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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
A SOUND BUSINESS HABIT.

The New York Evening Post comments
on the decreased number of failures this
year as compared with preceding years.
ket has sagged lower and lower, with. sun
dry street panics" in Wall street. and cred
its this condition to the fact that there Is
less of the speculative element in the general
business of the country than formerly. So
far as the phrase speculative element"
means expanded credits the Post is cor
rect.
Every casual student of business and
finances has marveled not little that the
general business of the country goes right
along fiourishing. despite the occasional
wall-street panic. OF course, the general
business of the country feels these panics.
for they are invariably accompanied by high
rates for money, and loanable funds will
flow to New York or any other safe place
In search of big earnings Thus every
money strinsency in Wall street puts its
burden of expense on all legitimate bust
ness But the commerce and industry of
the country seem able to stand the strain
with little difficulty, as evidenced by the
insignificant number of failures.
The Journal believes that the chief fac
tor in the general soundness of business
conditions thus displayed is the habit busi-
ness men have acquired of paying as they
go and requiring others to do the same.
Collections are very generally thirty or
sixty days from date of invoice, merely a
reasonable time for proper inspection and
auditing. In some instances this insistence
on prompt payment of bills has initiated
against us in foreign trade, but it is worthy
Of note that both the English and the
French are showing disposition to follow
the American lead in this respect. 1t is a
good habit. based on sound business prin-
ciples, and while it continues to prevail
there is very little possibility of a general
panic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Griggs County On. d. Sentinel.
Drink water and you get typhoid. Drink
milk and you get tuberculosis. Drink whis-
ky and you get jimjams. Eat white flour
and get appendicitis. Eat soup and get
Bright's disease. Eat beef and encourage
apoplexy Eat oysters and acquire toxe-
mia. Eat meat of any Kind and get indi-
gestion or some kind Of germ disease. Eat
vegetables and weaken the system. Eat
desserts and take on paresis. Smoke cigars
and secure catarrh Drink coffee or tea
and obtain nervous prostration. Drink wine
and get the govt. In order to be entirely
healthy one must eat nothing, drink moth
ing, smoke nothing, and before breathing
one should see that the air is properly ster-
ilized
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

are falling behind In the race: that they are
on the path TO race suicide. Once we De
lieved in the Smiths. We thought that the
world was theirs. II was comfort 10 feel
that wherever you went the Smiths were at
the head OF the poll. Voting lists were pur-
pie with Smiths. Directories sagged with
Smiths. The country was safe and happy
under the protection of the multitudinous
and consolidated Smiths.
And now where are the Smiths? The man
ager of the Chicago directory is Smith.
He Is not the man to let a Smith escape
from his agents. Yet his figures show tnat
there are 59S6 Johnsons and only 1914 Smiths
in Chicago.
THE Smiths are running close second,
writes an Inter Ocean reporter. whose patro-
nizing manner betrays him as triumphant
and sneering Johnson. 1t has not been the
ha bit of the Smiths to be second. Have they
lost their long pre-eminence? Must they
decrease and the Johnsons increase?
Where is Mowbray? Where is Plantage-
net? Nay. what is more and most of all,
where Is Smith? VIII the Smiths yield
without a struggle TO the Johnsons? Call
the clan together at Peanack. The Smiths
must meet the crisis like Smiths.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
CHICAGO HAS A MAN.
Chief of Police McNeil1 Does Fine
Work with the Rioters.

Work with the Rioters.
Chicago Journal.
Evidently Chicago has a man. and no
white-livered invertebrate. at the head Of
the police department. Nobody but a man
could have uttered these words, which Fran
els O'Neill, general superintendent of police
of the city of Chicago. spoke to an impudent
delegation sent by the organized thugs who
are rioting on the West Side in the neigh
borhood Of the Kellogg switchboard factory:
Il have nothing to do with your union,
but If you think you can stop any man In
this city from hiring men who do not belong
to the union you are wrong. If you attempt
to enforce that idea you may run up against
something We have the police, and IL the
police are not sufficient to preserve order and
protect life and property, we have the mi
litia, and IL that is not enough we have fed
eral troops. We are not in the teaming
business or freighthouse business, but when
Ii becomes necessary to protect life and
property we viii have two or three police
men on each wagon, or as many more as
may be needed, there or anywhere else
Why it is almost worth all the violence the
kellogg bandits have employed to be re-
freshed by such sentiments coming from an
official of the city of Chicago. The public
has been so used TO seeing Mayor Harrison
knuckling down to the labor unions in fear
of losing their votes it has come to believe
there was no hope of relief from the evil
domination of the agitators and their dupes
until Harrison could be ousted from the
city hall.
right out OF the Harrison administration
and actually insisting that the law shall be
enforced and the public peace preserved. 1t
seems too good TO be true.
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The Major CreduIous Class.
ST. Paul Pioneer Press.

ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
According to the ST. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat the 1900 creditors of a turf invest
ment concern who deposited some s., $500
herewith, will get back about 2 per cent.
of their money when the receiver closes up
his business OF course, most Of those Il, 900
dupes were people who had only small saw
ings or such as had no experience in ham
ding money. These are always the readiest
to believe the seductive advertisements of
sharpers promising 100 per cent. per annum
who tell them that the safest and best place
for their money is the savings bank or a
real-estate investment which pays only 5
or per cent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Newark IN. j. Evening News. Qnd)
Resolved on desperate measures the dele
cation of postoff1ce grafters pressed their
way past the White House guards and took
the Office Of the President by storm.
what is 1t you wish?" asked the chief
executive, facing the intruders with stern.
fearless visage.
1--WE want you to hold up this investiga-
tion," they said. threateningly.
'Neveri'' retorted the President, stamping
his foot.
The delegates exchanged dark looks APP
parently their courage had failed.
LET US draw lots" they whispered, at
last.
The man that picked the shortest straw
shuddered through his frame. With a
struggle he mastered himself and stepped
forward
"You will not heed our demand?' he
asked
II will not" said the President.
''Then listen. You give us Payne."
With a gasp the President sank to the
floor, while the delegates. appalled, at the
awful success of their fiendish plot, fed
screaming away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
THE COURTS TO BLAME.


Brooklyn Eagle.
The dlatoriness to arraign offenders, the
procrastination of trials. the rank abuse
and prolongation of the privilege of ap-
peal, the muddying of truth by sham and
competitive expert" contentious and the
long while between initial conviction and
final punishment in capital cases make
courts unpopular and to degree distrust-
ed in not a few States, and New York State
is getting to be among them. A convict
ed murderer in this State is rarely ex-
ecuted within a year after his conviction,
though Czolgosz. who slew Mckinley, was
promptly tried, with every legal right and
form observed and executed with exem-
plary promptitude. That could-and should
be done in the case of every murderer. In
England. however, a convicted murderer
is never alive twenty-five days after his
conviction! There are no tempts at
lynching in England. Such attempts occur
in New York and succeed in Indiana, Illi-
nois and other States as law-abiding in
spirit as New York. There is a volume of
meaning in these facts, especially as In
England every defendants substantial
rights in law or claims on clemency are as
carefully passed on in a short time, as
here they are in long time.
Judge Brewer the other day, denounced
those who take part in lynchings as muir
derers. Nevertheless, the motive of those
who lynch ravishers and murderers is pre-
cisely that of the jurors who convict them
To secure their punishment for what they
have done. And where courts have made
law slow, doubtful and at times advan-
tageous to guilt, by devices or sham pleas.
lynching has In IL the same principle OF
community protection that a man has of
home and personal protection who shoots a
burglar. This is not a defense of lynch
ing. 1t is an explanation of 1t, and an ex-
tenuation of 1t. Lynching can almost any
where be accounted for by the defaults of
courts in celebrity or certainty in Furnishing
crime. Capital offenders in this State have
been kept from punishment for two years
and months of those years have been
chargeable to the snail pace of progress of
sham appeal to the United States SUI
preme Court, of which Judge Brewer is
bulwark and an ornament. The balances
lynching redresses are i'll held by courts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

in other folds: her very assumption of in
fallibility and inviolability has appealed
and will long appeal to those who seek a
form of faith which is absolute and un-
changing. But these gains are likely to be
overbalanced by such hostility as that re-
Gently manifested in France ard by such in
cidents as that of st. Mivart. the English
Catholic whose writings led. few years
ago. to his accommodation.
1t would seem that Rome, having been
shorn of temporal authority. would have
sought to exercise power and influence in
other directions. For instance, in this
country the spiritual life OF the people of
the great cities is certainly affected by the
municipal corruption of which Romes own
children have often been the victims. In
Leo's time good local government has been
a vital issue in most of the great cities
where Rome's outposts are strong; but
there have been no indications of a willing
ness at the Vatican to exercise any infiu-
ence for good in such matters. Criticism
OF this kind brings always the mild rebuke
that Rome is not interested in politics. And
yet it is a question whether one of the
really great Popes-a man of the type of
the mighty Gregory, or Innocent III-would
not have addressed himself under twentieth
century conditions to the twentieth CEN
tury's labor. There is no escaping the refiec-
ton that while Leo was an Industrious stu
dent of problems of his day. he had neither
the independence nor the courage to take
hand in their solution.
The Catholic world pays it's tribute to-
day to one whom it believes to be the vicar
of Christ, the supreme bishop of His
church on earth. Greater numbers of Prot
estants than ever before will speak with
kindness and admiration of the piety and
devoted life OF dead ruler of the Roman
Church of one of the great and vener-
able personages of his time. The cardinal
camerlengo has already paid his formal
visit to the death chamber. tapping the
forehead of the dead Pope with his ham,
mer and calling on Leo to answer, to the
end that all traditions may be observed be-
fore formal announcement is made that Leo
is no more. So Leo lies dead in the great
pdidCc WHcic ioi % many ySoiS AS NOS
been, in the phrase of his predecessor. "a
prisoner" He will be buried from st.
Peters with great ceremony and his name
added to the long list of popes, great and
small. to be remembered as one Of the most
honorable and faithful among them-one
possessing unusual powers of penetration
and one whose aim was unquestionably to
exercise his influence, so far as he dared.
toward the extension of peace, happiness
and concord among men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Commenting on the hostility of certain
interests In Evansville TO the local militia
the Chicago Record-Herald says: Their
sympathies are wrong. their judgment is
bad. their own impulses are criminal and
anarchical. and the situation is such that
Captain Blum should be vigorously de-
Tended and sustained by the press and peo-
pie Of Evansville and of the State of In
diana" That is the consensus OF opinion
throughout the State and OF all good cit
izens In Evansville
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Illinois has law regulating the sale of
firearms which requires that a record of
all such sales be kept by dealers, and that
this record. which shall be open at all sea-
sonable hours for the inspection of the pub
lie. must include in tabular form this in
formation: Number of weapon. TO whom
sold. age of purchaser. kind and descrip-
ton Of weapon. for what purpose pur-
chased. price OF weapon. The law is said to
have beneficial effect in lessening the re-
Yolyer habit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

New York Mail and Express.
Now that Justin Mccarthy has received a
pension for services to literature from the
Balfour- Chamberlain Ministry, it is in or
der to repeat story that went the rounds
of the London clubs shortly after the ap-
pearance Of Mr.. McCarthy's latest book-a
series of pen portraits of well-known Brit
ons. When Mr.. Chamberlains attention
was called to the fierce assault Mr.. McCar-
thy had thought At to make upon him he
said, laughingly:
Mccarthy. they tell me. never drinks
anything stronger than tea. Parnell called
him "a nice old gentleman for a tea party
/ wonder how many cups he drank before
he finished that sketch Of me. His jaws
must have been under water"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
1t Happens So.

She was matter-of-fact and commonplace
slim little brown-eyed thing;
She had nsither beauty. nor wit. nor grace.
She couldn't recite nor sing.
Nor do anything much. except knit lace.
With sailor hat tipped over her face.
She had never LEARNED how TO row or swim.
And IL bored her. she said. to dance;
And IL any one asked her TO walk with him
She lifted her tranquil glance
And said her little decided nay.
In the most indifferent sort of way.
Yet. OF all the maids In that big hotel
Who nirted. and prinked. and posed.
She found stylish and wealthy swell
Who promptly TO her proposed.
And married her promptly. because chats what
She didn't care whether he did-or not!
Town Topics
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

After Colombia ratifies the Panama canal
treaty-if her Congress does-it will neces-
work Of construction can begin. The first
Job will be to clean up the isthmus and pro-
vide for water supply. drainage ard other
sanitary measures TO avoid the frightful
death rate that ruled among the laborers
for the French company. The problem Of
obtaining common labor for the work is
going to be a difficult one at best. and II
would be impossible. il IL were not for the
probability that the region can be made
fairly habitaple.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Can be found at, the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
cH1CAGo-Pa.mer House. Auditorium Annex
Hotel. Dearborn Station News Stand.
cTNcINNATI-J r. Hawley Co., Arcade.
brand Hotel
LOUISVILLE. T. Deering, northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets. and Bluefed
Bros, 4f2 West Market street.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. ID. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House, Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel
DENVER, coI-Louthain & jackson Fifteenth
and Lawrence streets, and A. Smith, 1861
Chanpa street
DAYTON. OIL V. wilkie. 80 South jefferson
street.
COLUMBUS. o.-viaduct News Stand. $50 High
street.
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Lawrence CKan.) Gazette.

Lawrence (Kan.) Gazette.
Some university students. making a geo
logical survey along the Kaw river q few
miles west of Lawrence. discovered an old
stone house which had been uncovered by
the flood on the farm of Henry Collins. The
house had been completely covered. a field
OF corn being above u and its walls and the
chimney are In a fair state OF preservation
Within the house. which has been partially
excavated. was found an iron stove. show
Ing that Il had been the abode Of civilioo0
people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

After a careful review of the currency
the .Sew York Times concludes that the
most practical note issues are those that
are profitable when, business is active and
cease to be so in proportion as the business
activity declines. That would be an ideally
elastic currency, which is what all plans
aim at. but which is very difficult to Sc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
What Becomes of the Toothpickss

Everybody's Magazine.
The toothpick trust is the newest and not
least mysterious of trusts. Six toothpick
plants have just been consolidated.
Their combined daily product is 100000
toothpicks day-say toothpick and three
seventies a day for every man, woman,
child, babe in arms and Indian taxed or not
taxed. in the country. Millions of people
scorn toothpicks. All properly regulated
souls shudder at the sight of toothpick
needs the toothpicks? What becomes Of
this crop of 1o0,000000 a day?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Kansas Independent.
Il don't care to marry-at least not yet"
said the hirt.
Why not?" asked the matron.
Because. as matters are now. have the at
tentions OF half dozen men, while IL married
would have the attention Of only one
'Huhf' exclaimed the matron. you wouldn't
have even that"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Boston Advertiser.
1t is with pride that the news Is heralded
all over this country that the American
rife team. in competition at Bisley. Eng
land, with rifemen from all over the world.
outshot them all, with a wide margin TO
spare. Out of a possible $500 points our
team scored 1870 the closest competitor
being Canada. with Isis. II was marks
manship of this same world beating stand
ard which made the work of our soldiers
and sailors In the Spanish war so deadly.
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Self-Centered.

Two men once met upon the street
And talked an hour or two,
Telling their troubles. each TO each,
AS men so often do
Then. when they both had freed their minds
Each went his separate way
And neither could recall word
He'd heard the other say
--SouervillA Journal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
Hot weather Advice.
Brooklyn Eagle.

BROOKLYN Eagle.
And there's another item: Because you
eat big course dinners in winter. when you
are more active and need more fuel. don't
consider yourself bound to eat the same
sort of dinners now. Try cold dishes less
meat. more vegetables, especially salads.
iced tea, ice cream, fruits, and after the
meal take life as easily as circumstances
permit. For this, rocking chairs and nam
mocks were made; for this. beaches were
mercifully dispensed along the edge OF the
water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Mr.. Bryan's characterization of Mr.. Cleve-
land as low comedian is hardly more apt
than his Views OF things in general Cleve-
lands part in the politics of the country
has bordered on tragedy at times-notably
when he upset the whole business basis of
tina country with his fierce free-trade mes
sage-but it has never contained anything
Of comedy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
Time for All Things.

Atlanta Constitution.
Asked why he left hell out of a recent sermon.
Brother Dickey replied:
Ever thing 10 his season. Whilst 1 was
a-preaehin' dat sermon de Thermometer wuz in
de nineties en- hell spoke fer itself'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
YOUR SUMMER VACATION.

II you take one you will want to
keep in touch with home. The best
way to do this Is to have the Journal
mailed to you. Leave your order be-
fore starting. We will charge the ad-
dress a. often as you desire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

In the rush and hurry of the closing
week of the Democratic pre-convention
campaign. Chairman Reach does not have
time to properly adjust his neutrality make
that daily interview.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Everybody's Magazine.
Whoever strikes and however the strike
comes out. the public pays most of the
bill. The public is the COW. The employers
and the labor unions are the mixers do
you sympathize with the company or the
strikers?" selfish philosopher was asked
81 sympathize with myself" was the reply.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

thing at the right time. Governor Durbin's
prompt action in the Evansville matter has
brough him widespread fame of very en-
vlable kind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21
The Limit.
Washington Post.

washington Post
Erne-Is Mabel really such a crank on the
subject of microbes?
Emiiy-I should say so. Why, she won't let
man kiss her unless he's had his mustache steril-
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Nebraska State Journal
The Baltimore Herald has been looking
over the careers Of the 200 trusts that have
given up the ghost during the last year or
so and awards the belt TO the $1,000 900 con-
Germ that when the creditors approached to
save the pieces. yielded UP $L67 for dis
tribution among them. That seems to have
been a very clean job.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

The Republican wagon is a good big one.
and II there are any more aspirants for the
0overnorship lurking about, now is good
time for them to get on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

Reach seems to be entirely willing to
name the Democratic candidate for mayor,
but entirely unwilling to accept the respop-
sibility for the job. There are plenty of
people Of that sort In the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

1t appears to be Mr. Bfyan's honest opin-
Ion that the greatest menace to the Demo-
cratic party is the possibility that it may
throw Bryan and Organism overheard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

With q continuation of the warfare within
The Democratic party, Mr.. Roosevelts
election will probably be as unanimous to
oil intents and purposes as his nomination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

A dispatch from Berlin says the hotels of
nat city swarm with American guests. as
probably the hotels In most European cap
1l61s 90 1t present. Two or three months
Aonee the homeward movement viii begin.
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Doubtless 1t is true that Russia would be
willing enough to fight japan alone. but.
under the present status of affairs. Japan
would have pretty strong company.
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should live thirty or forty years icnser-rd be
terribly out Of pocket
Asent-No danger Of that sir. Yor'si soon kill
yourself working TO pay the premiums.