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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
A Far-West Sketch.

DlunesOJd DdZOOs
You will have to go into the forward coach, +"
said the conductor, as he tore off a coupon from
a second-class ticket. but the tobacco smoke
is so bad, and | have such a headache, said the
little woman, timidly, and the pale face was
raised pleadinely. Cant help it, ma'am. Rules
of the road require passengers having second
class tickets to ride in the forward coach was
the uncompromising reply, as he passed on.
Hang your rules" blurted out a man with a
fierce mustache. "Stay where you are, maam.
You look tired; here, let me turn this seat over
so you can lie down. Put your head on this
grip. Here's my overcoat; put it So and he
had her nicely tucked away before she could
object. Your ticket All O. K. Take mine;
it's to the same place, frst-class, unlimited
Hove to smoks. Always ride in the smoker, any
how" And he went forward. Dinner was an
nounced in the dining-car, and the big man came
busting in and insisted on her having dinner.
She objected, evidently thinking it improper to
receive so much attention from a stranger. Kate
Adams" read the big man, looking at the name
on her valise. Not Dick Adams's wifel You
are? Well, by u Why, come here; Ill kiss
you. my girl! Dicks my youngest brotherl
Well, III be i Well, well! Why. l was just
going to see him Heard he'd got fiat broke, and
kind O want to set him up again" And the big
man looked so happy, and the little sisterin-law
so pleased that the passengers forgot to kill the
straw" lunatic that was asking a vote of the
passengers on the presidential question for a
daily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Loves Promise.

NJ will come back, Love cried; II will come back"
And there where he had passed lay one bright track,
Dreamhke and golden as the moonlit sea,
Between the pine woods shadow, tall and black.
Il will come back, Love cried. All, mel
Love will come back.
He will come back. Yet Love, I wait, I wait,
Though it is evening now, and cold and late,
And l am weary watching here so long,
A pale, sad watcher at a silent gate
For Love who is so fair aud swift and strong
wait, l wait.
He will come backbone back, though he delays;
He will come baek-for in old years and days
He was my playmate. He will not forget.
Though he may linger long amid new ways
He will bring back, with barren sweet regret,
Old years and days.
Hushi On the lonely hills Love comes again;
But his young feet are marked with many a stain,
The golden haze has passed from his fair brow
And round him clings the blood-red robe of pain;
And it is night. o Love-Love-enter now!
Remain! remain!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
stToo Much Wheat."

'aToo much wheatin SO the dealers say,
Millions of bushels left unsold
Of last years crop; and now, to-day,
Ripe and heavy and yellow as gold,
This summers crop counts full and fair;
And murmers. not thanks, are in the air,
And storehouse doors are locked, to walt;
And men are plotting, early and late.
"What shall save the farmers from loss,
If wheat too plenty makes wheat a dross!'
'TToo much wheat Good God, what a word!
A blasphemy in our borders heard.
'eToo much wheat" And our hearts were stirred,
But Yesterday, and our cheeks like flame.
For vengence the Lord his loins doth grid,
When a nation reads such tale of shame.
Hundreds of men lie dying, dead,
Brothers of ours, though their skins are red;
Men we promised to teach and feed.
o, bastard nationl bastard deed!
They starve like beasts in pen and fold,
While we hoard wheat to sell for gold
''Too much wheat" Mems lives are drossl
i'How shall the farmers be saved from lossl"
'"Too much wheatl' Do the figures lie?
What wondrous yieldsi Put the ledgers by!
'"roo much wheat!A
o, summer rain,
And sun, and sky, and wind from west,
Fall not, nor shine, nor blow again!
Let fields be deserts, famine guest
Within our gates who hoard for gold
Millions Of bushels of wheat unsold,
With men, and women, and children dead
And daily dying for lack of bread
'aToo much wheat Good God, what a word!
A blasphemy in our borders heardl
H. H., in New York Independent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
HOW WE ARE MADE.
Human Anatomy as Understood at a Fashion
able Girls School.
New York Evening Telegram.

able Girls School.
New York Evening Telegram.
Some women evidently understand human
physiology, for they show skill at the healing
art. Some others mean well, but get things
mixed The teacher of a fashionable up town
school for young ladies formed at the beginning
of the present quarter q class in physiology. and
was ~sanguine enough to subject It's memberslast
week to a written examination. The following
answers were elected:
what is physiology"
Physiology is the act of the learning the
different parts of the body and the way to pre-
serve health" Another answer reads as follows:
physiology is the science pertaining to the
whole body and everything in it."
"What is anatomy"
Anatomy is the feshy part of the body. "
Anatomy is the science of bones"
What is higiene9"
Anatomy is the air we breathe into our
bones. Hygiene shows US how to keep our or
gans of eating in ORDER
What is assimilation"
Assimilation is the bony part of the body"
What is the periosteum2'
'"The periosteum is the outer part of the bone
if the bone were in cut in two bone" 1.-THE peri
osteum is the bony part of the bone, and is used
tie carry the blood" THE periosteum is that
which i~ncloses the endosteum and protects the
marrow"
"What is the effect on the bones when there
is not enough mineral matter in the foodl"
The effect of the bones when there is a min
eral effect Of the food-the bones become soft. "
1t is fair to add that the answers cited were
the most brilliant of all that were handed in.
The remaining majority were prosaic, correct,
and correspondingly stupid.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
The Rage for Animals.

IOnWOn ITWUH,
1t seems that we are threatened with an in
vasion of very ugly little ornaments. Pigs.
mice and lizards were bad enough. and kittens
heads wore not pretty, but now we are to have
half fledged CHECKER and equally decolette duck
lings of tender age. Miniature squirrels, too, are
in preparation for bonnet and muff adornment,
and even little rabbits, ~nibbling at green satin
cabbages. These are simply grotesque, consid-
cred as "6xings' for lovely women. but | do
hope that a companion rumor is untrue, which
threatens to immediate poor little canaries on
the same shrine. They are, says the many
tongued. to be stuffed and mounted on
twisted wires, and then perched on the shoul
der or on the open bodice of a dinner dress. One
lately seen carried in its poor, dear little dead
beak a branch of leaves rendered in diamonds
A bunch of eanaries was fastened on the skirt of
the dress with which this was worn. so as to APP
pear to be holding the folds of the black lace to-
Cether.
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New York sun.
Have you a revised copy of the New Tesla
ment in the library, Miss Smith, asked the
young minister, who was making an evening
call, partly parochial and partly otherwise.
mo, Mr.. Longprayer," she replied, Il regret
to say that we haven't.
whats a revised copyl' asked Bobby, who
had been permitted to sit up beyond his usual
hour.
you are rather young yet, Bobby, to under
stand such matters, " said his sister, kindly. a
revised copy means that certain changes have
been made in the Bible that were considered
necessary to a better understanding of the text
Now you had better run off to bed, that's a good
boy"
The young minister could scarcely conceal his
admiration.
"Well, if that's what it is" said Bobby, ''our
family Bible is revised, cause pa changed it tho
other day. He scratched out the date Of your
birth and made it three years later. He told ma
something about you aud the minister, and said
that it wouldn't do any harm nohow, and if ever
Mr.. Longprayer wanted to look at it, it might
do a good deal of good"
Presently the minister went away and a FAM
lily consultation was held. 1t resulted in
Bobby's passing a s~leepless night on the pit Of
his stomach.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
The First Snow,

Gay bloom the flowers in s~pringtime set,
And streaky apples linger yet;
Twas autumn but a week ago.
Why, then, these fakes of winter snewg
Summers last rose they disarrayed,
The while she dreamed in peace to fade,
One swallow was inclined to stay;
The white Aecks frightened him away.
Winters cold shock who first endure
Think him unkind and premature;
Complain the summer was too brief,
And moralize Ger each dead leaf.
But as he grips with frmer hold
We grow more careless of the cold
Joy in the sparkle of his snow,
And nestle by his freside glow.
Dismayed, we note the first gray hair,
Soon others conceive cease to care;
Then grey, outnumbering the brown,
And soon white winter settles down.
And when from youth we've passed to age
We've learned our lesson page by page,
To take what comes for veal or woe
And never fret about the snow.
st. James Gazette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
PICKS THE cRoooD1LE's e
The Friendship that Exists Between a Bird
and a Saurian.

The Friendship that Exists Between a Bird
and a Saurian.
Edlnburg Review.
In the case of the great saurian of the Nile,
all that Aristotle tells us is borrowed from
Herodotus, with the exception Of the number of
eggs it Is said to lay, and it is curious to notice
that he even tells the story of the little bird
%(trochilOs) which eats the leeches out of the
crocodile's mouth-a story long discredited, but
which has been to a great extent corroborated by
M. Godfrey Saint Hilaire, the eminent French
naturalist, who long resided in Egypt and had
repeated occasions to ascertain that the story Of
Herodotus was correct, in substance at least. He
found that Il little bird, the black headed
plover (Pluvianus agyptiusl, flies necessarily
from place to place, searching every where, even
in the crocodile's mouth. for insects such as
gnats, which attack the great saurian in in
Vulnerable swarms, and, entering his mouth,
cover the inner surface OF the palate with a
hrownish black crust The little plover comes
and delivers him from his troublesome enemies.
That curious friendships exist between ami
mails widely different from each other in form
and habit is well known to naturalists. We
may instance the case of the rhinoceros and
hippopatamus, which are often attended by lit
tie birds known as rhinoceros birds, which feed
on the ticks and other parasites that lnfest these
beasts, and which serve as we'll to warn them Of
approaching danger; the great pachyderms
fully understand the birds warning, and doubt
less appreciate its good Offices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Lies that Don't Count.

Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.
The tocsin sounds from the tower. 1t is my
hour to put peas in my shoes and walk around
the block until tea time, for telling a book can
vasser yesterday that l had just received a copy
of the book, Forests Footprints of the Algon-
gums, from the author, who was an old college
chum and an army comrade of mine. The agent
looked me in the eye, while, with many cOur-
teous regrets | made this statement, and then,
turning to the steel portrait of the author on the
title page, asked me if l could recognize my old
chum and army comrade.
1t was the face of a m~otherly looking old wo-
man of about sixty five. and a foot note stated
that she died among the Indians in the winter Of
1929.
Dearly beloved. my sins never count anything
against me, l always get caught.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Poker in Missouri.
Now York Sun.

New YORK sun.
81 used to be fond of poker" he said, and the
expression of his face became retrospective.
but senee l got four aces downed out in Mis-
soury, l hev sorter gin up playin' the game"
'Your opponent had a straight flush, did he2"
mo, he he'd five jacks"
''Thatis impossible"
stranger, hev you ever played poker in
Missoury2i
mo, sir
'Well, if you ever do set down in a game out
there, and a red-eyed man whose clothes smeN
of cattle whites a corner off the table, and
allows that he hez five jacks, jest bunch your
kiards in the pack and say, That's good"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
An Awful Revenge.

new IOrh Gun
He placed a soggy baked potato back in the
dish, turned a dyspeptic cut of UNDERGONE veal
disparingly with his knife, shivered dismallv
over a cup of cold, muddy coffee, and then re-
marked:
''Do you know what l would do, my dear, if {
had an enemy upon whom wished to lntict q
dreadful and an irreparable injuryP
Goodness, no. his wife exclaimed" "Whak
would you doF'
II would invite him here to Inner"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Careful of The Pets.


Philadelphia Call.
Little Joe-"Mamma, can't we take Dickis
with us out walkingff
Fashionable Mamma-"Certainly. Tell the
nurse to dress him"
20, 1 don't mean Diekie, the baby. I mean
Dickie, the dog
What! Take my dog out such unhealthy
weather as this! OF course not"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Day by Day.

A little older every day,
A little nearer to the close;
Nearer the ending of the fray,
Nearer the long repose.
Nearer the time when Ger our head
Shall spring the blossom and the grass,
And friends will murmur, HE is dead"
AS by our tomb they pass.
Nearer the time when we shall cast
An anchor by the mystic shore;
And see, and feel, and know, at last,
What we could not before.
Ali how the years go rolling onl
How short the step TO manhood's prime,
How soon the gold of life is gone
Into the vaults of timel
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Auf Wiedersehen.
AuA
Twas just such an eve as this,
I'm N- ,o,,,

LAuA
Twas just such an eve as this,
In a chill November -ain,
That l parted from my friend.
And her gay "Auf wiedersehen."
Ipassed out in tho cleaning
With "a deep foreboding pain
When 1 looked back at the turning
To see her face again,
She smiled and waved her hand
To cheer me, but in vaini
Like lingering music's pleading,
From out that summer rain,
1 heard, in wistful yearning,
Her faint "Auf wiedersehen."
And 1 said Goddess you, friend,
And spare your life all pain"
When next l passed that way
The sun was shining bright,
L quickly ran up steps,
Humming in glad delight
At all my useless fears
At parting yesternight.
Why did I stop so stillY
Why seemed so yelled the lightl
They led me in a room,
And there in shining white,
With the same smile on her lips
That shone for me last night,
Lay her faithful heart at rest.
It'll we meet again, :" ali, friend,
Who knows from eve how morn will
Rise, from morn how eve will end?
Whether the golden summer,
Or the dusk-starred autumn reign,
Her smile will fash upon me,
Like a sweetly sad refrain;
And wherever 1 shall hear
A friends adieu again,
There will come to me always
That one auf wiedersehen.
Ida May Davis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
The Boys Idea of 1t.

FtTI5 btdCOu.
''Now then" said a Surdsy school teacher, who
was trying to explain a miracle to her class.
how do you account for Peter being able to
walk on the surface of the water2"
Il know said a little bright-eyed boy. whose
father lost a limb at the siege of Vicksburg
"NYell, how do you account for Peters walk
ing on the waterl'
He had cork legs and they wouldn't let hinn
sink!H said the little fellow, triumphantly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Bylow.

Tvs learned where the mystic Bylow lies,
The little folks wonderland,
Where the babies go when the daylight flies
And the sleep-watch angels stand.
1t swings like a hammock from pole to pole
Of this iolly-go-round old world,
And the babies all into drearnland roll
When the sunshine flags are furled.
-Estelle Thomson, in Ridley's Magazine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

to coma that the hypodermic injection of a so
luton of theme, the active principle of tea, is
an almost instantaneous antidute. neutralizing
the effect of the narcotic and reviving the ami
nal after the action of the heart has become
imperceptible. Caffeine possesses similar pro
p%erties, but is less immediate in its operation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
A HealthfuI Exercise.

New York sun.
Are you fond of rowing, Miss Smithers'
Miss Smithers is a Boston girl, and the twain
were out in a boat.
''Oh, very fond of it indeed. 1 think it is such
lovely exercise"
Have you rowed very much this season.
eyes" Miss Smithers replied, with a little cub
tured cough behind her hand. IL have ridden q
great deal.p
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Doesn't Use the Weed.

81 thought you told me you didn't use to-
bacco.'
II don't"
But you are putting a cigar now"
Eyes, but that's only a fve-center. No to-
bacco in it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

L. II, PATTERSON, Copake, N. Y, had been
excruciating pains in tho chest, necessitating a
physicians attendance at times for several
months. AS the medicines prescribed gave little
or no relief he was finally induced to try
says, IL would not be without it in the house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

IT is a general belief that there is no remedy
for consumption, and. possibly, in some cases
the assertion may be correct. We know,
however, of many cures made by DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup and will guarantee positive relief
to the sufferer in every instance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
When His Best Girl Ha Freckles.

When a young lady encourages a fellow for
two or three years, and then suddenly turns
around and tells him she can never be mora
than a sister to him, he can for the first time
see freckles on her nose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

CATARRH is a constitutional disease. Hoods
Sarsaparila is a constitutional remedy. 1t cures
catarrh. Give it a trial. Il
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Wards Cream of Chalk.

Perfectly harmless, contains no acid, pre-
Eves the teeth, sweetens the breath. Price,
&c. Druggists. Browning & Sloan, agents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
Antidote to Morphine.

1t has been discovered by experiments with
dogs placed under the influence Of morphia even
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

OF chill November makes me wish thee warm;
Dead leaves in shivering eddies round me swarm;
Thou art as cold as frigid Groenland's SHOWS,
And every one who sees thee laughs and knows
I'll freeze to death.
R J. Rurdptte-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

Thou once vast warm enough for any cline;
And mark. how short ago was that sweet time
In August last, when sunstrokes filed the sky,
And for the lack of other coat | wore thee-aye
Thou smotheredst me-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15

Thou tickle thing.
Oh. | could smite thee with a tongue Of brass,
But words are dumb and so-but let it pass.
For thou art only false as other men,
l hate thee now as did love thee then,
Early last spring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-29
And Mr.. Calkins Again Responds in Behalf
Of Mr.. Chandler, Making Successful
Defense of that Gentleman.
Mr.. Kellogg Confident that He Will Be
Able to Defeat His Enemies.
Probability that the Republican National
Convention May Leave Congress
Without Quorum.
CALKINs VS.. HEWITT.
Another Bout, in Which the New Yorker
Is Again WOrsted.

Another Bout, in Which the New Yorker
Is Again Worsted.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 29-Mr CalBins and Mr.
Hewitt had another bout to-day. Under the
guse of personal privilege Mr.. Hewitt arose in
the House this morning and renewed his attack
upon Secretary Chandler. He complained, first,
that severe criticism had been passed by the press
throughout the country upon what he said about
Mr.. Chandler on last Friday, and stated that the
basis of that criticism was that he had misrep-
resentated the facts as shown by Secretary
Chandler's explanation and Secretary Folger's
letter. Then he reiterated that Chandler had
violated the law, because it was shown by bis
own statement as well as by that of Secretary
Folger, that the money had not
been covered into the Treasury
in reality, but was lodged to
his credit subject to his personal check draft,
in the sub treasury at San Francisco and else
where. Mr.. Hewitt went on to say that the
money for the sale of those condemned vessels,
amounting to upward of 5000, 600, might just as
we'll be in bank to Chambers credit, or in his
pocket, as where it is
Mr. Calkins replied at length. His words
were not selected with the intention of smooth
ing the ruf1ed feelings of Mr.. Hewitt. He said
some men had not the courage TO attack man
in an open field, in broad daylight, but would
put dagger in the hand
of an assassin and have him
spring from an alley at midnight and stab his
victim in the back. The law states plainly, he
said, that the Secretary of the Navy shall cover
the net proceeds from sale of condemned ships,
into the Treasury The net proceeds of those
sales had not yet been ascertained as soon as
they were, the money would move from its pres
ent position into the Treasury va aults The
spirit of the law had been fulfilled When Mr..
Calkins quit talking, Mr.. Hewett was glad of it,
and had no reply to make.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-29

| = - TO the indianapolis Journal
'WAsHINGToN, April 2S.-Mr. Peele intro
duced in the House, to-day, bills to increase the
pension of Wallace Foster and the pension of
Mrs. French, of indianapolis, the dependent
mother of Lieutenant French of the Navy
James B. Pyles has been commissioned post
master at Kyle Ind.
A postofice has been established a Kickapoo.
Warren county, Indiana.
The time schedule on the star mail -oute from
Cromwell to Wilmot Ind, will be banged on
July l. as follows: Leave Cromwell on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 80 p. NJ;
arrive at Wilmot by 2:30 p NJ. Leae Wilmot
ON Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 245
P. NJ; arrive at Cromwell by 4:30 P. NJ.
Logansport G. A. R. post has petitioed Con
gress for better pension laws and the isaance of
land scrip to soldiers
Representative Lamb, Senator Voorhees,.
Colonel Dick Bright, and State Senatr r. C.