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FLIES AND BUGS.

Flies, coaches, ants, bed bugs, rate,
mice, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out
by "Rough on Rats" los.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01

How He Takes Care of the Workiugma
Sunday Clothes.

How He Takes Care of the Workiugman's
Sunday Clothes.
Letter in Philadelphia Telegraph.
One of the most curious phases of the En-
glish pawnbroking business is the Saturday
night and Monday morning trade in connec-
ton with the Sunday clothes of his custom
ers. Strange as it may seem. it is neverthe-
less true that there are thousands of work
ngmen in London and other large towns
whose Sunday-go-t to- meeting clothes are only
in their possession one day a week. Regu-
larry Saturday after Saturday you may see
"Uncle's' door beseiged by a crowd of
women and children waiting with the
patience born OF experience to take their turn
TO redeem the family's Sunday clothes. They
go away one after another with their bulky
packages tightly rolled and neatly
pinned; and if you go to the
same spot on Monday morning, you may
witness the same melancholy procession re-
turning with the well-known parcel. The
Young man behind the counter seems to be
acquainted with every bundle and every per-
son. Here, Johnny" he will say where's
your fathers waistcoat| or MARY, if your
father greases his trousers like this every
time, sha mt make you the same advance"
PLEASE, SIR" perhaps Mary will reply,
them spots as bin on the last three times"
Ii is a sad sight for the social economist; but
it has been so for years, and were 1T not for
the humble class of small regular customers
Une DdWQDrOkef business WOulu UOt ne
what tits All the poor wretches are week
behind. They have, owing to illness, lack of
work, or dissipation, once fallen in arrears,
and have never been able to recover them
selves. II is pitiable to contemplate. The
interest paid on these small, frequently-re-
newed loans during the course of the year
is astounding. Just take a case in point.
Some fine day the head of the family has
been pressed for money, and put his Sunday
suit in pawn, Just till get my wages on
Saturday" When payday comes he takes
out the clothes repaying the loan, and inter-
est; but he has got behindhand somehow,
and the clothes have to 90 in again on Mon
day morning and SO on from years end to
years end. Say the clothes are worth IS.
Uncle would perhaps advance him 81.
For that accommodation he pays five pence
every Saturday when the clothes are taken
out, and one penny every morning for the
ticket when they are put in again. With
fiftytw weeks in the year these payments
represent 81 IS per annum, out of which
Uncle" has only TO pay the cost of printing
the tickets and provide storage room. Sup
posing the pawnbroker has only 9200 out in
this way, he receives every week G5 interest
and tickets; the total return for the use of
the goo being 9460 or a clear profit OF EGO
per annum, without any risk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01

ever lived, as he emancipated the slaves He
showed me several nice presents of his and
before I went away he wrote in my Book of
Life, in big, bold hand, and with the same
fingers that signed the death warrant of
slavery For Aunty Sojourner Truth. Oct.
80 1864. A. Lincoln
The old woman lived in the outskirts Of
Battle Creek, Mich, in a plain story and-a-
half house. set well back from the street.
Two well-worn hitching-posts and numerous
wheel-tracks at the side of the unpaved
street showed that she had many visitors.
She was cared for in her helpless age by her
two daughters, Elizabeth aud Diana The
house was Sojourner's own property, and her
income was derived from the sale of her
books and pictures. A visitor few weeks
ago found her holstered up in bed, her head
covered with cap, and so fallen upon her
breast that her face was not visible. But
when made aware of the visitors presence
she quickly raised her head, displaying a
wrinkled and emaciated face, but eyes OF
wonderful brightness. Her mind seemed
clear as ever, but her speech was feeble and
indistinct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
A Pennsylvania Fire.

Somerset Herald.
There is no more terribly cry than that of
"frer' ringing out on the startled ear of
night; even murder, with all its hideous as
sociations, does not arouse us to sympathy
or to action as does the alarm that the red
demon, fire. is loose in our midst, licking up
the pride of luxury, the fruit of toll the
scrapings of avarice and the savings of years.
Such was the cry that startled the inhabit-
ants of our village on Friday morning at
$40 o'clock. The alarmed citizens, men,
women and children, youth and age, wit and
beauty, strength and weakness hurried to
the scene and found that J. K. Coffroth's
stable was on fire. A valuable COW was
dragged seemingly dead from the flaming
building, but afterward recovered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
Fancy Jevelry.
Fl
Philadelphia Press.

In fancy jewelry everything odd and quaint
finds favor. One brooch is an elephants head
in oXydZed silver, with head trappings of
gold, chased and frineed, with diamond eyes,
and ivory tusks, tipped with gold. Others are
spiders, with cats eyes for bodies, and dia-
monds or emeralds for heads. There are drag
on flies and beetles; paradise birds and hum
ming Birds old Roman coins mounted on
the fasces in gold with silver bands tying
the rods; crabs holding pearl or a cats eye
in their ugly claws, and pretty gypsy straw
hats in gold with trimming of ribbon or
flower in precious stones. The English ring
of dull gold, either in crucible or beaten gold
with sunk stones is the favorite style for gen.
tlemen. For ladies, the solitaire, the cluster,
and the Marquise remain the first choice
with various fancy styles for those who affect
the quaint and odd in jewelry. Scarf pins
for gentlemen show a decided tendency
toward the quaint and odd in design. There
are standard patterns notably the round pin,
the dagger hit, ETC., with animals heads and
insects of all sorts, but the fashionable fancy
is for something out of the ordinary style.
Bits of crucible gold in odd shapes with per-
haps a single gem embedded in the rough
gold, are new and elegant.
Men of wealth and taste wear rare and
curious stones in preference to diamonds for
scarf-pins-star rubies, cats'eyes, tourma-
lines i'll unusual colors, ETC.; and there is a
great fancy for lapis lazuli, for the Alexan-
for the jacinth-in short for everything
which is likely not to be worn by the multi
tude.
Black onyx, with pearls and diamonds, for
the only jewels, is still the one idea in mourn
ing iewelry. Ladies in half mourning wear
silver ornaments, and in these there are many
pretty and artistic fancies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01

Joaquin Miller
Man is the only animal that builds his
home after the pattern of a dry-goods box.
And it is only the half-civilized man who in
sists on doing that. In all Rome you do not
find single square room. An Italian will
not live in the conventional square room.
They tell you in Rome that the rooms are
built in strange angles and triangles and so
on as a charm against the evil eye. But that
is largely fiction. The Italian builds his
home in acknowledgement rooms because of
the art and the love of the beautiful and
shapely that is in him. Permit me to lay
this down briefly as another one of the rules
TO observe in building the house beauti-
full" No square room can be made either
comedy or comfortable. No bird 10 beast
not even an Indian, will live in one unless as
prisoner. A round room or semi-globe
shaped is perhaps the most restful. The In
dian wigwam is the most perfect form of
architecture we get here in America. Let us
look in one of the hundred thousand hideous
brown-stone fronts in the fashionable parts
OF New York city You find the home is
simply tunnel. 1t is sixteen or twenty
feet wide. 1t is eighty feet deep. There is
some struggling light at either end of this
tunnel. But, at best, the famous New York
brown-stone front is simply deep, gloomy
tunnel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
The Ethics of Sleep.

The most perfect sleep is obtained by care
fully closing the blinds, raising and lowering
the windows to admit plenty of pure air, and
drawing down the heavy shades, thus max
ing the room perfectly dark. Then, on going
to bed, go there to seep, not to write or
read, or think or plan, but for the most valu-
able of all things, the foundation OF all activ-
ity and energy-perfect sleep. A few nights
of this experience will work a magic trans
formation in looks and in feelings.
Above all, let us divest ourselves of tradi-
tional prejudice that there is somehow virtue
in early rising. When early sleep is obtained
early rising is indicated by nature, by wax
ing; but artGcially produced it is pernicious
Unless there is al exceptional reason, it is
far wiser to sleep till one wakens naturally,
and one hour then will do the work of three
when one comes to it tired, unrefreshed.
Natures sweet restorer' is of all things the
most inyigorating.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
An Infantile Love Scene.

Baltimore American.
The power of love at first sight was forcibly
illustrated yesterday in a Madison avenue
car. A fue-looking child of about four years
entered with its mother and took seat on
her knee opposite nurse, who was holding
one about three years of age. Both were
total strangers to each other. After the car
had gone nearly half mile. it was stopped
for the four-year-old and it's mother to get
out Without word having been said, the
child suddenly clasped the younger one in its
arms and kissed it long and lovingly. The
car-driver was waiting patiently, and the
mother tried to separate the two, but it was
OF no use. Some little time elapsed before
the arms were unclasped. Not a syllable
was spoken. The four-year-old slowly made
its way out of the car, and the younger went
back to annihilating large cake without
betraying the slightest emotion
1t was not a passionate kiss but approx
mated more nearly to the Chinese OSCILLATION,
which is said to be like a cold tlat-iron laid
against the cheek in the dark. Two ladies OF
uncertain age smiled audibly One old gen
tleman drew a red bandana and blew a blast
like Western congressman on the floor of
the House of Representatives; but the kiss
ing went on. The younger ladies seemed to
understand it, but the reporter innecently
hid his face behind copy of the American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
Genesis Consistent with Geology.

New Haven Evening Register.
Professor Dana discussed the book of Cen
esis and geology, yesterday afternoon in
President Porter's lecture-room and had
many hearers. The Professor said the earth
had been gradually made, and in all the diff
ferent periods of the worlds growth there
has been gradual progress in the forms OF
life.
In the archean age there was probably no
life; this was followed by an age in which
there were the lowest forms of it, as sponges
and worms. Then came in regular order
fishes, reptiles, small quadrupeds, BIRDS
large quadrupe ds, and, last of all, man. AS
to these facts there are no geological doubts.
When the fiat went forth the result was not
Immediately accomplished. The days
The periods of the earth's rotation
had not then been discovered. There
are two great periods, the inorganic and the
organic, the account of each of which is be-
gun with the creation of light Science
shows that light is molecular motion, and
il this molecular energy ever began it was
then.
The first creation was the universe, the
next the separating of the different parts of
the system. Then the land rose above the
water and on il primitive vegetation grew,
which received its light from the earth's
aurora. Then comes the second-the or
ganic era; the creation of tie sun, moon and
stars was simply breaking away the clouds
which encircled the earth. In the inorganic
era the principle of life in the lowest kind
OF plants was begun, and in the orsanic era
this life gradually advances till man is ere
ated. The account OF Genesis and geology
accord in a wonderful way.
Moses probably did Tot fully understand
what he wrote, and we cannot but believe
that he must have been inspired when he
wrote that which the greatest advance in
science has but just enabled man to under
stand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
READING FOR THE SABBATH
Forward.


Let me stand still upon the hight of life:
Much has been won, though much there is to
win;
am little weary of the strife.
Let me stand still awhile nor count il sin
To cool my hot brow, ease the travel pain,
And then address me to the road again.
Long was the way aud steep and hard the climb;
Sore are my limbs. ana faia am TO rest,
Behind me lie long sandy tracts of time;
Before me rises the steep mountain crest;
1t me stand still; the journey is half DONE,
And when less weary will travel on.
There Is no standing still! Even as pause
The steep path shifts and slim back apace;
Movement was safety; by tn journey laws
No help is given, no safe abiding place,
No idiBg In the pathway hard and slow;
must go forward, or must backward go!
I will go up. then, though the limbs may tire,
And though the path be doubtful and unseen;
Better with the last effort to expire
Than lose the toll and struggle that have been,
And have the morning strength. the upTard
strain,
The distance conquered, in the end made vain.
All, blessed law! for rest is tempting sweet.
And we would all lie down II so we might;
And few wOud struggle on with bleeding feet;
And few would ever gain the higher hight
EXcept for the stern law which bids MS know
we must go forward, or must backward go.
Susan Coolidge, in Independent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
A Tragic Half Hour.


Atlanta Constitution.
Rev. A. B. Sasnett, OF Eufaula, tells the
following incident which occurred within
his experience: His friend was in the sitting
room engaged in conversation with a friend,
his little boy came in while he was talking
and was troubling his father, and the father
not wishing to be disturbed gently pushed
the little fellow aside, telling him at the
same time to go away. In pushing the
little fellow aside he stumbled and fell
against the stove killing him instantly. The
father screamed. and in so doing startled his
wife, who was up stairs bathing her baby.
In trying TO come down stairs she fell and
broke her neck. The heart-broken father
and husband went up stairs a short time
after and found that his wife had left the
baby in the tub, and it had fallen over and
drowned. This was more than the father
could stand, and in few minutes he blew
his own brains out Thus, family that half
an hour before was perfectly happy was each
and every member dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
SOJOURNER TRUTH.
Anecdotes and Incidents of the Life of the
Aged Negress

Philadelphia Times
Robert Puryis the well-known Abolition
list, said to Times reporter: "Sojourner
Truth was a slave i'll New York State in the
days when slavery existed in the North as
well as in the South. During the times of
anti-slavery agitation old Sojourner became
famous throughout the North. She was
woman without education, but endowed
with remarkable native sagacity and keen
ness and possessed of peculiar gift of re-
partee. / remember once she attended an
anti slavery meeting in church. The serv-
ices were to have been opened with prayer,
but the minister was late, and old Soiourner,
always ready to speak for the cause, jumped
to her feet and began one of her peculiar
speeches.
"cHold on, Sojourner,' said one of the
brethren, wait till the minister comes
ono children replied the old lady, time
and tide waits fo no man, and neither does
Sojourner TRUTH
"The famous speaker, George Thompson,
was announced to speak in Syracuse at
meeting held in 1850. The name of Sojourner
was also on the programme. She was called
upon first, and the audience expressed their
disapproval and began to shout Thompsonl
Thompsonr III tell you what Thompson
is going to say to you,' said the old negress,
in her squeaking voice. He's a'going to
argue that the poor negroes ought to be out
of slavery and in the heavenly state
against slavery because | want to
keep the white folks who hold slaves
from getting sent to hell She captured her
audience at once. She was a devout be-
lever in mans dependence upon divine aid
IN securing his freedom. Fred. Douglass was
addressing meeting in the West after the
passage of the fugitive slave law He was in
the climax of one of those flights of elo-
quence for which he was famous. The
negro he was saying must rise from his
degradation by his own effort. He will need
no aid Strike off his shackles and he will
rise by the power of his native intelligence
and his own strong right arm Just then
old Sojourner interrupted him. BE careful,
Frederick she called out; is Almighty God
dead? Douglass was quite disconnected by
this pointed reminder, and modified his re-
marks at once"
In Soiourner's estimation Abraham Lin
coin was the foremost man of all this
world" and in October, 1864 she went from
Michigan to the White House to see him,
II said to him." to quote her own words,
'Mr. President, when you first took your
seat feared won would be torn to pieces
for likened you to Daniel who was thrown
into the lions den; and ii the lions did not
tear you into pieces, | knew it would be God
that would save you. And l said to myself,
If He spared you would come and see you
myself before your term of office was out;
and He has done so, and here | am to see
YOU Mr. Lincoln congratulated me on my
having been spared. l told him that l
thought he was the best President that had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
American Women Married Abroad.

London GRID.
1t is quite a mistake to suppose that most
Americans who marry Englishmen are rich.
A few are well to do, some half a dozen are
rich. Lady Harcourt has a large life income,
a ionture; but her sister, Mrs. Sheridan,
had no considerable fortune. Mrs. Arthur
Paget will probably some day have Flo, 900 a
year. The son of Lord Augustus Lotus is
married to the daughter of very rich Phil
adelphia lady. Lady Hesketh will have
very large fortune. Mrs. Edward Balfour
probably has 100000 Lady MandeviIle and
Lady Lister Kaye assuredly were not married
for money. On the other hand, many French
and Germans have rich American wives.
The daughters of American Irishmen, long
resident in Paris, have married French gran
dees The daughters of Mr.. Fisher, a rich
dry goods man, married Italian mobiles.
Some ladies named Lee, the daughters of a
New York wholesale grocer, have married
into the creme de la creme of Germany. One
is the wife of Won Moltke's adlatus, who is,
in fact the second in command OF the army.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
STORY OF AN HEIRESS.

The Daughter of New York AuctiOneer
Prefers Talleyrand to Her Fathers
Clerk.
New York Special.
The announcement of the sale of the Ste
vens property at Fifty-seventh street and Fifth
avenue to Corporation Counsel Whitney for
$780, 900, has revived a curious story which
has been told and retold by the gossips in
New York. Years ago Mr.. Sampson was the
bestknown auctioneer in this city, and he
accumulated an immense fortune. In the
last years of his life his chief care was the
future welfare of his daughter. who was a
most beautiful girl She had not only beauty,
but was well educated and grew to be one of
the most refined ladies in society. She had
many admirers but old Mr.. Samps en-
couraged none of them. Among his own
acquaintance was a young man named
Stevens, who was a clerk in the Chemical
Bank, and who was most attentive to him
when he called at that institution TO cut offhis
coupons. Mr. Stevens did good deal for Mr..
Sampson by way of assisting him in his bust
ness, and finally he was invited to call at the
Sampson mansion. He did SO and was not
long in winning the heart of the young
heiress. Mr.. Sampson died and Mr. Stevens
married the daughter, who succeeded to the
estate of more than $4,000 900. They lived
happily together, dividing the time between
New York and Newport and in due time
several children were born to them Mr..
stevens built an elegant villa at the Rhode
Island watering place. and erected the resi-
denoe on Fifth avenue, which is one of the
most elegant private houses in America.
Three or four years ago Mr.. and Mrs. Stevens
and their family went to Europe, and on the
steamer lutte family trouble arose. Mrs.
Stevens thought, whether rightly or
wrongly, that Mr. Stevens paid too
much attention to a Lady on board
The affair was apparently overlooked
and forgotten. Nearly two years ago Mrs.
Stevens went to Europe and set up in pala-
tial hotel of her own in Paris. Among her
friends there is an old gentleman who is a
descendant of the Talleyrand family, who is
SAID to occupy elegant apartments in Mrs.
Stevenss hotel, and the man servant of Mrs.
Stevens is no less parsonage than direct
descendant of the valet of Talleyrand. This
story from Paris naturally shocked the New
York friends of Mrs. Stevens and her hus-
baud went to that city last summer and it
was supposed she would return with him.
For months it has been rumored th9t divorce
proceedings would be begun, and the sale of
the Fifth-aYenue property, as we'll as the
Newport residence, leads to the belief that
she does not intend Immediately to return to
America. When Mr. Stevens called on his
wife in Paris last summer it is said that she
received him coldly and assigned him to an
apartment distant from her own. Her friends
think she is insane, and hint at physical
trouble as the cause. One of her daughters,
a beautiful girl of seventeen, is ready to APP
pear in society during the coming winter.