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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

The more honesty man has the less he
affects the air of a saint.-Lavater.
The man who bulded better than he knew
was an up-to-date contractor.-Puck.
The cheapest vase on the mantelpiece
never gets knocked off.-Chicago Record.
There are three great powers in. the
world-sagacity. strength and luck.-Plu-
tarch.
1t is the monotony Of his own nature that
makes a man find solitude intolerable.
-Schopenhauer.
Poverty is the only load which is the
heavier the more loved ones there are to as
sist in bearing it.-Richter.
He who has enough, and knows it, is
richer than one who possesses millions and
wants more.-Chicago Post.
We become conscious of our hearts at
when they begin to ache.-Judge.
If we could beg as hard for ourselves as
we can for charity how suddenly rich we
would become.-Feminine Observer.
Woman will never be able to possess such
a comforter as a mans pipe is to him in all
sorts of trouble.-Feminine Observer.
The fact that some men can gain a foot
hold but can make no Roadway is frequent
ly due to their physical construction.-Puck
There is no easier way in the world for
one to lose good name than to have it en-
graved on the handle of an umbrella.-Bal-
timore Life.
A lady just returned from Denver says
that the water there is so hard that it
breaks a persons back to lie in it when
taking a bath.-Young's Magazine
IT'S shame says the Manayunk Phi
losopher, that some of the self-made men
didn't use a looking-glass during the con-
structive process. ''-Philadelphia Record.
She could never marry him, and yet she
accepted his suit THANK you, dear broth
err she said, II can have it made over into
a bicycle bloomer costume. "--Philadelphia
Record
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ness Of Western lover of melody vh.
knew what ne wanted and wasn't afraid 81
say so In these terms: Damn NJ 70
Play the Liberty Bell I" 7''ei'
While playing In St Louis this note ,,.
handed to him: Would il be asking "es
much II requested you TO play as an c 90
lieve Ii is by Sullivan ue-
In Pennsylvania came this anxious
quest: Il came forty miles over the mon
tains to see the man who makes 81 0S f..
year out of his compositions kindly ohIi,e
me by playing them ALL j. T."
his one came from young man fr,
aching for in2ormation-"B andmaster So
sa: Please inform me what Is the nam -
those two instruments that look like eas
pipes?' aaS
At an afternoon concert Sousa was bande,
this note: Dear Sir-Please play Low
Old Sweet Song. I've got my girl almost IN
the sticking point, and that will fetch her
around sure
This from a musicaily inclined member ~,
the colored race; "A colored lady wouid
like to hear cOronet solo by your solo
coronetist. And here is another sample ~
the ingenious request: "A warm 3dmirer -
Sood music would like to hear the 'Mafden's
Prayer on your band
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How anlEnthusiastic TheOsOphist Set
AbOut It,
London TELEGRAPH.


NJ. Jean Hess gives an account of an odd
adventure which came to his personal knOwl-
edge, as he happened to be a fellOwpas
senger with the heroine. This lady hand
some and elegant woman, AMI the wife of n
trader settled in the West Indies. travelled
i'll the steamer which conveyed him from
become acquainted with each other she con-
fided to him that she was making the jour-
ney for the express purpose of comforting
Dreyfus. She had been brought up in Paris
was much interested in educational ques-
tons, and not long before a local physician
had converted her TO the doctrine of the
Theosophists. After perusing M. Zola's
articles she has arrived at the conclusion
that Dreyfus could not possibly be guilty
and ever since she had been haunted by the
idea that ii was her mission to proceed to
French Guiana to see Dreyfus and to carry
comfort to him by announcing that the hour
of freedom was nigh. Naturally enough
this lady's husband had endeaVored to dis
suade her from her project, but at length
she had succeeded in obtaining his consent
and she was much disappointed when NJ.
Jean Hess assured her that an interview
with Dreyfus would not be allowed by the
authorities.
Never mind" she said after thinking the
matter we'll over. 81 quite understand that
shall not be permitted to see him. as you
tell me that such Is the case. but in spite 0f
distance in spite of walls and jailers / shall
bear him my message The unhappy man
will learn news which will give him so mucn
pleasure: You are acquainted with our
Theosophy, and you know what will con-
centrated on q single object, can accomplish
by means or fervent prayer. When we pass
by Devils island in the steamer / shall pray
with so much fervor. | shall concentrate
my will so strongly on my subject that my
spirit viii reach that of Dreyfus, and he
will know what have TO tell him."
The worthy woman kept her word, and
whlle the other passengers were curiously
scanning the shores of the Isle du Diable
from the deck she was on her knees In her
cabin, NJ. Jean Hess remarks that she may
nave been eccentric but that her zeal and
devotion completely disarmed ridicule
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The controversy between the osteopathists
and the anti-osteopathists seems to be the
old war between the pathies in a new form
the regulars against a new school.
Homeopathy went through the same oxpe-
rience and came out victorious as far as Sc
curing public recognition and standing is
concerned. Many regular practitioners now
adays use homeopathic remedies and meth
DDS, and intelligent homeopathists do not
hesitate to use allopathic remedies and
methods when they think they are needed.
The best physician is he who knows the
most about all schools, and especially about
the human frame and its ailments. Legisla-
ton against quackery may be all right, but
1t should be directed against ignorance and
not against schools. Without doubt osteo-
pathy as school has some justification in
nature and science. but it is not the whole
thing. and an osteopathist who is that and
nothing more comes very near being
quack. A thoroughly educated physician
should know all that is worth knowing in
all the schools and good deal besides.
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GRAVE OF LAFAYETTE.
Americans Tell of ~ Visit They Paid
to 1t.

Boston transcript.
OF the one hundred thousand Americans
who yearly go to Paris, it is safe to say that
very few ever visit the last resting place Of
Lafayette 1t lies far from the haunts OF
American pleasure-seekers who frequent the
Champs Elysees, the splendid shops, the
opera house and theaters, or even the gal
leries of the Louvre and Luxembourg, or
the many ancient historic buildings raised
by the genius of man.
One spring day trip of about four miles
carried us over to the Place du Trone
old walls of the Convent of Les Danes dil
Sacre Occur. The mild-eyed, gray-haired
sister who answered the bell consigned us
at once to the one man allowed about the
place-a white-haired, courteous gardener
He hailed us with joy when he found we
were Americans, who had come far to see
the grave Of afayette-Amesica's be-
loved friend and ally in the revolution.
49, Helas! mes danes, sighed the old man;
but few OF your nation come here to pay
respect to the memory of the great hero.
Lafayette" Then he led us through
quaint old garden, with high walls shutting
lots
No hands but mine have tended these
plants for over thirty years" Lovingly the
close-cIpped tails. the trellises covered with
grape vines, the luXuriant Towering shrubs
and gay flowers.
At the end of the garden. loved bv the
quiet nuns, he unlocked gate. In a small,
private cemetery where respose the remains
others. we found the grave of Lafayette. a
modest tablet marks the spot Birds sing
in the trees close by; the roar and hustle OF
the beautiful, great city was hushed in this
secluded spot In a smaller Enclosure lie
the bones of aristocratic victims OF the
Reign OF Terror" who persisted in the
Place du Trone so near it. 1t saddened us 10
see how forgotten Lafayette's burial place
appeared 20 be by his own countrymen,
whom he served with such loyal and true
patriotism during the troublous, dreadful
times of the French revolution and to the
end of his eventful life. But though we
neglect his grave, mis- name and memory
are cherished and loved by all true-hearted
Americans. For the youth who came across
the Atlantic TO aid our fathers TO shake off
the yoke Of England. and found on this con-
tinent a republic such as he dreamed of and
hoped TO see in his own beloved France
stands next 10 Washington in the hearts of
our people. America has never forgotten
and never will forget, how he impaired his
fortune and periled his life to make US free
Twenty-four towns they have named for
Lafayette.
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infinite degree so long as sight and hearing
remain. 1t may also be doubted IL training
will give keen appreciation of nature, even
to those of sympathetic soul, if they have
known nothing of it in youth. To love the
sky. the fields, the woods the light and
shadow, the green of the grasses, the in
Vulnerable effects Of color, to have them
blended into the life as part of it, one
must have known them always, must have
brick walls and stone pavemcnJs fifty weeks
in the year from childhood on cannot ac-
quire that love for a sweep of prairie, or
an overshadowing mountain, or common
place view of field and stream which the
one who has had the freedom of the coun-
try at least in youth may experience. He
must be a clod, indeed, into whose soul
something of the charm of hill and valley,
of cloud ard sunshine and all their combina-
tons does not sink and remain as a dream
or an enchantment never to be forgotten.
1t is even probable that the rustic to whom
the primrose by the rivers brim a yellow
primrose is and nothing more, may be be-
lied. He may not be conscious of them,
but take him away from the field where
those blossoms are and set him in the town
where he must lift his head high to see the
sky and he will recall what he has lost.
The primrose will then be something
more and the river will figure in his
dreams as a place of beauty. Professor
Shaler may establish new cult, but before
the students engage in their undertaking it
should be ascertained if they have the
heaven-born gift that brings them into har-
mony with inanimate nature
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United States, and it is greatly to be re-
GREETED that they cannot view the situa-
ton as the London paper advises. If the
United States decide to hold the Philippines
permanently it will be with the best wishes
for the prosperity and happiness of the
people, and they will be only too glad to
give the Filipinos the largest possible de-
gree Of self-government as soon as they
give evidence of capacity for it. The danger
is that the FiIipinos will choose rather to
fight for independence and thus compel the
United States to resort to methods which it
would much rather avoid.
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lem is 10 seek methods of providing work
for the unemployed 1t may be the inherent
right OF every man to have employment,
but it is also an inherent duty of the indi-
vidual TO fit himself for employment and
to seek 1T and render an equivalent for it.
1t is not just that those who labor unceas-
ingly, and by so doing provide themselves
with homes, should have their earnings or
their wages taken from them to support
class of men who chiefly because of their
own heedlessness or inability. cannot find
employment as do most men. If men, in
such times as these, cannot find employ
ment of some kind, it is largely because
they cannot earn wages, or because they
seek it in branches of industry iii which
there is no demand for labor. The individual
owes it to society, as far as he can, to fit
himself for some kind Of employment that is
in demand That men are unemployed is
due, in no small degree, to their inability 10
do anything but the most common labor.
They are shiftless in their early years, and
when they come to an age when they must
care for themselves they have not even the
capacity to compete for wages in the
toughest kind of labor Consequently, many
of them throng the places of public en-
ployment, because, for the most part,
mans capacity to earn his wages when
working for the city is not considered
There is no more monstrous heresy than
that the public or the thing called govern
ment, is bound to find employment for all
who have it not. Suppose a thousand COM
positors, telegraphers or bricklayers should
come to this city and demand employment
OF 1t at their respective trades. There is
found to be no demand for such mechanics
All the newspapers and books are printed
that can be sold and the bricklayers en-
ployed can build all the stores and houses
that are needed. What would be thought
if these men should go to the government
and demand labor at their respective trades
at full wages? Government is under obliga-
ton to do ali that it can for all the people
1t furnishes education and has begun to
teach the young so that they will be fitted
for manual labor. 1t can do all in it's power
to multiply the avenues of employment
but, when all these things are done. the in
dividual must be left to work out his own
destiny. The government cannot build rail-
ways or dig canals simply to give him en-
ployment. 1t has no right to tax A to get
money with which to pay B living wages
for doing that for which there is no ne
eessity and for which no return can be OBJ
tanned, because such taxation is robbery.
and, as a policy, would involve the whole
community in poverty. If men are unable
do 1t, but when the community does this it
should have the right to place such people
where they can be furnished the necessaries
OF life at the least expense. The prudent
workers have some rights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

Bradstreet's and Dun & Co.'S weekly re-
views of trade, published yesterday, both
commented on the exceptionally large sales
of steel rails during the week, amounting to
from 100000 to 100000 tons AS the iron and
steel trade is the best single criterion of
prosperity, these large sales are significant.
According to the Iron Trade Review the
sales included $4,000 tons to the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad, 1900 tons to the Chicago &;
Northwestern, 5000 tons to the St Paul,
25,OcO tons to the Burlington, and large or
ders to Eastern and central systems. An
other interesting feature of the boom in
steel rails is the marked increase in the
shipments abroad. A British steamship
which sailed from Baltimore few days
ago carried 1890 tons of steel rails and
fifty tons of fittings for Bombay, India. and
a schooner which sailed the same day car
ried 1,5O0 tons of rails and fittings for Bar
BADGES. Both Of the ports named are British,
and, heretofore, only Englsh-made steel
rails have been usedathere. Still more re-
markable is the announcement that an or
der is now being filled for $500 tons of steel
rails for railroad in Ireland. This is the
first shipment of the kind ever made to
Great Britain, and it is due to the fact
that, while American steel rails are SELL
ing at SIS a ton, the English price for the
same quality is $23. These shipments will
cause CONSERVATION in British manufacture
ing circles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

The United States is expanding $40, 900 900
Mississippi river to the waters of the upper
Illinois river. The matter was in Congress
a long time, but finally the country was
committed to the scheme. The canal par
allels the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad
for some distance. The tolls of the road
have been greatly reduced since the canal
was begun, not because the work was in
progress, but because the competition of
other railroads forced the reduction. The
Engineering News says that by the time the
canal is completed there will not be pound
of freight that can be carried on it at a
profit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04
MARYLAND's MODERN NOAH.
Builds a Steam Yacht Two and Half
Miles from Nearest hit OF Water.
Baltimore Sun.

DdILiiHOie sun
A steam launch seVenty-five feet long be-
ing built two and a half miles from water is
the unusual sight which may be seen on the
road from Pomona TO Quaker Neck Kent
county The boat is building within a few
feet Of the public road, and many OF tns
original timbers have rotted away during
the tedious continuance Of the work About
fifteen years ago Capt. a. Judson a man
who had gone down to the sea in ships
Tor many years, came to Kent and opened
q store. After merchandising for a short
time he bought a pretty little home near
the village of Pomona and started saw
mill. Finally the old sailor conceived the
idea Of building his yacht The keel WAS
laid, the ribs slowly assumed position ana
winter and summer the work dragged On.
Years passed. The first timbers began TO
decay. and before the completion OF one part
the timbers were of necessity replaced by
new, and yet the pet scheme was not aban-
doned, and now the dry-and shin is nearing
completion. The yacht is to be seventy-flVc
feet in length, eleven feet beam and six feet
nold. She viii be propelled by steam, anu
the captain says. Will turn off twenty miles
an hour A cabin forty-fiVe feet in length
will be built and fitted up for long cruise,
the intention OF the captain being TO revisit
many scenes of his early sailor life The
puzzling question TO the casual observer j.:
river, more than two miles away? The
captain says that with one horse the launch
Will be quickly and easily made. The boat
now has the deck on and Ii Is expected
that the launch will be made next summer.
The launching day win be made memorable,
and the sponsor for the novel craft has all
ready been chosen.
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corbett.. Career.

Pacific Christian.
If any excuse can be found for mention
ing in religious journal the fight between
the notorious CDrbett and the fellow who
Is said to have knocked him out In the
city Of New York last Tuesday night it
must be found IN the warning 20 young
manhood which Cofbett'S career AFFORDS.
No nobler specimen of physical manhood
could have been found when he first came
into notoriety as a pugilSt. But II Is per-
fectly clear now that he is rapidly becom-
ing a physical an well as moral wreck.
His business IS essentially immoral 10 IL
self and the evils which attend L are nec-
essarily ruinons In themselves He has
brought disgrace and ruin upon himself and
family. The pAllalty must ~ paid.
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LITERARY NOTES.

The author of Lorna Doone'' is in feeble
health; and 'srhe Country Parson.'' who is
not so young he once was. is also i'll.
Jacob Nicholas Moreau, once librarian of
Marie Antoinctte, left some manuscript
memoirs which are soon TO be published in
two Volumes under the title of Mes Souve-
Mrs"
When the Sleeper Wakes" IS the title OF
Mr. III. G. WeIls's new novel. 1t Is to APP
near as a serial in Harper's Weekly. The
late Maria Louise Pool left manuscript
novel which is TO be brought out sariatly Ia
the Bazaar Il Is called The Aei0olt Farm
The centenary Of Pushkin's nirul Will pc
celebrated next year He was the greatest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

The Fossil-How the times have degen-
Grated, since the days when ourN statesmen
had as keen an interest in public affairs as
in their private business!
The Modern-Old man, they have adj
vanced. Our statesmen now make public
affairs their private business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

At every performance OF Sousa's band
the requests that reach the conductor for
encore numbers. il complied with, would
treble the length of the programme. Some
OF these requests are particularly humor-
Gus and many Of them have been treasured
for their humorous value ON one occasion
Mr.. Sousa was handed dainty note which
said: - society lady requests that you
play the overture to 'sTannhauser'' as an en-
core. This was IN the South. and Is In
strong contrast ~ the characteristic blunt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

The latest aesthetic move is to make the
violet our national flower" The little
modest purple blossom of poetic fame seems
hardly in keeping with the American char
acter, but if what is meant is the violet
of commerce which appears in large masses
on the coats of the fashionable girls and
suggests dollars. why, that's different.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

1t viii be time for the United States to
guarantee the construction of a canal from
the lakes to the Ohio river at Pittsburg
after all of the cities of 10000 people have
secured postoffice accommodations suited to
o. nOo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

1t seems to be good policy for cities to
limit street-railway franchises to twenty or
twenty-five years for the simple reason that
their values are likely to increase so rapid
" that the price for the last twenty-five
years of a fifty-year franchise would be en-
tirely Inadequate.
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see millions of cheap laborers yellow.
brown and black, from the Philippines,
overrrnning this country. to remind them
that not a native of Alaska has come to the
United States to take the job of a native
Axoargcan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

The music commission of Boston, one of
the fads of the present mayor, is actually
engaged in listening to the music turned
out by the five hundred hand organs in the
city the object being to ascertain if the
music is what may be called classical. 1t
is not stated what is to be done with the
Italian who grinds out other than strictly
classical music, such as is sure to elevate
the taste of the hoodlums of the Hub
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04

The latest remark of Speaker Reed was
called forth the other day, while riding in a
smoking car, by a man who was volubly adj
vocating that It is the duty of the United
States to diffuse the blessings of freedom
Thereupon the speaker remarked: There
are people in this country who think we
can furnish canned freedom for all the
bpa fbnu
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The expansion policy will bring with it
novel and complicated questions regarding
citizenship. Some of these have arisen al
ready. Chinaman in Hawaii has asked
for a passport as a citizen of the United
States. Whatever the status of the Chinese
in Hawaii may be. they are not American
citizens AS residents of the United States,
annexed without any action on their part.
they may perhaps be entitled to pass from
Hawaii TO any other part of the United
States. thereby escaping the Chinese exclu-
sion act, hut they cannot become citizeus
except by naturalization. Strictly speaking
the same is true of all persons of foreign
birth. whether living in Hawaii, Porto Rico
or in any other new possession of the
United States. Congress can pass a law
making them citizens by virtue of their an
nexation, but until it does they can only be-
come citizens through tho regular process
of naturalization, and it is doubtful IL Chi
nese can become naturalized. The qles-
ton whether the Chinese now in Hawaii
can enter the United States proper is still
more embarrassing, for it would be strange
doctrine that would prohibit persons living
in one part Of the United States from
migrating to any other part These are the
beginning of many embarrassing quesgofs
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


Yabsley-Is it true that you left your last
boarding house by request--a case of take
your clothes and gog'
Nudge didn't get to take my clothes