The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-31

desperate fighter; was all kinds OF a fight
A"s man as many kinds as you like. He
"ouio zeal more blows in a second than any
liner man could give in a minute; he was
always known to be the best man on board
ns snip If insulted he would reply with
savage ferocity. Nobody could snub him.
ne met a man named Sayer. a liar and a
spy at a cafe az Nantes. and flew at him
ana peat him with a b~ystander's cane be-
lo'e ne could be stopped. The man got well
IN d Few days. When he took omman OF
d snip ne threw overheard the cat-o'-nine-
0aiis' but he said IL any man needed the
cat he would kill him -- quick"
Come on, were waiting for you" was
wont to be his signal to his enemy. He
used TO be on deck twenty hours out of
the twenty-four. X needful. and day and
night insisted on every rag that his ship
could carry without lying clear down.
NO ship was ever crowded as he drove the
Ranger.
There was only one Paul Jones: he was
the captain of captains, his big black eyes
looked through every nan Of his crew: he
knew every one. He had the Frenchmen
on his ship stark crazy during a sea fight;
II took them several days to cool off after
wards When out of action his crew re-
specially requested him to lay them
alongside of any English ship to be found
IN the seas and he told them he would
Keep a good lookout and exactly conform
to their request. The King of England
knishted Captain Pearson for standing out
against John Paul Jones for a time in a
sea fight. "Ill max a lord of him if /
meet him again." said Jones. He consid-
cred a gale a fair sailing wind and his
amazing fighting qualities gave him plenty
of prizes, sixteen at one time. He never took
pay from Congress. and he used to sell
prizes to pay off his crews. The English
said that the French fought well under
Jones because they had for shipmates a
crew of Yankee bullyraggers TO show them
how. His Yankee seamen were in request
to command French warships.
o the good writing of colonial times, the
good letters, the good diaries,
The trouble with you. MIR. Simpson. is
that you have the heart of a lion and the
head of a sheep" writes Jones to his in
subordinate lieutenant. TO which Simpson
replies: Now, sir, ] will say that 1 do not
pretend 10 be capable of expressing my
thoughts as you can" / should think not.
Lively letters they wrote 10 each other.
The log of the Ranger is fine reading-it
has the true salt flavor. Everything writ
ten by JOhn Paul Jones had a touch of
genius. Whatever he wrote received at
tention from the whole world in his time.
With all his savage ferocity of temper
there was a magic about his way and
manner. Lafayette said that Jones pos
sessed peculiar grace and charm. He
could keep a dinner party up till daylight,
even at DIR. Franklin's. He was a great
friend. of Franklin's; he adored the unex-
ampled grasp of affairs and Incompatible
wisdom of Franklin.
Paul Jones is always described as dark,
slender and distinguished looking. with
delicate features, his attire faultless, his
bearing martial and imposing to the last
degree. He enjoyed the friendship of the
King of France, and of the highest nobility
in France, and when he went TO England
after the war was over he was treated
with the highest consideration by the great
Of England. He received like treatment
when he came back to America; his old
crews came, long distances to visit him.
These men were exactly after his own
heart. He lived elegantly while in Paris
and was happy there. His adventures as
admiral of the fleet of the Empress Cath
arine of Russia are like a novel. His cor
respondence with the great Suwarrow is
the le~tter-writing of affectionate friends.
John Paul Jones knew most of the great
men of his day. He lived on into the
French revolution and was acquainted with
Mirabeau, Barere and the other heads OF
that movement His heart turned against
the French populace and he wished he had
thirty cannon loaded with grape for their
benefit. He laughed at their "decrees,' and
he said there was not the making of one
Cromwell among the whole of them. and
he ridiculed their patriotism. He said that
success depends upon a quick resolve and
a swift stroke.
The Female Offender" by Caesar Lom-
broso, is another book full of interesting
matter. An observing person cannot help
seeing that criminals are simply defective
human beings. Criminals can no more be
changed and reformed than born idiots can
be changed and reformed; old dame nature
has been a niggard to them. Neither can
criminal be blamed for what they have
done; they can only be guarded and di-
rected and kept out of mischief. Benevo-
lent people are ~purblind and unobserving
to an amazing degree, cannot perceive
facts; therefore the benevolent. with all
their exertions, have ADDED nothing to the
stock of knowledge of criminals. Now sci
ence steps in with her measurements and
recorded observations and tells us what
criminals really are.
Lombroso's book is a collection of meas
urements and recorded observations of
female convicts. According to these rec
ords the female criminals often have
crooked teeth. large cheek bones. projecting
ears. lumpy. hydrocephalic skulls and big
jaws; they have fiat noses with dubious
ends; and the murderesses show the worst
skull depressions. the crookedest teeth, the
--LATEST and most deformed noses and the
biggest jaws. Their photographs adorn
Lombroso's book; there they are. noses and
all. Criminal women are also distinguished
by a dull sense of touch. a tendency to
tattooing ard a semi-masculinity. For ex-
ample. the epiglottis of female criminals
is large, they have deep voices and their
figures are somewhat masculine. Criminal