The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-14
STORIES LONG AND SHORT
Tales and Incidents Picked Up Here
and There About Indianapolis.
Assisting q Polite Cuban Patriot in Beating
the Federal GOyernment-Had Bad
Liyer-ChiyaIry Passing Out.
"Bnenos dos. senor.n

with an incident liver, stands before you.
hat In hand.
IL passes through your mind vaguely
that the salutation is Spanish for good
day, Sir" or something of the kind.
Does the senior spik SPANISH
No. the senior does not speak Spanish; he
has only walked that way, occasionally.
''Parlez-vous Francois. monsieur" asks
the partner of the torpid liver.
No. mounseer does not pariez anything
but English.
Pardon. but spik the Inglees YER bad.
hof some fine Spanish segar to show the
senior. and he ees YER CHIP"
It's the same racket. the very same that
took yon In two years ago. No, You don't
want any.
Pardon, senior, but he ees YER fine and
YER chip. All, senior, oblige me; try him."
Then the mauve suave Cuban looks all
around very cautiously. very suspiciously,
dence. He int;mates IN inverted rate En-
giieh that the cigars, of which he has but
two or three hundred, have in some way
lodged the revenue, and so be, humble
benefactor that he Is, can sell them at
about half what they would cost If the
customs of your country had not been de-
frauded.
"Ah, senior he ees a beeq, what you calli
shoulders 10 level with his ears. Il must
ra-turn to my dear Cuba Come, senior, 1t
ees q bargain"
The tempter holds bunch f.fifty before
you-long. slender, shapely. There is de-
lRhtful fragrance in the room. The Cuban
pushes q cigar through from the center of
the bunch. You take 1t. Yon seem to be
making the selection yourself, for You are
under strange hypnotic spell.
Delicious The smoke wreaths curl
about you as you puff away filing the air
with ravlshing aroma. The Cuban con-
TIN nes 20 talk-a low. soothing monotone
that dulis your conscience and puts suspi-
cion asleep.
Yes, you will assist him to rob the gov
erDment. There are some things about the
tariff you don't like very we'll anyway.
Besides you will do worthy act in assist
ing Cuban exile to return to his family
and native land.
So you buy a bunch of fifty, and,
with profound thanks, the poor foreigner
takes his leave.
By tins time the first cigar has burned
out. In q delightful state of exhilarstion
you take q second. Hello, what's this2
Not at all like the first. villainous
weed; there's q piece of rope IN IL. You
try a third. fourth, a fifth. Not one of
them but would suffer in comparison with ,
Wheeling stogy.
You wrap the others up in q piece of
brown paper and hand them to the buggy
washer at the stable next morning when
you 60 TO take drive. Does he smoke
tbemf Only one; he uses the remainder to
make poultlce for blind mule.
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"A few years ago" remarked q South
Meridian-street dry-goods man, lit W as the
custom to have great auction sales of han-
nels In New York. All the jobbing- houses
IN the country would send representatives
10 these auctions and as high as two mill.
ion dollars worth of tapnels would be
sold in this way in single day. For ten
years it was the custom to sell the entire
product of the largest mills of the country
at these auctions. There has not been
flannel auction this year. and there will be
no occasion for one.
KILLED by the Mckinley billW asked the
reporter, mournfully.
These mills continued the dry. goods
man. taking his own course without regard
TO interruptions. that formerly made
cheap fiannels have had to shut down or re-
duce their output"
The reporter groaned dismally.
"Flannels are not used for under gar
pents to the extent that they were. KNIT
goods have knocked them out for this
country makes knit goods that in quality
and price all that can be desired.
What was all this idle machinery in these
tiannel-mills to dot Here came IN the Nc
other things That o''s sas se0'' .h ans
mills an opportunity. Encouraged by
the Mckinley bill they have entered
upon the manufacturing of wooden
dress goods which were formerly imported:
These sell at prices ranging from 20 TO 30
cents q yard. and completely overshadow
iE style and quality foreign-made woOlens
of like grades The Lorraine. Atlantic.
Arlington. Manchester. Gilbert and Stevens
mills AL have turned their machinery upon
WOODEN dress goods. American workmen
are given employ ment and the goods find o
ready market" +
Two weeks ago Rev. j. A. Rondthaler
preached at Maxinkuckee from the text,
"And they went fishing" giving as one
reason for selecting the text that there
were no fish in Maxinkuckee and there was
no reward for fishing there. The next day
party went fishing and to corroborate
their catch the following affidavit was
legally drawn and signed:
STATE OF INDIANA
Marshall County.
Mrs. Frances Mary Beck, being by me first
duly sworn, makes oath that she is the Identical
person, who was one of party OF fishers at
Lake Maxinkuckee, In said county, on, to-wit
the 1st day OF August. In the year of our Lord
one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two
and in the twelfth year of the Bay View on the
shore OF Sid lake, that upon said day said party
caeght NIFTY six good perch and one two
upon the same day Albert Smith and Ray New
comb. In the short space of four hours. eanght
rCtChtt-ciA ptIcn VI kOOu size, sUuS Iurnlsnlng
fish for breakfast next day for all guests at the
famed bay View; and further depOnent says not.
FRANCIS MARY BECK.
Subscribed and sworn this 10th day of August
1892. s. II MCCONNEII
Notary Public within and for the state Of In
diana.
Seal =
1t was old 81, the window-washer. He
!. had set his bucket and brush down on the
sidewalk to speak to me as i passed. Old
81 varies his occupation Of window W ash
ing with nursing sick people, usually
homeless downtown bachelors. and we
HAD met at the bedside of one Of these. 81
Is On old-fashioned colored man. and at
least half his life has been spent in slavery.
His hat was on, revealing his white woolly
locks.
WY. wy. wy, Marse John, Is that youf
hain't seed you fo' q powerful long time.
Hope you lying good health"
It Was then IN turn to inquire about old
81 and how be was coming on.
"Lawd bless you, Marse John. I'm havin'
heap o. trouble. My wife very porely.
very porely. She ben sick fo' mon two
yeah. What the mattahf Well. Marse
John. she have O hard rock tumah, an IL
ben op'rated OH three time. an Doctsh H..
be say. she ben lynn on her back so long
that her liver got 'lsrged an won't pump
no mo-, and the old man wiped away a
tear with the back of his hand and re-
,umed work on the window.
Postmaster Thompson has been connect
ed with the Indianapolis postofice con-