The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-26


We shall be happy yesterday.
The early beam of rosy night
Drives off the ebon morn afar,
While through the murmur of the light
The huntsman winds his mad guitar;
Then, lady. wake My brigantine
Pants, neighs and Frances to DO free;
Till the creation L am thine.
To some rich desert fly with me.
Drinking songs are familiar in every form OF
bacchanalian expression, from the rollicking to
the sentimental, and have been from the days of
Anacreon down. It was reserved for Punch in
its prime to conceive the idea of an
EATING SONG.
Oh! carve me yet another slice,
help me to more gravy still.
There 10 naught so sure as something nice
10 conquer care or grief to kill
always loved bit of beef,
When youth and bliss, and hope were mine;
And now it gives my heart relief
In sorrows darksome hour-to dine
WHEN reading history or biography the proper
attitude of tho mind should be that of doubt.
1t is really not safe to settle firmly to any belief
in these directions, as the points fixed upon as
unquestionably accurate sure to be suhse-
quenty disputed, if not entirely proved
untrue. The latest point controverted con-
Germs Edgar Allan Poe. If the present
generation of readers believed one thing
more than another about that erratic
genius it was that he was addicted to intemper-
ance in drink, and that, in fact, the eccentricity
of his writings was largely due to this habit.
1t was apparently settled beyond doubt too,
that his death was caused by an extended and
gross debauch. Biographers. friendly and I'M
friendly, have conceded this, the one extenuating
~ e. L.. -
leniency. Now, after the case has apparently
been disposed of, comes the physician who at
tended Poe during his dying hours, and who knew
him previously, and says thatfor four years prior
to his death he was strictly temperate. In his
earlier years he had been somewhat given to ex-
cesses but had reformed. Furthermore, the
doctor adds, Poe had not been on ''spree" before
his DEATH but that event was caused by harsh
treatment from party of Baltimore roughs who
caught drugged and voted their victim during
an exciting election, and then left him to suffer
exposure in inclement weather. 1t is much
moro creditable if less credible story than the
old one, and it is great pity that, for the sake
of a brilliant mans memory, il did not have pre-
cedence.
SOMEBODY has declared that there was never
feminine Eaoch Arden. There nevor was, for
several reasons one being that wives and moth
ers of families are not addicted to wandering
away from home and becoming shipwrecked
Another fairly good reason is that when a woman
does stray away, her husband. with mascu
line craft and thought for possible
contingencies carefully secures divorce before
wedding her successor. Mrs. Schwender, Of
Peoria, who quarreed with her husband two
years ago, and afterward sailed around the
world with ship captain and his wife, as gov
erness for their children, had, perhaps, some
idea of finding Mr.. Schwender free
and ready to welcome her with open
arms when she came back last week. On the
contrary she found new wife in her place, and
also found herself with no legal rights. Whether
she should have gone and peeped into his win
dows on the ely as Enoch did, and have
then betaken herself to a quiet spot to die
rather than ruin the domestic peace
had she found that no divorce interviewed, is u
question open to speculation. The probabilities
are that she would have gone in and elected the
usurper. AS matters were however, she boldly
sought an interview with her late husband,
talked matters over with him. and then quietly
betook herself to her duties as goverliess once
more The role of Enoch is about worn out
anyway, and never was an admirable one.
IT sounds like hoax on a hoax, but it is
gravely asserted that Motor Kelly, of Philadel-
phia, has "at last attained the work of his life"
His account of it reads very like the numberess
ones he has from time to time given to the orig
- u " l.
operated upon an entirely different system from
anything ever used before. 1t will be known
as the rotary etheric engine. The power is OBJ
tanned from interatomic air, or rather, lumi
niferous ether. In fact, l have half a dozen
terms to apply to it. This new power is under
complete control and is greater by five or six
times than gunpowder. Indeed by multiplied
concentration, can make it fifteen times greater.
In a recent experiment obtained %, 800 pounds
of pressure to the square inch in eight seconds
No water is used in this engine, or to secure this
power, air alone being the agent. The intro
ductory receptacle, which holds onehalf pint of
air, required sixty pounds of steel in its con-
stru ction. expect (but cannot state for a GER
tanty) to give an exhibition in three weeks J"
And SO on and on. with the information that a
new company will be formed, with capital at
$l2, 900, 0O0 Keely will find fresh fools for his
trap.
THE man or woman unfortunate as to reside
in Pennsylvania, and there become insane, has
been in hard lines A difficulty in the way of
placing them in asylums, and prejudice against
such treatment left many an unfortunate to the
not always tender mercies of their relatives A re-
cent law providing for such creatures has led to an
investigation, and many horrible cases are dis
covered where lunatics have been confined in
garrets or out-hOuses suffering from exposure
and neglect for many years. and in state of
filth and degradation impossible to describe.
Had they been cared for properly 1t is not i'm
probable that many would have been restored to