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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

Shakespeare, and the masterpieces of ex-
preston Gas the ~orations OF Cicero and
Macaulay) serve for mental discipline, but
they do not teach how to build bridges or
railroads, even while they meet other great
needs of society. The present demands men
gifted in action rather than in expression.
The classical studentma shine in the pulpit,
in politics, diplomacy, literature or journal
road, or wherever, in fact, the productive and
transporting energies of a nation are re-
quired, a different education is needed.
Both classical and scientific students
meet needs of society, and neither can be
dispensed with. But the question is one of
supply and demand, and the demand now
is for engineers and shop-educated men
men who have nourished their intellects in
laboratories and agriculture, rather than on
the husky provender of words and no.
tons"
Indiana has six universities in name, if
not in fact, and eleven colleges. All wave
one have scientific courses and all have
preparatory and classical courses. Purdue
University has an excellent course in iron
and wood work, teaching principles of tool
using and making, but makes no shop work
Tor sale, thus following the plan of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology, rather
than the Worcester Institute method of Civ
ing Instruction by the direct manufacture,
under instructions in the shop, of salable
wares. This is the method to be adopted in
the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre
Haute. This new school, introducing The
generic features of polytechnic schools int
our college system, will be warmly well
coined by every honest educator. 1t is what
we have long needed, and fills a place not &C.
cupied by any other college in the State. Its
progress will be watched with %unlagging IN
terest by all interested in the material well
fare of the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

30 the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal;
Will you please give the main features of the
new dog law, in your paper, and state when the
law takes effect2 --
KNlGHTSToWN, Ind.
The law provides that the township assessors
shall list all dogs over six months old, between
the first day of April and the first day of June
each year, and that each male dog shall be taxed
81, each female So, AMI each additional dog
over one owned by any one person, So. Any
exceeding So i'll each case, and any one making
a false statement of the number of dogs har-
bored may be fined 800. Any dog that kills
sheep may be killed, and any person who har-
bors a dog after it is known to have killed sheep
may be fined 800. The killing of any listed
dog which has violated none of the provisions OF
the law is a misdemeanor subject TO o fine Of
300. All money derived from the
taxation Of dogs shall constitute a
fund to be used for the payment of damages
sustained By dogs killing or manning
sheep, and the township trustee Is required to col
lect annually from the county treasurer the
taxes and fines from this source. Owners of
sheep which are killed by dogs are required to
report their losses to the township trustee
within ten days, and any person making a false
statement Of the amount of damages may be
fined 800, and imprisoned In the county jail for
thirty days. The surplus over the money paid
for damages to sheep shall be applied to the
school revenue Of the township. The act of
April 13, 1881, is repealed, and the new law has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

FOLLOWING are two anecdotes OF Lincoln Illus
trative of his spirit of forbearance toward the
principle actors in the great rebellion. One day,
about the close of the war, word was brought
that Jake Thompson was at Portland, Me-,
about to sail for England. Mr.. Lincoln was
washing his hands at the time, when Secretary
Stanton urged him to take immediate action to
secure his arrest:
"W-e-l-l,7 said the President. "ff Jake Thomp-
son is satisfied with the issue of the war, l am.
Better let him s-l-i-d-e."
"Such men should be punished to the full ex-
tent of the law" SAID Mr.. Stanton. why, If we
don't punish the leaders of the rebellion, what
shall we say to their fOllowers2"
"B-e-t-t-e-r let HIM slide, Stanton" said the
President, laying aside his towel.
Mr.. Stanton went out, evidently annoyed, and
Mr.. Lincoln, turning TO Admiral Dahlgren, who
was present, said: .fDahl, that is one of the
things | don't intend to allow. When the war
is over I want 1t to stop, ana let both sides go to
work and heal the wounds, which, heaven
knows, are bad enough; but jogging and pulling
at them is not the best way to heal sores"
A similar story is told OF Mr.. Lincoln, relative
to the attempted escape of jeff. Davis. An
off cer approached him for the purpose of learning
his wishes. AS soon as Mr.. Lincoln OWNED the
officers purpose he proceeded to tell him a story,
which runs about as follows:
81 remember" said the President, ga noted
temperance lecturer who lived in S~angamon
county, ILL.,, and was very earnest in the cause.
He was proceeding afOOt on a hot and dusty day
to deliver n temperance discourse In n neighbor-
ing town. Being exceedingly thirsty, he stopped
at "a tavern on the roadside and called for n glass
of s clearwater. The tavern-Reeper knew him,
and leaning over the bar, he said to him in "A
whisper: This is a very hot day, and you look
very much used-up. Shall | put a stick in it?'
H. said the lecturer in n confidential tone, "a
stick could be put in it unbeknown to me, 1 AN
not prepared to say that anybody would suffer
by it, Nov, i" SAID Lincoln, "IcannOt tell anyone
TO be a party to JEFF. Davis's escape; but if he
should %contrive to quit the country unbe-
known TO ME, | am not prepared TO saw mn that
we would be able to get along very comfortably
without him."
The officer needed no further information
touching the wishes of the executive head of
the government, at all events, and he left the
White House entirely satisfied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

THE Lawreneeburg Press contains an I'M
just attack upon Governor Porter, charging
him with a want of sympathy with the peo-
pie of Lawrenceburg during their suffering
from the flood. The mayor OF Lawrenceburg,
the head of the Lawrenceburg relief commit
tee, seems to entertain a different view. In
a letter to the Governor, dated the 25th ult.,
acknowledging a second check from him, the
mayor says; 81 assure you that our people
fully appreciate your personal gifts and also
the great interest felt by you in our welfare,
as shown by your statements to the Legisla-
ture. We certainly thank you most heart
lily" The statements to the Legislature"
mentioned in the letter, refer to the Govern
or's recommendation, in a special message to
that body, that the second appropriation of
$4,000 might be applied, so far as
of needy sufferers habitable. The Legisla-
ture declined to adopt the Governors recon-
mendation. The Governor has advocated
and voted for every appropriation made by
the State relief committee for the benefit of
Lawrenceburg, and moved for all but one APP
preparation, and for that gladly voted. The
town of Lawrenceburg has received from
that committee four thousand dollars more
than any town in the State. If the Gov
ernor should receive any blame it should
not come from that quarter. From the
time the business of relief began he has de-
voted a great part of every day to the work
of distributing relief, and starts to day with
the committee of the indianapolis Board of
Trade to go by chartered steamboat along our
whole Ohio river border to see what further
is needed, if anything, to relieve suffering,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10
A sHoRr-sIGHTEp EULoGY,

TIL Rev. DR.. Talmage, OF Brooklyn, in a
eulosy on Governor Stephens. took occasion
to say that had there been ten such men at
the South and ten such men at the North
the grave-trenches would never have been
dug" With a high appreciation of the pub
differ from DIR. Talmage as to this. The
causes that led to the rebellion were far
reaching, and extended beyond the life and
influence of men like Stephens. There were
doubtless many honest, sincere men in the
South who deprecated the mad rush into
rebellion, but they were overrun and their
views swept away like cobwebs before a
hailstorm. Nothing could stay the progress
OF war. The irrepressible conflict that had
been smouldering for years naturally burst
into flames in the early days of 1861. There
were stanch Union men North and South,
and peace men on either side of Mason and
Dixon's line. But the moving power was in
the crime of slavery and in the danger
Gus heresy of State sovereignty. The
virus had thoroughly permeated the South
ern people. Stephens would have favored
peace and unity, provided the practice of
slavery be not molested. And there were
men in the North who were willing that
slavery should still prevail-only let the
Unien remain intact. All that Stephens
asked was to be let alone, and he believed
and rightly, too-that slavery would have
been maintained had not the war of rebellion
been precipitated by s~lave-owners. But
Southern masters, drunken with long lease
of power, and reading only too plainly the
general sentiment North against the mon
strous ~iniquity, thought they saw the ''di-
vine institution threatened, and had re-
aster. The united voice of ten men like
Stephens was as a flute in a thunderstorm,
and the peace-at-any-price party in the North
vent down before public opinion like
dead weeds before a cyclone. Alex
ander H. Stephens was a patriot with
a proviso. He loved the Union next
to Georgia, and honored the constitution
as a bulwark about African slavery. He
breasted the first fresh breeze of rebellion,
but when the impending storm finally broke
his protested convictions were blown away
like thistle-down, and second only to one
man, he was in the forefront of the war
against his country. 1t is well to honor the
private life of Stephens-he was an honora-
BILE man. His virtues deserve emulation,
but it is hyperbole to say OF him that he did
all he could to preserve the integrity of the
Nation. Honest at heart, he was misled by
those about him. But, be it said to bis
credit, when force once more put truth
and justice on their feet, he was among the
foremost to allow the error of his life to
sleep absolutely in the grave cut out-for it
by the sword and bayonet, and TO do all in
his power to restore the Union to a harmo-
NOUS whole.
Civil war had for years been masked under
the shadow of slavery. Prophetic eyes saw
1t then, and keener vision mapped out the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

THE people of this country have such a deli
cate way of caring for the loved and lost that
the terrors of dissolution are smoothed away,
and the grave is robbed OF much Of It's gloom.
There's little Jimmy Elliott, who was killed the
other day at Chicago by an impulsive friend.
Many doubtless thought that NOBODY cared for
the poor fellow because he was a bruiser, for
getting that "Bruiser was an honorable man."
But when the summons came, and Jimmy put
down his eight-inch maulers, kind hearts gath
cred about his bier tEnglish word this time) and
composed the hero for his last, long sleep. A
handsome oasket was procured to incase
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10
The Quartet Filled Up.

Spence's Peoples Paper.
The indianapolis Journal gave the infa-
nous Heffren a general toning down in last
Tuesdays issue. The i~lliterate blatherskits
gloats in his treason in such a manner as to
make his name stink in its utterance, and il
should never be pronounced, save III connecs
ton with that of Satan, Judas Iscariot and
Benedict Arnold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

1T Is told of Dore, the artist, that one day at
Ischl he made an exquisitely pretty sketch of a
scene at a peasants wedding, and left his album
in the pocket of his paletOt when he went to din
ner on returning to his hotel. After dinner the
album was not to be found, and Dore retired fu-
rious. On the next day he received a parcel,
and a letter in which the anonymous author
wrote: "sir-Knowing you would not sell your
album, l robbed you of it 1.-THE last sketch of
yours being quite irresistible); but in order
that you should not take me for u common
thief, 1 beg your acceptance of the accompany
ing travellers staff" The parcel contained
a gOld-headed cane, Ornamented with precious
stones. Dore never learned the name of the
giver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

ABOUT this season of she year many people are
asking what 1t is that determines the date Of
Easter. The answer is that it is the moon OF
March, which Tennyson calls "the roaring moon
of daffodils." Tho old rule is that Easter shall
fall on the Sunday after the full moon which
comes after the vernal equinox. That brings
Easter this year on the 25th of March. In 1918
it fell on the 22d Of March, the earliest date pos
sible. 1t will not fall upon that day again In this
or the blowing century.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

MR.. SHERMAN, of Alabama, by profession a
miner and by practice a preacher, has found
himself without honor in his own country. He
preached strange doctrines, which he called
Shermanism, and in which f~reelove and affinity
played a prominent part. His unsophisticated
hearers did not recognize the similarity between
Shermanism and Mormonism, but one man at
least knew wnen his domestic peace was shat
tered. The other night, when the exhorter was
delivering a discourse in the open woods, some
one from the darkness behind poured a load of
squirrel shot into his back. AS soon as the
apostle gets well he will seek another field of
labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

A REPORTER of the Washington Republican
has discovered in a single, brief interview with
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures that that gentleman
is the possessor of a 'quick, strong, noiseless in-
tellect," and a "high executive ability, which
goes right straight to it's object with both silence
and certainty" The agile reporter ~neglects to
explain whether the Malagassy ENJOYS boot, on
its way to its object, creaked as little as did his
intellect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

THE Panama Star and Herald advances the
unique theory that many of the vessels that have
never been heard of after sailing may have
been sunk by meteors. In view of the fact that
destructive meteors fall about once every $40
years. and that to hit a vessel at sea would be
like making a bulPs-eye hit ut a gnat's heel on a
barn-door. the Star and Herald's theory seems a
triflle visionary. Still, there was that man in
Fountain county who was bored right through
the middle by n meteor. Probably all the me-
teors that fall in the sea- make it a point TO hit a
vessel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

SOME newspapers seem inclined to take a very
melancholy view Of the situation, and have gone
so far as TO declare that Virgins cannot be
han ged If his storm fails to como to time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

GENIsCAIN, the Partisan waiter who swallow
ed a spoon and had 1t removed by an operation
known as gastrotomy, is dead. He was pro-
crossing finely, subsisting on a diet of rum and
soup, but was seized with a desire for some
thing more substantial. During the absence OF
his physician he ate a loaf of bread and a large
piece of cheese, which caused Inflammation, re-
sul;ing In the suture being broken. A French
loaf of bread is usually four and a half feet long,
with a crust about as hard as the scales of an
alligator. That alone was enough to loosen the
sutures of a lap-welded, double-riveted steam
boiler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10
An Awful rosp

Washington Special
Dorsey and Brady are both to go on the
witness-stand. Dorsey thinks his testimony
and cross-examination will occupy thre'
weeks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

an emergency clause. The constitutional limit
for a veto having expired while the Governor
had the bill under consideration, 1t became a
law without his signature,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
Was a new road law enacted, and If SO, when
does it come in FORGET
KNIGHTsTOwN.
There was, and it has an emergency clause,
putting it in force at once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

An innocent little st. Louis boy went to the
theater and sat in the gallery. The hoy had,
among other treasures In his pocket, an egg,
an Easter egg, perhaDs-Easter of last year. In
his boylsh absorption in the play he took the
egg in his hand. and carelessly held 1t over the
edge OF the gallery. Becoming excited, the egg
slipped from his grasp and fell down, down until
1T frescoed itself 0dorously in all the fashionable
shades of yellow upon the bald head of an eld-
erly gentleman whose soul was in his eyes and
whose eyes were on the stage. 1t was a shock
for the elderly gentleman. The thread of the
play being so suddenly broken, its charm was
lost. He went into the lobby with his decora-
tions, aud asked to see the little boy. He wanted
10 converse with him in a kind and fatherly
way. The theater ''bouncer' went up to the
gallery, but, not being able to find the boy, mar
shaded down all the occupants of the front row.
The frescoed gentleman did not wish to play
father to a crowd, so he went out under the 81
lent stars, while the little boy, who had moved
into a back seat, remained and saw all the beau
tiful ballet dancers which the fatherly old man
missed. This incident teaches that virtue is,
sometimes, Its own reward.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10

his remains, and on the lid was placed a
silver plate in the form of a Greek cross
bearing his name and the date of his death. Be-
meath this was q silver figure of the Saviour
with outstretched arms and dropping head, and
at the foot of the lid we're q silver skull and
crossbones. How ineffably sweet and touching!
True, he was not exactly a disciple of the hum
BILE Gallilean, but then, he was ga dandy and
no mistake, and nothing was too good for the
poor boy. His little white hands were folded
sweetiy over his bosom, and never more in
sportive dalliance will they fondle the nose Of
some fellow-being who has the misfortune to
stand up against him. He was ga square man."
and If he doesn't get a fair show in the next
world 1t will be because science and hard knocks
don't count. Tomorrow he will be laid away
under the daisies. The Hon. "Jack" Stiles is to
select pallbearers, but has deterentially de-
layed TO make choice as yet, offering In explana-
ton that he wants to shave them all old-timers."
America is a great country, according to the
rules of The z. K.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

It is only question of time, at the
rate with which the Goulds, Vanderbilts
and others of that ilk are amassing prop
erty. when they will control the bulk OF
our nations wealth. 1t does not need
any extended argument to prove that
the man who accumulates $75, 600, 600 in
fifteen years. gains it illegitimately:
Such thing ought to be impossible of
accomplishment. What one man gains
in this way, others must lose. His pros.
perity is the adversely of others. That is
not legitimate business. and the sooner
wise legislation puts an end to such
possibilities. the better it will be for our
countrv.-Ft. Wdyne Ne,cs.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

Wiggins has done up his storm of
March 8 and II in poetry. There is no
longer any doubt that Virgins is a sure
enough crank. He says: ut will be as
great storm as ever occurred on the
earth. or can possibly occur. am posi-
tive tidal wave will occur in the Bay
of Bengal, the coast of Australia, and the
Gulf of Mexico"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08
On Thirty Days Trial.

The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall. Mich,
will send DR.. Dyes Celebrated Electro
voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on
trial for thirty days to men (young or
old who are afflicted with nervous debil-
Ay, lost vitality and kindred troubles,
guaranteeing speedy and complete resto.
ration OF health and manly vigor. Ad.
dress as above.--N. B. No risk is incurred,
as thirty days trial is allowed. dec28.1y
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

In the Ohio collegiate oratoricaI con-
test, which took place In Marietta. Charles
Kirchbaum, of Wooster University. took
the first prize, and w. w. Dyar, OF
Marietta College, the second prize.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

The Fredericton (New Brunswick,
Can.) Reporter says: "Nohody can but
admire the persistent enterprise mani.
tested by the owners Of st. Jacobs Oil 10
keeping the name before the public. 1t
received big send Off in the House the
other day by the Hon. Mr.. Perley, Who
warned his colleagues in the Government
OF the danger of Bear Killers receiving
two bounties for one nose; the judici0us
use OF the Oil causing rapid growth"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

Akron has concluded that the mast sys-
tenn of electric lights is an expensive
luxury that she can dispense with. In
two years il has cost the city $4,000.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

The Republican bosses have enjoyed
the spoils of office 80 long that they have
come to regard them as their own prop
erty. and impudently seek to brand Dem.
ocrats who aspire to public positions as
little better than highway robbers. It is
hard to be patient in the presence of i'm.
pudence so supreme.-CddiE Sentinel.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

The Chicago Times thinks that about
the only fact established beyond dis.
pute by the Jeannaett naval board OF in
suiry is that the vessel was lost.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

One OF the soclalistic organizations Of
SDain Is called 1.-THE Black Hand" Their
chief is a schoolmaster, who issues his
orders with all formality Of a general.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08
ssROugh ON Rats.''

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies. ants,
bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers,
10 cts. Druggists.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

A five year old boy is creating quite a
sensation, near Shelbyville, Ind, by his
wonderful power as medium.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08
Humor In the stomach.

Much of the distress and sickness at
tributed TO dyspepsia, chronic diarrh9a
and other causes is occasioned by humor
in the stomach. Several cases. with all
the characteristics of these complaints,
have been cured by Hoods Sarsaparil'a.
Other cures effected by this medicine are
SO wonderful that the simplest statement
of them affords the best proof that it
combines rare curative agents and when
once used secures the confidence of the
people. E#
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

Mary Daniels, Claiming 100000 dam
ages from the New York Central and
Hudson River railroad for injuries re-
ceived in the Spuyten Duyvil disaster,
settled for $40. 600, the largest sum ever
raid by this road for personal injuries.
A. B. Valentine, of Bennington, Ver-
mont, received $1,000 for the death Of
his son, and 5000 for the death Of the
latter's bride.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-08

Anthrax, "a malignant boil, carbun-
oIe." Results from impure blood. The
eertain cure is Mishler's Herb Bitters.