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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Miss Clara Barton is formulating plans for
new and large fund OF probably $1,000 900 for the
extension OF the Red Cross work.
of New Hampton. Ia. are probably the oldest
twins in the country. They recently passed
their ninety second birthday.
Dayton o.. car company will exhibit at the
worlds fair two handsome railroad coaches all
of the timbers and finishing lumber OF which
were made from catalpa trees grown on a farm
near Dublin. Ind.
r. T. Daniel, who owns many blocks in Spo-
kane. Wash. most of the town of Trail. in
British Colombia. and 10000 acres of land in
Cuba, left Glasgow, Ky. twenty-five years ago.
and arrived in Spokane with just 81 in his
pocket.
writer in Nature compares the exhalation
from cedar wood and the magnetic supply from
a magnet with the emanation from radium-
each being without loss of substance. To this
might be added the grain OF musk which fills a
room with its odor for years without loss OF
weight.
King Edward is a good deal OF a humorist in
a quiet way and he keeps an eye on things
this side of the water. Recently some one asked
him what he would do living should
ne lose his present Job. He replied that he
would go TO the United States and make a lee
ture tour.
The garden vegetables OF Liberia are lima
beans snap beans. black-eyed peas cabbages,
tomatoes, cucumbers, beets and peppers. Very
few OF these. II any. equal in size those raised
in the United States. This is due. perhaps. to
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VIEWS OF JOURNAL READERS


To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
It appears that the people are complaining that
the theaters do not play Shakespeare. and the
managers are complaining that people viii not
come TO see Shakespeare. II does not seem 10
occur 10 any one that the real trouble Is that
Il is almost impossible 10 see Shakespeare ade-
quately acted. You 90 10 see a modern novel
dramatzed-your conception OF the characters
and the situations is heightened by the dra-
matte presentation. II means more 10 you than
Il did before. You 90 10 a play OF shak
speare's acted by the same people; the s1bor-
dinate characters reclte their lines as II they
were children repeating with difficulty something
they have learned. but do not understand; while
the leading characters speak their parts with
intelligence but do not Ill them. They seem like
pgmies in the clothes Of giants The characters
and the passions are too Titanic for them 10
represent Instead OF being interpreted and
heightened by the acting the play seems 10 be
minimized by IL. There are two three actors
TO generation, perhaps. who can really act
Shakspeare-and there is no trouble IN getting
crowd TO hear them. at very high prices
But to hear an ordinary actor attempt II is no
pleasure-one might bstter stay at home and
read the play. THE spacious times CT great
Elizabeth are too spacious for moderns to
I'LL. EX-THEATER-GOER
Indianapolis. Jan. Is
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Cyclone Curios.

The farmers Of Bureau county, Illinois. are
engaged In collecting cyclone curios They
gather them from their own fields.
The first violent blast was at Mendoza, where
a wide swath was cut through the town. blow
ing down houses. pulling up trees by the roots
or breaking the trunks as IL they had been
pipestems and killing five people.
s, Later another disturbance OF the elements blew
down a circus tent and killed one of the pioneer
scouts who had followed Fremont the
country in his historic expedition.
The articles that have been picked up in the
corn fields form a curious collection. One farmer
had a wedding skirt that belonged to a woman
in tho south end OF the county. Another has
the limb Of a tree that broken OF a tall
oak ten miles distant Another has half
a door frame and lot OF new lumber the
owner Of which cannot be located inside the
county.
Another man picked up a bundle Of checks
and notes that had been blown from the neigh
borhood OF Princeton--Chcago Tribune.
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TO the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
The Journal OF a few days ago had the follow
ing:
Statistics for 1903 show that 1857 people com
months. These figures are alarming. and a
strange fact is that larger proportion Of the
other profession. VIII somebody explain this
phenomenon?
With your kind permission I will try to ex-
plain the phenomenon. The cause for such fire.
quent suicide amongst physicians is found.
think. in the impression made upon the mind
OF a medical by the environments OF his
profession. We become like that upon which We
feed in both body and mind. We are imitators
far more than originators. The physician is sur
rounded. II in active practice. with disease suf-
fering and death daily, for years. The very at
mosphere is heavy with pain and vibrant with
groans. The complaints OF patients ne must hear
over and over day after day The pain-distorted
features, the wan face whose flush of life has
given way TO the pale flag whose victory is fol-
lowed by the coffin, pass before his eyes daily
His life is a batte with death for others until
he scarcely fears the grim destroyer himself
The thoughts OF disease run through all his wax
ing hours. till his dreams make a companion OF
death This wandering through labyrinth OF
misery for years makes many physicians gloomy
many pessimistic. subjects of nervous Diseases
and other maladies from his mental strain. which
the medical profession has TO a greater extent
than any other calling. The doctor is the short
est-lived of any professional men. shorter-Iived
also than farmers mechanics.
The physician is not always wanted for So
cial company. his presence brings back MEM
cries OF the family Affections maybe the death
| OF parent child. and his learning and serious
mode OF thought may render him less coulpan-
ionable for the club the banquet. so he IN
usually left 10 himself and misery. He is wanted
when they are born die, but not when they
make merry. Indeed II the physician Is cheerful
| the patient may think him less learned and pro-
| found. and the necessities OF an income may
drive him 10 a solemn demeanor. Some people
measure a Doctors wisdom by his gloom So
the doctors life Is often a weary routine OF
shadows and groans. When disease overtakes
him his faith in his healing art wanes with his
loss Of vigor He naturally shrinks from the suf-
/ fering he has often seen others endure and
fearing death far less than those who see IL iess
| II is but easy matter for his learning ana
| philosophy 20 show the frailty and futility OF
| spent life and the surety OF In unconscious
sleep, 50 he willingly 10 meet the enemy. or
friend, who knows which. that would overtaks
i him sooner or later. little farther on at the
turn OF the road. anyhow
J. A. HoUsER. NJ d
Indianapolis. Jan. Is.
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Didn't Need Any More Insurance.

Turner Tanksley, representative Of the
Workingmen's Industrial Aid Insurance Com
pany. called upon Edmund Grant, an elderly
colored man, with view OF getting him to in
his life
Good morning. Uncle Ned" said Mr.. Tanks
ley.
''Mawnin. boss" said the old man, raising
his hat and making low courtesy.
Uncle Ned, do you carry any insurance"
inquired the solicitor.
Does carry what?" asked Uncle Ned in
great surprise.
do you carry any insurance? Is your life
insured?' asked the solicitor, by way OF ex-
PLANTATION.
BLESS Gawdi vas, yas," replied the colored
man. 'long ago-long ago."
Then the solicitor asked: "In what COM
pany?''
Uncle Ned answered: I'm a Baptr. sab:
I'm Baptis-a deep-watah Baptis .-Lippin-
colts Magazine
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TO think his own thoughts or to utter them
in his own language.
No doubt President Remsen is right and
correctly accounts for the slovenliness Of
the average college mans style and his
faults of diction. Literary style is indi-
viduality of expression. and. if it is to have
force. il it is to be a style that impresses
the reader. il must convey the writer's own
thought, not the echo of another mans
ideas. Some day teachers of English will
realize what editors have always main
tanned, that the student who is well
grounded in the rudiments of the language
and is then led into literature by a way
that will make him love it and not look
upon it as '1essons'-that such student will
not only read with an understanding heart,
but will write in way to make himself
faI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

'Thcre Is nothing more ineomprehensibie IN
the annals OF trade than the spasmodlc demand.
for patent medicines" said the druggist II
mean those remedies that are not kept in IN.
public eye BY constant advertising. For in
stance I have had for six years a bottle OF
cough syrup standing one OF my shelves tha,
nobody ever heard OF. and for which there wa.
demand. 1 suppose Il was an experimental
bottle put out by one OF those thinly -capitaixed
concerns that fall by the wayside. But the other
day, in my absence, my clerk sold this bottle.
which was labeled az 81. for 50 cents II VA.
the only one we had In the place. and I never
expected 20 get any more, but the very next
day woman came in and asked for a bottle
OF IL. OF course, we sold her something tu-s
as good but since then We have had al least
two dozen calls for this particular patent med,-
cine. and IL keeps IA busy supplying satisfactory
substitutes You never tell about the.s
THINKS. Philadelphia Record
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SOME STUDIES IN CHILDHOOD.

'At what age does love tegin?'
This is the question Aldrich asks, in a charm
ing poem, OF a three-year-old coquette. The
dainty damsel answers
IT'S so long 1 can't remember,
Ask some younger miss than t.
However, an Eastern savant has been making
a study Of the question, and announces that
love begins at the age Of three.
AS usual, the poet is nearer right than the
philosopher. Here few instances of more
youthful love affairs than the savant encoun-
tered:
One lady known to the writer remembers a
tender affair at the age OF eighteen months.
frankie Monroe was the lover. She returned
to the town where he lived. when she was seven,
and went to him with the most romantic
expectations, but alas! he had grown to be a
mere boy. who turned somersaults his pretty
white bed, and generally comported himself in
a boisterous and masculine manner shocking to
her ideas.
There also Willie Pierce, who sent her a
red rose, in midwinter. when she had reached the
mature age of twenty months. She had per-
fectly distinct impression of romance in connec-
ton with both these affairs. At the age of two,
however, she met her cousin Robbie, who hence
forth reigned supreme in her heart. Her mother
relates that she would sit in her little chair,
and prattle by the hour; Mamma, did you and
papa play together when you little. the
way Robbie and do? And when Robbie and /
get big, won't we get married, too? And shan't
L have white dress and long white veil?''
(The eternal feminine. observeD
Willie, aged eighteen months. called with his
mother Marian. aged year. The two
babies cooed and laughed and firted, until Will
lies feelings overcame him. and he threw his
arms around Marian and kissed her. She drew
back. with all the dignity of insulted maiden
hood, and slapped his facet
Eddie, aged six months, was making a long
visit at the home of his cousin wardine, a few
months older He adored the beautiful girl baby,
and, whenever they were set upon the floor to-
gether, he would hug and kiss her tempestuously,
until her maidenly Instincts impelled her to
creep away from him. Then there woe,
for he could not creep. He would throw him.
self fiat on his face, dig his fingers into the
velvet carpet and try desperately, but vainly,
to pull himself along after his fleeing manor
alta.
In the of young lady, endowed with
that mysterious power of fascination which is
quite independent both of beauty and any in
tenton on the part Of the possessor, it no
ticed that when she entered street car, for in
stance, could tell at once which Of the
babies it were boys. by the degree OF in
terest they took in her. For the reverse phe-
nomenon, devoted young wife and mother
who in her salad days seldom had less than six
sweethearts at once, equally scandalized
and amused to that her baby GIRL not yet
a year old, took the most delighted interest in
every man and boy she met but barely toler-
ated. with ill-concealed ennui, the attentions OF
her feminine friends
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that in England the proportion of female
to male drunkards is as three to one. A
London policeman recently counted lis men,
% boys and 719 women going into a saloon,
or public 'ouse." in nine hours. An Eng
lishman visiting in this country always
comments with surprise on the fact that
he sees no women in saloons. The sight of
a drunken woman is rare in America, while
in England three women are arrested for
drunkenness for every man. This one thing
more than any other shows the superiority
OF Americas working class over that of
any other country, and the superiority of
American women over any other women
In the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The Philadelphia Record despairs of get
ting rid Of the smoke nuisance under pres
ent conditions, and turns as only hope
of relief to the, women of the city, urging
them the chief sufferers to storm the
stronghold of the mayor and Council in
the City Hall, and insist upon the passage
and enforcement of a smoke ordinance.
This will cause the women who insist upon
their right to vote for mayor and Com
mon Council to smile. Why, they will ask,
should they be required to beg for relief
that we should be in condition to compel?
And it really seems as if they might have
the weight of the argument on their side.
This helpless falling back upon the women
is another argument, also, in favor of per-
hitting them to take a hand in municipal
housekeeping. whether by right of suffrage
or not.
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COLLEGE TRAINING IN ENGLISH.

President Remsen, of Johns Hopkins
University. is quoted as saying. mo bach
elor's degree known to me is sign of a
good English training" Many persons,
especially those in editorial lines of work,
whose business it is to examine the writ
ings of college graduates among others,
have long been convinced that college train
ing did not insure either the possession
of a good vocabulary or the ability to ex-
press ideas clearly and in good literary
form. Too often such productions are
crudely and awkwardly expressed, even If
not actually incorrect as to grammatical
construction. Editors have not taken the
trouble. TO formulate a theory concerning
the cause OF this frequent educational de-
ficiency. but President Remsen does so.
What is gained" he asks, 'by giving a
boy a masterpiece TO read and study, when
the same boy cannot construct a sentence
properly or write a decent letter." Then,
in substance. he condemns the prevalent
method OF preparing a boy for examination
by bidding him study a classic-a special
edition already annotated and leaving no
room for the student TO exercise his own
mind concerning it-and the shrewder the
boy the quicker he will gauge the range
Of his teachers and the annotator's range
of his teachers thought and save himself
trouble by adopting it as his own and say
ing himself the work of thinking further
about IL. In short he is not made to
hammer out his own thought by slow turn
ing OF II over in his mind and is not made
to express it in his own way. He passes
his examinations, but he has not been made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17
A BATCH OF LITTLE STORIES


DR.. Maltby. close friend OF Samuel Rogers
the banker-poet and one OF scholarly family
had the same amusing popularity as Mommsen
He visiting Paris in company with
Rogers. Whilst there they went TO the Louvre
and Maltby. being struck by small picture OF
the lowest line. fell his knees to examine IL
Rogers stroled away. but presently returned
and said to Maltby. still on his knees, "A singu
lar thing has just happened. lady stoppinl
in front Of me said. II 1 am not mistaken yol
are Samuel Rogers, the poet. And were
you? " replied Maltby. without looking up
But there may have been a hidden sarcasm
Observation-Disclosures Post EXPRESS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The death Of an official stenographer Of
New Jersey court has had the effect of
stopping the second trial of criminal case
and allowing the accused persons to go free.
1t was necessary for the purposes of the
second trial to have the testimony taken at
the first trial, but the notes had never been
transcribed by the man who took them, and
as no two shorthand men, especially ex-
perts, have exactly the same system, each
using many arbitrary signs of his own in
vention, it was urged by the defendants
that the notes transcribed by another
stenographer would not necessarily be cor
rect, and, therefore, should not be admit
ted as evidence. The point was sustained
by the court, and shows anew the impor-
lance of the shorthand art. 1t is not likely
that a difficulty of this sort can ever be
avoided, since it is inevitable that every
stenographer will, in spite of himself use
signs that can be understood by himself
alone. If, as in the case mentioned, he
should happen to die before writing out his
notes in longhand. they are practically USE
less for legal purposes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The discovery that the open-air treatment
Uses TO have an effect on the habits of
healthy persons as well. The practice Of
sleeping out of doors, in tents and on veran-
das in the winter is gaining popularity
among athletes and health-culture faddists
What a few years ago would have been
considered fatal is now encouraged as a
wholesome practice. The return to nature
and primitive methods is natural reaction
from a high degree OF artifciality
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

A New York physician who has been ex-
perimenting with radium as a cure for can
Ger offers rather a picturesque description
OF the method of treatment He says that
one of the methods Of the X-ray cure Of
is by what amounts to giving the patient
liquid sunshine. taken internally: that is,
10 bathing the patients interior with the
rays OF the sun condensed into liquid form
and liberated by the action of radium. ="
Liquid sunshine" is term that has a
health giving sound.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The United States spends as much money
for patent medicines as for bread. This is
a fine thing for the druggists, but terribly
hard on the stomachs of the people of the
United States. The recent novelist who al
luded to Americans as 1.-The people who have
invented fifty-seven varieties of dyspepsia"
had more than a grain of truth on his side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

II. E ingalls,. president of the Big Four
Railroad. made a speech in Cincinnati re-
Gently. in which he regretted that the PAN
anna canal project was not put of for a time
rather than TO have stained our national
honor" Railroad magnates are feeling
rather hurt about that national honor"
They have tried by fair means aud foul to
destroy all chances OF an isthmian canal,
and no wonder they are rather bitter. The
canal will hurt their business. But they are
scarcely the people to give President Roose-
welt lessons in political ethics
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War VIII Not sepeat U..

A Russo-Japanese war will do US no appre-
ciahle benefit in a commercial way, and cannot
affect politically. The fighting will all be
confined to the narrow about Korea and
TO its territory. II Russia defeats the japanese
fleet. the is at once. II Japan smashes
the Russian naval strength, which expect
she viii feed her troops In Korea with fish and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

Life is very complex these days. and the
man or woman who eontemplates matri-
mony has many things to consider before
taking the final step. For instance. il is
well 10 know whether or not the proposed
future partner is a food reformer A Penn
sylvania woman who married without hav-
ing previously investigated this matter
found too late that her husband had views
as 10 diet with which she could not agree.
lie furnished her with breakfast food and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

King Leopold will not come over to see
the ST. Louis Exposition, after all, but will
send his heir presumptive. The fact that
he excuses himself by saying that he is
afraid his yacht might not weather the
Atlantic may be taken as presumptive evil
dence that he does not regard the personal
safety of his heir so highly as he does his
own. There are other heirs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

Somebody has discovered that there is q
blance between Mark Hanna and William
j. Bryan. People will know which one
feels the worst about this when it is an
nounced that one or the other of them is
raising a beard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

THE Russian viceroy," says telegrap hic
dispatch, holds the key to the temple Of
Janus" Few of us know what that means,
but at any rate it imparts a classical aspect
to the war that is quite delightful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The Warden of Sing Sing penitentiary
states that he has not visited New York
city for twenty-nine years But then he
meets so many New York citizens, you
know, that trip down the Hudson is hard
ly necessary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The st. Louis Post-Dispatch notes that
the Democratic national convention will
meet on the birthday of Albert ]. Bev-
eridge-July 6. This would be curious CO.
incidence were it not for the fact that Bev-
eridges birthday is not on July at all, but
three months later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

The fire chief In the national capital says
that the only fireproof building in the
city is the Washington monument. Out
siders who have imagined from the pic
lures that all the government buildings
were constructed entirely of the purest
Parian marble will now begin to suspect
that 1t is only that worlds fair kind Of
marble, after ALL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

st. Louis has unearthed some entirely
new grating schemes among the very men
now under Indictment for former offenses
Of the same nature. 1t would be difficult
TO imagine stronger proof of the feeling
OF security under which The grafters rest.
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rice. so that We shall not even have the privilege
OF selling food stuffs TO the eombatants. OF de-
veloping larger ocean-carrying trade in our
neutral ships We see hope. That Is done
now by nations which wiz not be involved In
the war. and their relations 10 II win not be
changed-Boston Advertiser
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-17

A man down in Pennsylvania asserts that
he has discovered the secret of long life
and that he expects to live to the age OF
150 and retain all his powers of mind and
body. But to think of spending $50 years
in Pennsylvania!