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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-04
FORD And EDWARDS
HELD TO GRAND JURY
Both Young Men Have Police
Records Gained in Many Cities
of the Country.

When the cases of Edward Ford and
Harry Edwards. who were arrested about
ten days ago by Detectives Asch and Man
ming for picking pockets in crowded street
cars, were being heard in Police Court yes
terday morning. IL developed that both men
are known practically all over the country
and have bad records.
Edwards has Travelled under the names of
Robert Williams. John Summers, James
Downey, Ralph Daniels and Ralph O'Brien.
He has been arrested in many cities in the
West for picking pockets. and was arrested
in Pittsburg for murder He served one
year of his term the murder charge.
Ford also has bad record and has been
arrested in many cities under different
names. The men were remanded to Jail to
await the investigation of their cases by
the grand jury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-04
GOVERNOR WILL TO-DAY
APPOINT 4 JUDGE

Governor Durbin will to-day decide the
matter of a successor to Judge N. II. Parks,
of Martinsville, of the Fifteenth judicial
district.
Judge Parks recently suffered stroke of
paralysis and has asked to be relieved.
j. c. Robinson, of Martinsville is tempo
rarily acting as judge and called on the
Governor yesterday relative to a successor
TO Judge Parks. He represented to the
Governor that attorneys in the district who
are prosecuting litigation are anxious that
the Governor announce his decision.
The decision will be announced to-day
and ii is understood that Mr.. Robinson will
be named to fill the unexpired term.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-04
VOCAL RECITAL BY
MUSIC STUDENTS

A vocal recital by the students of the Met
ropolitan School of Music will be given to-
morrow evening in the assembly hall at the
school. The entertainment will be an invi-
rational one. The programme in full will
be the following:
"Au for You" .Blumenschein
Miss Anna Strain.
Kings of the Road" .Bevan
Charles l.. Jacobs.
evening ........ ............. .hOndlu
Miss Sybil coleman.
Miss Lillian Bailey.
Ere the Moon Begins to Rise" ..Shackley
Miss Lura B. Harold
Esther Haug, pupil of Mrs. Edmunds.
Willamette" ..... ........ ...,.....Del Aqua
Miss Flossie Charles.
Eve of Battle. ......................Ba bcock
George L. Brown, pupil of Mr.. Laut.
My Lover Will Come To-Day. De Koven
Desire" ........ $3.50. -. Clough-Leighter
Miss Fannie Hunt.
This Would / Do Chapman
w. C. Ketchum.
Afterwards, Love" ................D Hardelot
'Madcap Marjorie ........... ...... Norton
Miss Maytie Taylor
Serenade to Juanita" .Jouberti
Miss Bessie Clemmons.
Inc rams ......-............ .Faure
l.. c. Schwerin.
Miss Rose Scott.
"Ahi IT'S a Dream" ............Ha wley
Harry Mayer.
Night Dreams Are Fairest' ....... Thomas
Grace Storey Larkin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-04

A directory Of the Statehouse is being
compiled by Custodian w. w. Huffman and
his assistant, Frank c. Roberts. The di-
rectory viii include the names and adj
dresses of every employee of the State. Other
Information will be included in the book,
which will be published under the direction
of the State printer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-04
George w. schaner Wins.

Canvassers met yesterday in the office OF
Justice of the Peace Moore in Haughville.
The meeting was held TO decide who was
nominated as the Democratic candidate for
township assessor. After a careful canvass
of the votes IL was found that Michael Fries
received 306 votes, George w. Schaffer 81
and r. j. Miller 50. Schaffer is therefore
nominated by eleven votes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-24

at the gathering place waiting for the
moment when the agent shall let loose
upon the herds grazing on the hillside
the bands of painted warriors Med-
cine men are holding executive SEES
siOns. and the SquawS and children
are running races in their glee Hun
dreds of Indians are dancing and max
ing merry. When the word is given
for the beginning of the chase wild.
weird chanting runs throughout the
camp Suddenly from their lodges
burst forth the young men, clad in
gay trapplngs and armed with long
shining rifles. OFF to the herd they
dash: the crack of a gun is heard,
fierce shouting of the hunter and the
fusillade Of rife shots make one be-
lieve that battle is in progress Half
an hour or more the chase is kept up.
while the widest excitement prevails
in the camp. Squaws are sharpening
long knives and the medicine men are
chanting invocatiOnS for the success
of the hunters Then the warriors
come riding back in long column.
dragging the beeveS as trophies be
hind them. singing the buffalo song.
The squaws skin and dress the beef.
the medicine men invoke the blessing
of Manitou. and the Indians rush to
the carcaSscs and eat their fill.
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task of Strengthening and picking the
fowls grown on the large ranges. For
this work they get 21a cents per turk
The roads during the early days Of
November are dotted with marching
tlockS leaving the farms and cOnverg-
ing on the towns, where the birds are
dressed and packed into refrigerator
cars or placed alive in wicker baskets
TO be shipped to every point of the
compass.
Despite the abundance of turkeys in
Kentucky, the negro's proverbial love
of fowl and the natural disposition to
regard stolen fruits, or turkeys, as
sweetest require the owner of tur-
key yard to be careful about locking
up at night Turkey shoots and raf-
ties are very popular with the colored
folk, and the lucky winner of a bird
carrying home his prize in triumph
would not change places with Caesar
leading captive kings in chains behind
his chariot
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necticut close second. but now west
ern turkeys are coming into thc east
ern markets in large numbers. and
Kentucky is also making good bid
for the banner.
The Rhode Island turkey still keeps
his reputation as the Lest born and
hest bred bird of his species in Ameri-
ca. however and it is from the Rhode
Island ranges that the presidents tur-
key comes every year. Hiram VoSc
the famous turkey buyer, has been
sending annual turkeys to the White
House since General Grant WAS there
and no complaint as to their quality
has yet been registered by the recip-
tents.
The bronze" turkey is Rhode Is
lands pride, and this bird adds to
its beauty unparalleled delicacy of
flesh and immense size. 1t is recorded
that the turkey sent by Mr.. NoSc to
General Grant weighed forty pounds
Mr.. Cleveland'S turkey weighed fifty
pounds. but Mr.. Cleveland is Il much
heavier man than Grant was. For
President Roosevelt the farms of
Rhode Island have been secured this
year for record breaking heavy
weight and one with n reputation as
fighter and the father of large fam
lily. Most of the presidential turkeys
have been raised at Westerly, on the
farm of Elias Miner. otherwise Asia"
Miner by analogy.
In Kentucky, as in Rhode Island. the
outdoor method Of turkey raising is
being extensively practced. Turkeys
have always been regarded as difficult
to rear. The new method is to initiate
natural conditions as far as practical
bic and thus to save the flockS from
the epidemics and other ills of civiiza-
ton to which they have long been
heirs The birds are provided with
neither shelter nor roOStS even in win
ter They are fed literally and in the
spring are furnished with half barrels
for nests. but there is as little interior
ence as possible with their ways Of liv-
ing. Whole corn, sweet apples and
graSShopperS are considered the best
turkey food. COrnmeal, which is more
commonly used, fattens the bird more
rapidly, but renders the flesh of poorer
quality. Breeding by selection, pick
ing out the largest individuals from
generation to generation, is largely re
sponsible for the greater size which the
domestic turkey obtains over the wild
bird.
Thousands of turkeys are raised by
Kentucky negroes on their little hold
ings, and to the negroes also falls the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-24
DAY
AMONG INDIANS

The Indians of the southwest have
accepted Thanksgiving day along with
other customs of theW white neigh
bors. though they have adapted it to
their savage ideals until it bears lit
tie resemblance TO the festival insti-
tuted by the pilgrim fathers. The gov
eminent agents on the reservations
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory have
in recent years fixed upon Thanksgiv-
ing day as the date for the great beef
issues and the payment of annulties,
and their ruddy wards are in conse-
quence provided not only with good
cause for thankfulness, but with the
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the aristocratic partridge and pheasant
have TO give way on Thanksgiving day
to the ponderouS gobbler.
The eagle is pirate; he cannot sing
and his beauty is greatest at distance.
All he can do is to soar aloft and,
while his single stunt may be EN-
blematic of freedom. it is of freedom
which respects not the rights of others.
Consider the turkey, how he grows.
He tolls not. neither does he spin. yet
Solomon in all his glory never ate
more delicious food than he furnishes.
His plumage ranks him little lower
than the peacock. while his ''gobble'
makes music compared to the hoarse
scream of the far flying eagle. All he
lives for is TO enhance the joy of his
human friends. Then. too. he Is dis
tinctly an American. The bald eagle
is, it is true also an abOrigine, but
there are other eagles. The car. the
kaiser and the emperor of Austria bear
eagles on their shields. The turkey
was never even heard OF in Europe be
fore the voyage of Columbus. For
nearly four authenticated centuries the
turkey has roasted on his genealogical
tree in the forests of America, and be-
fore the white man came the red In
dams who sprang from the soil ven
Grated him.
The first turkey appeared in written
history about the year 1920, when the
Spanish cOnquerorS of Mexico found
him at the court of Montezuma. Speci-
mems of the new fowl were sent home
to Spain by the companions of Cortes,
and within five years thereafter the
turkey appeared in England, where he
soon became a general favorite. Civil
and natural history had not then been
reduced to an exact science. and inathe
common confusion of America with the
Indies the turkey became involved.
The name Turkey was then often used
as a synonym for the orient; hence the
erroneous appellation which the bird
has never been able to shake off. The
French made the same mistake, for
they call the turkey to this day dinde
or coz d'Inde Indian cock. However,
the turkey by another name would
taste no sweeter, and popular disappro-
baton of the sultan has never extend
ed to the fowl which bears his coun-
try's name.
1t is moot question among orni-
biologists whether the present day tur-
key is Il descendant of the Mexican
bird domesticated in England and
brought back to America by the pill
grim fathers or is the wild turkey of
the United States tanned Whatever the
tame turkeys remotest origin, the
breeders frequently introduce into their
fiocks wild turkeys captured in the
woods or raised from eggs to give
stamina and the gamy taste so priced
by epicures, and the barnyard bird
may now trace his lineage to Montezu-
mas imperial coop or to the wilds of
the north, as be chooses.
Rhode Island has been until recently
the principal turkey state, with Con-
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The earliest recorded appointment of
Thanksgiving day was in 1923. There
had been an unfavorable season for
the young American colony, and star
walton seemed imminent. TO avert the
terrible calamity Il day of humiliation
and prayer was appointed, and in the
midst of the solemn observance the
rain descended copiously. The crops
afterward yielded an abundant har-
vest To thank God with all their
hearts for the good world and the good
things in it," the first American
Thanksgiving was officially proclaimed
and duly celebrated in the fort church,
and Elder Brewster preached sermon
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-24
What Thanksgiving Means.

THANKSGIVING means a lot of things!
Upon the farm when we were boys
Still memory about il sings
And accents all its olden joys.
How many things are brought to mind
From turkey fit for kinely feast
To pies of every sort and kind.
From mince to pumpkin. nicely creased.
A Nd who were there? Who were not,
AA say,
From grandpa TO the youngest boy7
II seemed just no Thanksgiving day
If one were absent from the Joy.
II was a feeling next to that
Religion twines around the soul;
That one must have homelike chat
This day. else it had missed its goal.
GOD bless the old Thanks sivins days
Upon the farm when we were boys
For memory about them plays
As round nausht else of modern joys.
From other days they stand aloof.
As holier ones forever may.
And typify in our behoof
EterNity's Thanksgiving day.
EARL MARBLE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-24
BY A. w. FERRIN

Copyright. 1904, by A. W. Ferrln.l
~ WAS Benjamin Franklin who said
that the turkey and not the bald
headed eagle should be the Amer
lean national bird. and the trib-
ute which the patriot-philosopher paid
to the piece de resistance of the
Thanksgiving day feast is better de
served now than it was in Franklin's
day. for. while an occasional eagle still
fits from crag to crag. on the turkey
the sun never sets. The turkey follows
the flag whatever the constitution may
do, and wherever Uncle Sam has sci
his foot, whether in the snowdriftS of
Alaska or on the howery soil of the
Philippines, Thanksgiving day is hon
ored equally with the Fourth of July.
Even in the effetc capitals of Europe
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Just about sit down to eat the juicy
portions You have laid aside for your
self when the plates will begin to come
back again
In carving a very tough turkey stand
back from the table as far as possible
This will give you Il better chance to
escape from the house in case the
carving knife slips and the diners are
covered with hot gravy.
If you are invited out to Thanksgiv-
ing dinner and think you will be asked
to carve the turkey it would be well
to wear coat of mail, get permit
from the police to carry a revolver and
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yet even laid the kndlng.
Look at your naughty papa" she said, holding the
baby before him. Shame big. lazy fellow She
took little dmped hand in hers and pointed u tiny
pink finger the object of this make believe shame
Chester turned toward her with ii forced smile and
took the baby from her
why. Chester what is the natter"
lie kissed her trembling lips. There" said he
Il only foolish for over some thoughts
about the long past, before had your beautiful
love to make me always, always happy"
Still she appealed with her big brown eyes turned
wistfully up to his, and he that it useless
to delay her enlightenment longer Already her
Thanksgiving day had been spoiled.
Well little girl" he said. with effort to make
light of the matter, we must give up the old home.
have been served with notice to quit
why? What for: Notice from whom" 1t
shocking intelligence. She knew how dearly Chester
had lived in so long.
cs" he answered. lie everything here. Aunt
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deSecratc and destroy through sheer malevolencc.
MohcriesS ut nine and fatherlesS three years later
he had been left the Of his Aunt Electl. Il
strong. deSpoc SpinStcr with decided opinions and
vigorous way of expressing them. His father long
before his death. had been worsted in financial trans
action by his own brother Chester's Uncle James. and
had been compelled to mortgage the homestead and
its contents to save himself from immediate ruin Aunt
Eeca had aftcrward dctcsted her brother james
and openly denounced his pouS professions wicked
hypocrisy. Size had drawn him Chester into the
lcntcSS warfare against Uncle James ana the Venge
full uncle cut from the same piece the vcngefu
aunt had bought and forecosed the mortgage in the
homo of throwing hor And hcr MHrd hn1Sn ilnh
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deposited in some ones lap. do not
join in the laugh that will follow Re
member you will have troubles of your
own when the guests depart and you
are left alone with your wife to face
the music.
Don't glare at your wife and create
a scene if the turkey is cast iron and
puncture proof. In that case it may
be cooked over the next day and you
will save on the butchers bill.
Last. but not least. don't take it out
of the children if you happen to break
a five dollar meat platter in carving Il
two dollar turkey. 1t is the dogs
fault, of course. and he should be kick
ed all over the dining room.
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year, and the
old lady caught
the turkey and
took it home
and devoured it.
If the bird
is particularly
tough and you
have difficulty
in carving it,
don't get angry
if some one
wells. Take an
AK" Mark that
person and see
that the least
desirable por-
tions of the
fowl go on his
pla tie.
Don't hcave IL
sigh of relief
and think the
worst is over
when you have
at last helped
every body to
tnnn.l.Ar A.hIl
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sense of the ridiculous in you Chester looking
his wfe's detected face burst into uncomfortable
laughter, which it difficult to keep the minister
from hearing. Graspng his sides with both hands, he
staggered about the dining room trying in vain to
suppress his paroxysms until his wife catching the
Infection Joined him in the idotic Indian dancey stuff
ing her apron into her mouth smother her shrieks of
laughter.
Near the end of the dinner the minister CHANGED
to speak 2" lester member of his church. and
ChCStc' c...V, led him. 1t then TRANSFERRED that the
minister. having received invitation to dine with
James Harding, had asked for Mr. IIardngs" house
and had been directed to Chesters.
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practice running for Il couple of weeks
1t is well to start some lively discus
sion among those at the table when
draw attention from you, and no one
may notice that your knees are wab-
bling and your lips moving in prayer.
If by any chance the turkey slips
from under your carving knife and be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-24

HE sitting room fire to he built hut Chester Hard
Ing with the basket Of kndng before him. sat in the
low. Slint bottom rocker and stared @loomy into the
deep, Old fashioned fireplace the chair which
his gentle little mother twenty-five years ago had
rocked and crooned and kissed away his baby troubles
the fireplace before which his own beautiful
wife had last night ulled their precious baby boy to
sleep.
The dead ashes on the cold heartlStone seemed to
have something in with the burnt out hopes
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-24

HUNDREDS OF INDIANS ARE DANCING AND
MAKING MERRY,
wherewthal to demonstrate their
gratitude to the Great Spirit in the
conventional manner
One might travel through reserva-
ton on Thanksgiving day without see
ing one occupied tepee Every one is
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The Bible.


o
his o
She had finished the chapter and the when
the
q
to he all the n
a
is dead?
badly up"
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But Chester shook his head. Some time is as bad
time In a week Uncle James will have the house
torn down and its contents scattered to the winds.
know him. He will chop down every tree and gloat
over the knowledge that each stroke of the cuts
into my heart lie hates me as relentlessly as Aunt
Eecta hated him.
The rest of the forenoon passed i'll dismal de
Spar. Mrs. Harding, with that nicenesS perception
which comes of true sympathy, had decided not to
have the Thanksgiving dinner she had planned. 1t
would he mockery, reminder of the blessings Chester
had missed SO she set the table for the simple
they ordinarily had at midday. 1t was nearly ready
when the doorbel rang and Chester, inwardly
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Mrs. Harding.

Il a CHEEKY Chester
Such it
ito
When of
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Aunt Electas fatal illness had been characteristic
of her-Short, sharp, violent-and she had died i'll
CONFUSION TO the last she had stoutly maintained
that she not going to die and had insisted on
being powcd up that she might fOrtfy herself to bear
her pains by reading her Bible.
"Chet" she had said between writings, Il don't lay
the claim ought to religion; but tell you, when I'm
in pain trouble there's nothing that bosters up
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home enraged almost suIunu
II property
TO the
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- wa "a y ~ N'hi lEl'AAiNNN W hlllt'
with you on Thanksgiving. it is wise
to help them to turkey first They
have probably skipped one or two
meals to he in shape for the feast and
are hungry enough to start riot
Don't invite your mother-n-law t. Il
Thanksgiving dinner and carve the tur-
key in such Il way that it will fly off
the platter and strike her in the face
A Wisconsin man tried that trick last
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-24
By A. B. LEWIS

copyright, 1904. by A. b. Lewis.1
"A LWAGS count noses just before
IN you carve the turkey. and
4 ~ don't forget to include your
own DrObOSciS
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The BGby.


the
preached himself shameey forgotten tac promise he
made her death
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m
answered He
Eca left will and her brother being of kim nhes all owned
tender
7i ' '''e ''' "o''' '''"7' ~ Hardin
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chester


soon the dear old homestead to hands
than those hands that
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-01-14

when she Is only nearing port, is
to admit that we are ignorant Of
English history, and that we do
not know the bulldog determine
tion that is an Englishman'a birth
right. In the words of the tramp
poet, England will be England
when the world is on the bum.
1888.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-01-14
Cbe Pby$ic9ncini$t's Gale.

visit to the bulletin boards showed
there was nothing going on of I'M.
usual importance. The next day
at the same hours the agitation
was again very noticeable, and when
the same thing was repeated on
the third day, I was determined
to get at the root of the matter and
instead of Watching the faces ]
followed the crowd. and soon solved
the mystery.
"What do yon suppose it was2''
We all gave it up and Curtis
continued:
sFor MontreaPs sake / am
ashamed to say it was policy! Yes,
nothing but the demoralizing game
of policy on larger scale than I
witnessed in any other part of the
world. The drawings at 10 a. N.
and 4 p. m. were the twoevents of
the greatest Importance to the in
habitants. War, elections, politics,
were all of secondary importance
to the semidaily drawings of The
Bureau for the Promotion of Art
under which guise the policy game
fourished IN Montreal-fourished
is the proper word, for on the
main streets block from the
newspaper Offices was the largest
bureau. and its branches were in
Vulnerable. It was not buried in
dark alleys as in New York, but
was running in the full glare of
publicity with thousands of pa
irons, mel, women and children.
Not having been in Canada for
four years [ cant say whether this
glaring evil still exists, but if it
does theresis material for Lincoln
Steffens on The Degeneracy of Mont
real" W. E. c..