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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04
POLITICAL FERMENT IN RUSSIA.

Recent dispatches from Russia indicate
that the popular ferment and discomfort
always operating there are more active and
pronounced than usual. Scarcely a day
passes without reports of outbreaks among
students or people, and of numerous ar
rests for political crimes. Dispatches in
yesterdays Journal announced the arrest
at one place of ffty-seven army officers
and the punishment at another place Of 500
men in one regiment for refusing 10 fire on
rioters. These occurrences, constantly re-
peating themselves and accumulated by an
occasional assassination of some high Of
fetal. are not signs of universal satisfac-
ton with existing conditions. On the con-
trary, they are indicative of general and
widespread discomfort. They give color to
a report recently wired that the Emperor
Nicholas has decided TO grant a constitu-
ton. At present Russia is the only country
in Europe OF any consequence without a
constitution or any semblance of popular
suffrage or popular rights. The Gar is
practically the government. Legislative,
executive and judicial powers are vested in
A'H- 0N0 ~N - oSAoNO ~ q OoO
met of ministers, each of whom is at the
head Of al executive department. and by
a so-called Council of State and a Senate,
they all merely express the will and record
the DEGREES of the Car. 1t would not be
strange IL the weight Of responsibility i'm
posed upon him by such a form Of govern
ment. not to speak of the danger to which
he is constantly exposed, should incline the
Car TO seek some relief and perhaps par
TALLY allay the existing discomfort by
granting a constitution. A people fit for
self-government would frame their own
constitution and demand its adoption. but
the Russian people would probably be salts
fed with anything the Car might grant
in the way of a constitution without know
ing whether 1t would be any improvement
on existing conditions or not. There has
been a party working for revolution by
constitutional means for many years, ano
one of the methods it has advocated is CO.
operation between students and workmen
Student outbreaks and labor strikes and
riots are a conspicuous feature Of the pres.
ent situation. 1t is quite possible tina ths
Emperor Alexander II might not have beer
assassinated in 1881 if he had granted the
constitution then demanded. When the
present Car came to the throne in 1894 HI
was credited with being more liberal in his
views than his immediate predecessor OF
than Alexander III had been. but as yet HI
has not given much evidence of it, though
in the main an intelligent and well-meanine
ruler. If he should verify the report above
referred to by granting Russia a constitu
ton with some real guarantees of persona
and political liberty he would take a higf
place In history.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

1t is a popular plan of economy-that
which begins to-morrow.-Mlle Fouchette.
Women love the lie that saves their pride,
but never an unlattering truth.-The Con-
Queror.
Compliments, like champagne, should be
administered only in the evening.-When
Charley Was Away.
Charity nowadays is half duty and half
pleasure, Just like playing the organ in
church.-By Bread Alone.
So many women have such impossible
husbands, one cannot be too thankfu for a
presentable one.-Comments of a Countess.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Don't resist a man and he'll flee quicker
than any devil.-When Charley Was Away.
1t is more difficult for a man to bring
himself to the acknowledgment of political
errors than to confess to attractions Of the
moral law.-Mlle. Fouchette.
If the sentence, Thy desire shall be unto
him." was laid on Eve as a curse, yet her
daughters have found their deepest happi-
ness therein.-The Winding Road.
Arguing is all a waste of breath-it re-
minds me of an engine putting down the
tracks without pulling any cars: just a
waste of good steam and nothing accom-
plished.-By Bread Alone.
A woman never does care for her own
soul so much as she cares for the man she
loves. But IL she Is good she cares for his
soul more than for her happiness. or even
than for his happiness.-The Alien.
The opposition was by no means as SIM
pie a thing as the intangible force which II
opposed: oppositions are always complex
unless they consist OF one man each, and
then they are called cranks.-Shacklett.
A good many people like me spend their
Sundays on wheels as far from a church as
they can get, and I don't see why they
shouldn't have some religion pumped into
them out in the woods and along the road
just as they initiate their rubber tires with
air-Shacklett.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04
THE PATIENT AND THE SURGEON.

AS every one knows, surgery is a science
some hold it to be an practice
has reached a point very near to perfection.
1t is a rare occurrence. indeed, as all pro-
f%essional reports go to prove, when a surgi-
cal operation is other than successful. 1t
frequently happens, it is true, that the
patient dies under the knife or Immediately
but this, as it is invariably shown. also
by authoritative professional reports, is no
fault of the surgeon. The patient himself
is the one to blame. He had not the
strength to Withstand the shock, or there
were unexpected complications or, sim
ply. he ibid not rally lacking courage,
perhaps, to worry along through life with a
leg or arm or other portion OF his anatomy
missing. This unfortunate outcome does
not in the least alter the fact that the OPP
Grafton was a triumph Of surgery.
notwithstanding these occasional indis-
Greet lapses on the part of the patients,
so much confidence is felt in surgeons that
they are never without subjects on which
to experiment. So many persons in these
latter days, in fact, seem to require surgi-
cal attention that the man who has not
submitted to the knife is rather excep-
tional than otherwise. Any surgeon of ex-
p~erience can stand at a street corner and
point out what seems an endless procession
Of his fellow-citizens whose bodies he has
carved for one purpose or another. That
o,or % ~ ura,,l1 eoxr 80 he fottya1 aIo,,t IL
cases-which, Of course, he does not-''that
man has a wooden leg; I removed the 9TH
err; that next one has no longer a vermi-
form appendix; this che coming is short
parts OF several internal organs; this one
just following was born with two more
joints in his spine that he now carries
and so or and so on. AS a matter of course
the surgeon knows the physical makeup OF
his patients when they leave his hands
much better than they do themselves,
After he has explored their interiors while
they lie unconscious and has later sewed
up the incision they often feel a painful
uncertainty as 10 what precisely he has
done to them. He has had the opportunity
to remove such organs as he saw fit, and
for all they know they may be going about
with a much greater deficiency within them
than they had bargained for. This uncer.
tainty not only gives a sense OF disquietude
but has its practical disadvantages in cas-
they find ii necessary at a later date TO cal
in another surgeon. The mere scar doe.
not show the second operator Just what hi:
predecessor has done, and : orks In tn,
dark. so to speak. An illustration in poin'
is the experience Of a gallant soldier no
long since returned from the Philippines
| On his arrival In San Francisco the dis
patches announced that he had been sent I,
the hospital to be operated on for append
citis. After a month or two he came East
when 1t was announced for the second tim,
| that be had n to q hospital to nave hi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

There is an amusing aspect to the pas
sage by the national House of Represent
atives of a bill imposing taxes on personal
property in the District Of Columbia. For
many years past that class Of property has
not been taxed, the result being a steady
inf1ux of rich men who, having converted
their surplus wealth into personal property.
have gone there to live and escape taxes.
Washington is a beautiful city to visit and
a rich mans paradise to live in. When a
proposition was made in the Senate recent
ly to tax personal property the tax-dodgers
OF Washington became alarmed and began
to lobby with the District of Columbia
committee for its defeat. They made life
so burdensome to Senator Mcmillan, who
had the bill In charge. that he walked over
to the other end Of the Capitol and turned
the whole matter over to Representative
Cannon. Of Illinois. chairman of the COM
mittee on appropriations. Now, Uncle
Joe" Is noted among other things for his
advocacy of the taxation OF personal prop
erty aad for his habit Of hewing to the line
without caring where the chips may fall.
There was a chance to show his independ-
ence and carry out a pet idea. He did 1t by
adding the personal-tax section as a rider
on one OF the appropriation bills, and it
Will probably be defeated in the Senate. but
Uncle Joe" has had the satisfaction of
giving the rich tax-dodgers a scare.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

1t seems to be the impression among the
purveyors of gossip concerning literary
people that the secret Of success is con-
cealed In the method by which their writing
is done, hence endless accounts of the hab-
its OF the fraternity. 1t is told as II 1t were
a matter Of consequence that this author
writes only in the forenoon, that another
does all his work at night, that a third
finds the early daylight conducive to liter
airy production; that one uses a gold pen,
another a type machine, and so on in tire
some detail. Apparently the authors help to
support this idea that their methods are of
Importance by supplying all the details to
the seeker after Information. 1t Is refresh.
ing, therefore, to hear from one who has
no foolish notions on the subject. To an in
terviewer who recently approached Mr..
w. w. Jacobs, author of many delightful
stories of the sea. concerning his habits Of
work, that gentleman replied:
When l want an idea / sit down and think
of one, and take as long as L possibly can
in working ii out. Sometimes l publish a
story exactly as / first write it; sometimes
l make many alterations. l really have no
rules.
This covers the ground: it is all there is of
it for any writer whatsoever. He first gets
the idea and then works it out in the way
he has something to write and then writes
il. There is no trick about it.: it is very
slmple-for those who know Cow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

There is reason to believe that Mr.. Car
negie, wonderful captain of industry that
he is, would find the buying up and operat-
ing of a number OF newspapers a very
different proposition from operating a dozen
steel plants. The methods for the max
ing of steel and other forms Of iron are
thes same throughout the country, while the
successful newspaper must be made to
suit a locality. The methods which would
secure a successful paper in one city would
be likely to fail in another. Success is
brought about by a certain faculty and by
rules of action that would not suggest
themselves TO most successful manufac-
turers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHIcAGO-PaImer House, p. o. News Co.. III
Dearhorn street, Auditorium Annex Hotel,
Deas Oorn Station News Stand
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley & Co., ISL Vine
street
LOUISvILLE-C. T.. Deering. northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co., 24 Fourth avenue.
ST. ~LoUIS-Union News Company. Union Depot.
ID. C.-Riggs House. EDDIE
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DENVER. cOL.-Louthan & Jackson, Fifteenth
and Lawrence streets.
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street.
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street
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

The movement to secure the Arsenal
grounds as a site for the National Tech
port. The institute has such backing as
will insure its success wherever it may be
located, and it's location here would be a
distinct addition to the educational forces
of the city. Indianapolis would be in great
luck to secure a new institution of learning
and a military post at the same time. 1t
Is not often that an opportunity occurs Of
killing two such birds with one stone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04
NOT A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.

The case Of Senator Money, Of Missis-
sippi, charged with assaulting a street-car
conductor, is assuming an aspect Of public
interest. Readers Of the Journal will recall
the main features of the case. The senator
refused to pay a fare, claiming that he was
entitled to a transfer, though he had none,
and after a scuffie in which some blows
passed he wa put off the car. Then he
turned and cut the conductor with a knife
Each party brought charges against the
other, the conductor against the senator
first. On Thursday, when the case was
called in the Washington Police Court, the
prosecuting attorney announced his inten-
ton to dismiss the case against the sem
ator, and the ~latter's attorney stated that,
as the senator did not care to push the
matter any further, he woul also dismiss
the charge against the conductor. But the
latter objected to this arrangement. He
could not prevent the prosecuting attorney
from dismissing the charge against the SEN
ator, but he insisted on the case against
himself being tried in order that he may
be acquitted and then bring a new suit
against the senator. The court took the
case under advisement, and 1t is said that
if the conductor insists on the case against
himself being tried the senator will appeal
to the street-car company and the District
government to force him to drop it. The
incident is greatly to be regretted, but it
seems to ave reached a point where the
interests of justice and the impartial ad-
is no respecter of persons. and the personal
rights of a street-car conductor are as
sacred as those of a United States senator.
The Constitution says that senators and
representatives shall in all cases except
treason, felony and breach Of the peace be
ance at the session Of their respective
houses, and in going to and returning from
the same" but it grants no dispensation to
violate laws which are made for all alike.
From a political point Of view a senator
nay be a much more important person
than a street-car conductor, but from a le-
gal point Of view he has no advantage.
There have been notable instances in other
countries of persons of high social or polit-
ical standing being punished for violation
of law. and it is sometimes charged that in
this country the law favors that class. In
this case, if the conductor insists upon a
trial. in order that the facts may be estab-
lished and the charge of violating the law
located where it properly belongs. it would
seem that his demand should be granted.
1t is a question Of the enforcement of law
and not of senatorial privilege.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

It Is well to recall at the present time.
when some are criticising the prominence
vhich the Grand Army OF the Republic has
been given In the dedicatory services OF the
monument. that there would have been no
spca testimonial to the veterans of the
war w.ach saved the Nation but for the
efforts OF that organization 1t was not un-
al the Grand Army became a power In In
diana that the construction OF a monu-
ment was even taken up In earnest. II Is.
ncreover. the only organization that con-
sz1butsd TO the fund itself. II u the one or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

Fifty thousand lilies to decorate the hall
IL which the Woman's Federation of
Clubs met was a handsome tribute to the
visitors, but, after all, doesn't it seem
rather like a slaughter of the helpless? The
same is to be said of the three thousand
roses adjoining the carriage of President
Lowe. There are people not a few who
nave never reconciled themselves to the
modern fashion of tearing flowers by the
wholesale from the parent stalks and hang
ing them upon walls to die. They are super
sensitive souls perhaps. but they fancy a
consciousness in the hapless blossoms-and
who knows?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

In his address at New Haven on the
Philippine question Governor Taft de-
clined TO express any opinion regarding the
alleged cruel order Of General smith. He
said the i~nadeauacy Of short cable dis
patches in giving a true picture of a situ-
alton required a delay until the whole
record could be forwarded and the findings
reviewed by the President. In taking this
view Governor Taft showed his usual care
full sense of Justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

President Roosevelt made two good
graduating class at the Naval Academy
was full Of inspiration for the young men
toward lives of strenuous endeavor in the
service of the country, and his speech at
the Sons of the American Revolution ban
quet in Washington was a ringing appeal to
the American people to see that the flag
shall "stay put in the Philippines. Advo-
Gates Of the scuttling policy will find no
comfort in these speeches.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

practicable economic monstrosity7' asked the
man who had no respect for a word of less than
five syllables.
mot at ALL" answered Mr.. Billions. You
20 ahead and convince the public that what
I contemplate can't be done. II puts peo-
pie OF their guard and gives me a chance to
operate"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

to have students meet In a building VI
der the control OF the institute. wnere Deer
was used I'm a rational way. than 70 Ave
them sent where the use Of beer Is IN
limited and where there Is no restraint.
/ believe that is true temperance. II slg,
dents are 10 have such meetings i shoela
much prefer them 10 have them Ia tee
COMPANY of their professors and instructors
and where I can personally join them.
Think II she lived to-day.
Beautiful Helen OF Troy
Would be tramping over the links
Helen OF Avoirdupois.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

Butte (Mont.) has a Marie Bashkirtseff
sin its midst in the person of Mary Eliza
beth MacLane. Miss MacLane, who IS
nineteen years old and no beauty, and lives
with her parents, who are Woodworking
people, has written a book in which she
talks about herself in an extremely egotis-
teal manner. She declares that she is a
genius, that to herself she is the most in
teresting person in the world, that she
loves no one else except the devil, and hat
when he comes for her she will be 'oh, so
happy" Neighbors say that the girl is not
at all bad. but sweeps and scrubs and
washes dishes and helps her mother as any
daughter should. 1t is probable that what
the young woman needs most is a side
talk from her father in language of such
~sternness hat she will no longer yearn for
the devil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

ganization 10 which every honorably dis
charged soldier can belong. often some por-
lions of it take action that seems unwise,
yet. when all has been said. it embraces
a large part of the best element that was
in the service. so that no man who rendered
good service should feel that he is too good
70 foiu IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04
How They Were Similar.

Chicago Record-Herald
II read in a country paper the other day the
report OF a wedding that reminded me very much
OF that book you had published about a year
ago."
How SOP"
9TH report said It passed OF quietly"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

Boston Transcript.
Gorkins-Since meat has gone UP I've been
forced to economize.
Hiller-Have you quit eating meat?
Gorkins-Oh. no; that would be out OF the
question; but now I take my meals down town.
I have got the family in training on vegetable
diet. you see. and It never would do to tempt
them by having meat in the house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

The lower branch of the Massachusetts,
Legislature has voted by a large majority
in favor Of a constitutional amendment
that when $4,000 voters, in any one year,
petition the Legislature to submit to the
people any particular constitutional amend
ment. it shall be- the duty of the Legisla-
ture to submit it to them. That would
carry the doctrine of the initiative pretty
far and might result in some surprising
to the Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

1t IS not just TO the naval officers arrested
In Venice to assume tina. the charges made
against them are true without investiga-
ton. If investigation proves that they are
true they should be punished. but the
meanest wretch hailed into the police court
ing and been found guilty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

Professor Meade. OF the University OF
Pennsylvania. has made the startling state
ment hat the billion-dolar steel company.
which has been reporting such large earn
1ngs. Is insolvent. That 1t Is so he demon
strates in his own way, couHting the paid
up stock as q liability. There Is a wide
distinction. however. between Insolvency
and BE- nlIuptcy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. housekeeping bill is wrong.
Gas Office ~Clerk-Impossible!
Mr.. Housekeep-But 1 say I didn't use that
much gas.
Gas Office Clerk-Ah! then that's your fault.
or the meters. but the bills all right, for we
made 1t up ourselves right here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

The account given in this issue by the
Journals Washington correspondent OF the
remarkable name In which Cuban post
masters administer their trusts shows that
the natives Of that island are hardly pre-
pared as yet fo- self-government- And
II tie comparatively advanced and civilized
Cubans are SO lacking IN the sense OF re-
sponsibility. where would the Fflipinos be
n left to their own devices?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

The Moros. according to all accounts,
have many qualities in common with the
American Indians. being bold. resourceful
n treacherous. The heart-to-heart talk
methods advocated by the Massachusetts,
gang Of ants would not maxi an impress
sion on them In a thousand years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

OF children. while a great number Of pri-
vate charitable organizations are working
to the same end. TIL field is so broad and
the work so urgent that the united efforts
OF all the agencies engaged in it are needed,
and It is a work that can never be com.
Melted while the human race lasts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

No reputable citizen will stigmatize city
papers that favor natural gas by meter
measurement under reasonable and just
regulations as "cappers" for the gas COM
panies. The phrase implies corrupt or mer-
cenary motives on the part of the papers.
n would only be used by persons who
are themselves accessible to such motives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

not quote Kokomo, Muncie. Anderson and
a large number OF small cities and villages
where the gas was as short or even shorter
than in this city last winter. When facts
are answered by epithets 1t isn't worth
while to waste time in debate of that sort
unless those who take part in the contro-
versy find amusement in IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

An American physician who has returned
from an extensive tour in the East says
climate better than the natives. and that
no other white race has as good control
over disease As nave the Americans in the
Philippines. In the lead, as usual