The Indianapolis journal., 1888-07-22

Be sure, they are heard Of the next week a. com
ing back, but the emotions which arise over
their return are Of the sympathetic sort that 90
ont to those whohave been TO the gates of death,
and have nothing In common with the proper
been reveling in midsummer designations The
Shades OF Death should become the Indiana
Edsn..' or Montgomery County Paradise or,
being . Crawfordsvills adjunct, the "Litters-
teur's Retreat'-anythiug to relieve the gloom.
TIE editor Of New York paper rises to re-
mark that this is just the weather for pedes-
trianism. and advises his readers to brace up.
stretch their legs, take a tramp Of ten. fifteen,
or twenty miles. timber up their stiffened joints,
get the cobwsbs out of their brains, ETC.. etc.
The chances are nineteen TO one that IL this ed
itor lives even half way out toward Harlem he
is patron Of the elevated road at least twice
day for as many days in the
year as he is in the city, and
that he never walked down town in the whole
course of his life. The chances are equally
great that when he goes to the rural districts he
neither wears out his shoe-leather plodding
along dusty roads, nor spends his, days wander
ing through poetic green fields surrounded by
sevenfoot stake and-rider fences, or the insinu-
atine barbed-wire. There are no advocates Of
pedestrianism so ardent as the man and woman
who always ride when they 20 anywhere.
WE DO not think IL the best policy 70 import
Italians or any other nationality in body, even
though the work is such . phenomenal public
benefit as the gas trust. The importation Of
foreign gang labor will yet come homo to roost
in curses that will far outweigh the supposed
blessings. 1t may be we'll to remark again that
there ara some things too cheap, and one Of the
things is cheap labor.
Lucy STONE BLACKWELL argues that no
woman should be hanged unless condemned by
jury Of her own SEX Lucy might object to
being hanged by u male jury, but most sisters
would probably be quite as willing to have q
verdict pronounced against them by twelve hon.
est men and true as by dozen womsn-'mean,
hateful things"
DAN LAMONT says no lists Of Democratic New
York voters ever existed save those kept by
Governor Tilden. He kept them, Dan says, fol
his own amusement and it was about the only
recreation he did indulge in. Shades of all the
humorists! Think of the hilarious times that
old man must have had up at Greystone with
those lists.
THE final abolition Of slavery in Brazil was
| celebrated with great national rejoicing Fol
| fifteen days after the act took effect there wal
| public feasting throughout the empire. Eman
cipation has been accomplished peacefully, and
the former slaves are cheerfuly working TO,
wages with their old masters.
THE Springfield Republican pronounces W.
D. Howells's recently published lyrical comedy.
"a Sea Change" Infinitely fatiguing" This
is the mugwump way Of saying that the produc
| ton makes its readers very tired.
THE American people are beginning to remark
that there is great difference between speeches
that come from the brain and the heart and
those compiled from cyclopedis.
YESTERDAY was the twenty-seventh apniver
sary OF the battle of Bull Run. 1t was the day
on which the Mills bill passed the House of Rep
resentatives.
WHAT has become Of the old men who voted
| for Martin Van Buren in 1s4Ol
| To the Editor OF the Indianapolis journal:
| Please give correct pronunciation of ''Romola'
| in Sunday Journal of 22d. F. E. RAYMOND.
BRAINKRD Kan.
l. Ro-mo-lah. Accent on second syllable.
| TO the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journals
Please give the vote OF Marion county for Lin
| coin in 1864, and Garfield in $780, JE-L.
MooREsvILLE. July 20.
For Lincoln, 1882; Mcclellan. 3.4S6 Fol
| Garfield, 13. s03; Hancock 1852.