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sense OF news" is an indispensable quail
hcation for the highest success. and also
the most rare. Many reporters can take
assignments" and do we'll the particular
thing they are told to do: only the excep-
tional one IS always alert to other possible
matters of interest that may come his way
and quick TO recognize them. This sense is
one that no school can confer-not even
that Of experience. II may be developed by
practice, but it must be Unborn.
No; schools of Journalism can do little,
II anything, more than other schools for
the training of journalists. They may be
classed for impracticability with the
schools occasionally proposed by visionary
and misguided persons for the education of
women to be wives and mothers Precisely
what the special training is to be in such
institutions. not even the projectors have
ever made clear. If they can give them
good health. good morals and common
sense they will do all that seems to be nee
essary possible, but it is the aim of
all well-regulated schools and family circles
to bring this about the special establish
ments are superiuous. In the same way,
as good a general education as can be OBJ
tanned and a natural knack are the essen
tails for the journalist.
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preston Of the man on those who read this
book and no other concerning him, and
bring uncertainty 10 others who have held
a different opinion. but have not the his.
torical learning which enables them TO de-
eide at once as 10 the comparative ccr-
rectness OF the differing estimates. For
how Is the reader who has not himself
made 4 special study OF the character de-
picted to determine whether /; is the true"
Thomas Jefferson. OF Alexander Hamilton.
or Aaron Burr o. other noted person. or
not. when other writer's, with equal posi-
tiveness. portray them in a very different
light7 With these varying views in exist
ence-all put forward with a show OF au-
thority-concerning the men who have fig
ured prominently in American history. 1t
becomes a matter OF chance with the
reader OF the future whether ne shall think
we'll or III OF them. His only method OF
preventing confusion OF mind, should he
read the differing presentations of the
characters. Is to engage in original re-
search and decide for himself what Is the
true" character in the case of each Gel
ebrity
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UNNECEssARY SCHOOLS.

A Stevens scholarship of Journalism has
been established in an English college in
honor Of G. w. Stevens, the famous CORE
Ladysmith in the early months of the
South African war. Since such a scholar
ship is to be established il could not be bet
ter named. for Mr.. Stevens had uncommon
gifts as a newspaper writer, but the things
that made his writings superior 10 those of
the majority were in reality gifts, natural
talents, not acquired skill. He did not gain
in schools his ability to describe what he
saw in language so vivid that the reader
saw the same scene-and remembered it;
he did not get there the unerring instinct
that enabled him to choose among many
matters Of interest those which would in
terest most readers or which would best
convey an idea of general conditions. 1t
was not in school for journalism that he
learned to say in a sentence what some
could hardly have told in half column,
nor there that he learned to make unimpor-
tant matters interesting, nor there that he
learned how to write under tremendous
pressure Of time letters which went over
the wires without chance for revision and
i'm print appeared as finished productions,
admirable in style. with seldom superfu-
Gus word.
Mr.. Stevens. il is true. was a scholar.
Unlike many correspondents equally dis
tinguished, he was a university man, but
during his university career he had not
been consciously preparing himself for the
work of reporter. which is what the cor
respondent really is. On the contrary, his
first published work was in the shape of
essays, and it was an unexpected combina-
ton of circumstances that made him d war
correspondent. What he learned in college
was what all successful writer's must learn
In one way or another-a familiarity with
the language in which they are to write
its grammar, its technicslities. its uses.
Whatever else they may learn in school or
out has its uses TO them some time or
other. but control OF the language they
must have. II tutors do their duty. how
ever, what they acquire is common pos
session OF all intelligent students whatever
their callings are to be. But not all intelll-
gent young men can become successful re-
porters or correspondents. Only the few
have the exceptional qualifications neces-
sary for the work. One lacks the power Of
accurate observation. another the quick
ness OF wit that serves him in emergencies
constantly arising. another the ability TO
decide quickly as to what Is most impor-
tant or most interesting. This last. the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

a few days ago the Journal gave an ac-
count OF very remarkable transaction in
Hamilton county. \ weI-to-do citizen was
Induced 20 raise $a.O0O to be used as a wager
that a negro sprinter who lives in the coun-
= would lose 4 race in some town in ILL
nois- The money was put up in the belief
that the negro would lose the race 10 win
TIE money The who put up the money
vas not present at the race, but the negro,
instead % losing the race won X. and prob
ably won q part OF the money. The first
surprise is that any man OF average intelli-
gence could have bought such cheap gold
brick as was that device. and the second
IS that men IN = respectable community
could have 50 little moral sense as to listen
10 and become parties 30 such a fraud. 1t
IS said that men who are well known may
be involved in the conspiracy TO victimize
one o. their fellow-cit.zcns. The negro is in
Jail and VIII be brought 20 trial IT is not
OF much consequence whether he shall be
sent 10 the state prison or not. for he has
once been there. but II the trial shall bring
TO light the persons who are engaged IN that
class Of robbery, and their methods, the
public VIII at least be enlightened.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

Walter X. Lands, postmaster at San
Juan, Porto Rico, formerly well-known
newspaper man of Indianapolis, furnishes
the Journal with the most graphic descrip-
ton of the Martinique disaster yet printed.
Mr.. Lands was with the party of United
States naval officers and seamen that re-
covered the body Of Consul Thomas It.
Prentis at St. Pierre. Two outbursts of
Mont Pelee while the party was ashore
caused great alarm. Finally the body OF
the consul was abandoned at the beach and
its rescuers fed to the ship for their lives.
The body was secured later and taken to
Fort de France for burial. Mr. Lands S
story is thrilling from start to finish
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dearth OF male stenographers- IL seems
that each year relatively fewer and FEWER
young men are devoting their time 10 the
study OF shorthand. Various explanations
are offered. 1t is emphatically denied that
women stenographers have crowded men
out OF this form Of employment, Tor IL Is
maintained that there is work for women
shorthand writer's and quite different sort
Of work for male adopts. But II Is admitted
that the impression may be abroad that
the males have been crowded out, ana
this impression may account for the lack
of interest on the part of young men. How
ever that may be. the fact seems undiS-
puted. OF course, young men are toohsn
thus TO throw aside one OF their best lines
of opportunity. Somebody has prepared
formidable exhibit showing the men OF
prominence who were once stenographers;
Some of the names. perhaps. do not ADD
weight TO the argument. but at any rate
here is the list In part: Mayor Tom Il.
Johnson OF Cleveland: Senator William r.
Mason, of Illinois; Robert r. Hit, cnalr
man of the foreign affairs committee OF
the House OF Representatives; George =
Smith, president OF the Westinghouse AIT
brake Company; Ex-Governor Frank .
Black, Senator German, ex-senator Chano-
Ter, Daniel s. Lamont and many others.
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WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

There Is nothing that is enough for
woman. but all.-The Mississippi Bubble.
There is no such thing as i'll fortune; we
always fail Of our own NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Bubble
Overdone heartiness is nearly always as
nasty as underdone mutton.--Comments of
a Countess.
1 reckon that talking about a mans
work Is the best way to get friendly with
him.-Shackle
Occasions everything, but the rub is to
know an occasion, when you see 1.-THE
Lady Paramount.
He who loves truly and would be truly
loved, seeks not to compel: he only sues
The Lovers Progress.
1T is so sweet 10 have an aim in life"
said Lady Alicia; cit gives one something
TO think OF in the winter evenings and on
Sundays. Fuel of Fire.
1t is a great satisfaction TO every woman
to have final court OF appeal for the
settlement of all doubtful questions: and
II is a still greater satisfaction to be mar
ried to that court.-Fuel OF Fire
used to have all sorts of opinions. Now
l have only one, and that is, that a man
has to put up a pretty good fight and not
reel too bad over failure. It's all summed
up in that.-Roman Biznet.
I'm always willing TO give my opinion
on anything. / may be wrong nine times
out of ten, but the satisfaction of the tenth
time makes up for the other nine Resides
tSe other nine show me that one of the
prXllges OF an American citizen is still left
-Shacklett. A''
Budding genius is not always III treated
The youngster climbing the ladder is not
inevitably kicked in the face by the heel
OF him next above. II the genius Is real
ne is Just as likely to fall In with some
OLD Elijah who wants nothing so much
as worthy understudy for his mantle
Roman Biznet.
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NOTWITHSTANDING WIVES.

The state factory inspector is quoted as
expressing surprise that of the women in
this city who take sewing from shops or
factories to do at home the majority are
married. Why he is so surprised is not
clear, since the obvious reason for taking
sewing home is that the workers can COM
plete it and at the same time keep watch
full eye upon domestic affairs. Women
without home cares are likely to work in
that so many wives find it necessary to
work for money, that, too, is uncalled for.
The country is full of married women who
would be glad to add to the family income
by any. remunerative work that could be
done in the privacy of their own homes
Their pride, as we'll as that of their hus-
bands, does not permit them to enter open
ly into the field of labor. but it has often
been noted that the husbands prejudices
reach the vanishing point when the wife
succeeds in earning money in quiet and
unobtrusive way. thus proving that he is
not opposed to the vifely aid so much as to
the public knowledge OF it. The pride that
forbids the wife to engage openly in money
making is in one sense natural, since it is
the custom that the husband shall be the
breadwinner; in another sense il is false
for innumerable conditions may and do ex-
list, without discredit 10 any one concerned,
where the incorporating capacity of the
wife is an important element in the main
tenanoe of the home. Ordinarily married
women are too busily occupied with domes-
tic duties TO think Of additional work, but
no rule or theory can ft all cases, and ex-
ceptional instances must be judged by
themselves. But for prevailing sentiment
or prejudice in regard to the matter. II is
probable that many wives having leisure
and unemployed talents would seek lucra-
tive occupation; yet. after all. it is their
own affair and not that OF their neighbors,
and it is only their own interests that
should be considered. In these days. when
wants. II not actual needs. born Of the very
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

That Pittsburg doctors bill of $4,000
will cause a throwing up of hands by
great many people who would express no
surprise or displeasure over lawyers fee
OF equal amount charged Up against big
estate. 1t is true that the physician did
not cure his patient, but because lawyer
loses his case he does not therefore, remit
his fee. This matter of the valuation of
professional services by other people Is a
curious thing. However, ii is just as well
for the majority of US that the doctor will
come to see US at a cost Of not over IS a
visit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

To try to make it appear that smallpox is
epidemic. or nearly So in Indiana, is simply
infamous when the reports show that there
were not nearly half as many cases June
i as there were April l. In thirty-four
counties. In which there were 5S7 cases of
smallpox reported April l. there were go
eases reported June l. These reports in
clude those of all the river counties except
Floyd. in which there is no smallpox. With
81 per cent. less cases in the counties which
have reported now than there were in
April. there is little fear Of the success Of
men VINO are trying to brighten the people
in order TO fix some blame upon the Gov
ernor Cor refusing to waste public money
unnecessarily
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

Unless the paper which Senator Culber-
son, of Texas, had printed in the Record
as a part of his speech was stolen by some
clerk and by some respectable man. given
10 the senator it must have come into his
rotary Of war. the general of the army the
adjutant general or the judge advocate gen.
eral. The two last have denied any knowl-
edge of the giving out of the paper, and
nothing has been heard from General Miles.
Assuming that he is innocent, in what light
does a senator appear who uses a paper
which must have been stolen by a faith
less clerk?
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you must remember that an orchid lasts
long time. After plucking. indeed. IL VII
last from three TO eight weeks II II is cared
for properly. And. anyway 80 IL not
much to pay for a big bouquet OF orchids
There are plants in the world dozen
flowers from which would cost many thon-
sands for there are a number Of orchids
worth from 5000 20 5000 apiece They
grow in the maiarial. miasnafic jungles Of
Africa, and there are men whose only
business IN life is orchid hunting. They
only gather the roots In the dry season,
when they are shrivelcd and apparently
dead. Gathered In the wet season. whom
they are blooming. the least rough handling
would kill them. Some orchids do not bloom
until they are eighteen years old Others
grow in the cold and rarined air Of noun
tain tops But the majority grow In ma-
larial jungles. where he who hunts them
takes his health IN his hands
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

An English writer, in book called To
Morrow, presents as his ideal Of the future
garden city" a picture of a city arranged
IN cOncentric rings, the outer circumfer-
ence being a railroad lined with factories.
Why wait for the future when here is In
dianapolis with its Belt Railroad, factory
lined. and the inner circle with it's towering
monument. The intervening streets. to be
sure. are not circular. but the gardens and
open spaces are here and answer every
purpose. Perhaps. after all. the English
man got his idea from the old Indian
apolis railroad map representing the city
as one Of concentrfc circles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

A writer in the Atlantic Monthly argues
that poetry is essentially social and Its
future largely a social problem. He goes
on to say: Just as one feels that forests
may vanish, and yet in some way the
mighty watercourses must be fed, so with
poetry. Nothing has yet been found to take
the place Of rhythm as sign of social con-
sent, the union of steps and voices in COM
mon action; and whatever intellectual or
spiritual consultations may reach the lonely
thinker, emotion still drives him back upon
the sympathy OF man with man. Human
sympathy is thus at the heart OF every
poetic utterance, whether humble or great
rhythm is its outward and visible, once
audible. sign; and poetry. from this So
biological point of view, would therefore
seem to be an enduring element in our lie.
The Journal confesses that it did not know
precisely what the Atlantic contributor
meant until it read the programme for the
seventeenth annual convention OF the West
ern Association of Writers soon to be held
at Winona OF the thirty-seven literary
productions TO be read by their authors on
that occasion, twenty-four are poems. The
opening address of the convention has for
it's theme, What the Lake Poets Accom-
plished," and, as the president, who makes
an address later, is himself poet, it seems
likely that he, too, will in some way deal
with a theme which is so close to the hearts
of all the Writers. This programme proves
conclusively the Atlantic mans proposition
that poetry is social, at all events that
poets are, and that they seek their kind.
The meeting at Winona is, in fact. to be
a veritable poetic orgy. 1t will not be long,
probably, before some one will tell an in
terested world what the Winona lake poets
have accommodated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

The Chicago press seems to have quite
forgotten the riots Of last week. which were
so serious that the newspapers agreed not
TO tell the worst. Nevertheless, many peo-
pie in that city must have learned during
those riotOus days OF the large number of
law-hating people in the city and to inquire
II they can be as easily checked the next
time a strike affords them the occasion to
show their defiance of constituted authority
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II you chance to be one of those hap
PLY constituted persons all of whose geese
are swans, as the old saying goes, it may
interest you to know that swans are not
to be classed along with the Vulgar feath-
cred flock as poultry, but rank as birds.
So. at least, it has been decided by official
interpreters of the Dingley tariff law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

New York paper devotes a column to
descriptions of ping-pong costumes for
morning. afternoon and evening. 1t is to be
inferred from this that ping-pong is con-
tinuous performance among the leisure
''clawses'' of the metropolis
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Negative virtues Reward.

Chicago Record Herald.
why, papa" she urged. you know Arbuth-
not never drinks. chews, smokes, CANDLES nor
swears."
Yes. know the rugged. unromantic old
man answered. but / don't want a chan for
who merely doesn't do things"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08

book entitled THE True Aaron Burr"
has been added 10 the list Of true" biogra-
piles OF historical celebrities. Many of
these so-caIled true portraits present very
different pictures OF the personages In
question than those 10 which the public
has been accustomed. That OF Aaron
Burr. for instance. represents him as a
really good man who has been much
rnangned. 1t Is an attempt to rehabfitate
him n the general estimation. but what
IL will do viii be 10 leave q favorable I'M
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prosperity. increase more rapidly than In
comes. the problem OF living constantly
presents new phases. and 1t seems not I'M
probable that the time will arrive when
Americas leisure class. which is composed
entirely OF women, will of necessity he con-
now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-08
A Surprise.
Brooklyn Life.

bfOOkIyu LIE
What made you seem so upset the day we be-
engaged2 You knew was going to pro-
pose-didn't your
"oh! Dear me. yes. But had no idea was
going to accept you
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Distance Lent Enchantment.

Boston Post.
Namby-Did she fall in love with you at first
siglrt?
Pamby-Yes, but she quite distance
away and when she got better view Of me il
all off.
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And why Not:

There was once frlghtful old gneme
That lived in a high churehis g6ome.
But the bats in their might
Chased him out in the night,
And that's why he's minus ghone
Buffalo Express
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No Charge for Advice.

Syracuse Herald.
Floor Wslker-rm very sorry, madam, but
can't exchange this hat for you.
Mrs. Smithson-But my husband doesn't like it,
Floor Walker-Then I'd advise you to get
divorce.
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York periodical:

Sang the maid to the hour.
To the bee called the flower,
To the brook cried the lea,
Return thou to me-
But the brook wandered to the sea,
No hower-sYeets brought back the bee,
While the hour lost in eternity.
Now, the question that suggests itself is;
IF the president of the federation can rise
TO such metrical heights this what sort
Of verse does the ordinary unofficial mem
Der of a womans club achieve?
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Kansas City is considering a proposition
to furnish that city with natural gas
piped from some distant wells-at the rate
OF so cents a thousand feet TO consumers,
and is almost tickled to death at the pros
pect- Kansas City realizes that it is better
to have gas even at that price than none
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ExcIusiveness to Be Maintained.

Baltimore Herald.
Ping-Are Mrs. De Styles's entertainments very
exclusive?
Pong-Well, I should say so; she has lust
made application to have the conversation of her
guests copyrighted.
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Prices of Orchids.

fn!ladeIphla Record.
great bouquet OF orchids In the florists
window made the roses and carnations and
other flowers there look plain. The orchids
were bigger than Gala lilies and OF a beau
tifui and rare tint OF blue That BOUQUET
the florist said. lis worth $50. IL has twelve
blooms In II The price seems high. bur
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Place for Male stenographer.

New York Evening Post.
Side by side with this news. showing the
tendency Of the Chicago domestic to mi
crate into wide fields. comes the announce
ment that there Is thr0ushout the country
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stin I'm the Rinp.

Kansas City Journal.
Edison says he has ,nvsr,..
battery that will throw tn s'orase
business The bicycle xss Out or
horse out OF business 'H'o" the
sSssr a2 9e. but horses are s,9n Was the
hores s sesa as usual Like the earnlns
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cannot the religious teachers agree upon
some system of ethics based upon Chris
tian truths that can be taught in the pubic
cnhnolc7
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THE HUMORISTS.
Gone.
Chicago News.

Chicago news.
Tomdix-Did you ever experience what one
might term feeling of goneness?
Hojax-Yes. once: backed a horse that "also
ran"
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Persons sending the Journal through the malls
IN the United States should put on an elsht-pase
OF twelve-page paper l-cent stamp on a
sixteen twenty or twenty-fOur page paper :
cent stamp Foreign postage IL usually ooooie
these rates.
All Communications intended for publication In
this paper must. in order 10 receive attention,
writer
Rejected manuscripts viii not be returned IN
less postage is incIosed for that purpose.
Entered as second-class matter at Indianapolis
Ind. pOstoffice.