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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

long-distance virtue can see nothing but
waste and corruption in canal connecting
the lakes with the Mississippi river
The most important water commerce, to
the United States is that of the lakes. It's
volume is enormous, and, looked at in a
wide sense. it is OF advantage to the whole
country, yet that immense commerce would
be impossible to-day IL the government had
not spent millions in making the rivers or
streams connecting those lakes navigable.
Tens of millions of dollars have been spent
upon the Mississippi river. more, it is said
by critics. to keep the floods within its
banks than to make it navigable. Suppose
that that is the case-is it not a function
of government TO protect millions of Guilt
waited acres inhabited by tens of thousands
of people from the overflow Of river which
passes through dozen States? Is not a
scheme to retain the waters of the upper
Mississippi and its tributaries for irriga-
ton purposes. and at the same time to pre-
vent the floods they cause in the lower
Mississippi proper enterprise for the gov
eminent to undertake? Most sensible peo-
pie now see in the Weather Bureau de-
signed TO foretell storms and in the expert
mental agricultural stations proper objects
of federal aid. Only few years ago these
were opposed, and fewer years ago the
rural free delivery of mails was denounced
as an expenditure not warranted. 1t is
different now, and were not the critic at
long distance infallible in his own estima-
ton he could see good in an expenditure
not in his own neiGhborhood.
But if these appropriations were indie
fensible the getting of them should not
be charged to the natural wickedness of
senators and representatives. They do not
initiate these movements for public build
ings and river and harbor expenditures.
The constituents are behind them, and if
they are not united in anything else they
are as one man for an appropriation for
public building. Even the citizen of far
away virtue is just as Jealous to write his
name conspicuously on the petition for the
largest appropriation as the man who is not
devoting his spare time to bemoanng gen
eral lack of public conscience. On the other
hand, it should be said that there is SEN
timent abroad which seems to approve of
| getting much out of the government as
is possible, regardless of the character Of
the object for which it is asked. The citi-
zens of many towns ask, and will con-
tinue to ask, for public buildings which
they should not have, because their con-
struction would not be warranted upon bus
mess principles. Other citizens will ask
| Congress to make a stream navigable for
which there is insufficient water to make
a mill stream. They imagine that the waste
of public money upon such contracts would
be of local advantage, and. so imagining,
they lose sight of the higher purpose of all
public expenditure, namely. to promote the
| public welfare. The very narrow-sighted
people who would ask public expenditure
without warrant of public usefulness are
quite likely to be those burdened with a
superfiuity of far-off virtue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION,

The pain of love is ludicrous to all save
those who feel it.-Dorothy Vernon.
Love thy neighbor. but pull not down thy
hedges.-The Heroine of the Strait
The devil is by nature intermittent. being
constant in but few natures-Roman Biz
net.
We ought never to do wrong when people
are looking.-A Double Barreled Detective
Story.
Sincerity makes wrinkles, but it is the
privilege of our friends to make us old be-
fore our time.-The Imitator.
Most women love those men best who
possess that combination of Difference and
tenderness that we call chivalry-Threads
of Life
man breeds torture, but age with the heart
al rest is the best season of life.-Dorothy
Vernon.
The master poets love TO deal with the
victory of the vanquished which the
worlds thinkers know to be greater than
the victory Of the victorious.-Nathan Hale.
There have always been poor men and
there always will be; you can't blame the
rich man for wanting to stay rich and YOU
can't blame the poor man for wanting to
exchange jobs.-Shacklett.
When the Lord made inventors He figured
out that if He devoted half of their head
TO business capacity the other half wouldnt
be worth much for inventions, so He left
the business arrangement out, and that 8
fair.-Shacklett
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Norway is said to be worried because 3d.
900 Norwegians have sailed to America this
year-double the number for the same
period last year.
Mark Twains 'Innocents Abroad" has
been barred from Russia for it's heresy.
The chapter objected to is his description
of weeping over Adams supposititious
grave.
The Living Church quotes this from
Connecticut womans diary, dated 1920:
I'VE had roast pork for dinner. and DIR. S..
who carved, held up rib on his fork, and
said, Here, ladies, is what Mother Eve
was made Of Yes said Sister Patty
and it's from very much the same kind OF
critter.
Queen Wilhelmina, when in health, in
sists on knowing the contents of every
document she signs. In case of doubt she
summons an expert TO explain the matter
TO her. Herein she follows the example of
Queen Victoria, who always acted on this
principle. though she had to sign an aver
age OF 200 documents a day.
A chemist has determined. by painstak-
ing analysis, that human body of aver
age size contains three pounds and thir-
teen ounces of calcium. The current quo
tation of calcium is $500 ounce, which
would give us each a value in the retort
Of $lS.300, or one-fourth our weight in gold.
At recent cooking exhibition in Paris.
President Loubet made a speech in which
he declared that one OF the reasons why
so many foreigners like TO visit Paris is
that they are sure to get better things TO
eat there than anywhere else in the world,
and he exhorted the cooks to use all their
talent to maintain this supremacy for
France.
President Loubet of France made flying
visit TO his mother at her farm near
Dauphney recently. and found the old lady
kneading dough for the family baking.
Mother" said he, you are getting too
old for that work. Sit down here and talk
TO me" He undertook the job himself, and
was still busy a II when a messenger ar
rived from Paris with some important pa
pers He finished before looking them over.
AS memorial TO her late husband. Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt will give TO ST. Bar
tholomew's Church. New York. of which
Mr.. Vanderbilt was a vestryman, two sets
of bronze doors and an entire new front for
the church, at estimated cost of some
$1,000 II was Mrs Vanderbilt's original
intention TO confne her gift TO the bronze
doors, but subsequently she decided 10
build a new front 10 the church, upon
which work will begin forthwith.
Mrs. Eva Devoe. of East Syracuse. N. Y.
Is 100 years old. On her birthday last Sat-
urday she worked in her garden and after
dinner went automobiling with her great
grandchildren. helping 10 manage the ma
a bicycle so / could get out like other folks.
I hate 10 be behind the times. My family
seemed TO think Ia better not have one.
and maybe IL would look queer 10 see the
mother OF seventy-two-year-old girl on a
bicycle"
Mrs. EtheIbert Nevin is 10 establish a
fellowship in the New York University
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15
SHADE TREES IN CITIES.

The shade trees in the cities Of Indiana
are now at their best-because they are in
fun foliage and the pests have not yet be-
the beauty and the real glory of our
streets. A city which has not such trees
is desert and comfortless place half the
year. Indeed, very much of the attractive
ness Of one part of a city over another is
due to it's shade trees. With our wide
streets. to which the asphalt pavements
invite the pitiless sun four months in the
year, abundant shade trees make the differ
ence between comfort and wretchedness.
These reflections. in which all will join,
lead to the practical question: Are cities
whose comfort depends so largely upon
abundant shade taking care of the trees
along their streets and public grounds? The
natural man is the natural enemy Of the
tree. His first impulse, inherited from
those who subdued the land. is TO destroy
a tree. The natural boy takes to tree de-
struction instinctively, climbing into them,
bending them down and tearing off their
branches. But in all cities there should be
enough thoughtful and cultured people to
resist the impulse to destroy shade trees
Indeed, the governments of cities should
look out for the trees as they do for the
streets. Do they? There are always men
who know how to mend streets; how many
cities in Indiana are there who have men
who are on such terms of intimacy with
trees that they know how to protect them
from foes and disease? We hear of city
foresters. and, passing along the streets.
see men saving off limbs of trees with all
the foliage. Who can tell if this robbing
the trees of their lungs is a remedy for tree
disease? 1t does not look that way. Again.
can anyone say for a certainty what effect
asphalt and other impervious paving of
streets and sidewalks will have upon the
trees? There are those who say that such
paving will kill the trees unless something
is done 10 protect them. Does anyone
know about it beyond doubt? If not, is 1t
not about time that the city government or
some society organized TO promote the pub
lie welfare should look after this matter?
1t is really a topic large enough for the
Board of Trade or the Commercial Club to
be interested in.
The shade tree is in the fullness of it's
glory in June. but later insects will feed
upon its foliage. and what with proper care
would be a thing of beauty until its leaves
fall, becomes unsightly. Cannot these in
sects which destroy the health and the
beauty OF the tree be eXterminated? If
the native birds were not molested would
they not exterminate the noxious insects
What should be done with boy or man who
goes about shooting birds or breaking UP
their nests, when the birds are so necessary
to the destruction of the trees foes? Is not
this a much more important subject than
! many of us think?
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LAWS IMPARTIALITY.

Aside from the embarrassment TO an esti-
mable lady which must arouse a degree
Of sympathy for her, the arrest of the
daughter Of Gen. Robert E. Lee for insist
ing on riding in a trolley car set apart for
colored passengers is an incident 10 cause
the unregenerate TO smile. 1t could have
occurred nowhere else than in the South,
for nowhere else is the color line legally
drawn among travellers in public convey
ances. If Miss Lee had been in suburb
of Boston, or Of New York. or of Chicago,
she would have been left undisturbed in
any car she chose TO enter. 1t is true she
might in such event have a colored brother
or sister to the right of her and another
to the left, but presumably this juxtaposi-
ton would be a matter of Indifference to
her, inasmuch as it was certain to exist in
the car from which she declined to depart
when informed that it was for negro pas
sengers exclusively. Her thought was, it is
not unlikely. that If she did not object TO
being there no one else ought to do so, but
such reflection, natural though 1T might
be TO any white person in her place. would
complacency-as if the white passenger
should say to the negro, you shall not
ride in our car. but If 1 care 10 take a seat
in yours that is another matter" If Miss
Lee, good lady that she is, had seen a negro
insist upon remaining in the white car
after being warned TO depart, she would
no doubt have considered his forcible eject
| ment and subsequent arrest a proper and
| righteous proceeding. That the law could
look upon her as equal offender when
she followed a like course probably never
| occurred to her. 1t was her misfortune TO
have to learn through painful experience
that the law is no respecter of persons.
The conductor did favor her. it is true by
leaving her undisturbed until the end of
her journey; but he knew what she did
not-that, having had separate quarters
| forced upon them in travel colored passen-
gers insist upon keeping such quarters ex-
elusive and in making trouble for conduc-
tors who do not enforce the rules impair
TALLY. Had he known the identity of this
particular white lady and that all the First
Fmilies of Virginia would be shocked in
their tenderest sensibilities al the applica-
ton of the law to her, he might have felt
that his best chance for safety lay on the
side of leniency. AS it was. she was ar
rested on the sacred soil of Virginia under
statute enacted by her friends and as
sociates for their own and her protection
with never thought of boomerang effects
| The f. T. VS. are filled with horror, but
as before remarked, a graceless public can
/ not restrain a laueh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

Settlement Music School Her ss1s-
band was deeply interested in children OF
musical ability who were too poor 70 re-
ceive proper training and she desires 10
commemorate his work. one child OF spe-
cial talent In the music school Is 10 De Sc
lected each year TO receive the oenent OF
this fellowship which Is 10 be called ne
Ethelbert Nevin Fellowship"
A man named Johnson was a candidate
for a consulship, and the Iowa delegation
was backing him for the place. says the
Washington Post. A vacancy was finally
found 10 which the President promised 10
appoint the candidate. Thereupon Mr..
Johnson went 10 the State Department 10
undergo the usual examination as 70 his
fitness. He had no trouble until he reached
the sixth question: How many HeSsians
came 10 this country 10 night for the Eng
lish?' Johnson didn't know but he did not
propose 10 be left entirely. This is what he
wrote for an answer: "A great many more
than ever went back"
There once was a sober Prof
And yet OF a heart the poss.
lie said OF lass
Who hunked in his class
she's dear little girl. Heaven BIZ
Kansas City star.
Jiii-o'er-the- ground Is purple blue.
Blue Is the Ouaker-maid.
The alder-olump where the brook comes through
Breeds crosses IN its shade.
To be out Of the moiling street
With its swclter and its sin
Who has given me this sweet.
And given brother dust eat7
And when will his wage come in2
William Vaughan Moody.
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the National foad. or. as he calls IL. the
National pike over three millions Of
dollars were appropriated by Congress for
the purpose during the years between 1911
and 1S37-a large amount in those times, but
not enough TO complete the road 70 the
western end of it's surveyed line, as Mr..
Wilson leaves his readers 10 infer was the
case. II was never completed as far as st.
Louis, but was abandoned at some point
nearer the eastern than the western border
of Illinois. when the prospect of steam rail-
roads made further progress seem an I'M
necessary expense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

1t is hoped that those people who went
up and down the country denouncing Pres
ident Mckinley because he did not do some
indefinite thing to help the Beers after
Great Britain had declined our offers of
mediation will learn, and profit by learn
ing. that the Beers are fraternizing with
the British soldiers and abusing the volun-
teers who helped them. The Beers declare
that the French who came to help them
were useless and that the Germans who
came 70 them were only good to give horses
sore backs. They also declare that if it
were not for encouragement given by the
French and German press they would have
come to terms long ago. The only advan-
tage of prolonging the struggle to the
Beers is that Great Britain paid them a
much larger amount to lay down their
arms when they did than if they had
done it earlier. While the majority of the
American people sympathized with the
Beers. those who held public meetings and
assailed the administration for not get
ting into war with Great Britain to help
the Beers were playing politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

Preliminary to a review of some recent
American poetry the New York Post re-
marks: 1T is the fortune of great cities
20 produce a large and indispensable class
of what may be called semi-poets-of those
who. with a little repression. might per-
haps have accomplished something of TIL
umphant value. but who win an after
dinner success so easily that they are
rather apt TO stop there" This is an acute
and discriminating comment. How many
writers OF clever verse all OF us have known
OF whom much has been expected. but who
have remained writer's merely of clever
verse and nothing more 10 the end
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

In a circle of men inclined to discuss
questions which they cannot answer and
problems which they cannot solve. the top
ic was the alleged loss OF influence by
clergymen, the assumption being that, as a
class, they are not so potential as years
ago. A wicked cynic who was present
marked that he frequently arose in the
night when he could not sleep and read
the Bible wherever he happened to open it,
and that the night before, following his
custom, he read of the prophet Elisha. who
sent two she-bears TO punish the children
that Knocked him. The cynic held that the
preacher of to-day had less power because
he had no bears to cause people to obey
him. 1t is a good story, but in this age only
the very wicked fear the man of vengeance:
besides, there never was a time when so
many people hear or read what the preach
ers say and it is probable that what they
say never had so wide and salutary infu-
ence as now. The members of the debating
circle started out with an assumption
which is not true.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

In his recent speech at West Point Secre-
tary Root contrasted present conditions in
this country with former ones in their rela-
ton TO our military resources. In the revo-
lutionary war and during the early period
of our history almost every American knew
how to handle and shoot a gun, but now,
said the secretary, with the increase of
our population the collection of a great pro-
portion of our people in the great cities,
with the increasing of the luxuries and
complications of life, the volunteer armies
upon which the Republic must in the main
depend to fight its wars, are made up Of
men who for the most part have never fired
a gun" There is some truth in this, but as
a source of military weakness it is rather
prospective than present. The time will
come when it may be a source of weak
ness, and even now it should be guarded
against by the introduction of military
training in schools and by the systematic
drilling of State militia. AS people we
should far as possible keep up our
familiarity with firearms and our superb
ority in Workmanship It is the man be-
hind the gun that counts.
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gan county. as the Republican candidate
for joint senator from Marion and Nor
gan. is the natural outcome OF a very
pretty thrce-cOrnered fight There was a
stsong feeling from the beginning that
tna nomination ought 10 go 10 Morgan
county. but the two leading candidates
from this county. Messrs. Charles Martin
dale and Linton 4. Cox. both had an en-
thusiastic following who believed their
man cogld be nominated. AS IL proved.
neither strong enough TO beat the
other and the Morgan county candidate
won Mr.. Smith is an excellent man and
viii have the united support OF Marion
county Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

1t seems to be thought in certain quar-
ters that the publication by the government
of Thomas Jefferson's Bible would conflict
with the clause of the Constitution forbid
ding interference with matters religious;
but this would hardly be the case, since,
according to all accounts, there is little or
no religion in it. However, II is better
to leave its publication TO private enter
prise. Congress would hardly care to set a
precedent that might require it to print
everything that any President ever wrote.
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Much the Same to Her.

Chicago Post.
The Office seekers little girl was naturally
curious
Has papa been baptized YETI" she asked.
Baptized? What do you mean?' inquired her
mother.
Baptized by the Senate" explained the little
II heard you talking about it,
'Oh, you mean confirmed" said her mother.
"Why. of course" said the little one. He's
baptized by the President and confirmed by the
Senate. 1 got it wrong, didn't ~
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The graduating class Of Princeton re-
Gently declared by vote that Lopgfellow
was the favorite poet and Scott the favor
lite novelist of large majority of its mem
bers This verdict might be expected from
the pupils of a grammar school, who are
just at the age TO dote on Scott and whose
acquaintance with Longfellow consists
mainly OF an ability TO recite that didactic
poem, THE Psalm OF Life" This is not to
say that either Scott or Longfellow is not
great in his way, but that 10 taste of the
maturity which might be expected OF a
Princeton graduate it is rather surprising
that they should rank as greatest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

The University of Chicago. to which Mr..
Rockefeller has been so liberal, has ad-
United women on the same terms as men,
but now it is proposed to have a junior
university with classes exclusively for
women. In other words, the managers of
the university have decided that men and
women shall not be instructed in the same
classes. In behalf of the women. it is re-
ported that injunction Will be sought in
the United States courts 10 prevent such
discrimination. if a discrimination it is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

Sixto Lopez. a Filipino malignant. who is
posing as a patriot, writes an open letter
20 Secretary of War Root criticising some
at West Point and demanding to know If
the instruction in the Philippines has
been suppressed why the government does
not officially proclaim the fact. Mr.. Lopez
finds a congenial channel for the publica-
ton OF his letter in the Springfield Repub-
lican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

mortal day address of the President, has
defeated an anti-lynching bill which gave
the Governor special power to transfer pris-
cners and grant a change of venue when
lynching is threatened, which leads to the
inference that the controlling element in
when they would be sure to be punished
By courts controlled entirely by whites.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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street
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street.
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Planted just the Same.

Moonshine.
First Neighbor-Hallo. you look busy; what are
you doing?
that's all
First Neighbor (suspiciouslvl-H'm thought IL
looked as il you were planting one OF my hens.
Second Neighbor-Well. mats all right The
seeds inside.