Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1901 — Page 17
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cigar I had under the lamp in front of the place, mostly after 12 o'clock at nlsht. and many a night I went upstairs in that old school and looked them over. There were no beds, because at tivo a throw one couid not expect to be lying on the feather; there were hoards to lie on, with another board for a headrest, and boards on edge to keep every man in his place. Down Ptairs. at tho entrance, a man sat, whom I never knew by any other name but Charlie: and as the tramp passed in he put his nickel at the window and went tnatde. They fumigated the place every week by throwing a lot of ulphur on a charcoal furnace, closing all the doors and windows, and when the fire and sulphur was burnt out. sweeping up every kind of vermin they found. "In the morning, if the tramp had tho price, he went across, the street to No. M sometimes called 'The Slaughter House or sometimes 'The Morgue.') There was vo bar lu instead there was a lot of barrels arranged about waist high. The 'morguekeener' sat between the rows of barrels, and a- man who wanted to invest in a littl-5 booze' from 'old sherry' to 'the best brandy' could bo accommodated. The tramp would put up his linger, and if it was a co the bartender would hand him a class Tall of the same. size), and he would go alone the line and select his tipple. Now. during election time the lodging hnne keeper was very much In demand, and" while the law of registration was even then In force, so that a man was obliged tn Treeister many weeks before election. h vote from that lodging house never lr.dcinff house nn mompson sirwi. a no loaV otnV would get there early and would proprietor ouia ff wth rteWp nave a - . a in.. -- - - hlctv fmm No. (. i j . . .avr:i I Ktiiiuiis - - i"" trimns were allowed to go None oi : w f the house early, but when the poll a out o IsVnSand Charlto would take Sent arci f the polllns place, four at a
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Gloves The Shoe. and sell clip. Now, some of those tramps were a trirte 'wise. may be as 'wise as the tramps that are informing: the men now trying to write about preseyt-day tramps; and here is how they 'got it.' If they said that thoy ought to pet a dollar or two for their votes, the proprietor would say: 'Just sit down there until wo get through, and I will see how much money I have left." When he got through he would tell him he was porry t. say that he couldn't even give him a quarter, and. of course, the tramp would start out to get a dollar or two for his vote. The opposition man in politics was ready to buy up anything for a. few dollars. He would hand the tramp the money and take him to the polling place to vote him, when, behold, pome other tramp had voted on the name of 'Wyoming Silver.' "The tramp had the money and" the politician wanted to get it back; then it was up to the 'copper.' who had to decide the question. While I knew what the trouble was. what could I do? They were both criminals, and if the tramp charged the politician with having taken the dollar from him I would say, 'The station house la the proper place to decide that.' The politician generally refused to go, and the trarnp walked away with the cash. Now, this shows that most tramps don't loaf around In cities until the fall, and It also shows that, as the tramp can't get 'booze' without the 'scrip,' and as the distance between New York and Chicago or some other country 'hang-out is pretty long if you walk the tramp will certainly enjoy many sober moments. "Now. then, what is the- tramp's aim In life? It isn't drinking rum, for if It was he would stay In the city. I always was anxious to know what they aimed at and how they fell so low. In a good many conversations with them I found that they were quite intelligent, and many a sad story 1 learned from them from domestic troubles 8nd sorrows to reverses in business. With a very few exceptions all tramps are over the forties. When their troubles overtook them they got discouraged and thought that they were too old to start In on another tack; so they roamed out iato the world without any thought as
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)9 IO rv O o to what micht become of them. Tramps arc mostly men without nerve or a chance to try again." Arointed Her Sympathy. Chicago News. Down on the new ha?cule bridge two men were encaced in serio-eomie conversation "Yes," said one, "the 'old cat' makes my life a continuous torture. It's enough to make a man desperate." "Why don't you pet rid of her?" proposed the other, with feigned seriousness. "Here's a bridge and plenty of water." "Relieve I will " "No you don't!" interceded a sharp feminine voice. "If you dare to drown the poor cat I shall have you arrested for crueltv. Give me your address and I will call for the poor creature. Perhaps I can get her a cood home." The two men controlled their mirth and one fumbled for a card. "Here you are." he said. "I wish you success in rinding a home for her. It will be a great weight lifted from my shoulders." "Will she scratch?" Very likely. It will be a difficult undertaking." "Oh. I can manage her. Never saw a cat I couldn't. I'll put her in a bac." "It will have to be a bi bac." "Then it must be a big cat." "A little item of 225 pounds." "W-what?" "But she only weighed 150 when I married her and " "Don't dare to say another word. A man that would allude to his wife as an 'old cat ought to be electrocuted." There was h rustle of fckirts and the two men were alone. Aristocracy. Detroit Journal. The Idea." protested the thoroughbred, disgustedly, "of persons who are merely rich being admitted to society upon equal footing with those who can stomach caviare 1"
FAILED UiNDER TRIAL
STORY OF AX EYEWITNESS OP WHAT HAPPENED IX CHINA. Unpleasant Trntlt Concerning the Conflict Hctwcen the Old and New Civilizations. "CHRISTIANS" VS. "BARBARISM" APPALLING EXTENT OF VANDALISM, DESTRUCTION AND IIODÜEKY. Christianity Han Received a Setback from Which It Will Not Enally Recover Oriental Lessons. George Leach's special correspondence Collier's Weekly, reprinted by permission. Copyright by 1. F. Collier & Son, l&'l.J Editor's Note: Gcorpe Lynch, the war correspondent, who H becoming wiJely known through his grai hic and darir.fr criticisms of the Chinese Imbroglio, first achieved prominence rome five years hko, whn he penetrated through the desert wastes of weKtPrn Australia. After this feat the London Chronicle engaged him to act as its war correspondent durins; the Spanish-American war. He was at the front in the advance on Santiago, and witnessed the final surrender of the Spanish generalissimo. After the peace protocol Mr. Lynch was sent to France to report the Dreyfus trial. While thus engaged he was called out on the "field of honnr" by on of the most rnhid anti-Preyfusard. and overcame his opponent. Shortly before the outbreak of the Hcer war Mr. Lynch wn.i diopatched to South Africa by the Illustrated Loudon News. lie was at the front, and sent the earliest reports of Klandplaagte, lleitfontein and Nikelson's Nek. At this last engagement he was wounded, and thenceforth shared the fate of thofv shut up in Iadysmlth. After he had fully recove;ed he undertook to run the Tloer linos alone, penetrating wn miles beyond Ladyfmith only to fall Into the hands of a detached I'.oer outpost. As a prisoner of war he was sent to Pretoria. H wa released after the escape of Winston Church ill In recognition of his impartial reports of the whole situation, while In Pretoria Mr. Lynch, like so many others, contracted enteric fever. which was aggravated by a return of malignant malaria, contracted in Cuba. He had scarcely recovered when the troubles arose in China, and his services were once more demanded at the front. While attending the coronation the other day I beg pardon, the ' Inauguration of President McKinley, I asked a member of the committee on foreign affairs what he thought of the position in China. "Barbarians don't interest me," he re plied. He there voiced the opinion of millions, both in America and in Europe. This is their mental attitude toward one of the most interesting crises in modern history To those who have eyes to see what has happened In China In the last nine months is pregnant with the greatest interest. where West met East, where the younger civilization probed knife-like Into the heart of the old and laid bare what had hitherto been kept secluded from Western eyes. To the Impartial and attentive mind of any one accompanying the allies the discovery was immediately made that, notwithstanding any preconceived Ideas, the last name that should be applied to these Chinese was that of "barbarian." Phases of thought and de velopments of refinement so subtle ard ex tremely complicated were to be found that were beyond immediate grasping, and cer tainly beyond the appreciation of the aver age man in the street. This want of ap preciation and understanding of the older civilization is not by any means confined to those who are casual visitors. There is a certain section of Europeans who, although they have lived the greater part of their lives in the East, are as far away from any real understanding of their pig-tailed neighbors as if they had been liv Ing in London or New York. This is the case with the majority of Europeans living in the treaty port?, and more particularly with a certain brand of young jingo West erner who very frequently has left his country for his country's good. These young gentlemen might be called the "bounders of the Bund," where they are perpetually to be seen in evidence, arrayed in straw hats and white ducks, and enjoy ing an amount of luxury In the East which was unknown to them at home. CHINESE "NIGGERS." All this rather curious class regard Chinese as "niggers." As far as they possibly can they treat them as such, and, more over, they regard those' men of Intellectual grasp and sympathy who take the trouble to study, and in many ways take the side of the Chinese, as "Chinamen." For in stance, Sir Robert Hart and Sir Henry Moore at Hong-Kong are labeled "Chinamen" by these gentry. It is a much more easy solution of all difficulties regarding China to be able to class the Chinese cs "niggers," to treat them as such, and tuse the methods which in South Afr.ca, Australia and elsewhere the white man has invariably pursued. In firing on the Taku forts without any declaration of war. the allies entered on a career of "nigger" treatment which they pursued in their march from the sea 10 rcking. and which they have since pur.Mwd by means of punitive expeditions through the rui rounding country. The murder of Baron Von Kctteler and the attack on the legations were absolutely Inexcusable, al though there are people who aver that Baron Von Ketteler's conduct as a ministar of a foreign court in insisting on having some Boxers executed was, to say the least of it, extremely unusual and provocative at a time of critical and turbulent unrest. But the attack on the legation, horrlbla as it was, has been avenged tenfold. The coaauct of a great portion of the allied troop. nas ueen so unc-ny aisgraceiui 10 extern civilization that it Is a most disagreeable task to a historian to refer to it. and it Is absolutely Impossible to go into a description of details. To an impartial observer, if the term "barbarian" was to be applied to either side, it might just as fittingly be applied to the invaders as to the invaded. In this desperate "war without wounded" there were hundreds killed on the Chinese side for one killed on the European, and the horrible tortures and deaths inflicted on the missionaries found their counter part in the treatment of Chinese women and children by certain sections of the al lied troops. As an instance of similar horrors, the bayonets of a company of Russian Infan try (and throughout the campaign the Rus sian soldiers invariably carried their bay onets nxed) were stained by the blood of an Infant which they had tossed from one to the other. In the burden of dead bodies which the River Pei-Ho carried from Pe king to the sea were to be seen numbers of the forms of young girls. VANDALISM OF THE FINEST. In civilized wariare mere is generally r-ome nine respeci tnown ior tne priests and places of worship of the conquered people, but here there was none whatever. Horses were stabled In the temples, and tho art heirlooms of thousands of years of the nation's life to' be found therein were mutilated and destroyed where they were not stolen. In a street which had been named Casalec street, where I lived In Peklr.s, lor a tjhols yresli rrero to fca rtts. Car.'trr
day, carts passing backward and forward
laden with books which they were bringing to a huge fire in a yard outside the palace wall, where they were consumed. Thou sands of books were thus tieated, so that the whole street was littered with their fluttering leaves to such an extent that I could not get my little Chinese pony to pass there without getting off and leading him, he shied to such an extent at the fluttering papers. Day arter day this literary holocaust continued. When the wind was In the direction of my house a line black snow kept perpetually falling and covered the roofs and courtyards with these ashes of dead thoughts. Hundreds of the books were written in the quaint characters which showed that they belonged to and were written by Lama priests. Many of them had probably found their way there from the bleak steppes of far Thibet. They were printed with those wooden blocks by which these barbarians prac ticed the art of printing for centuries be fore the time of Caxton. Many of them also were in manuscript, which must have meant years of labor, and hand-painted pictures Illustrating some were occasionally to be found. They were all alike consigned to the same funeral pyre, and thousands of volumes of unascertained but perhaps of considerable value were thus lost to the world forever. As the bleak, cold winds from over the plains swept down the deserted street at night and moaned dolorously through the ruined houses, rattling doors and flapping paper windows, it lifted these torn book leaves and swirled them around in a fantastic dance of death until one could almost imagine one heard the lamentations of the ghosts of their longdead authors priests, hermits und scholars mouring over the ashes of their lifework. When some men remonstrated at this piece of Western vandalism, the reply was made that the Chinese had burned the Hamlin Library in order to set lire to the British legation. Since the destruction of the Alexandrine Library there has been no such wholesale holocaust of unrcplaceable literary treas ures as in the burning of the Hamlin. But it must be recollected that this was not done by the educated Chinese, but by an Infuriated mob of Boxers, whose European equivalent would be found in the incendiaries of the Palace of Versailles, or the members of the Commune. It must be borne In mind that this was done by a mob who, however ignorant and infatuated, were mainly actuated by a fanatical patri otism which, in a way, might be considered not to be so far off the Idea which animated the inhabitants of Warsaw to put the torch to their city. But one seeks In vain for any such excuse for the destruc tion of these thousands of books which remained by the orders of the generals who commanded the armies of Western civilization. If positions had been reversed, and that it was the case that a part of the Bodleian Library at Oxford or the Congressional Library at Washington had been destroyed, would we not have considered those who had destroyed the remainder as unworthy to be considered civilized? . PLUNDERED AND PLUNDERERS. It was a strange position on the morrow of the day after the allies had entered Pe king. The rich city lay at the mercy of her plunderers. It was almost deserted by its Immense population, except a few of the very lowest class, who had nothing in the way of worldly goods to lose, and who seemed to hold their lives cheap. They still held on and lived amid the ruins of their homes. Yet some Boxers lingered about and lurked in the ruins, who had an awkward way of shooting from behind corners or through windows, so that there was a certain amount of risk of going far afield to loot, but there was great reward awaiting the enterprising. As late as two weeks after the relief of the legations, m the principal street near the Peitang Cathedral, two French soldiers were shot dead close beside me, and although we im mediately rushc-d in through the ruins in the direction from which the shots came. we could find no trace of the men who had fired them. The Japanese Intelligence Department knew where every building containing treasure was located, and tluy lost no time after their arrival in taking possession of the most valuable. Out of the buildings of the Board of Revenue alone they took several million taels in sycee. The silver was almost invariably found in this form, and almost every evening for about a week after the occupation 1 would receive a visit, in the Chinese houo which I occupied, from Russian soldiers, who would tramp in heavily with their high-topped boots stuffed with silver, and thtir blouses above their belts bulged out with it also, who had come, offering it for sale at almost any price. The $75 dollar shoes were being freely offered for 510 to 515, but the difficulty was that there were very few people in the happy position uf having a supply of ready cath with which to purchase. The proprietor of the Hotel de Peking realized a large fortune by immediately securing a financial backing lrom his bankers, which enabled him to purchase a large quantity of silver which had been taken possession of by thcFrench or other soldiers. It was curious what a redistribution of wealth went on in Peking for the first month. The rich pawnshops, fur stores and jewelry shopj that were broken open by the allied troops were completely gone through by the lowest class of Chinese rabble almost invariably the night after they had been opened. For a week or more after the relief the laws of meum and tuum were in abeyance. "THIS HOUSE IS OCCUPIED." One's possessions were only secure as long as one could keep them within sight. The night of my arrival my pony was annexed by some Russian Cossacks, and I had to wait till the following night to make reprisal by taking one of theirs. This one was an excellent pony except that he had the awkward habit of wanting to fall into line whenever I happened to be near a Cofsack regiment. Going along Hatamen street one day I saw a complacent looking Chinaman, sleek, well fed and bland in expression, riding along on a beautiful Chinese pony. On the end of a stick he carried a banner with the strange device "This hnu?e is occupied." It was one of the little flags that u?ed to be hur.g over doors of some of the houses In the attempt to prevent their being looted. Judging by his expression he seemed to think that it also afforded him and his pony absolute security and protection. But he was immediately undeceived. An English-speaking yoldier was plodding along through the dust beside him and watching that pony contcmplatiVel3 It was evident that he came to the conclusion tnat there was no reason why he should trudge along on foot while the Chinaman went a-horseback. Notwithstanding; the difference In language he immediately made it clear to the Chinaman, whose place he took on the pony, leavlnghim to walk along Instead, no longer with the same b'and, self-satisfied smile on his face, but still carrying the banner with the strange device "This house is occupied. Although practically the entire city of Pcklr.? outslds tha trails of the Imperial tC2.XttUJi. C.I VJLQU 13, CQLi.l
STORY OF CRUCIFIXION
TIIH TALIS AS TOM) I1Y THE I XCAAO.MCAL (iOSPELS AM) JLECiEMJS. Mntnly nn Amplification of the 1'.thctlc nrrnthe nn It In tltven In the Scripture. THE TRAGEDY OF THE CH0SS EVENT OF TUE ACES WHOM! HIS TORY S1IUILD BE HEAD OFT EX. Even Those IVlio Do Mot I'omwriuor ate It by Ohservunce of Holy Week May "Well llriuff It to Memory. The following narrative, woven from tho apocryphal gospels, the heretical ones such as that called Peter's, and various patristlJ and legendary sources, tells in its own icverently intended, if too credulous way, the sad story that is rehearsed throughout the Christian world during Holy week, which begins on Palm Sunday, March CL My chain of legends pegins at the tima when Christ arrived at the place of crucifixion. It is essentially but an amplification of the canonical accounts, but much or this possesses great intrinsic interest. Now the Jews and the Roman soldier, leading Jesus, with those that followed, gut safo to the place called Cranium, which was paved with stone. And ther-j tho Jews set up th2 cross. Then they stripped Jesus of His garments, whilst tue soldiers, taking and betting them t?foie Him, divided thein among themselves by casting of lots. Now the coat was seamless from the top throughout. For Mary had woven it for Christ when they were n Egypt, and It had increased in size as lha Lord had grown. The soldiers, therefore, said to one another, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be." Now all this came to pass that the Scripture mlyht be fulfilled, which stith, "The parted my raiment among them and for my vesture they did cast lots." And tluy girt Jesus about with a linen cloth, putting or Him also the crown of thorns and a tattered robo of scarlet; and about the bixth hour of the day they raised Hiru and drew I Ihn upon the cross. Likewlsa aiso they hanged the two robbers with Him, Dornas on the right and Gestas ca the left And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Father, let not this sia stand against theui, lor they know not what they do." And tho people stood looking at Him and laughed at Him. Their chief priests and rulers with them also mocked Him, saying, "If thou truly gayest that thou art the son of God, come down from the cross Immediately that we may believe In thee." Others said, mocking, "He saved others, others He cured, and He healed the giek, the paralytic, the lepers, the demoniacs, the blind, the lame, the dead, yet hlmse'.f he cunnot cure." And the soldiers made sport of Him, coming near and offering Him vinegar mixed with gall. And they put it on a reed, and gave Jesus to drink. But having tasted it. He would not drink it. And they said, "Thou art the King of tha Jews, save thyself." But Jesu held liii peace, ns though having no pain. THE ROBBERS' GREETING. And the robber that was on His left hand began to cry out, baying to Jesus, "See how many evil deeds I have uone iu the earth; and if I had known that Thou wast tho king I should have cut olt Thee alio. Why dost Thou call Thyself son of God and canst not help Thygtlf in necessity? How canst Thou atlord it to another oae praying for help? If Thou art the Christ, coiuo down from the cross that 1 may bclicvo in Thee. But cow 1 tee Thee peri&hir. along with me, not like a man, but like u wild beagt." And many other things ho began to gay againtt Jegug, biuphemliitf and gnashing his teeth upon Him. For thj robber waa lakeu alive iu the guare of the devil. But Leinas, the robber on the riyht hand, seeiiig the godlike grace of Je-tu?, rebuked the other aud cried out, eaying: "O wretched and miserable man, who art iu this condemnation, dol thou not fear God.' We guiier the juct punishment of what wo ha e Uoue, but this ii.au nath committed no evil." Then turning to the. Lord he taid: "I know Thee, Je-gus Christ, that Thou uit the sun of God. 1 gee Thee, Christ, adored by myriads of myriads of angels. Pardon ine my sins which 1 have committed. Iu my trial make not the gtars to come against nie, or the moo.:, when Thou thali juda all the world, because in the nlgnt I ha accomplished my w icked purposes. Ft go not the sun, which is now eia. kt ;.. d on account of Thee, to tell the evils of my heart, for Iio gift can 1 give to Thee lor the leraission of my sins. Already doatn comctii upon me because of my sh.s; but Thine is the propitiation. D. liver me, O L.'id of all, irom Thy feartul judgment.' GUe not lh energy power to swallow me up" and to become heir of my soul ac of that of him whj haugeth on the left, for 1 sec how tn devd joylully taketh hiü soul and hi.- body dig-appcare-th. Order me "not even to go as uy unlo the pjttion of the Jews, fur 1 Moses and the patriarchs in gteat weeping and the eievil rejoicing over them. Before, then, o Lord, my spirit departelh order my gins to Le was-hca away, and ri member me, the iir.r.cr, in Thy kii.g.iom v.'hon up..:x the great, most lofiy thron Timu t-hait judge the twelve tribes of ltrael. For Thou hast prepared great punishment for Thy World o'l account of thyslf." THE CHRIST REPLIES. And tho robber having thui tpoken, Jesus saith unto him, "Amen, amen, I say unto thee, Dornas, that to-day thou shalt be with me in paradise. And the sons of the kingdom, the children of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, shall be cast out into outer darkness; thre shall be weeping and gnashing of tr-th. And thou alone shalt dwell in Paradise until my second appearing, when I am to jude those who confess not my name." And Ha said to the robber, "Go away, and tell the cherubim and the powers that turn the ilamlng sword, that guard paradise from the time that Adim, the fim cretted, was In paradise and sinnrd. and kept not my commandments and I cast him out thence. And none of the first shall see paradise until I am to come the second time to judge the living 'and dead." And he w rote thus: "Jesus Christ, the Son of God. who have come down from the heights of the heavens, who have come forth out of the bo orr. of the Invisible, Father without bei' separated from Him, and who have cJV down intv the world to be made ficsV"'-' to be nailed to a cross, In erdcr,7 might eavo Adam, whom I faslr my angelic rowers, the gatelt: J csxadise. to the the cCccrs cl rr " L