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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
LENGTH OF THE COLLEGE COURSE.

President Butler of Columbia College.
expresses the belief that in a two years
course at college practically as much of
valuable education could be given as is
now secured from the full four years
course. No doubt this is true. good
deal is heard from time TO time about the
dangers of overstudy, but the young man
tiers into business employment when he
leaves high school or preparatory school
works much harder and spends more hours
at his work than the average college
student ever dreams of doing, and suffers
no i'll consequences either. The mental
energies are exerted much in one case
as the other, though in different lines. The
discipline Of college study is the main
thing, after all. What the boy learns there
out of books is of less use to him as knowl-
edge acquired than the learning how to
learn and gaining a taste for the pursuit
Of knowledge Many student does not
acquire this taste in four years. in pioneer
days many a lad, later statesman and
scholar, gained il out of a few months
in district school and stray book pored
study and love for books can be instilled
in two years as well as four If it can be
done at all hardly needs argument. The
length of time required at present for the
completion of a full school course. espe-
cially if a professional education is in
cluded, brings the student we'll on toward
thirty years of age before he can enter
into the practical business OF his life. This
fact has caused much complaint, and the
solution of the problem has taxed the
Der of years. President Eliot admitted
the possibility of reducing a four years
course to three; now President Butler
brings it to two. This compression of the
term is to be made. no doubt, both by
emitting some of the least essential studies
and by requiring little closer application
on the part of the student. President Eliot
complained that the primary schools left
the would-be freshman insufficiently equip
ped but IL in the twelve years public
college then the public schools are at fault
and an elimination of some nonessentials
is in order, with more stress laid upon the
indispensable elements of education. Our
schools, primary and advanced, are ad-
mirable, even wonderful. in many respects,
but it is evident that they have not yet
reached a state that is past improvement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

The statement in yesterdays Sentinel,
purporting to be an interview with DR..
Hurry, secretary of the Board of Health,
charging Governor Durbin with gross
demic fund to suppress smallpox, is denied
by him in emphatic language. In a COM
munication to Governor Durbin, written
before his return yesterday, DR.. Hurry
says: ALLOW me most emphatically to
deny and brand this whole story as false
and outrageous" 1t Is now question of
veracity between DR.. Hurry and the re-
porter of the Sentinel. AS matter of fact,
the Governor has not had a word from the
Board Of Health or its secretary regarding
smallpox since last June. Two or three
City Councils in cities in which there is
the past ten days resolutions suggesting
the use of part of the epidemic fund to
get rid of the disease, which is said to
exist in a mild form in three or four places.
The language of these resolutions is iden-
tical, suggesting a common origin. The
epidemic fund was not intended for such
cases, nor has the Board of Health applied
for any part of it since few hundred dol
lars was placed at It's disposal when the
cutlery was made about the threatened
quarantine by Kentucky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
A BLOW AT THE SWEATING
PROCESS.

A decision handed down by the Indiana
Supreme Court on Friday draws the line
of personal rights against the illegal de-
tention of persons arrested on suspicion or
information, and should be studied by Off
GERS authorized to make arrests. Incident
ally the decision Is blow at the so-called
sweating process" which has been the
personal rights. In the case before the
court, a sheriff had arrested a young man
on information or suspicion of having COM
mitted larceny, and although the young
man protested his innocence he was taken
to Jail and threatened with being locked
was done without a warrant or any legal
process. The young man sued for false i'm
prisonment. obtained a judgment in the
lower court and the Supreme Court af-
firmed it. The court took the legal view
that in criminal or penal cases arrest is
made for the purpose of compelling the per-
son charged with a crime or an offense to
appear and submit to justice.
Under this definition of the power OF ar
rest an officer has no right to hold a per-
son in custody longer than is necessary to
obtain warrant for the arrest, or take
the person before the proper authorities.
"An officer arresting without warrant"
said the court, cannot Justify his action
in holding or OBTAINING the prisoner for an
unreasonable time before obtaining war
rant, upon the ground that such delay
was necessary in order to investigate the
case and procure evidence against the ac-
cused." A fair construction of this is that
warrant for an arrest must be obtained
as soon possible. and that it cannot be
the purpose of extorting confession by the
sweating process. Arbitrary detention of
that kind without warrant is false i'm
prisonment, and may make the officer liza
BILE in damages, as was held in this case.
The decision of the court is not against the
right OF officers to catechise or sweat
persons during the period of legal restraint
and pending the obtaining of warrant or
formal order for their detention but II
holds that any detention of the arrested
person beyond the earliest moment neces-
sary for taking him before judicial officer
Is illegal. The law is Jealous in its protec-
ton of personal rights, and officers who are
vested with the power of making arrests
should be held to a strict account for its
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
Rules of Foreign Travel.
London Travel.

London Travel.
IL is TO be feared that many English and
American travellers In France expect TO find
the same laws and regulations obtaining on
French railways as they are accustomed to
at home, and when they find they are very
different they are too apt to resent tan
attitude which occasionally results In coll
nsons with the officials. The following
quette in connection with which trouble
often ensues may not perhaps be super
fuous.
Claims to a Seattle right 10 a seat.
which has been engaged by placing upon IL
a coat or some other article. has actually
been legalzcd by a recent test case in the
French law courts, while this right In Eng
tom and cannot be enforced. Not only this.
but in France each passenger is legally en-
titled to the use OF that portion OF the rack
and floor Immediately above and below his
seat.
Control OF windows.-English travellers
often complain OF the tendency OF French
travellers TO keep the windows closed un-
necessarily. IL is the best policy 20 put up
with this annoyance, as an appeal 10 the
guard Will not. rule. be successful
His sympathies are likely 20 be with his
compatriots, who regard the love or Eng
lish people for open windows a foolish
fad and one. too. which Is dangerous 10
health.
Smoking carriages.-The rule for smoking
on French railways is the reverse OF that
which obtains In England. Though car
riages for fumeurs are provided. smoking II
permitted In any carriage with the con-
sent of the occupant. and in practice al
most every compartment except those
labeled danes seules is a smoking one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

Wherever a public manual training school
is established a department in which cook
ing is taught is made feature. Many
private schools for girls now have regular
cooking classes, and in most large cities
are to be found schools whose sole pur-
pose is to teach the domestic arts, of
which cookery is the chief. Boston boasts
of having two high-class schools of this
sort, besides "any number" OF other in
situations where side instruction in cook
ing is to be obtained. Boston is perhaps
in the lead in this line of education. but
there is undoubtedly growing recognition
of the fact that a knowledge of cooking
is an important and necessary part of a
girls training. Also, 1t is realized that its
importance is not lessened by the prob
ability that in later life she may not find it
necessary to serve as cook for her own
family or another's. In the natural order
of things most women become heads Of
fort and well-being. In American life 1t
rarely happens. except perhaps among the
millionaire few who need not be consid-
cred. that the housewife does not find 1t
frequently necessary to exercise her skill
in the kitchen. And whether she does
or not the fact that she knows how the
food purchased for her family should be
prepared gives her immense advantage
over one ignorant of the art. But in these
days of imperfect domestic service it is
becoming constantly more necessary for
women to emulate the example of their
grandmothers and do their own work -
The task is made easy for them in in
Vulnerable ways undreamed of by their
other modern improvements OF the kitchen.
delicatessen shops. fancy groceries and
all the other aids to housekeeping are OF
little profit without intelligence In utilizing
them. In the old days each girl learned
the art OF her mother. as a matter of
course. She assisted in the household
duties and by degrees skill came TO her.
Now, in too many cases. either the mother
does not know. or tie presence in the kitch-
en- of a hired cook-who does not know her
business any too well. and who. even II
skillful. dislikes to be bothered-prevents
the ambitious girl from acquiring the de-
sired knowledge at home. So IL has come
about that the cooking school has made
itself a welcome place. 1t is true that the
girls who. 1t might naturally be expected,
would incline to follow cooking as a pro-
fession, do not patronize 1t as q rule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

Virtue deceives itself: villainy deceives
other people.-Tales of Temperaments.
The hardest thing to find is honest
partner for a swindle.-Her Majesty the
king.
You may be sure the devil will hump him
self II you don't.-Those Delightful Ameri-
cans.
Mothers personify circumstances to chill
dren; we are symbols to them. of battling.
cramping fate.-The Rescue.
An interrupted proposal is an absolutely
fatal thing, and may never be finished
Confessions of Matchmaking Mother.
A grandfather is a man who has two
chances to make a fool of himself, and sell
dom neglects them.-Her Majesty the King
The days are so dull when there is no one
to tell you that you are pretty; when there
is no one to say kind things: no one TO look
at your new gowns.-Tales Of Tempera-
ments.
Lucie Is the kind OF woman who will al
ways deceive men. They respond to hypoc-
risy as reptiles TO music. and they love
paint They think ii means a heart-Love
and the Soul Hunters.
Half the trouble OF this troubled world
comes from the fact that for one reason
or another, women are not always able to
look I'D 10 the men with whom they have
dealings.-The Vultures.
The type of woman selected by clever
man is generally pretty. empty and affec-
tionate. Heart appeals to him more than
mind of which he is rather sick.-Confes-
sions OF Matchmaking Mother
None who have truly and deeply loved
can doubt that their own are theirs for
ever; for there is something i'm the very es-
sence Of love which defes death and brings
Immortality To light--Fuel of Fire.
t. f~ hald hat is 70 hau
trouble In ones youth than in ones mid
die age: the fresh heart. 1t is thought. is
stronger to bear grief. But this is not the
case A fresh heart Is also an immature
one; IL Is tender, impressionable, unsea-
soned, altogether too delicate for hard
blows No sorrow Is so bitter. because IL is
so little expected, or so unmitigated. be-
cause IL Is so little understood as the sor-
row in young mind.-Love and the Soul
Hunters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
INTERCOLLEGIAT ATHLETICS.

In the current issue of the Atlantic
Monthly is an article on college athletics
by Professor Hollis, of the faculty athletic
committee of Harvard, thus representing
the official attitude of that university re-
specting the problems growing out of the
development of intercollegiate athletics. In
the course of this article Professor Hollis
states his belief that, as at present played
it is doubtful if football should have a
place upon college grounds. This opinion.
coming as it does from a man who believes
in college athletics, is entitled to more at
tention than it is likely to receive when
thousands of people all over the country
every college president and professor
should state his opinions as freely as does
the Harvard professor he would have a
large number of supporters.
Another statement of Professor Hollis is
more important. He finds that scholar
ship has lost in perspective in the great
interest in athletics felt by participants
and supporters. The news furnished the
daily papers by colleges sustains the view
of the Harvard professor. Judging from
the reports published in the papers little
else is thought of than the team. Gymna-
SUM work. which has been made an exer-
else in several American colleges. has not
proved generally attractive. AS now prac-
ticed the number of students who par
ticipate in athletics is but a small proper
ton of the whole number. 1t is the chief
objection TO college athletics that only
a handful of men receive the training,
while the great mass of students are
"bleachers'' who have no more to do with
athletics than to. wear the college colors
and shout for the college team while the
contest is on. If such contests inspired
all the students to practice athletics they
would be defensible. but the writer clearly
indicates that they do not. He further as
serts that the men who are members of
the teams practically give up class work
during the season of preparation out of
games, thus losing one-ffth of the year.
which few students can regain
II is not sport for the sake of sport and
physical culture which incites the absorb
ing interest In the performance of the
team. but the absorbing desire to win
out" 1t is the desire to see their teams
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

The National Free Art League. in whose
membership the leading artists of the coun-
try are numbered, is again agitating the
question of the removal of the tariff on
works of art. AS body it would prefer
the entire removal of the tax, but pre-
sumably because ii recognizes the opposi-
ton of class of workers who have not yet
reached the point of superiority to compe-
tition, and who expressly object to the
free importation of modern foreign paint
ings. the league addresses itself only to a
modification of the law which will apply
to old pictures-not necessarily "old mas
ters," but those sufficiently in the antique
line not to compete with present-day
American productions. They will endeavor
10 secure the passage of an amendment
to the act now in force. providing for the
exemption from tax of paintings in oil
or watercolor. statuary. sculpture. draw
ings. engravings and etchings, provided.
however. that such articles in order to
become entitled to entry free of duty shall
have been manufactured or produced more
than fifty years before the date of importa-
ton; but said exemptions shall be subject
to such reasonable regulations as to proofs
of the antinnitv of said articles as the Sec
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

A good many people are borrowing trou-
BILE by predicting an unusually cold winter
and picturing the extreme suffering that
will follow owing to the shortage in the
coal supply in certain districts and it's high
prices everywhere. Meteorologists agree
that cool summer is not necessarily fol-
lowed by winter Of temperature below the
normal, but 1t is not much to the point if
the reverse were true. Normal winter
weather requires the keeping UP of con-
slant fires wherever human beings congre-
gate, and If fuel cannot be had the result
ing hardship is as great as that caused by
insufficient heat In colder weather. The
desirable and important thing is to have
enough coal for moderate weather.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

such girls prefer to depend upon haphaz-
ard knowledge, or, what is more likely. to
seek employment of other sorts. Mainly
1t is young women who expect to preside
over homes of their own or who have
natural liking for the art who go for in
struction in such schools. But the num-
Der of them speaks well for the future
of cookery. Their example and their in
iuence will help to teach the importance
of well-cooked food.
Now, alas good cooking is the excep-
ton rather than the rule wherever one
Of the most popular dishes of the early day,
the pies, the doughnuts, the preserves"
boiled dinners" ETC., but at least they
were thoroughly cooked, and well-cooked
food of any sort is preferable to the half
baked bread. UNDERGONE and poorly-sea-
soned vegetables and tasteless meats too
often served at both public and private
tables. There Is vast Improvement in
the manner of serving, no doubt; there is
a brave array of china and glass and sill
yer. and dishes are "garnished" artistical-
ly, but the cooking is likely to leave much
to be desired. Cookery is a fine art of
whose mastery any woman should be
proud. and which every woman, out of re-
gard for her personal comfort if nothing
more. should wish to master. So, the in
creasing interest in the art and the found
ing of new schools for teaching it are sig
nificant signs and greatly to be welcomed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

Secretary OF the Navy Moody says that
even il the government could seize ana
operate the anthracite coal mines he would
oppose IL on business grounds. .I have
seen far too much of the extravaganza OF
government ownership TO want more of ii,
ne says Its printing costs the govern
ment twice or thrice what private concerns
would do IL for. and the 1900 men in the
navy yards get 20 per cent more per hour
than those In the cramp yards, this being
due to numerous holidays. short hours.
etc" The people who favor government
ownership of public utilities would find il
On expensive luxury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

win which leads students to attend games.
and it is the winning and not the sport
which causes them to shout and TO fill the
streets of towns where they meet with
college cries. The undertone of the entire
article is deprecatory of college athletics
as now conducted, and indicates that he
and other college professors would favor
a change which would make gymnastics
regular college exercise which all students
must take. In other words. If the inter-
collegiate contests cannot be materially
changed he would have them discontinued.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

The whole country applauds the rebuke
which Governor Odell administered to one
of the anthracite coal operators who al
luded to political influence in the settlement
Governor of State of 100000 people who
are helpless victims OF the coal strike
These half dozen coal presidents may rule
for a time. but punishment awaits them,
and it Will be terrible because they are
the most insolent of sinners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

Judge.

"So!' Kissed the villain.
The heroine faced him grandly. The calcium
light sputtered delightedy over the scene. caus-
ing her jewels to glitter like the eye Of press
agent.
SOP growled the villain.
Here the heroine kicked her train around in
front Of her. and the hand-painted flowers on the
back breadth came into full view. Bravey she
clutched the will in her Iily-white fingers.
''Sor' hoarsely muttered the villain.
With the air OF queen the heroine turned
upon him.
why do you say so often?" she asked.
do you think you me?'
Realizing that he was bafied for the last time
in that act, the villain rolled another cigarette
and left the stage with tragic stride
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12
A TRAGEDY OF MINING
Bones of a Noted Prospector Found I'm
the Devils Playground.
San Francisco Examiner.


San Francisco Examiner.
After thirty-seven years Of mystery the
strange disappearance Of Abner Lee. the
notorious old prospector who discovered the
famous Lee silver mine, seventy miles
northeast of San Bernardino. Cal. has at
last been solved.
Lee was the most famous prospector OF
his time. In 1855 he located those claims
known as the Lee mines. which subsequent
ly brought a fortune of s2,ooo.0Oo to Gov
after discovering these rich silver prop
critics he disappeared into the desert and
was never seen again. great deal OF ex-
drawal from the world, and IL was suggest
ed more than once that he had been foully
done away with by INSCRIPTIONS persons
erty. Others thought the Pluto Indians.
who then raided the desert, had killed him
and burned the remains.
Now the riddle has been solved and the
skeleton of old Abner Lee. the bones OF
his burros, his ''washpan" and an old min
ing pick bearing his name on the handle
have been found in the Devils playground
by Jim Moran, a desert freighter plying
between Fenner. on the Santa Fe road. and
Resting Springs Branch, at the head OF
Death valley. The shifting sands which
the miners are cleared OF obloQuy and the
bones of the prospector have been given
decent burial on the crystalline shores OF
Soda lake.
According to Lees story at the time land
this subsequently verified). there were
vast lodges of surface ore in sight OF pre-
cisely the same quality the ore which
from time to time he brought in on his bur-
ros. He was very secretive about the ioca-
ton of his mine, and those whom he took
into his confidence were under strict pledge
tc reveal nothing.
Among these was r. w. Waterman. who
afterward became Governor of California
Mr. Waterman was at that time a strug-
CLING lawyer. For ten years after Lees dis
appearance nothing was heard OF the
properties. Then big expedition was or
ganized in San Bernardino TO search for
the abandoned claims. Under the guidance
Of two prospectors, who claimed to know
something of the locality and who had
heard where lay the Lee silver, the party
went almost Immediately to the mines.
But upon their arrival they found Water
man guarding the property with a VIM
chester rife. He had been in possession
for two hours. He had driven out to the
claims In blackboard. For more than fif-
teen years Waterman held a controlling in
terest in the Lee mines, and IL Is estimated
that during that time more than s2Wo,0O0
in ore was taken out.
Dark hints were cast in regard TO Water
man by those who considered he must have
known the locality Now the finding OF
Lees body clears the air. The ex-governor
has, been dead several years. Since the de-
probation Of silver bullion the mines have
been idle. but the old story OF Abner Lee is
often repeated by the desert prospectors-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-12

or, to put 1t another way, one out Of every
seven marriages ended in a divorce. As the
divorce law of this State is as good as
most and better than some, and as social
conditions are not naturally different, 1t Is
probable the proportion of divorces to mar
riages is much the same throughout the
country. This argues general demoraliza-
ton on the subject of marriage and d.
vorce, and dangerous social condition.