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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-13

Its somewhat fantastical arrangement
of streets, have heard it said, was for the
purpose of facilitating by its diagonals
entrance and exit. and also to promote
ventilation but though Indianapolis has
had its times of imitation. 1t has still
lallen behind Chicago, whose wind has
proved to be better. The circle is said
10 be half q mile north of the center OF
the state and a mile east OF it, the more
exact center of the state being too near
White river. Three squares were set
apart for public uses, for the state house,
for an academy and for the court house,
besides two market spaces and military
reserve. The only park allowed was the
circle, which, being in the center and the
point toward which the diagonals con-
Verged, may have been designed as a part
of the yentilating system, the winds from
the four corners meeting there and Gre
ating celestial airshaft.
The proceeds of the rest of the lots were
10 be applied to the erection Of public
buildings; and accordingly the state house,
the governors house. with the treasurer
Office and residence were erected with
those funds.
At the time the location was made the
whole country for forty miles around was
dense forest except few bald spots; nor
were there any considerable settlements
nearer than fifty miles, but at once families
began to move in.
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The first sale of lots was held in October,
1921, and 81 were sold, amounting to
E35.596. The highest price paid was $500
for the first lot on the north side of Wash
lngton-st. west OF the court house square.
About fifty families were already upon the
ground. and although there was not an Ok
lahoma nor a Cherokee strip excitement
upon the occasion there was q good time
which the participants always enjoyed de-
scribing afterward.
Covered wagons. tents and even the
shelter of trees were availed of till cabins
could be erected. 1t was in beautiful Oc-
tober weather. when game was plenty.
With nuts, persimmons, pawpaws and an
abundance of food obtainable in the near
settlements the first families enjoyed a
veritable picnic or camp-meeting They
were cheered and sustained by worthy
motives, for patriotic and Christian pur-
poses burned in their bosoms, and some
were even so daring as to express the con-
viction that there might some dav be city
pn the ground of not less than twenty-five
thousand inhabitants
The names of the first settlers of the vi
cinity-the Messrs Pogue, Mccormick,
Harding Dunning. Nanblaricum and Nc
1lvaine, and the descendants of other fam
flies OF early settlers, Messrs COe, Hender-
Eon, Blake, Ray, Yandes, Bates, Morris,
Owens, Merrill, Scudder, Fletcher, Walpole.
Foote, Rowland, with others many of
whom it was my happiness TO know, are
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-13
"DE PINT Wild" OLD PETE.
An Original View of Patriotism and
Hohor.

Upon the hurricane deck of one of our
gunboats, an elderly darkey, with very
philosophical and retrospective cast of
countenance, squatted on his bundle toast
ing his shins against the chimney and
apparently plunged into a state of pro-
that he belonged to the Ninth Illinois,
one OF the most gsllantly behaved and
heavy losing regiments at the Ft Donald
son battle, began to interrogate him upon
the subject.
Were you in the fight?"
Had a little taste OF it, sa.'
'Stood your ground, did your"
NO, sa l runs"
"Run at the first fire, did your"
Yes So, and would have run soona,
had | know q it was comm"
"Why, that wasn't very creditable to
your courage"
"Massa, dat isn't my line, sa cookin's
my profeshun."
''Well, but have you no regard for your
reputation"
yah. yah; regulations muffin to me
by the side of life
"Do you consider your life worth more
than other people's?'
Its worth more to me, sa."
"Then you must value it very highly?"
ayes, sa, l does more dan all dis world
more dan a million OBJ dollars, sa; for
what would dat be to man wild de bref
out of him? Self-preservation am de first
law wild me-"
'But why should you act upon differ
ent rule from other menu"
Because different men set different
values upon their lives; mine is not in de
market"
"But if you lost it, you would have the
satisfaction OF knowing that you died for
your country"
"What satisfaction would dat be to me
when de power oh feelin' was gomez"
Then patriotism and honor are moth
ing to your"
Muffin whatever, sa regard them as
among the vanities."
"If our soldiers were like you, traitors
might have broken up the government
without resistance"
eyes. sa; dar would hab been no help
for it."
''Do you think any of your company
would have missed you if you had been
killed ?"
Maybe not, sa a dead white man
amt much use, yer know. let alone dead
nigga, but I'd miss myself, and dat was de
pint wild me-"
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had to make Walter pair of pants and
didn't get the time. Whenever we are
looking for her to come and stay all day.
and she doesn't come, mamma always
knows that she had to stay at home and
make pants.
[ guess my other aunt doesn't like me,
because whenever her children do any
thing that is bad she always tells me that
that is Just the way l did when l was lit
tie. She saws "her girls are out and out
Robinsons every inch Of them, and she
acts like l was personally to blame. She
allows her children to play where they
please, and 60 and come as they wish;
and 1 asked her one day if she wasn't
afraid they'd get hurt some time; but she
answered mighty quick that she guessed
the Lord would take care OF them. L
didn't say ANYTHING back, but L thought to
myself that If I expected the Lord to take
care of my children that | would be .atrald
he would take them up to live with Him
so He could watch them.
There is something else feel bad about
sometimes, but not very often; because II
look pretty to my own papa and mamma,
/ don't care whether other people think L
am or not. Still, if l ever grow up TO be
woman, l am not going to say to little
girls mamma, right before that little girl,
that j think her boy is so much prettler
than her little girl.
But haven't told you my greatest trial
yet. / know something my mother doesn't
know, and | promised l wouldn't tell.
Did you ever hear of a man that ate child
rem that didn't obey when spoken TO?
Well, one day when / displayed a reluc-
lance to 60 for Uncle Jim's slippers, which
he wished me 20 bring from upstairs, he
told me in a solemn manner that L must
be careful how behaved that way before
Uncle Jess, because he had eaten little
girl once, and her name was Mary Smith.
YES" said Uncle Jess, "she was the
daughter of a clergyman-a beautiful
GIRL"
But" said Uncle Jim, "she had one
fault-she was not obedient."
'Did both OF you know her, Uncle Jim?"
asked.
"Yes," said Uncle Jess, I'VE boarded
we had to eat herw
Bones and ALL" said Uncle jim; land
all her own fault, too. But. of course, you
must understand that il wouldn't be right
for you to speak of this to any one"
NO" said Uncle Jess, never But we
can count on your affection for US to
shield our regulations, and you know we
were really not to blame. If she had been
obedient we should never have been
tempted to eat her"
"Hush-sh-" said Uncle Jim; "your
mother is coming" and placing his finger
on his lips. be added: "But remember
Mary Smith"
In fear and trembling l left the room,
and. indeed, the knowledge of their crime
seems to weigh heavier on my mind than
on theirs. If | am ever inclined to be
naughty, and, especially disobedient, all
l need to check me in the downward
career is look from Uncle Jim, or the
solemn voice of Uncle Jess, that calls to
mind the tate OF little Mary Smith.
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to Madison required another day,
with a stop over at night at q
hotel. after which another day brought us
by the newly opened Madison & Indian
apolis railroad to our desired haven. But
we didn'tthen mind slow journeys. or as the
pioneer grandmother put it: when we
came West we were two weeks on the
journey, and we learned something; but
now people make the trip in twenty-four
hours and are as big fools when they get
here as when they started"
Our household goods were still longer
en- route, so that from our setting out 1t
was a full month before we were settled
down in our hired cottage on L. Market-st.
Now, how would it be possible TO get
into the head of a citizen of indianapolis
OF the present day, who enjoys the con-
venience of one hundred and twenty pas
senger trains daily with graveled turn
pixies in every direction, opening all the
doors of the world to him. the difference
between now and then? Then there was
one railroad to the Ohio river, laid with
fiat bar rails, and in all other directions
only a two-horse hack, once or twice q
week, with a good chance to walk and
carry rail to pry the hack out OF the
mud. But in summer the "dirt roads"
were very pleasant for private convey
ances, and the writer has ridden to Michi-
gan City, TerTe Haute and other points
far and near i'll the state, on professional
duty, on horseback and could imagine
nothing pleasanter or more desirable.
Probably we filled out our measure of
duty then quite as usefully and as accept
ably as our more favored successors do
now. The fact is, our helps are suited to
our needs, and herein appears the perfec-
ton of the providential government that
is over us. The six-months' old chicken
may look back to his she'll and wonder
how he could ever have got along in ii,
and it would be very foolish to attempt to
crowd him back into 1t again; but the
shell was better for the embryo than a
hen coop of marble or cedar would have
been. The one hundred and twenty pas
senger trains day have not made fewer
human heart aches and can do little to
cure them. Mans chief good is above the
highest high water mark his material ad-
vantages have ever reached, and vet every
one, however comparatively poor in ad-
vantages, may reach it if he will put up
his hand. One thing more let me say as
to facilities of transit and transmission Of
news. We were undisturbed by evil It'd
ings if we did not get all the good news as
soon as it happened. We did not care,
either. that all the driftwood of the world
should be thrown in upon our newly dis
covered shores: and having reached our
land OF promise we did not want to get
away again in hurry; we were content to
abide. Could all the facts be made TO APP
pear | think it would be shown that In
dlanapolis has never been the goal of
empty adventures: so that those, once
locating there, have struck their roots so
deeply as to remain into succeeding gem
erations, GEORGE NJ. MAXWELL.
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The Trial. of n small Girl.'

BY Emma VI. Cox in the y. Y LedgerI
was christened in a respectable man.
ner. and my name written in the bible
with due solemnity and awe; but doubt
now if one of the relatives could tell YOU
what it was without first consulting the
family record and running down the list
under births. Ii had had no name, and
then they had called me "MuHet," l
should not have feltso badly about it; but
to be the proud pOssessor of two such titles
as CLARA" and Louise" and to have such
lovely names forsaken by everybody, is
dreadful. My uncles oven shorten it 10
"Muh' sometimes and they say it was all
because of my early literary taste.
1t is a tradition in our family. firmly be-
lieved by the older members and espe-
cialy by two young uncles of mine, who
told my mother, in my hearing, one day.
that they would willingly swear to 1T in
any court of justice) that / was fond OF
being read to at a strikingly early age and
was remarkably partial to the rhymes of
q certain Mother Goose" and the pathetic
tale of Little Miss Muifet and the Spi-
der" in particular, and which | called Tor
increasingly, my demand being made
upon any one of them without regard to
age, sex or condition; neither did ] con-
slider the convenience or comfort of the
aforesaid family.
AS advanced in wears, being possessed
of a good memory, could repeat the story
of Miss Muffet' in q manner, twas said
that would bring tears to the ewes of an
audience, and so ever after | had to an
swer TO the call of "Mufiet" or not at all
for knew the name of CLARA Louise" no
more.
1 sometimes wonder, if l should die.
would they place the name of "Muffet"
on my tombstone? | believe, il am ever
so sick that fear / may die, l shall make
a will, and leave as my last request that
they think of me forever more as Clara
Louise.
am still fond of reading; of course I
am Old enough to read for myself now,
but | have a brother younger than | am,
whose tastes are not literary. He chooses
that shall be his companion at all times.
and wants me to be his horse to gallon
around the house and be frisky, while
prefer to play the part of his mother, and
graciously send him out to amuse himself,
while | seek q shady nook and bury N.Y.
self in the pages of my book
We have some cousins we play with
sometimes. and also have some aunts.
love one OF my aunt5 very much, but she
has so many pairs of pants TO make she
doesn't have much time TO love me anv.
She only has five boys, and she makes all
their clothes. and whenever 90 there she
is always making pants. She said, the
other day, that she had intended to make
something nice for my birthday. but she
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all the proof need to adduce of the state
ment that indianapolis had foundations
laid OF precious stones. Il was accord
ingIy also one OF the most natural things
IN the world that the immigration to the
new city should be of a like quality as the
first settlers; and when in 1924 the public
Dfhces Of the state were removed from
Corydon TO Indianapolis and the seat of
the government fully established N Is
new home the growth OF the town really
began, and many of the best citizens of
the state made it their residence. Such
was the seed corn cast into the virgin soil
from which city has sprung blest by in
felligence, good order and morality to a
degree that makes it one of the
most charming of our American cities.
It is now over forty years ago since first
saw Indianapolis and took steps to make
IL my home. | cannot but think it may
interest many to have their memories of
those times refreshed, and that to others
who were then too young to be actors it
may be profitable to learn something of
the former times.
How different all the means of commu-
nication were forty years ago. My ex-
perience in moving nv family 70 Indiana
illustrates this. With my wife and two
children took passage by steamboat from
Marietta, o., to Cincinnati, which occupied
the best Of two days. Reaching Cincinnati
(the time being December), we found the
river frozen below, which compelled a
stay OF two weeks in Cincinnati before a
boat left for Madison. The trip
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-13
Chenper in Tn. End.
N. Y. Weekly

tthI4sI
Boutton-sSo you are not going to
housekeeping when you get married."
De Boarder-"No. We shall take board
for year"
isn't that rather an extrsvagant way to
begin?"
''Not at all. 1 desire my wife to study
economy of my landlady. Then we will
start housekeeping and | will make her an
allowance of as much week as we paid
for board"
What do you think will be the re-
sult?n
well. by the time we are old she
ought to have about a million"
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What is

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No. 4, 035-TranRpOsition.
TEntered for Prize

Entered Tor Prize.
T'It is said that once each year the clustered
maids of Italy gather the choisest summer flowers,
and, moving in slow procession before the convent
gate TO the gentle tOlng of the convent bell, pass
them to their friends, who wait without, in token
that they still live and do not forget them.'l
A treasured picture hangs in memorY's halls,
OF convent gray with lapse Of many years;
With ivy clinging to its towering walls.
Al! cleaning bright with Natures morning tears,
While slowly forth. with soft aud measured tread,
Serene and calm. OF earth's ambitions shorn,
Come clustered maids their carly mathis said,
To pluck the rose and greet the g!adsOme morn.
Then, later. gathered at the convent gate.
All garlanded by them with summers flowers,
With throbbing they silent stand and wait
The presence longed for through the summer
hours.
The convent bell has struck the welcome hour,
One moment nr0 to earth may now b given!
Each trembling hand presents one fragrant flower
To him OF her best loved next unto heaven.
Then, fearless. Love with folded hands moves on,
Glad thus of memories fond to mutely tell,
And all the watchers by the gate have gone.
Content she loving lives and so remembers we'll.
And thus each year doth many a convent maid.
With but q single rose of fragrance rare
Give silent token-for no words are said
That truest love may be an unVoiced prayer.
r. o. CHESTER
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He Didn't Laugh.
IN. Y. Week..

Strauger-"Tou are the only gentleman
in the ROOM"
Guest-"In what way, sir ?"
Stranger-"Whe I tripped in the
dance and went sprawling on the floor.
tearing my fair partners dress, you were
the only one in the room who did not
laugh"
Guest 1.-THE lady is my wife and l paid
for the dress"
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An In.ultea Alderman.

n. y WeeSIyI
Contractor-"Did you offer that alder
man 500 as l directed"
Secretary-''Y es, SIR"
''How did he act?"
ole looked insulted."
"What did he say?"
''He said l ought to be in the peniten-
tiary."
what did he do?"
'He took the money"
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The Detective Umbrslla.

Customer-"Lookee here The first
time / used this miserablv cheap umbrella
l bought of you the black dye soaked out
and dropped all over me-"
Dealer-"Mein frient that was our new
patent self-detective umbrella. If anyone
should steal that you'd know him by his
clothes
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tStreet & Smiths Good Newsl
Winks-"There's a man who worked
for ssreet car company for forty years
Now he is too old to work, but the com
pany pays him a living income right
along"
Minks (emphatically) 81 don't believe
it."
Wlnks (calmly)-"He is one of the
stockholders"
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Feed AID Fed.

[street Smiths Good News
Teacher-"What tense is feed?"
Boy-"Present tense"
Teacher-"What tense is fed?"
Boy-"Past tense"
Teacher-"Correct. Give an example"
Boy-"After the man feed the waiter he
got fed"
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Tho Bank TelIer's Dream.

N Y. Weeky.l
st. Peter-"You were a bank-telier,
were you not?"
New Arrival-"Pes, st. Peter"
st. Peter-"Well. people are arriving
here by the million billion from all the
inhabited planets in the universe Just
trot around among them and hunt up
somebody to identity you"
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Rather stale Bread.

Mrs. Slimdiet-"Tbe boarders are COM
ing in. Cut the bread Matilda"
Miss Slimdiet-"Ma, saw in O society
paper today that bread should be broken,
not cut"
Mrs. Slimdiet-"That's the style now,
eh? Very well. Where's the ak ?"
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Saving a Drowning Man.

N. Y. Weekly
Magistrate-"You are accused of strik-
ing drowning man fatal blow with a
hammer"
Prisoner-"Oi was tryin' save his loife,
y'r honor. Sure didn't Oh schwim out to
help himP"
"But you took hammer along and
killed him with it.
"Yis, sor. II We don't kill 'em they'll
grab we livery tonne, y'r honor"
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No. 4,O33-ChRrnde.

No. 4,O33-ChRrnde.
Entered for Prize
With horse and cart, in shade aud sun,
Drove out a man and brother,
But presently he lost a one,
And then he lost the other.
When this befell he looked about
To find blanksmith's shop,
For though his cart was rhO.e, no doubt,
He thought it time to stop.
Twas wholly oned, but none the tiro
He started on again.
And as his ones he turned to view
Seemed tempted to complain.
'At this rate shall need fund
Like ROmanoG or Guelph,
And II my cart will not stay oned
Twill make me Oned myself" NJ. c. S.
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Plenty Of Hama.

IotrteI q oinIIHF good NeWs.
Mrs. De Flatte-"The janitor won't let
the children step into the hall moment.
You told me the children would have
plenty OF range"
Agent (St Famlie Flats -"Y The
range is in the kitchen"
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washed ner Hands.
Tstreet & Smiths Good News.l

Mistress Where is the spoon with
which you mixed this pudding"
New Girl mixed it wild me hands,
num-"
Mistress = 'Humph! hope you
washed them"
New Glrl-"Yea, indeed, mum; had
to. They was all stuck up wild puddin'."