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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

porch to the front gate-or the place where
the gate used to be; and I'm going to have
the front fence and the gate replaced, too.
Why shouldn't a man have what he wants
IN his old age, I'D like to know? OF course,
the conventional front yard of to-day, with
it's perfect lawn and the proper flower beds
are all right for people who like Them but
/ don't like them. The prettiest front yard
L ever saw was my grandmother's, and
some day i intend to make my yard as
near like Ii as l can. The beautiful old
grape arbor from her front door to the
front gate was great joy in my childhood.
We could sit under 1t all day long. and
nearly all night. the shade was so dense. L
suppose Ii was built when grandfather's
though the town grew out to it and beyond
it, the grape arbor still was kept In good
order. admired and enjoyed by every one
VINO visited there. OF course it would take
time to get an arbor covered with vines
but We are long-lived family. and / hope
to live to see it. Come over and smoke under
H. ola man. wouldn't you like TO see a
long. greenery- covered arbor reaching out
to the gate?''
Il should, indeed; it would be beautiful. :"
the other man replied.
For want of a complete conversational
circuit between the intelligence of man and
the intelligence of the horse many Interest,"
ing horse adventures
home-seekhS are never thoroughly
Horses. understood by his hu-
man companions
My Grandfather Cadwallader told me -
said a man who dearly loves horse stories.
that when Salem. Washington county. In
diana, had never been heard of-eigbtv odd
years ago-because all Indiana was un-
broken wilderness, with no roads at all. the
Cadwalladers came to Indiana from North
Carolina Two fine horses pulled the pioneer
wagon In which the family Travelled. with
their household goods. and these horses
never seemed to be happy in their new back
woods home. Finally. the horses managed
to break away. and could not be found any,
where; the pioneer Cadwalladers had TO do
without horses until they could purchase
others from new pioneers who came TO Indi-
ana. Months after the two horses disap-
peared other North Carolina pioneers
who arrived I'm Washington county.
reported that the two Cadwallader
horses had found their way back
TO their old home. i'm the far
soutp-their favorite North Carolina. How
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
TYPEWRITERS ABROAD.
Five Thousand London Girls Prepar-
ing to Gust McIe Clerks.

London Daily Mall.
All schools in London that make fes-
ture of training girls and young women in
shorthand. typewriting and other CONNER
cial pursuits report a great increase in the
number of their pupils compared with tbs
time last year.
The demand on the part of females 10
learn typewriting at the evening schools
has lately grown to such an extent that tho
school board is to be asked 10 supply 113
more machines, making total OF i6S. Any
female. irrespective of age or social condi-
ton, may now acquire expert knowledgs
OF typewriting at these schools for twenty
five cents. providing she can write short
hand at the rate OF forty words a minute.
There are at present something like 200 fe-
male pupils under the tuition of school
board typewriting experts, who hold certih-
Gates OF proficiency from the Society OF
Arts or the London Chamber OF Conn.,
merce.
Messrs. Pitman are at present teaching
shorthand and typewriting 10 $500 girls.
and have turned out over 20.oo0 female ex-
perts, who as clerks are earning from 1915
a week TO 81. 500 year. Situations are be-
ing found for the pupils at the rate OF ten
per week. but the majority find places for
themselves The Polytechnic has l60 female
typewriting pupils Several smaller institu-
tons are now teaching typewriting TO girls,
and the London representatives OF the vari-
Gus machine making firms are giving ffes
tuition. a fair estimate puts the total VI
girls who to-day are qualifying for clerk
ships I'm London at $3.50. The number has
Increased 100 per cent. in four years
In few months time all these girls will
be seeking situations. And they will get
them. too" said the principal q. one OF the
schools. 'In fact the demand for girl
clerks who can do Something more than
mere writing machines far exceeds the sup
day is obviously drawing 10 close. Like
the male shop assistant. he will have to
seek another and perhaps manlie< occupa-
fion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

diana. The magnitude of the work and
the immense results that are expected from
it have attracted attention all over the
country.
1.-THE Hen Island dam across the st. Jo-
seph river, seven miles above the city of
South Bend, one of the greatest indus
trial enterprises which has ever been I'M
dertaken in the central west is rapidly
nearly completion" said Mr.. Du Shane.
assured of electrical power at almost Mia
CARA rates. The northern part of the State,
and particularly the city of South Bend,
will be made one of the greatest manu-
featuring centers in the United States. With
cheap electric power, independent of all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
HARVESTING THE BROAD
=. ST. JOSEPH RIVER :.

and will form lake over ten miles long,
and from one TO one and half miles wide.
which will give the citizens along the
banks of the st. Joseph river a summer
resort at their very doors. Plans are at
the present time being made to form
stock company and secure control OF the
river banks for miles along the lake for
the purpose of establishing resort on
large scale. and even the poorest laboring
man will be able TO have his outing
REMARKABLE POWER HOUSE.
The power house where the electric power
will be generated rests on foundation OF
over 1000 piles driven twenty feet deep and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
AS WE PASS ALONG.

All the curious stories of old times in
golden California have not yet been told.
Il never see triangle or hear one,' said
grizzed old Captain John,
Triangle in e circle of younger men
Music. who love to get him started
on California. without think
ing of our old triangle out in the gold fields.
My experiences began at a place called
Hangtown, because it was full of gam
blers and many dreadful affairs happened
there. The first Sunday after my arrival. a
big shooting scrape. as IL was delicately
called. occurred. a lot of miners and gam
blers were playing a Spanish game called
Monday and one miner won 800 and then
quit. His partner tried TO induce him to
play on. but he positively refused. A gam
bier at the card table then pulled horse
pistol and killed him. Then the miners got
together, headed by the brother of the dead
miner, aud hung the gambler who shot him,
10 a tree. On the next day. Monday, the
miners brother was found dead his
claim. killed. Of course, by friends of the
gambler
Something had to be done at once, so the
best men held meeting. hired a hall and
instituted The vigilantes. We organized
properly and made laws TO regulate thiev-
cry OF ell kinds and to punish violence os
every description by correct jury trial.
During my two years stay in the mines we
had plenty TO do In that lire. too. Hardly
night passed without the mem bers of The
VigiIantes' being called out of bed by the
loud alarm OF the triangle. The triangle
was a big steel affair four feet high,
mounted on stout poie at the door OF our
hall. When anything irregular happened in
Hangtown this triangle was beaten Justify
by the town constable. To call the 'Vigi-
lantes' together at once. That was far away
and long ago: but whenever hear tri-
angle sound. one. hanging silent in
a shop. I have a feeling that II in bed.
half asleep. of In old California and must
hustle into my clothes and rush out To meet
the other 'Vigilantes.'
Some unusual things would happen. il APP
pears. IL parents were not. more or less. UNI
der fillal conNol
When our children are
A Matter Of all married and gone"
sentiment. said a citizen who was
smoking with another
man on his front porch. I'm going To have
p grape arbor built. to extend from this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

New York Commercial.

travelling man for one of the West
Side houses in reviewing his road exper-
fence the other day, spoke OF being in one
OF the small towns in the Hudson valley
where apples are abundant. 1T was my
privilege TO attend the village church on
Sunday" said he. land listen TO very
good sermon, with the thought of apples
and kindred subjects dispelled for a day of
rest. But imagine my surprise when reach
ing the door after the service, To find no
less than eight representatives OF specula-
tors and commission houses button-hoiing
the growers OF the congregation as they
emerged from the door,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
NAMES ARE FEARFUL.
Society for Regulating Naming of
Racers Wanted.

Detroit Journal
Of all none is more hideous than the prac-
tice of using racing animals as advertise
ments. The evil of naming fast horses
after commercial commodities seems to
have broken out again this season after a
lapse of several years and unless some
method of restricting the fancies of own
ers is devised, it promises to be growing
eyesore on the turf.
Just at present the success of two horses
owned by wealthy man who made his
fortune out of gelatine is serving as an ad.
for his wares. They have each performed
well enough to attract attention. That
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

they managed to go back over the long trail
and to cross the wide, swift Ohio river, is a
matter TO be pondered over without salts
factory human solution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

Curious things. in every day life. are noted
pass along. Here few of them:
A kitten asleep on bicycle.
Saddle at an office door.
Odd City man painting his front
Sights. door-steps on Sunday.
On the sidewalk a key,
planted with vines To run over a cobbler's
shop.
Lace curtains, of Pegasus pattern, at
cottage windew.
Pigeon holes for pigeons in the front gable
of a cottage.
A man in a high silk hat scrubbing his
front stone steps with a broom.
A hunchback boy on wheel, and boy
with crutches on u wheel
a man carrying broken-handled valse
in 10-cent splint basket.
A sign: "City Barber and Night School
Teacher
An old peach tree, bare of leaves, out full
of gourd vines and big gourds.
A man carrying pair of woman's shoes
in his hand newly half-solcd and not
wrapped up.
a baby girl leading a blind man who car
ried Jug
Clothes hung out TO dry on a front porch
A gate weight made of an old iron kettle
full of rocks.
a little girl, with her doll and little chair
playing in a projecting shop window
A sign: Hickory Hats and Anchor
Pants"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

The GREAT DAM Now UNDER
CONSTRUCTION At Han ISLAND
Is A STUPENpoUs FEAT or En-
oINEERRo. INTERESTING LEGAL
BATTLE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

Michigan stands third as a peach pro-
ducing State, / notice. was the comment
of an indianapolis man. who goes to Michi-
gan during the hot
Michigan Peach months az wonder
Culture. if the orchard meth
DDS of Michigan
fruitgrowers have not as much to do with
this high record as the fine sandy soil of
that State? The finest peach orchards L
have seen i'm Michigan are kept absolutely
free of weeds. Yes, sir, clean as sea
beach-not a weed in sight-just pure yell
low sand as far as the eye can reach. Indi-
ana orchards are generally, I believe,
planted i'm orchard grass or in
berries, but the soil of Michigan
peach orchards gives every jot of
its virtue to the peach trees. Logically, this
ought to make magnificent peaches. and it
does as we know.
Yes, it must take hard work and close
attention, but the great crops of exquisite
peaches surely are ample reward
There is a boomerang ingredient in liter
airy criticism which is often amusing, to say
the least remarked lounger in an In
dianapolis bookstore cozy
Concerning corner. Henry James,
Bad Books. 1 note. has recently said
that this is an age of
loose and cheap fiction Mr.. Henry James
himself within two years, has made not
able contribution to the class of novels
some clever woman has styled 'snoop
books that is, books to be snooped or stuck
under the sofa pillow if the clergyman
calls. know a writer whose high ambition
pasted on his tombstone. Many pages of this
Henry James novel to which 1 refer-no
name being given, people who like looose
novels cannot be led to go and buy it
could not adorn the tomb of its author.
This same James novel, by the way, is
fun of English slaughtered by the high
class characters created to illustrate what
some one calls low life above stairs in
England. Here are some choice bits which
/ noted while reading the book: Size of his
job, tackle Miss Blank really up to it,
let loose among them i'm wonderful white
frock,' 'jigging away pulled her up &c
straight so much to the good and 'chucke6
her'-the last referring TO a broken ell
gagement.
II should like it explained" concluded the
lounger, why so many famous noveists
get indecent in their declining years. George
have written their most immoral books at
the time of life in which they should be
SOLDERING and refining for purer world"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

Curious things. in every day life are noted
as we pass along. Here are a few of them;
A kitten asleep on a bcycle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
A CHARGE WORTH READING.

The Advertiser prints this morning the excellent charge of Judge Thomas of the Montgomery City Court to the grand jury and bespeaks. for 1t a careful con- sideration. We do not consider any lengthy comments at all necessary. for the paper speaks for itself. and is so plain that there is no excuse for misun- derstanding 1t.
 On some important points this charge Is directly in line with the position of The Advertiser, and of which We have more than once written. Killing bv off, cials, violations of the Sunday laws gambling, carrying concealed weapons and election frauds are all subjects about which we have on various occasions spok- en and which we are glad to see so forci- bly, presented by the Judge of our City Court. These and other subjects treated in the charge are all matters which af- feet the peace, good order and well-being of society, as well as our good name as city and as community. The tury can have no excuse for failing in its duty if this charge is read and needed as it should be.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
A MASS MEETING.
One is Suggested by Montgomerians
 as Wise at This Time.

Editor The Advertiser.
 If is known that the bonded debt of the citv is more than $2,000.000 and that the fax rate to meet the interest charge on this large debt is now up to the legal limit. Can property and business stand any higher rate of assessment or taxa If is stated that the floating debt of the city runs all the way from $50 900 to $ljo,- OgO No one seems to know how much 1t is at this time.
 city in regard to saloons, gambling houses and houses of prostitution are hagrantiy violated and that officers charged with the execution of the laws fail to do their duty.
 It is talked upon the street corners that city officials have been unfaithfui to their trusts, have bargained or swapped their votes for various considerations to pass certain measures, have recklessly, If not corruptly, granted public fran chises. and have invited dubious propo- sitions from persons wishing to secure public concessions.
 This gossip may be without founda- tion; certainly it is without proof now. But if there is any sort of foundation, or any general lack of confidence in the city's government, is 1t not high time to have a house cleaning?
 A public meeting of all citizens and tax payers interested in honest and capable city government should be called to draft into the public service men of the caliber to meet the present grave and serious emergency What do the people say?
 Taxpayer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
NOT A GOOD ARGUMENT.

The Charleston News and Courier, as we understand it's arguments, raises the point that If the children of the South under 16 years of age are to be excluded from the mills, the only schools open to them for manual and technical training, then the South should open schools to give them such manual training, other wise they will have to go on hoeing and picking cotton.
 This is no argument against child ia- bor legislation, but it is strong argu- ment in favor of the State educating the children along industrial lines, as well as in other ways. The Agricultural and Mechanical Schools in Alabama are doing much good in this direction, but not all that should be done. The intimation that child must be confined in a mill or factory in order to learn trade or an occupation is very poor argument, and If 1t were true it would be a sad refiec- ton on the State, but it is not true. A child may go into a cotton factory and in the course of years of toll and depri- vation may learn all that can be learned about the manufacture of cotton goods, and really know nothing else. It will develop into a well regulated machine, so far as that particular business is con- cerned, but that is all. The full grown man or woman will have little idea of anything but cotton.
 This is not the kind or the extent of education that the children should have, nor should their education begin in a mill What is needed to make the best citizenship Is that children should be educated into intelligent farmers, me- chanics, engineers and any other .busi- ness or occupation that goes to make up the busy life of the American people. Nor is 1t the boys alone who should have some industrial education, for it will not be amiss if the girls should get some practical knowledge of the duties of life Professor Clements, during a recent ad- dress to young lady students, was asked by one of them why girls should be re- quired to know anything about farming Well" was his reply. 'one of you may marry a man who has a good farm and not enough sense to manage 1t, then a knowledge of the business would be use- full"
 This was not altogether badinage, for there was thread of good sense in it. But be that as'it may, there ought not to be two opinions as to the necessity of industrial and business education for boys. There is not room in the learned professions for the immense crop of boys that is coming on in Alabama. The pro- fessions are already crowded. and over crowded, but there is room and need of educated and trained men who can work with the hands as well as with their heads And, above all, their education should not begin in mills and factories.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
THE LIQUOR QUESTION IN YER
 MONT.

Vermont is having a perplexing expe- rience with the liquor question. After trying for many years a prohibition law which, as one of the papers expresses it, was notorious for it's open, persistent and permitted violation" the people are to vote today on the question of a com bined local option and high license law, lature and referred back to the people for their approval or rejection. It is pretty certain that they will adopt it in preference to the mockery of prohibitory laws which have become as notoriously ineffective as are those of Maine or Kan sas.
 But another question which comes up for the people to vote on is that the license laws shall be so modified or con- strued as to license places where only beer and light wines may be sold, but no distilled spirits. Speaking of this proposition bishop of the Catholic church at Burlington asks: Why not give the people who wish to take a stlm- ulant an opportunity of taking small bottle of pure wine or glass of lager beer, instead of obliging them to go into hidden places to fill up with poisonous whiskey?''
 Of course, licensed saloon of this kind would be preferable to the noto- rious blind tigers which prevail through out the State, but the good bishop knows little of the ways of the liquor business, if he thinks 1t possible to conduct the business in that way. There would be conscientious dealers who would adhere strictly to the letter and the intent of the law, but such men would not be in the majority, unless human nature in Vermont is different from what 1t is else- where. Under such a regulation there would be saloons all over the State where the dealer would sell all kinds of liquors while pretending to sell only beer and light wines. It would be much easier and safer to do this than 1t would to run a blind tiger successfully, for under such license as proposed the saloon would be legally conducted. and the sa. loonist could ring in all kinds of liquid refreshments unknown except to those who wouldn't peach. It would really be legalizing blind tigers, in way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1908.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdcm which comes under its notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol [ 0l denoting ..golden.'. which stands for high quality. and is thus explained,- -
 'Advertisers value this paper more for the class and quality of it's circulation than for the mere number of copies printed.'
 Such papers are credited with a single sym boi; but there Is higher grade. according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL [ v,s to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol l00l and is the only paper 50 distinguished in this section of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
THE srAr1 CAPITOL.

The House of Representatives has be- fore 1t a bill for the improvement of the State Capitol and grounds. It provides an appropriation of szs0.0oo to be paid in installments through three years
 This bill has been favorably reported by Mir. Goodwyn's Committee on Capitol and Grounds. There is minority report, signed by two only of the thirteen mem bers. which fayors an appropriation of only $2s,0oo.
 The majority measure Is most merito- Eious one. and deserves ths support of every member of the Assembly. The present building is utterly inadequate to the needs of the State government. Every department is cramped for room, and business is constantly done at a great disadvantage. Thousands of valuable pa- pers and documents are packed away in cellars and boxes, many of them being
 damaged. The building must be en- larged.
 Furthermore. the present historic build ing. with all it's sentimental associations, is in depIorably shabby condition. It's roof. walls. fittings and furnishings are altogether unworthy Of a great State and decent people. No citizen of the State can be content with it. much less proud of 1t. when he looks at it alone. And when he goes over the building with a visitor from another State. he hangs his head in shame. There Is no adequate ex- cuse for this condition of things to con- tinue.
 The State has spent very little on its Capitol in the past forty years. It is time to even up. The neglect of years should he made good. Now Is the time to do it. The States finances warrant
 the expenditure of s250.0oo in the next three years. for that purpose.
 Mississippi is building million dollar
 capitol. Florida is expending about a half million the same way. Georgia all | ready has a new. handsome. commodious l structure. Alabama is a richer State
 than Florida or Mississippi and is just as | rich as Georgia. We are pushing for
 ward in all things. Let ,is not keep our Capitol building any longer in such a | cramped, shabby condition. 1t is a re- flection on' the progress of the State and | the enterprise of its people.