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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-04
A Prospect of Improvement in ireland.


DUBLIN, August PA letter from Parnell to
the local secretary of the National League of
Ireland has beenmade public. Parnell sayshe an
ticipates. as the outcome of the parliamentary com
mittees report that an important improvement
in the condition of the laborng classes in Ireland
will be effected Officials of the Local Govern
ment Board have given evidence confirming the
report circulated by the Irish party that a
measure will be prepared giving local authorities
power to take or lease land compulsorily even, if
not attached to laborers cottages for the purpose
Of letting it to laborers at moderate prices The
measure viii also empower the authorities to
kerepairs in the cottages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-04
WHEN INDICATIONS.
MoNDAY.-Partly cloudy sueath-
er and l0edl rains.

The cost of living, compared with
the scale of wages and salaries in
most fields Of human employment,
is lower now than for many years.
This is especially worthy Of note in
regard to Mems, Youths, Boys
and Children's Clothing: the
prices we quote for these indis-
pensables, throughout all Depart
ments of the WHEN CLOTHING
STORE, are probably about one-half
the figures demanded for like com
modities a few years ago. Further
more, the improvement in quail
ties, styles, ETC., is still more marked;
and this progress is best and most
strilxingN illustrated by the vast
variety of tasteful, serviceable and
becoming products Of our Factory
to be found here at all times-and
especially at this time. The power
that cheapens Clothing in this COM
munity is the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-04
Seventeen Persons Drowned.

LONDON, Aug. 3.-The steamer Daone, from
London for Middleborough, was sunk by col
lison in the Thames and seventeen persons
were drowned
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
Where do you Live ?
BY JOSEPHINE POLLARD.

knew man, and his name was Horner,
Who used to live on Grumble Corner;
Grumble Corner in Cross-Patch Town,
And he never was seen without a frown.
He grumbled at this; he grumbled at that:
He growled at the dog; he growled at the cat
He grumbled at morning; he grumbled at
night;
And to grumble and growl was his chief de-
light.
Hegrumbled so much at his wife that she
Began to grumble as well AS he;
And all the children, wherever they went,
Reflected their parents discomfort.
II the sky was dark and betokened rain,
Then Mr.. Horner was sure to complain;
And if there never was a cloud about
He'd grumble because of threatened
drought.
His meals were never to suit his taste;
He grumbled at having to eat in haste;
The bread was poor, or the meat was tough.
Or else he hadn't had half enough.
No matter how hard his wife might try
To please her husband, with scornful eye
He'd look around, and then, with a scowl
At something or other, begin to growl.
One day, as loitered along the street,
Ny old Acquaintance CHANGED to meet
Whose face was without the look of care
And the ugly frown that it used to wear.
81 may be mistaken, perhaps,"I said,
AS, after salnting, turned my head
"But.i it is, and itisn't, the Mr.. Horner
Who lived for so long on Grumble Cornerw
l met him next day; and met him again,
In melting weather, in pouring rain,
When stocks were up and when stocks were
down;
But smile somehow had replaced the
frown.
1t puzzled me much; and so, one day,
l seized his hand in friendly way,
And said. "Mr. Horner, I'd like to know,
What can have happened to change you So.
He laughed laugh that was good to hear;
For 1t told of a conscience calm and clear,
And he said with none of the old-time drawl
<Why, I've changed my residence, that is
alll'
''Changed your residence?" "Yes," said
Homer,
at wasn't healthy on Grnmble Corner,
And so moved; twas a change complete;
And you'll find me now on THAKsGrvING
STREETg'
Now, every day as Imove along
The streets so filled with the busy throng,
/ watch each face, and can always tell
Where men and women and children dwell
And many a disconnected mourner
Is spending his days on Grumble Corner,
Sour and sad, whom long to entreat
To take house on THANKSGIVING STREET.
-I1,dependent.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
Electricity Without Apparatus

1. To produce an electric spark,
it is only necessary to warm a
sheet of ordinary paper in front Of
a good fire or stove or over lamp
Upon going into a dark place and
applying the knuckle to the paper
very decided spark will start
from the latter, accompanied by a
slight cracking sound.
Q. Take two sheets of paper and
interpose sheet of gold-leaf be-
tween them. After electrifying
them as above described, it will be
only necessary to pass pencil
point in zigzag manner over
their surface to cause the appear
ance thereon of a luminous flash of
considerable intensity.
These experiments, which are
very easy to perform, may serve to
demonstrate the fundamental rules
of static electricity to children
Scientific american.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
A Rare Old Bible.

There is an old Bible up in the
Congressional library at Washing
ton which is well worth a walk to
the Capitol to examine. 1t is of
Italian origin, and is supposed to
have been written in the thir-
teenth or fourteenth century, but
the actual date is unknown. 1t is
written in Latin upon vellum, in
clear, bold characters, and extreme
ly uniform. The writing is in two
columns, about three inches wide,
and a margin of two inches. 1t is
embellished with 146 miniature
paintings, and upwards of 1900
smaller illuminations, which are
beautifully executed, and are as
brilliant to-day as the day they
were done. The initials of books
and prologues are two and half
inches in height, and those of the
chapters are one inch in height.
1t is contained in two large vol
umes, and cost the Government
$4,000 in gold when gold was at
high premium, and was purchased
at sale of the library of Henry
Perkins, Hanworth Park, near
London, in June, 1878. The skins
in the first volume have all be en-
repaired, except five; in the Sec
ond volume they are nearly all
all perfect.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
Repairing the Mail Sacks.

According to Mr.. H. G. Pearson
Postmaster of this city, the Gov
eminent spends about $4,000 q
year for the repair of mail pouches
there are about 100000 mail bags
in use, and about 10000 new ones
are bought yearly. The weakest
point in the mail sack is where il
closes and opens. In closing the
bag the staples are pushed through
the slots, and project an inch OF
more. When the bag is thrown
about the staples soon bend and
often break. 1t looks strange that
this little item should cost the Gov
eminent SO much money, and it
seems as if our inventors ought to
invent new mail bag and obviate
the objection referred to in the old
one.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
That Story.

Two letters from two different
persons commanding the story in
last weeks FREEMAN, "He's a Boy,
you Know" leads us to hope some
of the good we aimed at may be &C.
complished. And as they are in
themselves fine criticisms of the
story, as well as suggestive to those
needing the help the story gives,
we publish both, although but one
was intended for the public eye.
We wish that those for whom the
story was intended might read and
profit.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
"He's a Boy, You Know" Again,
A Council Of Mothers, Suggested.

ED. FREEMAN HOME DEPART
MENT; have been deeply inter
ested by the article in last weeks
FREEMAN, Gully 16,) headed, "He's
Boy, You Know" l wish coun-
Gil could be called of all the moth
ers in Parkersburg, and this arti-
Gle read in their hearing.
l greatly admire the courage
and sterling common sense that
prompted your preface to the sto-
ry; and the story itself is remark
ably courageous in its dealing with
one of the terriblest evils of our
age.
Oh, that there were more of the
right sort of mothers-mothers
whose sons and daughters love and
reverence them because they de-
serve to be loved and reverenced!
When homes are attractive, girls
and boys will be attracted toward
home, and not toward outside evil
influences. When mother looks
at the beautiful soul of her child,
rather than her beautiful face, and
trains the heart before she teaches
vanity, then shall our maidens
grow into perfect womanhood and
Bear through sorrow, wrong and ruth
IN their hearts the dew of youth,
Rn their lips the smile of truth"
God speed the FREEMAN and all
It's co-workers in the cause of the
Good, the True and the Beautiful,
VERITAs.
July %, 1884.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
Banner Photograph Frame.

In a piece of very heavy paper,
not pasteboard, eight and a half by
four inches, cut an oval little
above the center, large enough to
show as much of the photograph as
desired. Cut corresponding
oval in a piece of colored velvet,
but a quarter-inch smaller all
around. In the two upper corners
of the velvet, work spray of vel
low wheat with silk floss. Across
the lower edge haste strip of mar
row velvet ribbon, and work it
down with the yellow floss. Along
the lower edge make a narrow
fringe of sewing silk, the color of
the band. Thread a needle with
the silk doubled several times, sew
through the velvet near the edge,
tie, and cut off at the right length
for the fringe. By repeating this
across the lower edge, a very pref
ty fringe is made. Place the vel
vet fiat on a table, lay the paper
correctly ON it, turn the edges Of
the velvet up on the paper, and
fasten with very thick mucilage.
Only the top and two sides are to
be turned over; the fringe along
the bottom is to hang down. Cut
into the velvet around the oval as
far as the paper; then turn the
pieces over on the paper and fasten
them. Fasten a silk cord and tas-
sci to each upper corner of the ban.
ner. The photograph is held firm
ly in place by taking two or three
long stitches across on the back.
Suspend it on two brass headed
tacks.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30

This is world of sweet surpr1s-
'es. 1t is a worldof joy. There are
sweet spirits that exhale the per-
fume of happiness, as flowers send
out their fragrance. They do not
need to be seen to tell the story of
their presence and their mission.
They have other and better ave-
nues of disclosure. The invisible
is the real-whether in this or any
other world. 1t 'is the soul that
loves and is loved-that recognizes
and is recognized-that greets and
is greeted Woman at Work.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN
THE HOME FOLKS.

H1LARITY HoLLENBAcK, Hoatsekeeper
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
Hes a Boy, You Know"
That Story in last peek's Freeman.

DEAR MRS. JOHNSON: I feel like
sending you my tribute of love
and reverence for publishing, with
brave and earnest editorial com
ment, the remarkable fragment,
"He's Boy, You Know"
1t is very effective bit of real
istic writing and must do good,
dealing as firmly and wisely as it
does with an evil of common &C.
,currence.
1t is series of well-drawn DC
lures. The fond but foolish moth
er rails at her daughter whose sin
has found her out and loaded her
with enough Of disgrace and mis-
cry; but, poor girl, we pity her,
and the poor little unwelcome babe,
and we would fain see the man,
whose sin was at least equal, bear
his rightful share of social dis
grace, and SO in the only just way,
tighten the burden of the woman.
1t is such a strange thing for a
Christian society to receive with
honor a man who has robbed a
girl of her good name! Shame
that respectable mothers will give
their delicate daughters into the
keeping of such a man!
The bit of con versation between
Josie and Eda, is true to the life
but, surely, the sweetness and pu-
rlty of a girl like Eda, is only a
surface loneliness.
l hope your faithful words of
warning wall be needed by the sill
ly, recreant mothers who desecrate
the charge committed to them,
and rear daughters in vanity and
ldleness. But whether they heed
or not, the message has gone cut
and BLESSED is he that soweth be-
side all waters"
Yours truly,
II. A. S.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30

DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE.-A
recent report of the actuary of an
English life insurance company,
shows by statistics that the aver
age durat ton of life has been in
creased, and instead of being thir-
Vy-three years, as has long been
considered the standard, it is now
nearly forty years.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30

Is it worth while
That we jostle a brother,
Bearing hisload
On the rough road of life?
Is 1t worth while
That we jeer al each other,
In blackness ofheert?
That we war to the knife?
God pity US all,
In our pitiful strife.
Joaquin Miller.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
RAVENOWOOD BUSINESS HOUSES.

DEAL ESTATE AGENT.-T.
~ II. B. LEMLEY.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30

Mr.. Spurgeon puts a home CUES.
ton to those who are in doubt as
to the real use and necessity of For
eign Missions.
Dear friends you sometimes
say, will the heather be saved if we
DO not send the missionaries p
will ask you another question
Will you be saved if you do not
send out any missionaries? be-
cause | have very dreadful doubts
whether you will. Do not smile.
The man that does nothing for his
Master, will he be saved? The
man that never cares about the
perishing heather, is he saved &?
Is he like Christ ?"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30
A Wise Resolve.

why did you not take my
brothers arm last night?' said one
young lady to another.
Because I know him to be IL
centious young man, answered the
wiser.girl.
'Nonsense!' said the first; If
you decline the attentions of all IL
centious young men, you will soon
be left alone in your glory, I can
assure YOU
Very WE'LL was the reply; then
| will be left alone; for 1 am de-
termined, come what may, that |
will have nothing to do with a
person of loose character
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-30

Q gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler, sister woman,
For tho they gang a kenning wrang,
To step aside is human.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-07-26
Hlisfetlaneous.
Gotham Extravaganza.
How MILLIONS ARE SQUANDERED IN THE
BIG METROPOLIS.

The other day met two young society
men in front of the Windsor Hotel. and
while we were talking, one called the 9TH
er's attention to young woman just APP
preaching. writes New York correspond
ent to the Louisville Commercial. The
other laughed and said, That's our dust
err" | was thankful TO be able to hide my
ignorance, for | certainly should have
asked for an explanation if the first youth
had not taken the words out of my mouth.
and said: ''What do you mean by your
duster?n
"Oh, we have TO have some professional
TO dust the ornaments in our parlors every
dav-some one trained to do the work.
you know who won't smash the more deli
cate articles of bac-a- brac. and who will
know how to arrange and constantly ar
range the furniture and pictures ami fancy
things, so that the room don't always look
the same. YOU see. Why. haven't YOU got
a buster? Dear me. thought everybody
had one, pom my word. did"
The same Young man told me. not long
ago. that there was not a house on the
block he lived on that is not visited period
ically by a professional clock winder, who
sees that every clock and watch in each
building is regulated, and who winds the
clocks whenever they need it. This young
mans boots and his fathers boots are
called for at O'Clock and brought back
polished at O'Clock and at the latter hour
every day in the week the barber calls and
shaves the two men. The son, when he
was in London last summer, arranged
with tailor to haye 10 suits of clothing
n.I naI TO
$500 tor the apparel. His father pays
Broadway tailor $500 a year on a similar
arrangement. A noted puglist is his box
ing master and an ex-champion billiard
player gives lessons in caroms in the
billiard room in his own house. He con
siders himself both prudent in manage
ment and clear in morals. because he does
not keep a separate establishment. He
SAYS that all the fellows in his set, married
or single, distance him in this. There
are eight servants in his father house and
stable, not including his little sisters gov
erness and his mothers seamstress and
companion, who is IA poor cousin on salary.
His elder sister was married not long ago
at the famlly'S summer house among the
Berkshire hills, Apparently for no other
reason than to get rid OF supertluous cash
and to have something for her friends to
talk about, she determined to be married
by lamplght in the daytime. So the
windows OF the church were boarded up,
a clergyman from town was brought there,
and in room whose walls were padded
with roses fashionable New York caterer
served dinner fit for immortals.
Now, this is only one household in a
thousand or more. If you were to read
the above out loud in any gathering of
our New York rich folks, they would rot
find anything new or remarkable in it.
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ABsp,iu Ministers Experience.

II am Baptist minister, and before
ever thought of being a clergyman eradus-
ted in medicine, but left lucrative practice
tor my present profession, forty wears sgo.
| was for many wears a sufferer from quinsy
Thomas Eclectric Oil cured ne. | was troub-
led it'll hoarseness, and Thomas Eclectric
Oil always relieved me. Ny wife and child
had diphtheris, snd Thomas Ecleetric Oil
cured them. and il taken in time it will cure
seven times out of ten. | am confident it is
cure for the most obstinate cold. or cough,
and if any one will take a small teaspoon and
half fill it with the Oil. and then place the
end of the spoon in one nosiril and draw the
Oil out of the spoon into the head, by sniff
fling as hard as they can, until the Oil falls
over into the throat, and practice it twice a
week, don't care how offensive their head
NAV he. it will clean It out and cure their ca
tarrh. For deafness and earache. it has done
wonders TO my certain knowledge. Ii is the
only medicine dubbed patent medicine that
have ever felt like recommending. and am
very anxious TO see it in evey place. for tell
You that | would not be without it in nv
house for any consideration. am now ssf-
fering with a pain like rheumatism in nv right
limb, and nothing relieves me like Thomas
Eclectric OIL" DR.. E. +. Crane, CORY, Pa.
july2lt&wlw4p
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Self.cOntrOl.

There is no kind of person so rare. says
the Youths Companion, as the one who is
lord of himself.
We met the other day, an amusing IL
lustration OF this sad truth.
The first few days of January said a
tobacconist, trade is very dull with me.
do not sell more than half as many
cigars and cigarettes as usual
Its the bad weather, | suppose" sug-
gested the customer, as ne lighted his
cigar.
No" replied the dealer in the weed
''it is not the weather; it is the good reso-
lutions. On New Years day great
many men swear off, and for some DAYS
good portion of them keep their resolu-
ton; but toward the middle of the month,
they come dropping in, and by the first of
February, | have about as many custom
ers as usual"
probably few succeed in breaking
themselves of the habit, but there are al
ways young men coming under the yoke,
and thus the average of smokers is kept
up.
Dealers in intoxicating drinks might
tell a similar story, for OF all the slaves in
the world, the slaves OF appetite are the
most numerous, and there are few of them
who do not occasionally rebel against
their tyrant.
Mary does not look well this mornin O.
what is the matter, my dear ?"
Chocolate and plum cake is the mat
ter. They always give me the headache,
but cannot resist them
Similar colloquies may be heard in
many homes during this party giving sea-
son, though it is not every young lady
who cOniesses her weakness so frankly
! I'VE love to decorate our faults with
| fine names,' says Goethe
| So we do, and the family doctor some
times helps US out. But the name for the
malady was correctly given by Mary.
! There are ladies and students who have
daily struggle with Giant Coffee, and
they suffer many CALLING defeat 1t is a
strange thing that the more a thing hurts
us, the more morbldly we are apt to crave
it. We knew a student once who had a
one kind of food which invariably gave
him horrors of dyspepsia. This deadly
! foe was nuts, and, of course, he longed
! for nuts.
Il dare not" said he, look into the
window Of a fruit store. for fear of being
tempted beyond my strength. | dream
of nuts in the night
The enemy occasionally threw him, and
he writhed in the dust of humiliation.
And that, alter all, is the most bitter
penalty of yielding to an appetite of which
we clearly diSapprove; we fall in our
own esteem. 1t we are not lord of our
selves, something else is lord of US. and
that means slavery. If our deposit is one
so gross and so mean as a morbid appetite.
we do well to despise and abhor ourselves
Our self adherence is a homage due to
virtue, and shows that we have still a
chance for freedom.
The lesson is this-cultivate the moral
| power OF the will. The time will come
when such moral training will receive the
attention it deserves. and become pro-
lection to society.
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woman living at Cambevero village. only
few miles from Paris, was seized with cholera
Thursday. She was at once conveyed to
hospital and her lodging thoroughly disin-
fected. No appearances of further cases is
believed TO exist in the community AT
ST. Nazar village an unknown woman was
seized with the same disease while passing
along the street. She fell PROSTATE to the
ground and expired Immediately.
A pitiful case is reported from Msrsellles.
An old woman over 10 years Of age was
missing for several days. The police at last
forced an entrance into her lodging. They
found her body upon the foor, and she must
have been dead some DAYS. Examination
proved that she was the victim Of cholera.
She had lived almost exclusively on fruit.
The coyette Argentina, which was recently
at Marseilles, desired 10 take on coal at Glib
eraltar. The English authorities there for
babe this and threatened 10 forcibly prevent
il. The vessel at once departed. The Ar
gentina thereupon proceeded 10 port IN
Portugal and began loading. but the iuhab-
itaBts Of the port became panic stricken and
compelled the authorities to order the imme-
date departure Of the unfortunate vessel.
Where the Argentina is to find fuel enough
to enable her to return TO La Plata appears
to be an nsoluble problem.
Complaints are being made at Marsellles
that the measures of precautlon against the
spread Of cholera has been slackened, and The
work Of disinfection not sufficiently thorough.
The police have arrested number Of under
takers for selling clothing and bedding which
belonged to victims Of cholera.