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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
Religious Custom of Fasting.

Detroit Catholics who grumble at the hard
ship of keeping Lent in the manner prescribed
by the church can derive some comfort from
hearing of the rigorous manner in which it used
to be regarded few centuries ago.
1.-The fasting custom originated with the
Jews who took only meal day, and that
at sunset" said FIR. Ernest Van Dyke The
Christian church adopted the custom and en-
forced it vigorously until the ninth century.
when some relaxations began TO be introduced.
The relaxations commenced by breaking the
fast at the noon hour. or o'clock in the after
noon by our time. instead of at sunset This
custom was everywhere prevalent in the twelfth
century. and in the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries it began TO be taught that ii was per-
missi5le 10 break the fast at midday. But all
this time the faithful ate only meal a day
People had previously broken their fast only
when their work was over for the day. but now
they had TO labor after having eaten and they
began to complain. This brought out the intro
duction OF the collation. in the evening and the
mitigation soon spread all over the world Up
10 recent times all white meats were forbidden
This included butter. eggs. milk and cheese
and practically all there was 10 eat was fish.
bread and vegetables. This what was called
a black fast and when in the seminary
in Italy 10 white meats were allowed. except
for those who ailing. In this country the
black fast Is unknown.
''It was exceedingly hard in the old days TO
get dspensation. Wenceslaus, King of Bohe-
mia. got di=pensation in 1878. only after a
strict investigation. and enjoined not 10
] take meat In the presence OF others. In the
| fourteenth century King John OF France was
allowed to eat meat days of abstinence. ex-
cept during Lent and all Fridays and certain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
AN OBJECT LESSON.

The people of Indiana are to-day pre-
scented with a spectacle which should prove
a valuable object lesson-the spectacle of
a Democratic city administration openly
breaking its ante-election promises within
five months OF its Inauguration. There is
nothing unique in the situation. II is an
oft-told tale, story old as the Demo
cratic party. but it carries a moral which
Indiana voters may consider with profit
The Democratic party is a party first of
promises and then of broken promises. 1t
will promise anything the people please TO
get into power, and it will do anything
its leaders please after it gets into power.
In the recent municipal campaign an ele-
ment in this city demanded reform. And
the Democratic party was at once a re-
former. IL traded its sandbags for halos
and robed itself in garments of shimmering
white. 1t declared itself the thorn-crowned
guardian OF civic purity and asserted. like
the inebriate father of the immortal Huck-
CHERRY Finn, that IL hadn't never been
understood" 1t shrieked Reform from
the hagstones and the housetops-and II
gained its point. That was five months
ago. To-day the halos are vanished and
the distinctly practical politician who led
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
A Terrible War Plan.

The difficulty OF capturing such place as Port
Arthur through naval attack recalls memory of
one of the many inventions of the great Dun
donald. That extraordinary genius devised
secret PLAN which. he declared would
within four hours abI.ihilate Sebastopol or Cron-
stadt. and he offered it to the British govern
ment for such use in the Crimean war. An
expert committee investigated it. pronounced it
practicable. infallble and irresistible. but added
that it too terrible for civilized nation to
adopt. Therefore. 1t never tried. but has
been kept to this day a profound secret
Whether there is any record of it any one
now living knows what its awful details were is
uncertain.-New York Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

A prominent educator in Philadelphia tells
the following story on himself: In his early
teaching days he had a position in country
schoolhouse in New England. The people in
the neighborhood worked out their taxes by
giving him board and when there va
cancy in the farmhouses he took small room.
while the neighbors supplied him with food.
One day young boy came running breath
lessy toward him. Say. teacher" he gasped.
my pa wants to know If you like pork?' In
deed. / do like pork" the teacher replied, con-
Guiding that the very stingy father of this boy
had determined to donate pork to him.
You tell your father If there is anything in
this world that do like it is pork" Some time
transpired, and there was no pork forthcoming.
One day he met the hoy alone in the school
yard. Look here, John" he said. how about
that pork?'' oh" replied the boy, 1.-The pig
got we'll '-Philadephia Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

it grew and worse till after the war its
corruptions eliminated in the scandalous per-
formances Of the Tweed ring"
When the ring was overthrow. in 1871.
through publication OF It's frauds on the tan
pages and the untiring efforts OF Samuel j.
Tilden, a prominent Democrat IL was discov-
cred that the city debt had increased from
$50. 100000 sl01. 600 900. Now Richard Croker
and the Infamous Tammany hope. with Judge
Parker, a united Democracy and solid South.
TO carry the presidency in the coming election
Can the Democracy be united? IL Is probable
that Bryan. like Tilden. will 30 divide the party
10 the country. Douglas did Don't
make so much fun OF Bryan He Is driving the
wedge to split the Democrats. In It's history
they have been called Tories. anti-Federalsts.
Republicans anti-Lecomptonites. Barnburners.
Hunkers Hard Shells. Soft Shells. War Demo-
Gratis. Free Traders. Free Siiverites. Hard
Money Border Rufaans Bucktails and seces-
sionists.
jackson was a glorious fighter. brave DE-
fender against South Carolina publication: he
was arbitrary and vindctive. He vetoed Con-
gress twelve times destroyed the United States
national bank caused financial panic ana
labor was reduced 10 Is and IS cents per day.
Cleveland has been tried. and when Democratic
free trade came had almost great a panic
as in Jackson's time. and now in the midst OF
a prosperity not surpassed IN all the annals Of
history some Democrats want TO try Cleveland
again In the civil war growing out % State
rights and slavery we lost 10000 men and spent
S. 600 COO co and the people OF the United States
have all the Democracy they need.
Three cheers for Roosevelt and Panama canalf
Anderson. Ind. March ID. c. CHAPMAN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
COlOred Hfbernian.

Private John Allen says that an old darby
preacher in Mississippi recently approached
by deacon in the church, who desired TO gain
the reverend gentleman's consent TO his daugh-
ter's marriage with him. the deacon.
II doan' know bout dis said the preacher,
obviously. ''You amt sech a young man,
deacon. amt shore dat you kin support nah
chile!''
The deacon bridled. "Dere won't be no trouble
bout dat, sah!' he asserted, warmly. 81 kin
support her all right
The minister reflected for moment. Has
you eber seen my Chloe eat?" he finally asked.
IL has, sah!' came from the sutton.
but, sah!'' exclaimed the old preacher, i'm
pressively, has you cher her eat when
nobody was a-watchin' her?'-Woman's Home
COMPANION
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One of John Lambs Stories.

Representative John Lamb deplores the pres
ent lack Of harmony within Democratic ranks
and believes better days coming. He illus
trates the present status by picture from pas
toral Virginia
lone of good Virginia farmers said
Captain Lamb yesterday, engaged an Irishman
pillow his field. He turned over to this Irish
man yoke of oxen and mule, and, directing
him to begin the work, seated himself on the
shady side of his porch and smoked his old cob
pipe.
but it wasn't long before terrible hubbub
heard in the field. The farmer hurried
thither to find the team at a standstill and the
Irishman swearing only Irishman
Well, sor,' explained the plowman. who
showed familiarity with nautical terms the
larboard OK is on the starboard side. and the
starboard is on the larboard side. and Jennie
is afoul of the rigging ="
Captain Lamb applies that description to the
Democratic leaders.-Washington Post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

vigils. In those days dspensations were never
granted TO the laboring classes 10 the clergy.
but to-day all engaged in hard labor are al
lowed TO eat meat Wednesdays in Lent at
one meal, and their families also enjoy the same
privilege. because if one were to eat meat and
the others fish 1t would be necessary to provide
what would practically be two dinners. and this
would be burden upon the poor people.
In the old days people used to fast every day
in Lent except Sundays. Now it is only two
days a week. Then they used TO eat only one
meal a day. Now they can eat as often they
want except on Wednesdays and Fridays. when
they are allowed one full meal and one COLA
ton. Detroit Journal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
Democracy Judged by Its Fruit.
he Indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
the of the revolution the Democrats
sided with England and were called Tories.
The anti-Federalsts were Democrats They
strict constructionists. State rights men
and called the Federalists "Monarchists" and
at one time called themselves Republicans The
anti-Lecompton Democrats. under the lead Of
Crittenden and Douglas. opposed the admission
of Kansas as a slave State. while the regular
Democrats favored it, Booth the assassin Of
Lincoln. was a Democrat In 1870 the Demo-
Gratis in New York split and were called barn
burners and hunkers. The tariff OF 1893 was
opposed by Democrats. and the Legislature Of
South Carolina went so far as to declare the act
of. Congress null and void. Border ruffans were
Democrats who invaded Kansas from Missouri
in an effort TO make it a slave State In 1888
5000 Wing votes malicously cast out in
Philadelphia, the Democrats carried the State.
and the late doings in Kentucky not for
gotten.
Thomas Cary. Lieutenant Governor. tried 10
capture Governor Hyde. of North Carolina.
and would have done so had not Governor Spots
wood of Virginia. invaded Carolina and re-
lieved Governor Hyde. virginia licked North
Carolina-Democratic harmony. State rights
gone to seed. In 1884 Congress. after three
months debate, censured President Jackson for
using authority and power not conferred by the
Constitution. and after long contest in 1887
lasting nearly four years IL was expunged. and
Jackson left the presidency without the faint OF
censure resting upon him.
Copperheads the name OF Northern Demo
Gratis who sympathized with the South and who
many OF them belonged to the knights OF the
Golden Circle and plotted to release 5000 prison
ers at Indianapolis sack the city and capture
Louisville Ky.
THE Dictionary of United States History
uses this language touching Democrats: Tam
many developed into machine for securing
success in elections and power and plumber fo
its cAieftsirs Always Indifferent to principle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.
The Wrong House.

Judge Wade. the only Democrat in Congress
from Iowa, is a pronounced tariff reformer.
One day last week he was making a speech on
that subject in the. House. He was telling how
futile it was to expect to get tariff reform from
the Republican party. Out in Iowa, he said.
after the last election, man was sent to an
insane asylum. An inmate said to him. What
did you come here for?'
"Thes sent me here" replied the man.
''why did they send you here?"
Because" said the man, 81 am a tariff re-
former. and voted the Republican ticket"
"Ah," said the inmate. that is. indeed a
shame. You should not be sent here. This is a
place for the insane. and you just plain
fool."-Washington Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
Graft in England.

Some years ago investigation Of election
bribery in England disclosed the following meth
cd of buying votes: An elector entered the
agents room. Agent (holding up three fingers.
TO signify three sovereignty: We'll, Mr.. Smith.
how are you to-day?" Mr.. Smith: CT am not
very well to-day" Agent (holding up five
fngers): 81 sorry you not very well
to-day" Mr.. Smith: 'Oh, 1 am not very i'll.
1t is all right" Then Smith looked out Of the
window while the agent put five sovereigns on
the table. 1t was then the agents turn to look
out of the window. and when he turned round
again Smith and the money had disappeared.
Smith never saw the agent put down the
money; the agent never saw Smith pick it up.
Consequently when parliamentary commission
was appointed the agent swore he gave
Smith any money and Smith swore that no one
gave him any.-Kansas City Star.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.

There has been a vast amount of news
paper gossip connecting Senator Fair
bankss name with the vice presidency, and
most of ii has been harmless so far as his
interests and those of the party are con-
cerned. but two or three publications with
in the last few days certainly place the
senator in a false position before the public.
1t has been stated recently that Mr.. Fair
banks has informed his friends that he
will accept the nomination, and one news
paper has gone so far as to intimate that
it is authorized by the senator practically
TO declare him a receptive candidate"
Those who know Mr.. Fairbanks best know
such assertions to be as silly as they are
unwise. The Journal has no hesitancy in
declaring that Senator Fairbanks has never
made any such statement to anybody. 1t
is generally recognized by his friends that
If he should be nominated for the vice
presidency il would be because his party
drafted him, and for no other reason. 1t
is matter of general belief among Re
publicans from Maine to California that
Senator Fairbanks is the most available
man for the vice presidential nomination,
and it has been the general opinion that
he will be forced to accept that nominal
ton as Mr.. Roosevelt was forced to accept
it four years ago. But the statement that
Mr.. Fairbanks is in any sense a candidate
is without foundation in fact
There can be no question but Senator
Fairbanks would add strength to the ticket.
He possesses elements OF strength pecu-
liarly his own. He is strong geographically,
politically and personally. The general
judgment of him is. and correctly so, that
he is not only a very able man, but that he
is pre-eminently a safe one. To wide pop
ularity among the masses he adds especial
strength among conservative business men.
He is strong in New England, in the East
ern States, in the middle West and in the
Northwest. In Indiana he is exceptionally
strong.
If Senator Fairbanks should be elected
Vice President Republicans would feel that
he was in the direct line of promotion to
the higher office. Because he would be
making somewhat of present sacrifice in
| accepting the nomination for second place
they would feel like rewarding him. He
would make an ideal president of the
| Senate, and as a recognized presidential
| possibility he would invest the Office OF
Vice President with unusual dignity.
The Journal does not share In the feel
| ing of some of the senator's friends that
his acceptance of the nomination for Vice
President would mar his political future
The fact that he would accept it from a
sense of duty to the party would enhance
the high esteem in which he is already
| held This is not his last chance, nor is the
floor of the Senate his only field He is
still comparatively young. and his DO,
litical career mas not eliminated. He car
afford to wait. Time is his friend and ally
If he should accept the call of the party
to become its candidate for Vice President
this year his nomination for President -four
years hence would be almost a foregon,
conclusion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

The New York Sun has just finished
proving that T. Roosevelt is and has been
in the past a remarkably long-headed per-
son. When he was assistant secretary of
the navy he wrote two memoranda on the
subject of torpedo-boat warfare, and at
these his superiors were inclined to sneer.
The Sun has dug them up and published
value of these boats have been strikingly
fulfilled on the Yellow sea. On whom is
the laugh?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

The American Board. which organized at
Bradford, Mass. June o. 1910. did not receive
its charter until 1872 the year in which the first
missionaries sailed for India. Since that time
1t has commissioned 1884 persons-949 men and
LASS women. The total amount of money re-
ceived for the board from its beginning until
now is S34 49, 255. 81 The American Boards old
est mission in Africa is among the Zulus in the
colony Of Natal This mission has twentythree
churches which entirely supporting. The
Zulu version of the Bible, now extensively used
in South Africa. is published IN New York. hav-
ing been made by American Congregational
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
MINOR TOPICS.

There are ninety-six Filipino boys being
educated in American schools One of them
is in Santa Barbara. Cal. This is the de-
lightful way in which he speaks of his
early experiences:
The other boys were most kind to me. for
the teacher asked them to be good to a
stranger. They invited me TO join them in
games, but the same were greatly rough
so l preferred to look on. The American
girls are very fine and beautiful They
made friends so easily that IL nearly took
away my breath. In our country girls al
ways wait for the men TO speak and smile
and make friends. Here the girls do il
all most freshly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

The headquarters of the woman's work of the
Episcopal Mission in the Philippines is In the
Tondo district of Manila .aouse formerly
occupied by Spaniard has been taken for the
Church Settlement house. The head worker of
the house is Miss Margaret Waterman. formerly
of New York, and associated with her are Miss
Harriet B. Osgood, kindergarten, and Miss
Thacher and Miss Cakes. both trained nurses.
The house is rapidly becoming a center Of in
huence and ENTHUSIASTICALLY Times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
Americas Oldest Church.

San Miguel Church. in Santa Fe, n. NJ, is
the Oldest ecclesiastical ediice existing in this
country. 1t was erected in 1882 and perhaps
earlier. In 1850 Santa Fe burned and
the roof of San Miguel was consumed and the
interior badly damaged. In ITO the church was
put in thorough repair. Under the care of the
Christian Brothers the church is kept in excel
lent condition. This adobe church in an adobe
town is a unique memorial of one OF the most
stirring and romantic epochs of American his
tory
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

Jane Seymour Boosting to Anne Boleyn.
Henry has just asked me for my hand" she
remarked.
That's nothing" retorted the Queen, ''he has
Just asked me for my head"
Subsequent events showed both ladies granted
the request.-New York Tribune
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

''pecunia" was the ''nervi belli," and since
Francis Rabelais, fifteen hundred years
later. admitted that 'coin is the sinews of
war and Furthermore. since the proverb
has been repeated and fathered by several
more or less famous people of modern
times, the Atlanta Journal cannot be al
lowed TO have said anything strikingly
original Still, there is nothing new under
the sun"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

News from st. Petersburg indicates that
Russia does not yet consider the war actu-
ally begun. The Japanese naval victories
do not mean anything, she says-wait till
all the soldiers get there, then we'll show
you. Also, it wouldn't make much differ
ence if Port Arthur did fall. And all these
assurances come under the head of what is
known to the sporting fraternity as dope"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

Assistant Secretary OF State Loomis an
nounces that San Domingo viii not be
nation. Anti-imperialist papers may now
stop worrying and turn their attention to
finding some way to impede the progress
OF the Panama canal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
The Cars Dependence of Character.

The Car Nicholas IL is physically weak; his
nerves are shattered; his viii feeble. He is
amiable where iron-handedness is essential. He
is dependent when a strong individuality Is re-
auired He is constantly In subsection first to
one influence and then another. He is more
than usually amenable to women's control, and
the fair sex has on more than occasion exer-
cised powerful. II not calamitous. influence upon
his Iife-Ey cry odys Magazine for March.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
Reckless Daring.

Brave? He's one of the bravest men 1
knew"
i've never heard of him going to
rescuing anybody from drowning
THAT may be. but he once ran for Office in
Kansas and wore evening clothes and opera
hat right where the voters could see him."
Chicago Record Herald.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

Smith. the much-married. is getting up
pish- He now tells Congress that polygamy
is none OF its business. but only the concern
of the sovereign State Of Utah. Let US be-
ware of a States rights controversy-those
things are loaded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

Venezuela politics is almost as lawless
rs the brand manufactured in Kentucky.
President Castro wanted TO get rid OF
General Hernandez. dangerous rival. so
he appointed him minister TO Washington.
Then. when Hernandez had fitted up a
handsome legation. he cut off his salary.
Hernandez can be expected to start the
next revolution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

ter of personal sympathy and support he
burst into tears" Isn't that affecting?
IL the Kaiser's sympathy goes any further
than words the Gar will receive a note
from England that will make him weep
some more
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
Six short.

The actress who got one bouquet
Was mad as a halter, they suet,
For IL seems she had given
Her order for seven,
And the florist had gotten his puet
-Philadelphia Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

Listen to Bradstreet's: He says that
"a per cent. OF the merchants who failed in
1903 did not advertise in the newspapers.
It does not appear what was the matter
with the other Is per cent. but they must
have mismanaged their business shock
fngly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
Men Are Honest.

She wore her heart upon her sleeve.
o do not say tits cause to grieve
That she should thus reveal it,
Because she never knew till then
There were so many honest men
For not one would steal IL.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07

Ten dollars an acre has been offered for
land in South Dakota lying west OF the Mis-
souri, river. and this Is the first time any
body has wanted 20 buy II. This is good
start-it will be worth more after awhile
There are still thousands of acres to be
purchased for song which in few years
viii be eagerly sought for