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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
BOY JEALOUSY AND MURDER.

While crime in general, population con-
sidered, has diminished during the past few
decades, some classes of crimes have I'M
doubtedly increased 1t may be doubted if
murders were committed half a century ago
by boys men who considered themselves
Tilted lovers. Such crimes are so frequent
now that they attract little attention be-
yond the immediate communities in which
they are committed. The murder of a school
girl by mere youth near Marion on Thurs
day is a case in point. The boy or young
man felt that he had been discarded by
school girl because she did not speak to
him and walked with another young man
and girl He was, as the account of the
shocking crime relates frenzied with jeal-
ousy, and in that condition shot and killed
her. Why should such a person be carrying
a deadly weapon? If not to shoot somebody,
for what purpose? Pistol-carrying is not
necessary for eif-defense in the daytime in
any part of the country. 1t is because what
may be called the pistol-carrying habit is
tolerated, and SO long as it is tolerated in
civilized communities shooting without any
reasonable pretext will occur.
1t is impossible to escape the conviction
that a vague sentiment prevails that as
saults with deadly weapons, with the pur-
pose of taking life, are not inexcusable
crimes. The courts furnish sufficient cause
to give the unthinking and those who de-
sire to commit such offenses the impression
that assaults upon life are not the darkest
crimes Recently, in this State judge per-
mitted the defense to introduce testimony
as to the chastity of a murdered wife. caus-
ing the assumption that such an offense
could be a justification for murder. Not
long ago young man who killed a private
Waterman without any provocation got off
with three years in prison. In this county
a man of some prominence in another part
of the State was acquitted for an assault
with intent to commit murder, by which a
distinguished lawyer was wounded. upon
the pretext of emotional insanity caused by
the appearance of a man whom he believed
had wronged him. These are only scatter
ing instances of a very common occurrence
in the courts of this State-so common that
the penalty imposed upon murderers when
they do not escape the law is not sufficient
to demonstrate that the taking of life is the
greatest of crimes Most delorable is the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
TIE INDIANAPoLIs JoURNAIs SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER l89

fact that one who makes inquiry will learn
that the impression prevails that the
chances are in favor of the murderer re-
ceiving an inadequate penalty. Take the
case in question: The chances are that
lawyer will set UP the plea of emotional
insanity, cite instances and acquittals on
that ground, and obtain from tender
hearted jury an Inadequate sentence for
person who deserves the extreme penalty
of the law. The failure of courts to ade-
quately punish murder is the cause of many
of the lynchings which are more infrequent
elsewhere than in the United States
In this connection it might be well to con-
slider the causes which prepare the very
young for immature lovers quarels and
the sensational climax. How far are such
immature people Influenced by reading the
yellow literature. Astounding in love, jeal-
ousy, shooting and other sensations? 1t
would be interesting to know how often the
young man who carries a pistol in his hip
pocket has a penny dreadful in his coat
nOcLpf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
SCIENTIFIC.

Acetylene is now used for lighting Paris
omnibuses, generator and carbide weighing
about thirty pounds
In his latest researches, M. c. Candolle
frds that seeds of Indian corn, oats, fennel
and other plants are still capable of
terminating after us days exposure TO
cold of forty degrees below zero Fair.
The British isles have now 3,2l9 rainfall
observers. with one station in every twen-
tv-one square miles in England, every thir-
ty-six square miles in Wales, seventy-four
SQUARE miles in Scotland and one hundred
and seventy-nine in Ireland
A substance believed to be new element
has been obtained from cast-iron and boil
er dust by Mr.. G. G. Boucher. an English
chemist. and has been submitted to Prof
Wm. Crookes for spectroscopc investiga-
tion Another assayer. Mr.. f. g. Ruddock
has noticed a like material in steel drillings
from the continent
Thin sheets Of wood are glued together in
a factory of Warsowi. Russia, SO that the
grain crosses, an elastic plate which cannot
he twisted out of shape being thus obtained
These plates are used for roofing tiles. They
stand the weather well after being pitched
and can be made hreproof by saturation
with potassium siicate (sOluable glass;.
The roofing weighs twelve pounds square
yard.
Incandescent burners, having mantles
similar to those used for a coaI-gas flame.
are now made for oil and spirit lamps. The
kerosene IS drawn un into small chamber
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
A Story with a Moral.

l saw man in the street yesterday whose
career certainly points a moral, however
little it may adorn q tale. Ten years ago,
or perhaps a little longer ago than that
ne lived in the largest town of a North
western State, which was not yet State
at that time. He was said to belong to an
aristocratic Washington family, and every
thing about him confirmed the statement
He was a charming conveTsationalist he
attended the Presbyterian Church regularly
and he was apparently of exemplary habits
Nowhere else on earth is society quite so
exclusive as in small Western town, and
the young man was received in the most
exclusive set in the town. Then his mother
arrived from Washington to visit him.
Presently there was wedding. The
bridegroom was the man I saw yesterday.
The bride-well the bride had waited on
the table at the hotel where he lived. 1t
was just a common story, and it ended in
marriage only because the man had a femi-
nine Lucius Junius Brutus for mother.
A few of the young mans friends protested
and spoke vaguely of wild oats The
mother looked heart-broken, but she was not
to be moved. After that society in that
Western town saw the man no more, and
before long he left the place. I scarcely
recognized him when | saw him yesterday.
He looked-well he looked like the hus-
band of a servant. He looked like a man
whose daily oatmeal is ground from the
crop of wild oats he sowed years ago. And
1 wonder if that good, that sternly hon
orable mother has ever repented her part
in the story.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

What L believe. that I become.-Phillips
Brooks.
Think that to-day shall never dawn again.
Dante.
Look not upon the newspaper when it is
yelow-Life.
Whist players, like children, should be
seen and not heard.-Pucl5.
A judge may be very taciturn and yet be
a man of many Philadelphia
Record.
A man never appreciates a woman's real
valee till he marries some one else.-New
York Press.
"Hades must be like a big hotel in the
crowded season. ''Yes-without fire es-
capes. Life.
If you wish to be popular never contra
dict people, even when you know you are
right.-Philadelphi Times.
One of the first things damaged by the
frost this season is the silver cause in
Ohio.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
It's a poor recommendation for her bis
cult when widow tells how fond her late
husband was of them-Chcago News.
If man really believed that girl would
grow to look like her mother at the same
age he would move away.-The Bachelor.
Is it proper to address an alderman
"Honorabe?" 1t isn't question of pro-
priety, but of conscience.-Chicago Evening
Post.
We all have in our hearts a secret place
where we keep, free from the contact Of
the world, our sweetest remembrances.-De
Finod.
How many quite old boys feel the COM
pulsory education law when it comes to
lessons in the school of experience.-Phila-
delphia Times.
Every woman believes that when she
meets her husband in heaven he viii fall
down at her feet and thank her for it.
New York Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
A LITTLE SERMON.

Rejoice and be glad" is the exhortation
of the psalmist of the apostles, of the
Great Teacher himself - the earnest adj
low in the path of righteousness Serve
the Lord with gladness!' cries the inspired
singer IF We loved me We would rejoice"
said the Master in farewell. The religion
taught of Christ meant joy and gladness
or it means naught, yet how little do its
followers show this sign of faith. Looking
at them who would guess that their hearts
held the secret of life everlasting? Who
dream that they rest their souls in calm
confidence upon Rock of Ages? They pro-
fess belief that their faces too often
deny. Faces that should be beaming are
sad; lips that should smile are shut close.
They send missionaries to carry to the
heather the knowledge of a better world,
and go about with their own heads bowed
down for fear of coming ills, forgetting
that "the morrow shall take thought for
the things of ITSELF forgetting that if they
will but have it so Joy cometh in the
morning" When no real sorrow is theirs
they permit discomfort and melancholy to
OPp1SSS lllSy dllOW themselves "
move in the shadows careless of the in
junction Eat thy bread with joy and drink
wine with merry heart" The heather
poet urges enjoyment of the life that is
because the deluge comes after. The re-
ligion of the Book to which civilization
owes all teaches gladness for to-day, be-
cause a better day cometh. The heather,
perhaps, lives up to his creed, but not the
Christian. The Christian is sad he clings
to life as if it were all; he mourns his
dead as one without hope; the atmosphere
in which he moves is not that of glad
ness; he does not prove his faith by his
good cheer He is not uplifting in his daily
conversation, but depressing. He might
win the world if he really possessed the
faith that he processes. JOY is contagious.
If he "rejoiced evermore'' men would turn
and follow him, that they might know the
source Of his peace. 1t is a Christian age,
but Christians do not rise to their spirit
ual opportunities. When they shall learn
that life is meant to be a time of gladness,
because the God they worship is good,
then shall their souls be, as a watered
garden" and Christianity be synonymous
with low
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
Sight and scent.

d. L. Sharp in October Lippincott.
We associate the buzzards with carrion.
and naturally attribute their marvellous
power of finding food to their sense or
smell; but no bird has much sense of taste;
consequently birds are defective in powers
of scent, and | believe that the buzzards
are among those most deficient. 1t is not
his nose but his eyes that aid him mos IN
discovering food
In winter l have seen them find meat
when frozen and free from scent as readily
as in summer. One day / carried a freshly
killed chicken into the pasture, tied long
string 20 ii, and hid myself near by in a
corn shock A buzzard passing overhead
soon began to circle above me, and L knew
he had seen the chicken. Down he came,
leisurely at first spirally winding as If de-
scending some aerial stair case from the
clouds. till just above the tree tops he be-
gan to swing like a great pendulum through
the air, turning his head from side to side
as he passed over the chicken, watching 10
see if ii moved. He was about to settle
when I pulled the string, and he darted up
in great fright. Again and again l repeated
the experiment.; each time at the least sign
of life the buz2ard hurried off, and alghted
only after being thoroughly assured that
the chicken was quite dead
The buzzards fly high in the air, and
whenever they see one of their fellows cir
cling over particular place they take 1t as
the signal of find" and all hasten TO the
spot from miles around.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
Historic Animals.

F. G. De Fontaine. in October Lippincott's.
Ever since the serpent's entrance into the
garden of Eden, where he became the dis
turbing element birds beasts and reptiles
have played an important part in the
worlds history.
According to the Moslem's creed, certain
. animals besides man are admitted into
heaven. Among these are Balaams ass,
which reproved the disobedient prophet
Solomon'S ant which rebuked the sluggard:
Jonah's whale. the ram of Ismael caught
by the horns and offered in sacrifice IN
stead of Isaac; the dog Kratim of the Seven
Sleepers Of Ephesus the camel of Salek'
the cuckoo of Belkis. the OK of Moses,
and Al-Rorak, that conveyed Mahomet 10
heaven. Sometimes the ass or which our
Savior rode into Jerusalem and the one on
which the Queen of Sheba appeared when
she visited King Solomon are added TO the
list.
These animals We're said 10 be gifted with
the power of speech Balaams ass spoke
Hebrew TO his master on one occasion, the
Al-Borak of the prophet Mahomet spoke
Arabic, and. according to Greek mythology
Arion, the wonderful horse which Hercules
gave TO Adrastos, spoke good Greek. Kan
thos. one of the horses of Achilles. an
nounced to that hero in Greek his approach
ing death. and the black pigeons gave the
responses In the temples OF Ammon ana
D0dona.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
THE POoR GROWING RICH.

report made by a legislative commits
sion of Massachusetts throws some light
on the character of the savings-banks de-
positors in that State. The large amount
of these deposits amounting in 1896 to $780,
269, SCI, has led to the charge in some quar-
tiers that rich men were awaiting them
selves of this means of escaping taxation.
Under the law of Massachusetts savings
bank deposits are taxed one-quarter of /
per cent, or $3.50 oil $1,000 whereas the av-
erage rate of taxation throughout the State
would be about five times as much. This
fact was cited in proof of the charge that
the deposits were largely those of rich
men. The report of the commission re-
ferred to completely refutes the charge.
The report covers the year 1894, the sta
tistics having been obtained in that year
and the intervening time having been de-
voted to analyzing them and preparing the
report. 1t shows that during the year the
number of depositors of $50 or less was
7S2 500 and the amount they deposited $14-
1868; the depositors of $50 and not over
500 were 125,O61 and the amount they de-
posted $40 1S2, 707; the depositors of 800 and
not over 500 were 57,412 and the amount
they deposited $3.50, 265: the depositors of
$500 and not over $500 were 46,051, and the
amount they deposited $l6,212,55 the de-
positors of $500 and not over 1000 were
IA, S14, and the amount they deposited $780,
O7S.727 the depositors of s1O0c or more
were 1868, and the amount they deposited
$11, 331, 1884, total number of depositors dur
ing the year, 10S6,6SS, and total amount
deposited 81, 472, 139. Analysis of the fig
ures viii show that of the total number
of depositors 965. 1856, or SO per cent, were
depositors of $500 or less, and 7s2, $50. or rs
per cent. of the whole number, were de-
positors of $50 or less. The average de-
post of this last class was $3.50 each and
their total was about one-fifth of the
whole amount. The Massachusetts, law for
bids the deposit of more than 1000 by the
same person in any one savings bank, and
those who charged that the banks were be-
ing used by the rich to escape taxation
declared that they used many banks, plac-
ing the maximum deposit in each one. The
commission found a number of cases in
which the same aepositor had $1,000 in diff
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
STAFF OF LIFE AssAILED.
Doctors and others Assert That Brea
is Unhealthy.
Chicago Chronicle.

NulCdSO
And now the doctors and other people who
think for us and tell us what to do and
what not to do have begun an attack on
bread, the one thing which has always been
considered impervi0us to the doctors probe
and the microscopists instruments. In
London the war has been started and the
wise ones are coming out in the magazines
and newspapers declaring that bread far
from being the staff of life, might almost
be considered the staff of death. Il. p.
OConnor is the leader Of the assault, and
arguments in support of his position that
bread is highly injurious and should be
abandoned as a steady diet.
1T is a question. said O'Connor, which
lies at the basis of the health of every peri
son in the community. If the balance of ex-
pert opinion should prove that bread is
as SO many people think, is it not time that
the Nation should be told so authortatively
and that another system of dietary should
be recommended for adoption? To persist
in the use of an unhealthy diet is ethicallv
as great an offense against ourselves as the
absorption of gin by the sot of the West
the East
The contention of those who are opposed
10 the eating OF such large quantities OF
bread is that since ii contains so much
starchy matter it is very difficult of diges-
ton and imposes a great and unnecessary
strain on the digestive apparatus. OConnor
declares that a number of people have come
under his notice who have abstaned from
bread for years and they have retained
their Faculties unimpaired to a ripe old age
The late Sir Isaac Holden is perhaps one OF
the best examples of the theory. He lived
10 be ninety-one years old, and retained
every faculty until the very last. He was
very actlVe IN and out of Parliament and
smoked and drank in moderation All of
his friends attribute his longevity to the
iact that he avoided all foods rich in starch,
including bread. Starch foods are not di-
gested in the stomach, but in the first in
testine. They are thus difficult of digestion
tary articles
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afterwards fulfilled many engagements
Jointly with him, assisting largely in the
construction of a pier at south coast wa
tering place. She has made as much as
$35 in one day, and has chiefly worked near
the mouth of the Thames. Near the Med
way she once brought up So, 0G0 in one day.
Each year my wife Is newer
Than she was the year before;
We differ less in some things,
In some we differ more
detroit Journal.
At midnight on his downy couch
The Turk now dreams through wakeful
hours
OF how he deity sold gold bricks
To the vain and pompous powers.
Philadelphia North American.
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tons. In removing the meteorite from the
bed 1t had made in the earth to the hold of
the ship very strong tackle was used. Four
pieces of seasoned oak eighteen inches
square, fifty feet long and weighing $500
pounds each; six acknowledgement thirty
foot steel rails and five one-hundred-ton
dudgeon hydraulic jacks were used in the
work. A cradle of timbers was built for
the monster, and it was gradually worked
along and lowered into the hold of the
vessel by the method used in sinking cais-
sons. Imagination fails in the effort to
conceive in what furnace of the universe
this enormous mass was welded and what
resistless force drove it through space until
it reached the earth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

ferent banks. but in nearly every case Of
was wage Garner or person of moderate
means. saving money for the purchase of
home or for some special purpose. In
short, the commission reports that the
facts and figures show conclusively that the
savings banks are not being used to any
appreciable extent by the rich. 1t might
be added that they show that SO far as
Massachusetts, is concerned the poor are
not growing poorer but richer. 1t should
be remembered. however, that in order
that the poor may grow richer in Massa-
chusetts or anywhere else one thing is alb
solutely necessary, viz, thrift.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

prevent most people from gazing at the
east in the early dawn that the absence of
hills and other points of vantage is not a
matter for lamentation. But there are gor-
geous sunsets that indianapolis beauty low
ers might these September evenings if
the way was only clear-sunsets whose
golden glory is beyond description and
whose after-glow lasts far into the night.
The prairie and the level country have their
merits of practical sort, but there is per-
haps something in the assertion that dwell
ers upon the mountain tops are in closer
touch with spiritual things because they
can better see the wonders of the earth and
the heavens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

1t seems that the report that London
tailors would open branch establishments
in the United States because of the hostile
duties of the present tariff is not true. "rhe
tariff can make little difference. said the
head of one large tailoring establishment
because there is a sentiment about order
ing ones clothes from London. and we do
not propose to run counter to it." There is
something in that, but the sentiment is
so un-American that it is confined to two
or three cities on the coast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

A recent decision of the Supreme Court of
Wisconsin reversing the action of the lower
court in imposing d penalty upon the editor
Of a newspaper for contempt of court in
commenting on the official acts of a judge,
has caused considerable discussion. The
Supreme Court took the broad ground that
liberty of speech and of the press is more
important than the feelings of any judge
or the dignity of any court, and the de-
cision went far towards doing away with
contempt proceedings entirely. Some
judges and lawyers who are disposed to
stand by the precedents think the Supreme
Court went too far but those who believe
that when court cannot find precedent
for righteous decision it should make one,
fully approve the decision. The whole doc
trine of contempt of court savors of abso-
lutism. 1t is used as means of judicial
revenge oftener than it is to promote the
ends of justice.
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The More Prnhnhle

Wickwire-You saw that story about the
two young fellows who fought a duel for
a girl by running full tilt at each other on
their bicycles?
Mudge-Yes; but I don't think that is the
straight of it. 1t is much more probable
that they bet the girl on which wheel would
best stand the collision
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

The controller of the currency estimates
that about 1 per cent. of the entire amount
OF paper money issued by the government
since 1890 has been lost. The larger part
OF the lost bills are those of small denomi-
nations. By this means the government
gains $7,OOOCO0. AS the national banks must
deposit sufficient money to redeem all their
bills the government profits by the losses
rather than the banks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

The fact that a third more business was
done in this country last week than during
the corresponding week of last year, is
cause for general congratulation. Strange
to say there are those who are filled with
rage at this evidence Of prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

The attempt on the life of President Diaz,
of Mexico, has been followed by two trag
edies, with possibly more to come. The
iynching of the would-be assassin was not
more sensational than the suicide of the
chief of police who led in the crime. and
from present indications the Inspector who
is now in prison, will be executed if he, too,
does not commit suicide
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

1t is significant that Don Carlos, a pre-
tender to the Spanish throne, with a con-
siderable following, declares that Spain
must abandon Cuba. AS this is an appeal
to the anti-war sentiment in Spain, it is
evident that sentiment must be strong.