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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

OF the three men who were hanged in Chi
cago yesterday two sons of careless
and neglectful mothers, which fact affords
to discourse solemny on the duties of
women. If women would stay at home and
attend to their families such tragedies as
that at Chicago would not happen is the
burden of their cry. If they would not en-
gage in reforms outside of their own house.
holds. If they would not become absorbed
in social life, if they would not follow the
fad of higher education. if they would try
to save their own offspring before concern
ing themselves with the children of others
If, in short, they had no interests outside
of their own doors they would no longer be
abettors of the saloon, the prison and the
gallows.
These charges are a modern version of the
old cry of Adam that Eve was at fault, an
other illustration of the undying masculine
tendency to lay the blame on women for
whatever i'll that comes. The accusefs of
mothers ignore the fact that the vast ma
jority of women devote themselves to their
become good men and women; they accept
stupid ISLANDERS unquestioningly and do not
stop to reflect that the professional society
woman, one who gives all her time to social
life, is myth in any American community;
they decline to see that the broader the ed
must make; they will not see that women
who engage in reform work are for the most
part either young enthusiasts with no hus-
bands and children to hold them elsewhere.
or women of advanced years with their
families reared and with leisure to as
they please. The critics forget, what they
must know, that the reform work, the char
ity work. all the efforts of women to put
down evil are to the end that mothers every
where may find it easier to guide their chill
dren in the way they should go. They for
get or ignore the pitiful truth that good
mothers and wise mothers, many and many
in number, their go swiftly on
downward paths because the doorways to
evil have been left open and made inviting
by men who insist that home is the only
place for women. Mothers of two of the
Chicago murderers were lacking in atten-
ton to duty The third, on the testimony
of her hayward son, a good woman
who did her best to keep him honest and
upright. What did it avail her to be de-
voted to home and children?
The masculine critic is so inconsistent,
too. There is the Moseley educational COM
mittee. which charges that American boys
are becoming feminized because their teach
ers are women. If mothers training is so
indispensable. where is the line to be drawn
against the women who come next to moth
ers in Juvenile education?
1t would be a relief to a world weary of
much twaddle if the people who assume to
be leaders of thought. the people who preach
and write and lay down law for their fellow
creatures, not to say their betters, would
look at things as they are. not as stereo-
typed fiction has made them, and would
do a little original thinking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
Fairbanks would BE the TaIle...

IL Senator Fairbanks should De nominated and
elected Vice President he would be the tallest
man who ever held that office The Indiana sem
ator is a good deal over six feet in height. and
/ can't recall any of our Vice Presidents who
was taller than that. Mr.. Stevenson was a pretty
large man, and his successor. Mr.. Hobart. was
even taller both being somewhat stout but Mr..
Fairbanks topped them both.
'Of course. though. the Hoosier isn't as tall
as Representative Sulloway. who's the giant of
this House and of every other House he's sat in
Indeed. don't recall any representative as
large and tall Mr. suiloway. He's credited
with six feet six inches. and he looks every bit
Of that He has an enormous frame. too.
mr.. Roosevelt and Mr. Fairbanks would make
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

rather dignifed young entered a
florists shop on Madison avenue. A shrin voice,
resembling that of an old woman, greeted her
with:
shut the door. Don't you know il is cold?''
Much embarrassed she looked about for the
speaker. saying: Excuse me, but the wind
blew so hard 1 could hardly close the door,
Then. TO her grea: astonishment, she found
she had been conversing with parrot. Angered
at the bird for deceiving her so. she turned her
back to the cage and was intent upon examining
some flowers Suddenly the same voice. or what
seemed to be- said to her:
What do for you, miss?'
IF you hold your tongue 1 shall be gratifed
above all things replied the young woman,
turning around as she spoke and discovering the
florists wife-New York Press
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

Washington Democrats report that
Hearst's barrel has been closed in that
region. What the condition of the Indiana
barrel is is not definitely known, but, judg-
ing from the lessening enthusiasm for the
the funds low. When the Hearst barrel
is finally withdrawn from the campaign
the Hearst boom will be no more, for the
one depends on the other. Indeed. it looks
very much if the gentle Willie had been
Systematically held UP all along the line
and a concerted effort made to profit by a
the self-made candidates claims seriously.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
PLAIN WORDS FOR PARKER.

The New Orleans Times-Democrat is a
conservative and influential Democratic
organ. An editorial utterance of several
days ago may be accepted as correct
Interpretation of the feelings of large
number of Democrats, both in the North
and the South. 1t consists of the following
terse remarks, addressed to Judge Parker:
He cannot much longer pose as a judicial
sphinx. He must speak at no distant day
or forever hold his peace. The embarrass-
ment of ermine must be thrown off, IL the
proprieties demand that course. The st.
d.ouis convention would be lacking in self
respect if 1t should nominate Alton b..
Parker, or anybody else, on some vague
assurances that he is ''all right"
1t is no surprise to find the New York
Sun heartily seconding this demand. But
it is more or less of shock to find the
Sun induIging in such views as the fol-
lowing:
The Southern Democrats who share the
opinion of the New Orleans newspaper are
right. Nobody between Canada and the
Hills views of the political questions of the
day. Judge Parker cannot be held respon-
of Mr. o HiI iii Committee on resolutions,
adopted under mechanical pressure by the
convention at Albany The document is of
ephemeral interest only
How so? Has it not been pretty thor
oughIy demonstrated that ex-senator Hill
is In complete control of the New York
Democracy? And what Warwick says.
must not his puppet hold to? The ''mechan-
ical pressure under which those resolutions
were adopted is not likely to be relaxed
now The platform of plattudes may be
taken as a digest of the only opinions Judge
Parker will ever be allowed to utter. either
by David Bennett Hill or Mr. August
Belmont.
There are two things in that platform
which should furnish enough food for re-
Election to remove the necessity of any
further declaration of principles for some
time to come. One is the States rights
plank. That plank appears to be an in
genuous promise TO the trusts that they
shall not be molested by the federal gov
eminent. New Jersey must have the
privilege of busting her own trusts And
the other is the complete abandonment
of the party's old free trade article of
faith. Why, then, should Judge Parker
talk when he has the New York Times and
the wondrous New York platform to speak
for him? The Times is the personal organ
OF August Belmont Belmont is the Rapid
Transit trust; the Rapid Transit trust as
sures all other trusts that Judge Parker is
safe" What more do the New York
Sun and the New Orleans Times-Democrat
want? They may so ahead and declare
for Parker with the perfect assurance that
his principles are In safe hands. II they
disapprove Of those principles they may
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

The curriculum of the high schools of Brook
Ign. n. Y. is to be extended shortly. and in an
entirely new and unexpected direction. Dancing
is be made part of the of physical
training. and ii is suggested by the Brooklyn
Eagle that not only may stage dancing or bal
let dancing. become attractive feature of the
modern curriculum, but that the jig. which is to
be adopted an aid to the physical develop
ment of young girls may lead to buck dances
and cake walks also. And why not? In the
opinion of some of the ''moderns' it is as neces-
sary to put grace into the heels as il is to put
knowledge into the head-Charleston News and
Courier
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

nuaily. In Brunswick Breslsu. Cozogne. KEEL.
Posen and Nuremberg dinner. in addition a
breakfast. is also furnished.
In Breslau. CharIottenburg, Dusseldorf. Halle.
Mannheim and Magdeburg the food is distribu-
ted by public institutions while in the other
towns il is furnished by charitable societies.
The municipal authorities of Danzg. Dortmund.
Hamburg. Hanover. Konigsberg and Posen con-
tribute toward these funds. however.
The breakfast is not always the same For In
stance. white bread. dry buttered. and milk;
milk. with coffee and bread; coffee or soup and
bread. CT soup made of -four and white bread.
Usually the children receive milk. the quantity
given being from three gills to a pint The last
mentioned quantity is provided in Kiel.-New
York World
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
Free school Meals.

In the larger German cities free meals are
provided at the public schools for children
needing additional nutriment, the custom pre-
vailing, by the report of Consul Warner, at Leip-
sic in twenty cities
With the exception of Berlin. Barmen, Bruins
wick and Nuremberg. not only the poor.s but the
sick and infirm children were also given break
fast In Magdeburg food is only supplied in very
hard winters. Instead of breakfast. dinner is
given to the children in Dresden. Munich. Stet-
tin and Strassburg. but in Munich 1t Is pro-
jected to also furnish breakfast. In Hamburg
there is attached great weight to providing
proper dinners for the children. the expense OF
which amounts to about ZOO marks ess,66D an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

More than three-fourths Of the public school
teachers of Utah are jealous Mormons of the
strictest sect of the ''Latter-day Saints
Prof George E. woodberry has been appointed
lecturer in English literature at Amherst Col
lege and will begin the discharge of his duties
the beginning of the next collegiate year.
Florence Nightingale, the world famous Eng
lish nurse. lives at the home of Sir E. verney
in London. She is in feeble health at the age Of
seventy-three. She of the advisers Of
the organization of the International Red Cross
Society.
An apparatus which makes it possible to draw
in perspective mechanically, without previous
training. is the invention of a Swiss. who names
ii the perspectartigraph. telescope with hair
lines to show its center and a crayon pencil are
hung with a universal joint that they move
together. The draughtsman holds the pencil in
his hand and moves ii over the paper in such
way make the intersection of the hair lines
in the telescope follow the outline Of the object
to be copied.
The death OF verestchagin. the Russian painter
at Port Arthur. recalls the story told of the late
Count Moltke who struck with the
force OF the presentation of the unattractve side
of war by Verestchagin that he forbade the men
in his command visiting the artists exhibition.
Ine hdlsef, WnOs WITH the Empress, inspected
the exhibition, said: 1.-The painters of pictures
like these are our best guarantee against war"
George d. Prentice described the late George
Francis Train as "a locomotive off the track,
turned upside down. with the cowcatcher buried
IN a stump and the wheels making a thousand
revolutions minute. A ship without rudder
a clock without hands, an arrow shot into the
air. a sermon that is all text. pantomime OF
words the apotheosis of talk, the incarnation OF
gab a kite in the air that has lost its TAIL a
man who climbs a tree for birds nest out on a
limb. and in order to get 1t saws the limb off
between himself and the tree. MONDAY mys-
terry, a practical joke in earnest, cipher hunt
ing for a figure in order to pass for something
with the brains of twenty in his head all
pulling in different directions"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
Why He Quit Housekeeping.

What made you break UP housekeeping in
Washington" a friend asked Representative
Mudd, of Maryland. whose congressional district
adjoins the District of Columbia.
My constituents Mr.. Mudd answered. lone
night when a number of my constituents came
here to me l took three four of them in
. to spend the night Just l was closing up the
house for the night another came along and we
discussed the business he had called on
I'm sorry 1 can't take you in for the night
but every bed is FULL told him.
80 oh. that'H be all right he said. RI just
sleep here the sofa in the parlor.' And he
dd."-New York World.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.
Punishment RENTED.

Senator Deliver, of Iowa, tells this story on
himself; Il reached certain small town dur
ing n campaign" said he. "and found that the
proprietor of the hotel where L usually stopped
was in Jail. He had gone there of his own ac-
cord rather than spay judgment which he con-
sidered unjust. He asked the sheriff to please
let him out for two hours to hear his old friend
Dollver speak. The sheriff agreed, and sent an
order for the release of the prisoner for two
hours for that purpose.
Then he considerably added at the end of the
order: The rest of your punishment is re-
mitted.' New York Times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

The average salary of teachers employed in the
rural schools of Missouri is s195.70 year, or
$50 rs a month-the average length of the rural
school term being twenty-one weeks The salary
OF the members OF Congress from Missouri is
S. 900 year. and mileage and other perquisites
nearly s14 day. A Missouri congressman
from the country makes as much out Of his Of
fee in fourteen days as the average country
school teacher in Missouri makes in twenty-one
weeks. Either the salary of the congressman is
too high the pay teacher is low
Charleston News and Courier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
Japan.

Reused from the slumber of an age-long night,
She dropped the lacquered armor She had
borne,
Nor thought Herself recreant. forsworn
Fronting with steadfast eyes the growing light
Her nightmare dreams all put to instant flight
Hers not the part. unfrutful years to mourn,
Hers not to cling to what She saw outworn.
She planned anew, based on Her ancient right
fabric. strong Times wasting to defy,
Then turned Her thought to choose from out the
West,
Whate'er Her wisdom taught would serve Her
best
And now She stands Queen OF the rising East.
To lead its Peoples higher paths to try,
Till Nations clash no more and wars have
ceased.
Archibald Hopkins. in Harper's Weekly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

1t Is always a pleasure to commend the
act of public official when Ii is in the in
terest Of the general good and obviously
performed under difficulties In the Occi-
dental Hotel case interests OF owner and
tenants would be best served. temporarily.
Ut least, by the repairing OF the building.
and 1t would doubt have been much
easier for Building Inspector Stanley to
comply with their requests and submit to
their arguments than to go counter to
them at the cost. perhaps of giving per.
Sonal offense. AS IL is he has reported ac-
cording to facts which seem to him. on
due investigation. TO make II impossible to
repair the structure in a way to insure its
safety for hotel purposes. This is in ac-
cordance with the general opinion of OBJ
servers who have noted the condition of
the building. and is undoubtedly the correct
view Although the condemnation of the
structure may work some hardship on in
dividuals for time, IL is undoubtedly best
for all concerned that no attempt should
be mace again to use the old walls and
foundations. 1t would once more be a
hre trap. and the city now has too MANY
nuch
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
Sitting on Tacks

Apropos of the objection of the Moseley educa-
tional committee to the preponderance OF female
teachers in our public schools: A fair young
woman with primary class of ffty-seven boys
and girls her hands said to Two of my
boys simply horrible. One is black as the
ace OF spades and he is the worst boy in the
class. He caught in the act of scattering
tacks in the chairs Of the other pupils for them
to sit upon. Just to thnk-suppose had sat
upon those tacks.' Terrible What would you
have -done?" ''Oh. daresay 1 should have
yelled" lis that all?" What else could | have
done? We are not allowed to punish children I"
New Press
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.


School teaching ought to render woman
mild tender long suffering. 1t should so edu-
cate her in the ways of children that when she
marries and becomes the mother OF brood she
should find il the easiest thing in the world to
bring them up in the way they should 60 But.
alas! The result is just the opposite. When
dear teacher has flock of her own she regards
them much better than the flock of others
she used to teach but could not correct, that
her boys and girls are allowed to grow up little
black devils with painted wings.-New York
Press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

1t is said that William j. Bryan is now
one of the weaithiest men in Nebraska II
that is so his recent dictum money stupe-
fies the conscience" is equivalent to a bra
zen confession. Or does he put it forth as
an excuse?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

In holding solemn memorial service for
their gallant enemy Makarof the japanese
reassert in e unique way their claim of thor
ough civilization. Christian nation could
do no more
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
A Diagram Wanted.

Mrs. Hastings. educational expert and defender
Of spanking, says it should be administered in
the good oid-fashioned way where there are no
centers that be injured as is the case
when the hands, head exposed parts OF the
body struck. Think grasp the idea but
TO prevent mistakes Mrs. Hastings will please
send a diagram.-New York Telegram
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

The year 1904 is teaching the American
people powerful lesson by its disastrous
fires. We need better building and inspec-
ton laws; the European cities have them,
CONGREGATIONS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

As a colonial possession Thibet would be
about worthless tract of country CONNER
cially as is to be found anywhere on the globe
AS buffer state between India and Russia
however, 1t may be worth Great Britain's while
to secure control of it.-New York Commercial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

THE President does not belong to our
party. hut when it comes to gracious person.
atty we can sympathze with anybody who
has fool friends" This from the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. After studying it from every
point of view and unsuccessfully applying
every rule of grammar. the Journal gives
the sentence up. Perhaps the reader would
like to attempt a solution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

Italy has a CRATER whose exploits are
of character to make the Missouri gang
green with envy. They are mere begin
ners beside the ex-minster of agriculture
at Rome. Among the charges against him
is that of charging the government 100
francs for travelling expenses, when all the
expense actually incurred was less than
100 francs; of charging the State for 1900
postage stamps when his mail went free,
of buying LOCO francs worth of nude pho
tographs of actresses and charging them
under the head of photographs of insects
destructive to farmers" and of paying
IS francs a month to a poor school
teacher" himself figuring under that
title. Another enterprising transaction,
was the signing of receipts amounting
to 212,OOO francs with different names.
claiming falsely that the sums appropriated
were given to starving school teachers"
or were expended for other charitable pur-
poses. Americans need not proudly and
complacently assume that their foreign
brethren can teach them nothing. This
Italian gentleman could supply material
for articles on the art of graft that would
give a magazine writer an independent
fortune
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

my dear" said Mrs. Newlywed. her face
flushed with the excitement of her afternoon in
the kitchen. 81 want you to be perfectly frank
with What would you suggest TO i'm
prove these doughnuts l made to-day?
We'll" replied Mr.. Newlywed. lifting one with
a slight effort, II think it might be better If
you made the hole bigger. "-Philadelphia Tee-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

1t was announced in advance that the
platform of the New York State Democrats
was to be In substance an expression of
Judge Parker's opinions and was to come
as keynote" The opinion is growing
among members of the party that If this is
the best Parker can do it will not be worth
while for him to spend any time in writ
ing letter of acceptance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
1t Surely Will.

Just what the effect of jiu-jitsu
Happens to be when it hitsu
/ cannot declare,
But no matter where
It lands why it certainly gitsu!
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
HOxY to He HanDN.

They speaking OF the actress.
Yes she's married but her husband travels
with company and she travels with ap-
other
Then they surely ought to have happy mar
ried ife."-Chicago Post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
Has Tarrart Numbered,

There good many reasons look upon
Thomas Taggart a very cunning if not a very
shrewd politician, but If IL is true that he
magines he has suppressed Bryanites in the
State he has made blunder that can hardly
be attributed to a very shrewd of any sort
-Iogansport Journal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
A Limerick for Modistes.

Her etamine skirt was winner
Till billygoat ate 1.-THE sinner
Then he said with a grunt,
Twas a pretty tough stunt.
And L feel like I'd etamine dinner"
baltimore American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
COnsOling Thought.

Well, spose the mill can't grind again
with the water that has passed
Isn't there water enough in sight
To run that old mill day and night
With a motion just as fast?
Chicago Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

The government inspector of fruit trees
In Canada has made the discovery that the
San Jose scale il destructive to chickens
rs well as TO trees Chickens which roasted
In plum trees infested by the insect and
died from mysterious cause were found
to have their legs covered with the scale.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23

The New York convention mentioned in a
timid way "a modified revision of the tar
in" And thus the shattered Democracy
for revenue only There is not a single issue
1oft
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-23
4 Politicians End.

Now let this be his epitaph.
The readers heart 10 touch.
He needed cash and grated
Not wisely, but too much
Washington Star.