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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12

If one had ever questioned the essential
culture of the highest Monaghan types or
questioned the ideals of the Monaghan
race, the Chinese and japanese in par
ticular he would feel convinced after read
ing these letters, that these people deserve
to stand in ethical and aesthetic matters
along with the best Caucasians. Better
language, combining the poetical and the
practical could not be written by any
Englishman or American now living. The
little book is written TO suggest the con-
trast between Eastern and Western ideals.
What is at stake in the development of the
American Republic, the author says, is
nothing less than the success or failure or
Western civilization. America is in a pre-
eminent degree representative of the West.
What could be more beautifully earnest
and eloquent than the statement OF the
issue as put by this unknown Chinaman:
us that which created the religion, the
art, the speculation of the past; that
unsuitable hunger for eternity, which. by
tiated into the heavenly essence of the
ideal, the base and quotidian elements OF
the actual; that spirit of unquenchable
aspiration which has assumed I'm its tireless
quest for embodiment, forms so alluring,
so terrible, so divine, which has luxuriated
in the jungle of Hindoo myths, blossomed
in the pantheon of the Greeks. suffered on
the cross, persisted at the stake, wasted in
the cloister and the cell, which has given
life to marble, substance to color, struc-
ture to fugitive sound: which has fash
toned palace of fire and cloud to inhabit
for its desire, and deemed il, for it's beau
ty, more dear and more real than king
doms of iron and gold-is that hunger, in
the future as in the past, to harass and
hunt us from our homes? Is that spirit to
urge as of old the reluctant wheels of our
destiny? Or are we to fill our belly with
the husks of comfort security and peace?
To crush In the dust under our judgment
car that delicate character? Are we to be
spirits or intelligent brutes; men or mere
machines? That is the question now put
to the nations of the West, and pre-
eminently to the people of these States"
He says of America, "Over her unencum-
bered plains the germs of industry ranges
unchallenged, naked, unashamed" The
Oriental quality of his language is matched
only by the richness of his thought, his
learning and the broadly human interest
of his meaning. So long as Chinese semi
civilization" can produce such as he, the
West need not be concerned about Eastern
moral salvation. Mcclure, Phillips & Co.,
New York.
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A DOmesttcated Eagle.
Bloomington Qll) Paragraph.

Bloomington Qll) Paragraph.
Havana, Mason county, has one Of the
greatest curiosities in America, If not in
the world. Mr.. Damarin, county treasurer,
has pet golden eagle, one that stays in
the Courthouse Park without being Gagged
He is at liberty to go when and where he
pleases. Mr.. Damarin feeds his pet twice a
day. He can go up to him and stroke him,
Just as he would a cat or dog. When the
street carnival was in Havana last week
the eagle was the greatest attraction there
This is the history of the bird. A son of
J. Wiley Smith, who lives about eight miles
southwest of Mason City, near the Sanga-
mon bottom, shot and crippled him last fall
and took him home and kept him until
spring, when his son Berry brought him to
Havana and put him in a squirrel cage.
But as that was too small and he could
not learn to fly, as one of his wings had
been shot, Smith had the business men and
the county officers donate enough to build
cage about twelve feet square, and he
was kept In that about six weeks Mr..
Damarin fed and tanned him. He had a
stump of tree put in the large tree and
the eagle stays on that tree all the time,
when not flying or walking In the park AS
the cage was still not large enough to let
him fly, they took the cage away to give
him his liberty. But the bird won't leave.
He eats fresh beef kidneys or liver or live
rabbits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
THE FINANCIAL RECORD.

There has been no clearer statement of
Mayor Bookwalter's financial record than
that made by Senator Fairbanks in his Tom
readers of the Journal may not have read
the whole speech in the Sunday issue, the
part referred to is reprinted:
When Mayor Bookwalter came into power
he found a cash balance in the general
fund of $4,000 l use round numbers. He
also found $4,000 of matured and unpaid
bills, which should have been discharged
in the preceding months of August and
September, and also sl95,000 of temporary
within forty-five days after he took his
oath of office. Such debts were due to the
vicious system of temporary loans. which
was sharply and universally condemned.
In due time the amount represented by
these temporary loans was wisely funded
into emergency bonds of 1901, bearing 3R
average period of five years from the date
of their issue. Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars of the par value of these bonds has
been paid in cash and Cancelled, and $4,000
additional will be paid on Jan. /, next, out
of revenue already provided. In addition
to the above payments, other bonds,
amounting to $4,000 have been paid and
Cancelled, thus making the actual reduction
OF the bonded debt existing and created to
meet obligations existing when the present
mayor came into power, $4,000. The net
actual increase OF DOnuS on account OF
old debts amounts to $4,000.
Bonds were issued by Mayor Bookwalter
amounting to $4,000 to aid in building mark
ct houses now in use The total cost Of
their construction was $4,000, that 1t is
obvious that $500 of the amount has been
paid from current revenues, no more bonds
being issued than were reasonably neces-
sary. Other bonds have been issued by
the mayor as follows: For the construc-
ton of the Fall creek bridge, $65. 900; for
building boulevards, 100000. These bonds
or the proceeds of such as have been sold
are in the treasury with which to begin
the work for which they were authorized.
These last three items, including market
houses constructed and bonds and cash
provided for building bridge and construct
ing bouevards, constitute assets amount
ing to $203, 900.
The city has obtained and will obtain
needed and lasting improvements for the
expenditures made, and they will be made
from these funds. No portion will be
needed to meet current expenses of the
government, such expenses being provided
for through a system of equitable taxation.
Senator Fairbanks is business man, and
when he talks finance he knows what he is
talking about. The foregoing statement
shows that it was made upon full informa-
ton and it justifes Senator Fairbanks s
assertion that ''the record is creditable
| one deserving praise, not censure.''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
The Long Night.

Stanley Weyman's new book. though not
up to the standard Of "A Gentleman OF
France" is at least worth reading. IL per-
lection of plot requires only the element of
suspense in the extreme. this plot is surely
perfect it is impossible to foretell the out
come until the last chapters are reached.
On this very account the book Is interesting
However, any one who takes IL up expecting
TO delight I'm a swordsman hero such as the
one I'm Under the Red Robe" and other like
novels. is doomed TO disappointment. Stanley
Weyman's heroes seem TO have sobered down
and become less pugnacious. The advantage
gained is doubtful. Eliminate from the
character of Weymsn's usual hero the pro-
pensity for dueling and the hair-splitting
sense OF honor. and you have Claude MERCER
mot very much of anything. The heroine
is the ordinary kind, high and noble, incap-
able OF wrong doing. The book has. how
ever, one character worthy of attention.
Caesar Basterga, who serves villain,
comes very near to being something like a
man. Mcclure Phillips & Co., New York.
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SOME OF THE NEW BOOKS


AS a writer of drama Maurice Maeterlinck
is at once individual and universal. the high
est compliment which can be paid him He
has been called 1.-THE Belgian Shakespeare,
but this term has not much fitness. Shak-
speare write his plays TO be acted in the
theater. and the boards Were always in his
mind; hence, there is organic connection
between the stage and his plays. Maeter-
linck writes for publication and posterity,
and with the purpose usually of Calculating
some aesthetic or moral principle. He does
not have the sensual enjoyment in the exer-
else of his technical skill that Shakespeare
had, but finds this enjoyment more in the
inherent value OF the situations of the plays
story. OF contemporary world dramatists
he ranks with the best. He is less poetic
in the language than Stephen Phillips. more
general in theme than Pinero, has less
detailed technical skill than Rostand. but
makes more single and Uniform emotional
impression than any of them be RANKS
with Ibsen and Eugene Brieux in raising,
cameo-like, the feeling and thought or BIS
play above its mechanical structure. Norma
Wanna is not the least of his powerful
dramas The theme OF the play Is the
authors conception of the highest Ideal OF
love. Pisa is being besieged by the army
of Florence and its inhabitants are starving
PrinZlvalle, commander of the florentine
troops, sends word to Guido commander In
Pisa. that if hc will send his wife, Wanna,
TO submit herself to him he will send pro-
visions to supply the distressed people
Guido will not consent, but Norma wanna,
with pity and syn pathy In ner neart, agrees
to go after the council of Piza has agreed.
Wanna enters Prinzivalle's tent. The qua
logue here is worked out simply and e1ec-
lively. After brief conversation Pr1nZlsalle
shows her the herds of cattle and wagons
of produce, sends them into the city ana
returns to the dialogue. He discovers
himself to her as her lover in their youth,
declares the passion Of years, but respects
the sanctily of her marriage tie. Having
reasons, account OF the treason IN
Florence, for deserving his army, he goes
with Wanna into Pisa, where he expects
refuge and the friendship of Vannas nus
band. The husband, craZed with GRIEF ana
mad with doubt, will not believe that
Prinzivalle has respected Nanna's virtue
and orders PrinZivalles detention In a
dungeon. Then she turns to Prin-
zivalle, realizing her husbands delin-
quency in SCATTERING her ideals of hospital
ity and truth, and declares her love for
Prinzivalle. Here the drama ends. Maeter-
| linck has made so neutral story, so FAR
as principle is concerned, that hair
virtuous woman or the reverse. 1t is really
| the old question of the sexes told, with all
| the psychological influences powerfully sug-
| gested There is a vast difference between
Wanna and Iris, of Pinero's play, yet there
| is question whether the former was not
| by disposition mere what the latter was
| by circumstances. The simplicity of this
| play makes it great. Harper and Brothers,
| New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
FROM PARTY POINT OF VIEW.

If there is a Republican in Indianapolis
who really believes that the election OF Mr..
Hoffman would not be claimed a Demo-
cratic victory and made to do effective
work in the next county. state and national
elections, he is greatly mistaken. Every
time that Mr.. Taggart ran for mayor he
ran professedly on local issues and his per-
sonal popularity. yet each time his election
was claimed as a party victory with impor-
tant political influence and was heralded
throughout the country as such. Two days
after Mr.. Taggart's first election, in 1895,
when national politics had been kept out of
sight during the campaign, the Sentinel
copied an article from a Democratic paper
in Pittsburg saying:
There is great announcement for the
Democrats sin the news this morning about
the city election yesterday in Indianapolis,
the home of ex-President Harrison. True,
il was a local election, but Mr.. Harrison
had given to the canvass a national inter-
est and Importance by recently writing
public letter favoring the election or the
Republican candidate for mayor, yet the
Democratic candidate was elected by an
overwhelming majority.
The Sentinel commented exultingly on
this and said Mr.. Taggart's election GER
tainly did indicate somewhat of the prob
abilities of the presidential election year.
Two days after Mr.. Taggart's last cleo
ton the Sentinel copied approvingly an ar
ticle from an outside Democratic paper
which said his election meant something
! more than his personal popularity or the
| potency of local issues, and claimed 1T as
evidence that Indiana, is returning to it's
| former condition of an always debatable If
/ not Democratic State
The Pittsburg paper above quoted was
mistaken in saying that ex-President Har-
rison had given interest to the canvass by
writing public letter. What he said was
in the form of an interview. The candi-
dates for mayor in 1895 were Preston c..
Trusler and Thomas Taggart. In the in
terview General Harrison deprecated the
attacks which some persons were making
| against the Republican candidate on ac-
count of his connection with previous cam
| paigns. WELL said General Harrison.
"such considerations may have an appro-
pirate weight in party conventions, but
when any feeling of personal resentment
can only be gratified by the sacrifice of the
| true interests of the city 1t ought to be sup
| pressed. On sober second thought no man
| will be satisfied with himself if he allows
such influences to direct his vote" General
Harrison knew the Importance of Repub-
lican victory in Indianapolis in its bearing
on state elections, and he was the last man
to advise Republicans to go to the Demo-
cratic party for reform. He voted at a
great many elections in this city, and it is
believed he always voted straight Repub-
| lican ticket
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that Japan is banking too much on her sup
posed treaty obligations to come to Japan's
assistance in war with Russia she will
probably call her ally's attention to the
fact that she is only bound to come TO her
assistance in the event of some other power
joining Russia Yet, considering Russia's
infexible policy and the prevalent jingoism
in Japan it must be admitted that the war
cloud in the farther East is decidedly
threatening
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12

There are many novels not essentially
different from this by z. Phillips Open
helm. 1.-The Yellow Crayon'' shows a vivid
imagination, which is not well enough
strained to be as artistic as could be desired.
The story deals with clever and unscrupu-
lous men. fighting against one invincible
schemer, whose cool forethought is not to 10
circumvented by the most willy attacks.
There is much unnecessary secrecy, obvi-
ously thrown in for the purpose OF keeping
the reader in suspense, purpose which Is
well enough in itself, but which Is here
accomplished by means that are too artifi-
ciaL 1t is not to be denied, however, that
the story is thrilling, and one with which a
few hours may be pleasantly passed. Dodd,
Mead q Co., New York.
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Former Mayor Taggart, who is now in

the city, is reported as saying:
Unless the Republicans steal the election
after the polls close Tuesday evening the
Democrats will certainly win. The only
hope the Republicans have is to steal
victory after the votes are cast.
Mr.. Taggarts prediction that the Demo-
Gratis will certainly win unless counted out
is not worth a fig. AS a political prophet
he is not only utterly discredited. but has
been rendered ridiculous time and again by
predictions that showed a surprising lack
of information and judgment. His asser-
ton that 1.-The only hope the Republicans
have is to steal a victory after the votes
are cast is an insult to Democratic cleo
ton officers as we'll as to Republican. A
man of Mr.. Taggart's supposed intelligence
ought to be ashamed to give out state
ment Of that kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
Childhood CIassics.

real service In rescuing from oblivion and
publishing in collected form a large num-
Der of nursery rhymes and children's
stories in verse and prose that have passed
into folk lore, but have never been all
printed together before. The collection in
cludes all of the Mother Goose" rhymes,
together with many other nursery rhymes,
such as 1.-The House that Jack Built"
''The Three Bears" 1.-The Burial of Poor
Cock Robin" etc. or prose stories there
are cinderella" blue Beard" Little
Red Riding Hood" and others. All of
of child games rounds out charming book
for very young children. Chicago: Laird
& Lee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
ALL SHOULD VOTE.

AS is natural in a campaign where there
Is so much of doubt about what is the
right thing to do and dissatisfaction with
party tickets among party members there
is prospect for a large stay-at-home vote,
which the Journal hopes will not material
ize. 1t is a rather poor citizen that cannot
make up his mind in some direction, and ii
is a cowardly proposition to stay away from
the polls merely to have the privilege Of
disclaiming responsibility for what may
happen under the next administration.
While there may be no path open that is
absolutely right there is surely one path
that is nearer right than the others, and it
is the duty of the good citizen to help with
his vote that which he believes will come
nearest to the right. There never was an
election in which any large number of peo-
pie had the opportunity to vote for ideal
men and ideal principles. 1t is always
more or less of a compromise at best.
The Journal does not believe that Mr..
Bookwalter's administration has been ideal,
but 1t Is very certain that 1t has been a
much better administration than was given
by the last Democratic mayor. Mr.. Tag
CART, and a much better administration in
every way than was given by the other
Democratic predecessor, Judge Sullivan.
Yet Judge Sullivan is one of the best cit
liens of Indianapolis and there can be no
doubt that he went into the mayors Office
with the best intentions. He was a strong
er character, Of higher reputation and pos
sessed Of greater intelligence than the pres
ent Democratic candidate, Mr.. Hoffman;
but he had to look to the Democratic party
for support and guidance and his admins
tration thus became failure, morally and
financially. The same Democratic politi-
clans, Sterling r. Holt, Thomas Taggart
and James l.. Reach, who made it impossi-
bic for Judge Sullivan to give a clean adj
ministration, are again in control of the
Democratic party and in absolute control OF
its candidate. Mr.. Hoffman. Not only could
We hope for no better administration with
these politicians in power, but we should
be very certain of one much worse in every
particular.
Mr.. Hitz Is an unknown quantity. Hi:
| first and greatest handicap is the practica
impossibility Of electing him, and If he could
be elected it would be a very dubious prop
osition to put such men as Newlin and Nc
| Whittier in power.
Mr.. Bookwalter offers the only tangibl,
hope of anything like good government il
indianapolis. He took charge of affair.
with an empty treasury and with a larg,
| floating debt; with streets and city prop
| erty in a miserable condition: with a de
moralized police force and all forms of vic,
rampant. He has vastly improved physica
and financial conditions, and while he ha.
| not suppressed all forms of vice nor at
tempted to suppress all-and this has beer
the Journals only. objection to his admin
istration-it is beyond dispute that gam
bling, in all its suppressible forms, has beer
driven out. and that there is better enforce
ment Of the liquor laws than there wa
under either Sullivan or Taggart-and bet
ter than there would be under Holtzman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12

Be careful not to lose your vote after
you enter the voting booth by mutilating
your ballot The law is very strict al re-
curing ballots with distinguishing
marks on them TO be rejected The safest
plan is to vote the straight Republican
ticket by making a single X in the circle
with the eagle device. but IL you wish to
vote mixed ticket. make nc mark at all
In the large circle at the top of the ticket.
sut place the X in the small square oppo-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
Esperanto.

Esperanto is the auxiliary interna-
tional language" of Professor Zamenhof.
The book in hand is a grammar of the Ian
guage. The language is Endorsed by Count
Tolstoy and the late Max Muller. 1t Is en-
gaging $1,000 students in France, many
classes are forming in Great Britain, now
first introduced into America" The lam
guage is very simple and easily learned.
If ever we have an international language
1t will probably be based on the method OF
Esperanto. Great things were predicted
for Volapuk, but il went the way Of all
fads. Esperanto will probably go the same
way. Compiled by ]. G. O'Connor. Fleming
H. Reyell * Co., New York.
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A Parish of Two.

This is a story told in letters that pass
between a clubman and his friend. a cleric
The letters of one are interesting and
clever, the others badly done and over
strained These individuals, cloyed with
social life. pronounce upon the virtue or
womankind TO the destruction of their be-
lief in woman's virtue. IL for no other rea-
son than this the book should be con-
demned The characters are stacy. cynical.
brilliant, or what not other than normal.
wholesome people and are not such an
gentle folk would care to associate with in
life or fiction The Joint authors are Henry
.Goelet McVickar and Percy Collins. The
Lothrop Publishing Company. Boston
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-12
After Taking.
New Castle Indl Courier.

New Castle Qnd) Courier.
An Indianapolis paper last Saturday con-
tanned q four-column patent medicine dys-
pepsia advertisement and as the feature"
of the ad. appeared the blooming counte-
nance of M. A. Moreland, of this city as a
remarkable example of latter taking" In
the advertisement Mr.. Moreland says he
got an appetite like hound after taking
the medicine and after a few months use
his best friends scarcely recognized him.
The Courier has not seen Mr.. Moreland for
three or four days but IL the picture in the
ad. is a correct one the medicine has surely
done wonders, for nealy all those caverns
his picture shows him to be a boy again.
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Big Beet.
West Lebanon Gazette.

d. T. Ferguson, of the Crows Grove,
brought some samples of the kinds of prod
ucts raised on his farm to this Office Mon
day One sample was a turnip beet though
where 1t derives its name of turnip is
mystery as this sample is nine inches in
diameter and twenty-eight inches in cir
conference. AS a Hoosier would COM
monty put 1t, its a whopper.' The beet
appears to be perfectly solid and has not
attained the stage as yet where the meat
becomes woody. 1t is a beet but we don't
see where ii can be beat.
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It Is. Of course. but natural that salaried
reformers should support Hoffman, for
his election would mean a tremendous de-
mand for reform and more salaries two
years hence. but how men Of intelligence.
with no other interest than the hope OF
good government, can be fooled into
imagining that an administration under
the guidance Of the old Democratic gang.
through one Of their most subservient
henchmen. could not be worse than the
present administration Is beyond the ken
OF ordinary mortals.