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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-29
Washington Township, Fifth Pre-
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.

IT is THEREFORE ORDERED, BY the
that Wayne Township of said County be
divided into Twelve d2 Voting Precincts,
numbered One % Two (2. Three 90,
Eight t(S Nine co.. Ten uS 49, Eleven GD as
and Twelve Q2). and that the following
shall be and constitute the boundaries of
the said Voting Precincts, respectively,
to-wit:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-29
Wayne Township, First Precinct

Commencing at the Northwest corner of
Section Twenty-one CID, Township Six
teen Q6) North. Range Two 90 East;
thence South with the line dividing Marion
and Hendricks Counties 10 its intersection
with the Rockville Free Pike; thence East
in the center of said Pike TO the Range
line running North and South between
Sections One ID and Six 90. Thirty-six
1850 and Thirty-one (31). Twenty-Five (25)
and Thirty 600 Twenty-four (2D and
Nineteen 40: thence North with the said
Range line to the Township line dividing
Wayne and Pike Townships: thence West
on the said Township line to the place of
beginning. shall constitute the First Pre-
cinct, Wayne Township.
Wayne Township. second Precinct
Commencing at the Northwest corner OF
Section Nine 90, Township Fifteen 40
North. Range Two CD East; thence South
with the line dividing Marion and Hem
bricks Counties TO the Township line di-
viding Wayne and Decatur Townships:
thence East with the said Township line
TO a County Road running North and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-29

with the center line of said Dougherty
Street to the center line of said Virginia
Avenue, the place of beginning shall con-
stitute the Eighth Precinct of the Thir-
teenth Ward
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-29

1T is THEREFORE, ORDERED, BY the
Board of Commissioners of said County
that Pike Township of said County be di-
numbered One %, Two %, and Three 90.
and that the following shall be and consti-
tute the boundaries OF the said Voting
- L..
Evening star., 1898-03-05
o TEMPORA, o MoREs!
Gan 1t Be True That TOp-Spinning
Has Dcgenerated Toof

Can 1t Be True That Top-Spinninr
Has Dcgenerated Toof
TO the Editor Of The Evening Star,
1 do not believe that the modern boy of
from eight to fourteen years of age has
quite the same good time in some respects
as We who were boys of that age some
twenty or thirty years ago. Notably is
this fact apparent to me as regards TOPS"
and top time"
At this present day of this year of grace,
II 1 may judge by the evidences around me
on every side, top time" is at the height
of its glory. but the tops Of today are not
to the boys Of today what our tops were to
us. and they don't have anything like as
much fun with them. The kind of tops
now in Use were made and could be pro-
cured then, but they were not regarded
with favor by the real manly boys. They
were generally thought to be an effeminate
sort of thing Mt for girls only, and it was
no recommendation for them in the eyes
of boy that they ere painted blue or red
or yellow and varnIshed. Nor was the cast
iron peg thought much better OF. =
Our tops or those we used, were Certain
ly In our judgmenD handsomer and more
graceful in general appearance, with we'll
defined ridges from the plug 1--WE never
called it a "peg') half way up, to accom-
mediate the string, which, instead of being
the cotton thing now used. was a strong
leather strip which We used to have the
cctbler on his bench cut for US out Of a
circular piece of leather in a way that won
Evening star., 1898-03-05
An Apprchensiyc Parent.

Josiar,' said Mr.. Corntossel to his son.
I've come a long ways to see you. I'm
worried about you. 1 thought of you away
off here at school by yourself an my mind
got uneasy. couldn't stand it no longer,
So packed my carpet bag an come along
sos to give you some advice"
why there was no occasion for un-
easiness. 1 am doing very we'll Ny health
is good and I an progressing steadily in
my studies"
But I don't fear anythin about your
winnin' any prizes in bicycle races nor
gettin On foot ball teams nor sinsin' in
glee clubs"
mo. You can't reproach me with hav-
Ing neglected my books"
But you don't propose to siddown an
put In all your time at books, do you?
Josiar, that's the very thing 1 come to
warn ye ag'in. What you want is more
foot ball an more bicycle ridin' an more
banjo plunkin'."
II prefer to acquire ideas" was the
Slightly frigid answer.
OF course. ldees is all right in their
proper places. But you don't want to git
| In the way of takin 'em too much to
heart. 1 have no doubt you have one or
TWO fdees about how this earth ought to
be run. You kin see ways Of improvin
most everythin' that Is undertook now
adays."
Well, there are two or three suggestions
that L might make for the benefit of the
human race
Josiar. you jes' listen to me. Don't you
make EN-. Not yet awhile anyhow You
1es' put 'em away and let 'em git good an
ripe. l haven't the least suspicious about
their bein' good idees. mind ye. But the
minute We let on that we've got anythfn'
on yer mind different from what's on
everybody's yell have all the people weth
queer notions of any description whatsom-
ever comm an shakin' hands weth We an
calm We brother An the mex thing
yen be takin' up all yer time argyin' an
expainin' SOS ye won't have a chance to
learn anyttin' else an ven furgit to have
yer hair cut an git into the way of talkin'
| on the street corner durin' business hours.
An after that happens there won't be no
more chance of your bein' identified at a
bank If ye should happen to need il than
as if you had been born in China. Eff your
bent was athletic, Josiar. might talk diff
ferent: but as IT Is 1 want ye to promise
yer old father that yen try to git on the
foot ball team an If ye can't, that yen be
up in the grand stand rooin' fur all YOU re
wuth, every time they's n game"
Evening star., 1898-03-05

Written for The Evening Star.
The Baby.
A new philosophers come to town.
Though never a beard has he:
He wins respect while he scorns renown.
He's wonderful nan, though wee.
And his pate is bald: but his eye is bright,
For 1t never was touched by tears;
And he's learned far ore in single night
than most of US learn In years.
He laughed at the world when the MORN
ings glow
First bade him benold the jest:
And he loved his -leishbcr-and loved him
That 'mongst all he is loved the best
And he sways the crowd with a simple
might
Which every man reveres:
He has learned far more in a single night
Than most Of US learn in years.
Evening star., 1898-03-05
The Old Artillery Piece.

Howdy. Mistuh Cannon: Jedgin' by de
soun'
No one would suspicion you was anywheres
aroun'!
Got yoh mouf wide open like you's ready
fob ter howl;
But you sits In watchful silence an you
doesn' even growl.
Howdy, Mistuh Cannon, You ain got SO
much to do.
bunch o. frecrackers makes a heap mo-
noise dan you.
1t seem like muffin couldn' 'sturb yoh dig
nity an ease:
Like any one could come along an sass yer
eff he please
But hor on, Mistuh Cannoni is gwineter
be polite,
Case when you's reused to talkin', what
you says lie dynamite.
Yoh tones brings hope to many and TO
to many gloom an death,
An de whole world stops to listen every
time you draws yoh breath.
Howdy. Mistuh Cannon-an' / hopes yoh
countrys pride
Will nevvuh hyah you arguin' upon de
losin' side;
Dat you'll be one who nevvuh finds of rev.
erence lack.
Who doesn speak ontil he's sure, ar
neyvuh takes II back.
Evening star., 1898-03-05
HAUNTED BY MEMORY.
One Man Who Will Never Forget the
Samoan Disaster.

Samoan Disaster.
"I suppose that all of US who felt the
living, frenzied force of that awful on-snore
hurricane will dream about it occasionally
as long as we live" said an ex-blue jacket
of the United States navy, now living in
Washington, who was among the VAN
alias ships company az the time of the
great naval disaster in Apia harbor, Sa-
moa, in reyerting to that experience. For
three or four years after l got out of that
mess all safe and sound, ths memory of it
used to get tangled up in my head when
was asleep, and l would wake in a trem-
BILE and be unable to sleep for the remain
der of ths night But time has softened
the craggier edges of the remembrance of
that horrifying black wind, and once in
spell nowadays l forget all about 1t for
back to me with heavy force when the
Maine went up in the air with lot Of my
shipmates, though.
There one man in my mess on the
Fandalia who was never quite right after
we went on the reef. l was shipmlte with
him for two years afterward, and his oc
ssional wildness was plain to all hands,
and men who've been shipmates with him
slnce-for he's still in the outfit-tell me
that he's just as badly haunted by the
memory Of the disaster as he was when
last saw him. This man was a shipwright,
and his name was Turley. Before We had
tDdt DiOW was aS cueeTIui
as clipper a man around decks as 1 ever
Swapped yarns with; but when he got well
of his broken arms down in Apia he was
changed man. 1 never saw him crack a
grin after the blow, and from q stout,
husky fellow he became thin and hagGard-
looking. He recovered all right physically
from the thing, you see. but it sort of
twisted his head and preyed upon him. He
swung his hammock alongside of me- on the
Alert for two years after we were sent up
to duty on the west coast again, and 1t
was a common thing for Turley to hop oiit
Of his hammock in a frenzy in the middle
Of the night, in port or at sea, yelling like
a nadman, All hands abandon ship-shes )
going to strikeI' He created lot of excite
rient up forward by doing this, but after
while the men got used to 1t and only
turned over when they heard Turley
bowling.
1T was the regular thing for the cor
pcral of the marine guard at the gangway
to prod the poor chap awake when he had
these crazy somnambuistic spells and put
out Of them as weak as kitten and trem-
bling all over. There were a number of
us on the Alert who were washed up in the
Samoan disaster, and, naturally, once in
d while we'd set to talking about it. But
1t didn't take us long to find out that We
couldn't talk about it while Turley was
around. The mention of the thing in his
hearing would bring an insane gleam into
his eyes and he would suddenly begin to
talk incoherently and at the top of his
voice about reefs and dragging anchors
off Samoan hurricane talk when he was
around. l don't wonder. much, either. 1t
was evil enough blow to nigh turn any
n ans headgear topsy-turvy."
Evening star., 1898-03-05
ALABAMA'S FORMER CAPITAL

'In last Saturdays Star noticed a splen
DID picture of Alabama's state capitol"
said Capt. George Dallas to a Star man
yesterday, land it made me feel sad to re.
member that Cahaba. the former capital
Of the good old state, is now almost OBJ.
liberated from the face of the earth, ana
a few years ago was sold for taxes, and
was bought by former slave of one of its
wealthiest residents. When Cahaba was
Alabama's capital 1t was one of the mos
important inland towns in the south. and
was the center of an opuient slave-hold-
ing aristocracy. 1t was most beutifuI
little city, situated at the confluence of the
Cahaba and Alabama rivers, surrounded
by large and fertile plantations that lay
along their banks. Here was the homes OF
the mobiles Of the state, and here they built
their homes in the architecture of the
south of that day-broad verandas, wide
halls, commodious rooms, and a multitude
OF windows. Surrounding each dwelling;
were extensive grounds, often acres, and
the rarest and choicest flowers budded and
Dloomed In the gardens Those people lived
In baronial style in those days. Magnolias
oaks and stately cedars fringed the en-
trance to the lovely grounds, and myrtl
and cape jasamine grew into trees in the
gardens: thoroughbred horses and blooded
cattle roamed in the splendid pastures and
game cocks walked proudly around in the
barnyards Some of these homes We're YER
liable palaces of stone and marble, in the
midst Of parks, with wide winding drives
berdered by semi-tropical flowers, wet with
the sprays from splashing fountains. In
Cahaba and near it lived some of the
proudest families in the state.
when the confederacy was born at
Montgomery, located more than one hun
dred miles up the river. the men and boys
of Cahaba went to the front to fight foi
what they believed to be right, and this
together with the fact that the capital had
been removed shortly before, was no doubt
the start of the downfall of Cahaba. After
the war every effort was made to infuse
some of the old-time life and energy into
Cahaba, but the war had struck the death
blow. Selma proved to be the better cot
ton market and to that place the business
flowed, while Cahaba was left to die, you
might say by inches. The county seat was
transferred to Selma and it then looked
as If every business man who could, made
an exodus from Cahaba. Costly mansions
were torn down and reconstructed in the
successful city of Selma, and within a few
years the place was almost deserted. Briers
and weeds grew up in the streets anG
hedged in the once beautiful and costly
homes, and finally only a few years ago
the old capital of Alabama was sold for
taxes, the purchaser being a negro named
Henry Freeman, whose earlier life had
been spent as a slave on the plantation OIL
one Of the wealthy men. To Alabamians
these recollections are not very pleasant
Evening star., 1898-03-05
ADMITTED HE WAS A JINGO

"Yep." said the man on the back seat Of
the trailer to his seatmate, you've hit the
bulrs-eye righf in the center. That's just
what I am preSeek-a jingo. I'm a plain.
everyday. u aklshed, undiplomatic,
whole-team, heatH Is American jingo from
Jingoville. wit bA6 any renewed assur-
ances Of distinsl lfshed consideration what
soeyer. I'm gladsthat I'm a jingo. I don't
want to be a EHD else but a jingo
George WashinEta was q jingo. Thomas
Jefferson was 4fjh o. John Hancock was
a lingo. Lnco1 Dfxs jingo. Blaine was
jingo. That 9&h8 enough company for
me. I've got Jbfk8 much common horse
sense as you oteS of my netghbors have,
but I'm jing& EH the same, and I'm go
Ing to keep ri Nv nsebeing a jingo until
headboard If had the influence and the
necessary organizitE skill I'd start in right
now and organize spolitical party that
would take the rank and file of the tax
payers and good ieitisens of this country
right off their feet-the jingo party of the
United States of America. That's what I'd
call 1t, and you easis gamble ycur last pair
OF hose it would be, supported. 1t wouldn't
De supported by pack of anarchists or
war-for-pillage people, either. 1t would be
upheld by men from Maine to California
Just as dead sQuAfe as am myself, and
as you know 1 am. tilat never peeped from
behind the bans OF a CELL never gave man
woman. never spent cent tee Of pe1a other peo. q
pies money, neVeE. did any crooked or dis
honorable work WhafSeever; men like me,
that feel like taking on their bonnets and
waving EN- in the air and whooping like
Apaches every time they get within sight
OF an American Tag; men like me- that get
hoarse and choked UP and speechless when
ever tf1ay hear The Star Spangled Banner
or Hail Columbia whether they're played
fr~a ~ l. 1lS,l~.
That's the kind of people that would jump
IN minute under the cover Of a national
1irgo party, and be darned proud to belong
to such party at that. If there hadn't
neen any Jingoes in this country back in
the days when men wore knee pants and
powdered wigs there wouldn't have been
any United States Of America. I'm q lingo,
as say ana repeat, and I'll keep on re-
peating it until that place down below
freezes solid: but that doesn't mean that
I'm yap enough to feel like trying to stand
on sandy Hook point and heave rocks
across the sea at the walls of Madrid. It's
al tommy-rot to try to make jingoes out
or that kind Of people. But was born and
ern hemisphere, and SO were all INV peopIe
1of q whole long time back, and 1 like it
ard I'm stuck on it, and that's the reason
can't understand or get next to some of
the KIND or Americans that are hopping
icose around this country Just now, that
jaw about the horrors of war under any
and all circumstances, and try to make
people like me believe that It's the real
ltinS 1cr this country to lay back and take
cheap CUFF and side swats from all hands
across the way that think they can put it
on us "a like to see the inside of the
neads OF that kind O. poliywcgs and jelly
fish. I'd like
But what else the self-confessed lingo
(~ho looked like pretty solid man, too
would like he finished telling when he got
off the car. -.
Evening star., 1898-03-05

thlng SO unprofitable. / have been read
ing about base ball"
.Oh, 1 see. And you have it.all figured
out that our club is going to win the pen
Eant."
No. I don't care anything about that.
But you know how l was worried that day
you took me to the game. 1 am proud and
thankful to see that the manag gers have
decided to give the public cleaner ball"
Yes; that's move IN the right direc-
ticn."
"Of course 1t is. There will be some
pleasure in seeing the players carrying
the mselves like gentlemen"
why, I didn't hear anything annoying
the afternoon We went"
Hear anything? OF course you didn't
hear anything. But the way those men
would rub their hands In the dust just be-
fore they went to hit the ball was dread
fully unneat. And when one of them de-
liherateiy spoiled his clothes sliding along
the ground so that another man couldn't
tag him, I felt sure that 1t wouldn't be
long before there was a demand for clean
er ball. And you see.' she added COM
placently, Everything has turned out just
1 predicted. And the beauty Of it is
that they will become more and more re-
fired as time goes on
Evening star., 1898-03-05
TITLE BY DIGESTION.
New Zealand Native Custom in Re-
gard TO Land Trnnsfers.


Mr.. Hugh Craig, the president of the
chamber of commerce of San Francisco
who is now in the city, tells some interest
ing stories about New Zealand and the
native customs He was born In that is
land, where his father who was a native
of Scotland. lived for number of years.
Mr.. Craig says that the title to all land
is vested in the natives, according to the
agreement made with England, and that
when land Is to be transferred the de-
termination of any question of ownership
comes before a court constituted for that
purpose. On one occasion, when a hearing
in case was in progress. young native
informed the court that his father owned
the land, and, in consequence, it now be-
longed to him. When some of the natives
were asked if he spoke the truth, they
replied that he did.
At this point an old native, who was sit
ting in the rear of the court room, arose
to his feet, and, throwing aside his mantle,
stood forth. stark naked, and, coming for.
ward, addressed the court. This mode OF
dress-or, rather, undress-Mr. Craig said
was by no means uncommon when natives
appeared before the land court. He pro-
ceeded to tell the court that the young
man was mistaken in claiming the owner
ship of the land. He himself held the title
to the property. He said years ago he went
to war against the owner of the property
in question, and that not only was the pro-
prietor of the land killed, but every mem
ber of the family except the young man
who had just claimed the land.
HE was then babe" continued the
old man, "and had seized him by one of
his feet and was about to dash mis- brains
out against a rock, when my wife inter-
ceded on behalf of the boy. and begged
that his life be spared. and that he be
given to her..
He went on to say that he granted her
request and gave her the boy, who had
ever since lived in his family.
Now he claims the land" he added "be-
cause his father owned 1t. But I fought
his father and killed him and all the mem
bers of his family. What is more, I ate
all of his body that was edible so that all
that remained Of his father passed into
me-"
The old man continued that under these
circumstances he thought he had proved q
good title to the land.
When the natives who had heard this
statement were questioned, they said that
what the old man had stated was true and
that, according to their customs, the title
to the land in question had passed to him.
The court SO decided. and SO concluded,
Mr.. Craig, there Is In New Zealand, In
addition to the other usual forms OF get
ting title to realty. such as for money con-
sideration. for love and affection, ETC., title
by digestion.
Evening star., 1898-03-05
OF HISTORIC INTEREST,
Cane Made From Wood From the
Spanish WarsIrip San Pedro.

nave in my possession" says Mr. VIM
W. Birth the senior member of the Oldest
lnhabitants' Association, "a walking stick.
| the history Of which is, at the present time.
very interesting. 1t was part of the
hand-rail of a stairway leading to the cabin
Of the commander of the Spanish warship
San Pedro, which was blown lid in the
Caribbean sea. OF the coast of Venezuela
or Colombia, the year before the termina-
ton of the long-continued and persistent
struggles Of the South American States
for their freedom from SPAIN
oh, II Cuba had''a Bolivar! But per-
haps the commanaet there is equally re-
sourceful, and will ultima teiy succeed in
freeing the people Of his country from the
more than tergibIe suffering they are ex-
In 1919. 1 think it was, the San Pedro
was sent from the mother country, with
several hundred troops to take the places
OF similar number who had served their
allotted time, and were, to be returned to
tnelr homes There was also on board the
ship ABOUT one million dollars, sent to pay
Off the troops and meet other demands
While the ship lay off the coast trans
ferrinB troops, a fire broke out on board
and reached the magazine. How many
persons perished have now no means Of
escertaining, but the presumption is there
was very great number. The money all
went down with the ship, and was at the
bOllOH Oh the sea, unQlSturDed, Tor more
than quarter of a century. wrecking
company of Baltimore, Md, got permission
of the South American government (off
whose coast, at known locality, the ship
lay) to search for treasure, paying prob
ably, a percentage of the result to Vene-
zuela or Colombia. The find was the re-
covery Of some twenty-five or thirty thou
sand dollars in silver. Several years after
this effort another attempt was made to
recover something of value, but the mo-
ton of the sea had so covered the ship
with heavy masses OF sand that only a
small amount was secured
'On leaving the wreck the mahogany
rail Of the stairway was taken off, to be
made into canes The treasure, together
with the rail- and a small brass cannon
found board, was deposited in the
Union Bank of Maryland, in Baltimore
had then living a lifelong friend, an Off
Ger of the bank, Who was presented with
Cne of the canes made from the rail of the
ships cabin. He had the stick mounted
with a silver eye and silk cord and tassel
and presented it to me. And for number
of years have been, and am now. using it.
Il saw at the bank black masses of the
coin recovered, which the intense heat of
the burning ship had melted and mixed
with coal asnes and cinders. 1t is not at
all improbable that the loss of life was
similar in number to that of our recent
lamentable experience"
Evening star., 1898-03-05

head and look the world in the face. but
L can't any more"
Didn't they treat you right?"
They done their best. But they might
have kept ii from me. Them rich rels-
tions of mine means well-but 1 can't have
sincere regards fur nobody that can't keep
secret. 1t was just their natural out
spoken ignorance that made the trouble.
MY rich cousin got braggin' about what a
fine family he come from. An 1 Nentured
10 say that didn't reckon his family was
any finer'n mine. He owned up to that
which of course he had to do. seein' as
how good many of our kin was all men,
toned I'm the same family Bible. Then he
asked me IL I'd like to look at our family
pedigree. which. allus havin been inter-
ested in curiosities, / told i'm 1 would
Well, says he. come into the gallery
VI here i keep the family portraits 1 went
with him, an he p'inted around an says,
There's your ancestors "
Cheer up. OF man., exclaimed Teepeo
Tom, as the narrator gave signs of break
ing down.
ITS easy enough to say cheer up. But
you amt had the sorrow 1 have. Neg