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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
GREAT GEOLOGICAL FIND.
Leg weighing Ton of Prehistoric
Animal Found ia Kansas City.
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Kansas City World.

The discovery made by quarrymen near
the Southwest boulevard the other day Of
a prodigious petriied leg is another one Of
the many proofs that monsters now extinct
once roamed over the site of Kansas City.
The leg is in a perfect state of preserVa-
ton it would weigh nearly a ton and if
it's owner was propOrtionately large in 9TH
er respects, 1t must have been mastodon.
Ages ago, it is said, Kansas City was at
the bottom of the sea. Then huge sea
leviathans swan about over the bluffs and
bottoms One of these, with its head rest
ing in Westport, might have dashed the
water about the union depot into a mael-
strom. BY jostling up against the New
York Life building he could have toppled it
over like a TOULOUSE built with blocks.
With the procession of the equinoXes the
zones of the earth gradually changed and
the seas shifted Then came the tropical pc
Rod. and the site of Kansas City was cover
ed with palms and magnolias and cocoanut
trees. and chattering monkeys and tropical
monsters Missouri and Kansas then re-
sembed the South sea islands.
This. scientists say, was probably the
situation some 5000 or 10OO 900 years before
Babylon or Thebes was built. Discoveries
of petrified remains are constantly being
made to bear out this theory A short
time ago DIR. Sheldon, of Armourdale, dis
covered what he believes to be the petr1-
fed tongue of prehistoric animal 1T must
he thinks. have belonged to monster
much larger than anything we know OF in
the animal kingdom of to-day. It's tongue
if piece were not broaen OH r che up p
length. DIR. Sheldon's reason for believing
that the owner Of the tongue has been
dead longer than Ptolemy the Great is that
the outer surface IS almost entirely en-
crusted with coral formation.
Now biologists will tell you that no coral
formation is found inland. The little insect
that builds the coral never leaves the sea
Hence this tongue antedates the age when
an oceans pillows rolled where now flows
the placid Kaw. The tongue therefore must
have belonged 70 some mastodon or mega
therium that lived long enough ago to have
croDped the grass that grew in the gar
den of Eden and that died long while
before Noah built the ark.
me skepticaI say. on looking at this
tongue that while it is precisely the shape
Of such an organ, the hand of nature might
have fashioned It in that shape originally
OF Inorganic matter. An examination OF the
rock bv means of a microscope, however,
reveals all the arteries and muscles just as
they are known to exist in the living
tongue -
DR. Sheldon. who Is a skillful anatomist.
has examined the tongue minutely with
reference to it's anatomical structure and
finds it perfectly formed in every respect.
In one or Two spots. where the rock has
been broken, are clusters OF severed ar
tertes. They are invisible to the naked eye,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Nine times out of ten the woman who
nags is tired. One time out of ten she is
hateful. Times out of mind her husband is
to blame. The cases that come under the
physicians eye are those of the women who
are tired and who have been tired so long
that they are suffering from some form of
nervous disease. They may think they are
only tired, but in fact they are i'll, and it is
that sort of illness in which the will is
weakened and the patients give way to an
noyances that they would ignore if in a
healthy condition. In such cases the woman
often suffers more from her nagging than
the husband or the children with whom she
finds fault. She knows she does it. She
does not intend to do 1t. She suffers in her
own self-respect when she does it, and, in
the depths of her soul longs for something
to stop it.
The condition is usually brought on by
broken sleep, improper food, want of some
enough out-of-dOor air and practical OBJ
jectiVe thinking. 1t is often the most unset
fish and most affectionate women who fall
into this state. They are too much devoted
cycle, for instance, or enough of any
healthy exercise and diversion, enough of
afternoon maps, perhaps or theaters and
concerts. In such cases the husband is
often to blame, because he gives nag for
nag instead of looking straight for the fun
damentGl cause of the trouble There are
many cases where such a woman begins by
showing d longing for a little more atten-
ton, q little more tenderness, an invita-
ton to the theater or cozy little dinner
out with her husband. The man who does
not take that as a sign is a fool He is not
only a fool, but he is responsible for pretty
much all that follows, and sometimes it
amounts to something very like criminal
pOnSibilitV
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
Women's Meetings.

Harper's Bazaar.
Those of us who belong to clubs and So
cieties-and what woman does not nova
days?-are often struck with the remark
able waste of time in the meetings of wom-
ems boards and committees. 1t is not that
the members are generally unpunctual-one
or two unbusinesslike members, of course,
can always be counted on to arrive from
ten minutes to half an hour late, but as the
meeting commences without them they are
the only ones than lose the time No the
waste is in the number of hours spent in
doing what might be thoroughly and COM
pletely done in half an hour II only lrrele-
want suggestions tedious discussions and
useless business were ruled out. Why is 1t
necessary for a committee meeting once
month and having several able subcommlt-
tees to spend an entire morning from 10 TO
/ O clock discussing not only what has been
done and what is to be done, but also, with
infinite particularity what might be done,
what had better not be done, and what
other clubs in other circumstances find 1t
wise to do? This is not a fancy picture.
How often one hears the familiar dialogue
between two women:
you did not get to the meeting this
morning"
morning from breakfast to lunch, and
could not spare three hours Of the best part
of my day. If it had been one hour long
but three, L just couldn't do it. What did
ION, about the same thing as usual We
heard committee reports and the regular
order of business, and-well. then Mrs.
b talked about new members (what she
always says, you know and we had a dis
cussion as to when the dues ought to be
paid each year."
''Why, we discussed that in joint session
two months ago, and I did think it was
settled
Yes But we had it all over again this
morning And then that old subject, the
rentals of the assembly room, took up the
''Thati why, it was referred to the com
mittee on rentals, with power to act. long
7'It was all reopened this morning, any
way"
''What did the board decide?'
"Oh, they referred it back again to the
committee on rentals, after all.
And so it goes. We spend precious time
wastefully, lay ourselves open to criticism
and accomplish no more-nay not as much
as an hour of concentrated, clear, direct
attention to business would effect.
1t is all very well to say that Congress,
where there are no women, does very much
the same sort of thing. 1t is each congress-
mans daily work, to which he must make
ali other occupation subservient; and, be-
Sides since women claim superiority, why
not make a beautiful object lesson right
here in a field open to us all?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
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Hen-Minded Women.

Minneapolis Times.
W. D. Howels, with his characteristic
rough aptness, originated an expression
which has chung to womankind like a burr.
He described one of his characters as hen
minded" The term is so suggestive of
certain type of women that it is passing
into common Darlance.
Every one knows the "hen-yTinded' wom-
an. She scurries about pecking and cack-
ing in an unmistakable manner. Neither
repose, kindness nor intellectual stability
are hers. She is hurried in action, nervous
in speech and petty in her ideas. Her in
tense, her poignant interest in the minutiae
of everything is source or constant
amazement to man. The cold-blooded way
in which she picks her friends to pieces,
the trifing incidents, the small, wee in
finitesimal flaws in others, and all the myr-
lad little things with which she busies her
mind reveal her hen-minded nature. She
goSsps, she eaVes-drops, she watches her
neighbors, she prizes, she frets, She nags.
Nevertheless, she is not wholly RESPONSE
BILE for her faults. There is that in the en-
vironment of woman which tends to pro-
duce hen mindeoness." Womans work
is an unending and unvaried round Of tri-
fling details The little things which fill her
life, form habits of thought which limit her
capacity. 1t is impossible to follow the
treadmill and yet maintain buoyant free
dom of motion and elasticity Of step. 1t is
Impossible to steadily follow a set course
of action and not chip the wings of fancy
and weight the feet of reason. Who walks
in the treadmilI strikes the treadmill gait.
Day in day out, the same regime. Women
are forced to take a lively interest in small
concerns in sheer self-defense. Like the
rest of the human race, they are endowed
with nervous energy, which must have an
outlet The majority of them are deprived
of out-of-door life and all the pleasant
stimulating influences of natural activity.
1t is almost impossible to maintain their
equilibrium under such circumstances.
They are obliged to resort to artificial re-
lief from monotony. The result is that they
become fanatics and faddists, or failing to
find some outside interest degenerate into
mere machines
The present day movement for greater
freedom for women has accomplished much
that is desirable. 1t has opened the gate
of conventionalism, and allowed women
greater opportunities for enjoying life. The
bicycle has made a wonderful change in the
right direction. In time public opinion will
doubtless permit them to enjoy other
healthful sports and pastimes.
The vast majority of women need some
inducement to get out among people, to get
exercise and fresh air and a little diver
sion to blow the cobwebs from their brains,
and withdraw their thoughts from morbid
brooding and self-contemplation. Given
the advantages which men enjoy, they
might have the same broad interests and
mental eQuipOiSe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
Women Orators.
Washington. Times.


At various times within the last twenty
or thirty years masculine politeness has
been severely strained by the obligation
to listen with respect to papers read by
women who were never meant to read
papers BY this is not implied any state
ment that women cannot write papers, and
read them, and that they cannot make
speeches, and good ones. But considerably
more than 30 per cent. of the women who
appear on platforms speak with such an
effort that it is disagreeable in the extreme
to listen to them; or they remit the effort
with the result that they cannot be heard
at all more than dozen steps away. Their
remarks may be excellent both as to idea
and expression, but all that is lost on an
audience which is squirming with irritation
at the sound of a shrill and uneven voice,
or with evaporation at the ladyltke buzz
zing of which only a word or two can be
distinguished
This is not true, of course. with regard
to women who have become accustomed
to public speaking. They learn to manage
their voices just as men do On the stage
they are trained with the same severity
men and there are very few actresses
whose lines fail for want of distinct articu-
lation. When such a thing does happen,
the papers are pretty sure to criticize the
unfortunate young woman IN such a way
that she takes further lessons in elocution
with all speed.
But in the various amateur performances
in which women take part as orators IT
is just as likely as not that the woman
who reads the leading paper. the paper
containing deep thought and practical wis
dom and so on, has never been on a
platform more than half a dozen times in
her life and has no sort of idea how to
manage her voice so as to make ii carry
TO the far corners of the house. Sometimes.
in addition to this she gets nervous which
makes 1t infinitely worse. And the re-
porter who reports that meeting cannot
very we'll say that Mrs A. spoke with a
disagreeable effort or that Mrs. B could
not be heard at all, because Mrs. A and
Mrs. b are ladies whom it would not do to
offend and who do not expect TO be criti-
cised as do public performers. So he says
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
A Principle of Decoration.
q, IEi1f-f1 iehRr

decorator ana EuINlSncT.
To return again to the subject of decora-
ton which is naturally ever uppermost in
our mind, there is one principle we would
impress upon the reader. Never go out of
your way to make a thing look like what
it is not If your plaster column or CHM
ney piece are of wood, do not paint them
to look like marble; if your doors are made
of white wood, do not grain them to imi-
tate oak Every material has in itself q
beauty and suitability which is lost. If made
to initiate something else. Imitation never
stand the wear and tear of time or adverse
structure and soon finds its place among
the rubbish Of bygone days. Let those who
cannot afford the more costly style OF deco
ration be content with simple designs,
which they can obtain in really good taste
at comparatively small cost. The pernicious
habit of struggling to initiate costly effects
in cheap materials has done much TO de-
base decorative art. II you cannot aftord
marble pillars inlaid furniture and elab-
crate or costly wall decorations, do WITHOUT
them altogether, and be satisfied with sim
pie effect in which every feature shows its
own natural merits.
The effect thus brought about Will be in
finitely more satisfactory than could ever
be obtained by painting plaster to look like
marble and granting white wood TO initiate
oak or covering the walls with cheap pa
per attempts at Oriental splendor. Another
decorative monstrosity 10 be found in many
city homes built before the present age of
simplicity is the ornate and unsightly plas-
ter center piece on the ceiling. 1t is best
done away with altogether, and the ceiling
may be distempered some uniform tint in
harmony with the other coloring of the
room, or the ceiling may be papered, II
desired, in suitable color and pattern, which
will be found a simple means of subduing
the glare of unrelieved white.
If the woodwork of a room Is to be paint
ed It should, as rule, be either shade
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
The Summer solstice.

Fair was the rose-wreath on the brow of summer
Lovely The dew-laved lilies on her breast.
But weared OF them all she casts them from hel
And, spurning pride and passion, prays for rest
A sultry stiffness brocds upon the meadow
And meath the hedge the insect minstrel throng
That reveled in the sun sleeps in the shadow,
All drunk end surfeited with bloom and song.
To some far haven celestial fleets, in sailing,
Have LEFT a film Of silver on the sky.
And grecnest fields, their dews all unavailing
Wooed of the and withered, ripening lie.
Over the hills the south wind wanders slowly,
No merry song inviting him to Dance
In solitude of sylvan converts, holy,
Each bird in whispers tells it's beads or chants
Psyche no longer looks into her mirror,
But lies supine her gaze upon the skies;
Ard Pan, his pipes forsook. reclining near her,
Dreams thro' long silences with folded eyes.
Paris Ill. e. O. Laughiin-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
SPORT OF wILD-HoRsE HUNTING.
Declared the Most ExhiIaratinS of All
Chascs.
St. Louis Globe-Democra


Fox hunting and deer hunting Is splen-
Old sport, but if you wish to go on q chase
that will be most eXhilarating and at the
same time test the mettle and bottom of
your horse and the endurance of the rider
to a greater degree than any other hunt
] know Of / recommend the running down
of Wild horses, or. rather, the attempt to
do it, because the best of riders on the best
of mounts will not always be successful.
The speaker was man noted for his
horsemanship. But as 1t was known that
his hunting had been confined to South
Carolina, he was aked, with some surprise,
Where did you ever run down wild
horses?"
There are hundreds of them on the sa-
vannas in Middle COlleton, he replied.
THE section | visited is about the angle
between the Edisto river and the Great
Caw-Caw swamp Here for miles on miles
the land lies as level a table the great
opening broken only by small patches of
brush-no large timber. A peculiar water
grass has possession of the land, Ii is
short but very thick, and while giting ex-
celent pasturage make as fine turf to ride
over as there is on any steeplechase course
in the country. On these saVannas' he
continued. there are punches Of hundreds
of wild horses that have seen neither stable
nor paddock They will fly from man as
rapidly as will deer. but their speed and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18

nice things about them, and they are COM
plimented by their particular friends, and
Now, what every woman ought to do
before she steps on a platform Is to go to
some school of acting and pass an exami-
nation, taking if necessary, all the vocal
before going on the stage Then she would
be able to speak easily and fuently and
without nervousness and the full force of
her paper would take effect on the au-
dience and the cause which she wished
to advance would be advanced by her with
out a tremendous expenditure OF strength
and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
Lawn Mower stratagem.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
PA sent me over to ask II your father
wouldn't like TO borrow our lawn mower
I'm sure he would"
PA said he wished you would hurry up
and get it, cause mas grumpy tonight an
she'll be sure to make him cut the lawn,
an pas all tired out jumpin around on the
bleachers over at the ball game"
"Pll come right away
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18

but through good glass look like the
stubs of pins cut off square and smooth.
They are the color of iron rust
Another proof that the specimen is really
a petrified tongue is its weight 1t is much
heavier than an ordinary rock DR.. Shell
don found this curiosity on the Kaw's
bank, twelve miles from Kansas CITY He
is preparing to return to the spot where he
made this discovery and excavate for adj
ditional remains. He hopes to find a COM
plete body
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18

my health. The chief end of my life is not
to make show. but to do the work which
seems to lie before me just as well as
can" FRANK G. CARPENTER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
The Nagging Woman.

of the wall color or a complimentary tone;
never in any case should be grained or an
imitation of q natural wood
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18

Atwood Henriettas at Removal Sale
Prices in black and all coloI@
Henriettas at 121ac that sold for 25c.
Henriettas at 39c that sold for 65c.
Henrettas at 48c that sold for 81.
Storm Serges and Fine Coating Serges
at closing~out prices. This is great OPP
portunity to supply your wants in all
kinds of dry goods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
Hosiery

Ladies Steel Rod All-Silk O2c
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
Removal Sale Umbrellas

Ladies' and Gents French 40.
Gloria, natural wood handles. -. H1C
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-11

events when Voorhees, made a stirring
speech for his client, in the course of which
he referred in caustc terms to the other
parties 10 the cause. the pugnacious indi-
viduai felt aggrieved and swore vengeance
against the lawyer. He announced that he
would horsewhip Voorhees, on sight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-11
SLATED FOR CHEROKEE COMMISSION
Mr.. Voorhees, Probably Would Have
Reeu Amounted.

Had Senator Voorhees, lived another week
he would probably have been appointed
the Democratic member of the Cherokee
commission. 1t is understood the appoint
ment was under contemplation by Presi-
dent Mckinley and he would probably
have announced it next week. Senator John
l.. Wilson, of the State of Washington. has
been very active recently in urging the
appointment Of ex-senator Voorhees,. He
had interested Senator Fairbanks, who aft
erward lent his cooperation in trying to
secure this position for the ex-senator. 1t
is recalled that Senator Wilson is the son
of James Wilson, OF Charlottesville, against
whom Mr.. VOORHEES, made his first political
race. This was in 1856. when the senior
Wilson defeated Mr.. Voorhees, for Congress-
and thirty-two years after this the younger
Mr. Wilson succeeded Daniel w. Voor-
hees's son a representative in Congress
from Washington Territory, John L. Will
son afterward becoming United States
senator.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-11
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