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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25

If Mr.. Bryan had the courage of most of
the 16-to-1 newspapers he would shout for
Henry George.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25

make the home OF the poor man and Of the
rich man alike purer and safer and health-
Ter The addresses are all full of sound
thought.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25
Nothing 20 Say.

washington Post.
Several New York newspapers find ii con-
venient to refrain from mentioning the
death of Mr. Dana in their editorial coll
umnS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25

If newspapers were lighting machines in
the sense that iron-clads are, Spain would
have powerful navy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25

If the prosecutor in the Luetgert case will
furnish the missing rag and a bone" the
dehutant football player will furnish the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25

Mr.. Jason (before the "old master III
bet that there was purity fair picture
when it was new.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,
indianapolis, Ind.

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All communications intended for publication In
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accompanied by the name and address of the
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be returned, postage must in all cases be inclosed
Tor that purpose.
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safe from relic Hunters.

Detroit Tribune.
It's a good thing for Mr.. Luetgert that
he's In Jail, where the relic hunters cant
get at him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


did Johnson's lodge attend his funeral
in body?" hrs
Yes. So did Johnson''o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
a Southern Poet.

New York Times.
For years past the readers of newspaper
poetry as distinguished from the poetry
of other sorts that occasionally appears in
newspapers, have derived especial pleasure
from the verses of Frank l.. Stanton. His
illusions most often in negro dialect, have
an apparent spOntaneousnesS that is lack
ing in most of their kind and betray a
sense of harmony and love or nature in
its most genial moods that put them in a
class by themselves. Stanton is now about
forty-fiye years old. of medium height,
fierce black eyes. and what is described a
a gunpowder complexion, whatever that
may be. He is not product or the college,
or even of the school. for he had to earn
living when other boys are deNotlng them
selves to readers and arithmeticS, and when
Just entering his teens served as ONCE boy
for Joel Chandler Harris on the Savannah
News. Then he worked for a while in
printing office in South Carolina, and final
ly Joined the staff of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton He mas written verses since chhdhood.
and his first dollar for poem came from
New York weekly to which, When fifteen
years old, he sent some verses with very
brief note stating that he wanted that
modest sum for them For the next poem
he demanded 81. and, receiving it, asked 50
for the third. This. too. was paid, and
elated by such a fabulous reward. he sat
down. wrote ten poems in an evening, and
sent them on with a demand for $50 The
whole ten We're declined with curt thanks,
and stanton thought MS poetlc career was
closed until an old printer TO whom he told
the story and showed the poems, said:
You sent too many at one time. The edi-
tOJ lAOdsAl liey must bt pas ieii ioiilS VI bt-
low the average. But they are pretty fair
poems. Send one of them every week TO
your man. He will think that they are
brand new The advice was followed, and
il is said that every one of the poems was
accepted. Stanton's memory-for poetry-is
wonderful. He can repeat the whole of
"Childe Harold" page after page OF Shaks-
peare. and hundreds of lyrics and ballads
For matter of other kinds his memory is
grotesquely untrustworthy. stanton thinks
the South the only proper place sor a man
TO live, and it is said that he has declined
salaries offered by Northern p3pers twice
as large as that which he receives IN At
10
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13

women, holding up their little children for
him TO bless. crowded his way.
When I asked the privilege of having the
ivorytype of herself copied for publication,
Mrs. Douglass shook her head and smiling
~ declined
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
Good Old Days.

Before the time of weather men,
BY Uncle Sam hired,
We always had most perfect days
When picnics were desired
The air was always balmy then,
With sunshine every day.
And happy people ran no risks
By going far away.
The girls put on their summer gowns,
Of thinnest fabrics made,
Ard never felt the slightest chill
Each boy who to the picnic went
In light attire was dressed
Straw hat and short alpaca coat,
And spotless linen vest
All those who owned umbrellas then
At home let them remain
Because in old-time picnic days
They never thought of rain.
They danced and played and sang and laughe
Until the day spent,
And then at evening home they cane
AS dry wnen they went.
But now, alas. how sad change
We see on picnic days,
For to the woods the people go
In costumes that amaze.
They know not whether they'll be soaked,
OF by sharp frost be nipped
And that is why for every kind
OF weather they're equipped.
The girl may wear her summer gown,
But also takes along
Her rubber shoes, Ter macintosh,
And Jacket thick and strong.
The young mal may be lightly clau'
But he will not forget
His overcoat and other things
To shield him from the wet
The morning may be bright and warm,
But ODDS are ten to one
They'll need umbrellas ard their coats
FefOre the day is Gone.
The )ider men and women sign
And think of those days when
Their picnic joys were never marred
BY plots of weather men.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
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most in the center OF a district which con-
talns tour cities with an aggregate popuIa-
Der OF smaller places, and none. OF these
cities is more than thirteen miles away.
Hartford claims a population of nearly 20.
000 and New Britain of more than 10000.
Heretofore the schedule of steam trains
gave service of eight trains each way a
day.
steam trains. while the eastern track car
ries the electric trains. Each is operated
as a single-track separate road. The cleo
trio trains begin running at 6:3U a. m, ana
continue at half-hour intervals until 1870 p.
m, one train leaving each terminal at the
same time. Midway of the line is a turn
the other to pass it. The A-shaped rail
which carries the electric current lies in the
by blocks of wood. Through this passes the
whole of the 500-Volt current, which pro-
pels the cars.
At the stations the electric line is fenced
in. and everywhere If one is seen approach
ing the track, warming cry is shouted OF
DO not touch the rails!' Where the tracks
four places between Berlin and New Brit
ain and at eighteen places between New
Britain and Hartford, the third track is
breaks underground. At these crossings
cattle guards are put into the tracks to
keep men and animals off the live rails, and
fences extend back for some distance on
each side. person might get a serious
shock if he got into contact with the center
rail and one of the outer ones at the same
time. but it seems doubtful whether 1t
would be fatal. Careless workrnen have re-
peatedly stepped from rail to rail without
serious results, and on Saturday a boy
climbed over the fence at Hartford and
walked over the tracks with wet shoes. He
said the shock made his shoulders twitch,
but that was ALL
The Berlin power house is equipped with
the newest devices in boilers engines and
dynamOs, and it is built so that it can be
extended Indefinitely in size Ii the electric
lines already equipped prove satisfactory.
their natural extensions would be to Mid
dletown and Meriden. AT Meriden the
railroad company owns the street trolley
system, and the current for this eventually
will be generated at Berlin.
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Mortality.

Ashes 10 ashes dust to DUST
What of his loving? what of his lust?
What Of his passion? what of his pain?
what of his poverty? what of his pride?
Earth the great mother. has called him again;
Deeply he sleeps, the worlds verdict dened.
Shall he be tried again? shall he go free2
Who shall the court convene? where shall il be :?
No answer on the land. none from the sea-
Only know that he did, we must
You with your theory, you with your trust
Ashes 10 ashesl dust unto Dust
Paul Laurence Dunbar. in the Chap Book.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
FAMOUS BATTLES.

The battle of Buena Vista took its name
from hamlet of northeast Mexico, in the
state of Cohahuila, seven miles south OF
Saltillo.
The bridge of Lodi, where Napoleon
first demonstrated his desperate courage,
is across the AIDA, at little village in
Lombardy, IS miles south of Milan.
The great battle of Borodino, which
opened the gates of Moscow to Napoleon,
was fought at Russian hamlet ON the
banks of Kolotcha Borodino is situated
20 miles southwest of Moscow
The battle of Marathon, where the Per
slams suffered their greatest defeat during
the Greek war, was fought at a village OF
the same name on the east coast of Attica,
about Is miles northeast of Athens.
Kings Mountain is the name Oh Il small
town in CASTOR county, where the cele-
brated battle was fought, not at the vii
lage, but at an eminenceof the same name
in York county. Kings Mountain is SO
miles from Columbia, S. G.
The Wilderness, where a series of battles
were fought between Grant and Lee, is a
wild tract of land on the south bank OF
the Rapidan, in Orange and Spottsylvania
OOuhics, va. ~ 10 an eleNdueu pldUedtl,
Is miles long by 10 broad and densely Gov
cred with underbrush.
Charonea, where Philip ruined Greece
by utterly defeating the army of the Athe-
mans, is a town of northern Greece. A vii
lage on the ruins of the ancient city is
known as Capurna. The ancient town is
more noted for being the birthplace OF
Plutarch than for the battle that was
fought without It's walls. st. Louis Globe
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
MODERN NEWSPAPERS.
There Are No Prejudices In the Way OF
the New Journalist.

There Are No Prejudices In the Way OF
the New Journalist.
The new Journalist has no prejudices
that interfere with his business ends
The founder of his school was the first
man to make an absolutely nonpartisan
paper, and the successful men | talked
with declared that the best way COM
mercially to make an editorial page
was to turn it over to some man with
mind and character who would direct
its policy independently and in good
faith in the interests of the community
as a whole. regardless of parties,
cliques, advertisers or any other inter
ests, however powerful But while this
is being done the business man who
proposes to conduct the enterprise
would have an equally independent
news department. and, having the most
intelligent readers to begin with, he
would broaden the news policy from
their point of view, spending as much as
sensationalism costs for more important,
better written news In short, the COM
mercial ideal contains distinct apprecia-
tion Of the power of opinion, but it
prizes just as highly the value of the
authoritative statement of all the news.
There's not room for many such
newspapers, but that's the kind that
would live and pay forever, z said my
new commercial journalist. j Lin
coin Steffens in Scribner's.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
WILDLY M'eREW.
Out DER the sands where the waves ripple
fxaulr

Out DER the sands where the waves ripple
gayly
A vision with eyes of the tinderest blue
Trips merrily into the glad water daily.
The pearl of the sea is sweet Wildly McGrew.
Her glance is so kind, her smile is so winning,
So graceful her figure. her laughter so true,
That all can hear is me heart wildly dinning,
81 love ye, love ye, sweet Wildly McGrewi
Last night we were strolling the wide beach
together
Alone in the moonlight. her hand on me arm,
Whin sudden she halted and asked of me
whether
heard drums a beating or fire bells alarmi
Me heart stopped moment, me tongue grew
unruly.
said: II hear guns, bells and drums beat
ing too.
But it's all in me heart, and the raison is truly
love ye, love ye, sweet Wildly McGrewi"
The sacret was out, and stood there a-trem-
bling.
In dreadful suspinse for an age did stand.
She gazed on the ground, either shy or dis
sembling.
And scraped with her shoe deep hole in the
sand.
''Me grave she is digging. despairful ! NUT
tered,
"Apd sure shall fill it, for dead soon I'll
Whin she gave me look and thin timidly ut
tered,
"Youl hear all that din whin the bys shiv-
aree."
Sweet Wildly McGrew, your smile is SO win
ming,
Your eyes are SO tinder, your laughter SO
true,
Me heart day and night will foriver be dinning,
~ love ye, love ye"-not Wildly McGrew.
j. P. G. in New York Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
The NEW WOMAN.

Does WomanIiness Inhere In Clothes, In
Occupation, or What?
A newspaper picked up lately tells
the story of very competent and sue
cessful woman electrician. She under
stands every detail of electric lighting,
even to making much of the apparatus
She can figure on the cost of contract
for electrical lighting or for plumbing
and gas fitting to any extent. She is
also an expert craftsman in the me-
chanical line. The writer of the story
remarks patronizingly that she is SO
we'll up in mathematics that she solves
problems few men would undertake.
Again, when it comes to executing
rush contract she can put it through as
fast "as any man in her line. Again
it is man, always man, If woman
can do anything as well as man could
do it, she is patted on the back and pat
ronized or regarded as freak, as the
case may be. By the way, if a woman
plumber cannot do any better work
than the man plumber can, then heaven
help herl AS usual, however, the biog-
rapher of the woman electrician pro-
ceeds to descant on her eminently wom-
anly character. AS usual, we are told
that in spite of her masculine" occu-
patton she is not the least bit mannish.
Oh, mol She is good housekeeper-s
is really-likes to sew and makes her
own frocks. The common herd cannot
seem to get out of their heads that there
is actually sex in occupations, i'll cloth
ing-yes, in manners and morals too.
The biographer of the woman electrician
does not understand the truth that the
sex is in the woman herself, not in her
work or in her clothes. Let us see how
it works the other way. Take, for in
stance, Mr.. Redfern or NJ. Worth or
any of the fashionable man milliners
and dressmakers Let us write their
story. Let us tell how this one comes
in himself and pinches in the waist of
woman with his own big, broad hands
or how that one sits i'll his private room
and trims bonnets beautifully. / know
personally men who do both these
things. Let us tell how successful they
are in their work Then let us add: But
in spite of their feminine occupations
these men are not bit womanish. They
neither wear wells nor skirts, nor do
they refuse to vote. They do not scream
and faint at the sight of mouse nor do
they sit upon the floor when they but
ton their shoes. How would that sound?
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28

m monalr. Farrerns are stamped on Tne
goods or marked with soapstone. The
hercules and titan braids are also used,
but they generally have looped edge
of soutache. A lady can follow her own
taste and be pretty sure she is right.
Silk braids sewed fiat or tailor stitched
are very stylish. Capes have very elabo-
rate designs in the wide and narrow
braids Velvet with silk braid is very
elegant. A new mantle jacket with
short sleeves, made of dark gray or
black cloth, has rich though not very
elaborate braiding. A. novelty in fur
trimmed suits is plum colored cloth,
with bands of krimmer around the bot
tom and forming loops in front The
round basque has lapels, collar and
cuffs of the krimmer, and a pert little
toque is made of the same.
Plaids are on the top wave of popu-
larity for street wear. Plaid silks
for home in blouses to wear with
dark skirts or skirts to wear with
dark blouses are considered extra chic.
Fringes have been brought forward
very suddenly and offered as trim
ming to many garments. These are of
the old, old style, with a corded edge
and twisted fringe. 1t was the woolen
fringe to the shawls and shawl mantles
that gave the start, think, but there
is already quite variety of designs,
with more to hear from.
Some of the hats look like jokes un-
til the wearers get them on. There are
furry beavers with enormous Tapping
brims. These have no crown at all in
some cases and depend upon a Tam
O'Shanter arrangement for crown.
Others are turned and twisted into
shape and then trimmed with feathers,
pompons, velvet flowers, curious wings
and spread tails and draped bows and
loops.
The new furs are taking unwonted
shapes this season. We find natty little
short jacket waists, with open fronts
and revers, with white broadcloth vests
and high collars. These jackets are
made with bell sleeves and are of seal
or one of its limitations or moire astra-
khan or Persian. The moire astrakhan
is also used to make the fashionable
mantle capes. One has a double satin
bow at the back of the neck and an
other at the waist line, each with a
handsome oval gold buckle. Dainty col
larettes are made with futed collar
of seal with a border of krimmer OF
mouf1on, the front ornamented with
sable heads and tails. There are many
sealskin toques and turbans. Pelerines
are very stylish. One of the handsomest
has the center of seal and the border
and high collar of gray monffion,
HENRIETTE ROUSSEAU.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
MILLINERY NoyELTIEs. ETC.

petticoat was valued at $50. The body
of the skirt was of taffeta that fairly
sparkled with erispness. There was a
row of four lace rufdes, the under one
being the narrowest, and each succeed
ing one little wider, and all sewed SO
that the lower edges were even. Above
all these was an 18 inch fiounce of
white lace. and falling over this an
other inches deep. Starting 18 inches
from the lower edge of the upper
ruff1e there were laid double crosses of
white moire picot ribbon one-half inch
wide. These held the two upper fiounces
in sort of vandyked points. The whole
concern was too fufily beautiful to
wear. It would take one's whole time,
to say nothing of money, to live up to it.
Many-very many-of the darker silk
petticoats have veritable bustles of
featherbone sewed in at the back and
pipings of the same at intervals all the
way down and on the rufdes, all of
which causes them to set out we'll and
support the skirts Of the dresses, which
in turn are also more or less supported
by featherbone tapes. It gives stylish
hang to skirt not to be obtained in
any other way.
Among the unmade novelties I found
beautiful piece of royal blue broad
cloth wrought into perpendicular stripes
by a design of black soutache braiding
about an inch and half wide. There
is more braiding applied on dresses,
cloaks and coats this season than has
been seen for Is years. tits always rich,
and though much Of it is done by ma
chine in the cloak and coat factories
ladies may very easily braid their own
garments Set pieces are provided for
many Of the military styles, but for the
others it requires the fine castle soutaohe
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
Rose to the Occasion.

The story of young woman who
wound up her letter to friend with.
"P. ST. forgot to tell you was mar
ried, is matched. says the London Tel
egraph Miss Kate - OF Belfast re-
Gently consented to adopt the name of a
gentleman friend, and SO they were
married She is in Dublin now and is
stopping at the Gresham hotel The
other day she made some purchases.
and in going home she said, ''You may
send them home for me-Miss Kate
-, Gresham hotel =
She had reached the sidewalk before
she recollected that she had given her
maiden name With admirable wit she
stepped back and said to the clerk, "Oh
by the way, send that package to Miss
Kate , care Of Mrs. , Gresham
hotel, and she swept out of the store
es if she had been married Is years
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
The Duration of Life Varies According to
Circumstances.


The Duration of Life Varies According to
circumstances.
Among the long lived in the animal
kingdom we may mention birds. fish
and reptiles, although even in the lower
animals the duration of life varies Inn
mensely. according to the species OF
fish, the carp are especially long lived
Among birds, some of the parrot spe-
cies are supposed to live over 100 years
The swan, the raven, the eagle, are also
credited with great length of life.
In the mammalia, the elephant at
tains the greatest age. 1t grows for 25
to 80 years and is said to live from 100
to 150 years and even longer. We have
no accurate means of ascertaining the
whales age. A lion is said to have lived
70 years in the Tower, but there is no ev-
idence that he attains anything like that
age in the natural state. Forty years is
recorded by naturalists as the extreme
age. The camel may attain the age Of
so. 1t eats little and drinks less The
horse is comparatively short lived ami
NAL, but it is well known fact that
"AoH no uOoS 4AteAo WIN anu pesSes 1no
greater part of his days in pasture he
may attain to about 40 years of life,
but when a horse is hard worked and
fed, moreover, upon beans, oats and
other ossifying foods his days are much
shorter.
In the vegetable kingdom the yew at
tains great age. Those at Fountains abb
bey are about 1900 years old. Two
orange trees at Rome. planted respec-
lively by St. Dominic and Thomas
Aquinas, are said to be from 500 to 500
years old, and there are records OF trop-
ical trees that, counting by their rings,
are supposed to have attained the age
of 800 to 1000 years -Nineteenth Gem
tury
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-28
Mixed English.

American and English tourists who
visited Ischl, i'll Austria, recently were
confronted with the following notice on
a signboard over the door of one Of the
hostelries of the place, TO the gentle
mans Englanders and Americaners, here
you become asses. Upon inquiry it
was learned that the purport of the sin
gular sign was that the proprietor of the
place had donkeys to let which were
used for excursions into the neighboring
mountains. A much travelled cobbler,
who professed to be able to master the
English language, was responsible for
the unique wording Of the sign, He had
translated the German sentence, An
die Herren Englander und Amerikaner,
hier bekommt ihr Esel. the latter four
words meaning here you can hire
asses. 2