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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
THE WAYS OF ELEPHANTS.
Particulars in Itch They Resemble Human
Beings-W Preferred to Medicine.

Particulars in ich They Resemble Human
Beings-w v Preferred to Medicine.
New York Tri
San elepb is nobody's fool, said George
Arstingstall, the animal trainer. as he leaned
over the ropes and looked at two score Of huge
pets. They're very like human creatures.
Some of them are good natured, and some ara
ugly. AS they grow older their tempers grow
worse The cow is generally amiable enough to
support the reputation of her sex, but occasional
y we strike wicked specimen. June
immense ears ard abnormally -devel-
oped bump of philoprogenitiveness gave
her look of preternatural beneyolence,' has
killed her man, and would do it again il
she got the chance: The elephant viii
has become accustomed to dry food but
like the cobbler's horse that was kept on shoe
pegs, he is very apt to die before adapting him
self to the diet Elephants have been known to
liva twenty-five years in Europe. In India,
where they feed on green food. canes and the
like, they often attain the age of 150. There is
no proof of longer lease of life than this,
though big stories are told of elephants turned
loose after the name of some king had been in
scribed upon their tusks being found again 800
or 400 years later
.'They are just like children When I have
them out in the morning for dress rehearsal,
they're quick as cats minding almost before the
word is out of my mouth But in the afternoon
thing but attending to business, because they
know that won't strike them before a crowd Of
spectators. They hate to take medicine too.
unless it has little Of the craythur' in it. Arc
elephants ever sickl o, yes! They often have
the collie. When they begin to double up give
'em dose of FIVE or six gallons OF rum and gin
ger. That straightens EN- out An equal
quantity of boiled linseed oil mixed with aconite
and molasses does for physic, while
about five gallons of rum and whisky
are prescribed for chills. Solid drugs
are given in pills. pill eight inches in diam
eter and containing Sc worth Of quinine does the
business for a cold, while pepsin pill is given
when one gets off his feed. / gave Juno over
$50 worth of quinine in one fit of sickness. They
don't like the pills as well as the whisky and IFS
good deal of job to get them down. The
best way is to put pill on the end Of stick,
make them open their mouths and shove it
down before they realize the situation Some
times we cut out the middle of q turnip aud put
the drugs inside the vegetable, but like the bad
child in the Sunday school book, they're very
apt to spit out the core Yes, elephants are
queer creatures"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
A Quest.

am looking for Love. Has he passed this way,
With eyes as blue as the skies of May
And face as fair as the summer dawn
You answer back, out / wander on
For you say-"Oh yes; but his eyes were gray,
And his face as din a rainy day.
Good friends, query, search for Love;
His eyes are as blue as the skies above,
And his smile as bright as the midst of May
When the first birds pipe: Has he passed this wayI
And one says: Aye; but his face, alack!
crowned as he passed. and his eyes were black"
o who will tell me of Lovel cry:
His eyes are as blue as a mid-May sky.
And his face as bright as the morning sun;
And you answer and mock me, everyone,
That his eyes were dark, and his face was wan,
And he passed you frowning and wandered on.
But stout of heart viii onward fare
Knowing that Love is beyond-somewhere,-
The Love seek, with the eyes of blue,
And the bright sweet smile unknown of you;
And whenever the print of his foot is found
/ shall sing sopnets the whole year round
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
Wine ut the White House.
Washington Special.


Apropos of Miss Clevelands refusal to inter
diet the use of wine at the White House. a
member of President Hayes's Cabinet told me
the reason why spirituous liquors were barred
from the Executive Mansion during his term
of service. 1t seems that Mrs Hayes's father
was q hard drnker, and that other members of
her family had been too fond of intoxicating
liquors. In her early home life she had an op-
portunity to see the terrible results of intern
perance With sons approaching manhood and
subject to the temptations that assail young
men at the national capital, she determined to
set an example for their benefit at home. The
only occasion when wine was served in the
White House during the Hayes regime was on
the occasion Of the visit of the Russian Grand
DIXIE Constantine Wine was then put on tho
table in Difference 70 the usual custom Of the
guest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12

Whitehall Review.
The most successful, and certainly the prettiest
song in the new comic opera 1.-THE Mikado" is
the love-song of the tom-tit. 1t has already be-
come popular, and its refrain has already be-
come catch phrase. The song runs:
On tree by river o little tom-tit
Sang Willow. titwlow titwillow'
And said TO him -Dicky- bird why do you sit
Singing Willow. titwiow titwilowl
Is it weakness of intellect, birdieiD I cried,
"Or rather tough worm in your little nsideln
With a shake of his poor little head he replied,
Oh willow, titwillow, titwiliow!"
He slapped at his chest, as he sat on that bough,
Singing, Willow titwillow, titwillowl"
And a cold perspration bespangled his brew,
Oh willow, titwillow. titwilow
He sobbed and he sighed and gurgle he gave,
Then he threw himself into the billowy wave,
And an echo arose from the suicides grave
oh willow, titwillow. titwillowi"
Now feel I'm sure that my name
Isn't willow, titwllow, titwillow,
That twas blighted affection that made him exclam,
oh willow. titwillow, titwilow"
And If you remain callous and obdurate,
Shall perish as he did and you will know why,
Though probably shall not exclaim as die
.0h. willow, titwillow, tiswillowl"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
Golden DAYS

The secretary vulture-which is said to have
received its name from the early Dutch settlers
on account of the pendent feathers on the back
of the head, which reminded them OF the pens
stuck behind the ears of writing clerks-is about
three feet in length the plumage blush gray
color, and feeds principally on various reptiles.
which 1T devours in great numbers 1t is, in
deed, so highly valued on account of the constant
war it wages against serpents that fine is in
hicted in the Cape Colony for shooting it.
1t fearleSsly attacks the most venomous
serpents, stunning them with blows of its wings.
The wings which are short. and provided with
long protuberances, are most destructive
weapons. and the bird uses them with much
skill to disable the serpents. On approaching
them, 1T carries forward the point of one of its
wings in order to parry their venomous bites,
and waits till it finds an opportunity to spurn or
tread on its adversary, or take him up on its
plnlonS and toss him up into the air. When 1t
has at last thus wearied him out. it kills and de-
yours him at leisure. Smaller serpents are
swallowed entire, the larger ones torn to pieces.
The secretary is most frequently seen in pairs
or solitary. They pairabout July, the male bird
having first engaged in a sanguinary conflict for
the choice of his mate. Their nest, which is fiat,
and lined on the inside with down and feathers,
is constructed in the Ihickest bushes, or on the
loftiest trees, in which two or three eggs of a
whitish hue, spotted with red, are laid
The young ones are very late in leaving their
nest for they are slow in acquiring full develop
ment, it being nearly four months before they
are able to stand firmly and run about with per-
feet freedom.
1t being easily tanned when taken young, the
colonists have made a domestic bird of it to pro
tect their poultry against the incursions of
serpents and rats. With the inhabitants of the
poultry yard it is good terms, and when 1T
sees any of them quarreling, it will run to part
the combatants. 1t must be confessed. however,
that. unless we'll fed it does not scruple to help
itself to plump chicken.
Figuer says that in 1882 the secretary bird
was introduced into the French West Indias,
particularly Guadalupe and Martinique, on
purpose to make war upon the rattlesnakes, a
dangerous reptile swarming in those countries.
The introduction of the secretary into the
Antilles has proved to be real benefit.
Here we have birds that seem especially en-
dowed by our Heavenly Father to serve man by
consuming garbage and devouring creatures
which, if left to increase too rapidly, would be-
come terror to the inhabitants of those coun-
tries; and yet such reptiles are necessary, in
their turn, to destroy other vermin. And thus
we find in nature a perfect law controlling all
things
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
FoURpoIms By JAMES wHITcoMB RILEY
HIS First womern.

] buried my first womern
In the spring; and in the fall
was married to my second,
And haint settled yit at ALL
Fer Tn allus thinkin '--thinkin'
OF the first one peaceful ways,
A-bilin' soap and singin'
OF the Lords amazin' grace.
And I'm thinkin' of her. constant.
Dyin' carpet-chain and stuff,
And a-makin' up rag.carpets,
When the floor was good enough!
And ! mind her hep a-feedin'
And l riccollect her now
A-drappin' corn. and keepin'
Clos't behind me and the plovs
And I'm allus thinkin' Of her
Reddin' up around the house;
Err cookin' fer the farm-hAnds;
FIR a-drivin' up the cows
And there she lays out yender
BY the lower medder fence,
Where the cows was barely grain.
And they're usin' ever sence.
And when / look acrost there
Say its when the clover's ripe,
And I'm settin', in the evenin',
On the porch here, with my pipe,
And the other'n hollers Henry
Wy they amt no sadder thing
Than to think of my first womern
And her funeral last spring
Was year ago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
To An Importunate Ghost.

Get gone, thou most uncomfortable ghost!
Thou really dost annoy with thy thin
Impalpable transparency of grim
And the vague shadowy shape of thee almost
Doth vex me beyond boundary and coast
Of my broad patience Stay thy chattering chin,
And reel the tanntings of thy vain tongue in
Nor tempt me further with thy vaporish boast
That am helpless to combat with thee
Have at the then! Yet il fate most fell
Thou woudst escape turn while thou canst and feeT
Hustle thy windy shanks and shake them we'll
One instant longer and thou manifest me,
III breathe thee o thou wrath dispicable!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
..pana Can,t Find are /.

No little steps do / hear in the hall;
Only sweet, silver laugh--that is all.
No dimpled arms round my neck held me tight;
I've but glimpse of two eyes very bright,
Two little hands a wee face to screen.
Baby is hiding-thats plain to be seen.
Where is my precious I've missed so all dayF
Papa can't find mel the pretty bps say.
Dear me! wonder where baby can beP'
Then go by. and pretend not to see.
Not in the parlor and not on the stairsl
Then must peep under the sofa and chairsi'
The dear little rogue is now laughing outright;
Two little arms round my neck clasp me tight.
Home will indeed be sad weary and Lone
When papa can't find you, my darling, my own
San Francisco Bulletin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
Who Bides His Time.

Who bides his time and day by day
Faces defeat full patiently,
And lifts mirthful roundelay,
However poor his fortunes be-
He win not fail in any qualm
OF poverty-the paltry dime
1t will grow golden in his palm,
Who bides his time.
Who biiles his time--he tastes the sweet
OF honey in the safest tear;
And though he fares with slowest feet
Joy runs to meet him, drawing near:
The birds are heralds of his cause,
And, like never-ending rhyme,
The roadsides bloom in his applause,
Who bides his time.
Who bides his time, and fevers not
In the hot race that none achieves,
Shall wear cool wreathen laurel, wrought
With Grim SON berries in the leaves.
And he shall reign goodly king,
And sway his hand 'er every clhZs
With peace writ on his signet ring.
Who bides his time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12

informed that the owner Of drinking.shop had
failed. and the place was offered at low rent. He
returned to Montrouge, fonnd it was so. hired
the shop and opened a Sunday school The
prayerful little girl Of the first scholars.
The second Sunday she brought eight other
children. Having placed them in row. she ex-
claimed, pointing ut them, and looking at Mr..
Greig, See, sir, have brought all these That
school is now prosperous
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
Hens Eggs Twelve Hundred Years Old.

Youths Companion.
At st. Eloi, in the Faubourg st. Antoine, in
France. nest-full of eggs was found under the
ruins of the old palace where King Dagobert
lived.
So they knew that twelve hundred years be-
fore some hen had stolen her nest, just as our
hens do nowadays, and had been disturbed
and left the nest before the eggs had been sat
upon.
The workmen. in clearing away the ruins
to build the old church that still stands there,
found the nest, and were going to throw away
the eggs.
But the Able Denis, who was then curate of
the parish, remembering that wheat had been
grown from grains that were found with the
mummies in Egyptian tombs, which must have
been three thousand years old, thought that
there might be life in these old eggs.
He set them under one of his good, motherly
old hens and sure enough, in twenty-on days,
she came off the nest with fine brood of King
Dagobert" chickens, as they have ever since been
called.
These chickens ali lived to be fine hens and
ROSTERS
The breed has been carefully kept ever since,
and the Dagobert fowls have so increased that
the able of the parish has organized sale of
king Dagobert' eggs for the benefit of the poor
of his parish.
If any of the boys and girls who read this
should some day visit the parish of st. Eloi, they
might eat a boiled egg-a real descendant of the
twelve hundred year old eggs that were found
under the ruins of King Dagoberts palace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12

hear that the President does not approve OF
banged horses. He ia intending to buy pair
of horses, but win not have the shert square
cut tail. The American 'sbangT is much shorter
than the English and Is often cut by the coach
man without regard to the style of the horse or
idea of beauty Mr.. Cleveland, Ii is said pre-
fers the old fashion of neatly trimmed full tail.
and win try TO crafty this preference
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
d BY Special With 1885 Al Rights Ressl
THE WISE WOMEN Of INVERNESS.
. A p II w.

re-" Shakespeare" Thule" Had-crp
"shandoa Bells" etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12

While treading "Unbeaten Tracks in JAPAN"
Miss Bird found the silence broken in many
places by the discordant notes of thousands of
crows, who were both sagacious and impudent.
She says:
Five Of them were so impudent as to alight
on two of my horses and so be ferried across the
Yurapugawa. In the inn garden at Mort l saw
a dog eating piece of carrion in the presence
of several of these covetous birds.
''They evidently said good deal to each other
on the subject, and now and then one two of
! them tried to pull the meat away from him.
which he resented.
Sat last a big, strong crow succeeded. in tear
ing off a piece with which he returned to the
pine where the others were congregated.
after much earnest speech they all sur
rounded the dog, and the leading bird dexter
ously dropped the small piece of meat within
reach of his mouth
"He Immediately snapped at it, letting go the big
piece unwisely for second, on which two of the
crows flew away with it to the pine. and with
much f1uttering and hilarity they all ate, or
rather gorged it, the deceived dog looking vacant
and bewidered for a moment, after which he
sat under the tree and barked at them namely
"a gentleman told me that he dog hold
ing piece of meat in like manner in the pres
ence of three crows which also vainly tried to
tear it from him.
"After a consultation they separated, two GO
ing as near as they dared to the meat while the
third gave the tail bite sharp enough to make
the dog turn round with squeal, on which the
other Williams seized the meat, and the three fed
triumphantly upon it on the top of wall.
"In many places they are so aggressive as to
destroy crops unless they are protected by
netting. They assemble on the sore backs of
horses and pick them into holes, and are mis-
chlevous in many ways.
They are very late in going to roost, and are
early astir in the morning, and are so bold that
they often came with many stately fiirt and
iutter' into the veranda where was sitting.
II never watched assemblage of them for
any length of time without being convinced that
there Nestor among them to lead their
movements
"Along the sea-shore they are pretty amusing
for they take the air IN the evening" seated on
sand banks facing the wind with their mouths
open"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18
DON'T SKIP THIS

So many schemes are put before the public for the increase of newspaper cir culation, which seem to be plausible and vet are fraudulent, that when legitimate, honest effort is made to build up the cir culation of legitimate, honest paper, by legitimate, honest means, people who have been so many times duped, are very slow to respond to the genuine scheme. We are led to this train of thought by perusal of the advertisement of 7He Ame,ican Rural Home of Koch ester, N. Y., published in this issue of our paper, to which we call the attention of our readers. We are acquainted with both paper and publishers and take pleas ure in recommending it as one of the very best farm and family journals in this country. Every person who sends one dollar for years subscription to the paper receives handsome present which is donated by the advertising patrons of the paper. These premiums consist oi Cattle, Land, Keepers and Mowers, Flows, Books, Pictures, Organs, and thousands of other valuable articles. The Rural Home Go. is endorsed by Hon Cornelius R. Parsons, Mayor of Rochester, to whom you can write if you have any doubts as to its reliability. It will pay you to send for sample copy if nothing more than to get look at this grea. twelve-page, sixty column illustrated paper. Address Rural Home Go. Limited, Rochester, NY.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18
4 New York Character.

Geo. Montgomery, In Newark Advertiser.
 Some very amusing characters are con- spiouous in the streets of New York. met one of these the other day. He was a middle-aged man, with a shrewd face and dark eyes. He was dressed in coarse, loose stuf, much the worse for l over his left arm. He was what we call an old clo'man "--a z stherer of cast of coats and trousers, shoes and boots and hats. As vas passing him he asked me if had any old clothes to self, and assured me that he paid the highest market prices. Then this little dialogue, inspired by my own curiosity, ensued:
 "Whst do you do with the things you pick up5" inquired.
 "What do do with them2" he said, with laugh, ." get rid of them-at a profit"
 Howl"
 "How? Easy enough. sell them to the westerpers, and this is the way do it As soon as get a big stock make up lot of bundles, as pair oi boots, a hat, a coat or something else in each. s..H the bundles into cheap bags and then start for sone western towu. hire store there and sell cH the bags at auction. When that's done 1 take the first train sut of that place. II stayed till morning I'd be lypcbed. TseIs's . hundred places don't dare to show my nose in. Oace-only opce--I was caught , badly too. lost the train and had 70 stay all night in Mississippi village. The mex, day was kept mighty busy. ] tell you, buying back my bags and old clothes never saw such mad people. The trade is dangerous you sec. bst t payA"
 The philosopher whistled briskiy and vent his way.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18

his 6szceaess and haasasr. ehs seevyn. hing was very kind he did not awaken the old oak tree and che slumhering flowers. The lisffe vine lay undeE the Aeecy assow against ahe old stone wall aMd alapa peacefully. and SO dl0 the violet and the daisy. Only the wicked old thasale thrashed about in his sleep as # he dreamt bad dreams, which, all will allow, was 10 more than he deserved. All through that winter-andi 1t seemed very long--she child thought of the aow- CTS and the vine and the old oak tree, and wondered whether in the sprinetime they would awaken from their sleep and he wished for the springtime to come. And at last the springtime came. Oae day the sunheams huttered down from the sky and danced all over the meado~.
 "Wake up, little friends 1" cried the sunbeams; wake up, for 1t is the spring time !"
 The brook was the first to respond. So eager, so fresh, so exuherant was he after his long winter sleep. that he leaped from his bed and frolicked all over the meadow and played all sorts of curious antics. Then little bluebird was seen in the hedge one morning. He was calling to the violet.
 "Wake up, little violet" called the bluehird. "Have come al this distance to ind you sleepings Wake up. it is the springtimer
 That pretty little voice awakened the violet. of course
 "Oh, how sweetly have siepti' cried the violet how happy this new life is 1 Welcome, my friandsl'
 And presently the daisy awakened, fresh and beautiful, and then the little vine, and, last of all, the old oak tree. The meadow was green, and all around there was the music, the fragrance, the new. sweet life of the springtime.
 "l slept horribly" growled the thistle, had bad dreams It was sleep, after all. but it ought to have been death"
 The thistle never complained az ain, for just then 2 four-f0oted monster stalked through the meadow and plucked and ate the thistle and then stalked gloomily away which was the last of the skeptical thistle-truly most miserable end
 "You said the truth, dear old oak tree r cried the little vine. "lt was not death-it was only a sleep, a sweet, TO. freshing sleep, and this awakening is very beautiful"
 They all said so-the daisy, the violet, the oak tree, the crickess. the bees, and all the things and creatures of the field forest that had awakened from their long sleep to swell the beauty aud the glory of the springtime. ASd they talked with khR child and thA child heavd then, And, although the grandsire never spoke to the child abou: these things, the child learned from the flowers and trees les son of the springtime which perhaps the grandsire never knew.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18
One Kiss.
iThe Critic.1

In his "Life of George Eliot" Mir. Cross prints together " the two following extracts, the first addressed to Mir. John Blackwood of Bkackwoods Magaziae, the other found immediately under it, without anything to indicate that the two scraps belong to two entirely different persons am not aware that the motto (to "Scenes from Clerical Life'0 has been used before. but if you suspect it, we had better leave it out altogether. A stale motto would hardly be an ornament te the title page How wish I could get to you by some magic, and have one walk over the hill with you again. Let ters are poor things compared with five minutes looking and speaking, and one kis ?" And this sort ot thing occurs drought the book.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-04-18

Whose ksepath an apiary, being in the bee trade, isnt to be surprised when he ia betrayed himself -- Kaaksvs Cassfss. Whoso keepeth an apiary, Il he be not a believer, has only to be s,ung by bee to become bee ieaver at once.-- OH City Dsvyie1.