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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

How He Surprised Thuriow Weed
Who Called tn Advise Him.
Washington Star.

The managers of Lincoin's campaign
were i'm 4 constant state of fear that their
candidate would do or say something that
would irretricvabiy wreck his fortunes.
active worker for Lincoln. He and Thur
low Weed practically managed the RepuO-
lican campaign. Beth men were familiar
with I.:ncon's history but they did not
know the man. They knew that he was
without experience in practical politics.
and they trembled lest he should make q
fatal mistake I'm word or action. Govern
or Morgan's anxiety on the subject was
so great that he induced Weed TO go out
to Springfield for the purpose OF warning
Lincoln against the dangers of presiden-
tial politics
II thought" said Weed. telling about the
trip afterwards. that 1 was going to
meet simple. rustic lawyer, with merely
or little more talent than the average rus
tic lawyer and 1 had a lot of things in
my mind which | intended 10 advise MN
to do ! expected to meet q man wno haa
teach. But / hadn't talked to him half an
hour before l was asking myself. in aston
ishment: What manner OF man Is thisy
| knew that during his whole life he had
never entered into active, practical poll
itics. / knew that he had never been con-
suited by local. State or national politi-
clans for advice. and was consequently al.
together devoid of practical experience
The knowledge of this had made me form
an impression that had "a babe 10 teach,
but | soon learned that he was giving me
pointers. In two hours conversation he
had managed TO learn everything i Knew
without telling me anything he knew.
As ID Is 10 be presumed that Mr.. Weed
had a pretty good idea OF his own shrewd-
ness and subtlety. il Is easy TO believe that
ne was astonished at Lincoln's superior
talents i'm that line. but he was impartial
enough TO admit to Governor Morgan ON
his return to New York that Lincoln
knew more than he did. and could be i'm
plicitly relied upon to do the right thing
and TO refrain from doing the wrong
thing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO DE.
Girls Desire to Teach. Boys tn Handle
Tools. When Grown I'D.
New York Press.

Children I'm their early teens have strange
ambitions. From $500 replies TO the ques-
when you grow up?" it is recorded in the
annual report OF the department. of instruc-
ton in New York that among the girls IS
per cent wanted to be teachers. "a per cent
milliners. IL per cent. clerks and stenogra-
piers. per cent. housekeepers storekeep-
ers. nurses and servants. each 2 Ter cent. (:
artists, l. per cent. then follow msSiona-
ries. musicians. factory hands and those
who hCoe TO be wives and mothers each
about three-fourths OF l per cent. Ii Is,
indeed. Door showing for the desire for
motherhood What is wrong with our
schooling system that most you AZ girls
make UP their minds that they would like
To be teachers, and that only three-fourt rs
of / per cent. of them express any interest
IN being "a wife and mother
Among the boys who were questioned the
mpst popular occupations related 10 the
trsAtes. Fourteen per cent. had this pref
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
FAMINE IN THE FLAG TRADE.
Dealers All Sold out, and YOu Can't
Get One for Love or Money.
No. ca,


The flag dealers about town have expert
enced a revival of prosperity i'm advance of
the election. The good weather of the last
for the great parade and to-day all the late
corners are looking far and wide for
dealer who has flag left. The dealers
have used up every available piece of
bunting and have even tried to
obtain supplies from Chicago and Cincin-
natl Pains Fireworks Company, at 80
Fulton street. says that the flag produc-
most capacity, but work night and day
could not supply the sudden demand.
Secretary Egbert, of the Unexcelled Fire
works. at 3 Park place. said to a reporter:
In four days we have sold $500 worth of
tags alone. The great feature of this cam
paign has been the use of flags. Ordinary
campaign goods, such as uniforms, We're
more abundant in 1892. but this year every
body wants the national emblem. Our
trade has been very large In all kinds of
flags"
The old house of Amin & Co., at 80 Full
ton street, said: We are sold out and
tired out. Ir all our experience of nearly
trade in regular goods There is a display
in New York city to-day such as was not
seen in the Cen ,ennial year. nor even when
Sumter was fired on. Just now we sold our
last flag to Nj. +. G. Havemeyer. and up
at his house, in Eighty-fourth street, you
IN ss Gne Of ouF NE ars OF wis
be unfurled by an American woman in
Paris If Mckinley is elected
DOWH dI 20 NdSSdu street Is Capt. j. A.
Joel. an old comradei of Major Mckinley
in the Twenty-third Ohio. He had sold out
all his best goods at the regular prices and
refused large orders from out of town.
In general prices have doubled. The VIII
liam p. Howell Company, of 205 Front
street. said: 'Jobbing firms like ours have
been left out in the rush of retail dealers
TO buy OF the manufacturers.
Forker x Baldwin, of 10 Beekman street.
| had thousand flags of ten feet or larg-
| er in stock last Monday, and three DAYS
ago they were all sold out. Mr. Forker
| estimated that in the last ten years the
| New York trade could not have made more
than 100000 flags of large size. But all
| of those will be flying Tomorrow aud of
| the little flags there will indeed be mil
lions" 't~ t'i<s' 'h' ~
THE demand could not have been antici-
| pated'' said Henry W. Allen at 734 Broad
| way. I'VE put thousand dollars into
| flags. but they are gone and il is too late
| 10 get more. Big flags and fine flags are
| gone; flag poles cannot be had for love
| or money. We are sending FIVE hundred
| small silk flags to the bankers and brok-
| ers; another such order would finish that
| line of goods. 1t is the biggest demand fol
| flags that we have ever seen"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

ercnce. Next i'm frequency came the dc
sire 10 be merchants, II per cent; then
clerks. per cent: then farmers, o per
cent: doctors. about per cent; lawyers,
about per cent: engineers. nearly per
cent; teachers and soldiers, each ) per .
cent: railroad men and sailors. sach ~
per cent: business. per cent. The resi-
named thrty-fiVe different occupations. IL
was noticed that the boys thought that am
occupation that dealt with Tools, plants OF
animals meant something that conferred
power over ones fellows. Only in boys
about seven years old was there large
preference for such occupations as that or
policeman. fireman or railroad man. As
he grows older the average boy mooincs MS
desire fer the perilous. until at fourteen ne
wants TO be bank clerk There is one IN
terestng exception to this. The ambition
to be a sailor appears at seven ana M
creases slowly. eliminating at fourteen.
Here is the composition OF boy or FOUR
teen parents American, his father a la
borer: When | am a man | will go 10 sea
and be sailor on the stormy ocean. fnen
I can see strange and foreign lands ana
places where no man but the sailor can
go. | can go among the icebergs
of the antartic region, and can spend a
nightly winter in some arctic country. The
dark continent holds many joys for tbs
sailor. He can hunt and have adNen,ures
without other cost than walking into them
Because i speak in such glowing terms or
the sailor does not say that tnlnk ne mas
not discomforts for what kind of life does
not have their full share OF the dangers
and discomforts? The millionaire frets
about the fact that some bank will go
under. Even the poorest 3dDOrtE
frets fearing that he and his family will
starve to death when he has no work. And
now hurrah for the sailor"
And here is a little end-of-t he-century old
maid of nine. of English and American
parentage, whose father is staid minister
of the gospel: Il want TO marry man
doesn't smoke; because j don't like the
smell of smoke. | want TO teach school
where they will let me spank the children
For children knead discipln. want 20
wear ploomers all the time. 1 want 10 wear
a cutaway suit. Because ii looks nice with
boomers. i will wear russell shoes and
brown stockings. / want TO have my hair
| cut short. Because IL will be coler.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
THE REWARD OF sELFIsHNEss.
California Man Who Is Harvesting "a
Crop of Refribution
San Francisco Call.


That retribution does occasionally come
TO a man in his old age for the misdeeds of
his youth is proven by the case of Henry
r. Warren. who was at one time a promi-
nent citizen OF this part OF the country
Now he il a common vagrant. begging for
his food from anyone who will give. but
getting very little sympathy from those he
meets. even though they are ignorant of
his past record He can be seen any day
on Montgomery street. dirty and hungry
and with a look on his face that haunts
one after he has gone.
Henry Warren came to California on the
tidal wave of 1873 and at once started TO
make money. I'm n few years he was rich
and gradually growing richer. but with all
bis wealth he never aided a friend nor gave
an opportunity 10 poor person.
Warren was in the real-estate business
and was a. hard landlord as ever evicted
a tenant. He also loaned money on good
security and Increased wealth by any
possible means. He refused TO educate his
son. saving That he should work instead
of being n lOafer The bow went TO Ari-
1or,, an,, die5 there because his father re-
fused 80 send him money when he took
sick. Warren also had q daughter. whom
he allowed 10 die In the poorhouse because
she married a penniless man instead OF a
wealthy saloon keeper he wished her to.
Warren's wife died i'm misery on account
Of her husbands cruelty TO her children
and also because he refused to provide
her with the proper medical treatment.
Non" OF these things disturbed Warren
his wealth and making people suffer on all
sides of him.
But his turn came In due time, and in
spite OF his best efforts he found his
wealth getting away from his. Bad luck
he called it then but he now says IL was
Justice. His health has never failed him
hut his money kept getting less and
less. until he had TO apply for a jot
70 keep himself supplied with the necessa-
rieS OF life But he was too well known
and even those he used 70 call his friends
wanted nothing TO do with him. He left
town. hut ever his reputation followed him
He was scorned by all who ever knew him
ard other people didn't take 10 him. And
so ne went from place TO place. considered
a nuisance by ali ne met
II know 4 deserve il all Warren SAID
when speaking OF himself. Il didn't care
Tor anybody when | was young and haC
money. and nobody cares for me
Why should they? | never did "A good deee
I'm my life. and now 1 am paying for a..
wander about like homeless dog, and M
living person I'm this world cares whether
live or die. l wish I could die. but an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

he might shower a voley OF maledictions
on me and keep me a prisoner. was agree
ably surprised. / found q kind-faced and
most notwithstanding old gentleman un-
der "a fly tent sitting astride OF a hammock
picturesquely arranged IN the SHADY edge
of the forest the floor thickly strewn with
fresh quincy grass me sltuatlon was adS
the encampment 1t was then for the trst
time that / realized the extent OF the place
4Oo0. of which about LOO were cavalry. but
such were the order and discipline that
hardly sound was heard. General Gomez
is "A wonder-sixty-eight years old. L was
told about 1870 pounds in weight. thin. erect
possessed of an iron Will and constitution.
interchangeable worker from 4 a. m TIL
night. quicker than creased lightning In
grasping "A situation. a cyclone when his
tember is aroused with good cause, wor-
SHIPPED by all his men, and terror TO the
SpaniardS.
For four weeks General Gomez had been
attending to business. reorganizng and
resting from the fatigues of long winters
campaign within twenty-five miles of
strongly fortified Spanish town. having over
1000 troops under several generals and all
facilities for renforcements, and not one
attempt had been made by the Spaniards
i'm all that time to attack the man they are
all SO anxious to capture. Instead many
paoiticos were arrested. and many were
Il lind with few exceptions that the Span
iards have little idea of the country they
are at war with The war department in
Havana supplies the officers with maps
which are far too imperfect for use: the
scale and the distances are far apart as
the poles. to say nothing of the locations.
No attempt Is made at topography or 10 eX-
plain by foot notes the condition of the
country or roads. So i'm looking over map
you don't know if you are examining plain.
mountains, valley or forest The coast
maps are squally as backward. and | I'M
derstand from good authority that the
Spaniards purchased. through agents in
the United States copies of the maps is
sued by the United States government for
| coast use. Their lack of knowledge may
| account for losing several Of their best gun
boats on the Cuban coast as we'll as send
| ing large columns by land 10 watch places
| on the coast where not even a rowboat
could land ="
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
ALAskA's GIANT MOSQUITOES.
Their Bills Are Twelve Inches Long
Says n seattle Man.
New York Journal.


New Jersey really isn't in IL with its
mosquitoes. Alaska far away. ice-bound
Alaska, which you never think OF as being
natural breeding ground or the pesKy
singers. holds the mosquito record THINK
of ii. we Jersey OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
with bills twelve inches long. Neraclous
Seattle citizen, III. a. Fredericks. who has
just returned from Uncle Sam northern
province, writes to a Seattle newspaper as
follows:
I'VE used to laugh at the idea of
mosquitoes in Alaska. But that was before
we knew much about that country. We
don't laugh any more Instead. We sympa-
thize with those who go out to meet the
Alaskan mosquito. Some OF the men who
have gone TO Alaska have returned to COM
plain OF the hard work. of the cold. OF the
heat the frost or the snow. but the real
encouragement which makes life in the far
North a great sweltering burden is the
deadly mosquito, from whose insinuating
bill there is no escape.
They are in such swarms that some
times YOU seem to be looking at the sun
through snowstorm. j have just returned
from long trip in the Yukon country. and
IL Is to that region L have particular refer
ence.
THEY are the worst thing in TIE country
and beside them the other difficulties
amount TO nothing. In the settlements
they do not bother people much, but wher
a man goes up one of the creeks prospect.
ing he must envelop his head in "A mos
would 20 through ordinary netting like
a knife through tissue paper-and must
wear gloves and tie his trousers and shirt
sleeves close about his ankles and wrists
Some of the large ones have bills measur.
ing twelve inches i'm length.
Il have come back. not because am dis
guSted with the country. but because
want to vote: then l will be ready TO return
and fight mosquitoes until my work i'm the
North is finished
There are no politics or taxes on the
Yukon, and they do not even know who
has been nominated. Three or four years
must be spent i'm the country to accomplish
anything, and only men of stamina and will
power can make "a success even in that
streams. nearly always finding the color
and If one is willing TO work, not only
i'm summer but in winter good money car
be made. a few have been particularly
successful. taking out snug fortunes as q
result of several years hard and contin.
uOGS labor"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
Your Gem and Flower.

January-The garnet and snowdrop: SYM
boIic of constancy. true friendship. fidelity
and purity.
Februarv-The amethyst and primrose;
sincerity freedom from care and strife.
March-The bloodstone and violets;
strength wisd om bravery and love.
April-The diamond and daisy; innocence.
purity and peace
May-The emerald and hawthorn: i'm
mortality and a happy domestic life.
Iune-An agate and honeysuckle; health.
wealth long and happy life.
July-The ruby and water lily; charity,
dignity. and faith and love.
August-The sardonyx and poppy: conju-
gal love and good fortune.
September-Sapphire and morning glory;
equanimity and peace OF mind. protection
against envy and treachery.
October-The opal and hops; hope. purity
and courage.
mum; fidelity I'm friendship and love.
observation-disclosures and holly; prosper
ity. success. fortune and fame.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
How to Make an AeoIian Harm.
Popular Science News.

OF very thin cedar. pine or other soft
wood, make box five six inches deem
seven or eight inches wide. and of a length
Just equal 10 the width of the window in
which II Is TO be placed. Across the top
near each end. glue strip of wood half
an inch high and a quarter of an inch thick
for bridges. Into the ends of the box in,
sert wooden pins like those OF a violin- to
wind the strings around-two pins I'm each
end. Make a round hole I'm the middle of
the top, and string the box with small cat
one end Of each string TO a metallic pin in
one end of the box. and carrying IL over
the bridges. wind IL round the turning pin
in the opposite end Of the box. The ends
of the box should be increased in thick
ness where the wooden pins enter. by a
piece of wood glued upon the inside. Tune
in the window. VI is better TO have four
strings. as described: but harp with a
notes. which vary with the force of the
wi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
A Had Example.

Detroit Free PresS-
There is one State. at least. OF this Union
which bears upon it's escutcheon the stain
of Reputation. The action which gave it
that bad name among the commemorative
of the country was taken many years ago
and had not only the sanction of the peo-
pie but of the law il then stood. But
it has not yet outgrown wholly the dis
grace of that action. and il is doubtful If il
ever will outgrow it. The vote of Tuesday
next is TO determine whether the entire
country is to wear forever hereafter the
badge of a similar shame.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
UnIucky Young Woman.

Kansas City Journal.
An awful story comes from Atchison. A
Young woman over there ate half ripe per-
simmons the other day, anu they puckered
up her mouth i'm such q way that she wins
tied every time she breathed. The dogs
Thought she was calling them and jumped
on her running new SO silk dress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

Josiar plays football. useter think .twus
a leetle rough. But there amt nothin like
outdoor exercise for givin moral tone.
''Whut nut yer mind on to that?" The
trip les TUX 1 looked them convicts over.
an i could tell by their hair that there
wusn't a single football player I'm the hull
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
Politics.

Gold ard iron are good
To buy iron and gold:
All earth's fleece and food
For their like are sold.
Hinted Merlin wise,
Proved Napoleon great
Nor kind nor coinage buys
Aught above its rate.
Fear. Craft and Avarice
Cannot rear a State.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
~ An Imnnrtnnce

New York Commercial advertiser
What Moreton Frewen. the London
Illness correspondent in this country.
thinks about the political situation il about
as important as what the yellow kid thinks
about a poem in Sanscrit. No man with a
pinch of gray matteI can ever think quart
of thoughts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

"A natural coward, and cannot commit sui
eide. j know there is no hope for me Tor
years to come. as l am in good health.
and cannot even get into the poorhouse,
but must walk these streets for days and
nights at time with the curses OF my
NJ elected wife and children following me-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
q EsiSs q. % Ns:Slys

A sick woman can
not expect TO have .
healthy baby. An un-
healthy baby has not
the same chance for
living as a healthy
baby. The mothers
condition ust o.
necessity tell on the
child's health and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03

From III Chronicles tx. 20.
And all King Soiomon's drinking vessels
were of gold and all the vessels of the
house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure
gold: silver was nothing accounted of in
the days OF Solomon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
Art i'm "a High Wind.

New Orleans Pcayune.
The poster girl is always in n high wind.
which founts the fur boa she wears with
her yellow June dress and tangies her
skirts up annoyingly with her absurdly
long lowe, limbs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
An Endorsement.
Washington Star.

Washington Star.
Farmer corntossol mad made visit to
a PENAL institution and Was telling his wife
about II. Mandy, he said I'm mighty
glad OF one thing. an that Is that our boy
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-18
Yesterdays BALL GAMES.
Philadelphia Loses Two to Bait
mOre-Other Games.

Philadelphia Loses Two to BaIti-
mOre-other Games.
Philadelphia, Aug T.-Philadelphia lost
both games to Baltimore to-day, and the
second by the poor ball playing in the
eighth inning, when the champions rolled
up eight runs. In the first game with
two men out and two on bases, Keller
sent a fly to short center, which could
have been taken either by Hulen or Coo
ley, but which dropped safely between
them. In the ninth inning of the second
game, with the score at 10 to IA in favor
of the Philadelphians, and Pond and Kel-
ley on third and second respectively al
most precisely the same play occurred.
Keller sent another fly to short center
which Hulen muffed, and Pond and Kel-
ley came home, to the disgust of 1900
spectators Score: RH
Philadelphia i 0 90 o % p o
Baltimore 30 0 0 0 1-3 10 >
Batteries-Orth and Grady; Hotter and
Clark.
Second Game R.H.E.
Philadelphia . 0 4 o 2 O-i5 Il 6
Baltimore % o l o 0 3 SIS ? Z
Batteries-Gumbert and Grady; Hem
ming, Pond and Robinson.
Boston, Aug. 17.-Sullivan won his own
game to-day by his excellent pitching and
superior hitting. The game was well
fought, and the Brooklyns had a fine
chance in the last. Wonderful runnins
catches by Mccarthy and Sherer cut OFF
several runs. Attendance l,776. Score:
Boston ........1 0 1 o % o Ks p 3
Brooklyn .....1 0 0 0 % 10 ;
Batteries-Sullivan and Bogern; Payne
and Grim.
Pittsburg, Pa. Aug I7-Pittburg and
Cleveland played two games to-day, split
ting even. Cleveland won the first game
in the eighth inning, Hawley weakening
and being hit all oyer the field Young
was ineffective in two innings of the Sec
ond game, Pittsburg punching eight of
their ten hits in the first and fifth innings
and scoring six runs. Score:
First Game RHE
Pittsburg % OIL o 90 o-2 II
Cleveland % 0 O a. - :
Batteries Hawley and Merritt; Cuppy
and OConnor.
Second Game RHE
Pittsburs - % 4 o o o IA sos 10 >
Cleveland .....0 0 0 0 0 O ga
Batteries. Killen and Merritt; Young
and thinner.