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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
Love.

The Joy Of life is a love supreme
Yes, a great joy oft is as sad as sorrow,
To love il to live in the trance of q dream,
With a dread of waking-maybe tomorrow.
To love is to know till life shall cease,
You must toss On the waves of a seething ocean,
While swiftly shoreward flies dove-eyed Peace
For Peace dwells never with strong emotion.
To love is to know tho fame and friends,
Scatter your pathway with gifts most royal,
Thus all your happiness here depends
On whether one heart will be true and loyal.
To love is to walk between hope and fear
At a smile to exult-at its loss to languish;
To taste in your honey the gall of a tear,
In your cup of rapture a potion of anguish.
But TO love is to laugh in the face of Death,
For what can he give you of pain or pleasure;
What new truth teach with the chill Of his breath
To one who has drunk from Loves full measured
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
FIVE O'CLOCK TEA.
New York Mail and EXPRESS.

New York Mail and Express.
New photograph albums have silver legs and
a cover that automatically becomes an easel that
holds up the pages one by one.
Grotesque figures with movable heads are the
newest thing in fashionable dinner cards, and
are called smalltalk stimulators.
Since it has been disclosed that diamonds can
be hired, every bedecked woman at the opera
will not be reputed as rich as she appears.
Olive wood square perfume bottles are the
latest. Strips of glass are inserted in the side
in order that one may see when the extract is
out.
When one sees in the shops the new dress ma
terials at 500 and $l20 a yard the business de-
preston" is felt to be, if anything, greater than
over.
Roman punch is now served at dinner parties
in tiny pasteboard pink pond lilies that can sub
sequently be used for pin boxes on Floras toilet
table.
Black cloth t~ailor-made costumes trimmed
with astrakan and modelled after the Duchess
of Albapy's outfit, are to be fashionable next
winter.
Ornamental lamps are handsomer and more
shapes, patterns and styles are exhibited. They
play an important part nowadays in wedding
presents.
The use of wax for sealing envelopes has be-
come universal in fashionable society, and the
government is the gamer, for the weight of the
letter blythe seal is increased, and, consequently,
the postage.
Clock novelties include one modelled on the
cuckoo plan, only, instead of the cuckoo coming
out, when the hours strike, a raven makes his
appearance in full feather, ard gives as many
caws as there are beatings of time.
Apropos of Sevres ware, the newest is of VIC
let or gray ~'cloUded," with monogratns in gold,
or sometimes miniatures framed in gold, for its
decoration. 1t is said that the manufacturers
are very proud of it, but foreign buyers are not
greatly impressed by its beauties.
A fashionable freak last summer, at Newport,
Lenox, Stockbridge, and other places frequented
by what are called "our best people" was for
ladies and gentlemen to have their photographs
taken in the most absurd positions, and making
the most frightful ~grimaees, Several of these
delightful pictures are now on private exhibition
along the line of Murray Hill Such fun!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
An Unknown Language.

OHIVHEU IIIUWllt.
Political Striker-"You are Mrs. LockweoE,
the candidate for President, ANT your
Mrs. Lockwood-'I have that honor"
well, l amt working for nobody in parGirs-
lar this campaign, and l just thought Id eaI
around and strike you for a fver.'
Strike me! O, dear, you would not striss
me, would your
Only for q flyer"
what on earth is a fiver2'
you know-a dizzy. a little Doodle to set IA
up with the boys, you know, to make EN- solid"
What in creation are you talking about {
thought boys we're pretty solid anyhow. Fm
sure they're as solid as girls"
20, no, mum. They ant solid at all. They've
all split up. That's why l want to set EN- uB
around to the hospital for an ambulance whik L
get some bandages ready. Hurry, quick!'
He left in a daze.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
BANGLES ON DAND1Es' WRISTS.
The Eye-Glass Interferes with the Process
of Inserting the Spoon.

New York Letter in Rochester Herald.
l regret to say that the number of men who
wear bangles on their wrists is slowly increasing
inNew York. The fashion has not spread with un-
usual rapidity, but is surely and slowly gaining
ground, and the noticeable part is that the affec-
tation is more prominent among Americans
than among foreigners. l have observed that
the same thing is true of the single eye
glass. In Delmonicos, at all times, one
tempting to eat soup and hold their glasses in
their eyes at the same time, and it is a rare night
that does not witness one or two accidents from
this affectation. When a man is opening his
mouth in the vicinity of the soup-spoon, the
muscles of his face naturally relax, and the eye
glass drops from his eye, OF course it drops on
the edge of the soup plate, and that is tine end
of the soup, the eye glass and the dude for that
particular evening.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
The Wish-BOne.

Slender and shining, prophetic bone,
We pulled it the future to divine;
Her bare pink palm, the bit in my own,
Told that wish and wish-bone both were mine.
HWhat did you ask forl' whispered my Rose,
Looking mp shyly with eyes so true.
81 wished, l answered, drawing her close,
''Tlo woman l win might look like you;
'Her eyes as brown as a forest brook,
Her check as pink as a seashells tint,
A tender mouth, and a saucy look,
And pale brown hair with a golden CLINT;
TN short, that nv future wife might be
You, dear little Rose, and only you"
Hiding her face in my breast. said she,
Isn't it fdnnyl-I wished that too"
Ruth Hall, in November Harper's.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19

P~ittsburg Times.
Young Hardworker prides himself on his abil-
ity to speak in public on the stage, and as he
had been quite enthusiastic in helping TO save
the country this fall he was naturally somewhat
elated when the chairman of the county com
mittee requested him to make a speech in one of
the rural districts.
When he called on his best girl that night the
first thing he said was: What do you Think
I'm going out to stump the country next week. "
''Well, you'll do it, George, Two no doubt of
that, I" she said. '1f the people only attend the
meetings they'll be stumped if ever they were in
their lives"
Hardworkers c~ountenance fell with q dull
thud, and a penetrating silence prevailed for
some minutes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
woman,s uncounted Vote.

Hon. George r. Hoar.
What is civilization9' says Emerson. 81
answer, the power of good women" The legisla-
ton of the last half-century has placed woman
very nearly in a condition of legal equality with
man, with one large exception. 1t has not yet
seemed wise 70 the majority of either sex to
clothe her with the ballot. But in every other
way, from the planting in the forest until this
hour, her influence in our public life has been on
the heroic side. She sent out, comforted, sus-
tanned, welcomed home, inspired, rewarded, the
soldiers in the revolution, and in the later and
greater war. She enlisted earliest, and was most
constant, in the great civic contest with slavery.
heen cnnnted-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19

tered positions, and have been plucked in guam
titles to decorate for weddings. Small, young
swamp naples, two or three feet high, that have
turned flame color, have been pulled up and
punched in high places with elegant results.
Bridal punches are made as yet solely of
Nephitos buds, which have been exceptionally
is to be had, it is greatly appreciated for bridal
favors. Florists are shy in cultivating this ex-
quisite flower that will always bring its price,
because it is slow of growth, and generates the
mealY bug.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19

I was so rich a year ago
That every day
A little child looked up to me
Amid its play.
/ was so very rich because
The child was mine;
l did not think he was but lent
A little time.
] dreamed, for him, bright dreams,
And hel
The castles that he built
We're all for me.
/ cannot tell you, if I try,
How golden bright,
The head upon my pillow
Every night.
Inever could begin to tell
I wish L could
How sweet this child of mine,
How sweet, how good.
Or half how rich l felt myself,
You do not know
How very rich l was
a year ago.
George Kringler
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
Feminine Views OF the Tarlfr.

Chicago Tribune.
II tell you how it is, Algernon, she said IN
musical murmurs.
Yes, Maud" he replied in subdued toGes.
watching her, with the reflected light of the
moon in her deep brown eyes.
p has money, your have none. Pa is afsee-
trader, you are a protectionist."
Yes" with rising infection of doubtful tcae.
II will suggest that pa make a free trade af
my hard for your business ability, and then I'll
look to your arm for protection"
Bless you, my children from a stentcraE
voice on the back piazza.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
After the Election.

Didn't I tell you? Chio's gone Republican;
s'mense!' said Jarphly to Goshorn.
Didn't you tell met" exclaimed Goshorn. "HFeu
said it would go Democraticq
mo, didn't. You must have misunderstood
me-"
mo, l didn't misunderstood you. You said
so, and now you are trying to back out of il"
mo, | amt; l remember wot l said. Wot I
said was this. Ohio's bound to go Democratic,
but not this year. That's wot 1 said. Don't you
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
The German Was Blind.


New York Tribune.
'It is not every one who can dawnce. 1t We
quires bwains. 1 assure you"
II don't agree with you, Mr.. De Silva" replied
Miss Badger. Il saw dog lead the German the
other day"
THAT was vewry strange. Where was its"
"On Fourteenth street. The German was
blind.p
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
A RestfuI Picture.

New York Tribune.
THAT is a very handsome picture, he observed
politely to the artist. VIVA do you call it,"
THAT is a study from still life"
What is the name of itE'
"a Tramp at Work"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
All He Needed.
The Graphic.

why don't you call me a donkey and be done
with iti You have limited at it long enough" he
snarled out,
at wouldn't be quite true" she replied.
Il suppose not 1 suppose 1 haven't ears
enough for that animal, " he retorted sarcastic
ally.
'Oh, yes, you have" she returned sweesly.
you don't need any more ears"
what do ] need them
more legs"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
wild Flowers for Brides.

New York Evening Post.
The decorations for most of the prominent
weddings thus far this season have been made
with autumn flowers. Dahlias, asters, saliva,
geraniums, honeysuckle, and bright foliage
have been used with splendid effects IN the
churches and residences. Some very tasteful
arrangements have been made with golden-rod
and purple asters picked from the field. The
large yellow daisies that now star the meadows,
when massed give the most glorious effects.
Wild roses and Marguerites are plentiful in shell
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
why She Did Not Like Callforni:

San FranciscO ChrOnicIe.
CALIFORNIA; reputation is likely to go down
with one class and up with another when an
Eastern lady, who has been paying US a visit,
gets home. AS she was leaving she was asked
by her friends;
"Well, how do you like San Francisco
Wouldn't you like to live heref'
mo, l wouldn't. wouldn't live in California
for anything. L haven't had a pious moment
since I've been here"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
Forgot to Take In His Moon.

Said Willie, 1.-THE Man in the Moon
In Mother Goose, came down too soon,
For I've read it over and over;
But he'd lone a sillier thing to-day,
When Flossie and l went out to play,
And roll in the field of clover.
''For up in the sky, right overhead,
When every star had gone to bed,
And the sun was shining bright
We saw his moon, looking pale and thin,
Because he'd forgotten to take it in,
After hanging there all night.
ELLA Rodman Church, in Good Cheer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
He insists on the Word.

II see Blaine is lying seriously ill.,
why, l thought he was travelling about Nieh-
igan.'
80 he is"
Then what do you meanlr
Haven't you heard he is seriously illl'
Yes, but l supposed he was able to travel
around"
SO he is. but nevertheless I am convinced
that he is lying seriously i'll"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
Eros.

Whose taps at Loves own portals
Rarely finds the god at home:
Near, in ambush, wounding mortals,
Turks the rogue who loves to roam.
Whose bides at home, unheeding,-
Heart intent on quiet things
Hears a rustling-then soft pleading
Lel a guest with shining wings!
Emma Carleton, in the Current.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
WIIIMSICALITIES.

yes" said the Vermont Deacon, IT always
go down to the camp meeting, and always come
back feeling good. Do you see that magnificent
horse there in the field? Well, you ought to
have seen the old plug 1 took down,-Christian
Register.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
The New York Lover-1ss4.

Q, come with me and be my love
For thee the stables depths I'll rove,
III curry the horses sleek and fine
And drive for thee if thou't be mine.
III speed the t~rotters over the plain,
And the chestnut colt I'll lead with a chain,
And the Morgan FLY with two white feet
III bring to you, a PLAYMATE sweet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
October.

Time of crisp and tawny leaves,
And of furnished harvest sheaves,
And of dusty grasses-weeds-
Thistles, with their tufted seeds
Voyaging the Autumn breeze
Like as fairy argosies;
Time of quicker fash of wings,
And of clearer twitterings
In the grove, or deeper shade
Of the tangled everglade,
Where the spotted water-snake
Coils him in the ~sunniest brake;
And the bittern, as in fright,
Darts, in sudden, s%lanting fight,
Southwark, while the startled crane
Films his eyes in dreams again.
Down along the dwindled creek
We go loiting: We speak
Only with old questionings
OF the lear remembered things
OF the days of long ago
When the stream seemed thus and so
In our boyish eyes;-The bank
Greener then, through rank on rank
OF the notified sycamores,
Touching tops across the shores:
Here, the hazel-thieket stood
There, the almost painless wood
Where the shellbark hickory tree
Rained its wealth on you and me.
Autumn! as you loved US then,
Take us to your heart againl
Season halest of the yearl
How the zestful atmosphere
Nettles blood and brain, and smite
Into life the old delights
We have wasted in our youth,
And our graver years, forsoothl
How again the boyish heart
Leaps to see the chipmunk start
From the brush, and sleek the suns
Very beauty, as he runs!
How again a subtle hint
OF crushed pennyroyal, or mint,
Sends US on our knees, as when
Wewere truant boys of ten
Brown marauders of the wood,
Merrier than Robin Hood!
".
All! will any minstrel say,
In his sweetest roundelay,
What is sweeter, after all,
Than black haws, in early fall?-
Fruit so sweet the frost first sat,
Dainty-toothed, and nibbled att
And will any poet sing
Of a usher, richer thing
Than a ripe mayapple, rolled
Like a PUPPY lump of gold
Under thumb and fnger-tips,
And poured molten through the lips?
Go, We bards of classic themes,
Pipe your songs by classic streamsl
Iwould twang the redbird's wings
In the thieket while he singsl
james Whitcomb Rilt
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-29
Points for Wool Growers.

years to Come the largest clip ever
raised in the United States. The sup
ply of foreign will be unusually album
dant.
The financial panic has already af-
fected prices of woods. Orders which
had been given for Colorado woods
have been countermanded until further
developments, and manufacturers are
very wisely awaiting the outcome. A
contraction of credits, of course, means
less business, and the only actual wants
will be supplied. The situation is less
hopeful than ever.
The protest from this section against
the proposition of Converse, of Ohio,
to abolish the duty on carpet woods was
anticipated by the prompt action of
Senator Hill, of this state, who repre-
sented to Converse that Colorado, be-
ing the grower of most of the carpet
wool raised in this country, would suf-
fer by such change. Thereupon Rep
resentative Converse declared that he
''would not think of interfering with
any industry of this section.''
A mammoth shearing establishments,
consisting of corrals, pens and sheds
for handling and shearing an immense
number of sheep, with all necessary
appliances, has been constructed at
Hugo, Kansas, by the Union Pacific
railroad. A large warehouse is also to
be built for storing wool. It is cheaper
for a flock owner to take his wool to
market on the sleeps back than in
wagons, if he does not have to go more
than 100 miles. There are 200, 200 sheep
Within easy range of Hugo.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-29

The live stock commission of Kan
sas, in conference with veterina sur
geons representing the United States
government, agreed that it was advisa-
ole that Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado should
quarantine against the introduction of
cattle from New York by any road
south of the north line of Pennsylvania,
Pennsy lvania and Virginia east of the
Alleghenies, and New Jersey, Della
ware, Rhode Island and Maryland,
being the districts where cattle are
affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The
governor of Kansas has invited the
governors of the western states indi-
Gated to cooperate in this quarantine,
but the governor of Missouri declines
Governor Clicks letter to Governor
Crittenden, large numbers of calves are
being shipped from the infected dis
tricts to the west, and owing to the fact
that cattle in the west roam over a large
extent of country, If the disease We're
introduced it would spread with GER
tainty. No mention of Texas is made
in the correspondence, nor does it ap-
pear that the conference considered this
state as interested with the west in ex-
GLIDING diseased cattle from importa-
ton. Texas has more cattle roaming
over the country than any two of the
states named, and Texas is importing
fine breeds of cattle from the east.
Moreover, Texas sends to Kansas, Mis-
| souri, and Nebraska annually immense
herds of cattle which, if infected or re-
| ported to be infected, would be denied
admission to those markets. Possibly
the conspicuous omission of this state
from the list of the states to be pro-
tected may be understood to mean that
the movement will ultimately be used
TO exclude Texas beeves from the Kan
sas and Missouri markets. Texas cat
tie production is the cheapest in the
country. 1t is always dragging down
the market. The cattle interests ofthe
states north and northwest of Texas
have for years exhibited hostility to the
free grass fed herds from this state
Texas levers have been discovered, and
the trade of Texas constantly threat
ened. But the long horn has persist
emily pushed his way out, underselling
all others because more cheaply pro.
duced in the main. This new move.
ment. which may threaten Texas OF
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-29

not, ought to have the attention Of
the governor of this state. II there
is any real danger to the cattle
interests of Kansas and Missouri
from pleuro-pneumonia to be averted
by the quarantine proposed, it is also
a danger which threatens the cattle in
terests of at least the most important
stock raising districts of Texas. II
there is no real danger, Texas, by in
action, ought not to afford preteKt to
be used against the overland cattle
trade of Texas. Pleuro-pneumonla
may not take hold in southern or south
western Texas, but if it will ever pre-
vail in southern Kansas and Missouri,
it must prevail in northwestern Texas.
The results would be intellectually dis
astrous. After the interstate drill this
matter might DE worth the attention of
the governor. 1t might be worth the
attention also of Texas senators and
representatives in congress, for the
Texas cattle trade will be much less
liable to harassmsnt and injury under
sanitary regulations affecting inter-
state cattle movements, if such regula-
tons are administered by the general
government, than it would be if they
were left to the state governments in
sympathy with local cattle interests
chatting at Texas competition and anx-
ious for some means of crippling it.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-29

far better christian in thought and deed
than many who are punctilious in mat
ters he thought irrelevant. One day,
when he was far advanced in life, q
busting young Baptist brother called
upon him to converse about sin and re-
demption. He alluded TO the weather,
the goodness Of the Creator in grant
ing various kinds Of weather, and
then, after pause, began: ''Mr.
Weed, If you will excuse me, you are
now an old man. You cannot have
many years to live, and I have called
to pray with you and talk with you
aboutthe interests of your soul, in view
of the eternal future" Mr.. Weed
smiled upon the juvenile preacher, who
might have been his grandson, and
said: 81 thank you sincerely for the
good intent and kind wishes which no
doubt brought you here. But you
seem to be laboring under misappre-
hension. DO you really imagine that
serious. minded man who has lived be-
tween these two worlds for eighty-four
years; who has had the ighest joy
and the deepest sorrow; who has been
stricken down in the shadow of death
more than once and came out alive;
who has been bereft of father and
mother, brothers and sisters, wife and
children; who has seen the dear friends
of his youth drop off one by one till
scarcely companion remains above
the sod, has never dwelt upon this ques-
ton of the meaning of life and the mys-
terry of death, concerning which you
have come to give me your, opinionp I
thank you, my dear friend, but you can
do nothing for me-" And the youth
took his departure.