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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
Loneliness ON the Ocean.

Any one who has never travelled upon the
ocean expects to find it somewhat thickly
populated. He thinks ofthe vast travel and
traffic that go over the waters. and he il
ready to imagine that the great deep is alive
with this hurrying to and fro of nations.
He reads of lands whose commerce whitens
every sea, and he Is ready to think the ocean
is full of sails as the harbor of some mighty
metropolis. But he finds his mistake. AZ
he leaves the land, the ships begin to disap-
pear; as he goes on his was they soon all
vanish, and there is nothing about him but
the blue sea and the blended sky. Some
times he may meet or overtake q solitary
ship through the day; but then, again, there
will be many days when not a single sail win
be seen. There are spaces measured BY
thousands of miles, over which no ship has
ever passed. The idea of nations COM
merce whitening every sea is the widest fan.
cy. If all the ships that ever have been
built were brought together in single feet,
they would fill but hands breath of the
ocean. The space that man and his works
occupy on the sea is SO small in its extent
that the hold on it by his power is slight and
superficial. Both together are as nothing.
The ocean covers three-fourths of the globe;
and by far the greater portion is and ever
has been free from mans visitation.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
A Tfamp's Advice.

At breif intervals during the summer the
river front between Bates Street and
Woodward avenue has been the rendezvous
or stamping ground" for tramps, These
individuals, knowing that they are liable to
be arrested for vagrancy if found wandering
about the city, seek the seclusion that the
place affords, and at night are perhaps able
to obtain lodging at the Station-house. A
few days ago one of these individuals, old in
years as well as experience, was overheard
giving advice to a peripatetic novice of the
same ilk who had evidently just signi6ed his
intention ofstarting out on his first campaign
The old tramp leaned back against bale of
hay which was standing close by, and said:
young man, never play any back-door en-
gagements, and scorn all offers of cold vict-
uals from servants, for bear in mind you are
a gentleman of leisure and not an animated
hog-pen. Always attack the front door,
Ring the bell gently but firmly; and should
an old, near-sighted person answer the sum-
mons manfully appeal to ier generosity, and
in nine cases out often she will invite you in
to partake of chocolate and cake. Look we'll
to the advantages you thus have, and observe
the opportunity you are given to examine the
hat-rack. Above all, my youthful friend,
never degrade yourself or cast stigma upon
your respected brotherhood by laboring for
any earthly compensation. Far nobler is it
in the eyes of your dignifed brethren to
waste three days in an attempt to extricate
the lead pipe of a frozen penstock than to
spend two hours picking beans at 81 BUSH
ell" And the young tramp thanked his
mentor and departed
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
Personal Influence.

What is the secret of personal influence!
Who can tell? In voice at times; in man.
ner frequently; in the assumption of infalli-
bility; in sympathy and in directness; in OBJ
position and in shifting which is quite OPP
posed to directness; in broadly-outiined &C
ceptance of your views with a fine shading of
dissent which shows you to be quite right in
vague essentials but somehow all wrong in
individual points; in smiles that attract con-
fdence and in silence that gives assent; in .
moral pose offered as the expression Of the
true character; in the power of insinuating
impressions without committing oneself to
positive statement, and in the impetus which
lies in a laundering assertion, let who will
dispute or disprove. In all or any of these
things lies the subtle gift of power which We
call the influence of a mans personality; and
in none of them can we find much to lay
hold of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10

go on an excursion with him. through ear a
having to go down deep into his trousers'
pockets for the wherewithal to buy . suitable
outft-for the reason that he had no pockets
in his trousers; nor was he bothered about the
trunk-checks, nor did he swear ut the bag
gage-smashers or brook the insolence Of rzil-
road officials.
There was no good and sufficient rea-oa
why they shouldn't have been an amiabls
couple, and had good time generally. They
washed their own clothes, doubtless, by dive
into the Euphrates, and there being no
clothes-lines, their clothes were allowed to
dry on their backs. and Adam didn't care .
rush whether his shirt bosom was smooth or
not, and why should Eve bother her head
about it so long as her husband was suited.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10

and Baltimore were repudiated. Captain
Doherty entered suit in the United States
district court for the District of Columbia to
recover the $4,000 offered by the city Of
Washington, but the suit was decided against
his claim, the court holding that the city Of
Washington had no authority in law to offer
the reward.
Captain Doherty appealed the case to the
supreme court of the United States, where
it is now pending, and from whence decis-
ion is expected to be reached this year. In
tbs case of the claim against the city of Bal
tirnore, which offered $4,000 for the arrest of
recover, the mayor and alderman telling him
poin. blank that they would not pay him it
as the reward was offered under previous
administration. The claim has now lapsed
by limitation.
"Of the 100000 offered by the govern
ment, SIS 900 was paid on the basis of prize
money in the navy. The command consisted
of 26 enlisted men, two citizens (detectives)
and one commissioned officer. The commits
sion appointed to distribute the money con-
sisted of Judge Advocate General Holt and
General E. ID. Townsend, adjutant general
of the army, who awarded to Captain DOH
erty $4,000, to each of the citizen detectives
$4,000, to Sergeant Boston Corbett and Ser
SeaHt Wanuell, SZ,ZUU eacn, Inc commission
deciding that the fact of Corbett having shot
Booth did not entitle him to more than the
non-commissioned officer of the same rank
who was also present at the capture.
General Lafayette G. Baker, chief detect
iverof the war department, was held to be
the same as an admiral, who detaches ship
and orders it to another squadron. In transitu,
that ship captures a prize. and Captain Do
herty being in the position as captain of the
ship, receives two-twentieths of the whole
amount, while the admiral, who in this case
was General Baker, received one-twentieth.
or $3.50. The remainder of $4,000 was
distributed pro rata among the men.
Captain Doherty was informed from high
authority that "a wheel-barrow full of claims,
were put in for this reward, almost every
detective in the United States representing
that he was entitled to share. The adjust
ment of this mass of claims occupied the
members of the commission a little over a
year before they could determine who were
entitled to the reward"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
why She Wore : shawl.

About week ago some young ladies got
up party to go on moonlight excursion.
The night finally arrived, and the moon
flooded field and river with glow
of pearly richnessness. When the
party was ready to leave the
house which had been appointed as the
rendezvous, it was noticed that one of the
most charming young ladies of the coterie
had shawl on. whats the matter, Lucy7"
inquired one of the young ladies. fare you
afraid of taking cold2" mo, no." she re-
piled. "The thermometer is up at &c."
you'll roast if you wear that shawl" Pm
willing to roast" she said, rather pettishly.
Don't you know why she wears that shawl7"
laughed her little brother, as he wiped some
tafy off his mouth with his jacket-sleeve.
"You keep still, you John Henry screamed
the dear angel as she turned trife red.
The boy then got out of reach, and yelled.
"Ill tell you why she wears that shawl.
When she gets out on the river Bob puts his
arm under it and hugs her, and nobody can
see through theagame."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
The Merry Old-time whistiing Time Dying
Notes and oueries.l


There is much less whistling among farm
ers' men than 40 or SO years ago, and less
singing also. When 1 was boy, most Of
the men sang at pillow and with their teams.
Their voices borne over the hills by the
breeze, was one of the charms of q country
ramble. They mostly sang love songs or
sentimental ditties. / remember The mis-
tletoe Bough" was great favorite with one
of my fathers men. Some time ago / re-
marked to the rector of a neghboring parish
how very seldom heard men singing at the
pillow compared to when was a boy. He
replied: "That is because you were bred
among the hills, and now live in q fat
country; men don't sing in fat countries.y
felt this was correct. Milkmaids sang to
their cows, without which it was believed they
would not '.give their milk down." If you
meet country girl nowadays, and ask her.
"Where are you going to, my pretty maidf"
you can never say the reply was, "A-milking,
sir" for maids no longer milk, but leave Il
to be done by men called "garthmen" At
the "clippins" all the men were expected to
sing, but those who could not might whistle.
as have heard them more than once. Like
milkmaids, "clippins" have all vanished.
Those kindly gatherings, where the master
and his neighbors and his men all made merry
together, have all gone, and we have steam
plows and reaping machines and laborers
unions instead. Although there is yet more
singing and whistling in billy than in fat
countries it is certain that farmers men
neither sing nor whistle half as much as they
used to do. As far back as / remember, our
middle classes considered whistling vulgar,
las boys were not allowed to whistle.) II is
possible the laborers have now got to think 50
too. Railway trips, and more ready access
to towns, are bringing everything to a dead
level, and gradually effacing the old-fashioned
country ways.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
Human Judgments

am just going to do something which 1
have clearly made up my mind to do, and
some friend passing by catches sight of me,
standing with tools all in my hands, and on a
mere momentary impulse he cries out: "What
a fool you are to do thati" and so passes on
and has forgotten me and my plan in q
moment. And yet it is just that sort of a
taunt, or the fear of it, which has blighted
many a sweet and heathful impulse in the
bud. 1t is good for us often to know how
superficial, how lightly made, how soon for
gotten. are the judgments of our brethren
which sound SO solemn, and which tyrrannize
over US so. Such feeling set us free and
made us independent. Besure that you may
feel that about any cruel criticism that is
hampering you, and may cast it aside and
forget it and go your way, The man who
made it has probably forgotten it long ago.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10

"Do you know anybody that's buried upin
that cemetery" said an elderly lady pass
enger to railroad conductor, pointing to .
resting place for the dead that the cars were
whizzing past.
mo, a'am, don't"
"How long have you been conductering
on this road?"
About four years, ma'ana"
"Well, if I'd been four years on this road,
I'd found out suthin' or other. / sh'd hate
to be so ignorant" and an expression of ex-
treme disgust stole over her face as she put
down her parasol with thud
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
Home Education,

One of the most important duties of the
matron or mother of a family, and for which
she should always arrange to have time, is
the home education of children. By this we
do not mean routine of lessons from books,
but that beneficial oral instruction, those
practical lessons on the duties of life, which
should pervade entirely her intercourse with
children. 1t is thus that lessons of love, for
bearance, truth, kindliness, self-denial and
generosity may be deeply impressed on the
ductile mind, and the seeds of true piety and
upright behavior scattered carefully over the
prepared soil. The first care should be to
distinguish between the different dispositions
which nature has given to children-to
strengthen the weak and vacillating, soften
the obdurate encourage the timid, and re-
press the forward to eradicate weeds and
SOW the good seed.
Personal influence is a primal law of ma
ture. God has set each person in the house.
hold to be educated-that is, developed and
carried up. step by step, through the most
critical period of his life-by the influence of
father and mother and of brothers and sis
tiers. It is personal influence that goes to
make up the family. The child is greeted
with that influence. He is not greeted with
abstract ideas he is not greeted with rules
and regulations, explained to him; he is not
Sreeteu Win any Systematic arrangements,
he is greeted with father and mother and
brother and sister. Everything he does in
the earlier stages of his living is educed from
him by the direct inspiration of personal in
fiuence. And when he goes out of the family
into the school, the same thing, though weak
ened and imperfect, is carried forward, and
will be carried forward, in all the relations
of after-life, until the society in which he
moves becomes perfect.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
Household MANAGEMENT.

No woman can afford to grow up in ig-
norance Of household management. The
comfort of some home in the future is en-
dangered whenever instruction is withheld
which would enable woman to plan wisely
all arrangements necessary for the well-order-
ing of the spot which is to be her home,
whether that home be one of wealth, or the
reverse-and the reverse may come even
after prospective wealth makes such knowl-
edge seem Unnecessary
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10

The most gentle authority will sometimes
frown without reason, and the most cheerful
submission will sometimes murmur without
cause; and such is the law of our imperfect
nature, that. We must either command or
obey.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10

When lot of boys and girls get together
and look at each other from opposite sides .
a room, that is called sociable. When At
hungry crowd call upon minister and eof
him out of house and home that is called .
donation party.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-07-30

The engineering triumphs of the past few
years have been wonderful, almost surprising
belief, in fact. But they do not compare
with the wonders Of the engineering plans
which have been made public, and in which a
credulous world is investing its surplus cash.
A tunnel under the English Channel has been
considered somewhat Utopan, but beside a
plan just suggested it sinks into insignifi-
canoe. The new scheme is proposition for a
railway, built on piers, we suppose, over the
same waters, from the neighborhood of Do
yer, to Calais. When the proposed railway is
completed we may Immediately expect di-
rect line of steam cars from Liverpool to New
York, and passengers would soon, doubtless,
be enabled to secure sleepins-car berth
from London to Hong Kong without change
broad gauge, steel rails, double track, and
all the modern improvements
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-07-30

DEMOCRATIC FRAUD IN 1876-The New
York Times published the other day an elab-
crate, exhaustive review of the facts OF the
elections of 1876 A more interesting or
more conclusive statement, having more au-
thority and careful research, could not be
made. The review shows that there was, in
deed fraud in that Presidential election
fraud of the most extended, deliberate char
after, fraud changing at least fifty electoral
votes in the Northern States, and twelve in
the Southern States, not planned In the i9F
terest of the Republican party, but IN that Of
Mr.. ISlden and has faction Of the Democratic
Iarty. This is demonstrated by 0GScSat re-
turns showing that the vote was out of all
proportion to the increase Of population. The
review shows that the increase was physi-
caly impossible From 1928 to 1S76--over a
half century-embracing ID elections, the Off
cial figures show that the maximum number
of qualified voters remained extremely stead
fast. This maximum is 50 out ofevery 100 ; in
other words Is out of every 100 voters, for
some reason failed to vote.
But the figures the Times give in detail
show that in 1876 the qualified voters that ac-
tually voted in Connecticut was 1872 per
cent. in New York 052 per cent. /; in New
Jersey 99.7 per cent. /; in South Carolina 95.6
per cent; in Louisiana 90 per cent. !; in
Florida 1894 per cent In all this enormous
improbable or impossible vote the Republi-
cans had only Wesr Ordinary pf0po11eon,
while the Democrats had the remainder The
excess is found on the Democratic side, tor
the Republicans no more than held their own.
There can be no escape from the conclusion
that this excess, all on the Democratic side,
qods Fraudulent. The most searching scrutiny
into the statistics, taken from official sources,
will arrive at this conclusion.
The impossible proportion of reported
voters to the number of qualified voters the
impossible increase of the reported vote to the
population the mysterious and sudden in
crease in tho Democratic vote without any de-
crease in the Republican vote--all the facts
point to but one concluson-that of Demo-
cratic fraud on u most extensive scale.
This fully explains the anxiety on the part
of the Democrats for the repeal of the cleo
ton laws and the establishment of what they
call ssfiee " and "open" elections-that is,
free from supervision and open to repetition
of the fraud by which Mr.. Tilden was once so
nearly seated in the Presidents chair.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-07-30
LambertvilIe, N. j.. July 80. 1879
rRouBLE IN THE oAMP.

The New York Sun is the leading Demo-
cratic paper of the country. In brains it is
far in advance of any other Democratic sheet.
It's political articles are very generally adopt
ed as editorials in the country Democratic pa
pers north, and if it were not for the Sun to
do their thinking, some Democratic papers
would be wofully short Of ideas.
The Sun of yesterday contained double
loaded article, however, that will not be so
generally copied by Democratic sheets. 1t
shows that the Democratic party is in sad
straits, and that there is evidently trouble in
the camp. That paper says:
nThere can be no doubt that the Democrat
ic party, both in this State and in the country
at large, without being reduced to desperate
straits, is just now suffering under some en-
barTasSments."
That is certainly correct as far as it goes.
The party is embarrassed " by having to de-
fcnd states rights doctrines, roft money
west and hard money east, and by its efforts
to take away all safeguards from the ballot
box under the cry Of Stree ballot"
Further, the Sun says
sTo place first the more general and COM
prehensive troubles which embarrass the
Der of secessionists included in its ranks nat
urally enough causes its unionism to be dis
trusted As far as we are concerned we can
only say that while we are radically democrat
ic in all our notions of government, we are
content to see the head of every man who at
tempts secession by force of arms put where
that of John the Baptist was so cruelty piae-
ed We are for the Union, first, last, and IN
the middle. We arc against secession at all
times. in all places, and under all circum-
stances.
"Furthermore, we believe in fervently
cherishing the memory of the dead who died
for the Union.
aWe cannot concede to the rebels more
than an honestly mistaken sentiment OF pa
triotism.
.We believe the difference, even in death,
between dying for right cause and dying for
wrong cause is very great, and that IL VIII
endure forever, because in, its very essence IL
is indestructible.
s.If the National Democratic party is ena-
bled to overcome the feeling against it on ac-
count of the large number of former seces-
sionists in its ranks, it will be by the full and
frank adoption and proclamation OF such SEN
timents as we have now expressed.
A more complete statement OF a very weak
point the Democratic party could hardly
be made than is contained in the above. The
party's ssunionism'' is more than distrusted, |
for it is under The control of its southern al
lies, and it would loose it's existence if it de-
clared that the dead Union soldier was more
worthy of honor than the dead rebel.
When the Sun asks the Democratic party
to endorse the sentiments it utters it asks the
party to stultify its own record.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-07-30

Mr. Ira D.Sankey, the famo us singing evan
gelist, who arrived at New York on Saturday
from Europe, is stopping at the Metropolitan
Hotel with his wife and two children. He is
in excellent condition and has had success
full season of nine months labor abroad, chief
ly in Switzerland and England, where he ap-
pears to have been received with all the en-
thusiasm that attended his former visit to
Great Britain. His plans for the future are
not yet decided upon, but it is understood
that he will renew his work in our American
cities in connection with Mr.. Moody, begin
ming in til fall.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-07-30

A number of pastors in New York and else
where on Sunday denounced the Manhattan
Beach exclusion Of the Hebrews as unchris-
tan and uncivilized and expressed warm
sympathy with the race. Perhaps these re-
marks were somewhat unnecessary No one
doubts the feelings of Christian gentlemen
ON this subject, every organ of the public hav-
ing denounced Mr.. Corbin's action as against
every sentiment of American liberty and in
direct conflict with the ideas of mode rn civil
ization. Mr.. Corbin, however, did not take
this action from moral or religious motive,
but simply because he thought business would
be improved by the exclusion of Hebrews and
the large amount of gratuitous advertising
which would follow.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-07-30

Secretary of State Kelsey expresses bis o.
pinion of Mr.. Jacob l.. Swayze of Sussex
who is just now devoting large amount of
his time and talents to Performing" things
Mr.. Kelsey particularly, sharply, in a
card published in the Herald, in which he
says that he is "the lowest of villains and the
most despicable of liars - and to give it adj
ded emphasis he prints his name without the
capital letters, thus g" Jacob !. swayze." Mr..
Swayze, however, is good fighter and Wig
orous writer. He has, besides, a newspaper
of his own, the Deckertown Independent, and
will doubtless pay Mr.. Kelsey back with in
terest.