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THE OILERS FANCIEs.
Alb 1ut Walking.
polls.


"What you say about walking for exercise ex-
presses my opinion exactly" said the red
haired and vivaoious young woman who now
and then favors the Idler with her views on mat
tiers and things. "YOu are quite right: but why
not make yourself useful by suggesting or in
venting an easy and available means of locOmo-
ton for the benefit of the impecunious What is
a body to do who from natural inertia-is that a
good wordl-or, perhaps, new shoes, Is disn-
cline to walk, and whose carriage is a sweet
dream of the futlre3 1 am forced to take the
street-car. and detest streetcars, especially
those the line RAINING northeast. 1 am not
Observation-Disclosures confession for a native of
this free country, isn't itl-and do not like to
be crowded by all sorts of men and brethren, to
say nothing of the sisters and babies, even If
they are free and equal could endure a crowd,
however. 1 could smile when my white dress is
soied by the dusty seats or the rufles attened by
the crush; could even preserve my curiosity
while the woman with the wet waterproof rubs
against me, If this all happened in any other
than the new cars with crOsswise seats
and a center aisle. They call the borrid
things improved cars, too, but they certainly do
not improve the temper of women. The benches
are not long enough for two. even if, like a
piece of bacon, the occupants are a
streak OF fat and streak of lean II
you are next the window some enorm-
GUS creature is sure to take the outside.
If you sit on the outer edge yourself, your dress
lies in the trail OF the tobacco chewing man;
great splay feet trample upon your skirts, and
you feel 'mussy' and disguised when You leave
the car. Then there is the difficulty IN getting
your fare into the box. With the seats opposite
it is easy to fix man with your glittering eye and
to transform him into conductor; in the i'm
proved car he can look another way until
woman totters up and deposits the nickel her
self. 1 tell you no man knows what trials q
woman has. but when he is told he ought to go
to work and mitigate her sorrows"
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defeat the inevitable. 1t is needless now to
cite more than one case-that of Garfield
For long months an entire nation
united in an unbroken and prolonged
petition for his deiverance from death. 1t
was all in vain, and as the shadows of the
night of the 10Th of September shut out
from his eyes the tides of the ocean his he
roic spirit took its flight to a better land.
Faith rests are well enough in their way,
perhaps, but it is a strange kind of faith that
cannot go directly from the hearthstone Of
the old home. The Healer of men has no
headquarters but in the hearts of men. He
is not to be sought as Isis was sought, nor
found in a certain locality, as is any material
god. The vail of the temple was rent in
twain. 1t remains for all men to reach
God for themselves, since He has
made himself accessible, not only to the high
priest but to all men alike If faith is to
cure you, reach out and lay hold of it, where
ever you may be. 1t is a matter between
you and the Creator, and no mar can have
efficient faith for you. 1t is not meant here
to deride faith in religion, but to recall men
to the knowledge that God is every Vi here,
and that He is no respecter OF persons.
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The Ethics of Fashion.

"Tell me that I look well in my new suit, not
that the clothes are handsome" said modest
youth whom the Idler sought to compliment. 81
buy my clothing to adorn myself with, not to
exhibit as a specimen of the tailor's art. Always
suited with what Get2 No." said this young phi
losOpher. sometimes a garment is unsatisfac-
tory, but never complain except to the tailor.
Affect to be pleased with the Objectionable ap-
parel. Ieven call the attention of my friends TO
its admirable qualities. If like it they do, and
all is WELL"
"By the way" he continued dreamily, as he
gazed at the feminine forms fitting by, "by the
way, why ia it that women will wear that bag
hitched to their left shoulders2 Vatican fold
think they call it, and what fold it is! under
stand that Buffalo Bills Pluto squaws took
notes of the fashions, and especially admired
this style. They thought the bag would be
handy to carry pappoose in"
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BREAKFAST CHAT.

MIR. RUsKIN entertains a profound sympathy
with Miss Greenaway's genius, and says that her
minuteness and delicacy OF touch are carried to
the utmost limit
CLARENCE PARKER, the sixteen-year-old son of
a State senator Of Nevada, weighs $50 pounds
and has thus got his name and fame admitingly
into the newspapers.
JUDGE FORAKER, the Republican nominee for
Governor of Ohio, wears upon his little finger
peculiar ring, which was given him by young
lady in Tennessee, whose life he heroically saved
during the war.
EDISON, the inventor, is just as tall and just
broad as any other niddle-sizsd man, and wears
drab stiff hat and a suit of black clothes. He
looks like a cross between a business man and a
oege professor.
"THERE never was blonde woman yet who
was true and loved but one man," was the sweep
ing assertion written by Moran, who committed
suicide at Brooklyn, the other day, in letter to
his faithless sweetheart.
OWING to his long continued sickness, it is said
that there is hardly possibility that Mr.. A.
Bronson Alcott will be able to attend the ses-
sions OF the Concord Summer School of PhllOs-
ophy either as lecturer or spectator
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK. in an interesting speech
on the modern system of education, told good
story of a public school man, who, when asked
the meaning of theodolite, said he believed a
theodoite to mean one who hates God.
THE board Of trustees Of Princeton College
have declined to accept the resignation of Dr.
McCosh. To tighten his labors the trustees,bave
promoted DR.. MURRAY to the position of dean,
and ntrusted him with the disciplinary manage
ment of the institution
CoNsUMPTIvE people should consult their ply
seians before taking Mrs. Colonel Burnaby's ad-
vice or following her example. Not finding re-
lief in the warm climates to which her doctors
sent her. she spent a winter climbing the Swiss
mountains, sleeping in cold huts and holes in the
snow and living in rough villages. She recOv-
cred.
MILE. JULIE, French model, is described as
possessing slight, slippy figure, well-set little
head, on an unusually beautiful neck, gray eyes,
blonde hair rather la Greuze and the little feet
aud dumpy fingers with the pointed tips and
the small, long nails that are 80 common with
the Partisan model. She has taste for dress,
and knows it and shows it.
CURIOUS experiment was made recently at
Paris to determine the power Of a oroeodie's
jaw The animal was fixed on table with Its
upper jaw connected with dynamometer. An
electric shock caused him to give sudden snap.
Three hundred and eight pounds was marked on
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The tricycle. as a Locomotive.

A suggestion Of the tricycle. as a means of To-
comotion for the conventional young woman
met with the scorn it doubtless deserved; for,
indeed, that vehicle does not fill the ngfst
feminine want To propel 1t requires coIsidera-
BILE exertion. The constant treadlng of the air,
besides reminding the beholder OF travelling
dog-churn. detracts from the reposeful manner
considered so essential to well-bred
ladyhOOd. And yet the tricycle.
has merits. 1t never runs away
and breaks the riders neck. 1t does not balk,
nor grow skttish though the air be full of news
paper. Above ALL it does not eat It's head off. 1t
may, to be sure, drive a horse into q frenzy or
nolselessly run down a stray infant, but that is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-23
PHILIP ID. ARMOUR.
The Early Life of the Great Provision Specu'
lator and His Present Great Wealth.

National Republican.
P d. Armour the ruler of the provision
market of the world, is of sturdy Scotch
Presbyterian stock. He was born in one Of
the central counties of New York, on farm
among the hills. 1t was the highest ambition
of his boyhood days to earn money enough
to buy the farm adjoining his fathers, When
the gold fever broke out he was still a mere
stripling but, full of youthful enthusiasm,
he started for California, driving wagon
across the plains and mountains. He re-
manned there three or four years, and in that
time saved a few thousand dollars. The
dream of his life was about the be realized.
He had cash enough to buy that farm and
settle down. He shook the dust of the
Golden State fro IN his feet and turned his
face to the east He was in feverish haste to
get home. The stages moved at a snail's
pace and everything dragged horribly. He
had no sooner reached home than he ex-
perienced sudden revulsion of feeling.
The streets of the village nearest ais sire's
farm, which had once struck him
as being noble drives and busy thor
oughfares looked narrow, cramped. and
dull. The house that had impressed his
juvenile Imagination as grand appeared mean
and dngy, and the hills that had seemed to
him like mighty mountains few years be-
fore were now mere mole hills. The very
atmosphere was suffocating almost, and he
painted to get away before his hat was fairly
on its old peg. He only remained on the
farm two or three days and then took HIM
self to Cincinnati. Later he drifted to Mil
waukee, and at the close of the war he sold
great lot of pork at $40 barrel, and
bought it in again at $18 to $40, realizing a
profit of about million. This gave him his
start, and from that day he has been contin-
ually adding to his wealth, until to-day he
ranks as the wealthiest man in Chicago be-
ing rated by those who know some
thing of his busnesa at $25, 900 900 or $780,
600, 000 His transactions are colossal. His
firm employs between 5000 and 6,000 men,
and on his payrolls are about fifty men wha
receive salaries of S., 900 and over. He is not
yet fifty-fve years of age, and although he
puts in ten and twelve hours day and de-
votes very little time to recreation, he is ap.
parently good for twenty-five years yet.
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their misfortune for which the tricycle. is not re-
sponsible. Some day, when lightning has been
harnessed a little more securely than has yet
been done, we will have our family tricycles run
by electricity. "The lady of the house" will I'M
hitch her silverplated carriage from the fence;
she will seat herself upon the silken cushions.
and touching a button, will fold her hands
serenely and glide swiftly and silently to her
journeys end The coming tricycle. will rival
the flying horse of the Arabian Nights. That
famous steed, by the way, was regulated by a
button, and perhaps its motive power was cleo
tricity. Who kuows2
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Planets and the Late
Eclipse.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis journal:
1t had been hoped by astronomers that the
question of the existence Of intramercurial
planet would have been definitely settled by OBJ.
servations during the total eclipse of May 6,
1888. The inquiry has been one of great inter-
est for the last quarter of century. According
to Leverrier the motion of Mercury is disturbed
by planet, perhaps a group Of planets,
within its orbit and in 1859, NJ. Lescarbault
claimed to have seen such body crossing the
sums disc. On the other hand, NJ. Liais, of Rio
de JanerIo, was examining the sun at the very
time of Lescarbaults observations and failed to
notice the passing planet. The matter was
therefore still left undecided. During the total
eclipse of July 30, 1873, DR.. Lewis Swift and
the late Professor ]. C. Watson each saw two
objects which they believed to be planets. Fur
Their eclipse observations were accordingly wait.
ed for with the greatest interest During the
total observation of May II, 1882, an I'M
known comet seen very near the sun, but no
planet. The American party of observers sent
to Caroline Island to observe the eclipse of May
6, 1888, was favored with a clear atmosphere.
The duration of tOtality was unusually long, and
Professor holden made special search for intra-
mercurial planets. The search, however, was
entirely unsuccessful. The facts of the case are
thus exceedingly perplexing. That fixed stars
whose positions were well known should have
been mistaken for planets by two experienced
observers such as Watson and Swift, seems al
| most incredible. On the other hand, however,
it is at least equally improbable that Professor
Holden, with more time for the search, should
have failed to detect planet if any was visible.
The total eclipse of Aug. 30, 1886, will afford
another favorable opportunity to look for plan
cts in the suns vicinity. Meanwhile the posi-
tion of astronomers in regard to the question
will perhaps very generally be one of doubt.
DANIEL KIRKwooD.
Pr
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The Issues in Indiana.

]. II. W. in Cincinnati Enquirer.
The campaign of 1884 begins with such
as Indiana is concerned. The statistics OBJ
tanned by the State authorities show that the
value of the manufactured articles which In.
diana produced last year amounted to $780,
600, 1000, and the politicians recognize the fact
that nine-tenths of the German vote is under
the influence of the tariff Weighing all the
drifts, with the Republicans favorable to
tariff for protection, with incidental rev
enue," the Democrats need not count on In
diana in the next campaign, unless they Sc
lect candidate who is at least 10000 votes
stronger than his party.
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The Public school-Teacber.

Talk about the joy of the graduate freed from
the grind and discipline of school; grow elo-
quent over delighted children at liberty for
the summer; enlarge upon their pleasure all you
choose, but keep silence when you would men
ton the teachers vacation. You cannot do that
subject Justice School vacations made for
children. Little ones, fortunately, cannot en-
dure confinement, otherwise the teacher would
he required to go on forever Yet the teacher
particularly she of the public sehOOl-lOoks upon
the vacation upon a friend wLo stands be-
tween herself and an early grave or the lunatic
asy lam. She looks forward to it with hope;
v ithout that hope she would lie down and die.
She cherishes jealousy every hour of her lib
erty, and when it is over she begins to think OF
the distance to the next oasis. "But teaching is
surely not such hard work" NOT You know
you would, yourself, find it less wearisome to do
days office work homework than to spend
an hour in instructing your own little Polly.
How would you ike to try 1t fer six hours with
forty-nine other children of varying de-
grees of intelligence and amiability
to bear her company You believe
Polly to be remarkably brilliant child, but alas
you are alone In that deusion. Others, the
teacher included, have found her stupid. Your
darling Tommy everybody else knows to be a
and Tommies 1t is not actual work which
brings the wrinkles to the teachers face, makes
her temper intrm and herself older than her
years. Great numbers of persons labor more
days in the year, more hours in the day, with no
such disastrous results. 1t is the difficulty of
serving, not two, but many masters which makes
life burden to the teacher in the public schools
She does not love the youngsters in her charge
as their mothers do, but she tries to do her duty
by them. Should she fail for moment the fifty
children see the lapse, the hundred parents are
quick to complain, the supervising principal the
"critic teachers" the assistant superintendent
and his superior, all Of them, with the
school board at the back, are ready
to pounce upon her. "But If a teacher
loves her Calling. There 1t goes again!
The same rule holds good in teaching as in other
COMPLIMENTARY, the better salary the bet
ter service. The man or woman VINO is willing
to teach for pure love of it is a myth. Should
such misguided persons exist, however, their
labors would be equally exhausting. Let, then,
the teacher enjoy her vacation in utter ideness,
or in such way as seemeth to her best. Advise
her not to think of her pupils and Of what stores
of fresh knowledge she may lay up for them; but
20 consider herself-how she may have a good
time, and come home rejoicing in renewed
health and spirits.
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NINE ont of every ten women, it is safe to say,
are of the opinion that Mrs. Nickerson No.
missed the opportunity of her life when she ap-
piled for a divorce from her husband, the recre-
ant Major. The nine say that they, in her place,
would have done no such thing. Having vindi-
Gated herself by having the fraudulent decree
set aside, it was her duty to her to refuse to
obtain one herself and thereby set the wretch
free TO marry the other woman. Such course
would not only have been just revenge upon
the two destroyers of her happiness but would
have been warning to other like-minded men.
Thus say the nine, and thus they think, but they
are mistaken, as their husbands very well know.
Being women they are loving and forgivng and
would have "weakened" after the first burst of
wrath, just as Mrs. Nickerson has done. AS re-
marked by a close observer of the sex, they are
''rum critters" To lovers Of justice the fact is
very disappointing and exasperating in cases
ike the one referred to, but it can't he helped.
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To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
Your answer to when township assessors will
be next elected and that of the Attorney general
conflict. Which is correcti II
NEW LEBANON, Ind,
Section 1914. passed March 30, 1881, pro-
vides that the township assessor shall be elected
every four years at the general election. Section
4,735, passed Sept. 10, 1881, specifies that the
time for the election of the assessor shall be
on the first Monday in April. The term is for
four years. and the time for the election Is fixed
by the last named section.
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TIE death OF Rev. Charles T. Brooks, of New
port, R. l., recalls little anecdote about him.
At tea-party, given by member OF the Rev.
DIR. Thayer's church, few years ago, lady
playfully demonstrated with DR.. Thayer for his
intimacy with the Unitarian divine. sit is true"
said Doctor Thayer, that Mr.. Brooks and are
very good friends, and that 1 am really very
fond of him. He is a most delightful cOmpan-
ion, and we often go fishing together. To-day,
however, while we were on the fishing ground,
he shocked me by a little exhibition of profani-
ty." PROFANITY" exclaimed the orthodox sis
ter, "you don't really mean That Mr.. Brooks is
profaneq az must confess that he was some
what so to day." said the good Dr. Thayer. you
see it happened thus we were at anchor with
our lines out, Brother Brooks, the skipper and
], when, after some tedious waiting, the skipper
cried out: Il had a - good bite them where
upon Brother Brooks quickly responded: so
did II"
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"WHEN the Seminole war in Florida closed, in
1887, the remnant of the ferociOus tribe plunged
into the everglades and have never reappeared.
In order to find out what is going on in that I'M
explored and unknown section of the State q
party is being formed in New Orleans to investi-
gate" -Ex
Apparently the coroner at New Orleans would
ike to hold an inquest on the body OF the young
man named Abel
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THE Emperor of Germany is the oldest SOW
ereigD in the world, being SO, and the King of
the Netherlands ranks next in age, being &C.
Then come: The King of Denmark, aged 65
Queen Victoria, GA; the King of Wurtemberg, 60:
the Emperor of Brazil, 81; the King OF Saxony
So; the King of Sweden and Norway, "a; the EN-
peror of Austria, SO; the King of the Belgians,
4si the King of Portugal, i'd; the King Of Rou-
maSia, Al; the Sultan Of Turkey, 40; the King Of
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HARPER's WEEKLY, in the course Of an edito-
.Ial nnon the adm iatratioD RayA.

HARPER's WEEKLY, in the course OF an edito-
sIal upon the administration, says:
can administration which began amid doubts
and grave apprehensions has ially obtained
the regard and trust of the ecu }. The Presi-
dent is u strong party man, and the interests OF
hi party cre dear TO hu. " must be pleasant
for biil., therefore, to know that least his ad
ministra.iOn has not weakened the hold of his
party upon public confidence. His course, in
deed. has illustrated the truth of the notable
saying of President Hayes, that he serves his
party best who serves his country most. 1t is a
truth which, however abstractly obvious, adj
practice. But they who resolutely do 1t have
their reward While the professional politicians
sneer, the good sense of the people applauds,
and the President himself must see that precisely
as fast and far he dlsregards the wishes of
party hucksters he commends his administration
to an honorable place in American history"
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THE curious story that Queen Christina, of
Spain, in a freak OF Jealousy had taken her in
fants and unceremoniously left Alfonso is, as
might have been expected, untrue. 1t was
absurd that she should leave Alfonso little
PROPAGATION.
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MRS. KTNcAID, of Rutland, o., left party of
visitors in the parlor while she went out and
drowned herself in the cistern. The art of
entertaining had evidently not been studied by
Mrs. Kincaid. No true hostess Will go off and
have good time all by herself and leave her
guests TO their own devices
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CONFEDERATE monument was dedicated at
Camden, S. c., on Thursday, in the presence of
enthusiastic crowds. The shaft bears the fol-
lowing inscription:
This monument is, erected by the women of
hefshaw county in memory of her brave sons
VINO fell during the Confederate war defending
the rights and honor of the South.
Counties hearts have cOnned their story
Countless hearts grown brave thereby;
Let us thank the God of glory
We had such to die"
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One In Ten Years Enough.

Columbus Republican.
One Democratic Legislature every decade
is quite as much as Indiana can afford to tol
crate.
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Italy, SO; the Emperor of Russia, SO; the King
Of Bavaria, 81; the King of the Hellenes, 81; the
King of servia, 2S, and the King of Spain, 25.
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THE Thomas orchestra gave a concert in Den
yer on Tuesday evening. The Tribune of that
city says the audience on the occasion was not
large, but was exceedingly fashionable, only two
previous assemblages equaling it in the display
OF magnificent toilets. Says the Tribune: "Most
OF the gentlemen wore blue overalls and gum
shoes, and their fair companions were bedecked
in elaborate calicoes and stunning bonnets with
big feathers on them. When it comes to a show
down in the toilet line, this particular neck of
the woods knocks all other localities stone cold"