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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
THE HELPLESS DEMOCRACY.

Two months have passed since Congress as
sembled, and in that time not one of the APP
preparation bills has been passed. and barely
one has been reported from committee. The
attitude of Congress might be considered one
of apathy, were not the belief well grounded
that the party in majority is unequal to the
task of national legislation. After all the blus-
ter and thunder of the campaign, nothing is
done, nor has any definite and reliable prom
Use been made. Mr.. Morrison has reported
an auger-hole bill on the tariff,
which proposes that every item in the list of
dutiable things shall be shaved down by so
much, without regard to the merits of the
various cases. The father of this unique bill
apologies for it by saying that he had no idea
that it would pass as drawn. but that it was
better than no bill at all on the subject, in
that it furnished kind of chopping- block on
which experimenting statesmen could cut and
carve the tariff to order. Experience must
give way to experiment. and statecraft to
empiricism.
But incompetency is not the only
thing to be dreaded. The Democratic party
has so often proved itself insncere when not
absolutely dishonest, that the public has
learned to fear it whenever in position to do
harm. Given a majority in the House on the
most profound pledges of reform, the party
has no conception Of its duties and obligations.
Having promised reform generically it is at a
dead loss what to do specifically; and while the
public watches impatiently for some good to
come out of the venture of Democratic
majority, and fearing that only
evil will be the result the
party goes stumbling and laundering along,
promising everything and performing nothing.
AS for the tariff bill they have no more cohe-
rent ideas of how to handle it than school
boy would of how to break an elephant to har-
ness. The average Democratic congressman
would use an adze to shave down corn and
boat-hook to draw tooth. The truth is, the
present House of Representatives is afraid TO
do anything lest campaign capital be furnished
the enemy. In short the majority realizes
that in its present divided condition it
can do absolutely nothing that would
not be burlesque on craftsmanship and a
drawback before the people. Hence the in
tention is to temporize to juggle with the
serious business of law making as the mounte-
bank does with gilded balls. The session Will
be proftless, and if the party in control of
the House shall only succeed in doing nothing
of any harmful nature, it will be content in
accomplishing nothing good.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THE proposed monument is to be memorial
to the Union soldier, so that all who served in
the federal armies, whether in Indiana regi-
ments or not, can take just pride in it. There
are hundreds and thousands of soldiers who
served in regiments from other States now
resident in Indiana. The services Of these
will be commemorated, as well as the noble
swo hundred thousand who went to battle and
death under Indiana enlistment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THERE should be no mistake made by either
commissions or commissioners of any kind as
to the fact that the public press will continue
to "edit" public questions. Expressions of
fretfulness about newspaper impertiuence"
do not sound well. The newspaper press has
its faults and its weaknesses, but the press is
still the best friend of the public, the best
agent to ferret out abuses and rectify wrongs.
As a rule, the newspaper press has no
possible personal or selfish interest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

GENERAL GRANT writes the editor of the
Toledo Blade that ~ never gave any order to
any army that L commanded during the rebel
lion to make an attack where it was disobeyed"
Could General Pope say so much9 And could
General Grant say SO much for Fitz John POr-
ter's commander?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

IT is fearful thing to be in a beleaguered
city, day by day seeing the food supply lossen-
ing and vigilant and persistent enemy con-
stantly drawing closer about the walls, prepar-
atory to inevitable and fatal assault 1t is
scarcely less terrible to be in city OF town on
the river bank. with the waters rising hour by
hour, invading first the streets and then the
dwellings, creeping up the walls silently but
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THE Chicago Inter Ocean says the recent
story of Stephen A. Douglas being slave
holder is revival of a thirty-yearold tale,
which proved to have no other foundation
than the fact that the first Mrs. Douglas, and
the mother of Robert and Stephen A., jr., was
the daughter of North Carolinian who owned
good deal of property in land and chattels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
A Manly southern voice.
Jacksonville Fla Times Union.

JacksOnviIIe iFIa.l Times- Union.
What must we say of the downright dam
phoolism of such men as framed the Copiah
resolutions and engineered the Danville elneutel
The man who puts a club into the hands of his
adversary and dares him to use it deserves to
have his head broken with the weapon. The
decent people Of the South must take this mat
ter into their own hands. and in putting down
and bllying out OF sight the relics OF barbarism,
shut the mouths of demagogues who, for politi-
cal purposes. seek to smirch whole people for
The misdeeds of a few self-cOnfessed brutes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

A QUARTER of century ago q Canton, o..
couple quarreled over some trife and have not
spoken to each other since until last week,
when the wife thinking she was dying a recon
citation was effected. Now that the ice is
broken they probably look with regret on the
twenty five wasted years with their lost opporru-
mites for sassing back
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

LET'S see: 1t was Nero who fddled when
Rome was burning. Still, there is really no
reason why some Cincinnati people shouldn't
enjoy musical festival while other Cincinnati
people are suffering from the flood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

LONG ISLAND is proud of the large number
Of aged people now living within its borders
This pride must have fall before many years
If stop is not put to the fashion of killing off
its middle aged citizens
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
He Wants to Get There. Ell.
Special to the Chicago News.

Special to the chicago News.
Numerous were the jocular attempts to draw
Mr.. Mcdonald out on the presidential question,
but without avail until Randolph Tucker grasp
ing him heartily >by the hand, said; u hope
we will soc you in the White House a year
hence" 1t was the first time he had been so
pointedly addressed, and a silence fell the
group as they awaited his answer. 1t came
slowly and with a merry twinkle of the eye;
You don't wish it half as much as | do"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

RIGNoLD, the beefy English actor, who was
worshiped by New York women five years ago
because of his realistic stage kisses, has again
arrived in that city, but the women met the an
nouncement with indifference. The great truth
will probably dawn on Mr.. Rignold that in all
this vain world there is nothing SO ephemeral
and unsatisfactory as u kiss.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

If the Ohio intends to get in its work at Louis
vile now is the time to do it. A poetess there
perpetrates poem Oh the rise" the last stanza
of which reads as follows:
We shelter and feed the hungry and poor
That you have made homeless in "a.
Merciless River the people you drive
Hope you won't visit them in 50.
The river will hardly have the heart to visit
that city in 1885 or any other year after reading
such verse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

surely until the inhabitants are at last obliged
to fee and leave all TO the water and waves.
The suspense of waiting for the inevitable
food now sweeping down the Ohio must be
trying in the extreme, as it will yet be some
days before this modern deluge reaches its
climax in the lower portion of the river.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

A REMARKABLE and probably unprecedented
case in some respects, is reported from Whit
stable, England. Miss Frances Wood, of that
place, has been bedridden and apparently para
lyzed for upwards of twenty years, and has been
regarded as a phenomenon by medical men.
When about fifteen years old she took to her bed,
and gradually grew worse in appearance until
her face was completely blackened with the ex-
ception of white mark down the center of her
nose. She lost the use of her whole body ex-
cept one arm, and could take only brandy and
water and light dainties. Naturally her case
called forth much commiseration, eGciting sub
stantial aid from every part of England. Be
side the local practitioners she baffled the ques-
tons and skill of three medical men of standing
and repute from other districts, and has re-
ceived relief from both the paroch al authorities
and the Whitstable charity trustees. Recently
she has been i'll to degree that it was apparent
that she has not long to live. She now con-
fesses that she has deliberately practiced a
fraud all these years; that she has the use of her
limbs, and BACKED her face with burnt cork
from time to time. The case seems incredible,
but is fully attested. The mother declares that
she was quite unaware of her daughters decep-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THE journal will account for and turn over
10 the proper committees any money intrusted
to its charge for the flood sufferers. We re-
,eived contribution of So from Charles N.
Lee YESTERDAY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

WITH what must be considered happy fore
thought, Wendell Phillips, some years since de-
nounced, in his most cutting and sarcastic man.
ner, the artistic merit of Boston statuary Right
in the heat and enthusiasm of raising money
wherewith to build statue in memory of the
orator. some one cruelty calls attention to his
sentiments such matters. AS a result the
work will probably be intrusted to some artist
who can produce memorial which is neither
commonplace nor a caricature, and whose
shadow will not disturb the fastidious subject in
his grave.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
The once of the Newspaper.

South Bend Tribune.
A newspaper is the only instrument which csu
drop the same thought into thousand minds at
the same moment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

AN effort is made this morning to explain
what the report of a certain stage of the Ohio
river at Cincinnati means. We are indebted
FOR the explanation to an eminent authority in
Cincinnati [-ts+
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
Toombs,s Opportunity.
TOOmDS'S
Nav York World.

New York World.
Nearly all the active aggressive anti-slavery
leaders of New England have passed away. Gar
rison, Sumner, Phillips Henry Wilson are dead.
Bob Toombs is still alive. The moment seem to
have arrived for Gen. Toombs to repair to the
base of Bunker Hill monument and call the roll
of his scattered slaves
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

ANY man, woman, or child who wants to earn
two hundred dollars or more this year by en-
gaging in the business of hunting comets will
please observe the following conditions.
THE comet must be discovered in the United
Safes or Canada, either with the naked eye or a
telescope, and must be unexpected. The dis
coverer must Immediately telegraph to DR..
Lewis Swift, director of the Warner observatory,
Rochester, N. Y, giving the exact time of the
discovery of the comet, with its position and
the direction of its motion with sufficient exact
ness if possible to enable at least one other OBJ
server to find it. This intelligence must not be
communicated to any other party or parties,
either by letter or telegraph or otherwise, until
such time as telegraphic acknowledgment has
been received by the discoverer from Dr. Swift
The specification of unexpectedness may be
rather confusing to the non-astronomical mind.
but it may be assumed to mean that the comet
is to be surprise party rather than an invited
guest The star-gazer when he sees the comet,
which he has been anxiously looking for but
which had not sent word of its coming must
feel the utmost surprise or he will not be entitled
to the reward. And unless he deserts the new
arrival instantly and rushes to the telegraph of
fee he may still miss his two hundred dollars.
In order to keep his mind alive to the subject
and yet far enough away from the critical point
of expectation, the hunter may. when out on
starry nights, give himself up to expectations
upon the possible utility of a corner on comets
to any observatory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

In an exchange one finds description of two
magnificent costumes, which are to be worn for
the first time at coming entertainment in Bos-
ton: 1.-The tunic of the first is of white satin,
and the upper garment of rich blue satin,
trimmed with beautiful gold lace, to the lower end
of which is attached small silver bells and golden
pomegranates The other robe is made of rich
purple silk velvet with large flowing sleeves,
lined and finished inside with white satin and
trimmed with ermine and guipure and fine gold
wire laces. The inner robe was made of gold
brocade cloth, and was extremely beautiful. "
Nine men out of ten will pass this description
with scornful sniff, while the tenth one who
reads it will indulge in a caustic comment upon
the vanity and extravaganza of the women who
wear such fripperies. And yet as it happens,
these robes are to be worn by men at a Masonic
celebration, of which order the scornful ten are
probably devoted and enthusiastic members.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

The latest couple gave their names as follows
Drahcir Nworb and Alleda Xocliw 1t was very
funny until the authorities began to prosecute
Richard Brown and Adella Wilcox for reversing
the spelling of their names when they applied
for q license
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THE operatic festival at Cincinnati just at
this time is Internationally like whistling in a
graveyard
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THE house in which General Grant was
born, at Point Pleasant, O., was wrecked by
the food.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

A GREAT many Poles are getting married in
Chicago whose names are tangled IN orthogra-
ply as g canebrake is tangled after a tornado.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THE Lady Habberton divided skirt for women
is coming in on wheels. The lady members of
the London tricycle. club have reported in favor
of trousers under skirt or of divided skirt for
use when riding in that vehicle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

"AND the rains descended, and the floods
came"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
Wisdom from Kew. Joseph Cook.

Answer in Monday Lecture
regard prohibition as form of local option,
and pity tho who can't appreciate this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THE Dallas TEX Times will publish poetry
under no circumstances The Texans know their
rights, and are not afraid to demand them.
There will be heavy influx of settlers in Texas
this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14
THE INDIANA SOLDIERS MONUMENT.

Other contributions no matter what the
amount, will be acknowledged. 1t is hoped the
response will be prompt and general Let it be
a peoples monument to the soldiers and sailors
of Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-14

THERE isn't Ararat left in the flooded part of
the city.-Cincinnati News Journal
That's an ark ward pun
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
Obituaries.

There is no one feature in journa-
lism that has surprised the public more
than the marvellous promptness with
which elaborate biographical sketches
Of the distinguished dead are published.
There need be no astonishment. All
well regulated newspaper offices have
such matters carefully prepared. sin
the midst Of life we are in death.'' The
obituary library of the Herald is quite
full. When Burton, comedian and
manager, was on his death-bed in New
York, several years ago, sketch of his
life and career as an actor was prepared
in that office, and was ready for publi-
cation. Indeed it came hear being pre-
maturely published. In some way the
fact became known to Burton he sent
request to the editor that he might
read his own abituary notice before he
died, and if there were any mistakes in
the statements he would correct them
The sketch was sent to him in proof.
and lie carefully read it, making one or
two verbal corrections, and returned it
to the editor with his thanks. He died
a day or two after this singular occur
enee, evidently satisfied with his record.
1t has happaned several times that
statesmen and other distinguished men
have had the pleasure of reading very
flattering notices of themselves, by
false reports Of their death reaching
newspaper offices late at night. Paper
World.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
monds. But of course you will let me

monds. But of course you will let me
have them.''
Have you gone mad, Kate Where
could have put your diamonds ?''
Where else but in your safe /? See
here, Tom, ''-and Kate came softly be-
hind him, and reaching over his
shoulder, laid an open check on the
table, for $1,000, signed by Fanny
Vernon. 81 knew Fanny much better
than you did"
You do not mean, Kate, you were
the widow ?" asked Tom, after a mo-
ment's silence, in which he took in the
situation.
Kate nodded.
But she had light hair. -
Bought, Tom.''
T" Eyes entirely different from yours. !"
=" Penciled, my dear. "
" And lovely color" /"
Rouge, you goose.
g And the diamonds are not set as
yours are. +"
:" | had them reset. l have always
fancied the antique style"
: Kate, was it proper in you to de-
ceive your husband ?''
" It was only a clever, practical joke.
They are amusing if cleverly done, you
know. Oh, Tom, Tom, you would
have given the widow the $1,000 with
out security, you know you would.'
: A man might trust his wife to that
amount, " answered Tom.
4 If he does not take her for some
one else's widow. p Gody's Ladies'
Book.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
Why he Left.

William J. hampton, editor of the
Cincinnati Merchant Traveller, once
clerked in St. Louis hardware store
in the daytime, and spent the greater
part Of the night in brooding over the
woes with which his life was fraught.
He once discovered that his landlady
had contracted the painful habit of
sending to the store for everything,
from a tack-hammer to a refrigerator,
and having them charged to his
account; thus, when payday arrived
the cashier always had to hunt around
for nickel to pay him off with.
At last he rebelled, sought the
presence Of the landlady, and said,
earnestly:
6 Mrs. Smith, on divers occasions l
have helped you out of the sea of adj
versity, and loaned you my umbrella,
asking only your thanks. 1 have fshed
your child out of the well twice, and
the latter rewarded me by playing
horse with my plug hat playing horse
is an innocent amusement, but plug
hat doesn't make much of charger,
and is apt to look rather detected and
sorrowful when family has sat upon
it for an hour.
/" I've never murmured, when, in the |
mornings, l found that the servant |
left me no towel, compelling me to
wipe my face on the back of a
chair. was calm and composed |
when your child fastened bucket of
mud over the doorway, and caught it
on my head and I controlled my ris-
ing passions when the same innocent
prattler emptied the contents of gall
lon syringe in my eye.
"I've smiled in the midst of Attic
tion, and governed my wrath when
your husband wore my shirt for three
weeks but when You furnish house
and provide your poor relations with
utensils, at my expense, all
the time feeding me upon fried liver,
my soul revolts, and I assume the garb
Of war.
4 ! assure you, Mrs. Smith, it is de-
pressing on a man when he calls for
his pay and finds three cooking stoves,
a lawn-mower, and a refrigerator
charged to him. I don't grudge YOU
the stove; 1 admit that the lawn
mower may be useful, but 1 am not
paying seven dollars a week for the
privilege Of furnishing this house.
6 If you wanted a jack-knife or a
yard OF two of wire, and asked me for
It, I'd be only too glad to get it for
you; but when you fence a quarter
section Of land, and buy locomotive
1t my expense, the time has come for
Us to say goodbye" And he busted
he palatial ranch. -E.rchanqe.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
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Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
For the MIddlefo4on Transcript.
PHEBE.

The roofs are black against the sky,
The sky is warm and mellow;
Who is it comes a-singing by
And oh, her hair ~ yellow.
The lilacs blow to left, to right,
She sets her milk-pail down.
She pulls her one, all wet and white,
And puts it in her gown.
Drop, blossoms, on her yellow hair;
Rise up and kiss her feet;
Oh, could she be more fair, more fair;
Oh, could she sing more sweet9
The cows go out through the red-barred gate
And down to the thymery hollow;
But she comes by, and the world may wait,
For /, for must follow.
-LIzETTE WooDwoRTH REESE
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08
a SONG OF LOVE.

Hey, rose, just born,
Twin to thorn;
VAST 50 with you, oh Love and scorn?
Sweet eyes that smiled,
Now wet and wild
0 Eye and Tear-mother and child.
Well; Love and Pain
Be kinstolk twain;
Yet would, oh, would could love again!
Sidney Lanter.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-08

If the report is true that Grant has
been swindled out of $40, should not
the country do something for him ?
General Grant, we learn, is poor man,
and can i'll afford to lose so large a sum.
Philadelphia Call.