazines and
magazines. books frivolous and books Sc
rious. There, for example, is the reconcile
and rather awful Chicago periodical. The
Open Court, whose editor discourses casu-
ally of The Chrisma' and 1.-The Labarum,"
and, when in lighter mood, tells a story of
Buddhist metaphysics. In its columns, too,
are reviews of books which get no attention
whatever from the light-minded daily press.
In the current issue, to be explicit, are mem
toned 1.-THE Anuruddha Cataka," by Anu
ruddha Maha There, of Anuradhapura;
1.-THE Jinalamkara," a twelfth-century poem
or Buddha, written by Buddharakkhito;
THE Vidagdha Mukha Mandana," a San
skirt poem by Cri Dharmadaso of Kanaui;
The Udana, or Solemn U~tterances of the
Buddha;" Kaschayana's "Pali Grammar"
and "Grundriss elmer Geschichte der Natur-
wissenschaften, zugleich cine Eeinfuhrung
in das Stadium der Grundlegenden Natur-
Wissenschaftlichen Literature by Won DR..
Friedrich D-annemann. Thus it may be seen
that the people who really want solid read
ing may have it il they will direct their at
tention to the proper quarter.
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in commenting on a new volume of verse
by a well-known writer an Eastern critic
says:
His book contains a large number
of sonnets. many of which are delicate and
effective; but we never can get over the
impression that it is a mistake to present
sonnets in shoals. Sonnets are like daisies.
II Is pleasant TO meet an occasional daisy
lifting its head from the grass by the
roadside, ana it suggests d touch of quiet
romance; but when We see a large field
white with daisies, we can hardly think of
anything but the WEAKNESS of the farmer
and the disgust Of the cattle.
The comparison of a sonnet to a daisy
does not seem a very happy one. The
meadow daisy suggests a homely simplicity
in the floral world, whereas the sonnet in
literature suggests quite the reverse. 1t is
the most artificial of all forms of verse, and
as all poets agree. the most difficult TO con-
struct in perfection. Tt would better be
compared with one of those triumphs of
the florists art, a flower OF innumerable
petals-say the chrysanthemum - evolved
with much pains and care from the original
single" blossom. But the critic is right
in his objection to many sonnets. The SON.
net can be admired, but not loved. It's
obvious artihciality prevents anything more
than an intellectual interest. Other forms OF
verse may carry with them the suggestion
that they are spontaneous ~utterances. No
man. OF course, ever did speak his grief.
his love. his aspirations, his hopes in
rhymes of any sort as a reader means of
expression than prose; but the apparent
ease with which certain varieties OF metri-
cal lines are written creates an illusion con-
corning them and their author I'm the mind
of the sympathetic reader. who is willing
to believe that the poet when writing them
was in a state of exaltation. or fierce
passion. or sweet tenderness. as the case
may 4. But no one, however he may
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LANDS FOR THE LANDLESS.

In providing for the free distribution or
public land in fee among the Filipinos, as
is done in the new civil government bill,
the Republican party is true to one of its
earliest and best policies. The establish
ment of the homestead policy is due to the
Republican party, the first law on the sub
Ject having been passed in 1862. Homes
for the homeless was one of the early
campaign notices of the Republican party.
James Buchanan. the last Democratic
President before the war, vetoed a home
stead bill passed in 1860 in a message of
great length, in which he enumerated ten
distinct reasons against II, one of them
being that 1T would demoralize the people
and repress the noble spirit Of independ-
ence." The next Congress passed a bill
which was signed by Abraham Lincoln.
and which proved to be one of the most
benehcent measures ever enacted. 1t
opened to immediate settlement millions of
acres of the public domain which would
otherwise have remained a wilderness for
wealth-producing citizens who, without the
attraction of free land, would never nave
emigrated from other countries.
The principle of the homestead law is
to be introduced in the Philippines. During
Spanish rule in the islands nearly all the
land was owned either by the government,
the Catholic Church or the friars. The
people might have land for occupation and
cultivation, but they could not own it.
Practically there was no such thing as
land ownership in fee. The system of
church and friar ownership of lands was
most burdensome and odious to TIE ma
tives, and was one of their greatest sources
Of complaint against the Spaniards. Ma
tives who had cultivated the land for gen.
e~rations were mere squatters. The new
civil government act provides for the sur
vey. settlement and entry of the public
lands, and for the opening and develop
ment of the mines and forests and for the
purchase OF the friar and church lands,
and disposing of them in forty-acre farms
at cost to the natives who now occupy
them, and giving them a title in fee
thereto. The act further provides that the
natives may secure from the public lands,
without cost. title in fee to the extent of
forty acres in each case of the lands they
occupied and titled before the United
States came in possession Of the country.
Forty acres of that soil in that climate
makes a good. ample farm. This free dis
tribution of land in fee among the ma
tives, enabling a family to secure a home
of lis W with a title in fee, something
hitherto unknown to them, will go far
toward making the people happy. content
ed and law-abiding. The sense of land
ownership begets a love of peace and a
taste for law and order, and with a good
system of public schools and improved
means of communication the people will
be in a position to become prosperous and
fitted for local self-government. The home
stead policy of the Republican party.
which has been of untold benefit in this
country. will undoubtedly produce bene-
fetal results in our new island possessions.
Lands for the landless' is as good a
policy in the Philippines as it is in the
United States.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Sarah E. Howell. of Atlanta, went
crazy over religion, talked about il almost
necessarily for sixty-eight hours on a
stretch, and then died of exhaustion.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould has added to the
long list of her benefactions with a gift of
$4,000 to Mount Holyoke College. The
money will be used to endow a chair of
biblical literature in memory of Miss
Gould's mother.
DIR. Calling, of gun fame, has, like Tubal
Cain, turned his attention to the plow. His
invention is a pillow worked by a gasoline
motor, which can be used at the cost of
eight shillings fourpence a day. For this
sum it will do the work of thirty men and
eighty horses
Considerably over 400 columns of the Con-
gressional Record are occupied with
speeches on the isthmian canal bill. Sena-
tor Morgan's eight speeches on the subject
fill LIZ columns, Senators Hanna and Mitch
ell coming next with forty-two columns and
two speeches. The shortest talk of the lot
was one of a column by Senator HawIey.
James Hamilton Lewis, of Seattle, who,
while he represented Washington in Con-
gress, was the source of -Unexhaustible
pleasantries, was hurt in Chicago last
week in attempting to rescue a teamster
from a position of peril under a wrecked
wagon. Mr.. Lewis quite recently won a
$opU,pJO lawsuit TOT JOnn Eedly, formerly
OF Fort Benton and now of Alaska, and the
latter presented Mr.. Lewis with 100000 OF
the amount.
Most people imagine that Lord Wolseley,
who completed his sixty-ninth year on June
4, is an Irishman. AS a matter OF fact, the
n-chief. although born In
the Emerald Isle. belongs to an ancient
Starordshire family. Lord wolseley has
probably been in more engagements thar
any other general. Since entering the army
in 1852 he has served in Burmah. India
China, Canada, Ashantee, Egypt, and
finally the Soudan.
William K. Vanderbilt, who has very ex-
tensive racing interests In france and has
won several good races on the Paris tracks.
Is said to have offered first sl25,00 and then
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WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

No man can be brave who considers pain
the chief evil Of life.-The Heroine of the
Strait.
Deep down in us all is the absorbing pas
sion for land. for a free foothold.-Spindle
and Plough.
Gettin' married is a sight easier to them
that's been through it once than to others.
Rev. Pilgreen's Wooing.
If a mar admires a girl at all he will want
to marry her-as long as she treats him
badly.-Myra OF TIE Pines.
1t is doubtful whether poetic justice ex-
lists anywhere outside the domain Of poetic
fancy.-The Credit Of the County.
When you come to think about 1t, man is
really the only animal that ever makes a
fool of himself.-The Diary of a Goose Girl.
He Intended to hold out against the devil
in the last ditch, but he felt that a ditch is,
after all, a difficult earthwork to defend.
-~Shacklett.
Living with animals is really a very i'm
proving and wholesome kin of life to the
person who will allow himself to be in
fuenced by their sensible and high-minded
ideals.-The Diary of a Goose Girl.
l have quit talking about the theologians.
I don't believe there are such people any
more. They are like the fairies and Santa
Claus; they did exist once. but they've been
driven out by changing conditions.-Shack-
lett.
The words Of the shabby man on the
boulevard came back to her: Life has
played with you; go and play with il. You
may scorch your fingers, for the fire burns;
but it is better to die of heat than of cold"
The Intrusions of Peggy.
Be she right or wrong. a woman will not
permit a man to question her motives. Pos
sibly she never had a motive: that all her
actions being the result of impulse, cannot
be analysed; or peradventure, being a wom-
an is of itself a good and sufficient reason
for whatever she may do or ~say.-Gray-
stone.
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bers. while the domesticated ones, esti-
mated at Lon, are slowly increasing. AS a
mere matter Of sentiment, IL nothing else,
the government ought TO do something TO
prevent the determination of an animal
which was once almost as numerous as the
leaves of the forests. The days of the
bufalo's usefulness are past, but he filled
so large and picturesque a place in the
~subjugation Of the continent that he is en-
titled to some government protection
against extinction.
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BAILEY-BEvERIDGE.
Admiration for the Latter's strength
of Character.

New York Evening Journal (EditoriaI)
You know of the scufie between Bailey
and Beverage in the Senate-disgraceful to
Bailey. most creditable to Beverage.
Bailey. a man of intelligence. but appar-
entity not far removed from the primitive
bully in his animal instincts. resented with
physical force Senator Beveridge's state
ment that certain charges by Bailey were
''unwarranted."
Bailey seized, or tried to seize. Beverage
by the throat. Accounts differ as to what
actually occurred.
But this is certain: The big. excited man
from Texas, unwilling TO rely on his brain
for seIf-defense, tried 10 use his muscles.
and tried-successfully or otherwise-to
squeeze Beveridge's windpipe.
Beverage had the good sense and
strength of character 10 remain perfectly
quiet.
When Bailey was pulled away by other
senators Beveridge sat in his chair quite
calm with a cigar in his mouth. He had not
taken 1t out of his mouth: he let IL fall dur
ing Bailey's effort TO prove his muscular
prowess.
Senator Beverage is a powerful man.
stronger physically than Senator Bailey. as
he is stronger mentally. Beveridge lacks
part Of the Texas senator's bulk. but his
early education included three years in a
logging camp, an experience which might
have been painful 10 Bailey had Beveridge
been. Xix himself, inclined TO make a bear
pit OF the Senate.
II takes good nerves. strong character
and self-control 20 hold in check the natural
brutal instinct still so strong in Us
Out of a hundred men at least ninety
nine would have struck at Bailey and tried
TO return one ~strangling for another. out
OF the hundred men every coward wOald
certainly have fought back. For the moral
coward IN public has never strength 10 re-
fuse 10 fight.
peverfdge Of Indiana will nlease accent
the compliments and admiration OF those
who know that IL takes a real man 10 keep
from answering a bully according 10 his
bullying.