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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13
BREAKFAST CHAT.

WILLIAM SHARON pays per cent of all the
taxes collected in San Francisco
THE richest man in Boston is supposed to be
Frederick L. Ames, who is rated at $15,000.00O.
EMPRESS EUGENE while living at Farm
borough attends the place of worship in the
camp.
EQUITY limp" is now the fashionable thing
for both ladies and gentlemen. A crooked stick
is carried along with it.
MRS. DAHLGREN, the authoress, expects to re-
cover considerable money from the government
for the Dahlgren guns, her husbands invention,
used during the war.
THE new Luther Hall in the venerable town of
Wttenberg consists of the reformer's lecture
room and OF the rooms adjoining it which
he and his wife and six children Inhabited
MEIssoNIER's portrait of Mrs. Bonanza Mackay
represents I. large-boned, large-featured elderly
woman, with the hands of plowman, and a
correspondent says she is young and beautiful,
with delicate hands. Meissonier must have been
mistaken.
WRITING of Alfonso in Paris. Mr.. Labouchere
records that shortly after Queen Victoria came
to the throne she was Missed and hooted at AS.
cot, not by the mob, but by lords and ladies,
dukes and duchesses, who called her "Mrs. Mel
bourne"
DIR. MACGREGoR, q favorito Scotch divine and
a frequent visitor at Balmora', has shocked a
great many people by saying that there is no
reason why young and young women in
Scotland should not. as on the continent, battle
and swim together.
GUSTAV KoBRE, in Harper's Weekly: "Mr.
Barrett is the self-made man among actors. He
is now enjoying the fruits of hntirlng energy
and devotion TO art for arts sake. He is almost
tho only American actor of note who is constant
ly adding new parts to his repertoire. In the
last few years he has brought out three Ameri'
can plays Francesca da Rimini, Pendragon and
Yorics's Love. From his extraordinary success
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The Rrouchtnn Novsl.

"Belnda," the new novel by Rhoda BrOughtOn,
is now announced in book form by American
publishers. Mind-readers, familiar with Miss
Broughton's former productions, can easily fore
cast the story. thus saving the wear and tear on
the physical organs of vision. Belinda is a
blooming English girl with immense freckles
green eyes, red hair and long, awkward legs
She has u lovely sister, whose chief occupation
is being "a vision of delight and a father
who has seen better days, but who is now living
on his country estate, Il OF morase. stately
Harold Skimpole. The lovely sister receives all
tHo invitations to spend ''the season" IN London,
while Belinda dwclls cheerfully In the country,
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summers, and so, in their JOY, decreed
Thanksgiving, when Boreas and Eu-
roclydon did open on them, and the real
winter set in. Their gratitude did not freeze
out but lasted as Thanksgiving day to the
present generation.
But logically, as well as poeti-
cally, the Indian summer of New England
and the wooded region of the Mississippi
valley, are things of the past. The Indian
summer was due to the immense forests,
whose trees acted as great pumps, supplying
the air with moisture from the EARTH When
these pumps are destroyed by the autumnal
frosts, the air over great inland areas is
left void of moisture and the rainless and
hazy Indian summer was the result. But
with the forests replaced with stubble fields,
which exhale little water, the humidity Of
the atmosphere is notably diminished, and,
doubtless, enough so to modify the normal
autumnal climate of a great agricultural area
as compared with the same area under the
influence of the primeval and universal
forest.
1t is not probable that the means
or extremes of temperature, the Pc
RODS of the seasons or the
annual amount and distribution of precipita-
ton and evaporation in any country whose
annals are known have undergone any fun
damental change during the historical period.
The memory of the 'oldest inhabitant" is
poor authority in meteorology, and the Their
mometer and barometer have been in gem
eral use less than century. There is little
doubt, however that Indian summer, which
is only the continuous warm, dry, hazy,
mellow season following the great Oc-
tober frosts is not so long or
uniform as before the clearing of the forests
1t is an illustration of the effect OF the in
telligence and purpose of man acting as a
telluric agent The country is now quickly
drained by artificial MEANS; the ground
water has retreated and wells are made deeper
to get water supply. The types of disease
have been modified as the relative humidity
of air and soil has changed, and the Indian
summer is not what it was in earlier times.
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CLIMATIC CHANGERS,

The great rain of Thursday evening came
too late to be regarded as the typical equi-
noctial storm; it was simply fall rain, an
October storm. Ordinarily we look at this
season for Indian summer But it is not
with u.s. for there have not been the great
frosts that must of necessity precede it.
Practically, Indian summer is the season of
dry days and mellow sunshine, following
the 'squaw winter" whose frosts have
turned the green forests into the sere and
yellow leaf, and dried and prepared the corn
for moonlight huskings. 1t is the season for
gathering nuts, making fall visits to country
relations, going a-hunting and camping out
The old Puritans first discovered Indian
summer 1t was unknown to England and
the low countries OF Europe. They had
gathered their eight-rowed King Phillips
corn, kicked the snow of squaw winter off
their long-topped boots, piled up their wood
and made ready for winter in early October,
when came along savage deity unknown
and unexpected, but armlWwelcomed.
"For past the yellow regiments of corn
There came an Indian maiden, autumn born:
And June returned and held her by the hand
And led Times smiling Ruth through all the
land"
The legend is that they at once made ready
for planting, and declared this a goodly land
with no winter but only a thin slice of
English autumn sandwiched between two
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The Wicked Usher.


The average usher in our churches, although a
mild-mannered individual in appearance I'M
doubtedly contains as much fiery, untamed total
depravity as many ordinary mortas whose walk
and con Versation are purely secular. Like other
accomplished villains. he has schooed his c0uu-
tenance that it may not betray him, but, never
theless, it does not require prolonged study of
his peculiarities TO convict him of "A deep-seated
tendency to cruel and fiendish behavior. He
seems to find unbounded delight in dragging
modest, retiring people up TO the very front
seats, while elderly, deaf persons are maliciousy
disposed of in remote pews. Through his evil
agency, bashful bachelors are seated by pretty
girls, to endure untold aeonies of nervous horror;
aud mortal enemies are planted cheek by tjow
to profane the Sabbath day in exchanging SUBJ
dued, but intense and unholy glances. The
wicked usher is not only full of malice, but his
soul is dead to all artistic groupings of color
He invariably puts the woman with laven-
der bonnet In the same seat with the
woman with n blue bonnet, thus rob-
bling the sermon of its potency to sensitive
art critics in the rear. An thou hast a
bonneC with more trimming side than the
othey, he will surely thee the congregation
side of 1t will be next the wall. These are but
the mildesJ peceadilioee of this depraved being
Others will occur to those who are familiar with
his idiosyncrases. bur this enumeration il char
ltably limited to those mentioned, that he may
he left sufficient sef-respect with which to work
within himself a speedy reformation. There is
no office open TO man which requires AS talented
a heart, as nimble mind, delicate tact, as
refined and discerning taste, as does that of the
church usher and by the malicious or thought
less errors of his kind many desperate victim
is driven to contemplate deeds OF gore. Let this
thought give the wicked usher pause
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favor of the elevation of Dr. Sims to the gen.
eral SUPPLEMENTARY, and it may be said that.
30 far as appearances can be judged. his election
as bishop next year is among the certainties.
This fattering Endorsement by the New
York conference means that he will be sup
ported for that Office by his codelegates, and he
will, of course, receive the hearty and unani-
nous support of all the delegates from Indiana.
The great administrative ability which DIR. Sims
has shown since his occupancy of the chancellor
ship of the important university, from which DR..
Ravens was taken to the episcopal bench, and the
marked pulpit success he always had while in
the itinerary, indicate that the church could not
go amiss If chose him as one of the four or
new bishops who will certainly be added to the
present bench at the next General Conference
Bishop Sims would sound pleasantly in Indiana
ears.
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THE New York Tribune has q paragraph upon
almost a regular practice, which is worth repro
duction:
"a Brooklyn clergy man of nearly forty years.
experience remarked privately the other day
upon what he called an imposition upon the
time and patience of ministers praciised by per-
sons who belong to no church. This Is in the I'M
reasonable demands upon their time for funeral
services. Persons who have never connected
themselves with any church, and also, it is more
than likely, have made it practice to sneer at
churches and clergymen alike, still feel the need
of clerical services when death makes Its way
into the family circle. They seek out "a clergy
man TO whom they are not known at all, perhaps
through an introduction from friend, ana
make heavy draft upon his time. He must not
only conduct the main portion of the service,
but he must go to the grave. There, after
having expended half day, he is dismissed
with, possibly, a thank you,' and those to whom
he has devoted his time probably return to their
old course of indifference, If not actual OPPOSE
ton, to all religious effort. Service at funerals
stands on such different basis from that at
marriages that clergymen are expected to be al
ways at command, and they perform this ex-
acting labor with great unselfishness, and for
its own sake, as it is entirely without reward.
Yet there has so often seemed to be an element
of social imposition in the demands made upon
them that some clergymen baye considered the
ACCESSIBILITY OF ca using 1t to be understood that
in cases not arising in their own congregations,
or where there was no natural claim upon them,
they would expect those who could afford it TO
compensate them for their time"
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only one direction in which the law is dis
honored. 1t is an open secret that very
large number of them keep open on Sunday
as well, while not few of them are carrying
on business without complying with the
license law.
It is no argument to say that the traffic
has gone on for hundreds of years and will
likely continue. All reforms are reached by
slow processes, and those most desirable
seem hardest in coming. Human nature is
slow to learn, especially when the pleasures
of the hour dazzle the eyes against inevita-
BILE but undesirable consequences. Popular
education is a tedious process. Any one
familiar with well-established facts knows
that the liquor traffic brings an enormous
burden of expense upon the
people in general. Ordinarily such a
this is not easily done; 1t will require time.
Meanwhile, the best that can be done ought
to be considered better than nothing. For a
number of years the people of Ohio have
stultifed themselves by having constitu-
ton that forbade the issuance of license to
the liquor traffic. Contrary to expectation,
it did not put an end to the business, but
made it absolutely free, so that, re-
lieved of its just share of the burden
of taxation, it increased enormously.
AT length public sentiment became
so strong against such palpable
injustice that remedy was sought, and in
compliance with popular demand Republi-
can Legislature last year passed what was
known as the Scott bill. Under its provis-
ions hundreds of liquor dealers were driven
out of the business, and those that continued
were compelled to pay tax. The revenue
realized from this source during the first
year of the existence of the law is not less
than 50, 0OO 900. This was an immense stride
toward the desirable. But many temper
ance people were still unsatsfied, and
were confident in the belief that
a prohibitory law would be better. To make
an experiment, they cut adrift from their
friends, and politically helped to give the
State and Legislature over to the enemy, with
the probable only success of once more max
ing the liquor traffic free, and piling two
millions of dollars of taxation upon the per-
sons and property justly relieved of it by
the levy upon this mammon of unrighteous-
ness. Prohibition will be a success in Ohio
and elsewhere when the people are largely in
favor of it, and not before A prohibitory
law or constitutional amendment would close
the saloon doors, perhaps but they would be
easy of access by some other
avenue, just as they are now in this State on
Sunday, in defiance of the prohibition. What
may become practical and easy OF accom-
plishment in the near or remote future may
be impractical now, and the problem to be
solved always in the work of human govern
ment, is to do the best that can be done,
abaing nothing in belief or work for the still
better, even the ideal of perfection. This is
the history and lesson of the world, drawn
both from the pages of the Bible and from
the pages of experience.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13

THE Mobile Register acquits Mrs. Stonewall
Jackson OF any intentional wroDg-doing in ac-
cepring courtesies from Northern people during
her recent visit to Boston, but plainly warns her
that she must not do SO again if she would retain
her place in the esteem and affection of "true
Southerners." Thus 40 the fools continue to yex
themselves,
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BROTHER GARDNER, the eminent president of
the Lime Kiln club, is one of the most eOnserva-
tive, and at the same time Independently sensi-
bic statesman the country can boast. AT all
times, and upon all occasions, he sets his face
like flint against improvldence, style and
fashionable sin, AT the last meeting of the club
a distinguished stranger, Hon. Half-shel Sny
der, was expected to lecture, and he in the
ante-room awaiting an Introduction. Mr. Sny-
der had arrived IN Detroit little the worse for
wear, and the good president had contributed
viotuals and clothes to put him into presentable
shape, expecting to be repaid by the address
promised. But when the Hon. Half-snell came
upon the platform it was found that he was so
drunk as to be unable to stand alone. Where
upon Brother Gardner took occasion to say:
"Any fule kin git drunk, hut it takes a man to
keep sober. AK dis man in his sober hours to
put his foot agin hot stove cut his fingers
wild knife, an he would call you crazy, but he
cOolly an deliberately purceeds to do wuss. He
pOurs stuff inter his stomoh to reduce himself
TO de level of brute or lower. 1 can't strip him
of de cloze 1 lent him, an de food he has eaten
at my table has gone to make fat his ribs.
Howsumeber, in his departur from dis locality
he should be made to realize dat we know an in-
suit when we SEE one, an kin properly resent 1t.
Brudders Stepoff Jones an i. Nelson Slabs will
escort de celebrated orator down stairs an gin
him an appropriate send-Of."
The order of the president was obeyed with
alacrlCy, ana Gne report says tnat next morning
the boys picked up pieces of pantaloons cloth
and several buttons and buckles on the other side
of the ten-foot fence in front of the entrance
door. If men who deSaucb themselves with
whisky were thus heroicay treated by society,
instead of being coddIed and made to believe
their bestiality was the necessary and somewhat
commendable concomitant of their "brilliance,"
there would be less drunkenness in the world
and fewer bright minds hopelessly eclipsed
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PHILADELPHIA boasts of a young lady who
plays the piano with her feet The society for
the prevention Of cruelty TO nelghbors should
suppress this young woman before her example
becomes contagious. One timid girl with her
feet ON the piano, banjo in her hands, and the
last rose of summer on her lips can depopulate
a whole block in an evening.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13

REV. CHARLES N. SIMS, d. D., chancellor of
Syracuse University, was yesterday elected a
delegate to the Methodist General Conference
from The Central New York annual conference,
of which he is now a member. DR.. Sims re-
ceived the highest vote cast and was elected on
the first ballot This election will give increased
impetus TO the already general movement In
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CHAIRMAN OGLEvEE, of the Republican GEN.
trail committee, confesses that the defeat in
ONO is overwhelming. He does not take much
stock in the report that the second amendment
was traded against Foraker The Republicans
lost in the wine and Woodworking counties, and
also in the iron counties. The county of OTTAWA,
in which Kelley's island is situated, increased
its Democratic majority from $50 to 1888. In
nearly all the cities of the State, except Dayton
and Toledo, the Republicans made gains.
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THE little god of love was long time in get
ting around to Jonathan Davis and Elizabeth
Eyett of Georgia, but his aim and execution
were good when he did sight them. Jonathan
was bachelor of sixty-five, Elizabeth a maiden
of sixty. They had lived in the same county all
their lives, but met for the first time at an even
ing party last week. 1t was case of love at
first sight and on both sides, an nfatuation so
ardent that Jonathan proposed, and they were
married then and there.
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1T is now discovered that 'even the new two
cent stamp is servile imitation of the English
penny stamp, and that in color and style of let
tering it is as exact a copy could be made"
Thus is American liberty once more imperied
If it can survive this stroke shall begin to
have some hope, but the case is desperate.
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hit her on the nose, but she was in no degree
dismayed. 1t atterward developed that,she was
exercised not SO much on account of Christian
zeal as for the $500 tucked away between the
leaves. The unhappy woman lost the money
and had bloody nose besides
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Two women in Connecticut were so affected
by thunder storm the other day that they en-
tirely lost their memory of everything that had
occurred during the preceding twenty-four
hours. There are men mean enough to wish
their wives would be struck by lightning once
day, just as hard as those Connecticut ladies
wera
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13

UPON the proposition to change the name of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of America to
the "Holy Catholic Church of America" the vote
stood 26 in favor to 252 in the negative.
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DAY or two ago press dispatch announced
that the "Masher'' heirs had met in Chicago to
mature plans for securing control of an i'm
mense English estate which had been owned by
the old and original Washer several generations
ago. All the excruciatingly witty remarks that
III funny editors simultaneously evolved and
all the other puns and jokes which as many
other editors are still struggling with on the
strength of this dispatch, are rendered pointless
by the later information that the deceased
Englishman was Mosher by name. 1t is not
impossible that he may also have been masher,
but his heirs do not base their claims on such
points Of family resemblance and regard all
levity as untimely
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MRS. SARAH WINNEMUCCA HOPKINS, re-
formed Indian princess, argues for the appoint
ment of women Indian agents. There are too
many women In the world, that's q fact.
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THE Democracy OF Ohio are going to "make
the welkin ring" In Hamilton, Butler county,
tonight. In the list of speakers advertised we
find the name OF Mr.. Mcdonald, but look in vain
for that of Thomas A. Hendricks. How Mr.
Hendricks does wish he could have found time
to 90 over to Ohio and help the brethren.
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THE Seawanhaka accident whereby several
lives were lost by the burning of steamer in the
East river, New York, three years ago, is
called by the fact that the court has dismissed
the indictments that were brought against the
engineer and owners. Are we so soon forgotten
when we are gone
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A DRUNKEN man in New York recently went
home and set fire to the family Bible. Hts sister,
in-law rushed to the rescue with heroic ondeavor
worthy of martyrs crown. The frenzied man
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WATER will come high this winter. At Prov
lncetown, Mass, alone, there has been 10, OOO,-
600 pounds of Goldfish landed this year.
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DIR. Fl. Won HoLTz, of Germany, is lecturing
before the students of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. Political history seems to be his best
holtz.
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ELF BETH STUART PHELPs's constant chum ia,
1t is said pug dog If Elizabeth expects to
take the little beast through the gates ajar," we
shall be under the necessity Of asking that those
portals be closed and fastened with IA spring
lock.
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THE Philadelphia Record, a Democratic organ,
alludes to our own "Jayhawker" as AN 'lnterest-
ing and picturesque ruin of the Ohio EARTH
quake" This is unkind: but come to think of 1t,
where is the ruin hid since the light went out9
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LONDON is little world all to itself. 1t has
10000 paupers and a charity income of $751;
1000 per annum to support the vast INDECENT
orr
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A CURIOUS complication has already arisen in
Ohio, upon the hypothesis that the third, or jul
dicial, amendment to the constitution has been
carried The text of the amendment provides
that the new sections shall be considered part
Of the constitution 'ff majority of all the votes
cast at said election shall be in favor of said
amendment" This would seem to make it clear
that the new provisions became of effect at the
time the balloting closed Tuesday evening,
and that all proceedings subsequent to that
time were simply for ascertaining and declaring
the result The last sentence of section 2, as
amended. is, that 1.-THE Judges of the Supreme
Court in office when this amendment takes eff
feet shall continue to hold their offices until
their successors are elected and qualified" At
the time the amendment took effect the Su-
preme Court consisted of four Republicans and
one Democrat, and this membership is continued
until another election. At least, this Is the opn-
ion of many good lawyers of Ohio.