The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-25
Tho Chief of Newspaper "Fakes.


ing of foreign dispatches by the New York
World. an exposure of which has been
made by the New York Sun. Remote coun-
try weeklies have been facetiously charged
with having so-oalled correspondence from
fashionable watering places written in
their own Offices. and papers 80 near at
hand the Indianapolis Sentinel have
been more than suspected of having their
Washington Bureaus" situated in the
editors private sanctums. but even the
authors of these petty frauds on the COM
munity have something to base their fash
ion letters and their w Arlington news"
on. They draw on the material furnished
by other and more enterprising papers and
upon their own knowledge Of tho
subjects in hand The Now York World
had no basis but the vsguest surmise az to
the opinions of Bismarck and Sch,aparelli,
but this did not prevent it from publishing
what purported to be interviews with
those gentlemen By the Worlds special
correspondents. When challenged by the
Sun to produce proof of their genuineness
it presented some cable receipts which the
Sun declares to have been given for DIS
patches that were first cahled by the World
to Its London correspondent. after being
printed, and then returned. The Sun
further investigated the matter by send-
ing agents to Schiaparelli, who declared
the stuff rubbish. and said he had never
heard of the World, and to tho editor Of a
Hamburg paper who was said to
have introduced the World corre-
spondent to Bismarck. The Hamburg
IL. <lA
heard of the World. and that the use
of his name was fraudulent What the
World will do now to Offset the effect of
this exposure is not known. and, after all,
it makes little difference. except in the dis
credit such disgraceful proceedings throw
upon journalism in general. In itself the
World has long been discredited by the
reputable and discriminating part of the
community. and though it is at present the
official organ of the Democracy in New
York, it is regarded with suspicion and
distrust by the better element Of that
party. The career of such newspapers
must inevitably be short-lived, and unless
it's course is speedily changed few years
hence the World will have dropped out OF
sight.
THE modern youth, even he who 10 fed
upon the most orthodox Sunday-school
doctrine. is not able to accord the ancient
Jacob the respect with which the pastors
and spiritual teachers think proper to en-
dow him. the cause for this lack of rever-
ence being the inexcusablo manner in
which he allowed himself to be worked"
by his prospective father-ln-law. The
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years for wife only to have the wrong
girl palmcd off upon him in the end, nor
does no 60 on and serve seven years moro
in order to secure the right ono at last
The anti poly gamy laws. it is true. would
interfere with suoh q proceeding now, but
the modern lover knows way worth two
of Jacobs He marries the right girl
and makes his peace with tho "Old man"
afterwards. Henry Schmidt. of West Fork.
Ind, did n OF follow this course when he
served Mr.. Sousman three years for moth
ing except the promise of getting the eldest
Miss Scotsman for his wife at the end OF
that time, and then saw her 60 off and
marry another man; but Schmidt can hard
" DO called modern. He is oertainly wait
from q past age, or an innocent dropped
into this worldly planet, from some other
sphere, perhaps Mars. No native American.
at least. would be caught that way once. to
say nothing of second time II somebody
doesn't advise Schmidt to elope with the
younger Miss Sousman. for whom he has
promised to serve papa Scotsman farm
hand four years longer, and to do it with
out delay, then the young Americans of
West Fork are not living up to their privl-
leges-their duty. indeed. 1t is q long jump
for Schmidt from Jacobs time into the end
of the nineteenth century, but he can make
it safely with help.
A WRITER who has been studying the his
tory and condition of the Iroquois Indians.
or Six Nations, q remnant of which peoples
still found in New York State, says the name