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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

A copy of the New Albany Gazette of
Jan. IL, 1912. belonging to one of the Jour-
nails subscribers. contains a letter from
Indianapolis showing that legislatures
were as prone to indulge in horse play
then now; also that the subject Of
finances was ever present with them. Some
joking member had offered relief bill"
proposing, among other things, an issue Of
s5000,0O0 treasury notes based upon the
Brooklyn soap factory, the Morris canal
debt and the Florida alligator swamp prop
erty, ETC., to be loaned to the people Of
Indiana on a credit of five years, ito aid
them in paying their debts Part of the
day was spent in speaking to this meas
ure more or less facetiously. In the local
columns of the paper the editor apollo
gizes for having paid little attention to
certain lecturers, 1.-The multiplicity of duties
belonging to our station" he says. rem
dering it impossible for us to notice them
as they deserved; we, therefore. preferring,
rather than infiict injustice in this man.
ner, to pass them over in silence" The
fact is noted that four or five distilleries
in a Pennsylvania county have stopped
operations on account of the rapid prog
ress of temperance reform, and that the
owner of one has transformed his estab-
lishment into a grist mill In support of
this statement as to temperance progress
is the remarkable item from Washington.
KY, to the effect that mot single drunk
ard is left in the place" curious echo
from old time is paragraph stating that
Fanny Ellsler had brought a libel suit
against Park Benjamin for $4,000. What
naughty things had Benjamin said about
the famous dancer?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
FOOtnOtes.

Men who suddenly begin acting foolish
are really only just getting found out.
The active enjoy life; and, incidentally,
they prevent the inactive from enjoying it.
When you take cough syrup. don't think
of the ipecac; fix your mind on the loaf
sugar.
1t is more creditable to be fooled occa-
sionally than to go through life suspecting
everybody.
A belligerent is man who can't get into
a row without wanting everybody else to
get into it, too.
Resignation is praised as virtue; but it
is really mans compelled acceptance of
things as they are.
When we have learned to be obstinate
only when other people want us to be, We
have learned how to live.
Fashionable society is an unhappy aggre-
CATION of beings who are afraid to eat ap-
Piles without peeling them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

writer says Rushin is the only man of let
tiers in England at all comparable TO Toll
stoi. Like the Russian, he is teacher
and preacher first. and a literary artist
afterwards" This is probably fair esti-
mate. His ideas, even in art, are by no
means generally accepted and his social
views are regarded as visionary; neverthe-
less, no one can read his works without
broadening of the mental horizon. He
causes his readers to think. His ideas may
not be approved, but he suggests other
ideas, and this suggestiveness of style is
to be regarded as one of his greatest mer-
its. 1t is probable that his books are not
as widely read as formerly, and it is likely
that his death will renew the interest IN
them. Personally. he did not attract men
to him greatly, having marked peculiar
tiles not unlike those of Carlyle, but he
served his fellow-creatures well, notwith-
standing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

points and prosecuted concurrently and in
tunnel. The undertaking of the work is
the result of many years discussion of the
rapid-transit problem. travel on all sur
face lines having grown beyond their ca
pacity. That the opening of an under
ground railroad will greatly relieve the
surface lines, at least temporarily, there
can be no doubt, but there are many who
do not think it will furnish a permanent
solution of the problem. The contractor
himself, who has lived most of his life in
in railroad building, is of this opinion. He
says:
Now that the contract has been awarded,
/ don't mind saying that In my judgment,
while the building of the tunnel will liz
prove the traffic of all other lines, as well
as get an immense share of ii itself. II will
not diminish by one the number OF hang
ers-on-to-straps. In other words, II VIII
not solve the rapid-transit problem in this
city. We shall always have the strap
hanger with us, just as surely as we have
the poor. The conformation of the city
and it's immensely rapid growth render IL
practically sure that every new facility
must become inadequate almost as soon as
ii is supplied.
The contractor is regarded as Napoleon
among his class, and the fact that he has
the work in charge is deemed a sure guar
anty of it's completion within the shortest
possible time. When completed It will be
to visiting strangers as distinctly one Of
the sights of New York" as the under
ground railway of London has long been in
that city
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

A great many proverbs glibly quoted
would be much more useful to humanity IL
amplified or revised. For instance, the old
one, take no thought for the morrow"
etc., is habitually misconstrued. The mean
ing of it is, "Have such a hustle on you
looking after your interests to-day that you
have no time to think about tomorrow"
The glib quotationists go on and refer to
the passage, Consider the lilies of the field
how they CROMWELL, how do they grow?
BY taking in all the sunshine and dew and
rain that come their way every day. No
one ever knew lily of the field to clay
off, day or to miss anything in any way
of an opportunity for self-improvement that
came within reach. "They toll not, neither
do they SPIN OF course they don't. If
they did, they wouldn't be lilies, and that's
what they were made for. There is lesson
of individuality in it, too, as well of in
dustry-of being as we'll as of uoing. An
other trite saying that causes many to be
shiftless is, "All things come to him who
waits" Yes, but no waiter you ever saw
at crowded railroad restaurant just be-
fore train time has any more occasion for
getting a move" than the individual who
waits for success. Every moment of wait
ing must be filled with work. 1.-The world
owes every man living is another mis-
leading statement in it's common ac-
ceptance. 1t Is true, but man must trans
form himself into mighty busy collecting
agency before the debt is absolved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

A pang of regret over the death at Lady
smith of War Correspondent George War
rington Stevens will be felt by all who
have followed the career of this brilliant
young Englishman. He first became known
to the American public through his letters
to the London Mail concerning the Bryan
campaign, letters afterward published in
book form under the title, 1.-THE Land OF
the Dollar" Although he was not en-
tirely complimentary to this country and
it's institutions, he was friendly and good
natured on the whole, and the book is
worth reading, as showing the impressions
a foreigner may form of our presidential
campaigns. Next he was in Greece describ-
ing the Turko-Greek war. Then he went
to the Sudan with General Kitchener, and
no more vivid portrayal of a great soldier
and his methods has been written. After
the fall of Omdurman he made a tour
through India, and his observations on
the civil service there and the life lived by
expatriated Britons gives a clearer idea of
conditions than can be gained from many
official reports. On his way to London he
stopped. at Rennes and sent an account of
the Dreyfus trial to his paper. Then, APP
parently, he had a brief interval of rest,
and in literary paper it was announced
that he had gone into seclusion for the pur-
pose Of writing a novel. But probably the
novel was not more than begun, for he was
soon heard of in South Africa. A few let
tiers came from him there, but for weeks
there has been nothing, and his where
abouts was unknown. Now it appears he
Ladysmith. His death from fever was
probably due to the unsanitary conditions
incident to the siege. He is as much a hero
as If he wore soldiers uniform and died
on the battlefield. 1t was a strenuous life,
surely, though a short one, for he was
but thirty years old The world loses a
great story Of the siege of Ladysmith. for
no other correspondent has such vivid
power of description; but without 1t his
name will not be forgotten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
Owing to the infirmities of advancing age

Owing to the infirmities Of advancing age
John Ruskin dropped out of the active in
tellectual life of the century some years
ago; his message had been delivered be-
fore that time, and the world. therefore,
loses nothing by mis- death except the sense
of personal interest that attaches to one
who through mental force has filed a
larger space than belongs 10 the ordinary
man. He was an intellectual power in his
time, that power being directed mainly to
the development of things aesthetic. He
is classed first art critic. and 1T was
TO art that he directed his attention chiefly,
but. great though his influence was in
promoting a growth OF the art spirit. it is
perhaps not his ideas on this subject that
will live the longest. His writings dealing
with social and moral questions. as in
"Fors Clavigera." are likely to be the most
permanent. In commenting on new edi-
ton OF this work lately issued. an English
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

London Echo.
As ingenuity and the mechanical instinct
is widespread in America. IL becomes easy
TO understand how the Americans. ham,
pered by dear labor and great distances.
have succeeded In utilizing their ingenuity
to overcome. them As result. iabor-sav-
ing appliances have reached perfection-
The geographical difficulty OF great dis
lance hN been met by an unrivaled sys-
tenn of inexpensive and efficient railways
Cheapness OF construction has been at
tanned by the adoption OF boyle rolling
stock. by the absence of stringent regula-
tions as to signals. stations, fencing. etc.
and by the cheapness of land and the
simplicity OF the legislation for its COM
pulsory purchase. The result Il that goods
ear he carried I'm many cases at one-sixth
of a penny per ton-mile. which IL very
much lower than the usual rate IN Eng
land
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

The law of New York makes the adop-
ton OF safe voting machines certain. since
II provides that no machine can be used
that IS not sanctioned by the Legislature,
and that no member shall present bill
legalizing a machine who does not pre-
sent the certificate OF three experts APP
pointed by the Governor to examine all
machines offered them. stating that the
machine presented is constructed that
II will do the work. This act was passed
I'm 1857 The first machine was tested in
April. 1888. in a local election. At the
general election in 1885. seventy-three ma
chimes were used IN Buffalo and two in
Utica The experiment was so satisfac-
tory that 225 machines were used In No.
vember. 1850. OF which los were at Buffalo.
seventy-three In Rochester and twenty-six
In Utica Buffalo contains 60 COO voters. vet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

every machine worked satisfactorily and
the last return was complete in seventy
three minutes after the closing of the polls
Eighteen adding machines were used for
the tabulation of the results. In Rochester
the returns from all the voting places were
at headquarters thirty-nine minutes after
the closing of the polls. 1t can be added
that every statement OF the result of the
use Of voting machines in New York is
an argument in favor of their adoption
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

A Chicago paper announces that a great
smallpox epidemic is feared in Indiana,
based on the statements of DR.. Hurry, the
paper adding that considerable excitement
Is manifest all over the State, and compe-
tent authorities believe that we are to pass
ever known IL the history Of the State"
AS more than thousand cases of the dis
ease. whatever it is, have been reported
here and there. and not a single death or
a really serious illness is cited. the predic-
ton of ''the most disastrous epidemic ever
known In Indiana may be regarded as the
vagary of an exaggerated Imagination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
There would be more happy homes in thi:
world II fewer people had the idea that

There would be more happy homes in this
world If fewer people had the idea that a
number of the years of adult existence are
given us only for the purpose of getting
ready to live and amassing sufficient of this
worlds goods TO live comfortably "some
time" Each year of our lives was given
us to live. and not to get ready to live, ex-
cept in so far that active employment and
the extraction of as much enjoyment as
possible out Of each days life is the best
preparation for happiness In the future.
The man who spends the best years of his
life without home life and the best enjoy
ment man can have. simply TO get ready
to live." Is apt to find out. when he amasses
enough of this worlds goods to live with in
luxury, that he'i is out of practice and has
utterly forgotten how to live.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
In the Early Stages.

Whats plutocrat?"
"A plutocrat is a man who hasn't been
rich long enough to quit Dragging about it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

The New York Sun informs two new
Presbyterian preachers who have been
called to that city that they must preach
no theoretical sentimentalism. no scientific
criticism. but straight. old-fashioned. I'M
diluted Westminster Calvinism. which, that
paper says. is greatly needed in New York.
The Sun further declares that religion and
science are Numerically and irreconcilably
opposed" The Sun is making things very
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

The bank clearings continue to Increase
outside of New York. but in that city they
have fallen off because of the decline in
stock speculation, which is a vocation out
side OF the business which gives employ
ment and increases real values
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORk-Astor House.
CHTCAGO-Pamer House, p. o. News Co. III
Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and
CINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. l54 Vine
street
IOUISVILLE-C. 7. Deering, northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co.. 25s Fourth avenue.
ST. LouIs-Union News Company. Urson Depot
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and WIZARDS Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

II Congress desires to extend the limit of
the annual income beyond which soldiers
widow cannot be pensioned, why does 1t not
act upon the advice of the President and
pass a bill to that effect? Not even Con-
gress has right to finT fault with others
for the existence of an evil which 1t can
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
A Necessary Monstrosity.

Nephew-Aunt Minerva, do you believe in
the new woman?
Aunt Minerva-Indeed. 1 do. You can't
regulate some men at all unless you scare
em to death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

Senator Hale's declaration that the Brit
fish war against the Beers is ''the most fell
blow at human liberty that has been struck
In the century is more rhetorical than
true. There is no British colony that does
not enjoy more liberty and better govern
ment than the so-called Transvaal repub-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

Even those who are not sympathizers
with the Beers will admit that Senator
Hale was in the right and represented the
sentiment of all the American people when
he declared that Mr.. Chamberlain had no
right to declare that the American people
are in full sympathy with any movement
which will extend the power OF the Eng
ush-speaking people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Preliminary Diet.

/ want to be an angel, and-lest there be
some mistake-I eat. at every chance / get,
fair Nancy's angel cake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
OF Good Spirits.

The eccentric ways of weather are fact
we can't gainsay.
Those days which make want to work
also make us want to play.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
A sIander Set Right.

Solomon had one thousand wives, hadn't
hep
lone thousand? No. indeed; only three
hundred
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
Two Reasons.

Why do men sing? All, well-a-day-
Must jongleurs give their art away?
They sing to hide the joy they feel.
Or tell the grief they'd fain conceal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

for bad debts. Possibly they might find a
market for secondhand tombstones. but
the inscriptions would detract from their
value.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

A secret decree of the dowager Empress
of China declares that the European pow
ers look on the empire with "tiger-like
voracity." She has an Oriental style.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

So long as there is s4OO. 200, COO of gold in
the treasury, the greenbacks will not be
used an endless chain because, when re-
demption is certain, people prefer green
backs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

Miss Helen Gould has added another TO
her claims on public esteem by giving $780,
o6o toward building new home for Amer
lean sailors in Brooklyn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

"Wanted-A wife" Thus read the Eden
Beacon
In its first issue. chroniclers have said.
And Eve. on taking up the fresh edition.
Was first to make "a truce with Adams
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

Dun & Co.'S statement that business is 40
per cent better than it was a year ago is
not a campaign lie. but statement Of cold
fact
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
A current paragraph states that monu

A current paragraph states that monu-
ment to the memory of Father Ryan. 1.-The
poet-priest and author of The Bvouac of
the Dead" is proposed by the Virginia
Daughters of the Confederacy. and that
substantial sum has already been raised
for the purpose. Inasmuch as IL was not
Father Ryan. but Theodore O'Hara who
wrote 1.-THE Bivouac of the Dead" 1t looks
as If the Virginia Daughters had more
patriotic zeal than literary knowledge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

The monument dealers Of Chicago want
q law enabling them to seize tombstones
New-York tribune., 1900-08-23
CHINESE COMMANDERS SLAIN.

SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY EMPRESSs
oRDERs-EMPERoR MAY BE IN PEKING.
Washington, Aug. 22-The Japanese Lega-
tion has received a telegram dated August 2l
from the Foreign Office at Toxic. giving the
following dispatch, received yesterday from the
Japanese Acting Consul General at Shanghai
A dispatch received here from Chinese
official at Pno-Ting-Fu says that, by the
Empress Downger's orders, Hsui YunS VI, Lt
shan and Lien Yuen were executed ON the
nth, and Yung Lu. who was 10 have shared
the same fate les now I'm a Jail OF the Judicial
Departmenti and that the Emperor and the
EMPRESS Dowaser left Pei<tng on August 13,
escorted by TunR Fin shiang troops, for Wu-
Tnf-shan, by way of Chu-Chow and pse-
Chine-Kwan. Kang We, it is further stated,
bns been appointed COmmander-in-Chief of
the wu-Wet army, while Princes Tunn and
Chwang and Tsong Chi. Kang Yi and Hsut
Tung have been ordered to remain at Pc
king.
Another telegram dated the 10th, has been
received here from PnO-Ting-Fu, to the ef-
feet TINT though the Empress DOwnger has
left Picking the Emperor has decided to
main behind.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-23
MR.. PECKs DECORATION.
he HOLDS 1T PENDING ADvIcEs PROM WASHING
ToN-MANY APPLICATIONS.

Paris Aug 22-RegardIng the accusation that
he violated the Constitution in accepting the deco
ration of Grand officer OF the Legion of Honor
rendered him in behalf of the French nation. Ferdi
uand w Peek the Commissi0ner-General of the
United States at the Paris Exposition, said to-day:
was especially careful not to make a formal
acceptance of the same when presented 70 me by
M Dslaunay Bellevile CDirector-Geueral of. the
behalf of President LOubet. l stated
to him that I had not examined the laws OF the
ly appreeiating the honor. could not make for
NAL acceptance at the present, time.
Mr.. Peck has received the decoration. possession
of which he still holds pending advices from
Washington.
The Paris edition OF The New-York Times" says
over ninety applications for the decoration OF the
Legion of Honor have been made by the Ameri-
can Commission, which is twice many made
by any other foreign Commission list fur
nished to the French authorities their invita-
tion for each foreign Commissioner to recommend
such members of his staff as he deemed worthy Of
the cross. Mr. Peck's list includes Mrs. Potter
Palmer, Mrs Daniel Manning and Michael H De
Young, proprietor of The San Francisco Chron-
icle,' from the National Commissioners: the di-
rectors of the various United States sections and
II cir assistants and of the important Ameri-
can exhibitors. The applications for Mrs. Palmer
and Mrs. Manning were refused. THE Times
says;
Either it is a measure OF precaution, in view of
the Jealous uproar which il would create among
honor. perhaps Il is owing certain social ri
valries
New-York tribune., 1900-08-23
KEEPING WATCH on ANARCHISTS.

Chief Hazen. of the United States Secret Ser
vice. asked yesterday if there was any truth
in a published cable dispatch from Rome which
said that the Italian Government, through an
agreement with the Government in Washington.
was sending thirty police agents 70 this country
70 watch the Italian colonies here for Anarchists
officially, but would not be surprised II the report
were founded on fact. When asked regarding the
two Italians, supposed 10 be Anarchists. who are
detained on Ellis Island by the Immigration au-
thorities. Chief Hazen said there nothing
new in their cases about which he was At A5
eTty 10 speak. Assistant Commissioner Of Innli
grafton, Mr.. McSWeeney, said thar the alleged
Anarchists had remained Ellis Island al day'
ana that no word had been received from wash
ington regarding them. Captain Howard said tnat
ne had no official news that Italian Secret service
special Agents were their way the United
states 70 take action in the case. Consul General
Brancht OF Italy also said that he knew R0thns
ABOUT t1e sailing OF Secret Ssrvics agells-