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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
A Successful Preacher.

There is, and there always has been, in the
churches of all denominations much agitation
to how to reach men. distinct from women
The preachers are few who have special aptitude
and success in this particular. One of the most
successful preachers to this continent
is Mr.. Fred B. Smith, who is a lay preacher
and secretary OF the international committee
of the Young Mems Christian Association at
New York. During 1903 he addressed audiences
numbering $4,000 men, Zoo of whom professed
conversion. He is unable to accept one-half of
the invitations to preach that he receives. In
May, 1903, under the effect of address by
him at the general convention of the Railroad
Y. NJ. G. A.. over three hundred railroad men
decided to begin the Christian life 1t is a COM
mon experience with him. at state conventions
and meetings of local associations, to pledge
from fifty to one hundred men to entrance upon
the life Of the Christian. He is native of
South Dakota and his career as a religious
worker is that of a local and international Y. NJ.
c. A. secretary. During the pansh-American
war he preached in the Southern camps, and
was with the army Of occupation In Cuba. His
peculiar power is rare.-Leslies Weekly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
TO REFORM JUVENILE DELIN-
QUENTS.

The movement to enlist business men and
philanthropic citizens in helping to look
after boys charged with petty crimes who
have been placed on Parole or probation by
Judge Stubs. of the Juvenile Court. is q
highly commendable one. 1t is in accord
ance with the spirit of the law creating
the court. the object of which is to rescue
Juvenile delinquents from a course of crime
on which they may have entered and by
honest ways.
The law provides that in every county
of the State having a population of $1,000
or more there shall be appointed by the
judge of the Circuit Court a proha ton Off
Ger, whose duty ii shall be to investigate
charges of crime against juveniles of either
sex and cooperate with the judge of the
Juvenile Court either in bringing the per-
son to trial or placing him or her i'm the
family of some suitable person until the
age of twenty-one years. IL the person
still proves hayward he or she may be
sent to the Reform School or sentenced
by the judge of the Juvenile Court and re-
leased on parole The law provides Tor a
probation officer in every county of $1,000
population or more. but only a county con-
tanning a city with a population of 10000
may have Juvenile Court. the court is
given jurisdiction in all cases relating TO
children. including juvenile delinquents,
truants. children petitioned for by boards
of children's guardians and all other cases
where the custody or legal punishment OF
children is in question.
The number OF such cases in city of the
size OF Indianapolis is large and with a
| constant tendency TO increase. Many chill
dren are born with tendency to crime
and much larSer number are affected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

Representative Cowherd, of Missouri. has a
constituent. aged woman, who has been try
ing TO get a pension because her father had
been soldier, she not sure in just what
war. At first she was inclined to believe he had
fought IN the Mexican war; then she Jpped
back to the Seminole war, and finally decided
it in the war of 1912 he had served. On
a muster roll of the latter she found a
name that corresponded with that of her
father. but did not furnish Mr.. Cowherd any
positive means of Identification.
Mr.. Cowherd notified his constituent that II
would be necessary to identify her father be-
fore pension could be granted, and in re-
Spouse the soldiers daughter wrote:
My father of medium height, had black
hair and eyes. He could not close one eye
without closing the other, and didn't know
anything about music. 1 think that ought To
be sufficient identification for a pension
Washington Post
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

Here is part of description of Kim the
typical Korean. given in The Outlook's March
magazine number by Dr. w. E. Griffis. author
of Korea the Hermit Nation
kim the Korean smokes his yard-long pipe
squats his baggy cotton clothes-the whole
nation looking as if just out of bed, or as If
other nations had been up and awake long
before them i'm the worlds race. Still Kim leads
his bull and pony in this wheelless land, digs
up the soil with his three five-man- powered
shovel. and lives at the dead level of uncom-
planning poverty. Still his wife, whose dress
waist is at her armpits. plays the rat-tat of
mangle-rod on the starched coat of son and
father. and carries her baby on her back. reck-
ing nothing, after marriage, of exposing the
symbols of maternity. cipher in public. she
in old age rules the family. especially her Ruths
and Orpahs. with a rod of iron. Pipestems
make splendid spanking instruments. and in this
method OF correction. both by government and
individual, in Jail or family. adults or youths
are one. Kim lives in a three-roomed house,
one-storied and matched. IL of the people, but
in one having two stories and roof tiles and a
scenery viewing chamber If he be a Yang
Ban. Usually the cottage is vine-covered in the
country. The first basis rather raised
foundation is OF earth and stone he kitchen
is at end, the smoke-hole at the other. The
cooking fire. by means of stone brick iues
laid under the floor the house from end
to end. IL the floor is old and cracked, letting
out smoke and odors. what odds? Does a burglar
wish TO enter? He loosens stone on the out
size and climbs up and through the hues
kim coils his hair up in chignon resembling
a roll OF American navy plug. and coops it w
inside horsehair net. AS to his head-gear
there is a Language of hats in Korea and the
twenty or more styles have each a voice and
meaning II in mourning. sixteen square feet
of material. making extinguisher pyramid
two feet deep. and held to his noodle by Q
ring or band. necessary to express his grief
and to satisfy the proprieties.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
Religious Notes

The American Tract Society appeals to the
Christian public for funds to enable 1t to sup
ply liberal quantity of tracts for distribution
at the exposition at st. Louis.
The whole number of Protestant parochial
schools in New York city now number but four
teen, Of which the Episcopaans have seven
while the Roman Catholics maintain seventy
three.
In advces given to lay preacher Rev. r. j.
Campbell of City Temple, London. said: Break
all tho rules that made, so long as
you succeed in getting at your hearers with
what you believe TO be real, living truth, ex-
pressed in the plainest simplest English you can
command"
memorial to Rev. John Wesley is to be
placed in Christ Church. Savannah. Wesley, al
though the founder of Methodism, was himself
priest of the English Church and exercised
his ministry in that parish 166 years ago, and
all his life long remained in the communion and
ministry of the Anglican Church.
| The Industrial Missions Association of America
| 1t will undertake to afford workers in foreign
| fields employment by which they may earn
| their own support, and also afford market in
| America for goods manufactured by mission
aries. the profits from such goods to be en-
ployed in furthering gospel preaching and teach
| ing.
| The editor of the Chicago Interior has been
| visiting Zion City. and he says that the yul-
nerable heel of this Achilles is the graveyard,
which shows a larger percentage of mortality
| in the Dowie settlement than in Chicago, and
| greater number of deaths among children
which. according to the Dowie teaching. should
| be none whatever-than prevails in the slums of
Chicago.
| The Rev. l.. G. Jordan, of Louisville, KY,
general secretary of the foreign missionary board
| of the National Baptist Convention, will sail
| shortly from Philadelphia for Cape Town as the
representative of some 100000 colored Baptists
| in the United States. He will be the first Amer
lean negro Baptist minister sent from this coun-
| try to organize church work among the natives
| of South Africa.
Rev. Francis z. Clark writes interesting
| letter to the Christian Endeavor World from
| Hawaii, in which he says: Sunday schools and
| Christian Endeavor societies flourish; benevo-
| lent and missionary societies in evidence;
| and the poor and unfortunate cared for as
| perhaps in other community" The history
| Of Hawaii. DR.. Clark says, has been made by
| missionaries. Its early institutions nodded
/ by them.
| The Christian Endeavor Seaman's Home at
| Nagasaki, Japan. is the only institution of the
| kind under Christian Endeavor auspices. The
| home was founded by some Floating Endeavorers
| of the United States steamship Charleston. Ma
| gasaki is one of the most frequented ports of
| the Orient and the home has already been a
| great blessing to many The Christian
| Endeavor World gives an account of the home
! and the great work IL is doing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
Work Of Blind Men.

The note in these columns the other day con-
corning the out-of door work that a prosperous
New York farmer does without sight leads 10
Acquaintance with the similar case OF young
blind man in New Hampshire. These are Few
Of his many accomplishments; He takes care OF
calves. feeds cows. oils harnesses. takes care OF
and harnesses a horse picks apples. gathers ana
husks corn. loads hay, saws wood. makes va
riety of candies and ice cream. does little cook
ing goes to and about the village and is now
milking fourteen COWS both morning and night
Such cases Indicate that the gift OF an ''ahan-
doned farm to the Massachusetts, Association
for Promoting the Interests OF the Adult Blind
might be only a little less desirable than shop
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
What the Japs Call Japan.

certain japanese, who has been for some
years a resident of Philadelphia and who has
many friends here. was speaking the other night
of his own people.
"Of course" he said. 1--WE do not call our
country Japan. Our name for it is Nippon on
Suns Origin. indicating its position in the ex-
treme East. But when speak of the entire
empire call 1t Dai Nippon'-which means
Great Nippon
The Jap's bright eyes twinkled.
1T is not" he meditatvely concluded. "unin-
teresting to reflect that. OF the eastern and west
ern boundaries of the greatest OF land in
the world. there should exist Insignificant
group OF islands. inhabited in each case by a
people of very mixed origin and very mixed
characters. each of whom expresses it's defiance
of it's geographical insignificance by the same
means: 'Dai Nippon and Great Britain .
Philadelphia Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
A "HOly3 Railroad,

How many persons know that there is right
here in North America holy railroad?' This
is little line twenty-one miles long, from
Quebec to Ste. Anne de Beaupre. 1t is sacred
because it claims TO especially for the
accommodation of pilgrims. and above all,
because at it's opening a few years since 1T
was formally blessed, with all its belongings,
by Cardinal Taschereau. Every Sunday the
trains are crowded by devotees in search of the
blessing of the good Saint Anne, who is credited
with the miraculous power of healing. and on
July 26 Saint Anne's day. the road cannot ac-
commodate the enormous crowds which flock
to her shrine.
Think of riding holy railroad! But those
who have travelled on it know that they must
not expect the comforts of Paradise 1t may
be called holy" but it seems to be run. none
the less with eye to dividends. The charges
are high and the service poor.-New York Com
mercial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

There is woman in Phoenix who has the
correct idea, all right but whether IL will work
out remains for the future TO disclose.
Recently her husband bought a small ranch.
and with him she has been much interested in
planning improvements. especially in the grow
ing line. with which to adorn the place.
The other day beds were prepared for sweet
peas. and the lady of the house was busily
engaged in asserting her seeds and carrying
the little packets out Of DOORS where their con-
tents transferred TO the beds in regular
order. AS each variety was planted the name
placed small marker. as is the custom
with gardeners
In a particularly choice location the contents
of a packet were laboriously dropped. one by
one, until the row was filled and the earth nicely
smoothed over IL. When the lady picked ur
the packet to properly write the marker she
discovered that she had carefully planted her
mothers package of liver pills.-Arizona Re-
publican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

work or theory. 1t has been tested. From
1885,. the last year of the last Harrison
administration. to 1896. the last year of the
Cleveland administration. foreign immigra-
tion declined from s23.OSi to iS267. and from
1897. the first year of the Mckinley ADMIN
istration, to 1903. it increased from 2So.SS2
to S57,046. Undoubtedly, the tide of foreign
immigration could be reduced to a minimum
by electing two or three Democratic Pres
idents. but many persons might think the
remedy worse than the disease
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

Manila rope is steadily superseding leather
betting for the transmission Of power in our
mills and factories. 1t is almost universally
used for that purpose in English factories, and
has been for long time. The change has been
stimulated here. no doubt. by the acquisition of
the Philippines. where the Manila hemp
fourishes. The fiber of this hemp varies in
length from six to twelve feet and occasionally
reaches a length of eighteen feet. 1t is said that
il has a tensile strength of $4,000 pounds per
square inch. greater than that of any other
known fiber. Transmission ropes have the ad-
vantage of noiselessness owing to their fexibil-
ity and to air passage in the grooves between
the rope and the sheave.-Philadelphia Record
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

by environments. Alcoholism, the drug
habit. cigarette slavery, social vice and dis
ease idleness. dime-novel reading. desire TO
gain money without work are some of the
numerous causes that tend TO keep full
the ranks of juvenile delinquents from
whom the army OF criminals is constantly
recruited.
If taken in time many of these Juvenile
delinquents can be saved; if neglected or
badly handled all of them will become
criminals The duty of saving them should
not be left to the judge of the Juvenile
Court and the probation officer alone. Good
citizens should cooperate. A good home
charged from the Reform School, with a
little judicious supervision, is of great i'm
portance 1t may prove TO be the turning
point IN his career. A charity worker in
New York, who was formerly in charge
of. school for boy criminals on Harris
island, says: Thine and again boy would
come TO me in real terror of the future
that lay before him and ask not to be dis
charged. L became thoroughly convinced
that a home for discharged boy criminals
really desperate need
1t is to discuss the best method of CO.
operating with the officials in this work
that number of citizens have been asked
to meet at the Commercial Club room this
evening. There is a large field for
philanthropic work in this line and an OPP
portunity to accomplish practical and WIS.,
ible results
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

How to restrict foreign immigration has
been much discussed. and it is an important
question. The legislation of recent years
has been restrictive in some directions ana
has barred out many undesirable imrli-
grants. but during the last few years of
prosperity the tide has continued to in
crease. Legislation can exclude criminals
paupers. Anarchists and other undesirable
classes, but while prosperity continues
there will be steady inflow of foreign
immigrants seeking to better their con-
dition by coming TO country where
every man has chance to get on and up
II Is prosperity that attracts immigrants
a special correspondent of the Brooklyn
Eagle. writing from town in southern
years fully 10 per cent OF the population
have left towns and villages for the United
States. and he is astonished to find how
well posted the common people are CONCERN
ing conditions here. He says: "A leading
man at Campobasso. the capital of the prov
ince of the same name. said to us lately
1t makes a great difference TO us In Cam
pobasso how your presidential elections go
IN America. IL you elect some one who
brings hard times, will not go over dur
ing his term Now. here is an idea.
Restrictive legislation may bar out
considerable classes. but IL we want to
reduce the tide to a minimum and
discourage foreign immigration alto
gether. we must do away with pros
perity. This can be done effectually by
electing Democratic President. There may
Be other means OF accomplishing the re-
suit. but this is the surest and best.
<be expedient is not matter Of guess
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

Intelligent labor leaders think one of the
most valuable results of the miners refer
endum vote is in demonstrating that the
interstate agreement between the operators
falling market well a rising one
Since the joint agreement was established
the market for the most part has been ris-
ing, and as that warranted an increase OF
wages the agreement operated successfully
Now that falling market is in sight the
crucial point has been reached, but the
referendum vote shows that the interstate
agreement was equal to the strain. 1t is q
great triumph for reasonable methods il
labor disputes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

has gone through what 1 did is. of necessity
entitled TO some distinction
Um-m-mi Well. what was the most trying
ordeal you suffered?''
The very worst. should say. was being OPP
Grated upon for appendicitis"
The mild hammered spirit laughed. satiricaIly.
appendicitis" he chuckled. My good fell
low you don't know the least thing about criti-
cal operations. I've got you doubly discounted
And he foated away. with a trail Of sardonic
laughter liz his wake
Who is that old boaster?' asked the new
spirit of a by-fyer.
The one you were talking with? Don't you
know him? That's Adam. Judge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

The ss5O.ooo building of the Y. NJ. C. A..
on West Twenty third street opened this
afternoon. The new home of the association is
said 10 be the finest Y. NJ. c. A. building in the
United States. On the top floor is the gym
nasium, large, well-ventilated apartment,
equipped with many modern devices for physical
development. On the fourth and fifth floors are
the bowling alleys while the eighth floor is
cork running track of twenty laps to the mile.
The entire top of the building. from Twenty
third TO Twenty-fourth street, has been made
into roof garden, affording opportunities for
open-air handbail, summer socials and other
diversions. Also on the fourth floor is library.
room 74x106, which has capacity of 20, 600
volumes OF which the association now has a
nucleus of 7,000.-New York Letter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
A Celestial Conversation.

Every now and then the newly arrived spirit
was rather inclined to throw style which.
considering his abiding place. uncalled for
and was naturally distasteful to the other spir-
it's He always talking abou, how many
things had happened to him while he sojourned
on earth. One day he fell in with mild-man-
rered spirit who listened patiently TO his boast
ing.
And so you think you entitled to some
special distinction because you endured so much
in your other life?" asked the mild-mannered
spirit.
'Oh. don't say that exactly the airy
nonchalant reply; but. OF course. any one whs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

For some time we have boiled the water we
drink. now we must boil the water in which
We battle An Indian confrere warns against
the careless practice of bathing in typhoid
laden water. and declares that access to the
mucous cavities during immersion is COMPARE
lively easy to the little bacteria Just how
much possibility OF infection there may be in
the entrance of a few of water into
mucous cavities will depend on the virulence
of the germs and the resistance OF the system.
IL approve the warnings 70 wash vege-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

always assume that any story which the
colonel tells me is old enough to be new TO most
people now on earth. The other day he told me
about Pat Mulhearn. who was in his day, the
janitor Of the Albany Argus building. When
Pat married Mr.. Manning. his employer.
gave him $500 and told him TO spend it a
two weeks wedding tour. few days later an
Albany man met Pat. all dressed up. in Wash
ington.
why, Pat" said he. what are you doing
here?''
I'm on my wedding tour said Pat.
Good Allow me to congratulate you. And
where is Mrs. Mulhearn?''
''Oh. she's in Albany. We only had $500 and
it wasn't enough for the both of to travel
very far on.'-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
Parallel Case.

In the list of conditions which Admiral Alexieff
imposed upon the people of Manchuria, 1t Will
be recalled, was included that they should treat
the Russian troops with confidence" and that
if hatred should be displayed they would be
DIFFERENTIATED without mercy" Which reminds
the London News of the who found her
boy not inclined to appreciate the delights of
Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday. You
enjoy yourself this minute. Albert" she adrnon-
ished him, "or I'll box your ears."-New York
10
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
THE HUMORIST.
A War Ballad.

Take, oh, take away the map,
Let me hear familiar names:
Speak not of the foreign chap
Who new martial glory claims.
Tomsk and Omsk and Irkutsk, too.
What care i what there may hap?
When these Orient troubles brew,
Take. oh. take away the map.
Tell me not of the Yalu;
Sounds familiar let me hear
Like Oshkosh or "Kalamazoo,'
Which fall sweetly on the ear.
Hence with those barbaric nouns;
Do not rouse me from my nap,
Let me hear of homelike towns.
Take. oh. take away the map.
Washington Star
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
CHURCH AFFAIRS.
Place to Teach the bible

Home is the place for religious instruction
and the school is the place for secular educa-
tion," said Mrs. Henry Solomon, president Of the
National Council Of Jewish Women The story
of Jonah and the whale in the Old Testament
is a whit more incomprehensible than the
miracle Of the loaves and fishes on the mount
in the New Testament When the Bible is
taught in the home the parents put it into right
perspective, and there is no danger of the chill
dren getting distorted views of it.'-Chicago Let
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

Elihu Root has spoken, and he has said
II we'll. Hear him: THE real question Is
whether this country shall go forward on
the national ard useful lines laid down by
William Mckinley and Theodore Roose-
welt or back up under the lead of the
Democrats. who have never suggested any,
thing better than to sidetrack i'm one way or
another our normal and peaceful national
capacities" Or words TO that effect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.
So He Would.

When DR.. John II. Hartwen. better known as
Josh" Hartwell. was at Yale he was asked by
a professor what would happen 10 a patient
if his temperature TO get as low as pos
sible
why. sir" Hartweu gravely replied The
would have cold feet."-New York Times.