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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12
A Message.

The restless waters of the mighty deep
Forever surge and moan, advance, recede;
Upon the sands i watch the slow tide creep,
And wildly long to follow in the lead
OF one white gull now nearly lost to view,
That floats on steady wing, far out to sea,
Whose further boundary, lost in yonder blue,
Must be its goal, and mine, were 1 but free.
If I should follow in the white gull's wake,
Across the trackless waste to yonder shore:
Seek that 1 crave, and. finding, cease to
make
The effort to renounce what love more
Than all earth holds beside, or life can give,
Should be less unhappy than 1 am?
My heart misdoubts me. Must we always
live
In deadly strife. or yet more deadly calm?
With purpose came to this beetling height,
Whose lofty summit pierces heavens blue
dome,
Where, 'gainst it's rock-ribbed base, the
breakers might,
However fierce, is dashed to harmless foam.
For well 1 knew the high resolve would fail,
And while it lived / fed across the sea;
When storms and doubts and fierce desire
assail
Safe anchored on this rock faIn would be.
Oft sounds a wild, weird music, when the
gale
Has dashed the waves to madness; and I
hear
The universal heartache in the wall
Above the tempest's roar: know not fear,
Nor grief. regret, nor longing, neither pain;
While listening to the Anthems mighty
swell,
A sola,,n r,aooa mine Tn tt,o ,1e-..-
The voice of natures God speaks-"It is
WELL
Harriet Nowlin Bullock.
San EranciscO Cal.
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acknowledgement of my past services as It may
see ft
Whatever appropriation IS made will %
thankfully received and receipted.
Il would also receipt my winter pants az
the same time.
81 find that i can starve 10 death just es
successfully in Journalism IS 1 can in my
official capacity. and I hope that the govern
ment will not feel hurt over my course.
Handling the amount OF money that
have. being a United States commissioner.
has been terrible strain on me, and re-
sign before II Is too late.
II resign while have NE manhood still"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12

the snakes and were bitten. They kept up
gallop for about hundred yards, when
two squatted. The other ran a short dis
lance further and then toppled over. All
were dead when examined ten minutes later
short distance away was an old NAH
rata fort with high bulwarks, and up these
the reptiles swarmed and gathered in mass,
racing after the outsiders, and, fortunately,
escaping the fangs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12
woman and Her Pocketbook.

Philadel1nia Record
You never catch a man carrying his pockef-
book in his hand as he walks down the
street. nor find him laying IL down on a car
chats with some one or reads his newspaper.
whereas not day passes but some item -
furnished OF feminine careiessness along
pockets available any more. and their word
for the purse is porte-mcnnaie, which they
make a truism. They cary Il arms-a-porf.
IT 20 the wayfaring thief by leaving II handy
al their sides In public pieces. The new
woman will never make good name for
problem OF carrying money. Old-fashioned
folks formerly used their ssocking-tops.
which were safe but inconvenienf. and the
world still waits for the Joan Of Arc VITO
will free the French fashion maker. and
thereby all the world. fiom the English
tyranny OF no pockets In travelling and work.
aday dresses
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12

One at her looms toiled fast-early and
late she wrought;
But the grief and plant OF her days in the
silent web were caught.
And after her hands were stilled, al the
cold world would see
was the woman that drudged and sighed,
= and the shade OF her misery.
One sang. in her humble place. song that
the shuttles knew,
And a golden thread OF Hope the warp and
the wool ran through.
And after the task was done. and after the
day had fed,
The work OF her hands shone fair, though
the woman. unknown. lay dead.
Frank walcott HUT. in Peterson's Maya
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12
Queer BIu.der. of GREAT writers.

Queer BIundera Of Great Wrfters.
Youths Companion.
Shakespeare speaks of turkeys in plays the
times OF which long antedate the fmporfa-
ton Of the first turkeys from America In
Henry w. the carrier complains that ssthe
turkeys In my panier are quite starved
though Henry ~ reigned a hundred years
va Cover says to F1uellen. OF Pistol. ssHefe
he comes, swelling like q turkey-cock's
Worse than this - the anachrcuiom IA
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12

Last week remarked that q man might
not set up In business "a lawyer. a doc
tor. dentist or even q druggist" unless le-
gally qualified. The words even a druggisty
shops One chemist who has written TO me
thinks that / am labor!ng under wrong
impression as e the training rne much
closes me a syllabus OF the subjects OF which
ne Is REQUIRED 70 she. suf1ic.ent know!eige
the registered chemist and druggist. and be-
coming endowed with = monopoly Of vend-
ing = few pois3np He asks me 70 como %
Ity with. Il not Drocedenoe <Qf - Qualzns4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-12

Unrest.
o doubling heart,
Is it so hard TO learn
That some there be
Whose faith is lived
In calm simplicity?
Thine from LIES calm would turn,
Seeking deaths darti
o tired head,
Is it for thee to know
Aught but distress?
Some things there be
Other than WEAKNESS.
Hope from a present woe
Slow wings outspreads.
waiting soul.
Where is thy destiny?
What If the tired head
Said to doubling heart
''Can sueh things be-
We are alive, yet dead?"
What of the soul,
And of eternity?
Logansport. L. A. H.
Youth and Age.
Sweet as the breath of cows in clover
meadows.
Changing as ancient trees long quiverins
shadows,
Bright as the butterfly with colors rife,
Brief as the white day lily's fragrant life
Was youth, that went as goes the morning
mist.
Now age, kind age, steals softly to my side
Still as brown forest deeps wherein abide
Wee creeping roots and hidden buds 70,
spring
She bears me out on upward-soaring wing
She carries me beyond life's evening mists
Topeka, Kan. Annie Sears Arnold
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ain lArril's Front.v

IN HFrIIb FTOmt.
A hint of gold among the willows,
A glimpse of green along the hedge,
sunny crest upon the pillows
That Lap the softly whispering sedge.
The snow-wraiths fee far up the hollovs.
The sky has wept its azure clear:
And blue-bird calls-where echo follows,
up, heart, and greet the dawning year"
Emma Carleton.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13

on Cancy branchf The sap "a np noN
-how would sou like to run away and
60 Bwimmin Ia the old mill pond, OF
cut some hickory sprouts and make
whips and whistles9 Wouldn't It Be
bully times II q whole passle Of us boys
and girls could fling in together and
hunt for honeysuckles and sweet vi0a
let's, Or play humble peg, or build Hy-
ing Jenhies7
But honest 1n5un, Rufe, comm right
down to business aud rock bottom,
would the grown man love TO Atsap
places with the bOy7 Do we ridley want
10 throw down the hand we now hold,
and draw to others which we know not
OF? We haven't got SO very high mp /
know. climbin as best we could, but
would it suit us to turn loose and drap
back down the ladder and take another
pull from the first round? Would it
pay to spit on the old slate and spile out
and start over9 Take a good look at all
the surroundin circumference, Rufe,
and see what a general, n~ll-around Spite
out would mean for you and me. We
have come over a long and rough and
dusty road-sometimes up and some-
times down-and by now we ought to
know that the time TO count the costa
is before you take the trip. We will
stop right now and count up the costs of
this business, and then 1 reckon we will
turn around and come back before we
start.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13

At the marriage in Egypt of Princess
Minet Hanen, sister of the khediye, the
bride came in preceded by q woman
musician all dressed in white satin.
She was supported by two bridesmaids.
Her gown was of white satin, but one
could scarcely see the material because
of the heavy gold embroidery. Her
neck and arms were simply covered
with diamonds, and on her head she
wore a high crown of precious stones,
to which was attached her veil Of silk
and gold. On either side of her
head were ornaments of gold and jew
els, with threads Of gold reaching to the
ground, of such weight that the brides
maids had to carry them. She was one
OF the most beautiful women ever seen,
and when she was seated OF the throne
it was a picture. She and her surround
ings were beautiful beyond descrip-
ton. When she retired the khediye
stood on the throne and threw newly
coined money among the ladies fog
lHeks-DeNoit Free Pgeea
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13
HaIrs FamiIT Pllls are the best.
FROM DAME FASHIONS MIRROR


The girl whose bodice Is not finished
with a belt of some kind is not in the
swim. The fiat Of fashion says belt or
girdle.
A coaching parasol Of chameleon
green silk is shown with IN enameled
handle of green, topped by a lctus-bud
of purplish hue.
To be really sincere ones underwear
must match ones gown. And, above oil,
must her corset repeat the tones Of the
trimming Of her bodice.
Transparent crepons and grenadines
are largely In vogue for dinner gowns,
and made over chameleon silk of a de-
cidedly lighter shade are most effective
by candle light
Egen among the diaphanous affairs
Of chiffon and null masquerading as
paxasols the old-time favorite, the
coaching parasol, stands out in stylish
and serviceable relief.
The smart woman's lingerie Is dis
tinguished by elegant simplicity and
the old-time underwear, made heavy
With lace and elaborate embroidery, Il
. thing of the past
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13
stnokinr Up arhe COSTA

ANSnAN8 ~ -
Now, what would it cost the old man
to spite out and swnp places with the
boys3 You would then have a home
with the old folks, but you wouldn't
have a foot of land, nor u horse, NOT
a COW, nor a pig-nothin which you
could call your own in your full and
proper name. You could play a little
around the edges, as it were, but you
would have to work a whole tremen-
dius big lot. You would have TO take
holt and turn off all the various and
sundry odds ind ends and jobs that
mought naturally fall to q peart and
handy boy. And that wouldn't be so
very internal nice and pleasant, would
it? Blamed if the very thoughts don't
make me tired and hungry and sleepy.
But that aint all, by a whole lot, II
we was to take and Spite out for a new
deal you wouldn't have mother and the
babies. How in the round created world
could you put up with that, you blasted
old idiot? You mought maybe come
over the old trail and fall in love with
the same girl and git married to tho
same. But there amt no tellin. Men
Amt quite altogether as skeerce around
Rocky Creek as they use to be. Some
other youpgster mought pull in ahead
and turn up Jack and block your game
next time. Then you mought have to
wiggle and worry through without
mother and the babies. Nobody to
smooth down the wrinkles, and pull out
the silver threads, and let in the SUM
shine, and brush away the tears, and
sew on the buttons, and darn the socks,
and patch your Sunday breeches. No
body to pout and cry for dolls, and pic
ture books, and new shoes, and bear
stories, and swings and playhouses and
rocky horses, and the good Lord knows
what not.
No more of that, Rufe, says I to my
self. The spite out don't go. 1t would
cost too outrageous much.
You are a bloomin, beautiful old
rooster to be raisin d rumpus with fate
anyhow, l went on with myself. This
world has been monstrous kind and
good with you, Rufus Sanders. You
have been young oncst, and now you are
old, but we have never yet seen the
righteous man around at the kitchen
window begin cold grub. You raley
ought to spendhalf of your time readin
the Scriptures and sayin Amazin Grace.
We have been wild and hayward in our
generation, and in spite of all that could
be said OF done u wanderin feet have
sometimes struggled ont of the good and
narrow way. But so far as the record
runs we have never run up the white
feather in a fight or took up with any
thing that didn't belong to us. We
have met the enemy at the dead line,
and no man ever come around by our
house spilin for a fight but what he got
accommodations. We have helt up the
good name and standin of the Sanders
generation, and we have never yet got
called when we couldn't show down,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13

As 9 Rss Of IT. There Were
Many Disorders



From ne olaadard.U afon, Brooklnn, N =.
Few women have had q more miserable
existence and fFcd to tell the tale Shan Mrs.
Anna II. Smith Of Sill PULASKI Avenue,
Bf0ofdyn4 With all thB comforts That money
dhordsi with ali<the happiness that many
Smiths lifo was blasted for years By the
terrible rayages Of sickness. The story is
most interesting as told to areporter:
II was an invalid for years, suffering first
with one complains and then with another.
My case was truly that Of a complication Of
diseases, due 70 an accident which received
some years agos The thing which caused me
the most discomfort aud made me offensive
to my family was the worst case Of iadiges-
ton imaginable. I made all around me
mssera3,e Dy my sunerangs ana was most
miserable myself. b the best physician
we could hud, and occasionally his pre-
scfiptiOne relieved mo temporarily. But
the pains and misery would all 800n return
again. 1became desperate, and started ia
to try remedies of which I read. Among
| them were the Pink pills. Their appear.
ance captivated me instantly, for / am q
great bslievert In the beautiful. ] took the
pills aud followed out the directions to the
letter, and before many days I began to feel
ike q different woman. For six weeks 1
took the pills regularly, and I can truthfully
add after that was as well as any one in
the family. This change for the better in my
condition has caused my relatives and
friends to take the pills. We buy them all
from the drug store Of John Dnryea, at tho
corner OF De Kalb and Suruer Avenues.
II assure you it was impossible for me to
oversee my household for three years. Now
/ visit my kitchen every day, do my own
marketing and shopping; in q word, look
after everything connected with my home
and family.
siOh, yes, I still keep taking the pills. /
take one daily after dinner. Prevention,
you know, is better ard cheaper than cure.
I verify believe one half OF the women
who are suffering from the ills which our
sex are heir to would be up and well if they
could be induced to give the Pink Pills q
fair trial. I certainly recommend them
heartily and feel grateful to the physician
who put them on the market.''
Mrs. Smith is a woman Of some les
and standing in the community and, there
fore, her testimony will be accepted with
out question by all thoughtful people.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
contain all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and re
store shattered nerves. They may be haC
of all druggists or direct by mail from The
DIR. Williams Medicine Company, Science
tady, N. X, at SOC. per box, or six boxes fol
$3.50, and are sold in bulk or by thu
dozen or hundred.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13

There is another thing, Rufe, for mo
and you to shake hands over and be glad
about, says l to myself. We are movin
along smooth and easy without kickin
up any big dust to speak of with the
general government. If the shebang
amt agin us we are notagin the shebang.
All we want is an open field aud a fair
flght-then let the best man win.
Blessed be God, W. ore sprung from the
~aristocracy of simple homes and honest
hearts and hard knuckles, and if we
can't swim without a full set of govern
ment gourds around US, by jings we can
stay out of the water.
No doubts you have heard tell Of the
big scheme some of the candidates are
fixin up SO a man car borrow all the
money he wants by putin his farm
producements in soak with the general
government. We will be agin that move
on general principles. They say Dunk
Strickland has got a little one-eyed,
siab-sided. wobbledy-legged, razor-baclE
steer, which he wants to put in soak
for $50. lie maintains il other people
can soak their lands and their crops he
can soak his steer, cause he amt got
nothin else, and every man is free and
equal in this great country. That would
be a big thing for Dunk. you under
stand, but if we start the soakin busi-
ness with the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
for certain where it would stop. As for
us, we couldn't soak our corn and cot
ton and seed potatoes If we had done
Leen and run heels over appetite in
debt, and so long as we don't owe MOTH
in we can keep the stuff here at home,
or sell it and put the money away in the
family chist.
Conseouentially, says / to myself, if
It ever comes to that pass where we can't
make tongue and buckle meet without
soakin somethin with the government,
then / will move that we go and put our
blame tool heed in soak.
RUFpp SANDERS,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13
PkRsoNAL ANp lMPERsoMAE

The french government has de-
cided to continue TO M sPasteurs widow
the annual pension Of $4,000 francs
granted to her husband in 1883,
Tile prince OF Naples son Of the
king Of italy, who has just q%uarteled
with his father, was not long ago re-
fused by a European princess becaese
of his inordinate love Of garlic.
Mrs. James g. Blaine has prac-
tically~ decided to remove the remains
of her late husband from Washington
to Augusta, where she Is negotiating
for a site for a private cemetery on a
lofty hill overlooking the Kennebec
river.
Prof. J. W.. Hoffman, Of Tuskegee
institute, the only distinguished negro
scientific agricuIturist Of America
has been elected q member of the Mas.
sachusetts horticultural society in
recognition of the work he il doing for
the race along scientific lines.
The duchess Of Abercoffi holds a
record. -Four g-eat-grnndchildren
were born to her in one day recently.
One OF her granddaughter had d son.
another a daughter, and a third twins.
She wa heard to remark that great
oaks from little Abercorns grow.
The prince of Naples, son Of the
king of Italy, who has ~quarreled with
his father, according to foreign papers,
looks upon Emperor William Of Ger
many as the one man to be initiated.
He is a thorough scholar and often
surprises scientists with his knowl-
edge. He is not popular among women.
DIR. Carl Peters, the African ex
plorer who has just deserted the Ger
man government, is described as "a
little knock-kneed man, with a gold
p~incenez and a lisp. He halls from
o village on the Lower Elbe, where his
father was a country pastor. lie pre-
tends to be a rabid Anglophobe in ali
political questions, but he is fond OF
aping the English in all their ways
and especially in dress.
lii Hung Chang is making arrange
ments to impress the western world
with his wealth and power. He viii
travel with a suite and in a style that
will testify to the grandeur of oriental
luxury. Ii Hung Chang is an abstemi
Gus and simple man in his tastes, but
he long ago learned the value of mag
~nificence for impressing the crowd.
The late Mrs. E. Marvin, who re,
Gently died at Kirkwood, Mo-, was an
elder sister of the late ex-President
Hayes. When the civil war broke ouI
she was living with a family Of south.
ernsympathizer in Illinois. RUTHERFORD
B. Hayes, as is well known, was 1
strong union man and became a sue
cessful officer in the northern army
His sister did not forgive him for talk
ing the side of the government, ant
they were never reeonciled.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13

we have forever shook the sands Of
Panther creek from our unhallowed
feet, Rufe, and we are now moNin up to
town." old man lobe come back at
me. II have sold out in the old set
Element, lock, stock and barrel. Ihave
. rented a fine house in town with green
bay windows and lightnin rods on it,
and henceforwards from now on old
man Murray and his folks will keep
company with the hig~hristocracy.
"You must recollect, Rufe, that / am
the next high sheriff of the county,"
old man lobe went on, waxin warm and
joyful as he went, "and 1 thought 1
mought as we'll to move up to town and
sit ready for the busincss-git famil-
ious with the documents before / go up
agin the game, as it were.
"0f course the election amt come off
as yet, Rufe, but lobe Murray amt no
bodyis n~atural-born blame fool, and l
don't have to wait forever to see which
way the cat will jump. leave done been
the rounds and counted the noses, and
the people are most all for me. In all
the rounds 1 didn't meet up with but a
few scatterin votes that amt hat-footed
for lobe Murray for high sheriff. By
gollys. Rufe, 1 have got the thing in n
sack and gone with it. All / have got
to do is to wait till the returns come in
and then proceed with the p~roceedins."
With that old man lobe laughed and
laughed till he laughed all over himself,
so to speak, and then him and his folks
driv on towards town.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-06-13
AeE Zoe FAsT ZOE HORSES.
Horses Yield to Nervous P-rostratIOn and
Nostalgia.

Horses Yield to Nervous Pr0stratIOn and
Nostalgia.
Max Nordau would probably consid-
or it an alarming instance of %degenera-
ton, but it is none the less a fact that
put in a pretty pastoral region of New
Jersey several women have lately en-
dured the anguish of nervous prostra-
ton and revived only to find their dis
tfessing ailment had attacked both car
rage and farm horses.
The symptoms of nervous collapse
are as easily recognized and work
pretty much the same way on equine
as on feminine systems.
Loss of appetite, languor, despond-
ency Of the deepest dye, varied with UNI
naturally high spirit, were first noticed
by one woman in a favorite carriage
hackney.
She Immediately drove the animal
down to the village veterinary and
nearly tainted away when the scien-
list pronounced the trouble as an ag-
gravated case OF nervous ~prostration,
fit only for the rest cure.
Since then the veterinary has been
called upon to prescribe for numbers Of
similar cases in the same town, and by
way of treatment even the harness and
halter is considered too great a weight
for the suffering animal to bear.
A long vacation from the shafts is
allowed, a stimulating tonic given, and
along with careful feeding and one
short walk a day, taken slowly, this
horse and his fellow-patients in the
neighboring stables and paddockE
are gradually recuperating.
One little mare, however, was found
in such a state of ervou exhaustion
that no treatment would serve to pull
up her strength, so the veterinary
who is a specialist in nerves, decided
she was suffering from nostalgia. His
diagnosis proved correct, for on return
ing to her native farm the creature re
gained flesh and spirits.
Meanwhile, the owners of these in
valid and homesick cobs and ponies
are wheeling about town to theiI
marketing and calling and wondering
how anybody can doubt the existence
of neurasthenia as a dangerous anC
contagious disease, or stand the stress
Of modern life now that it is proving
too much for even the fn-de-siecls
horses.-Boston Globe.