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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
The King.

They rode right out of the morning sun
glianmering, gittering eavalcade
OF knights and ladies, and every
In princeH sheen arrayed;
And the king of them all, o be rode ahead
With helmet of gold, and plume of red
That spurted about in the breeze and bled
In the bloom of the eyergade.
And they rode high over the dewy lawn
With brave, glad banners of every hue
That rolled in nipples as they rode on,
In splendor two and two
And the tinkling links of the golden reins
OF the steeds they rode rang such refrains
AS the eastanets in a dream of SPANS
Intensest gold and blue.
And they rode and rode; and the steeds they neighed
And pranced and the sun on their glossy hides
Fhekered and ehtened and glanced and played
Like the moon on ripping tides;
And their names were sien, and thick and strong,
And their tails were fossy, and fetlosklong,
And jostled in time to the teeming throng,
And their knightly song besides.
Clank of soabba1d and jingle of spur,
And the futtering sash of the queen went wild
In the wind, and the proud king glanced at her
AS one at a wilful child
And as knight and lady away they few,
And the banners tapped and the falcon too,
And the lances flashed and the bugle blew,
He kissed his hand and smiled
And then, like santing sunlt shower,
The pageant gttered across the plain,
And the turf spun back, and the widowed flower
Was only crimson stain.
And dreamer's eyes they downward cast
AS he blends these words with the waiting blast
eft is the King of the Year rides past"
And Autumn is here again.
james Whitcomb Riley
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
st. Michael's Chapel.

When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain
Roars round about me a | walk the street.
The myriad noise of traffic and the beat
Of Tolls incessant hammer, the fierce strain
OF struggle hand to hand, and brain to BRAIN
Oft times sudden dream my sense Will cheat;
The gaudy shops, the sky.piled roofs retreat,
And all at once stand enthralled again
Within a m arble minister over seas
] watch the solemn, goldstained gloom that creeps
To kiss an alabaster tomb where sleeps
J. lady 'twixt two knights stone efigies
And every day in dusly glory sleeps
Their seulptured sluniber of i've centuries
Emma Lazarus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
She Played Croquet.


thought she was lovely sight,
AS daintily arrayed in white,
With rosy cheeks and glsnees bright,
That summer day
She played croapet
Until beneath shady tree
] stopped to rest which CHANGED to be
Where in the kitchen could see
That summer day
She played eroquet;
And there alone in that hot place,
Her mother stood with careworn face,
And ironed gown all frills and lace,
That summer day
She played eroqnet;
A gown, the very counterpart
OF tht.t she wore with witching art;
And 50 she did not win my heart
Plat summer day
She played croquet
-Harper's Bazaar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
Watch Her Snatch Him.

Through Mail.
The other evening bright four year-old future
President went with his mother to a party,
where she Was introduced to q gentleman who
made her angry by stepping on her grown
daughters trail in coming out of a theater . few
weeks before.
"Say mister" said Johnnie.
What is it, little maaF
"Do you want to be snatched bald headedT
"Shhshi" said his mother
mo, my son; why do you askr
''Oh, COS"
Johnnie, there is whole bag of chestnuts IN
the Kitchen" said his mother.
Didn't you tramp on the tail O. sisters dressaN
cried the urchin, as he was being hustled out,
''for ma sail if you did he rushed along
lively but screamed as he passed into the kitch-
en-''she would snatch you bald-headed!r And in
the excitement the man interested again troa On
Johnnie's sisters trail, and was rewarded by his
caution to the crowd loudly spoken:
'Now, watch her snatch himl"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
October.

She stands alone in raiment red.
And mourns because her youth is dead.
Nor wakes the tales so often told,
Amid the summer sheayes of gold
She sleeps-to feel the winter chilli
And wakes-to grow yet colder stiIl;
And TO the hills cries ont in pain,
To hear the echo of her strain.
Now low 'mong fallen leaves she sleeps,
While Time his ceaseless vigil keeps;
And now she signs by kindling fire
A mourner to her oRn weird pyre.
Claude G. MILESTONE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
For Hssthe.ic Invaiids.

New York Dial.
The latest fancy in sheets and pillow cases is
to make them of black, red, pink blue, or prim-
rose yellow surah, or foulard silk, trim them
with cream, feelle gray or black lace, and use
them only when necessary to receive, in spite of
indisposition, in bed. The coverlet over such
sheets and pillow cases is of silk broche. any
color preferred, lined with satin to harmonic,
and bordered with swans down feather bands,
or light fluffy fur. The camisole or gown must
match the color Of the sheets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
A Big Tree for the East.

San FTaneiRco Post.
Colonel A. Andrews's latest acquisition for the
New Orleans Exposition is u sample of the size
of our California trees. He has obtained from
the Calaveras Big Tree grove section of a tree
thirty two feet in diameter, and weighing forty
tons, This he intends to convert into a dancing
floor He is preparing Invitations for grand
ball to be given upon ii. and viii invite the Gov
ernor Of each State OF the Union TO participate.
The block will be cut in sections for transportar
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
She Had "a Bald Cold.



Little fve-year-eld Annie, who was sulfaring
from bad cold, went to pay a visit to aantie-
During the day she related her various successes
at school, and ended by declaring that she could
read good deal better than Sabina, who was
eight years old.
We'll" questioned auntie would II not
sound better if some one else said it,"
YES" answered Annie with a very sober
eountenance, Il think it would. j have such q
bad cold that l can't say it very WELL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
A We,nan's View of 1t.

Merchant Traveller.
Two ladies were discussing politics. and one Of
them was violent free trader.
.iWell, declare, she said, Il can't see for
the life Of me- how anybody can be in favor Of
protection
"Really," replied the other, II don't know
bel"
What differeneel Why, protection makes
everything high i'll price and free trade makes
everything cheap Don't yoH want to buy your
clothes at the lowest prieesl'
II don't know that it makes much difference"
Goodness sakes alive, woman, what dc you
meant"
"Why, mean just this My husband has to
DAY for them anyway, and he gfowis just the
same when the bills come in, whether they are
big or little, and why should | care whether We
have protection or free trader
The other woman began at once to think so TO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
Never Too Late.
Boston Sunday Times.

Boston Sunday Times.
Here, Maria, mend this hole in my vest, wik
you!" said husband to his wife, as he was going
to bed the other night.
an do it in the morning John"
''Why not do it now, Mara9n
why, you don't expect me to mend Clothes
this time of night, do youl"
-'Of course I do. You know, its never too late
to mend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
New Management Wanted.

Wall Street News
II don't understand" he said, after scratching
his ear for a minute or two why the7 percent
bonds of the Mexican Central have tpnlbled he
low 40n
EASY enough" replied the fat man. 1T IS
the American management of affairs
''But could the Mexicans do any betteTqn
swell, should sayi They would have made
that road whoop up a June dividend Of IA per
cent"
HPossible!"
'tOf course. The directors would haye farmed
out the line to some guerilla chief and taken 60
per cent. of what he robbed passengers of Tell
you what, we nave heap to Learn yet regarding
the railroad business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
Living Entirely in the Past.


81 am living only in the past" remarked Mr..
Dadman. with an unusual degree of sentiment
YES said his friend Tough, las to howF
Passed 500 counterfeit yesterday, and 1
think can live on it a week
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
WHIMSICALITIES.

'You got off from that charge Of burglary.
see"
Eyes, the Judge discharged me-"
''Why2"
Because the prosecutors name was spelled
wrong in the indictment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02

Better.

Better, I say, one hour upon the height
Than ages in the valleys restful fold
Better my one all-perfeet pure delight
Than all the paler pleasures life can hold
-Carlotta Perry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
Transplanted.

She gazed upon her little babe
In shroud of satin dressd-
A smile upon it's waxen lips,
A rosebud ON its breast.
God took it from her one June day.
And none could tell her why;
But, lifting her sad face, she saw
An angel in the sky.
Frank II. stauffer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
The Three Ball Game.

Merchant Traveller.
''Iook here Moses" said a slim young aasn-
going into pawn brokers shop didn't you see
me on the street yesterday
''Vell, yunk weller should tink dit
"Did you see me bow to your
II vas"
well. why in thunder didn't You return itf'
''Ko SHOW, mine vrent, ko SHOW. A man vot
ish in my pizzness don'd return holdings widout
he hash der teeget, und vene1fer you gif me dot
teeget youst count me in vor returning eAery7
tings vot you gift me-"
"Oh-ah-excuse me, there's friend calling
me" and sticking the end of his empty watch
chain back into his pocket, the same young man
walked out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02

Pittsburg Chronicle
In 1900 a little boy will pun to the corner
grocery, with can in his hand, and say:
MA wants o quart of your best electricity
How'd your ma like that lastFF the grocer
will ask.
f'All right"
That's Jobson's Jobson makes good 'tricity"
the grocer will remark, as he turns the little
boy on a quart ''Wots your ma using it for
to-dayl'
She's going to wash and wants it to run the
washer and wringer."
There you are. my little man. Look cut and
don't spill it" And the grocer will give tbe httle
boy bunch of raisins.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
Beautiful Things.

Beautiful faces are those that wear
1t matters little if dark or fair
Whole-souled honesty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show.
Like crystal panes, where heart-ffrei
glow,
Bsa utiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds
Yet whose utterances prudence girds.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest, brave and true,
Moment by MT ment, the long day thro'
Beautiful feet are those that 20
On kindly ministries to and fro
Down lowliest ways, if God will it so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that beal
Ceaseless burdens CT hsmely care,
With patient grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful eyes are those that bless
Silent rivers of happiness,
Whose hidden fountains few may guess
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
An Estimate of John Bright.

He is not known, and he never will
be known, as great administrator. as
a great legislator, or great master of
parliamentary detail. He cannot even
be considered o debater of the first
order. He is man, however, just as
indispensable to the legislation which
has been accomplished during his ca-
reer as the minister who conducts q
bill through parliament. As an orator
he has acquired an equal renown in
the House of Commons and on popular
platforms. Such are the power and
fervor of his eloquence that it has al
ways constituted q force with which
responsible statesmen have been COM
PEELED to reckon. Disraeii once said
of Golden that che was the greatest
politician that the upper middle class
of England had produced, and that he
was not only an ornament to the House
of Commons, but an honor to his coun-
try" 1t may be asserted of Mr.. Bright
that he has surpassed all his contem-I
poraries in the art of giving simple and
weighty expression to the views and
aspirations of the English multitude
He has been called demsgogue. As|
u lAattC1 OA 1dOb AO luaH Uoo CNCA 1CboE
of demagogue. Had he been cspsblel
of pandering to the popular sentiment
of the hour, he would not have resisted
the Ten Hours Bill, nor would he haveI
lost his seat for Manchester twenty
seven years ago by denouncing the for
eign policy of Lord Palmerston in
China and in Russia. 1t would be un-
just to say of him that he was ever the
mere mouth-piece of public feeling.
He has acted as the champion of the
popular cause just SO far as he could
identify that cause with, and vindicate
it by reference to, what have seemed
to him to be the eternal laws of justice
and right. There were radicals before
Mr.. John Bright. There are, and will
continue to be, radicals after him. But
as he had little in common with many
of those who were spoken of as his
allies at the beginning of his public
life, so he has slight sympathy with the
most powerful and representative radi-
Gals whom he sees round him as the
shadows of his life begin to lengthen.
From an article soith a frontispiece
portrait, by z. II. S. ESc0tt, IN the Jasly
Century.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
snanIsh Hotel sorxants.

The demeaDor of the servants 81 the
Gran Hotel de Paris teaches whole
some lesson TO those who find cause OF
complaint on this head in American ho-
tells. There were tive in the dining
room, a man and q maid-the latter
most slatternly person, who dressed
her hair elaborarely every afternoon
and stuck a flower in it. without chang
ing her soiled apron; next morning the
apron was still more soiled, the hair
was rough, and the flower was faded
but still there The waiter was TRIM
mer. spoke q little French, and was
called Ell Chico on account of his statue,
like Boabdil. the last of the Moorish
kinos. This pair used to present them
selves a quarter of an hour after the
bell sounded for a meal, and lean on
either side of large arched doorway
communicating with the pantry, which
opened into the kitchen, and amuse
themselves with our impatience as the
food was not served for another fifteen
minutes. The boarders who were ap-
parently officers in garrison, lawyers,
and men of business who messed there
and lodged elsewhere, would remon-
strate good-humoredly at first, and
then grumble. The servants, leaning
against the door-posts, laughed and
cRaffed them ironically congratulating
them on their appetite. and inquiring
if they would have their food now or
wait unil they could get it, with similar
faceti9 Once during the midday
breakfast, which corresponds to lunch
con in England and America, burst
of military music and the measured
tramp of feet announced that SOL
diers were passing. The servants
Immediately set down the dishes
they were serving. ran.be window.
threw it open, and stepped upon the
balcony, where they remained talking,
laughing, and looking at the regiment,
until it was out OF sight The meeker
spirited of the guests joined them, fol-
lowing them back into the room when
they deigned to return. Before the re-
past was over the drums were heard
again; out rushed the servants; nobody
else stirred, and gloom fell on the
company; but it did not in the least
disturb the cheerfulness of the couple
on the balcony. who came back at their
own pleasure, chatting gaily with each
other, as nobody else would speak to
them. This was my Introduction to
the extraordinary democracy@of man
ners which prevails throughout the
most aristoeratic and top-lofty society
in the Old World. Atlantic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
The Volume OF Food,

When a man eats with moderation
as to quantity of food, the per cent OF
absorbed nutriment is greater than
when he eats very little, and much
greater than when he eats to excess.
The consumption of immoderately
large quantities of food is irrational
for this reason alone; but, aside from
the greater loss, there is a positive in
jury to the stomach by distending it
beyond proper limit. The feeling OF
satisfaction is also greatest after .
moderate meal. We know full well
that persons who have been accustom-
ed to oyer-eat have a sensation OF
emptiness when they take only small
quantities of aliment. Disturbances of
digestion are also sure to follow exces-
sive eating. 1t has been observed in
the German army that the young peas
ants from. region of country where
they have lived largely on potatoes.
and been obliged to eat large quantl-
ties, suffer from emptiness when they
become soldiers and are fed on q more
concentrated diet. The sensation of
fullness is absent until the stomach be-
comes used to it. The taking of an
excessive amount of food leads not
only to disturbances of digestion, but
also injury to the power of absorption,
and this may become a serious matter.
Moderation in eating and drinking
should be the rule of life. To eat too
little is injurious; it leads to poverty
of blood, emaciation and weakness.
To eat too much is in some respects
better than to eat too little; but if the
excess be considerable the injury will
be conside. able also.-Herdl of Health.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
The Panama Canal

In the eyes of the American CORES
pendents the canal work at Panama is
conducted upon very Oriental If not
medieval notions of the value of time
and money. The clerks who keep the
books ride out daily In carriages with
colored drivers and sometime footmen
all at the company's expense-while
the manager lives in perfect palace
filed with imported furniture, and has
at his command four carriages and
private palace-car. Negro laborers
get from s. to So per day when work
ing for the company, and about 40 per
cent. less in the employ of the contrac-
tors. The experience OF the American
contractors is that the terms granted
them are very low indeed, while the
French contractors are picking fat
plums. One Frenchman is about re-
turning to Paris with $45, ,00O-the
earnings of seven-months' contract.
1t will be impossible to complete the
canal in the time indicated by De Les
seps, 1888. 1t will certainly be eight
years before the waters of the two
oceans will meet at the isthmus. The
French engineers have at last given up
the'notion of a sea-level canal as pure
ly vision of absurd engineering.
When De Lesseps was taking in money
for the project he secuted the opinion
of American engineers that sea level
was impossible Surveys made in the
early part of the century fully demon
strated this, and now the Frenchmen
begin to see the mistake themselves.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
Columbus Neglected.

Rev. William Taylor, in writing
about Colon in 1877, in his Our South
American Cousins" remarks that ''the
rs present grand bronze statue of
Columbus, which extends protecting
arm around the beautiful but timidly
crouching statue of an Indian princess.
1t should be put upon much larger
and more substantial pedestal than the
one ON which it now stands" Since
Mr.. Taylor's visit this ''grand" statue
has lost its pedestal-even that poor
little one of which the reverend gen
tleman wrote so depreciatingly. 1t is
rumored that the natives stole it. And
now poor old Christopher sits squat
ting on bit of low land filled in re-
Gently by the canal company, and dig
nified by the name of 'terre-plai
The Genoese navigator's effigy-very
much the worse for wear, and looking
as though good serubbing with sand
and emery stone would do him good
squats there sans pedestal, sans plat
form, sans everything, gazing mourn
fully out upon the sea, and none SO
poor as to do him reverence. How are
the mighty fallen! If the state of Pam
anna, or the government of the city of
Colon $50 named from the Spanish
word ''Colum us''-"Cristobal Colon"
signifyiDg christopher Columbus'')
had particle of self respect left they
would not thus neglect this interesting
memento of the gentleman who not
only founded their town, but also
erected the only church in this city
Panama Cor. Boston Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
The Man-Frog and Man-Goo.e.

The. man-frog was first exhibited in
1866. at French country fete. He had
q stout ill-shapen body, covered with
a skin like leather bottle, and face
exactly like a frogs, large eyes, an
enormous mouth. and the skin cold and
clammy. He attracted good deal of
attention from the Academy of Medi-
cine. and delegate was deputed to
make him an object of study. He went
all over France; and, at the end of a
few years, retired to his native place,
Pupre, in Gers. Man with the goose's
head was first shown at the Ginger
bread Fair in 1872. He was twenty
years of age. had round eyes, long
and fat moose the shape and size of
goose's bill, and immensely long neck,
and was without single hair on his
head. He only wanted feathers to
make him complete. The effect of his
interminably long neck twisting about
was extremely ludicrous, and was so
much appreciated that his receipts
were very large. He now passes under
his proper name of Jean Rondier, and
is established at Dion as a photo
grapher. He is married, and, thanks
to enormously high collars and wig,
is tolerably presentable. - Chambers
Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
Tennyson's "Ancle" and "Ankle." !"

A lady who was writing letter sud-
denly asked me. do you spell ancle
with a or EP'' Gas could not re-
ply, with Mr.. Weller senior spell it
with ,oee," or with Thackeray's officer
about to embark, and inditing a letter
to his lady-love, to say that he could
not part from her without struggle:
"Are there two g's in strugglep" TRY
three my boy'-I replied, Il spell It
with a c." She observed, II have writ
ten it with K; and fancy am right.
Webster's dictionary was appealed to;
and there the word was given as ankle.
l then referred to johnson, the quarto
edition, and although he gives ancle,
yet he refers his readers to his ankle,
and evidently prefers that form of
spelling. Baily has favored the C, and
gives ancle with the derivations from
Saxon and Danish. Cruden's Concord
ance to the Bible gives ancle, and so
does Mrs. Cowden Clarke in the soli-
tary use of the word by Shakespeare.
Bryan writes ankle ('Don juan" iii,
72;) but Tennyson writes ancle, except
when he uses the word in conjunction
with another, when he writes ankle, rs
in ankle-bells. This seems curious;
and l am not aware the laureate's
variations in the spelling Of this word
has been remarked by his eommentor.
-No,es and Queries.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
The River of Life.

The more we live. more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages;
a day to childhood seems year,
And years like passing ages.
The gladsome current of our youth,
Ere passion yet disorders,
Steals lingering like river smooth
Along its grassy borders.
But as the careworn cheek grows wan,
And sorrows shafts fly thicker.
Ye stars, that measure life to man,
Why seem your courses quicker?
When joys have lost their bloom and
breath,
And life itself is vspid,
Why, aS we near the Falls of Death,
Feel We its tide more rapid?
1t may be strange, yet who would change
Times course to slower speeding,
When one by one our friends have gone
And left our bosom's bleeding?
Heaven gives our years of fading strength
Observation-Disclosures;
And those of youth a seeming length
Proportioned to their sweetness.
Thomas Campbell.