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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
MAURICE THoMPsoN.s PLAY.

Indianians will necessarily feel an es-
pecial interest and pride in the dramatic
presentation in this city this week of "Alice
Indiana origin are not a novelty The
dramatizations of General Wallace's Ben
Hur," of Tarkington's "Beaucaire," Of
Majors when Knighthood Was in
Flower are notable instances. McCutch-
cons "Graustark." now being made into
play, is likely to have a similar popularity.
Paul Wilstach and Arthur Smith have con-
tributed to the merriment of the public by
producing taking" plays that have en-
joyed long runs. The two last named
writers have given touches of Indiana local
color to their productions. but the other
dramas mentioned are remote in time and
scene "Alice of Old Vincennes' has the
distinction not only Of being based on
novel by an Indiana writer. but of repre-
senting a chapter Of Indiana history. The
capture of Vincennes and the incidents
leading up TO il form an episode not less
important in results nor less dramatic in
action than historical events of the same
period of which far more has been heard.
which have long been heralded in song and
story. George Rogers Clark was one of the
most picturesque personages of early West
ern history, and his part in the Yincennes af-
fair was considered OF sufficient consequence
to justify the placing Of his statue In a
position OF honor near the Indiana soldiers
monument Although he Is of course mon
toned in all the histories of the country.
the value OF his services is not dwelt upon,
and II is undoubtedly true that outside Of
Indiana many persons made their first &C
quaintance with him through Mr.. Thomp-
sons book. Merely in a historical sense.
therefore. the author did a real service by
weaving the drama of Vincennes into ro-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Former Secretary of War Alger offers an
explanation OF the passage in his book
charging cowardice against some news
paper correspondents. The passage is as
follows:
Some timid newspaper men accompany
ing General Young and Colonel Wood be-
came alarmed at the first shot fired at Las
Guasimas and rushed franticaly back to
Siboney before the engagement was over,
wrote, from the decks of the transports,
where they took refuge, imaginary ac-
counts Of the fight.
Although no names are introduced, two
or three correspondents who were with Col
Wood have construed it as referring to
them and have made spirited replies. Gen.
Alger says he did not refer to these CORE
spondents, and, in fact, had nobody in par
ticular in mind, the statement being based
on conversations he had with an officer in
which no names were mentioned. The Incl
dent shows how easy 1t is for nefarious
charges to find their way into so-called
histories. Most war correspondents are
anything but towards A few days ago,
when Admiral Schley was asked why all
signals were not recorded. he said mo
man. except the press correspondents. who
brave all dangers, can always have paper
and pencil at hand while a battle is in
progress. and as a consequence there is a
failure to record many occurrences that
should be recorded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Few persons who do not play golf, do
not expect to play it and have no hope of
understanding the game or the language Of
it, yet do, in time, come to a dim compre-
hension of at least a part of its mysterious
lingo. Through running against the sport
in the newspapers and in magazine fiction,
and through acquaintance with players
who talk of it-all golf players talk golf
whenever they can find an. unresisting vic
tim-they acquire in spite of themselves
a vague familiarity with the remarka Ole
terms used. They learn, for instance, that
the crooked sticks 'lugged about by the en-
thusiastic young men and women, who
would not be caught carrying a beefsteak
home from the grocery to save their fami-
lies lives, are not "sticks" at all, but
clubs; they learn that a "caddie' is not a
club, but a live creature; it finally dawns
upon them that a tee is not a misprint
for tea eventually, if they mind their
p's and as and other letters, they cease
to call it "golluf." even though they never
attain ''goff' or "gawff." But when at last
they latter themselves that they have ac-
quired such a speaking acquaintance with
the game as will prevent their disgracing
themselves in select society they run
against an announcement like this: THE
Misses Smith, daughters of Representative
Smith, of California, Will not go to Wash
ingtOn until late having taken house at
Golftown-on- the-Hudson for the linking
season" They had learned that you can
golf and here they draw the inference
that you can link, and that to link is to
golf, and that to golf is to link. Shade of
Noah Websterl 1t is all very confusing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

A case now pending in Chicago raises
for the first time the question whether the
proprietor and editor of newspaper can
be punished for contempt Of court in print
ing articles and cartoons intimidating and
ridiculing the judge thereof, pending a
suit in the court. While Judge Hanecy's
court was engaged in the hearing and con-
sideration of a suit against a local corpora
ton the Chicago American, one of William
r. Hearsts papers, printed articles severe
~ criticising preliminary decision of the
court and caricaturing the judge in a very
personal and offensive way. For this the
court issued order against the. pro-
prietor, the managing editor, the business
manager, the assistant city editor, two
cartoonists and reporter on the paper to
appear and show cause why they should
not be punished for contempt "in printing
and publishing certain scandalous matter
intended to terrorize and intimidate this
court in the performance and discharge of
it's duty and obstruct the administration of
justice" Four of the defendants appeared
in person, the others being out of the city,
and were admitted to bail to answer on
Monday next why they should not be pun
ished for contempt the bail of the business
manager and the managing editor being
fixed at $4,000 EACH that of the reporter at
$1,000. and that of the assistant city editor
at $1,000. The case is of some Importance
on account of the principle involved. The
public has been considerably agitated of
late on the subject of incendiary and
anarchistic publications. and an open at
tack on a court falls in the same general
category. The paper named belongs to the
yellow school and aims to be above all
things sensational The practice of car
featuring, ridiculing and vilifying public
men has been carried to an extreme, but
they have remedy except libel suit,
from which every person shrinks. The
judge of court has an easier and more
effective remedy in a citation for the Of
fender to answer for contempt, and in the
present case the judge is to be commended
for exercising it. There should be a limit
to the cartoon and vilifcation business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Eleven children dead in st. Louis from
lockjaw caused by the injection of diph-
iberia antitoXin. and several others threat
ened with death, is a sad result of defec-
tive operations. but it should not lessen
public confidence in scientific methods care
fully pursued. There is every reason to
believe that if the serum used had been
pure it would have been a safe preventive
against diphtheria, but owing to some
cause not ascertained as yet it became i'm
pregnated with lockjaw bacillus and thus
caused another disease even more fatal
than the one it was intended to prevent
Such accident might not happen again
in a generation. The St. Louis Republic
says that since the introduction Of anti
toxin the deaths from diphtheria have de-
creased in the city from Sc per cent. of all
to per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

The demand for silver certificates Of the
denominations of ST. 81 and s. is so large
from the retail trade of the country that
the mills making the paper have been
asked to increase the daily supply from
10000 to 10000 sheets. The pressure for
fractional silver is so great that the minis
cannot meet the demand. In view of the
phenomenal retail trade. the action Of Con-
gress in extending the limit of fractional
coins to s1OO.OOo,OOO was fortunate All of
which goes to show the wisdom of the re-
mark of the lamented Mckinley that when
the mills are opened the minis will take
care Of themselves
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

he was sent back after a few months For
a conspiracy to kill he was given an in
determinate sentence. the seventh OF eight
sentences he has received. One of these
days those who make the laws will learn
enough of penology to realize that the
professional criminal or the man who seems
not to be able to refrain from criminal acts
should be treated wholly with reference to
the safety of society. Dangerous GRIM
inals should be consigned TO prison for life
when they have been convicted the third
time. Such a policy is cheaper and safer
for society and greater deterrent to the
criminaly inclined than the present IRA
tional practice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

After recent trip through Mississippi
Mr.. Booker I. Washington says that the
factory progress, and that the occasional
outbreaks which are reported occur mostly
in the smaller towns and in the country
districts where ignorance is dense. In
Natchez a negro has the largest and most
successful saddlery and harness store i'm
the place; in Greensburg a negro has the
largest stationery store, and in Jackson the
leading bakery. Such facts as these must
gradually overcome the ignorance and pre-
iudice of the rural districts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

genealogical bureau family tree which
showed half dozen kings among his
progenitors, and says that the same privi-
lege is open to all others Of Welsh ances-
try. However, 1t must be remembered that
the Welsh are especially favored in this
matter, claiming. as they do, a direct line
back to Adam, and that their vowelless
language was the speech of the first par
ents in the Garden of Eden.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Arrangements are said to be making for
80 establishment OF an extensive colony
with a view Of prosecuting surgar-beet Gull
ture. They are the kind Of people who
would make a success of that back-break-
ing work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
Indirect BIessing z.

Boston Manuscript.
Bass-Hear you have a new cook at your
house. How do you like her?
Fogg-Oh the cook is all right, but her cook
ing is something awful.
Bass-Thats bad.
Fogg-Not so bad II might be. Since she
came we don't begin to have the company we
used 10 have.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

When q is recalled gnat the British army
in South Africa has five hundred miles of
railway TO protect against small but watch
full and relentless bands OF Beers, it is not
cause for surprise that now and then de-
tachments OF the large British army are
taken at disadvantage and severe loss is
inflicted The resistance which the Beers
offer is one OF the most remarkable exhi-
billions of determined insistence that the
worlds history nresents-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

The hftieth anniversary of the death Of
the Russian humorist. Gogol. is to be cele-
brated at Moscow on March p 1902. by the
unwilling of n monument to his memory.
1t will be news to most American readers
that Russia ever had a humorist. mas
much as 1t had. it is right u do him honor,
since he must be the only one of his kind.
The sense of humor seems 10 be wholly
lacking in the Russian writer's belonging TO
the present period
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
Poor Sort of Company.

Puck.
Jerrold-Is your friend Blocker an agreeable
sort OF chap?
Hobart-Wen hardly; he's the kind of chap
that comes back from his summer vacation with
money in his pocket!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

No greater judicial farce was ever en-
acted than the attempt to prove a con-
spiracy on the part Of prominent Re-
publicans to kill William Goebel. 1t is
simply an attempt to give legal color to
Kentucky vendetta.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

The Chicago woman who announces that
It shall be her life work to erect a $2OO.OOO
mausoleum in which may repOse the body
of the murderer Czolgocz may feel rea-
sonably sure that it will take her at least
one lifetime to raise the money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Since his return from a speaking tour in
Nebraska Senator Fairbanks expresses the
opinion that Organism is decidedly on the
wane there, and that the Republicans viii
carry the State next Tuesday BY hand
some majority
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
They Cost Money.

Philadelphia Press.
She-Do you find golf very difficult game?
He-O no, Not after you've acquired a little
knowledge.
she-what do you consider the most difficult
things TO acquire?
He-The sticks and balls.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

The death rate in Havana during Sep
TENDER was 1864 to the thousand. while
that Of New York was 2l.75 and that Of
Washington ISIS. There were but two
Deaths from yellow fever and eleven from
mslarial fever. compared with eighty-four
during September. 1900 The falling off is
attributed by DR.. Gorgas. an army sur
geon, to the employment Of one hundred
men killing mosquitoes by every possible
means
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

The exhibitions Of Iawlessness. the out
RACES upon persons and the willful destruc-
ton OF property Halloween have called
forth vigorous protests from several papers
as tending to encourage the spirit Of law
lessness and hoodlumism generally. The
point is well taken The laws providing
Tor the security Of person and property
should not be suspended on any account
or In favor Of any class Of lawbreakers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
Obvious Reason.

Chicago Tribune.
Now then" exclaimed the candidate. in
voice OF thunder. Il have told you the principles
and policies my opponent stands fort You have
a right to know the other sidel What do
stand for?''
Because nobody's told you to 80 way back
and sit down. yelled a hundred voices in the
audience.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

There IS a movement in New Hampshire
to have the Legislature OF that State
change the name of a prominent peak in
The movers probably forget that the name
is already borne by the highest mountain
in Alaska. and It would noe be desirable
to have two mountains in the country of
the same name.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

The navy. for which enlistments will be
solicited in this city. affords a good OPEN
ing for young men of intelligence and pur-
pose. as opportunities for promotion must
be opened by the increasing number of
ships The report Of the heads of naval
Bureaus says that there il a scarcity Of
engineers, and IL viii be greater when the
number Of ships is Increased. IT IS a trade
which can be learned by practice There
are many other good positions open TO
men OF intelligence and energy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago Record Herald.
DO you believe" he asked. in a hesitating
way, that it is possible for a woman toto dress
on $500 year?'
''Oh. Jack!" she cried. falling into his arms
don't let that bother you. 1 can. by having II
worked over a few times. make my wedding
outfit last three or four years at least"
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Just Like "a Man.

New York Weekly.
Mrs stocks-If we move into that cheap house
we'll lose caste
Mr.. stoeks-Don't care II we dc; it's the best
We can afford without running aopelessly into
debt and besides. it's a comfortable place. any
how
Mrs stocks-Huh Just like mani Only so
you can be comfortable and pay every little bill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Alcoholism in the parents is held respon-
sble by DR.. Bonneville, OF Paris, for much
of the idiocy and imbecility in France. OF
1900 boys and 500 girls suffering from these
troubles 40 per cent. were children of par
ents given to excessive drinking.
James Monroe Hill, Of Austin. Tex, is one
of the few survivors Of the battle of San
Jacinto, which assured to Texas it's indie
pendence. He was born in Georgia, and is
a cousin of the late United States Senator
Benjamin III. Hill, of that State.
Chartreuse is not to go as a result Of the
abandonment of the famous old monastery
where it has always been made. One Of
the brethren has become a secular Priest
for the express purpose Of looking after
the liqueur The price is TO be advanced.
Some historical spots dear to Irish mem
ory are announced for sale, ii is said, in
that country In the list are a farm on
Tara's hill. with the ruined banqueting
hall of the Ard RICH or Great King OF
Tara, the Kings chair on which the Kings
of Erin were crowned, ana the Lila Fall, or
stone of destiny.
Mrs Mark Hanna is at present support
ing two American girls who are studying
music with Nine Marchesi in Paris. and
recently sent to her. at the senator's wife's
expense. a cOntraltO from Washington, the
finest type of OctOrOOn. aged twenty
named lydia Leland. Nine. Marchesi saws
the octoroon's voice is a perfect wonder"
Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse and Prof.
Frederick starr, of the University Of Chi
cago. are making Investigations among the
Iroouois Indians in reference TO their folk
songs including medicine, witch, death and
all of the hitherto unpublished ceremonial
chants These will be Incorporated in a
volume which Professor Starr is preparing
on the mystics OF the Iroquois.
Genealogy presents some curious prob
lens in the case of Nine Patti She was
born in Madrid. her father was native Of
Catania in Sicily. and her mother was a
native Of Rome. She was brought up by
an American stepfather in the United
states married two French husbands. be-
fore she settled down in Wales and Is now
the wife of a Swedish nobleman.
There are two tortures worse by FAR
Than all that Dante sang.
The mincing man who slurs his ~
And the girl who uses slang.
Washington star
thought / knew
A thing two.
And had the power 10 show
Ny wisdom in a lucid way,
Until little one ] know
came asking yesterday.
''When the summers past where does II 60
And where does winter come FROM say"
Judge
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The records OF the careers Of those who
have been In the Reform School do not sus-
tain the assertion that 1t is the worst
place to which vicious boys can be sent.
on the contrary. it is reported on reliable
authority that a large majority of those
who go out of the school become law
abiding citizens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

\ woman has published a genealogical
book in. which she shows that most of the
''old families" OF the South have a royal
lineage, many Of them having King Alfred
as an ancestor. That's nothing. Any one
can have royal lineage If he cares to trace
his pedigree baca far enough. A Well
known gentleman of Welsh descent AYERS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

The country at large is content to leave
the scnley case to the court Of inquiry.
but 1t is painfully evident that several
newspapers will continue to write opinions
on the topic
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THE HUMORISTS.
Fortunes FavOrite.
Plck.


Mrs Newlywed-You remember Bob Bigfront,
whom 1 refused last year? Well, he's just struck
an oil well worth S5,OOO,O 900.
Mr. Newlywed-Gosh! Some men have all sorts
Of lucki
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

There are famiues in various parts Of the
world. but ours-the car famine-is one that
can be less deplored than those in countries
in which there is no wheat 70 put into cars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-03

Women seem really 20 be doing some
good IN the New York campaign. After
Justice Jerome told them in vigorous Ian
guage that they would DO more mischief
sh-.n could be undone by going on a mis-
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