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MIR. ingalls, Is All Right.
Washington Post.

In one of those easy little paraphrases
with which the truly great editor occa-
,ionally rests his mind, the New Orleans
Picayune says:
Ex-senator John j. ingalls,. of Kansas
IS not likely to be in demand at college
commencements this year. If the action
of Central College, Fayette. Mo, may be
taken as an indication. Some months ago
that distinguished gentleman was invited
to deliver the annual address at the com
meneement exercises OF the college ir
identified himself so prominently with
prize lighting the faculty have entered
Jrotest, and the students are compelled
to notify Mr. ingalls, that his presence
rs Il platform speaker upon that occasion
is not desired The good people say
Amen! and the Union Signal says: Good
for Central College.
What mournful tommyrot! Mr. ingalls,
went 10 Carson to make an Impressions
tic picture of the Fitzsimmons-Co rhett
prize fight. He was and is not a pugilist
He has no relations, social or otherwise
with pugilists. He accepted an offer from
4 New York paper to do certain literary
work, Just as other writers do, the world
over. He reported prize fight Others
etc. etc. Does il follow that he identified
himself with prize fighting because he
faithfully performed this service? You
might, as well say that missionaries iden-
they settle in Tahiti or Fiji.
1t seems to us that the faculty of Cen
trail College have made sorry spectacles
of themselves. In canceling Mr. Ingalls's
engagement they have deprived the nnpils
of the most brilliant and instructive adj
dress that is likely to come their way in
many years, and they have offered a stupid
and brutal indignity to a gentleman who
in brains. culture, purity of public and
private life, patriotism and high purpose
is, we venture to say, equal if not the SUI
not injure or discredit Mr.. Ingalls, That is
quite certain.
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Memorial Day.

With waving of starry banners,
With music of bugles sweet,
All day through cur streets has echoeo
The tramp of marching teet
From many q mountain valley,
From city and town and hill,
Around the graves where their comrades sleep
The soldiers gather still.
They think of the bitter partings
When first they marched away,
The ranks of Blue from the NorthlandI
From the sunny South the Gray.
Some with hearts that were eager
And hot with the fire of youth,
Some with a purpose steady
To fight for God and truth.
They think of the battles tumult
And the cannon's sullen roar,
And the yellow glow Of sunset light
When the weary fight was o er;
When, gathered around the campfire,
Their yearning thoughts would roam,
AS softly sweet some comrade sang
The words Of Home, Sweet Home.
They remember the solemn roll calls
And the silent pause that came
When in the hush the sergeant called
Some missing soldiers name.
They remember the days Of terror,
And nights that were long with dread,
When left alone on the field they watched
With the dying and the dead.
With ranks that are growing thinner
Each year the soldiers meet
All day through our streets has echoed
The tramp of their marching feet.
Marching closer together
OH loyal ranks of Blue!
In silence deep your comrades sleep.
For the weary strife is through.
Marching closer together.
OH patient rank of Gray
In silence deep your comrades sleep,
And strife has passed away.
For both we mourn with loving tears;
Brave hearts on either side.
The memory of your noble deeds
Still thrills our hearts with pride.
And year by year we gather.
With wreaths and garlands gay,
To deck the graves where dreaming lie
The ranks of Blue and Gray.
And the grass shall wave Ger the low green
tents,
And blossoms crown the sod,
When the last brave soldier falls asleep
In the long sweet peace of God.
Angelina w. Wray.
Sleep. comrades sleep and rest
on this field of grounded arms,
Where foes more modest,
Nor sentry's shot alarms.
Ye have slept on the ground before,
And started to your feet
At the cannons sudden roar,
Or the drum's redoubling beat.
But in this, camp Of death
No sound Your slumher breaks;
Here is no feyered breath,
No wound that bleeds and aches.
All is repose and peace;
Untra nDled lies the sod
The shouts of battle CEASE
1t is the truce of God.
Rest, comrades! rest and sleep!
rhe thoughts of men should be
AS sentinels to keep
Your rest from dangers free.
Your silent tents OF green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
You $ has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
Longfellow.
The good ship Unions voyage is o'er
At anchor safe she swings,
And loud and clear with cheer on cheer
Her joyous welcome rings;
Hurrlh Hurahl it shakes the wave,
1t thunders on the shore
One flag, one land, heart, one hand,
One Nation, evermore
% w. Holmes.
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The partial destruction of Squire Keig-
wins residence at 1870 o'clock yesterday
morning, was the third disastrous fire that
he has suffered since 1875 He attributes
his bad luck to the fact that he once killed
a cat
AS he sat in his office yesterday he told
the story of his losses to Il reporter for the
Commercial. He said:
I'm 1878 owned one of the finest equipped
farms in the county. My barn was stored
with a rich harvest wagons, carriages
farming implements. eight fine horses and
other property, the whole valued at S6. 600
and one day a cat ran down the stairs in
front of me- and. that being a bad sign. |
caught and dashed ii against the wall. KILL
ing it. y week later my barn and contents
were burned.
~ month later" resumed the squire
after he paused TO note the effect OF his
narrative on the reporter. Il sold a piece of
land to a man named May. and he paid me
81 500 i'm money. The transaction occurred
in field where l was burning some stub
bile and underbrush. | put the money in my
overcoat pocket and laid the garment on a
stump, In the direction opposite 10 which
the fire was travelling. Well sir, that fire
sneaked around against the wind and all
found an hour later of the stump, overcoat
etc, was a brass button and a doorkey
which the fire spared because IL could not
do otherwise. tell YOU. man will never
have any luck il he kills a cat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
How to Live Longer.

AS almost everybody wishes to live long,
a book which purpOrts to tell how to do
it is worth considering. How to Live
Long, and Why We Do Not Live Longer"
by DR.. G.. r. Hayes is an intelligent SEN
sible and instructive treatise on the line in
Dictated. The author is no quack, but an
educated physician, formerly a surgeon of
United States Volunteers and medical di-
rector of the Department of the Potomac,
and now medical examiner in the Bureau
of Pensions at Washington. lie has a head
and a heart, common sense literary Skill,
and power TO teach. His book Is not large,
but it is packed full of useful hygienic in
formation and practical suggestions. Con-
sumption he shows to be the great scOurge
of the human race. but holds its eradication
to be practicable by the use of preventive
measures as in the case of any other con-
tagious disease. He has an ideal for sani-
tary marriages, and bent toward 'homi-
culture or the reproduction of the race in
the direction of Improvement upon scientific
principles: but admits the difficulties in
realizing his ideal. There is a capital chap
ter on eating and digestion, another on the
heart and the care of it, another on baths,
and others on obesity nervous prostration
rest and sleep, and Sunday The book will
repay careful reading by all who wish to
be well Informed on the subjects of which
it treats. Cloth, 81. Philadelphia: j. b.
Lippincott Company.
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for party OF croquet players some little
distance from the dining room This party
consisted of Colonel Magrew, his son, wife,
Mr.. Ruby. Miss Havens ana Captain
Ravens. The commandant was playing
when Quick accosted him with an oath and
asked what he had against him. The
colonel answered nothing but ordered
him off the croquet grounds He at once
made thrust with his sharp, ready-pre-
pared knife. Colonel Magrew tripped over
the wicket, and then 1t was that Captain
Ravens struck Quick with mallet. as did
also George Magrew. Had the victim been
some other member of the home il would
have been all the same to Quick. There is
certainly nothing to investigate. except by
the court where Quick will have a chance
to answer for his assault with intent TO kill
MRS. JULIA G. HARDING.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The Landlord at Lions Head, Mr.
HOTvells's Latest Novel.


w D. Howellss latest work is a New
England character novel with an ending
that might almost be called satisfactory,
even by lovers of the romantic. While Jere
Westover. an artist. was stopping at the
Durgin farm, opposite Lions Head noun
tain, painting a picture of the hill, it oc-
CURED to Mrs Durgin that it would be
profitable to make business of taking
boarders. The following year she opened an
inn. and prospered. Her sons, Jackson and
Jeff. assisted her, and Cynthia Whitwell, a
neighbors daughter, became housekeeper.
With good fortune, the desire came to Mrs.
Durgin to send jeff to Harvard and make
him lawyer. jeff goes to Cambridge, is
a tritie lively in freshman year. but at the
close of junior year realizes that he is a
Jay ana is more fitted for innkeeping
than for law. Thereupon he asks Cynthia
TO become his wife. and she accepts him
his promise not TO leave college until he has
graduated. During senior year Jeff has
serious Irritation with Bessie Lynde, and
after talking the matter over with West
over, confesses the whole thing to Cynthia.
The breach between the two does not occur
at once, but results gradually, and when
Mrs. Durgtn dies jeff goes abroad and re-
news an acquaintance with Miss NOStrand,
who had spent a summer at Lions Head a
few seasons previous. He marries Miss
Nostrand and returns to become the land
lord of a large hotel at Lions Head. which
he builds over the ruins of the old inn that
was destroyed by fire during his absence
abroad. Westover in the meantime, having
spent many weeks every summer at the
inn, has gradually fallen in love with Gym
thia and eventually marries her. This out
line of the story need not detract from the
interest in reading it. The development of
Jefferson Durgin, the hero. from a country
lad to a Harvard undergraduate, affords
Mr.. HoWellS an opportunity to contrast two
distinctive features of our social life. The
city types he presents with his familiar ski
and subtle humor, and his pictures of rustic
New England are delineated with exquisite
character. His study of young Durgin de-
serves to rank among his most complex,
Cynthia Whitwell he has drawn one of the
most interesting and lovable women that he
has as yet given us. Cloth $1.25. Harper 81
Bros.
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Lie of Abby Hopper Gibbons.

Many veterans of the Army of the Poto-
mac, especially those who were in hospitals.
will remember Mrs. Gibbons whose benign
presence and untiring service brought COM
fort and happiness to so many. Her maiden
name was Abby Hopper. She was a MEM
Der of the Friends Church and born phil
anthropist and reformer She took an ac-
tive part in the early movement for the
abolition of slavery, was personal friend
an She was active in establishing homes,
asylums, reformatores, diet kitchens and
other beneficial institutions, and was alto
gether woman of strong and noble char
acter. She was born in 1900 and died in 1898
and the story of her long life is told in
Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons" by her
story is told chiefly through Mrs. Gibbons
correspondence, which was voluminous.
Two volumes; cloth. &c. G. p. Putnams
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
THE COURT RECORD.


Room John l.. McMaster, Judge
Mary F. Smith VS.. David K. Smith; di-
Vorce. Decree granted to plaintiff with Gus
tody of minor child, aged two years, John
NJ. Smith.
Joseph smedIey VS. Eliza smedley; di-
vorce. Decree granted plaintiff at his cost.
Prohibited from marrying for two years
Laura E.. Thompson VS.. Elwood G.
Thompson; divorce. Decree granted plain
tiff at his cost.
trong; divorce. Finding and decree for the
Ada X. Small VS.. |. Small; divorce. De-
cree granted plaintiff with custody of minor
children, to wit Florence A, Hazel NJ.
John r, with permission to defendant to
visit at reasonable times. Judgment against
defendant for costs.
Room 2-L M. Harvey, Judge.
Charles h Grothe VS. Louise Grothe di-
vorce; Decree granted defendant on cross
complaint.
Nellie Burkhart vs. John Burkhart; di-
vorce. Decree granted plaintiff.
Room 3-Vinson Garter, Judge.
Henry j. Craig vs.. Sarah Hubbart ct al;
note. Finding and judgment for plaintiff
against defendant for $JS.12 and costs.
John NJ Pickens VS.. Emma NJ. Harding ct
al; foreclosure. Finding that there is due
plaintiff $2,00416. Finding and judgment IN
favor Of cross-complalnants Nathan f. Dali
ton and Charles ~. Merrifleld against David
Gin for $3.50 and costs.
Della Nicholson VS.. Citizens Street-rail-
road Company; damages. Dismissed by
plaintiff Judgment against plaintiff for
costs.
Harden Parrish ct al. vs.. Christiana Con-
vim ct al; foreclosure. Finding and judg-
ment against David Convin for $526.31 and
costs
Henry Clay Allen, Judge.
Nicholas McCarty VS. John Hughes ct al;
default Submitted to court. Evidence
heard Finding for plaintiff and judgment
against John and Margaret Hughes in the
sum of $271.34 and costs and against John
Hughes for $536.1S and costs.
Flanner & Buchanan VS.. Ruth Hedges's
estate; claim. Allowance by administrator
in the sum of $3.50 and costs against the
estate. .
John H. Holiday ct al VS.. the State
Board of Tax Commissioners. Finding for
plaintiff and injunction granted
Board of Children's Guardians VS.. Hen
rietta A. Strath. Submitted to court Evil
New Suits Filed.
Edward Hawkins, receiver, VS.. Amanda
Glenn ct al; writ to foreclose mortgage.
Circuit Court.
chanic's lien Superior Court, Room 2.
Sarah Jane Rowland VS.. Edwin r. Now
land; suit for divorce. Superior Court,
Room 9.
al; suit for support Superior Court,
Room ?. . $500
mechanics lien Superior Court. Room l.
William F. Gray vs.. Chrissie j. Gray; di-
vorce. Superior Court, Room /.
BENJAMIN f. David ct al VS.. Martha
Wright ct al; suit for partition. Superior
Court, Room ?.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
Am Exnerimenf in Edncntinn.

Teachers and trainers of children will be
interested in work entitled IAN Experi-
ment in Education" by Mary r. Aling-
Aber 1t is an account OF experiments in
teaching children that were made in a pri-
school at Englewood, Ill The experi-
ments were an attempt to see how far the
prevalent customs as to matter and method
of teaching children are responsible for the
unsatisfactory state of the mental life OF
adults and the means used were totally
different subject matter and treatment. In
a general way it might be said the method
employed was the inductive in connection
with object lessons, and the results were
interesting and suggestive Cloth, $l.20.
IJa rpaT q RrOthprS
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PnhIishern, Notes.

Richard Mansfield has just completed ar
engagements with Messrs. l.. c. Page & Co.,
of Boston, for the publication OF his nrss
book to be entitled Blown Away"
Europe. read the final proofs of volume
entitled "rFhe Scholar and the State, Short
" to be published by the Century COM
pany. The book Is made up or essays dis
cussing sociological and civic questions.
The Century Company is preparing a new
edition of The Autobiography of Joseph
jefferson. a" which has had large sale. This
edition will contain an additional chapter
including Mr.. Jefferson's poem. Shakes
Deare versus Bacon" delivered by the actor
answer to Ignatius Donnellys cryptic
gram
good deal has been said of late with re-
gard TO the alleged preference among pub
fishers in this country for fiction by foreign
rather than American writer's So the long
list OF American stories announced by Har'
per d Brothers this spring Is peculiarly ins
teresting. lit includes works by unknown
authors by those who are becoming known
and by those who have been long and IA
vorably known; among others, "A Loyal
Traitor" by James Barnes. 'Leonora OF
the Yawmsh" by Francis Dana The De.
scendant,' by an anonymous writer; ma
Ian lord a. Lions Head" by w. ID. How
ellis: THE Mistress of the Ranch, by Fred
erick Thickstun Clark: The Missionary
Sheriff" by Octave Thanet The Pursuit
Bangs THE Great Stone of Sardis," by
Frank r. Stockton; Bound in shadows"
by Eva Wilder Brodhead; Sweet Re-
venge" by Il. A. Mitchell. Jerome; a Poor
Man, by Mary 4. Wilknsi outlines In
Local Color" by Prof. Observation-Disclosures;
In Simpknsville, by Mrs. Ruth MeEnery
Stuart Hell fer Sartain, and Other
Stories" by John Fox. jr.; "Bobbo, ana
-Susans Escort and Others" by Edward
Everett Hale,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
HOW to Tell n story.

In "Harper's Contemporary Essayists'
series appears volume by Mark Twain
entitled How to Tell a Story and Other
ESSAYS" The title essay treats of the hui
mOrous as distinguished from the comic or
witty story. The other essays are. I'm De-
Tense of Harriet Shelly and examination
of the charges against Shelleys first wife
implied in Professor Dowden's biography of
the poet; ''Fenimore Cooper's Literary Of
lenses" which are shown TO be due TO his
lack OF observation: Travelling with a Re
former" IN which the author goes to the
Worlds Fair with the maler, whose life oc~
cupation Is crusade against petty Injustice
and in behalf of citizens rights; Private
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
AT GENERAL sTREIGHTS GRAVE.
Annual Memorial Exercises Held
There Yesterday.

There Yesterday.
In accordance with a custom which has
been annually observed since the death of
General A. D. Streight, five years ago.
memorial exercises were held over the
grave of the dead soldier on the lawn of
the Streight home, east of the city yester-
day. The exercises were conducted by the
Fifty-hrst Regimental Association and the
General A. d. Streight Circle. Ladies of the
G. A. r. of West indianapolis The yard
was filled with people during the afternoon.
Mrs. Streight, widow Of the soldier. and
her son, John Streight. made the company
welcome and served refreshments after the
exercises.
The ceremonies over the grave consisted
Of prayers addresses by comrades and
songs and rotations The grave was
5trewn with flowers and flags were displayed
IN profuston. The exercises opened with
Song by Comrade BauChman "A Tear for
The Comrades that Are Gone This was
followed by a prayer by 4. V. Charpie and
L recitation by little Cora Bicknell Adj
iresses followed by William NJ. Cochran,
VI. p. Johnson, Kirby Smith. Justus c.
ADAMS and Mrs Streght AT 3 the ladies
IF the G. a. r. took charge of the exer-
Uses For the ladies', John II. Henchen,
past commander of Alvin p. Hovey Post.
delivered the address. There was also
talk by ex-Lieutenant Governor Hanna and
Mrs. DR. Lawrence and song by Rev l..
W. Bicknell, entitled Il Want to See My
Captain"
"reminiscences were related of General
Streight whose death occurred May II,
1892. One story of interest was how Gen
eral Streight in 1862, escaped with others
from Libby prison by digging out through
a tunnal General Streight engineered the
scheme and 109 men attempted to escape.
Part of them were captured. but General
Streight with others We're successful in get
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
JOHN f. CLELAND's ADDRESS.
Memorial Services at Meridian-Street
NJ Il. Church.


VI. Z. Church.
John f. Cleland delivered a Memorial day
address at the Meridian-street NJ. T.. Church
yesterday morning. 1t was largely reminis-
cent in character, Mr.. Cleland first telling
of the origin of Memorial day. Before the
end of the late war few women gathered
in a graveyard to weep over the graves of
husbands and sons and to strew flowers as
a token of love. From this simple circum-
stance Memorial day came TO be observed
throughout the Nation. Mr.. Cleland said
that there is always a desire to commemo-
rate birthdays and deathdays in individual
life. So il is with nations. The Fourth of
July is commemorated in this country as
the birth of American independence. Memo
rial day commentaries the death of soldiers
who died to perpetuate the government.
There are buried i'm the national ceme-
teries on the old battle grounds over 100000
men who fell in battle. OF their graves
about one-half have at their heads a plain
stone marked unknown ~ In this fact
Mr. CIeland saw one of the most pathetic
incidents In the history of the war.
Much OF his talk was of the practical
lessons the soldiers learned by a few
the North soon gave up the idea that the
war was TO end in six months and the
"Johnnies'' gave over the idea that one OF
tl,om could lick five ''Yanks." He described
how the Union soldiers left home with we'll
filled knapSacks and told how they grad
ually shrunk as the months rolled away
into years
Mr. Cleland referred to the fact that at the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
One Man who was Content.

Mrs Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, whose
English Cathedrals" had many admirers,
appears as the author OF four short stories
which are published in a pretty volume en-
titled zone Man Who Was Content" Be
sides the title story the three others are:
Mary" THE Lustigs'' and "Coriana FL
ammetta." The title story is psychology
ical study which breaches the gospel of con-
tentment along the largest. noblest lines
for the hero of the tale gives as the source
of his happiness the sense that he has real
" lived the life of a man; that he wanted
and obtained. aspired and realized pos
sessed and enjoyed, fought with his special
fate and gained the victory. The other
stories deal with the seamy side of life in
New York. Cloth, 81. The Century Com
nv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
The Assault at the soldiers Home.

TO the Editor Of the INDIANAPOLIS journal:
AS a matter Of justice allow dlsinter-
ested eyewitness state the facts in the
murderous assault at the State Soldiers
Home. / saw James Quick at the dining
room door, where all inmates were as
semhling after the first bugle supper call
lie was drunk and anxious for fight. He
invited anybody or everybody to come
on" No one answered him. At the sec
ond buge call all entered the dining room
He also made believe TO eat, but instead
left after drinking a cup Of tea. and made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
Sketches AWheeI.

The bicycle is likely to become an i'm
pOrtant factor in travelling and indirectly
in the production of books of travel 1t
has already been the inspiration of several
books, the latest of which is Sketches
Awheel in Modern IBERIA" delightful mar
rative of a long bicycle tour in Spain by
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. Workman All
readers have become accustomed to the
manner of looking at foreign peoples en-
ployed by the regulation tourist-even if
he be a literary tourist-who sets out with
a little stock Of prearranged notions, gem
orally speaking the accretions of race pref
udiCe and hearsay, and tries to make all
he sees and hears fit in with and support
these. Mr.. and Mrs. Workman on the
contrary appear to have set out with their
minds as little numbered with stuff of this
sort as their bicycles were of luggage.
They travelled through remote and unusual
spots in Spain, spots where bicycles were
hardly less common than the presence of
Ingles-the name used in common for both
Americans and English people. They Wis
tied more than fifty Spanish cities, towns
and villages, and saw much of the country
people, and everywhere they were treated
with the greatest kindness and hospitality.
The book abounds with interesting descrip-
ton of places and people and has a fine
map and several pictures caught by kodak.
New York: c.. Z. Putnam'S Sons.