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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
My Guardian Angel.

When L forget this mortal house of clay,
In which the spirit swells, sometimes feel
The mists and shadows fade and float away,
And some sweet presence slowly, softly steal
And mingle with my soul in sweet appeal,
Inviting to realm to spirits known,
A realm that's free from every sordid care
Ny guardian angel leads my spirit there
And there reign, king upon throne,
My kingdom happiness, my scepter love;-
All thus to soar all earthly joys above,
To know sorrow pang of fearS-
Dear guardian angel watching DER my soul,
Thou hast my life within thy own control.
Sometimes the way is dark, the shadows deep.
My heartstrings ache, touched by the hand of PAIN
I sometimes sigh--ah, God! sometimes weep
In sorrows song sing the sad refrain,
But even when murmer and complain,
Ny angel stealing softly to my side,
Bids me to hope and through life's'rifted cloud,
To see the future fair with joys endowed,
And pleasure flow, through an impeded tide.
beauteous stream that runs among sweet flowers
Until some cloud of sorrow darkly lowers
And every aspiration doth enshroud.
Sweet Guardian Angel, all my steps attend
Through grief and JOY be with to the end.
FRANKToN. Ind. April 80, 1856. Calvin Goss
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09

syracuse StanuaTu.
A barber can no more comb the hair as the
customer wants it than rich man can enter the
kingdom of heaven. A thousand times while
waiting my turn in the shop where my titivating
is done, have | watched my predecessors in the
reclining chairs go through the operation and be
turned out spick and span, redoent of bergamot,
shining with the fat of the bear and powdered
like babies, but never in all my experience since
my ambrosial locks were long enough to
cut or my beard has felt the edge of the
razor have l once seen head combed on other
than the approved fashion OF the barber shop
came out of the hands of the hair-dresser the
shape which it went in. Most gentlemen have
their peculiarities about the arrangement of
their hair, the parting Of it, the disposal of the
bang. the manipulation of the earlocks. Bar
bers have an instructive antipathy, however for
these whimsical notions, and, unless forced to
do otherwise, insist on exercising their own ge-
MUS for hirsute ornamentation on every victim
with a towel tucked under his chin. Oddly
enough. the BARRIERS do not lead off in the vari-
changes which noted to take place on the
heads of fashionable men. Tailors and like out
filters dictate to their customers what they shall
put on. The barber, however, who bears the
pack horse's load in the Identification of man
kind, has combed hair just as he does now since
bag wigs and the pompadour went out of style.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
FRED DOUGLASS AT HOME.
The Venerable, Historic Colored Statesman
and His White Wife.
Washington Letter


Washington Letter.
Very few white men in a warm climate have
as good home as Frederick Douglass. He does
not inhabit mere house, he lives in a respect
able mansion. Having been industrious and
methodical man, aware of the value of money,
he has saved his earnings whether procured by
authorship, or lecturing, or manual labor
Office holding, and his residence at Anacostia or
Uniontown, is the best house there 1t COM
mands a beautiful view of the city of Washing
ton, and of the broad rivers which form the
boundaries of Washington and meet at
its Arsenal Point Under his eye lies
the whole city, the monument, the
dome of the Capitol, the navy yard, near
and far buildings and the rolling blue
heights of Maryland and Virginia. In the rear
of the house is good large stable, and the out
buildings show attention to comfort and even
luxury. I might suppose that this property, as
it stands in no particularly stylish portion of
Washington City, was worth $4,000 or $l5, 900.
The house itself is rather of the Southern char
acter built, think, of brick or stone, with q
door in the middle and porch in front, and
pediment over the middle of the edihce Ring
ing the door-bell woman of brown tint came to
the door and said Mr.. Douglass was within. We
entered and hung our hats and coats upon the
hat-rack and turned to the right. The house con-
sists perhaps, of four rooms On this lower or
main floor, with no less number of rooms above.
To the left of the hall is the paror proper, and
behind that is Mr. Dougass's library. To the
right is the sitting-room; l suppose the dining
room may be behind it.
The old gentleman whose age, think, is sew
enty-six, received Us both with mixture of
Christian kindness and pleasant dignity. which
made me think, as / sat near him for some time,
that he looked like the King of Madagascar or
some land we have dimly heard of where the
white mans intercourse has not propagated selp
fishness and greed He is large man. cast in
the mold Of a man Of command and affairs; his
hair is now of grayish white, and is carefully
cOrnhad and worn somawhat long IL falls hack
upon his broad shoulders. His forehead lie not
very high nor yet very prominent, but rather
subordinate to the general health in his face and
body. He has long nose, slightly rstrcusse,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09

but with nostrils open and taking in things His
shin and jaws are rather firm, and as he speaks
he rather inhales and smiles aud thus conveys
something of an impression of nervous earnest
ness. Although he is onehalf white the colored
portion of him is probably the most vigorous ele-
ment His eye is dark and cleaning, and be-
speaks another and hotter land
When entered the house with Mr. Gorham
he introduced us carefully to the different per-
sons there-guite little party. We had gone
to him without invitation, and therefore
broke in his ordinary Sunday family circle.
There were three white ladies present, one of
whom was Mrs Douglass. The other ladies
heard the conversation, smiled affably, but made
few no remarks. Mrs Douglass is lady Of
tall form, we'll made, but neither stout nor thin.
Her complexion is a little reddish. She gives
you the idea somewhat of woman who has
been the matron or superintendent of some
the principal part. She dresses herself
plainly and modestly, and in the inter-
course of the family shows the subordi-
nation of younger person to her hus-
band. She speaks of him "Mr. Doug
lass" watches and hears what he says with
careful respect, and we had been talking to him.
perhaps fifteen minutes before she made any re-
marks, when, in some matter of the "Reminiscences
of his slave life. she called his attention to an
interesting matter he had omitted. Further on
she sad Gentlemen, as you are friends OF Mr.
Douglass, will you let me have your autographs"
and led the way to his library She has hair OF
dark brown tint, ard there is mixture of the
New England woman and the Western woman
about her. which gives you the idea of the wife
of some man whose purposes are above mere
comfort but who had executed and nearly fin
ished his mission. He did not say much to her
in the talk. The other white ladies present
were rear the middle age, and, | suppose, might
be relatives of Mrs Douglass. A handsome
granddaughter of the exmarshal was there,
with soft eyes and soft, warmly tinted face,
very neatly dressed After we had been wait
ing half an hour, she said that she had to drive
to Mount Pleasant in her little phaeton, and
came up and kissed her grandmother, and her
daughter, as l supposed it was, also came up and
kissed him reverenty The old man now has
four living generations about him His library
would be quite a creditable one for the editor of
a newspaper, or ordinary literary man. All over
his house are the indications of gratitude to the
white men who supported the cause of the
African race-Garrison. and Lundy and Thad-
deus Stevens, and Sumner, and others occupy
places on the wall The house is as carefully
furnished, and is fully as respectable any
white mans home 1t is remarkable exhibit
ton of our comparatively new times that right
at the city Of Washington, in the midst of fine
landscapes should have come to settle this
man, who more than fifty years ago, with his
life in his hand, undertook to establish himself
and procure some OF the benefits of civilization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
Training Fleas,


A flea circus, composed of about two hundred
OF the most distinguished and intelligent feas in
the entire family was exhibiteda few years ago.
Who first discovered that the flea was suscep-
thle to education and kind treatment is not
know; but the fact remains that on their small
heads there is thinking cap capable of accom-
plishing great results. In the selection of feas
for training. however, the same care must be
taken with human beings as the greatest diff
ference is found in them. Some are exceedingly
apt scholars, while others can never learn, and
so it is that great numbers of f1eas expert
mented with before a troupe is accepted.
One of the first lessons taught the flea is to
control its jumping powers, for if its great leaps
should be taken in the middle Of the perform
ance there would be a sudden ending to the cir
Gus. TO insure against such misfortune the
student flea is first placed in glass phial, and
encouraged to jump as much as possible. Every
leap here made brings the polished head of the
flea against the glass, hurting the insect back,
and throwing it this way and that, until, after a
long and sorry experience, and perhaps many
headaches, 1t makes up its mind never to unfold
its legs suddenly again. When it has proved
this by refusing to jump in the open air. the
first and most important lesson is complete, and
it joins the troupe. and Is daily harnessed and
trained. until, finally, it is pronounced ready to
go on the stage or in the ring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
New York Fashions in Architecture.


Not only do the figures of the present year
show great increase over those for a CORE
spending period of last year, in point of numbers,
but they show handsome increase in the esti-
mated cost as we'll The favorite style of arch-
lecture for private dwellings seems to be the
Queen Anne, Gothic and Moresque. Stone is be-
ginning to supersede brick, and the once popular
tile trimmings are making way for the less
expensive and in many particulars moro
ornate embellishments of terra Gotta.
Some few of the buildings
under way will have entire fronts of terra Gotta
Hard woods are again coming into favor for in
terror trimmings, cocobola wood being extern
sively used The old-style open freplaces are
also being made feature in the buildings in
tended for private residences while in the fiat
and tenement-houses a system of hot-air heating
is to be introduced not only in the halls, but in
the rooms. From the plans file at the
Bureau of Buildings 1t is estimated that the work
done in 1885 will be exceeded by that of the pres
emit year by at least 10 per cent, and will keep
carpenters. masons plumbers and others in the
building trades busy until long after winter has
set in.
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and awful that could not bear It. CROPPED
about the chimney jams, and succeeded in get
ting some pieces Of fat pine, which ignited with
a match. By the light tore many more pieces
from the wooden chimney, and so kept up a
blaze near which I crouched if not in fear, at
least in utter discomfort. / realized fully the
loneliness of my situation and the strange will
derness with which was surrounded. nor could
weird disjointed links of the La Fleur legend.
Suddenly 1 knew where I was. Why
had I not thought of it before? This
was La Fleur place. The old negro pshaw!
/ shook myself and glanced at the shutterless
doorway in which the backness was wavering
like a funeral curtain. Far and near vague aud
throbbing sounds formed strange undertone to
to the hideous noise of the storm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
HoSAHands May Be Kept Soft and White.

Good Housekeeping.
woman whose pretty hands are being ruined
by washing in hard water writes to ask rem
edy. Water can be easily softened with few
drops of ammonia, or, what is better, small
piece of lump borax. Warm water, into which
enough borax has been dissolved to make the
water feel little slippery when pressed between
the thumb and finger, is very good for washing
the hands. Hands kept dirty are never
smooth and white. Absolute clean
illness lie necessary Many people who do not
work wash their hands but seldom. The days ac-
emulation of dirt is allowed to remain on the
hands all night Upon rising the hands are
washed in cold water. The possessor wonders
why, when she does work. her hands do not
look any better if as WELL as her chambermaid's.
The hands should always be washed in warm
soap suds before going to bed. White soaps are
safest Highly-s, ID and colored soaps are
almost invariabl ,de from rancid and ill
smelling fats. ne hands are thoroughly
dried use a few IS of mixed glycerine and
camphor, which .-e druggist can prepare for
you. Drop into the palm of the hand, and rub
on the hands. This will be all that will be nec-
essary to show decided improvement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
Dandelion-Time.

When countless beauteous stars of gold
Spring vigils keep
What grief is mine--beneath the mold
Thou Hest asleep.
But as their flmy spirits rise
In heavenward quest,
What Joy is mine--beyond the skies
Thy soul hath rest
Poet of the Waste Bas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
A Great Society problena.

New York Nell and Express.
.sOught we to visit themf" will be social
conundrum at Newport this season, for--isn't 1T
awfull--some people have rented cottagf there
who do not belong to our seal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09

HE Satilla. or, as it is sometimes called
the Sautilla river, is dark. narrow
stream, flowing with many loops and
fantastic serpentine turns, through the
luxuriant woods and vast cane brakes
of southeastern Georgia. Even now the
couptrv known aa the Satiila region is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09

inspiring. Now puff Of wind, laden with that
damp foretaste Of the shower, so welcome at
ether times, rustled through the foliage. then
rafting thunderclap tumbled across the clouds,
and heard the rain coming rhythmically over
the tops of the distant trees.
drove my canoe along, as if impelled by the
storm and it was while going at bird fight speed
| that whisked past a low, decaying cabin near
| the river bank. The glimpse was like flash,
| but in the low doorway of the cabin saw an old
| negro man sitting in a listless attitude.
| checked my flight at once. and, turning my
| canoe about pulled back and went ashore glad
enough to ask shelter l barely had time to
| haul my canoe up high and dry on the bank and
walk to the cabin door before there fell heavy
dash of rain. The old negro had disappeared
| from the doorway, nor was he anywhere to be
seen when went in I looked about expecting
to find him crouching in corner, but ne was
gone Indeed, upon q careful scrutiny, the in
terror of the cabin showed no sign that human
being had been in it at any time for years past
The floor was soft vegetable mold in which no
footprints, save my own, appeared, no nre nad
| burned in the rude chimney place since some OF
| the upper sticks of the fiue had fallen in and
| slowly ratified upon the hearth, nor was there
any bed, or what could serve for one, in the
sunken and musty place.
The room appeared to be wing surviving the
wreck of large, low cabin, traces of whose 9TH
!, er rooms numbered the ground hard by. This
| single apartment had been made of what is
called fat pine logs and covered with boards of
| the same, hence its superior longevity. 1t was
a damp mouldy. eyil-smelling place, but the
roof fairly shed the pouring rain and the walls
| withstood the believing wind.
| was so glad to find shelter that at FIRST gave
little thought to the strange. disappearance of
| the old negro. but when presently despite the
/ noise of the storm, heard that indescribable
stroke sound, my imagination caught up the
| legend fragments again and busted itself with
/ the mysterious knife
How that rain raved and dashed over the de-
| crepit cabin Soon, too soon 1t was night. and
] still the torrents fell The gloom was so dense
The Indiana State sentinel., 1886-01-06
The Neurology of 1885.

Death played sad havoc in the ranks of
American celebrities during the year just
ended, while in Europe the number of illus
triOus personageS who surrendered 10 the
universal enemy was mutually small. The
name of Ulysses ). Grant, hero of the great
est war in history and twice President of
the United States, was the most notable con-
tTibutiOn made by this country, or indeed
by the world, to the neurology OF 1855.
Many other persons who played conspicuous
parts in II bloody drama of 1S6l-5 bore
him company in his descent to the tomb,
among them George j. McC elan, the or
ganiZer and first commander of the Army of
the Potomac: General Irwin McDowell:
Robert TOombs, the brainieSt and most bril-
liant of the Southern fire eaters" and
an irrecOncilable to the last. and Jacob
Thompson, who shared with Jefferson Davis
the notOriety of being the best hated at the
North OF ali Confederate leaders. From the
walks of craftsmanship Thomas A. Hen
bricks, Vice President of the United States;
Schuyler Colfax, one of his predecessors in
the same office; B. Gratz Brown. of Missouri,
and Ex-Governor Gilbert C.. Walker, of Vir-
ginia, were taken by the grim messenger.
The dread summons was served al the man.
siODs of the rich as well as the humble abodes
OF the poor, and William H. Vanderbilt, Ex-
Senator William Sharon, and Commodore
Garrison departed hence, leaving their mil
lions behind them. Among the other emil
nent Americans who joined the innumer-
able caravan during the year were Cardinal
McCloskey, Richard Grant White the Shaks-
pearean scholar, and John Mccullough, the
actor.
The name of Victor Hugo-poet, novelist.
playwright, lifelong foe OF tyranny and des-
potism-heads 2urope's death roll for the
year. Alfonso MI. of Spain, youngest of
Continental monarchs-by accident of birth
a king, by nature dullard; Field Marshal
Baron Won Manteuffel, the sturdy German
soldier; Marshal SerranO, the greatest of
Spanish Generals; Admiral Courbet, OF
France, who sought glory and found grave
in Tonquin; Cardinal McCabe, for many
years the chief dignitary of the Catholic
Church in Ireland, and Edmund About, the
French journalist and literator, are the most
notable of the other names on the list.
A more remarkable man than many of
those above mentioned-who, on a broader
stage and with a different environment,
would doubtless have taken a high place
among the great of the earth-was Barrios,
the Guatemalan Dictator, who perished in
battle last spring, victim to his ambitious
project of uniting the Central American
States under one Government
The Indiana State sentinel., 1886-01-06
RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE AND
INCIDENT.

Louisville, KY, wants Moody to come
there in January.
Nineteen Jesuite missionaries recently left
Marseilles, France, for Kiang Nan, China.
The Church of England in the last forty
years has expended $500. .OOO, 900 in building
and restoring churches.
The pastors in Washington have united to
assist the authorities in the enforcement of
the laws. especially the Sunday laws.
The latest notable conversion in Christian
ity Is that of a Chinese princess. The ladys
ame is Princess Kung and she is reported
a. having gone so far as 10 burn her Budd-
hist books
Never probably in the history of New
York, il is said, were so many churches
open daily through the week, for the
special purpose of giving practical relig-
iOus instruction to the people, as at the pres
ent time.
American evangelists have remarkable
success in England, perhaps on the principle
that "a prophet is not without honor save
IN his own country" Mr. +. II. Hammond,
formerly OF Brooklyn, converted 620 persons
by single sermon.
Bishop Whipple isout in an earnest appeal
in behalf Of the Chippewa Indians against
the attempt on the part of white people to
steal their lands. He says: "All the talk
about the danger from Indian massacre by
pine rings is dust to blind the eyes of Chris
tian men TO robbery"
Six hundred and ninety-one lay readers
are reported as licensed for work bv Episcopal
bishops during the past year. North Csro-
lima has the largest number. 81; Michigan
comes next with AZ, then Central New York
with -. and Colorado with -. and western
Michigan wit 36. Indiana and Iowa have
each 80.
In some parts Of the United States and
throughout Canada generally Presbyterian
ism is known 20 be very strong. In some OF
the provinces it is four 70 one of any other
denomination, and in some of the towns and
townships there is no other church Glas-
eov il naturally strongly Presbyterian, but
its sBorDous imported population has ere
afed diversity in the matter of religion
There are many Catholic churches in Glas-
gov. several Episeopalian churches. as well
The Indiana State sentinel., 1886-01-06

M Mast - aDotbeSgrsat Presbyterian center.
Eo1Dbuseh. however, - IN a very emphaLit
sense the home Oh PresbyteriaBism. 10 IS the
most Presbyterian city in the world. Ont Of
its 1S1 churches not fewer than ia are Pres
byterian. -
The New York Bible society, the only 90
eiety whose sole work isto distribute the
Bible IN the city OF New York, circulated
last year rs COG copies Of the holy scriptures,
OF which ,057 were in public institutions
churches, Sunday schools, and families.
49,979 among immigrants arriving, and l2,-
$50 were placed in q $50 vessels at that port.
I'm sorry" observed the parishioner,
that can't pay my pewrent this quarter"
I'm sorry, too, Mr.. Jones'" returned tho
clergyman; 81 presume you lost your money
gambling in stocksY' NO. 1 can't saw that
| did" Then in speculating in oil?' NO.
To tell the truth. / did not. / attended
yonr church fair the other evening and got
IOped into lottery" oh"
The first diocese of the Episcopal church
in America was Connecticut. 1t is allowab lie
therefore, for the Episcopal organs 10 rejoice
in the fact that Rev. DIR. Barnett. of that
diocese completed lately his semi-centeD-
NAL pastorship. Although the late Dr.
Brown, of Newburg, had completed fifty
three years of pasiorship before an acci-
dent killed him, the Rev. Mr.. Anderson is
probably about as old minister as there is
IN the Protestant Episcopal church.
Perhaps the revision of the Bible was I'M
necessary, after all. The historian is i'm
pelled TO this reflection by sage reD X
which was uttered in his hearing in street
car the other day. On the opposite side of
the car were two women, who were talking
rather loudly. Said one, "Did you know
Sarah had had another lot of money left her
by her cousins will?'' Law, mel ex-
claimed the other, 1.-The Bible never said
truer thing than "them that has gits!''
The simplicity of the words of Jesus is like
that of water aad air. The little child
breathes the air, and quenches his thirst with
the water But when we analyze air we find
IL 10 he a complex substance, and when we
analyZe water we find it to be also a complex
substance. So we may eat and drink the
words of Jesus. and be fed by them; yet
when we study them we find a depth of
meaning which makes them''of an inexhaust-
ible interest TO the imagination and the un-
derstanding. So the simplicity of Christ's
doctrine is not Iheagre simplicity, on the
surface of our thought, to be fully compre-
hended in moment, but deep. complex,
and far reaching.-J. Freeman Clarke.