The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
AS WE PASS ALONG.

Five-year-old Charles was being prepared
for a children's party. and he was so noisy
and lively during the toilet
Society that his mother chided
Conduct. him. Charles, Charles,
she said. II can't brush
your hair tie your necktie while you
jump about so. II you are going TO behave
like this you can't 20 10 the party.
Small Charles sobered down on the in
slant eco ahead. mamma" he said. "In
stand still. I'll be all right at the party;
boys don't act bad when they've got on
their polite clothes
No man. surely. could leave finer life
a true brother 10 his
A Brother to kind. IT worked a
His Brothers. long time I'm New
Albany and in Louis
Vile under Capt. John Baptiste Ford. who
has just died at Creighton. Pa. said a vet
eran glass blower. land man Of kinder
heart never lived. He had many business
reverses. but he made a large fortune after
he was on the down hill to old age. and he
deserved IL. All the years I worked for
him 1 never knew him to turn away a man
who needed help or asked for work. Let
the worst old tramp glass blower that ever
lived come along and Captain Ford would
say to his foreman: Give him a job; let
him have a chance: he sleep in the
glass works somewhere until he gets on
his feet. but keep eye on him. So many
poor wreck of fellow would land on
Captain Ford. work a few days. sleep in the
glass works on straw or on bench and
then drift out again. goodness knows
where. Some of these waits would stay
permanently and work into good positions.
But the generous old captain, big in body.
brain and heart. never turned needy
brother from his door. not one"
If, as is alleged. all things move In a cir
Gle the man who lives nearest the point OF
departure sometimes
Martyr has his troubles to
to Progress. tell Here's a queer
case" said a citizen.
I've just had letter from my Cousin
Jim in another county. He lives on a
farm about a mile from town and has been
greatly elated because rural delivery had
set in down his way Ny Cousin Jim is
great reader. and likes his morning paper
so well that he always went 10 town every
day to get it before going about his farm
work. But now. Jim writes. the mail man
leaves town on the rural line In an oppo-
site direction from Jim's end of town,
he doesn't get around TO Jims farm until
3 o'clock In the afternoon. Jim says he
can almost see the mail man start out
from his house, and yet he has 10 wait
until the mail circuit brings the delivery
to his gate. Cousin Jim writes that he
thinks that is great and 1 must say I
oxx-ftl n fG 10 r.
that he could still go to town and get his
newspaper. But Jim says he won't do that:
progress is progress and he doesn't pro-
pose to block the wheels, no street.
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Seventy years ago. when / was a boy"
said an elderly doctor Iounging in a drug
store, there were
| O1d-Tfme Coin only two kinds OF
and Candy. candy kept at the
general store in the
| little village near which was born; these
were candy kisses and stick candy. On
| Fourth of July and Christmas the store
keeper imported from the city what we
| called 1ollipops'-round Jumps of molasses
| taffy-which great treat. In the
candy-kiss wrappers were little love
couplets printed on white slips of paper.
on the kiss wrapper. saving space and ex-
ira labor. In those days boys and girls
had very little money to spend, and had to
| earn that by hard labor. Coin was very
scarce then. All / can remember seeing
were the scent piece. 12A-cent piece. or
'bit-these were Spanish. think-also the
| Canadian quarter, or two bits (no half
dollars), the Mexican dollar. the French s.
49, r. xTf.l.
| guinea.
ITO earn a little money country boys
had to saw and split wood. I could fell a
tree and make 1T into firewood when was
ten years old. Also they MIXED cows. hoed
| the garden. pulled weeds shucked corn. fed
pigs and did lot Of other chores. Girls
had household work to do. Twenty-Five
cents to spend at holiday times was an inn
mense amount of money. Boys would lie
awake at night calculating how TO extract
the greatest quantity of expenditure from
this precious sum. Now nine out OF ten
children have pennies or larger coin So
pocket money daily. One nervous drug
clerk know calls certain little urchin
the Hyena' because he comes In ten times
a day and each time takes FIVE minutes
spending a penny. Another druggist says
| he has one schoolgirl customer who Is good
| for 20 cents every day in candy or chewing
gum.
1t is rare thing nowadays TO encounter
| what may be termed a biblical flavor" I'm
| signs or in adver-
The Bible Adj tisements. few
| vertfsement. conservative minds.
however have chung
! to the old-fashioned custom Of acknowl-,
edged alliance between religion and BUSH
ness Capt. John A. Nafius, master car
| penter and contractor. who died recently
in New Albany at the age OF seventy-five,
had his massive delivery wagon labeled in
! large gilt letters, "Nafius. the Builder" In
the New Albany Tribune Feb. !. 1853. ap-
! pears this curious advertisement with
similar old-time biblical title: Aaron. the
joiner is located the east side of lower
Second street between Market and Spring.
! Although possessed Of a small shop and
| small means. we take encouragement from
| the fact that
| Large streams from little fountains flow,
| Tall oaks from little acorns grow