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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05
That Blessed Baby.
TChlcago Times.1

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Did one ever notice how much difference
bright-eyed, idiotic-looking little baby will
make in a street carr On yesterday after
noon when Times reporter stepped into q
West Madison street car, he discovered that
the sole occupants of the car besides himself
were hsppy-looking woman with q two
months old baby upon her lap, and proud
looking father next to her. The baby was
one of those red-faced infants whose cheeks
are so fat as to make it impossible for them
to shut their mouths, and whose eyes are big
and blue and staring. Little chubby hands,
with deep dimples down their backs, and
restless little legs that would kick away the
dress and expose the fat sturdy little legs,
with their blue-socked feet.
The car had not gone far before it stopped
for little girl, who, when she entered the
car, sat down in corner, but, discovering
the baby, moved up next to it and Its mother
and began "kutchey -kutcheying" it, and
| thinking up new natural positions in which
| to hold her dolly when she got home. A
pretty young lady in a light ulsterette and
| blue vail stepped into the car, sitting down
demurely next to the little girl. She, too,
spied the little baby, and when it twisted
about and stuck its little fist out to her she
| gave it finger to hold and reached over and
kissed it.
| A little further along cross looking hook
nosed, sharp-featured old man thrust himself
| into the car, and planted himself in the first
| corner he came to. He glanced about the
car with an expression that indicated q
hatred of all mankind, and then settled back
| into the corner, determined to let no one say
| a word to him, nor to give any one pleasant
look. Suddenly the baby caught sight of his
carroty beard, and, making desperate lurch
almost threw itself out of its mothers arms
1t could not reach the old man; in straining
and Growing and kicking to get at him, i
softened the old mans heart, and he pinchei
its fat cheeks and cl tucked at it with smil,
on his hardened face.
Other passengers who had entered the ca
during the meantime laughed and smiled a.
the baby, and when it hung its head so fal
over backward that it looked at them upsid,
down, they poked their fingers at it and called
| it "tootsey- pootsey." When the time cam,
for the mother and her baby to leave, there
were many goodbye smiles, and the ladies
kissed their hands to it, sorry that it wa.
going. After it had gone the car elapsed
into silence; the old man in the corner drew
himselfw within himself again; the pretty younl
lady with the blue vail demurely perused
book; the little girl grew listless; the passen
gers generally looked solemn. The reporte
felt that the light of the car had gone, ant
there was vacancy that nothing but bah,
could fill. "B'ess It's little hearth 1t wa
better'n circus, so it was"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05

THE harmony which the Pennsylvania
Democrats showed to the world at their Con-
yention last week is that earnest kind which
shows that they are true Democrats and pat
riots who see the danger into which the
country Is about to be plunged, and that
minor differences in idea and as to leaders
must not be permitted to interfere with the
certainty OF victory. Their work is to be
commended to the Democrats in every
Township, City, County and State Conven-
ton to be held this year. Let no personal
quarrels, no difference in belief as to minor
policy divide the party into factions. This
is the year when organization harmony and
individual effort will count for much and
make victory doubly sure.
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peration, one more effort on the part of bad
men TO set aside the rule Of law; one more
success scored by Villains. who differ
only from ordinary, villains in their
wealth, position and temporary power. II
is a triumph shove all law, no less than
the assassination on the Pacific Coast last
week, or the bloody record which the Mollie
Maguires made in the Keystone State
for so many years. Its effect Is
not confined to the limits of the
State in which 1t was oonsummated, but
permestes the politics and society of the
entlre country and scores one more disgrace,
to obliterate which viii require many good
intentions and good works. Justice In the
wild unsettled society of California has just
sent the disturber of the public peace to a
prison; in stable and conservative Pennsyl.
vania IL has released the men who poisoned
the public mind by the NEST vulgar and
shameless bribery. Could contrast further
gof
II scarcely needs bitter words to character
ize such an infamy. The mere fact that such
facts exist is sufficient to make every lover
of his country bow his head in shame, and
to ask how long such things shall continue.
While the act was committed by partisans
who must be held responsible for
it in partisan way, it yet rises
above party contests in Importance.
1t concerns the morals-the very existence
of the country. 1t places a reward on sue
cessful villainy, and leads young men to
believe that they may pursue such a course
for years and yet escape punishment. 1t
may not. however, be entirely lost in good
influences, if it will have emphasized in the
public mind the dangers which lie in the
growth of corruption in the State, and the
necessity of meeting it at its inception.
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"Was it becase 1 driv my mules inter yer
flep3"
"No, sah." f -,raes,,.-
"'Twa'n't becase wouldn't pay yer fur,
splittin' dem rails" and he clutched his stick
tighter. sss Is 80 s. .fa.sI
"'Fore Abraham an de Sabior OBJ de lam
no." tei ="
"Well, den, yer kin go, but I wants yer ter
un'erstan' dat yer can't cuse dis ole man wild
de weakness of de general flesh"
The insulter, after watching the honest
man until he had turned a corner, remarked
to himself:
II reckon III hab to try some udder plan.
He skun me mighty bad, but man what
can STAN up an vin'icate hisself sartinly is
an homes man. Oars jes' one oh two tings.
He's elder an homes man or Use coward,
and after looking again to satisfy himself
that the old man was not coming back again,
continued: 81 reckon it must be dat Use q
coward
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He Couldn't Cure Himself.

Yesterday two colored men passed each
other on the street, when just after passing
one remarked:
eternal raskei as eber Ibedl"
"Who's a raskel2" demanded the other
man, turning around, splitting on his hands,
and grasping his stick. "Does yer call me a
raskel2"
"Did 1 say dat yer was raskel2" said the
insulter, somewhat startled at the mans bel
liyerent demonstrations. 81 didn't fer to
yerself"
eyes, yer did, sab; and I'll maui you right
heah."
al tell yer dat Use as inherent as chile;
an if yer hits me wild dat stick, ole man, yer'll
hab to answer mighty loud fer de transac in
de udder worpi"
"'Splain why yer said 'fernal raskep jes' as
yer passed me, sab, or III make yer hide look
asher dan it do. 'Splain right now. 'Splain,
tell yer"
cole gentleman" said the insulter, begin
ming slowly, and evidently not knowing what
he was going to say, "some people is dicted
TO mighty cuts habets. Use one of desc kline.
was mighty posed on when was a slabe,
an when / walks along in stracted sort oh
way, de faces oh desc men comes up before
me, and / al'ers has q lot OBJ epithets on ham
Dos yer know what epithet isl"
"Yas, an eff yer doan hurry ny an Civ me
a explanation, I'll knock all de epithet often
de top OBJ yer head"
sI'se 'splainin'. De white folks treat me
mighty bad, an now ebbery time sees one oh
| dem in my mind, plies to him one OBJ my
| epithets. / alters keeps on ham q lot OBJ ras
calls, liars, thieves, towards, sneaks, goats
hogs, an dogs Jis' now I happened to see ir
my mine de face OBJ a man who ulster whale
me, an sarchin' roun in my mind l found d.
epithet what was suitable. an piled it. Yel
happened ter heah me an thought dat WA
furrln' ter YOU"
"Dat is putty good way to 'splain yerself
| but didn't yer fer ter me case cheated vel
outen pillow last faIl2"
@No, sah. Fore God didn't"
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There was no installing the costume, and
the fact that the venerable dame led small
boy by the hand confirmed the impression
that Mrs. Darlington was indeed in the assem-
blage. There was momentary lull in the
buzz of conversation, and the party gathered
around the new conner, eager to shake her
by the hand. "Bless mel' said she, with
beaming smile, which played over her face
like sunshine over lake. "Bless mel how
salutary you all arel-just as you ought to be
at time like this, when nothing harmonious
should be allowed to disturb your hostilities.
You are very kind, Pm shore, and l am
glad to see you trying to enjoy yourselves
We had no church sociables in my young
days, but we had huskin' bees, and quiltin'
bees, and apple bees and" "Bumblebees, y
said Ike, breaking in like boy on thin ice
land though we had good times, and sociable
enough, goodness knows, when the red ears
were found, they were nothing to the super
fluffy of this"
There was slight disturbance in the cir
Gle. as Ike in his restlessness placed his heel
on circumjacent toe, but it was stilled as
the master of ceremonies came up to introduce
the minister. "Glad to see you, madam" said
the minister, 81 hope you may find the hour
spent with us a happy one" 81 know shall,
sir" replied she, ''for happiness depends very
much on how we enjoy ourselves, and enough
of anything always satisfies me. How could
help enjoying myself in scene of such
life and animosity as this?" "Very true
madam" Sand the lights blazing like q
CONSERVATION, and the music and flowers
| make it seem like Pharaoh-land."
| The minister was called away, and the
master of ceremonies asked Mrs. p. if she
| would like "an ice," which she family heard
GA NICE" she replied, looking at him and
hanging on to the long, as if it were the
top bar of gate; sob, very" A rush by
the contestants in the game, here broke in
between them, the band gave a crash which
| seemed to start the roof, the mass of people
waved to and fro, Ike started off with a new
crony in quest of some suggested peanuts
| and Mrs. Darlington backed into seat
| She looked pleasantly upon the movine
spectacle through her own parabolas, hel
| fingers beat time to the music, and her oil
| factories inhaled the breath of flowers anC
| the smell of coffee from an adjacent room
| till she was becoming flost," when she re
allied that figure was standing before her
and cold spoon was being thurst into he
| right hand 1t was the attentive manager
| again, with an ice-cream which he invites
| her 70 take.
"You are very surprising, sir" said she
smiling.
| al was uncomfortable at that moment
Thank you; / will. am very partially fon'
of ice-cream, and this is MANILA, too, whicl
is my favorite.' She ate with sense of en-
| joyment caught from the scene and wen
away soon after, when Ike had joined her
with plethorie pockets, bidding the manage
convey good night from her to the party
i saving She had enjoyed a real sociable time
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TIE PENNSYLVANIA 1NFAMY.

The pardon of the Pennsylvania bribers
stands out as one of the most audacious and
shameless acts in the history of many years.
Corruption had run rampant in Pennsylvs-
mia for more than a score of years. Bribery
had come to be considered one of the leglti-
mate influences in politics, and the air
of the old Commonwealth had become pol
luted with the stencil. The success of such
means had finally almost sanctiied them in
the eyes of Cameron and his clan, and the
people seemed powerless to deliver them
selves Finally, about five years ago, new
Constitution was adopted, under which new
and severe laws were enacted for the punish
ment of bribery, corrupt solicitation and
similar crimes. 1t was thought that the
people had thus secured such control over
corruption as to begin its obstruction.
Under the operation of these laws the
five men who have just been pardoned
out were compelled to plead guilty and
suffer sentence. The plea of guilty was
probably made in order to save other men,
more influential, from the same fate, and il
was charged at the time that the additional
promise of pardon before sentence had been
a made to them. It was soon discovered
however, that this promise could not be
carried out. Public sentiment sas aroused
and condemned the bargain in tones
which could not be mistaken. Then came
the toying with justice, the forfeiture o.
5 hail, and finally the return of Kemble, the
0 best known OF the convicts. And when de
g hay codld no longer serve, righteous judge
: was found who sentenced the prisoners TO I
!, year at close confinement at hard labor and
; TO pay fine. Then, as is well known, thu
: Board Of Pardons advised the Governor Il
sintsrpose his authority and grant remis
sion OF the sentence of imprisonment.
~ Nothing has happened in our later histor'
which has SO set law and decency at def
: ance as thisact of political desperations, snt
no explanation, no bubbles of the law. cal
naevsr wash ont the damned spot" of imam,
from the oonviots, or from the Governor o
q the Board Of Psrdons who have been cor
csrned IN 1t. 1t is only one more act Of del
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05

THE question of a reformed photography
in the English Language has found its way
in Congress, and may be embodied in legis-
lation. Mr.. Bsllou, of Rhode Island, mem
Der of the Committee on Education and La
Dor, has reported bill to the House pro
viding tor the appointment of commission
of seven learned men to report upon the
question as to its necessity, its advisability,
and the probability of its adoption. No
definite plan is proposed, but 1t is suggested
that legislation may provide for its adoption
in the schools of the District of Columbis
and in the printing of public documents,
and that its use will soon follow all over the
country. 1t is scarcely probable that the
photography of great and settled language
can be settled by legislation. The changes
which IL is possible to make will come with
use and necessity, and very gradually. II
a reform is demanded, or even desired, it
would be well to keep the matter out Of
Congress.
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mer years, but as everybody seemed to
avoid him he soon abandoned the highways.


PATIENCE AT LAST EXHAUSTED.
His mother. nearly heartbroken at the
change in herr darling, endeavored to re-
form him; but necessity called her to the
mill In the daytime, and the few good ad-
monihons which she could give in the few
hours spared her with him were counter
acted q hundredfold by the evil instructions
received in the daytime. She did her best
to stem the current OF wickedness, but In
vain. Finally she gave up the unequal
struggle and applied TO the strong arm of the
law for mercy to herself and her child. He
heard of IL and cursed her for il.
The edict of the Court was issued, consiening
him until his twenty first year to the
Reform School, and he soon fell into the
hands OF the laws minions and found him
self behind the bars of the County Jail, there
to await transportation to his future home.
A few days OF reflection seemed tn have a
beneficial effect upon him, and when Sheriff
Van VOORHEES, came to take him to James
burg marked improvement in his demesnor
was observable. Melancholy seemed again
to have seized upon him. As he stood on
the stone steps leading out of the Jail he was
picture Of q juvenile wreck-an unnatural
picture The dissi patton which had 90
plainly marked his face did certainly not
agree with his infant form, and who would
look for melancholy in a mere babe?
HIS ADIEU TO PATTERSON.
won't you take me around TO see my
mother" he asked supplicatingly. 81
would like TO see her once before go. can
hardly expect to come back alive" The
favor was promised and he seemed satisfied
stranger, who had been informed OF
Georges destiny, out who did not know
him, said: 81 thought that only children
over twelve years of age were taken at the
Reform School. This is mere baby
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05

r THE increase in imports seems now TO be
in even greater proportion than that OF ex-
ports was after the improvement in business
began. The total value OF imports during
the first eight months of the fiscal year, end
ing June 80, 1879, was $2s7 ,51s, $50, and
during the same period of the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1880, they amounted TO
$379, 3o5, lis. Our people, released from the
CALLING bondage OF hard times and low
prices, intend now to enjoy the fruits OF
their labors in more and better food, in
better clothes and with more OF the lux
uries of life. 1t Is a sure sign OF increasing
prosperity and not as many would have US
believe, the precursor of adversely and re-
newed depression. These latter will only
follow if speculation and financial balloon
ing shall again become the occupation OF the
people instead of the steady results of in
dustry. The country is in q prosperous
condition, and is in the humor to enjoy
itself.
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HER OLD DRESS.
Pious Reflections on Female Heroism-
Courage Needed to Dress Plainly
1ParisiaEl 1


Courage Needed to Dress Plainly
lParisian.l -
Ali you do not know how much courage
a woman needs who makes up her mind to
to be always plainly dressed; you do not
know what innumerable and irresistible
temptations she is obliged to resist every
moment. To be wise with regard to dress
is to be sublime. To pass by an attractive
shop and to see hung in the window fascin-
ating toilet that excites your admiration; to
devour this charming prey with your eyes;
to build all kind of castles-in-Spain with re-
gard to it; to dress yourself, in your mind,
with its coquettish laces, its gay ribbons, and
to say to yourself: ssI will put two rosettes
in my hair; the white ribbon will serve for
the scarf, and will use the lace for the
waist and sleeves" and then suddenly to tear
yourself violently away from such culpable
thoughts, to reproach yourself about them
as though you had been committing crime.
and then to fly courageously and heart
broken away from the temptation, with
out even stopping to ask the price. This re-
quires more strength of soul than to wage in
terrible combats. A remark which we heard
the other day, made with tone of stoical
resignation and noble humility, seemed
to us to equal the grandest words of the an
tique Spartan and Roman heroines. A wo
man was going to a ball, to a magnificent
fete, and she was busy selecting materials
for her dress from a quantity of soft, SHIN.
mering silky stuffs, which her eyes were de-
vouring with delight. She asked the price
of them; it was very high. Then, pushing
them sadly away with the tips of her fingers
she said with a sigh: Its too dear, will weal
my old dressI" My old dressl Do you fee
how much sad resignation lies under thos,
| words2. 1t is enough to bring tears to ONE
ewes.
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Water Supply.
TAmerican Health Primer. I


Of the danger of injury to health from
polluted wells, it is hardly possible to say
too much. In one cholera season in London
six hundred deaths were traced to the use of
q single street pump. Typhoid fever has
been repeatedly, indeed many times, known
to affect whole families who resorted to a
well for q common supply, while others in
the same neighborhood, using different water,
were not attacked. Worse yet, perhaps,
seems to be the subtlety with which organic
poison may be conveyed by water, through
milk, in dairymen's supplies. Several times
this has happened in London, and elsewhere
in England. In one instance, so far as sp-
peared, the only mode of contamination was
by the milk-pans at the dairy being washed
in water from stream into which leakage
had occurred from neighboring vault. Az
another time, several well-to-do families in
London, one of them that of physician
were affected with typhoid fever. 1t wa:
found that they were all supplied with mill
by company which furnished milk from
several diaries. At last it was ascertained
that cases of fever occurred only in those
families to whom had been sent the milk O
one particular dairy; and local cause O
contamination of its supply was also traced
What exquisite cleanliness of all things il
enjoined by this experienced Nothing il
more sensitive than milk and cream to al
impurity. Even the water which cow
drink, when marshy and bad, has beer
known to make their milk unwholesome
Butter can be made good only where tn
most scrupulous sweetness, cleanliness ant
freshness Of everything is maintained Thi
is the chief secret of good butter-making
and the moral of it may be extended ant
applied by saying that perfect cleanliness o
water, food, air and person is, everywhere
absolutely necessary to perfect health.
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Sunlight at Home.

Whether your home be large or small give
it light. There is no house so likely to be un-
healthy as a dark and gloomy house. In
dark and gloomy house you can never see
the dirt that pollutes it. Dirt accumulates
on dirt, snd the mind soon learns to apollo
gize for this condition because the gloom
this hole of place" is soon the sort of idea
the housewife gets into her mind; "the place
is always dingy, do what you may" is anoth-
er similar and common idea; and so IN a
dark house unwholesome things get slowed
away and forgotten and the air becomes i'm
pure, and the digestive organs become i'm
perfect in action, and soon there is some
shade of bad health engendered in those per-
sons who live in that dark house. Flowers
will not healthily bloom in adark house, and
flowers are, as rule, good induces. We put
the flowers in our windows that they may see
the light. Are not our children worth many
fowers7 They are the choicest OF flowers.
Then again light is necessary in order that
the animal spirits may be kept refreshed and
invigorsted. No one is truly happy who In
waking hours is In a gloomy house or room.
The gloom of the prison has ever been con-
sidered as part of the punishment of the
prison. and it is so. The mind is saddened
in home that is not flushed with light, and
when the mind is saddened the whole phys
ical powers must suffer; the heart beats Lam
guidly and the blood flows slowly, the breath
ing is imperfect, the oxidation of the blood
is reduced, and the conditions are laid for
the development of many wearisome and
constitutional failure and suferings-
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he Horse And His Rider.
AN ALLEGoRY.

Ny proud wild horse, my young and dear ally,
Through what bright mesds did he not bear me
well;
Till the hour came twas in him to REBEL
Betwixt us twain the issue was to to try.
In his gay strength so easy to defy .
As light rein ever horse befelli
Could q white child swart a courser quelli .
It's over, servant he, and victor 1.
Bystsnders the quivering Of my hand,
And bid me curb him lest he rage again;
smiled, and loosened on his neck the rein;
With bounding pulse we range lifes lovely land.
Shall for fear hold back, in gloom restrain;
that am king, am afraid TO reign1
University Magazine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-05

THE Senate Committee on Commerce au-
thorizes the change of the name OF the
steam yacht MARIA to the "Daniel W.
Voorhees," We can not but rejoice at any
proposed honors to our distinguished In
diana Senator. but we hope there will be no
difficulty on account of the sex of the yacht.
When the girl asked her beau to propose a
name for her pet cat. he proposed Jim
Blaine as suitable. She replied, blushingly'
that il was not that kind OF a cat.
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.hH SHMtxmaL.
WEDNESDAY,, MAY 5.

q Mosr of the late Republican County Con-
vsntions in Illinois are going strongly
against Blaine. Logan and Washburne seem
to be getting in their work.