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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-03
Gentlemen's List

A-Aldridge. Alexander; Aares, William, Allen,
B-Booaer, d. F. C2G Brown, A L.; Bamber,
Konrad; Brown, George; Brooks, II. M; Bailey. 6.
W.; Baker. John; Bowser. Frank; Banks. Willie;
C-Clifton, Harry W.; Conger, Harry; Cook, g. 81;
Carroll, owen; Clay, Sol; Conomisky, +. NJ.
D-Dripkall. W.. s.; Dill, Z. W.; Davis, r.. c.; Daniels,
VIM. p; DUNCAN, Jno. j.
ELLIOT, q. b.
Frank, II. b.; Franklin. Marshall; Froemming,
Chas.; Fouts. Barney.
G-GrOver, r.; Gilbert, Stephen
H-Hammond, w. f.; HeaIr, j. M; Hasslacker.
i. c.; Howard @. H.
J-Johnson, Let; Johnson, John; Jones, JEFF.
K-Koufmann, DE-. NJ. H; Kelley, Tom (2G King,
ia.
L-LuGlow, Jno. N; Lloyd, Clarence.
MC-McConnell, r. Al; McRae, Murdoch; Mccain,
r A.
/. mix, Harry d. Mann, John s.; Metzeiser,
red; Mayhugh, J.; Moons, Wm. R.; MINIS, j. g.;
Myers, Dewitt; Massey. Alex; Manner, George.
O-Overmyer, VIM. H; Oakley, Carrie.
Payne, James.
R-Rays, Charles; Reaves, Louis; Ripley, r.
S-Smith, Joe; Sanders, James; Splllman, Jesse,
Singley, Rev. w. H; Stevenson, James; Seay, B. Il.
ca; Strange, John; Sutclihe, ]. l.; Showan, w. A.;
Spencer, w. III.
T-Thornton- Fred B.; Thompson, George.
w-Winter, T. W.; Walters, VIII; Waterman.
Loran j.; Woolsey, A. D.; Wilson, Z. Worth; Work
man, A. H; Wolfe, d. E; Weeliels. j.
E. 7. THOMPSON. p. M.
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ONE ENJOYS

oN%@ NA<bO3s
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
Its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Amy reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA m syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW v0sk. NM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-03

is the introduction of q terminal for two
new roads INTO this ctr. Representatives
OF the Reading and Wabash roads. with
baltimore ~ Ohio Officials. have been
coming and going for some time, emitting
to register at the hotels. and otherwise
keeping as dark asa black cat in a desert
ed coaI-mine. The object OF those visits
has q length leaked ont. and il appears
that they have been purchasing options all
along the South Side. from MunhalI to the
city limits. The intention appears to be to
cross the river over the new bridge at
Beck's run and come In over the tracks of
the Baltimore * Ohio by an agreement
already entered into with that company.
The terminal facilities are already pro-
vided for by the securing of q large tract
ut Second avenue and Erie street and a
very large property close by on Second
avenue. the site of the old Kensington mill.
This will. when completed. make Pittsbury
the terminus of two more roads. with addi-
tIonal facilities for shipments, and open
up fresh territories to increase the bus
inesa.v
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-03
ADVERTISED LETTERS

la lO&AOWlDk 10 ~ u 0ilolnll
unclaimed In the indianapolis P0stofioe 6atur.
day. Dec. 3. 1892. Please call for Advertised
Letters" and give the date of this List
Ladies' List.
A-Andson, Miss Della; Allies. Miss Lewis;
Anderson, Miss Sarah,
B-Baker, Mrs. Dora; Baker. Miss Eliza; Braun
well, Mrs E.; Brenner, Mrs. NJ; Bennett, Mrs. Anna;
Beard. Miss Annie; Brits, Miss Minnie; Brown, Miss
Anna
C-Commer. Miss Belle; Carson. Miss Julia; Carter,
Miss Mamie E.; Cobb. Mrs. Maude Q.
E-Emery Mrs. Incline
F-Feltman, Mrs. Alda.
G-Graham, Mary; Gordon. Miss Kittie: Green,
Miss Neil; .,ivon, Miss Goldie; Gaddy, Miss Lulie.
H-Hartwig. Miss Lizzie; Herring, Miss Fannie;
Hays, Mi s Irene; Harris, Mrs. Katie.
J-JacksOn, Miss Minnie.
kemp, Mrs. +. D.; kluenger, Mrs. Ellen.
Loeb, Mrs. Mannco; Lane, Miss NJ. L.
M-Mann, Mrs. Alice; Morlin, Mrs. Annie c.;
Miller, Mrs. Eva; hurry, Miss Ada
O-O'Knne, Mis- Mary.
P-PatteIson, Mrs. Annie; Parks. Miss Matte L.
R-Ratlif, Miss Laura; Russle, Mrs. Lolhei
Rho es, Jennie; Ries, Minnie.
s.smish, Mrs; John; sidner. Mics Pearls Smith.
T-Turper, Madame; Tetlow, Maud.
W-Walters. Mrs. c. D.; White. Miss Anabel;
Wilbu', Mrs. Josie b. t2); Wright. Mrs Fannie.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
A New Use for Old pianos.

There came into my possession,
many years ago, a very old-fashioned
upright piano. We found a place for
it in my study, more for the beauty
and quaintness of the case, which was
of rosewood, and of the usual excel
lent workmanship, than from any
hope of deriving comfort from any
sweet music the mellow worries might
produce. 1t was old, and it's time
and power for discoursing sweet
music were past and gone; try as we
would, by new string here and
another there, it refused to send out
any but shrill and discordant notes,
and in despair we locked it up. And
so it might have stood for many years
to come, pleasant to look upon, but
utterly useless, had it not been that q
good many books were scattered
about the house and demanded a case.
While trying to reconcile ourselves to
parting with the piano to make room
for the bookcase, the thought struck
US. Surely this would make splen-
did bookcase if it's inside could be
bodily taken out without injury to
the Frame" We sent for a workman,
who saw the possibility of doing this
for US at moderate sum, and the re-
suit is that we have beautiful piece
of furniture and bookcase combined.
The upper part, consisting of about
two-thirds of the height, contains
three shelves for books and a writing
desk-the former keyboard-running
the whole depth and width of the
piano, while the under third forms q
famous cupboard for manuscript and
magazines.-From the Girls Own Pa
per-
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
How You Can Tell a Thief.

"How do / know a thief" said one
of the cleverest of detectives the other
day, in responseto question. "Well,
there's a whole lot of things that help
a man to pick out thief. but it's
hard to say in words what they are.
Any good detective will tell you that
there is something characteristic
about the appearance of every thief.
There is something about the eyes
particularly that every common thief
l ever saw had. Then they nearly all
have dissipated look. That's be-
cause they're nearly all dissipated. A
thief will run chances of getting ten
years to get money, and then will go
and spend it as if he had million
just throw it away-usually on drink.
| never knew common thief that
didn't have some bad habit besides
stealing. Half of 'em smoke opium or
take drugs in some form, a great many
are drunkards, and most Of them are
the victims of some form of deprav-
ity,"
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Edith's room before hercry for help, !
paced my room, thinking how terrible
the fright must have been that made
her faint a second time, and despite
her belief in heunreality of these mys-
terious appearances.
"Your turn will come" Van Hoeck
had said to me, and, these words COM
ing back to my mind, / asked myself il
the repeated attacks upon Edith
might not be part of o complicated
scheme to obtain the diamond.
Such plot was the more possible
because it seemed impossible. An act
OF legerdermain succeeds or not, ac-
cording to the skill with which the
conjurer fixes our attention on afalse,
train OF operations while he works
out the actual feat. As made these
reflections, | took the Great Hesper
from the pouch on my waist strap,
and buckled it in it's case upon my
left wrist; then | doubly locked the
door, saw that there was oil in the
lamp, put a box of wax matches beside
it on the table, and finally opened the
long. bladed knife Van Hoeck had
given me, and stuck it between the
mattress and the side OF the bed
stead.
The room was thickly carpeted and
oak-paneled. The furniture-with the
exception of the toilet arrangements,
and a low saddle-back chair-was
antique, and of oak. The bedstead
was particularly wide, with four
carved pillars carrying baldaquin,
and heavy curtains OF some thick
brocaded stuff, looped at the foot,
but hanging loose at the head: it faced
the oriel.
TO BE CONTINUED
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
ECCENTRIC WHISTLER.
Some Odd Points About the Erratic
English Painter.

Some Odd Points About the Erratic
English Painter.
No man is hero to his valet-de-
chambre, and even the unique and ir-
repressible Whistler is evidently
not a demigod in the eyes OF his own
relations, says the Collector. 81
stayed with my cousin, James Whist
Ter, the artist, when was in London
last summer" says q. San Francisco
lady, land | must say that he is
most curious individual. He is a
thorough Bohemian and does the
oldest and queerest things imagin-
able.
He comes down to breakfast in
Knee-breeches, silk stockings and shoes
with large buckles and the funniest
sorts of coats. He is decidedly eccen-
trio His house at Chelsea is called
"the White House," and is painted in
then abominabIe colors. Itisreal-
ly an eyesore, but Cousin James thinks
it is very artistic. You would never
imagine that he was an American. He
and all his brothers are thorough
Johnnie Bulls. He was born In Balti-
more, and the Whistlers that are in
the army are our relatives. One
brother in London is quite famous
doctor, but is totally dissimilar in
taste and habits to Cousin James,"
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pprecIatIon.

The Rev. Doctor Cuyler was seventy
years old a few days ago, and received
gratifying tokens ofregard from many
friends. The drawing-room and study
were fragrant with roses and flowers,
and were bower of beauty, says the
Brooklyn Eagle.
1t occurred to some one to bring q
faithful servant who had been knitted
by interests, association and affection
with the life of the household through
years of tender and trusting service,
up to the drawing-room to see the
evidences OF the loving remembrance
in which the good man was held.
She examined thegifts with great in
terest, and expressed her delight in
these glowing words to Mrs. Cuyler: I
tell you, ma'am, the doctor couldn't
have had more flowers sent him if he
was deadi"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
ANCIENT SANITATION.
rhe Art OF Sewer Building Took d
Long Time to Learn.

rhe Art OF Sewer Building Took q
Long Time to Learn.
Towns must have fearfully suffered
before people learned that the houses
must be so far separate as to allow
air to blow between them. The
Greeks must certainly have made their
cities and many OF their streets ex-
ceeding handsome, but their earlier
towns and even Athens were too
much crowded, and so much did they
fear jobbery among the sharp-eyed
business men of the city that they
dared not trust anyone with money
to rebuild the place. In constanti-
nople Zeno ordered all houses to be
IL feet apart all the way up, and the
projections which caused the houses
to nearly meet above were disallowed.
This was an effort, after a long inter.
val of neglect.
He attempted also to go further,
and ordered that no one should stop
the view of the sea from his neighbor.
This would be we'll in our sea-bathing
towns, where houses are built, before
others without pity. and not only is
the view destroyed, but the whole liv-
ing OF the families who possessed it
and to whom the view paid the rent.
But the laws are of no value unless q
strong and vigilant executive attends
to them. Constantinople became so
bad that it's destruction by fire was
scarcely deemed misfortune.
How injected by their own crowding
the Romans must have been when the
houses were ordered to be at least five
feet apart and not more than nine
stories high! Augustus said they
should not exceed 20 feet in height,
and Trajan made the limit go. The
laborious proofs that sewer air is I'M
wholesome have taken commissions
and boards of health many years OF
hard labor in our time, but the whole
is as clearly recognized in 'Justinian's
Digest, " in quotation from Ulpian,
that it is evident that the question was
then past all dispute.-From the
Architect.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
QUEER HISTORIC TABLETS.
An Interesting Discovery Chronl-
cled From an Illinois Farm,

An Interesting Discovery ChronI-
oled From an Illinois Farm,
What is believed to be most inn
portant and valuable historical dis
covery was made on farm three
miles northwest of La Harpe, says q
La Harpe, H., special to the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, and interest is
added to the find from the fact that
some time in October last two hunt
ers had discovered at the same spot
two sand tablets bearing strange in
scriptions. The recent find is that of
a sandst one tablet bearing a number
of letters hewn in the stone. The
lettering is in Roman capitals nearly
an inch in length. The letters are as
follows:
"June IL, III, Nous sont Captive
spa LIE Indins Est su Sc *Alb Ule
CT Ilmon defniefmots bon Pa univer
Ii col"
Stars indicate the position of O.
curious character that cannot be
transmitted, but which resembles an
inverted Z or capital L. The dagger
indicates a figure similar to the
capital Il, although the middle cross
is wanting. The above strangeletters
are fac-simile OF the original in the
stone from tissue paper impression.
Hon. J. III. Hungate will forward the
tablet to the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington, where the other two
tablets were sent by him several
months ago. The other two tablets,
which were found in virgin soil, under
the root of an old tree, contained the
following lettering: On one was "Jun
IL, 1712, / puts Hop in Ockoboek
hop in tbs will Id IT," On the other
stone tablet was this inscription:
sTmti in 80"
The theory advanced at the time
was that the stone tablets were en-
graved by one or more of La Sale or
Tonti's followers who had revolted
from their commander at Fort Creve
Ceur, near where Peoria now is, in
1857. It was thought that Unit was
meant for Tonti. Mr.. Hungate has
secured the afidavits of men who
made the discovery touching the
genuineness of the find, and will give
the authorities at Washington a
chance to unravel the strange letter
ing.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
Better Than a Polfoeman's Club,

"The best protection a young wom-
an can have in this city," said big
policeman recently, ''is one of those
little silver crosses that the Kings
Daughters wear. I've noticed that
nowadays the professional masher
will lcok first at the bosom of a
woman's dress, and if that little cross
is dangling from a button-hole, he
passes her without even stare. It's
the same way on the street cars as on
the street. The young woman who
wears one of those badges has not the
whole carload of men to take care of
her, and jump on the fellow that
dares to annoy her. The cross is get
ting to be looked on with the same re-
spect and Difference as nuns garb.
AS a safeguard it beats the average
policeman all ollow."-Portland
Argus,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
Spinning Bog Yarn,

Yet another substance which is be-
ing utilized is bog peat from Ireland.
When the news was first briuted
abroad, people laughed at the idea.
and gave the reporter credit for being
an uncommonly bold liar. Now the
matter is placed beyond question. I
have seen it; and it is an open secret
now that at Dewsbury they are ac-
tually producing shoddy goods, of
which the welt is composed of yarn
spun from fbers obtained in the Irish
boys. The yarn is very coarse, and
will not bear much tension; But the
great fact that required to be grasped
is that the stuff can be used at ALL
Textile Record.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
The Right Kind of a Girl.

Let a girl be ever so graceful in the
dance, let her be ever so elegant of
walk across a drawing-room, ever so
bright in conversation, she must pos
sess some other qualities to convince
the great average run of young men
that she can be the manager of his
home, the pilot that steers his ship OF
state, writes Edward w. Box in the
April Ladies' Home Journal. Frugal
ity, womanly instincts of love for
home, an eye to- the best interests of
her husband and the careful training
of her children-th these are the traits
which make the good wife of to-day,
and which young men look for in the
girls they meet. Men may sometimes
give the impression that they do not
care for common sense in their sweet
hearts, but there is nothing they SO
unfailingly demand of their wives.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
A Woman'a Wonderful Hair.

1t is said that Mercedes Lopez a
Mexican woman who lives on the Rio
Grande, is perhaps the longest haired
woman in the world. She is some
five feet in height, and when she stands
erect her hair trails on TIN ground four
feet and eight inches. Her hair is so
thick that she can draw it around
her SO as to completely hide herself.
Her present suit of hair is only five
years old. 1t grows so heavy as to
cause her headaches and she is com
PEELED to cut it frequently, and she
sells large tresses to hair dealers every
month, She is an ignorant woman,
the wife of a sheep-herder and is of
Castilian blood.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
An Ideal Juryman.

A great many stories are attribut-
ed to General Tom Bennett; but this
is true one and illustrates his ready
wit. He was on the bench as Mayor Of
the city of Richmond in the trial of a
liquor case. The witnesses could not
remember anything, the place, the man
who sold the liquor, or the kind of
liquor. 1t was evidently a case of
collision. and Mayor Bennett became
little impatient. He finally took a
witness from the state attorney and
questioned him himself.
"Where was the liquor bought" he
asked,
Couldn't say, yer Honor" was the
reply:
"What kind of liquor was it?"
'Don't know, yer Honor"
''Do you know whether it was liquor
or not2" The question was put little
tartly.
Couldn't say, yer Honor, my mind
is a perfect blank"
"Stand aside Them" said General
Bennett; 1--WE may want you for a
juror"
The defendant was dismissed by the
disgusted Court.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
Not Alone,

Very stout persons may sometimes
be noticed glancing at other stout
persons with a pleased expression
that seems to say, 'Well I am not as
stout as that, any way" or, "There
is some one who is quite as stout as 1
am" Evidently it is quite a consol-
ing thought.
The French Marshal Vivonne once
indicated this feeling in witty reply
to the king Vivonne and the Comte
d'Auvergne were probably the most
corpulent gentlemen in the court at
the time.
Marshal, you are really getting to
fat" said the king. "You ought to
take more exercise" .....
"Your majesty does not know, thera,
that take a great deal of exercised"
/"No, what do you do?"
81 walk around the Comte d'Auver-
gne three times every day."
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-04-21
Royal superstitlons

"The Little Red Man of the Tuiler.
les" was to the house of Bourbon
what the white Lady of Berlin" is
to the House of HohenzolIern, fore
boder OF any great disaster. Accord.
ing to the accepted legend, after the
Tuileries was built by Catherine de
Medical, she had no sooner taken up
her abode in the new palace than she
hastily left it, never to return, declar-
ing that the spectre of a little red man
had appeared to her, fortelling her
death. She did in fact die not long
afterward, and the spectre was next
seen on the night OF May Ia, 1910, a
few hours before the assassination of
Henry Nv. by the fanatic Ravallac.
1t appeared to Louis XVI. when
the latter was child, and foretold
the civil wars of the Fronde, and was
seen in the Kings bedroom after
Louis XVI. had left the palace for
Varrennes, where he was apprehended
and whence he was brought back, and
it was again seen in the palace just
before the Kings execution. Accord
ing to tradition, the specter appeared
repeatedly during the Winter before
Napoleon's Russian campaign, and
was seen also before Leipsic and again
before Waterloo.
After the Restoration the little man
appeared to foretell the assassination
of the Duke de Berri, and walked into
the death room af Louis XVIII. few
hours before the King breathed his
last. Rumor says that he was seen
just before Sedan, andrepeatedly dur
ing the siege and the war of the Com
mune, making his last appearance on
the night the Tuileries was burned to
the ground by the Paris mob.-From
the Globe-Democrat.
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CHAPTER TX.

CHAPTER TX.
What happened in Edith's room
that night did not learn until the
next morning; but / will give her ac-
count in this place, in order to pre-
serve thesequence OF events.
True to her resolve, she had left the
window open and the blind down, ex-
actly as on the preceding nights. 1t
was her habit to lock the door,
and, that she did not omit
to do so on this occa-
sion, she was convinced by the fact
that she had found some difficulty in
turning the key, and had afterward
tried the handle, to know if the bolt
was shot. She left the lamp burning
on the table screened from her by the
lace curtains of the bed. 1t was half
past eleven when she lay down, and
she felt so little fear that she fell
asleep almost Immediately.
A pillow slipping from beneath her
head awoke her, she believed. Her
first consciousness was that her head
felt uncomfortably low. She put her
hand out to find if she had slipped to
the edge of the bed; but no, her posi-
ton was unchanged.
Then it struck her that she had left
light on the table; it was now out,
and all was dark.
She wondered ii this was trick of
imagination. Was she awake or
asleep? She touched her eyes to be
sure they were open. Then it occur
ed to her that she might have been
asleep for a long while. There was
nothing extraordinary in lamp CO.
ing out, or her head slipping from the
pillow. Saying this to herself, she
felt for thepillows.
To her astonishment, shefound that
both were gone.
1t was droll. She felt inclined to
laugh. thinking how she must have
tossed about in her sleep to knock
both pillows out. But the bedclothes
were perfectly smooth, the bed on
each side of her even and soft and
yielding. That was strange!
81 must have done all the tossing
with my head" she said to herself,
still tickled by the oddity of the thing.
One thing was certain,-she could
not sleep in comfort with nothing but
q bolster under her head.
She leaned out, and felt upon the
floor as far as she could reach to the
right. The pillows had not slipped
out on that side. Then, putting her
shoulder against the wall, she felt
down on the left. There was nothing
there. What did it all mean? Decid-
eddy this must be new freak OF her
imagination.
She WAS not yet thoroughly
frightened. The spirit who could
steal her pillows must have
some sense OF humor; it was pre-
ferable to drumming on the window
panes, and glaring through the blind
at her, Hearing and sight had been
tried, and now her sense of touch was
to be tested.
But though she tried to make light
of the affair, she felt that something
terrible underlay it's comic aspect,
and little shiver ran through her at
the thought of getting up and striking
o light. 1t was so much easier to be
courageous in the daylight than in
such darkness as this.