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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-22
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

What was once called "the gods" we now
term 'life."-The Buried Temple.
There are times when good advice is the
worst advice to give.-Daniel Everton.
All time is short to look back upon. 1t
is looking forward to it that counts
The Sport of the Gods.
l am going to join the reform element
here in the city to bounce the mayor and
some other people that ] don't like
Shacklett.
There are some hearts so curiously con-
structed as to nave but a single COM
partment, with room for but a single idol.
Roman BiZnet.
Some people say that beauty is a curse.
1t may be true. but 1 am sure that 1
should not at all have minded being cursed
a little.-The Story of Mary McLane.
Mrs. Akemit was not only like St. Paul,
"all things to all men, but she had gone
a step beyond tina excellent theologue.
She could be all things to one MANTLE
SpenderS.
Success in politics corresponds TO right i'm
other things, and it is as hard TO keep a clear
head when unsuccessful in politics, as il
is difficult to plan well with a guilty con-
science in daily life.-Shacklett.
I've seen a good deal of Salvationists. and
my idea about them is that they intoxi-
cate themselves with hymns and such, so
as to forget their miseries. Il seems to
me that Miss Simmons, being young and
healthy, and good looking, ought TO take
up with some quiet, easy religion that
wouldn't interfere with her comfort
DreWittiS Dream.
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Every man who wants TO marry makes
himself as agreeable as possible to the OBJ
ject of his choice. If he has a bad temper
he restraints it; if he has other faults he
conceals them as far as possible. His
whole endeavor is to make a good impress
sion. The same motive governs the young
woman in the case if she is at all re-
sponsive to his overtures. She arrays her
self in her best attire; she is neat and trim
and amiable in his presence, whatever she
may be elsewhere. and she neglects no arti-
flee that will tend to enhance her attrac-
t~iveness in his eyes. Both of them under
stand this. Each knows that the other is
putting the best foot foremost, and per-
haps each more than suspects that all is
not as fair as it seems, but that closer ac-
quaintance will disclose less pleasant quail
ties than have come to the front during
courtship. But each knows also that this
process of beguilement is a part of the
game; it is human nature, and when disil-
lusionment comes they bear each other no
resentment because of the deception prac-
ticed-perhaps because both have practiced
it. At least, they do not put forward the
concealments and receptions of courtship-
the hiding of bad tempers, the pretense Of
neatness where slovenliness is the rule.
etc, as cause for divorce. When the de-
%ception, however, touches more material
things the case seems to be different. At
all events, one Indiana bride has filed suit
for divorce on the ground that her husband
deceived her as to the amount of his world
ly possessions-tOld her he had more when
he had less, of course. Now, the matter of
a little money cuts but small figure in the
long run of married life compared with the
items of temper, compatibility, industry,
cheerfulness and the other traits that go to
make up the comfort of living. If the
bride. as she seems TO have done, could
overlook any little foibles of temperament
or disposition not discovered until after
marriage, why could she not forgive the
husbands ~exaggeration in the matter of his
bank account? 1t is a problem requiring a
philosopher to solve. The public will look
with interest for the decision of the judge
on this point.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Henry Cole, of Denver, started to convert
his estate of $500, 900 into cash for the poor,
but was halted by his wife. who reminded
him that half of it was hers.
The London School Board has just opened
a school for cripples in Whitechapel. Din
ner is provided. and the children are con-
veyed to and from the school by an ambu-
lance.
Robert 7. Baptist, e~x-slave from Virginia.
who has given $1,000 to Booker Washington
for the endowment of a Tuskegee scholar
ship, is employed as coachman by General
Carpenter, of New York.
Miss Alice Robertson has passed success
fully through the ordeal of her public ex-
animation for the degree of doctor of
philosophy from the University of Cali
fornia. Miss Robertson is the third woman
TO receive from the University of Cali
fornia its highest academic distinction.
Fifteen men have obtained the degree.
Yellow journalism seems to have obtained
a foothold in Russia. a St. Petersburg
journal has originated a department head
ed "A Column from the Other World"
which purports 10 give answers from spirit
land TO the questions of the credulous. The
editor and proprietor of the paper solemn
ly assert that they have nothing TO do with
the conduct of the spirit department.
The trade in rare butterflies is increasing
I'm London, and ingenious deception is prac-
ticed regarding them. Ordinary butterflies
are caught and killed; then girls are en-
ployed to smear the gauzy wings with thin
mucilage and sprinkle fine metallic powder
of various colors on the wings. In this way
the collector can be supplied with the most
beautiful specimens almost while he waits.
When woodrow Wilson, the recently
elected president Of Princeton. was a new
professor he was interrupted during one
of his lectures by a student who kept tap
ming on the floor with a fire brick. When
he ordered the culprit 10 bring the contra
band article 10 his desk nifty students arose.
each armed with a fire brick. and built a
wall in front OF him that shut him out Of
sight Of the class.
California melons are going into the
Eastern market TO fight it out with the
Colorado melons, to prove that Rocky Ford
is not the only canteioupe on the vine. e"
saws the Los Angeles Herald. The South
ern Pacific Railroad has taken sides with
the Indio melon. which the railroad will
undertake 10 deliver at Chicago and New
York on passenger train time. II is ex-
pected that the shipments this year Will
amount TO $50 TO 300 carloads"
II remember" writes a correspondent OF
the London Chronicle. "a meeting two OF
nv colleagues had with Delarey in the
earlier part of the war. The representative
or an Australian paper was mortaiiy
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vacant public lands are in Montana, $685.
600 acres; Nevada, 6l,S22,O 900 acres; New
Mexico, 55.5s9,O0O; Arizona. 4S.771.OcO; Idaho.
42,475,oo; California, 42,O49,OO 0 and so on.
In Nevada 81 per cent. of the total area is
still vacant public land, in Idaho rs per
cent, in Utah 50 per cent, in Montana and
New Mexico 20 per cent, and even in Cali
fornia AZ per cent. The so-called arid re-
gion extends from about the Tooth meridian
Of longitude to the Pacific coast. Draw a
line north and south through the middle of
the two Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and
Oklahoma, and all TO the west Of it is either
arid or semi-arid, the aridity increasing as
the Rocky mountains are approached. This
region was once called The Great Amer
lean Desert" and elderly persons can re-
member that when they studied geography
it was so marked on the school aliases.
Much of it is now occupied, and irrigation
by private means has accomplished a good
deal, but it is claimed that the area en-
braces about 6O,GOO,OO acres which can only
be reclaimed by government irrigation. SO
vast an area, about equal to that of the
two States of Illinois and Iowa. is worth
retaining. 1t certainly is not wise or eco
nomical for the government TO continue to
hold so large an area of arid land if it can
be made productive by artificial irrigation,
as it can be without doubt. England has
expended $500, 100000 in India on irrigation
works, which have done much to render the
crops of that country more certain, thus
greatly mitigating the frequency of fam
ines. Even now the British government is
expending millions of dollars in extending
the area of irrigation in the valley of the
Nile. A German company is preparing to
engage extensively in the work Of restoring
cultivation in the plains of Mesopotamia,
near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in
which were situated the ancient cities of
Babylon and Nineveh. Thus as the popula-
ton Of the earth increases, overlooking its
choice lands, science and enterprise are re-
claiming its waste places.
1t is claimed that the bill which has
passed the House is carefully guarded and
that the government will be reimbursed
for it's expenditure by the sale of public
lands. The bill intrusts the work of con-
%structing dams, reservoirs, etc, to the In
terror Department, which would, of course,
utilize the services of the United States
geological survey, which has been engaged
for several years, through competent en-
gineers, in the study of the various streams
and rivers of the arid region, their capacity,
their flow, the possibility of the conserva-
ton of their waters, the location of dams,
the construction of reservOirs-in short, of
the whole subject. The able engineers and
officers of this bureau are strongly in favor
of inaugurating a general policy of irriga-
tion and are fully equipped TO carry it on.
Every secretary of the interior in recent
years has favored it, and President Roose-
welt spoke strongly in favor of it in his last
message. All the objections TO it seem to
have been overcome, and the arguments in
favor of it are practical and convincing.
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which ne could believe. and probably all
that he did believe. In the preface, in
which Jefferson gives his views of the phil
osophy Of Jesus, he said: HE (Jesus)
taught emphatically the doctrine of the
future state which was either doubted or
disbelieved by the Jews; He welded it
with an efficacy as an important incentive,
moral conduct. = The precepts of the
philosophy and of the Hebrew code laid
hold Of action only. He pushed His scru-
TIMES into the heart Of man; erected His
tribunal in the region of his thought and
purified the waters Of the fountain head.
: A system of morals is presented to
US which, if filled up in the true style and
spirit of the rich fragments which He has
left us, would be the most perfect and sub
lime that has ever been taught by man."
Jefferson had been assailed as an infdel,
and he had come to hate many of them in
a very positive manner. as is shown by
SOM Of his observations given as a part of
the preface Of the book. One thing can be
said for Jefferson: He was a careful read
er of the Bible, else he could not have made
the selections he did for the book bearing
his name. At the time the resolution was
offered in the House ordering the printing
of the Jefferson Bible, the Journal made a
mild protest. Upon further consideration
the protest may have been a mistake,
when one thinks Of the many thousands
claiming to be the follower of Jefferson,
who would have read the book under the
impression that he was the real author
and would have been benefited thereby if
sent out as a public document. instead Of
speeches, many of which can afford no en-
lightenment to the reader.
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PIONEER NERVES.

Between nerve and nerves" there Ia
a vast difference, as all the world knows.
and for the present a~ll-prevalent malady
known as nervous prostration" a new
theory is advanced.
Medical experts can say all they please
about our rapid modern life and overwork
being the cause Of so much nervousness
among Americans remarked a meditative
gentleman, 'Tbut I've diagnosed my own
case. and 1 know, beyond a doubt that
what ails me and all my family is pioneer
nerves."
what are pioneer nerves." asked every
body, all at once.
Why, these no-account, good-for-nothins
nerves like mine. Look at me, a great. big,
overgrown ~man-weigh over 10 pounds
and can't stand it TO hear "A hand-organ,
or a door bang: can't bear To see anybody
rock in q rocking chair, jingle a bunch Of
keys. or cIink two pieces Of money to-
gether. Ii makes my heart beat TO have
a door opened suddenly behind me, and
I'm terribly afraid of news OF any kind
good or bad-afraid I'll die Of shock.
well, my great-grandmother, I've
learned. stayed in a log cabin with three
little children and a small black boy for
three months while my great-grandfather
went TO the battle of Tippecanoe. For six
weeks after the battle she didn't know
whether she was wife or widow. All this
time she kept the back and front doors Of
the cabin open, so that If an Indian came
In one door she and her little family could
run out the other. GRANDMOTHER kept the
ak handy, too. prepared TO clutch IL IN
her defense II the Indians came. Once a
bear. instead OF an Indian, walked In at
the open cabin door. and grandmother and
Sam. the black boy. dispatched him with
the rifle and the AK.
MY mother tells me that when she went
to school-in a log-cabin schooihouse-
she used TO go through woods where
she would hear wildcats cry, and
her Journeys to and from school
were filled with terror OF these pan
theirs. 1t took nerve 20 live In pioneer
DAYS. and the descendants OF pioneers. Of
course. had 10 suffer. I'm a victim Of my
great-grandmother and my mother; they
expended so much nerve that / haven't
any. My grandmother, too, wove and spun
flax and wool winter and summer for her
father and mother. seven brothers and
herself. another item In my ancestral rec
ord of nervous force exhausted. I've given
up doctors" the sufferer concluded: IAN
the doctors IN the world can't do any 5000
TO inherited pioneer nerves." .
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and he directed party organization as few
men have been able TO do. Most of the
men who have any right to be called
statesmen have also been politicians from
the earliest time to the present. The rea-
son is obvious. Interested in public af-
fairs. they have studied conditions. have
kept in touch with public sentiment, dis
cussing the methods of directing it. He
becomes a statesman who. by being a care
full politician, discovers the conditions and
has the brains to devise the best measures
to secure the public welfare. To illus
trate: When both parties were at sea re-
garding the currency, and after General
Grant vetoed the most remarkable cur
rency bill that Congress had ever passed,
o Sherman, one of the most conspicu-
Gus of politicians and wisest of statesmen,
framed what was known as the Sherman
resumption act. 1t was not what he would
have chosen, but, knowing the sentiment
of the country, he knew that it was the
best he could get. The bill was enacted,
but the infallibles who would have specie
resumption at once or nothing denounced
1t. and the now Senator Hoar and a few
other Republican members of the House
voted against it. 1t became a law and
gave the Nation specie resumption. 1t
was a political statesman's measure, and
will stand as one of the most important
ever enacted by an American Congress.
In what has been said no allusion was
made to a class of politicians who became
politicians because of the large revenues
they believed could be obtained by corrupt
methods in connection with local govern
ments. The Tweeds, the Crokers, the manip-
ulators of schemes in the larger cities at
the present time are in no sense politicians.
They are simply men who have discovered
that they can better plumber the public
under the name of a political party than
by more direct methods. In no proper
sense of the word are they even machine
politicians.
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side that OF Abraham Lincoln. After con-
sidering Mr.. Adams's argument, showing
that from Washington TO Lincoln there
was an element In the country which held
that every State had the right to peace
ably withdraw from the Union, the Herald
says that General Lee belonged to that
element, and consequently he was right in
joining the secessionists. All this may be,
and is probably, true, but it Is no reason
that any man who raised his hand to over
throw the Nation. even if he did later rec
ognize it as his own Nation, should nave a
you set on a high column that all men,
looking on it, may be continually ap-
prised Of the duty you expect from them"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-22
IRRIGATION OF ARID PUBLIC LANDS

AS already noted in the news columns of
the Journal the House of Representatives
has passed a bill for the reclamation of
arid public lands, commonly known as the
irrigation bill. The session is so far adj
vanced that it is not likely the Senate will
act on the bill before adjournment, but the
action of the House probably commits Con-
gress to the policy. The practice of arti-
fetal irrigation of lands is a very old one.
and resort to it by the United States will
not be new in the history of this continent.
Not TO speak of its use by the ancients.
there are evidences that it was extensively
practiced by the early inhabitants OF Mex
leo long before the discovery of America.
and it is still continued there quite extern
sively by more or less primitive methods.
If the United States goes into it, it will, Of
course, be established by scientific en-
cheering methods and on a large scale. 1t
must not be supposed that so-called arid re-
gions are entirely without rain. In a gen.
eral way the designation applies to regions
that nave an insufficient annual rainfall.
However, a large part OF the lands in the
so-called arid regions is valueless without
artificial irrigation. 1t may surprise many
people to learn that one-third of the whole
United States. exclusive of Alaska and out
lying possessions, consists of vacant public
land OF which a considerable proportion
comes under the technical designation of
arid. The total area of sixteen Western
States and Territories is 9T2, IA, 600 acres. Of
which 5S5. 1885, COO, or So per cent. are vacant,
and l20. 64S.O 600 are included in Indian or
other reservations. The vacant public lands
are for the most part desert-like in cherac-
ter. and can only be made useful through
irrigation. Some Of the largest areas OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-22
THE JEFFERSON BIBLE.

Much has been said of the Jefferson Bible
since a resolution was presented by a mem
Der of the House to have Congress go to
the expense of printing it. Most people
knew that a book bearing hat title was in
existence. The reason given for having it
printed was that the United States had the
only copy, but 1t has since been announced
that an accurate copy was made years ago,
and from that copy the alleged Jefferson
Bible has been presented by the S. D.
Thompson Publishing Company. of St.
Louis. 1t is not a large book, since it con-
tains only those portions of the gospels
which, in Jefferson's view, best present the
ethical teachings of Jesus. He called it
1.-The Philosophy OF Jesus of Nazareth"
The account Of the birth Of Jesus is given.
out the portion which is miraculous, like
the immaculate conception and the adora-
ton OF the shepherds who saw His star in
the east. is not given. None of the miracles
is given. but the Sermon on the Nouns, the
parallels and precepts are in the Jefferson
Bible. The New Testament account Of the
last supper the betrayal. crucifxlon and
burial are given. but the account of the
resurrection is omitted. That is, the Bible
OF Jefferson contains only those portions
OF the account OF the life and character Of
Jesus which make no demand for a belief
in the supernatural. Jefferson believed in
Jesus the same as he believed in Socrates
and Epictetus. While declaring that Jesus
philosophy is higher than that OF any an
cient philosopher. he is careful not TO give
a word OF the New Testament which as
serts the divinity Of Christ. In other words.
Mr.. Jefferson gives the portion OF the Bible
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Recognized 1t.
Baltimore American.

bdlllIlOTG AIntIlNdH.
"And the brigands." said the man who was
telling the story, after writing me several let
tiers demanding a ransom for my wife, sent me
a lady-fnger as proof that they really held her
captive"
TERRIBLE! Terriblel' sighed his hearers.
YES, wasn't it?" he blithely said. "She got
them to let her try several other things, but they
soon sent her home and gave up all thought Of
ransom. for they couldn't stand her cooking at
all. But as soon as they sent that lady finger 1
knew it was her work. 1t was hard as a rock,
and had brigand tooth marks all over it."
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wounded. Two % his comrades entered TO
Boer lines In quest Of him. They were
blindfOlded and taken before the general.
When their eyes were u~nbandagcd ley
beheld a venerable looking Bocr m turnea-
up shirt sleeves seated on the ground peel
ing potatoes IL was Delarey himself
The San Francisco Chronicle says that
when Bret Harte was a reporter for that
paper ne was assigned to the opening OF
a new saloon, IN describing which event
he began nationally and gradually worked
around TO the incoherence OF a drunken
man. The article was an exact portrayal
exhilaration TO intoxication, and Harte was
proud of his work. when he looked at the
paper the next day he found in place OF
his article a nalf column OF matter as dun
as ditch water. in the absence OF the edi-
tor the foreman OF the composing room.
supposing Harte had really been drunk.
and thinking 10 do him q service. had lift
ed" his story and submitted a hastily writ
ten makeshifL.
A humble tailor death had caught
Within his clutches grim.
Yet by his grave we stood and thought
How much We owed 10 him.
Philadelphia Press.
Don't want 10 be no angel.
With wings, an other trimmin'.
Ruther have a holiday
Fishing or a"-swimmini
Ruther be OF yonder
Singin' in the sun
Don't want 10 be no angel
Till L can't help bein' one,
Atlanta Constitution
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Four women have recently been sent 10
the pe%nitentiary in Philadelphia for plan
ming fake accidents on street-railway cars
by their own children. The children were
instructed in falling off the cars, and in
falling so as to receive the slightest injury
from the fail. One broke an arm, but II
was due to the failure of the child to obey
instructions. Several settlements for in
juries were made by the street-railway
companies, but at last a detective secured
a case and the children confessed the CON
Spiracy.
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The prompt action Of the officials. backed
by the knowledge that a detachment of
the National Guard was under arms, pre-
vented a lynching in Vincennes. The dan
ger was met with p~romptness and firm
ness shoot TO kill' are three words in
an order Of the Governors which will cause
iynchers to scatter whenever they assem-
bic. There will be no more ly~nchings in
Indiana If the mob, on its first appearance,
shall be met by fearless officials backed
with rifles If necessary.
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An Oversight.

Chicago Post.
The employee Of the gas company was excited.
What's the matter?" asked the superintend-
ent.
I've just found a street that hasn't been torn
up for nearly ten years" was the repiy.
''Send a gang of men out there at once" or
dered the superintendent.
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Those who desire to attend the coronation
various reasons should find consolation in
the predictions of those who claim to be
well informed that American tourists are
now so numerous in Europe that many will
be compelled to wait until late in the
autumn because of the impossibility of get
ting transportation. at is either a lOpS
wait or a swim" for hundreds in Europe,
is the statement of a Transatlantic steam
shin agent.