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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
THE REFORM OF THE SALOON.

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A Prohibition organ in Ohio SCUM the
alarm that a combination has been formed
in that State which is to be known as the
Ohio Saloon Keepers Trust Association,
with a cash capital of sos, OOO, 600, the avowed
object of which is to elevate the retail
liquor business by abolishing the lower
class of saloons. and to run the politics of
the State. The organ, which seems to be
in the secrets Of the trust, goes on to say
that the plan of the association is to buy
out two-thirds of the retail dealers and to
pay the larger saloon keepers who may re-
fuse to sell a percentage if they will not
the association. if the organ is correctly
informed, is that no one shall engage here
after in the saloon business without the
permission of the syndicate. All this is to
be done in order to raise the standard of the
saloon In public estimation, to the end that
it may nave a better social standing. Its
promoters declare that unless the grog-
gerieS and dives are shut off the business
VIII go 10 the dogs because OF the growing
hostility of the people, or, as the organ puts
1t. the respectable saloon keeper rebels
against the social stigma which the promi-
nence of the low-down groggery has placed
upon the trade and all who are in it, Ths
Prohibition organ is very hostile to this
movement, which. 1t will strike many in
telligent people, has much to commend 1t.
In a recent article the New York Evening
Post says hat when it is considered that
for thousands of people the saloon in the
large city is the only place where the poor
man can meet other men and listen to con-
versation on current topics and hear public
topics discussed there must be a DISPOSE
ton to agree with Rev. DR.. Rainsford in
his opinion that the best thing philanthropy
enlist it's influence on the side Of sobriety
and good manners. Bonfort's Wine and
Spirit Circular, commenting on the editorial
Of the Post, makes the surprising state
ment that "a large number, probably a ma
jority, of liquor dealers, are already en-
listed on the side of order, sobriety and
good manners"
There are many thousands of people who
realize that the great curse of the drink
habit is the poverty and want which 1t en-
tails through the low GROCERY; they would
witness with the greatest satisfaction an
earnest attempt to reform the saloon from
within, by which those disreputable places
which make paupers and criminals might
be sorted out. Now, by the larger part of
the best element of society the traffic is
judged by it's worst results, and the properly
conducted been garden is ranked with the
dive reeking with poverty, vice and crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
OF LENT.

1t does not need an especially close OBJ
to note the fact that the observance Of
the lenten season has greatly increased
within recent years, and is no longer con-
fined to members OF the religious sects
which make it's rites a formal part of their
worship. Some of these voluntary follow
ers of the custom are undoubtedly infu-
enced by social reasons, fashion being a
powerful regulator of religious as well as
worldly methods. 1t is only just, however,
to ascribe devotional and spiritual motives
to the majority of those who observe Lent.
1t is not necessary that its ceremonials
should be incorporated into any church
ritual to convince the reverent soul of their
beauty and benefit. The mere act Of fast
ing may or may not be of value-this de-
ponds upon circumstances and the indi-
vidual-but a season when self-denial and
sacrifice are made the special rule Of con-
duct, and the first thought must tend to
moral and spiritual elevation. Scoffers are
wont to declare that an observance of such
rules for forty days gives license for fri
volity on the other S25 days of the year. but
this cannot be true of those who enter into
the spirit of the season. Seriousness OF
purpose, humility of soul and an aspiration
to goodness which become leading motives
for even a brief period are ennobling and
must have more than transitory effect on
character and conduct. To give no heed to
Lent indicates no lack of spiritual life, but
those who find comfort in the observances
deserve respectful consideration. Church
creeds may be ~disregarded and church or
CARNATIONS crumble, to the dismay Of the
short-sighted. but. while the spirit of Chris
tianity of which lenten sacrifice is a sym
Dol increases in strength as 1t does, no
cause for lamentation exists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
A MARINE

The wreck Of the Kearsarge on Roncador
reef has been announced in official form,
and has ELECTED many feeling tributes for
the grand old ship, whose claims to ma
tional gratitude were second only to those
of the Constitution. She was a ship with
a history and a record. The official report
of the wreck by Lieutenant Brainard, one
of the ships officers. was very brief. 1t
simply said: The Kearsarge sailed from
Port-au-Prince. Hayti. Jan. 30, for Blue
fields. Nicaragua; was wrecked on Rom
cador reef, Feb. 2. officers and crew safe"
A court of inquiry will be ordered to de-
termine the responsibility for the loss Of
the vessel, but as there was no reason to
believe that there was any lack of sea-
manship on the part of her commander, it
is not likely that he or anyone connected
with the vessel will be censured. The
wreck will doubtless go into history as one
of thousands of fatalities beyond human
control.
There is. however, another view Of the
case, and, while the board Of inquiry may
not think ii worth while TO investigate this
view, it has much to support it. There is
reason to believe that the so-called wreck
of the Kearsarge was really a case OF sui
eide: that her running on Roncador reef
was not due to the darkness Of a tropical
night or 10 the force Of treacherous cur
rents. but was a deliberate act of self-de-
struction. The circumstances OF the case
furnish an obvious motive for the act. Sail
ors know that ships feel. think and
reason. They cannot talk. but one can
easily guess at the Kearsarge's thoughts
when she heard that she was ordered from
Hayti to Nicaragua. She probably said to
herself: That settles II; now is my
chance. l have been thinking about this
thing a good while. and now 1 will do it.
I cannot bear TO exist and have to think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
THE REApPEARING OF LINCOLN.

A dozen years ago comparatively few
newspapers called attention to the fact, as
the 18th OF February came around. that it
was the anniversary Of the birth Of Abra-
ham Lincoln, but now 1t bids fair to be as
generally recognized as the 22d of Feb
ruary has been for years, particularly in the
Northern States. Only a few years ago the
anniversary of the birth of Lincoln was
recognized by less than half a dozen asso-
Citations bearing his name; now it may be
said that 1t will be observed by scores Of
patriotic and other organizations, and that
tomorrow and tomorrow evening quite as
many meetings will be held to extol the
virtues. the craftsmanship and the char
acter Of Lincoln as have been held in com
memoration of the most illustrious men in
the ages. So far away from the great
crisis in which he was the most conspicu-
Gus figure that his motives and acts may
be judged from results. he now receives the
in the South as we'll as the North. The
confederate Longstreet, the one great man
in a momentous era, and the late Henry W..
Grady, of Georgia, hailed him as the
typical American. The intellectual South
now sees that it was the Union and the Ma
ton he would save, and not the Southern
people he would punish. They have looked
through his letters and speeches to find no
word of reproach. no note of exultation in
their defeat. While he was yet President
the masses intuitively saw in him those
rare qualities which all men love and adj
mire If they do not emulate. Lincoln was
their representative-one of them, born
in Kentucky, raised in Indiana, and living
in Illinois with the plain people" Until
much he was to them. Every book in the
Public Library in this city devoted to any
phase of Lincoln's life and character bears
the marks Of many readers. In the past
two or three years more books and articles
respecting Lincoln have been published
than in any previous period. The North
western Christian Advocate, the able ex-
ponent of Methodism, published in Chicago,
devoted pages of the issue of last week to
the character and deeds of Lincoln. This
is not because Lincoln was a Methodist,
but probably because he was a man so
imbued with the spirit of the Sermon on
the Mount that he is presented to Methodist
families as a Christian and patriot whom
all may take as a human model. Other re-
ligious papers devote space to the man
who. Judged by the tests of their confess
sions Of faith and belief, could not be ad-
mitted to membership, but, tried by his
deeds and his faith, was one who walked
with God and who came as near loving his
neighbor as himself as any human being of
whom the world knows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11

ner. what Is your theory OF the universe?,,
my dear madam" he replied. IT have not
even a theory, OF magnetism, much less OK
the universe"
Mrs. Mary Hallen. OF Portland. Me-, has
In her savings bank book an interesting
proof Of the value OF putting money IN
bank and leaving II there. In 1864 she re-
ceived 500. for which she had no imme-
date use, so she deposited II and has not
since disturbed the account II now stands
at almost $500.
Miss Helen Carroll is probably the rich
est girl in her own right IN Washington.
She is a sister OF Royal Phelps Carroll. the
owner Of the yacht Navahoe. and has in
herited an income Of $4,000 a year from
her grandfather, Royal Phelps. She inner
tied from her mother, who was half Span
ish, a dark, serene beauty, and she seems
TO possess every gift OF nature ana ior-
tune. as well as q sympatneuc' klhcIy
heart.
President Diaz, Of Mexico. is not a hand
some man. On the contrary, while not
positively ugly, he is a mar or Inferior
presence. low in stature, small head. low
forehead. with short, crisp hair growing
high cheek bones thanking a narrow, sal
low face. But the charm Of Diaz lies IN
his voice. which, considering his reputa,
ton as a terrible soldier, are gentle anu
modest.
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard is planning the
erection or q cnurCn near neT Country AoAHS
on the Hudson as a memorial OF her hus-
band. 1t Is to be beautiful in architec-
ture, and will be the most costly church
edihce ever erected by one individual In the
United States. Mrs. Shepard makes IL a
point TO carry out every enterprise that
her husband was engaged In in such a
way as he would have done had he lived
There Is no difference in the gifts TO dill
ferent charities, no changes have been
made in the household or the newspaper,
or in any other thing in which he was in
terested. The old employees and servants
OF the household remain. and In every way
Mrs. Shepard's loyalty to the memory or
her husband is very touching.
i learn the rules OF baseball,
And learn them very quick:
i wish ii were the same with
My arithmetic.
-Harpers Young People.
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long"
But even that he finds IL hard
To purchase for a song.
Detroit Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11

souls Of New York housewives. Cooks and
waiting maids. undeterred by the law Of
supply and demand. firmly insist that they
must have their price," which Is the Same
that 1t was in more prosperous days. Men
who have served as buffers, footmen and
coachmen recognize the changed conditions
and gladly accept employment at reduced
wages. but the women In many cases
choose idleness rather than smaller pay.
Probably they will come to their senses In
the course OF time, but meanwhile their
former employers make their domestic de-
partments less elaborate. reduce the num-
Der Of their servants or do without, and
resort to various methods for tightening
household labors. 1t may be that the
emergency will develop a solution OF the
vexed problem of household service by sim
plifying 1t to a great extent, and that when
the high-priced maids decide to resume
operations their occupation will be in a
measure gone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PRAYER.

The Journal respectfully submits that
something is seriously wrong with social
conditions and police regulations when a
man who feels moved to retire into seclu-
sion and commune with his Maker is in
danger Of ignominious arrest and of being
hailed before a magistrate TO answer for his
conduct. The Christian code of ethics for
bids the followers of the faith to lift up
their voices in the market place and on the
street corners. lest they be as the Phari-
sees. but it does enjoin them to pray
and to withdraw into their closets for the
purpose. Now. the word closet should not
be construed too literally when this re-
ligious doctrine is incorporated into the
civil code. 1t is commonly understood to
mean a very small apartment in a house.
but If a man has no house, and consequent
ly no closet. is he therefore to be debarred
from prayer? This was certainly not the
scriptural. and should not be the police
theory. 1t may be that the interests of
public morals call for the arrest OF any one
who ventures TO pray on the street corner
in Christendom. though. in so-called heather
lands. the devout pause wherever they may
be to engage in pious supplication; but, at
least. due discrimination should be made
when the Christian seeks a place OF re-
tirement. even though 1t be not an actual
closet. The Journal Is not acquainted with
the gentleman who was arrested in this
city on Friday while engaged In the act OF
prayer behind a board pile in a lumber
yard. but It is willing To assume that he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
~JEALOUSIEs.
FamOus Singers Anxious for Social
Recognition.

Recognition.
New York Letter.
We hear a good deal OF gossip that is
not important, but amusing, about the jeal-
ousies which have been created In tne
company, and, curiously enough, this in not
an artistic jealousy, but one created by So
cial successes. Emma Eames Story and
husband are welcomed everywhere. Her
own family connections and intimate rela-
tons established by Mr.. Story's father in
as Mrs. Story's artistic success and charm
ing personality, have brought these social
1t has been upon some of the occasions
when Mrs. Story has met people OF so
ciety that she has explained why the critics
have done her injustice in complaining that
she underactS rather than overacts, and
she says very harming and with much
naivete that her husband Is her chief
critic, that he watches every performance
as a stage manager would watch a rehear-
sal, and that his instruction to her is TO
repress rather than give full play TO her
dramatic feeling, and she adds: Il always
wonder when the time comes for vehement
action whether my husband would not sug-
gsst after the. performance is over that I
Calve. about whom there was some hesi-
tation socially. at first, now finds her way
received with distinguished courtesy, and
she seems TO rejoice in il as a young girl
who has just come out"
1t has been said that Melba, who In some
respects is the most interesting OF the three,
and whom the men of the fashionable world
certainly find the most attractive. ~independ-
ent and original, has been cankered with
jealousy because she, too, did not share the
social distinction.
Whether that be true or not, Melba was
the guest OF honor at one of Mrs. Paran
Stevens's latest receptions. and a recep-
ton. too, for the young maidens of society,
so that it is said IL Mrs. Stevens has pat
ronized her, she. too, may go anywhere.
That was a courtesy which Miss Terry has
not received In New York. society there
having turned the cold shoulder TO that
accomplished actress. although she was a
guest while here at the country place Of
one of the richest New York families.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11

was doing the best he could under adverse
circumstances. Perhaps he lost his house
and a private shrine with the advent of the
present hard times. Perhaps he was one Of
those unfortunates who once owned a cor
ner lot in Indianapolis but owns 1t no more
since street improvements were ordered
both ways. 1t may be that he wished to
petition the throne Of grace to put a re-
straining hand on the Democratic party
and to rescue its victims before they starve
to death Possibly he hoped to invoke an
influence that would check the paving COM
panies on their conhscating march. 1t may
even be that his purpose was to pray for
the city government. that it might have
the courage of Republican convictions. and
that the police board, in particular. might
be content with enforcing the law and not
its personal views. Whatever was on this
suppliant's mind is unlikely to have been
subversive of public or private morals, and
he should have been left upon his knees
undisturbed. If the traditions of the police
Va SHC cuPIANoSO lily ahoiA
or woman who prays in public it stands
the chief in hand to change this view on
another ground. AS a social authority and
member of the four hundred he should in
form his subordinates that good form in
the best society is opposed to any inter-
ference with. or criticism of. religious OBJ
servances. They should be instructed that
they will demonstrate their familiarity with
the manners of the most select circles by
permitting prayer to ascend from umber
yards or other retired spots without ques-
ton. The Journal is the more urgent in
advising this tolerance of prayer from the
fact that a constantly increasing number Of
good men and women are being turned out
upon a cold world, and their p~rivations will
be unnecessarily severe if indianapolis po-
licemen forbid them to seek divine aid
under penalty Of arrest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

An honest enemy is often the noblest
friend of man.-Elmira Gazette.
The Eighty purpose never is o'ertook I'M
less the dead go with it.-Shalspeare-
1.-The quiet marriage makes the most
noise when it gets out.-Texas Siftings.
We have no longer a Congress of men
only a Congress Of parrots-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Only three weeks till the spring months
begin, and winter hardly opened yet--Kan-
sas City Journal.
A tombstone is about the only place
where the average man doesn't really care
to have his name in print.-Life.
Bourke Cochran is gaining a wide repu-
tation as the oratorical attachment OF
causes that lose.-Washington Post.
A good many boys have turned out badly
because they had fathers who made them
work with a dull hOe.-Ram'S Horn.
The Democratic party is now giving an
imitation of a man at the wrong end Of a
loose trolley wire.-Philadelphia Press.
Before going to war say a prayer; before
going to sea say two prayers; before mar
rying say three prayers.-Russian proverb.
There are so many splits in the Demo-
cratic party just now that it is fit for MOTH
ing but kindling wood.-Minneapolis Trb-
une.
Old Lady-My friend, are you a Chris
tan? Beggar-Well, mum, no one has ever
accused me Of workin' on Sunday.-New
York Weekly.
The best service that a Democrat can
render his party nowadays is to change
the subject whenever it is mentioned.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
We ought to have Benham in Washing
ton to show the President how to protect
American interests at hOme.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
If thou canst not make myself such an
one as thou wouldst, how canst thou ex-
pect to have another in all things to thy
liking?lThomas a Kempis.
San Francisco claims hat Lottie Collins
doesn't know what high dramatic art is.
What does Frisco call high If eight feet
won't do ?-Chicago Dispatch
If a woman says something discreditable
of herself in the presence Of her husband.
and he doesn't deny it, in three days she
will say that he said it.-Atchison Globe.
After all, the Democratic members of
Congress didn't do a very smar trick when
they printed Henry Georges free-trade es-
say in the Congressional Record-Washing-
ton Post.
That most men live fast lives Is evidenced
by the fact that a boy born in 1864 will be
thirty this year, while the average girl
born in the same year will be only twenty.
philadelphia Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-11

One Of the finest Of Tennyson's shorter
poems is 1.-The Talking Oak" in which an
oak tree is made TO soliioquize in a most
delightful and human manner. An inter-
esting fact in connection with the poem is
that in a copy Of the first edition Of the
poets works. that of 1Si9. there appear in
his own handwriting these two stanzas at
the end of THE Talking Oak"
All! bring her often, let me greet
The maid with sounds and calls,
AS whsn / rouse myself TO meet
The sunlight ere ii falls.
When toward me, after sudden showers,
The sweeping beam declines,
And underneath yon two gray towers
The loaded minister shines.
These stanzas are so distinctly in har-
mony with the rest of the poem that they
could hardly lave been written by any
other person than its author, even If the
authenticity of. the handwriting were not
well established. The stanzas have never
appeared in any published edition Of Ten
nyson's poems.
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WHO jokes, PAYS.
A Little Diversion Which Cost Rus
sia's Car a Thousand RubIes.


To-Day.
the habit of travelling about incognito, ac-
companied only by one of his generals, in
the diligence. On one of these occasions
station, that the next piece of road was 50
bad the diligence would take quite three
hours TO reach the town, but II they liked
to walk through the woods they would get
there I'm half that time. AS the weather
was fine and. the path through the woods
was said to be a very good one, the Enl-
peror and the general set of on foot BY and
by they came suddenly to a rapid river. but
they could see no bridge. A peasant hap
pened to come by. and the Car asked him
said the peasant. Then, is there no way
across?, "No-only through the water"
y ELL III give you 10 rubles II you'll ar
took the Gar on his shoulders and in a
few minutes landed him on the opposite
shore; Now 10 runles more to bring my
took the general on his shoulders and
started with him. When they got to the
middle the Emperor called out: I'll give
you 70 rubles TO drop him into the water"
In a moment the general was splashing
in the river. "a hundred rubles TO carry
me on" gasped the general. The peasant
steps before the Emperor shouted: Two
hundred rubleS TO throw him In again!"
The peasant stood still in perplexity.
bank!' Eight hundred rubles to drop him."
The peasant began to slip the general Off
his back. but the general clutched him
- you. to put me on the bank!' The
Emperor was laughing too much 70 say, any
more. the general was put on shore, and the
town. After they had lunched the general
made up his official accounts: In them
were these items; 10 carrying his Majesty
General A, under difficulties graciously
created by his Majesty, LOCO rubles."