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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
COMMENT AND OPINION.

ST. JOHN is again ready to assist in political
campaigns at greatly reduced rates, but he
won't insure. Minneapolis Tribune.
If the labor party by any chance should elect
its candidates lin New York it would be power
less to do anything. unless to organize anarchy
In the city.-Brookyn Eagle.
Now that Mr.. Henry George, the great land
reformer, has accepted the nomination for Mayor
of New York, he should forthwith proceed to
''set up a few corner lots for the boys
Washington Critic
THE annual report of the Pension Bureau is
encouraging in one respect at least 1t shows
that Commissioner Black has learned, since last
year, that the official statement of public SER
want is not the place to print partisan stump
speech. Philadelphia Press
THERE is one way in which such men as Could
of Maine, and Bartholomew. of Connecticut
may yet serve the public good 1t is in this
that in their own terrible downfall and shame
they swing the red lights of warning to others
behind them in the same guilty and riskful race.
chicago Inter Ocean.
THE defaulter is not at all an ideal character.
nor is it wholesome for honest men and women
to waste sympathy on him or to look upon him
IN any way the dupe victim of Wall street,
or Of anything else than his own base, dishonest
and vicious tendencies. He is generally one of
the worst rascals, and nobody knows better than
he the inevitable outcome Of his stealings and
forgings-New York Tribune.
1T is certain that statistics. if carefully COM
piled to cover all the facts of the case. would
show that the financial and social worlds breed
vastly more cheats and swindlers who do not
than 90 wear the mask of religious profession.
Whatever may be said to the contrary by pessi-
mistic observers, the world is generally disposed
to regard the religious connection as an addi-
tional safeguard to integrity, in spite of tho
many dlsillusoning shocks which it receives
from time to time-New York Star
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

IT would be interesting to know just what
the 3, 872 Prohibitionists in Maine were voting
for. They have already put prohibition into
the statutes. They have put it into the
State Constitution. The have made it part
of the moral creed of the community. Do
they want to punish the Republican managers
for refusing to take the last step in sumptuary
legislation, namely, to make the act of drink
ing rum, wine or beer q criminal offense2
New York Sun.
The question in this State is even broader
than that in Maine In Indiana it is, what
are the majority voting for, when they
are disfranchised in advance by a redistrictng
of the legislative districts of the State in
such way that they have no possible chance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

THE Sentinel says the Journal did not print
a single line of doctor" Harrison's ode
fense." The Sentinel is mistaken. We gave
especial prominence to the following gem, and
called particular attention to it: "They say
the management is partisan, to which charge
we plead guilty If there is Republican
voter in the employ of the hospital the Board
of Trustees do not know it. AS long as this
management continues it will be strictly
Ioartisann
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

of making themselves heard. There are
$4,000 legal voters in Indiana who will have
no voice in the selection Of members of Con-
gress. The minority arrogates to itself a
majority of seventy on joint ballot in the
Legislature to be elected this fall If this is
not the greatest question that ever came up
before free people, it is hard to say what is
1t is for the voters of Indiana to say if this
iniquity is to be Endorsed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

The complaints made by Philadelphia bust
ness men of the outrageously inefficient post
al service in that city has compelled Mr.
Villas to issue an order directing the post
master to make no moro removals, except for
cause. The Postmaster general, in discuss
Ing the matter, SIMULTANEOUSLY says that he
proposes to make his administration a kindly
remembrance in the minds Of business men. II
Is great pity this happy thought had not oc-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

WHEN newspaper readers see a column headed
"Solomon's Wives" they need not think they
being served with chapter of scriptural his
tory. Such article will treat of the matrimonial
complications of disgusting little New York
actor and composer whose chief claim to pub
lie notice is the number of wives he has had and
the trouble they have caused him. AS yet he is
scarcely able to rival the ancient Solomon in
this direction but if he keeps on at the rate he
has begun and lives long enough he bids fair to
beat that worthys record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

IT is an even thing whether John E. Sulli-
van or doctor" Harrison is the new editor of
the Sentinel. There are some things that
smell Of Slullivan's butter-grease, and there
are others that indicate the Addisonian pen
Of doctor Harrison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
Correcting Mistaken Impression.

Minneapolis Tribune.
correspondent of the indianapolis Journal,
writing from Minneapolis, expresses surprise
that we are not having raw November weather
up this way. Why. bless his innocent soul.
Minnesota will be enjoying the most delightful
Indian summer when the mud Is foot deep in
Indiana and frozen to a crust on the surface.
With the exception OF few weeks of fine
sleighng In the winter, minnesota is the Italy of
America.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

WHO would have thought now, that the
calm Current" the peaceful EARN, Herd
and Home" and the innocuous Huntington
Democrat could turn out trio of such furious
and frothy editors as now put their heads
together in the Sentinel editorial columns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

THEY are a little slow down in Pennsylvania.
They had fire in village near Reading the
other day, and though the citizens dragged out
the fire apparatus and tried to quell the flames
valuable buildings were destroyed. The good
people cannot yet understand the failure of their
fire engine to meet the demands 1t was good
engine, purchased in 1907, and not at all worn by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

IT is high time the Sentinel should say
something for Bynum. It has shown its sore
place, where he kicked it, long enough. Now
let it get down to business and work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

The Sentinel is objecting to Hon. James T.
Johnston because Of bad grammar. We be-
lieve that is a standing objection to Gen. John
A. Logan on the part of those Democratic
purists who enthusiastically supported the late
"Blue Jeans" Williams, and who "try back
in their political faith to that eminent gram
marian, Andrew Jackson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
Business Resumed,
Philadelphia Press.

The genial and diplomatic Daniel Lamont has
taken down the shutters, busted off the counter
and resumed the business of directing the des-
tiny of glorious institutions at the old stand
This fully explains the winsome smile which at
present Eliminates the Goddess of Liberty's
face.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Was editor Cuttings conviction by the Mex
lean government on the charge of publishing
libel, or was it on that of circulating the libel
after pu0lished2 Respectfully, o. H.. G.
GREENCAsTLE, Ind, Sept q.
Publishing" the libel necessarily embraced
both the printing and circulating Publishing"
is not "printine"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

THE ferocious attacks made yesterday by
the Sentinel upon the Journal. civil-service
reform, and other good things indicate plainly
that the editors of that pleasing sheet let the
sun go down upon their wrath-and on Sun
7ar t,,ot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
Only Three Days Apart,

indianapolis Sentinel, Sept 27.
But in somewhat long observation of newspaper
management we believe this the first time we have
known paper claiming to be more than the merest
party tool to announce, deliberately that it is AFRAID
to print reply to article which it had previously
given currency the avowed ground that if its read
should sec it the result would be detrimental to
the party of which it was advocate organ. This
is precisely what the Sentinel does.-The Journal.
A contemplate lie in every SYLLABLE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

Mr.. o. 0. STEALEI has been sent West by
Chairman Kenna, of the congressional COM
mittee, to visit the perturbed and distracted
congressional districts. We cannot under
stand this; our understanding has been that
all was serene and lovely among the Democ-
racv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

SULLlyANs butter grease and tainted meat
have finally got in their Hateful work on our
esteemed contemporary. The reason of the
Sentinel has tottered from its throne.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
Announcements extraordinary.

On next Sunday, Oct. 3, we shall begin the
publication of new dramatzed story by Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, entitled
.THEFORTUNES OF PHILIPPAF FAIRFAX"
This will run for mum Der of weeks It is pub
.ished by special arrangement with the author,
and, so far as Indiana is concerned, can be found
only in the columns of
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
CURRENT literary note:

"Fanny Davenport's first literary effort will be
printed in the Brooklyn Magazine for October.
rs the Stage ImmoralP The magazine will be
two years old next month"
The conjunction of these two statements is
probably based on the idea that if the magazine
were older it would no. admit such easy ques-
tions to its solumns. put would ask something
hardar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

THE New York Tribune heads an article
ga Blow to Bogus Butter" We did not read
II ALL but it must have referred to the civil
service reform committees report on Sullivan
butter grease at the Indiana Insane Asylum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

WE suggest to our esteemed contemporary
chat it cannot keep so red hot all the time.
That was the deliberate conclusion of great
but now retired, journalist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

CURED to the Wisconsin gentleman before his
wholesale removals of postmasters and postal
clerks had so crippled the service that its old
time efficiency cannot be restored during his
term of office. What will he do with Indian
apolis?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
st. Johns Cheek.
Boston Journal

boston Journal
Ex-Governor ST. John has the nerve to stand
IN and make predictions respecting the result in
1885, Compared with his adamantine assurance,
the granite Of the everlasting hills is July butter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

HENRY GEORGE, since he became a candi-
date, is already denying that he has any SYM
pathy with the Golden Club, Of which he is a
member. He says he was elected unbe-
knownst to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

AN enthusiastic man in New York esti-
mates that the Grant monument fund will be
completed within fifty years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
A contemplate lie in every syllable.
Indianapolis Sentinel. Sept. "a

Indianap polls Sentinel Sept. a.
To print it would be to give further currency
to charges made by Republicans for the benefit
of the Republican party in this campaign. This
the Sentinel declines to do on the ground that
the matter is not news, and it is no business Of
this paper to befriend the Republican party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

The friends of the Sentinel editor should
send him to Paris to be treated by M. Pas
teur Such as these come not out only by
ST.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
Just Saved Himself

New York Mail and Express.
II Mr.. Cleveland had stayed ia tho woods
month longer he would have been pretty gen.
orally forgotten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

RATIoNs of raw beef are again being dis
tributed in the Office of our esteemed Demo
cratic contemporary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

A DISTINGUISHED gentleman stated that
twelve readings of the Republican temperance
plank would set man crazy. 1t is evident
that he spoke from experience
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

THE Sentinel has the blind staggers, the
hog cholera, the hydrophobia, the black
vomit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
ROOMS OF THE-

Rooms OF THE
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
CThe Hendricks Club-rooms.)
Corner Illinois Street and Kentucky Avenue.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 81, 1886.
DEAR SIR congratulate you on
receiving some of the fruits of our
grand victory of 1854. We are again
in the midst of a hotly-conducted
campaign, with the same formidable
and active party contesting our pow
er and ability to hold control of the
State. While you hold federal of
flee it is not proper to engage in pol
tiles in an offensive way, or to the
neglect of your official duties; but,
in the language of President Cleve-
land, "Individual interest and ac-
tivity in political affairs are by no
means condemned. Office-holders
are neither disfranchised nor forbid
den the exercise of political priv
leges." Your assistance and coun-
sci, to the end that a thorough or
ganization Of the party may be ac-
complished, is solicited. The pre-
ferment you now enjoy is the result
of the Democratic victory. Please
let me hear from you, and oblige,
Yours truly,
EB. HENDERSON. Chairman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

OCTOBER % is the day set for the unwilling
of the statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

THE influence of the Sabbath does not seem
to have touched the Sentinel with holy
e~lOo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28

TIE SUNDAY JOURNAL.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Foreign Equivalents for Mr."
From the London Figaro.

During the past twelvemonth slight
change has been introduced in detail of
musical criticism. The various foreign
equivalents of the prefix "Mr." have long
perplexed critics, printers and readers.
We have been expected to write about
Mr.. Mackenzie, M. Gounod. Signor Yer
dl, Herr Wagner, Senior Sarasate, Pan
Dvorak, Per Nordblom and Gospodin
Pachmann. On the Continent these dis
tinctions are entirely unknown. In Ger
many they would refer to Herr Macken-
zie, in Italy to Signor Pachminn, in
France to NJ. Wagner and so fourth.
Twelve months ago the Figaro began to
write of every male, of whatever nation
ality, as "Mr." About the same period,
or shortly afterward Gas the reform was
avowedly borrowed from abroad there is
no need to quarrel on the point of time),
the custom was adopted by the Daily Tel
egraph and the st. James Gazette, but
believe no other paper has yet made the
plunge. The thing Jared little, at first
but we seem soon to have got used to it.
In half-hearted sort of way some of US
have also adopted the prefix "Missn for
unmarried lady artists. But here we
have all stopped. Nobody, so far as /
y
| refer to Mrs. Patti, Mrs. Nilsson or Mrs.
Schumann. 1t would be perfectly logical
indeed, than to refuse the senseless pre-
fix Madam" when writing about an Ital-
ian or German lady. Abroad and partic-
ularly in France, they carry the matter
still further, and translate the titles of
works into the language Of the country
Thus III Trovatore" becomes LIE Trou-
vere," and ode Meistersinger" figures as
Lies Maitres Chanteurs de Nuremberg.
We ourselves in England do something of
the sort, and, referring to Schumann's
works, we almost invariably translate
these German titles into English. Pos
| sibly it may be deemed hopeless yet to Sc
cure some sort of uniformity in these
things. The herr, the monsieur and sig
nor will probably flourish for some time
to come, although writer's will hesitate
to commit the absurdity of trying to
popularize the prefxes 'Pan," ''Per" and
'Gospodin." But the general use of the
word "Mr." is al any rate the thin end OF
the wedge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30

and is the champion boor Of the day.
When it is employed to shut off a story
that smells of the gutter or suggests the
hog-pen we may welcome and applaud
the chestnut bells. They can not ring
too often on whatever is gross and grow
cling. But beyond that they perform no
useful service, and their effect is to check
the easy, natural current of familiar
talk. 1t may be confidently asserted that
1t is In the interests of sociability, and
of all that tends to make life cheerful and
worth living, that old stories, old jokes,
old whitticisms, and old bits of humor
should often be repeated, to the end that
they may not be lost to coming genera
tiOns.
A vast amount of the very best wit and
humor in the world is outside of written
books, passing on from mouth to mouth,
told by fathers to sons, and carried by
travellers from one country to another.
The bell fiend of the period, if he had
his way, would soon call in all the frac-
tional currency of conversation, and man
kind would lose irreparably by the oper-
alton,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Florida Mosquitoes.
Indian River Fla Sun

We have to give it up. The toughest
mosquito yarns come from down the
river. 1t is told of one of the crew of the
steamer Rockledge, that, after they got
into the inlet, when night came he went
to sleep in stateroom, the window of
which was protected by screen. He had
scarcely fallen asleep when he was awak-
ened by a sense Of suffocation-the mos
quitoes had thronged the screen and
stuck their heads into the meshes till they
had excluded every particle of air. He
frantically kicked out the screen, and now
he does not know whether he would rath-
er die of suffocatien or mosquito bites.
Another veracious statement from below
is that young man went to work for the
first time on his homestead providing
himself with good sandfiy netting bar
The first night he pitched tent, hung his
net and went to bed. For three days and
nights he did not stir. The mosquitoes
had so thickly covered his net on the out
side that it was perfectly dark inside-he
did not know when daylight came.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
STEVENSON'S PHILOSOPHY.
Result of His Experiment with a Parlor Cha

Result of His Experiment with ParlOr Chair.
First Assistant Postmaster General
StCveraOn has been accustomed to receive
al average from thirty to a hundred
callers every day. The callers nearly all
want postoffices either for themselver or
their friends-in other words, they are
office hunters. Mr.. Stevenson himself
sits on a business-iike revolving cane
bottom chair. On his right stands chair
for the visitor. It is Cor was) magnif-
Gently upholstered in leather, with luxur-
iou0 spring cushions above below, and
all around. Mr.. Stevenson, with firm
brow, and attentive ear, sits on the cane
bottom and listens, like a father of the
confessional, to the tale of the office
hunting sinner. But he does not listen
long to any one tale, except it is an ex-
traordinary one. He can draw all the
business out of a man in very short
space of time, and he never waits for
nonsense. When he has heard enough
he swings around in his chair and begins
to write.
The general impression seems to be
that the average human being will sit
more easily and will remain longer in a
soft chair than in hard one. But Mr..
tors chair was selected according to a
plan and to test theory. His desire was
that each visitor should stay as short a
time as possible. Mr.. Stevenson's theory
was that the average office hunter would
feel far less at home and far less comfort
able in a really luxuriously arm chair
than on something hard and unattractive,
like the average office hunter had been used
to. He thinks still, after long trial,
that his theory is correct. He found that
great many of his visitors completely
lost their breathing powers whenever they
sank into that chair. They. seemed sup
premely uncomfortable and anxious to
disappear somehow, and he had no diff
Guilty in Diminishing them right away. In
fact, when they went outside, they secret
" thanked him for the relief. But the
chair has been SO much used that now 1t
is sadly dilapidated. The one-sidedness
of its present condition is very striking.
You see Mr.. Stevenson's chair and the
visitors chair are slightly apart; whereas
Mr.. Stephenson and the visitor lean to-
ward each other in conversation, so that
the two heads touch or overlap. Now,
the result Of this leaning is a serious
strain on the inside of the chair-espec-
tally of the visitors chair, because the
visitor as a rule, not having the expert
ence, does not know so well how to incline
gracefully and scientifically. He stretch
IS over eagerly and awkwardly. The re-
suit is that the elbow and the springs on
the inner side of the chair are completely
broken down, and now the visitor has to
lean over whether he wants to or no. In
fact, he is thrown over. Mr.. Stevenson
is thinking now of having chair made
which will throw the visitor over 20 the
other side, the outside.