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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
He Wanted Only One suspender.

Detroit Free Press.
About week ago stranger entered a cloth
store on Michigan avenue and asked for one
second hand suspender The dealer looked at
him for something less than half an hour and
then broke out with: WHAT blaze do you daka
me forl Oof keep some secondhand suspend
ers do you suppose cut em apartg" Isn't it
your object to oblige the publcl" asked the man.
II likes to sell goods, of course, butnobody comes
in here und asks me for one pant
leg" Certainly not, but this is different
case. Some men wear two suspenders--
some one. l belong to the one-suspender class
of humanity So did Shakespeare milton,
Byron, Dickens and others. Is it right for you
to cater to one class and exclude the other3s
II sells you one pair of suspenders at cost" II
buy Thnt don't tsS W vh one as
sell EN- dot vhay." II will give you time to
think over it," said the stranger. "There is no
occasion for haste as l am now wearing q
clathes-line around my waist Give the matter
due thought and serious reflection Its no
use-no use. | don't sell coattftls mitout der
coat, nor some west mitout back"
The next day the man returned and renewed
his application, and his list of one-suspender
men bore the names Of Washington and Ma
poieon. 'Do sells a coat mitout any sleevesis
Indignantly exclaimed the clothier, and the placid
stranger placidly replied: take another day to
think over it. View the subject from all sides.
1t never pays to move rashly." Every day he
returned on his errand, and yesterday police
man was at hand to give him the collar, walk
him around the corner, and say: Now, them
I'll give you chance to keep out OF the cooler:
If you come here again you are good for thirty
days. "Oh, I'll go, of course" replied the man
Does he exclude the suspender classf' de
does" "And has made up his mind to cater to
fine otberl9 II presume he has" very we'll.
then. | have never worn but single suspender.
and I'll be hanged if / can be bulldozed into buy
ing any clothing to pack away in the garrett! My
motto is One suspender or DEATH and never
po hack on a motto. What is good huff for tha
crowned heads of Europe will fit me, even If they
put shingle nails in place of buttons Goodbye
old bnttons-one suspender or a grave in tho
YaleyI'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
"A LOBBYISTS ROMANCE.


The Wife Whom He Enriched Kicks Him
Washington Letter in New York World.
There are great many romances connected
with the numberess claims that turn up here.
Some of these are quite pathetic. have one
now in mind. The hero, if may confer on him
that pleasing distinction, is of the name of Reed
Colonel Reed, Major Reed, Captain Reed
Commodore Reed, or perhaps it is simply plain
Mr.. Reed. Anyhow. he once lived in st. Louis
He has nose sadly out of joint and is not a
handsome man, but is persistent. He had a
claim arising out of some naval affair which
he came here to urge upon Congress for
twenty years or more. He came to Wash
ington every winter. He actually lived on
the prospect of collecting that claim. He would
not be put off by denial or threat. He finally
came here to live; camped as it were, on the
ground He beset the Senate committee on
claims like a troubled dream. He materialized
every morning in their midst when they assem-
bled in their room at the Capitol. He always
came up smiling. The time arrived when the
matter became one of self-prese2vatiOn on the
part of the senators, and they allowed his claim
in order to get rid of him. He collected $40, 900
from the government. People used to
laugh and say he would never get a
cent. Nevertheless he did quite we'll.
But what he made in twenty years
he lost in day. Mr.. Reed had a wife. In a
moment of eXultant gratefulness to her for hav
ing chung to him through all the yeaS Of his
struggle, he laid out his $40, 600 in Washington
real estate and turned over to her the deeds.
The face of the domestic moon forthwith
changed. Husband and wife quarreled. The
husband was put off in the garrett to sleep aud
given twenty-five cents day to buy something
to eat Since single pot of tea costs thirty five
cents in first class restaurant in Washington,
he was somewhat cramped for livelihood, and
now has gone about to sue the wife for restora-
ton of the property. The lawyers who have his
case in hand are good deal stumped by it, as
suits of this kind have seldom occurred in all the
long and varied line of marital infeiicities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
Twas Violet Time.

Twas violet time when he and she
Went roaming the meadows wide and free.
A happy lad and lass they.
Their hearts, their hopes, their voices gay
She seventeen, he twenty three
The skies were calm as a sleeping sea.
And the hills. and streams, and the messy lea
A part OF the wooing seemed to be-
Twas violet time.
Years fed, and weak and old grew he:
His form was bent like a snow bowed tree
His hair was white, and hers was gray,
But their hearts We're young morn in May.
And in their souls-sweet mystery
Twas violet time
Ernest w. Shurtcff, in Every Other Saturday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
A Real Cheerful Priest.

Baltimore Special.
James G. Blaine met Father Clarke, S. j., and
their meeting though for the first time, was
very cordial. During the war Major Walkers
family. of which Mr.. Blaine's mother was a
member, lived in this city and Father Clarke
with them Of the baptism and confirmation of
Mr. Blaine. Holding Mr.. Blaine by the hand,
after some conversation Father Clarke said:
Your sister had strong belief that you would
one day return to the fold of the
Catholic Church-the one universal apps
tolic church. Stranger things have hap
pened A few months ago you looked
forward, no doubt, to a very different scene from
that which you have just come But my dear
Mr.. Blaine, we have Holy Writ for the saying
that it is better for man to 90 to the house of
mourning than to the house of feasting and
merriment'n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
Inauguration Pie.


These political ups and downs interest the
folks at home, especially the children, more than
is ordinarily noticed.
81 will take one more piece of that Inaugural
ton pie, if you please said Jimmy Tufboy, as
he showed his plate under the nose of the dis
penser of patronage.
Keep your plato down, you young Democrat.
These are the days of JefferSonian simplicity
and only one piece OF pie"
Undergraduates That's played out Je7er
sonian simplicity today means the 'grandest.
most regal passing out of pie with two plunls in
every piece-and pudding thrown in"
''You see," remarked his mother, quietly,
James reads the papers,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
1t Made q Difference.

I ITs
Mrs. Minks-The nurse seems to have trouble
with baby tonight He is crying yet.
Mr.. Minks-Yes, bless his little heart / won
der what ais him.
Mrs. -Minks-Oh! Nothing serious. How
sweetly shrill his voice is! So clear and musical
Mr. Minks-Yes but bark! Those sounds
DO not come from our nursery. They come
through the walls from the next house.
Mrs. Minks-Mercy! So they do Why cant
people have sense enough to give their squalling
brats paregoric or something instead of letting
them yell like screech owls"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
The River We Have to Cross.

There's always river to cross,
Always an effort to make,
If there's anything good to win,
Amy rich prize to take.
Yonder's the fruit we crave,
Yonder the charming scene;
But deep and wide, with troubled tide.
Is the river that lies between.
For, the rougher the way we take.
The stouter the heart and the nerve,
The stones in our path we break.
Nor eer from our impulse swerve;
For the glory we hope to win
Our labors we count no loss;
Nor pause and murmur because
Of the river we have to cross.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08

M SAGE at recent seance of the Paris Acade-
ME des Sciences announced the discovery of a
markable features in its composition in the seed
of the cotton tree. 1t is the richest of all known
grains in heterogeneous substances. NJ SAGE is
convinced that the -four Of this seed Is destined
to take an important place in alimentation and
in the preparation of all kinds Of paste in which
it acts as u substitute for milk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
A Wicked Editor.
Philade1phia Call


Irate Subscriber want to see the fellow that
wrote this article.
Western Office Boy-Must a been the editor,
guess.
$50 suppose. Where is he9 Where Is he,
sayl'
Hes not in.
,sOh. he amt in, amt he9 Amt in, eh9 Well.
where is he9"
Hes attendin' the funeral of man what
called to see him on Monday"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
oh. Morning. /"
Would Like to See the smoke-Hous

Louisville Commercial.
II have just bought 90 900 barrels of pork
remarked well-known SPECTATOR, as he camo
out of Main street bucket-shop yesterday
morning.
GOOD Lord" said a rural Hoosier who had
overheard the spectators remark, I'D give $40
jest ter see that thar mans smoke house."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
Secretary whitney's First Order.


The new Secretary of the Navy will now issue
the following general order, No. l: ''Never at
tempt to fill kerosene lamp when it is lighted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
A Very Easy Position.

Philadelphia Call.
''Hello, Brown! Struck job yetF
Eyes; I'm collecting"
'Ah! What are you collectingq'
My thoughts"
you were always a lucky dog
where's the luck now?"
In striking so easy job. Morning."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
A Boston Recreation.
a
Boston Courier.

Dog parties are quite the fashion at present.
The bellies of upper tendon meet at each others
houses, bringing their little favortes with them.
The conversation OH such occasions is most in
struetive Dear, dear!7 exclaimed charming
blonde at one of these intellectual gatherings
the other day, what horrd little dog mine
is" What has he done" ''Why, he has eaten
up the pretty little sealskin sacque had made
for him this winter Chorus Of fair ones: THE
bad. bad dogeieln
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
Patti Had the Call.

''Your trip through Kansas was not very prof
liable to us this season. Mr. B., said the head Of
the house to his travelling agent, who had Just
returned from the West
mo" Mr. B. replied, II struck the State about
the same time Patti did, and when Kansas peo-
pie can get Italian opera they don't care for
hardware"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
Winning a Wager.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
Poor John was so fond of gambling" said d
bereaved widow. 'His last bet was $50 that
he could eat three hundred CLANS in twenty
minutes"
Ibid he win the bet2"
eyes, he won the bet" sighed the widow, "but
the money didn't do us any good. 1t took every
cent of it to bury him."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08

Sir Uranus Wilson states in Quain's new Die
tionary of Medicine, page 575, that hair may
turn white in few hours from mental disturb
ance, and that it is caused by the rapid develop
ment of gaseous fluid within the substance of
the hair Qbseuring the pigmentary granules.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
Appropos of the Roller Craze,

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
"Just Gomez"
Eyes Been here longl"
mot too long, just --'
"Are you hurt}'
tho, no!'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
InauguratiOnaI.

The Stubs family at the ball-Mrs. S.: s'Now,
then, Matilda Jane, look your prettiest; the
Presidents bachelor, you know. If your pa
gets the postoffice an Seth gets into the custom
heouse, an Mary Susan into the Treasury, there's
no tellin' but what you might fill the vacancy in
the White Heouse. My! an then wouldn't we
just cut a figger in StubbsvilleI"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
WHIMSICALITIES.
Nothing for Indiana.

Nothing for Indiana.
If were an Indiana man,
I'd travel the wide world Ger;
But one place there is I'd never sean--
For Hoosier it opes no door.
From Washington let me stay away;
From there let me read no news.
I'll stay away till my hair is gray
And teeth no longer use.
louisville Courier: Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19
MosTs SOCIALIST NONSENSE.
Slight Hours or Blood"-AIleged Aiming tt
Attack the Poiice-An Improbable Story.

eight Hours or Blood"-AIleged Aiming to
Attack the Police-An Improbable Story.
New York Special.
The foreman of a IT fetal working shop, in this
city. went to his employer on Friday last aud
told this story:
About year ago came to this country.
joined a division of the knights of Labor, think
ing that it would be beneficial to me to belong
to 1t. About five months ago learned that the
leaders in this city and in Philadelphia were
buying rifles to use against the police. | gave
up going to the meetings. because did not like
such things. About month ago man came
to me and asked me why [ did not come to the
meetings any more | told him. He said that
there was an assessment of Sc wanted from each
man to buy rifles with to use against the bosses,
and said, No"
In his broken English the man repeated to a
reporter, under pledge that his name should
not be used, the story he had told his employer.
Next summer he said, the unions are to demand
eight hours of labor. and no more. If they do
not obtain their demands, they are to force their
employers to grant them and. in doing so, try
conclusions with the police. The foreman had
heard that drills were being held in park out
side of the CITY, and that the guns, bought at
wholesale, are stored where they can be obtained
when needed. Where this drill park is he did
not know AS soon as he learned the character
of the men who led his circle, he stopped at
tending the meetings.
The union of tin and sheet-iron- workers meets
according to the bar tender. John Most wiped
the perspiration from his brow after delivering
neat speech there tonight the coming
American revolution. He said to a reporter:
YES, have been advising the workingmen to
arm themselves with guns, and form themselves
into shooting clubs that they may properly en-
force their demands in May next for eight hours.
/ tell them in my paper 'Freiheit,' that unless
they arm the bosses will never yield to their de-
mands. 1t is only at the point of the bayonet
that the capitalist will yield his position. To
arms, arm yourselves, are my cries to American
workinemen, that they may be prepared for the
coming revolution"
Herr Most added that he wished it understood
that be personally had nothing whatever to do
with the arming of men anxious for revolution;
he only showed them from his vast experience
the means whereby they might throw off their
thra ldom.
Not only the tin ard sheet-iron-workers but
the cigar makers union. the painters, cloak
makers and cabinet makers say that the Ger
man Socialist members of their union have been
appauding John Most's articles IN the Freiheit
about arming to enfore the eight-hour law but
that that talk was mostly confined to them.
The other members said that they had no money
to invest in guns
Wholesale and retail dealers in firearms say
that they have seen no demand for weapons by
new set of customers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19
No Mans Land.

A company has been formed in Kansas to colo
nize the neutral strip This land is compare
lively small body lying between northern Texas
and southwestern Kansas. On the official maps
of the government it is designated as UNITED
States Land" In border geography it is designa-
ted as mo Mans Land" Probably the best
definition of its character would he an unoccu-
pied reservation. The Kansas scheme seems to
be to locate immigrants the southwestern
border of that State. and to be IN readiness to
cross over the line and occupy mo Mans Land"
as soon as it is brought under the operation of
the general land laws. 1t is mistake to sup
pose that the strip is not populated. Somebody
asked OF ex Governor McCook, who is an authority
on territorial land questions by virtue Of his long
residence in and familiarity with that part of
the country. whether there was any government
In mo Mans Land"-any execution of the law.
We'll. should say there was" replied McCook.
"You go along the border of the neutral strip
and you'll think so. Every few miles there is
post with notice like this: ANY SON Of gun
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19

Is Employed in Cleveland to Injure Cleve
land by Impugning His Motives.

Is Employed in Cleveland to Injure Cleve-
land by Impugning His Motives.
Cleveland Special
Tho Democrats are in no good humor over last
Tuesdays defeat. and have to acknowledge that
1t was mainly caused by Democratic absenteeism.
the vote being nearly hundred thousand
short That this absenteesm was caused mainly
by dissatisfaction with the course of the admin
istration, the Democratic leaders acknowledge;
but to-day your correspondent received some
most startling information from Democrat well
known in national affairs, and former State of
fcer. He said:
Democratic absenteeism caused Hoadlys de-
feat and the loss of seat in the Senate. That
is evident. 1t is also evident that the course of
the administration in fooling with the civil
placing Republicans by Democrats in the
Offices, is the cause of the alb
senteesm. Had President Cleveland chosen
to give us the aid we needed, Hoadly would have
been elected, and good Democratic majority in
ootn branches of the Legislature would have
been certain. But no aid came Had the Legis-
lature been surely Democratic. Governor Hoadly
would have been Payne's colleague in the Sen
ate.
so far, so good. But can 90 further and
assure you that tbs inaction of the administra-
ton was designed, and the result of plot
Matched by Dan Manning. looking towards
Cieveiand's denomination in 1883. Suppose the
State and Legislature had been Democratic. aud
i1oaoly mao gone TO the Senate as TWICE a winner
IN pivotal Ohio, he would have been great en-
try for the Presidential race three years hence.
The administration saw this withheld the help
that would have elected him, and therefore
plotted for his defeat.
The same course will be followed in New
York State affairs. The administration does not
want Hill ian ambitious man, likely to divide
New York with Cleveland in 1888 if elected)
chosen this fall, and has winked at the harsh
measures taken by the County Democracy
against Tammany for its own ends. Davenport's
election will suit the administration. 1t figures
that in the next .hree years all that has been
lost TO kill off dangerous rivals be repaired,
and as personal scheme it is very ingenious.
What Is more, | am certain that as far as Ohio
is concerned, it has been worked"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. MONDAY. 49, 1855.
disgraceful alike to France and to Rome more dis

disgraceful alike to France and to Rome; more dis
graceful, perhaps, to Gregory XIII than 20
Catherine Of Medici. Henry of Anjou and the
Guises. The surviving Hueuenots fed from
France, aud in doing so inflicted upon France it's
greatest punishment. There is a brighter side
to French history. We remember with graft
tude that France gave to the world
John Calvin, who, even if he did
burn Servetus, his enemies have
charged is yet the prince of theologians. France
has mustered other noble spirits, such Bas-
suet and Fenelon, and Blaise Pascal 1t has
noble men and women to-day. VINO would rather
die than abandon that faith for which the HUI
guenots suffered. 1t contains ar earnest band
of God-fearing men and women-a. small band,
indeed, compared with the mass of the people;
perhaps one in thousand, but still goodly
band, who are working earnestly, faithfully and
hopefully; and who knows what these obscure,
unknown, unnoticed servants of God
may yet do for that sunny, sinful and mercural
nation. The descendants of the Huguenots,
even in France, are not all dead God has pre-
served thousands of them, notwithstanding the
efforts of priests and of kings to destroy them.
Let us hope and pray that the day may not be
far distant when their power will be felt as in
the days of Cologny and the Prince of Condo,
and when France will see great light and re-
ioice in it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19
DIED.

CAMERON-Mrs. Mary E. Cameron on Saturday,
October IL, at $50 p M, in the tortyfrst year of
her age.
services at residence 31S Pleasant street. at 13O o.
M. Funeral services at Christ Church at 2:3O D. M
Rev. Edward A. Bradley officiating
Rest from thy labors, thy work is all done,
Safe from all pain, all hardship and sorrow;
Through the dark clouds of thy life's setting sun
Rises for thee blissful tomorrow.
MADSEN-Mary NJ. Madsen, wife of c. l.. F.
Madsen, Saturday night October II, aged forty
years.
Funeral Monday Oct. 10, at 2 p. M. from 20 East
Market street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL

Is twelve-page paper, and is sold in every
town and city of the State of Indiana and sur
rounding territory. The price of the paper is
FIVE CENTS. The columns of the SUN
DAY JOURNAL are full Of the best litera
ture of the day, from the leading writers Of
the world. All of the best writers of Indiana
contribute to its columns. We have also ar
ranged for the Sunday Journal for series of
original stories from the pens of the most
noted writer's in the world. We have already
printed stories written by "Ouidas" William
Black, Mrs Oliphant, Joseph Hatton, Miss
M. E. Braddon, Hugh Conway and Wilkia
Collins. We are now printing one by the emf
nent author, Thomas Hardy, entitled "a
MERE INTERLUDE.." This feature will con-
tinue in the SUNDAY JOURNAL through
out the year 1885.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19

st. Louis Post Dispatch (Dem.)
AS far as Democratic sentiment is represented
by the Democratic editors, the defeat in Ohio
was really something which all good Democrats
desired. Ohio always was Republican State.
and this election did not mean anything in par
ticular, and no Importance can be attached TO it,
and it does not affect the result anywhere; and
yet old Thurman, who ought to know something
about politics, said. only the day before the
election, that defeat in Ohio would be very
disastrous for the Democratic party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-19
What Could America Saw.

New YORK Tribune.
The report that Christians are being murdered
in China is indeed sad; and if there are any
Americans among them a cry for vengeance will
doubtless be heard in Washington. But it is
hard to see how the United States government
could have the face to protest against these mas
sacres. much less expect to get any satisfaction
for them. The authorities at Pekin would GER
tanly point to their countrymen murdered at
Rock Springs, in Wyoming, and they might ask
If those dead pacans in America did not Offset
the dead Christians in the Celestial Kingdom.
What could we say then?