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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
OUR YOUNG FOLKS
The Rrookts Story


Through the broad and level meadow
Flows a modst little brook.
Hiding meath the bending grasses
AS II winds from nook TO nook.
On its banks our barefoot Willie,
All absorbed in busy play,
Tosses leaves upon the water.
Tries 10 make them sail away.
Now impatient at its slowness,
he exclaims. You lazy brook.
When you've work 10 do why l.DgeI
LILY thus in every nookf
Gould you only see the stresmlet
Dasntng down y0n mountain side,
1 am sure the sight would shame you,
II you've got speck of pride"
Then the brook found tongue 10 answer.
strange TO you my word may seem,
Yet It's true. though now more useful,
am that same mountain stream.
"Ths ugh my destiny, the ocean,
Calls me onward night and day,
Yet my mission centers chiefly
In the good done on the way
Rocky lodges do not need me,
SO hasten on with speed,
Til reach this fertile meadow,
Whose green heritage must feed.
Little boy. these words remember,
True wherever shines the sun,
Rarely find we noisy hustle
Where the grandest work is done"
Golden Day
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
oh. Had l Known.

If had thought SO soon s0e would have died,
He said. 1 had teen ten1erer in my speech,
had moment fingered at her side.
And held her ere she passed beyond my
reach,
II had thous ht so soon she would have died.
That day she looked up with her startled eyes,
Like some hurt creature where the woods a.
deep:
With kisses had stilled those breaking signs,
With kisses closed those eye ids into sleep.
That day she looked up with her startled eyes.
Oh had known she would have died 0 soon,
Love had not wasted on barren land,
Love like those rivers under torIid noon
Lost on the dessert, poured out on the and
Oh had known she would have dieo so soon
Harriet Prescott Spoford.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

upon her slluvial delta. and the proud.
deep Gulf of Mexico, like q monarch bowl at
feast. pours the rushing lIbstions at her
feet | strain my aching eyes 10
each vision of the far of from tie rs trough
which the great Father OF Waters rolls on
his majestic Fl ood 10 t1rb;d grandeur: bat it
is too far for the vision Of msn. I exhaust
horizon after hOrzor, and yet the end ls not
| see every Leaning nil that cones laughing
down the mountains, pointing its way, lad
en- with all agriculture can create or COM
merce can ask for, toward your city. Hills
as far distant from each other as midnight
from sunrise pay their tribute of bright va.
tiers to the oceans eldest born, whose last
deep tones of inland music roll like the
muffied drums of solemn pageant in the
ear of this vast city.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
TIE PARTING HOUR.
BY EDWARD POLLOCK.

there IL something IN the parting hour
VII chiil lhe varmest heart
sets kindred. comrades, lovers, friends,
Are fsted ell to part
but this I've seen-snd many psng
~ pressed IL on my mind
mat the one who goes IL happier
man those he leaves behind.
No matter where the journey be.
Adventurous, dangerous, far
40 The wild deep of bleak frontier.
10 solitude or war
Sill something cneers the heart that dAres
In AL of human Kind.
Anu tneJ who 10 are happier
Than these they leave behind
The bride goes TO the bridegrooms home
with doubling and with tears,
But does not Hope ber rainbow spread
Across her cloudy fesrsT
Alasi the mother who remains,
What com fort can she ind.
But this-the gone f. happier
fn Than one she leaves behind.
Have ysu q friend a comrade dearf
AID old and valued friendT
Be sure your term OF sweet conc0urse
At1ength will have an endi
And when you part as part you VIII
take IL not unkind
IL be who goes IL happier
Than you he leaves behind
God wills IL so-and so Ii is
The pilgrims on their way,
Though weak and worn, more cheerful are
Than all the rest who stay.
And when at last, poor man, subdued.
Lies down to death resigned.
May ne not be happier far
Than those he leaves behindl
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

Is IL parting with the roundness
OF the smoothly moulded cheer
Is IL losing from the dimples
Hall the flashing Joy they speakg
Ii IL fading OF the lustre
From the wsvy golden hairf
Is IL finding on the forehead
Craven lines OF thought and careg
Is IL dropping-as the rose-leaves
Drop their sweetness. over-blown-
Household names that once were oearer.
More familiar than our ownf
Ii IL meeting on the pathway
Faces strange and glances cold,
while the soul with moan aud shiver
Whispers sadly. Growing oldG'
On the gradual sloping pathway.
AS the passing years decline
Cleans a golden love light. falling
Far from upper heights divine;
And the shadows from inst brightness
Wrap them softly in their fold
Who unto celestial " hiteness
Walk, by WAY OF growing old"
Margaret ssnester
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
No Messages Taken.

"Do all boys who die go directly to
Heaven" asked sick little Joe of his
motter.
al hope So"
"They don't have to stay in the ground
long time and perhaps go to an awful bad
placer
"Wby, no, Joe; little boys are not sinful
enough ior such punishment, even if there
is any such thing"
"Then they go right no to the sky?'
"Yes, Joe; but don't talk about such
things"
Ibid Freddie Amison, who died last week
90 to Heanen. mother"
"Why certainly, my child"
"WelI, mother, if / die right off you
needn't send any word to Freddie, for
probably shan't see him, and IL do shan
feel like talking to him, for the last time we
went to school he said you was an old
blowhard, and thumbed his nose at you,
and i told him | shouldn't speak to him any
more"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
Mamtt's Eloquence

S,me years ago the Rev. John Newland
Mafitt delivered an address on the occasion
of the laying of the corner stone of q Metho-
dist church In New Orleans. A correspond
emit quotes as he says, from memory the toll
10 wing passages. which struck him Is being
surprisingly eloquent:
Such is New Orleans the city within
whose swelling circuit of benevolencs now
stand. The din OF commerce rolls along
these streets by night and by day as the
voice Of many waters. She sits as the queen
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
tGrace Greenwood.

Many years ago there suddenly burst upon
the Western world magnificent stranger
from foreign parts, with all his travelling
glories on. 1t was the great comet of 1858,
on the grand tour of the universe.
One pleasant Saturday afternoon during
the comets appearance an aeronaut, after
pros porous voyage. descended upon q farm
in the neighborhood of q large market town
in one of our Western States. He was soon
surrounded by curious group c I the farmers
family and laborers. ali asking eager qestions
about the voyage and the management Of
the balloon. That secured by an anchor
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

A very little girl, who is also a very noisy
one, asked her mother the other day with al
a child's simplicity:
Mamma, when little girls die they go to
Heaven, don't they2"
"Yes, dear" replied the mother.
And don't they have wings and white
robes"
yes"
"And crowns?"
"Yes."
"And harps3 Do they have hsrps:'
Eyes, DEAR"
Then, after long, meditative pause, in q
very solemn manner, will they let them
play the harpsY
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
THE HOME.

lt IS nc. doubted thst pen have home In tha
place where each one has established hls heartf
sno the sum OF his possession and fortunes
whence be will not depart If nothing calls hin
away whence II ne has departed be seems 70 be
"snderer and If he returns he ceases 10 wander
Condition from Civil Law.
Then stay at home. my heart, and rest,
The bird Is safest IN the nest;
Ger all that futter their wings and az,
hawk is lowering in the sky"
-Ionp fellow
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
A Scientific Boy.
Popular Science Monthly. I

Popular Science Monthly.
Sir David Brewster was born at Jedburgh,
Scotland, December IL, Ills. His father
was rector of the grammar-scho0l, and q
teacher OF considerable reputation, whom
neighboIhood fame characterized as 1.-The
best Latin scholar and the quickest temper
in Scotland" but he was kindly withal. 1t
was intended that David sho1ld become q
minister, and he was sent to the University
OF Edinburgh, to be educated with view
to that profession, when only twelve years
old. His taste had, however. even before
this time, turned into another direction. 1t
is recorded of his earlier school-days that,
though he was never seen to pore over his
books like the other boys, he always had his
lessons kept by prominent place In his
classes, and was frequently applied to by
his fellow puDils for assistance. And 1t was
In the days of his childhood that dilapi-
dated pane of glass in an upper window of
his fathers house produced the inquiring
thoughts which led him atterward to search
into the mysteries of refrscted light"
He had become acquainted with James
Veitch, of Inchbonny half q mile FROM Jed
burgh, whom Sir Walter Scott has mentio ned
rs self-taught philosopher, astronomer and
mathematician. Veitch was q plow-maker
by trade, but was well versed in astronom-
ical calculations and observations having
been the first discoverer of the great comet
of 1911, and was in his most congenial pur.
suit when he was making telescopes, a work
to which he brought much mechanical skill
and scientific accuracy. His scientific
workshop, on the Jedburgh turn pike, be-
came a gathering place for all the young
men OF intelligence in the neighborhO0d,
most of them being In training for the min
istry. for medicine and other liberal pur-
suits. They had lessons in mathematics and
mechanics, but especially in the favorite
science OF astronomy. The telescopes were
tested in the daytime by the eyes
of the birds perching on the topmost branch
es of the King of the Wood a noble relic of
the past forest days, about half mile from
Inchbonny. When the bright spark lie of the
birds eve was distinctly visible by day,
James Veitch's specula and lenses ere con.
sidered fit TO show the glories of the sky by
night. David was the very youngest" says
his daughter, Mrs. Gordon, from whose book
we borrow our anecdotes, ''of the quaint and
varied group. When he began his visit /
do not know, bat we find that at the age of
ten he finished the construction OF a tele-
scope at Inchbonny, which had engaged his
attic ton at a very early period. and at
which he worked iudefstigabiy, visiting the
workshop daily, and often remaining TIL the
dark hours OF midnight to zee the starry
wonders and test the power of the telescopes
they had been making"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08

Bobby begged his mamma to buy him a
drum.
l were to buy drum grandpa might not
like II very we'll"
THAT wouldn't make any difference,
mamma" Bobby argued, ''cos you see, the
drum amt for grandpa; it's for me-"
This conversation occurred good many
years ago. and Bobby, who is now a man
is practicing law successfully in Philsdel-
phia.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
An Ice-Yacht Race.
TSt. Nicholas. I


There is roar and rush behind them
What next?
The down train The boys look over their
shoulders as the big black monster shoots
past. The whistle blows sharply; there are
handkerchief waving from the windows
The ice yacht is just now holding nearly
across the river.
"A race a race. boysp cries skipper
as he gives a quick turn of his baud, and
with sheer and spring they are off after
the train.
Now the race the race, boysl Steam
against wind How they fly Everything
is urred ard melted together aud indis
tinct. The Ice is all a oluish white haze,
with that diamond sparkle from the run
ners blazing up.
THE windows of the train are filed with
heads; they seem 10 shout at the party Cd
the ice yacht who hear only the rush and
roar of the wind and The runners. The wind
increases; the boat rears higher; the wind
ward runner cuts tiercely through the air, and
the crashed ice fies in shower Almost w
with the train, now; and creeping on
will the wind hold? But never fear;
this is no flaw, but a steady gale. 1t seems
| as If the black train were slowing up; yet
10 1t is the yacht which is flying faster
literally on the wings of the wind. And
nova crack In the ice ahead
the skipper raises himself and scans the
ice with eagle eye. An old hand at Ice yacht
ing is be.
1--WE can do it, think he says.
Now, brave 'Rodina.' And the train
| sees the crack, too; the cars seem alive all
their long length with heads and gestures
and warning shouts Do they think every
body Is asleep there IN that light, fl wing
| feathery wanderer?
The upper edge OF the crack is higher by
full six inches than the lower; and between
swirls the black. treacherous water. They
are upon it.
'Whiz!-Splash!-as the edge.ice says and
the runner catches the cold tide. There is
wild, tremulous swing and sway, toss OF
the windward runner, and the crack is far
sstern. How the train cheersi And look
now, the black, snor ting engine falls behind
Wind against steaml Give them three
cheers, boys, and swing your caps. and hold
fast while you are about it. The track Is
clear ahead; the locomotive whistles and
snorts and shouts in wild salute to the
yachts victory. Faster,-faster,-till there
is only the ring of the runners, the roa, and
rush Of the wind, the trembIe and leap and
swing and sway of the waywsrd craft
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-28
WHAT GOING on TO-DAY.

Trial OF Ferdinand Ward, IL n. m. ~, ,
Board OF Estimate and AppOrt'onmeht Cily Ai'l' II
American Academy of Medicine, No. IL West Thirty
Archdeacon Farrar on Browning, Chickering Hail. s
p. , ,,, ~ n, We. r,,on+v
Young Mems Republican Club No. Il west twenty
Textile Microscopic Association, Metropolitan HOTEL
Board of Trade aud Transportation, Bryant Building
3p. nj. -, ,,.,,ou. ,to,rono,i,a,
Opera House. y. M. 49,, ,-,...
Meetings Of Dock Fire and Aqueduct Commits Sioners
Aldcrnen's Committee Railways City Han, noon
Consultation Club, No. Ga Madison-ave., p. m -
Centennial services in Fourth Presbyterian Church
u. IN. ~. t,.,o,.o,
Trotting races, North Hudson Driving Park, Hoboken
p. a.. ,t.,.o p,s
saic n. j., p. III.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-28
rr1rLyG pARAEEINE 0N M ORELISK.

The space around the Obelisl< in Central Park
was closed the public yesterday. WorEmcn were busy
within the Enclosure erecting ~cafodlng around the
tail granite column. Thi. work viii occupy several
DAYS the Ohcsk j. about seventy feet high, anu tree
tiers OF ScsOldng have to be raised ana placed together
reach summit. on this frame work the men VIII
staud while applying coating OF paraiuc 10 the granite
to prevent further disiutcgraon OF the stone From
the OF the O5ck the side OF the shaft facing the
east seems have been little Affected 10y tue weather
the old Egyptian inscriptions stand out as clearly as
though cut only few years ago. on the north ana
south siScs OF shaft the stone Il badly wcAhcrwOrn
and the side great portion OF the Inscriptions
have dcfJccd that II would DO impossible 10
make them ont this side the face or the stone ~
scaling and pieces have been continually falling to tho
ground. Most OF this wearing away hal taken place be-
fore the Obeisk brought to this country bat during
the last year the effects OF the cndt" on thc
granite had been growing marked. The cold rains which
n tile pores Of the stone aud then Freeze have been
most destructive, and In the sPras shower Of small
scales wOui be swept upat the base oI the Obcsk every
week. There Is also deep assure through the bottom
OF the shaft. go
Ia applying the plrlnlne a charcoal furnace VIII be
used the surface OF tue stone, and tue melted
paraiiue Will be while the stone - warm. iaraihnc
is the resduum OF petroleum. II has white waNy AZ
pcarance and l. said to be almost indestructibe. \
coating of IL warranted 90 project the stone twcuty
wears IL Is absorbed to depth 81 from OneciEth 10 "a
sixteenth Of incl and nils the pores so That water
surface OF tc stone Us from rubber
Iortion OF the Ob'i-k wh' re there AZ" 10
inscriptions FIRST coated with par1uc 10 ascertain
il effect ON the stone The only result appears to DO IL
bringing out the color of the granite more distinctly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-28
pLA1sANrEeIE WINS rnE cAMBRIDGEsnIRE.

LONDON. Oct. 27.-Ihc great race Tor the
Cambria ge.hire Stakes run to-day at the Newma'
ket Iioughton meeting. It by H. Bouy's three
ycar-od chestnut My PlaiSanere. Palsantcric was
the winner OF the Cesarcwch Stakes at Newmarket on
October -. she is by Welngonia out OF Pocess and
was bred France. H. I. Barclays hvcycar old brown
endSo In second and the Duke OF Beanforts
four ycar-od gray colt Eastern Emperor third.
The betting before the start Plasantere to l.
BeEdlgo II to !, Eastern Emperor II to |, St Garn
to Isohar ami Pzlrro to /, Barpcrnc to !. Port
nelan - TO |, CpOliua ~ to !, Prism, Ihcbas lac
General and Cstha 10 to /, Duke OF Richmond, Clo-
Ghetto The Sailor Prince. The Condor and COEort 30 to
l. Chairman. MddlcthOrpc. Belinda. kunnymcdc. DcS-
pair aud Fumcn 100 to kicrccnc 200 to l, Dss 300
10 /. RcLny 800 to /.
The starters numerous that considerable
trouble was experienced In getting thom away. After
throo attempts, however. good start made, with
Duke OF Richmond and Thchais leading slightly. Pass
ing the red post Pzarro had Tie lead Plasanrrc did
not show In front until about 300 yards from home,
when she shot ont aud crossed the limo an easy winner
by two lengths. Eastern Emperor finished only head
behind BcudigO. St. Gaticn. faVOrlte IN the betting,
came In fourth. The remainder OF the field pulled up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-28
cU,pGrD WIN R0HpIyG 4 rOsr OFFICE.

lanes Farncy, an cx-cnnvict, who has also
been known James Farley. ana as John Roberts, was
arrested yesterday bY lusI co Byrnea- detectives ana
turned over United States authorities Post once
INSPECTOR Newcomo took the prisoner before Commits
siocr Shields and he was held for cAtradiioh Oh tue
testimony Of Postmaster Clarke OF Birmiugh Conn.,
under an Indictment found In th" United states Court
in Hartford Farney Ia said 10 have been one oi the
burglars who robbed the post Office at New-MllfOrd
Conn In May, 1883 Four members OF the gang charged
with tie commission or the burglary are
serving terms Of mpris that charge In Con
nccticut Three others III prison In this state
on various charges. Farncy was arrested ~ January
ISsf In Brooklyn, on a criminal charge aud was scu
fenced TO one years imprisonment At that time he
identified by spcctOr NcwcUme and postmaster CLARKE
and pretended to give them some Information. From
hints which no dropped at that time the officers were
led To believe that lie knew about post office burglary
IL Annapo- Nd, and they put on the track o the
Johnny Dohps pauE who were aftcrwarl Indicted
for the Auuapois robbery and recently arrested In
Massachusetts for carrying burglars tools. Farncy
served his term for the brooklyn offence aud
leused the knowledge of tho post Oce officials.
Inspector Byrnes, some OF whose men knew Farney
promised . look out for him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-28
BEGINNING WORK AT FLOOD ROCK.


Many engineers who have visited Flood Rock
.ince the explosion shake their heads in doubt.
They look at the big pieces of rock visible at low
tide aud remark that if they know ANYTHING 1t Will
take the biggest kin of dredge to lift those out OF
nlace One piece on the southern end OF the island
must weigh seventy eighty tons If 1t IS ten feet
deep and it may be double that size. they say
that under water the work is in all probability
more thoroughly done. and that under the upper
she'll where the most trouble is anticipated the
rock will lie found much more thoroughly pulver-
lied Ii is believed that the GOVERNMENT engineers
also are Just IA little bit Disappointed as to the
result. They expected surface blasting to be
necessary, but uCt to great an extent as the
present prospect renders ITObabe. On the other
hand il is known that General Newton did not put
in as much dynamite persons interested IN
the matter wished, for the good reason that lie
mnch preferred that the explosion should fal! a
little short OF tie desired result than to have It
entirely successful at the risk OF scattering the
fragments over Harlem and Astoria.
The bid OF tie Atlantic Dredging Company Tor
removing 10000 tons of the rock is 20 cents ton
less than the lowest contract price paid Tor tho
removal of the fragments of HallctS Reef. on VIII en-
they had two contracts. This would seem to ndi-
cate their entire faith in the completeness Of the
work done at Flood Rock. Whether that faith IS
well founded only be decided after their con
tract has been carried out; The Government drcdge
has been mt work ever the Nigro Head Tor q week,
and no blasting has been necessary. This was
generally acknowledged to be one of the worst parts
of the reef and the least affected by the explosion
Tie northern end was especially well broken mp,
as the shell THU and the rock SEAM: 10 he
Atlantic Dredging Company Twill begin work this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-28
ANOTHER FIFTH AVENUE STAGE soREME

Articles Of incorporation were fled or Mon
tsy by "a company organized /" TO run omnibusrS on
Fithave. and elsewhere in New-York CITY," The iu-
corp0TatOrs are Charles T.. Lawyer, William {. Mtlln,
Francis J. Arend. George g. Crosby, Charles L. Work
has nothing do with the company for whose orGdu
zation Mr. Ely-GoddaTd and T.. NJ. Earle have been
working vigorously. Mr.. Earle when asked yester.
day connection existed between the new scheme and
lis company, denied all knowledge OF the former
and characterized 1t as strike" Nobody seems TO
know who rcorpOrators OF the new company are or
what ptal is back OF them Mr. Real Is president oil
tne DE Laval Separator Company at No 1876 Chambers
81. Mr.. Vernon has an otice ut No. Nassau-si aud
was formerly the general passenger and ticket agent OF
the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad AZ that time
the road called the ST. Louis Alton and erre lante
Mr. Crosby is member Of the Consolidated Mining and
Petroleum Exchange Mr.. Vernon, who mas been active
in organizing the company, refuses TO tell what
its capital is to be, who the officers until the
papers core from Albany ana tho company has a
e GieO existence. Mr.. Real willing to that his
enterprise had connection either with that OF Mr..
Ey-Goddaid or with the railroad scheme. 1t was pro-
posed TO run line OF palace omnibuses doubie-deck
ers in Fifh-ave., from Washington square 70 Fifty
ninth.st These oBihuses he said, 20 attain the
highest speed possible and be fitted with every possible
convenience II Mr.. ElyGOddards company should de-
sire 90 join the new organization MI Real thought mat
terms might be arranged. lie dlGnt know what would
hapnen II both companies should pursue their courses
iudepencently but supposed that the Aldermen would
have 10 decide between the two.