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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
a Fair Division.

Chicago Post.
The old farmer and his wife had agreed to sep
arate They had only one child
Everything friendy?' inquired neghbor.
'Oh. yes" replied the old man, carelessly.
mo trouble about making a fair division Of
the property"
'Oh, She gifts the kid an the canned
fruit. an git the Pig an the apples. That's
even enough. amt it?''
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Good weather for Pickles.
North Manchester Qnd.) Journal.

North Manchester QLd.) Journal.
This is very good weather for those in
terested in growing pickles. The prospects
are good for large yield. Saturday there
were about seventy bushel delivered at the
large watts or tanks. The pickle business
comes I'm nicely just when farmers have
the time to attend the crop between harvest
and seeding and will bring them quite a
sum of ready cash
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The effort OF the Society of Tithers, in
session at winona last week. to prevail on
every man to give one-tenth of his income
10 the Lord would perhaps be more success
full II the givers could all be sure that the
Lord would direct the disbursement of the
funds So many things are done in the
Lords name that seem to make for evil
rather than good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Notwithstanding the renewed buying
movement throughout the country, the eff
fort to boom stocks In Wall street to some
thing like the level of last summer is prov
Ing a dif1cult. If not an impossible under
taking 1t would be better to let them rest
where they are. on fair investment basis
that Is proving attractive to small investors
throughout the country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
THE HUMORISTS.


Aunt Margsret-And if you're good-real good
YOU II go to heaven.
Little Dorothy-Oh, Is that all? 1 thought
maybe you were going to give me quarter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Freak Potatoes.

Angola Qnd.) Magnet.
Ivan Miller showed us yesterday a freak
of nature in the potato line. A new potato
had grown to the size of large hens egg
right in an old potato, feeding upon the
body of the old potato until it had grown
the size of the parent. The specimen was
taken from a barrel in his cellar and is
the only one of the kind we have ever SEEN
Mr.. Miller ought to take out a patent on a
vineless, bugless potato, for no doubt the
variety would become popular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Big Timothy.

Madison Qnd) Couriers
Allen Ferguson, of Monroe township, to-
day showed us two stalks of timothy, one
measured forty-eight inches in height, with
an eleven-inch head. and the other fifty
six inches with fifteen-inch head, which
was raised on his farm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Upton Qnd) Tribune.

Upton Qnd.) Tribune.
r. j. Harper brought to this Office this
morning limb from an apple tree which
contained ten fully matured apples of the
Wealthy variety. The limb is ten inches
long and when it was taken from the tree
there were thirteen apples on it, but three
of them fell off. Mr.. Harper is the son of
James Harper and has a fine lot of these
apples. He has been selling the fruit in
Upton and has hauled more than forty
bushels here the past few days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

The Weather Bureau insists that the av-
ersge summer temperature has been nor
mal but what are a few statistics COM
pared to peoples feelings? And even the
oldest inhabitant doesn't remember more
delightfully."- cool summer than this, judg-
~ By his feelings.
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Greensburg Qnd) Review.
Houses are scarce in Greensburg. At
meeting Of one of our lodges the other
night member arose to his feet and ad-
dressing the presiding officer, said: 81
move" when at least half dozen Jumped
to their feet and yelled When" How
much rent do you pay?" What size
house?" etc, and the lodge adjourned I'm
confusion.
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Life. common WAY.

This story, by Annie T. Trumbell, has for
its leading characters very modern young
woman with decided views of her own and
with high ideals, great financier and his
wife. the latter iaboring under the disad-.
vantage of having much self-conceit and
no sense OF humor; and group Of people,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Reduced stin Further.

Philadelphia Press.
Il see by The paper" said the wife at the
breakfast table. THAT Bargen * Co. are adver-
Using Summer silks reduced to 75e.' The ad-
vertisement says they're very rich and"
They comparatively rich" interrupted her
husband for I'm reduced to 80 cents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

In view of the prevalence of graft ia
various parts of the country it might not
BE- a bad idea TO establish course in the
public schools for the teaching of common
honesty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Now Canada raises objection to receiving
OF France. There are plenty OF broad lands
I'm the United States to be had cheapiy and
where they will be welcomed. We can much
better afford this class of immigrants than
some We are getting
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
How He Kept His Apples.

Albion Qnd.) New Era.
A Mendon man has just opened several
barrels of apples that were packed last fall
They were packed in dry sand so that none
of them touched, and were as sound and
solid as when put away
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

If the gentleman that wants everybody
to have the privilege of attending the
worlds fair at government expense is a
fair sample of the Oklahoma legislator the
boom Territory can hardly be ready for
statehood 1t needs more asylums for in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

a dentist who lives in Duluth
Has welded a widow named Ruth.
Who is so sentimental
Concerning things dental
She calls her dear second her Twoth.
Detroit Journal.
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Inquirer: No. the municipal campaign is
not formally open, but Chairman Reach is
bustling TO have himself elected dictator,
with even more energy than he puts into
the potato business. That is. he is arrang-
ing to be dictator in case Hoffman is
elected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Good Wheat Yield.

Shelbyville Qnd.) Republican.
Sylvester Thomas, one of the prominent
farmers of Hanover township. reports that
from his 100 acres of land which he had
planted in wheat that his average was
twenty and one-half bushels to the acre.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Summer schools and "Chautauquas" ev-
erywhere seem TO have been attended by
more people this season than ever before.
A vast number of Americans decline to take
their recreation in the form of complete
idIeness. but insist upon learning some
thing useful while they are resting"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Kansas City Journal
do yez believe thrtane is an unlucky num-
Der, Dugan?''
"Thct OF do, Maginnis. OF made money all
lasht year FIR tn beginnin. till tn ind. 1t wor
a moghty lucky year. and why? 1t had but
twiNe months in it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

The narrow escape from a great disaster
Of lie two hundred people on the Aquatic
Clubs houseboat should serve to teach flu
ture committees ON arrangements that 1t is
always well TO follow the advice OF the cap
tain. who may be presumed to know more
about the condition of the boat than any
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Fairly Good Returns.

Lawrenceburg Qnd) Press.
Ten men are now engaged in fishing for
mussel shells on the lower bar near the
mouth of Tanners creek. Seven of them
work the river and three shore. Some
of them earn 50 day, it is reported
almost as good pay as some of the civil
service Jobs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Uneasy lie the heads that wear the Aus
TRAN and the servian crowns. and there is
reason to suspect that neither the Car nor
the Sultan sleeps we'll these fair nights
The attention. of Chairman Reach is called
10 the troubles that come to men who I'M
dertake to be the whole thing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
HI. Only Opening.

Chicago Tribune.
what you going to do now? his intimate
friend inquired.
.svlelI" gloomiy responded the defeated pugi-
list. there's 50 blamed many has beens on the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Goodland Gnd.) Herald
Some of the towns now call IL harvest
celebration" instead of street carnival
Think of .'hout.le-coutchie' and ''Old Hy-
ronimous' being palmed off as harvest at
fra cfiopsf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Sir Thomas Lipton's three, efforts to lift
that cup have cost him something like
million and half in money; but perhaps
he has had that much fun out of it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

In this new novel Thomas Nelson Page
does not approach in fine workmanship the
level of his classic I'm Ole Virginia. nor
his later book, Red Rock Gordon
Keith" is more of the dime novel made
to sell for $3.50. 1t is good in spots and
bad in spots. but altogether fairly inter-
esting. Gordon Keith is a pretty well bal
anced individual; but his father is too
sanity and the villain of the story is too
villainous. So far as ordinary observation
goes, humanity does not reach the ex-
tremes of goodness and badness that Mr..
Page would have the reader believe. Then
Mr.. Page uses such tricks as many other
authors have used lately, the introduction
at the proper point of an English syndicate.
for instance, which gives the novel sec
ond-hand tone that is below Mr.. Page at
his best. He also introduces blood in the
well-worn melodramatic method OF shoot
ing girl, having her faint, producing the
impression of death, and then reviving her
to carry out the plot. The manufactured
tone of such methods Is evidence that MIR.
Page, like Hamlin Garland and some other
writer's who can produce high art, is court
ing popularity at the expense OF the best
traditions of literature. IL Mr. Page were
a new writer, doubtless the reviewer would
praise the book for what IL promised. But
an old writer is not to be encouraged when
he deliberately takes a backward step In
his art. Mr.. Page does not write enough
to be written out, so the presumpfion
must be that he wants to be among the
most popular novelists, which wish may
likely be fulfilled. RED Rock had large
sale. sufficiently large to make the neces-
proach- Charles Scribner's Sons. New
York.
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Brooklyn Life.
Mr.. Newsubb trying TO engage cook)-E-r,
have YOU worked out of the city?
Miss De Laney-Hov L? There amt eonduc-
tor on a suburban thrain runnin out av this
town that can't call by his fur'rst name
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
YOUR SUMMER VACATION.

II you take one you will want to
keep in touch with home. The best
way to do this Il to have the Journal
mailed to you. Leave your order be-
foss starting. We will change the 3D.
dress Is often As you desire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Tom Johnson and John l.. Zimmerman
of Ohio, will have to get all their fun out
of the Democratic nominating convention.
On election day Republican will come
along and knock the gubernatorial persim-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
ECHOES FROM THE FARMS.
Rats in the Corn.

Sullivan Qnd.) Union.
In the course of tearing down corn pen
at John Gross's something like forty-five
rats were killed. They had destroyed about
fifty bushels of corn out of 500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

OF course the thought of nominating
Hearst for the presidency gives the aver
sge Democrat the yellow jaundice. but 1t
would not be such long step from Bryan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

The Japanese will be welcome to partici-
pate in the next yacht races. 1t seems to
be hopeless task to find successful
competitor in England
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

men and women. that would naturally be
found as associates OF these three-men
engaged In big enterprises. women OF
wealth with vague desires TO engage in
reform work. Some with their hearts set
on social triumphs. Though the heroine -
wealthy, she Is not able TO order her affairs
as she wishes. and because OF influences
thrown about her lowers her moral sta@d-
ard TO some extent and suffers unpleasant
consequences. The labor question comes In
element. and strike figures in
way TO affect more than one life in this
select circle There il very little action IN
the story. liz is a study of motives and OK
character. of the interplay of one mind
upon another. but IL is all very well done,
and the reader follows the pages 10 the
end with interest. Ii is. in fact, record
OF ''lifes common way, as IL might DC
known TO just such people-each living his
life in such manner circumstances have
made possible-each with desire 70 make
the best of IL. There is some rather clever
character drawing. the best touches being
given 10 Hutchlns Ingledew, the fnancier.
The name "lngledew." however. is so iii-
chosen TO have rather an irritating
effect. Modern financiering methods. with
their disregard of everything but that OF
gaining the desired end. are handled with
considerable skill. As a study OF a phase
Of contemporary life the book is worth
while. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Her Second,

stage that 1 guess the only thing for me to
do Is to 30 and be q Chautauquy attraction
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

The attention OF Harper & Brothers 10
called to the fact that this book does not
read like tale of magic" that THE Ad-
ventures of NJ. d'Haricot" is like Mark
Twain's "Innocents Abroad" chiefly in ito
differences from that book of fine humor.
and that the person who writes the notices
for the covers OF Harper Brothers publica-
tons does his house injustice by misrep-
resenting its literature. The book in hand
is a real contribution to economics. The
development of typical trust. studied in
detail. and from the standpoint largely OF
the promoters of the trust. gives an insight
into the evolution of commerce and the
ideas respecting trade that counterbalances
i'm great measure the prejudice aroused by
-tudies of the Standard OH Company by
such writers as Miss Tarbell. The truth
Hes. presumably, somewhere between the
assertions of the two classes OF writers.
and to find IL the reader should study the
subject from both standpoints. Mr.. Gil
bert Holland Montague's contribution 10
the most careful and concise review or the
gigantic corporation that has been written.
Regarding differential railway rates. which
have been much discussed, the author says:
while condemning these railroad con-
tracts, be il remembered that they fol-
lowed in principle the best lights of the
railway economy of the period: that they
were part of the generally adopted evening
system by which railways, In perfect good
faith, protected themselves against disas-
trous competition. To appoint group
of the largest shippers 'eveners, and in re-
turn for a special rebate require them 10
apportion traffic among the roads, seemed
at that time practice both inevitable and
legitimate. This knowledge of contempt
rary railroad history may not change the
current judgment upon the contracts of the
South Improvement Company. but IL helps
to fairer distribution of the blame. IL
there be any, between the railroads and
the company" This seems fair enough, but
the author defends too strenuousy some OF
the decidedly Objectionable features. such
as reducing prices in the territory of its
competitors. Their defense and apology
are the only Objectionable features Of this
generally careful treatise.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-07
We MUST ADD TWO RS
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND REVERENCE
ARE THE NEW ONES.
"Self-Culture the Condition for Gull
ture of Others"-SermOn of the
Rev. f. o. Beck.

Frank o. Beck, of Mapleton Church,
preached at the Hall-place NJ. z. Church
yesterday morning from the text, For
their sakes, 1 sanctify myself st. John
xvii. 10. and the theme, "Self-culture the
Condition for the Culture of Others" He
said:
THE words of the text are among the
noblest ever uttered by human lips. The
most essential and important necessity for
the words stability and progress is the
growth and equipment OF the personal man.
The power of perpetual self-improvement
is one of the chief distinctions between
man and the lower animals. Very early,
object of life is to grow, Goethe said of
Schiller: If L did not see him for fort
night, | was astonished TO find what prog
ress he had made in the interim Self-cul-
ture is the hrst duty of man.
But the art of self-culture Is not for the
arts sake alone The Sistine Chapel was
and purer IF worship. Jesus Christ ;sancti-
fed himself for their sake The little
sea was not boisterous enough to arouse
Jesus from His slumber, but his ear was
sensitive to their personal want and that
we perish summoned Him to their relief.
When Booker T. washington's heart first
sobbed my people, eternal life came to
him.
lit has been the greatest glory of our
American life that II has used the culture
of the few for the uplifting of the many.
Social responsibility has never been greater
than to-day.
Here is the duty and opportunity of
higher education. Education means that
the equipment for doing work should be
equal to the task. If the iron be blunt,
and he do not whet the edge, then he must
put to more strength. But the final test
of education is what il will do for the bet
terment of humanity. 1t is tragic for the
self-cultured not to give that culture TO
others.
This century must not repeat the fatal
mistake OF Casanbon in the 'Middlemarch,
who labored long lifetime gathering data
for a book which he never wrote, dying in
his old age without giving this information
to the world.
THAT education is defective which does
not educate the highest. The three RS
must be increased 10 five, for must add
reverence and righteousness. The only in
stitution that can accept the entire job is
the Christian Church. The state has never
been able to compete with the church in
education. The school of the missionary
has pushed its way into the very heart of
the ethnic nations, while state efforts have
suffered defeat. The government schools
IN the Philippines have had several super
visors. while our own DR.. Stuntz has di-
rected our church enterprise from the be-
thinning
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-07
Among the Publishers,

John Lane has sent to press new edition
of William Morriss THE Defense OF Guine-
we're and Other Poems" The new volume
will contain over fifty full-page illustra-
tons.
The Macmillan Company is about TO
issue a new and attractive edition OF Gold
smiths 1.-THE Vicar of Wakefield" which
is said to contain the daintieSt color pic
lures of all the holiday books.
Harper & Bros. have just published Mark
Twain's 1.-THE Innocents Abroad" Follow
ing the Equator and 1.-THE Gilded Age" in
new editions, uniform with their red-and-
gold edition Of Mark Twain's works.
In "Red-Head" Oodd, Mead & Coz, the
story of Kentucky feud. John Uri Lloyd.
author of ''Stringtown on the Pike" ETC..
has drawn type of fearless, unforgiving
mountaineer. The principal character is
sincerely depicted by the author. who
writes as an actual witness of the life.
A second edition of Where American In
dependence Began by Daniel Munro VIII
son. is to be issued this month by Hough-
omitted in the first edition being included
The book will also be enriched with over
sixty-five pictures of celebrated portraits
and historic homes.
d. Appleton & Co. are publishing five new
volumes in their Pocket Library Series, in
Guiding 1.-The Book of Job with Blake
famous illustrations; Egan's Life in Lon
Harrison Ainsworth's Windsor Castle
and .Aesop's Fables" all illustrated in the
old English primary color style, which has
hitherto charactt rized this series.
Albert Brandt. publisher. Trenton. N. J.,
announces for immediate publication the
first of two volumes entitled "Elegies. An
cient and Modern, with an Introductory
from the Earliest Days Down to the
Present Time" by Mary Lloyd. 1t lie
claimed that this work Is unique in that il
is the only anthology of this noble form
Of verse in the English language.
Mr.. Skinner. the author of American
Myths and Legends" which ]. b. Lippin-
colt Company have just issued I'm two uni
form volumes, will be remembered agree
ably by his former volumes, Myths and
Legends Of Our Own Land" and Myths
and Legends Beyond Our Borders The
present work contains the result of care
full study of a large number Of legends
some familiar and some scarcely known al
ALL which relate to the United States.
The series Of biographies, which is to be
published by George w. Jacobs & Co., OF
Philadelphia. will include life histories OF
the men who figured most prominently in
the great contest between the North and
South, taking hold of the sectional issue
when 1t first appeared and following II
until II faded out of American politics
The volumes will be anecdotal in charac
ter, and II is proposed that all shall be the
work OF a younger generation of writer's
thereby gaining the perspective of hall
century and freedom from suspicion OF
wartime prejudice. The biographies of the
Southern leaders will be written by South.
ern men. Volumes will be devoted to Cal.
houn, Webster, Clay, Lincoln, Grant, Rob.
ert K. Lee. Jefferson Davis. Alexander II
Stephens, Robert Toombs, "StonewalI'
Jackson, w. T, Sherman, William Lloyd
Garrison, Jey Cooke, the flnancier. and
many others.