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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Centerville people are said to have hoped
that the Indiana Legislature would buy the
home of Oliver p. Morton, Indianas war
Governor, in that town and preserve 1t as
a memorial to the distinguished man. If
Morton had lived hundred years ago or
more some one of the many patriotic So
cieties now in existence would take the
matter in charge and protect the old home
with religious carer Just now nothing
seems to be of value in a patriotic sense
which is less than century old A long
perspective of time seems necessary in
order to put the proper rating upon a
mans services to his country. A hundred
years later. If any relics of Morton exist.
they will be treasures beyond price to
Indianians. BY that time it will be seen
how high he lowered above other men of
his State at the most critical time of its
character he saved the commonwealth
from falling under the control of rebel
sympathizers and thereby thyarted plan
that might have made the history of the
war another and sadder tale. 1t will be
remembered that he was one of the great
pillars of the Nation at a time when loyal
ty and faithfuness were needed most-"a
tower of strength which stood four square
to all the winds that blew" Now few
are interested in the humble home of this
great mans early days. In years to come
it should be place Of pilgrimage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Since Mr.. Taggart succeeded in organic
ing a juggernaut 10 run over the Hearst
following there is much talk about
boiling in case Parker should be nominated
at St. Louis. There is nothing in it but
talk. If Hearst were to be nominated on
the Bryan platform the men behind the
Parker boom would unquestionably bolt.
just as they did in 1896 and 1900. They
would not make much noise about it, but
they would contribute Of their money and
their influence to prevent Hearst's election.
They regard him as a menace TO the sta
bility of the Republic, and they are, as
class, men that will vote as their property
Roosevelt and know they can get no special
favors from him. they would look upon
Hearst as a big step in the direction of
communism and would have none of him.
But with the Hearst following ii is a diff
ferent proposition. The great majority of
them are soldiers of fortune in politics.
working for Hearst for the remuneration
in one shape or another they expect to get
out of it. The rest of them the kind of
men that believe the worst Democrat there
is is to be preferred to the best Republican.
AS TO the first element. If Parker should
be nominated they would be found hustling
and shouting and voting for him, just as
they are now doing for Hearst, and for very
much the same reason, for if Parker should
be nominated the Democrats would have
ample funds for the campaign. The big
financiers of New York, controlling various
merged railroad systems and great indus
trial trusts. would make the most strenuous
kind of an effort to elect him by pouring
into the campaign enough money to cor
rupt the franchise. This money and the
usual assortment of promises of Office
would bring ali the Hearst following dis
posed to be recalcitrant into line in short
order
The loud threats they are making just
now constitute nothing but sort of safety
valve for the blowing off of their sur
charged feelings. They do not mean any
thing serious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

The report that Viceroy AleXien is slight
" wounded must be taken as an addition
to the undoubted fact that his feelings
nave been badly hurt.-Anderson Bulletin.
1t is conceded that Bourke Cochran knows
how to say things, but the Democrats IN
Congress are generally convinced that ne
does not know the right things to say.
-Logansport Journal.
Hearsts presidential boom is not pro-
crossing very rapidly. but he is using UP
his checkbook in an effort to corner a
third of the delegates to the st. Louis
convention.-kokomo Tribune.
Victories are not always won by depend
ing upon a divided and discordant enemy.
The better way is to be vigilant. jealous
and aggressive. Deserve victory ana IL
Will the more certainly come.-MiddietoWn
News.
The reports say that Russian soldiers
suffer little hardship in the journey TO
the front. The suffering seems to come
in punches after the Russian army gets
in reach of the bullets of the dashlng
kuroki.--Marion News-Trfbune.
Mr.. Bryan declares that the Democratic
party can get along without New York"
He is entirely too modest, however, to hint
at the thought that it might possibly get
along without the assistance of the gentle
man from Observation-Disclosures Courier
The Review feels more than partisan
qualification at the absence OF Hearst
sentiment among the Democracy OF Elk
hart county. But 1T feels equal chagrln
that what does exist comes from Elkhart
city. The lamentable feature Is that SO
many seem ready to indorse the aspira-
tions of man for the presidency VINO Is
so thoroughly un-American in all instincts
and practices.-Eakhart Review.
About a week ago The Times received
an urgent request from Hearsts Chicago
publisher to enter into clubbing arrange
ment with The American! Two or three
weeks ago Mrs Helen Cougar tried 10
enter into an agreement to issue Hearst
supplement in connection with The Times.
She also wanted two columns space. iei-
en- probably understands by this time that
this paper is not devoted to deba sing and
degrading American politics.-South BEND
Times Dem)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
THE LAW MEETING NEW PROBLEMS

A brief item from Chicago in yesterdays
Journal stated that fifteen members of the
Chicago Soft Coal Dealers Association must
pay fines of $500 each for participating in
an illegal combination, the Appellate Court
having confirmed the decision of the lower
court. The law may be bit slow, but it
occasionally catches up with things. but it
is increasingly evident that it is finding
way to deal with aggregations of cap
cessities of the people. The great land
mark of this movement of the law is and
will be for years the Northern Securities
decision, but 1t is not too much to hope
that within a decade the principle of the IL
legality Of combinations in restraint of
trade will become firmly fixed.
In democratic republic or a constitution
al monarchy the law is not so flexible as it
is when it consists of the DEGREES of a
despot, and new questions of right and
public policy cannot be dealt with so quick
ly or so handily, but that the law still has
the quality of fiexibility and growth, that
it is still capable of meeting the new
problems presented by the growing COM
plexity of our civilization, has been amply
demonstrated during the past dozen years.
which period will cover practically all the
changes that have been made by statutory
enactment and decisions from the bench
relating to the modern tendency toward
larger cooperation and combination on the
part of both labor and capital Congress
and the legislatures of the various States
have been busy on the one hand in the
effort to correct the evils growing out
of combinations of capital. and the courts
have been equally busy in the effort to cure
the ills incident to the organization OF la
Dor. until now both are more disposed to
take the middle ground where lies the in
terests of the public. 1t is an encourag ng
commentary on the stability of our civiiza-
ton that such great problems can be
threshed out in fairly orderly and salts
factory fashion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Not few fathers hurt their sons and damage
the careers of those by picking out careers
for them. Train up the boy In the way he
should go. and then let him choose his own
work In the choice of vocation. as in the
choice of a wife. every young should be
left alone. II he is not worthy OF being left
alone, the parent has grievousy injured the boy
In the preceding decade of his life.
These interpretations mean that / would not
educate my boy under private tutor. l would
educate my boy with boys although not entirely
by boys. Boys do however educate boys: but
a boy who is trained alone is liable TO fail In
adjusting himself his membership in human
ity He is to become brother OF the common
lot He therefore. should learn early how TO
adjust himself to his fellows. Furthermore, he
will lose a great deal OF fun by not being with
the boys. 1t Is. furthermore. diicult. practical
" impossible. for me and most people TO employ
a private tutor. When ] associate myself with
. score Of other people In . private school we
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.
College Sued Because of Hazing.

ST. Stephens College at Annandale. Duchess
county, New York. Protestant Episcopal boys
school, is now defendant in a civil suit for
SO. 600 damages account of the hazing OF a
pupil there. and the father. Edwin Bedell.
editor Of a newspaper in Bronx, has applied for
warrants for the arrest of youths who
took part in the outrage on the charge OF feloni-
Gus assault Mr.. Bedell charges that his son
Archer and chunn. who had refused to join a
certain society, were dragged from their rooms
to the campus beaten with pieces of planking"
and with a coal shovel and left badly bruised
He also states that the warden of the college
Thomas II. Harris. told his Archer that II
was an unheard-of thing for a student to make
such a complaint" and when he the father
made a personal appeal DIR. Harris wrote in re-
ply that there was no cause for complaint 1t
will be interesting to see how this matter comes
out-Springheld Republican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
PENSIONS UNDER ORDER 70.


Washington Special to Brooklyn Eagle.
The work of grinding out pensions under
Order rs has begun. This is the order that
was issued some two months ago by Com
missioner Ware. and which was claimed by
Democrats in Congress TO take the place of
the pending bill to establish service pen
sion act.
Just before he left for Kansas. Commits
sio stone, Ware asked if any claims under this
order had been adjudicated. He was in
formed that three had practically been
closed out and were ready for final approx
al. Thereupon the commissioner called for
the cases, affixed his signature to them all
and wrote personal letter to one of the
claimants, informing him that his was the
nrst claim TO be allowed under the new
ruling. At the same time Mr.. Ware instruct
ed his division chiefs to give special consid-
GRAFTON to all new claims of soldiers who had
not previously filed applications for PEN
sions. He believes that the old survivors
of the civil war who have refrained from
applying for pensions up TO this time should
be given preference in the adjudication of
their claims
Order No. IS will have been in effect only
one month tomorrow, yet more than ten
thousand applications have been received
under II TO date. Commissioner Ware should
have begun the work of allowing pensions
for age three weeks ago. But he delayed
doing so in order to give Congress plenty
OF time to express itself on his order one
way or another. 1t was thought that an at
tempt might be made to annuI the ruling.
but as nothing of the sort was tried. there
Is now obstacle in the way of the whole
sale approval of applications.
The process OF granting pensions under
this order is simple, requiring only a few
days of time. The soldier merely has to
submit an affidavit, submitting his name.
company and regiment and a sworn state
ment to the date of his birth II he is
sixty-two years of age or over he is de-
clared eligible for pension. The Pension Of
flee calls on the War Department for a
statement of the applicants military rec
ord. This information Is furnished within
twenty-four hours, and if ii bears out the
declarations in the affidavit, the mans
name is placed on the pension roll.
A great many soldiers have been deceived
as 10 the meaning of the new ruling They
seem TO think that the allowance for age is
in addition TO what they are already re-
ceiving Men who are drawing sl4. SIG and
more month are seeking TO obtain the
pensions for age. not understanding that
a month under previous laws is barred
from the benefits of Order No. IS.
Il have been very much surprised" said
Deputy Commissioner Davenport to-day,
lat the comparatively small number Of
claims from persons who have never APP
piled for pensions before. These men con-
stitute the unknown army which was es-
timated at 100000 by Mr. Ware. OF the 10. 0Oi
odd claims filed under Order IS not more
than 100 are entirely new. or from the
we would get something like 10000 claims
from this class. but 1t looks now as though
there would be less than 5000 OF them"
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Education Notes.

President Jordan, of Stanford University. has
been made vice president of the Interna-
tional Peace Congress, which meets in Boston
Oct 5.
There are vacancies in departments of
English instruction and in the chair of Old Tes-
lament language and literature at Oberlin tO)
College.
AS a proof that they are not dudes the
students of Northwestern University will wear
flannel shirts and corduroy trousers on three
days in each week.
Ex-President Cleveland has been appointed to
the Princeton University lectureship endowed by
the late Henry Stafford Little. His first lecture
delivered on the I'd on circumstances of
the Chicago Riots of 1894"
The Rev. L. ]. AIdrich. for eighteen years the
president of Union Christian College at Merom.
Ind. has accepted the principalship of Phillips
Academy. New Rockford N. d. Mr.. Adrich
will begin his duties In midsummer. Immediately
after the close of the college year at Merom.
The Mosely Commissions report says: There
is a belief in education deeply rooted in the
minds and hearts of all classes OF the American
people. not so much for the good it may bring
to the individual. but because it is felt that the
national prosperity and the national safety de-
pend very largely upon an educated people"
The thought that the State should contribute
toward the maintenance of what we should call
a UNCONVENTIONAL school seems TO the rank and
file Of Americans preposterous that they can
hardly be induced TO discuss the point. Nay. in
the States Catholic laymen are absolutely at one
with the Protestants with regard to it.-Mosely
Commission Report.
The president of Atlanta University announces
the purpose of that institution to study crime
among the Southern negroes during the present
year. AT first the work will be confined to
Georgia. and the purpose will be to collect ac-
curate information to lawbreaking ami to
discover ways of effecting A conference
on the subject will be held at Atlanta on the
oath
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
The Easiest Way.

..I understand" he said. ''that reported
to be engaged
IT believe some one has taken the liberty of
starting such rumor,' she replied.
well don't you think 1t would be easier to
make the rurnor true than to go to the trouble
and annoyance Of denying it?'' he suggested.
Perhaps you are right she admitted. such
denials are always Ineffective in addition to be-
ing more or less distressing. Chicago Post
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
The New Russian Hymn.

las sung regularly at Port Arthur
oh. say, can you see by the dawn's early light
What proudly hailed at the twilight.
last beamng?
No. your highness. can't; for some time il
the night
1t ran foul of a mine and it's long past re
deeming.
Giant powders red flare,
Iron filings to spare
Then up went batteship high in the air;
And the mines OF Port Arthur.
oh, long may they fio-ati
regret TOGO repor-r-rt-
Had destroyed-d-the wrong-boat-t-t-t!
Puck.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

can afford to get great men and women as
tutors; but alone it is impossible. An unworthy
man. too. as private tutor is. indeed fearful
looking forward 10 yet more fearful Judgment
days
Neither would 1 educate my son abroad; he Is
an American boy. I should be glad TO have him
get all that is best from the private school in
Lusanne or Geneva but not for one instant
would 1 have his ideals formed by the French
master. his methods by German. A pri-
mary note in his character should be the Ameri-
can, although a note more fundamental is the
human. He is as human boy. 10 be trained
up, for service in this great. interesting. new
life Of our new world.-Presdent Charles +.
Thwing. in Harper's Weekly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
An Unfavorable Opinion.

Smith Slightly literary)-I notice that this
critic speaks of Swinburne's debt to De Mus
set.
Jones (strictly business)-Just like poet
always in debt to somebody or other! And I'll
bet you ten to one that he never has paid
cent of it to this day.-New Orleans Times
Democrat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Tess-wel believe I'm rid of Mr. Staylate
at last
Jess-How on earth did you accomplish it?
Tess-while he was calling upon me last night
I remarked that 'all handsome men were con-
ceited bores" Then he said: Indeed. I can
take hint as well the next one' and left
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
Might BE Possible.

Here is another example of faulty English"
said the teacher of the class in rhetoric In
this essay you have written. Her sight broke
upon a landscape of enhancing loneliness How
could any ones sight break upon land
scape?"
''she might have dropped her eyes," timidly
ventured the young woman who had written the
essay.-Chicago Tribune.
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Generous Mr.. Fox.

Mr. Fox the merchant" said the college
president has offered to donate $1,000 for
library building to be known Fox Hail. 1"
but S. 600 won't build library" replied the
dean of the faculty.
20! Mr.. Fox's generous offer is contingent
upon our securing donations of $4,000 each from
ten other public-spirited citizens '-Catholc
Standard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

acted in good faith and are anxious for
the nomination OF their candidate at st.
Louis. other men who voted for Parker
delegates make no concealment of their
opinion that the nominee will be neither
Parker nor Hearst. but some third man.
possibly Mcclellan. and it is very evident
that little interest is felt in the New York
indigo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

It is gratifying to note that the local post
Of the Salvation Army is meeting with
sufficient financial encouragement to enable
IT 10 make considerable important improve
ments to its building and to enlarge the
scope Of its work. The time when this or
ganization could be ridiculed is long past.
reaches field touched in no other way and
does the Lords work there very effectively.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

1t is said that, while the war correspond
ents in the East are getting no news, they
are gathering lot of fine material for
future novels. That was about what was
to have been expected when newspapers
picked up novelsts instead of everyday
reporters for the job In newsgathering a
mans personal greatness and his knowl-
edge of it usually combine to handicap his
efforts very materially.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
So They Are.

Walter Wellman asks what has become of the
writer's OF great American novels. We have not
particularly noticed the Indiana date lines late
ly, but supposed the population of that State
was still busy.-Kansas City Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Japans credit seems to be fairly good the
loan being negotiated in London and New
York being already oversubscribed The
rate Of interest paid. however, is per cent,
and Russia is doing better than this. her
bonds bearing but per cent. In the money
centers these two new opportunities for the
investment OF surplus funds welcomed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

The strategy boards of the various
clubs and sewing circles seem to be some
what at sea just now about the next move
20 be made by the Japanese. 1t is real mean
Of the Japs to keep such close mouth
about their movements Now during the
Spanish war these gentlemen blest with
military Insight had no difficulty whatever
81 moving the ships and armies OF both
sides and telling just what the results
would be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Now the British are having their troubles
with Malay savages in Borneo. the report
being that whole town was wiped out and
some $50 inhabitants massacred. The popu-
lation of that particular part of the Pacific
seems to be a bad lot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Everybody knew that life was a bit
strenuous in Texas. but the public was
hardly prepared to read the account of a
desperate shooting ARRAY between Baptist
ministers And they were on their way to
. church gathering. at that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

BY the way, is Willie Hearst amenable
to that law requiring candidates to file an
itemized account of their expenditures? If
he were to give a full and true one. 1t
would probably be read fully much
the editorials of his most accomplished
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14
HEAVY ARRIVAL OF
GOLD FROM JAPAN

SAN FRANCISCO. May is.-The steamer
Doric, arriving from the Orient yesterday.
brought S2s50o00 in gold from Japan.
on board was Earl y. Shaw. son OF the
secretary of the treasury. who went to the
far East some time ago on a government
mission AS soon as the Doric dropped an
Choir Shaw was taken aboard the Golden
Cate and hurried TO the Oakland pier,
where he caught an overland train.
c. A willard. justice OF the Philippine
Supreme Court. and Judge +. {. Waite, .
Manila iurist. also were on board
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Says the Hon. James NJ Beck. at is the
10000 miles of shining rails. and not the
Constitution. which binds the country to-
gether." Well. the poor old Constitution
has its uses. If 1t did not exist. there
would not be any rails. perhaps
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

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MINOR TOPICS.

Chauncey NJ. Depew is a director in sew
enty-two corporations. and John d. Rookie
Teller is a director in only one. 1t looks
as if Mark Twain were right when he ad-
vises, Put all your eggs in one basket
and watch that basket"
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THE HUMORISTS.
His Recording Angel,

..who was that stunning blonde you spoke
tor
That's my recording angel"
Come again.
MY typewriter.'-Town Topics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

When that Peace Congress does meet. it
could not do better than have a thorough
reading of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" If
ever there was powerful painting of the
dreadful horrors Of war, certainly that is it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-14

Democratic State convention of Indiana
would probably make interesting reading,
II only one had a pair of tongs and a
clothespin handy.