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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
A BEAR IN THE TOWER.
Bruin Captures a Switch House and Alec.
tionately Hugs a Railway Employe.
phiiadafnhia Racord

Bruin Captures a Switch-House and AfIec-
~tionately Hugs a Railway Employe.
Philadelphia Record.
A wild bear in possession of the signal
tower and running the trains on the New
York division of the Pennsylvania railroad
was the strange sight that nearly drove the
rightful occupants of the tower into fits a
few nights ago. The bear came from the
geological Garden. and the tower was that
just back of the garden, on the curve which
the railroad makes at that place. +. w.
Rose, the telegraph operator in the tower,
and Samuel Foster. an assistant yard-mas-
ter, were doing In the tower about 3o'clock
on Sunday morning, when there came a soft
pit-a-pat upon the stairs They did not no.
tice 1T, nor did they see a curly head that was
poked in at the door and looked curiously
around. Something in the inspection may
have displeased him. for suddenly the men
were awakened from their mapping by a
deep growl. Before Foster. who was lying
In a corner, could get up, the bear had put
his big paws around his neck and began to
squeeze him affectionately. The terrified
yardmaster shrieked, and the more he
shrieked the more the bear Rugged him
Foster was beginning to grow purple IN
the face. when Rose, who had recovered his
presence OF mind. started in with a broom
stick to vanquish the bear. This drew his
attention from Foster, and an instant later
Rose was enjoying a vigorous hug. The hug
lasted so long that Rose began to think his
last day had come. The hug still continued,
Wnen the men SuQoenly ememDered that
the early morning express from New York
was due, and that the signal had not been
set for it.
Give the signal to No. 12,D gasped Rose,
to his companion. Foster. who was a very
badly frightened pan, managed to crawl
from his corner and see that the signal was
properly set. Then he grasped the tele-
graph Key, and while Bruin looked on in
establishment, he startled every operator
along the line by flashing over the wires to
Broad street:
For heavens sake send assistance to No. 3
office. Grizzly bear in possession OF the tower.
Has full control of signals snd switches. Send
six men with rifles.
AS the telegraph operator sank back ex-
hausted. the bear left Foster and returned
to his first victim. He moved slowly, and
both men grasped the opportunity to Jump
over him and dash down stairs. As they
turned the key in the lock of the door at
the bottom they heard the bear thump
against it,. Rushing over to the Geological
posed the strange Visitor had ss-
capped, they yelled loudly for assist
ance. Locking back on their way they saw
Bruln In the tower trying to move the
switch-levers. A sleepy keeper was aroused
after considerable effort. and the party laid
siege to the tower. There was a pretty
struggle between keeper and bear for q
time. but the former came off victor. The
bear was led back to his pit and put in
IRONS. Foster has been off duty ever since.
and Rose still starts nervously whenever
he hears a football on the tower stairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Not until the whole rank and file of the
host of Office-hOlders are brought fully
under the civil-service regulations can the
main work OF the reform really. be said to
have been Observation-Disclosures Journal.
IT is not necessary for the government to
run the railroads. The press does not want
to see it, at least till the spoils system is
knocked out. But the people can make the
railroads run themselves, and make them
run themselves right.-New York Sun.
A CHILD is not learning the catechism
when he is learning the multiplication
table. If these two branches of knowledge
can be impaired during separate hours of
the day by one teacher, under one roof, they
can be impaired during separate hours of
the day by two teachers under two roofs.
Boston Advertiser.
THE springs of American democracy are
as pure as they ever were. There is no
plutocracy. We warn Pittsburg not to sub
NIT to pseudOcracy, not to believe in the
rule of lies n hulnbug. There are quacks,
and cranks, and liars, who pretend to be
anxious about them; and all liars are
frauds.-New York Sun.
THEY can get more satisfaction by going
to Milwaukee,. greeting their old army
friends, n passing rOusing resolutions
taking the hid off the roads for their mean
ness. than by staying at home and depriv-
ing themselves of so much pleasure and the
railroads. of a few dollars. Have the re-
union and settle with the railways after
wards.-ChicagO Tribune.
IT is this intensity of business activity,
this desire to accumulate hat is at the bot
tom of our material success as a people.
There is q push and drive about us that is
without its counterpart among the mnabi-
tants of other nations. and it is to this that
must be attributed the tremendous advance
in wealth that our country has made. as set
down in each census return.-Boston Her
aid.
Our system of popular education implies
equal advantages for all classes. and not
one pupil in ten ever gets as far as the
high-school. The day may come when we
can afford to try the experiment OF adding
to the fundamental studies; but for the
present il is certainly wiser to improve the
methods of teaching than to increase the
number of things to be taught st. Louis
Democrat.
If the Governor of Mississippi wants the
country TO believe he is in earnest let him
take hold of the citizens of his own State
who officiated at the fight-the sheriff who
was bribed at the ring, and the railroad
company which violated one of the sections,
or several IF them of the Mississippi law
books. When he does this may bo the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

THE people who have been killing Mr..
Blaine off for the past twelve years are
still at it. Mr.. Blaine was pale and in
such a physical condition that he was
likely to go out of life at any moment
quite twelve years ago, according to
these prophets of evil, and by the same
authority he is in the same fix now.
Meanwhile, the public need not worry.
1t will be time enough to mourn for Mr..
Blaine when he has shown signs of men
tai decrepitude.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

Mr.. RICHIE, a politician of Lima, O.,
and Hon. Calvin Brice's next friend, as
sures the public that Mr.. Brice is not a
candidate for senatorial honors, and
would not accept a Cabinet position
even if offered him." 1t is, perhaps,
hardly necessary to say that the rain
bow chaser's next friend must have had
a Democratic Cabinet of the dim and
distant future in mind when he made
this remark. The probability of an
offer of this kind to Calvin from the
present administration is remote. His
premature refusal of senarorship and
Cabinet portfolios has q suggestion of
immature grapes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

WE have read with care the statement
sent by Thomas j. Morgan to tho Provi-
record to which we have heretofore called
attention. We regret to find it incomplete.
New York Times.
Of course. What could be expected
from a paper that indOrsed the appoint
ment of Frank Thorn, a Buffalo ward
politician, as superintendent of the coast
survey, and pronounced that of Prof.
Mendenhall unfit to be made7 General
Morgan's vindication is as complete as
ThOrn's incompetency was apparent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

North will, admiring his pluck. seize these
them over as they desire.-Chicago Times.
MosT Socialists seek to hedge by provid-
ing some system of universal work, hut it
should be obvious that whenever subsist-
ence is assured to all. it will be demanded,
work or no work, and since in such condi-
tiOns the idle element must rapidly come to
the front, it will certainly in the end give
the tone to the system, and render all work
r%epugnant to the masses. with the prompt
effect of national bankruptcy. famine
b~rigandage, anarchy, and NAL military
despotism.-New York Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

and trying to advance the scheme so as
to head off any negotiation with the
government commissioners for opening
the outlet. Altogether, the commission
is likely to encounter a very mixed state
of affairs. 1t consists of Ex-Governor
Washburn, of Wisconsin,; Ex-Governor
Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, and Judge
Wilson. of Arkansas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

THIS is the dry season, and the New York
Commercial Advertiser is still kicking up a
dust in the effort to find out the author or
authoress of the Arthur Richmond papers.
Nobody cares a straw who wrote those pa
pers. but everybody remembers that nearly
every one fitted its subject like the paper
on the wall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

ABOUT this time of year look out for
oceans of advice on the subject of keeping
cool. The newspaper writer's have begun
on the matter already, and will keep it up
to the close of the season.; but the gist of
their talk is to keep calm. Keep perfectly
tranquil" says one. land you will be cool.
Nothing heats a man up quicker than get
ting excited or worried. Lay aside care
and trouble if you would insure comfort
and freedom from heat" The beauty of
thisa advice lies in the application of it. 1t
is SO easy to be calm when business is in q
tangle, or when business demands atten-
ton, if bills would be met and credit pre-
served, for collectors are inevitable as
death, and postpone no visits on account of
the weather. 1t is so easy to be entirely tran
quill when ones bank account isoverdrawp,
and the outgo exceedsthe income-acatastro-
phe as likely to occur in the summer as in
the winter onths. 1t is SO easy to be
serene, and therefore cool, when the family
of country friends come to town,
and expect to be shown the sights,
with the mercury at ninety in the shade.
1t is conducive to comfort of mind and
body when word comes from q distracted
maternal parent that little Johnny has gone
swimming in the river and, of course, is
drowned. Goodness follows tranquility, no
doubt, when unlimited disease gripes one 8
vitals-if tranquility can be had. A frigid
state may be secured under all these cir
cumstances. and the other thousand and
one trying complications of life in July and
August, if conditions are favorable, but
these conditions do not exist in Indianapo-
lis. The advice was never intended to APP
ply in a climate where the summer atmos-
phere rises to a furnace heat at A. NJ, and
remains there until 4 A. VI. of the day fol-
lowing. 1t is possible to be cool by being
calm in regions where the thinnest gar
ments are not a burden, and when butter
five minutes from the ice-chest is not a
liquid; but it is not possible to be cool, how
ever calm, where the perspiration oozes out
of every pore merely from the e~xertion of
walking across the street. The advice so
freely rendered is suitable for regions where
the weather is not really hot. In Indianap-
oils ii is hot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

The worlds historians in coming ages
will have no complaint to make Of the
lack OF trustworthy and circumstantial
data relating to the civil war of 1s60-65.
With a hundred OF more volumes of OFF,
cial records from which to draw their
facts, the students of the year $500 will
have a more accurate knowledge of this
wal than the school-boys of to-day have
of, say, the siege of Troy. Some of this
true history, too, will recite tales not
less thrilling and stoxies of heroism and
adventure notices. remarkable than those
related by the imaginative chroniclers
of ancient Greece There are heroes
and giants in these days, as well as in
those of Homer, but it requires times
perspective to enable the world to see
them in their proper proportions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

THE commission appointed by the
President to negotiate for the opening
of the Cherokee outlet will meet at
Tahlequah, Indian Territory, on the 27th
inst. AS the time approaches there are
indications of complications which may
retard the negotiations and possibly
prevent their success. First, there is an
important dispute as to the, ownership
of the land, or a large part of it. 1t
seems that by a treaty of 1866, the Chero-
kee Strip, amounting to about 6,0O0,O 600
acres, was ceded to the United States
government. on condition that it be used
for the settlement of friendly tribes. A
few tribes were located in the eastern
part, and the stipulated price, 40 1-2
cents an acre, was paid for these lands.
Then about 100000 acres were set
apart for the Cheyennes and Arapahoes,
the same price being paid. Two years
later the ~Cheyennes and ArapahOes
were removed from the strip to their
present reservation, west of Oklahoma.
They still claim a right to the lands in
the Cherokee Strip, for which they had
traded to the United States government
valuable lands in Kansas, and they have
retained counsel to enforce their claim.
This question of title between the In
dian tribes will have TO be settled at the
threshold of the negotiation for the
opening of the lands. Meanwhile, the
Washington authorities learn that the
Cherokees are negotiating with Il
wealthy cattle syndicate TO lease them
the entire tract for fifteen years at the
round rental of S44O,OOO a year. The
Cherokee Governor, backed by an active
Indian ring, is in favor of this lease,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

sionately fondl almost worth their weight
in gold. The Shah said never a word, but
began to put himself outside of as many of
these cholera-provokers as he could safely
do. He had buried a couple of dozen of
them, and the host and his more prominent
guests began to indulge the hope that their
turn would soon come. when his Majesty
quietly and solemnly slowed the remainder
away in his bosom and pantaloons, and left
the table literally loaded,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

enjoyment from the games, neither bet
at the close. Why should not this class
of men have as strong an influence upon
the responsibility of the game as the
smaller number of gamblers and dis
reputable hangers-on? Dr.. Keen is
too wise to denounce open-air
amusements and physical training,
but admits that christian athletics" are
allowable. Under this somewhat pecu-
liar term he classes the gy mnasium, the
Athletic Park and the holiday excursion.
Now, it is not improbable that young
men of not wholly sanctiied proclivities
may be sinful enough TO bet on the re-
suits of games in the entirely safe and
e%minently respectable limits of the
Christians Athletic Park, and youths,
not wholly free from the influence of
Satan, have been known to wager small
amounts on the length of sermons or
prayers while under the sacred church
roof; but no minister would, therefore.
close the park or the church or look upon
OiehO4 ac q COiiuptOA - Via
The truth is that, though a line must
be drawn in these matters, it should not
be one that would prevent an encour-
agement of already popular amusements
or interfere with the enjoyment of their
best features by the general public
and the consequent Improvement of
some attendant peculiarities. The saint
who in these days holds himself aloof
from the sinners not only misses a great
deal of fun, but loses opportunities to
benefit himself and his less sanity fell
low-men. Good men attend League
games of baseball, horse-races and the
like with harm to no one and often to
manifest advantage. Other equally
good men remain away; but let these
latter be careful that they do not impute
a natural Discrimination to such amuse-
mentS to righteousness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
This Thing Has Got to BE Stopped.

The capitalists of merry England are try
ing to buy up this country. We nave al
ready seen a syndicate gobbling our great
breweries with the intention of getting us
into chancery in respect to our. liquid re-
freshments, and now it is announced that
another has been formed to buy up our
fiouring-mills. This thing has got to be
stopped. First we know johnny Bull will
buy up our newspaper offices and finish by
purchasing all of our e~ighty-four seats in
the national Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

THE present school book monopoly is
the lineal successor of the school-book
ring that fattened on the people so long.
1t is, however, more vicious in principle,
and will be more damaging in its results.
1t will not take long for the people to
discover that it is a worse evil than the
old ring. Its object is to speculate in
school books at the expense of the school
system. When the people discern its
true intent and purpose they will de-
mand free textbooks and no monopO-
los
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

DOM PIATT has resigned the editor
ship Of BelfOrd's Magazine. During the
last presidential campaign this maya
zine was conducted as a distinctively
Democratic organ, and was particularly
violent in its advocacy of free trade.
Mr.. Piatt his resignation in a
card, in which he says, among other
things, that he could not honestly be-
long to either the Republican or the
Democratic party because one repre-
scented the organized greed of the coun-
try and the other the organized ignOr-
ance." By saying that the Republican
party represents "the organized greed
of the country" Dom means that it rep
resents protection. Then, what does he
mean by saying that the Democratic
party represents the organized ignor-
anceq Of course, all intelligent persons
know that to be a fact, but the question
is, what does this late editor of a Demo-
cratic magazine and ardent advocate of
free trade mean by it9 What could he
mean except what the words plainly i'm
ply, that the so-called principles of the
Democratic party are false pretenses,
and that for its existence and success it
depends entirely on the Ignorance and
prejudice of its followers?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Two Democratic Candidates.

A wing of the Democracy of Boston is
seriously thinkingOf running the champion
prize-fghter for Mayor. Appropriate. The
bruiser is an admirable representative of
the ideas which animate the aforesaid ele-
ment. 1t is too bad that kilrain is not in a
position to be run for a political something
by the p~lug-uglies of Baltimore.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Free-Trade Argumentative Points.

If a wheel comes off the wagon, OF if the
baby has the Group. the Democratic papers
hasten to proclaim that another illustration
has been given of the evils of a protective
tariff. The Buffalo Courier, for instance,
with Incompatible logic. insists that pro-
lection must be blamed because the United
States makes such a Door display at the
Paris exposition. Free trade must be hard
pressed for argumentative points.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
To Keep from Going to Work.

Marriage has become a mania with n
large class of girls, especially those earning
their own livelihood. and in its pursuit they
stop not to consider; they look neither to
the right nor to the left. Questions as TO "a
mans disposition, character, predictions,
don't bother them so long as he is pleasing
to their eye-for there is little of heart in
the matter-and so long as he will keep
them from going to work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Henry George and the Single Tax.
Touo C+ota Dnr;ofor

1t is said that Henry Georges visit to the
continent was shortened somewhat by his
daughters illness in. Paris. She had an at
tack of scarlet fever. and was q%uarantined
in an apartment for which the thrifty
Partisan landlady charged him Sl2 a day.
He is not SO much in favor of the single tax
now as he used to be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
One Monopoly VS.. Many.
South Bend Tribune

SOuth btnu IIIDunt-
So it seems we are to have neither free
school-books nor freedom from school-book
~mOnopohes. Before the law was passed wa
had many monopol:e s to deal with and got
the best school-books made. Now one
monopoly has the people of Indiana by the
throat and will cram down them the poorest
school-books in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Don't Be Too Sure.
Boston Journa

Boston Journal.
John /. Sullivan is unquestionably a big
man now-a-days-in some peoples estima-
tlon-but we are not quite prepared TO be-
lieve the report that he is to be put In the
field for Mayor by the Boston Democracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
The Shah Is Not Thin-Skinned.

PalI Mali UaZtTtt.
Something is known in England of the
Shah's conduct at table. Here is a story
bearing on this point. On one occasion the
Shah had dinner at the house of his grand
chamberlain, and o huge dish was placed
cumbers lof which the Persians are pas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Brice's Rainbow.


Chairman Brice is quite confident that
he can carry the new State of Washington
for the Democrats. Washington. il is well
to remember, was the western terminus of
the ainbo that Brice went after last fall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
An Exchange of Courtesies.

The Governor of Mississippi can say to
the Governor of Louisiana, 1T is a long
time between arrests" and the Governor
of Louisiana can say to the Governor of
Mississippi. Our theory of government is
intact.p
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
New York Injustice.


Philadelphia Press.
The grand jury of New York has indicted
a poor lone woman for being a common
scOld, while the editor of the New York
Evening Post is not even mentioned. OF
such is the irony of law!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
The Judge Has No Regrets Now.

Rochester Post-Express.
Mand Muller was fined SIS the other day
in Kansas City for being drunk on tho
street. The Judge wasn't Is kind TO Maud
as he used to be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Might Perish of Thirst.

Louisville Courier-J Journal
Prof sullivan would not die of c~onfine-
ment in a Southern prison. but he might
perish from thirst.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16

which they offer to restore to the college.
This is all right; but did Mr.. Glider and his
sister explain who took the dial from the
institution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Frec-Trade Trusts in England.

Chicago Journal.
The free-trade strikes IN England arc OK.
tending. The free-trade trusts III England
are raising prices and playing the deuce
generally.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
LONDON American Exchange In Europe. +9
Strand
P-ARIs-American Exchange In Paris. So Boulevard
des Capucines-
NEW YoRK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel
PHILADELPHIA-A- p. Kemble. 1896 Lancaster
avenue.
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINCINNATIJ. p. Hawiey & Co., l54 Vine street.
L~OUIsvILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
THIRD and Jefferson streets.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt
House-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
Prodding Them Up.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
If Congress is TO be called in October il
is time the papers were begin
annual message.