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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
(Autbor OF eTbe Formation Of The Clouds" etc.,

criminals were made to seal their con-
LESSONS with their thumb-nails, as the
country servant girls used TO seal their
letters. Accordingly Sir William adopted
the registration of finger-markings for PEN
sioners. lie suspected that others person
ated these officials after the pensioners
were dead: he therefore employed this
means Of Identification. This led to the
scientific identification of criminals-each
prisoner signed a book with his finger.
Comparing the signatures of persons made
after an interval Of twenty years, he proved
that time makes no such material difference
as to affect the utility OF the plan. There is
a marked difference between the marks E
males and females.
Mr.. Francis Cation once made a very
convenient little apparatus for examining
hnger-marks and for recording the position
OF ~urrow-heads. 1t is a slight and small
but well-made wooden pantograph, multi
plying fve-fold. in which a very %low-pOwer
microscope, with coarse cross-wires. forms
the axis Of the short limb. and a pencil
holder the axis of the long limb. A regis
tered book of drawings of this kind would
be an easy means of identifying one who
had been a prisoner.
IDENTIFYING BY TELEGRAPH.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
THE 0NE-MAN POWER.
A Little sketch of Ex-Speaker Reed
by an Ex-Congressman.

Hon. Champ Clark, in Leslie's Weekly.
There is a tale to the effect that while
Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed welded the
gavel a gentleman took his little boy to the
gallery of the House. Looking dow upon
the more numerous branches of the federal
Legislature. the child asked: Father, who
is that large man sitting in the pulpit with
a mallet in his hand?'
He. my son." replied the fond parent,
sis the House OF Representatives"
"And who are those other men sitting in
semi-circles? inquired the tiny chap.
They are the speakers OF the House Of
Representatives" answered the paterfa-
milias.
The story may be apocryphal. but it con-
veys a tolerably correct idea OF the situa-
ton. Mr.. Reed is a masterful great man.
and did bestride the narrow world like a
great Colossus. His powerful personality
would have made him a commanding and
dominant figure while in the chair with any
code of rules or without any code of rules;
but the code of rules now in vogue would
make any man, save the veriest weakling,
a potent parsonage while speaker, and a
weakling will never be elevated 10 that ex-
allied -position-second in power only to the
presidency itself, and far, far superior TO
the vice presidency.
The popular nickname for Mr.. Reed was
THE Czar"-or THE Great White Car"
as Senator John T. Morgan dubbed him. l
am rather inclined to the opinion that he
enjoyed the title. 1t appealed irresistfbly
to his sense OF humor. | have served with
three speakers-one Democrat, Charles
Frederick Crisp. of Georgia, and two Re-
publicans. Thomas Bracket Reed. OF Maine,
and David B. Henderson. OF Iowa-and was
on good terms with all OF them. In my
judgment-and this is my article and no.
body else's-Mr. Reed was no more Of a
car than was Crisp or Henderson. In their
cases il was the iron hand i'm the velvet
glove. In his IL was the iron hand with
bare knuckles. The suavity of Judge Crisp
and the honhomie Of General Henderson
mitigafed the despotism which the House
has made Of the speakership-"tempered
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some Rich Indian Babies.

OF the 500 or more Indian babies Of the
kiOw9, COmanche. Apache. Wichita or
Cadda children OF the Southwest, mostly
all OF whom now live in Oklahoma, not one
can be called poor. They have Just been
given a quarter section of land each and
mad citizens Of the United States. When
the Eiowa-Comanche country was opened
10 white settlement. on Aug. 8. these chill
dren. along with their parents, were each
given their allotment of land. which COM
prises ie0 acres OF their own choice any
Where in the country. The parents were al
lowed 10 take the land for them. but the
title remains vested IN the youngsters them
selves. so the parents, no matter how eager
may be their desire TO convert these farms
into cash and sduander that. cannot do so.
These children are all assured or "A tract of
land that will be quite valuable when they
have attained their majority
one little girl Is worth $4,000 in her own
right. She is kiOwa Annie by name, and
her farm lies near the new town or Hobart,
IN the rich Washita valley. Her father. by
chance. selected this farm for his daughter.
not knowing that the homeseekcrs. when
they came in, would choose TO erect a town
near it, But the farm Is there. and the
town Is growing. BY the time kiowa Annie
reaches her majority she can lay her farm
out into town lots and realize a fortune
from the sale Of them. She is now four
years old, and is being sent TO the govern
ment schools at Darlington.
These little girls are, for the most part.
quick to learn, and when sent away TO the
government schools learn rapidly. The chill
cren or all these tribes have 10 be sent 10
the government schools according to the
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The other means of Identification has the
assistance of the telegraph; and is very
useful when criminals bolt in a vessel for
a foreign country. Mr.. Glen, the inventor
OF this signaling plan, had the principle
suggested to him when he was watching
the sewing on canvas. 1t is suitable for
plans as well as portraits. TIL design to
be transmitted is drawn upon ruled paper,
divided into small squares by vertical and
horizontal lines. For different purposes
different styles of square are used. If a
portrait is to be transmitted there will be
400 squares in the square inch of ruled pa
per; If rougher drawings. 100 squares in the
square inch, and so on.
At the left-hand corner of the top of the
paper the squares are lettered in order, the
top set Of squares being a, b, c, etc, in
line a Gas in Figure (Which for purposes
Of illustration contains only twenty-five
squares in the inch. The second set of
equares are lettered a, b, C, etc, in line b;
so that the square on the fourth horizontal
row and the third vertical row would be
indicated I'd, c.
Six different scales OF tints are used, in
Dictated by capital letters (as above3 A
being black, B a shade lighter, up to +,
AANA - NAAAC' ANCOAAAA5 u liz style VI
squares. and the class of tints, if the oper-
ator sent a message 90. a, B. the squares
would be marked by the receiver. and the
shade put in. as on the top line of the fig
ure. The other marked squares in that
diagram would be thus Transmitted in or
der dowuwards &C, b, c. &c, c, E. %, d, d.
(e. e, Al
This system seems likely to be of some
utility in military operations. as it is espe-
cially suitable for the Geographic transmits
sion of small maps or plans of a locality.
The operator at the transmitting station
can indicate by the alphabetical message
where the receiver is to put down his PEN
Gil. The receiver marks the square as indi-
Gated; and as he is directed from square to
square. he draws his lines, soon forming a
complete outline drawing.
A CRIMINALS PORTRAIT.
Portraits of criminals can thus be very
easily transmitted by the same process, as
here shown,
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Next Week:

laws governing them. The teachers at once
dress them In little white Bingham dresses
and remove the leather dresses and mocca-
sins or the redskin. They are robbed of
their long Indian names and called BIZ
shorter ones OF the teachers own make.
If they are apt 10 learn, and most are.
they complete the common school course I'm
six or seven years. and are then sent East
10 the government schools. where the high
er branches are taught Some of the young
full-blooded women who have returned
from these schools during the last few
years have been married 10 white men, and
now make the best Of hOusekeepers.
In tepee life the Indian is UNIQUE. II is
given nothing to play with except the toaGs
that mop about the tepee doors. 1t has no
playmates except those of it's own rela-
ton. and ii receives but few caresses from
its parents. The squaw mother Is i'm the
habit OF putting her baby TO bed at dark
they sleep in little sacks, open for a breath
ing place-then she goes away TO a dance
or something OF that nature. leaving the
child TO its own resources. If il cries no
one comes 10 sOothe il, so il has learned
10 go 20 sleep without it. So crying has
come to be almost unknown among these
children
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Identity.

Over the way my neighbours voice
Rises in song. now musingly,
Triumphant now, as sways her choice.
Her spirit free.
On ~soulless keys she skillful lures
Sweet wordless melodies to speak
Her mood-and, so, her thought unmoors,
And fancy's freak.
a full hearts orison her song.
With loving, trustful praise combined;
1t finds new joys in faith, grown strong.
With hope entwined.
1 scarce have seen my neighbours face,
Yet know 1 we'll tits fine and fair;
Her ~tell-tale music still must trace
Her souls lines there.
I scarce have seen ny neighbours face;
Ny neighbor singeth not for me:
Yet to my day gives sweeter grace
Her melody.
Ny neighbor, then. doth sing for me.
Or If she know. or know it not;
For spirit need the high decree
To meet doth plot.
And as my neighbor sings her song.
Careless of me-. my joy is more,
And knows not less, while for the strong
Is larger store.
All blessings, blessing one, bless all;
All share, too, in the worlds great moan;
Not joy nor grief doth ever fall
To one alone.
The laws divine. my neighbours songs.
Soothing my soul, make strong my creed,
That all that gladdens one belongs
To all who need.
Indianapolis, Nov. z, 1901. %. ". Sears
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Washington, D. c.

the wind to the shorn lamb to borrow a
sentence from Laurence Sterne-but did not
weaken, much less destroy, that despotism.
Little by little, line upon line, precept
upon precept, that despotism has been
growing for liz years, and, paradoxical as
II may seem, it has waxed strong just in
proportion as the House has increased in
numbers, until to-day. without much ex-
aggeration, the speaker could say with
Alexander Selkirk: II am monarch of all [
survey" The moment before he is sworn
III, theoretically at least, he is only the
equal of his 356 fellow-members. The mo-
ment after he takes the cath of office he is
most emphaticaliy 1T"
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o. W. Sears
Song.

Oh, I would sing in dawning Of the s%priGg-
So fair the world. so sweet it's blossomingl
When life goes laughing upward to the sun,
And music sounds in all the streams that run
From wooded hills. down valleys wild and free,
To greet the voices of the singing sea.
And when the summer days go flashing by.
a light on land, a glory in the sky;
When winds from ocean and from mountains
blow,
And chant Of waters cool. and cooler snow;
When dawn and day and fairest twilight sing.
I. too, my share of joyous song would bring.
And 1 would sing. though leaves breathe last
low sigh,
As nesting or the breast Of earth they lie;
Though, far and dim, cloud-shadows slowly rise,
And storms deep voice is sounding through the
skies:
What matters storm, or calm, or shade, or shine
While music lives and soul Of song is mine?
-Zerelda Nicholas Mccoy.
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Wrath of an f. r. v.
Salt Lake Tribune.

SdIL Idht ITIUuUt.
They are taking IL hard in Virginia. The
Presidents dining of Booker T. Washing
ton is in the Democratic black lists. At a
Democratic meeting in Richmond lately.
Representative II. d. Flood was one of the
speakers. He had been warned by sup
porters who had an eye TO the offices, that
it would be inadvisable for him to assail
the President too severely. as il might be
embarrassing for him when he had TO go
to the executive office TO see about the
patronage, always considered a vital mat
ter by Virginians. Ye- Flood broke loose
with the ejaculation, Before 1 would
knuckle to a President who would enter
tain a negro in the White House. and thus
10 HI f%orever!" 1t will be a beautiful
sight to see Mr.. Flood. when he gets TO
Washington, do that very knuckling he
now affects to scorn. Besides. he would
no doubt feel honored at an invitation TO
sit at the same table where Booker L.
Washington ate with the President.
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classification. Dolly Millions costs SO or
$50. She will sleep under pink silk and
lace draperies in a $12 or $40 bed. She will
dress her hair at 2 dressing table in white
ana gold, appointed with silver toilet arti-
cles at an entire value OF $50 10 $40. She
will have a wardrobe in trunks. Furs,
silks, satins and laces for dinners, balls
and day functions. with hats and all the
requisites added. costing at least 800. Au-
tomobile, phaeton. pony carriage, a four
in~hand, a saddle horse and a yacht.
mounting UP To about SO. The first three
carriages. selling at from s. to SO each,
the coach els, the saddle horse $40, the
yacht SO or SIS more. makes a pretty show
dolls
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17

Julian Ralph, in New York Mail and Elk.
press.

Julian Ralph, in New York Mail and Ex-
press.
There are only two public men in Eng
land who remind me OF the strongest tvDes
OF a~i-subduing American manhood. Rhodes
ls one. Joseph Chamberlain is another. Both
miss the light vein OF humor which is a per
petual fountain of refreshment to most of
our great men. Rhodes has a little of il and
can appreciate fun, while Chamberlain s
nature is such that even the most delicate
orchid Will keep as we'll on his coat lapel as
oysters do in a cold storage chamber. But
Doth are wide-mlnded, far-seeing, irresist-
IDLE dynamOs of energy who are CAPABLE of
moving ahead on any path they lay down
without needing any minor consequences or
damaged interests outside of their success.
Naturally both are very much Interested i'm
Americans, proud to know them. anxious
TO have Americans around them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
The Tea-set Blue.

When Tillie brings her tea-set out
Her lovely set OF blue.
And lays the dishes all about
The table. two by two.
The little dollhouse people all
Begin to wonder who will call.
For It's a signal. beyond doubt.
That visitors are due
When Title brings her tea-set out
Her treasured set OF blue.
SO all the dollfes watch and wait.
And sit up very nice and straight.
And Pierrot forgets to tease
In hopes 20 be a guest:
The little Jap from over seas
Tries hard 20 look his best:
While Mam'seile French Doll, all the while.
Nears-ah, the most angelic smile.
For al the nursery people know
As well as well can be
That dollics must be gOod who go
With Title out TO tea.
And would not that seem fair to you.
III you possessed a tea~set blue?
Rose Mills PowsrA in ST Siaholaa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
THE POETS.
A Dream of Long Ago.

A Dream of Long Ago.
Full many happy days have dawned along the
path Of life,
When the heavens bright and cloudless bent to
kiss
The crimson blooming meadows where the honey
bees were rife,
And the butterflies were floating in their bliss;
My mind was full of heaven then. and dwelt on
heavenly things,
l thought the angels guarded through the day.
And in my childish innocence 1 saw their snowy
wings
When / knelt beside my mothers knee to pray.
1 wander now as Jacob did. my pillow is a stone.
I miss my mothers voice at evenings close:
The bees that wooes the flowers, and the butter
flies are flown
To the vale where blooms the summers fade
less rose;
And in the night. like Jacob, I can hear the mys-
tic lore
That tells OF rest beyond the troubled way:
I know 1 shall be happy then as in the days of
yore.
When I knelt beside my mothers knee to pray.
Waldron, Ind. -Alonzo Rice.
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The Boy Knew.

Kansas City Journal.
Prof. Greenwood recently visited the At
tucks School and talked to the children on
adverbS and adjectives.
Does Prof. Bowser use adverbs and adj
j~ectives. children" he asked.
Yes. sir" chorused the little negroes.
Does your teacher use them?"
Yes. sir" again in a chorus.
We'll, what does she use when she does
not use adverbs and adjectives?'
There was a silence. No one seemed Ia
know. Finally a very black little fellow
waved his hand.
Well said the professor. what does
she use?"
She generally uses a ruler"
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Washington Post.

A certain lawyer here in town employs
stenographer who has the most wonderful
collars and the most elaborate p~ompadour
in all the business world. She has a per-
sonal theory of punctuation and her SPELL
ing is marked with an engaging originality,
but she's so even tempered that only an
absurdly carping person would take notice
of such eccentricities. One day she laid be-
fore her employer a neatly-typed letter TO
a Southern correspondent. Before signing
il. he glanced over II.
See here he said. you've spelled sugar
sugar.
The typewriter glanced at the sheet al
smiled.
Dear mei' said she. How careless II
me. Why. I've left out the h."
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New York Commercial Advertiser.
Dolldom is a pleasant and quite fascinat-
Ing place to stroll in, and what a faithful
reproduction OF the up-to-date men and
women OF the town. The same gowns.
hats. sports, comforts and luxuries. To be
sure. there Is a hfty-cent world. as well as
a thirty. forty. fifty and one hundred dollar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17

AS this is only a part of Cresceus's out
fit it can readily he imagined how much i
costs to equip the peer of all harness
horses. IT is safe TO say that Mr.. Ketchai
spends $1,500 a year upon the personal
equipment of Crescus, while another $1,000
is laid out for sulkies. etc. w
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
FIG II.

where the outline of a burglars head is
drawn for signaling. And in many cases
this is sufficient when the usual police di-
T~ections have been telegraphed.
of course if there is sufficient time the
shade of the hair can be signaled accord
ing TO the scale of tints given above. New
York ~constables could have the very por-
traits in their hands awaiting the arrival
of the wanted" men from Britain.
Mex Week:
1.-The Secret of the Stars" by Edward
ClG1d.
I*Copyright in the United States of America
by d. T.. Pierce.l
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A Horses Expensive Outfit.
..hiladelnhia Telegraph.

The king of t~rotters, like the king Of
dudes or the leader of society's 400, must b
dressed as becomes his station in life. The
money spent on Cresceus's outfit is far in
excess of that expended by fashions leaders
of both sexes. During his recent visit to
this city George II. Ketcham gave an or
der TO a local store for an outfit for his
world-famous %trotter. The order and cost
of the various articles follow:
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-02-06

of agriculture. Mrs Meredith outlined the
history, purpose and general scope of the
school. 1t is so different from other forms
! OF agricultural education that it is known as
the Minnesota plan and is regarded as belong
/ ing in the front rank OF educational work for
young people from the farm Mrs. Meredith
said the school was the only one that she
knew OF where the boys asked to have the
girls admitted Boston has discovered that
Minnesota has well under way plans that she
mas long been talking Of in education for
| girls, and Mrs. Meredith is going there in
| April to tell the educators about the Mime
| sofa plan. The instruction for the girls is
/ trying to deserve the name of course in
| home economics. One especial merit of the
] school is that household arts are made part
| OF well-balanced course and they are not
unduly proportioned. They are also carefully
related, giving them a greatly increased
value. In this way they take their real place
in education. The course corresponds to that
| of high school and the pupils are not taught
in any department to become experts, but to
think, and are in position to specialize after
ward intelligently as their situations in life
may demand
! The home at the school is intended as an
/ object lesson in making surroundings attract
! i've and in well-ordered domestic arrange
ments. Mrs. Meredith extended a special in
vitation to the club members to make a visit
| TO the school as the best way Of becoming
| fully acquainted with its plans and methods
The numerous questions showed the interest
aroused by the subject. This developed into
a more general discussion of domestic science
| teaching, and by request of the household
economics committee OF the Minnesota FEEDER
alton vote was taken on the question Of its
introduction into graded schools. resolu-
tion in favor Of this was unanimously passed.
as all present favored training for all girls in
practical household arts, and in view of the
fact that but small proportion of pupils en-
ter the high schools it was thought necessary
to put it in the graded schools. A special
higher training school Of a more technical ma
ture was also approved.
| The club will be represented at the mid
winter breakfast by delegation of good size.
| Special plans are being made by the social
committee for the social meeting Feb. 10, to
which the members will invite friends The
success of the Saturday luneheons was an
nouneed and they will be continued indef-
| nitely. The special entertainment committee
was instructed to arrange for a social and
benett entertainment early in March. This
| will take the form of a winter picnic.
| The w. C. T. U. will hold silver medal
oratorical contest tomorrow evening in Riv
erside chapel
Willard w. G. 7. U. will have thimble
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-02-06
MISTAKES or yO1rNc WIVES.

One thing a bride seldom remembers; her
husbands duty to his friends, especially his
friends, and also that he owes portion
OF his time and affection to his parents and
family. Recalling the uninterrupted devo-
ton of his evenings to her during his court
ship, it seems hard to have him run away to
give his mother an hour, and the proud de-
sire to show his home and wife to his bache-
ior friends breaks into those long tete-a-tete
hours in which the world was lost to both
lover and sweetheart
Nothing could be more selfish than to rob
your husband of the faithful friendship of his
young companions, and show regret when
they appear Let q generous sense of the
value of true friends fill your heart, and not
only make them welcome, but delight your
husband by being as attractive and lovely in
their eyes as possible.
And to your husbands family exercise the
uttermost limit of generosity. Urge him not
to neglect or disappoint the old mother who
Sc sadly misses his morning and evening
kiss, and who has lost from her home and life
all that you find dear in him
Whatever may be the merits of any dis
agreement, let unselfshness keep you from
criticisang your husbands relatives, and
welcome them with open cordiality and feel
that every little attention shown to them is
indirectly shown to your best beloved. They
are his family, make them yours also.