The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-25

was there. put his instructions were that
under no circumstances was the driver who
started out with it TO be sent after it. The
hveryman. who. by the way. was Lee
Hoffman, was very wyoth when be heard
what his man had done, but when, a short
time later. that individual dragged himself
in and related that his hack had been taken
away from him the stony heart warmed MP
and q reprimand was given, instead of the
discharge that had previously been decided
upon. +
Ed Rumpler. private secretary to the
general manager of the p. IL f. railroad.
tells this story of o dream that lately Wis
tied him: Il was not feeling very we'll.
and retired early, almost Immediately fall
ing to sleep. Soon after it seemed 1 was
accosted by o man who was very large.
very fat. and very familiar. He had q
huge yellow nose. that hungdown between
that belonged, he said, to his wife.
] assured him ! had no use for it, but he
said: You don't understand me; L want
You TO buy 10 for your wife-Christmas
PRESENT. At the conclusion of this explain
alton he jabbed my ear with his nose. that
was 90 cold l shivered. l told him to stand
y little way from the phone and talk. but
be would not, and kept his nose In my ear
while he jabbered on about Christmas and
the wheelbarrow. Irememberg asping out
that / had no wife as i struggled to free
myself from the monster, when l woke no.
some of the boys had dropped the cake of
soap between my pillows, one end of which
was in my ear"
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1.-THE discussion regarding the dishonoring
or debasing the soldiers monument from
the original and modern design or purpose
which brought ir into existence so success
fully accomplished by the fastening upon
Ii of the Mexican-date figures will not
down, and properly So" said DR.. W. b.
Clark. IF the desire was to go back of
the modern records and search antiquity
This should have been done earlier, es-
peoially in regard to the shape of the trib-
ute itself. and then an artistic conforming
to the proprieties created by the aesthetic
advance of the world would have resulted
pther criticisms and wrangles i have
yeen are as nothing compared
10 this one point. The monument or shaft
was among the ancients simply a sy m Dol of
the male and of male supremacy, while the
modern symbol is the arch, typical of the
union and equality of the sexes The wom-
en- of old, the monument period, were but
slaves and piaythings, while to-day, the
arch period. the hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world. Our monumental tribute
started out to assist in the naturalization
OF Indiana's defenders from the savages
and results OF secession. Did not lndiana's
women have q share in that great and
glorious work. Did not her soldiers moth
ers. wives. daughters. sister and sweethearts
participate In that struggle, and at greater
mental cost and ply steal se~lf-deniai than
did the menf And shall they not be hon.
ored In and by the monument. tool This
raises q question for the ideal and practical
artists to decide-can an arch DO built now
1t the summit capable of supporting the
much-oriticIzed statue designed as the
browning piecef liz they decide it cannot
be lone | am In favor of finishing the top
of the monument in the form of an arch.
leaving OFT that statue, so that we can
thus testify to the ages that the men of
Indiana thus early appreciated the services
OF their women and gave them equal d lace
by their sides In war and conquest as well
as in defeat and peace"
a
There has always been q superstition
terror among 9 larger portion of colored
people of being delivered over to the
dissecting table. They believe that
IL their bodies are mutilated
In that manner. even after they are cold in
death, 1t portends some great disaster in
the other world. and the greatest grief re-
suits among the friends of some luckless
person who Is so disposed of.
There Is q colored man who drives a de-
livery wagon for a certain large house who
hives In mortal terror of his lite. 1t hap
pens that he has TO load and unload his
goods Immediately under the OIL CO of an
eminent surgeon. who has q half
dozen or more of students working
with him all OF the time. OF these students
the darky has the most absolute horror.
One OF them happened to brush against
him one day. and. when be saw who nc was
he actually shIvered in his boots. He said,
and his teeth ratified az the words came
out:
Go long way from me. / knows wha,
you'se oil want Youse medical students.
an wants fer TO cut me up De boss doc.
tab upstairs toie mo So"
One of the students has a brother who
assemblies him closely. and one day the