The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

NEW YORK. Feb. z, 1ss5.-Mgr. Capel I
sponded few nights since at public di
ner, to the toast, The Press" In upps
tendon rosewood msnteIpieces are all Ii
rage, and where marble has hitherto bee
used the painters art is brought to bear
produce the impression tina the marble
rosewood. These facts, or. as the averae
writer would say. these real facts" gu
gest to me tina. we are living in an age
sham, pretence and veneer. Precisely wb
Mgr. Capel, who, If am thing. is q eri
should be called upon to respond to such
toast, and, above all, why he should unde
take to answer such a call, Is neither hel
nor there, and precisely why people VIII
have expensive marble mantels should pair
them to resemble comparatively inexpensiy
wood msntels is neither here nor there
but that this great world in which we liv
should be ashamed OF It's natural cuticle, an
should seek q veneer utterly foreign to il
normal covering. isn't only here and there
but everywhere, matter of significance t
every honest man and every honest woman
The prisons OF the United States are fulle
TODAY than eyer. We have in New York
prisons more men charged with murder
maaslaughter. burglary and baser crimes
than has been the case since the first eharte
was given to New York. Such | believe U
be the fact from Ma ne to Florida and from
Cape Cod to San Francisco.
Why is it?
Well, let's look at it for moment. what
utn n
no. Do they steal for the love of it? think
not. Is it because they are too lazy TO work
Possibly, in individual instances, that is Q
fact. but not as q generality. Shakespeare
or Milton, or Job, or st. Paul, or somebod ,
says man is prone to sin as the sparks to tiy
upward" but don't believe that is a fact
The average man is good fellow. He doesn't
banker after sin; he tries well enough to
a Jat gently along the stream of time, with
an occasional eddy of self indulgence, bal
as rule he follows the course of nature
marries, has children. supports them, dies
aud. having lived 30 reputably that he de
serves decent funeral, is entitled ID the
eulogistic sermon given him by the parish
priest.
There are illustrations of the contrary de
of course, but they prove the ex
ception. A man who from his birth il
crooked is regarded as uncanny. He isn't q
natural development; he is different from
his fellows. and when his difference has be-
come 30 great as to attract the attention oil
the law, he is pounced upon and carried to 9
public depository, designed for such a he
Therefore, it seems to me there must be
some ether reason, some other cause, for this
reaching out for veneer. Veneer is abnor
NAL. Therefore the cause OF such an effect
must be abnormal
YOUNG MAN COMES TO NEW YORK
from the country, and the first thing that
strikes him isn't the beauty of other people
clothes, not the elegance Of his com panion' :
attire, but his own rusty boots, his own
mittens his own cap. They seem out Of
place. They strike him as being odd, and If
there is anything we'll balanced man dis
likes it is oddly, or anything which attracts
to him special attenti So he, without
apiDg of his fellows determines
uniquenesses as make him a marked man
His first step in that direction confronts him
with expense, and great expenditure which
Is, as rule, incommensurate with his in
come. Ninety nine men in every hundred
seek advice. The hundredth man, who may
be the first, but one in the hundred, is strong
enough to rely upon his own common sense
and judgment and discretion, while the
other ninety. nine seek counsel and advice.
and suck from the sturdiness OF a conspicu.
Gus leader the virility lacking in their own
composition. They learn that there are
WAYS and means and devices by which u n
earned money can be obtained and spent
They are not 30 anxious about the way.
and means and devices by which
that spent money can subse
quently be honestly obtained They get the
money. 1t may be by borrowing. possibly
hu tod Of IN
anticipation of wages due or salary to come
they innocently thinking of their cap snC
Goa, and mittens and rusty boots only, no
at all of the necessity of meeting the obligs
ton when it falls due. Once in that current
the Lord help him, the devil won't! Once il
the bands of the usursr, q man is settled
We strong men of experience sitting in tn,
am phitneatre of observation, looking dowr
upon the cauldron of kalei ioscopic human
ity. seething and boiling and twisting car
judge of the idiocy of the individual mem
bers OF midnight revelry, but the po dev
lis who are In it, who with masks lifteC
from their face and turned upon the scalI
OF dissipation kick their heels in cancan hur
random, are unable to see as clearly as W,
who look through the opera glass of crit
cism. OF course you and never got caugh
in any such little operation as this, but
there are men, many men, the majority o
u1eu. VINO are tO-Ody living DevOuQ tQel
means. AFFECT slaves to the one fellow in
hundred who said mo- to himself, ao(
yes" to them only when they paid hin
well for his affirmative response.
Come with me down town. We have hat
hard times here during the past year, and
tell you that brokers who IN other day
luuched upon birds and bottles. aad ven
home, each In his individual coupe. presld
ing a /. his family dinner in the dress coat o
sffiuence, waited upon by the butler OF pros
perity, new consider themselves fortunate
they can MUNICH the humble cracker of
free lunch, washed down with the unsavor
beer of CONT narrative penury. Coupes to rid
up town I'M Not much. Even a cheap ca
is hey ond the reach of the average broker.
Come farther up town wlth.me, so far a. a
elevated road station. Who are these il
soiled array, this innumersble throng? 70
can End them, night and day, waiting f.
the grateful song of "6ve-cent fare" Me
who used to be rich, men who used to spen
from $40 to $25 every day in luncheons an
cigars men to whom S. was no more tina
fiye-cents to the average reader OF the Bosto
Hearld actually stand upon the stairs OF tn
elevated road, waiting until the ticket
the box is turned from ten to i've, aud hui
dreds of them walk, ostensibly Tor the
health and the diste nsion OF their chest, BIZ
it is really for their pocket and the repressio
OF their expense. Well, now,
LET'S GIT LITTLE FARTHER UP
Let Us enter the charmed circle; let's 90 b
hind the brown stone front. In other da,