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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
SUCCESSFUL soNG-MAKING.
How Street Singer Has Blossomed IntO q
Popular Composer.

How a Street Singer Has Blossomed Into q
Popular Composer.
Philadel phia Times.
what is the latest popular balladgr 49, ~
'Vaniti, replied the music publisher Frank
Howard. the author of I'll Await My Love- and
Only Pansy Blossom, wrote it; that is, ne
wrote as much Of it as he did of the others L
have mentioned. He is ballad singer with
Thatcher, Primrose 81 Vests MINISTRIES and
his income from song royalties is between $500
and $500 week. No, he is not remarkable
musician. He understands music and has nice
voice. Hundreds of better musicians, fail as
writers of songs. Howard is the son of an
Iewa clergyman. Half dozen years ago Mit
cling with liver pad peddler in the West. How
ard, by his singing drew the crowds, and then
gave way to his partner, who sold the pads. Bar
low was struck by the sweetness of Towards
voice, and hired him for $25 a week to sing in
Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & Vests Minstrel
Company. His voice and his songs made him
popular, and he now receives 500 week salary.
The way his songs are composed would astonish
many better musicians. Howard will write
the words of a song, and then, with
three or four members Of the company will
proceed to hammer a suitable air out Of hotel
pianos. They will work hour after hour for
days correcting, changing and culling out bar
after bar until they at last agree that an appro-
pirate air has been made. Then it written ont
and tried in public. If at all successful Howard
sends copy to his publisher and it is put upon
the market. There is story among minstrels
that Howard paid another singer, Harry Talbot,
$40 for the words and music of I'll Await My
Love- If so it was good piece of judgment on
Towards part, for he has made 81, 900 or $3, 900
out Of that song alone"
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speech before the leading men of this Nation
And the representatives of nearly every foreign
nation of prominence An old Senator told me
10 night how this came to be. Said he: AN
brew johnson was accustomed to drinking, but
he seldom took more than he could conveniently
and sensibiy carry. While Governor OF Ten
hessee he used TO keep bottle OF whisky IN
covered wash in his Office, and
have taken several drinks with him there He
would raise the cover take drink and offer
pne to me. Still this a common custom in
the South, and johnson was not looked upon as
. drinking man in Tennessee. do not think
that he often took more than enough for himself
ut Washington AS to his drunkenness at his
inauguration to which Sumner so sar-
rastically alluded on the Senate floor.
John W. Forney told me how it occurred For
ney was Clerk OF the Senate at the time. He
said that Johnson had been drinking the night
before the inauguration, with lot of friends at
khe Metropolitan Hotel, and as is usual in such
cases, he arose the next morning with bad
taste in his mouth and no appetite. The result
was that he started up to the Capitol without
breakfast, and when he got there he was very
weak, and he looked wan and haggard. lie
came into the Senate and asked Mr.. Forney If
he could not get him a drink of whisky Forney
replied yes, and went and brought in bottle of
Did Kentucky Bourbon. johnson took this and
poured goblet half full, while Forney's eyes
grew large in surprise as he gulped 1T down.
This alone would have been enough to have
made an ordinary man drunk, but it was not
enough for Vice president johnson. He filed
the glass half full again. aud threw it
In upon his empty stomach. He then
walked off across the room. and he only
staggered little rs he took his place beside
president Lincoln, in front of the assemblage of
Cabinet Secretaries, foreign ministers, and 9th
srs When it came time to take his oath, and
3he book was handed him to kiss, he waved it
aside with his hand and began to make speech.
What he said was never reported in the paDers,
but it must have been very funny. He took each
of the Secretaries to task, and gave them in
Btruetions. He addressed the foreign ministers,
and, though Forney tried to pull him down by
holding to his coattails behind, he would not
stop, but went on. President Lincoln was, as
were all the Americans present, grieved by the
occurrence, and Abe Lincoln said: L hope this
will prove lesson to Andy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
FOR THE LITE FOLKS.
Wanted nLittle Girl.

Where have they gone to--the little girls,
With natural manners and natural curls.
Who love their dollies and like their toys,
And talk of something besides the boysl
Little old women in plenty ind
Mature in manners and old of mind;
Little old flirts who talk Of their 'beaux,"
And vie with each other in stylish clothes.
Little old bellies, who, at nine and ten.
Are sick of pleasures and tired of men,
Weary of travels of balls, of fun
And find no things under the sun.
Once, in the beautiful long ago,
Some dear little children used to know;
Girls who were merry as lambs at play,
And laughed and rollicked the Gve-long day.
They thought not at all of the style" of theil
clothes
They never imagined that boys were 'beaux;"
'Other girls brothers and mates" were they;
Splendid fellows to help them play.
Where have they gone to! If you see
One of them anywhere, send her to me.
| would give medal of purest gold
To one of these dear little girls oe old,
With an innocent heart and an open smile.
Who knows not the meaning of ''firt' or style"
Boston Pilot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Blasphelny and Worship.

Bob Ingersoll's Brooklyn Lecture.
What is blasphemyq will tell YOU To live
on the unpaid labor of others; to destroy the lib
erty of man; to prevent the growth of the human
mind; to pDlute the imagination of children with
the dogma of eternal pain to defend and prac-
tice slavery; to defend polygamy; to wage wars
of determination; to prosecute for opinions sake
to appeal to brute force to excite the prejudices
of ignorance and the hatred of superstition; to
SANDER your fellow-man: to abuse your wife and
chidren-in short. blasphemy is to increase the
sum of human misery
What is worshipl To do justice; to strength.
the weak; the shield for the defenseless; it is
70 raise the fallen Work is worship; labor is
the best form of prayer"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
GEMS FROM GEORGE ELIOT.

Selections from Her Letters.
Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for
our past sins.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to
be pious or afectionate.
l am often sorry for people who lose half
their possible good in the world by being more
alive to deficiencies than to positive merits.
His 1.-THE Marquis de Ferriere's) genial soul and
perfect good humor gave one the same sort of
beln-etre as well-Stuffed arm chair and a warm
hearth-ru
Some people are born to make life pretty, and
others to grumble that it is not pretty enough
But pray make point of liking mo in spite Of
my deficiencies
Apropos of jokes, we noticed that during the
whole seven months of our stay in Germany we
never heard one witticsm, even one felicitous
idea or expression, from German.
It is one of the Affections Of authorship to
know that the brains which should be used in
understanding a book are wasted in discussing
the hastiest misconceptions about it,
We saw splendid marble monument, nearly
completed, of the late King of Hanover. Pitia-
bic that genius and spotless white marble should
be thrown away on such human trash.
think Ruskin has not been encouraged about
women by his many and persistent attempts to
teach them. He seems to have found them
wanting in real scientific interest-bent on SEN
timentalizing in everything.
I object strongly to myself as bundle of un
pleasant sensations, with palpitating heart and
awkward manners. Impossible to imagine the
large charity have for people who detest me.
But don't you be one Of them
One must not be unreasonable about portraits.
How can thing which is always the same be
an adequate representation of a living being,
who is always varylng-especaly of a living
being who is sensitive. bright. many-sidedl
1t seems as if n close view of almost every
human lot would disclose some suffering that
makes life a doubtful good-except, perhaps, at
certain epochs of fresh love, fresh creative ac
tlvity, or the usual power of helping others.
It is hard to believe long together that any
thing is worth while, unless there is some eye
to kindle in common with our own, some brief
word uttered now and then to imply that what is
infinitely precious to us is precious alike to
another mind
The circumstances of life-the changes that
take place in ourselves-hem in the expression
of affection and memories that live within US
and enter almost every day, and long Esepa-
rations often make intercourse difficult when the
opportunity comes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Pail Mall Gazette.

UIdH UdZetlt.
At this moment a vision in blue appeared be-
fore me- It was no other than Wong Mo come
to call Madam" Wong Mo is the patronymic of
Mrs Langtry's little Chinaman, who halls from
San Francisco Although he has only seen
thirteen summers his face is stern and grave as
mans Of fifty. His good qualities are absolute
devotion to an indulgent mistress, and an i'm
perfect knowledge of English which keeps his
tongue from wagging. His temper is not always
well oiled The other day he cut off his pig tail
in fit of passion. AS for dress. he wears many
coats and many petticoats. He is magnificent,
and in his own country might pass for man
DARN. Wong Mo is lucky boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
MIR. Lewes and George Eliot.

Saturday Review.
Many things have been said of Mr. Lewes's
cleverness, but there is perhaps hardly anything
in which he showed so much of that quality as
in his training with George Eliot. We mean
nothing derogatory. His affection for her is not
questionable and there is something very credit
able in the way in which. after being an indie
pendent man of letters patroniziug a promising
literary aspirant, he accepted the position Of
literary assistant and man of business to a
writer of genius But. as we have said, he
did train his distinguished companion not at
all in The sense of educating her, but in the
sense of arranging her circumstances so as
best to suit the production of her novels. The
dollhouse kind of life which she preferred, and
which he enabled her to enjoy the Tending off of
adverse and distasteful criticism, the submission
(which to a man of decidedly soeiable and rather
Bohemian tastes, like Lewes, must have been a
rea. sacrifce) to long periods of solitude deux,
formed, as far as We can judge, the only course
Of treatment which could have enabled this nerv-
Gus, delicate and curiously constituted competi-
tor to win the novel stakes time after time as
she did. With another course of treatment she
might have been healthier minded woman. and
her books if they had appeared, might have
been healthier books; but it may be very strongly
doubted whether they would have appeared at
all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Sacrificed Mothers.

The revolving spectacle of daughter domi
neering over her mother is sadly frequent one.
How often does one see healthy young miss
call upon her tired mother, as il she were a
servant. to wait upon her young ladyshlp, to
bring in her deferred dinner, to take care of her
room, to keep her clothes clean and in repair.
When daughter has grown up selfish and
domineering, it is primarily, the mothers own
fault The fond mother especially If she has
few of the good things of this world is too like
ly to say: II will sacrifice everything for my
child. l will do without that she may possess.
l will drudge that she may be a lady. / will
deny myself learning that she may be educated.
will stay out Of society and wear old clothes
that she may go out as we'll dressed as her com
panions and enjoy herself"
That is the first misstep. Any mother who
follows this plan will be the slave of her daugh-
ter before she is out of pinafores; and the daugh-
ter IS sure to grow UP selfish. exacting silly and
unreasonable. By and by the mother looks for
some reward She doesn't ask for fine clothes
and relief from drudgery, she has got used to
her hard lot, but she Graves little sympathy and
commentator from the worshiped daughter for
whom she has done so much"
Ay, so much that it has spoiled the girls nat
urally sweet and unselfish disposition. She may
feel uneasy once in a while, but she has no
real sympathy with her toil-worn mother She
is ashamed of her mothers old fashioned
clothes, though she takes as her right
all the new ones herself, and the aesthetic young
Idus Lc impdJlcuL LDOrIlueu because nef
mother can't talk about anything but common
domestic subjects, you know"
This is all wrong. The mother should be the
undsputed mistress of the home AS long as a
daughter remains in her fathers house, she is
the natural and proper subordinate of the moth
er. Daughters brought up to understand this
and shape their actions accordingly receive q
discipline which best fits them to be, in their
turn, mistresses of their own homes and Judi
cious mothers. A mother is right In desiring the
best welfare of her child but it is better for the
child that the mother should maintain her own
dignified position. and that she should make the
most of herself intellectually and socially
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
The Golden Youth Of the Day.

New HOrk GFAphlC.
realistic view of the fashionable relations
of the sexes was afforded by little dialogue
which occurred in the vestibule of the opera
house. the other night. Two ladies were stand
ing cloaked and hooded, ready to go out into the
cold air. golden youth greeted them with
eifusion, while the younger of the two ladies
moved toward the door. '.Ah! going out! said
the youth. Eyes, am going to get our car
riage. My sister has bad cold, and don't like
to Keep her standing about here To which the
obliging and agile golden one responded, .tAh!
hope you'll find it. I'm shaw" and he rapidly
sought another group. 1t was as Sidney Smith
said of another lad, the cool of the evening""
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01

A Persian newspaper has been teaching its
female readers how to be attractive Among
the rules given are the following: Look conf
dent and Indifferent; express yourself simply and
with a voice as sweet as possible. Be keenly
alive to everything that passes, yet appear alb
sent-minded; know as much as possible yet
please by asking questions. Having read every
thing quote nothing; seen everything appear
ignorant; heard all, always express surprise de-
string everything, ask for nothing BE light
hearted to preserve your beauty; be indulgent to
attract sympathy"--and so on. These laws
some evidently anti blue stocking laws--are laid
down as absolute, with one exception. blush
neither for shame nor for pleasure" to which is
added, ''if you can help it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
A WONDERFUL CREATURE.
A Man with the Form, Features and Develop
ments ola Beautiful Woman.

Philadelphia Special
Professional circles are profoundly interested
over the discovery of a wonderful natural and
physical curiosity in the city. which is no less
than man with the form, features and develop
ment of a beautiful woman. Yesterday chief of
Police Stewart. who had been informed that
this singular being was on exhibition on Race
street, sent for one of the most distinguished
physicians of this city and requested him to visit
the place and report as to the nature of the
The physician was astouished at what he saw,
and at once visited DIR. Joseph Leidy, president
of the Academy of Natural Science and one of
the most distinguished scientists in the United
States, to whom he described this remarkable
specimen of humanity. Both gentlemen agreed
that scientific research has never discovered
we'll authenticated case of the kind possessing so
many astonishing physical anomalies. The
Doctor says: II made a thorough examination of
the subject, and what saw was simply amazing.
The subject which in strictly physical sense
must be termed a male, possesses the complete
physiognomy Of q woman and the physiological
development of man. speak within bounds
when say that within all my experience /
never saw in features, form. hair, skin, limbs,
feet, hands, more symmetrically shaped or
more beautiful woman. The development of the
bust and hips are those of perfect female, but,
wonderful to relate, the being is unquestionably
q man. DR.. Leidy, to whom l described this
wonderful person, agreed with me that it was an
amazing freak of nature. The voice is q fe-
males voice, finely modulated, and all of the
actions those of modest refined woman. He
or she is on exhibition but so far as / could OBJ
serve there was nothing indecent about the mat
ter as only men are admitted who have a
physicians request that they be admitted. The
man is French, and can not speak English. He
told me that he was horn near Paris and is
twenty years of age. On Saturday the subject
will be exhibited before the classes of the
Hahnemann Medical College, when large audi
ence of medical aud scientific gentlemen will be
present"
Mayor Smith, who thought of suppressing the
exhibition as indecent, upon the suggestion of
several prominent physicians, decided to take
no action
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
How China Got It's Name.

English illustrated Magazine.
Upward of /, 100 years before Christ the Chi
nese were people ruled by a dynasty of kings,
OF whom, like the Pharaohs of old, there is no
clear history, and not until the "Chow" dynasty.
y. Q. ll2o is there any clear history of the main
Chinese state. The Chinese take their history
back TO the time of Noah. This very ancient
empire has borne in its time many names. for II
was the custom when a new dynasty assembled
the throne 70 give another name to the empire
Hal-que, Chum4que. Han-que, ETC., according
to the name Of the ruling monarch. The true
name is said TO be Chum-que, 1.-The center king
dom of the world" This term was by usage cor
rupted 10 Chin-qlle, and from this word the
Portuguese gave it the name of China. China
proper consists of eighteen provinces, containing
250, 900, 000 people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Joaquin Miller and His Money.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
do not know of Bohemian in America who
has made and spent as much money in so short
time as this same long-haired poet of the Sisr.
ras. He coined money out of the ''Danites .
and his books paid him generous royalty. But
his improvidence keeps him pernetually on the
ragged edge. He dropped down on Philadelphia
one day with bare so In his wallet. Keely
five tens in a block of motor stock. An hour
later he was looking for some one to loan him
enough to get back to New York. He got the
loan, but left the stock for security. He didn't
need to, but he would. He didn't think much
of the motor anyway he said But that's his
way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Our Little Folks.

wonder if you know that the smallest insects
you see about you have tools given them to do their
work with. There is little fly called saw fly,
because it has a saw to work with 1t is really a
very much nicer saw than you could make if you
were ever so old.
The fly uses it to make places where the eggs
will be safe. What is more strange, it has sort
of home made glue which fastens them where
they are laid.
Some insects have cutting instruments that
work just your scissors do. The poppy bee is
one of them, whose work is wonderful. This bee
has a boring-tool, too. It's nest is usually made
in old wood. This borer cleans out the nest
ready for use. When all is ready the insect cuts
out pieces of leaves to line the nest and to make
the cells. These Innings are cut in the shape of
the cells. You would be surprised to see the
care taken to have every piece of just the right
size, that it will fit. When they are fitted the
pieces are nicely fastened together and put into
the nest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Four Inches Make One Foot.

Chinawoman, who recently arrived from
China, was seated in the United States Circuit
Court, yesterday, awaiting hearing of her petit
ton to be allowed to land on habeas corpus. She
was neatly but not gorgeously attired, and was
close observer of the proceedings in an action
for damages on trial She attracted considera-
BILE attention from the bystanders because Of
her small feet, which were scarcely four inches
in length by about two inches in width They
were encased in a Chinese shoe fitting like a
glove. For the qualification of District Attorney
Hilborn and other attorneys, the fair damse
was requested by the court interpreter to stand
up, which request she gracefully complied with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Women as Public Officers.

Charleston Is. CO News and Courier.
There are too many young men employed in
government Offices in the States, and they should
be compelled to make way for young women
wherever the work is such that women can per-
form it. Women, as rule, make better and
more obliging public officials than men, and they
quite as faithful and honest when in Office
AS their field of usefulness is necessarily limited
they should be allowed to occupy it wholly. The
stalwart men who now fill their places would
then be no longer compelled to give up the
healthful occupation of agriculture for the david
ling delights of pen and paper. There are thou
sands of women in the South who need work.
and no man should be willing, or be allowed to
stand in their way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01

Mr.. Thomas Mast gave unique entertainment
at Princeton. not long ago, to an audience com
posed OF the faculty and the undergraduate
body with many citizens. The uniqueness of
the entertainment consisted in the introduction
OF the element of interviewing" The inter
viewer OF the occasion, Mr.. Pelham, put series
of questions, which the artist answered both yer.
bally and graphically The graphic answers took
the forms OF landscape, portraiture and cariea-
ture, and were delivered with rapidity that
astonished the audience. The last picture was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01

The Revista de Monterey makes known dis
coyery that calls to mind the prediction of Nos
trada,nus that the world would Come to an eud
in 1876 There was recently found in the church
of Ooerval, in the diocese of Trivera Mexico,
effect that the destruction of the world will take
place in the year when the Passover occurs on
st. Marks day. Penteeost on St Anthonyis day,
and Corpus Christi on st. Johns day. All this
viii happen In the year 1886.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01

drawn upside down, and the subject WAS not de-
tected by the audience until it was reversed 1t
was Good Night" and represented the artist
ready for bed, with candle in hand After the
lecture the Geographic Society gave Mr. Mast
reception, and elected him an honorary mem
Der. During his stay he was the guest of the
venerable President, Dr.. McCosh who conducted
him the next morning through the college build
ingS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-01
Faith.

In the depth Of the night
Cometh Faith without light,
Cometh Faith without sight,
And trust the great Sovereign Unknown:
NO finite or definite throne,
But the infinite nameless, unthinkable One
No definite hope may endure.
No favorite bliss be secure,
Not even existence be sure
But the something that ought to befaIl,
Will happen at last unto ali.