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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
THE ARTIST AND THE MODEL.
A Romantic Story of True Love in a Paris
Studio.

letter in Boston Herald
Artists are supposed to be naturally ro-
mantle. Perhaps they are; but it has yet to
be demonstrated that they as a class fall in
love more readily than other men. And vet
one is continually hearingof affairs d amour
among the knights of the brush at Paris.
They rarely become enamored of their mod
els-that is, rarely seriously enamored.
Models are not as & rule, of lovable OF low
ing kind. But there was case of true love
between an artist-we will call him Palette
rather than use his own name-and damsel
who sat for him in figure pieces" He was
an American, young, whole-souled and sue
cessfully rising. She was an Alsacienne,
young, handsome and poorer than the
proverbial church mouse. Her parents
had lost their little property in the
Franco Prussian war when the hungry
German gobbled up the fair provinces
of Alsace and Lorraine. Rather than
swear fealty to the Kaiser, they had sacri-
feed everything and fed, eventually TURF
ing up in Paris, where they had managed to
wiring out meager living in various honest
ways. Marguerite, the daughter, had been
endowed by nature with splendid face and
form, and she was as good as she was beauti-
full. By and by her father was disabled, and
the mother had to devote to him her con-
slant care, so that on Marguerite's shoulders
fell the burden of supporting the little fam
lily. All went we'll for while and then bad
IlmeS came. Inere was no WOrk TO De nau.
A friend of the family, one Mons, N, fire.
quenter of the studios suggested sitting for
the artists. No! 1t could not be thought of.
At last necessity compelled some action.
There were stern landlords and implacable
tradesmen to face. Palette was looking for
model. He was painting a classical picture
He wanted anAthenangrl, but he could not.
find any one who satisfied him in the Greek
costume He pressed N, whom he knew
WE'LL and N. pressed Marguerite, who in the
end, consented. Palette was enchanted. The
very thing; and he painted away for dear
life. Somehow the picture was an uncon-
scionably long time in the fnishing-there
was always something to be done to the
figure of the Greek girl. And Palette was
capital talker, and he drew from Marguerite
her history. First she had his sympathy;
then his friendship. She sat for him often
various ways, and he discovered that she was
q very uncommon girl. To make a long
story short, he loved her. devotedly, too, and
she loved him. And they were married, of
course? No! There is no happy ending to
this tale; there was no ring of merry bells
Marguerite fell i'll and died. And Palette?
Well, he will never marry He keeps her
memory sacred. He paints with a sadder
and more effective touch now, and people
say there is wonderful deal of heart and
poetry in his work He supports the mother
and makes her old age free from care The
father died not long after his daughter. 1t
is sad story; it is story of romance, but
such things show the better nature of our
race.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
EUROPE

Cooks Grand Excursions leave New York,
April &c. June l, June 10 and June so, 1888.
Passage tickets by all Atlantic steamers Special
facilities for securing good berths. Tourist
tickets for individual travellers in Europe, by all
routes, at reduced rates.
Cooks EXcurSionist, with Mans ana full par
ticulars, by mail 10 cents. Address
THOS. COOK & SON, 261 Broadway, N. Y.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
LOGS AND LUMBER.
Mr.. William Nye Visits Mill and Learns
Not to Monkey with the Buzz Saw.

Letter in Laramie Boomerang
Northwestern Wisconsin is the place where
the foreign lumber" comes from which we
use in Laramie in the erection of our palatial
residences. | visited the mill last week that
furnished the lumber used in the Oasis Ho-
tel, at Greeley. They yank big wet log into
that mill and turn it into cash as quick as a
railroad man can draw his salary out of the
pay-car The log is held on a carriage by
means OF iron dogs, while it is being worked
into lumber. These iron dogs are not like
those we see on the front steps of brown
stone front occasionally. They are another
breed of dogs
The managing editor of the mill lays out
the log in his mind and works it into dimen-
sion staff, single bolts, slabs, edgings, two
by-fours, two-by-eights two-by-sixes, ETC., so
as to use the goods to the best advantage
just as a woman takes dress pattern and
cuts it so she won't have to piece the front
breadths, and will still have enough left to
make poonaise for the last summer gown.
1 stood there for long time watching the
various saws and listening to their monoton-
Gus growl, and wishing that | had been born
a successful timber thief instead of a poor
boy without rag to my back
AT one of these mills, not long ago, man
backed up to get away from the carriage, and
thoughtiessly backed against large saw that
was revolving at the rate of about 200 times
a minute. The saw took large chew eli to-
bacco from the plug he had in his pistol
pocket and then began on him.
But there's no use going into details. Such
things are not cheerful, They gathered him
up out of the sawdust and put him in a nail
keg and carried him away but he did not
speak again. Life was quite extinct Wheth-
er it was the nervous shock that killed him,
or the conclusion of the cold saw against his
liver that killed him, no one ever knew.
The mill shut down a couple of hours so
that the head-sawyer could file his saw, and
then work was resumed once more,
We should learn from this never TO lean
on the buzz saw when it moveth itself
ariybt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
A NEW YORK PAWNSHoP.
Loans from Twenty five Cents to Any Amount
Two Million Dollars Worth of Pledges.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
q On the way to the next place Mr.
Grant raised the question of what was meant
or symbolized by the three balls that hung
over the pawnshop doors. The marshal re-
piled that he only knew the old definition
that it was two to one you never get any
thing out" Another Bowery pawnshop-
the largest in the city-opened its mysteri-
Gus chambers to the marshal and his COM
panions. Here it was that the patrons of
pawnshops were proved to be limited to no
class, but to be drawn from all parts of the
city. Half dozen clerks were as busy as
posi- BILE in the office, and a glance at the
pledge book showed that $50 loans had been
made on the previous day. The smallest
loan of the lot was % cents and the highest
was $500. The proprietor and his nephew
showed the visitors through the five
floors which make up the establish ment
First the vault was inspected-a huge iron
affair, bolted and barred and literally pro-
vided with burglar alarm wires. Each night
they ring a signal which means to the
Burglar Alarm Company, I'VE are going to
close" and the company answers, "All
right" To test the company's service the
proprietor said they sometimes left books
out of the vault, locked it, and then turned
the alarm. The burglar alarm patromen
always responded promptly. There were
only two safes in the vault, the vault itself
being so secure that pledges of great value
were left on the open shelves. In running
his eye along one of these shelves the re,
porter saw pledges on which loans had been
made as high as $500. Sums like that
were generally loaned on a collection of
jewelry and not upon single article. Such
wondrous gems as the younger
pawnbroker took from their wrappers to
show to his visitors are not seen together
even at one of the richest metropolitan balls
Two diamond necklaces were among them,
H. dE u 1
$500. They were only specimens of the
many diamond necklaces in the vault. Dia-
mond crosses, diamond pins and diamond
rings were shorn of their brown wrappings
and held up near the gaslight to dazzle the
eyes of the visitors, One ring was pledged at
$500. 1t contained an emerald surrounded
by group of diamonds and was valued at
81 800. The pawnbroker brought nagni-
flying glass and put different diamonds under
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
WEST POINTS WEAKNESS.
A Demand for Thoroughly Competent
Professor of Poker
New York Times.

New York Times.
1t is to be hoped that the board of army
officers now employed in visiting the various
colleges OF the United States with the view
of obtaining hints for the improvement of
the West Point curriculum will discover that
the instruction in poker given to the West
Point cadets is miserably bad. There can be
but one meaning attached to the recent
charges of losing government money at
poker, which have been brought against GER
tain army officers. These men do not know
how to play the game with any real efficiency
When called upon to play poker they lose
first their own money and then the money
intrusted to them by the government. The
country has spent vast sums of money in es-
tablishing an institution for the education
OF officers for the army, and yet the gradu-
ates OF this institution are beaten at poker
by self-taught Indian agents or by the gradu-
ates OF Mississippi steamers. This is a thor
oughly disgracefu state OF things, and it
must be remedied without delay
1t is unnecessary to name the West Point
professor of poker He is doubtless we'll
meaning man. and a conscientious teacher
SO far as his knowledge Of poker extends;
but it is manifest that his pupils graduate
with less real knowledge of the principles
and practice of poker than is obtained by
Columbia or Harvard student of average
ability during his freshman year The
West Point cadet is taught the Simple ru es
OF the science. but he never grasps its prin-
ciples, and knows absolutely nothing Of its
nieeties. The annual examination papers
are alone sufficient to establish this fact.
What can we think Of the way in which
poker is taught at West Point when we find,
for example, in mathematical examination
paper such question as this. you have
hand containing one pair-the five of hearts
and the five of clubs-two other clubs and a
spade. To what should you draw?' The
cadet to whom this question is given is sup
posed to have completed full course of
poker and yet it is assumed to be doubtful
whether he can answer one of the very
simplest questions that could be asked
Comment upon such a state of things is TN
necessary.
What must be done at West Point is to
place the department of poker in tie eharge
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
The Ownership of the New York World.

Washington capital
Mr.. William Henry Hurlbert, late editor
in-chief of the World, told me the other
night, at the Union Club, that all the stories
about the present ownership of the World
are false. Joe Pulitzer" he said, isn't
worth a dollar. Mr.. Jay Gould got the
World from Tom Scott as make weight in a
railroad trade. Recently Mr.. Gould had a
trade with Mr. John Fender in cable proper
ties, and he unloaded the World on Mr.. Pen
der in precisely the same way that Mr.. Scott
originally unloaded the paper on him. l
know that Mr. Hurlbert believes this story
to be true, and he is certainly in a position
to know the facts in the case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
GRATEFUL-COMF
EPPS'S COCO A.

BY a thorough knowledge OF the natural laws.
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heavy doctors bills. II Is by the iudicious usei
of such articles of diet that eonst tni.1g Ti,S
be gradually built up until strong enough TO re-
sist every tendency TO disease. Hundreds of sub
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tack wherever there is a weak point. We may
escape many fatal shaft By Keeping ourselves
well fortified with pure blood and n properly
nourshed frsme.--[Civll Service Gazette
Made simply with boiling water or milk Sold
In tins only ll9lh. and lb.) by grocers, labelled
thus: JAMES EPPS e. CO., HomoupaIhis
Chemists, London, England.
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BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS

Are fast taking the pace OF all others In fac
tories, Foundrles, Machine Shops and Mills
Parties having their own power can procure an
Electric Generator and obtain much more light
at much less cost than by any other mode. The
incandescent and storage system has been per.
fected, making small lights for houses and stores
hung wherever needed, and lighted at Will. day
or night Parties desiring Generators or to form
companies for lighting cities and towns, can
send to the Brush Electric Co.. Cleveland, o., OF
70 the Undersigned AZ Indianapolis.
j. CAYEN.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09

Young and middle-aged men suffering from
memory, and kindred symptoms, should send
three stamps for Part VII of pamphlets issued
by Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09

WHAT are the desirable qualities in a whisker
dyef 1t must be convenient to uRe, easy to APP
ply, impossible to rub of, elegant in appearance
and cheap in price. Buskingham's Dye for the
WHISPERS unites ntself all these merits Try IL.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13
Bennetl's sham Duel.
Rochelter Democrat.


Gebhardt will take lessons from the
past. Many years ago a young man
came hither from the Mohawk valley,
and, like Sanford, awoke the jealousy
Of the gilded youth of that day. This
young man was George Backer, of
Palatine Like Sanford, he retaliated
when irritated by the impertinence Of
his assailants, and one of the latter
(Phil Hsmilton) challenged him.
They met, aud the challenger fell at
the first fire. Alasl to think that
this might be Gebhardt's fate
if he made a similar venture! The
better way, therefore, will be for
him to follow Benefits method and
get up a sham duel. This may cost
something, but it is preferable to the
risk Of appearing in print with the
affecting appeal, Friends will please
omit flowers" 1t is said that Ben
nett's hostile meeting" with Fred
May cost $4,000. THIS included fees
to reporters for month or more,
during which the affair was discussed
aud even described, also the pay Of a
surgeon, who went on to Baltimore.
The description of the meeting was
admirably written, and when it had
been generally published, Bennett
(who had al this time been secreted
in his Fifth avenue house, walked to
the wharf one night, was carried by
the Herald steam launch to a Cunard
steamer, and took passage to Europe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13
Cotton.

Sales here yesterday we're 225 bales
to exporters, % and to spinners goa
closingdul at unchanged prices as fol,
lows: Ordinary,7Bc; good ordinary, 8bC
low middling, 94c; middling, Toe
good middling,lOsc; middling fair, 1910
Stains-good ordinary, sic; low mid
ding, SsC; middling, 90. Tinges-
Sic for middling and Stc for good mid.
ding,
The New York cotton market
closed quiet at unchanged prices. Mid.
ding, lOsc. Sales, 100 bales. Stock on
hand, 2l3,273 bales. Futures closed
weak at very little change from the
evening before. The New Orleans
market closed easy and unchanged
Middling, lOc. Sales, 750 bales. Stock
on hand, l24. 292 bales. Futures quiet
and steady at 3 to 3 points below
Monday evenings closing figures. The
Liverpool market was very dull hut
unchanged, with the days sales sum
ming up 5000 bales. Uplands,5 l1>l6d
orleans, 5l3.16d.
The total receipts of cotton at all
domestic ports for the past days sum
up 1929 bales, and 6O69i in excess
of last year for the same period
Total for the season, 5,842,l7O bales;
increase Of .2SS, 901 bales over last
year and 274,042 over the year before,
Total exports for the season,
4,439,947 bales; against 3,27S,59O
bales last year and g4,2O2,7l9 bales
year before at the same date. Total
stocks, 453,75o bales; against all, 3l5
and 4l5.O56 bales the two previous
seasons at the same date, allJll ll
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13
Too Funny ROY.

Washington Cor. Chicago News.
Benny Brewster, the son Of the
Attorney General, is o very lively boy,
according to all reports. The other
day he Infatuated all of the staff OF
the Attorney General to a pitch Of
madness. f.ae
On his fathers desk there is lot
of buttons connecting with electrical
calls in all subordinate offices of the
department, from the SolicitorG General
down. One day not long ago Benny
was in with his father. suddenly,
before his father could stop him,
Benny began to play upon all of the
electric buttons at once, as If upon the
keys of a Diane. The sudden and res
peated calls created panic in the de.
pertinent. The Solicitor General, a
grave, dignifed gentleman; the AS
sistHnt Attorney General, the chief
clerk, and, in all, about twenty chiefs.
came in one after another in mad
haste, only to be met BY au apology
from tina Attorney General, while
Benny hoyled with laughter upon the
carpet where he lay rolling, as the
slaves of the buttons appeared and
disappeared, black N.tb wrath not
Withstandipg BreFster's amiabIe beg
girg for forgiveness of tne mad freak
OF his dear, merry son.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13
NONRESIDENT Nn,,oa-


No. 1913 In the Chancery Court ofSholbv
county, TenA, NJ FaTrineton. Tnar-
dian, etc vs. SaTan Sadie Ware OF al.
TappeAFiAe from bill which is sworn 10
~ this cause that the defendants. o o
ToSer and A Tozef are non residents Of the
state OF Tennessee aud that the names ana
places Of residence Of the heirs If W L Van
aseertained after dilRent inquiry.
lttstheretore ordered that they make their
appearance herein, at the courthouse Of Shell
BY COUNTY, in Memphis, Tenn on or before
the GTst Monday in July, 1888, and plead.
anSwer or demur TO complainant bill 81 The
same will be taken for confessed as 10 them
aud SCI lot nearing OK parte, and that a cOpg
Of this order be published once a week. IL
four successive weeks, in the Public Ledror
rhis sd day Of May. 1883.
copy-Attest:
ROBERT J BLACK. O and N.
RyJ VI B'adley. % q and NJ.
Har 10, tn 10. X Fro,msn, aslS for eomplt,
191sa0
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13
netter IMAM SNAKE sloll,s

The most extraordinary and inter.
sting subject brought before a Vienna
clinic Tor many years was that Of a
little SRI living II lhe city, klemmul
Ter by name, and Is months old. The
Vienna Neue Freie Presse reports the
crse with such evident fidelity that
its truth must be accented. The s;rl
had sh0Nl far Qsyersl days an utter
aversion to food, aud her mother To /
her to the general clinic for exawina-
ton. The professors, pereeivlns it we s
NO common disorder, and aseertaining
from the mother that the girl on the
night Of March IL had awakened sud.
denly v ,th loud scream i.om sleep,
and continued in great pain for Ia
hours thereafter, determined to en-
ploy tho gastrosoope and EXPLORE her
stomach With the aid Of electricity.
Not to enter into rather unpleasant
details, they soon found the cause Of
disturbance, aud extracted a morse,
minus the tail, which was subs, auent.
ly reno we'd. The only possible con.
clusion Is that the mouse ran into the
open mouth Of the sleeping child, anC
down her let. Her immediate re.
covely ives confidently expected.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13
Attachment Notice.

No. lO7 Before g R Powell P for Shelbv ann
y, Tsnn.-Milton Nj May VS. G M DOYLE and
VIM Rodgers. ~ anu
N Wis cause an attachment having bean
sued out under section 1856 of the Code Of
property Of the defendants, @ NJ DOYLE and
william Rodgers, and affidavit HAVING
been made that defenda are Indebted to the
Plaintifin the sum ofS9S. due by account. and
thar the claim IS just. and that the defendants
are nom residents of the State of TonnesSee- Il
Is therefore ordered, that said defendants
make their personal appearance before me on
the stu day Of July, 1888. at IL o'clock m.
phis, Tennessee, and defend said atfSSh.
ment suit within the time prescribed By law.
or the same will be proceeded with ex-partes
and that copy of this order be published onse
2 week for four weeks in the Memphis Public
This the $lal Gay of May, 1888.
~ y VI " G. powell, Up
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13
BUILDING MATERIAI-N

AA404S1 NMAIEhlAlh-N Is,
~ per key. Lime, 96casl per Dbl.
Cement, 81 Goal 70 per Dbl for Louisville;
81 30 for Rosedale. and 81 5Oa5 for Port.
land. Plaster, 81 90. Lumber, yellow
pine flooring, SIS; rough framing, SIS;
dressed, SSOper M;lsthing 81 75a2 per M;
shingles, s3a4 50 per NJ. -
COTTON SEED, OIL, ETC.-Cotton
seed at river landing SIC per ton; seed
peal, sl1 5OslS SO per ton; oil cake,
Szl; oil, S5a33c for crude; 62a60c for re.
fined and 47c per gal for cooking oil.
LIVE lST0OK-Choice beef cattle &c;
do medium 41la51<c per ID gross; other
classes <a47zc, as per quality; yearlings
$6a9 each; mich cows $20a4O; per head:
sheep 4a6c per ID, for good mutton quail
tiles, and Slal 50 perhead for poor;
lambs SSaS 80 per head Tor medium and
IaI1< per pound for choice. Mules at
700 70 $llO each; horses at $65 to $50
L n.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-13

selling the condemned river front
buildings for demolition. Capt. Pink
Narble bought the old Fourth street
corner, and the southwest corner Of
Third street.-the southeast corner is
to stand.
The towboat Pacific, formerly the
Ed Hobbs. sprung leak Saturday
night near Pittsburg while laid up for
the night, and sunk before the crew
knew anything about it. The water
was two feet over the lower deck, but
it was thought she could be raised
with but little trouble.
Pilot Henry WILDER, of the Goa.
homa, informs the LEDGER that the
Mississippi river is going to change
its course at the foot of Burdeaux.
The bar at the foot of the island is
cutting, and there is big water going
through now, which will bring the
channel into the Arkansaw shore
above Walnut Bend Landing, two
miles above present location. %
The Hard Cash, in command of
Captain E. Q, Postal, arrived yester-
day afternoon with 80 bales cotton.
344 SKIS cotton seed and 1745 SKIS corn,
She leaves again this evening for De
walls Bluff, Augusta, Jacksonport and
way landings, attending promptly to
all business and connecting at her
destination with the Goodrich Line
of light draft steamers for upper
White and Black rivers. Captain
Charles M. and Joseph Postal are in
charge of the Office.
The Anchor Line steamers are now
in the market, with increased facili-
ties for handling the big potato crop
now being gathered for shipment.
Boats Of this line leave from the ele.
vator building every Tuesday Wednes-
day, Friday and Sunday at 10 a. m. By
shipping over this route the potatoes
will get a fne airing hence to Cairo or
st. Louis, boats making direct con-
nection at Cairo, and time to st. Louis
or Chicago as good as any other route.
Captain AID Storm is agent, and will
give all desired information.
As the City of Baton Rouge was
going down Grand View Reach
Wednesday evening at dusk, an owl
few against the hurricane roof railing
and was caught by Mr.. Ross, the mate.
Besides being considered harbinger
of luck, Capt. Bixby, on account of
its highly colored and beautiful plum
pge, thought he had rare gifS to add
to the collection at the geological
Garden of St. Louis, but greatly to his
regret it died Friday morning. An
ornithologist who saw it Thursday,
says it was of kind to be found only
in Cuba; how it came over here no one
knows. Captain Bixby il having it
stuffed for an ornament to bis paFlOr at
home.