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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

You can buy the choicest, handsomest,
snappiest. most brilliant diamonds at Her
ron's for the same prices you pay dealers
for inferior stones.
Pioneer Brass Works.
Aluminium and Brass Castings.
41s-424 s. Penn St
Long Ostrich Plumes and Pompons
Made OF short feathers and tips. CHARLES
FABLES, 30 South Illinois street.
Langsenf<amp Bros Brass Works.
Founders and fnishers: aluminium. brass and
phosphor bronze castings. .3s-lE e. Georgia st.
DR.. w. b. Craig. Veterinary Surgeon ONCE
Woods Stable. Phone 1897. Residence 193
Sec the ABSOLUTELY VISIBLE WRITING
typewriter, the UNDERWOOD, at 137 E. Wash
ington st.
Table Wines for the Holidays at SCHULLERS
WINE HOUSE. 210 North Meridian street.
Gas coke, IS a ton. Connellsville coke, $3.50 a
ton. Best quality. COBURN COAL co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
Most Remarkable Bargain Sale.
VIM. III. Armstrong & Co.'s

Great fire sale Of surgical Instruments,
Invalid goods, hospital furniture.
Sale HOw on. Store crowded.
Buyers get unique and useful
articles at great bargains.
Nos. "a and 226 So. Meridian ST.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
MORE OFFICERS NEEDED.
Kruger Recommends that the Po-
lice Force Be Increased.

Superintendent of Police Kruger is now at
work on a report to be made to the Board
of Public Safety at. its next meeting MAX
ing a number of recommendations con-
corning the increase of the efficiency of his
force. 1t is said that the superintendent
will recommend the building of four sub
stations, the increase of the force Of bicy-
cemen from eight to twentyfour and an
addition of fifty men to the force of patrol
men.
AS this plan would entail a great deal of
additional expense upon the city 1t has
been suggested that many OF the patr0lmen
in outlying districts be mounted on bicycles
and stationed at fire engine houses. 1t is
argued that one patrolman mounted on a
wheel Is worth several others compelled to
cover their districts on foot. The records of
the police station show that the eight bicy-
clemen now on the force do an amount of
work, in comparison with the rest of the
force, out of all proportion to their num-
bers This Is caused. of course, by the
ease with which they are able to get from
place to place at call.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
TO bEAUTIFY BACK YARDS
AND KEEP ALLEYS CLEAN
Civic Improvement Association
Opens It's Membership
Rolls.
CHILDREN WILL HELP

Indianapolis is now assured Of the Civic
Improvement Association which will have
it's fundamental object the beautifying
OF the city. not only in the public places
but also in the alleys and the back yards
of the residences. A second meeting or
those interested in the movement of en-
HANGING the city was held yesterday after
noon at the Commercial Club and articles
of association and bylaws were formally
adopted.
Although disagreeable afternoon. a good
many people braved the drizzing rain to at
tend the meeting. All were enthusiastic in
their support of the association and ex-
pressed the belief that it had a good work
before it.
number OF those present made short
talks on what they believed to be the work
OF such an association. Among those who
spoke were Superintendent Kendall. of the
public schools; j. A. Everitt, president OF
the American Society of Equity; Lewis H.
Gibson. Russell NJ. Seeds and Eugene
Stacey, of the Outdoor Art Club, Of Brook
lyn, n. Y.
Superintendent Kendall spoke highly of
the plan used last summer Of sending
seeds to the different schools of the city
with instructions to the children to plant
them about their homes. He advocated
that the association adopt the same policy
and suggested that the schoolyards could
be made more attractive by the planting
of flowers.
AID is PROMISED.
Mrs. Henry Rauh, representing the Ma
than Morris House, was also present at the
meeting, and said that that institution
would give the association its hearriest CO.
operation in the identifying of the slums
of the city. Experience has shown, she
said, that people can be greatly elevated by
the mere presence Of attractive yards and
surroundings. 1t is probable that the Ma
than Morris House will have charge of the
association work in that neighborhood.
The membership list of the association
was started at yesterdays meeting. The
membership fee is 80 cents, and the society
begins its existence with about twenty-five
members. although there are many more
ing. Definite work of the association will
not begin until the membership is enlarged.
Another meeting OF the executive COM
mittee will be held week from Tuesday
TO formulate plans whereby more members
can be enrolled. Active work looking TO
the identifying OF the city will begin about
spring, when flowers and trees can be
planted.
Special inducements will be held out by
the association to encourage the beautify-
ing OF the lawns. AS soon as some money
is raised the association will offer prizes in
each ward Of the city for the best-kept
lawn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
Handkerchiefs

Embroidered and Lace Edge ..25c to $3.50
Extra good linen for ......................25 c
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
DIR. MARTIN TURNS BACK
NEAT SUM FOR CITY USE
Surplus of Nurse Fund Cannot Be
Kept as Private Account of
Superintendent.

By the direction of the city Health Board,
which held a regular meeting in its office
in the City Hall yesterday, DR.. Paul Mar
tin. superintendent of the City Hospital,
will turn back in to the general fund of
the city about one thousand dollars. which
has accumulated a surplus from the
nurses fund, and has been kept as a pri-
vate account of the hospital superintend-
ent for some years.
DR.. c. E. Ferguson was appointed by the
board smallpox expert to look after all
cases of smallpox found in the city. He
will make diagnosis and have charge of
all the quarantined cases.
The salary Of the superintendent Of the
nurses training school at the City Hos
pital was placed by the board, for 1904 at
$50. an increase Of $500 over the salary
hitherto paid.
1t decided that the Flower Mission
Hospital will be opened to receive pa
tients on the first of January.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
MONON ROUTE.
$0.7O-Chicago and Return-S6.7O
Holiday Excavations.

Tickets sold Dec "a, Is. 81 and Jan. /:
final return limit Jan. 4. Also TO all points
In Central States. Similar rates TO nom
resident students and teachers upon proper
certificate TO cover vacation period See
ticket agents for particulars.
X. Z. ALGEO, d. p. A.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
NOTED COLORED POET
WILL GIVE READING

Paul Lawrence Dunbar. the noted colored
poet, will give reading tomorrow night
at the Bethel A. M. e. Church, under the
auspices of the Ladies' Alliance of the
church. The alliance will be assisted by the
Y. NJ. G. A. in entertaining Mr. Dunbar
Mr.. Dunbar has written upon a great va
riety of subjects including selections por-
traying the scenes of Southern life. After
leave for his home in Washington where
he will resume work on his latest book
which he was forced TO lay aside some
months ago on account OF I'll health.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
w. f. HAYWARD,
Indianapolis.

Chamberlin Metal Wea Their Strip Co.,
632 Newton Claypool Bldg, City:
Dear Sirs-I am well pleased with the
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip which
you have applied TO the windows and doors,
from cellar TO tower, in my residence in
this city.
Ii has been a long-felt want with me to
get an alright protection for doors and
windows.
In the use of your Metal Weather Strip
/ think L have at last the best and only
appliance that keeps out dust in summer
and the cold winds Of winter.
Yours truly,
w. L. HAYWARD.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20

Gas coke. IS ton. Connesville coke, $3.50
ton. Best quality. COBURN COAL CO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-20
Long Ostrich Plumes and Pompons

Made OF short feathers and tips. CHARLIE
FABLES, 30 South Illinois street
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DIT. w. b. Craig, Veterinary Surgeon. ONCE
Woods Stable. Phone 1897. Residence. 193.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
Poor theatrical Season.

The country is prosperous. Mills
and farms and offices are filled with
men who are earning good money, and
yet from New York and from the
provinces as well comes the common
report that theatrical companies are
not thriving. There are of course a
few exceptions, but even the best and
most successful of companies complain
of the seasons patronage.
In New York this is particularly the
case. and New York is the theatrical
center of the country All good plays
are expected to score success there
before thy can be taken to the prov
inces to good advantage. But one play
after another has failed in New York
to attract the public this season. Even
the dramatized Audrey" despite the
popularity OF the book, has not proved
highly and profitably acceptable to
theatre-goers, although 1t has not yet
been withdrawn. So it has been in
many other undertakings OF like
nature.
And in the country audiences have
been unusually light. Even Buses
audiences are not large, and. when
the greatest living actress is neg
lected, one can readily imagine the
fate in store for the rest. Mrs. Pat
rick Campbell has lost much OF her
drawing power. James O'Neill and
Miss Julia Marlowe have each scored
a failure, and have been compelled to
select new plays.
Only one of the new plays In New
York this season is said to be highly
profitable-Belasco's Darling OF the
Gods" and it is more spectacular than
stageworthy. 1t is great spectacle,
and the acting in it is secondary
consideration. Fine acting is for some
reason going at discount, and no
one seems to know why this should
be so in a season of high prosperity
otherwise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
MAXIM US,

BY Adelaide Proctor.
hold him great who for loves sake
Can give with generous, earnest will:
Yet he who takes for loves sweet sake,
think Mold more generous still.
bow before the noble mind
That freely some great wrong forgivss
Yet nobler is the one forgiven,
Who bears that burden we'll and lives.
1t may be hard to gain and still
To keep lowly, stedfast heart;
Yet he who loses has to fill 8
harder and a truer part.
Glorious it is to wear the crown
OF deserved and pure success:
He who knows how to fail has won
crown whose luster is no less.
Great may be he who can command
And rule with just and tender sway;
Yet is diviner wisdom taught
Better by him who can obey.
Blessed are those who die for God,
And earn the martyrs crown of light:
Yet he who lives for God may he
A greater conqueror in his sight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04

greatly needed. At present the aver
age speed of Siberian trains is not
much above the stage coach pace, or
about ten miles an hour. 1t is rea-
sonable to expect that a full week will
DO saved in Siberia, and perhaps. a
day between Port Arthur and Yoko-
hama. This would reduce the time to
forty-two days, and this is about all
that travelling facilities promise in the
near future.
No one, of course, but a crank would
attempt continuous trip around the
world, but the quicker the trip can be
made from point to point the more
people will be inclined to try it. In
the next decade a great change will
take place in our Pacific trade, and no
doubt Pacific and round the world
travel will be increased in like pro-
portion. But the trip will never be-
come popular until the railway serv-
ice in Siberia is much bettered, and
every rear will witness improvements
in that section OF the belt line round
the world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
Several Presidential Possibilities.

Let no one say the democratic party
German, Judge Allen B. Parker and
Richard Olney to draw from. Any one
of these men would make a strong,
capable and efficient leader in a cam
paign, and an admirable President.
The country has confidence in each of
the three men named, and any one Of
them would be a satisfactory nominee.
Just at present Judge Parkers name
is frequently heard. 1t is claimed for
him that he can carry the state of
New York. Certain it is, he has never
been defeated in a popular race, and
he has never bolted democratic
ticket. He has never sulked. He is
now chief justice of New Yorks high
est court, to which place he was elect
ed by a plurality of $4,000
A quiet campaign in his favor is
progressing throughout the country,
and no doubt he will be warmly sup
ported in the national convention. But
so will Mr. German and Mr. Olney.
In the south Mr.. German, who led the
fight against the Force Bill, will have
many friends, and New England at
least will rally around Mr.. Olney. The
party that has three such excellent
men to select a nominee. from Is for
tunate.
And the democratic party is also
fortunate in it's chief issue, for the
Dingley tariff and the trusts it has
created is to be the chief issue of the
campaign. Upon that issue any one
of the three men-Gorman, Parker and
Olney-can sweep the country The
country has at length ascertained the
true inwardness of Dingleyism. 1t is
well known now even to many repub-
licans, and If we pull together Dingley-
ism and republicanism will be buried
in one grave in 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
Grover Cleveland.

An old citizen who is an ardent admir-
err of former President Grover Cleveland,
and who knows him personally well, said
yesterdays There is good deal Of talk
about Mr.. Cleveland being a candidate
for the democratic nomination In 1904.
This introductory paragraph from a
Washington special is specimen of
many things that appear in the papers on
the Cleveland line:
Democrats from the west and south
are apparently alarmed over what APP
pears to them to be an organized move
ment which has for its purpose the pre-
sentation of Grover Cleveland as a cam
didate for the next democratic nominal
ton for the presidency. There have been
indications of movement in that direc-
ton for some time. Every utterance of
the ex-President has been given the
widest publicity, and discussed at length
by the democrats who have been seeking
for some time to secure a reorganization
of the party along the old lines. The
last form of this effort to press Mr..
Clevelands availability upon the demo-
Gratis has been in series of articles and
interviews showing the magnificent phys
ical condition of Mr.. Cleveland. The
public has been assured with much detail
that the former President is losing flesh,
that his "eye Is as bright and his step
as firm as in 1887" There is an intimatioh
that he is taking a keener interest in
public affairs
"Now l am sure that Mr.. Cleveland
would not accept the nomination in 1904.
He is not too old to run again, but Mr..
Cleveland has had more honors at the.
hands Of the democratic party than any
other man who ever lived. He was thrice
nominated and twice elected. He would
not undertake to lead the democracy
fourth time without being dead sure of
winning, and this he could not be. Some
of Mr.. Cleveland's friends might regard
the ex-President as the most available
man for standard bearer, but when the
convention meets the name of Cleveland
will not be presented"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
Whose armour conscience buckled on.
king John.
Lynchinus in 1902.

The record of the years lynchings
is a very favorable one, the number
of them during the year being SO, as
against 1875 in 1901, lis in 1900, 107
in 1899, 127 in 1898, and 166 in 1897.
The record year in anarchy was 1892,
when 235 lynchings occurred.
Five of the lynchings of the year
Just ended occurred in Alabama, as
follows: William Zeigler, negro, near
Troy; William Reynolds, negro, at
Tuscumbia; Wiley Campbell, negro, at
Cocoa; Samuel Harris, negro, at Sell
ma, and Scott Bishop, negro, at Mar
bury. These are the five cases
charged up against Alabama in the
records kept by the Chicago Tribune
Two of these cases are doubtful-three
are not, namely, the cases in Pike,
Choctaw and Lee counties-at Salem,
Cocoa and near Troy. The case near
Troy has been investigated, and it is
pretty well established that an inno-
cent negro was hung. The case at
Salem arose over an attempt at rob-
berry, and thus far this case has not
been investigated, or at any rate no
report has been received OF the re-
suits of an investigation, although the
lynching occurred on November 3.
The case OF Cocoa is still older, oc-
curing on March "a. No action, the
Age Herald regrets to say, has been
taken in this case.
OF 90 lynchings of the year 81 &C.
>eurred in the south and nine in the
north. Mississippi and Louisiana have
the worst records in this respect OF
the year, each having contributed
eleven cases to the aggregate, Ken
lucky coming next, followed by Geor-
gia and Texas Only 10 of the SO vic
tins of the mobs were charged with
criminal assault, tne remdinueI peihS
strung up without trial or investiga-
ton for nearly all the other crimes in
the calendar. One was hung for plan
ming an elopement, one for making
threats and one for larceny. Judge
Lynchs Jurisdiction is very extensive
and criminal assault is now a minor
branch of his work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
Gold and Silver Mining.

''All in all, the past year just closed
will be put down in the history of the
mining industry as memorable one"
said mining engineer. Throughout the
United States the general impetus which
characterized the advance of this indus
try since 1898 seems to have taken leap
forward during the past twelve months.
This increased development has practi-
cally been noticeable among the so-called
precious metal mining states, where the
mining of gold, silver, copper, lead and
zinc predominant. There seems to have
been no exception to the general rule
''The year has also been productive of
closer bond between the western and
southern mine owners and the eastern
capitalist. Statistics, when compiled will
no doubt prove that more eastern capital
has been put into western mines during
the past year than at any other period
This is due to the general confidence that
has been established in regard to the
ownership of mines, with special refer
ence to the almost universal disappear
ance of the so-called 'salters.' who years
ago piled their trade with wonderful te-
nacity. So much was this evil dreaded
that the purchase of a mine was usually
associated with the idea of buying so
much worthless land until proved other
wise. In the present day all is changed
and the use Of scientific and approved
methods of assay make such proceed
ings nearly impossible. In fact, the GUS
tom has of late become prevalent that
the purchasers of mining property usual
ly require the partial development of It
before closing the deal. This work places
an additional protection on the purchase
of mineral property.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
SQUELCHES PEEP-HOLE.

London Letter in the Pittsburg Dispatch
domination drawft" assailed the
small of Richard Mansfields back on the
stage of the T. erald Square theatre the
other night and the noble Brutus broke
out in characteristic fashion. lie went
about the stage barking like tank full
of sea lions. "A score of his personal re-
tainers were at once organized into
tissue paper squad, and after going up
and down the stage with long strips OF
flmsy waving over their heads they final
ly traced the ''drawft" to its lair. 1t
proved to be the peep-hole in the cur
tain, and Richard thereupon issued the
royal edict: "Close the peep-hole for my
engagement. 1t Is an unhealthful and
barbaric relic OF an inartistic age!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04

awaited the coming of the foe. Nine
clock came; no foe appeared. At high
noon, a few bombs told of his presence
In the distance, a beaten, but stubborn
foe. At 1890, could be seen the smoke of
iron-clad gunboats steaming up Cumber-
land river to attack our land batteries.
pity the soldier who has never stood on
disputed ground and seen the conflict
burst, where men grapple, reel, and surge
and bleed and conquer. His soldier life
is still-born.
To see that conflict was, and is worth
to me the four long years of eventful
shifting life in camp and field. I went
down to the margin of the river and stood
in awe and ecstacy as inch by inch five
iron-clads, in majesty and pluck, steamed
within range of our heavy land batteries.
Then the leashed hounds of war were
loosed and earth and heaven shook with
death notes of deafening sund that made
the soldier forget his hunger and cold,
and the gunner and the sailor stand erect
and alert in mortal combat. One of our
gallant gunners getting short of waddng
barred his body to the bleak winds ana
used his coat as wadding, and finally
made the same use of his hat. U.
mounds of silence. scattered over the "Old
South" you speak to me of heroes, only
sleeping. The supreme moment had
come the test of iron-clad vessels against
land batteries. There was no lack OF
valor on land or water, but grapple to
the death.
On land we had twelve heavy guns,
the ships had fifteen. The conflict was
pressed by iron-clads and resisted by our
guns till three of their boats torn and
rent with shot and shell drifted helplessly
down the river. Still to the brave defend
ers of the fort victory was coy. Night
again closed our tolls and hushed the
din of war. Still no rest. Our generals
had determined to turn the right wing Of
the enemy and lead our little army out
to Nashville in conjunction with Gen. A.
S. Johnston. AT daylight of the 18th. We
of the extreme hight wing were thrown
over onto our extreme left wing and
against the enemys right. Again, cru
cial moment had come. We stood out in
the open, uncovered by our breastworks.
overmatched in numbers greatly, without
fresh troops to support or relieve U.S. We
felt as did James Fitz James: Our own
blade must keep u.s." The foe accepted
the challenge. From early morning till
past high noon. we pressed his right CEN
ter. Here l met my first appalling grief.
My boy chum, my playmate from early
infancy, fell bleeding from death wound.
Oh. how red that crimson flow lay on the
drifted snow. Revenge settled in every
fiber of my frame as l looked at his boy
ish face pressing against the cold frozen
snow, and till we were finally beaten.
met the foe with the rame of Bobbie
Work as my slogan. We pressed them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04
GEN. PETTUS COMING HOME.
i the Selma Journal.

From the Selma Journal.
Alabama's great and popular junior
senator, Gen. e. w. Pettus, will return
home from Washington on January 26.
He has never missed a roll call since he
has been member of the senate, now
almost six years, and he dislikes to do so
now, but he is coming home to be present
when the people of his beloved Alabama
place the senatorial honors on his head
for the second time
General Pettus is in every way worthy
of the Endorsement he is to receive at the
hands of the people. He is great law
yer, an able statesman, a conscientious
lawmaker. He has served his people well.
He is deeply grateful for the honors that
have been showered upon him, and when
he goes back to Washington he will con-
tinue to serve his constituents and the
people of the United States in the future
as in the past.
General Pettus will come home two or
three days before he is reelected, and
will be in Montgomery where he will
have the pleasure of mingling with the
representatives of the people who are to
re-elect him to the United States senate
He will come to Selma for a short stay
before he returns to Washington.