The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CruikShank the man who Swindled Lady
Randolph Churchill and her sisters out of
e1,5OO by promising them 300 per cent.
profit in two months in an American rail
way syndicate scheme, will be tried at the
Old Bailey. Bail has been refused, and some
very interesting details are looked for.
The monument to the late Gen. William
Tecumseh Sherman, which was to have been
erected in New York by May l, 1894, will
probably not be ready for unveiling before
the latter part of next year. ST. Gaudens,
the sculptor who has the work in hand, is
a very slow worker. and is paying particu-
lar care to the finishing of this monument.
Miss Ray, who is known in the literary
world as Jack Carlton" has started ne
gro colony near DECATUR Ala, which will be
known as the Cedar Lake Negro Colony
The state administration sanctions the
scheme, and a provisional city government
has been elected and a postohce opened
Miss Raw has given $4,000. and claims that
it is not business speculation, but simply
a plan for harmonizing the race problem.
John Swinton, the genial and versatile
journalist, who has been for many years on
the editorial staff of the New York Sum-
has finally left that paper. Mr.. Swinton
yields a brilliant and pungent pen. and is
one of the best known men on the New
York press. He was managing editor of the
Times under Henry j. Raymond, but later
transferred his allegiance to the Sun, and
the labor candidate. ~
The young Duke of Marlborough has
vastly improved since his marriage, and
those who knew him in his salad days at
Cambridge aver that the change for the bet
ter is really marvellous. Now he has become
both urbane and useful, and goes about
opening things and presiding over things in
the most praiseWorthy fashion. His speeches
are not very felicitous and rather resemble
the clumsy utterances Of that arch bore,
his grandfather, than whom more heavy
individual never existed.
IAN Englishman," writing to New York
morning paper, says that he visited Gen.
Grants tomb the other day when there
were about twenty men present, and that
he was the only one who removed his hat.
He wants to know how it is that Americans
who are compelled to remove their hats in
the Metropolitan Museum, and who usually
remove their hats in an elevator when la
dies are present, do not uncover their heads
when they visit the sarcophagus which con-
tainS the mortal remains of America great
national hero. 49,
There are two ways of using a village
to live in" says Mr.. De Wolfe Howe in his
paper on Emerson in the Bookman. 1.-The
one is to take the freedom from the engross-
ing concerns of CITY life as an excuse for
falling back upon the pettiness of small
community. and standing so close to trivial
things that their size is magnifed beyond
all proportion, ana the prospect Oh larger
things beyond is blotted out. The other is to
use ones freedom for seeing things both
near and far in their true dimensions. The
Massachusetts village of Concord for con-
siderable part of our century has been
place where the practice of this second
method was to be found"
The French minister of foreign affairs
asked the King of Siam why he did not
leave his foreign minister at home to take
charge of things. Because he is my BROTH
err" returned Chulalongkorn with a grim
smile. II should probably have found him
on my throne when 1 got home to SIAM"
But you have your other brother with
you" Yes, but his nature is even less
benevolent. He would not only have seized
my throne. but cut off my head as quick as
l returned. You all seem on excellent
terms together exclaimed the astonished
Frenchman. Exactly said the King, and
as l like to be on good terms with them
always take them along"
He thought he heard his country call,
And so he sailed forth and ran,
Only 20 find out, after all.
That the call had been for the other man.
Cleveland Leader
And shall the twentieth century dawn and
find
Woman still in chains? All! will the hu-
Mind ere that be able to devise
A practicable chainless woman?
Puck.