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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

the bad boys, when suddenly the pro-
prietor of the animal emerged from the
saloon. He charged furiously upon the
boys. They saw him in time, aud fled
in every direction, making good their
escape. The good little boy did not run.
He had done no wrong. Conscious in
nocence made him bold. The driver of
the donkey came down upon the good
little boy like an avalanche, boxing his
ears until he had a slight hemmorhage
of the nose. The boy, whore sense of
justice was also injured. rushed into the
school to inform the principal. Unfor-
tunatelv one of the teachers was coming
out of the door at the same moment, and
be was almost impaled by the impetu-
Gus youth. In fact, the two colliding
bodies were almost telescoped by the
collision. Fortunately, the teacher re-
tanned his presence Of mind Without
asking for an investigating committee.
he dealt the luckless youth box on the
ear that sounded like hitting beet
steak with the fat -ide of an ak. For
second time the boy detected the
heavenly bodies We mean, of course,
ne saw stars.
The good little boy did not linger
around the teacher, who was partially
doubled up from the force of the col
lisiOn, but was nevertheless lifting his
boot to kick. The boy kept right on up
stairs, until ne rushed almost breathless
into the room of the principal As
soon as he was able to do so, tie pupil
said:-
The teacher boxed my ears, and
hadn't touched the donkey"
Call your teacher a donkey, do your"
81 icula:ed the principal, livid with rage
al the slur at the professor; and once
more the good little Sunday School boy
got it right and left, more consultations
bursting upon his enraptured vision. 1t
seemed to him as if he had suddenly sat
down in front of drug store
The idea that had been instilled into
the youthful mind of that boy, that the
good were rewarded and the bad pun
ished, is undergoing some modification,
at which we can hardly wonder.
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st Louis Republican,


The disposition to write poetry, or
what its authors call poetry, is one of the
sentimental mysteries of modern times
As an intellectual employment it
yields no financial fruit, and it invol-
yes much waste of time and IVORY of
mind.
Not one person in 10000 read its pro-
duct, but notwithstanding all these dis
couraging circumstances, it is per-
sisted in with an enthusiasm that moth
ing can abate until it slowly evapo-
rates under the influence of q cold
neglect.
In some instances the vitality of this
enthusiasm is quite indestructible. Not
even failure of recognition or satirical
criticism can quench it, and Outlasting
youth, it keeps the mind coquetting with
the muse, and framing fancies into rhyme,
while the head is whitening for the final
harvest.
1t is disposition, tendency, impulse,
or whatever may be its proper designa-
ton, that cruelty misleads its victims
They are incapable of judging of the
merits of their own compositions, and,
while they invite criticism, like the bish i
op "Gil Bias" they resent it useless it
is favorable.
They tax the good nature of their
friends, exhaust the patience of editors,
and expend their own intellectual
strength in a vain attempt 10 do some
thing which the irreversible decree of
nature has made it quite clear they can
never accorr-lish.
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THE Honr.l

A large, healthy and equsble temper
ament ought to be able to occupy itself
with those questions, the grandeur of
which crowds from the mind the multi
tude of little splenetc emotions which
are like the pricking of poisoned pins.
We do not mean to say that study
of logarithms will console the man who
is suffering from wounded love, or that
relentless course of logic is a panacea for
disappointment and ingratitude And
yet it is true that when the brain is fully
absorbed in some work the soreness of
the heart ceases for the time to be felt
The question is how to impel nature
not of the strongest to successfully seek
this form of distraction. For here it is
not the first step only which costs, but
every step. The effort of the will has to
be incessant. 1t has to be sustained in
the midst of heart beatings that will not
be stilled, and the probability is that
when so many perturbations exist the
DETECTION will be great
Besides, the consolation offered by
what is generally called pleasure is much
easier. Sensual enjoyment can so readily
and cheaply be attained, and, at any
rate while the senses are young and the
colors of life vivid, the temporary relief
is certain.
Persons of strong and rightly fashioned
wills can, of course, easily do what they
wish in creating legitimate self-diver-
sion; but this sort of will does not usu-
ally reside, along with lofty intellect, in
a nature in which the softer emotions
have considerable SWAY.
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"Blame 1t All On Me!,,

A grand crash-a shower of flying
splinters-bumpl bumpl and the coaches
settled back on the rails, and the passen-
gers picked themselves up and cried out
to each other that there had been a col
lision.
So there had Freight No.l7 was pulling
in on the side-track, but the day express
Numbered down on her while the long
train was yet third of its length on the
main track.
Some one had blundered. Some ones
watch was off time. Some one must be
held responsible for the accident.
Under the overturned locomotive was
the fireman-dead. Near him was the
engineer, pinned down to the frozen
earth by one of the drivers, and when he
had been relieved doctor, who was
among the passengers, knelt beside him
and said:
"Arm broken, leg broken, foot crushed
to pulp. He cannot live"
Who had Numbered? Who had dis
obeyed orders? The conductors of the
two trains were comparing watches
and orders, when the engineer beckoned
them
81 alone am to blame!" he whispered.
81 wasn't due here until 1910 snd it
was just 1905 when struck the freight.
j was ahead of time-running on her
time"
So it was, so it was, whispered the two
conductors.
This morning when / left home"
continued the engineer, 1.-The doctor was
there. Our little Jennie-our Swear old
was sick unto death. In her delirium
she kept crying out: Don't 60, papa
don't leave little Jennie to diep 1t was
like knife in my heart to leave her, but
60 must. | was leaving the house when
the doctor put his hand on my shoulder
ADD said: Tom, my boy, by 6 o'clock to-
morrow morning she'll either be dead or
better"
"What a long day this was to mel" he
went on after bit. "When | pulled out
of the depot tonight, headed for home
and Jennie, / wanted to fy l kept Civ.
ing her more steam, and l kept gaining
On my time. We arn't due till 7, you
know, but | wanted to be in at 6-ayei
an hour before that. When the thought
came to me that Jennie might be dead
when next | entered the door / should
have pulled the throttle wide open il the
fireman hadn't grabbed my arm"
Poor mani" they whispered as he shud-
dered with pain and seemed to be ex-
hausted.
Yes, blame 1T all on mel" he whis-
pered. mo. l3 had five minutes more to
get in, and she'd have made it all right,
but stole her time. And now-and now
-r'
He lay so quiet for a moment that the
doctor felt for his heart to see if it still
beat.
And now-that's her-that's Jennie.
She's beckoning-she's calling! Right
down the uack-over the high bridge
through the deep cut-Pm coming
comingp
And men wiped tears from their eyes
and whispered:
"He has found his child in deathr
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Another Question Settled.

Photography has jus. enabled daring
artist to distinguish himself, as well
slightly enlarge the worlds store of in
formation. 1t was the photographing of
a tiger and buffalo at the instant they
were in deadly conflict The affair had
been previously arranged, buffalo being
tethered to a stamp and tiger let loose
upon him. The one beat of the heart
that interviewed between the blow of the
tigers paw and the victims positive
surrender of existence, suffice for the
photographer to catch and fix, with un-
erring fidelity, the attitudes of the SLAYER
and slain. By this triumph of art :.
settled the much moated question of how
q tiger kills its pray.
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THE WEARING OF THE BEARD.

1t is not only within the memory of
the 'oldest inha5itant," but of persons
of mature life, that beard upon the
face was not only questionable, but a
sign of weakness or "crankiness," more
noticeable great deal than a man is
nowadays with long curly hair falling to
his shoulders.
In the popular prints, such as those of
American authors-Washington Irving,
Cooper and others; pictures OF the Amer
lean Senate, with portraits of Clay,
Webster, Calhoun, Cass and their con-
temporaries-the absence of boards and
mustaches is quite marked to the eyes of
one accustomed to the hirsute fashions
Of to-day.
The mustache was especially obnox-
ious; on a clergymen, an abomination.
No minister could have had or kept a
pulpit with such an ornament on his
face. On the face of layman it was
considered effeminate and dandifed-
the type of what are now known as
dudes"
eff you ever come into my house wear
ing mustache when you grow up" said
gentleman to his nephew, then beard
less by nature instead of art, al will turn
you out of DOORS" But by the time the
boy was able TO produce mustache the
edict against them had been annuIed
and thew had become quite common. A
few Abolitionists and Spiritualists wore
long boards, but the most allowed on the
face was a neat tuft of whiskers just be-
low the ears.
A curious relic of those days is to be
found on tombstone in Worcester
county, Massachusetts,. at the grave of a
man who died in 1873, aged 81 years.
On the diverse of his monument may be
read the words: "Persecuted for wear
ing his beard" If the traditions about
his life and experiences are trustworthy,
no martyr ever suffered much more for
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[olirer wendell nolme.l

If there is any person in the world to
be envied, 1t is the one who is born 10 an
ancient estate, with long line of family
traditions and the means in his hand, Of
shaping bis mansion and his domain 10
his own taste, without losing sight of all
the characteristic features which sur.
rounded his earliest years. The Amer.
can is, for the most part, a nomad, who
pulls down his house as the Tartar pulls
up bis tent poles. If had an ideal life
to plan for him it would be something
like this:
His grandfather should be wise,
scholarly, large-brained, large-hearted
country minister, from whom he should
inherit the temperament that predisposes
to cheerfulness and enjoyment, with tbs
finer instincts which direct life to noble
aims and make it rich with the gratifca-
ton of pure and elevated tastes and the
carrying out of plans for the good of
his neighbors and bis fellow creatures.
He should, if possible, have been born
at any rate have passed some of his
early years, or large part of them,
under the roof of the good old minister.
His father should be, we will say, busi-
ness man in one of our great cities-a
generous manipulation of millions, some
of which have adhered to bis private
fortunes in spite of his liberal use of his
mesns.
His heir, our ideally placed American,
should take possession of the old house,
the home of his earliest memories, and
preserve it sacredly, not exactly like the
Santa Casa, but, as nearly as may be,just
as he remembers il.
He can add as many acres as he will to
the narrow house-lot. He can build q
grand mansion for himself if he chooses,
in the not distant neighborhood. But
the old house and all Immediately round
it shall be as he recollects it when he had
to stretch his little arm up to reach the
door-handles.
Then, having well provided for his
own household, himself included, let him
become the providence of the village or
the town where he finds himself during
at least a portion of every year. Its
schools, its library, its poor-and perhaps
the new clergyman who has succeeded
grandfather's successor may be one of
them-all its interests, he shall make his
own. And from this center his benefi-
cence shall radiate so far that all who hear
of his wealth shall also hear of him as q
friend to his race.
Is not this pleasing program? Wealth
is steep hill, which the father climbs
slowly and the son often stumbles down
precipitately; but there is a tableland
continuous with it, which may be found
by those who do not lose their head in
looking down from its sharply cloven
summit.
Our dangerously rich men can make
themselves hated, held as enemies of the |
race, or beloved and recognized as its
beDefactors. The clouds of discomfort
are threatening, but if the gold-pointed
lightniDg-rods are rightly distributed the
destructive element may be drawn off
silently and harmlessly. For it cannot
be repeated too often that the safety of
great wealth with us lies in obedience to
the new version of the old world axiom,
Richesse oblige.l
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A Hypvcrite convinced of His
own sincerity.

When nature and history combine in
the construction of character, human
imagi nation is at discount.
Neither Moliere in "Tartufie" nor
Shaksp care in Richard Ill" have dared
to prese Mt on the stage hypOcrite con-
WINGED of his own sincerity, Cain who
believes shat he is Abel, Here is Robes
pierre in colossal lheater, performing
before 100, 900 spectators, on the 9Th of
June, 1896, in the grsndest day of his
glory, the festival of the Supreme
Being, the reXounding triumph of his
doctrine, the official conservation of his
papacy.
In him the personages are dual, just
as in that revolution he represents; one
is apparent, courts inspection, is all on
the outside; the other is concealed, full
of Discrimination, all within itself; but
the second nature plasters over the
first.
The first, all fixed up for parade, has
been forged out of his reasoning brain;
the other j. a. fictitious as the solemn
ldTCt 10 Dt DldNtu ulIl.
In conformity with the program ar
ranged bv David, the people who are to
file before an allegorical mountain are to
make certain gestures for which they
have been schooled, and to howl particu-
lar cries, all ordered, under the eyes of
Henriot and his gendarmes-at a stated
time to give themselves over to pre-.
scribed emotions. At 5 O'Clock in the
morning 1.-The friends, brothers, spOuses,
parents, children are to do some hugglng.
An old man, his eyes moist
with the Joyful tears, is to declare that
he feels young again" Al sharp 2, on
the terraces of the Sainted mountain,
everything is TO be in movement and
agitation visible. In this division moth
ers are to press their babies while suck
ling them, in another the mothers are to
clutch their male infants and present
them to the authors of their being; at
precise time the sons, inhamed with
martial fire, are To brandish their swords
and place them in their fathers hands
Partaking of the enthusiasm of their sons
the old men must embrace them and be-
stow on them their paternal benedictions
All the men on the (firs) refrain.
All the women In the field OF re
union will chant in chorus the (seeond)
refrain. All Frenchmen will
mingle their sentiments in fraternal
kiss" An idyl worked up under the di
rector's baton is put in contrast with
moral symbols and card board divinities.
For the first time "Robespierre's face is
inspired-it beams with JOY, and his
scribblers' enthusiasm Stops over as usu-
al, in bookish phrases" "There," he
says, sis the most interesting portion of
humanity. The whole universe is as
sembled Oh nature, how sublime, how
delicious is your powerl How tyrants
pale before the idea of ibis festivalp As
for himself is he not its finest ornament?
Was he not unanimously chosen to pre-
side over the convention and to conduct
the ceremony?
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Base hall Pitchers Glory Shorn n
Little.
[Peck's Sun. |

lPeck's SUM-
One of the new rules adopted by the
National Base Ball League, while it is
direct blow at the liberty and pursuit
of happiness of the pitcher, neverthe-
less is an excellent one.
1t had got to be so that high salaried
pitchers seemed to think all the people
came and paid in their hard-earned half
dollars for was to see them pose, and
thereby the game was sometimes pro-
lOnged unreasonably.
Under the new rules the pitcher can
not take the ball in his two thousand
apiece-dollar hands and tumble it, then
moisten his fingers and thum with saliva
and wipe them on the side of his trous-
ers, cross his right foot around in front
of the left, just touching the toes Of the
former to the ground, stand in this pic
turesque attitude several seconds, while
the feelings OF the spectators are wrought
up to fever heat, and then suddenly un-
tie his legs and go down in his pocket
for chew of tobacco. and wink AT the
pretty girl who is watching his contor.
tions through an opera glass.
Any one of the peculiar habits into
which celebrated pitchers have fallen
even to looking with an eagle glance
around the h"rlz IN of the diamond field,
or hitching up his trousers-means that
there il no retreat; the ball must be de-
livered Immediately thereafter, or it will
be bslk. OF course, the pitcher can go
through all and singular his little idi-
osyncracies every time he pitches ball,
but he can't do it and then. when bats
man, umpire and public are all torn up
with suspense, suspend delivery and sing
song or PROFOUND conundrum to
short stop.
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When winds are blowing free and strong
" hat - 10 mnrmurs en- the wire.
halfway between a sigh and song.
Like vind-made music on q Tyre,
IL IL an echo OF the vail:
shes going fast. IN fearful pain;
Come TO us quickly; do not fail,
III you would hear her speak again.
Or, flames is dead. He died at nine;
The funeral on Monday noon,"
"John Mann has failed; will drop iinef"
Or. "Tsy and make payment soon''
Or this. perhaps: "Send on the tuIie
Concluded now To change the day.
The bridesmaids. Jenny and Miss Cool;
The wedding. on the lst Of Nay"
Hushi "Baby's dead She died last night'''
The wires are almost sobbing now.
Or, Sunk ut sea, the schooner Dwight:
Her crew went down, We know not how
You do not hear IL; Then believe
IL may be wrought by memory's spell
Az dreamers say the pillows leave
Their haunting sounds IN ocean shell.
MRS VI. r. Ames in Free Press.
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Ex.Treasure spinner's Signature.

wash. Cor. TO columbus journal
This fact called to the mind of Assist
ant Treasurer Graves an amusing incl
dent during Treasurer Spinner's admin
istration.
"One day." said Mr.. Graves, "a letter
was received with Confederate note in
closed. The sender wrote that, as the
United States had confscated the assets
of the late Confederacy, he supposed the
liabilities would be assumed, and he
trusted that the bill would be promptly
exchanged.
The Treasurer was in one of his equity
moods that day, and in answer to my re-
quest for instructions in replying he
growled, Tell him to 60 to h
In obedience TO the order | wrote a
letter in which il was stated that, az the
headquarters of the concern which issued
the note had been removed to the place
of inception, the internal regions, the
Treasurer advises you TO present the
note there for payment in person.
Mr.. Spinner laughed jryly as be
signed the letter, and remarked that be
supposed this would close the correspou-
dence. We heard nothing from the
writer for some time and had about for
gotten the incident, when one day a let.
ter was received from MIN again, in
which he apologized for the delay in
answering, and said it bad been due to
the time consumed in complying with
the advice of the Treasurer. He added
81 have been to the place indicated
and was so fortunate as 20 find the Old
Boy himself behind the counter. Much
to my surprise he cashed the note al
once, with the remark that old Spinner.
Endorsement was good there at any
time."
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A FRIEND OF YOURS.

He comes, but not with clamorous gush,
Nor with defiant echoing rush.
With voiceless football on the floor,
He comes 20 stay-the bore, the bore,
Soft is his voice a. unbaked bread,
And softer than his Voice, his head;
HIS talk ~ fiatter than the floor,
But yet he stays-the bore, the borel
Upon your brow, a. black as night.
He smiles, with placid mien, polite;
And when you tread upon his toes,
"Begs pawdon," but he never goes.
You toss exchanges in his face,
He smiles, but does not leave his place;
You yawn, you close your eyes and snore-
He does not go-the bore. the borel
Oh, brick We up each window tight.
Shut out the sun, the air, the light;
With iron armor case the door
He'll still get in-the bore, the bore,
-lBurdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.
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1t is important to the households
health that the cellar should be rather
light and well ventilated. There should
be, if possible, one or more openings into
warm fiues in the chimney stock, so that
the air may be continually changing.
The best way to keep house dry and
healthy il to use it. living in all the
rooms, either every day, or by turns. A
spare room is usually damp, i'll venti-
lated room. and house which is not oc-
cupied deteriorates much faster than one
which is occupied.
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And make place IN thy great heart for her
And give her time 10 grow ana cherish her.
Then will she come and oft viii sing q thee
When thou art working IN the burrows; ay,
Or wedding in the sacred hour of dawn
IL - a cOmely fashion e. b. glad:
Joy - the grace We say to God.
There is rest remaining Hast thou sinned,
There Is a sacrifice Lift up thy head
The lovely world and the ovsr-world alike
Ring with a song eterne, happy rede:
Thy Father loves thee"
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One of the strongest arguments against
the admission of the Chinese to equal
status with Americans is the wide prev
alence among them of the opium habit in
some form.
Of this there can be no question; the
validity of the argument is not here
considered. If one turns to India or
Turkey he will find that opium or one
Of its correlatives is the national stimu-
liant.
II will have been observed, moreover,
that the civilizations to which the con-
sumers of these powerful nervines belong
have passed their zenith; TINT up to q
certain period in their history they were
warlike, dominant, aggressive; that
they are now to all intents aud purposes
effete.