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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06

character and reap a fortune once his start was
made None Of these lines really needed
for purposes of intercommunication The steam
roads did well enough for that. But they were
patronized at once by crowds OF people, curious
as rural folks are to try thing. and the
curiosity did not seem to abate. The lines paid
dividends more lines were built and paid more
dividends. The corruption by curiosity. the
dermining Of whole communities by the silly
unrest born of the noisy trolley. spread and in
creased. And now great trolley trust, with
headquarters far from New England controls
these lines that ruin the countryside and male
desolate and vulgar the rich, quiet high bred
villages that were New-England's boast and
charm. The dissertation Of New England is now
conducted on the most modern business prin-
ciples."
But" interposed his roommate. Why do you
New-Englanders allow it? Every town has q
right to refuse the franchise to the roads,
hasn't it?'
Yes" Joshua answered. But curiosity the
unrest of the younger element, the specious ar
guments Of improvements have with few
noble exceptions, in all communities won the
day. And, too, you must remember this para
dox: No ore understands and appreciates the
true character and value of the rural New-Eng-
land community little the rural New
Highlander"
But won't this trolley invasion run itself out
in time?" asked the other.
when there's nothing left to invade said
joshua oh l suppose in time therell come
reaction. But the new New-England will be
nothing like the Old
The old order changeth'- began his room
mate.
Rubbish he broke in. 'Tenny sOnian rub
bish!"
"An right" the other laughed, but you can's
stop il. nevertheless"
NO; my worthy namesake had a much easier
task on Aialonr' said Joshua Abbott.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
RELICS OF POMPEH.
Continued from ninth page.

die there are scratched such sayings as. Celia
dus. for whom the girls sigh; "Gladius the
glory Of the maidens"; "Cresceus, lord Of young
women or "Giganteus, the darlings' DOCTOR
New-Yorkers are said to utilize almost every
thing for the purpose of advertising, but they
are outdistanced by the practical minded POM
peiians II one walks through the street CT
Tombs. where the wealthy were buried, he VIII
find painted in red letters which have not Yet
lost their tint. advertisements of all kinds and
descriptions. often a family whose fortunes
were depleted rented the tomb Of its more
PROSPEROUS ancestors as New-England farmer
now rents his barn, for advertising purposes
Thus on one stately tomb one may read:
IF ANYBODY lost a mare with small pack
saddle on November -, let him come and see
Quintus Decius Helarius. a freedman. on the
estate Of the Mammii, this side Of the bridge,
over the Sarno."
Some one has counted all the inscriptions he
could find in Pompeii, and says there are SIX
thousand OF these sixteen hundred are cleo
ton notices. from which one can easily INFER
that Pompeii had both its Tammany and us
reform rarity. The recommendations with when
the candidates solicited the votes Of the people
were simple in most cases. one finds a name,
and after it such qualifications as y good
man worthy Of office" or "A youth Of singu-
lar rnodesty' After the name Of one man, who
evidently would have run the anti-Tarl-
many ticket were he living in New York N
these days. We're the words:
He will be the watchdog Of the treasury
Now and then are found inveJtives, some mild
some pungent, which one party hurled ~ an
other. one diatribe that hardly Cloaks its
meaning. and which shows that public of,ic-
was occasionally used for private GAIN reads:
The meek thieves request the election q
Vatia as edile."
Many women OF the twentieth century are
often heard 20 argue that their sex should take
as much interest in elections as their husbands
or brothers. Nineteen centuries ago in Pompe-I
the women evidently thought the same way,
and they not only thought So but they put their
convictions into actual practice. After the H1ne
Of one candidate is found this telitale sentence:
His little sweetheart is working for the cleo
ton Of ClaUdiUs. a duumvir-'
Now and then Pompeiian pat his crudse5
into writing, as did this one on the VIII Of the
public bath:
..sanfus 20 Cornelius: co hang yourself
Here is another slurring Inscription which
Pompeiian scandaImongers might have con-
ne.ted with the Restitutus who was longing for
his Urbana and which vas written in a market
place as follows;
'Restitutus has many times deceived many
girls
Lovers wrote UoSl % IIiEs- HlA't- -ftA'''--7-'
and IL. every case the writer betrayed the fact
that he had or had not been fortunate. Here
are q few 10 judge by:
He who has never been in love is 10 gentle
man"
Health TO you. Victoria, and wherever you
are may you sneeze sweety."
"Cestilia. Queen Of the PompeiiaEs. sweet
soul. greeting TO you.
AN lovers come. propose to break the ribs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
"TrofieyiSafion" of Nes0-Ensland.
Week Spelled Disappointment TO Visitor
TO His Birth place.
Or How Old Home

d. 81 sr-
..rra country cod fo-r-o- fs the Mace y,iss-a-
rsrer.he-ed.- he said eavaeerv.
Es5- roommate tal.sed In his d5f7rir+ task Of
c..-.-s- The dust II a Nayy-yor summer Of the
t.,s az sr unused r,is-,o- vtf,b 81 course tbey
IA ...t.....s o.. 49,. .,s $3.50 ......s -
,-.,.4 ..y,,,r ss,....-.., - - ,.s,,,..
s.a--,s a 1f-.la oss b.. ia NJ, won, ,as7
a. rzafes-9.
..- ,....,,, ..,1,s. 7 ,,,, .,.-., 80, ...- I'm /
49,, .-.,-.--, $50. - ,,-,-.s 49,
a., 49, 80 - -,
-. - - ,,, So, 7.-.,s J
l. - So. - -, -.-l-- -. -, "a
f-ss- and ,,-5.,,,l -, II, 49,, ,,-o-7e - .r.
-.
-', '"' 81 '"' "''es 's o'e 'He-H .-
i take II from your tone that yolr GA Home
week WASN'T an unqualified success, then. said
his roommate
A success. no. cried Joshua Abbott IT
Was one lone disappointment that eliminated
IN the little village ln MIddnseN County, Mass.
WHORE ] WAS born. Massa chusetts is the heart /
OF New-England MiddleseX County mot Bos-
tom is the heart of Massachusetts, and the town 4
where ] was born rs the heart Of MiddleseN
County And it, too. has been desecrated 10y 4
trolleys. The disease has reached the depths"
WHATS. THE MATTER WITH TRoILEYs?
A., r,,,.. .,,.,...- -,.,. .,., 50.
-, I--.,s,- -. =. -. -.
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-, -. - -, -, -,
Iu''' eA'.1sl'e IiesS' esle'iails 20 'he has's
"a 80 = -, - ~ -
80 ' - az
. - ms -. -,
80 ar e "a III ~
WY WA 'hs mater "l'N "'A'ss-
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
The Coming City.

Professor Ely is one of the most advanced
of economic and social thinkers in America.
Though his new book, THE Coming City,
is more suggestive than expository. il con-
tains much of practical Use to those inter-
ested In municipal government. His review
of reforms in municipal officers during the
nineteenth century is used to good purpose
in bringing out the value of the three fol-
lowing propositions: First that municipal
government is profession, not business;
second. ii is difficult profession. requiring
special preparation; third, a man should
devote his life to it. These ideas are of
German origin, for Ii is the custom in Ger
many TO appoint the mayor for a long
period, and, If a mayor governs a snail
municipality with conspicuous success, he
able field of a great city.
Professor Ely says the twentieth century
city will include more than half our popu-
lation. In 1i90 only a little more than 3
per cent. of our population lived in cities;
now 33i2 per cent Is urban. Only corporate
communities of 5000 Inhabitants more
are considered in this estimate to be cities.
The problem of municipal government
therefore, is of the most intimate and vital
significance to every citizen of the United
States.
The book closes with a general philosoph-
ical consideration that, as Mazzini said,
Every political question is becoming So
cial question, and every social question a
religious question" Until our religion can
take in municipal reform, says the author,
we shall not achieve the best of which we
are capable in the way of the city. L. Y.
Crowell x Co., New York.
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The Richer the Poorcr.

Mr.. Ira l.. Jones, librarian of Chicago,
has written a novel entitled THE Richer
the Poorer" which he has made lively
and vigorous tale. 1t is a story with
plot-a thing which is to be said of COM
paratively few novels of the present time.
1t is a love story and the adventures Of
the heroine begin when she leaves the house
of her despicable rich relative and takes
to a small boat on the raging Scioto river
during a storm, and is picked UP for dead
by a poor old fisherman. The latter, who
is called "Old Prov" and speaks in adages,
makes Socialist of the heroine, and takes
her with him to Chicago during the stock
yards riot there to face almost certain
death. The rich hero is also led to the
fisherman's hut, where he falls desperately
in love with the fishermanS ward, and
finally comes to Chicago, where he succeeds
in getting his sweetheart from the mesheS
of the law. There is another hero, by the
name OF Seth, who goes to a cadet school
near Chicago, and he is made a soldier
just in time to aid the heroine and his
strike. Incidental light is thrown on the
legal profession in that city is touched
up" 1t is not story with a purpose.
but is realistic and is not dull; there is
humor in its pages, though it deals more
or less with the problems of capital and
labor. One of the characters, Aunt Jerush.
is an amusing parsonage, a sort of female
David Harum, who seems TO be drawn
from life. The Fiction Publishing Com
pany, Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
Gabriel TOlliyer.

This story by Joel Chandler Harris is
tale of the reconstruction period. but ii is
not full of political bitterness most of the
fiction dealing with that time is. 1t is a
neighborhood chronicle of rather a ram
bling sort; there is but little plot to it
things happen in the way they are likely
to do in real life and the people are mainly
of a good sort. They have their little faults
and weaknesses, and the behavior of two or
three is really Objectionable; but in the
main they are honest, well-meaning men
and women. They have their trials and
sorrows. their disagreements and misun-
derstandings, but affairs straighten out in
the end, the lovers, Of whom there are
several pairs, come to happy agreement,
and the neighborhood is pleased with their
happiness. Mr.. Harris is a master of
Southern dialect; he does not have too
much of it, but enough to make ii seem gen.
uine and characteristic of the people Of
whom he writes. His negroes are, of course,
lifelike. The reader of Gabriel Toliver''
becomes interested in the personages of the
tale as he does in his neighbors, and
once introduced to them will follow their
simple fortunes to the end. The book is
handsomely brought out by Mcclure, Phil
lipS IL Co., New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
APPELLATE COURT
Minutes
FROM SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Brief Summaries of the PRINCIPAL
Items I'm the Issue Of Jan. IS.

items IN the issue OF Jan. Is.
Admiral Dewey. Rear Admiral Taylor
and the fleet staff have returned to Wash
ington on the flagship Mayhower.
Editor Gonzales, of the Columbia State.
who was shot by Lieutenant Governor TIL
man, is said to have faint chance for re-
covery.
Five men were killed, one fatally hurt
and three seriously injured by a powder
explosion on the battleship Massachusetts
at target practice Off Culebra island.
G. c. Bayer, of Circlevile, O., recently
secretary of several building and loan asso-
cash accounts aggregating not less than
$4,000, and it may reach 100000.
The blockade on the Venezuelan coast will
with the demand for guarantees as to the
payment of certain specified sums, accord
Ing to the latest declaration of the allies.
Former Senator f. o. Wolcott of Col
orado, has issued an appeal calling for the
unseating of the Democratic senators from
Arapahoe county, Colorado, on the ground
that their seats are the fruit of election
frauds.
John Mitchell, at Philadelphia. before
leaving for Indianapolis, expressed himself
In terms of warm commentator of the
way in which the investigation of condi-
tons in the anthracite region is being con-
Quoted by the Presidents commission.
The American liner st. Louis reached
Southampton. with a very angry lot of pas
sengers. They declare that for the COM
pany to allow the ship to proceed to sea i'm
her condition was nothing less than Grim
inal, and many of them say they will sue
the company for damages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19

Big Four freight wreck at Union CITY
resulted in the injury of three men, one
probably fatally.
Walter Waldo, a ten-year-old LAFAYETTE
boy, broke through the ice while skating on
the Maumee. and drowned.
The Barnes Gas and Oil Company. of
Marion, has sold its holdings TO ST Louis
men for 100000. The property includes Cos
acres of leases, fifteen oil wells and eight
gas wells.
Carl Wilson, a Clay City youth held the
muzzle of his gun while hunting He
slipped and fell and the gun was dis
charged. tearing off mos; OF his chin. and
otherwise mutilating him.
Coroner w. p. Maxwell. of Sullivan coun-
", Will institute quo warranto PROCEEDINGS
against Sheriff Dudley to compel the yaca-
ton OF his office. Maxwell will have the
support or the attorney generals Office
"A mass meeting of Rushville citizens
adopted resolutions declaring that the pro-
posed army post near Indianapolis should
be named after Gen. Pleasant A Haclxle-
man. General Hackleman was once resi-
dent of Rushville
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ception of things, which. when combined
with the emotion and form that are poetry,
makes man the great artist Ediths lips
and eyebrows are delicate subjects for the
poetry of dalliance and frivolty, but al
most every poet can write on such themes;
only the man of proportionate soul and In
sight can write of continents, prairies and
the immense, the eternal. instincts and feel
ings. that exist in 1.-The general heart OF
man." The titles of some of the poems
are New England The Prairie The
Man." Greed" and Wherefore" Charac-
teristic lines are these from THE Prairie:
Thy long, clean body of primeval flesh;
Unbroken. pure; unsullied by mans lust
OF soil space; untouched by the rapacious
Plow; sweet scented, clean washed by
nightly dews;
ROBBED daintily in thy maiden dress
OF unviolated goldenrod and Indian plumeS;
Thy deep bosoms ever gently wooed by
The soft touches of the rain-stained winds;
Thou art the virgin maid OF mother earth.
With more attention to originality OF
epithet and conventional form Mr.. Wash
burn may attain much distinction.-The
knickerbocker Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
The Success Library.

Volume X of this work is at hand, COM
pleting it according to the original plan.
The previous volumes have been noticed.
The plan of the work was unique, and it
has been carried out in a broad and in
telligent manner under the supervision of a
competent editor and a large corps Of
trained assistants and writer's. The COM
pleted work Is at once an encyclopaedia of
business, a biographical dictionary, a
worlds history and gazetteer and a COM
pendulum of general information, scientific
financial and statistical. Volume X is a
very comprehensive cyclopaedia in itself,
alphabetically arranged, with a ready ref
erence index of subjects in the preceding
volumes, and original articles on many
topics relating to business, politics and pub
lie affairs. THE Success Library is a
complete compendium of up-to-date knowl-
edge. 1t is published by the Success Com
pany New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
MkYBURY'S COAL.
Result of His Heroic Effort &c Relieve
the Suffering.

the Suuerfns.
Detroit Free Press.
II was only few days ago that Mayor
Maybury discovered the most agonizing
suffering among the poor because they
could not obtain fuel. Nothing would save
them from famine. pestilence and sudden
death but the sale of coal by the municipal
government. and the political aggrandize-
ment OF the mayor. The city was a horri-
BILE. indescribable Arctic expedition and
Mr.. Maybury was the relief party that,
after undergoing great hardships. would
rescue .he emaciated survivors.
After much effort in the form of news
paper interviews, the mayor obtained
money and coal and a pair OF hay scales.
and announced that at such and such a
time he would begin TO relieve the distress
of the poor; but the poor failed TO make
their appearance. AS IL happened the
mayor was not ready for them, and as IL
appeared. they did not care continental
red herring whether he was ready or not.
Instead OF thronging the municipal coal
yard and fighting and screaming and i'm
ploring the attendants TO give them soft
coal for thirty cents bushel ere they per-
ished. they went over TO "A coal yard run by
certain sons OF Belial and bought aufhra-
cite for forty cents a bushel. Most Of them
were too busy bargaining with the children
OF sin TO ask II the mayor had a ccal yard.
Those that were curious quickly discovered
that the mayor had only soft coal TO sell.
and after much hoarse hooting hied them
selves thence. Few OF them seem 10 appre-
ciate the service the mayor has rendered
TO them in enabling them 20 buy something
they do not care for at prices they do not
wish to pay; when the least they could
have done in all decency was 10 riot before
the gates OF his coal yard and declare that
he must give them fuel or death. As the
poet, who was a personal friend OF Mr..
Dooleys friend. Hogan. had so truly saids
''Ingratitude thou marble-hearted fend."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
Current Periodicals.

The February Smart Set opens with "The
Wooing of Marcus" by G.. B. Burgin, a
novelette, which is out of the usual run
There are some clever short stories. among
them 1.-The Counting of Drusilla West /"
by Emma Wolf. The poetry and humor are
of good quality
In an article in the current Cosmopolitan
on 1.-The Music of Nature occurs this
passage: cit is literally true that inani-
mate nature sings its song, for by
using a tuning fork and listening carefully
when out of doors the results are most in
teresting. BY this method the different
tones can be ascertained, each canyon and
each crest at different elevations having
individual themes, while the music of field.
desert sea is revealed in the same way
In the February issue of Ainslee's Maya
zine the leading novel is entitled Money
and Matrimony." by Josephine Dixon. and
presents vivid and witty picture of life
in Washington. Maud Whitlock. Gelett
Burgess. S. f. Kiser, Edgar Saltus, Eliza
beth Duer and other clever writers are
contributors TO the number. Ainslees Mag
azine, which contains 160 pages of reading
matter, is now almost entirely given up to
fiction.
The Chicago Daily News Almanac and
Year Book, the nineteenth volume CO which
(for 1909 has just been issued, is an ex-
tremely useful work of reference In COM
pact form it presents an immense variety
of statistical, chronological political and
historical information in such a form and
so indexed as TO be readily found. In adj
ciition to the space devoted to national and
international affairs IL contains much mat
ter especially relating TO Illinois and Chi
cago. 1t is an encyclopedia for busy peo-
pie.
The st. Nicholas League, which offers
each month badges and cash prizes for
clever stories. verse and pictures. seems
to be proving training school for more
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19

scholarship and the beauty and fidelity of
it's imagination.
Dr. Louis Albert Banks, whose latest
work, 1.-The Unexpected Christ" is the
seventeenth of his books to be published
by the Funk & Wagnalls Company, is prob
ably the most prolific author of religious
literature in this country. Instead of pre-
serving his sermons in the proverbial bar
rel he adapts them to special purposes.
such as revival and reform work, and puts
them into books of attractive appearance
and titles. TO use his own words. ne Is
ALWAYS preparing volumes of sermons,
prayer meeting talks, illustrations, etc, and
expects to keep at IL all his life and die
with lots of such material on hand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
THE COURT RECORD.
SUPERIOR COURT.

Room 1-John L. McMaster. Judge.
Joseph McHugh VS.. the New Telephone
Co.: damages Jury out.
Edith Lincoln VS.. William Lincoln; di-
vorce. Part OF evidence heard.
Mamie Wickernan vs. William Wicker
man; divorce. Finding and decree for plain
tiff with custody of minor child, Mary
wickerman. age five years Judgment VS..
plaintiff for costs.
Susie Karstetter VS.. William Karstetter;
divorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff
with CUSTODY OF minor cnlld, age eight
years. Defendant ordered to pay plaintiff
$50 year for support of said child. Judg-
ment VS.. defendant for costs.
Room flames Nj. feathers, Judge
Emma Spaulding vs. Richard Spaulding;
support. Dismissed at cost of plaintiff
Emma Spaulding VS.. Richard Spaulding;
divorce. Submitted TO court. Evidence
heard. Decree granted plaintiff. Judgment
VS.. defendant for costs.
Room s-vinson Carter. Judge.
Frank C. Butts VS.. Victor Helmer ct al:
defendants defaulted. Submitted to court
Evidence heard. Judgment against Victor
Helmer for sos
William d: Wilson VS.. ,Rathbun Speciality
Co.: defendant dismisses appeal Judg-
ment against defendant for costs.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Henry Clay Allen. Judge
Mary Ellen Johnson VS.. RudoIphus e
Johnson; divorce Finding for plaintiff
Decree granted. Plaintiff given custody of
daughter Grace. ana defendant son Arthur
L. Johnson Judgment against defendant
for costs.
Anthony f. Klinschmidt ct ux VS. John
Fryberger ct al: defendant John Fryberger
defaulted. Complaint dismissed to
Charles w. Fryberger Submitted to court.
Evidence heard. Judgment against defend
ant Johl Fryberger for $50 and costs
John Rauch. guardian of Edward Charles
and William Hindel VS.. John Bridges. Dis
Missed by plaintiff and costs paid.
Jeanette T.. Cummins VS.. William Cum
mir S; proceedings supplemental to execu-
tioil. Submitted TO court. Evidence heard.
Defendant appeared and was examined as
to property.
Mary j. Click VS.. George H. Click: di-
vorce- Plaintiff dismissed suit and costs
Board of ChiIdren's Guardians VS.. Thomas
3. Ray and wife; custody of child. On trial
CRIMINAL COURT.
Fremont Afford, Judge
Hayes Allen; assault and battery with in
ts.t to KILL On trial by court. Evidence
heard. Finding OF guilty. Fined $50 and
costs and imprisoned in workhouse for six
Thomas Mercy; assault and battery with
intent 10 kill Defendant arraigned and
pleaded not guilty. Evidence heard Find
Ing guilty. Fined 81 and costs.
Andrew Holt; petit larceny. Cause con-
tinued from Jan Is. Evidence heard. Sen
tence suspended during good behavior
NEW SUITS.
City Bond Co. VS. Meta Remalia ct al
Complaint on Improvement line. Superior
Court. Room l.
Emil CHASER VS.. Alice Chaser; divorce
Superior Court. Room 2
Thomas +. Thomas VS.. George Seifert et
al. injunction. Circuit Court
Hiram o. Winter and Charles Hummel
VS.. Harry Frey; replevin. Superior Court
Room ,.
Hiram O. Winter and Charles Hummel vs.
l. c. Mullins; replevin- Superior Court
Room /.
Gertrude III. Fugate VS.. Walter l.. Fugate,
divorce. Superior Court. Room s.
Anna II. Bassett VS.. Ludheim G.. Bassett;
divorce. Circuit Court