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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
THE PARDoNyNG POWER.

The New York State Bar Association is
about to take UP the subject of the more
careful exercise of the pardoning power. 1t
Legislature with recommendation in favor
of a Board of Pardons, to be composed of
three or four members, whose duties shall
be to examine thoroughly all applications
for pardons and repreves and report on the
same TO the Governor for his action. In so
far as the effect of such a board would be
to divide responsibility it may be doubted If
it would be beneficial. In so important a
matter as the exercise of executive elem
ency it is probably best that the entire re-
sponsiblity should rest with the Governor.
In one respect, however, such board would
be useful, as it could make thorough and
exhaustive examination of all applications
for pardon and thus relieve the Governor
of much labor Perhaps, also, its reports
and recommendations would enable the Gov
ernor to act more Understandings. Some
thing like this seems to have been the ex-
perience in Massachusetts, for the Boston
Transcript says:
Whatever may be said as to the alleged
uselessness of the Executive Council, gem
orally speaking, it cannot successfully be
denied that the functions of the council In
respect of the pardoning power have been
beneficial. Not only has the restriction
which has been placed upon the executive
in this matter of clemency relieved the Gov
erinor of a deal of hard and disagreeable
work, but it has enabled the Governor when
called upon to act, to act Understandings.
When a pardon is asked for the council ex-
amines into the case thoroughly, and when
its advice is given it is likely to be sound.
But, while the Governor cannot grant a
pardon except "by and with the advice of
the Council" the Council has no power to
enforce its advice upon the Governor
against his will.
The Constitution of Indiana vests the par
doning power in the Governor, with pro-
viso that "the General Assembly may, by
law, constitute a council, to be composed
of officers of state without whose advice
and consent the Governor shall not have
power to grant pardons in any case, except
such as may, by law, be left to his sole
power" AS the Legislature has never ex-
ercised its right to create board of par
dons, the pardoning power has remained in
the hands of the Governor without qualifi-
cation or restriction. 1t is not a prerogative
to be desired by any Governor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

and a few years ago the inspection of local
guarantees was placed in it's hands The
suppression Of epidemic diseases, the en-
forcement of interstate quarantine regula-
tions and the collection and dissemination
of mortality statistics and sanitary infor-
nation forms a considerable part Of its
work, and from time to time the Treasury
Department imposes miscellaneous duties
upon the bureau. 1t co-operates with the
revenue marine the hfe-saving service,
steamboat inspection service, immigration
service and other branches of the govern
ment. Its medical corps consists of one
supervising surgeon general, sixteen sur
geons, thirty passed assistant surgeons, tif-
teen assistant surgeons and seventy-six
acting assistant surgeons This is lar
ger faculty than that of any medical col
lege in the country and its members are
all men of approved ability and attain
ments
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Heard in a Boston library: Il don't see
why they call 'Zenda' and the Dolly Dia-
logues' Anthony Hopes Works 1t must
be play to write such stuff as that"
The last addition to the Saracinesca
series, "Corleone," deals with Don Orsino's
adventures in the mountains of Sicily. Mr..
Crawford introduces the Malta as an ele-
ment in the story.
Mark Twain was sick in bed in Vienna at
last accounts. with what he calls tooth
ache in his toe" that is to say. govt. He
is booked to stay a year in Vienna, en-
gagged in writing on an Austrian subject.
Henry Mills Alden, who, though his name
dc es not appear on the title page, is the
editor of Harper's Magazine, has held his
position since 1863 He has written two
books. God in His World" and "A Study
in Death"
Miss Braddon Is one of the authors who
have complained that plots sometimes turn
unruly on their hands, quite refusing TO
be developed in proper sequence. This lady
declares than on more than one occasion
she has found herself unable TO finish q
story. has put 1t away for many months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

A penny in a jar makes great noise.
The Talmud.
Why be troubled about the trouble that
may never happen-Ram's Horn.
Opportunity sooner or later comes to all
who work and wish.-Lord Stanley.
Easily Defned-What is counting danger
Uncle Simon? Amy kind of counting. Chi
cago Record.
us your new clergyman progressive?"
Il suppose so. He attends funerals on his
wheel. Chicago Record.
Fogg calls it bimetallism when a young
lady with god-f1lled teeth speaks in silvery
accents.-Boston Transcript
Mr.. Oldboy-I remember the first fish 1
ever caught. Miss Pert--What was it; an
decentralization Life.
The New Style in Chicago-"Why is Mrs.
Milford in half mourning" Her first hus-
band is dead."-Cleveland Leader.
Observation-Disclosures the matter with the
dog, doctor? Appendicitis" Going to OPP
crater mo. He is too valuable. Life.
A woman always carries a pocketbook
when she goes down town, whether there
Is anything in it or not-Atchison Globe.
The equality of the sexes will be firmly
established whenever the newspapers print
a description of the bridegroom's trosseau
Puck.
What horrible phase of our nature makes
US feel disappointed when there is no name
we know in the obituary notices?-Philadel-
phia Times.
The latest slang expression indicating
doubt of a persons sanity is: Jaw, g'on;
you've got bats in yer belfry.' '-Philadei-
phia Record.
The one who will be found in trial cap
able of great acts of love is ever the one
who is doing considerable small ones.-F
w. Robertson.
1t is only during the first year Of married
life that woman tells her husband to be
sure and water the plants while she is
away.-New York Press
We ought not to look back unless it is to
derive some useful lessons from past errors,
ana Tor the purpose of prohting by dear
bought experience.-Washingt
When one discovers that tiny neck scarf
of Russian sable costs SITS it is not hard to
guess why there are so many confirmed
bachelors-Philadelph Times.
Married men who are obliged to get up
in the middle of the night with the baby
should study the value of the bicycle as a
means of indoor travel.-Roxbury Gazette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
A USELESS STUDY.

Rev Edward Everett Hale, the Boston
preacher, philanthropist, educator, writer
and general utility man, has found some
thing new to be taught in the public
schools. This is nothing less than the lam
guage of the North American Indians.
When the Pilgrims first set foot upon New
England soil there were a great many
tribes OF Indians then in existence, with
languages almost as various. Which of
these aboriginal tongues Mr.. Hale would
like children to study is not explained in
the report of his remarks, or whether he
thinks it would be well for them to master
each and all of them, but the reason why
he thinks the study desirable is his dis
covery that the Indian language is the most
finished and precise in the world in its
wealth of expression and power of shade
of meaning. Inasmuch as a language is
the growth of necessity and experience, and
expresses the thoughts of which man is
capable, and as ii is generally conceded
that the Indians field of thought is limited
by his narrow environment and lack of
education, whatever his natural intelli-
gence may be, it is not easy to understand
how the aborigines came by such a wealth
of expression 1t is, indeed, a remarkable
statement, and suggests the possibility that
Mr. Hale has been led by his enthusiastic
nature and his practice of the rule often
to unconsciously exaggerate the literary
merits of the native American speech. And
inasmuch as this speech is practically ex-
tinct the reason for its study is not ap-
parent, even If all that is claimed for it be
true The only excuse for the study of a
dead language is to learn the part it has
in the foundation of current speech The
Indian tongue has given us many geo
graphical names, but its contribution to
the body of the language is of the slight
est and of Importance only to philologists.
What public school children need worse is
a better knowledge of their own language
than the present multiplicity of studies
permits. There is no telling what Boston
will do, but elsewhere it is likely to be some
time before the Indian language becomes
one of the school fads.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

The report of the committee on reform in
the Presbyterian Synod of New Jersey, cen
suring certain Princeton professors for
cause tears IN the Presbyterian corner of
heaven to know that the professors had
given such a measure of sanction to the
use of wine beer and whisky by their stu
dents" 1t is enough to make tears fall in
oil the other corners of heaven to hear a
high ecclesiastical body talking about 1.-The
PRESBYTERIAN cornern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
THE MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE.

A correspondent asks the Journal what
connection there is, if any, between the
National Board of Health and the Marine
Hospital Service. There is none. The Ma
tional Board of Health by that name has
no existence. 1t was created by act of Con-
gress in 1879. but it had an active existence
of only four years, though the law re-
manned upon the statute books until 1893
when it was repealed. The principal func-
lions of the board are now administered by
the Marine Hospital Service, which is near
~ a hundred years old. In the course of
time the duties of this branch of the public
service have become numerous and re-
sponsible, and while it is not called a de-
partment of public health it is so in fact.
The surgeon general of the United States
is the head OF the bureau. 1t manages hos
pitfalls and relief stations for the care of
disabled and sick seamen of the merchant
marine of the United States, including sail
ors on the lakes and steamboatmen on the
rivers. More than $1,000 seamen are treated
annually. The bureau has under its inn
mediate control eleven national quarantine
stations, equipped with modern appliances.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

Recent dispatches from Madrid have init
mated that the new Spanish Ministry will
make a demand on the United States for
greater vigilance and energy in preventing
the departure of flibustering expeditions in
aid of the Cuban insurgents. If such a de-
mands is made it should receive a, very curt
answer. The Spanish government should
be told that the United States has done its
full duty in the matter referred to; that it
has exercised great vigilance and been to
great trouble and expense in suppressing
thbustering. Spain should be reminded of
the great extent of our coast, and should
be told that, instead of rejecting upon the
United States for not having done its duty
in the matter of suppressing filibustering,
she ought to be grateful to this govern
ment for its energetic efforts in that re-
gard Any demand from Spain of the kind
intimated should be very summarily dis
posed Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

The Constitution of Indiana fixes the
term of the Governor at four years and
makes him ineligible for reelection in any
period of eight years The plain intent of
this is to prevent Governor from using
the influence, power or patronage of his
Office to secure his denomination and re-
election. There is as much reason for such
a provision in the city charter as there is
IN the state Constituton-more in fact,
since mayor would be more apt to make
such a use of his office than a Governor
would be. The recent municipal campaign
furnished a notable instance of a mayor
using the office to the utmost possible ex-
tent to secure first his denomination and
then his reelection. 1t is a question
whether IN the interests of good govern
ment the city charter should not be
amended so as to make the mayor inei-
glble for reelection. Recent history should
not be allowed TO repeat itself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
Government Crop Reports.


The secretary of agriculture proposes to
consolidate the Weather Bureau with the
crop bureau and operate them next year I'M
conjunction. He also proposes to reorganizel
the crop reporting bureau and to increase
it's efficiency. He finds that the bureau is
encountered with q mass of deadwood,
which he proposes to get rid OF and have
on the list of crop reporters throughout the
country only those who do good work.
This has been the high purpose of every
secretary of agriculture. but each and every
one of them has failed because of the fact
that only very few out OF the 5000 or
40 600 correspondents receive any pay for
their services except a few packages OF
seeds and copies of the reports of the der
partment. Mr. Wilson's predecessor, J.
Morton. after three years effort to improve
the crop-reporting system, gave il up with
the despairing statement that hn could get
only garden seed service out of men for
garden seed pay, and that as things were
running then he did not see how he could
do better than had been done. However.
Mr. Wilson is convinced that he can sue
coed where others have failed At any rate.
he is going to try. and IL he finds that
he cannot form correct estimates of crops
from data obtainable under the existing
system he will ask Congress for cash and
authority to construct different one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

years have beep starting up. Pig iron is
now selling at from 25 to so cents a ton
higher than in September. and all finished
iron is higher One year ago there were
about 100 furnaces in operation throughout
the country. producing about 10000 tons of
pig iron a week now there are over $50
furnaces in full blast, and their product is
over 100000 tons a week AS goes iron, so
goes the rest of the business world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24


The question of what we shall do with
our girls has been decisively answered by
Mr. Burhart. of ST. Louis, who has told
is three daughters that they must be mar
ried by the end OF the year or leave the
house. Mr.. Burhart has noticed the ten
dency of the young women of the period
either to daily with their suitors and post
pone marriage or to declare themselves in
dependent of end Indifferent to it, and has
resolved to work a reform far as his
own family is concerned. It does not ap-
pear that he is led to this action by de-
sire to benefit society, but rather by con-
sideraticn of his own pocket, which he
finds inconveniently taxed by the support
of three grown girls. 1t is also probable
that he is not the unfeeling parent his
stern decree might indicate. He is proba-
bly, basng his order on the theory that
the normal woman is not going to turn her.
self out in the cold when the taking of a
husband would prevent it, and also on the
belief that his daughters are sufficiently at
tractive to find husbands readily when they
once set about it. 1t is not all parents who
will take such heroic measures, but when
they discuss this question of what they
shall do with their daughters they will pri-
vately if not openly, agree with Mr. Bur-
hart that the best thing they can do is to
marry, and will perhaps regret that they
cannot settle the matter by an order to
that effect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

Among the many indications of reviving
prosperity and better times there is none
more sure than the Improvement in the
iron trade. Those who are familiar with
the situation in the great iron manufacture
ing region of Pennsylvania say great re-
yival is going on. During the last three
years Of stagnant markets the furnaces
that We're running accumulated immense
stocks OF pig iron. It is said that fully 150
600 tons were piled UP awaiting better
times. During the last three months these
big plies Of pig iron have been rapidly dis
appearing. and furnaces closed for dwo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

lar army, who is charged with having cruel
ly treated a private, Is attracting consider
able attention. Perhaps it was proper to
order a court of inquiry. but such charges
should always be taken with many grains
of allowance. Regular army discipline is
not altogether school of polite conduct
and many of the privates are not models of
department Inhuman treatment by officers
should not be held to rose-water methods
in dealing with insubordinate soldiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

natter how important or sensational. We
could print that the next day without any
bother"
Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on.
Twas not given for thee alone
Pass 1t on.
Let 1T travel down the years.
Let 1t wipe out another's tears,
Till in heaven the deed appears
Pass 1t on.
Sunshine.
They may talk about talk
With a silvery ring,
But silence is sometimes
An excellent thing.
OF course there's no statute
To limit the breath.
And he that so chooses
May talk you to deathI
But If you have nothing
To tell or to teach
There's no use abusing
The good gift of speech.
Alice Curry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

cur to them that a band might be secured
for such occasions without he preliminary
of initiation into society with grips and
countersigns. 1t has remained for an Illi-
nois woman to remember that a band can
be hired by plain citizen as well as one
adorned with a cabalistic button. Mrs.
Buchen, of Decatur, wanted band at her
funeral, and did not allow the facts that
women are not often buried to music, and
that she was not a member of a society, to
stand in the way. Before her time of de-
parture came she made Mr.. Buchen promise
that he would engage band to escort her
to the cemetery. She died the other day,
and the husband fulfilled his promise. The
band accompanied the procession to the
grave and played lively airs all the way
there and funeral marches on its return.
This reversal of the usual procedure was
also in accordance with the wishes of the
deceased, she having said that she wanted
nothing but gayety while she was above
earth. Being a woman who was mindful
of appearances to the last she preferred
to have the music convey the impression
that she was going to joyous place, and
that the husband returned home in the
depths of woe rather than the contrary.
Mr.. Buchen might secretly have been ready
to keep time to waltzes and jigs on his
way home, but he could hardly look other
wise than miserable with dirge sounding
in his ears. The innovation having been
made, it is likely that the example of this
enterprisng but now departed woman will
be frequently followed, and that brass band
stock will go up. Meanwhile, let us hope
that the gay music to which Mrs. Buchen
was buried was but prelude to even more
joyous paeans now sounding in her ears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

Mr.. A. Bird Gardiner, one of the candi-
dates on the Tammany ticket, is charged
with using harsh and profane language in
conducting his campaign. He denies the
charge Indignantly, and says it is damned
outrageous" the way the papers misquote
him. Mr.. Gardiner Is evidently a bird.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
Enrlv Americnn Histnrv.

"A door" said Aaron Burr, lis not door
when it is ajar"
There are many points to that joke"
was the comment of Alexander Hamilton,
as he slipped his port, because it is chest
nut, Burr
The duaI followed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

The saloon keepers who made assessments
and collections for the Taggart campaign
fund before the election said: This cam
paign will cost Tom Taggart $4,000" OF
course they did not know, but if it cost
him 20 per cent. of that sum it is no wonder
his smile has overcast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

An Illinois jury has just given the largest
verdict on record in a damage suit for
The defendant was a wealthy widower
seventy-one years old, and the verdict may
have been aggravated by the fact that he
was old enough to know better.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

Walker-How did you get that black eye?
Potter-Fellow on bicycle ran into me.
Really"
Eyes. / don't suppose I would have got
it, though, If I had not called him names
and dared him to come back
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

The managers of the Debs scheme for a
Social Democracy have closed a deal for
$4,000 acres of land in Tennessee, which
they propose to colonize. The money for
the purchase of the land was furnished by
a Louisville trust company, which depends
prise and muscle to carry the scheme
through. The chances are largely against
ttS slfpoass
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

William Jennings Bryan is going to I'M
load job lot of shelf-worn speeches in
Ohio. In order to get rid of them he prob
ably cut rates on them. The farmers would
not have them, so the Democratic man
ayers bought them for the miners
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHIcA Go-PaImer HOUSE and p o. News Co..
217 Dearborn street.
CINCINNA1I-J. r. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine
street.
LOuIsVILLE-C: T. Deering, northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 25e Fourth avenue.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House, Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and u street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

The American Air-power Company has
been Incorporated in New York with a cap
ital of $7,0OO.0O0, for the purpose of introduce
ing compressed air as a motive power on
city and suburban railroad lines. Among
the incorporators are William C. Whitney,
Ex-Governor Flower and other capitalists
whose names are a guaranty of good faith
and business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

Competent judges in Colorado say the
State will ship out this year 10000 carloads
Of potatoes for which the farmers will re-
ceive about $1,5OOOOO and the middlemen
about the same amount. The crop is the
largest In the history OF the State, and the
quality excellent. There are other treas
ures in Colorado besides gold and silver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24

If Spain thinks the United States has not
been active in preventing filibustering ex-
petitions she might be given taste of
what would happen if the government
Z ceased to be active
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
Mrs. Buchen,s Innoyation.

People who do not belong to secret So
cieties have been heard TO say that the
chief benefit to be derived from such mem
bership is that of having a brass band at
ones funeral. II has meyer seemed to oc-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


'Tt must take great nerve to charge a
battery
ooh, not SO much said the eX-umpire.
1--WE put fines on the pitcher and catcher
many a time"
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CHANGE OF LOCATION

The Journal Offices have been re-
moved to the new building on the
southwest segment of Monument
Place.