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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26

Mrs Charles Duncan and Miss Anna Huns
barger, of Center, have returned from a
visit with Mrs A. l. Woody. Mrs. Emma
Justice of Greenfield, is the guest of Mrs.
z. b. Hanna. Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. Har-
rison. of Noblesville. have returned home
after a short stay with Mrs. A. c. Harri-
son and family. =. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
McKenna, of Redkey, are the guests OF
Mrs. McKenna's parents Mr.. and Mrs. j.
E. Shoeridge, on Gail street.. Mrs. Car
son, who has been with her daughter, Mrs.
j. A. Hendley, will return to her home in
Gosport tomorrow. -. Mr.. Lester Oldridge
and Mr.. John Shaw will leave Wednesday
for Topeka, Kan, to attend the convention
of the Y NJ. c. AS in that city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26
ClermOnt.

Mrs Eliza Ballard will spend the sum-
mer with her sister. Mrs. Vantia Hight
shue Mrs. Ballard was in Indianapolis
last winter. James Taylor, of Southport,
week. -. Miss Minnie McCallister. of Flack-
Vile, spent last week with Mrs. James
Howard. =. Mrs. Martha Todd received for
friends last Wednesday afternoon. James
r. Foley, of Chicago, is the guest of his
sister, Mrs Kate Shook. -. Mr.. and Mrs.
Chriss Mueller. of Marion Park. spent the
week in Clermont at their country home.
.....Miss Rena Mcdonald is home from
Cincinnati, where she has been attending
the Conservatory of Music. Miss Clara
Shank, of Lebanon, Is the guest of Miss
Brownsburg, spent Sunday here last week.
and then went to Indianapolis to visit
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Johnson
went to Irvington for a few days stay
with friends last week. Harry Miller, OF
indianapolis, spent part of last week with
his parents,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26
Haughville.

Miss Nora Egan is i'll. "A mission is be-
ing held at the st. Anthony Catholic
Church, of which Father Byrne is in
charge, for the colony of Slavs and Hun
garians, which numbers over three hun
bred The Rev. John Krajec, of Chicago, is
conducting the work. The services will
close next Tuesday evening An enjoya-
BILE programme of vocal and instrumental
numbers was given at the st. Anthony
Church last Thursday evening by a class
of parish boys and girls.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26

time with her brother, Mr.. Julian Scholl,
in New York. before returning to Indian
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26

one OF the prettiest OF the spring recep-
lions was given Thursday afternoon by
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
PIANO PLAYER TURNED REFoRMER.

Professor Penny, the man who charges that certain
favore church songs are immoral 'doggerel cheap
etc. is a great piano player He attracted great
attention as a musician
Why should accept his judgment? asks Ed Howe
in the Atchison Globe people like Refuge Ito which
"Jesus Lover Ny Soul sung) why should they give
it up or submit to silly abuse the song because one
Professor Penny piano player does like it? Does
not this Professor Penny people right
to their own musical judgments? There is song known
as God Be With You Till We Meet Again" The writer
this has heard the song, but he knows people
people fully as intelligent Penny-who love it. Why
should they give up because some other person does
it? The musical selections approved by Penny
will suit other people of like intelligence Because
he has been authorized to settle musical questions
Kansas.
Professor Pennys charges against the gospel hymns
true they are fair they not sensible
Let Professor Penny sing songs he likes other peo
pie viii do the same Professor Penny dean of
arts Washbum college him give his attention
Washburn college the people care of them
selves Professor Penny has overestimated his import
People do not what he thinks. Because he
dean of of Washburn college he should not
imagine that people particularly his opinions or
that his opinions have the force of statutes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
THE ANClENTS AND LONG LIFE.

Discussing the physical habits of ongived persons
noted lecturer finds that some smoke and drink and
others do and live carefully others careless
y, but rule all large people slow deep
breathers always calm and given worrying are
small eaters and generally great drinkers. In his
opinion the secret of long life is simply keeping the cells
OF the body healthy by proper nutrition.
Any discussion of longevity brings up the fact that
ancient writers well informed the subject as
our modern ones There is not much under the
All writer's that in all human excess and
defect alike prejudical seen in the case of
health and srngth. Too much and little exercise
both alike destroy strength in like manner much
meat and drink and too little alike destroy health
while to eat and drink moderation produces and
increases and health strength And So too
it argued by Aristotle centuries ago. with temperance
with bravery and with the other virtues.
For he, said Aristotle, who shuns all dangers and
who Is frightened at everything and who bears
bold front becomes coward while he who never fears
anything at all and who upon every venture be-
comes foolhardy. And too, he who takes his fill of
every pleasure and who refrains from becomes de-
PRAYED; while he who shuns all pleasures alike as do
the churlish becomes insensible For temperance
and bravery destroyed by and by defect and are
preserved in perfection by moderation"
Diogenes. the cynic, who lived be nearly 90 and
passed his later days tutor believed that long life
was TO be gained by avoiding the luxurious living of the
society OF his days He taught the children Xenades
ali manly sports would permit the trainer to ex
ercse them after the fashion athletes of that time but
exercised them himself just the degree sufficient to give
them good color and sound health He only looked
after their education taught them to wait upon them
selves and 10 be content with plain food and drinking
water. When said to him that it was bad thing
to live-"not TO live replied he but lire badly"
Living badly is the principal of short life in these
strenuous American days just the luxurious
times of Athens.
Hppocrates. the Greek physician who was the first
to maintain that diseases spring from natural causes
that they could be studied the body could be
assisted in throwing them off, among other important
aphorsms concerning the duration of life. said
'Old men easily endure fasting middleaged men not
so we'll young men still less easily children worst of
all, especially those who Of q lively spirit
Those bodies that grow have much natural heat
therefore they require good or else the body
consumes but old men have little heat in them there
fore they require but little food much nourshment
extinguishes that heat This is the
do not have acute fevers because their bodies are
cold"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

the holdings of land in the Adirondack wilder
ness The 100000 camp on lake or mountain slope
has euiced to fill the measure OF the desires OF
many men, they have added to acre OF their
forest possessions Properties of 5000 and 10000 acres
are not uncommon One credbly reported to have
ACQUIRED 10000 acres covering and parts
of others together stretches Of wood and noun
tain
How do the natives the spot-the guide the woods
man. the small farmer and the artsaneok upon these
great aggregaons Of land under single title? The ques
important since the to it throws
light upon the motives which may have led TO the Dexter
homicide, also has vital relation with the whole
question public policy involved The disposal OF state
lands in the Adirondacks is something with which the
legislature be called upon to concern ITSELF and
obviously sentiment the immediate residents will
deserve to be taken carefully consideration at
least of the elements in the problem.
They maintain it may be said in general an attitude
which has two aspects The advantage in the way of
employment which the great landlord offers them is fully
recognized So his example improvement good prac
tice forestry instance when is exhibited Nor is
class jealousy stirred apparently-any in
envy of great riches such Often the OF
large lives the best of with his working
class neghbors. But what exaspe-atcs a'd embittsrs
the the upon their tme-honored
strictly legal privileges which is frequently in
volv The warning away of trespassers from regions
the attempted closing trails carries generally
offensive air of exclusive ownership without usehis is
the sort of thing which the native Of the wilder
On the carry between Forked and Raquette lakes
for example sign is posted: Private Property. Nc
Thoroughfare. w. c. Whitney" An old guide heard
to observe, with great scorn he contempuousy ig
nored the warning: "Oh, shucks. This here thor
oughfare before Bill Whitney born and guess it
will be long after his grandchildren dead"
Friction land titles and feeling that the state
authorities have been in collision with wealthy
bring about the alienation Of birthrght in the
stretches of woodland water problem
in too many All told there is evidence in plenty
who will look for it. that the method acquir
ing and administering the extensive holdings land
the Adrondacks is offensive to the majority of the people
of the locality. This is something with which state that
ha the dangers of monopolizaton territory by
the PATRONS and has known formidable antren agita
tion will be wise to reckon We but hint for the
moment, at the intimate connection the matter has with
the whole problem of keeping thresoring
pleasure giving mountains from being denuded by the
rapacious woodpulp destroyer On of all there
be kind of moral aesthetic objection to the excus
i've control of great of wild country 1t was eX-
pressed by old frequenter the woods said
of the purchase of mountain by one opulent
man who had climbed it himself and was averse to
having others do it: why this is like buying up all the
orchestra chairs in Paradise"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
JERUSALEM is SELECTED.

The executive committee of the Worlds Sunday
School has fixed upon the city of Jerusalem as the meet
ing point for the convention What possibilities
must present themselves to the delegates.
Palestine is the one place the worlds map whittier
Christian eyes are extended from earliest Sunday
school days until the Christian ready depart to his
final reward he read studied and heard about the
land where Christ was where much of His life
was spent
At any time a visit to Jerusalem would mean much to
the student OF Christianity but when convention is To-
Gated there and the delegates to study re-
gious TOPICS every hamlet stream and mountain will
yield pleasure There will be intelligent geographers
historians guides Jerusalem and the student VIII
not be at the mercy ordinary guides who recite thei
lessons by rote and who likely to point to the
wrong place as to the right one earning their
When the delegates gather in regular convention
there will be honest guides trustworthy and parties
of any size can tour Palestine with the certainty that
their information is and their souvenirs reliable
When they pointed them the spot where
stood the Temple when they purchase some relic on
that spot they will doubt the reality of their
possessions.
But such considerations only aside, and Wis
itcr Christian nde could enjoy equally the geograph
icaI and historical associations What the convention
would mean to the believer, with zeal developed enthu-
sasm evoked the spirituality resulting, are things
that only the sincere Christian can comprehend.
It was fine Inspiration when Jerusalem was chosen
for Christian Sabbath School convention and doubt
those who enough to will have the real
journey of their lives after in mind while those who
stay at home will watch the proceedings more closely
than usual quite generation Sabbath school
pupils will listen eagerly to their teachers who tell at
first or even second hand the great gathering in Pal
estine
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.

The fair opens today at Weatherford
Purses amount TO $3.50 in cash.
Dover has already had a killing frost
II came in the form of a theatrical
show
The question in Granite is. "Are your
own feathers clean?" The town has a
renovator.
a brick plant at Granite has been sold
by the sheriff for $3.50. Mrs. James B.
Jones bought it.
Happy Homes has been rewarded
of the w. c. T. L.
A Kaw City man killed. last week
a grey eagle measuring four and a half
feet from tip TO tip
Carmens school enrolment increased
over % per cent last week. The at
tendance is now los.
a Cordell newspaper man has started
the Santa C laus talk already. He'll be
sorry when the children once take it up
Matt Duhr says the James Younger ag-
gregstion is probably the toughest and
wooliest show that ever afflicted the ter
ritory.
An Arapaho mill and gin company ad-
vaneed the price OF cotton last week .
cents a hundred, according TO the Bees
statement.
The Orient set the prairie afire north
of Carmen last week. but no i'll feeling
about it arose. Carmen got 70 use its new
fire engine.
Right in the center of the Carmen News
first page is a blank space. 5x6 inches,
in which appears these words in script:
Get the Habit
The pastor Of Arapaho's Reformed
church has secured a library building for
the town. Frances P. Fernald, of New
York, has furnished the funds
Garments mayor is figuring with Ohio
persons on a packing plant. Mayor Bee
man cannot make his administration re-
membered kindly in a surer way.
Kansas farms are being advertised for
sale in Oklahoma in vain. Oklahomans
remembering Genesis don't propose 10
lose their place in the Garden of Eden.
A Blackwell paper guarantees that the
town will build. without expense TO the
taxpayer, q new court house and JAIL
if Kay county will make it the county
seat.
Ira Rogers was sentenced last week at
Saltwater to a penitentiary life at hard
labor. He pleaded guilty TO the murder
of a little girl by the name of Mary
Prokash
One of the most important assets or sne
town. but one of the most dreaded la
bilities to many of its visitors. has been
moved to Mountain View. Reference is
made to the calaboose.
James F. Mott has been granted fran
chise by Garments council to electric
light the town. The News says it will
be done . per cent cheaper than at any
other town in the territory.
Saltwater Advance: The lynching of
Ivey Rogers last Saturday was barely
avoided by the promp action of Sheriff
Hesser and Undersheriff Mode Gasso-
way, in removing him from the county
Jail to a place of safety. The large
crowd that usually gathers in Saltwater
on Saturday was augmented by the clos
ing day OF the carnival Several hun
bred of the crowd. wrought TO a high
point of excitement. and clamored for VEN
geance over the murder and outage of
the little Bohemian girl, Mary Prokash
by Ivey Rogers, surrounded the Jail and
would doubtless have Iynched him had
he not been removed only a few mo-
ments before by the sheriff, who took
him to Pawnee and thus avoided the dis
graceful spectacle of a lynching and
saved Rogers neck.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
THE DIVORCE EVIL ovERsrATeo.

Divorces are too common and too easy to obtain in
Wichita all the Kansas Just as they are in
many other parts of the country it is not fair
make such comparisons between the records of mar
rages and divorces have been published lately When
the first few weeks after the opening of the fall term of
the courts competent divorces are taken as
sample of the year, the effect is very misleading
Marriage licenses are issued all the time There is
stopping for long vacation They do not accumulate
through the with a rush in early autumn
Therefore the conditions this time of the year are not
at all normal in the balance between marriage and di,
The proportion divorces to marriages is proba
bly, three times great viii be for the entire twelve
months At that the bad enough to call for serious
consideration by lawmakers all others who can in any
way defend marriage give the marital state more Of
the fxty without which much of its power for
good and its usefulness to society
But it IS easy to paint the prevalence Of divorce
baeker than is in this city and state That ought
never to be done Exaggeration weakens any argument
in the long run.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
LARGE LAND HOLDINGS.

The east has problem that has been agftatng he
west for time This problem IS large land holdings
The New York Evening Post says:
The Dexter murder in the Adirondacks with the re.
ported fears and fight Of other owners of large
In that region bhrngs cut rather sarngy one OF the
results of the movement back TO Nature CITY men
have indeed been returning to the country in droves of
late years The rural estate with country house has
become one Of the ordinary ndieia OF wealth What this
has meant TO the Berkshres. for example to the Ber.
nardsvie hills Of New Jersey say nothing Of the mark
ed development OF Immediately suburban property
has often been pointed ont Some have maintained thai.
ull haa come in this particular tendency They point to
the alleged decline Of Newport and TO the breakup Of
the Stokes estate Lenex and the closing Of Mr.
bits chateau Btmore
However that may be- the situation is different with
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
SCHOOL CKILDREN'S EYES

Should be looked after. Great precau
their eyes examined for proper glasses
the United States on the eye than Prof
from them. He vii challenge them for
their while 10 take him up Read what
PROF. F. H. SNOW. Chancellor Of
Kansas University. says that Prof Sam
uels is recognized as being the greatest
benefactor in this line in the entire
country.
PROF EVANS. Master OF the High
School of LeavenwOrth. speaks very
highly OF him as an expert In his pro-
fession.
JUDGE BARKER. OF Lawrence. Kan.
present speaker of the house OF represen-
tatives. says that Prof. SamuelS has no
equal in this whole entire country.
MR. THOMAS MANANY. the well
known detective Of Kansas City. recon-
mends Prof Samueis very highly When
he was boy he had a great trouble with
his eyes. and was cured By him eighteen
years ago and has not been troubled
since.
EX-GOVERNOR ANDY FELT says
that he was at one time o great skeptic
and could not understand how glasses
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

ion Should he taken by parents to have
IL anyone can ind greater expert IN
Samueis Of Wichita he would IKE TO hear
such good sum that Il might De worth
people say OF him In the following lines:
could cure different ailments. as he him
self had the misfortune Of getting glasses
from those whom he supposed Were op-
tici2ns. but after he was fitted by Prof
Samuels MS eyes were greatly heuedtcd
and he advises all who are afflicted to esu
upon Prof. Samuels and be benefited as
he has been
EX-GOVERNOR LYMAN L. HIM
PHREY says: 1 can recommend Prof
Samueis as the most able nau in his Nns
in the state OF Kansas. or anywhere else
MIR. ]. X. MULvANE. president cf
the Bank Of Topeka. says; Prof. Scnsueis
cured both my son and daughter CT sx-
crueiating pain IN the head and eyes.
Others have tried to cure them with no
beneficial results.
MR.. p. l. BONEBRAEE. president ~
the Central National hank OF Topeka
says; Prof. Samuels. in his line. performs
wonders.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
Nothing 20 Retrsc..

IRON the Chicago Tribune1
7 told your reporter. complained the
caller. that ! had just returned from
Newport. ard by r1c~t inexcusa be
typographical error Il Ess printed
DndesPort in your paper this, morn
ing
That wasn't Typographical error
ma an. se.d the editor That xas al
Inspiration Of the compositor
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
The First.

Adam FASTENED 70 get the evening "a
Pc.
Yes. he exclaimed trfaraphzztis.
they're got the whole story snd svs5
spelled oBr names Tishs
HcreBpoz they Considered whether theT
had sufficient not0riety 70 60 upon GAs
stage
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

With three thousand veterans given the right TO vote
IN Leavenworth county, that county should hold the
ord Of voters in proportion to population.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

commission is seeking reduce municipal expenses
in the Philippine Islands. II it succeeds il can draw
good salary in America
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

That preliminary campaign in Greater New York has
been quite exciting 1t VIII puzzle news service
make the real campaign half as interesting
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

Even October has its floods The rear i9e3 is likely
10 go on record as the of cloudburss floods
every month so far has recorded terrific downpours
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

There are towns Organizing bands thai
haven't commzscssl club Jet.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

1t better for the railroads to retrench than to
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

Will the following dryness be as ex-
treme as this wetness?
They have yet to manufacture sue
cessfully honey OF the alfalfa flavor
The school teachers have organizations.
Why don't they make them operative?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-13

One of the most important assets or sne
town. but one of the most dreaded LA
biities to many of its visitors. has been
moved to Mountain View. Reference is
made to the calahOOSe
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-08
The Band Concert.

Carson can be proud of the Nevada
State band. The boys that compose
the o, ganization gave one Of the well
come concerts last evening and need
less to say half OF the town was at the
Capitol grounds to listen to the we'll
rendered AID can waiting muse
There is no use talking. Professor
Smith can get the music out of the
boys, as one of the pieces rendered
last evening was az fine as any band
of the size could produce. The band
has afforded great deal of pleasure
for the people of this city, who appre-
ciate the efforts of the boys.
Considerable new material is being
added to the band, which means that
in a short time the Professor will be
able to present one of the best must
cal organizations of the coast to the
visitors and the home people. The mu-
sic, was fitting close to one Of the
finest evenings that Carson has spent
this summer.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-08
To Start a Town

1t has been decided that Ca1iente Is
to be the end of a division. Sidetracks
are being surveyed, the location for
the roundhouse selected, water-tanks
erected. and the many things neces-
sary at the terminus of division be.
ing provided for. Several parties are
talking of erecting buildings and start.
ing in business, and it looks as II ca
liente would soon be q lively place
The railroad graders are engaged n
gathering their grading implements
and stock for an early resumption Of
work, and within q Month all will be
hustle and flying dust in the Wash.
Grading will be commenced at several
different points. This will make good
times for the ranchers Of the Muddy
and Virgin valleys. who viii have z
prices. Hay and grain on the Muddy
win be - good to hold - - pieces-
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