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was in this way that several large leather
factories we're first attracted to the valua-
bic properties of kangaroo hide. The skin
is found to be- very tenacious, and the COM
pactness of the grain prevents its absorbing
water while the acids in backing meet
with an almost imperViouS substance.
The skin of the rattisSnake is now used
chiefly for making pocketbooks and ladies'
belts. The notified appearance of the fin
ished skin makes pretty leather, and it is
expensive. There is an imitation skin made
of embossed sheepskin. The skin of the
monkey is, also tanred and used for making
pocketbooks. Bear skins have long been
used with the hair on for caps, gloves and
coats, and the hides are also used for
leather
Horses hides are successfully tanned
and put upon the market as a standard
ticle of leather. There are two factories in
Philadelphia that use up in season one
hundred horse hides week to cover base
balls. They are alum tanned. One hide will
furnish covers for ten dozen No balls and
from five to six dozen inferior ones. Horses
hides for this and other purposes sell from
go to 81, according to size. Kips are also
used. They sell at IA cents foot. and
sheepskins from $3.50 to S. a dozen. A piece
of rubber forms the center, around which
yarn is wound by hand. Then they are
covered with horse hide. They are called
dead balls" and won't bounce.
American kid is now taking a prominent
place in the leather market and Is even
preferred to French kid by many manu-
facturers, who find it quite as soft, pllable
and durable and much cheaper than the
foreign article. Pgskins are still in de-
nand and used largely for making saddles.
The most costly leather now on the mar
lSet is known to the trade as piano
leather" American tanners years ago dis
covered the secret Of making Russia
leather with its peculiarly pungent and
lasting odor. but the secret of making piano
leather is known only TO family of tam
ners in Thuringia Germany. This leather
has but one uSe-the covering Of piano
keys. peculiar thing about it is that the
skins from which it is tanned are prepared
almost entirely in America. 1t is partic-
uar kind OF buckskn.
THE skin OF the common red or Virginia
deer viii not make the leather. a species
OF the animal known as the gray deer, and
found only in the vicinity of the great
northern lakes, alone furnish the material
The German tanners have an agency in the
West which collects the skins of this deer
from the Indians and half -breed hunters,
who supply the market. When the skins
are returned to this country as piano
leather they cost the piano manufacturers
from SIS to SlS pouhd. The worlds supply
of this invaluable and necessary material is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Graham are home
from their outing
Company a will give a military ball
wednesday evening at Masonic Hall.
The Rosemary Club observed its presi
dents day yesterday.
Miss Alice Higgins is the guest of Miss
Helen Matthews. at Clinton.
Miss Pearl X. Shufelton has gone to
TerTe Haute to attend college
Mr.. and Mrs Franz II. Carter have re-
turned from a ten days visit TO Chicago
Miss Irene Griffith has returned home aft
er spending two weeks with the Misses
Monroe.
Mrs. Scott and daughter. Mrs r. c. MIL
Ter, have returned from visit to relatives
at Duluth.
Miss Ida Osgood and Miss Mary Hicks
have gone to West Baden to spend week
or ten days.
The Bachelors Club win give its first re-
ception and dance Tuesday evening at Ma
scnic Hall
Mrs. Simeon Bissell. of Pittsburg Pa. is
spending a rev days with her cousin, Mrs
III. r. Bickell.
Me-. c. +. Price and daughter. OF Lima.
o., are visiting Mrs. r. NJ Furnas. at
NOJdrun Place.
The Sketching Club held a meeting yes
teTu3y and discussed Summer Notes and
the Principles Of Art"
Mr.. W liam White. Of Cleveland. who has
been visiting Mr.. Raymond Van Camp. re-
turned home yesterday.
Mrs. Charles Divine left last evening for
Kansas City to join MIR. Divine. They will
make their home there
The engagement is announced of Miss To-
seD>.ne Taylor, daughter Of the late Judge
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QUEER KINDS OF LEATHER
Skins of Reptiles, Fishes and Birds
Sought by the Tanner.
Washington Star.

washington star.
1T has been demonstrated that all sorts
of leather may be tanned said a dealer
in fine skins and leather in New York to
the writer recently. Beasts, birds, fishes,
and reptiles are nowadays brought to the
tanyards, where their skins are cured and
then made up into all kinds of useful ar
ticles.
Alligator skins have long been a favorite
tterial for the manufacture of belts,
icketbooks, slippers, and satchels. The
-lgh price which the genuine article now
commands, from $40 to $50 for a single fair
sized skin has induced manufacturers to
produce limitations. These are merely en-
boSsed leather. The peculiar scay nature
of the real alligator hide IS successfully
initiated by means of steel dies which leave
a durable impression upon the leather that
is so perfect a resemblance to the genuine
alligator skin that only experts can tel
the difference. The same process Is used
to initiate other fancy skins, so that there
is no novelty that is not initiated within
three months of its appearance. The alliga-
tor skins were first put on the American
market in 1876.
THE skin of the porpoise has long been
used for making. shoes, and IS In great de-
mand because of its fine grain and water
proof properties. 1T resembles goat skim
The skin of the seal has also been made
into leather for shoe uppers, and sells for
about $40 a dozen skins.
Kangaroo skins have been on the market
for about ten years There are some eight
thousand kangaroo skins received in New
York every month. They are tanned in one
large establishment in Newark, n. j., and
are then made into fine shoes. They come
from Australia and New Zealand Up 70
1859 the kangaroo were killed and eaten IN
Australia, and only certain parts OF their
hides were cut up into shoestrngs. But
an Englishman named Brown in that year
discovered the remarkable character of the
leather and brought several thousand skins
on speculation TO this country.
HE tried to sell the hides TO various
tanners but they We're shy Of the novelty
and he had to sell them at a sacrifice TO a
bookbinder The latter made triangular
corner pieces out of them and ascer-
tanned the good qualities Of the leather. II
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THE DANGEROUS HORSE.
Not Enough Care Is Taken to Make
The Animal Safe.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas CITY journal.
If record were kept of the casualties
by runaways and unmanageable horses it
is probable the number would be found to
exceed that of any other description of ac-
cidentS The horse was q vain thing for
safety in the days of King Solomon, and
he has maintained his character bravey.
Yet it is not the fault of the horse so much
his lack of education. A horse that has
been thoroughly broken so as to be a safe
animal to a carriage in which family
trust their lives, is very different thing
from one which may be driven along until
he encounters locomotive, a bicycle, an
umbrella a band of music, flying scrap of
paper or pile of dirt in the street, Or q hun
bred other articles that might be nameC
and then becomes desperate with fright an,
wrecks everything that Is harneSSed to him.
Yet the latter is the sort OF horse that most
men drive Comparatively few horses are
safe except on plain sailing. The history
of a Western colt generally runs about this
way: He runs loose as 3 oronc no. OF the
on his back to ride around on Sunday; next
he is hitched by the side OF steady and
strong old veteran TO plow tanned llttle IN
this way, he takes his turn few times at
the farm wagon; the first time he goes to
town a sharp buyer sees his valuable points
and he soon becomes city nag.
Az this time the creature KNOWS nothing
by handling, and although partly broken,
is unframed, and in any unusual situation is
as unmana geable as a va mustang. In
buggy he is as likely to turn short around
as if he were under saddle, and IS ready to
do so in either case II ne doesn't like APP
pearances in front. There may be eXcep-
lions to this history but these are the
horses that run away and kill or MAIN peo-
ple in nearly all the large cities every day
in the year. There is never any lack Of
itinerant horse trainers. who teach the art
in three lessons for so. but their missionary
lahors have not done much to give safe
horses Talk about the fabulous value of
your fast stock running up TO hundred
thousand or so for Star Pointer. better
quality than speed is safety When a man
gets into a buggy for a pleasant whirl
through the city or out on the country
road ne doesn't want TO feel every minute
that his life insurance policy is about TO
mature. family carriage team that waits
on the wife and children and Is absolutely
fearless, comfortable by word and rein. is
able world heater is worth a hundredth part
of that amount. The country is beset with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

Certificates have been issued to the fol-
lowing-named Indianians:
Original-Thornton S. Davis. Clerruont;
James b. Schofield, indianapolis; John d.
Miller. Frankton; John NJ ToOn Julietta
John Shafer. Amo; William Parish. Rock
port.
crease-William p. Former Quaker Hill,
Melancthon Leming. Rushvlle; William
Lupton Mount Vernon; John NJ. Savorce.
Vincennes: Samuel Ii. Whicker, Mobiles
vile: Reason 3. Miller Iceland
Reissue-Esau II. Baker, National Mill
tary Home Marion; James r. Doran Plain
field John Fl. Crane, Solsberry; Watson
Bostic Clifty
Original Widows. etc.-Minor of William
Hunter. Scottsburg; Margaret A. Hill,
Crothersville.
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Music and Art Notes.

The Crescendo Club has decided to dis
continue it's work for this season
from My Heavenly Home by Tours, TINS
morning at Christ Church
Mrs. M. H. Spades viii entertain few
musical friends Tuesday evening Tor MISS
Sara Layton Walker and Mr.. Charles Hol-
man Black.
Miss Josephine Wight, pupil of Lesche-
titZky has come to join the faculty OF the
DUNCAN Music School Miss Wight is
talented pianist.
The amateurs observed Presidents day
Yesterday at the home of Mr.. Max Leck-
ner Miss Edith Mayer, of Fort Worth,
Tex, gave two vocal selections
Soprano Mrs Frank A. Morgan; alto, Mrs.
Jesse Summers; tenor, Mr.. Homer Van
VIE, and bass, Mr.. Oliver w. Isensee.
Miss Ida Sweenie entertained a few mus mus
zeal friends Thursday evening. Miss
Sweenie will go to St. Louis tomorrow to
attend the exposition and remain week.
Mr.. William J., stabler, president Of the
Indiana Music Teachers Association, has
removed from Richmond to Indianapolis
and will reside at (new) NO 40 North
Alabama street.
give an organ recital Wednesday afternoon
at Meridian-street Church. Those who are
to take part are Miss Sara Verify Miss
Bertha Foster, Miss Nettie Vaughan, Miss
Harriet Hosrner and Miss Ida Foudray.
Miss Hosmer will lead in a general discus
sion of the subject. THE Use of the organ
in the Church Service.
The first meeting of the Matinee Musicale
for this season will be held Wednesday aft
ernoons The meeting will be open TO all
active and associate members. TO any one
desiring associate or student membership.
and each member has the privilege OF m
viting one guest for that day. Mrs Kate
Ray Newcomb will read her paper on Bal
lads and Ballad Singers" which will be IL
Illustrated by Miss Calvin, Miss Elizabeth
Ketcham, Mr. Louis Dochez and Mr.. Ed
ward Nell.
Mrs Alice Fleming Evans, the contralto,
Will be the recipient of a testimonial con-
cert Tuesday evening at Plymouth Church:
Mrs Evans has voice OF unusual musical
quality, which promises something unusual
and she viii go to New York to spend the
winter and take a course of instruction. A
notable number Of the programme Will be
the piano solos by Miss Jeannette Wren
Lewis musician new to this city and one
of excellent reputation. The entire pro-
gramme will be as follows
Organ solo"Vorspiel Won I4ohengrln"
Charles f. Hansen
Queen of the Earth ................P insuti
Mr. Andrew Smith.
Banjo duet--a. 1ntermezzo; b, Flower
Song; arranged b@ ............. Marcy
Frank 2. Maffey and f. D. Mason.
Hear' Alice Fleming Evans. 'ii'''' -
Violin solo-"Faust Fantasia"
Miss Esther Wilcox.
a. Once in Purple Twilight. ...... .Cowles
Mr.. Louis Dochez
Piano solo-a. Nocturne, + minor. Chopin
b. Tarantelle, Nenezia
Miss Jeanette Wren Lewis.
Sweet Scented DER Hill and Dale.
Alice Fleming Evans and S. Morris Neck Meck.
''All Praise to God in Light Arrayed"..
Mrs. Alfred g. Cook. Mr.. s. Morris Meek,
Alice Fleming Evans. Mr. Louis Dochez
Mr.. Joseph II. B. Joiner. Accompanist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

Miss Kinsley. who has been a guest OF
MISS Da!rymple, has returned to her home
in Shelbyville.
Miss Reta Barnhill returned yesterday
from several weeks visit with friends and
relatives in Charlottesville Ind
Miss Demia Butler left on Thursday for
Chicago she Will attend the University of
Chicago during the coming winter.
Miss Nellie Blankenship. OF Paragon Ind
came last week to spend the winter with her
aunt MIS-. Byram, on Cherry street.
Presidents day will be observed by the
Tuesday Club this week dinner followed
by an address by the incoming president,
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That Ola Combination.
Puck.

I'm view or the bicycle craze" they were
suggesting, do not people make objection
to your coming on a pale horse?'
Death shrugged his shoulder blades aepre-
catingly.
Rarely" he replied. now and then
some girl with old-fashioned notions of the
fitness Of things gets red-headed when /
call for her"
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II. P. Wasson&Co. II. P. WATSON s. Co. IL P.Wasson&CO

races but if half the time and cost given
to speed were devoted to the Improvement
of horse education in this day of scorchng
wheemen, putting engines, vagrant air
ships and other surprising things, a better
service would be done to this world by half.
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supplied by the Kutzchman family of tam
ners who have six establishments in Ger-
many, the largest in Thuringia.
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Detroit Free Press.
she-Don't you adore the first touches %
autumn?
He-Yes. If they are not financial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

Cut-glass buying is an important
transaction. If you want the best L<1
see that every piece bears thiskS</o66g
trade raarF An absolute assur- w.
ance Of quality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

100 pairs all-wool Blankets. in
white, gray and scarlet; they
were made to sell at 81; no more
then three pairs to one buyer,
sale price ..............
100 pairs Cotton Blankets, worth
at the factory so cents; sale
price ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .........
Extra long fleece Ohio-wool
Blankets, sold everywhere at
1913; sale price. ....................i
100 pairs California Blankets. not
long ago they sold at $3.50, a
few were sold last season at Sc;
tomorrow they go, while they
last, at ....................
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Dress Goods

Is pieces of Plaids came yester-
day; they go sale tomorrow;
5ss fS Rs o ai SOLD So out aSk 2H
80 pieces of Surah Serges, all new
colors, 50 inches wide; they were
good sellers at 35c think of the IN
bargain tomorrow at ..............-... Az
Atwood Storm Serges. in black,
navy, brown, green and new
reds: other stores ask 45c for
them; our price on the new pur- o.,
chase ........... .......................s.AA %>
N SSc KIND c6 6f tomorrow, the 20
40-inch SILK and Wool Novelties,
s gSSd at value at &c. go to-mor- 49,
50-inch tailor Suitings, all-wool
mixtures, usually worth 90c the RE
new lot goes at Observation-Disclosures OC
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Black Silks

Imported Corsican, strong as iron
and as high finished as satin,
the best wearing silk in the
world, nothing better at 81, our
price tomorrow .................
Peau de Sole. high finish and soft
to the touch, usual price 81,
about 800 yards tomorrow. ......
Elegant Satin Luxor, famous for
gowns the world over, the price
has been $3.50, tomorrow. .........
Black Satin Duchess...........
The Empress Satin Duchess, q
inches wide, o-morrow..
Old-fashioned eros Grain, the
kind that stands alone, never
was better made for 1925, our
price tomorrow Observation-Disclosures.
Black Brocaded eros Grain, new
geometrical figure, satin finish...
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Dress Trimmings


Trimming Department this week. What
ever is new is here, besides all the popular
Braids and Passementeries.
Narrow Applique Edgings, in
cream, pink, bluet and Nile 2Sc
Applique Edgings in fancy COM
binaticns of colors, one inch Zoe
wide, per yard ............ .......O~O
Iridescent Bead Edgings in red,
green, navy, brown and Persian, 0@r
a 35c to soc quality for, yard. 80. 49,
Jewel and Fancy Bead Bands, all
combinations of colors, / to nc
inches wide choice, yard ........... ~
Black Silk Waist Garnitures, in 81 GA
several styles, choice for ........PAsDC
Fancy Beaded Yokes, in Persian, O. "a
green, blue, red and brown. ApA
Narrow Silk Gimps, in solid col
ors and fancy combinations, DC
worth 10c to 15c, for a yard. ......... ~
Fine Worsted Braids in black and
the new colors, with tubular
braids to match, from " to ~
inches wide, price beginning at........ ~
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122 Styles Of Walking Hats TO select
from tomorrow at 6oc, Use, csc, ST rs.
$3.50, So and up, all at about same
prices smaller dealers pay for them at
wholesale.
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We open our Blanket De-
partment with a special
sale Many of them you
can buy for less than the
wool they are made of is,
worth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-25
THE CRETAN CAUSE.

The Cretan leaders have decided that
they do not want autonomy. but to be
annexed 20 Greece. and have so in
formed the powers. 1t is very doubtful
indeed if the powers will permit this,
for they appear to have taken Cretan
affairs into their own hands and will
do with the island and its inhabitants
as theT choose. At present they do
not choose that the Cretans shall have
any say in shaping their own destiny.
In reality the powers have assumed
the rights of sovereignty over Crete.
Their own aims and interests alone
will be considered. 1t is true that at
any time there may be a disagreement
among them and Crete again allowed
to become a part of Greece if she so
elects.
The action of the powers towards
the little island in the present instance
is ostensibly for the purpose of pre-
venting war between Turkey and
Greece but if they were so minded it
would be as easy for them to dictate
to the sultan as to the Cretans. But
they are not so minded. 1t NAV be
that there is a secret treaty between
Turkey and Russia. as has been as
serted. If such is the case, it can very
readily be understood why the Cretans
are to be coerced and not the sultan.
To coerce the latter would surely mean
a general European war, if the treaty
is both offensive and defensive; while
the Cretan trouble, if allowed to take
its course, might or might not result
in a general upheaval. Whatever may
be the outcome of the present bad bust
ness, history cannot fail to recognize
and condemn the fact that at the close
of the nineteenth century the Christian
powers Of Europe bowed down before
the star and crescent and perpetuated
the rule OF the Turk over the followers
of the cross.
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THE FUR SEALS.

DR.. Jordan, president of Stanford
university, has been in Washington in
the interest of the preservation of the
fur seals. He saw the president and
explained to him the seal question in
its present status, and the necessity OF
putting a stop to pelagic sealing. Be-
fore he had got through with his ex-
PLANTATION he says he thought he saw
blood in the presidents eye.
DR.. Jordan says steps are being
taken by the administration looking
toward final settlement of the fur
seal question on the basis of the in
vestigation of last summer The in
vestigation Of the question was made
by a commission sent out by the gov
eminent at Washington and by an
other sent out by Great Britain The
report of the British commission has
not yet been printed, though the COIN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-25

The San Francisco Chronicle says
that the protest to President McKin-
ley of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union against the exhibition oil
kaleidoscope pictures of the recent fight
at Carson will probably not be with
out effect The suppression of this
means Of scattering fight pictures
broadcast is certainly justifiable. fol
the display of the kinetoscope repro
duction of the fight is only little less
demoralizing than the battle itself. If
fights are to be prohibited there is no
good reason why the life-size panorama
of the struggle should be tolerated.
That may all be very true, but Pres
ident Mckinley will hardly send a
message TO congress on the subject
Public sentiment is not well enough
crystallized against the kaleidoscope pic
lures TO warrant the belief that con-
gress would take any action.
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CORRESPONDENT sCovEL's CASE

Sylvester Scovel. the newspaper
wanna for a month. has arrived in New
| York. He was in the best of health
and stated that a great deal of sym
pathy had been wasted on him, as he
had been treated with great deal OF
consideration and kindness.
! Scovel is the correspondent who went
| to Cuba, transgressed the regulations
established by General Weyler and was
arrested and placed in Jail. He himself
saws he was well treated and that a
great deal of sympathy has been
wasted on him. The paper for which
he went to Cuba wanted the United
States to go to war with Spain be-
cause its correspondent had gotten him
self into trouble. It didn't have its
wishes in this regard gratified. OF
course it was a good advertisement for
it, and it was worked for all it was
worth. And now the correspondent
himself comes back and says that it
was overworked, for that is what his
statement amounts to.
in MANY respects. He went to Cuba.
but when he got there he did not re-
gard Spanish regulations and was made
to suffer for his disregard of them. No
man has a right to go to Cuba or any
other place and disregard the rules
and regulations made for its govern
ment To those who go to Cuba the
rules and regulations may seem harsh,
unreasonable and unjust. If they do
they feel that observance of them is
CALLING and they have a very easy
avenue OF escape open to them; they
are at perfect liberty to leave the ISL
and. But they are as bound to respect
and obey Spanish laws in Cuba as they
are bound to respect and obey the laws
of the United States when in this coun-
try. Many do not seem to think so,
though.
Correspondent Scovel talks in a very
manly wa about himself and makes
no attempt to play the martyr. This
is the sensible thing to do, and it will
gain him the respect of all whose re-
spect is worth having. His frank state
ment Will of necessity take the wind
out Of the sails of those who had
worked themselves into a state of great
excitement over his case. but it will
have a strong tendency to cause the
>eople to be more conservative in their
judgments and at least to wait until
they ascertain all the facts before
forming a final judgment in similar
cases. So far as the Cuban question
has been concerned, there has been too
much flying off the handle before as
certaining if there were any real neces-
sity for so doing. ScoveI does not fly
off the handle over his own case, and
others should rot.