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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-18

Pres. Their. H. Wind. Weather. Pre-.
la m. 30.15 AZ 81 North. Clear 90
IN m. 1902 Sc So N'east. PIT. crdy. 90
Maximum temperature. so: minimum tenn
perature, 40
Comparative statement of mean tempera-
ture and total precipitation on April IL:
Temp. Pre-.
Norman -.--.................-...... So IL
tsArdA ~ W
Departure for day .............. "A IL
1SPdrturc iuf " ~.33
Departure since Jan. / ............ s164 -.46
PLUS. w. T. BLYTHE,
Section Director.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-18
Other Games.

At Lincoln, Neb.-University of Nebras-
ka, 8; University of Kansas, Z.
AT Columbus, o. r. h z.
Boston Americans ............2 5 o
Columbus ............. ............1 2 !
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-18
Cincinnati Again Defeated by Pitts
burg-Tables Turned by Chicago
A victory for Boston.
Scores and Attendance.
National League Standing.
National Games To-Day.

Boston at Philadelphia.
Brooklyn at New York.
Pittsburg at Cincinnati.
Chicago at st. Louis.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
A Matter of Soul.

A local hospital nurse who was in
the Philippines when Macarthur was
the big man in Manila tells a story of
that officers experience with native
musicians. When he entered the city
he was saluted with a version of
''Therem be a hot time in the old town
tonight" and this popular bit of rag
time" composition was played by the
Filipino bands whenever he or any of
his staff made an appearance in public.
Finally, Macarthur inquired why that
tune was invariably played, and was
told by the band-leader that the regi.
mental bands of the American troops
played it when the city was entered,
and that the natives supposed it was
the national air.
WELL" was MacArthur's comment,
lit is not the national air; but 1t is
the American spirit. Keep on play.
ing it-when we're not around-if
you wish; but my best advice is that
you fall in line and march to Yam.
kee Doodlei'"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
H E SAY.

Physicians Sorry That the Game Is
Declining in Favor In France.
Somebody has discovered that peo-
pie In France are not playing billiards
so much as they did formerly. Over
this announcement has arisen Q
lamentatfon.
Physicians have joined in 1t as well
as lay admirers of the game. They
declare that it's disappearance would
be a misfortune from a sanitary point
of view.
The game, they say, gives just the
exercise they need to a great number
of people who without it would take
no exercise at all. While involving
SO severe physical exertion, 1t keeps
the muscles in shape, stimulates the
circulation, helps the digestion and
requires just enough mental effort to
give the V system a rest from
the ordinary worries of life. In proof
of all of which they cite the good
spirits usually exhibited about q bill
lizard table.
For elderly people, for the stout
who cannot take much exercise, bill
lizards Is pronounced an excellent
tonic. So the friends of the game are
preaching a revival of its popularity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
Where Life Is Too Easy.

There was apparently shrewd phil
csophy in Humboldt's famous saying,
Industry is impossible where the
banana grows" Abraham Lincoln had
something of this in his mind when
speaking to the envoy from Chilli, who
continually reminded him that Chilli
ans were far and away the leading
people in Spanish America. DO they
grow the apple down thereT asked
Lincoln. "Yes," replied the other.
'Then / can believe you" said the
president. The governor of Sierra
Leone-the West African Banana
land'-reports home that in his re-
cent comprehensive tour of the colony
he found the people so comfortably
provided for by the natural produce of
the place that all they had to do was
ito loll in their hammocks all day and
dance and sing all night" Little won
der, as a Freetown paper remarks,
that these e~asy-going folk regard the
new railways in the colony with a
Ruskinian eye!"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
HARD ON BOTH SIDES.
Disappointment That Seemed to Be
About Equally Divided.

Disappointment That Seemed to Be
About Equally Divided.
Melville e. Stone, so long the head
of the Associated Press, tells a story
of Gen. George A. Sheridan's encoun-
ter with an audience in an Illinois
town where he was scheduled for an
address. Through a local printers
mistake, it seems, the populace had
been led to expect Gen. Phil Sheri-
dan. When the audience assembled,
the bigwig of the community intro
duced the speaker after this fashion:
Ladies and Gentlemen-Permit me
to present Gen. Sheridan-not Gen.
Phil Sheridan, whom we expected to
hear, however. Let us hope, though,
that our visitor may say something to
make us forget our disappointment
Gen. Sheridan was boiling with
rage, but showed no trace of it in face
or name as, bowling to the big gath
ering, he began as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen-I was led
to believe that l should find a live,
progressive, cultured city, and can
hardly express my establishment in
finding what is little better than a
mud-hole, whose people seem to bear
no marks indicative of mental bright
ness or culture. Still, I'll do the best
/ can"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03

when his mother is not looking, he
makes straight for the banisters, aud
down them he slides pell nell, iF
great haste, for if he does not make
the most of his opportunity he may
lose it. And the anxious woman is
frightened. She was so much fright
ened the other day that she spoke to
the small boy.
John Smith" she said-the small
boys name is not John Smith, but
that will do as well as another
John Smith, if you don't stop sliding
down those banisters you viii hurt
yourself, as sure as Gospel
1t was only a few mornings after
when the anxious woman heard a
humping, bounding sound in the
front hall-rumpity, dump, dump,
dump, as If a heavy body were rolling
downstairs. The expected had hap.
pened, and as, with her face very
white, she opened the door, there was
John Smith picking himself I'D stif1y
He was not crying, for he is old for
his age, and knows that worse things
than falling downstairs may happen
II he is caught disobeying orders. He
drew down the of his month
a little, however, as, regaining his
equilibrium, he remarked seriously:
Well, | guess l have hurt the Cos.
pei this time
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03

Excitement, Not Lust for Gain, Is tn,
Desire.

@NSsNSfN@EiAr wv y - 1Hlitf - us
Desire.
One of the most thoroughly in
grained passions in the human race Is
he desire to gamble, not the crude
wish Of the ignorant man to get some
thing for nothing, but the eager and
brilliant-hued expectation OF tne man
of experience to risk some possession
Of his against some part of his neigh
boris goods, in the hope of becoming
by this means the p~ossessor of both.
And that this is by no means to be
COMPOUNDED with mere lust for money
is proved by the prevalence of this
feeling among very rich men, to whom
the acquisition of a few hundreds of
thousands of dollars cannot by any
possibility bring added comfort or en-
joyment.
1t is in the contest of his brain
against another's, the placing of his
army in the field to capture or be cap
tured by his opponents, that the lover
OF gambling takes his delight. Such
a passion is as often seer in a little
gutter-snipe risking his pennies with
another gamin at craps as it is in the
g~ray-haired financier twisting the
market into a corner to squeeze the
last cent out of his opposing ~acquaint-
ance OF the other side of the move
ment.
Writers on economics almost with
out exception fail to grasp this idea,
and point out the folly of gambling to
its devotees ON the ground that the
money gained is almost invariably
spent in a reckless fashion, and that
the confirmed gambler is thus eventu-
ally bound to lose. They do not see
that it is the excitement of the con-
test, the emotional thrill caused by
the conflict, that is more frequently
desired, not the gain of a certain
amount of money.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
Like Finding IT.

Senator Quay went to the Adiron-
dacks a few weeks ago to prepare
for the return home of his family. He
rode up the mountain in a coach that
was Interestingly tardy. and which
was following after another that, if
possible, was even slower. He chafed
for a time at the pace, and then hit
upon a plan he thought would serve
to speed both teams. He leaned
over to the driver and offered a dol
lar if the latter would get ahead of
the team in front. The driver smil-
ingly agreed, and then raised his
voice to say:
Hey! 1 say, Bill! Bill, turn yer
rig to the side Of the road-win yer?
There's a guy here says hen give me
a dollar If l pass ye; and I'll divide
if you make roomi"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03

aroused. They soon discovered the
system in operation against them. One,
two, or the required number of fingers
we're laid with apparent c~arelessness
on the table for signaling purposes.
Tvo fingers were resting on the table
when quick as a fash one of the
cheated sliced them off with a knife,
ending the game. The following morn
ing the victim of this impromptu bit
of surgery was heard singing and
whistling cheerfully in his room in the
local hotel, and was asked by a sur
prised stranger who had heard of the
evenings game and its finish if cheer
fitness were not somewhat out of or
der on the part of a man who had just
lost two fingers and been branded as
a cheat.
why, I'm in luckl" was the unctu.
u reply. Suppose l had been hold.
ing a full hand at that stage of the
camel"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
When to Do Nothinq.

Ex-Speaker Reed has carefully
avoided expressing any opinion as TO
the big coal strike, but the other
Gay heard it remarked that certain
public men had been making some big
mistakes since the situation W. tho
coal strike had become so acute, Mr..
Reed said: yes, / suppose that lis SO.
1t is hard for a man to know just what
10 do in crises of this sort. That re-
minds me of the method followed by
an old politician in Maine. | once said
I o him: What would 0 do If rsu
were in a ticklish position and difat
know what you ought to do2 I would
do no-Aing.' the old man replied. and
| think his was the right brand OF
philosophy
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
His DlfHeultv-

The witty Samuel WHEREFORE, bish.
op of Oxford, had no patience with
admirers who persisted in regarding
him, with others of his cloth, as ex.
traordinarily important.
A lady who met him one day at din.
ner evidently felt obliged to keep the
conversation at a high level. She
began with much solemnity:
MY lord, you must have had a
great many serious questions to deal
with in the course of your life. What
is the most tremendous difficulty you
have had to encounter.
The bishops napkin was slipping
away from him.
Keeping a dinner napkin on this
silk apron of mine said he, as he
clutched at it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
FOLLY OF GIVING ADVICE.
Under Any Circumstances 1t is a Most
ThankIess OCCUPATION.


ThankIess Occupation.
Giving advice is rather a foolish
practice, for the reason that people do
about what they please, n they sell
dom wish or heed advice that does not
urge them to do just what they wish
and intend to do. The man that vol
unteers to give advice runs a risk Of
being told to mind his own business
or, at least, of having his advice re-
ceived coldly and disregarded without
apology.
Giving advice, even when request
ed, is generally a thankless service
which a wise man is backward in
doing. AS a rule, people who invite
advice really desire encouragement.
Unless one tells them what they wish
to hear one is very likely to find him
self in a wrangle and to have his adj
vice secuted and condemned. And when
one does tell them what they wish
to hear and they act accordingly, the
adviser is held responsible for the
result, If it turns out i'll, although gets
neither credit nor gratitude if it
turns out well. The giver of advice is
always blamed on account of what
might have been.
Each of us has a good deal to do If
he attends to his own affairs, makes
up his own mind and watches his W
business, and the less we have to do
with the business of other men, and
the less advice we give, the more COM
Portable, happy and esteemed we shall
he
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
How Could She Teuf

A rather good story is told at the
expense of Jack" Daily by Special
Ofacer Carr of the Eleventh and Race
streets police station. DAILY, before
becoming a member of the force"
was one of the best known light
weights who yer stepped in the
squared circle" and his trim athletic
figure shows to advantage in his po-
liceman's uniform. A few days ago,
according to Carr, DAILY. attired in
full uniform, was standing on Ninth
street when an elderly lady stepped
ND, and, after looking him carefully
over. naively inquired: Are you a
policeman?' When Jack recovered his
breath he solemnly said; Honest I
am. lady. If you don't believe me I'll
show you my badge. '-Philadelphia
gresssr@sA,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03

When the British
and Beers were
fighting across the
rolling veldt of
South Africa that
country n e e d
e fighting men.
Now that peace
has been publicly
proclaimed south
Africa e
women. For m
are scarce in the
T~ransvaal. They
are so manifestly
in demand that
employers find
great difficulty in
supplying them
selves with fem
mime help. They
have tried the ex-
pertinent of i'm
porting youn
women, but the ex-
pertinent has not
proved entirely
satisfactory be-
cause there is a
general tendency
in the Boer u
try matri-
mony. There are
in south Africa
to-day thousands
of available young
men who are ready
and anxious to sac
rthce themselves
for their country.
Employers who
have secured lady
clerks. typists.
shop girls. and gem
eral servants o
England and other
countries have
become e q of
seeing them leave
their services for
m~atrimony.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
HAD HURT THE GOSPEL.

How Small Boy Explains Result OF
Falling Downstairs.
He is a small boy, aged 5, and lives
with his parents on the second floor
of the house. The anxious woman
lives on the first floor, and she is
anxious because every time the small
boy can steal out of the room upstairs
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE.
philosophical View Taken by Detect
ed Card Sharper.

ed Card Sharper.
N. c. Goodwin tells a story of a
poker game in a far western town
where gambling is permitted by law
and regulated by the gamesters, who
generally have the moral support of
the community when they administer
strenuous punishment for crooked
dealing. Four men sat in" on this
occasion, and two of them worked to-
gether with so much disaster to the
other two, who were playing fairly,
that the suspicious of the latter were
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
Growth Of Firen

Growth of Firemen's Union.
During the past five months 1000
marine fremen on the Atlantic coast
have joined the Marine Firemen,s
Union.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-03
TEST FOOD VALUES
EXPERIMENT AT KANSAS AoRi-
CULTURAL COLLEGE.

Facts Learned Are Of Much Value to
Cattle Raisers Warming the
Drinking Water Is Absolutely Nee
essary in Successful Feeding.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-11
IN WESTERN STYLE.

Attempt to Rob Rank 'at Hobolken,
 Ns J.-RObber Was Lassoed.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-After having attempted to rob the First National bank of Hoboken in broad daylight in true western style Frank Stone, youth of nineteen, of Youngstown, O., sprang Into the Hudson river here when fol- lowed by sgreat crowd and would have succeeded in making his escape had not tugboat man thrown lasso about his neck and hauled him in.
 Stone, the police say, effected an en- trance into a saloon and robbed the cash drawer of it's contents, including check on the First National bank for $15. Payment on the check was stop ped, and when Stone presented 1t at the cashiers window Cashier McKaig went out to capture the lad Tie latter sud denly seized the wicket window and attempted to pull it apart and seize the cash that lay in large quantities on the counter. He was still pulling at the window when the cashier came upon him and attempted to hold him up. With hard blow the boy managed to wrench himself loose from McKaig and bolted for the street. He made his way to a Delaware, Lackawanna and West ern pier and jumped into the river.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-11
FLYER WRECKED.

Easthound Panhandle Expresn Ran
 On Open Switch.
 SrEUBENVILLE, O., Dec. 11.-Fif- teen injured an6 one dead is the re- suit of the wrecking of eastbound Pan- handle dier No. 14 at New Cumber- land Junction, Steubenville. The wreck was caused by an open defective switch. The fier plunged across a connecting track to the westbound track and crashed into 8 freight en- zine. Both engines were wrecked. The second mail car telescoped the com bination smoker and baggage. The in- jAred were in this car Only the front end of the forward mail car was smashed. The dead man and the in- Jured were brought to Steubenyille hos pital.
 The dead man is Frank A. LaSalle, an oil stock salesman, who lived at In dianapolis. He was caught when the mail car telescoped and instantly killed.
 The injured are: J. H. Slater, In- dianapolis, left leg fractured; Eugene E. Hagan, Perth Amboy, N. J., bruised on head; William Leark, New York city, left leg hurt; Ellis Mills, Knights town, Ind, cut on head; David M. Fisher, Lima, O., fracture of both legs and head bruised; O. A. Baker, Uhrichs- vile, O., fireman, back injured, Mi chael Woods, Dennison, O., engineer internal injuries. Eight others receiv- ed slight injuries.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-11
Patroriman weack |. Dead.

CLEVELAND, O., Dec 11.-Patrol- man Louis D. Weick, who was shot twice here, is, dead at the hospital. Weick had arrested Guiattana Pisciot- Eta for creating disturbance, when the latter whipped out pistol and fired two shots into Weick's abdomen, in- Hfiicting fatal wounds. Even after hay ing received the bullets into his body and while Pisciotta was running away Weick drew his own revolver and fired three times at his assailant before fall ing to the ground semiconscious.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-11
CITY NEWS

MT and Mrs Alfred D. Grilley of 8S Walnut street celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage last night. .t~~
 Constable Walter B. Lannen is con- fined to his home at II Kingsbury street with a severe attack of. tonsil- its.
 The Pastime Athletic club will give it's fifth annual concert and promenade at Leavenworth hall Wednesday even ing, December g.
 4lhe Military band will give another of their popular promenade concerts at City hall tomorrow night. Popular music, standard music and musical | novelties for good dancing. See pro- gram in another column.
 Edward l.. Seery has brought fore closure to collect S1,00O mortgage note from Marcus King of New York 1 and Samuel Levin of Passiac, N. J. l The money was loaned by Mir Seery on property belonging to the defendants on Vine street, Waterbury.
 Lucy, the one-year and eight months old child of MT and Mrs Leo l Capaldo of Bridge street, died yester- day. The funeral will take place to- morrow afternoon at o'clock with service at the church of Our Lady of Lourdes and interment in Calvary cemetery.
 Last Tuesday Miss Annie C.. Mo Partland of Easton avenue, daughter l of Mrs Mary A. Mcfarland, entered St Elizabeth's academy at Convent l Station, New Jersey. St Elizabeth's 1 is the home of the Sisters of Charity, some of whom have charge of two of Waterbury's parochial schools.
 John Murray of North Elm street sustained very severe injury to his right eye yesterday afternoon while chopping wood for George Boyd at his residence on Randolph avenue A splinter few and struck the eye, caus- l ing a badly lacerated wound of the eyehall He was taken to Dr Maloney' s office and treated and afterwards re moved to the hospital. To-day hi: condition is comfortable, but a prog nosis whether the eye will be saved cannot be given for several days
 Invitations have been received ir kthis city by the friends of John J Cl1lne of Norwa1k to attend the exer i cfses at St Bonaventure's college. De cember 19, when he will be ordained tc the priesthood. MT Clune entered the University of New. York some years ago | to study medicine, in company with l his cousin, Dr Maloney of this city I from where the young man graduated before he was 21 years of age. While waiting for his diploma. which could not be obtained by him until he became Of age. he gave uD the idea of practtc ing medicine and entered the seminary | at Allasany, N Y, where he has snent the past four years preparing himself for the priesthood.
 The third degree of the Knights. o. Columbus will be exemplified in K. o1 I c. hall on next Sunday afternoon un der the auspices of Mulcahy council
 Twenty candidates will be initiated into the mysteries of this degree which will be exemplf1ed by Warde1 Thomas Mclaughlin of Newark, N. J. and District Deputy John O'Keefe o
 Plainfield, N. J. No men in the coun try know how to exemplify the degret work better than the above mentioned
 Knights. It will be a gala occasion
 for the members of the order in thii city. Many members from Nauga tuck Bristol, Torrington. Winsted TeEryville and other nearby towns vii be present The meeting will begiI $ a hofIt 1 .RO
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-11
NUTMEG CRAVINGS

Interesting Items Boiled Down for the
 Benefit of Our Busy Readers.
 Isaac Wardell and his twin sister, Mrs A. O. Hoyt, celebrated their S8th anniversary in Stamford yesterday He was formerly for many years 1n the foundry business. She is the widow of minister. Dr Alpheus Mills paugh, veterinary, still in active prac- tice, celebrated his 90th anniversary yesterday
 While on a Hartford train Wednes- day afternoon, Mrs s. z. Poli, wife ot the well known theatrical manager missed one of her diamond earrings The train officials were notified of the loss and search instituted, but the missing gem could not be found. Mrs Poli was not sure whether the Jewe had been stolen or lost.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-11
PICKED UP BY TRAINMEN.
Man Unable to Tell His Name Brought in from Greystone.

One of the railroad trains brought an odd character to town this morn ing and turned him over to the officer at the Naugatuck station. He was picked up at Greystone, almost frozen
 to death and unable to tell who he
 was.> He was taken in charge by Su-
 perintendent Doran of the board
 of charities, who had him removed to
 the Brookside home He said his name
 was Charles Willis, or Wilko, nobody could tell which. and that he was a native of Lakeville, but has lived for some time past at Middletown and Southington. He claimed to be 137 wears old, but thinking it over he took this back and said he had just turned four years. MT Doran is of the opin- ion that he is an inmate of some in stitution for imbeciles and expects that somebody will be looking for him soon. He is about 20 years old, tall and lanlSy and was dressed something 4 like farm hand with the regulation
 cowhide boots pulled over his trous- CTS.