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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29

Tyosiu limo. a Japanese student two
years in the Michigan University, has with
in that time mastered the English language
TO the extent of winning second place in
a recent oratorical contest. This leads an
Ann Arbor paper to inquire: How many
of our American boys could go to Japan
and in two years be able to win contest
in native oratory?" In as far as the ques-
ton implies the superior brightness of Jap
anese to American boys it does injustice to
the latter. Undoubtedly the Japs are a
very bright people and quick to learn. but
Americans do not ask odds of any people
in those qualities.
There are several things to be considered.
In the first place. the Japanese youth who
comes to this country to get IA education
is probably exceptionally bright. ambitious
and eager to learn. Only the impulse of a
great emotion could lead him to undertake
such an enterprise. The fact that few
do undertake it, while hundreds of thou
sands do not. shows that the few are ex-
ceptional. They come here fired with a
great ambition and filed with single pur-
pose, 10 winch tney subordinate ana Sdcr1-
flee everything else. They have no time
for amusements. recreation, society, ath-
letics. fraternities, and not much for eat
ing or sleeping. Their eagerness to learn,
supplemented by hard work. enables them
to learn very rapidly. American boys could
learn just as fast If they buckled down to
hard work and stuck to it as steadily and
unremittingly, to the exclusion of all other
occupations. the japanese youth does.
1t is not claimed that American boys ought
to cut out all amusements and recreations,
but the point is that it is eagerness to learn
and hard. unremitting study that tell The
American boy who went to Japan fred with
the same ambition that brings the japanese
boy to this country would probably learn
quite as fast there as the young Jap does
here. But the American boy is better off at
home. They do not all study as hard as
they might. but they get there" in large
numbers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Rock Island Railroad recently paid fine
of 800 and costs for using a freight car in
Dakota which could not be coupled without a
man going between
1t is announced that D. NJ. smyth. we'll
known Pacific coast inventor who is now sew
enty years of age will marry Mrs. Singer.
the widow of the inventor of the sewing ma
chine bearing that name
The celebrated maxim Of Abraham Lincoln.
Not to swap horses while crossing the stream"
was anticipated centuries ago by Cyrus the
Elder King of Persia, in directing his troops to
take up their several stations when he said:
when the contest is about to begin there is no
longer time for any chariot to unyoke the horses
for a change"
The last royal commission that the late Franz
Won Lenbach received from Queen Will
helmina Of Holland She wanted to Sit how
ever, In a quaint Dutch dress. and on Won Len
bach suggesting that she should wear something
more artistic told him sharply to get or with
his work. your Majesty command your
own subjects" said Won Lenbach putting down
his brush and palette. but a German"
So the picture was never finished.
Mr.. Moseley. IN speaking of his observations
while In this country with his educational com
mission. said MY observations lead me to be-
leaves school, is infinitely better fitted for his
vocation and struggle in life than the English
boy. and. in consequences. there are in the
United States a smaller proportion OF failures
and fewer who slide down hill and eventually
join the pauper, criminal or submerged tenth
class"
One day a fussy creature met the famous
Father Healy, OF Dublin. by tho seashore and
thus accostsd him: Father Healy. under
going a cure and I take . tumbier OF water
three times a day. Now, I've had my full al
lowance to-day. but do you think might have
one. just one. tumbler more?'' Father Healy
put his head on one side and looked at the
ocean lost In thought WELL" he said at last
with a gravely judicial air. ''I don't think Il
would be missed"
King Edward has fraudulent clock II
was given to him when he was touring in India.
and YVES said to have been made by a priest OF
the highest sanctity. It q holy clock. and
showed the hours IN Sanscrit figures. the
changes OF the moon. and on. and behaved
itself as a well-ordered holy clock should. Some
years after the Intervals went wrong. and the
royal cockmaker was hidden to exercise his
skill upon it. The works all bore the trade
mark of a wel-known Clerkenwell firm.
Tim" Campbell the politician who died the
other day and whose immortality rests with his
question, What's the Constitution among
friends7' only left $4,000 the results CT
thirty-four years in politics Tim Campbell
could not keep money! said his uncle He
gave it away az fast as he made It. He never
played a race and in a gambling
| house. he got rid of his money IN campaigning
from end of the year to the other. He was
the politician all the time. instead OF only two
months before election. He made about $4,000
year for the past twenty years. but while he
got it with one hand he gave it away with the
other'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29

1t goes without saying that the women of
America are the loveliest that ever lived at
any place or time on this green old earth.
but it must be admitted that some of them
have fault or two. one of which is an
overweening curiosity to look upon a social
celebrity or persons of title, which occa-'
sionally gets them into awkward situa-
tions. We had slight example, of it here
last week. when some thousands Of women
came near suffocating themselves at the
Propylaeum in order TO get look at the
Chinese prince for whom reception was
being given. This same trait led to a dis
graceful female riot in New York some
months ago. when an Englishman of title
was being welded to the daughter of an
American millionaire. wedding that had
been overmuch exploited by the yellow
press of the metropolis.
Now comes another case at st. Louis,
where the daughter of the President Miss
fashion and narrowly escaped physical hurt
at the hands Of a mob composed very
largely of women. apparently crazy to get
look at the young woman OF whom they
had read so much in the papers. Not until
she was safely landed in a carriage and
driven from the crowd did the women that
composed it come to their senses.
1t has been so long our boast that in
America, every man being a sovereign. we
could look upon prince or pauper, great or
small without undue agitation, and treat
them with the civility due from one to an
other. that we do not take kindly to the
European fashion of compelling anybody of
conspicuous name to either travel incognito
or provide himself with a bodyguard, to
keep the gaping crowd at bay. We are
reluctant to admit that our civilization is of
the kind to require these things. Yet those
| that Travelled with presidential parties for
years noted an increasing difficulty in get
ting about, until the elimination came in
the dreadful tragedy at Buffalo in 1901, since
which time the President of the United
States has frankly carried bodyguard of
officers in plain clothes. But it was to be
| hoped that his was an exceptional case.
arising from the singular greatness of his
office in the eyes of the people. but it seems
that it is not so. The notion of independent
sovereignty with respect to any person
other than her husband sits rather lightly
on the shoulders of lovely woman, and she
seems quite prone to join the gamins of the
street in a mad rush to satisfy her curiosity
| as to the looks of any great or supposedly
great parsonage. The growing tendency In
| this direction seems to point to the neces-
| sity of the same elaborate police arrange
| ments here that are so familiar in Europe
when any great parsonage" seeks to travel
| or otherwise lays himself or herself liable
to contact with 1.-The common people"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29

1t seems likely that the reports Of the
battle at Kin-Chou. giving the number of
Japanese dead as 1900. are incorrect The
storming and capture of the well-protected
position meant desperate fighting and un-
doubtedly great loss, but it is probable that
1900 includes both killed and wounded.
In the battles of our civil war the pro-
portion of killed to wounded was one-ffth
to one-sixth. At Shiloh. for instance, one
of the most fiercely fought battles, the
record shows that 1.754 were killed and
S,40S wounded on the Union side. The total
At the same ratio the Japanese at Kin
Chou would have $1,000 wounded and an
army running into the hundred thousands
thing quite improbable and with no pre-
vious statements to support it. This pro-
portion mentioned, or something near it,
runs through all the engagements. large
and small. of the civil war. At Fair Oaks
Union losses were killed, $50. wounded.
1884: at Malvern Hill. killed. 724. wounded.
4.245; at Cedar Mountain. killed. S14, wound
ed. LAS; at Manassas. killed. LIZA. wound
ed, $780,. Antietam, killed, 2.1OS, wound
ed $50: Corinth. killed, 355; wounded. 1.sf1
Fredericksburg, killed, 1,2S4, wounded, $500;
Gettysburg. killed. 3.155. wounded. H,529:
Chickamsuga. killed. 1867, wounded. 9.756.
At Cold Harbor the number of Union men
killed aud wounded are estimated together
at 1900, the fire of the Confederates at that
place having disabled that number of
Union troops in short space of time
fifteen minutes do not historians say?
The battles specified are but a few of
those fought between 1850 and 1866. During
those years total of 81 O5s Union men were
killed or the field, 31S,1S7 were wounded,
and of these 4s.012 died of their wounds.
Over 100000 men enlisted and were in the
service for part or all of that time. 1t was
not only those who were wounded who suf-
fered for their patriotism. A great number
from exposure and hardship and died while
they were yet young. II is this army OF
men who sacrificed their youth and their
lives that their country might be truly
the land of the free. and the army OF
those equally brave which has passed on
one by one in later years-it is these men
for whom we set apart day of remem-
brance. day in which to recall their
deeds and do honor TO their heroism. II
was tremendous sacrifice of young life
but IL was one that events have justified
Generations that have grown up since have
prospered and profited by it. 1t made their
country a new country, its people a new
people. broader. more open-minded, stand
ing in a now attitude toward the world The
debt OF the men of to-day to the mer
OF the COS can never be paid. The great
est results of the war they fought are but
just being realized. Time has removed the
agony OF the bitter days of loss. tears
for those who died so long ago have al
been shed. but the obligations of those who
share in the benefits and the glory of the
great country they made possible increas,
rather than lessen. Tomorrow is Me.
| mortal Cay. Veterans of that great and
| momentous conflict will say prayers ant
lay flowers at the graves OF their com
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29
Hay Pays Better than Gold.

good hay farm in the Yukon valley Is q
better paying proposition than ordinary gold
mine. This fact has been demonstrated by a
Dawson freighter. who is farming a large tract
OF native hay at Gravel lake. the trail be-
tween Dawson and the Duncan district, Stewart
river.
Last fall this man put in immense quantity
OF fine hay. enabling him TO bale more than 600
tons this winter Besides wintering his own
large herd of stock. he has considerable feed for
SALE receiving $40 ton. At this price his crop
worth $4,000. He clears a profit of at least
100 per cent. Winter weather has not yet pre-
vented continuous work. crew Of ten men
collect the bales and carry them 10 market.
His entire crop cut with scythes and
handled in primitive manner. Next season
he will replace these methods with modern
farming implements. greatly reducing the cost
of handling the crop.-New York Commercial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29
ERRONEOUS PRONUNCIATION.

A correspondent of Harper's Weekly
complains Of the liberties taken with the
pronunciation of the language by New
Englanders and New Workers. and calls
attention. among other things. to the mis-
placed IT'S" The New York or Boston
man. he says. misplaces the final 'r' just
as the English cockney misplaces his ''h."
an unnecessary ~ and "brotha" or ''sista"
(omitting the "r') with as much assur-
ance as the London cockney tells one of
"'is Apply 'ome in hold Hengland." And.
worst of all. he says. these habits are
growing stronger. especially in New York
city. so that people now play fast and loose
with the r., adding it to pa" and ma, .
taking it from oyster" and again adding
1t to raw"
Out West. that is to say. in the middle
West. or. to be moro specific, in Indiana.
where the speech of educated people is
said by competent observers to be more
free from provincialisms and peculiar &C
cents than elsewhere in the United States
tne pronunciation Oh bdSternerS mas lone
afforded diversion The most amusing part
Of 1t is that the Boston man who says
'Indianar'' has not the remotest idea tina,
he adds a superfluous letter and canno,
be made to believe that he does so. 1t is
also true Of the New Yorker when he says
IN Yak" that he does not know he is
Gliding the ''r.'' But that the words sc
improperly pronounced sound correct to
them is proved by the appearance. now
and then, in pretentious periodicals of verse
in which such words as Ella and cellar, "
mamma" and far" and the like are
presented as rhymes. 1t is not only the
pronunciation, but the ear, of the down.
Easter that needs cultivating
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29
Thanatos Atbanatos.
[Deathless Death.l

lDeathleSS Death
At eve when the brief wintry day is sped.
1 muse beside my fires faint -fickerlng glare
Conscious OF wrinkling face and whitening
hair
OF those who. dying young. inherited
The immortal youthfulness of the early dead.
think of Raphaers grand seigneurial air;
OF Shelley and Keats with laurels fresh and
fair
Shining unwithered on each sacred head
And soldier boys who snatched deaths starry
prize
With sweet life radiant in their fearless eyes.
The dreams OF love upon their beardess lips.
Bartering dull age for Immortality;
Their memories hold in deaths unyielding fee
The youth that thrilled them TO the finger tips.
John Hay. in the June Century.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29

The death OF Senator Quay removes from
public life man who has been ire
mendous power both in state and national
politics for many years He was emphati-
cally what is known as a political boss.
having dominated his party in Pennsylva
MIA for twenty years in spite of constant
opposition from strong men and strong
factions. How ne kept his supremacy. that
Is. what was his method of holding control,
is not quite clear TO outsiders. and even
Pennsylvanians who have worked with him
and against him, and who know him best,
do not agree. He had. of course. a strong
personality and a determined will, but
other men have these; he may have learned
something of political management from
the Camerons. father and son, who ruled
the party in Pennsylvania before him, but
he was not aggressive and openly auto
cratic as they We're; on the other hand,
he was not secretive and indirect in his
dealings with those whom he trusted. Men
grew up around him. learned his ways and
profited by his teachings; then. through
some turn of the political wheel became
opposed to him and fought him bitterly,
but in the end were always defeated.
Powerful agencies worked against him
from time to time. and occasionally seemed
to be successful. but only temporarily; he
rose to the crest of the wave again. John
Wanamaker once set out to secure his
downfall. but failed, and the failure must
to him have been bitter one. One secret
of Quay's power was undoubtedly his hon
esty with his associates; when he made
promises he kept them; his word was to
be depended on. This habit has proved a
great element of strength to more than
one man who has built up political ma
chine.
1t is not yet time to make fair estimate
of Quays character. Being such a force
his opponents were correspondingly bitter
and many Of the charges against him with
out doubt unjust. That he was not over
scrupulous is. of course. true. No man
can well be who undertakes to bend all
classes of people to his wishes and must
meet them on their own ground. Never
theless. he was a notable figure in Amer
lean life. and men who could not approve
| his methods found themselves admiring
| him because OF his force. and his genius as
| a manipulation of affairs.
What Pennsylvania will do without him
| remains to be seen. 1t has been dominated
| either by the Camerons or by Quay for so
| long a time that it may look helplessly
about for another boss. and it is likely that
| dozen men are ambitious to fill the role.
At this distance none appears of sufficient
size. and 1t may be that the party will
| adjust itself to more satisfactory condi-
tons without undue disturbance. But
| Senator Quay will be missed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29

Man-Hello. Central, VIII you give me Mr.
Smiths residence. No. $50 East Thirtsenth
street, The number 10 not IN the book
Centrai-Just a minute
Man latter waiting patiently fifteen u,inutes)-
Say. Central. have you found out what that
number is7
Central (sweetly)-what number did you want
Man (emphaticany. with rising innsction)-r
told you / did know the number I want Mr.
Smiths residence. No 25o,East Thirteenth street.
central--A-I-l right ri call you
withn next half-hour bell rings franticaily)
Man OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES! Did you get the num-
Der?
Central dn an injured ytone)-Mr. Smith. No.
go East Thirteenth street. hasn't got telephone.
Man thinks inexpressibie thoughts. counts ten.
then answers)-Oh. yes. he has telephone.
used Il myself yesterday.
Central (doubtfuIly)-rll Wait minute
Man-very good OF you, ! am sure Don't b
In any hurry about Il,
Central (ten minutes later)-wire's busy now.
Shall call you?
Mani think I can time by going 90 see
him. picks up telephone book and reads ON
back: THE mail is quick. the telegraph 10
quicker the telephone Is instantaneous"
Paints )-Town Topics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29
ART AND ART WORKERS.

The pictures and drawings which were at one
time . feature of the celebrated Chat Noir
have been recently sold in Paris. The collection
only brought s., 500.
The three most important prizes awarded this
year by the Berlin Academy Of Fine Arts went
to Hans Muller and Herbert Arnold. painters.
and Alexander Hohrath. architect.
Glenn Brown, the weli-known Washington ar
chitsct. has been elected honorary correspond
Ing member Of the Royal Institute OF British
Architects. Only six other American architects
have been honored in this way.
Last February the Louvre bought for SO 900
the sculptured STEELE known as that of King
Serpent. supposed to have been found at
Abydos but doubts expressed to its
authenticity, and an investigation has been
ordered.
There have been placed on view In the Museum
Of Decorative Arts In Cooper Union. New York.
300 pieces of bronze and fine gilt French furni-
ture and 225 pieces OF tapestries The furniture
was purchased with the money presented to the
institute by Mr.. Jacob II. Schif and the tapes
tries were the gift Of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Some OF the items at a recent sale Of decora-
tive furniture at house in Lowndes square.
London. sold follows: Set OF eight eighteenth
century mahogany chairs in the Hepplewhite
style. with oval concave backs. s1.175: a Chip
pendale cupboard. with carved holdings and
ormolu mounts. 500; a small Chippendals table,
$3.50.
John s. Sargent, whom three countries claim
America for his parentage, Italy for the chance
of his birth and England for his adoption has
received election TO the Royal Society OF
Painters in Water Colors. He has three water
colors in the current exhibition: Facade of the
Salute Venice" Grand Canal "A Venetian
Trattoria' and "A Garden Vase"
The design for the monument TO be erected on
the battlefield of Shiloh by the State of wis
consn in memory OF her soldiers who fell there,
is by w. r. Hodges. of ST. Louis. and the work
has been executed by Robert p. Bringhurst, of
st. Louis. A dying color bearer is sinking TO
the ground, and is supported by Columbia. who
catches the flag in hand and sustains the
wounded soldier with the other arm
The collection of paintings by native Filipino
artists in the art gallery Of the Administration
building the Philippine reservation at the St.
Louis exposition offers. il is said. graphic
story Of the Spanish dynasty, the war which
wrought its downfall and the new authority of
the United States Most OF the canvases are
excellent specimens OF art, and doubtless no
feature Of the exposition will surprise visitors
more than these paintings should have come out
Of the Philippine islands. One OF the canvases
represents the death Of General Lawton. ana is
a wonderfully exact representation. according
to soldiers who were present when that gallant
leader fell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29

A speaker at a manufacturers banquet
IN Chicago. few nights ago. recalled the
fact that in 1856. when the first railroad
bridge across the Mississippi river at Rock
Island was proposed. there was vigorous
opposition. A citizen OF St. Louis filed a
bill against the bridge company i'm the
United States District Court in Iowa. de-
claring that the bridge was "a nuisance
and obstruction TO navigation" and
praying that 1t be abolished and removed.
The court granted his prayer and ordered
that the bridge be removed before the first
day OF October. 1850. The decision, how
ever. was finally reversed in the United
States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln
was one of the counsel for the bridge COM
pany, and in his argument I'm the District
Court he ventured the prediction that the
time would come when 1.-The number of
passengers crossing the river would equal
and perhaps exceed those travelling up and
down the river In boats" His rather eau
tious prediction has received abundau ut
verifcation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29

correspondent Of the Washington Peit, in a
late issue, tells of rabbit which killed a hound
with blow of its claws. A rabbit is the
more dangerous than is really thought. 1t will
be remembered that last winter on Pocosin
creek Mr.. John Hobbs. while hunting rabbits
had his dog one in hollow log. AS he
stopped TO peep into the log the rabbit leaped
out full against Mr.. Hobbs. breaking his nose
and knocking him upon his dog with such force
crush that animal death The rabbit
escaped. We don't know TO the truth OF the
story in the Washington Post. but Mr. Hobbs
is a living but dishgured witness of the tragedy
on Pocosin creek.-Princeton CIV. Va Journal
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You don't have TO believe this story merely
because do. Ny acceptance OF its truth 10
based on the fact that IL came 10 from .
staid. serious-minded New York banker. who
gave his word OF honor that II was true and
who has too much good sense to invent % i'm
probable yarn
''1 was standing near the curb Riverside
drive said he. when q In a light buggy
with bicycle wheels came driving by At . furious
rate of speed Just opposite me one Of his rub
Der tires came of and. impeiied by the trsmsn-
dous momentum. rolled on ahead Of the buggy
like child's hoop. Before the driver could
stop his horse the tire lost It's headvay. ana
Just as the buggy came up with It the rim OF
the wheel struck into the tire tust right -
spring the tire back into place"
And there are you.-Brookiyn Eagle