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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-16
THE JOURNALS POETS


W. SASNAG
oh. the beautiful mansion 1 have planned!
And the palaces, bright and fair!
Strong castles I've builded, stern and grand,
By rivers that flowed over golden sand,
Yet 1 own never a foot Of land
1 have tailt them all in the air.
I have dwelt in these mansions fair and bright;
How very strange it seems.
I have ruled in my palaces-just and right;
Have guarded my castles-a lordly knight;
And climbed ambitions Hottest height
To glory-in my dreams.
Yes, ] dreamed by night and dreamed by day.
While the seasons swiftly passed,
Dreaming my childhood hours away,
Till the dawn of manhood's morn was gray.
But the dreams Of youth, so bright and gay,
Have been realized at last!
The mansion, palace, castle--three
Are combined in a humble cot.
My lady-my q~ueen-rules there with me,
And two little subjects bend the knee
At the throne of love. Bold chivalry
Meier purchased a happier lot.
Huntington, Ind. Fan Boyd Heiney.
Beside the sea.
The wave-washed strand with low red rocks
around,
The long swell breaking with a solemn sound,
The lonely gulls afoat in dreamy blue,
A white-sailed ship fast fading from my view,
And 1 am left alone beside the sea,
Tie gray of twilight fast encircling me.
1 love the sea; its rhythmic ebb and flow,
Mysterious, sad, unsatisfied, L know
Its every mood, IT'S voices call to me;
Yeti as nights shadows fall [ think Of thee,
Far inland in thy snow-gIrt home, and slow
| turn IRE from, the sea toward sunsets glow.
A weary distance stretches 'twixt us twain;
In dreams / traverse forest, mountain, plain,
And walk with thee beside thy wind-swept mere,
Close, close thou foldest me, kissing eyes, lips,
hair;
1 wake; the sea-bird's cry, the breakers moan,
And mist-veiled sky are mine, and they alone.
Bath Beach, l.. /. Harriet Nowlin Bullock.
Though my roses have all faded,
/ am still enjoying the memory of their beauty
and fragrance
Grieve not your flowers dead
Their perfume lost to sense.
Their death the angels know
And make full recomoense.
All, soon our roses die,
The fairest buds decay,
But friendship, fairer still,
Will live and last Away.
Indianapolis. -~Ben-Ardys.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-16
ONE VIEW OF ABDUL HAMID.

any tribute of his countrymen or their PC:
terity to his memory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
WHAT WILL THE SENATE DOR

The Dingley tariff bill, which may be
considered as voicing the sentiments of
the administration, has passed the first
stage of it's progress toward becoming
a law. having been adopted by the
house yesterday by a strict party vote.
Every Republican voted for it. Every
Democrat but five voted against it and
the Populists, with one exception, How
ard of Alabama refrained from voting.
It can be truthfuIly asserted that it is
IN every respect a Republican measure.
The opposition had nothing whatever
to do with it. 1t passed as it came
from Mr.. Dingley's committee. the only
amendments made being those offered
by its authors.
The only important addition made to
the bill in the house was the clause
making the new schedules apply from
today.
The bill will now go to the senate and
what that body will do with it time
alone will tell. A due regard for public
sentiment as we'll as good politics would
seem to demand its immediate passage.
The people when they voted for Mr..
Mckinley, voted for Mckinley tariff
and they have a right to what they
voted for. It must be presumed that
they knew what they wanted and it is
not for the senate because it may have
an opposition majority to thWart them.
If the new tariff schedules are good
for the country they cannot be made
effective too soon. If they are not good
for the country, then any delay in put
ting them into effect only makes matters
worse, since it is conceded that the bin
will pass ultimately. A number of SEN
ators who are members of the opposi-
ton to the administration have said
that they will not oppose the final pas
sage of the bill.
There is nothing to be gained by de-
laying it by debate or amendments. If
the measure benefit the country as its
friends expect that it will, nobody can
divide the credit therefor with the Re
peblicans, even though the senate should
succeed in amending it. If it prove a
failure good politics demands that the
opposition leave no room for the charge
that they mutilated the bill or weaken
ed it by delay.
The Democrats, Populists and free
silver Republicans in the senate have
from political standpoint, everything
to gain and nothing to lose by permit
ting the immediate passage of the ad-
mtnistration tariff measure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
M'KINLEY'S So CIGARS.
From Havana, the Presi-
dent Surprises His Cabinet.

Washington, April 1.-The president
somewhat surprised his cabinet at the
dinner given them when he brought out
box of cigars that were eight inches long
and IL inches in diameter.
Several of the guests-tough old smok>
ers like Mr.. Gage and Mr.. Bliss, Mr.
Hanna and Col Herrick, of Cleveland
undertook to smoke them. They found
their flavor very fine, the finest they had
ever tasted in a cigar But one would
last a whole evening, and they did not
have time TO smoke more than half way
up before they were called to reJoin the
ladies. These cigars were received by the
president from q manufacturer in Ha-
Vana, and were part of an invoice made
to order for the Emperor of Austria, who
likes his cigars long, fat and strong, and
pays $40 for each box containing ten ci-
gars, or 81 per cigar.
The tobacco is of the finest quality to
be obtained in Cuba. The cigars are
made with unusual care, and there IS just
as much tobacco in ten of them as in
box containing 100 ordinary cigars. The
president received these through a friend
who happened to have been visiting in
Cuba, and was asked by the manufacturer
to bring them to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
TO PROTECT INVENTORS.
SenatorHansbrough Introduces a Bill
to Prevent SwindIing.

Washington, April Senator Hans
brough of North Dakota has introduced
a bill to prevent inventors and others
from being deceived and defrauded by
alleged patent attorneys. The text
follows:
That hereafter it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons, firm or cor
poration, engaged in procuring and
prosecuting patent claims, to offer or
award to their business correspondents
or clients any gift, prize or chance to
win one, medal of honor, certificate OF
stock or any other article or thing of
real or supposed value, intrinsic or
otherwise; and any person or persons
violating the provisions of this act shall
be deemed guilty of miSdeIneanOr and
on conviction thereof shall for each Of
Tense be punished by fine of not less
than $500 and not more than $1,000, or
by Imprisonment at hard labor for not
less than six months nor more than one
year.
Sec 2. That all applications for pat
ents which may hereafter be filed by
or through an attorney or any person
representing himself as such shall be
accompanied by an affidavit of such at
torney, Of person, that he has nOt-vio-
of this act, and false swearing thereto
shall constitute perjury.
Sec. 8. That in all cases where the
government has heretofore or may
hereafter receive fees for or on account
of devices already patented in the Unit
ed States the amount thereof shall be
promptly refunded to the respective
payees.
Sec. 4. The commissioners of patents
shall, as early as practicable, prescribe
and prOmulgate rules for the admlS-
sion and disbarment of attorneys prac-
ticing before that Office, said rules to
be subject to the approval OF the sec
rotary of the interior.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
MAN MUST EM1eRArE.
From AIyron Reeds sermon.l


There must be emigration. Man
loves his home, the place he was born
in. He leaves because he is crowded
out. The result is an Inhabited earth
an Garth used and occupied.
Now that the earth is reasonably dis
covered and filled with people, it is time
that all sorts of persecution and crowd
ing out should cease. We have learn
how to live together. Confusion of
tongues and general misunderstanding
have scattered people abroad. Their
good work is accomplished. Now we
must come to an understanding.
I have Travelled some and have
found few places where the English
was not understood enough to get me
what 1 needed in the way of food and
shelter. But there are finer things
that 1 need. I am aware that when
read a translation of Schiller. even by
so great a ScOtchman as Carlyle that
[ miss much There are German words
for which there is no English equiva-
lent. Emerson said that he read trans
lations He said: What is the use of
swimming the Charles river when there
is a bridge?'' As most of US do, use
the bridge. But I pick UP my Bible
and / read that Elijah was fed by ra-
vens and look in Hebrews and 1 read
that it was possible that he was fed
by Arabs The raven is not a hOSpit-
able bird. He attends to his own crop.
The Arab is hospitable-shares his
crust The chances are that Arabs fed
Elijah. I am not thirsty for miracles
I do not ask for them when do not
need them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
THEATRICAL FAps.

IF'rom the Pittsburg Dispatch.1
Like a flock of sheep the American
managers are always following some
bell wether in the person of man
sufficiently courageous to produce a
novelty. For example, Daniel F'roh
man presents THE Prisoner of sZenda,
A. NJ Palmer "Trilby," and in quick
succession we have q veritable flood of
romantic dramas and adaptations. It
has been so throughout the past seasons
in the various vogues of sensational
melodramas, farce comedies and prob
lem plays. This new craze will doubt
less result in the same disaster to the
New York managers as was expert
enced by the roof garden projectOrs-so
conspicuous a figure among theatrical
spectators last summer. The compeH-
ton became so keen that profit was
impossible for the variety show, for
merly feature tolerated, not admired,
because composed OF turns not sufh-
GENTLY attractive to merit the large
salaries paid for them. Although Pitts
burg playgCers may be deprived of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
POOR EXECUTIVE MANSION
Worlds Fair Architect Warns the IL
linois Legislature of the Cover.
nor's Home.

Springfield. ILL.,, April Id. w. Burn
ham. the Worlds fair architect, con>
dennis the executive mansion as a habi-
tation where no one anxious for the safe
~ of his life would continue to reside. The
been overhauled for a generation. and the
slightest indiScretion according to MI.
Durham, in the way of overpreSSure,
might mean a terrible calamity.
The entire building was infinitely in
spected and a formal report, embodying
the results of the observations, will be
forwarded by Mr.. Burnham in few days
Speaking in a general way of what he
had seen the architect said that aside
from the antiquated and worn out heat
ing apparatus the mansion is, in his judg-
mates that a sum of $50 900 viii be requir-
ed to make the necessary repairs and i'm
provements which he will recommend to
be attended to at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
NEW YORK ITALIANS.
From the New york Posi-.

(FrOm the New York Post)
Spring has for the suburban Italians
a sentimental as well as a practical
significance.
They celebrate Easter with tawdry
splendor, and as soon as the weather
permits, the men gather nightly in the
Open<air and sing as the" GROWER pass
es round. There is an old orchard in
the newly annexed district much fire.
quented by these little glee clubs. AS
soon as dusk comes, the men gather,
and the music continues until or 10
o'clock, though rarely later save on Sat
urday night, as the singers rise early
and work late six days out of the sew
en-.
The scene is not one of debauch. but
of wholesome merriment. Sometimes
the music is a NeapOlitan boat song
just such as have sounded no one knows
how many centuries, from little fleets
of small craft at night just off shore in
the Bay of Naples.
The modern and familiar ''Funiculi
funicula" OF the pestiferOus and Off
Suvius is a faVOrite with the Italian
singers.
But the "stornello,' a sort of antipho-
nal singing, gives scope for the dramat-
ic instinct and is perhaps the best loved
music of all. 'tItalianO man sing like
hell" said one of the singers in answer
to the inquiry of an interested stranger.
The reply must not be taken as inten-
uOnally prOfane. Doubtless the subur-
ban Italian has native store of evil
words, but he picks up those of his En-
glish speaking fellow labOrer and uses
them with no suspicion of their signif-
icance, but as current cOlloquiaI Eng
lish.
Dam fine day" cried the smiling
Italian to his employer, a venerable Sj1-
burbanite towards whom the workman
had only feelings of the deepest re-
spect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
LIFE BEHIND FooTLIeHrs.

(FrOm the PittSburg Dispatch)
Anyone conversant with life behind
the fOotlights, its heartbreaking disap-
pointments, its unceasing struggles and
inSidiOuS temptations, cannot but re-
JoiCe that the young girls mother wise
ly accepted the counsel of this keen
witted moulder of young minds. Many
young women imagine that because
they recite prettily they are destined
for career in the theatrical field, and
it is possible that there may be a few
in this city, who, from becoming ar
dent admirers of our charming resident
players, have slowly become imbued
with the idea that they must emulate
their example.
Fanny Davenport and Viola Allen
have summed up the monOtony of an
actress life as some daisies, some ev-
erything."
If this statement from two women
who have obtained all the joys and de-
lights to be secured in a life over the
fOOtlights does not bring with it the
realization that the stage is not a pana-
cea for the evils arising from ennui,
the parents Of the stage stricken youths
or maidens have still one remedy, like
ly to prove effective.
. In June or July, whichever month is
likely to prove the sultrier place them
comfortably in the hail bed room of a
IS per week metropolitan boarding
house.
Let them haunt the theatrical agen-
cies for many weary days. Then Sc
cure them an engagement with a Bow
cry melOdrama playing one night stands
in Ohio and Indiana, and if they don't
return and beg to resume the old tread
mill of matineeS, O'Clock teas etc, it
is Just possible that in a few years of
hard training they will be able to play
a thinking part, using their own con-
oanFiOF7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
CROSBY, WAR CORRESPONDENT

From the Chicago Tribune)
c. E. Crosby of New York, represen-
tative Of the Chicago Record, is report
ed killed while watching with field
glasses a combat between the Spanish
and insurgent forces near Arroyo Blan-
CO, Cuba.
He went to the island Jan. 80 and is
said to have graduated at St. Cyr
France. Mr.. Crosby not an experienced
newspaper man, but his correspondence
which was signed don Carlos" was of
the best that came from the insurgent
side. Crosby was of English birth.
Q. E Crosby was employed by the
Chicago Record last January to go
to Cuba to act as field correspondent
with the inSurgent forces. He reached
Havana Jan. 80, and Immediately went
out to the front, where he succeeded in
InSurgent governor Of Santa Clara He
was furnished an escort by him, and
Joined Gen. Gomez, with the intention
of seeking a position on the staff of
that general.
Since then he has been forwarding
regular correspondence as often as he
could get his messages through the
lines. The last dispatch received from
him was dated March z. Mr.. Crosby
was fluent Spanish scholar and had
received a good military training at St.
Cyr.
Before going to Cuba he had been in
government service in Texas and Next
co. He was about 40 years old and
leaves a widow and two children, who
reside at New Salem, N. Y.
Mr.. Crosby was formerly an emplOye
of the United States government, and
was engaged in work on the coast of
the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. He was
educated at the military academy in st.
Cyr, France. and studied civil engin-
eering. He was expert in military mat
terS and was said to have been able to
handle large bodies of men in drills
and preparation for battle He was of
fair complexion, slightly under the me-
dunn height and weighed about 140
pounds.
Mr.. Crosby was engaged by the Chica-
go Record as a war correspondent at
the beginning of the year and sailed for
Havana at once. He landed on the is
land on the last day of January, and set
out for the insurgent forces, hoping to
join Gen. Gomez as soon as possible.
Two weeks after GLIDING the vigilance
of the Spanish authorities in the Cuban
capital, he sent a letter signed Don
Carlos to his paper. At that time he
was in Santa Clara province. not far
from the spot where he is reported to
have been killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
STATE OFMANHATTAN.
Greater New York Wants to Secede
From the Empire State.

Albany, April 1.-The proposal to es-
tablish the state of Manhattan, includ-
ing within it's boundaries the territory
now included in the greater city OF
New York. is before the legislature.
Assemblyman Trainor last week intro
duced two bills with that end in view.
The proposition is not entirely a new
one 1t was first proposed in the days
of William M Tweed The bills
are the sequence of threats made by
Democrats and Republicans alike, who
have represented for the last ten years
the city of New York, that unless the
city is relieved from paying rs per cent
of the entire taxation of the state 1t
would ask to be separated from the
state and made an individual body.
There will be a very serious hearing
Thursday, when the assembly commit
tee will listen to notable persons ad-
Vocating the measure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
JEWISH AMBITION.

IN. Y. Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch
The district surrounding Delaney
street is known as the most thickly
populated square mile on the face of
the globe. The population of 90, 600
within the narrow limits of the Tenth
ward is chiefly Hebrew and some In
teresting facts have just come to light
regarding the reading procIivities of
the children of that remarkable and
interesting people. The public library
in that ward shows that every book
has been read ten times, a total of "a, =
TSP readers. Strangest Of all was the
quality of reading matter chosen. The
library contains 327 United States his
tories, yet the children keep the shelves
always empty. One history is asked
for out of every four books requested.
Then come fairy tales. character books
and poetry in the order named The
children are not so precOcious as they
are ambitious. and some great minds
are undoubtedly being nurtured in that
little library in most crowded square
mile IN the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
HOME FOR GIRLS.
Mrs. Lyman g. Trumbull to Care for
Children Whose Parents are Abroad.

Chicago, April Mrs. Lyman G. Trum-
bull, widow of the senator and jurist, will
open ''home school and chaperonage for
young ladies' during the summer months
at Saybrook, Conn. The school viii be
located near Mrs. Trumbulls birthplace,
and in the native state of the senator,
where all his summers were passed.
Circulars announcing the opening of the
school will be issued this week. The date
of the opening is May I, and the school
will probably be located in the Connecti-
cut summer home of Mrs w. G. Mason Of
New York city. Instructors will come
from Hartford and from New York.
The school is to be summer home for
young girls while their parents go abroad
or are at the summer resorts, and where
the pupils may continue their music,
drawing, and painting, and enjoy at the
same time an outing until the regular
schools open in the fall or till the fathers
and mothers of the young women are
ready to place them under private tutors
The prospectus announces out-of-door
drawing and sketching in crayon and
charcoal, work in water color and oils,
and vocal and instrumental music. In
structiOn in German and French will be
given also.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
WANTS NO DRUNKARDS.
Indiana's Chief Executive Declares
Against Employing Steady
Drinkers.

Indianapolis, Ind, April 1.-Governor
Mount declared today that he intended to
appoint the trustees of the southern in
sane asylum hospital with direct reference
to the removal of Superintendent A. J.
Thomas. adding that he had received nurn-
erous letters from. persons who nave
against the hospital being in charge or
men who enter saloons to drink
mo man. said the governor IN bul-
letin posted in his office, who is a steady
drinker can be superintendent of a beneV-
client institution while l am governor.
There is not a business concern OF any
standing that will retain in its employ a
man who drinks constantly, and 1 shah
not permit such man to remain IN of1lce
under me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
MOODY'S MEETINGS.
Phenomenal Attendance of People at
Chicago to Hear the Evangelist.

Chicago, April 1.-Once upon time
Dwight L. Moody worked as clerk in
a Chicago shoe store at a stipend of
$40 per week. This morning the cele-
brated evangelist inaugurated four
days revival at the Auditorium, the
daily expense attending which will
equal his salary for an entire year in
the Olden time. Admission to the in
augural meeting this morning was by
ticket, but twice as many people as the
great structure would hold besieged
the doors.
The great chorus of 900 voices was in
itself an attraction, aside from the elo-
quence and inspiration of the wonder
full evangelist. Mr.. Moody was assist
ed by DR.. Archibald Brown of the Tab
ernacle in the East End of London, and
the friend and co-Worker of the late
Charles Spurgeon. There are to be
two revival meetings daily-one at 10
in the morning and the other at in
the afternoon, Mr.. Moody having set
down his foot on night services. The
revivals are expected to give a boom to
the evangelistic work of the regular de-
nominations, and which Of late has
been falling into a condition of innOc-
uOuS deSuetude
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
oLTVER oPTIC,s NAME
CFrom the Boston Hera1d.)

Probably there is more or less truth
in the statement that Oliver Optic owed
no small part of his popularity to his
nom de plume.
OF course the name neither added nor
detTacted from the merit of his stories,
but no less an authority that Thackeray
has laid down the proposition that in
literature as in business much depends
on a good name.
There is no doubt that Oliver Optic
reckoned that valuable possession
among his other literary assets The
name is one that catches the eye as well
as the ear, and it was calculated to ap-
peal particularly TO Juvenile apprecia-
ton. Not a few of Mr.. Adams intimate
friends were accustomed to address
him socially by his nom de plume and
he never resented it. 1t seemed to bring
him and them closer together.