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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
To one who saw the big haistones OF 1884 at
Dubuque neither the description nor the photo
graph in the Journal of Jan. "a seems to give
an adequate idea. Mr.. Root old man
at that time, and I think the hailstones must
have melted a good deal before he got them
photographed. Both their size and shape seems
to indicate this To call them large as
oranges is indefinite. The larger ones were as
large the big Florida oranges sold 60
cents dozen-the smallest not as small as the
little oranges peddled on the streets Their
general appearance, both to size. shape and
number was much as IL a tree heavily laden
with big apples had been well shaken. and the
apples lay on the ground so thickly to half
cover it. think the space covered by the large
stones was about a mile long and half mile
wide. Beyond that they were smaller. Besides
the round stones. there some irregular
masses One OF these. which was measured
was SIX inches long 3k wide and 2k thick. The
hailstones were all composed OF hattened nodules
of ice and snow. about the size of a dime and
about two-thirds thick. They were in the
onionlike layers usual in hailstones, but each
layer made up of these nodules.
They fell straight down, without a breath OF
wind. and more gently than seemed possible for
missiles Of their size. 1 remember thinking at
the time that they sounded on the roof as II
some giantess sat on the ridge-pole with her
apron full and dropped them the roof to hear
them roll down. Nothing suffered but shylights
and gardens. BY great good fortune the storm
began just before the hour for disrnissing school,
and the children were. of course, detained in
the schoolhouses until 1t ceased One little fell
low walked half a mile with both pockets Of his
knickerbockers stuffed with the icy balls and
the ice water streaming down his legs. in order
m hrfn n ha hat ~
did not realize she had already seen. S. s.
Indianapolis Ian 81
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A wOMAN'S SINGULAR DELAY.

In yesterdays Journal appeared an ac-
count of a divorce suit brought by a
northern Indiana woman on the ground
that for twenty years she had been forced
by her husband TO work in the field as a
hand. take care of stock and perform
other duties of a hired man on the farm
The element of interest in the case lies
not in the fact that the wife should seek
separation from such a husband, but in
the circumstance that she should have de-
layed such action for twenty years. There
is room for psychological speculation in
seeking the reason for this dilatoriness.
The couple was married, it seems, fifteen
years before the out-of-door duties were
laid upon the woman. The report of the
case does not indicate the character of
the labors that devolved upon her during
that period. but presumably they were
those commonly expected of a farmers
wife. namely. to cook wash. iron, to take
care OF the milk and perhaps TO do the
milking, to churn, to take care of the poul-
try. to make garden, TO sew for her hus-
band and children. to entertain company
at any and all times, but especially on Sun
days; and to be equal 10 any and all do
nestle emergencies. Such occupations are
a matter OF course, and she is an unusual
-one would say an unnatural-woman who
would complain of them. At all events, this
particular woman is not on record as hav-
ing objected TO her occupation within that
early term.
1t was not until after she was called on
TO do out-of-door work that protest came
but IT was twenty years after. Why
was II that she did not enter objection al
once? Or why having submissively per-
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citation. When one Of the land owners de-
manded $500 more than the option price
and the whole negotiation was in sanger Of
failing. the association met. discussed the
situation and appointed a committee of
three to devise way to solve the problem
This committee consisted of Messrs. II. p.
WATSON, chairman. Frederick NJ. Ayres and
w. c. Bobbs. 1t was agreed that the report
of the committee should be final and bind
ing on the association. The committee de-
cided to raise the amount needed by indi-
vidual subscription and to offer a guarantee
bond indemnifying the government TO that
amount against the outcome Of condemna-
tion proceedings to be instituted against the
Roberts land. The plan was approved and
executed so promptly that certified check
for the amount named is now in bank, the
indemnifying bond is in the hands OF a
lawyer, and the War Department yesterday
wired its approval and acceptance of the
arrangement.
The credit for this browning work in Sc
curing the army post when the whole move
ment was threatened with failure and after
other organizations and corporations which
it was hoped would come to the rescue had
failed to do so belongs to the Merchants
Association, The community is to be con-
graduated on having such citizens.
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reason. While life and limb and reason can bs
50 cheaply paid for railroads win continue TO
find It easier 20 pay damages than to take proper
precau Ions 70 prevent accidents-especially the
one important precaution or employing a SUI
hcient number OF men 20 do their exhausting
and terribly dangerous work.
The world holds no greater heroism than that
OF the engineer who goes unfinchingly 70 GER
tain and horrible death, because his hand on tho
lever 20 the last moment may slightly lessen
the shock Of impact Tor the passengers behind
him; or that OF the conductor. who. dying in
inconceivable fortunes. gasps out with his last
breath the order 10 put the signals for the
next train. God, give US grace 20 live as Brad
ley died,'' prayed Whittier. and II railroad own
ers and managers would live with one-thou-
sandth part OF the self-sacrihce and devotion
TO others good. that their neanest employees
show in death. we should have two engineers
TO every locomotive and every device that sci
ence has discovered for the safety OF passengers
and employees put into use.
All the world knows that railway travel aud
railway work might be made very much safer
than they are. but the law makes it cheaper to
pay damages JUSTICE.
Indianapolis Jan 50
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A story About Carmaclx.

Senator Carmack. OF Tennessee. has fond
ness for lurid invective, not only in the Senate.
but likewise the stump. When he was first
a candidate for the House Of Representatives.
the district was close. and his managers had
advised colorless campaign. Nobody was to
be offended, and all semblance Of abuse or de-
nunciation be studiously avoided This
programme did not suit Mr.. Carmacks but he
observed it because of his advisers.
In the course OF the campaign. however. he
reached community famed a Democratic
stronghold. The meeting held in q large
barn. and several hundred of the faithful nlled
il to the doors AS he sat on the platform. Mr..
Carmack observed 10 some OF his friends:
Boys, we're in Gods country at last, and
I'm going TO give the Republicans some hot
stuff. Bolt the big doors and close all the barn
windows 1 guess I'll take OF my coat"
Standing forth in his shirt sleeves. the future
Senator scorchod the Republican party in Ten
nessee with the warmest words In his vocabu-
larry. He paid his respects TO the leaders Of that
party and INDUCED in a riot OF hostile phrase.
Much relieved at having freed his mind in thil
manner. Mr. Carmack resumed his pacific
stumping tour.-Washington Post.
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We must remember that II is not the choice
of subject that makes the value of the work OF
art. Otherwise the story Of the Bible would
always be full of aesthetic beauty instead Of the
indefinite tedium which haunts the religious pic
ture SO, evidently, in the smaller dramatic
situations the fact that many brave
have held small post with their last cartridges.
that certain men have made last Intellectual
charge. whether English French, at Fontenoy
or Waterloo. do not make a work OF art. The
meaning of the heroism should be told in paint
ing by the arrangement Of line and mass and
color embracing more less within its net.
the human courage which is the story OF the
picture. No poet laureate because he has the
task CT telling a great national story thereby
succeeds in heroic ode. Rare. indeed. even in
poetry, are the stories OF great successful bat
ties. II might almost seem IL the stories Of
defeat, OF how the flowers OF the forest are all
wede away" carry with them more OF the es-
sence OF art than the songs OF triumph and
because OF the soemnity OF human fate there
has been no greater triumph recorded than that
OF the dead Hector dragged around the walls Of
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Peculiar Justice.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Mr.. Bundle accounted for his painful conclu-
sion that "the law is a ass by the fact that
the law is a bachelor Perhaps this explains
II. Some Of its recent decisions seem to need
explaining. The eccentricities OF English
she is spoke mild compared with those OF
justice she is administered The departures
OF the, former from the standards are joke;
those Of the latter the grimmest OF TRACE
dies. To seize young girl who has the mis-
fortune to be your teacher. cut hole in the
ice and thrust her into water up TO her shoulders
and keep her there for hour and a half is a
peccadillo 10 be punished by fine OF s5-or was
il possibly SIS? To shoot a drunken brute who
is rushing at your mother with upfted poker
and murderous intent is a crime 10 be punished
with from two TO twenty-one years in the
states prison. In heavens name. what is JUS
tifable homicide? Probably. II some honest man
had happened to pass through that Bedford
alley in the nick Of time and had shot Miss
Schafer's assailant just before he actually
struck her with the brick he would have been
sent to the penitentary for H.
A great railroad pays thousand dollars dam
ages for injuring a man 50 as TO destroy his
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Real Maple Syrup.

Maple sugar-making. an industry. Is on the
wane. II has been supplanted In the home by
the graduated sugar OF beet and As a
regular department OF farm labor II Is dying
out also. Formerly II was made primarily fo-
home use. the surplus being sold or traded az
the village store. Now II is commerce nrst and
home use second. The work OF making sugar
is still interesting. but more arduous. The
sugar maker Of to-day cannot hope for success
without using strictly modern methods. which
involve considerable outlay for new appliances
II is probable that there will always be linn
tied market, but II must be handled as a spe-
cialized business because cheaper substitutes
are staples. Therefore. in some respects tho
maple product is a luxury and win probably
always remain Small fancy Cakes. attrac-
lively bottled syrup reasonably thiciO will al
ways be appreciated and paid for by a cless
OF consumers who recognize pure flavor and
a healthy product-Country Life in America
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The Little RascaIs.

''The small boys down my way have Keen
sense OF humor," said Gloucester man who
was in town yesterday. They are always up 10
some deviltry. and their fertile minds are al
ways evolving trick Their latest
stunt is to collect from various sources lot
of broken glass Then they begin 10 seufhe in
front Of store that has a bulk window.
Suddenly there Is a crash Of falling glass that
makes a deafening sound. and with cleverly as
sumed cries OF fright the youngsters scatter
in all directions. The proprietor OF the estab-
lishment or one of his assistants PUSHES out,
under the impression that a window has been
broken. Sure enough. the pavement is covered
with pieces of glass, and the first impulse Is 10
give chase. One Of the ringleaders allows him.
SELF to be caught. and when led back to the
scene OF the supposed disaster rs gives his cap
tor the laugh OF course, no window has been
broken, and the victim of the joke vents his
spleen in language more forcible than elegant.
Philadelphia Record.
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MosIey Commission Displeased.

During the visit OF the Mosley commission TO
Chicago the members visited several public
schools, seeking pointers to enlighten English
Park little frame building where about thirty
youngsters were cultivating their gray matter.
The youngsters gazed awestruck at the Eng
Iishmen and made speechless when they
heard the visitors speak. There was one young
ster in the crowd who had his with him
and his tongue in trim, and he answered to
the name of Richard oConnell After soma
commonplace questions to the methods Of the
school, Dick OConnell made himself famous IN
the following dialogue:
THE boy in the third seat back. what's your
name?'
Richard O'Connell''
"You have studied history. What did We
have in I778T'
The revolution"
Against whom was it7
The British redcoats."
What did We do to them2'
1--WE licked EN-"
Ibid we ever have any more trouble with
them?'
YES. in 1872; we licked them again"
'If we ever have any trouble with them
would lick them?"
You bet"
At this point one OF the commissioners lost
patience and remarked:
How perfectly ridiculous 70 teach a child q
thing like that"-Denver Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31

Willie Thompson, the Office boy TO a large
Arm publishers. smart Lad. and when
recently he was sent TO one OF the operative
departments with a message he noticed at once
that something was wrong with the machinery
lie returned gave the alarm. and thus pre-
vented much damage. The circumstance was re-
ported to the head Of the hrm. before whom
Willie was summoned.
You have done me a very great service.
my lad" said the genial chief. who had now
recovered from the effects of much enforced
Christmas generosity lin future your wages
will be increased by 81 weekly"
Thank you. SIR said the bright little fell
low. i will do my best to be worth it. and
TO be good servant TO yOu.'
The reply struck the chief almost much
as the lads previous service had done
That's the right spirit, my lad he said.
In all the years L have been IN business no
one has ever thanked ne in that way. L VIII
make the increase 81 Now. what do you say
TO that?''
We'll SIR said Willie. after a moment 3
hesitation, would you mind II said II againr'
CHICAGO Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31

'T rented this room way up here in the gar
ret said the Unknown Genius. because il had
a wide fireplace where can burn wood. You
see, I've been living in a house with steam
heater
Eyes; didn't you enjoy it?"
Not at ALI No inspiration in it I stared
that heater out of ali cOuntenance night after
night but couldn't get a salable thought out
of it. And II poem happened to ask for ut
terance the heater killed II Immediately with
its eternal 'Thumpi Thump, Thumpi' You see.
you can look into wood FIRE and get some
thing out of IT, but the steam heater Is strictly
business and II il knows anything at all IL
keeps il 70 itself. It's the most unsocial unin-
spring invention Of this horribly practical age.
I've cut its acquaintance foreverr'-Atlanta
Constitution.
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VIEWS OF JOURNAL READERS,
The Name Snodgrass.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
In Notes and Queries recently the question
was raised as to whether or not the name
Snodgrass. as used in "Pickwick was the in
vention of Charles Dickens. In the first New
Albany directory, printed in 1S4S by Gabriel
Collins. the name Snodgrass appears, and ii has
appeared in every New Albany directory issued
up to the present year 1904. In 1868 James w.
Snodgrass and James s. Mccullough constituted
a firm of grocers in this city. The name is
DOUBTLESS old English and merely borrowed
by the immortal author of ''Pickwick-"
New Albany, Ind, JAM 26. CITIZEN.
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a BATCH OF SHORT STORIES.
The Muse i'm Harness.

He did not look poetic in the least. He
weighed fully 200 pounds and. as far as one
could through the CRIME that had lodged on
his face from the load OF coal in the wagon
he driving. he very. very black
The old horse which he was urging through
the slush and wet was any color except white
and had seemingly lost all interest life. IL
not a horse to inspire one 70 flight OF poesy.
Yet. as the prosaic turnout slowly toiled past
the corner of Seventh and Walnut streets last
night, those who waiting for the late-as-
usual cold storage OF the traction COM
pany heard the man the seat say:
Get up. Sappho philadelphia Press.
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Helping Dorothy.

One OF John d. Rockefeller's late bookkeep-
ers, Mr.. Miller, has rather precocious daugh-
ter, aged six. Julia by name. While playing
with a little friend, Dorothy, at the next house
Dorothy transgressed some law Of the household
to such an extent as TO require maternal cor
rection of a severe nature. The mother was
afflicted with rheumatism, but succeeded In
placing the child in appropriate position and
her uplifted hand was about TO descend Julla
piped out from behind a curtain where she had
taken refuge:
Look out Mrs D, don't strain yourself.
New York Sun.
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Unpleasant Discovery.

Aunt Jane surprised day TO see her
little niece carry piece Of paper into the
garden and bury 1t carefully under the damp
SOIL Her curiosity aroused, and when the
little girl had gone out with the nurse. she
tucked up her skirts. sailed down the garden
path and unea-thed the paper Then she read
in beautifully printed characters: Dear Devil
do come and take away Aunt Jane
Buffalo Commercial.
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Mr.. Pierpont Morgan, in the words of
the pooroom, "got stuck" He paid an i'm
mense sum for the original manuscript of
Millions Paradise Lost" and then some
body told him that Milton didn't write line
of that immortal poem; he was blind at the
time he composed it and he dictated it all to
an amanuensis. Any schoolboy could have
told Morgan as much in the first place
These millionaire connosseurs are easy
money for the collectors.
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willing to ObIige.

Abraham Benedict tells Of a school teacher
in Rochester who had great difficulty with a
few mischeyouS boys. One day, when one OF
them had given her great deal Of annoyance
she said 10 him:
Il wish could be your mother for just about
disposition
VERY well. will speak to father about IL,
promptly responded the lad.-Phiadelphia
Ledger.
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A prominent Gothamite has run away with
his wife. and the New York papers are max
ing a great sensation Of IT. What makes it
a nine days wonder is that he did not fol-
low the usual custom of New Workers and
run away with another mans wife
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31

An insanity plea in a murder trial al
ways has it's drawbacks. but if the case
turns out successfully as that of Lulu
Prince Kennedy it is the best defense pos
sible- Admitting that she killed her hus-
band, she was dismissed on the plea of
emotional insanity" but was not obliged
to so to an asylum for insane because the
Jury found that she had since recovered her
sanity. American juries deal gently with
women.
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activity the radiation is increased. The
course OF superficial nerves in a living body
can be traced by means of phosphorescent
screens, phOtographing themselves by their
own carnations. The British Medical Jour-
nal thinks that the possibilities opened up
by these researches far surpass anything
that the widest dreams of the imagination
have yet suggested"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31

The notorious Mayor Anes. OF Mime
spolls, escapes all punishment for his mis-
deeds. having found the tschnicality loop
hole, through which clever lawyers are
pushing so many of the big" criminals
doc Ames is not vindcated; he has
simply succeeded in eluding justice. He
Is probably one OF the "crookedest" men
who was ever at the head of a municipal
government
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women.

John Sharp Williams. in answering Repre-
sentative Boutell the other day. declared
that the silver issue was as dead as the
slavery question This from the Demo-
cratic leader-and the Democrats applauded
heartily. Please compare this with the re-
mark OF w. ]. Bryan, 10 the effect that the
platforms OF 1896 and 1900 must be reafhrmed
at the next party convention. and you viii
get some idea OF where Democracy stands
to-day.
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A perfect specimen Of the fossil icthyosau-
rus has been discovered in Chile; another
prehistoric monster has been dug up In
Nebraska, and they have exhumed a
thaIlatasaurus in California Also, Mr..
Bryan has unearthed the free silver issue.
If he can revive it, he can restore life to
the other three.
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The rival candidates for the governorship
OF Arkansas made speeches in the same
town the other day and neither made a
bodily assault on the other. This is about
the first time they ever met without spar
ring few rounds and it proves that the
fines imposed on them recently had a
salutary effect. The Governor and the
Judge can behave like decent people If they
are compelled TO.
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A Club Lady,s Golden silence.

Marearet-If you see Katharine please dun
her for so cents dues in the Audubon society.
Clementine-No, indeed; she might dun me 1or
our 81 dues in the Humane society.
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A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Diagnosis.

Eleanor-How do 1 look in my new picture
hat, Edgar?
Edgar-Oh, you look cute
Eleancr-Cute? / don't want TO look cute
1 want TO look majestic.
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Very Justly Remarked.

observation-disclosures - really now = wrote
some very improper lines.
Clementine's Mother-Daughter. / do wonder
what makes you go back and read old bad
books, when there are so many new bad BOOKS
coming out all the time.
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Nine. PATHS reason for not singing in
Butte (Mont) was on account OF the rare
fed atmosphere. II she wants the other
extreme, let her come to indianapolis; if
she cannot sing where the air is too pure
she would score the triumph OF her life
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Massachusetts, is conducting campaign
to establish a nonexplosive Fourth of July.
Many people will sympathize with the eff
forts OF the State while doubling the pos
sibility of accomplishing anything. Some
people simply cannot celebrate without
making a big noise.
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"Old Geronimo, who has espoused Meth
odsm,' says the Kansas City Star. should
be sent TO warn the Snake Indians that
their nightly dances are frivolous and sin
full" The Star is laboring under a mis-
take. Geronimo has not espoused Method
ism. He joined the Dutch Reformed Church.
of which President Roosevelt is a member
and he has no objection whatever to snake
dances