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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

that crime should be punished and
that the criminal should be made to
suffer on account of his crime. More
over, il demands that society shall be
protected against the murderer, and
how can it be better protected than by
Kidding itself of him entirely7 Who
can tell how many criminals are de-
tered from committing murder by the
fear of death7 That the death penalty
has great terrors for them is shown by
the fact that nearly all of those who are
condemned to suffer it either repent or
death, and die in abject fear. 1t is the
uncertainty of the law and the hope
that they may escape punishment that
makes men willing to risk the death
penalty. If they were certain it would
be inflicted comparatively few would
dare to face it.
As for the reformation of murderers,
which the opponents of capital punish
ment claim should be the main object,
there is no reason to believe it would
be accomplished by life imprisonment.
No criminal ever was imprisoned for
life without expecting. sooner or later,
to be pardoned, and in very many cases
the expectation is realized. The cases
of confirmed criminals being reformed
by confinement in the penitentiary are
very rare. And the right of society to
imprison man for life is quite as ques-
tionable as its right to hang him.
The claim that capital punishment in
creases crime by making people famil-
lar with it is pure assumption. 1t is
theory, and nothing more. 1t would be
equally true to say that oil punishment
of crime increases rather than dimin-
ishes it. How do the humanitarians
know but Imprisonment for life in
creases crime? Perhaps we had better
abolish all punishment for crime. That
seems to be the logical conclusion of the
humanitarian movement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

ASSISTANT CASHIER REDwINE. of At
lanta. whose large defalcation and
flight are the ruling sensation in that
city, was a stunning man of fashion. A
local paper says he was the acknowl-
edged Ward McAllister of the town and
greatly sought after at all social func-
tions. He spent money lavishly, it be-
ing no unusual thing for him to spend
$50 for bouquet and 500 on supper.
Bank officials who squander money in
that fashion ought always to be re-
garded with suspicion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
THE WORLD rs SMALL.

Modern improvements have made the
world very small. The boy who has
never been out of sight of the bound
aries of his fathers farm pictures the
region beyond that narrow horizon rs
a great unknown of which he may
some day learn little, and but little.
Some day he goes out into that nm
known and it speedily becomes familiar
to him. One week he may be in New
York. the next in London or San Fran
cisco. Far Cathay" is no longer far
nor strange, and wherever he sets his
foot, be it Pekin or Petersburg, Cairo or
Kansas City, there he is sure to en-
counter fellow-creatures whom he has
met at other ends of the world. Even
the one who stays at home becomes
cosmopolitan in q sense, for the world
is brought to him. Of literature
there is flood; the traveller
describes all he sees. and by word-pic-
ture and brush landscape. and art, and
humanity, of whatever land, or class, or
color, are made familiar to the recluse.
Even visitors of widely separate nation
alities come to his door; what was once
foreign and strange is so no longer. AS
the horizon widens his mind expands
according to inevitable law-Or is the
process a reverse one, the mental ex-
pansion coming frst?-and the outlook
that once seemed limitless is as readily
cOmprehended as the bOyhood's circle
of dozen miles. The world is but q
village, after all; the telegraph and the
press bring each man into communion
with his kind as closely as if all dwelt in
the same town. Yesterday he had never
heard of HOke Smith, of Atlanta; of Oh
ney, of Boston, or Thurber, of Detroit;
to-day he is as we'll acquainted with
these gentlemen as if they had moved
into the next block. Yesterday he was
not aware that John w. Mackay was
this side of Paris; now Is as we'll in
formed of his mishap In San Francisco
as IL the millionaire were his nearest
neighbor. He knows what Gladstone
is doing. and the French Assem-
bly,, and if the news reports from
other countries are scant it is because
nothing happens worth mentioning.
Without going from home. too. the
America IAN. at least, among the worlds
inhabitants, has a chance to experiment
with all religions. Buddhism has been
preached to him for a considerable time.
and now disciples of Islam are to come
to convert him. The Columbian exhi-
bition will bring together the choicest
products of all the countries of the earth,
but though everybody will go and ex-
anime the treasures, there is reason to
believe that the fair. great as it is, will
offer but few surprises to the men and
women who make use of their OppOr-
tunlties and keep up with the times.
But, as if this earth were not enough
for prying mortal while he remains upon
it. scientific investigation Is now d.
rected to things of the next world. Sur
prising psychical developments and
disclosures are already reported, and
there is no telling what is to come; but
whatever the possibilities and whatever
the grasp of the proud human intellect,
it may be devoutly hoped that so
many spiritual secrets will not be dis
covered as to make saints 6laSe before
they get to paradise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
LET THE CONTRACT BE OBSERVED.

A NOV ,ment has been started in Chi
So. 500, 900 appropriated by Congress to
the worlds fair, thus rem owing the legal
obligation to close the fair on Sundays,
which was made condition of the OPP
preparation. This suggestion is made
as the last and only means of escaping
the Sunday closing law, which Congress
has refused to repeal. 1t is not o wise
suggestion. The Journal is decidedly
in favor of Sunday opening of the fair,
and is of the opinion that Congress has
committed a grievous error in requiring
it to be closed On that day, but the man.
ayers having accepted the condition
and Congress having refused to recall
it. we think the most honorable and
diRnified thing for the managers to do
is to go on. enforce the law in good faith
and make the best of it. The patronage
of the government is worth good deal
to the fair, as the managers may find
before they get through with it. As the
case stands the government is. in
sense, committed to the fair by this ap-
preparation, but if the money should be
returned the government might then
wash its hands Of the whole business.
Besides, a very large number of persons
are in favor of Sunday closing, and if
the managers should make this kind of
an issue with the government and in
sist on keeping the fair open on Sum-
days they might lose as much patronage
in one direction as they would gain in
another. There is still bare POSSIBLE
ity that an extra session of Congress
may reverse the decision of this one and
provide for Sunday opening, but unless
that is done the managers should stand
by their agreement with Congress and
accept the consequences. They ac-
cepted the appropriation with the Sun
day-closing condition I'm the hope of
getting the latter repealed. Having
failed in that, they should stand by their
contract. and try and make the best of
q bad bargain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GEORGE ELIOT wrote for eli ght years with
the same pen, and W hen she lost it bew allied
her IN sfortune as almost too hard TO bear.
Mrs. DEWITT TALMAGE makes her hus-
bands pastoral and social engagements,
and has charge of bIg interests in his lectur-
ing business.
MRS. EVERETT, the wife Of a master dray-
man of New Orleans. Is said TO be one Of
the best veterinary surgeons IN that city.
She began by treating her husbands horses
during an infiuenZa epidemic.
Mrs. WHITNEY's will. leaving ss.5cO.0Oo
to her husband, was written upon n single
sheet of paper. If cloud of lawyers had
been allow ed TO draw IL up 1t would have
been as bulky and verbose as an anniver-
saTy newspaper
Mgs. J. ELLEN FOSTER. the political
lecturer, Is handsome woman In the early
autumn of life; has smooth. bright brown
hair a fair complexion and gray eyes. She
is clever as lecturer and irresistible as q
oonversatlonaiist
TIE Vatican will profit largely by the
creation of the new cardinals. Zach re-
cipient of red hat will pay $500 TO the
Pope's household in fees. This il q large
sum in proportion TO cardinals salary
which is only 81 800 year.
SPECIAL provision is made for the spirit
ual welfare OF the Hebrew soldiers IN the
English army. Although there are al pres.
emit but nineteen of these. the Minister of
War recently appointed n rabbi, Francis
Coin. TO conduct services for them.
A NEW biography has been written of the
Queen of England. and the statement in a
previous biography that being aroused az
8 O'Clock In the morning % receive the noti-
tcaiion that she had sneceeded 20 the
throne she hurried into the room wearing
a wrapper and shawl with her naked fees
In slippers" is holly controverted- ls Was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

THE New, York Sun cordially ap-
proves of Mr.. Cleveland's first and last
for the Treasury and Colonel Herbert
for the Navy Department. but reserves
Judgment on the rest. 1t says:
Between Carlisle and Herbert the un-
known quantity comes in to an extent that
is without precedent, but highly interest
ing. Some of the appointments are de-
termined by purely personal cOnsidera-
tions; who knows that they may not re-
suit we'll for the public interestsf At least
two which are not personal are expert
mental: there may be hen on. for aught
We know, go hush! and wait. Two more
are somewhat sensational. one being ap-
psrently In the line of meiodrama and the
other of high old farce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

THE prompt denial of the accuracy OF
the report that Professor Briggs and
Professor Smith would set up a new
church with q new creed indicates that
they appreciate the situation. Both
were tried for heresy, but Professor
Briggs, whose heresy seems to have
been more pronounced. was acquitted.
while Professor Smith was found guilty.
Nevertheless both were tried by Prcsby-
terian tribunals. When one tribunal
declares thing heresy that another
tribunal of the same church declares not
to be heresy the event proves that
heresy is 80 indefinite quality that no
one need form a new church because he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

In the Cleveland inaugural parade
will be found the Governors of fourteen
States with their "staff officers" in
gorgeous array. There will also be a
great display of military force, both
regular army and State militia. This is
customary at neutrality-suspicious.
but it does not seem at all in keeping
with the occasion or with republican
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
Philosophettes.

No man reaches the age or forty without hav-
ing become right smart of an actor.
When a woman asserts that she is old enough
to take care of herself. II means that she is too
old for any man TO take care Of
IL is great shock to the small boy to find out
that his father does not know where the island of
Mbwkpa Is.
He is a very unsophisticated young man who
would undertake to talk love to a woman on bar
gain day.
Anent the threatened invasion OF hoop skirts.
the New York Sun wants to know who is threat
ening to invade them. The ladies, 10 be sure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

party over sixty days, know about duty
and it's calf Let him and his brethren
not complain, but rather consider well the
way that lies before the self-sacrificing
band. Cleveland calls apd they must
go. but they would gladly turn away
did not the country's salvation depend
on them. Without their aid he might
let 60 his hold, and then where would
we all be "at7" Let us think of that
and ieer no more.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

trusts do not engage in interstate COM
merce. which is the only kind that Con-
Rress has constitutional power to regu-
late. Trusts sell their products at the
place of production, and when the same
become articles of interstate commerce
they have ceased to be owned or con-
trolled by trust. For this reason it is
believed that trusts are beyond the
reach Of Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

On Thursday last the book publishers OF
Boston entertained several hundred guests
at an authors and publishers luncheon,
the entertainment being in honor of the
National Education Association, then In
session at Boston. There were many well.
known educators and authors there. but
DE-. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the guest
of honor and the hero of the occasion. On
being introduced from the platform he
spoke briefly and humoro usly, referring to
his experience for thirty-fve years Ss a
professor In Harvard College. and made
some very appropriate illusions to educa-
tional progress. In conclusion. he read the
following lines, which he assured his hear.
ers were imprOmptu, as they did not exist
in word or shape before 1880 o'clock
this morning" The Doctor said: IF can
read them l will. l was hardly able to get
shook so, and was like demeDted person,
but hope l shall like them my self."
Teacher of teachers, yours the task,
Noblest that noble minds can ask.
High up Ion1a's marmorous mount,
To watch, to guard the sacred fount
That feeds the stream below;
To guide the hurryinR flood that fills
thousand silvery ripping rills
In ever widening flow.
Rich Is the harvest from the fields
That bounteous Nature kindly Yields;
But fairer grOwths enrich the soil
Ploughed deep by thought and wearied toll
In learning's broad domain.
And where the leaves, the flowers the fruits,
Without your watering at the roots
To I'LL each branching plant
Welcome. The authors firmest friends.
Your voice the surest good deed lends.
OF you the growing mind demands
The patient care tho guiding hands,
Through all the mists of morn.
You. knowing well the futures need,
Your president wisdom sOws the seed
To fire the years unborn.
Every teacher in the land can take this
as O tribute so the profession, and certain
" one of the finest ever written.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

From the fulsome praise of Mr.. Cleve-
lands new private secretary, Thurber,
one would suppose that he was the heir
of all the ages and that nobody had ever
existed before quite so competent to fill
the post as the unapproachable Thurber
We presume Mr.. Thurber is human and
walks on the ground.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

IF the question of approDriatlng $780,
600 for the National Encampment of the
G. A. r. could be left to vote of the
people of this city it would carry by an
overwhelming minority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

A MAJORITY of the Marion county
members of the General Assembly have
not shown any zeal in representing the
interests of this city, and some of them
have stood in with the corporations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

Is it possible that Judge Gresham
begged an interview with President Har-
rison's Secretary of State in order to
the department after he had just made
a practical declaration that he. Judge
Gresham, is the only man in the country
qualified for the position whose services
Mr.. Cleveland could command?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

cannot agree with the old. Just now
there is a great deal of Independence of
opinion in the Catholic Church which
would have been held tn be heresy few
years ago. If Leo XIII could have
twenty years more heresy in his church
would be rs difficult to define as it is in
the great Protestant churches
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

QUEEN LILIUOKALINA has no right to
talk about "my throne" and "my peo-
ple." King Kalakaua, whom she sue
ceeded, was elected by the people and
perpetuated his authority by force. The
late dynasty had its origin in usurpa-
fi0n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

THE McHugh law extending the terms
of municipal officers should be attacked
in the courts. 1t overrides the will of
the people. overthrows local self gov
eminent and virtually appoints to
municipal Offices scores of men whose
1t is wrong in principle. vicious in tend
ency, and should not be allowed to
ataud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

THE Legislature ought to know that
the pending gas bill is designed to take
many thousands of dollars out of the
pockets of men and women earning
small incomes and put them in the
pockets of a few prosperous persons
who would be monopolists
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

The Democrat who opposed appro-'
priations for State educational insti-
tutions on the ground that the Repub-
licans would raise q howl about ex-
travagance in the next campaign, should
strive to calm his small mind. Re-
publicans will never denounce liberal
appropriations for educational institu-
tions which are open to all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

THE resident of indianapolis who shall
undertake to oppose the voting of $780,
600 to make the National Encampment
a great success will be as unwise as q
man who should declare q boycott on
his own business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

1T is stated that members Of the Judi
ciary committee of the national House
of Representatives who have investi-
gated the question are satisfied that
Congress cannot pass law that will
reach trusts organized and operating in
the various States. The reason is that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

No Such Luck.

Mr.. Figg-Have you any cranberries to go with
this turkey,
Mrs. Figg-Certainly. overlooked your sauce.
Tommy-She don't never overlook none or
mine, does she, pawf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

WILL the Democratic administration
begin its war on "the robber tariff" and
"sham reciprocity" early on the morn
ing of March 81 We shall see.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
The Absent Friend.

One she-Don't you think that Nellie Second
season is fading littlel
Tother She-I really cannot have you abusing
the absent In such fashion. think she is won-
derfully well preserved. She is at least ten years
older than people think she is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

1T will De an outrage if the city is not
given power to compel street railroad
companies to bear their share of the
cost of street improvements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

IT is not necessary for the State legisla
lures and city councils TO bother them.
selves about the hoop skirt. The MATES
may be left to the newspapers. Look how
successfully the press has combated the big
theater hat for the past six or seven years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

GLANDS off; our own" is the card of
warning which the corporation lobby
can attach to the majority party in the
present Legislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

become water-soaked and sink. but some
of them travel long distances. One. the
Wyer q. Sargent. first reported in March.
1891. was last sighted as late as December.
1892. and Is known TO have kept afost. .
constant menace TO ships, for 6l5 days. our
ing which time she has probably travelled
$500 miles. She has been sighted no less
than thirty-four times. Another curious
derelict Is the w. L. White. which has
travelled 5.elO miles in 80 days and has beea
sighted forty-fve times These and Other
derelicts are as we'll known TO mariners by
name and reputation as comets are to as
tronomers. and cautious sailors are always
on the lookout for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
SIXTEEN PAGES

THE coming season is likely to be
made memorable by public and private
improvements in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

THE hoy phenomenon's' Bible-resding
does not seem to be of practical benefit TO
the persons most intimately associated
with him. Still. it is possible that without
his influence the asssult-snd- battery aflsiI
in which his father and manager engaged
might have been something more serious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

THE chief photographer of the United
States navy is preparing a chart. which is
TO be issued annually, called the wreck
chart. Ite object is TO show the location
along the entire Atlantic coast OF wrecked
vessels. derelicts and drifts of derelicts.
The wrecks OF steamers and sailing vessels
are indicated by different colored sym bqls.
In the case of dereliets only the positions
of those are marked which have been en-
countered but once. A derelict by the
way, Is o vessel abandoned Mt sea. and left
to float and drift at the mercy OF winds and
waves. Such objects become very danger
Gus TO navigation. The chart now being
prepared will show q total Of 90 aerelicts
In the western Atlantic ocean during the
last five years. OF average OF sixteen for
each month. Most of these derelicrs re.
main atioat only few months. when shoy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
The Way OF the World.

The whole world loves the modest man,
Whether he be great or be small:
But yields up its pfunks. In great big chunks.
To the man with a surplus OF gall.
The whole world loves the quiet man,
Who's silent all day as the owls;
But It's needless to mention that it gives its at
tention
To the fellow who gets up and bowls.
The whole world loves the peaceful man,
Who sees no occasion to bicker;
But the full right of way, you'll permit me to say,
IL gives TO the strenuous kicker.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
,n fha Eiiifnr of fhe Indianapolis Lourual.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
]. Where was Walter Besant borni p Where
is his present homel 3. How is the name Be-
SAINT pronounced j. w. b.
/. At Portsmouth, England. in 1888 2.
London. 3. Be.sant, with accent on the
last az liable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26
His Pet.

The fire was raging. It is way fires have. An
excited woman rushed up to n dignified citizen
who was calmly watching the efforts OF the
amateur brigade into which the neighbors had
hastily formed themselves. "Why, oh. why dc
you stand there in calmness when lives are ir
dangerl" she screamed, when your neighbors
all is being devouredl oh. you-you coward
Madam, am no coward" replied the dignt
fled man. "I went through the war with great
credit allow me to assure you. But when a man
has devoted twenty-five years-365 days In the
year, not counting leap years-to raising the
finest set of whiskers in the village he certainly
cannot be expected TO risk getting them singed
off"