The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01

one or two he embraces after the manner O
Central Europe, In spite of the scarlet cola
that spans bis shou' ders stiffiy.
A GLIMPSE OF cAPkL
\ Russell Sage 10 introduced, probably saw
ing TO himself, LET me see what this man I
like who so fascInates the women" an,
Capel seizes him by the hand as II he were
long lost brother, probably saying to him
self, This Is the clear he AIDED boy who IA
scraped together fifty millions and has tel
millions in the bank this minute" The,
exchange some commonplace about the
occasion. when Mr.. Sage, whose hand tn,
prelste holds, says
We'll, l will take my leave and give some
body else chance to speak with you"
mo, no! My time yours. DON'T go. hav,
long waited to meet you, and wish to tall
with you more"
And the monsignar holds "Old Puts and
Calls, as Potiphars wife held Joseph. Ter
minutes later distingu ished bevy gathers
around, and Mr.. Sage manages to escape
The newcomers are Talnlage. Heber. New
ton, Governor Hill. Henry Ward Beecher
about at the same time.
Come over and see me, Capelp says Mr..
Beecher, come over any Sunday, and
preach to my folks. Come IN your canoni.
calls and preach a cool doctrinal sermon.
showing them why they should all be Ro.
man Catholics"
"You don't mean that" said The monsig.
nor, laughing and turning lighter pink.
Don't I?' answered the Plymouth church
man; Il do, though, mean every word.
Come and preach q straight Catholic SER
mon. And challenge you to recipiate with
q similar invitstiohl"
The speech was greeted with loud laugh
at the expense of the robed official who
presently protested.
But YOU know L haven't any church.
even IL wanted my people % hear YOU"
"0h, wouldn't be so hard on you and
them as that" explained the eminent pill
grim, but my invitation holds good |
shoulin't think much OF mys self IL thought
couldn't offset one Sundays talk during
the other fifty one Sundays. Come overI I'll
give YOU q splendid audien nee of intelligent
heretics, and don't believe you can do bet
teri"
Then they drifted apart Henry C. Brown.
the publisher of the Independent, the unfor-
tunate man who was expelled from Plym-
outh church for telling the truth, holds q
sort of levee across the room, and seems to
know everybody. "Gslad to see you and
Brother Beecher here!" laughed DR.. Cuyler,
as they shook hands. "0h, vesl We con.
cluded we'd Gomez retorted Brown.
Governor Albeit of New Jersey and Gov
ernOr Hoyt of Pennsylvania are chatting on
q lounge. Near them stand ex-Secretary
Window and ex- Postmaste r General Thomas
Il. James In earnest C0nfab about how to
get back, suppose. The President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the house are
both here. So are Mayor Grace and three
former mayors of this city. Roswell Smith.
OF the Century, moves about, q striking fig.
ure. There are dozen college professors,
and every Judge in the city is present dur
ing the evening. Henry Bergh, equine lau.
reate, leans against pillar near bank of
roses, his long, serious face relaxing with q
smile as he looks On the multitude and lis.
tens to the racket. Judge Brewer, of the
United States Circuit Court OF Kansas, has
come all the way to hoI or the compiler of
the common law o-night; James Parton has
come from Newburyport, and Edward Ever.
EFT Hale from Roeton; and Professor Bul,
mer, OF the law school of HALIFAX, N. g., has
travelled all this distaD ce to pay his respects
to one who, he says, has done more for the
reform of the law than any man since Jer.
envy Bentham."
A SCARCITY OF JOURNALISTS.
None of the conspicuous editors Of the city
are present except Psrke Godwin-neither
George w. Curtis, Pulitse Read nor Dana
but Hslstesd is here from Cincinnati; Ellis
Roberts from Utica; Sleicher, of the ALBANY
Troy Press, and couple from Massachusetts,
General n. P Banks Is here, looking mate
rally older than during war times-white
bristly hair, white, bristly moustsche, and
white. bristly eyebrows He stands straight
his hand is still steady and his eye still
clear, and he assures me that his general
health was never better" While we are
talking Russell Sage squeezes gently through
the crowd, bland and unweaIied, and look
Ing like "a wellto do farmer, rather than like
the A lax of Wall street. They shout a 50.
Tut, and seize each others hands,
This is the man." said General Banks to
me, who made me speaker durip those hot
weeks in lS55-that IL he did for me more
than anybody else. Every evening during
the five weeks OF that contest We were to-
gethsY. gave him carte blanche, and the
result justified. He's got head on him. I'll
he hadn't got this put and-call oraze ON him,
he would have made great politician
They both laughed, and Mr.. Sage modestly
stammeTed his thanks.
II was young fellow then" he explained.
aud that's what made me act 30, suppose
l was thirty.two-the Youngest man in that
Congress, / think; but look back at that
fight with good deal of pleasure"
During this notable evening fall in with
another notable group, talking together, and
with the ladies of the Field family in the
parlors OF the other Aouse-three gallant
Arctic explorers; Lieutenant Melville, who
was IN she Inflated Jeannette; Lieutenant
Berry, who commanded rescue expedition
in the Rogers, that was burnt in the pale
and crystic sea-" and Lieutenant Schwatks,
whose expedition experienced the greatest
cold ever recorded and who act the Ameri-
can flag on the magnetic pole Of the earth.
They are all men below middle life
Sch watka, espe oialiy, seems capable of great
endurance. He tells me that people who be-
lieve in him have subscribed $4,000 for his
ex plorstion OF Alaska. Thomas A. Ed son
is present, too; he has aimed thirty or forty
pounds in the last four or fl " years, and is
no longer the cadaverous slave of the lamp
that haunted the bucolic groves OF MEMO
Park. Colonel Long, for some years Gordon S
chief of staff in Egypt. chats with the ladies,
and expresses the opinion that If Gordon
has been KILLED it is because of his own OBJ
stinacy and anaticism, and of his constant
defiance OF orders from home.
RELIC
Another man is here tonight who is worth
meeting-an old man, eighty odd. somewhat
bowed, his hair iron gray, his face bearing
the tinge of sunny lands, his eye black but
mild and besmiDg, his head square and
solid. Yes, / remember him now, though 1
have not seen him in twenty years-Hanni-
bal Hsmlin Never great man, but always
faithful, sound headed ana honest 1 recall
myself TO him by reminding how, when be
was Vice President he went and mildly hul.
lied Professor Henry and induced him to
let Us lave the sacred hall OF the 6mithson.
ian for our sacrilegious ccurs Of anti-slavery
lectures in 1861. he remembered ii. .Rut,