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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11
Rilex,s Homestead Edition.

Volumes and of James Whtcomb Ri
ley's complete works, now being issued in
beautiful form by Charles Scribner's Sons,
are, respectively, pipes o Pan at Zekes-
bury and Rhymes of Childhood
THE Pipes of Pan! Not idler now are they
Than when their cunning fashioner first
The pith of music from them. Yet for you
And me their notes are blown in many a
way,
Lost in our murmurings for that old day
That Jared so well without us-Waken to
The pipings here at hand
SO the poet found inspiration at 'Zekes-
bury" the unpoetic town, that suggests
nothing but dreary prose to the mind not
attuned to the finer meanings of even COM
monplace life. Given ''noontime and June
time down around the river" and what mat
tiers it to the true singer whether Pan, in
classic guise, pipe to him on fairy reed, or
whether he take the modern realistic form
of fisher lad on the river bank, whistling
a happy tune? The flute of the sylvan god
reveals no greater secrets than the whistle
of the lad to him who knows how to listen.
In this volume are verses grave and gay,
sentimental and pathetic-a long list of
them. There is the familiar "Old Sweet
heart there is the sweetly submissive
kissing the Rod
For we know not every morrow
Can be sad
So, forgetting all the sorrow
We have had
Let us fold away our fears,
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
Just be glad
There are bits of dialect in this volume,
not many; one of them is the original chap
ter on Doc Sifers,' out of which the au-
thor's "Rubaiyat" finally grew. There are
the ridiculous nonsense verses in Billy
Alphabetical Animal Show and there are
half d dozen prose sketches which leave the
reader regretting that the author had not
given them more of the kind.
The "Child-World is well named. Many
poets have written about children, have told
what men and women think of children and
childhood, but of those who have entered
into the spirit of the little ones and have
written to them and for them in perfect
sympathy and understanding, surely Mr..
Riley takes the lead. Many of these verses.
it is true, are retrospective, and tell of the
joys of a boyhOod past, but they are lines
that one yet a boy understand for
they tell a story; There is the way Billy
Gould Ride there is the tale of The
Preachers Boy" there is the Raggedy
Mans story of Grandfather Squeers:'
so remarkably deaf was my Grandfather
SCueerS
That he mad to wear lightning rods over
his ears
To even hear thunder-and oftentimes then
He was forced to request it to thunder
again.
Throughout all the verses. whether pa
theuc humorous or grotesque. nothing is
spoken but wholesome philosophy, and
no reader, young or old, can lay the vol
umes down without absorbing something of
the spirit of cheer that permeates them
The other volumes of this attractive edi-
ton will follow in rapid succession They
are sold only in sets, and are handled by
the Bowen Merrill Company. through whose
courtesy the Scribners were permitted to
issue them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

The Journal predicts that the course of
action decided upon by Congress regarding
Cuba will be armed Intervention first and
independenee later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

"Who was that fellow who was proclaim
ing so loudly that a man who would not tell
a lie for a woman's sake was no gentle
MANI"
Him? He's press agent for a soubrette."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11
JenersonviIIe Girl sIandered.

Denver Post.
A girl who is running for mayor of JEFF
fersonvlle. Ind. offers to kiss every man
who will promise to vote for her. but the
heartless HOLSTERS prefer drinks to kisses
and are whooping for the other fellow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

1t is not good policy to become infatuated
with an unreasoning war sentiment merely
because it takes" Smallpox has the same
qualification.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

Spain has agreed with herself to demand
that the insurgents lay down their arms,
and then tells the United States she has
granted an armistice."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

If any one is to do any yielding to 1.-THE
powers let it be Spain. She has no princi-
pie of honor to lose, while we have.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11
An Onening.

Washington Post
We infer from the remarks of Benjamin
Harrison that there is a great opening i'm
Congress for lungless leadership.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

Milwaukee Sentinel.
The venerable Editor Medill is old enough
to know that it is not good form to stand
in the exit and give the Hey Rube!" call
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Exception to the Rule.

Providence Journal.
Didn't know it was loaded" is not an
excuse that can be offered when a subrna-
rine mine exDlodes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

Spain is great on eleventh-hour tricks, but
the twelfth-hour trick will be Uncle Sans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

The latest definition of a Populist is ga
man who has to depend on his whiskers for
mis- gray matter"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

1t will probably develop that all reports
OF probable support for Spain by the Eu-
rcpean powers emanate from Spain herself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

The foreign policy of the United States
should not be dictated by a Cuban or any
other iunta.
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ArrIcultmrnI Note.
Baltimore

Baltimore American.
Torpedoes are cutting quite figure In
the years spring planting.
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shouldn't wonder.
Puck

7 IA.
When women really get into politics we
shall hear less of this talk about the plain
npODle -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

The question is. what would Spain do with
moral" support?
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THE JOURNALS POETS.
vvhen the Boys Come BacIx.


when the boys come back-O what a joyful day,
When the marching column enters and the silver
bugIes play.
Ave. when the victors come. we will make the
highways hum
with the clashing Of the cymbals and the rolling
OF the drum;
We will set the bells a-swing. we viii make the
cannon ring
To the music OF the welcome that our lips are
proud to sing.
From the quiet autumn bowers we will bring the
brightest flowers
And braid them into chaplets for these hero-lads
of ours.
Who have won the mighty battles in the East
and in the West
And have broken every fetter from the lowly and
oppressed,
Who have hurled the tyrant home, to his land
beyond the foam.
And hung the flag Of freedom high every hill
and dome;
All. the garlands we shall gather! They will
make shining track.
From Tampa to Chicago. when the boys come
back.
When the boys come back. we will gather at their
side
And listen to their stories with a never-tiring
PRIDE
How they sailed the seas with Dewey. that wild
eventful day,
When he did to death the doughty Dons in old
Manila bay;
How they crossed the Cuban waters, how they
smote the lords of Spain
On the slopes of Santiago. in remembrance of the
Maine;
How the cowboys and the dudes put to fight the
OF Spaniards. in the jungles Of those deadly
When the boys come back. we will gather from
their lips
The story how they bottled up cervera and his
ships,
And how one Sunday morning beneath the tropic
heat,
They chased and battered, burned and beached
the boosted Spanish fleet,
And last, Wen hear how fearless Hobson sunk
the Merrmac,
Amidst the piping cannon, when the boys come
back.
When the boys come back to the South and to
the North,
Well show them how we estimate their valor and
their worth;
Wen rainbow every village with the old Red,
White and Blue
To tell of devotion as the trains pass through:
To raise the loudest noise, will muster all the
boys,
And waken every echo the plains of Illinois;
And the men of other wars with their crutches
and their scars,
Will swell the shouting multitudes that cluster at
the cars,
While the shade of Lincoln rises with his loving
hands outspread,
With welcomes for the living and with blessings
for the dead,
And the wrath of Grant and Logan will hover
Ger the lines,
Where the youthful victor marches and the dear
old banner shines;
All, the earth will quake and CULVER with the
dynamite crack
In honor of their prowess. when the boys come
back.
Mason. Ill. James Newton Matthews.
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FAST TIME ON A WHEEL.
Henri Fournier's Experiments with
the Petroleum Motor Tricycle..

Paris Letter In Baltimore American.
Like the question of reducing to three
days the time 1t takes to cross the Allan
tic, the increase of the bicycles speed 10 a
point where the rider can travel as speedily
and as safely as on railroad train, is one
of the things that seems bound TO be at.
that awits us in the future, as is the per-
fectng of the machinery Of the ocean grey
hound. so that the present speed of the ma
rine flyers can be doubled. In the days
when bicycles run at speed OF forty-fVe
miles an hour, a clear track Will be aDSo-
engine race will have to come a special
track for the wheelmen, a desirable i'm
provement that will be welcomed by all
lovers of the wheel. The attainment of the
speed named by the bicycle seems to be in
the hands of Henri Fourier, who has be-
come known as the king of automobilists
What Fournier does not know about the
petroleum tricycle. may as well be omitted
from the wheelman's education.
At present Fourier, who uses the Pc
troleum tricycle. of the Dion-Bouton kind,
with one and a half horsepower ma
chine, averages forty kilometres an hour.
The machine he uses is comparatively llght
easy of manipulation and powerful 1t Is
fitted with a motor of from one to three
horsepower, it's hill-climbing and speed ca
pabilities being gagged thereby. The big
and heavy automobile carriages have trou-
BILE in mounting hills, but the loWly and
Dutch-barn style of tricycle. goes puihng
right up to the top, and its rlder Is IN no
wise affected with fatigue in the task or
making the ascent.
Fourier is in deadly earnest in his de-
termination TO attain a speed of forty-five
miles an hour. He has made series OF
tests with his automobile, that show that,
given a straight smooth track. and the
machine working at forced draught. the
express trains will find the petroleum. tri-
cycle a dangerous rival in the matter of
speed To see Fourier on one of these
test trips is a SIGHT never to be forgotten
He flies along with bullying eyes fixed on
the ground over which he is flying, hair
streaming in the wind and the putting
motor working at such a speed as to make
one tremble to think Of the fate Of the
rider should any untoward accident cause
a spill Fournier seems TO know no fear
when going like the wind on these risky
trips BY constant practice he has become
an expert in the manipulation of the petro-
leum tricycle.. and Wal turn a curve while
going at the dizzy speed of forty-five miles
an hour with all the Iecklessness of boy
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The New Greeting.
! climbed


Where tAe rowing bee forgot his ancient feud.
And kissed my cheek with that loud unseen wing
He pushed with through the breast high clover;-
Sing
And hurt not!' 'Twere motto for a man.
The swift wind took it up. whisper ran
Through all the swinging poplar leaves imbued
With passionate acquiescence. and they chimed.
They sing
My comrades ALL. in this day of grace
To answer that winged prophet of the hills.
No time life's highway for voicing ills
What cheer!' alike. my lover and my foe
Call out across the sunshine where I go.
But every face to mes a friendly face,
And each new thing 1 sees blessed thing.
And they
Who hold the power to wound or HARM forbear.
And those who can. put forth a hand to serve.
Eternity's circle-life. curve
OF that wide. mystic circle. that they see.
And just noble the whole. o bee
Among the northern clover blooms, they wear
Thy greeting in their hearts for me to-day.
Madison, Ind. Olive Sanxay.
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And they
One of Many.

II am so weary of my life,'' she said;
Day after day the same dull round Of care
Nothing to make my pathway bright and fair
Nothing to lure my dragging steps ahead.
How blest are they whose lives not thus wed
To filling human wants: who need not bear
Burdens of toll and care. That 1 might share
The life of ease and pleasure by them led"
And then her cheek grew pale with sudden fear
All. what If God should sometime punish her
Wild words by taking to himself her dear,
Dear ones, and she no more could minister
To them. Forgive" she prayed; ''let not that be-
And strength to live my life, o grant Thou me-"
Margaret Manning
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Sunday. Aug. 2S, 1881
Such wise baby to manage so well,
Surely she heard the divinities tell,
1.-THE child that is born on the Sabbath-day
Shall be blithe and bonny. and good and CAV"
o ''bIithe' and "bonny'' are words we shall
Groom,
And good and gay shall be set to tune
And the song shall be joyful and low and sweet.
With love for the baby in every beat.
o sing to the baby. sing soft and slow,
Her own little lullaby clearly, o.
1.-The child that is born the sabbath-day
Shall be bIithe and bonny and good and gay.
May w. Donnan.
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Butter and bacon are declared by medi-
cal writer to be the most nourishing of all
foods.
over one hundred persons disappear in
London every year without leaving the
slightest trace behind.
Whistling is practically unknown among
the Icelanders, who regard it as irreligious
and violation of the divine law.
The custom of keeping birthdays is many
thousand years old. Pharaohs birthday
festivities are mentioned in the Pentateuch
1t is estimated that all the gold mined in
California since 1S4S could be put into a
room twelve yards long, six yards wide
and 5 2-3 yards high.
The Salvation Army during its last self
denial week. raised $1e5,000 to carry on it's
work among the lowly and neglected This
last year.
The American national anthem, 1.-THE
Star-spangled Banner" happens to be Eng
lish. 1t is better known, as far as its tune
Anacreon in Heaven.
The total population of Ireland on April
3. 1891. was 4,7047JO. OF these 3.52S 562 were
Roman Catholics; about 800 Anglicans
and 446.eS7 were Presbyterians. About 127, 600
belonged to other sects.
The lately destroyed residence AMI mu-
scum in Leicester square, London, of the ia
nous John Hunter is said to have been the
scene chosen by Mr.. Stevenson for his story
of Or. Jelkyll and Mr.. Hyde"
The oldest love letter in the world is in
the BRUSH museum. - proposal OF
cess and If was made 500 vsar "a. 90 II
is in the form of an inscribed brick
Among the 200 residents of Weston,
town in Maine there are but two persons of
foreign birth, and these are naturalized
Irishnen Both fs-e officeholders, one being
mayor and the other constable of the town.
A feature Of the population statistics of
Western Australia is the large proportion
of males to females. The Disparity is main
tanned in the arrivals by sea- At present
there are forty-five females to every one
hundred males.
Miss Mollie Atchfsson. or Opuyke ILL.,, ac-
cording 10 Leslie's Weekly weighs 500
pounds and measures four feet seven inches
around the waist She IS good cook a
skilled seamstress, tNenly-eight years ole,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-04

There is a boy doll known from its dress
as marquis, and there is a farmer boy,
standing with his suspenders over his
shoulders and wearing straw hat, a very
pretty figure indeed. There are many har-
lequin figures and many Santa Clauses and
many negro boys, these including dolls Oh
worsted. Some boy dolls and girl dolls are
sold together in pairs. There is, for in
instance a couple known as the bride and
bridegroom; another pair is known as Uncle
Sam and the Goddess of Liberty.
Among more conventional styles there are
boy dolls dressed as little men and wearing
derby hats, and boy dolls dressed as old
handsome big boy dolls dressed in silks and
satinS.
Boy dolls are sold at all sorts of prices;
Sailor boys for instance, cost at retail
from 25 cents to s. each.
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Males in the DolI Population.

OF the doll population males form perhaps
per cent. and females 50 per cent. Many
dolls are capable of passing as either ac-
cording to the way in which they are
dressed, but in some the male sex is indi-
Gated by parting the lair on the side. An
other popularity about boy dolls is that
great many Of them represent types. Many
sailor dolls are sold. some OF them logged
out in white flannel suits of the regulation
cut and with the broad top sailor hats. max
ing very trim and jaunty figures There are
dolls dressed as Little Lord FauntleFoYs
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Detroit Journal.

The colonel enters livid with rage.
II see. SIR he Kisses, that you head the
report of MY remarks at the grave of the
late Major Snigley sir. with the caption,
'Hic facet sir!"
Yes, sir" we reply. I'VE did. sir. Yes,
sir"
We'll. sir the colonel proceeded .I have
called. sir. TO say, sir, that you're another.
sir Yes, sir!
The colonel, observe, does not talk in dia-
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Mistake.
Chicago Tribune.

CHICAGO ITIDune.
Il beg your pardon, little girl. but you are
riding pigeon-toed. The habit, if persisted in
viii make you bow
At this critical moment she turned her
head and disclosed to the elderly wheelman
who had been riding leisureIy behind her
the face of an understood but mature wom-
an of not less than forty-seven.
Sir she said.
Madam he gasped, touching his hat and
falling further back, you spoke just in
time.
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After the ElOpement.
Puck.

The Father-in-law (severely)-And you
DECIDED to marry in spite of my opposition?
The Son-in-law (calmly)-Yes, sir.
The, Father-in-law (Calmly)-Well, I'd
have had no respect for you if you hadn't
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Chance Cor victory Yes.
Washington Star

w dSIIIII5 lUH 0tdE-
Yes said the Spanish officer well
have to go back to Spain without our side
arms"
What a humiliation exclaimed a
friend.
Cheer up. 1t isn't as bad as it might be-
They never thought to take our fountain
pens away from u.s.
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Chicago Tribune.
'One of the latest thories is that high
heeled shoes cause brain trouble
L don't believe it. The wearing of high
heeled shoe is merely an evidence that some
thing is wrong with the brain. 1t is not the
cause of it,"
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HUMOR OF THE DAY.


San Francisco Chronicle.
Minister'S Wife-Tommy Crowther. you
haven't washed your face day.
Tommy Crowther-'Tain't Sunday
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Getting Even.
Chicago News.

3NCWSs
Mater-What's the use of being so strict?
Remember that you were a boy once YOUR
self.
Pater-I do remember it, That's the very
reason I'm going to punish him. NV father
used to whale the life out of me for doing
just such things
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Puck.

Mrs. Jones-Why don't you do something
to support yourself?
The Tramp wuz tinkin' madam. of
startn one of dem endless chains of letters
contributin to me relief
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Resemblance.
Detroit Journal.

Jinks-They say married people grow to
resemble each other.
Mrs. Jinks-Well, know it's quite impos-
sible for married woman to keep her good
looks.
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A Point of Informa alton.
Puck.

Little Reuben-Pop. "squar' means
homes" don't it?
His Father-Dats right chile.
Little Reuben-Wal, den. kin a pusson
hab a squar' meal off'n chicken what
amt hiS'n?
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Chicago Tribune.

Professor" they said, give us a deep
metaphysical conundrum."
We'll, he said, after moments thought.
when is which 'what?'
They gave it up.
fessor.
And when they had studied it out they un-
derstood.
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Out of Style.
Chicago Tribune.

chicago Trlbune.
Ethel-Mamma would it be wrong for me
to read THE Heavenly Twins 2"
Mrs; Upjohn-Yes, dear. Nobody reads it
nowadays
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II has no standard hat its own;
II must pursue its path alone.
Through woods unblazed and fields unknown
Edward Gillian. in LIpplncotts.
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Chicago Record.
What a lot of black feathers Penelope
wears in her hat"
Yes she is engaged to an undertaken"