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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
A FAVORITE SON.


Louisville Herald.
The reported selection by Speaker to-be
Cannon, of the House of Representatives
of Hon. James A. Hemenway, of Indiana
to be chairman of the committee on ap-
propriations, has been received with great
satisfaction. The Ohio valley especially
halls the selection with delight Mr.. Hem
enway is a favorite son. not only of In
diana Qor whose First Congressional dis
trict he has been five consecutive times
electedD but of the entire valley of the
Ohio. He is gentleman OF ability, tried
and loyal servant of the people
The chairmaEship of the committee on ap-
propriations is next in Importance 10 the
speakership of the House. Mr.. Cannon
a man of lower than first rank firm, pa
tient, far-seeing, cautious and yet compre-
hensive in his grasp of every question pre-
senting itself for solution. Mr.. Hemenway
has by incontestable merit won the position
he holds to-day in public life Educated
in the common schools, he began, at twen-
ty-five, the practice of law at Boonville.
Ind. his native town. That was In lSoo-
His being the qualities that invite CONN.,
dence and insure success, his rice has been
rapid. To-day, young in years. he stands
on the very threshold of the highest posi-
tions in the gift of the people.
Mr.. Hemenway understands the lmpor-
tance of a navigable Ohio all the year
around from Pittsburg TO Cairo. The legu-
mate influences of his high position and
the unquestionable character of his knowl-
edge of the riverway problems VIII be OF
the highest value TO the commerce and de-
velopment of the Ohio valley. Mr.. Hem
enway will not, however, render service 10
the Ohio waterway because IL Is or local
but because it is Of national importance.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
FAILURES BY A GREAT PAINTER
James WhftcOmb Riley and Others.
Alfred Brennan, in the Reader for Septem-

James WhitcOmb Riley and Others.
Alfred Brennan, in the Reader for Septem-
ber
Why do we see some things so strangely
done by Mr.. Sargent? Some Of his por-
traits, done here in America last winter,
simply class themselves among the worst
noteworthy failures ever done by the hand
of truly famous painter. His John Hay.
when judged as the portrait of great man.
is ridiculous. That it possesses facial like
ness doesn't redeem 1t because facial like
ness is but kind of excellence in a por-
trait that to be great should be great in
qualities of distinction altogether superior
to that one qualification. Wretchedly
cramped in meager misfit canvas, 1t is
only a HkeneSS-sketch perfunctorily done
and made quite absurd by one little unintel-
Hgent hand that is hung UP out Of place at
the side of it, serving purpose, suggest
ing nothing better than the superfiuous
remarque commonly seen at the edges of
prints. Where is the air of fine distinction,
the power Of purpose, the amplitude of sem
sible feeling that the master portrait painter
gives by that rare and infinitely complex
art which is his? / declare nobody has any
conceivable right to make such an insuffi-
cient and misleading picture of our great
secretary of state.
Then see his James whitcomb Riley Who
shall commend or defend it? Never was
there q worse libel done in the (alleged)
lineaments Of a man of brains. (Excepting,
perhaps two malignant things by Boldini
-one of the great lamented Whistler and the
other of big New Yorker.)
Witness Mr.. Sargents Thomas B. Reed
If you please. There he had in his subject
a man, a wit, forensic wonder; and, by
CAD, sir, he put on a stingy little 20x30 can
vas, what is nothing better than paintily
painted muttonhead, overtopped by an un-
naturally bulging forehead.
1t is practically impossible to know what
kind of reasoning a painter brings to bear
on his problems who decides to paint a por.
trait of a lady with her arms outstretcheo
as if she were illustrating an exercise in
calisthenics; or what kind of understanding
and imaginativeness he is gifted withal who
paints a facial likeness Of Edwin Booth anC
leaves it surmounting an extraordinarily
tall figure. Booth wasn't five feet eight
much less eight feet five, and. furthermore
to send him down TO posterity (or even t
present him TO his living friends) with hi,
hands hung by their thumbs at his YES
pockets is a wrong done, thoughtlessly Of
ignorantly, toward a gentleman who wai
very highly distinguished by his dignity
and fine manners
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

John D. Rockefeller has just bought six
farms at Eastview. Westchester county,
New York. and adjoining his Pocantico Hills
estate, giving him 5000 acres in ALL
Mrs. Alfred Peats. wife of the million
aire wall paper manufacturer, has estab-
lished free kindergarten on her estate
near Greenwich, Conn, as a memorial to
her child.
On Catamount hill at Colrain, Mass a
monument has been raised to mark the
site of the first flag raised over a public
scholhouse in the United States. The flag
in question was displayed in May, 1872.
from long schoolhouse which stood on the
hill.
The descendants OF John Alden and
Priscilla at their recent reunion in Dax-
bury Mass. started a subscription for "a
fund to buy the old Alden homestead In
that town President George w Alden. OF
the association, says that ii can be bought
at a reasonable price. The house. erected
by John Alden's grandson and now 25O
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

When reproduction in black and white
of Sargent's portrait of James Whitcomb
Riley was recently given by a magazine
the Journal expressed the opinion that If
the copy was even approximately like the
original the portrait so far as likeness was
concerned, could not be satisfactory. 1t was
admitted, however, that the imperfect pro-
cesses of art reproduction and the absence
of the color effects made a definite judg-
ment of the merits of the portrait impoS-
sible until the artists work itself was seen.
Now comes contributor to the Reader,
Mr.. Alfred Brennan. who says of Ii, after
mentioning other specimens of Sargent's
work as of inferior merit: Then see his
James Whitcomb Riley. Who shall COM
mend or defend it? Never was there a
worse libel done in the (alleged) Inca
ments OF a man of brains" This is only
one mans opinion, it is true, but if it
chances to be the common verdict of those
who know what portrait should be it is a
pity, for Mr.. Sargent is great painter and
had good subject; also the Riley portrait
is expected to hang in place of honor
in the Heron Art Institute as memo
rial of both poet and painter.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
JOURNALS NEW DEPARTURE.
Words Of Friendly Approval from an
Evening Contemporary.
Indianapolis News

Indianapolis News.
So the sober, staid, conservative Journal
is to print colored supplements on Sunday,
We should not have believed it if the Jour
nal had not said so itself. But papers these
days must of necessity appeal to as wide
a constituency as possible. and those which
have Sunday editions seem to find 1T neces-
sary TO consult and to cater for the tastes
of the children-hence the comic supple
ments with their Foxy Grandpas,' etc.
OF course. there is a limit which decent and
self-respecting newspapers must observe,
and which the Journal may be trusted not
to go beyond.
But there are certain people who seem to
be very easily shocked, even at the legiu-
mate efforts of newspapers TO increase their
circulation. They have a right to their
opinions. and in truth there are many TO
whom the red, yellow and green supplements
are exceedingly distasteful. Yet this is
question of taste rather than OF morals, and
people whose tastes are not highly refined
have a right to be considered-the papers
belong to them quite much as to the
artistic class. The question really is wheth-
er the means adopted to get business are
reprehensible in themselves, and after that
has been answered there Is the further
question as to what is TO be done for the
readers of a paper after they have been Sc
cured. Circulation gives paper power il
it will only 1t honestly and courageous
ly. The more readers ii has the less ue-
penOeuI Is II on any one TtdueT CidSS VI
readers, and the less is the need for it to
compromise its independence. Further, II
it breaches sound doctrine ii is better that
IL should preach it to a large than to
small audience. Many papers have been
crippled by the limited nature of their nelo
There is wisdom in making concessions
in smaller and more Indifferent matters for
the sake of gaining an influence In matters
that are more important.
1t is to be noted further that with the
growth of the news side Of the paper-out
of which sensatonalism and yellowness
have grown as exaggerations-the concep-
ton of the newspaper as a party organ has
largely passed out of existence Indeed.
there are few organs left in the larger
cities. Many bad papers there are, but their
sins and defects are not those of the organ.
In this respect, therefore, the new develop
ment is certainly to be commended. Ex-
travagances will disappear. alterations will
be corrected, and it may be that even the
flaming supplements will be proved to be
unnecessary. The effort to get readers Is
in itself wholly commendable. Success in
this direction. il gained by honorable men,
will bring greater power, independence and
influence, we'll as greater wealth. We
congratulate our neighbor on it's enterprise.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

as cleanly in the process of manufacture
as dairy butter. 1t is probable that every
manufacturer OF oleomargarine in the
United States has used one or the other or
above processes for giving the butter-color
to his product and has been assessed for
back taxes" If the Supreme Court should
ard purity as coloring matter for oleomar-
garine is not a violation of the law the
government may ultimately have to refund
the sums thus collected.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

There was young oarsman of Goshen
Who went to live by the oshen:
When he sailed on the sea,
Said he: Seems TO me
A creek is more to my noshen.''
There was fair maid of Dubuque
Who studied her cuquery-buque.
And when she was wed
Her proud husband said
He wouldn't swop jobs with a duque.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

tend. but reported that night by telegraph
TO the Sultan that the Americans had Of
fered his Royal EighDess an Insult by hav-
ing the Turkish military band play all the
afternoon under a tent, from the hagpoie
of which fioated the stars and stripes. rms
was the only expression of i'll will towaru
the United States which i heard whiie
there. The Turk does not take kindly 10
education. especially when il is introduced
by the Christians. and no doubt there Is
some feeling against the Americans for this
reason
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

The friends of Walsh, alias Lynchehaun,
are proceeding on the theory that his Of
fense was trivial. The Journal does not
know how this information was obtained.
1t may be correct, but if the record should
prove otherwise and that the evidence of
a serious offense was conclusive his cham
pions would wish they had not gone so
fast. They had better be sure of their facts
as they go along
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

years old, has been held by the Alden fam
lily through all its history. and is now oc-
cupied by John w. Alden ard his VIE, Mr..
Alden being direct descendant from the
original John.
Lady Henry Somerset is Withdrawing
gradually from her career as reformer.
She is very sensitive on the subject Oh her
hobbies. Her pet aversion is William wal
dorf Astor. who once said of her: Sne
must be the sort of woman VINO drives d
man 10 distraction.
cape horse sickness is disease which
resembles human malaria. 1t especially
attacks horses that are left to Craze all
night in marshy regions. DR.. Pitchford
found that horses stalled by night in stables
protected by wire gauze remained perfectly
WELL and therefore concluded that mosqui-
toes are responsible for the disease.
The Catholic Citizen tells about negro
in Chicago who. when he heard that the
new Pope was a Catholic. exclaimed;
Good Lord. thought he was an Italian!'
He doubtless supposed all Catholics were
Irish. Bishop Talbot tells of sermon he
preached i'm a Western settlement at which
a local unbeliever had been persuaded to
be present, much against his custom: lie
afterward asked how he liked the
bishop. Pretty WE'LL said he; and l
learned one new thing. learned that
Sodom and Gomorrah was places. 1 always
thought they was husband and wife
The late Alexander Won Homeyer, of
Frankfurt on the-Main, was an idefatiga-
BILE collector of geological speciments- OF
birds eggs he had more than 10000. repre-
senting about 1,5OO species. while another
of his collections included over $4,000 but
terfiies. At Frankfurt he founded society
nf l;c4 Hrrhh
bug Butchers" In 1874 he was sent to
West Africa by the German Geographical
Society. He was Frustrated by an attack
of malaria from which he never fully re-
covered. yet he brought back no fewer
than 500 kinds of butterflies previously un-
known to men of science.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

The German press is expressing salts
faction with what it is pleased to consider
as 1.-The advent of the United States as
factor in the Turkish problem" Nonsense
The United States has no more thought
of interfering in the Turkish problem than
1t has of reviving memories of the Schels-
wig g-Holsten or the Alsace-Lorraine ques-
ton. 1t is simply looking after American
interests. as all nations do after their in
terests whenever they are threatened in
any quarter.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

look across the sea to your own children
in Canada and in the United States and
become once more the mother member
of the dominant powers of the world In
as far as the prediction foreshadows
closer affiliation Of Anglo-Saxon peoples 1t
is well enough, but Mr. Carnegie is look
ing through the wrong end of the tele-
scope. If the partnership is ever formed
Uncle Sam will be the head of the firm.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Advices from Rome indicate that Plus Y
10 undergoing some physical illness as well
as mental depression. This may be due to
may soon pass away, but IL his health
should be threatened with serious impair
ment his physicians may insist that he cease
to regard himself as a prisoner in the vati-
can. Thus the Pope's failing health may
lead to an abandonment OF the temporal SOW
ereignty claim.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Who is this Mr.. wiemann. OF Baltimore
who is said to have declined an invitation
for an audience before the Kaiser while in
Berlin? II he did without tEs excuse of
reflects no credit upon either himself or his
country. for the Germans very naturally
take such boorishness very much as we
would If one OF them were TO refuse an In
vitation to visit the President-an insult to
the whole country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
LAW FOR WIFE-BEATERS.

When foreigner with an unpronounce-
able name pleaded guilty before him TO the
charge of wife beating. Judge Feldman, of
South Bend, said:
1 shall not send you to jail because your
poor wife and babes are in need OF your
support and are now waiting for you In
their little home, but if L had the power L
would instruct an officer 10 tie you 10
post and severely lash you with cat
o nine tails.
That tells briefly and succinctly the story
of thousands of cases that occur in In
diana every year. Half educated, half civ
ilzed men marry women and propagate
families of children. After few years the
brutal nature of the man asserts itself, and,
utterly negligent of the grave responsible
tiles he has taken upon himself, he begins
to make life at home a hell for his wife
and little ones. She must struggle with him
every pay day to get some part of his wages
TO keep the family out of the streets, and
she must struggle all the rest of the week
TO work and skimp and try to make the
patry sum she can extort from his and her
own labor suffice to feed and clothe the
children the father and herself, and keep
things clean His own drunkenness and his
disposition to keep all his wages for his
own pleasures lead to frequent quarrels
and, being the stronger of the two. he not
infrequently resorts to brute force and beats
| her.
AS the Journal has remarked before. this
is the commonest kind of situation, and
yet our laws utterly fail to meet it. The
| Imprisonment of the husband and father
| is a hardship on the wife ind children. Eff
| fective punishment that will not require
/ muCn of his time should be provided.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Interest in the international yacht race
is practically dead. The winning of two
races out of five by the American boat
would not alone have caused this If il
had not demonstrated it's superiority over
the challenger so plainly in every point
as to leave doubt as to the result. 1t is
hard on Sir Thomas to have to go through
the form of another defeat.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

II the Journal reads correctly the COM
plaint of lIr. Hord. the attorney general and
members OF Congress who got the Indiana
war claim through were all in a conspiracy
to prevent Mr.. Hord and the ex-attorney
general with whom he had a contract from
letting the matter glide along in the same
cid way and thus preventing him from get
ting lovely fee out of IL some time.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Jersey justice has sometimes been a theme
for jokes, but just now it is furnishing the
unusual spectacle OF several railroad mag
mates and millionaires on trial for man
slaughter In causing the death OF a number
Of school children in railroad accident at
Newark last spring. The list of defendants
ID headed by the president of the PennsyI-
vania Railroad. and several others are only
r little less monument
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

II the Venezuelan outrages on foreign res
idents continue until some of the European
cabinets regard Mr.. Castro's government as
due for another spanking it is likely that
Uncle Sam will keep hands off while the
punishment Is being administered.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

A Florida paper remarks: Miss Ruth
Bryan will go to Chicago and work for the
DOOR We hope she will be more success
full along that line than her father" Oh,
he hasn't had such bad luck. He quite
impecunious eight or ten years ago, when
he began to be a candidate for the presi-
dency, but Lincoln people say he is very
well fixed now
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

1t Is said that President Roosevelts adj
dress at Buffalo on Labor day will deal en-
tirely with labor topics Endorsement of the
principles of conciliation and arbitration, as
found In the report of the anthracite coal
commission. and reiteration OF his views re-
garding the supremacy OF the law will prob
ably form the basis of the address
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

AS the matter stands now. IL Turkey
shows a disposition TO be good we may
withdraw the ships; otherwise not. That
Is good way to let it stand. and under any
circumstances il is a good thing to let the
Mussulman population of Asia Minor know
that we have warships. and usually have
them within easy striking distance
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

The block coal operators say the ad-
by the unprecedented demand at this sea-
son of the year. What they mean is that
they have advanced the price because they
think the demand will enable them to
Il
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

While 1t is officially announced that the
Earl OF Minto was expressing his personal
views. not those Of the Canadian govern
ment. at the Montreal banquet. yet it is
evident that the Chamberlain zollverein idea
u working in the colonies as well as in Eng
land
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

II the President will just let the canal
situation sizzle awhile Ii seems not unlikely
that Panama may come an independent
state asking for annexation; and that would
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Lewiston Journal
The Indianapolis Journal complains that
Andrew Lang, the famous English writer.
maltreats the English language when he
says 1T is better to know the lie OF the
land" instead of saying hay of the land"
How does the Indianapolis Journal know?
Possibly Mr.. Lang was warning his readers
against the Democratic party In the United
CT
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
YOUR SUMMER VACATION.

II you taks enc you will want to
keep In touch with home. The best
way to do this Is to have the Journal
mailed to you. Leave your order be-
iore starting. We will change the ad-
dress as often as you desire.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Tom L. Johnson is reaping the reward Of
his political duplicity. The latest develop
merit Is a revolt of Bryan men and a demand
that Johnson's candidate for United States
senator be removed from the ticket.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
Mary MacIane.

Mary wrote a little book;
In truth, 1t was Butte:
But when she wrote another one
1t was too mild to suit.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
The New Version.

1.-The Bulgarians are going according to a re-
vised version of the Bible
why do you think so?''
''They going into Macedonia and help
ing themselves
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
indianapolis as a Seaport.


Omaha Bee.
The foundering of a pleasure steamer In a
canal near Indianapolis caused panic
among the passengers. There were three
feet of water and velvety mud 10 wade
through. Bravely the passengers waded.
sustained by the patriotic conviction that
they were making tracks for another his
rorical novel.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Senator Hanna is reported as being able to
sit up. The present state of the Ohio De-
mocracy should be conducive to an easy
recovery on his part.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
sufficient Reason.

What makes Middlerib so bitter against the
Turks?"
1.-The young man who calls on his daughter
smokes Turkish cigarettes"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
MOurnful Numbers.

Peculiar thing bout these races" remarked
the old salt.
'What is it?" asked the landlubber.
Shamrock III has been second all the timer'
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

The Republican executive committee of
Ohio meets at Columbus to-day, and, as
Senator Hanna is recovering. there will
probably be something doing soon.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Mr.. Merriam declares that we have some
thing over s4,ooO.OOo of people. This con-
vinces us more than ever that there are
quite number that could be spared
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Andrew Carnegie has been giving play to
hts Imagination by predicting in an ad-
dress 20 a British audience that ''some day
instead OF being two small islands here
alien to the European continent. you VIII
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

If this controversy about the weight of
the Cleveland baby ever reaches the con-
fines of Nebraska, we may expect a column
or two of thunder from the Commoner and
a new ebullition of wrath on the stump.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

The silver service that is 10 be pre-
sented to Sir Thomas Upton will probably
contain several consolation cups.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Appropriate.

what did you contribute to the shower fol
Miss Honeymoon the other evening?'
IAN umbrella"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02

Uneasy lies the head that wears
CROWN" also the one that wears a fez.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-02
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