Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive

The Indianapolis News from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 12

Location:
Indianapolis, Indiana
Issue Date:
Page:
12
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY. TULY 2 1(K37 -i TASMANIA'S DEVELOPMENT SINCE DIEM EN'S LAND, BRITAIN'S IT CEASED TO BE VAN 1 i OF SONG NOTORIOUS PENAL COLONY A Horrors of the "Natural Panl-tantlary" Recalled By ajVisltj to tha Place That Was One Guardtd By Man-Eating Dogs and Sharks. Island Whtrt the Finest Ap-plas Grow end -Where Their Export Is Regulated By 'Government Aborigines Who Belonged to the -S tone Age. School of Philosophy on ths Dankj of th Piscataqua River That Grew Out of a Dixie," Written by 'Daniel D. Emmett, Whose Love of Mutlo Led Him to Become a Minstrel.

Resort oummcr 12 mi ACRE MID IIS IIIGIIifilMS AUTHORSHIP FAMOUS SARAH J. FARMER ITS ENERGETIC PRIESTESS ta Origin and ths Scop of It Summer Cpnfsrsncss Described by a Welt-Known Indianapolis Woman Picturesque Mains fr Mr WAtht cr.EKN ACP.p. July Oreen Arr? To thja auet-lon, MkH bjr my friends, at Interval sine ir7, when I mad mr first rlalt to It. and very fre-l'jrntiy during tho fast year, no questioner has ever given ma time to mek a full reply tret ear and afternoon tea con-Ttrtil'on parnrilttlng sufficient con-aotjtlrenee. Th rery naroa Implies a ijulet, a retirement and leisure which rafuaa to -dlapoeed of by th menw yllalt.

gasps and unrelated phr which make so large and, apparently, ao sufficing a part of ordinary talk. Geographically, Cwn'A'rrli a Httl action of th town of f.llot. In Tork eotinty, Mala. with h. border the rist hank of th Flscsf aqua rtvar, a tldat stream mada by ih union of fir tributaries, and- forming scri as Irregular boundary Una between Maine and New Jltmpehlre, tbat In ths three miles ba KJIot and Portsmouth tha trolley roes tha rtver four time.

Oraaa A era la tha river and of one of th many fins farm which hava th I'lcatayua for thalr southwest boundary. It oomprlaa forty sera of hilt and dale; tha hlila eloping down la a sarWa of beautiful carve about th da I a tow basin dipping Into th Plaratajua, on th Ntw Hampshire sld ef which other bill rise gradually until at Uat In tha haty distance they mingle with tha fuothllla of tha Whlta mountain. Origin and Dsveiopmnt. Dang fgo th city dwelling relative of th farmer hereabout found that. Eliot was sbeatlful place for summer raat fr thee who In Increasing number a night retreat lntaad rairtnlr which tO spend thalr vacations.

Thus It ram about that what ha gradually grown into a eummar arhool of phlloaophy aiartad tn MM a a buainaaa antarpMa. To provMa for. th orrflow of mm-mar rut who eould not anlcrtalned In aatghbotinc farmhotiaaa. flva among tha cbtaf rltlaana of HI lot bought thll -rat and on th hill which rrown It luillt tha Inn to whkh thay gay th t-tractlv nam that haa alnea comoTto innluda ao much that, whU atlll an In-iVvpanaabl oanlar, th Inn haa baan rati 'Wad to an inalgnlScant of araan rra. Trntn tha lina that tho laa wm arartad.

flraatt Acra ha attrtd cholca gueate. Whlttlar, for ajatnpla, wa from th Drat aummar to tha, tlm of hla.drath an likblniaj ruaat during July and Aitguat. rid ha Imrnortallaad "Tha Itiinaal tha rta3lua" In a nubia Th Prldlnj Oanlua of Orn Acr. On of tha fly eltliana eonatltutlng tha atnek oompaay that, bull and roatrullad tha Inn waa 8 a rah J. farmwr, whoa par.

onaJ't la to atrtklnf and whoaa Wn volution haa apparantly dominated th ovotutlon of Oraan Aer -that ona ran not far In Ita atory until on haa Introduced thla hamlna, who might hrtttwf fallftd prealdlng ganlu or lha prlrataa that aervaa in tta tempi. To tnti'odune Mlaa farmer ona moat aay oinrthtng of both hay father and her mothar; both blng remarkabla paraona ami both having unttad to errata tha which dornlnala thla placa. Maa r'annar, a Naw llampahlr boy, had hi opportunitl for hlghrr at Dartmouth College. Uka moil young man of hla locality and genera-tluis ha had 'jiumeroua ralHnga, farming, teaching, atirvaylng and hrldge-bulld-log auroaaalvely orrupylrtg hltn before ha entered tha purautt out of which ha te-T-1 oped hi doubla rol of diatlngulahad alonttt and tnyantor. Mr.

Farmer became a telegraph opera, tor, beoauae ha It would av tha beat and moat economli al rhanre fr tha evpertmenta with elertrlclty with which Ma mind waa early teeming. lie a not dlaappolnted In the reautt. lie Invented tha fir alarm Introduced at Boa- ton alxty yaara ago and atlll In uaa 'throughout th county. Thirty! year be-for alactriclty wa knoan to be a man- areaM lllumjnant had lighted own h.nte and that of a Harvard profeaa.tr. in smuriuiit, ataaa.

Davli.d Flrat CUctrlo Railroad. A llttl latar, forty year before tha world waa raady to accept th thought tl at teetrlo1ty could ba a manageable motor, ha had Invented and. throughout tha cttlea of New England electrlo railway. Th road waa onlr iarter of a mlla In length, and th car ecatt.l anly two paraona. but Mr, Farmer -itty maintained tn tha face af Irvcre- .1 and rldlcula that If th email alec- trlo engine whhh he had ronatrxicted r.uld propel a car a quarter f-f a mile.

th aarna pfwer could be applied to run a train of car arroaa tha continent. Theae ettementa Indicate tha crlrlnal. tndeiend i mitid wh'fh would Inevitably run aa a herald tn tha lath of progreea. IJke ft of meat heralda hia nmiait waa rejecte.1 by many wfco thought he wm "ntllet of Rat an." Hnnah ToHey Phaplalgh, hla.wifa. waa a of aa era her father and Mother, nd the'r repHe furebMr eii.ca the aettlentent of tht port of th reat rina te.

Tohey Phapleiirh afa tha tao name atllt moat nunteroua In thla commoner- Hannah Tby Shap-)'z Farmer waa. within thai rea'm of motap'tyalfs, at tnlnxn.lent jarvl pro wive. aa her hualand in nM of I'yot -lenr tine can Infxr tho frea tn ohh thetr datnthter hh rriy who Infancy) waa and ran lubeeniient llf vr.ty rauirai t.nioi.tirig. Pc Seemed to Hoter Ovr It In th beginning Wrt Acr Inn" waa tn the outside world, eiily ive of the many nmmr hot-ta; a ha1iili reaort hut ttr Ita eltors, even In tfcoea early en 1t waa alrnjy an Ian. and In r-n way aeoc iim tvitn any "move- It had it charncteriet pir1iiial a well as pbyalral atmoapher.

Teac "mM to nover over tt and to bring Into harmony all of the diflTerent ela- nta that naturally meet tn aich rendei tmiy tour yeara GUI It remain rierely an Inn- la it waa announced that tharo I Bf K. t. tu, str rtrm See Ta laWlaawpaUa ara. OB ART, Teacnaai. Jane If aver there- waa a had-a oo earth, tt waa Taemania, in tf.f Ai daya, when thi Joivly talind of tho- far-chlil'd ftoutbera i aaa waa Great EHtaifl'a "darkeet tbrla." How tkeaa blood-curdling atorieo and record of th old day get bold of on' parrea.

aa on read through afraid to atop and blow-Out the bedroom rand'e lat there In tha moonlight at reaming through th little-pnd wmdow will ataad a half- Retlonal, half-reaj Raru Dawea tit tb rhaltta and tha betrayal terrore of "Th Term of Hia Natural afraid leat out from tha ahadowa of tb far corner Into tha dead -glow of the grata flrelorn tber will ahamble a convict -garbed Gab-bet In fiction Alexander Pierre In real llfe driven to rannitatbam tn the proreea of hla OVbaae-ment; afraid laat In tlie jtark there; will an-J go tha k)netoar-inc vlalon of the glbht at work, of pool of blood around tle baaea of flnaglng-poata. or afraid leat robbed now of na Rniineaa vr tn hia luVl- fallow hi J.lliL Inhuman jallera anrt menf. From ley Blast to Paradls. A had It mar hava fvi. rh.Mreo in h-LT all i- Vr JiU 10 tJZt- TI "'w.

VtZ iTJit whiaperinga of thl Int aaTir 11 el. iLf'X? Ing ot n-r eacapea from thla bit of tor- 1 hankagiving. aang hl de- Hvery from thla ewrthly bell waa opened by way of the rlbbrt: bona of hu- wan- betnga cruatad. to Untli; bea of children tamed to ki. week a th coaating aleamer crept In out Craveg of Convict Unmarked.

Of th Icy blaata blowing down from th But trace remain of the pa tha Mouth Tol arroea th Tasman aea and that once ettated. -Tht came tip the broad ehannele lined with headatonea ataad over tha grean fteMa ami meaduwa to an borage In aravea of frea men or.ly: the convict a ret th teautiful llotrt bay, aha aeeniad UtJ fnoamed and forgotten. mile from ba eceklng real In an earthly paradla. 'belr native lore. It aa eleven-Hh Came to anchor within a atone a oyrr th perfett convict-made throw of where ttta gibbet a food In tha ade to the neck ot thla hell "the eagle-old day, a flint warning to th deported narrow atrip of land aa they landed, but th old gibbet with lri" nne ted It with the mainland.

It ghaatly net kt tea flapping In tba breeaee acroea that elsty-foot atrip of waa mlirg. Atlet.tirM. wae drawn tn th land 'that clvtllred In the: old nolae or th great rranea loading H.0"0-, tm levlatJ.are with Taamamaa fruit for lhrw on of wor'S the market yeloiia fenceaa rordon of ff-roolou mart-Ami thre, to-night 1'e the clly of aft.W eating ioaa. alwaya kept th hunger Mti rafhar -xaatl WTkMtX nAV 1 fl fTTK Uflt rT ill 1 1:1 HII VUtttfl IO inrift 1 1 I i i rera. from high to tow.

fivred tlie ton- Yn IHemen ljnd. r.7ln.' ZZ, .1 Vi '--7" Tl fr' 1.. grading and itij.pctlon of the export. The. it peats: the aale.

ev power: how convicts were ret to apv on, Th Tasmania Apple. eri-an people have a lot to learn In z. hu 1- 1 wormy truit. ana wm not vri in uw lur 11. iiitm irura mrw Australian Countries WHlCn fmit In l.e-s tt.ji -nil in nnl.ll nflliwii tnd liow- rs 'rl' eve lite rau aiuia BiiimiierinB in I tna tha vtlil moonlight bathing Ita quaint walla and rwrfa and caetlng a tllui.

aoft. encliant tie. i ijrn on na r.aa wan tlie aame oi tl, alllngton, that In tha old dava marked far to aea tha Beat or the heltar Vn JJkwgen'e Land, but that la to-night fcl-lent, grand. impreaaH-e, wearing inu)ei. rally over her graceful elmuldera hr flrat royal cloak of approaching winter.) Trying to Forgt Horror.

Th old day have gone.Veven th odloua old name. Van Dlemen' lnd. ha been drowned out li the orean and the world haa bean roaaed to forget It and call thla Isolated land Taamania Taamatila la making a great effort to forget Van Dle-man'e- lnd and the horror of the' con-' Tlct aettlemanta of old flobart Town, -of atill wore Pert Arthur and of hell a own Macquaria Harbnfr and IteM'a The old horror plant of Hubert Towa haa been torn out by the roola. a rcely a building ta left. bM the ionvlrt-rut atone and tha con vlrt-made brh'ka With tb Ir triangle mark, uaed la ere tin toe buihlinga of the prraent llnbart atlll' reflect Ilia old deyiw And tl.ev.

to make eflfacernent more r.BV.plrte, are now being covered with a ci'mert plaater. Old Port Arthur ta onlr thirty mllea away over on Teaman penlnaula and there tha remain of one of lite moat notnrkva hell-holea tha world haa known In ita ctvlllaed aya are Ulttle by tittle teiua orn down and carted away. Evan tlm a me of the arttletitent laa been ihanaed. Port Arthur haa becuina t'arnarvan. There la aotnethlit In.preaalve In thoae old rulna produced by tlree and natural det-av, aided by the of many of tha bu.ldinaa.

whloh bet'ame uuarriea for building material. The walla of the fine old church are and are over grown with vlnea and trailing vegeta- ion. The uriauH'Wae wrecked by a ertat fire, but It did. nut wlte out the wel. Uudergroiind.

verinln-lnfetert. eolitary connnvment cella. whoae bladHneea ta a Ititenae even t-iay Ihnt a lighted match will hardly penetrate. It. Mra Babe Wer Banihd.

A -mountain of rulna marka old Puer, to which enl glitaned England baa- lahad mere babea. and where even theae were Jrivrn to aulclde by met It- ola ao graphh ally told by ttarriie Clatke.r FOUNDER OF I SARAH J. would be addad to the rural aitrartioits and comforia ot tha uxa. "a aer.ea of laa hid nut est "Th a 7 mPiii tt Ilia Vafnra Ufa. 1 1 il.

ere in the bsv I.m th. Isl th l-d in 01 n. my, -marmm nun l.lr of l.nl Ik- 1 1 the. Bftv -HO cirv; IbX SJSriWCEj, OF HOBAKT reata the bonea.of ron. women and goaded to de.h-aelf-inflictal; bon-a of human brtnga who were whipped to ejeafti; bona of human be- J4lert.

la tha graveyarda til la one ia perhep not unique, but It la among, the moct terrible. r.ai-n tiu rnoua nin lei li'tn rearh to hia peareet It waa a more formidable fence againAl co-'vvt cpe than wjl.a. 't it aea Uahed- up. on each of thia atrip of land, ami It waa kept' alive' by ledin tin ferovloija aharka that Infeat theae aea a. In addition to tlieee precaution agtnat eai-ape, armed guarfta who wiuld about to II a ouW'k na tne or aharka would bite to it were aia'tuned here, and ell-of the eevrien wlth-grrat man A "Natural Penitentiary." i With auch boundary aa thla and mtlea between it and "home." General Arthur waa probably within the limitation of tri)Lli when.be reported back to Kng'Uad that.Fprt yVrt Uor wjaa "hLijrai, penitent The' 4vlb --blniaeU rrUgla ad Jed that It in, Al Marcua Terra -of i Natural I.lfe." ia to thla page of Knx-llh hlaiory whnt "t'nrle Toni'a Cabin" waa to atavery.

what Kiniwa, to the Indian itrurt-a. r.at "l.a Miiec- able" waa to the tiie fugitive and what "Never, Too Iate to Mend ery Hard i'aah" were to Brltielt-Jondi- tfc'na akin to thoae. that'lart: atruck at And aa-werr thee -other tt baa tnn read around the world and It fa the ona thtna by whMi the world beet known what ia lo-ilav Taaman a. I waa ansloue to learn' whether th- ter-ritle narrative of the convict Rufua laea a ort of aecoud Jean. Valean -waa overdrawn, and to my I I found that, tf anything.

Clarke under-atated the r-peilant and horrible oondl-ltm In old Van, ileniena Laind. i All' Hl Charactert Life Llke. 1 Pract 'rally hla characters were" men' erub women In the fleaht-ioerely 'given different 111 Oabett. auhk to the deptha' of killlrig and eating hla fellow eaA-aped convicts, waa a nun tiarae.1 alt of hie. oBrJtra-fron Trere on down, lived, outraged thetr ffllow-ha-, tniea.

end paaeed away. The local, Taamaiitdn- hlatorlea in the Taarneii'an llornry here record aa ter- riiie. If not mre than Clarke wove into a fun-mat novel written to aerve a purpoee. Thev br'nj GREEN ACRE FAKMER. W-turea and -laeea oa teptce which ahatl i juicRn ajrwl eoergtsa th niiin nni nr convicia, laa- aiaaeni rrom tne idea a grvat packer properly graded, properly 1 7 1 -7 1 A ii.lS.

r- v. -'Vs PIE pVTR CfCfrNINNT. i the iArr OP iMraVI iviiui-r "Cattlnga were inflicted' on key possible-. mania aending back' apple, fl Awln -wool. tin.

m-tal and eorne f.ieat and but- 1 I how bloexl- (loeel ao freely frm their Tasmanian apple ta world bacHe t.tjat Ci- ran tn aireanta mnuw. Ami I waa fortunate to set to Tas-' fronS pool a at the tnoU of the fl.iv-.n Irt appl- very tall end, ku. The metliod 't. to break a nn'iil r4 ptw.lt aX.Hta tliOf To VttneM terribly nnd trjily Oliown In tii charac-' tiie Exportation to v.in-a ter or Itufus tfawea. of appiM ntotr-d Into tli apart ru' hold Deported or- Trfvtg Offenget.

Sur jtn-r -Medic 4r.lifv And Orat waa Hi tho oaya d-pirt(jig to asii-h, place a these men women and boy for auch trivial orTenea: ateUng a tum'n rdontaittttnir twlni- hP' niinor cae tha v.ii t.6T hardly be punlehed with a Jail aentenee-. But atill thla narroanaa" haa not dia-. appeared In clvired countrlra. I rer cait a boy convict, for many yeaia In th? Indiana Tteformatory at Jerrcron'ille. who waa etenced Shelby ville for asealing three lemons and who.

with thia start, a aort of P.uf-t Dawes, liiiiiua JalU-r'a noble Har duia not have 10 rel" on the JuJsc-jnctit of p-iple and oti in- hlabirlt to g-t an lda of the extreme of htrni of th old daya. Some of the men who aurvlved the horrora of the plai-r. -who were in ita when ita d.jora were opn, are atlll here. Their anklt-a, t)i fln-jii of a hie li. waa eaten away by thf blto of the Irons to the bone.

nrt, tlie'r htu-ke that look to-day aa tiioiiiftt they lrad lathed a thouasnd time with of barbed wire, are teatimonlala of the old daya. No and mora? natures, and give the Barest and aeeeneat physical rest to it guest." indicated th ancestry of Mlsa iJo-. ements. like people, hava llteir In attempting to deftne Green Acre an institution, one must ak Its ancestry. This In tta rnoet concrete will he In the "Conc'Crd of Jh'losoph leatab-liahed In 177 and awepended in lXt4i and in th "Parlamiit KeliKions." convened in Chicago under'the anspicea of the Columbian exposition in IKii.

2V3 Patented Inventions. Mir a Farmer had' not been able to attend the school at Concord, but many of the distinguished meo who constituted its faculty were guesta at her father'e house, and thtia she J.ad been brought under ita influence. In Miss Farmer accompanied her at her to Chicago, and there enjoyed with him the tardy of the Government' recognition which ig-nallsed his contrlbutiona to scientific progress andTri application of science to life, by making within' the great Elec trical building a separate exhibit of his 140 patented invention. VI ra. Farmer had passed out of this life In the summer of The bereavement experienced by her husband and daugh ter waa ia proportion, to the overflowing lovlngnee of her great heart.

though they enjoyed everything good at the exposition, it waa In th parliament of religions that they found a peculiar solace. because ln.it they found' that harmony of religious beliefs (so much better than unity), which Mrs. Farmer's prescient soul had long divined. Th whole family. Mr.

Farmer. Mrs. Farmer and their daughter Sarah, had always done much for the town of Eliot. They were alt dreamers of tho kind who are never satisfied until, their dreams have be-n materlailaed in forma of heljy-fulnesa. Eefore Mrs.

Farmer's death aha had. by the, frugal savings of nearly thirty year, been able to realize one of her dreams in the erection of Roaemary cottage, which waa built to shelter mothers wttfa the-r little children. Sine tta dedication in from -early eprtcg to lata autumn, flfty-two goeeta hare oeeo re- r' etved every week within ita walla, ta-blinjr its founder etlU to exercise that which characterised her tn Ufe. Tha Green Acre Conferancea. A'l three had worked together to obtain a public free library for thla country place, and It waa only strictly tn Pn wun ice Tamny endeavor mat ic aaogn-ter should dma of transfarmtnc Green Acre Inn from a mere physical center into a center of stHritual blessing.

Know ing that grief fertilises the heart, oo earn beliera that the deatb ot Mr.i if ..41 Jos' and onatlicr i0,) -e atowed awij4 In the holJ -irf tL. Orient Jiner. Oroya. loUi.boi:n4 'forondon'T oatM by -way of the Cap-, of to! Uop nnt the other by wav of th Suea canal. Tlie to.

London via Cape Horn frirril i u.vl rnra out of t.ils prt. The total exportation thia year will e.oproxintrtl.-ly 1. raees. Thla biisOif-U. The Ur.ilm market price now la J3.SI a and 'o- the aeavon will average 3.

Ths cot of "refrirrHtion" and rij'p ment fixim h-re to ia S4 rents a cer.o. or hitahel. Tola mrani aomethlnp over tZ a biahl to the srrower. Th Ami'rl''an appli grower whn eeiw his rruH rott'nc or th- probablv would vlliiri to hmr, ra t)i Tas-manittn jfioa--r h3. a m.trk-t at toao prices for riore applea thnn he can Riipply.

Hut It d'K-a aat take lonK to ad wtir the Tesmnniun h.i a market whil tne apple itoes tetfgnK. nd It la for the mm reason that New Zee land has a mutton and butter market In London ltf.iWO milt-s away'fhat clamora for more. mutton and butter than she can upp'J'. Regulated by the Government Tit reason la Gavernmrnt regulation Farmer' In Chicago in the autumn of 1893 matured hla daughter's plana for this transformation and for the establishment of "The Oreen Acr Conferences." The World Congress of "ISM had In the expansive language of Charles C. Bonney, the president of the Congress Aualllary, declared bf that great series of congresses th purpose to "to revkfi th progre already achieved In tha world, to etudy th living problem now awaiting aolution and to auggeat the means of farther progreaa." Mis Farmer clearly saw that to attain thla object, th work must be localised In the centers of action the world over.

"Not having control of any great center of the world a activitTe. she wisely undertook to utilize the means he had and to continue th work of tha parliament by localising It at Oreen Acre Inn and In ita Immediate environment. The announcement of thia work waa mad on July 22. by Mrs. Amelia Thorpe (the mother of Mrs, Ole Bulll.

who perceived by intuition th work that waa coming to Miss Farmer and at tha celebration of the lattar'a birthday declared it. Mrs. Thorpe was a woman of wide knowledge of the world and deep experience of life. She had rare spiritual and was a generous abettor of Miss Farmr'a plana. Juat one year later, aa July Tl.

th first conference waa opened. Mrs. Ole Bull making the address of welcome. Class of Speakers and Their Topics. The program of that first summer 13M indicates tho breadth of sympathy and of intellectual interest which has from the beginning- characterised Oreen Acre.

Distinguished clergynurn of all sects, but particularly of th English Episcopal and' the Unitarian. Jewish Rabbis. Hindu Swammls. Armenian exiles, famous ex ponents of Kant and Hegel, Buddhist priests, artists. musicians, all were called on to contribute from their re spective riches.

The programs of the first six years show that what very incorrectly, but almost universally haa been railed The New waa daring that period the dominating Influence at Green The naaees of Horatio Dresser, Ralph Waldo Trim and Henry Wood appear frequently and tha penroal ot tho rvisTlrjv accoonta of the meetings show that there waa aa earnest effort to bring to bear oa dafly life tba hope-fulnesa. th faith, and tha expectancy of good which characterises The) Near Trioas-tat-- Tbe sabjecta ehow that neither tho director of the conferenc. nor tho lecturers were afraid of their own enthusiasms. Among- these dating- subjects one. notes: ia THE WtY apples re packed or the siilpier of great national product -which national wealth service miftl tie unobstructed in his "perabnal rights." Down here he is s-coadary th owntry'a market reputation ia first.

1 no 1 hsiiio rrnTTiif. uoi in irui. what New Zealand doea in mutton and butter and other export It Improves ues. men 11 en on a local speoked or permit a caaa ntry unless It I wrapped and Jl SPEAKERS AT GREEN ACRE IN 1904 I S----. -i' 'I I yi i imtJjfetiUMUL-t i i an i.Mi.i.

i nil r. in. i i I rvAm Trr ta The Swarat Firekananda of In M. H. Guieslan, of Armexiia.

and Edward -Divinity of Nature." "The Onenesa of Nature and Spirit," "The Christ Ideal in Hh.Akerism." -Thooaht aa a Creator of National and Tndtvidaal Life. KeUtion of Cbtsses to Social Regeneration. tTouraea on soctoloary. economics and physical artencei have aJwaya cob-stttutd a part of theae auxnmer feasta. In the aecoad aeasoa.

the considera tion of the do trine of evolution wa errirueius. That Tar Herbert fpfc bimeelf wroia at paper lor Grwi rre proterte. property cased' and than a tain ml with the governmect'a offb-tal atamp. etattnc grade, kind and date. Tha government wttnee all thlei dona, and it then aec tha tit ta properly packed way tn the cooling room a ot th ocean liners.

It haa Ita ent In Land. to sea that it arrives in good condition. Reautt of Government Cgra. And the Welt, ta lUondea wa open the square bo that hold a buahel of apple. There la 'a pretty paper coree-ing then to be laid bark, revealing row of apple, every, one wrapped paper Hie ea-ne aa good, orange mm -en th markM.

And every apple when perfect. Just aa though It wa wat cat In a mold. Do ta America applea reach market In that eondltlon" Not even in the little Taaraanlan town la a man permitted to eel I applea of all ilea, alt kinds, apecked and i blemished cooped up and dumped Into a barrel. They have a different Vtea about tha apple down here. And tt pave beth the gov ernment and the rower, traouah.

per ha pa. tha local consumer tnual pay more. Ail wormy and otherwise defective apples mutt be deatroyedi they can not be mad tip aa pure food: product." worme. de fect and all. into aweet elder and Jains and butter.

What tho Taamania haa the same peat that th American apple, grower hve, tt treats them differently. The grower apray. three, or four time aj keep their trees trimmed back ao they never beom larger than th orange tree tn California, and they also keep their or chard remarkably! clean aa clean as th orange grove. Thrre are 25, acres of orcharda now and oliout acrea a year are being addled. The exportation In dustry ts only fifteen year old.

Th coua try. la also exporting peara uecsfully now. It also grow paachea but they are peach Tasmania girt who are ported to Sydney and Jlelbourne barmaids. The. 'peachieet peachea" that coa men to drink In the Auatralian felt lea come fnrm Taamania flne, crea tures who would took well eten drawing beer, at a German' picnic.

Tasmania haa only lWeOii people, and only M.KlO mllea of area, beinar anly two- thirds the area of Indiana-- with only two-third the copulation of Ind anapolia. Still, the people own their own railroads and they revel tnj a "state debt" up to their ears, but are hsp.y,.lJnd ntonopo-ly. wiped out In New Zealand; atlll Te'gn here, and. a a aimoet half uf tha country la still in 'native bush, and ihet are many aquare that have never, felt the prcaaure of a.man'a floot at least not a-while Tasmania up to lv. was a separate pnth roinny.

but It then, bccaiutr one Of thf mate of the new commonwealth of Auatralia. Tho Tacmanian Aborigine. The visitor. to -Tasmania can have an expcr'icnci" that la novel he lean on the Jsj of the n4ilve race -of. 4ha land.

VKrva-ia arsinf f'yvf In a.l.s cajejii the National Museum. There Is ly heh-tOn leflt. was a ina frim tliat fhel little tto-iy of about four til If se war as cleuq aa her hones are nice and hlny 'to-dav." ah waa well worthy -of residence' In'-fha pbe to.rti rVh T. manlatij ab.irlglne a a clean ort of pr- aon, moving every day ao as not to hav the Utr -or. aehca la his camp; mmle waa uncut hair for men, shaven' head for women.

Hoth wore at ren heads for women. Both wore at a a riftkfm land also occaalona a str'p of ful around calye of .1 time their leg. They m-f-med to gef along very -wen wun een inoujn 'jne winiers were. cold.t Then" cam hvthlte ni-n-ivith hia gun and hla moileety. Between tlie gun a'ld the blanket and auuie and the twrtnaae-ti elh -r.

there raa only one feft tn the eevjentla jsh Tru at about the ngei of eevnty years bi tt.S. nnd icr hones, iweil artcu Isteil and at ami in atate loiay lien I hut rnce had dtnapoeared ttn "palepso'fT fellvwls" that TasniRnhin aborlgiuea wer probably the world a o'lly of tha people of-the atone age. hut the dlaiiovery cam too late. Th folk who had, mixed up with them were not of th caliber to give the world a very good, to aay nothing of reliable, record of the Inner fhaiu. terla-t Ira of thi extra primitive! people, or i iw)i, their traditional accoint of ihow, black a the are of- suola.

they got marooned on thi isolated iaUnd. Their principal record left ia that they did not. worry a race rroro wnicn 111 may om reaaone.T mat ha.ld heads and gray hairs ware probably not known In tha daya when slabs of granite were legal tender." It si. 5 MotAerhaart," Everett Hale, 1. p.

on "Social Evolution and Social Duty Evolution, aa appiiod to isduairy. to morale and to religion, waa treated under more than a aoore lof till by half that number or disting-utsned lecturer from aa many countries. Tba next aa aon. ltX. was markied by opninc in con nexion with the Oreen Aero conferences Th Jtonsalvst hoot of Comparattv 01 Act i.

Henr The Bvoiturm of Acre" will form the loxA jkJT artJtia itrtier. I POPULAR IN THE NORTH BEFORE1 THE CIVIL WAR Adopted War. Song of Jth South After It Had Bn Sung In Nw Orlan-Emmtt tha Author Oth Popular A dispatch from announcing th death of tV lit 8.. Hay, an old new. paper roan.1 say I "olooet.Hays ha always claimed au- thorahlp of th original word of 'PltK and that he.

waa responsible for th stt rahgament of tha tnaatc Hta varaloa of 'Dixie was written at the outbreak of the civil war. but th 'words wer considered eeJttlou that the writer was arrewted an compelled ta chacr them." Colonel Hay waa a bright reporter, wrote some clever verses and sorrt. ha did not write -Its may hav written some vreraes tn that tune, but ti original aong, both Teraea and mneic. fj- moua as the war song, of th fowh, tM written by Daniel D. Fanmett.

Mt, Ver- non. a "one noted negro mmnr-i and one. writer. He waa aJao the author t.f Old Dan Tucker," "Jordan a a liar 1-ltond to lTI 'Way, Bovs," and other popular minstrel songs. i Wrots "Dlale" In Bom of good old Ohio family, Emmett learned the printer's trade, but hia We of music ted him become a mlmtrel st the trery beginning of that amusement, lie organised th "Vlrglnta Mlnatrel," one of the earliest traveling shows of that kind', In tb rly He also played-with Bryant minstrel, another early organ- txatlon.

and rompoaed nerro pisjitttton ''walk fti-ourUs" for tt.em.f llxie' was written, words snd music, tn The author, "who plsved tha Tto-l'n, comjioaed the tune first on thst In-- at-omnt and then wrote the wor(laTha latter, like all ngro minstrel sinja, sra nonerpklral and ths of the words PI la and Iixieland the i horns gave the nam to the soiik. it was first euna in a prhlsr performance In New York In Sep. tm'n IK-TS the eventn after It was Fmmett amte -altogether hanv -a siantaa each. followf by the 31,1 Prt I alsh aa la Huoravr IS rxste'e-land-we'll elir ntnd, to' live aa die la I)il Aaejr. awsv.

away itnsa Souilv in D'sla Away. awav awav oti Ho.itlt in pixu Emmett a essentially Northern man and hd aa- 1J liwl -UiU would ever adopted by the Sooth or becoina a war sou. The melody taught th popu-' lar ear and from the music halls the song reached the people. Jt Amused Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln first heard It at minstrel' ajsow in Chicago dlirlria 11) po.

Iltlcal campa'gn of ISM asd was much 'rtisd The aorig was first puh-liahad la Tork in 1M. under the title, "I Wish I. waa In Dixie l.and." Th tltt pg of a copy of th. song, In th Library Of Contrree reads: Willi I wa In'Dlxle' I.rfrtd Writ-ten and conipose einresnly liryant' luiiistrel by ac oord to Act of Con areas A. 1.

Wh by Firth. Pond New York." Ti Bona had become Dotmlar all over 'the North before' the war begun and waa I whirled sung nn.l played on the piano. us ponuiruy in tne roiitn a rrom rendition nt.a theatrical performance In New Orleans jti jhe spring of )S6). it was a variety -performance, with a touava' march in tha: laat art. A an additional attiactloti Miss Husan Detilrt.

a popular actress of the led th souaves on tha stase Dixie. It took the house; hy storm, adopted by th people, arranged for military nulrkstep and at-, once became the war aoug of the Houth. 4 lt.tho Union Army. Emmett served In the li1on rmy dur- ing the civil war aa a flfer and drummer, After fh war he made a tour of th Koutti with -th At Q. rield mm- Strel and received many putrllfl ovations ss the author of Dixie.

At Wilmington, was given a reception at th home of Senator At Nash-" vlll General Oordon. who wa 'deliver- Ing public lecture, asked him to or-cupy a -box a a guast of honor and Introduced htnv to the audience as the -r gitthor of Dixie smtd tremendous cheers. Iri spits of his profession Htnnieit ws 1 man of rimple habits and exemplary life and waa highly respi-cled hy all who knew him. Hla last pi.ll' appearanc la described in lha following exfract from an article In th Knox rounty (Ohlol itepiibili-an, of July I. Two year ago at a local performam Mr.

Emmett made hla last appearance he-fore the-footlights for tha Klks. lie wa to sing hia own version ef The hall was crowded and when walked on tha stage ha received an ovstlou. the audience This mark of esteem wa too much for the. old minstrel tnd th tear coursed down hi cheeks, Psthstlc Spsctsele, Tha orehaatra played the and played It again, but Vncl Dsn wm alt unmindful of sltustlon. and stood with tssrsf streaming down hi fc.

It was a pathetic spactacl. Finally a tenor caught and hummed th refrain, and then I nele Dea picked vp th vera and tang tt." Emmett died June 21. 1X4. and wss buried st Mt. Vernon Many parodies of "Dixi" wer wrlftsru and awveral person hav claimed 4 the- author of -th original aonr.

but Emi mett's authorship of th orirlnal la tied beyond any- doubt whatever. After nis retirement from the stag a re'vea weekly beneflfa tn cash from the Artors Fund, of New Tork. and also had awn Income from th Bale of autograph coptea of "Dlgia." RAM. GOAT AND BULL i MIX IN GETJERAL FIGHT Each, Employs th Msthods Common to Ita Kind, with Honors Evsn aa Ruls. ISoaetal Tba IndianapoUj Newa) July 37-Chrles Ffjlts.

-Hying; ia ths edg of Huntington county, own an Angora goU a ram and a three-year-old bull, And keps them panned tn hi bam lot. As a ths Htutts family and their neighbors derive moch amusement from seeing- th hro snlmals tn battl. Tb goat is "saay." and has sons fancy twists of the neck along with great allltjvHot tha gift of hla two companion. Th ram haa-th usual low but powrful Methods common to Its kind, including sn IncllnaUon to go way back and then start on a run, when cir-ciimstaocas demand It, The bull la a well-built animal, with a ne as strong as ran well mada. ti, however, by not bavins; noma.

Tn bcill a dis-posit loo. almost time la amiable, but th three ajilmale "mix up" in good tyi Quit frauantly. Hornetimaa ah threa get into th game, and abundant opportunity ta shown in wbjcti to study tha methods employed by the thre representative Bgcitera. Tt.inga fairly crack when they coma tog-other, sometime one conmg eut ahead and om-rlme another th -better of the argument. The hull not long ago lifted oo of Stuits'a best borss over tha fence, clearing even the tarbed wire.

.1 -v i 1-1 1 ST. I i.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

About The Indianapolis News Archive

Pages Available:
1,324,294
Years Available:
1869-1999