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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
ANIMAL INSTINCT.
Presidents Opinion on the Questions
OF the Day Among NaturaIists.

John Burroughs. in February Century.
am convinced there is nothing in the
notion that animals consciously teach
their young. Is IL probable that a mere
animal reflects upon the future any more
than IL does upon the past? Is il So
licitous about the future well-being of its
offspring any more than il is curious about
its ancestry? Persons who think they see
the lower animals training their young sup
consciously or -unconsciously: they read
their own thoughts or preconceptions
into what they see. Yet so trained nat
uralist and experienced a hunter as PreSi-
dent Roosevelt differs with me in this mat
ter. In letter which L am permitted to
quote he says:
II have not the slightest doubt that
there is a large amount OF unconscious
teaching by voolfolk OF their offspring
In unfrequented places 1 have had the
deer watch me with almost as much in
stone Park. In frequented places, where
they are hunted, young deer and young
mountain sheep. the other hand-and
of course, young wolves, bobcats and the
like-are exceedingly wary and shy when
the sight or smell OF man is concerned
Undoubtedly this is due TO the fact that
from their earliest moments of going
about they learn 70 initiate the unflag-
ging watchfulneSs of their parents. and
initiative quality they grow 70 initiate and
then TO share the alarm displayed by the
older ones at the smell or presence of
man. y young deer that has never seen
a man feels no instructive alarm at his
presence, or at least very little; but IL
will undoubtedly learn TO associate ex-
IRENE alarm with his presence from merely
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13

accompanying its mother, if the latter
feels such alarm. i should not regard
this as schooling by the parent any more
than l should regard the instant flight
OF twenty antelope who had not seen
hunter, because the twenty-f1rst had seen
him and has instantly run. Sometimes
deer or an antelope will deliberately give
an alarm-cry at sight of something
strange This cry at once puts every
deer or antelope on the alert; but they
will be Just as much on the alert IL they
witness nothing but exhibition of
fright and flight on the part of the first
deer or antelope, without there being any
conscious effort on its part to express
alarm.
Moreover, 1 am inclined to think that
on certain occasions, rare though they
may be, there is conscious effort at
teaching. / have myself known of one
setter dog which would thrash its puppy
soundly if the latter carelessly or stupidity
flushed q bird. Something similar may
occur in the wild state among such intel
ligent beasts wolves and foxes. In
deed, 1 have some reason to believe that
with both OF these animals ii does occur
unconscious teaching of the young in such
matters as traps"
Probably the President and I differ more
in the meantime we attach to the same
words than in anything else. In subse-
ouent letter he says: 81 think the chief
difference between you and me in the mat
ter is one of Technology. When l speak
of unconscious teaching L really mean
simply acting in a manner which arouses
imitation"
Imitation is no doubt the key to the
whole matter. The animals unconsciously
teach their young by their example. and in
no other way.
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cess, retired from ''active work" proposing
20 "enjoy himself for the rest Of his life.
In twenty-four months, at sixty-two, with WITH
every sign OF a strong constitution, 1ull
vigor and bodily strength. he was dead.
Probably every man of a wide acquaint-
ance and observation has seen the like IN
men as eminent and prominent as Mr..
Whitney or in lesser men. Nothing Is so
dangerous to man who has worked hard
for forty years or SO. as had Mr. whitney,
as to stop work Nothing SO keeps men
in steady working capacity as steady work.
The man who thinks his barns are full and
tells his soul to sit down and enjoy itself is
extremely apt to find that he has invited his
end by inviting rest.
Few men can amuse themselves with
out injuring themselves. Unless man
has early given himself to some active
field sport and let nothing interfere with
his devotion TO Ii he may after forty-flve or
fifty find himself with something to do
which he enjoys and does not harm. Few
men In this country have this. II they try,
having won their share of life's stakes, to
"enjoy themselves" the paths they take
are pretty sure to be paths watered by
champagne, planted with good dinners and
sown with as many ailments as ailments.
For man simply TO "amuse himself is not
always safe for the young, strong and idle.
For the man who has been busy, is idle
and has become old, il is sown with perils.
Nor does knowledge of these perils les
sen their danger any more than years les
sen appetites associated in fiction with hot
youth, and, In fact, existing with peren-
NAL desire at any age. They, too, lie in
wait IOT the man VINO stops WOTh ENJOY
himself"
Work is the one great prophylactic
against the years. The man who stops his
work runs a good chance of stopping his
life. Men are less likely to die in harness
than out of it. A steady job means a steady
life, and a steady life means a long one.
A man who does not enjoy himself al his
work will not long enjoy himself at any
thing. No man can violently change the
course and current of his life after fifty
without the gravest risk. The only enjoy
ment which can last is the enjoyment
which is had incidental to the daily task
A man who secures this for himself who
not only enjoys his work, but has enjoy
ments which run parallel to his work, will
be able always 10 work and always to en-
Joy himself. Such a man has cultivated
both his appetite for work and for en-
joyment and can maintain both TO the end.
The ignoble end of personal enjoyment
defeats itself Nature Is not built that
way. Men are not made to minister to
their own wants They are made to help
each other. The men who live longest after
they retire are the men who throw them
selves into some broad plan for helping
| their fellow-men. The Peter Coopers and
| Carnegies do not die two years after they
retire.
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A LIVING FROM A TOWN LOT.
Total Receipts from Three-Q uarters
OF An Acre Were S1,4OO.

Worlds Work.
In a small Western town, some years
ago, there lived a man who thought that.
horticulture could be made profitable on a.
small amount of ground This mans cap
ital was limited The total area Of land at
his disposal was little less than one acre
He had energy and ambition and desire
to make his efforts successful. The man
selected as his two main crops Strawberries
and celery. One-fourth of an acre was de-
voted to strawberries, one-fourth of an
acre to celery, and one-fourth of an acre
TO miscellaneous garden vegetables. to be
sold in the town. The problem was to so
handle these crops as to secure the very
highest returns for the outlay involved.
No other help than that of the man him
self was needed The soil ordinary
but was made rich by the application of
stable manure.
volved a shifting of crops each year. This
he gathered from what he could read, was
necessary, first to avoid diseases and in
sects and second, to rest the land. Eight
thousand strawberry plants were put out
on one-quarter of the acre, the plants all
being grown in small pots so that they
could be planted in the latter part of June
leaving his ground free up TO that time for
his miscellaneous vegetable crops.
The strawberries planted in June gave
him a full harvest the following May and
Weld amounted to $500 for his one-quarter
of an acre. His celery he planted in the
latter part of July on the ground that his
strawberries had occupied. This celery was
taken off in October, and the ground was
therefore free the next spring for
his vegetable crops His one-fourth
of an acre OF celery handled in
this way gave him 500 average yield.
His miscellaneous vegetables, grown in ro-
tation, such as green peas. green beans,
beets, lettuce, and crops Of this nature
gave him 800 more. making his receipts
from his three-quarters of acre 81, 400
of which approximately 800 was expended
for fertilizers, necessary help, etc.
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BALTIMORE TO REMEDY
FAULTS IN BUILDING
Burned District to Be Rebuilt
Along Modern Lines and Past
BlemiSheS Removed.
SHAW'S PROMPT ACTION

BALTIMORE. Nd, Feb. 12.-That Balti-
more is to rise from its ashes more sub
stantial, more modern and far more
symmetrical needs no further proof than
was made manifest to-day by renewed ex-
preston on the part of Mayor McIane
and the committee Of public safety to lead
ing citizens that no building permits shall
be issued until a plan of reaIigning certain
thoroughfares. whose crookedness and mar
rowness have long constituted a .blemish as
well as embarrassment to municipal
growth
There is grim determination visible on
all sides that the new Baltimore shall be
distinguished among American cities for
both its material substance and its archi-
tectural art. The mayor and the committee
OF safety are resolved that shells of build
ings shall not be run up between freproof
structures. as in the past, and thus serve
as standing invitation To the flames.
Secretary Shaw's prompt response to the
call for currency has excited the admira-
ton OF all financiers here.
BY his prompt action, all obstacles were
swept away and Assistant Subtreasurer
Dryden, in Baltimore, IS able to furnish
any amount Of money in any denomination
desired
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CABINET REFUSES TO
SEND FEDERAL TROOPS

WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.-At the Cabinet
meeting to-day. after long consideration
OF the resolution adopted by the Maryland
Legislature calling for troops for duty in
Baltimore, it was decided not to comply
at this time with their request. Prior to the
Cabinet meeting. Brig. Gen. Riggs, as a
special messenger from Governor warfield,
formally presented to the President the res
olution adopted by the Legislature. He
conveyed at the same time Governor War
fields personal statement that the troops
were not needed. This presented an anom-
olous situation and the Cabinet determined
not TO send troops at this time.
The situation in the far East was re-
ferred to only incidentally at the Cabinet
meeting. While some comments were made
on the reception by the powers of Secre-
tary Hays note, looking to a limitation of
the scene of war and 10 the preservation
OF the integrity OF China, there was no
general discussion OF the subject.
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A BURIAL AT SEA.
Man Flung Overheard Much as a Dog
WouId Re.

Jack London, in 1.-The Sea-Wolf."
l had always conceived a burial at sea
to be a very solemn and awe-inspiring
event. but L was quickly disillusioned by
ers, a little dark-eyed man whom his mates
called Smoke" was telling stories, lib
orally intersprinkled with oaths and OBJ
scenities; and every minute or so the group
of hunters gave mouth TO a laughter that
sounded to me like a chorus of wolves.
The sailors trooped noisily aft. some of
the watch below rubbing the sleep from
their eyes, and talked in low tones to-
gether. There was an ominous and worried
expression on their faces. 1t was evident
that they did not like the outlook of a
voyage under such a captain and begun so
inauspiciOusly. From time to time they
stole chances of Wolf Larsen, and l could
see that they were apprehensive of the
man
He stepped up TO the hatch cover, and
all caps came OF. / ran my eyes over them
twenty men all told, twenty-five includ-
ing the man at the wheel and myself l
was pardonably curious in my survey for
1t appeared my fate to be pent UP with
them on this miniature floating world for
L knew not now many weeks or months
The sailors, In the main, were English and
Scandinavian, and their faces seemed of
the heavy, stolid order. The hunters, on
the other hand, with hard lines and the
marks of the free play of passions Strange
TO say, and L noted it at once, Wolf Lar
sens features showed no such evil stamp
True, there were lines. but they were the
rather, a frank and open countenance.
which frankness or openness was enhanced
by the fact that he was smooth shaven I
could hardly believe, until the next incident
occurred, that it was the face of a man
who could behave as he had to the cabin
boy.
At this moment. as he opened his mouth
to speak. puff after puff struck the schooner
and pressed her side under The wind
shrieked a wild song through the rigging.
Some of the hunters glanced anxiously
aloft. The whole lee rail, where the dead
man lay, was buried in the sea and as the
schooner lifted and rghted the water syyept
across the deck, wetting us above our
shoetops. shower of rain drove down
upon US, each singing like a hailstone.
AS ii passed, Wolf Larsen began tc speak
the bareheaded men swayng in unison to
the heave and lunge of the deck
Il only remember one part of the SER
vice." he said, land that is And the body
shall be cast into the sea- So cast il in. .
He ceased speaking. The men holding the
hatch cover seemed perpleXed, puzzled no
doubt by the briefness of the ceremony
He burst upon them in fury.
Lift up that end there What the IS
the matter with your"
They elevated the end of the hatch cover
with pitiful haste, and, like a dog flung
oversize the dead man slid feet first into
the sea. The coal at his feet dragged him
down. He was gone.
"Johansen," Wolf Larsen said briskly to
the new mate, keep all hands on deck
now they're here. Get I'm the topsails and
outer jbs. We're in for a sou-easter Reef
the jib and the mainsail, too, while you're
about it."
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they were going to round up the snpe
BY appointment however, they met a short
distance from where the Kansas City boy
stood, but where he could not see them,
and sat down to see what he would do
when they failed 90 reappear. The city boy
whistled in the most approved fashion for
stage whisper: Kids Getting no reply
he began TO fear the spooks had got them
and yelled loudly. Boys" As he still re-
ceived no reply, he became alarmed for his
own safety. and lit out for town. The
faster he ran the worse scared he got. He
imagined whole crew of hobgoblins was
after him, and when he reached town he
was sprinting at a rate that would have
excited the envy of Tam OShanter He
has no further desire TO hold the sack on a
snipe hunt. Also, he has more respect for
had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
WHY AMERICA WAS NOT
CALLED COLUMBUS
History Told in Map Published
in 1910 Now in the
Vatican.
New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
A map of America, made in 1910, and
which was responsible for the naming of
the new world for Americans Vespucci,
instead of calling it Columbia in honor of
Christopher Columbus, will be one of the
interesting relics exhibited at the worlds
fair from the Vatican
The old map was made at the town OF
Saint Die, Lorraine. by Martin Waldsee-
muller, and was recently found by Professor
Fischer, a German scholar of fame Father
Ehrle, who through the courtesy of Pope
Plus Y is preparing the Vatican exhibit.
has secured the map, and will send it with
the other treasures.
For more than three centuries Americas
Vespucci rested under the odium of hav-
ing usurped the honor of Columbus. 1t
was not until 1897 that it was proven that
Vespucci had nothing to do with giving
name to America, and that Martin VALID
seemuller was responsible for christening
the continent. Waldseemuller, accom-
plished scholar. a skillful mathematician.
with a fad for geography, preparing
TO publish synopsis OF the great geog
raphy' of Ptolemy, when he CHANGED TO
come in possession or letter written by
Americas Vespucci in 1901 to his patron
Lorenzo de Medici. Florence, giving a
superficial account of a voyage to the new
world.
Waldseemuller learned from this OF the
discovery OF hitherto unknown land. He
prepared his book, and used the informal
tion he had obtained from Nespucci's letter
and four more which he obtained In his
work he suggested that II do not see why
we should refuse to name il America,
namely. the land of Americas, because Of
its discoverer Americas, a man OF saga
cious mind, since both Europe and Asia
derived their names from women"
Professor Won Humboldt has made IL clear
that Nespucci probably never knew any
thing about this use OF his name and never
suspected that he was thus to be immor-
talized and that the title of the Western
hemisphere was purely accidental
Nespucci was the son OF a Florence no.
tary and became a commission merchant
In 1895 he procured some of the supplies
which Columbus took on one of his voy-
ages. In 1906 Yespucci made trip him
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MiaI VIII Play Poggenburg.

NEW YORK. Feb. l2.-The national anna
teur billiard championship tournament,
which was begun two weeks ago at the
Liederkranz Club I'm this city, is almost
completed, and the final game will be
played tomorrow afternoon. Only one
game was played to-day, the competitors
being j. Ferdinand Poggenburg. of the local
club. and Charles +. COnklin, OF Chicago.
IL was a stubborn contest all the way
through. but Poggenburg won, 800 TO 273
POggenburg. by defeating the Western ex-
pert. secures tie with Or. l.. l.. Mal OF
this city, and In order 20 decide this years
championship DR.. Mial and POggenburg will
meet tomorrow afternoon.
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"Tnking Down" the City Boy.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
1t is dangerous for a city youth to go to
the country and put on airs" The boys
of the rural districts are likely TO make
things unpleasant for him if he does. The
Republican says a lad from Kansas City
who visited in Lamar during the holidays
treated the boys OF that town in a very
condeseending manner. They got tired Of
this and decided 10 teach him a lesson.
They proposed TO go snipe hunting one
night and told him that since he was the
guest OF honor he would be allowed 10 hold
the sack. The party went TO lonesome
place east of Lamar where snipes as tame
as chickens are supposed 20 abound. but
where spoo,-s are also said 10 be somewhat
numerous after dusk. The Kansas City
boy was given the sack and received the
usual instructions about whistlng soft and
low. The other boys then left him. saying
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self and later made several voyages in the
capacity OF purser or supercargo, but he
was no sailor and never pretended to be an
explorer. He was a prolific writer and it
was through his letters that found their
way into the hands of Martin Waldseemul-
Ter that the Western hemisphere now bears
his name. Vespucci died at Seville in 1912,
highly respected, never suspecting that he
had visited new continent that was TO
forever bear his name. Like Columbus, he
supposed that the newly discovered lands
Were q part of the coast of India.
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AKRON, o., Feb. 12.-Frank 8. Newton.
for over twenty years an emplOye of the
diamond Match Company, has beer ar
rested. charged with the embezzlement %
charged, sold goods 10 a Cleveland mer-
chant collecting for them and opening an
account in the company's books which he
kept straight by applying moneys paid by
other customers The irregularities extend
over six years. Newton was sent 20 jail
an default OF 5000 ball.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
A CURIOUS PHENOMENON.
The Significant Figure of a Man on
the Ice.

The British Monthly Magazine for August
1913, states as follows: Some months ago
we noticed the occurrence of a curious nat
ural phenomenon upon the surface Of a
frozen pond near Chichester. The facts OF the
case are, briefly. these: On the 18th or 18th
OF December last, farmyard pond in Hal
maker Park was frozen over, and soon after
the whole surface of the fee was uniformly
covered with a fall OF snow. On the next
day, however, ii was seen that the snow
had been removed from portion of ice
about the center of the pond. exactly re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
CONTINUOUS FREEZER.


Few homes will be directly interested in
the newly patented continuous ice cream
freezer, but the apparatus will doubtless
play a conspicuous part I'm the making OF
the delIcacy- by the dispensers OF large
quantities OF IL. So. everybody is inter-
ested i'm the workings OF the contrivance. IL
is a large affair. and consists Of a horizon
tai freezer. with operating mechanism. a
sugared cream reservoir and the means OF
feeding the liquid into the freezer. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
Bin TO Buy LincoIn's BirthpIace.

FRANKFORT. KY. Feb l2-In the
House to-day a bill was introduced appro-
priating $1,000 for the purchase OF the old
lincoln homestead, the birthplace of Alb
raham Lincoln. and for converting II into
public park. Another bill was introduced
ceding 10 the federal government lands
near West Point for the establishment OF
the new military post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13

freezer is surrounded with ice and the reser-
voir filled with the cream. favored and
sweetened as desired. Then the machinery
is started and the freezing process starts.
AS the cream freezes il is discharged
through a funnel shaped END into proper re-
ceptacles and at the same time additions TO
the supply In the freezer are made from the
reservoir. The operation is simple and
IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
PROOF OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE

The Number of Policies in force greater than that of
any other Company America and than that of all the
Regular Life Insurance Companies together ess one and
can only appreciated by comparison greater number
than the COMBINED POPULATION of Connecticut,
Vermont New Hampshire Rhode Island, Delaware Florida,
Colorado, Oregon Washington, Wyoming, Nevada Montana,
Idaho North Dakota South Dakota Utah. Alaska, Arizona,
New Mexico, District of Columbia, Indian Territory Okla
homa, Hawaii; CITIES it is many as the popu
lation of Greater New York. Chicago Philadelphia Boston
and St. Louis combined. sszzssss
This Company has more prenlium-payn business in
force in the United States than any other Company and
for each of the last 10 years has had New Insur
accepted and issued than any other Company in the
World
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.PExALTY OF ENJOYING oNEsELF.r
some Views Called Out by Mr.. Whit
ney's Recent Death.

philadelphia Press.
Two years ago the late William c. Whit
pey. a man OF most unusual ability and sue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-06

tom. republican. i'm the Seventh, by
277. The democrats failing to make
Il nomination for alderman in this
latter ward. as well as in the First.