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The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
False Promises.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Harton is now devoting most of his time
to an investigation and is paying a pri-
vate detective to help him. He has no idea
of taking the matter into court, but wants
to locate certain man in the city, after
which Harton will rely upon his own in
genuity in getting satisfaction. He and his
wife were talking over the telephone. Sud-
denly they ceased to hear each other but
after three or four yells at central, Mrs.
Harton proceeded.
"Cut US off, didn't they?" she said.
Stupid things! You know, dear, you prom
ised me seal sacque this fall, and now you
say you can't afford It,"
II was just joking" came in caressing
voice. ':Of course you shall have the
sacque. / meant you should all the ime. I"
.'Oh, you old dear! I'll be contented with
something cheaper than that $500 ONE
But I'll not. The best is none too good
for YOU And I've concluded to get you an
elegant set of diamonds, too. You deserve
them, and on one could show them off to
better advantage.
MY gracious Fred, are you sure you are
yourself? My dear old boy hasn't been dim
ing too we'll, or anything of that kind?"
mot bit of it. Know just what I'm do
ing"
Then Mrs. Harton hurried to tell her
nearest neighbor and receive envious con-
gratulations. Now ii transpires that Har-
ton was at the telephone before the switch,
and that after it all those precious promises
were made by some other man. There was
a stormy scene at the house and Mrs. Har-
ton went home to visit her mother for an
indefinite time. That's why Harton is out
on man hunt.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
Decision Against a Railroad.

Kansas city journal
The Kansas City Court of Appeals de-
cided yesterday that passengers who are set
out in railroad yards eight or ten blocks
from depot in inclement weather are en-
titled to damages if their health is injured
by the consequent exposure This decision
was rendered in the celebrated case of Mary
Ann Spry against the Missouri, Kansas q
Texas railroad. The plaintiff was on her
way to Nevada, Mo-, and when the train on
which she was a passenger reached Sedalia
she was informed that she could not go to
Nevada by that train. She was put eff in
the yards sixty or seventy yards from the
Fifth-street station and before she reached
the depot she got thoroughly drenched. She
was dissatisfied with the condition of the
station and set out in a storm for the
Union Depot in Sedalia, about a mile dis
tant, suffering more exposure during the
trip. She brought suit for $1,000 damages
and recovered in the Howard County Cir
cult Court The defendant railroad com
firmed the decision on the ground that a
railroad company is required to furnish
comfortable accommodations to passengers.
The court held that this had not been
done, the evidence showing that the Fifth
street station was dirty and uncomfortable.
The railroad company contended that the
plaintiff was not obliged to go toJhe Union'
Depot and that the exposure she encoun-
tered was suffered on the way to the Union
Depot. The court did not take this view of
the case, holding that the plaintiff did not
have to stay in an uncomfortable station,
and that the injury to the plaintiffs
health was the result of the exposure on the
way to the Fifth-street station.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

here is really dissipation. If you don't
nolleye i, III tell you what my dinner con-
sisted OF to-day. / had sour dough bread,
with molasses instead OF butter: fried salt
pork, stewed apples. oatmeal n.ush and tea.
For supper j had tea. oatmeal mush
stewed apples and sour dough bread. with
nolaSSes. FOR breakfast / shall have gra-
coffee
DOGS BY THE HUNDREDS.
I must tell you about the dogs 1t is my
honest conviction that no community of this
size ever had so many dogs. 1t is estimated
that there are nearly 1900 of the animals in
Dawson City, ard as many more in the
mines. The most of them are fine appearing
fellows, and in the cold season net their
owners handsome profits by hauling sIeds
heavily laden with supplies to the adjacent
mining camps. In town they travel in COM
panies ranging from ten to twenty. and the
moment they catch sight of another dog
away from his company the pack will give
chase. Dog lights are so common as not to
excite a passing glance
Personal vanity in the matter of dress is
an item of no small expense in Dawsors
City. I paid 81. .75 for having a white shirt
washed and ironed the other day. and then
| couldn't wear it. The misguided laundress
had not only starched and ironed the
bosom, but had subjected the entire gar
ment to that operation 1t might have been
all right for suit of mail, but an article
of fin de steele wearing apparel 1t was quite
out of the question.
Aside from the two stores, three or four
barber shops. half dozen laundries, five
or six restaurants and q secondhand store
or two, two sawmills, three butcher shops.
two jewelry stores, dozen physicians and
dentists, couple of real-estate offices. the
principal business engaged in is the sale or
intoxicants
The receipts for sixty days last spring in
one saloon amounted to 1924. 500. and the day
the successful miners were taking their de-
parture on the first steamer of the season
the receipts amounted to $6500. Hardly
saloon In town is receiving less than $500 a
day besides winning large sums of money
at the gambling games Barkeepers are
paid from $3.50 to $50 day. and even the
porterS where such luxuries are deemed
necessary. are paid from $3.50 to $40. A
rumor has emanated from official sources
and is going the rounds TO the effect that q
Canadian official will arrive shortly and en-
force a law permitting only hotel and inn
keepers to engage in selling liquors.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
STATE PRESS OPINION.

1t costs the people of Indiana $3,0OO,0O0 a
year to keep roads in repair, and such re-
pairs 1t is about time we changed our meth
DDS or farmed out the job.-Greenfield Re
publican.
Times are becoming so prosperous that
stone quarries are actually contracting un-
der bond to furnish stone at a sharp adj
vance over their published rates.-Fort
Wayne Gazette.
Some impatient persons in the gas belt
want the Governor to call extra session
of the Legislature to enact laws preventing
the waste of gas. There is no need of that
Enforce the laws in existence. That will
stop the waste and punish the persons
wasting it.-Muncie News.
The action of the administration in send
ing abroad a bimetallic commission a ma
jority of which were out and out free-silver
men. on the heels of a victory that was sup
posed to mean the defeat OF that fallacy
was enough to startle and unsettle the
minds Of the friends of sound finance at
home as well as abroad: and now there Is
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

New York Mail and Express
Going to Boston on Friday met quite
number of devoted American parents of the
sterner sex whose boys had sent them ur-
gent requests to come up and see the great
football contest. One elderly gentleman,
who looked as though he might have en-
joyed a good game, said:
coming You see ii is this way. After
nronising nv boy to be at the game an
aunt of mine, nearly a hundred years old.
rp and died and her funeral is tomorrow.
The family all thought I ought to attend
the funeral, but this morning my boy wrote:
Dear Papa-There will be a game Sat-
urday Afrectionately, your son,
=" Russell
''That was too much. for / knew what it
meant to the boy. and here / am. / sup
rose the family will not Hke<t; still could
not do the old lady any gooe If / was to at
tend her funeral. and / know it will make
the boy happy Il / attend the game.
Some of the gentlemen of the party said:
well, you would probably like to see the
game anyhow yourself?' whereupon the
gentleman smiled and therby acknowledged
the soft impeachment
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

should take piano lessons at least for one
year of his life has led to more bitterness
and unhappiness than can be surmounted
by the application of the ordinary rules of
Christian science. We hope the trust will be
formed at once, and that it will be upheld,
not only by the Supreme Court, but by
popular opinion. The scale of prices for
pianos should range from $500 up, and the
clause permitting; monthly payments should
be stricken out. We are a piano-infested
Nation. and there is more humping done
in the sacred name of music in America
than anywhere else On the face of the earth.
After the piano trust has been succ sssfully
organized we shall urge violin trust. AS
for cornet and flute trust we have nothing
to say, for we may safely leave all lawless
citizens who practice on the flute and the
cornet to the mercy of White Caps. Ordi-
narily, we are opposed to trusts as preJu-
dicial to the interests of the people, but
there are trusts and trusts and it is poor
rule that has no exceptions. We congratu-
late our felow-citizen, prospective Presi-
dent Kimball. and we quite agree with him
that if any members of his congregation do
not like the trust they can go to Halifax.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
"FAREwELL TO GRoG..
Copy of SchencIS's Historical Song
Presented to the Portsmouth.


New York Herald.
The old sloop of war Portsmouth, moored
at the foot Of Fourth street. Hoboken, head
quarters ! Of the battaliIe of the the East New New
from Casper Schenck, pay director in the
United States navy during the war, at
tached to the Portsmouth an autograph
copy of song written by Mr.. Schenck on
board the Portsmouth the night before the
law which prohibited the keeping of grog"
on board of Uncle Sans war ships went
The law, which went into force on Sept.
/, 1862, cut off the issuance OF 'grog 10
seamen in the navy. and abonsned .hard
vessels. In consequence there was sorrow
fore and aft on every ship in the navy. The
Portsmouth was not an exception The
wardroom of the gallant old ship was espe-
cially STEPPED in gloom, and, according to
Mr.. Schencks own story, he was asked 10
so, and the whole wardroom Joined In sing
ing the words he wrote on the spur of the
moment. This is the song:
Farewell to Grog.-
Come, messmates. pass the bottle round,
Our time is short, remember
For our grog must stop and our spirits drop
On the first day of September
Farewell, old rye! 'Tis sad, sad word,
But, alas! it must be spoken;
The ruby cup must be given up
And the demijohn be broken.
And dwell with fondness partial
On the day when gin was not sin
Nor cocktails brought court-martial.
Jacks happy days will soon be gone
To return again, ah, never!
For they've raised his pay five cents day,
But stopped his grog forever.
CAN hands to splice the mainbrace call,
But splice it now in sorrow
For the spirit room key must be laid away
Forever on tomorrow
CASPER SCHENCK,
"U. s. S. Portsmouth, New Orleans, Aug.
81, 1862"
The song was sung to one of the popular
airs of the day. In his letter to Commander
Washington Irving, in which he sent the
copy of the song, Mr.. Schenck says:
II am glad to know that the dear old
Portsmouth is being used in her old age in
such an honorable employment. She was
my first ship, and on her / received my
first baptism of fire. at New Orleans"
Commander Irving has had Mr.. Schencks
letter and the autograph copy of Farewell
to Grog'' neatly framed and last week he
presented them to his officers. They now,
occupy a conspicuous position in the Ports
mouths wardroom, and some day CHIEF
Engineer Hart is going to sing the song.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
Queer state of Affairs.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

4NSW 1Olh Goihi4SiCloA <AuNSA ei0SA'
The discovery is made that for four
months before election a citizen of Greater
New York cannot move from one part of
the city to another-if he crosses a county
line-without losing his vote 1t Is quife
true and is a part of the great curiosity
of our municipal organization. A county
is everywhere a civil division broken up
into a number of cities or towns. Here we
have a big city broken up into four separate
counties There is no remedy for the
anomaly but consolidation of the various
counties in Greater New York, which is un-
desirable, because it would reduce repre-
sentation in the Senate already too small
or a constitutional amendment relating to
suffrage qualification to meet a unique
case which would be carrying the principle
of special legislation in the organic law to
an absurd extreme.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

The Marion Chronicle thinks that before
entertaining the idea of calling special
session of the Legislature to enact law
10 prohibit the waste of natural gas by
oil operators the Governor should take legal
advice as to the power of the State to con-
troll the matter. 1t adds:
In Pennsylvania all efforts to stop such
WASTES have failed. An oil well is allowed
III to. The blowing-off process is neces-
|sary to develop the oil. Oil will not appear
until the pressure of gas is relieved. Splen-
did gas territory in Pennsylvania and West
'the vigorous protests of people interested in
fuel gas. The owner or leaser Of land has
anything else, and he can waste or save
.Nhat he encounters in the search, regard
less OF other interests.
1t is not likely that the Governor has the
slightest idea of calling a special session of
The General Assembly to leglslate in this
matter AS the Journal has already pointed
put, there is. law enough already to prevent
he waste of gas or TO bring the question
So a test in the courts if the owners or les
bees OF lands adjacent to escaping gas wells
gill only act under it. Residents of the gas
belt should exhaust present remedies before
hsking that the Legislature be called to-
zether to provide new ones. or course
there is q fundamental question of principle
involved. viz. whether the Legislature can
py any means prevent the owner or lessee
* land from wasting the gas beneath 1t IL
se wants to. The Journal does not know if
ae question has been tested in Pennsyl-
sania or elsewhere. II ought to be tested.
rne owner Of land could, of course. pre-
Tent the waste of gas By inserting clause
that effect n an oil lease, but II the
sener and lessee both agree IN a purpose to
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
A Prayer of thanksgiving.

Our fathers God, to whom we owe
The breath we breathe. the life we live,
Who guardeth as we come and go
And all our follies doth forgive,
Help us to blot from out hearts
For one brief day-e'en for one hour
All memory of our baser parts
Make full obeisance to Thy power
Our fathers God, in helplessness
That is not helpless if Thou smile,
We bow US down in gratefulness,
And for one golden little while
We lose ourselves, considering Thee;
Self dies that reverence may reign;
The Thou" hath put to shame the me-
All, all forgot trifiing pain.
Our fathers Godi Our fathers God
Who aye hath ruled, aye ruleth still,
Who oft in love hath spared the rod
That else had crushed at Thy will,
All self is gone-come Thou instead
Make permanent Thy blessing sweet;
Set love to guide the hands, heart, head;
Set love to guide the straying feet.
s.. w. Gillian
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

New York papers mention rare case of
personal integrity and business honor which
has come to light in that city. In 1861 Mr..
Amos F. Emo was member of firm which
failed shortly after the war began. The
stock was sold, the debts paid pro rata and
releases We're signed by the creditors. Now,
after thirty-five years, Mr. Emo is paying
off the balance of all claims, with per
cent. interest since 1861, amounting in the
aggregate to about $5OO,OOO Such cases as
this tend to strengthen commercial integ-
rity everywhere
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

waste the gas in order to- get at the oil 1T
Is a close question whether they can be pre-
vented by law. Nevertheless the attempt
should be made and. as already stated. the
uuaetioY
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

Analysis of the vote of Kansas in the re-
cent state election shows that thirty-th
counties changed from fusion to a Re-
publican majority. and the total Republican
gain over MeKinleys vote was over 1000.
Hereafter Kansas will be found in the Re-
publican column.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
AS to Piano Trusts.
Chicago Post.

0ulcdSO 1OSt.
The announcement that "a big piano trust
is forming" has not filled us with uncon-
querable dismay. We have always felt that
pianos are too cheap, and hence, as rule.
instruments of torture, instead of means of
aesthetic pleasure and whatever may be
done to lessen the output is movement in
the straight line of reform. Pianos are no
longer classed as the necessities of life
particularly the pianos next door, and the
absurdly mistaken opinion that every child
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

1t is said that the farmer who was MAX
ing himself wretched during October be-
cause the unusual drought had made a
wheat crop impossible can walk about his
wheat field to-day. after his Thanksgiving
dinner. and find comforting assurance of
good harvest in the really fine condition of
the nlanf
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

Give the devil his due. Tammany's gift
of $4,000 to the representative of the Cuban
revolutionary government in New York for
the relief of the hungry, sick and wounded
among the Cuban insurgents was a gem
erous one. Money given for such purpose
need not be scrutinized too closely as to
how 1t was obtained
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
The Aninlns.

Beggs-There is something lacking in Ber-
rvs makeup as a gentleman. / can't ex-
actly explain it; it is something intan-
gible-
Meigs-" Intangible" means he can't
he tOuched
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

Tt, is possible that the physician who has
found this "a distressingly healthy season.
from the standpoint of fees can contem-
plate the excessive eating of good things
under the guise of thanksgiving with some-
thing of hopeflIIness
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

For those persons who are laboring to
make people believe that there has been no
Improvement in business this cannot be a
day of thankfulness. Closing factories,
business suspensions and idle and half-fed
people would stimulate in their hearts all
the thankfuiness they could know.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

New York Evening Sun.

NEW
A dear old phianthropic woman living in
the suburbs had need the other day to
send a small street boy an errand. She
had never seen the urchin before, but her
need was urgent and she was glad to get
hold of any sort of a messenger. Now
my dear" She said ''this note is to go to
Mrs. Blank. DO you know where Mrs.
other side of town ON 81 knows ii,
piped up the urchin. II goes there reg lar
III fhA summer to steal her grapes."
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

The dying statements of various crimi-
nails that are departing day by day for the
great unknown, and the persistence with
which such men lie under all circumstances
proves that death has for the live, healthy
man little of the terror with which it is
popularity supposed to be clothed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

The alleged confession of Texas con-
Wet of having committed the murders of
which Theodore Durrant stands convicted
in California is not worthy of moments
serious consideration. 1t bears all the ear
marks of a fake.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

There is a thirteen-year-old boy in Can
ada who has recently been willed fortune
of 100000. Yet it is safe to guess that it
is as much of task to get him to wash
his neck and ears as it was before.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

Because the world moves is reason to be-
lieve the Board of Public Safety will some
time reach the point of discharging any pa
trolman found asleep on his post or guilty
of drinking in a saloon with his uniform on.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
A widows Recourse.
Baltimore AmeFie

BdIlIIIIUIt. AtIietIVttII'
The widow of one of the men lynched in
Dakota has sued the county in which the
lynching occurred for damages. This is not
the first suit of the kind. nor is II likely to
be the last Perhaps few heavy awards
will stimulate the officials and help the
public to view mob law in a different light.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

II Spain cannot keep filibustering expedi-
tions from landing in Cuba, how can she
expect the United States to prevent them
from leaving this country, whose coast line
Is far more extensive than that Of Cuba?
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

The by-election in Chicago on Tuesday for
congressman showed about the same degree
Of Republican absenteeism that char
|acterized the recent state election.
Last fall the total vote In the
district was 45,67S and the Re-
publican plurality 65S9; on Tuesday the total
vote was 2O.2sO and the Republican plurality
S53 The figures tell the whole story. The
Republicans, knowing they had "a sure
thing" did not take interest enough to vote,
while the Democrats. taking advantage of
their apathy. came near capturing the dis
trict. Republicans are apt to. forget that it
Is tha votes which are cast that tell.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
BUBBLES IN THE AIR


Dismal Dawson-Well, how they comm?
Everett Wrest-Tough. / amt been able
to git into Jail yet.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
The suffering Motormnn.

When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And rides about upon her wheel,
She gives the man who runs the trolley
+ Great nervous chills from head to heel.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

If one could only think of the Spanish
word for demagogue there would be no
trouble in choosing q title for Weyler.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

The Shelbyville Republican got out spe-
cial Thanksgiving number that was at
tractive in appearance and full OF good,
original matter.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

It is reported that an earthquake shock
has thrown up a new island in the Pacific
ocean, opposite Labuan, off the coast of
Borneo. The British flag was probably
floating over it when it came up.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

The irreverent public may even begin to
question the originality of Pingrees potato
idea, and then he would indeed be ruined
man.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
The surest wny.

Kansas City Journal.
Keep out of public office" says General
Henderson, in a letter TO young men. Young
men who fear that they may not be able
20 act on this advice can make sure by rum
ming only on the free-sllver ticket.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
ThR Limit.

His wife can fire china,
He's clever with a gun;
But, as to firing Mary Ann,
They vow it can't be done.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

Washington Post.
1t is a wise Chicago man who can dis
tinguish the difference between a fall or
snow and chocolate drop.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25

tWaSLiubAoH 4 OSls
The possessor of chainless bicycle will
at once become as exclusive as the person
with the appendicitis
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
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There,s no thought Of wealth.

There's no thought of weather
In q football crowd:
They're all cranks together
In a football crowd;
The young, the old, the lame, the halt,
All gather under heavens vault
And hoot and yell, and shout, and scream,
For the players of the favored team.
There's nothing like the waste of steam
In a football crowd.
Philadelphia North American.