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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-13

the best recommendation for reporter is
that he is traducer and sneak? If so.
let US make haste to return to that less
enterprising Journalism which regards
honor and truthfulness as the essentials in
reporting opinions and events.
As to the matter of the scandalous inter-
view attributed to DR.. Hurry, he denied 1t
in the Journal, but IL he has called upon
the Sentinel for retraction il has denied
him the opportunity But, whoever is re-
sponsible. the charges are false. The secre-
tary of the Board of Health has not COM
municated with the Governor regarding
contagious diseases since the report made
in June respecting smallpox in the river
counties and the steps taken to eradica tie
II. The Board of Health has not called FOR
funds since what was believed to be an
adequate amount was authorized for the
investigation in the river counties. Such
being the case 1t is an outrage for any one
to declare that people dying of small
pox because the Governor refuses to help
them and is letting them die that he may
make economy a political ISSUE" If this
sort of Islander is inspired by those who
think 1t will help political party, they
are interruptions they are desperate.
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Like Another Helen.

Like Another Helen is a story of life
in India during the terrible revolt of the
natives against the British in the last half
of the eighteenth century, when the horri-
BILE wholesale murder of the Black Hole at
Calcutta occurred. The author. Sydney c.
Grier, has written several novels of Anglo
Indian life, among which are kings of
the East ''His Excellency's English Gov
erness," I'm Farthest Ind" 1t is to be
doubted, however, If any of them can excel
this one in charm of style and matter. The
story is written in the very stilted but
agreeable style contemporaneous with 1.-The
Spectator and the eminent DR.. Johnson.
Miss Sylvia Freyne, at the completion of
her English education, goes out to join
her father in India. She is put under the
necessary chaperonage of some friends, as
the voyage, undertaken In a sailing YES
sci, occupies some nine months. The his
tory of this voyage and subsequent events
are told in letters from this "amiable
young creature" to her dearest Amelia, 4"
whom she left in a swoon caused by the
grief of separation. Many historical char
acters are introduced and, without doubt,
the facts of the massacre and the subse.
quent revenge and recovery of Calcutta are
automatically described. Miss Sylvia's re-
of this adorable female are questionless' -
though not made evident to the reader ex-
cept through interspersed letters from her
friends. Like Helen of Troy, it is the
wondrous charm of Sylvia which embroils
all India. The native princes precipitate
all sorts of troubles in their intense de.
sire to possess this peerless creature "
Hence the title, Like Another Helen "
which must not be confused with the story
of the same name, published some years
since by the Bowen-Merrill Company for
George Heaton. This book is published by
L. G. Page e. Co., of Boston.
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COST OF LIVING IN STATE IN.
STITUTIONS.

So much has been said of the increased
cost of living during the past year COM
pared with previous years that actual facts
from any source are instructive. The chari-
table, correctional and penal institutions
Of Indiana are all managed upon business
principles and have been for several years.
Consequently, If the prices of staple arti-
cles of food have increased from Is to 30
per cent, as Is frequently stated, 1t should
appear in the reports of these institutions
The Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Cor
rection, just issued. gives statistics Of the
cost of maintenance for the nine months
which ended July 81, 1902, compared with
the statistics of the corresponding period
of the previous year. The cost of mainte-
nance, exclusive OF clothing and repairs,
which means food, in the four hospitals
for insane was s116S7 per capita the nine
months ending July 81, 1902, compared with
s113. 80 the corresponding nine months of the
preceding year. The cost per capita of the
FIVE charitable institutions was s11S41 COM
pared with s116.7O during the corresponding
period of the preceding year. For the four
correctional institutions the cost of main
tenance was 1861 per capita during the
latter nine months compared with s1o2 %
during the earlier corresponding period.
Passing to items, the Central Hospital
months of 1902. and 1852 during nine
months of 1901. The four hospitals paid no
more for meats per capita in 1902 than they
did in 1901. The Soldiers Home paid Is
cents per capita less in 1902 than I'm 1901
The Soldiers Orphans Home paid s.. So per
capita more in 1902 than in 1901. Taking all
| the States institutions as a whole the cost
| per capita of meats during the high price
season of 1902 was not over s per cent in
| excess of the cost during the correspond
| ing period OF 1901. The cost per capita of
| breadstuffs and vegetables, despite the very
| high price of the latter during 1902. was
not per cent more than during 1901. On
| the other hand. the cost of sugar and coffee
was about 5 per cent less in 1902 than In
| 1901. The average cost of each days board
| In the two insane hospitals was 1875 cents
| in 1902 compared with 15.3 cents in 1901; In
4 the CudIiedpic hiSaeuefohS INC uay uodhc
| cost 15.2 cents i'm 1902 and 149 cents in 1901
/ in the correctional institutions the cost In
| 1902 was IL cents and 11.6 cents in 1901.
The food purchased for the States insti
tutions is about the same that used by
| most families I'm moderate circumstances
| except the luxuries. The substantials are
as good as the market affords unless ar
| exception is made of the beef. which Is Of
the quality sold to the mass Of people. The
inmates of all the States institutions ar,
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great deal is heard in these days about
the new thought" and for the benefit of
those who do not know what the new
thought is William Walker Atkinson un-
dertakes an explanation. I'm the first
place." he says, lit is a name by which
is best known that great wave of spiritual
and psychic thought that is passing over
the world. sweeping away Anticipated dog
mas. creeds. materialism, bigotry. supersti-
ton, unfaith. intolerance, persecution, self
ishness, fear hate. intellectual tyranny and
despotism, prejudice, narrowness, disease
and perhaps even death" This Is large
and important wave evidently. and it is
its various manifestations to which the
author gives his attention in the success
of the chapters will give some idea of the
drift of his theories: Thoughts Are
Things" Mind Building" Mind and
Body" THE Mind and It's Planes" THE
Super-conscious Faculties 1.-The Souls
Question" 1.-The Growth of Consciousness,
1.-The SOULS Awakening In his chapter
on mental healing of disease he says, Il
believe that the healing power is latent
within the individual. and when he is treat
ed and cured by another the cure has been
effected by the practitioner calling into life
and activity that healing power" There
principle upon which all medical treatment
is based. When physician administers
drugs 1t is to stimulate the recuperative
power of the patient. He does not claim
any other office for the drug. In like
manner, much of this so-called new thought
is old thought, though not for that reason
necessarily acceptable to all who read In
aSmuch, however, as the author expresses
himself clearly and simpIy-an accomplish
ment lacking in most writer's in this field
what he says is to be recommended to
all who wish to investigate the subject:
The volume is published by the Psychical
Research Company, Chicago.
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NO SETTLEMENT in SIGHT.

1t may be said that there is no movement
in sight which promises to bring the an
thracite strike to an end. The operators
will listen to no proposition which recog-
nizes the Mitchell organization as a fac
tor. and the miners will refuse any PROPOSE
ton which does not regard their organiza
ton as contracting power The public
seems to have no recourse in law, and law
lessness by officers of the law cannot be
thought of by conservative people. All
propositions of that nature are made by
excited men or demagogues. Nothing could
come from the calling of Congress together,
since 1T is doubtful If the federal govern
ment has any authority to intervene If
it has. it would take weeks to agree upon
a measure, after which time 1t would be
too late to intervene 1t is possible, If not
probable, that the railroad companies that
operate the mines may, be successfully pro-
ceeded against by the Department of JUS
tice. but it would require weeks if not
months to bring an action to conclusion.
Therefore the only thing to do is to wait
until one or the other of the contestants can
carry on the fight no longer and yield with
out consideration from the other side. But
the mischief of the long struggle will not
end with the strike and the consequent suf-
fering. The mine operators have made GER
tain forms of capital so odious to the people
| that many thousands Of fair-minded men
are now advocates of state socialism. The
| support of that heresy by a considerable
portion of the people would bring doubt and
| doubt in all industrial affairs means paral-
isis. and paralysis means loss of employ
ment. The outcome OF the trouble that may
be expected, and the outcome that will be
| beneficial is for Congress and the States
| to place new restrictions upon such COR
porations have made the anthracite coal
| industry a synonym for injustice and
greed for quarter of a century
The anthracite famine does not materi.
| ally affect this part of the country, since
that coal is used by comparatively few
| price of soft coal, which is limitless In
| quantity, are the conditions which will af.
| feet us. For the East, with ships and rail.
roads that can reach the supplies of soft
| coal, 1t seems that there should be little
| suffering If the utmost is done to meet
the emergency. But while several million
| people are suffering and the mine opera
tors stand out on a triviality, they will II
the end be the sufferers. New England
with its vast water power. can produces
heat by electricity. while those who mus
burn coal will learn to depend upon sof
coal. which is found in abundance in two
| thirds of the States and Territories of tn,
Union. With such an abundance of sof
coal, with immense supplies of petroleum
and with wood. anything like positive desti
tuition does not seem possible.
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The Sport of the Gods.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, author of
Lyrics of Lowly Life and of some pretty
good sketches Of negro life and charac-
ter, continues to work the field in which
he shows familiarity. The Sport of the
Gods opens in the South with a descrip-
ton of typical negro home and very
happy one. The head of the family, an
honest and thrifty man. Is butler for a
wealthy white man, his longtime friend.
His employer has brother who is talented
but dissipated and unprincipled The theft
of a large sum of money from the en-
ployers house brings Berry, the negro.
under suspicion. and he is arrested tried
and convicted on circumstantial evidence.
and sent to the penitentiary. The happy
family thus broken up, the mother and
to make their living. The children fall
among evil companions and both 60 to the
bad. Misfortune also overtakes the moth
er. Finally Ii comes to light that the en-
ployer's brother was the thief, Berry is
pardoned and comes to New York and re-
claims his wife and they return to their
Southern cottage to spend their old age In
peace. Out of this simple material and
plot Mr. Dunbar makes quite a realistic
story, though at times he seems to come
pretty near getting beyond his depth Hs
has clear style BETTING simple themes
and the action of the story moves straight
along to a conclusion which partially re.
lieves its otherwise saddening effect New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
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In the September Book Buyer Frances
Duncan, in an article entitled Browning
as Tree Lover" groups together passages
from his poems relating to trees, showing
both his love for and knowledge of them.
He is always definite in his mention of
them, their kinds and their peculiarities.
though he was never by profession ma
ture poet" He decks bower over head
with
Elder. bramble. rose and service tree.
And one beneficent rich barberry
Jeweled all over with fruit pendants red"
Ruskin said no untraveled Englishman
could tell what an olive was like. Reading
Browning he would hear
The quick, whistling pelt Of the olives
Which, thick in ones track,
Though not yet half black.
How the old. twisted olive trunks shudderr'
And he might see
1.-THE hills oversmoked behind by the faint gray
olive trees.
Guido proves with bit of forestry that
he must have hated Pompilia-it was:
Pure nature. Try: plant elm and ash in files.
Both unexceptional tree enough,
They ought to overlsan each other, pair
At top and arch across the avenue
or loathe lie off abhorrent each from each 20
Genius is not hereditary because
THE seed of the apple tree
'Tis the great gardener CRAFTS the excellence
On widings where he will.
Here is a bit pruning:
THUS much we stopped
Of babble that had else grown fruit and Topped
From your trim bay tree this unsightly bough."
Trees had deep meanings for him:
| my pulse goes altogether with the heart
tine march to Of he World sy
| L the desert. for the sake of one superb
Plane tree which queened IL there In solitude
In his Letters" he speaks of his chestnut
| tree ''leafy all over In faint, trembling,
| chilly way" later in the season the south
west wind sets it dancing-"all its baby
| cone blossoms, green now, rocking like
| fairy castles on hill in an earthquake
The herded pines commune and have deep
| thoughts,
secret they assemble to discuss
When the drops behind their trunks"
| In the early dawn
1.-The shrubs bestir and rouse themselves as II
| Some snake. that weighed them down all night
| let go
| His hold"
! In "Childe Roland the trees are instinct
| with strange life:
"Drenched willows ding themselves headiong in
Of NUT. despair. a suicidal throns;
Then came some palsied oak. a cleft in him
| Gaping at death, and dies while II recoils.
Pompila sees mimosa and asks
| How do you call that tree with the thick top
Which holds In all Its leafy green and gold
| The sun. now like an immense egg OF freT'
Even as firelogs the tree does not lose it.
individuality TO the poet:
lone stroke
| Adroitly dealt, and 10, the pomp revealed
Fire in his pandemonium. heart Of oak Palatial
Up with thee. molderins ash men never knew
| But L know fash thou forth and figure bold,
| Calm and columnar as you flame view!
The desolateness of life wrecked, faitl
| destroyed hope dead, Is expressed in on,
lie in the Lady OF the Inn Album
-Four years now. since my eye took note o
| tree!"
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Three weeks ago the Democratic press
was demanding that the President do some
thing to bring the anthracite strike to an
end At that time the Journal expressed
the opinion that the President would have
no influence with the coal operators. Now
that the President has done all that he
could. and Democrats OF prominence like
Mr.. Oiney. OF Boston. are criticising him
for his interference. we shall see all those
papers which demanded his interference
short time since denouncing him for de-
priving the Office he holds of its official dig
nifty by trying TO settle labor trouble that
involves the welfare OF millions.
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Current Periodicals.

In the October issue Of the Criterion is
long article by Miss Mary z. Cardwill. of
New Albany, Ind. on 1.-The Growth and
Value of Patriotic Societies."
There is no better periodical for young
children than Little Folks, published by s.
E. Casino, Salem, Mass. The pictures are
pleasing and the stories and verses of a.
sort to AFFORD entertainment to the most
exacting child.
The October number of Harper's Bazaar
is especially devoted to the new fall and
winter fashions. and contains a number of
attractive Partisan designs for gowns
coats. hats and other accessories There
are fashions also For Older Women" for
school children and for babies.
In the October number of McClure's Mag
azine appears the Introduction to Miss Ida
M. Tarbell's long announced History of
the Standard Oil Company" The first
chapter Of the history will appear In No
vember. This will be Miss TarbelI's most
important work since her Life of Lincoln. %
In the October Bookman is a well-written
descriptive article entitled Maurice Hew-
let's ITALY," written by Louise Closer
Hale and beautifully illustrated with draw
| ings by her husband, Walter Hale The
| first installment of an interesting review of
American Caricature and Comic Art" is
| contributed by La Touche Hancock
MessrA A. s. Barnes & Co., New York.
!! announce for immediate publication Bayou
Triste. a Story of Louisiana" by Josephine
| Hamilton Nichols. 1t is said to be an orig
! inal and entertaining story wherein the
| cordial good feeling existing between the
plantation negro and his old masters chill.
| dren and grandchildren Is truthfully por-
trayed-
The Criterion for October contains ar
extremely interesting illustrated article by
Vance Thompson discussing the possible
genuineness of 1.-The clean linen cloth" or
exhibition in Turin as the holy shroud'
| that covered the body OF Christ after the
| crucifixion. The Illustrations show distinct
| Iy the marks on this cloth. which is known
| to be at least thousand years old.
A rather striking portrait OF Walt Whit
| man forms the frontispiece of the October
Critic, and Leaves from Whitman's Later
| Life Is a feature of the number. 1t re
lates to the personal side of the poet. ]. p
Mowbray devotes several pages to criti
| mans magazine verse. Mr.. Mowbray write.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Is the theme worth tn
| space?
Thomas Dixon, jr., whose novel. 9Th,
Leopard's Spots" is selling very rapidly
gives in October Worlds Work some OBJ
servations on the cost OF living. tellinl
how he escaped from the horrors Of Twin,
in a SIS 900 house in New York city to make
for the same money, beautiful countr,
seat on a 5Q0-acre estate on Virginia tide
water. where Pocahontas lived in the day
when she met John Smith
Modern Dutch Art Ii the subject of tn
opening paper in the international Studi
for October, especial attention being give
To the work of that remarkable painte
Josef Israels. Several striking full-pag
| tilusfrations accompany the article ANON
other reproductions Is one OF a drawin
| In color OF Hlackfriars pier by Tony Grub
hofer and one in color Of drawing b.
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Governor Odell, of New York, says that
so far as that State is concerned he has
no fears that the coal strike will hurt the
Republican party. Everybody knows, or
ought to know" he says, that Mr.. Baer,
president of the Reading company and
head of the coal operators, is Democrat.
When told that the strike would injure
the Republican party he replied that he
did not care; that as a Jeffersonian Demo
crat he would like to see the Republicans
beaten" Mr.. Baer's idea of Jenersonian
Democracy seems to be to fatten on mo-
nopoly and defy the people.
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1t Is very doubtful IL the Governor OF the
wealthy and proud commonwealth OF Penn
eylvania viii humble 1t before the world
by acceding to the demand of the coal
operators that he ask for federal troops
because Pennsylvania finds itself unable to
suppress violence and lawlessness within
its borders. That these thoroughly-detested
men should demand such a thing is addi-
tional evidence that they are insolent to a
degree hitherto unknown. The suffering
OF millions OF people is OF no consequence
10 these selfish men, But they are treas
uring up wrath against the day of wrath.
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John Ruskin entitled "a Gray Morning
Near Venice" Other illustrated papers are
THE International Exhibition OF Modern
Art at Turin" London Depicted by Tony
Grubhof." THE National Competition OF
Schools of Art and illustrations Of the
Daily Press In America"
Mr.. Richard whiteing. whose novel. The
Yellow Van," is to appear in the Gen.
fury during the coming year. beginning In
November. made his first striking success
with mo. John Street" Mr. whiteing
is in his sixtieth year. and from time i'm
memorial his ancestors have been farmers
living in Yorkshire. He was born In Lon
don, studied art I'm the government School
of Design and became an engraver. but az
twenty-five he made hit with a short
story in the London Evening Star. and 50
took I'D journalism, which finally LED 70
authorship 1.-The Yellow Van" opens with
the marriage of an English duke TO an
American "schoolma' am"
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Essentials of English Composition" Is
the title of textbook prepared by Horace
s. Tarbell and Martha Tarbell. Professor
Tarbell. now superintendent of the schools
of Providence, r. L., formerly held SINH
lar position in Indianapolis. and his quail
ifcations for the authorship are well un-
derstood in the educational field. The
work is for grammar schools and the lower
classes in high schools. 1t includes MOTH
ing superfiuous and omits nothing essential
to the young writer. 1t contains all the
theory needed for direction and the ma
terials for abundant practice. 1t is also
adapted for private study. The contents
of the book have all been tested In the
schooroom and their fitness to the learn
er's capacity proved. Published by CHM
a Co., Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-13

The Massachusetts, convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
adopted a resolution striking out the pre-
vious demand for instruction in temper
ance physiology to all pupils in the public
schools. 1t has been believed by many
that the extreme demands for such in
struction were inspired by those who hoped
to dispose of textbooks, and this feeling
has caused reaction of public sentiment
which seems to have reached the organiza-
ton which originally made the demand.
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bountifuily fed with substantials- OF
course, being operated upon business prin-
carefully. Thus purchasing, the State fed
the people in its institutions at cost dur
ing the season of highest prices of less than
per cent more than during the preceding
season, when prices were lower. The re-
suit shows the falsity of the statement that
food cost 30 per cent more during the nine
months of higher prices than during the
preceding nine months. if anything like in
telligent economy was exercised in the Sc
lection and purchase
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Noted Sea Fighters.

Sea Fighters from Drake to Farragut'
is the title of a book by Jessie p. Frothing-
ham, which, while it does not contain any
thing new. is an interesting compilation of
facts regarding the lives and exploits of
some of the great sea fighters from the
latter part of the sixteenth century down TO
and including the American civil war. 1t
embraces sketches of eight naval heroes
during that period, two English. two
Dutch, two French and two American.
Although conspicuously incomplete, it is
readable as far as 1t goes. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.