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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
SOUTHERN APPOINTMENTS.

President Roosevelt has exercised such
care In making appointments to federal
Offices in the South as completely to have
disarmed whatever criticism his opponents
in that section of the country may have
had to offer. He has followed a character
istically fearless and Independent course in
his selection of men for important offices,
and when noEe of the Republican candidates
appeared to him to be competent he Sc
lected Democrats. In doing this he had no
idea of making votes among the Democrats;
and none Of the Southern newspapers has
been so foolish as to imagine that he was
moved by any such desire. AS a matter of
fact. it is probable that he has created
a GOODNESS among certain Southern Repub-
lican professional politicians.
Several Of the Democratic papers of the
South have admitted candidly that Presi-
dent R~oosevelt's appointments are all Of
high quality. Among them may be re-
marked the Montgomery (Ala.) Times, a
strong Democratic organ. which says, TT
is not too much to admit that no President
since the war has in so large a measure
seemed to cast aside his own political in
terests in order to serve his conception of
the needs of the civil service in the South
In Alabama the President appointed a
Democrat to be United States circuit judge
torney for the Northern district. This
total disregard of precedent. party policy
and influence has won for Mr.. Roosevelt the
honor and respect of his opponents, and
has alienated only the time-serving office
seekers among his partisans. The Times
continues with this straightforward admis-
SION.
What has been done in Alabama has been
done in practically every Southern State;
notably in louisiana, where the President
has completely turned out the old gang of
Serruptionists and placed the affairs of the
OF mcn to be found. One of the best evil
dences that the public service has been
raised up and purified in the South under
President Roosevelt Is recognized in the
fact that the unworthy men who used to
be so prominent are almost afraid to apply
for office under present conditions. In GER
tain instances Southern people may differ
with the PRECEDENT in regard to the politics
and the color of some of his appointees
among them, but none of us who examine
his appointments as a whole can deny he
has done a service for the South in giving
US a higher and cleaner set of officials than
has been true of the history of any Presi-
dent OF the United States, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Cleveland.
Before Theodore Roosevelt was President
Of the United States he was a civii-service
reformer. and has always stood for purity
in politics. He has not let party policy
stand in the way of his principles. even
though by disregarding it he has alienated
the votes of political hangers-on of a GER
tain stripe. Thus he has silenced even his
INSCRIPTIONS adversaries and gained the
enforced praise of his honest opponents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
College Men Poor Spoilers.

The lamented lack of spelling ability in the
average college man is fully realized by college
faculties. but the Institutions of the Northwest
are the first to take UP the matter and really
teach their men to spell For some unknown
reason the man who comes from school with a
fair idea of how the language is put down on
paper usually leaves college with less knowledge
In this respect than a schoolboy. Last year
Northwestern University revived the old SPELL
ing bee, which made spelling a matter OF pride,
and inaugurated a continuous spelling class.
which the students termed the pity sakes'
class. Now the regents of the University OF
Minnesota have decided that every man must
pass an examination In spelling before he can
graduate. and in order to increase the study of
words a spelling competition has been added to
the list of matches between the freshmen and
the s~ophomores. Teams Of twenty men will
represent each class and will endeavor to spell
each other down in good old country-school
fashion. 1t is to be hoped that this fashion will
extend to the East. for any one at all familiar
with the writing of the ordinary college man
here can testify that for photography and style
it is something fearful and Observation-Disclosures
phia Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

Not long ago a minister of the advance guard
in social ideas. who has a parish house in one
Of the most crowded blocks Of New York, was
explaining his work to a visitor interested in the
boy problem.
1--WE have a clubroom," he said, where our
older boys and men play pool OF billiards, or
have any game of cards they like that is not
gambling"
The visitor. whose religious ideas had not been
revised since the rigid days of her youth, gasped.
You don't mean that you permit those abomina-
lions under the wing OF the church. she asked
'.n the shadow of the sanctuary. one might
say?'
Certainly, madame was the answer. I've
think the devil has had a monopoly of these
amusements long enough. They are harmless
In themselves. The saloon used them as a bait
for drunkenness and vice. We use them to tempt
boys back to morality. You can't fight a devil
who offers shelter. light. warmth and comfort
TO those who have none with good advice and
tracts on a cold street corner"
In this one sentence is the whole common-sense
gospel of the new movement-to take a boy as
he is, not as he ought to be. and give him what
he lacks.-Aleck X. Fallows. in the Century.
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Wage system VIII Remain.

Carroll d. Wright says the wage system will
pass away and in its stead will come a combine
tion OF cooperation and profit sharing. Mr..
wrights idea is not novel nor new. But the
wage system will never pass away except in a
picked society. General social conditions like
the past and even the outgrowth OF the present
will never be able to obiiterate the wage system.
II a nation could be founded OF picked classes,
the generous employer. the conscientious en-
ploye. the honest men and the considerable, per-
haps the present system OF linking the employer
and worker could be changed into one where
proportionate sharing Of profit and labor, of
effort and OF reward would be possible until
greed OF one or the other changed the demands
OF society. In the youth Of this country, IL the
division of labor had been OF a sort to require
and develop the need of employer and laborer.
the relation might for years have been in the
line OF cooperation and division OF profit. But.
as the bars OF exclusion were lowered and the
hordes OF irresponsibles and dependents flooded
labor conditions. the wage system became more
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
THE PRESIDENTS CRITICS.

In his criticism OF the Presidents action
In the Panama affair Senator Hoar finds
himself In bad company. When Senator
possession OF a senator like Mr.. Hoar,
praises his courage. patriotism and disin-
terestedness. and declares that his arraign-
ment of the President will live in history,
the venerable senator from Massachusetts
may well begin to ask himself what he has
country knows the senator from Maryland
as a vindictive and INSCRIPTIONS partisan
who always subordinates patriotism to pol
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
Indians Bird of worship.

A black eagle, with white tail. measuring six
feet nine inches from tip to Zip. weighing ten
and three-quarter pounds. was shot by Charles
Miller, on Elm creek, twenty-five miles south
west of Miller, S. d. This is a bird that the
Sioux Indians look up to with superstitious rev.
erence. never killing one. but in trade for the
white tail feathers, when they learn of one
being captured, they will give almost their last
pony. The eagle just captured has twelve of
these feathers In his tail, which means to MI.
Miller almost a little fortune. unless civilization
has instilled new ideas into the Indians mind
regarding eagles tails, which evidently 1t has
not. for two squaws from Fort Thompson drove
to town post haste ahead Of the great hunter.
as they declared the successful shot was. pitched
their tents and began b~artering for the white
feathers. other Indians soon followed, the
feathers being the magnet of attraction.-St.
Paul Dispatch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
Secret of SauguGc8.

A year or SO ago a man discovered q method
of aduIterating sausages. and the odd part OF it
is that it is a healthful adulteration, and the
pure-food people can't kick on It. The material
with which the sausage is adulterated Is corn
meal. A man discovered a way of treating the
corn meal so that it could be added to sausage
and no one could tell the difference. As corn
meal Is a good deal cheaper than meat several
Of the big packers were quick to adopt IL 5 an
adulteration for the sausage they turned out,
and paid the inventor a big royalty. But they
finally kicked on paying the inventor and put
their experts to work to try to discover how he
treated the corn meal. The experts failed to
discover the secret. But it is said that Elwyn
Blair. OF the Blair mill. has discovered the
method of treating the corn meal. and the pack
I ing houses are after im.-Atehinson Globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

The season had been an exceptionally bad one
for farming. but in a country church not far
from Arbroath the officials had resolved. &C.
cording to custom. to hold the annual harvest
thanksgiving service. II was noticed that on
that particular occasion Mr.. tombstone. a regu-
lar attendant and pillar Of the church Whose
crops had miserably faiiedl. was not In attend
ance. The minister. in the course OF the fol-
lowing week, met Mr.. tombstone and inquired
of him the reason of his absence from the
church on such an important occasion. We'll,
sir" replied Mr.. tombstone. II dinna care ABBOTT
approachin' my Maker in a speerit o. sarcasm
-Scottish American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
Notes.

The total school-book business of the United
States amounts to only 5000. 900 a year. accord
ing to figures given out by a leading school
books publishing house recently.
washburn Colleges Eastern financial sup
porters' have notified the college that the So
cialist Club. to which a few of the students be-
long. must be suppressed or they will withdraw
their support.
Among other timely suggestions made by
George G. Cockburn. a member of the Mosely
Education Commission, shortly before his return
to England. was this: 1.-The burden of beautify-
ing the schools ought certainly not to be placed
wholly upon the teachers"
The thing most needed in Liberia to complete
the school system Is a frst-class industrial
school. where experiments in agriculture, dairy
ing, cattle raising and all other branches Of In
dustry could be taught. Such an institution
would be far-reaching in its effect In the ad-
vancement Of the African people.
There are almost as many university teachers
In the United States as there are university
students in the United Kingdom. The number
of professors and instructors at the universities
and colleges included in the list Of the United
States commissioner of education is Il. 1000. The
number of students in British universities and
university colleges is only about 10000.
A new college elective has come to the fore.
At Ruskin University, at Glen Ellyn. Demoris.
the young women have had added to their
studies 1.-THE psychology Of husbands" one
branch Of which study is to be dressmaking, a
fact which seems to grant the correctness OF
the belief Of some people that dress has not q
little to do with both the acquiring and the
MANAGEMENT OF a husband.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

About 100 teachers met at the Girls Latin
School to-day and. after discussion. formed a
body TO be called the New England Modern
Language Association. The new organization
will seek to help teachers OF modern languages
by the somewhat informal interchange OF views
as to teaching methods and experiences There
will be no lengthy. learned addresses, which
members will listen to and then go on teaching
just as before. year in and year out. The lay
ing Of a definite system for modern language
teaching, including a standard course which
would satisfy the entrance requirements of all
the colleges and still be of value to those whose
education ends with the public schools, is one of
the fields suggested for the ssociation.-Bosto
Globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

itics. but it locks for better things from
Senator Hoar.
In the course of his remarks Senator Cor
man denounced the President as a usurper
and asked. Has it come to this that the
United States must have a Napoleon to
shape its destinies and to distort the presi-
Dental Office from its proper functions?'
This charge is based on the fact that the
President in a critical emergency took 1t
upon himself to recognize the independence
of a new government and TO conclude a
treaty Of transcendent Importance to the
United States and the world, without wait
ing to ask the consent Of the Senate. Sem
ator German has read the Constitution to
little purpose If he does not know that it
empowers the President to take the initia-
tive in all such international matters as
making treaties, receiving ministers and
ambassadors and recognizing the independ-
ence of new governments. In the familiar
case of the purchase of Louisiana territory
President Jefferson exercised the right.
clearly outside of the Constitution, OF con-
Guiding an agreement for the acquisition of
half a continent, trusting to the good sense
and patriotism of the Senate TO sustain him,
as it did.
The emergency in the present case was as
great as 1T was IN that of the louisiana
case; the necessity for prompt action was
even greater. and the constitutional right
of the President to act clearer. If Presi-
dent Roosevelt is a usurper because in a
critical emergency he performed an act of
high executive sovereignty without waiting
to ask permission of the Senate. Thomas
Jefferson was equally a usurper when he
purchased Louisiana territory. In both in
stances the President assumed the respon-
sibility Of acting in a critical emergency for
the national interests and relied on the APP
prevail and support of the Senate. The
critics of President Roosevelt are as unpa-
triotic as were the small number of those
who found fault with Jefferson for pur-
chasing Louisiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

A recent article in the New York Herald
has started a grave discussion of a foolish
topic. The gist OF the Herald's article was
that no accidental President"-tha is. no
person elected as vice president who sue
ceeded to the presidency through an acci-
dent-had ever been elected to succeed him
self. The inference attempted to be drawn
was that there is a sort of unwritten law
in American politics which prevents the re-
come to the Office in the indirect way re-
ferred to, and that this law would prevent
the reelection of Mr.. Roosevelt.
The attempt to introduce a superstitious
rule Of that kind does not harmonize with
American ideas of common sense or justice.
tie offices of President and Vice President.
Constitution provides that in case OF
the death or disability of the President the
powers and duties Of the office shall de-
volve on the Vice President, and II imposes
the same qualifications for eligibility on him
that it does on the President. The constitu-
ton is silent i'm regard to the reelection
OF a President, but it is a long departure
from its spirit to assume that a Vice Presi-
dent who has become President through
the death of his superior in Office is barred
from reelection by a foolish superstition.
But a stronger reason than this for reject
ing the Herald's suggestion is that no Vice
President who has become President
through an accident has ever been renom-
mated for reelection, and in every case, ex-
cept one, when he has not been renom-
mated his party has been defeated. John
Tyler, who succeeded to the presidency on
the death of President William Henry Har-
rison in 1s41, was not renominated in 1874,
and Henry Clay, who was nominated by
the Wing party, was defeated. Vice Presi-
dent Willard Fillmore succeeded to the pres
idency on the death of President Taylor in
in 1852. and General Scott, the Wing nom
inee, was defeated. Vice President Andrew
Johnson. who became President on the
death Of Abraham Lincoln In 1855, was not
renominated in 1868, but nothing could have
prevented the election of General Grant.
~ IN OCNoAAC LACoN
dent on the death of Garfield in 1881, was
not renominated in 1854. and James G..
Blaine, the Republican nominee, was de-
feated.
1t is a striking commentary on the fool
ishness of the Herald's theory that in the
entire course of our national history no
accidental President" has been renominat-
ed. and in every instance except one. that
Of General Grant. the person nominated by
his party to succeed the accidental Presi-
dent has been defeated. If there is any SUI
perstitious rule or theory to be deduced
from history it is that accidental Presi-
dents should be renominated to save the
party from defeat.
The Journal does not advance any theory
on the subject because it would not insult
the intelligence Of the American people by
trying to subordinate 1t to superstition, but
ii ventures to suggest that those who are
trying TO sidetrack President Roosevelt on
this fimsy pretext are barking up the
wrong tree
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

Archbishop Ireland. who is never without a
good story. tells one that he holds to be one OF
the best illustrations of faith as well as Of con-
fdence In individual duplication to the throne
OF grace. The little six-year-oid daughter of one
of his Pensioners is an exceedingly bright child,
a little too bright. as the archbishop explained,
and she had been praying TO have a little brother
sent to her. When her prayer was answered she
was delighted and her faith greatly augmented
thereby. But when ore day, less than two years
later. the gift was repeated she looked gravely
apprehensiye.
II don't want two brothers," she explained.
land I'm sure i prayed too much. I hope God
won't answer every prayer l made for a little
brother by sending one for each"
But the best evidence of the responsibility she
felt in the matter was disclosed on q subsequent
occasion. when she heard her father and mother
discoursing TO = dinner table full Of guests upop
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
How Their Thoughts Run.

Mr.. rawford. the amiable British giant OF
the Mosely Education Commission, had this to
tell of his experiences to a party of friends he
was entertaining at the Park-avenue Hotels
II was addressing about ZOO children in as
sembly down on the East Side. and, touching on
history, / said: Landmarks are a very good
guide to history. We have many such in Eng
land; for instance. the cathedrals and castles,
nearly all of which remind US Of some epoch in
history; then we have Nelson's old flagship. the
Victory, which recalls the battle of Trafalgar.
Now. what ship have you to remind you OF
some past event in history2'
AFTER a few seconds delay a small voice
piped out: Please. sir, the Reliance New
York Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

A party of well-known Wall-street operators
were passing up Broad street a few days ago
when their attention was attracted by three big
STRENGTHENING department wagons standing tenn
porarily in front of the banking house of J.. p.
Morgan.
Now, / wonder what those letters. ID. S. c.
painted on those wagons mean" remarked one
Of the party.
That's easily guessed" replied James r.
Keene, dryly. Don't you see they are standing
in front of Morgan's Officer
Yes, but"
We'll, those are pretty big trucks. you see,
and ID. S. c. undoubtedly are an invitation to
Dump Steel Common New York Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
MATTERS EDUCATIONAL.


To keep the public school closed for one-haif
Of the year represents a distinct public loss
upon the investment. while their very propes
use FOR night schools. vacation Fairgrounds,
summer schools. roof gardens, band concerts
recreation centers. mothers clubs and similar
organizations increases the light and happiness
and the pure joy of the people to whom theii
own environment denies ii. The justification fol
an immense establishment for these purposes
and for all the expenditure involved in the or
ganization and maintenance Of such a system
is found in the conditions OF life which prevail
among the people for whom they are established
-Edward L. Stevens. in School Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

The London Times pays Mr.. Bryan a
great compliment in coupling his name with
that of Mr.. Choate, and declaring that no
English speakers, with the possible excep-
ton of Lord Rosebery and Mr.. Morley, are
with these two Americans. The utterances
of both, thinks the Times. are stamped
with the mark of a fine literary taste. and
command a wide range Of literary allu-
sion" Mr. Bryan is evidently working
hard on those speeches. What are they
going to win him?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
One-Eyed Jurors.

Jack" Steele used to be sheriff down In Rep
resentative Dougherty's district in Missouri. and
Mr.. Dougherty tells this story of him:
The country judge was a man weighing three
hundred pounds. Steele. who kept the local no.
tel. summoned a jury for a term. and not one
os the jurors weighed less than $50 pounds. On
the first case called Steele fed the jurymen a
dinner consisting Of plenty of onions. buttermilk
and other soporifc foods. with the result that
in the afternoon all of them and the Judge went
to sleep.
Sheriff. said the judge, on awakening, this
court is here for business. In future I want you
to select a jury with a single eye to Justice
Yes, your Honor answered Steele.
'"The next panel summoned consisted entirely
of one-eyed en."-washington Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19
Christmas Adam.

Mamma-You have addressed your letter "Mr.
Santa Claus Adam" Why did you put the
Adam there, dear? That isn't Santa Claus S
name.
Bobbie-Well, who Is the Christmas Adam.
then?
What Christmas Adam? I never heard of
one"
There's a Christmas Eve, and there ought
to be a Christmas Adam, / should think"
Kansas City Journal
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Her View of 1t.

Wonderful Woman-Henry, if ! were you /
would not take out that i 1000 life insurance
policy.
Her Husband-why not. dear: suppose I should
die?
Wonderful Woman-Well, s., 900 would be quite
sufficient to provide for me for a year. and by
that time could marry again.-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
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Not nm unmixcd Evil.

What Bishop Francis has to say about the
scarcity Of babies in the finer homes of Indian
apolis does not occur to US as an unmixsd evil.
When a woman permits the maternal instincts
to be throttled at the behest of fashion. then
the world is all the better for the decrease OF
her particular kind. The law OF compensation
Is yet actively In operation. and for every evil
there is presented some good as a set-off.-New
Orleans Times Democrat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-19

Despite the daily assurances OF improving
conditions In the far East things seem to
be moving steadily towards war. Russia
abates nothing Of her aggressive policy.
and Japan Is fun Of fight. AS far as Corea
II concerned. Japan Is clearly in the right,
for Russia has no rights In that country.
and her presence there is a menace to
Japan. which the latter has a right to
resent.