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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
Overrated Scenery.


on the theory evidently that the people
like to be gulled and that by supplying
them with ready-made opinions they can
average summer guide book Is written, a
thing of Wanting and vanity and of un-
usual foolishness, careless as to fact bur
making up for it by an exuberance OF de-
scriptive force that sees grandeur IN ex-
treme monotony and beauty in hideous pro-
portions. The consequence is that there IL
growing up a current acceptance or these
ridiculous congratulations that is unfortu-
nate and as the summer season sees great
er numbers than ever gulplng down these
ready made ecstasieS over the falling OF
gallons OF the Hgh-tcp cataract or tha
splendor of a third-rate provincial town. IL
would seem as If all canons of comparative
aesthetics were being ruthlessly abandoned
to the destruction of correct taste.
Would ii not be Just as well II we adj
mitted that much OF the scenery along the
upper st. Lawrence is dull and uninspiring;
that the spectacle OF several hundred able
bodied Americans trying to thrill over
rapids whose superficial aspects refuse to
alarm is nothing short of the ridiculous?
Were il not that a change of scene means
everything IL might be said that the hunt
for beautiful scenery is too often a wild
goose chase Of the worst kind and the
usual touring fools paradise in which we
pass by the really beautiful TO pump up
conventional emotions over scenes that do
not inspire but which are duly doomed in
steamboat and railroad publications. The
really beautiful views" are always q little
farthI or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
Elsewhere.

CHICAGO. Sept. 1S.--A run of cattle about
twice the volume OF an ordinary Saturday sup
ere made close to Fridays values. Most of the
arrivals were Western rangers which sold 70
a load OF good esS-pound steers at $50. A good
many small lots OF native butchers stock went
the highest of the season.
Trade in hogs had good firm tone, many good
at ABOUT ta the e best prices Of the week few
heavy had TO sell below $3.50, prime big hogs
and fancy bacon pigs at as7l2 Late trade
showed a weaker tendency, and good many
There was good demand for the offerings Of
sheep and lambs. A band of nearly 500 good 81
pound Western muttons went at 1896. and 100
lots of lambs sold at So 5oqs So about ZOE fair r.
pound lambs at $50 ana a small lot OF choice
were in urgent demand at sS.SoqS75. and $4 was
paid for small lots Of choice NATIVES.
Receipts-Cattle, 700; hogs, l20oO; sheep, TO- 000.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 1s.-Cattle-Receipts. 100:
native shipping and export steers s. Sc5So bulk
.g pps 5 bulk q sales cows S and iSS heif
e eeS s;S9s2sS: bulls. s2oSsso; Texans anS
Indian s.. 10; cows and hefers. 81 20
Hogs-Receipts. 5000; shipments. 1000; market
Sc higher. Light, A.2O84.SO; mixed. S.sOal.2 20;
sheep%Receipts, 500: shipments, 1000: market
steady Naive muttons. sSl5US.S5; stocSers, s.. %
Ga.25: lambs. ss7565.S0.
EAST LIBERTY. Sept. 1S.-Cattle-Supply
light; prices unchanged.
Hogs slow and lower Prime light weights ard
S. 45a44s pigs S.2oasa.45: heavy, 81 2Ssss ssS
grassers and stubbers. 81 cog 80; roughs. S. Is
sheen steady. Choice, 81 20; common $3.50
40; choice .ainbs. IS. se95.bo common TO good
lambs. ssas.l0. Veal calves. s6509I25.
No Change in cables Exports. ibsS bseaes. 1888
quarters Of beef. Caives-Receipts LIS; market
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The scheme Failed.



The man with the red necktie and the
raveled shirt cuffs smiled brightly as he en-
tered the grocery store carrying a paper
Good morning" he said, cheerily; "you
remember l bought two dozen eggs from
you last night. Well after l had reached
home | found there had been mistake,
''Fritzr' called the grocer, who was doing
some figuring on piece of wrapping paper
Won dozen more of eggs righd qwick.
The grocer's boy started to obey, but the
man with the red necktie beamingly in
no. no" he said; ....you don't understand
me. The mistake"
Fritz said the grocer. without look
ing up '.gif dot, gentleman two dozen more
eggs, und you don't better make any more
mistakes. or / wire you"
But my dear sir, that isn't right yet.
When l counted the eggs l found there
elf der gentleman dose fife dozen eggs
I dell you, Fritz said the grocer sternly
as he bit the end of his pencil and
frowned, 'or | discharge you at vonce.''
The man with the red necktie laughed
softly and looked sidewise at the canned
goods on the shelves.
'"rhe mistake was the other way" he
said. you gave me six eggs too many
and 1 have brought them back to you. 1t
is a small matter, but it has always been
as well as large Your store is convenient
on my way home and We may be needing.
some more things in a day or two. Those
hams, now, look very nice"
FRITZ said the grocer, you gif dis
gentleman six dozen Wrist class eggs in a
bag, und drow in two oranges und a hant-
full of dose nice dried currants. We always
corrects dose mistakes ven We makes dem
You yoost trcp in, mein friend on your
way home as often as you please und buy
dose hams und oder groceries, und you viii
please remember dot dey vos spot cash on
der counter efery time. / vos very sorry
apout dot mistake We make nit dose eggs.
We dries to blease our cash customers in
efeE.7 way dot We can
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
AMERICAN GIRLS IN PARIS.
Their Opinion of Frenchmen Is Very
UncOmplimentary.
Letter in Chicago Post.

Across the drawing rooms and library,
looking on the court runs balcony. In the
warm season it is hung with climbing vines
and under its awning the girls gather to
read or chat. Let us join a party of them
and purely in the spirit of scientific investi-
cation listen to their conversation. We will
probably be enlightened as to the latest
salon success of so-and-sos great work OF
art:
saying, Il think it's simply disgusting the
way these Frenchmen follow you about and
talk to you. | never had a strange man
first time 1 walked through the Luxembourg
gardens man began to talk to me and he
followed me way hcme. After 1 had
slammed the door on him I actually cried
from sheer rage"
yes, that's the worst of it," said the girl
in a shirt waist. You feel so helpless and
all the time you are simply tingling to
knock the creature down. know a girl
who hit one of them right in the face with
her umbrella"
II thought 1 was homely enough to escape
notice., spoke up plain-faced girl, but II
doesn't seem to make any difference
suppose they stare at me because they see
1t annOys me-
"TlI tell you what I did the other day.
sisted in following me, and talking French
to me. / suddenly turned on him with
righteous wrath and said in English: Il
don't understand you at all and wish you'd
leave me alone; I'm an American
"'Oh.' he said ..vous ne parley-pas
a'cais. pardon, and he turned on his
We'll" exclaimed another votary of high
art, Il got tired of one of them tagging
after me one afternoon, and l took several
sous out of my purse and offered them to
him Girls, you should have seen the ex-
preston on the fellows face; ne left me
instanter'
A pretty dark-eyed girl next took the floor.
1--WE been in Paris so long / suppose I've
got used to the idiots, and learned to ig-
more them" she said, "but distinctly re-
member my first experience. A man, we'll
appearing enough to know better, walked
by my side for a long distance. He kept
saying, in French of course: oh, made
moiselle surely speaks French; talk to me
just a little; you understand me, do you
not? l said nothing until ] reached my
door, and then faced about and gave that
fellow such lecture as l guess he never
had before Yes l said. do understand
French, and speak it, too, and 1 want to
tell you what a nuisance you are and how
we girls despise you. In America men have
something better to do than to follow
strange women about, and they are too
polite to insult Them Girls, J can't begin
to tell you all I said to that nan don't
expect it reformed him, but II was an inn
mense relief to my feelings"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

quiet and generally lower. Veals. S5Q7.75; grass
ers and butterTniks, S3.50T4.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, $500. Sheep, S30
AS; lambs S5M6
Hogs-Receipts-1,5s 1 market firm at s4s0Q4.s5.
EAST BUFFALO. Sept. notwithstanding
doing.
Hogs-Yorkers good TO choice, s450G4. 80;
rougls. common to good, Ss.65QsS0; pigs, good to
choice, s42FM4.40
common, S4.50Q5.e5. Sheep-Choice to selected
wethers S4.50d475 culls and common, S2.5eq4
KANSAS CITY Sept .-Cattle-Receipts. 200;
market steady and unchanged: only retail trade.
Hogs-Receipts. $500; market strong to Ice
higher. Bulk OF sales, S4u4.vf12; heavles, SSS9H
4.05; packers 50. 95n4022 mixed, S40410; lights,
S395M4.071z; Workers, $4O5Q4GI12; pigs So 4elS95.
Sheep-Receipts Loco; market strong. Lambs,
$s35G5.35; muttons, s2.75G3.75.
CINCINNATI. Sept. 1s.-Hogs active at $3.50
Cattle steady. Best 50. 25T525.
Sheep steady at $225g4. Lambs steady at 49,
G5.50.
LOUISVILLE. Sept 1S.---Cattle unchanged
Hogs-Receipts 600; market active Best heavy
and medium. S4.2J.
Sheep-Receipts 400; market unchanged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
Prices Strong and Trade Heavy will
Wholesale Houses.

1t is no exaggeratfon to say that the trade of
the week ending Sept Is was the most satisfac-
tory of any week in the last three years, and
considerably in excess of the best weeks busi-
ness Of the present year. OF course the large at
tendance at the state fair had something to do
with the boom which the wholesale houses ex-
perienced. The wholesale dry goods houses, the
druggists, the boot and shoe men, the milliners.
hat and cap dealers were kept busy far into the
night in filling the orders taken during the day,
and the oldest merchants say that much busi-
ness was done South Meridian street last
week in any week in the history of the street.
Especially did the grocers have an immense
trade all of them employing extra teams The
confectoners the hardware men and the dealers
in fancy goods, notions and toys shared in the
highly satisfactory trade. Except on sugars there
but few changes in values. On Commission
row trade was very satisfactory. The commits
sion merchants were able to clear up their stocks
and to get very satisfactory prices compared with
those which prevailed a month ago, and from
this on fruits and vegetables are doubtless to
bring average prices with those which have pre-
vailed in the most prosperous years of the coun-
try. Receipts of bananas, apples and Irish po-
tatoes are somewhat better than a week ago.
There was no Cutting OF the market; and the
market is stronger. The hay market weak. Pro-
The local rTain market was fairly active
through the week, the receipts of wheat being
receipts Of corn and oats, but day were
arrivals sufficient TO meet the demand. The week
closed with track bids ruling follows:
Wheat-No. 2 red, 93c; No. red $4,000; Sep
TENDER. 93c; wagon wheat, 93c.
Corn-No. l white, 31lac; No. white, 311zc; No.
white, 3lIkc; No. white, 2S5zc; No white
mixed zoe; No. white mixed, S0c; No. 4
white mixed, &c; No. yellow, S0c; No 3 yell
low, S0c; No. yellow, 27c; No mixed, soc;
No. 3 mixed Soc No. mixed, &c; ear corn, &c.
Oats-No. white, 211sc; No. white, 2011c; No.
mixed 193.c No. 3 mixed, 1S%c.
Hay-No timothy, S6@6.50.
Inspections-Whe Rejected, car; total,
car Corn; No. white, II cars; No. white /;
No. yellow, g. No. mixed, IL; total, 81 oars.
Oats: No. white, 1 car; No. white, l. rejected,
1; total. cars.
Poultry and Other Produce.
prices paid by shippers.)
Poultry-IIens, &c; springs, &c; cocks, &c; hen
turkeys, 7c toms. &c; ducks, &c; geese, 40c for
full feathered; soc for plucked.
Butter-Country, choice, &C; mixed, sc.
Hggs-Strictly fresh, 11q12c.
Teathers-Prime geese. soc per Id; prime duck.
10Q17c per ID.
lIoney-12G14c per Id.
Wool-MedIun, unwashed. 15c; fine merfno. un-
washed, 10GI11c; tub-Washed 20q25c; bury and
understandable, sc less.
HIDES, TALLOW. ETC.
Green-salted Hides-No. l, SIC; No. 2, TIC; No.
l calf, l0c; NO. calf, Sl5c
sSrease-White, 2Ac; yellow, INC; brown, 2Nc.
Tallow-No. l. &c; No. 2. 21sc.
Bones-Dry, $12q13 per ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

New York Times

4
Dogs wearing canvas shoes startle East
ern men who are hunting prairie chicken
and grouse on Nebraska plains. While the
dogs waddle somewhat like ducks when
wearing these shoes, they manage to COM
fortably cover a lot of ground in a day
after having been broken to the use of the
membranes. Shoeing the dogs saves
their feet from soreness induced by running
over the stubble Two days work in a
field without shoes Will wear out any dog
but protected with the canvas slippers, a
dog will last a whole season. Col Coffin s
kennel of Gordon settlers. famous through
out the West. has been broken TO work
with these shoes, and they get over ground
as rapidly as does a man on snowshoes
when he gets used to such botfersome inn
pediment2.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
A Valuable Nose.
New York Times.

A unique nose was lost to the world when
John Mossman, a deaf mute, of Parkers-
burg w. Va, was killed in railroad acct
dent recently. The loss of the senses of
speech and hearing had apparently so in
tensified that of smelling that he became a
professional Smeller. Oil wells were his
special game, and he located them with the
certainty that a hunting dog finds
partridges That nose brought him a for
tune of $500, 600 because he located oil wells
in Ohio and West Virginia with such sur
prising certainty that no prospector would
drill for well until Mossman had smeled
the ground for him. His gift was looked
upon as supernatural in the oil region, and
he was an object of both awe and envy.
Now that he has gone the witchery of the
peach tree fork and hazel switches will
again have to be resorted to, as he has no
known successor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

few stocks show large gains. Quite a num-
Der of usually neglected and low priced
stocks have been carried to q higher level.
The business in bonds has been heavy,
but advances were not so marked during
sues showing slight reactions on profit TAX
ms.
Dealings in government bonds have been
dull and prices are unchanged except for
the new fours, which are a half lower.
The following table, prepared by l.. w.
Louis, Room II, Board of Trade, shows the
range of quotations:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

Frederick w. Wahl nineteen years, 20 East
prospect street. ;ilthsis.
morbus
William b. Fesler. sixty-four years, 200 Union
street. nephTitis.
infant Wayne Colored Orphans Home, in
aniton.
Clearance c. Carey, four months. 1119 West
Twenty seventh street. narasmus.
India r. Mcconnell sixty-two years, 1909 North
West street. nephritis. -,
Mrs. Helen NJ. Dickarson, sixty-nine years, 1905
Lexington avenue, oedema-
Frank Smith, thrty-four years, 11O2 Prospect
street, heart disease. .
Henry Kammacher, ffty-eight years. 1877 Madi-
son avenue cancer of liver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

John V. Parker. frame barn. $50 Broadway $780,
p A. Havelick, frame house, Nineteenth and
Pennsylvania streets, "a, 600.
II. w. johnson, frame dwelling. Highland place,
: H.. H. Echols, kitchen and porch. 1924 East
Tenth street. $3.50.
$3.50.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
VITAL STATISTICS SEPT. 10.
Births.

Alice and Dink Hubbell. 30 Forest avenue boy.
Helen and George Sauer, 1863 Downey street,
girl.
Alice and Harry PhIpps, Belmont avenue. boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
Marriage Licenses.

John Louis Dugranut and Isola D. Whitridge.
William T. Wright and Minnie v. Dean.
Simon 3. Spurgeon and Daisy Willard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

LIVE STOCK.
Cattle Scarce and Steady-HOgs Strong
and Higher-Sheep Stronger.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1S.-Cattle - Receipts
light shipments none. There were hardly enough
here to establish any change. Generally con-
sidered the market was steady with yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

Hogs-Receipts LOO; shipments. 1000. The
supply was exceptionally light The market
opened strong to higher. usually &c higher. but
in a few cases LOG higher. The order trade con-
sumed the supply, and packers were out of the
market. The closing steady.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

Loans made promptly, upon. the most fa-
vorable terms as to time, rate and pay
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19

Corner washington St. and Virginia Ave.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-23

and 10 to "a, city block 249S;
lots l to "a, city block 2497...
SINNER, Mrs. Emma, Est. of,
lot, city block 1872; undivided
p interest in l lot, city block
Ill; lots 20 to "a, city block
1927; / lot city block 293; AZ
acres, tract, city block ASP;
56A acres, tract, city block
A62; lots l to and Is to IS,
city block 1929; lots l, , and
u, city block $3.50; lots l to
"A, city block $500 ............
SINNER, VIM. B., l lot, city
block Ill; lots II and u, city
block Ill; lot 4, city block 293;
lots l to "a, city block 252l;
lots l to "a, city block 2535;
lots l to u, and 20 to "a, city
block 1881; undivided 2-3 in
terest in lots 1 to "a, city
block 1899; undivided 2-3 in
terest in lots l to "a. city
block 2540; undivided 2-3 in
terest in lots 1 to "a, city
block 2540; undivided 2-3 in
terest in lots l to "a, city
block 2541; undivided 2-3 in
terest in lots 1 to "a, city
block 254S; undivided 2-S in
terest in lots 1 to "a, city
block 2544; undivided 2-3 in
terest in lots 1 to "a, city
block 254s; undivided 2-3 in
terest in lots ! to "a city
block 2545; undivided Y inter-
est in lot, city block III;
undivided y interest in lots
Is to "a. city block 1880; l
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-23

CONTINUED ON SIXTH PAGE:
IN PART ONE.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-23

SINNER, Mrs. Emma, Est. of,
lots l to "a, city block 252O;
ASP acres, tract, city block
A62; 30 acres, l tract, city
block ASP; 1921 acres, l tract,
city block A62; lots to s, II
to IS, and q to "a, city block
o-oo ,.-n - 20 oo5 81 70 %
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-13
A NIx.tery of the Mails.

In the mail delivered at his West
Philadelphia residence the other day
William May, the well known ship
chandler, discovered a most remarkable
document. 1t was an invitation to his
own wedding, which occurred In 1867,
and where the missive has been during
the intervening 30 years is matter of
no little mystery. It was addressed to a
friend of former years, who then resided
at 1888 Wharton street Considering its
age, the envelope is in very good state
of preservation, although completely
covered with hieroglyphics added by
postal officials The invitation card,
while yellow with age, gives little evi'
dence of its 80 years Of strange exist
ence Philadelphia Ledger
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-13
THE WIDDER WHARTON.

Der Dan Was Gone, but There Seemed 70
BE others.
A couple Of miles west Of Prairie City
was overtakcn by a Kan on horseback,
who informed me that there had been
an accident in the town by which q man
had been killed, and that he was then
on his way to break the sad news to the
widow. She occupied dugout about q
mile farther on, and as we reached the
place we found her sitting on an old
box at the door and puning away at her
pipe. She gave us a nod and look Of
inquiry, and the man with the mourn.
nose aud finally said,
"Mrs. Wharton, In the midst OF life
we are in death"
"What you drivin atr' asked the wo.
man as she gave him a sharp looking
over.
"we are here today and gone tomor-
rer," he continued. 1--WE cometh up n
a flower and are cut down"
"Who's Roin tomorrerH" she de.
manded. "If you think l am, you've
made mistake. What's the matter
with you s'Faneer-9o' cramps vi Sun
thinE y,
Mrs wharton am the bearer VI
news. -
"Waal, what is it?''
| Its rao ne"s' =,
! Leu VI come an" aon oe pes'in si'
srounu 'he push' AS '"Ae' soi" w w
higher?'
No-not tna'.
Got 10 give our lanus o"ck W 'h'
lnJuns'
| mo. a.,
Suosmens aAy oomlu pul'y soon,
NO "iooer wnar'on, We Ano" "''
what day may pr,ng fortn.
! Maai
we are whe III tne moh anu
wiaaer NJ n,eh., anu s,'n is 'he'
WHO'S .ne wipoer'
MIS- wharton, oui husoanu' y
iorth-go iorth ~ 'he r'sins Oh 'he SUI
and-and :,
LOOK here, mister mall ss,u VIZ
woman as she rose up anu mieo
Mandy oiuo from tne grouno' nev yo -,
got anyth'h IN per.,ckIer 70 30. " hhe'
new widoer' ne answered.
linen spit 'er out ana aoh ACT hk
aIooli WHAT'S happened' -.
iour huspaho ID no hiore vi 'ni
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-13
J. 7. WATtRHOUSE

We are expecting a large
invoice of China from the fac
tories in France and England.
The goods will be of the same
fine quality thst we have al
ways carried in stock.
To make room for the new
and get rid of the old we offer
at less than cost odd pieces in
French and English China.
These comprise Teas, Coffees,
Breakfast or Dinner Plates,
Vegetable Dishes and every
thing else in China used or
the table. They are not in
full sets but in odd pieces
This is the first odd piece sale
we have held and you get
great benefit if you take ad
vantage Of the opportunit.
presented. There are not man.
pieces, and the first custome
gets a bargain.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-13

King Bros. have just received a
new lot of tissue paper, window
poles, sash rods, artists materials,
picture frames, etc.
Mechanics Home, corner Hotel
and Nuuanu streets, lodging by
day, week or month. Terms: 70
and 80 cents per night. 81, and
81 rs per week.
Singers lead the world. Over
Ii, 100000 made and sold. High
est awards at the Worlds Column
bian Exposition for excellence of
construction, regularity of motion,
ease of motion, great speed, ad-
Instability, durability, ease OF
learning and convenience OF ar
rangement. b. Bergersen, agent,
i161 Bethel streets.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-13

Pitcher-Say, empiah, how am ]
gwine to frow ball over dat plates-
Truth.