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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
Yelled Spirits.

Where do the angels dwell!' you ask. Why here and
all around
Are minstering spirits, clothed in strange DISCUSSES
Know them in rough and homely forms in rudest gar
ments clad,
Restraining from evil ways encouraging the sad;
Look keenly under human shells in every strangest
place,
And see behind the thin disguise an angels patient
face.
Look for them in humblest homes; in mansions,
too, they dwell
The household angels which eyes have seen
too WE'LL
While looking off aar to see some spirit clothed in
pride,
And never recognizing once the angels at our side;
Yet there the heavenly tenant lived in familiar
And there the sacred angel fire kept homes affections
warm
In field and highway, house and street, they daily
gather round;
They tread with weary hearts and feet the cold and
stony ground
They SILVER in the wintry Winds they suffer grief and
pain;
They work with neverceasng toll in garments poor
and plain;
And yet, wthal, they do their work of kindness and
of trust
And cultivate the flowers of heaven in uncongenal
dust.
The mother who is daily vexed by thoughtless words
you says
The poorer brother, whom you greve with scornng
by the way;
The little Ones in tattered garb careessy passed
by;
The weeping ones, whom you regard with hearts and
eyelids dry;
All these who suffer in their sphere, who bear some
others cares,
May be the angels that for you shining unawares
All, look not far away, my friend, into the distant
skies,
For those who thicky gather round in homeliest dis
guise,
Whose spirits minister to yours in kind and simple
ways;
Whose presence sanctfes your ills and blesses all
your days.
Go forth with wakened eyes and soul, and in each
homely face
The true sign manual of heaven the angel patience
trace;
And crushing out thy binding pride, thy eagerness
for pelf
Go join the kindly spirits, and an angel be myself
l. Edgar Jones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
The Sobbing Texas Wrens.

A stranger in the little cities of southwestern
beautiful but sorrowful song of the house or
sobbing wren. If the stranger has been long
away from home and friends aid is sensitive to
impressions of external nature. he never forgets
the peculiar, melancholy note of the tiny song
ster 1t begins in high, clear key like the
tinkling of silver BELLS and descending gradually
from one sweet chime to another still sweeter, it
suddenly falters, breaks off and sobs like a
child, the song dying away in gasp. The
listener is touched with sympathetic emotion.
feeling that one of the little ones in his own
family circle, far away, is weeping and sobbing
for his return. The song is heard only in his
twilight of dawn, and is repeated but a few
times. Then the handsome little singer, with
plump brown breast speckled with shreds of
black, retires through some crevice in the house
top, and is rarely seen during the day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
How Eskimo Bows Hunt.
Children of the Cold, in August st. Nicholas.

Children of the Cold, in August st. Nicholas.
Colonel Glider, of our party, was very kind to
little koomanah, and becoming tired of carry
ing his revolver, he took off the ordinary pistol
but and put in longer one, more like gun
stock and roughly made of walnut. He let
Koomanah use this dwarf gun, as the boy could
easily fire it from his shoulder. This, of course
increased its accuracy of aim, as it could be
held much steader. 1t held six cartridges, and
could, therefore, be fired six times without
reoading AS so wonderful gun in so young
a persons possession was never before known
among these simple people, Koomanah was
greatly elevated in their estimation, and felt
very proud and elated oyer this fine weapon.
When we left our mornings camp for our
days journey, the two boys would walk along
but little to do: but if reindeer grazing
on the distant hills, Ahwanak and koomanah
would take charge of two OF the sledges, while
the men seized their guns and tried to kill some
of the deer. If the reindeer were directly in our
path the dog and sledges halted, and the boys
had only to stand guard; but if they were off
our track, then the sedges kept on their way
some man taking the foremost sledge, and the
boys easily driving the dogs In case the party
halted, the boys would watch the hunters and
if they saw one come to the top of ridge and
with one arm extended, swing his body from a
perpendicular nearly to the ground, they knew a
reindeer had been killed. and that two or three
of the dogs were needed to drag off the body
Then they would unhtch these from the team
and take them over to the hunter, who would
fasten their traces around the reindeer's horns
and drag it to the sedge. Occasionally the two
bows would try a reindeer hunt on their own
hook, and although they were seldom successful
not daring to brighten the deer from the men
who were better hunters, yet once In while
they were rewarded, and their eyes would fairly
glsten with JOY and pride.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23

Harper's weekly.
Some of her acquaintance, it must be con-
fessed, never quite understood "H. H." as a
personality Possessed of wealth of ideas
that was almost German, and Of AN enthusiasm
for applying them that almost French, she
sometimes struck those who did not know her
well as oppressively omniscient; endowed with
an almost masculine force resolution and exeeu
ton, she sometimes struck those who did not
know her well as positively discourteous. On
one OCCASION while calling at the office Of New
York newspaper for the purpose of seeing a
member Of the staff who happened to be absent,
she was met by the edsor-in chief, who. instead
OF sending boy TO announce the fact that the
person she had asked for was out of town, had
gailantiy gone out of his way to communicate
the intelligence himself She looked him stead
lily in the face for the space of ten seconds, and
then letting fly the arrow, II did not come to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
A Kind Voice.



There is no power Of love so hard to get and
keep as IA kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and
dumb. 1t may be rough in flesh and blood, yet
do the work of soft heart and do it with soft
touch. But there is no one thing that love so
much needs as a sweet voice to tell what it means
and feels; and it is hard to get and keep it in the
right tone. One must start in youth, and be on
the watch night and day, at work and play, to
get and keep a voice that shall speak at all times
the thoughts of kind heart. But this is the
time when sharp voice is apt to be got You
often hear boys and girls say words at play with
a sharp, quick tone, as if it were the snap of a
whip. When one of them gets vexed, you will
hear a voice that sounds as if it were made up of
a snarl, whine, and bark 1t is often in mirth
that one gets a voice tone that is sharp and
sticks to him through life, and stirs up ill-wlll
and grief and falls like drop of gall on the
sweet joys of home. Watch it day by day, as a
pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to
you in days to come than the best pearl hid in
the sea. A kind voice is to the heart what light
is to the eye 1t is light that sings as well as
shines. Train it to sweet tones now and it will
keep in tone through life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
The Masculine Fondness for Dark Clothing
Roston Transcript.

1t is amusing to hear the talk of men who
were young during the war time and the sue
cee6ing years when black was the most fashion
able costume, and whose ideas are formed by
what "she" wore during those days. Confront
them with the prettiest of pretty girls in plebalG
array, with the Princess of Wales in the the six
distinct colors that she wore at Goodwood, and
they say: What an addressed person." Such
an one walked up School street the other day
with the wife who, to please him, wears suits,
and in front of them, with the very latest Sara
toga skip, wenta young girl who, with frock
striped in two shades of dull green, and a
very wellfittng sailor made frock, too, wore
little purple mantle bordered with gold and
amber fringe, and who, carried black and
whte- striped parasol above her bonnet of
cream colored lace. "What do you think of
that?' asked the wife. THAT" said he, that's
a ladys maid with the spoils of her last three
mistresses, therefore too good to throw away,
and so she wears them" And alas! the young
lady sat the next table to husband and wife at
luncheon, and the waiter told them her name
with awe, remembering the size of her father 5
fortune
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
READING FOR YOUNG FOLKS.
nv Darling's Shoes.


God bless the little feet that never go astray
For the little shoes empty in my closet laid
away.
Sometimes take one in my hand, forgetting till
see,
1t little half shoe not large enough for me.
And all once feel of bitter loss and pain,
AS sharp as when two years ago, it cut my heart in
twain. -
Olittle feet that weared not wait fcs them no
more,
For am drifting the tide while they have reached
the shore:
And while the binding rdrops wet these little shoes
old,
try think my darngs feet are treading streets of
gold.
And so I lay them down again, but always turn to
God bless the little feet that now SO surely cannot
stray.
And while thus standing almost seem TO see
Two little forms beside me. just as they used to be!
Two little faces lifted with their sweet and tender eyes
All me- might have known that look was born OF
Paradise.
reach my out fondly but they clasp the empty
air!
There is nothing of my darngs but the shoes they
used to wear.
o. the bitterness of parting cannot be done away
Till meet my darlings walking where their feet
never stray
When no more am drifting upon the surging tide,
But with them safely landed upon the river side;
Be patient, heart while waiting to their shining
For the little feet in the golden street never go
astray
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
HOFFENSTEIN ILLUSTRATES POLITICS.
His Little Experience in Betting on Sure
Thing.

New Orleans Times Democrat
''Misder Hoffenstein'' said Herman to his en-
ployer the two sat in front of the store, wait
ing for a customer, II dalking to Levi Leon
burg, vat lives on Magazine street, und he dells
me dat he vas going to work for position in de
custom-house, und go in hefy for 5oldcs und be
shust so big as any oder man in de town"
"Vell Herman" said Hotfensten refectivelv
II drinks ne will do more better if he keeps nit
his uncle in de dry goods pisiness, you know
Bolidics vas shust so much like horse race dot
ven you drinks you hat de sure ding you gifts sold
out so gwick dot your head svims und you goes
around und your friends drinks dot you haf de
consumption. A man, Herman, vot don't hat
blenty uf money don't hat no more show den a
blind man In shumping match. Money is de
ding vat gets de worm und knocks de bersmmons
away, und ven you IFS as long as me Herman,
you finds dot out you know und like wise child
vat focks togedder you stay NIT de cloding pisi-
ness. Bolidics like ding vat dakes blaze
vonce ven vas in Vicksburg, und vat shows
dot you don't can always dell ven you haf a
vindfall.'
wat vas dat, Msder Hoffensten9" inquired
Herman
"Vcll, you see, Herman. We gets up a foot race
nit Moses Godstein, vat Ifs in Vicksburg. und
Solomon Loeb, vat vas in Bort Gibson. We all
knows dat Moses Goldstein can run right away
NIT Loeb, und We puts up de shob shust to vim
Jacob Rosenfelds money, vat betting on
Loeb All us drinks dat We hat soft ding. und
Rosenfeld smells someding und goes to Goldstein
una uellS MIN II ne loses Qe race DOT ne gets
dwenty dollars und Goldstein dakes de money
und vinks, und We dor t know nyding about it,
you know. De day ven de race vas, We starts
Godstein und Loeb even togedder, und shakes
our money und bets dree to Won dot Goldstein
wins Godstein runs a couple IF yards ahead uf
Loeb, und efery Won drinks he a sure winner,
but ven he gets near de end ut de drack
he sees pile uf shavings dere und he snorts
shust like Wild horse. und kicks his legs away
up mid de air und runs out in de woods und
Loeb wins de race, und l lose more as dree
hundred dollars, und vos so mad dot my eyes
vas shust so green as de grass, you know. Dink.
Herman, how dot tam tef Goldstein sells us out
und svindles!"
Don't you make Goldstein say vat for ne does
dat, Mister Hoffenstein" said Herman, who was
indignant
Yes We gets him by de collar ind asks him
wy he runs de road out, und Wy he don't vim de
race. und he says: Wy you leave dat bile of
shavings right by de place we're / runs9 You
know dat vas young and would get scared nit
the shavings, und slump from de drack away.
Dat was all de satisfaction vot we gets. Herman,
und dat vas about all de satisfaction dat dey gif
a man ven dey sells him out in bohtics.s and
Hoffenstein sauntered out on the sidewalk and
left Herman to reflect on what he had said.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
A Bird Story.
Lewiston Me.) Journal.

Lewiston Me.) Journal.
young woman who lives in boarding house
in Lewiston has so far during the summer made
an especial pet of one poor. little English spar
row, that has built a nest near the house. At
first she fed it with crumbs in the door-yard
and it came regularly each day for its food By
degrees it became so tame that it would eat
from her hand, and finally became soattached to
her that it followed her when she went to a
nelghbor's to call, and would chirp knowingly to
her. The young lady went away on a visit the
other day to White Rock, in Gorham, Cumber-
land county. The day following her arrival she
was startled by the familiar chirp of an English
sparrow and to see her old pet circling about her
for It's daily crumbs. Each day, the young
lady asserts, the bird appeared regularly for his
food, and, on her return to Lewiston, made his
temperance at the door, and comes now each
day for food, as before her departure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
Grinding Out Street Ballads.

The manufacture of songs for the cafes chant
ants of Paris forms quite a branch of industry
in that capital There are about fifty authors
engaged in this business, the most conspicuous
of whom are the Messrs. Wiener and Delormel
cb n month tthe text on ,n and AZ maks
about sc 900 francs annually. NJ. Blondelet, who
boasts of u4e authorship Of 5000 chansons, has
retired on handsome fortune. NJ. Dunem, who
is at the head of Lyric Conservatory" and
and serious-and sets them to music, initiates
a large number of young people into the mys-
teries of his art which yields him about $4,000
francs year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
Origin of the Word NihiIisni.

Turgeneff is enormously considered to be the
creator of the word 'nihilism." The expression
has been traced to Gervinus, Immermann and
Jean Paul. who speaks of poetic nihilisn'l.
and now Herr Rudolph Encken shows that al
early as 1899 the philosopher t. Fl. Jacob in q
letter to Fichte, wrote: Truly. my dear Fichtes
shall not be angry if you, or whoever 1t may
be, will call chimarisrn what l consider the OPP
posite Of dealism, or to call it by coarse narne
nihilism." The word never found much favor IN
philosophic phraseology although it was re-
tanned in dictionaries and encyclopedias. Its
first definition, in the modern sense, occurs in
the second edition of Krug's Dictionary Of the
Philosophic Sciences" (l83S).
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
A Tale of the Time.
Detroit Free Press.

T
A peasant who was short wheat for May
delivery. and found ruin staring him in the face.
betook himself to the cave of philosopher and
said:
'Oh, wise man, am half million bushels of
wheat short on May delivery. l came to ask
help of the gods through you"
'Know ye, my friend" replied the old man as
he scratched his chlblains in the softest manner,
that the gods render aid only when the lawyers
have given up the case"
THE next morning the peasant was in Canada.
Moral And his lawyer settled all claims for 40
cents on the ST.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23

riley Dare, in Good Housek eeping.

Shirley Dare, in Good Housekeeping.
/ hope you have an ice closet to keep supplies in
1t is cheaper than refrigerator and great saw
ing of ice and food Mine is planned by cuttn g
off one corner of the pantry 35X4 feet, six feet
high, with halfinch boards two inches inside the
pantry wall, the space filed with sawdust,
charcoal, mineral wool, or any nonconductor of
heat sfted coal ashes being Thorough "a fill
ing as you can have if other things are not in
reach. The inside is finished with silicate paint
which does lot absorb odors and washes like
slate. A sheet-iron case, painted to keep from
rust, goes over the ice, and pipe in the floor
drains the water The bottom OF the closet is
tiles of the cheaper kind and slide in the outer
wall ventilates each division. Three compart-
ments keep supplies properly apart-one whole
side for meats and sealed jars, the lower half on
the other hand for butter and milk, the upper
for cooked f0Od-so that things are not favored
in nondeScript style from each other The ice in
its metal case is not wasted by the ventilating
current which does more to keep food sweet than
we are aware, but six hundred weight of ice at
time keeps that closet perfectly cool for over
three weeks. Taking it in such quantity and
drawing it from the ice house with own
team, the price is only 10 cents hundred,
against thirty the usual way from the regular
ice wagon. This is the way provision dealers
and milkmen buy their ice and keep their wares.
and I'm sure 1t is quite as much account for you
anu me to save the dollars as for these money
making men. The closet costs in all not over
$15, and saves it's costs in year. for with it you
can buy things in quantity when at low price,
with no fear of spelling, your ice comes cheaper,
and there is absolutely no waste of food in this
wholesome well ven ilated closet with its double
doors. 1t takes northeast angle that never
has any sun after o'clock summer mornings,
and is close to the dining room door, convenient
for putting away food and getting ice without
the slavery of going down cellar to a refrigera-
tor All, the weary steps women take needless
lv, eating their youth and strength for want of
e cd contrivances. 1t would add years to many
a.woman's life if her house were planned to save
going up and down stairs about homework
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
A Timely Interruption.
New York Sun.

II.
HAS any ever proposed to you before?'
he asked tenderly, after the important question
had been put and satisfactorily answered.
George Simpson came very near it only last
night" she replied shyly. He was just on the
point of asking me to be his wife when mamma
came into the parlor But am glad she did, !"
went on the girl. earnestly; II don't think l
would have been happy with George"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
A Misconception.
Boston Courier.


"Just one.n said the lover as he stood upon the
stoop with his girl, lust one"
Just one" said the mother, putting her head
out of the bedroom window above; well Iguess
it amt so late that, but it's pretty twelve
and you'd better be going or her father will be
down"
And the lover took his leave with pain in his
heart.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
The Author ofsthe SAKE Holm Stories.

definite contribution to the solution of the
SAKE Holm mystery is furnished by S. $ MOI
Clure. who is Running newspaper syndicate
fiction. He lately published a story by Helen
jackson, and has a letter in her hand asking
him how much he would give her for Sake
Holm story Why""H. H." should have been so
anxious to evade responsibility for such exceiens
work is the principal mystery; her authorship
was plain enough years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
Rules of the Dances.

Advice concerning Waiting, by a late writer
on the subject: "A gentleman should not stare
wildly in dancing, or gaze upward, as if he i'm
agined himself in the seventh heaven" He
should also not manifest a tendency Ito run
round his partner, like the tire of a wheel round
the axle, which has, of course, very absurd
appearance"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
How to Tell a Woman.

Louisville Courier-Journal
Some one writes to the ST. Louis Republican:
"ln your paper of the Goth ult is picture of
the statue Star of the West a woman shading
her eyes with her hand. 1t is not true to nature.
A woman always shades her eyes by turning her
hand over-the palm upward-so that the back
will not sunburn. During the civil war woman
in the army in male attire was discovered by
this gesture"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
Gypsy Schools.

lady has suggested that the English govern
ment provide schools On wheels for the education
of gypsy and van children, as gypsies end other
travellers OF this class ara greatly increasing
Legislation is much needed to bring the 80 600
children living In the vans and tents under
education and sanitary influences.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
SpiritualiZing the Communion.

A Unitarian pastor in New Hampshire has
discovered a way of making the communion
more spiritual. The new rite is described by a
local paper as "a communion by the eye rather
than by the mouth" Heretofore, we are told
only about score of persons, mostly women,
have attended the communion service, where
the bread was broken and partaken of with the
wine. By the new plan the bread and wine are
placed upon the table, and the whole congrega
ton remains and simply looks at it, none Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23

see you. SIR" walked out of the room. But the
amenity and even gayety of her disposition were
delight to her friends. although they too we'll
knew that she held in reserve the talent OF maxi
ing herself feared
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
All That It Needed.
Bushels Gazette.

NOW, you tell me have fair memory,
great capacity for learning languages, large
bump for veneration. and well developed head
generally" You have" said the Phrenologst.
IFS there anything" asked the man under exam
ination, in the exuberance of his joy, that my
head needs to make it absolutely perfectF
Yes" What is it, prayl" asked the man. "a
shampoo"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
That Settled 1t.

Detroit Commercial Advertiser.
rs that dress comfortable in this hot wealth
erF asked husband. You look as if you might
have been poured into it."
DO you think it stylish ard becoming9" she
asked
Eyes. it's very stylish and becoming, but"
"Well, then, it's comfortable" interrupted the
lady
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
He Wouldn't Be a Dude.
Boston Transcript

b0st0n TransCrlpt.
"Why, JOHNNY" exclaimed mamma. ''arent
you ashamed of yourself, going about with such
dirty facet" NO / amt replied Johnny.
with conscious pride in the integrity of his in
tentions You'd like to have me taken for a
dude. wouldn't You?7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23

it being consumed. There is some difference of
opinion among the church members as to the
validity of the new form.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
WHIMSlCALTTIES.
A Summer Love.

"Ohi lovei beside the summer sea,
Thus much at least can't forget,
The sinuous lines and curves Of thee,
As thou cam'st from old ocean wet;
And L still love thee. wet or dry,
My summer love beside the sea,
But cash is light and l must fly,
Farewell to board bills and to thee"
Twin City IN. G. } Post.