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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

what II believes 10 be the deterioration in
Mr.. Bret Harte's fiction. The new stories
are readable, IL declares. but IN incisive-
ness, audacity and condensation they suf-
Ter from comparison with the earlier works
OF the same pen" The critic adds that
Mr.. Bret Harte, who began life as a
miner and express messenger, now lives in
Tyburnia and solaces his leisure
with golf"
According to the Critic. ''there seems
to be money for the authors even in the
six-penny editions OF novels which are
being published in London. The six-penny
edition OF Lady Audley's Secret is said 10
have brought Miss Braddon s.. 900 in adj
vance royalties A well-known London
publisher has offered Mr.. Hall Game a
royalty OF a penny halfpenny on six
penny editions OF four OF his books. This Is
better than the cheap editions OF their
books pay American authors. On an edI-
tail for 80 cents copy the author makes
5000. American royalties are evidently
less than those in England
A gossipy New York letter says: Miss
Elizabeth Jordan has resigned as a men,
Der OF the Worlds editorial stan. Miss
Jordan VIII henceforth preside over the edi-
torial destinies OF Harper's Bazaar. Miss
Jordan was Sunday editor OF the World
when Colonel Harvey managed Mr.. Pu-
litzer's paper, and when he took charge OF
the Harpers' publications he at once prof
fered TO her the editorial post she will
henceforth fill. Two other women who for
merly belonged to Mr. Pulitzer's staff have
exchanged daily newspaper work for that
less trying occupation OF magazine journal
ism. Miss Anne O'Hagan is now connected
I'm an editorial capacity with Munseys. and
Miss Grace NJ. Gould is now a member OF
the Ledger staff. 1t is safe TO say that
the Nellie Bly, type OF women journalists
is no longer in favor. and the women toll
ing in the Park-row sanctums nowadays
are assigned to very tame reportorial err
rands in point of adventure. but expected
to do fully as good work as their male col
leagues
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

In Modern Sense Not to ProlonE Life,
but to Improve Health.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
There is an excusable pathos of selfish
ness in the eagerness with which men catch
at the reported discovery of an elixir OF
life Professor Metchnikoff. OF Paris. has
heightened the hopes of some who are fond
of discussing this question. just as DIR.
Brown-Sequard did few years ago. But
there is a note OF sanity heard now that
was absent then. There is nothing I'M
profitable in talk OF this kind. IL the intense
desire to have life prolonged Is modified
by a more rational appreciation OF why IL
should he. A drooling. feeble existence
from seventy TO hundred Is not the sort
of prolonged life people are looking for
nowadays. They want the vigor OF middle
age kept up so that they can work and en-
toy themselves while breath lasts. They
are not looking for fairy tales from science.
but they reason that more vigorous hunt
should be made for the special microbes.
If there are any. that attack the power
OF seif-repafr in the human machine The
hope that science may discover new ways
of conserving vitality Is perfectly legiu-
mate. and nobody is hurt by calling them
elixirs. One thoroughly sound view OF the
question Is that instead or exaggerating
the possible addition OF many years 10 the
human span science 81 only striving 20
make the physical superstructure worthy
OF the fOunQatlOn. IHe way Things are
at present it seems IL the edifice OF lon
gevity were one and a half stories high.
built upon a foundation just that deep. IL
a man grows till he is thirty-and some
scientists say beyond that-he has made a
poor use OF all that preparation by dying
at seventy. Psychologists themselves being
witnesses. the years OF preparation 10 live
ought TO keep Us vigorously running on for
a much longer time before reaching the in
evitable down grade. But. then. IL has al
ways been known that patrons OF the turf
and kennel looked after the health OF their
four-footed friends more scientifically and
successfully thai they could their own.
And there Is DIAL Of blame about Il that
the doctors do not share.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
FOOtnOtes.

Concerning bills. the average man would
pay up faster If other people would pay
him.
No man can ever reason with the man
who begins by saying that he is open to
reason.
When a man gets so he goes to sleep
in church he quits finding fault with the
sermons.
Nearly every club member has secret
belief that she is really the one who pulls
the club along.
An optimist is a person who can be
cheerful even when he knows things could
have been better.
Incompetent men get the easy Jobs be-
cause competent men can wrench hveli-
hood out Of the hard ones.
After a girl Is married It IL long time
before she quits tagging her husband around
the house with a cigar-ash receiver.
We cannot correctly guess other people,
motives; but we have an idea they are
frightfully stupid not to understand ours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
Proclamation of Neutrality.

Whereas, state of war unhappily ex-
two newspapers Of Indianapolis; and.
Whereas, the Indianapolis Journal Is on
terms Of friendship and amity with both
of the prospective belligerents; and
Whereas, geographical and business con-
ditions are such as to necessitate more
or less contact between the Journal and
both of said belligerents; and
Whereas. it is the desire and purpose OF
the Journal to maintain friendly relations
with all its contemporaries, while avoiding
entangling alliances or Irritating contro-
versies with any;
Now. therefore. the Journal sees 1T by
these presents to declare its disposition
and determination, with sincerity and good
faith to adopt and pursue a line Of conduc,
friendly and impartial toward both of the
belligerent journals and to observe strict
neutrality In this behalf. And In the in.
terests Of peace and comfy the journal
further requests it's patrons, subscribers
contributors, readers and friends to alb.
stain from saying doing anything ex.
asperating to either of the said belligerents
or calculated to create new causes of ami.
mostly between the said belligerents OF
between them and other journals.
Done at the city of Indianapolis, the It'll
day of January, A. D., 1900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

Those who are disposed to criticise the
President because he does not listen to the
outside requests that the United States
shall offer TO be mediator between the
Of the fact that mediation in war at the
request OF but one party is an unfriendly
act to the other. Indignation would have
been expressed throughout the North in 1852
II Great Britain had offered TO act as me-
diator between the United States and the
latter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

There are more ways or earning money
in great metropolis than the general
public knows Of. In a suit brought by a
young woman in New York for a large
sum claimed as due for service as a COM
panion to wealthy lady, a witness was
brought in to testify to the value of such
services. This witness explained that she
was very highly connected" being a de-
scendant of the late Alexander Stephens
and also Of Governor Stuyvesant. She said
she conducted social requirments and
intelligence bureau" She gave advice to
society women as to how to manage their
houses. taught them how to entertain, and
how to behave in society; furnished list
of guests for private receptions and func-
tons. etc. She thought $1,000 suitable
salary for a young woman who acted as
companion under the same conditions as
Miss Howe. She knew of one woman who
received $50 a month merely for visiting
certain house once day and ordering
the meals. In English fiction women who
coach the unsophisticated in the ways of
society figure occasionally, but that they
really exist and find such occupation lu-
crative in this country is news to most
people. 1t appears. too. that they set a
high value on their services.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

Hon. John b. Stallo. who died in Rome
known German-Americans in the country.
Coming to the United States in 1899. he
passed most of his adult life in Cincinnati.
where he taught school. studied law and
became Judge of a local court. He was for
many years prominent in Republican poll
tics. though he event or in the Liberal
Republican movement OF 1872. He was a
man OF great learning and force OF char
acfer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

The Inspector Of the National Soldiers
are in excellent condition, clean. modern
and well policed. and that the food is well
cooked and served. but the bills of fare
do not always indicate diet suitable for
feeble old men. The number of veterans in
those homes last year was 1888. This
means that nearly that number of old men
Fho would otherwise be in poorhouses. for
he most part. are maintained in comfort
by the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

A few years ago when the Indiana SOL
diers' monument commissioners were en-
deavorihg TO secure the services of Mr..
Macmonnies as designer CT the groups
Peace" and War one cause OF the fail
ure Of the negotiations was that gentle
mans lofty REFUSAL TO bind himself by any
thing 30 humiliating as q contract to COM
pIste the work within = stipulated time.
Some critics Of the commissioners held that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

The New York Herald makes the inter-
esting announcement that the joint COM
mission of the last Legislature to consider
the subject of taxation will report in favor
Of the abolition of state taxation on real
estate and substitute direct taxation upon
mortgages and upon the capital stock of
trust companies, leaving real estate to be
taxed for local purposes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

pursue the thief. or to give the alarm. but
his sense Of propriety restrained him from
interrupting the solemn proceedings and he
went on with his advice TO the assembled
mourners. leaving the thief to go her way.
1t is reasonable to assume. however. that
the services took on an added solemnity to
inn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

The New York Mail and Express hopes
that the Legislature of that State will not
make May Dewey day, on the ground that
the number of legal holidays in that State
Is as large as business interests can bear
without serious inconvenience. The objec-
ton Is very sensible one With halliday
holidays each week doing the summer, and
six or seven legal holidays in most States
there are enough.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
Chfldfsh Joy.

Scientists say the automobile Is still In
it's infancy"
'.Ah, then that explains why 1t sometimes
makes dash across the street and tries
to climb a tree"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

Some papers are still trying to convince
themselves that this is the twentieth CEN
fury If It is. the Christian era. which be-
gan with the birth of Christ, was year
old when it is born.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

A Hartford Comm fire insurance COM
pany has purchased a house In that city
which. in 1874. was the first in this country
to be insured against fire. Presumably the
house will be used as an object lesson to
show how Insurance insures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

What the Beers do with the hospital
ship which the enthusiastic Irish In Phila-
delphia propose to send them for their
wounded. when they have no seaport? Why
would the Beers send their wounded to
some other country than their own?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

The nineteenth century has had Its short
comings, says an exchange. Undoubtedly
it has. but not enough of them to make 1t a
year short. as the people would have IT who
are counting ninety-nine years to the GEN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

"Some of the older heads are opposed to
the passage OF the Beveridge resolution
ington dispatch. The only older head
mentioned is Senator Pettigrew, the am
bassador of Aguinaldo in the United
States Senate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
An Expanding Desi e..

what is imagination?"
'Tt is an extravagant faculty which
makes a man who gets cup Of coffee
think he ought to have a doughnut'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
Not Afraid of HI. Record.

"Mr. Marmaduke, did your ancestors
leave you any diamond shoebuckles?'
Diamond shoebuckles? Gracious. Miss
Van Snobbs, my ancestors were In luck
when they had shoes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

A Girls Lover.

lie kissed her under the mistletos;
The truest kiss she had.
No sweetheart he-oh, no! oh, no!
Twas just her dear old dad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

A Philadelphia clergyman was put TO a
stern test the other day when. In the middle
OF q funeral service being held in the
church, he saw from his place In the pulpit
q woman In the vsstry making OF with his
overcast His impulse naturally vas to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

In the annual financial review Of the
year In the New York Times. Mr.. James T.
Woodward. a man qualified to Judge.
speaks OF the condition OF trade through
c1oyed by any people in any age, causing
the United States to be the envy Of the
~rory1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

The Anti-imperialist League. of Boston.
has engaged In what locks like very small
business II announces that q first prize
OF 40 and . second prize Of - win b Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
Honors Were Easy.

ma, teacher KEEP me in"
''well. Freddy, I suppose you deserved
it."
eyes. ma, an I KEEP teacher IN; but she
d served 1T. too"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07

Under Mr.. Landis's definition Of mar
rage when the final vote comes to be
taken in the Roberts case the gentleman
from Utah win find himself confronted by
q condition, not a theory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
THE INDIANAPoLis JoURNAl

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YcRk-Astor House.
CEICAGO-Palrner House. p. o. News Co., az
Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and
cINcTNNATI-J. r. HawIey & Co.. 154 Vine
street
IOUISvILLE-C- T Deerfng. northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co., rs Fourth avenue.
ST. LouIs-Union News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON. d. C-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and WIZARDS Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-07
Baltimore American.

Workmen OF God, oh, lose not heart,
But learn what God is likel
And, in the darkest battlefield.
Thou shalt know where TO strike.
Oh blest Is he TO whom Is given
The instinct that can tell
That God is on the field, when He
Is most invisible.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-05-09
How Luck Runs in Alaska.

AT first sight it would seem that the
like good luck might fall to any man,
but the reality runs much the other
way. The man of quick intelligence,
of judgment and decision is not the
man who ordinarily achieves this sud-
den wealth. 1t is the man who is too
stupid to know the risks he is taking,
and it is the reckless man who plunges
wildly and misses no desperate chance
who seems favorite of the god of
chance. Nor do all good luck stories
have pleasant endings. Once after the
pile" is made, accident, disease or
death steps in to prevent its legiti-
mate enjoyment.
One man dropped dead when at the
weighing of the first cleanup he found
himself a rich man. There was some
thing wrong with the heart. He had
the physical strength to make the
fight against bad food and water, to
endure the back-breaking toll of de-
anu WHINING Outb an
strain of uncertainty that went before.
The supreme moment of success was
more than he could stand, and the use
of the gold passed from him with its
requirement.
A certain James Meade lay dcwn
with typhoid fever in an outlying
camp just as he was starting for home
with the accumulatlons of the year,
and he and his bag OF dust entered
Dawson together on litter. 1t took
six men to bring him in--alternating
four to carry and two to rest-and he
paid each man SIS day. Once in
Dawson Meade seemed to grow better
and when his sailing day came he
walked to the boat. He reached the
wharf and fell dead as he was about
to go aboard.-Ainslee's Magazine.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-05-09
Suicide and Drunkenness.

Writing in the Journal of Mental
Science, DR.. w. C. Sullivan contends
that alcoholism is the predominant
cause of attempts at suicide. His sta
tistcs and observations are based up
on English cases. He shows that in
three years the number of suicides
among occupied males from 35 to As
years of age was in a ratio of 100 to a
million, while among those in al
cohclic occupations the percentage
was 1885. The alcoholic figures were
obtained by the proportion of suicides
among publicans, butchers, cabmen,
commercial travellers, hair-dressers.
and musicians, who his observations
led him to believe were almost always
addicted to strong drink. Among the
saloon-keepers there were suicides in
the proportion of 246S to the million
at the age given, while among agricul-
turists, who are less given to drink
than any other class, the proportion
was only 6S.S.
The recent increase of suicides in all
parts of the civilized world has been
accompanied by still larger proper
tion of abcrtive attempts at suicide
DR.. Sullivan says that clinical ex-
perience shows that most of the at
tempts are due to the drunkenness and
the failure is due to the influence OF
cerebral conditions interfering with
the normal power CT co-ordinated ac-
ton. The only agent to produce such
conditions on requisite scale Is alco-
holism. In his opinion a still larger
influence is that chronic intoxicatiOn
by alcohol clinlcally produces general
lied disorders OF the visceral functions
throughout the economy. On this ac-
count there results IAN alteration and
disturbance CT those organic stimuli
which form the groundwork of a
mans personality, those stimuli whose
activity is OF even more consequence
in determining the tone of mans
feeling or of a mans disposition and
character or impulses than that acciv-
ity which follows impressions receiv-
ed from the external world" The de-
pressed emotional tone thereby induc-
ed prepare th0e suicidal impulse which
in typical circumstances issues in ac-
tion when a supelvening increase
Of intoxication has still further lower
ed the level of functions in the en-
feebled brain and has proportionately
increased the influence of organic
stimuli in certain processes. Chic
ago Tribune.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-05-09
Caught Suckers with Artificial
Fly.

To the editor OF the Ohio State Jour
nal.
1t is now the time of year when the
enthusiastic angler rigs up his tackle
and hies himself to some stream for n
little recreation. 1t is also the time
when fish stories are in order, and in
this connection liar can hardly be
believed when he tells the truth
There are, however, incidents where
the truth is stranger than fiction, and
the following is one such strange Incl
dent and is vouched for by a number
of witnesses. A prominent Columbus
citizen, member of the Castalia
Trout club. at Castafia a few days ago
recreating at their clubhouse and Incl
dentally angling for trout, while stroll
ling along the stream discovered in a
deep pool school of large white
suckers. Out of curiosity he made a
cast and permitted his fly to settde
down near the fish. To his astonish-
ment dozen suckers made dash for
the fly. One took 1t and as matter
OF fact he succeed in taking eight
suckers in a very snort time. The fly
used was nondescript, tried by one
of our local anglers. 1t must. however
have had some merit, as II Is the first
instance on record where common
stream suckers have been known to
take the artificial fly. Perhaps by
their association with trout in the
crystal stream OF Castalia they have
become aristocratic and do not pro-
pose to be outdone by their neighbors.
PARK.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-05-09

We viii consider IL eteat favor y
,vbscribe-s,wili report ANY faiIure
20 get their Leader. or nny careless
oess on the part OF the carrier,
subscribers will please not pa,
tne carriers unless the carrier
punches nis credit tag In subscrlb-
sr'e ureaence.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-05-09
A WOMAN'S BACK.
The Aches and Pains WIN EIs'ppear II th
Advice Of this Marietta Citizen Is
Followed.

A woman's back has many aches
and pains.
Most times It's the kidneys fault.
Backache is really kidney ache
That's why Doan's Kidney Pills
cure it. ~
Many Marietta women know this.
Read what one has to say about IT,
Mrs. Jacob Kauf, of 603 Hart street.
says: "Backache which gave me a
great deal OF annoyance and dlscom-
fort for some time quickly vanished
under the treatment of Doan"s Kid
ney Pills. / procured them at w. II.
Styer's drug store, 240 Front street.
Other ladies amongst my friends have
used Doan's Kidney Pills and also
speak in highest praise of this valu-
able medicine"
For sale by all dealers, price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo. N.
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name, Doan's, and
take no substitute