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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29

left. I have seen as many as 4 dozen ai
a time file in the dining-room, trying to
look as if they had not been married yes
terday, but casting furtive Chances
about TO see If they were suspected. HE
men were specially watchful lest some
body should be ogling the brides.
zone day thought we should have q
fight in the dining-room. A strspping
big fellow from the West in a suit of
store clothes sat down to the table with
his bride, a buxom brown-eyed beauty.
She looked 50 fresh and rosy that she
could not but attract attention and she
got it. Every gentleman in the room
took more than one look at her and she
knew it. OF course, she did Lot object.
But the man began to get angry. de did
not like to speak to the bride about II,
because she was evidently not dis
pleased. Finally he got up and walked
to the nearest gentleman whom he had OBJ
ser we'd and said:
"'Look here, stranger. I'd like to know
what you are staring at my wife for%
"sYour wifel Allow me to congratu.
late you, my dear fellow. You have got
the finest wife in the city said the gen.
tleman addressed. The fact is, | though,
she was your sister. Excuse me if / was
rude; but if you don't want people to
look at your wife you must really never
take her out in public. No Offense meant
sir
''The bridegroom went back to hin
place, bat he took good care at the next
meal to put his wife with her face to the
wall"
(Which do you think take to the new
conditions most gracefully
Women, by all odds. The men arr
always betraying themselves. They want
to talk about it; they are full OF the sub
ject. Women are more artful, and have
more adaptability to new circumstances
But, with all their arts, they can't deceive
the old hotel clerk, and it is very seldom
we don't turn in a few dollars extra t,
the house on account of u knowledge
Another popularity of the newly
married couples who 60 to hotels" con
tinued the clerk, "is that many Of then
live in the city. They always CONF
equipped for a long journey. They have
left the wedding guests with the an
nounced intention of taking a long jour
ney, cOnsplcuousiy oispiaylng, PeinaPs
their railroad tickets, and have beer
driven by the way of the depot toa first
class hotel previously selected. | knew
one case where a bridal couple, to avoiC
detection, actually boarded a train ant
started apparently on a journey, but tool
at the next station a train back to tn
city, and stopped at a hotel a few block
from home. Then the wedding guest
were permitted to stay at the feast a
long as they pleased without disturbin
anyhOdY."
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29

"After all there is something tenderly
appropriate in the serene death of the
old. Nothing is more touching than the
death of the young, the strong. But
when the duties of life have all been
nobly doDe-when the sun touches the
horizon-when the purple twilight falls
upon the present, the past and future
when memory with dim eyes can scarcely
spell the records of vanished days-then,
surrounded by kindred and by friends,
death comes like a strain of music. The
day has been long, the road weary, and
we gladly stop at the inn.
Life is a shadowy, strange and wind.
ing road, on which we travel for a little
way-a few short steps, just from the
cradle with its lullaby of love to the low
and quiet wayside inn, where all at last
must sleep and where the only saluta-
ton is Good night
NEARLY forty.eight years ago, under
snow in the little town of C~azenovia, my
poor mother was buried. i was but two
years old. / remember her as she looked
in death. That sweet, cold face has kept
my heart warm through all the years."
THE above is copied from a private
letter to a friend, and the author as
might be guessed from the words is Col.
R. G.. Ingersoll.1
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29

| call of the Trumpet while bathing in the
Arno. This was never completed and
only the cartoon itself remains TO sug-
| gest what a masterpiece was designed.
| So life-like is the cartoon alone that on a
still day you can hear the snort of the
trumpet as the soldiers rush to the bank.
As you gaze at the picture you are lost
in admiration and you hardly know
| whether to go wild over the masters
great genius or TO 60 and inform the
police.
Michael frescoed the Sistine chapel
ceiling in twelve mouths; and did it well,
too. He was a rapid as well as a thor
ough artist, and his head was literally
! full of ideas.
At last he and the pope again became
reconciled, and in 1918 the sumptuous
pontif died leaving instructions for
| Angelo to cut his m%ausoleum a little
higher in the neck and his executor would
settle the bill on sight.
1t would take many pages to give even
a rough outline of the many beautiful
monuments which Michael Angelo has
erected to his own undying fame as a
sculptor, painter and poet. He lived to
be ninety years old, and then, full of
years and crowned with the glory he had
carved out by his own genius and indus
try, he died.
Though his work was beautiful, he was
not himself beautiful. He ran largely
to brow; but his nose was broken in a
little misunderstanding that he had at
school with a young designer, who
thought it would be a good scheme to
put what was termed in Florence in the
fifteenth century a tin nose on Mike.
This gave him 4 look of pain, and his
nose served to convey the idea that the
great sculptor had just detected the
presence of Limburger cheese under his
pillow.
As a general thing, however, great
men are not beautiful. The pretty
young man has really but one avenue
open to him in the worlds great race. If
be cannot mash a tough old heiress
whose father has got the pip, he has
very little chance in the mighty struggle
of life.
If my son should show any signs of
great physical beauty, having taken
them from his mothers side of the house,
l would Immediately hump my back
ready to bear a great burden; for judging
by the worlds history, his father.in-law
and l would have to take turn about
in maintaining the young man and his
cumulative family.
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A New Yorker who was doing business
In the western part of the State a few
days ago finished his dinner at a village
hotel and walked out just as a young man
drove up with a horse and buggy. An
old man shortly came up and began look.
ing the equine over and feeling of its
points, and the New Yorker Jaw such a
resemblance between them that he con.
cluded they were father and son. The
old man finally turned to him and said:
Stranger, is that a go~od-looking horsef'
pretty fair"
"Does he stand well on his legsr'
eyes, / think So"
"Is he blindT
Il don't know much about horses, hav.
ing never owned one Why don't you
ask your son?"
That's just the trouble, stranger" re-
piled the old man. Its my son who's
got this boss to sell, and be knows I'm
Blind in one eye and halt drunk in the
otheri If you want 20 do = favor for
m old man Just look for spavins while /
49, nromnd IN onorch n 8noLhonnofn
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Gum Arabic.

In Morocco, about the middle Of No
vember, that is, after the rainy season,
which begins in July, a gummy juice
exudes from the trunk and branches OF
the acacia tree. In about fifteen days
it thickens in the furrow down which it
runs, in a vermicular Tor worm shape,
sor commonly assuming the form Of oval
or round tears, about the size of a pig.
cons egg, of different colors, as they be.
long to the red or white gum tree.
About the middle Of December. the
Moors encamp on the borders of the
forest and the harvest lasts six weeks.
The gum is packed in very large sacks
of leather, and brought on tie backs OF
bullocks and camels to certain ports
where it is sold to English and French
merchants. The gum is highly nutri.
tious. During the whole time Of har.
vest, Of the journey to the port the
Moons Of the desert live entirely upon
it; and experience has proved that six
ounces Of gum are sufficient for the sup
port OF . nan for twenty-four houn.
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Mother.
youths Companion.

lAO0eb . companion
But after all, she used to be good to
u.s."
1t was a son who said this of his moth
er, whom some nervous malady had
overtaken, and who was certainly a very
serious trial to her family.
The young mans life, too, was a weary
one. He was a clerk .on a salary. He
was hard-wOrked through the day, and it
was depressing to go home at night to
f~ault-fnding and fretfulness.
Har,ler still was it to sleep, as this son
did, week after week and month after
month, with all his senses half awake,
that he might hear his mothers footsteps
if they passed his door, and hurry after
her to keep her from wandering out into
the night alone, as her melancholy half
madness often led her 10 try to do.
Strangely enough she had turned
against her husband and her daughters.
Only this one son had any power to per-
suade her for her good. His work by
day and his vigil by night wore oil him
sorely, but he never complained.
One day his sisters asked him how he
could bear it, and be always patient,
when she-mother though she was-was
In the house only as a presence OF gloom,
and foreboding, and unrest. And the
answer came
"But, after all, she used to be good to
as"
And then the thoughts of all the group
vent back to the years before this ner-
vous prostration came upon her; when
she had nursed them in illness, and pet
ted them i'm childhood-when she had
been "good to them" one and all.
81 know" che boy said, thoughtfully,
THAT | was a nervous, uncomfortable
child myself, the first three years of my
life. Father said he thought they'd
never raise me, but mother said, Yes,
she would and she tended me day and
night, for three years, till / began to
grow strong like the rest of you. owe
her those three years, anyhow"
And so he girded himself afresh for his
struggle. 1t will not last forever.
There are signs which the doctors can rec
ognize that the cloud is lifting somewhat,
and no doubt before long she will be her
old self again. And then will come
her sons reward. He will feel that he
has paid a little of the debt he owed to
the love that watched over his weak
babyhood.
To many mothers, worn by long care,
such years of melancholy and nervous
prostration must come. And the sons
and daughters who find their homes sad
dened by such a sorrow, should lovingly
remember the days in which they were
helpless, and mother was "good to
fhom
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philadelphia POST


Much advance has been made during
recent years in securing increased space
about inhabited dwellings, and modern
regulations require that a certain maxi
mum of space shall be given in the rear
of houses, and also in the front, the
width of the street being taken into &C
count as regards the latter space.
But in the state of Illinois the excess
i've width of the streets is reported as
having of itself become a source of nui-
sance and of danger to health. Sixty
feet and more are ordinarily given to
new streets, even in the smaller towns;
eight feet on either side are paved and
devoted to pedestrians; and the remain
ing space. varying usually from forty
four to fifty-four feet, is devoted to car
riage traffic. The result is, that this
wide carriage road, so often in excess Of
the requirements of the vehicles that
have to travel over it, becomes a source
of such expense as to forbid its being
properly paved, cleansed and channelled.
The street, consequently, is soon turned
into a vast surface of dirt mixed with
filth and refuse, and when the weather
is dry that dust is formed, the air which
il inhaled as the dust flies about is calcu-
lated to bring about disease rs we'll as
discomfort instead of promoting the
health of pedestrians.
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BRIDES AND GROOMS.
Signs by Which n Hotel Clerk
Knows Them and Which Have
10 be Paid For.
New York Sun.

New York SUM-
"To watch the newly-married couples
who travel is one of the compensations of
our arduous life" said an old hotel clerk
the other day.
How can you tell whether they are
newly married or not?" inquired the
Sun reporter, to whom this remark was
addressed.
Tell themT calculated the clerk; II
can pick them out as easily as if they car
ried signs, We are just married."
Eyes; but how?'
"Well, in the first place, they are always
most abundant in the fall and winter. /
don't know why it is, but such is the fact.
One of the signs Of a newly-married couple
is their spick and span new clothes. Some
how, when people get married they gener-
ally get as many new clothes as possible.
The bride and groom have new hats and
new trunks and new busters. Then,
again, they spend money more freely.
When a man is in his honeymoon he
generally feels as If he ought to be gener.
Gus. He has a grateful sort of spirit, and
throws his money around as if he wanted
to show that the world has used him
we'll. He has put by his money for the
occasion, and is not afraid to spend il.
He is specially anxious that the bride
shall eat and drink of the best. He must
have a room with a private parlor, and
not up stairs very far, and with a good
view. Sometimes he is a little chary of
asking for these things, but when we sug-
gest them he always says'Yes.' Of course
it is part of our business to suggest them.
We consider that We have the same right
to pluck a newly-married couple as an
undertaken has to pluck bereaved rela-
tiyes."
do they behave differently from other
people,"
Il should-well, yes. The husband
does not run off to the bar-room or the
b~illiard-room as the old married men do.
When the old married couple arrive you
may be certain that the first thing the
husband does is to take a drink or lounge
about the billiard tables, telling his wife
that be has some business TO attend
TO-"
Are newly-married people bashfulf"
"That depends. The widower and
widows don't mind it, but the young
people are q little coy niagara Falls
we had most OF the new couples late in
the season when the regular boardeu had
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29

Here's a man who, like Silas wegg, has
all print open TO him. and who is equal
to 'collaring and throwing the sblest
dabbler in words on the continent of Eu-
rope" But after all, there was a sense Of
humiliation that 30 capable a man should
think ii a matter of such vast moment to
convince European critics that we bad
not used a very appropriate term without
the example and sanction OF their blessed
old ancestors; that we never moved with
out their authority, or allowed the
growth and spread of a term original
with and belonging exclusively to u IT
selves.
This is not the independence of the
genuine American.
The sturdy, progressive, independent
American, to whom the country must
look for its growth and its grandeur. is
not ashamed of his origin, however
humble.
And the fact is, this sturdy, this indie
pendent, this progressive type is found
in and is to be preserved and perpetual.
ed to a great extent by the men of the
west, aided in certain ways by the
south.
y dhs " Ftiy PnAhoi ~ OathCfu
manDers and customs, but there is one
trait about our brethren down there
which can be mort heartily admired.
There manner are their own. What.
ever there is about them hat is admir-
able is Of their W production, and has
not been imported. Moreover, they are
not ashamed to carry their manners,
their pronunciation, and their dress into
the most pretentious circles. They do
not assume to be Englisbmen or Scotch
men or Frenchmen residing merely in
America, but Americans, sans puer and,
as a as falls to the lot of ordinary
mortals, sans reproche. And this very
assumption or quiet confidence in them
selves half gives them the battle. The
| eastern cities are permeated with the
English idea. 1t has invaded society,
influences dress, and affects speech. The
drswl of English affectation salutes ones
ears from the lips Of men high in public
station. But you hear it not in the west,
and there. except as a travelling Curl
| osity, you shall not find it. IL it because
culture has not yet built its palaces
there? Perhapsl And yet away out in
the wilds of western Dakota / counted
the other day in a miscellaneous party
of twenty ladies and gentlemen, four
graduates of Yale, two from Cornell, one
from Princeton, n from Vassar, one
from Ann Arbor, two from West Point,
and one from the University of Chicago.
Education, therefore, if not culture, has
reached even the plains of the far west.
| But what is better still, the American
idea has not only reached there, but
finds itself indigenous TO the soil; the
idea that this is q nation, distinct, indie
pendent, intelligence nation big enough
to stand alone, proud of its history and
its characteristics, broad and generous
enough to admire excellence wherever
found, but Independent enough to re.
ject shams whether native or of foreign
growth.
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Home Journal

A new view of meteors and their
source is announced by w. F. Denning.
He observes that these bodies radiate
from a common point, not only for q
few successive nights, but that in some
cases the radiation has been noted for
many months. Now we know that in
six months the earth moves to the oppo-
site side of the sun-some one hundred
and e~ighty-six million miles away from
its first position.
If, then, the meteor drift is parallel in
two points 30 distant from each other
and in all intermediate places, it is evil
dent that there must be, not a narrow
ring of meteors encircling the sun, but q
broad belt o. moving bodies drifting
past the sun and planets, not strictly
members OF the solar system, and moving
with so great a velocity of their own
that the attraction of the.sun is INSULT
cient to defect them materially from
their original direction.
Whence they derived this velocity il
is useless to conjecture. We know that
COIlCls sttuctlulcS tuuS CDmc III IIOIll
outside the limits of the solar system,
and w have been led to expect a relation
between the two classes of bodies.
1t is evident that the motion of the
earth would affect the apparent direction
which the meteor had in shooting
through our atmosphere. Mr.. Denning
does not find that this changes the radi.
ant point of the meteor more than one
degree, which indicates that it's original
velocity was at least fifty times hat of
the earth in its orbit, or something like
eight hundred and fifty miles a second.
Now the greatest velocity which a body
can possibly acquire by falling into the
sun by the attraction of that body, or in
moving in an orbit around it, is only
about half of this. So that we again
conclude that the meteoric velocity is
due to some projection or impulse entire
ly outside our system.
If these facts be established by further
observations, we will have to form new
conceptions of the condition Of the space
through which the great worlds move.
We may not regard it as peopled with
bodies only in close proximity to the
suns, but that all about through it are
messengers from n system to another.
In one sense, space is filled with mete-
eric bodies, and through the vacancies
between them may by great compared
with their combined volume, yet were
they luminous the eye would see them
as a continuous haze of light. They are
for ever raining down on the earth and
the other large bodies as they come
within the influence of their attraction.
The earth is growing in mass by their
addition.
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..Ir--To NY WIFE.

III YOU should come and rest by me, and stand,
Or lean upon the elbow Of nv chair
And pass your loving fingers through this hair.
And take into your own, this tired hand
And whisper softly in my hungry ears
The phrase 10 W. and 10 ns only known,
And take this place as II IL we're your own,
Would you be welcome, welcome homer
o. listen darling; enough the feet have strayed,
And nov for weary days | have not felt
The touch Of thar soft hand at which l knelt,
Full on unseen. bat knelt and prayed.
Though far my recreant lamb hath gone.
Feet, hands and lips, l loved aud kissed.
Though you have been so far and lorg away.
Mo- darling, still you we're not missed
SO, therefore, tell me how could
Give welcome 70 thee Should'st thou come,
From cut my soul yoa're never gone,
And thus It IS ! make reply:
Enshrined within my deepest heart.
Embalmed and held, engraved and kept,
Thine image stayed and never could depart,
Whether ! wandered, walked or slept.
/ could not welcome what is here;
Nor greet the coming while one STAYS;
But should my lamb All suddenly appear.
] should forget the lonely days
And rising. clasp thee In these m
And bid thee look within my heart and see.
Thou couldst not md a place unoccupied by
thee,
SO would / quiet thine alarms.
wouldst quiet thee and hold thee fast,
Assure thee, whisper. Darling thou art come
This is the dearest home thou hast.
Against my heart, no more. no more to roam"
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Modern Dress vuIgarixing.

lAdtiiaI6tsl
Could one of the old Greek sculptors
be transported into a modern drawing
room he would surely wonder less that
we have no better art than that we
should have any at all. For the truth
stares every thoughtful person in the
face. We are daily doing more aud more
to travesty the human form and set at
naught those very principles of harmony
inculcated by various athletic teachers
with so much vehemence. The modern
dress of both sexes by no means accords
with the simplest laws of beauty hygiene
and economic science. And take it for
all and all, perhaps the dress of a lady
was seldom more inartistic, unhealthy
and %extravagant than at present, and
surely never more vulgarizing.