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Part of the Broken Bubble.


JOaQulu III II Enliduelpnld fTess.
A lady came over from France to teach, a few
years ago. She had to provide for her parents
and several helpless sisters. She gave lessons,
and literally worked night and day. She kept
on her feet from fifteen to seventeen hours daily.
There are at least fifty Wall street BROKERS who
took lessons of her, and all that knew her speak
of her well. Where should she put her earnings2
A great name-a name familiar all over the
world attracted her; an humble working
~woman-that was all. This may not interest
you; pass on to something more readable.
But somehow the sight of that pale
face, for our workshops were close to-
gether, haunts me all the time. She had
been broken down by her persistent toll. But
what of that! She had saved a little money. 1t
does not take much money to get on in Paris, if
you know how to manage and economize. Econ
omize! Had she not for years cooked her own
meals in a corner of of her little room behind a
screen, at daylight or midnight, at any time,
when her scholars were not present. And could
she not do the same for the sake of living once
more at home? All, how her plain and hollow
face used to light up when she talked of return
ing home. But why tell more9 The Ward
bubble burst. There was a smell of charcoal
the next day found issuing from her closed room.
The pale and worn French teacher was found
dead. There will be hunger at home this sum-
mer instead of her return. Another suicide or
two maybe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

THERE are inherent difficulties in running
what is commonly known as an independent
newspaper. So far as can be judged by an
unprejudiced outsider, the rule commonly OBJ
served in the management of such papers is to
render an equal portion of abuse to each polit-
ical party. One day a casual reader might
naturally suppose that he was perusing a Re-
publican organ with unimpeachable party
principles. 1t is only the regular subscriber
who is aware that the next day that sheet may
appear to be a Democratic organ of deepest
dye. To manage a paper on this plan seems
a simple and easily controlled process at first
thought, out there are times when it does
not work sAaSothly, and the result can hardly
be pleasing to the presiding genius of the con-
Germ.
The Boston Herald is an Independent paper.
Its Saturday issue says of the presidential
nominee:
Believing that Mr.. Blaine would be a bad
and dangerous President, we hope to see him
defeated. Believing him to be a weak caudi-
date, we expect to see him defeated"
Further down in the same column is the
following paragraph:
"a Democratic contemporary maintains that
the usefulness of the Republican party ended
with the death of Abraham Lincoln The
usefulness of the Democratic party departed
still longer ago-say, with the death of An
drew jackson. What good has itdone since"
Evidently the Republican editor of the
Herald did not know it was his day of, or
vice versa.
If our Boston contemporary keeps up this
sort of thing on the same instead of alternate
days, nothing is left it for a refuge, in time
of trouble, but Ben Butler and that solace for
so many disconsolate souls. Is the Herald for
~Butler-now, really9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
Doesn't Like the Word.
Boston Advertiser.

Why will people and the newspapers persist in
speaking of apartments as flats. and apartment
houses as lighthouses? We have so many of these
habitations that the endless iteration is weari-
some. French fats is still more absurd. The
French have no word to correspond to flat. Their
word is appartement, as the Italian word is APP
partemente; and they have the thing also. Flat
is not English, and has no fitness or significance.
1t is a Scotticism, and is employed in Glasgow
and Endinburg to represent those dreary floors
or lofts in which families live for lack of better
place. 1t is styled fiat because it is on a level.
But the Scotch is nothing like a New York
apartment, and the term should be abolished
here. Flat is a verbal abomination..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
Family Gossip.
Correspondence p~ittsburg Dispatch.

Correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch.
Some years ago L used to see more or less Of
the private life of several of the men who have
been prominent before the Chicago convention.
Blaine, for example, 1 saw when with his family
he was getting his summertime rest. His
daughter is very devoted in her attention to her
father. She thinks, as it is but right she should
think, that her fatheri is the greatest of American
statesmen, and, although she waltzes fairly
well, she prefers to talk of the leading men of
the country and what they are doing or have
done. She is shy with strangers in converse
ton, but is very bright and well-read. Blaine
is a charming talker when not under restraint,
and likes to c~auterize some of the weak spots in
others. Senator Ben Harrison is a bluff, rather
quiet man in private life, but he likes TO get at
the drift of public feeling concerning politicians
and political movements, and he has a shrewd,
unobtrusive way of asking questions which bring
much grist to his intellectual mill He has a
charming daughter. She is very pretty, with
dark brown eyes and halr, and slender figure,
which appears to decided advantage on horse
back. She does not NEEDLE at all with politics,
but has a pleasant life socially, one of her great
friends being the daughter of Henry G. Davis,
the Democratic ex-senator from West Virginia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

A Shadow of IA Romance in BIaine's Life.
Letter in Philadelphia Press from West Brownsville,
Pa.
Almost his first occupation after graduating
was as a teacher in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
in Philadelphia. Why he went from there to
Kentucky to teach school has been a question
often asked, but never answered There is a
tradition here that there is but one being who
knows. Like other boys he had his friendships
and his loves, and it would be strange if he
had grown up-for he is said to have been as hand
some a boy as he is a man-without leaving some
impression upon the hearts of the maidens of
the neighborhood. If there is one person living
who can tell, and there is, it has been and boubt.
less will be forever kept as a sealed book, so far
as the details are concerned. 1t was one of
those youthful misunderstanding that often
come to two people who hope to start out on the
voyage of life together, and are separated by an
angry sea before they meet. There is not even
a suggestion as to which of the two were at
fault for the parting of the ways that led their
hfe's journeys into different paths. The party
most disappointed has never w~eedded, but has
rather devoted her life to self-denying charity.
For twenty years, and by the irony of fate in
the capital of the nation, has she followed the
path of an undertaking Christian life, devoted
to careful attention upon suffering hum lnity,
doubtless watching with a careful eye his steadi-
ly-advancing steps, and, perhaps, often sitting
under the spell of his e~loquence, without his
ever knowing that the being whose presence
was once the chief charm of life was even living.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

A CALL is issued for a State Convention of
Young Mems Republican clubs, to meet in this
city on the 18th instant, the day before the
meeting of the State convention. The head
quarters of the State organization will be at
Room 9, Grand Hotel. The attendance
should be large, and such steps taken as will
insure the organization of clubs of young Re-
publicans in every city, town and township
of the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
Pen Picture of Young Roosevelt.

Boston Herald.
Mr.. Roosevelt has not yet learned any of
the tricks of politicians. He is simply an hon
est, straightforward young man, with a great
big load of brains and a tremendous personal en-
ergy, which goes beyond anything have seen. To
look at him, he does not seem to be over twenty
seven years of age, and all his movements and
conversation are of the kind which indicates
that he thinks more rapidly than he can by any
human possibility talk. He looks for all the
world like a young college graduate hunting for
a place on the editorial staff of some newspaper,
where he can revolutionize journalism. He has
a very light-colored, slight mustache, wears
jaunty clothes, and his head is topped by a
small straw hat with a straight rim dyed blue on
the under side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

INDIANAPOLIS has three or four Republic
ans who are not pleased with Blaine and Lo-
gan. When they see how entirely ~insignif-
cant they are, and how absolutely lost will be
the few piping notes of discord in "the swell
ing chorus of the Union" as Mr., Lincoln
phrased it, they will think better of it, and
come out of their tents. Sulking Achilles is
not IN heroic figure in history.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

A WASHINGTON dispatch in a Democratic
exchange pictures the statesmen of that party
as engaged in an anxious search for an availa-
BILE candidate. AS yet they have not found
him, and are cropping in the dark. If they
wanted the sort of man Diogenes hunted for,
somebody might lend them a lantern; but
they are looking for another kind of a person.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

for him, and the New York Sun opens the
ball in a long leader reviewing the several
possibilities, in which it gives the greatest
prominence to Butler. Stranger things have
happened than that the campaign shall be
between Blaine and Butler, in which event
the traders of the late Greenback convention,
held in Indianapolis, will have scored the
first point in their bargain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
Wants to Know What Hurt.

Brooklyn Eagle.
1t has not been made quite clear by the lndi-
ana newspaper that charges Mrs. Deecher with
having slandered certain people in her Tell-
known book, published twenty-five years ago,
precisely in what way those estimable citizens
were wronged. In a work of fiction the author
ess related experiences that are far more pain
fully pungent to feel than to read. The state
ment made by one of her characters, a minister's
wife, to the effect that the church miserably I'M
derpaid its pastor, ought not to astonish any
body. In point of fact the sting lay in the truth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

IT has just CONF to light that during conven-
ton week a spiritualist medium in New FORK
held audience with the materialized shade of
Abraham Lincoln. The distinguished visitor
from tie other world is reported to have said:
''If my son Robert becomes the nominee for
Vice president, / shall in effect be the candidate
for President, because 1 shall control the mortal
chosen for that place" To the singular care
~lessness of the medium, in emitting to telegraph
this important communication to Chicago in
time, may be attributed the fact that Lincoln
was not nominated-or it may be attributed to
something else, as, for instance, the nomination
of a more favorite son.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

COLLECTOR ROBERTSON has arrived at home
from Chicago. He was for Arthur, but now
that Blaine is the boss commanding, the collector
hopes to see all Republicans rally around the
leader. Some people have bolted the nomination,
but none of them are custom-house officials.
Louisville Courier-Journal
If Collector Robertson was for Arthur the fact
escaped the notice of any one in the Chicago
convention. He was an original Blaine man,
voted for B!xine always, and with Mr.. Blaine's
friends on every motion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

THEY do things differently in Russia. Here
She young people, the best and brightest,
push right to the front in politics. In Russia
fifty male and female pupils in the high
schools at Kischeneff have recently been ar
rested for Nihilism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

MCDONALD and Slocum is said to be the
latest combination fixed up in the room 4
Speaker Carlisle, at Washington. In the7
meantime every Democratic State conventioIk
that meets sends delegates for Tilden and
Hendricks. California is the last to go wild
over the cold ticket
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

The House of Representatives has voted to
adjourn on the Both of June. Seven months
of a session, and not a scrap of public legisla-
ton to show for it. There never was so abso-
lutely worthless a Congress as the Forty
eighth. 1t beats 'the Fool Legislature"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

IT is greatly to be regretted that the Repub-
liean national ticket does not meet the I'M
qualified Endorsement of Senator Voorhees,
and Mr.. Mcdonald. Had the convention been
aware of their feelings it would probably have
done differently.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

In response to a general clamor, if not actual
demand, for the advancement of women in the
the paths of education, the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology some years ago opened its
doors to pupils of the sex which claimed to have
''had no show" Being a school of a practical
character in which students are fitted for
various pursuits whereby a livelihood can be
earned, it was supposed that the girls who
wanted to enjoy the same privilegesin life as their
brothers would flock in. The first year a few
girls entered; since then the percentage has grad
ually decreased, until last week the annual
exalpinations showed one young woman in a
class of 1872 boys, This seems to indicate either
that woman" does not wish to advance half
as earnestly as she pretends, or that, having
secured her point, she prefers to advance against
some other closed door with intent to batter it
do wn. She wants her rights, but doesn't care
much for them when they are secured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
The Democracy Must Take Butler.

Memphis (Tenn.) Scimitar.
The Democratic convention at Chicago will
show a decided want of good common sense if
they fail to nominate Butler. He is the one
American statesman and politician who can
gather around him the elements prerequisite for
the defeat of Blaine. Without Butler as its
nominee, the Democracy is doomed. With But
Ter, Democratic victory is certain. Ignore But
Ter in the Chicago convention, and the Democ-
racy will be speedily damned and delivered into
the hands of the Philistines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

ENGLISH friends and admirers of the Maori
King, Tawbia, who is visiting in London, have
pointed with pride at that monarch because he
has refrained from getting drunk during his
stay. OF his excessive admiration for the ballet,
and desire to occupy the seat of the bald headed
men at the theater, they are not so proud. They
should remember that the ballet is a product of
the highest civilization and regard Tawbia's ap-
probation of it as a mark of progress from a
heathendom which has no sucn aesthetic enter
tainments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

THE New York Sun passes by Indiana in its
summary of presidential possibilities, because
and Mcdonald. If a State gets left in a ma
tional convention because it is bothered with
twins, what in the world would it do with
trinlAts2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journals:
Did A Lincoln at any time during his admin
%1stration propose to the Southern onfederacy tc
re-enslave the negro if it would cease hostilities'
June 10, 1884. ISAY No.
You are right.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

BECKY JoNEs-the Molly Stark of modern
~times-shows signs of weakening. On Sunday,
after putting two roses in her hair and a bunch
of wild flowers at her corsage, she expressed a
longing to make a trip down to Coney Island,
but was not gratifed. She then composed her.
self by singing Jesus, Lover of My Soul
while some less pious prisoner passing her cell
whistled Dancing in a Barn" After services
by Rev. DR.. Morgan, Becky had "a real good
cry" and felt relieved.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

A NEW YoR justice has thrown a dampener
over picnic excursions. He has ruled that a man
must take his wife-not some other FELLOWSHIP
these places of gayety. Gloom will envelop them
now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

Ex-Gov. LONG, of Massachusetts,, the best
and greatest of the Independents at Chicago,
whose speech for Edmunds will be a political
classic, says there is no doubt that Massachu-
sets will vote for Blaine and Logan. Mr..
Long is long-headed, round-headed, level
Lz.1AJ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

THE Washington Post says the Democratic
party twill have to put master mind against
master mind-Samuel J. Tilden against James
6. Blaine" if there is to be the slightest
chance of success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

TAKE John D.. Long, Theodore Roosevelt
and Henry Cabot Lodge from the Independ-
ents, as they appeared at Chicago, and there
would have been very little left of them, save
only George William Curtis. These three we
have named Loyalty give in their allegiance to
the work of the majority Of the Republican
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

IF anybody is simple enough to imagine
that the followers of Blaine and Logan will
take it all out in hurrahing and in doing moth
ing, he will probably awake to his error long
before the ballots are counted in November
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
A Merited Word for the President.

New York Mail and EXpress.
President Arthur was quick to tender to the
elected standard bearer of his party the assur-
ance of his support. The President has come
out of this fight a greater man before the country
than when he went into it. What he has done
and said and what he has not done and said have
been worthy of the chief magistrate of a great
naanla
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
DdrUN

M. NAQUET's divorce bill has passed the
French Senate by a vote of 156 to lis. The
author of this bill has made a desperate fight
FOR it during four years past, and it now seems
IN a fair way to become a law. He argues
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

A SUIT for divorce has been brought by the
wife of Mr.. Maxim, of electric light fame. Al
though the inventor of several illuminating ma
chimes, his conscience appears to have remained
in darkness, and he neglected the family maxims
to a reprehensible degree.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

A BALTIMORE belle aged seventeen has com
mitted suicide. Her father chided her on some
account, whereupon she wrote a poem on death
and then ended her life with laudanum. 1t is
not known which produced the impression that
life was not worth living-the scolding or the
n0em.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

Hon. NOAH HAYNES SwAYNE, an ex-Justice
of the United States Supreme Court, died in
New York, on Monday. at the age of eighty. He
was appointed to the bench by President Lin
coin, in 1862, and served until 1881, when he re-
tired under the law. He was a native of Gull
pepper county, Virginia, but removed to Ohio in
early life. He was contemporary as a lawyer
with Ewing, Chase, Stansbery, Pugh and
Spaulding. Mr.. Swayne was a lawyer of the
first rank, and while on the bench presided with
great dignity and success. He delivered many
notable opinions, among which were those grow
ing out of the changed condition of the country
after the war. Personally he was a great favor
lite with lawyers practicing before the Supreme
Court and at the bar of the Sixth judicial cir
emit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

vest fields. But a little while and pleasing tales
of the exploits of these machines will be offered
through these columns to such of our readers as
desire other than campaign news.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

THERsITEs and Achilles. These self-infat-
ard in every age. Yet Greece and the world
goes on, while the one scolds and the other
sulks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

A FOREIGN correspondent of the New York
Sun says the latest device of a Paris paper for
attracting readers is the engagement of two
eminent physicians to attend g~ratuituously upon
its yearly subscribers. If the Sun, which
is on the eve of inaugurating a Butler boom,
has any intention of following the ex-
ample of its Paris contemporary. it should
pause and reflect ere it is too late. The scheme
might be a good one for a large number of sick
subscribers, but would bring financial ruin to
the Sun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

SINCE the nomination of Mr.. Blaine there
has come a demand in various quarters for the
nomination of Ben Butler by the Democratic
convention. The Memphis Scimitar declares
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

of the portraiture, and the hubbub was caused
originally by the amazing number of people who
felt it was aimed at them, or, if it was not, that
it ought to have been. If every clergymanin the
country were to give his experiences of a call,
and a volume were to be published including a
for the truly wicked. 1t is an ancient, almost
venerable joke among the clergy that from
twenty to seventy per cent. of their income is
given to the church, presumably because that
Enumeration that is not fulfilled. 1t happens to
hurt the withholders when it is revealed in type;
it does not affect them painfully when they
merely practice it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

IF Ben Butler is the Democratic nominee,
and the choice is between Blaine and Butler,
raJaf2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

JUDGE ADvoCATE-GENERAL SWAIN is to be
sourt-martialed. The court of inquiry talk
very sharply about his conduct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
Wrath of the Englishmen.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t appears that Mr.. Blaine will have to send
in his subscription to the Balltown Brayfog.e
and the New York Times, and be almighty
quick about it. The Englishmen are mad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

To avoid accidents, the hold-backs are re
quested not to stand in front of the Blaine
boom. It is loaded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
A Candidate Provided.
Milwaukee Sentinel.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
The American party will hold a National
convention in Chicago June 10. Gen. Butler is
ready to take the nomination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

Mr.. MCDoNALD's little boom having been
repaired, he has turned his face homeward.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11

Mr.. BLAINE is not immaculate enough for
Henry Ward Beecher. Well, well.