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A Lime-Ki1n Club Eulogium.

Detroit free Press.
ut becomes my solemn dooty," said Brother
Gardener, he looked from Samuel Shin to
Pickles Smith and back, 'to announce de fac1
dat Brudder Paramount Slawson, an honorary
member libin' in Toledo, am no mo- on airth. ,
He had climbed up on de roof of a shed to see d
dog-fght an de Gavin in of de roof bestowed fo'
different fatal injoories upon his pusson. When
he realized dat he had got to die he requested
dat his club attend his funeral in a body an he
tried to borry money OF his brudder-inlaw TO
squar up his back dues wild us.
"Gemlen, in one respeck, Brudder Slawson
was far to medieum man. If he borryed
half dollar to go to de circus he'd pay it back
outer money dat his wife ARMED at de wash bod
De poo was neber turned away from his doah
empty handed. He pitied de sorrows of big
tramp, and let his wife go barfutted and his
ehilfen hungry He was kindhearted. but allus
behind on his pew rent. He was philantropic
but he had to dodge his butcher He was kind
ladder but he has got two of de wust boys in dc
Staff of Ohio. He was lovin' husband but he
was content to sit around de grocery an let his
wife support de family While we may sat dat
we am sorry dat death has come to sever ties
an bring changes, we have no occashun to re-
mark dat de world will be any de wJss Off Let
us now attack de reglar order of biziness."
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The President and the Press.


At the White House nearly every important
newspaper in the United States is taken and
read A great many newspapers are sent with
the compliments of the publishers, and the Pres
ident subscribes for a large number, From old
habit he reads the New York papers through
each morning, and glanees at the city papers,
newspapers there is a clerk specially detailed to
look them through and clip out all the news
relating to the President and his policy, and ar
range them for his inspection. Ior public
man, President Arthur is unusually ssensitive to
newspaper attack and criticism, and. although
he writhes under it, he persists in reading the
hostile along with the friendly, and nothing
escapes the eye of the President or his newspa-
per reader that in any way refers to him.
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
Judge Elliott s statement as to how causes are
decided in the Supreme Court is all correct, as
far as it goes. No doubt the opinions are all
read to the full bench, and fully considered.
But the trouble is that the record is examined
by one 5udge only who often misconceives the
facts and makes a wrong statement of them.
The opinionSwOuld be right if the facts were cor
Fectly stated. The decision is all right; but it
not a decision of the case the attorney APP
pealed. A single instance will illustrate: 1t is
a well-established rule of law that tenant who
puts trade fixtures in a rented house
may remove them when he vacates the
,Eilding, but not afterwards. A case
rose where the landlord refused to allow
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Syracuse nIanuaTU.
The presentation of H H. Boyesen's play,
"Alpine Roses, at the Madson-sq Theater,
Cornell about the talented Norwegian who was
for several years professor there Prof. Boye
sen used to lecture upon German literature to
the students at Cornell He was at the time
writing his Goethe and Schiller, having become
a Goethe enthusiast; and he was also--a fact that
was familiar to the students-enamored with the
lady who has since become his wife, and who
was the daughter of a New York banker The
Professors voice has a peculiar, rotund impetu-
greater volume than when he said in one of his
lectures: 'About this time Goethe fell in love
with rich bankers daughter in New yor., city"
There was a roar from the students, while boots
and canes ratified upon the floor like an avalanche
of cobbe-stones in IA shot-tower. Boyesen Gov
cred his crimson face with his hands and turned
his back to his class. That lecture was resumed
on another day
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The Tea Gown.


Paris Fashion Letter.
Tea gowns grow more and more in favor, and
great attention is paid to such negige toilet and
to handsome wrappers. Letters from Paris say
that Russian chemises are much used for Par
isian dsshabilles. They are worn with plated
skirt in the same color, or with narrow plain
skirt of Pompadour goods in corresponding col
Ors. A brocaded redingote opens to show the
chinese and skirt If the under part of the dress
is plain the redingote is of brocade; the latter is
of plain ottoman if the front is Of Pompadour
goods. The Russian chemise is made in two
ways-either it is of silk embroidered by hand or
of surah covered with fine close plaits A snowy
wrapper is of changeable garnet surah, lined
with light flannel or silk. The fronts fall loose
and open a pulled plastron of
Pompadour foulard. This plastron is
against fat piece of goods
and hooked down to the left side and sewed on
the right. A gore marks the place for the small
sidepiece. The tailleur back reaches little
below the waist. and then extends down in a
plated skirt The skirt may be raised from be-
hind the arms by a ribbon and button, and may
thus be worn long or short. The dress opens in
front under a skirt of the same material as the
plastron, and is mounted with fullness around a
deep fiat belt. Over the belt, from the seam
under the arm, is belt of garnet velvet lined
with stiff materia, and with silk, which closes on
the lower part of the plastron by means of q
fastening of old silver. The straight velvet col
lar is closed in front under metal ornament
The sleeves are full over the shoulder, and open
on the outside of the arm. near the hand to
make room for an inserted foulard putting A
band of ribbon velvet is taken around the sleeve
below the putting
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william II. Rideing, in Har-

William H. Rideng, in Harper's Magazine.
Whitby jet, both hard and soft has always
been considered better than any other; and no
less poet than Michael Drayton has sung of it
out of his seventeenth century knowledge.
The prominence given it in the shop
window signs, and their emphasis that the lus-
trous black jewelry there displayed is made
of it alone, excite a great deal of respect for
the genuine Whitby article But do Goals
really come from Newcastle, and brass buttons
from Birmingham Is Everton taffy myth,
and are Chelsea buns made at Stratford-le-
Bowl Are Eccles cakes the product of Orms-
kirk, and is the origin of Ormskirk ginger
bread to be traced to Eccles9 Is any truth
left in the worldl When we landed at Whit
by we were told that Whitby jet principally
comes from the Pyrenees! that the jet is found
in such greater abundance in Spain, and obtained
with so much greater ease, that the search for it
in the scaurs of Yorkshire has been almost en-
tireIy abandoned.
The manufacture of the crude jet into various
articles of adornment continues to be almost a
monopoly of Whitby, however. and it has been
known there since 1898. Nearly eleventh OF
the total population of the town tsay between
1900 and 400 persons) are engaged in it.
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The Indiana Roll of Honor.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
There were two volumes of Indiana's Roll of
Honor published We have them. The second
was published in 1866, by A. D. Streight The au-
thor was Theo. 7. Scribner Itcontains histories of
the Seventy third, Forty seventh, Fortieth,
Fifty -frst Thirtieth, Sixty Sixty-seventh
Thirty first, Seventy fourth, Eleventh. Sixth
Thirty eighth, Ninth, Thirty-sixth, Twenty
first, Fifteenth, Sixteenth. Eighty fourth, Thir-
ty-seventh, Seventeenth Twenty-ffth, Twenty
SIXTH Eighty eighth, Eighty second, Sixty -ffth
Fourteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenth-
second, Twenty-third, and Thirty-third regi-
ments and Eleventh battery, and biographical
sketches of several officers. -
FRANKLIN Feb. l3
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Temperance in the Public Schools.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
Allusion was made in Wednesdays Journal to
a change in text books on physiology which sub
stituted book that teaches that the higher the
civilization the more liquors are used by peo-
pie for one that gave the sanction of science to
total abstinence. That transaction has a his
tory which may be properly studied whether
the late history of the United States may or not.
This change was made about ten years ago,
when Prof. Mills occupied about the same posi-
ton that he does dow though, if L remember
correctly, he was then called supervising prin
cipal But as 1 remember his duties,
they were substantially the same as
these now assigned to the assistant
superintendent Mrs. Wallace and other
vigilant women felt the danger of such course
of instruction, and appealed to the board to
have the teachings of the new physiology neu-
tralized as far as possible by the introduction of
Richardson's Temperance Hand Book-a good
book of its kind, but without the authority as
guide, that book on science should have-it was
handicapped at the beginning with the odium of
Temperance" This was during the time that
Prof Lewis H. Jones was an assistant superin-
tendent and it came under his care, and was
faithfully taught until he was transferred to the
training school department. and that work fell
into the hands of Prof. Mills, when it was
uromDtly discontinued, and has never been
taught since This Is scrap of history that the
people ought to read. OF course Jnose who are
opposed to teaching temperance to children will
approve. while those who wish at least the child
hood of their children to be sober will want to
know why this suppression Of a text book, ord
cred by the board, without first consulting the
hoard. U. l.. SEE.
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THE RED CROSS.
A Statement of the Character and Work of
This National Relief Society.

A Statement of the Character and Work of
This National Relief Society.
Interview with Clara Barton, in Pittsburg Dis patch.
''My experience during the rebellion" she be-
gan, lin supervising in part the work of caring
for the wounded and sick from many battle
fields led me to the conviction that some organ
lied methods of breadth and scope sufficient
for all emergencies from war, famine fire, or
pestilence were absolutely essential to the we'll
being of the nation in times of great trouble.
The Commissary Department in measure met
the necessity of the war, but it was lacking and
incomplete At the breaking out of the Franco
Prussian war | accepted an invitation from the
Empress of Germany to visit the disturbed EN-
pire partly for the purpose Of studying their
methods of relief and partly to render what as
sistance | might be able to in the great work.
''On my arrival / found what we, as a people,
needed so badly, perfect organization, universal
throughout Europe, attained under the Geneva
treaty, of the chief features of which is that
all persons employed in hospitals and in afford
ing relief to the sick and wounded, and the sup
plies for this purpose shall be deemed neutral
and entitled to protection, under a neutral en-
sign or badge. On my return to America | made
it my chief study and work to have this treaty
ratified by the United States government. /
need not recall the many efforts put forth in this
behalf, but will merely say that under the pres
emit administration it was ratified by the United
States making the Confederation of Relief Soci-
cites acting under the Geneva convention, car
rying on work under the sign of the Red Cross,
international in its character.
81 But these societies were formed only for the
emergencies arising from the war. AS [ wit
messed from time to time the indescribable suf-
ferings arising from great disasters independent
from war; it seemed that so vast an association
should have more power to act. 1t seemed like
huge steamer drawing cookie SHE'LL and be-
gan to devise some way by which it might be
made of more service. From these efforts the
American Society of the Red Cross was taxed
with other responsibilities, and though the plan
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Singing Sands"


National KepubIlcan.
The superintendent of the various life-saving
stations have been instructed to furnish for
scientific purposes samples of the socalled 'sing-
ing sands" wherever found. These sands get
their name from the peculiar sound, resembling
somewhat the barking of dog. which they give
forth when walked upon or disturbed in any
way. This property is possessed only by dry
sand found between the water line and extreme
high tide marks along the sea coast and the
samples of this class of land have been received
indicating its existence in as many different To-
calities in this country. Heretofore these sing
ing beaches have only been known to exist in
two places one in this country and the other in
Enrona
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A Bad Indictment.


hIkausas ITaNeIer.
highly respected citizen was arraigned be-
fore court for shooting and killing friend
The evidence was direct and after exhaustive
arguments had been made the Judge said:
at is clearly proven that you are guilty. as
charged by the Indictment"
But l protest my innocence" replied the
prisoner. 1.-The Indictment reads that | did
shoot and kill the gentleman with powder and a
leaden bullet. This is mistake l had no bull
let's at the time, so loaded my gun with powder
and horseshoe-nail."
That indeed alters the case" said the Judge,
1.-THE indictment said bullet. when it Should
have said nail You are discharged sir"
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Where to Find a Policeman.
London Letter.

LONDON LtIIer.
Talking about the arstocracy reminds me of a
story of one of its more recently elevated mem
bers which is now going the rounds. Lord Sher-
brooke, better known as Bobby" Love- heard
the other day that there We're indications of a
burglar being secreted on his premises, and it
was suggested that the assistance of policeman
would be advisable. He accordingly ordered the
servant to go and get one out of the kitchen. The
servant stared and said there wasn't one there.
What" said Bobby, twinkle in his eye, "do
you mean to tell me that with three maid 'serv
ants and a cook there isn't policeman on the
premises Well well, things arc come to pref
ty passp
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An Anecdote of Senator Sawyer.

washington Correspondence Detroit Times
Recently a constituent of Sawyer's came here
to secure place. He hung around a day or
two, and Sawyer tried to work him in He
failed. Then he took the constituent to one side
How much have you spent so far trying to get
this place." about $75' ''Well, if you stay
here month longer it will cost you as much
more. There is no chance to get the place 1t
will cost you $50 to get home. Here is 800.
Get back to Wisconsin and go to work at your
old place. Don't fool away your money here"
The advice and money have gone West with the
young man,
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BEECHER AND HIS HAT.
How 1t Was Blown from His Head and Re-
covered by Pretty Girl.


covered by a Pretty Girl.
Letter in San francisco Examiner.
Beecher has not waned in power. His natu-
raj and acquired ability is undiminished by age.
His knowledge of men is great l saw his hat
blow off the other day. 1t was wide-bTimmed,
happy article, and gust of wind lifted it from
his head Did he race after it as it hoated awayE
probably the quickest, and certainly the easiest
way to get it back was to trust the job to volun-
teer chasers. Nor was the feasibility of this plan
dependent on the fact that he was Immediately
recognizable as the Plymouth pastor. How
ever humble you may be, your blown
strangers if you calmly trust to them. Beecher
acted upon that well settled law of usage. l
watched him. while he, with iocund serenity,
stood waiting for the inevitable recovery. The
hat being of great circumference, rolled with the
speed of a bicycle half across Broadway, and
then caught and collapsed by counter current
of wind, doubled on its foremost pursuer and
gently wiped the pavement on its way back. At
this point | missed its movements, because had
my eyes on Beecher. Suddenly the expression
of his big smile changed, and he stepped
forward in deferential haste, Some
evidently happening. A girl had caught
up the hat as it tumbled at her feet.
She was a deft, graceful selfpossessed creature
and she to the clumsier old man before he
could take three steps in her direction. She
neatly busted the hat with her handkerchief and
delivered it to the owner with a half-saucy, half
respectful grin.
''Thank you, MISS thank you," said Beecher
'Im sorry was so lazy"
You're welcome, Mr.. Beecher," was the re-
ply.
1t was not strange that the familiar face of the
preacher was known to the girl. and yet I'll be
bound that the old fellows heart bounded when
she spoke his name so casually.
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Religion in Education.



Some say, train the intellect, and life will be-
come better and purer. But experience is against
them. Learning does not begetvirtue. The worst
crimes of the past twenty five years have been
committed by men of the highest education.
You must present virtue to the mind day after
day, in its brightest light, so that the mind will
become enamored of it. You must endeavor to
make the practice of virtue habit What is
done for the hand and the intellect, must also be
done for the will. Moral training begets the one
great thing wanting on earth-the thought of
duty; duty to God and man. Is the education of
this country teaching men to be servants to
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Thinks enough Has Been Said.

To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal
We have scholarly, experienced, painstaking,
practical superintendent of public schools. If,
in employing subordinates, serious omission
in teaching history has been made (which is now
rectfedl, and even if constructive blame should
be put upon him for that omission, has not
enough been said or are we to relegate the man
agement of the schools to board of yelling
card writers2 If we howl out our superintend-
ent, soon we shall have political struggle over
that office, with what results to our schools you
can readily imagine TAX-PAYER.
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Electric Light Carbons.

George Wadsworth, Electrician
There is nothing at present known that can
displace the carbon in electric lights. The car
bons for the voltaic arc system are mostly made
at Cleveland, and cost fifty dollars thousand.
For the incandescent light carbonized bamboo,
linen thread and cardboard are used. The base
of the Cleveland carbons is petroleum coke. 1t
is ground fine, then mixed and pressed under
heavy hydraulic pressure to give it adhesiveness.
The process is partly a secret one
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Original Puzzles.

NO. CONGRATULATIONS ENIGMA
am composed of twenty three letters.
My 8, 6, %, IL. is great
My Il, l. is fluid.
My r. Is, %. Is is never far away.
Ny %, 49, is a number.
My Fl, l. g. s. 9 is belief
My 20, 10, 16, %, 6, II is song.
My 10, IA, 3 was the most beautiful woman of
antiquity.
Ny A, TO- l. 2, 10 is to worry
My whole is a remarkable proverb.
WOODSTOCK, Va E.E. S.
NO. 1909 CROSSWORD ENIGMA.
My first is in racket, not in noise
My second is in rattes not in TOYS
My third is in dreams, not in night.
My fourth is in daytime not in light
My fifth is in wailing not in woe.
My sixth is in reindeer, not in doe.
My seventh is in tawny, also in brown.
My whole is the citadel of town.
w. SCARBoRo. Me. -XoA
NO. 10l0.-woRD-sQUARE.
1. A thin plate. 2. A Greek prefix. 8. A
fruit f. To remove tobs 5. thrust
XoA.
NO 1011.-DoUBLE AoRosTIo.
Words of uniform length
/. A Jewish period of time. 2. An animal.
g. A foreign city. A. A Jewish doctor of the
law. 3. A Greek letter. 6. Refuse.
Primals and finals give two ancient Assyrian
kings. UNCLE WILL
NO. 1O12-DIAMoND.
l. A letter 2. A solid or hollow body of
round form. 3. A musical drama. 4 A sti-
pend in a cathedral church. s. An article of
food. 6. A conjunction T. A letter XoA.
NO. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
l. Behead to hamstring and leave an animal.
2. Behead grotto and leave to decay.
3. Behead to torment and leave q stream of
water
4. Behead to cut and leave to travel
5. Behead to endeavor to stop, as a leak in the
bottom of a ship, and leave additional.
6. Behead vessels of any kind and leave the
sweepings of society. UNCLE WILL.
NO. 10l4-CRoss-w WORD.
My first is in chalk, but not in lime,
= My second is In shilling, but not in dime;
My third is in laugh but not in cry;
My fourth is in up, but not in high;
My fifth is in club, but not in bat:
My sixth is in bonnet but not in hat;
My seventh is in word, but not in note;
My whole, says Webster, these lines wrote:
Him would comfort and reheat
For hope of his gold to GET
NO. 15.-CURTAILMENTs.
/. Curtail plant and leave nearer
2. Curtail bird, recently extinct, and leave
more.
3. Curtail one who gives alarm, and leave tint
4. Curtail the animals of any given area or
epoch, and leave god of fields and shepherds.
ANSWERS in three weeks.
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E. E. S.-We thank you for the enigma.
XoAs articles are among the good things this
week. she is thanked
NINA B.-What name shall be printed upon
your cards9 Send card at once,
MAMIE r. ALLEN provides a pretty list of
answers, and takes the prize. We hope she will
call every week.
DELL's enigma lies in the box of manuscript
without an answer. If Dell will furnish it, the
puzzle shall come forth and puzzle the puzzlers
of puzzledom.
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drive horses and labor in the street, think not
1t is largely without a moral side, and the sense
that it is noble to labor, that every man has
duty to perform, is being destroyed. 1t produces
dream that it is ignobe to labor; that the pur-
pose of life is to be grand gentlemen. All ed
ucation that affords no moral training is incom-
plete. With all possible training we all know
how difficult it is to be good We know that we
must constantly seek above and beyond all else
the grace of God. Teach your children to ask
for that
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Who Can Answer?

To the Editor of the indianapolis journal:
l find this sentence in one of the early pages
of Macaulay's Frederic the Great: "rhe Prin-
cess Wilhelmina, who took her brothers part,
was treated almost as i'll as Mrs. Brownrigg's APP
prentices." In my meanderings through many
novels and a few other books, have missed her.
VIII some one who knows be kind enough to
tell me who she is and where to be foundl v.
DUBLIN, Ind, Feb ID
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The angry and indecent disputes that have
lately taken place in DIR. Newmans church are
not unprecedented. Similar scenes have been
enacted in many Protestant churches before
this, and doubtless others of the same sort will
be heard of hereafter. But it is a notorious Fact
that such things are next to impossible among
the Roman Catholics. With them the person
atty of the priest is entirely subordinate to the
idea of WnrShin.