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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
NO ORDINARY PASSION.
Besides, He Had ~ Busin essii&e Way
With Him That Was Sure to Win.

Cleveland Leader.
For nearly an hour Horatio Dexter. had
Johnson, pouring out his love. His was no
ordinary passion. He had worshiped the
beautiful girl from the moment that his
eyes had first looked into hers.
"Flavia," he implored, have mercy.
Can't you see that if you will not become
my wife there will be no hope for me?"
sweet accents; you will get over it. Three
years ago Titus Henderson told me the
same thing. Now he is married to another,
and the father of twins. | know that he is
happy. You will forget me as he has for
gotten me. You will meet some one else
and love her. and then, in good time, be
happy with your twill mean your family,
All > he bitterly replied, .others may be
happy with their twins. do not care for
them. You-you, Flayia. are what | want.
You are the pole star of my existence. Say
that you can learn to love me. Say that |
may at least hope. Do not compel me TO so
away and destroy myself. Save me, FlaVia,
save me-
Poor boy. she said, stroking his curls,
lovely 1t is terrible, this thing of driving
people mad for love of me. l will give you
a little lock of my hair, which you can
wear next to your heart. Perhaps that Will
help you to get over it."
mo, no." he sobbed. II don't think a
lock of hair on my heart would do bit OF
ticklish, Flavia. Keep your hair. You may
need it some day. Now I'm going to give
you just one more chance. VIII you or viii
you not be mine?"
She bent and pressed her rich, ripe lips
against his forehead, and then replied:
Alas, l cannot; | am promised to aneth-
er, who makes more money in gay than
you earn in a week. 1t nearly breaks my
heart to have to tell you this, but you have
forced me to do so. Were things arranged
differently, could be happy with you, for
love is knocking at the door of my heart.
Horatio Dexter got up, looked to see If
his trousers We're badly bagged a the knees
or not, and then, in cold, harsh tones, said:
well, inasmuch as il seems TO be a mon
ey transaction with you, ! suppose / ought
to pay you something for the time that
you have wasted in hearing my story. How
much do | owe your
Drawing herself UP like an angry prin-
cess, she said;
You insult me, sir. Go, before I call my
father, who stands six feet two in his socks
and weighs 1877 pounds.
So he departed, saying
1.-THE day will come when you will be
sorry that you permitted the desire for
money 20 kill your love
That was five years ago, To-day she is a
grass widow, living upon miserable ali
mony of $l4 per week, while he has a politi-
cal Job with a salary and fees of 900 a
year and clerks, hired at the expense of
the public, to do the work
Often does the now miserable woman say
What a fool | was. l might have known
from the businessike proposition he made
that night that he couldn't lose"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
AN AMATEUR OPTIMIST.
Mr.. HOweIIs Has Turned HOmeward
and Should Be Welcomed.
Kansas City Journal

Kansas city journal
After many years of pessmism, and
wandering after strange literary gods ana
breathing of foreign atmosphere, Mr.. VIII
liam Dean HoWells has decided 70 come
home. In the current number of Harper
he speaks as an American, and assumes
the long forgotten role of optimist,
Mr. HOWells as a hopeful patriot IS
wondrous and a welcome sight. He has
swung the full circle of literary fads. lie
has penetrated the shades OF all e&ouc
spiritual gloom. He has turned his back
for years on healthy, red-blooded saxon
erotic Frenchmen and wild-eyed Russians
who are sworn foes to social conventions
and marriage with one wife. And he mas
flooded the columns of magazines, whose
editors still remember Silas Lapham
with neurotic sonnets, novels full OF lsms,
and essays finding fault with everything In
our civilization from sky lines to sanitary
plumbing.
But his wandering spirit has come home.
The caViava and cognac of Europe nave
wheat cakes and sweet cider or his youth.
we may not think the Republic is the best
thing that can ever be, he writes, but We
feel that ii is the best We can have for the
present.
This from a gentleman who has Travelled
in Altruria is an important admission and
should be taken due note Of In quite reck-
less mood he proceeds: We trust the Re-
public with itself" II is to be hoped that
the Republic Will appreciate this great
trust so suddenly and unexpectedly con-
fded 10 it by Mr.. Howells, aud will rise to
the tmergencX
The secret of the whole matter is that
Mr.. Howells is homesick Let us meet him
in a fraternal spirit America is not AL
truria but it will do 70 live In for the pres
ent This fact he recognizes, more will fol-
low. Don't shoot the organist; he's doing
the best he can
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
PLACER MINING.
How Geld Dust and Little Nuggets
Are Washed from the Dirt.

Chicago Times Herald.
At a little informal social gathering this
week. where there were present eight ma
ture well-informed men and women, the
Klondike gold fields came into the CONVEX
sation. 1t developed that not one of the
company had more than the faintest idea
of gold mining; that no one knew what
placer mine was, or a hydraulic mine or a
quartz mine, or that there a marked
difference between the processes of mining.
Query: Is this indifference to acquiring in
formation concerning a great industry gen.
eral?
To give a homely but reasonably truthful
Illustration of placer mining. take bushel
of coarse sand mixed with gravel a bushel
of earth such as you see taken from an
excavation in Chicago, a considerable pro-
portion of clay. a little cement, double
handful of shot varying in size from the
smallest bird shot to the end OF your little
finger. and imagine all this stuff TO be mixed
thoroughly together about the consistency
of the soil on the shore of Lake Michigan
where the surf beats it into some sort of
Compactness, How would you so at il TO
extract the shot in the least possible time
and at the least expenditure of labor? If
you had heard of PLACER mining you would
wash the earth away and save the shot.
All you need IS pan and plenty of water.
Any sort OF fiat vessel from a soup plate
10 a dish pan viii answer the purpose. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

tempts to penetrate further and contented
themselves with working about the foot of
the mountain. They remained on this island
nearly two months before they were taken
on by passing vessel which stopped TO I'LL
her water tasks.
Shortly after their return to the isthmus
the sailor was taken down with isthmus
fever and died The carpenter then took
the gold and, keeping his secret set sail
Tor his home in Maine, where he bought
motel. He intended some time to return to
the island. but one winter day he fell on
the ice, receiving an injury that resulted in
paralysis. and year later he also died.
But before he did so he told to a friend,
who had nursed him, all the details of his
strange adventures in the southern Pacific,
drew plan Of the island, described its To-
cation and topograp ply. and gave such an
accurate description that any one familiar
tIlo Sgase coulu nave ~ uIIICuIts ~
verifying the statements. The carpenter
friend did not survive him long, but be-
fore he died he likewise related the car
penters story TO the sea captain in Mel
rose, knowing that the latter was familiar
with the waters of the southern Pacific.
The captain took his chart of the Pacific
coast. sailing direction and coast survey,
ana found that the carpenter story was
essentially consistent. The island was
there, although the latitude varied about
forty miles, an error easily made by one
not familiar with latitude and longitude.
me distance to the island from the main
land was correct, as were also several allu-
sions to it's topography. The story of the
gold is made plausible, too, by the fact that
the island lies in belt which, the captain
maintains, has become famous for it's rich
ness in this metal. The only fact which
it is difficult to reconcile with the descrip
ton of the island is that the islands in the
southern Pacific are said to be almost en-
tirely of coral forma ton, and therefore not
Of q gold-bearing character
NOW, however, ten years after the last
telling of the secret, an expedition has been
formed, headed by two Boston men. both
miners, one of them perfectly familiar with
the country, language and character of the
people, and backed by a party of men who
are willing to venture upon such a wild
quest. The two will go to some point
on the isthmus. where a vessel will be fitted
out and manned with natives for the pur-
pose of locating the island and discovering
what basis there is for the story of its
golden treasure
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
Hunting Her Husband.



The queer letters that are received by
all public men in Washington, from the
President down, have frequently been re-
ferred to- and, il compiled, would make a
curious and interesting volume. There are
people in the United States who do not
hesitate to make the most ridiculous re-
quests and the public officials receive let
tiers asking for anything from a postage
stamp to a row of brick houses.
Postmaster General Gary is no exception
among public officials, and he has quite a
collection of odd and curious communica-
lions which he has received since taking
office. One which he received the other day
is a fair sample of these letters
A lady living in Jersey City gives her
full name and address and writes in all
sincerity for the postmaster general TO find
her husband who deserted her some years
ago She states in her letter that she has
reason to believe that her husband resides
lin New York city or out West either in
Michigan, Indiana or Illinois," She in
closes a specimen OF her husbands hand
writing and suggests that the departing mt
can locate him from that clew and she will
attend TO him herself when found.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
Charles Wesley Had His choice.

Youths Companion.
1t is said that Charles Wesley was some-
times easily annoyed. and on one occasion.
at a conference, he became so irritated at
the prolix remarks of a speaker that he
said 10 his brother:
stop that mans speaking. Let US attend
TO business
But the offender was relating his religious
experience. and though II was at SO great a
length. John Wesley evidently thought that
no one had a right 10 interfere with II. He
was therefore allowed 10 continue, but the
moment came when Charles could contain
himself no longer.
Unless he stops" he whispered TO John,
III leave the conference"
BY this time John was enjoying the man $
simple story. and he only turned and whis-
peared 70 someone sitting near;
..Reach Charles his hntI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
ALASKA's DEATH VALLEY.
Entire Country from Dyea to the
KInndike Marked by Graves.


SAN FRANCISCO. July 3l.-The story of
the hardships encountered on the trait from
Dyea 10 Dawson City is told in two letters
received by Mrs Julia Cook. cs this city,
from her husband, Charles Cook, now at
Dawson. The party was over two months
on the road. One letter was written at
Sheep Camp. at the foot of Chilcat pass,
and about seventeen miles from Dyea. The
party had been twelve days covering sev-
enteen miles, and were almost worn out
when the letter was written. Cook says in
his letter. which is dated April 70: I'VE
have been packing our goods ever since
the first of this month. when we left Dyea
We carried them from mountain to noun
tain, travelling necessarily back and forth
until we now have the 1900 or more pounds
all here. The mountains get sleeper as We
progress, and ntty POUNDS a "A time are
now too much for me 10 carry. Both my
feet have given out, and in each there is
g. wound the size Of 4 dollar and a quarter
of an inch thick due To the friction Of
one leg against the other / staggered
under my load.
II have been living in the tent here for
two days unable to get any farther. OtI>
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
BABY SAVED
BY MUNYOI

MIR. Perry Newman's Child Wa
Desperately Sick with a COug
and Spasms and Not Expecte
to Live-Three or Four Physi
clans Failed To Do Any Goo,
Munyon's Remedies Gave
Quick Relief and Effected q
Wonderful Cure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

Mr. Perry Newman, corner Bismarck and
Limerick streets, Haughville, Indianapolis.
Ind says: Our baby was desperately sick.
having a severe cough, with FREQUENT
spasms was TOO weak 10 nurse, and at times
even too weak to swallow. For sew
eral days the little one was un-
conscious. Three or four physicians
attended her and the last one stated
that she could not recover. Once we
thought she was dead Friends advised try
ing Munyon's system, which we did. The
spasms were quickly reduced in number
consciousness returned, the cough was
stopped and the little one began to nurse
Neighbors know of our failure TO get relief
from other doctors and also OF the wonder.
full cure made by Munyon's physicians"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
BROAD RIPPLE.

The little steamboat wanders up the river from
the west;
Brave river silver-amored, with the silver pop
lar crest
The craft swings up the rnoon-track that the
lacing mists have dressed
mandolin sings softly in a moon-sweet peace
and rest:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
The BabbIing Bore.

Typographical Journal
Baseball" said the Babbling Bore Is
very much like the law Ia either profess
sion steady work at the bar often results
in the man being sent TO the bench
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
The Mandolin.

Thinking so lightly, so clearly. so low,
Hear me, your mandolin, sing as we co.
Swaying so slightly, the boughs trail above,
Where 1. night-wandering. sing of your love;
Trillng and tinkling, the while the moon
pours,
Yonder the boatmen rest, lstiess, on oars,
Pausing to hear me. l ripple and fly
Out from the waItz-theme in loye-alaby."
In shadows of the thickets what strange shapes
roam the shore!
Nymphs, satyrs. fauns. and dryads, and the
tribes of eifn lore;
Where castelated treetops weave the forms of
old romance:
Ilede-France;
Or Came!ot Of Arthur. white with pennons flying
The terraces and trrrets battlements of Elsinorc;
Or keep of fay giant, home of awful Blunder-
bore
We send our songs of summer as our heralds on
before.
The August Night.
Love, dream while L dream.
Sweet, languidly seem,
Eyes closed half, hazily,
To your white hand
AS mist-sprltes, laziy.
What gay-yestured band,
Low-laughing mazily,
BY night-breezes famed,
Pass, floating, land
Love, but seem
To dream while l dream
All. dream, my sweet, dream!'
10! Myriads of Jewels through the willows CLINT
AM FASH
They sparkle, yellow-ust red in a meteoric DASH
Or glow in duler golden in repose on reeds and
stems,
And show, from darkest Businesses, a thousand
diadems.'
The Firehy.
Lady, my love. your wing lies low
Fit by my side awhile and glow!
OF countless fairy sisters
One light of all 1 missed-hers.
Through dewy gades sought her
Till, when she blushed, caught her!
Then down the groves come fly away!
Blush, Lady Love- to light the way!'
Now bark! from branch and bayou ring queer
rakish rourdelays:
Then fast ballet twrls 1t, all the winsome
coryDhees;
They dance on polished lily-leaves, where sunfsh
And ogle lissome leapers in the white-splashed,
wet moon-rays.
Now bark! the gurgled dance-time, where the
luy-feeders feast,
Is changed to Wagner chorus as red star climbs
the east.
What hordes unnumbered, chording, from the
dripping water-plants
Repel the quiet nocturne with chanted dis
sonance:
The Frogs.
Break O. day.
Break o day. Break away!
Gong!
Break away! Break O. day.
Pretty night, steal away.
Gong!
Brake and bog, marsh and fen,
Hail first dawn-Dayi-again
Cymbals sound! Tambours beat!
Pass, night Wing thy feet!
Gong!
Tong-arloag Tong, along!
Where's the gong? Strike the gong!
Gong!
('Umummph! Wet feet! Wet feetl
Help me discover
Where dove my lover
'Unnmmph! Here am, sweet!)
Gong!
Pretty night, steal away.
Break away! Break O. day
Break O day!
Comet Homeward down the river-on the pale.
gray rivers breast
Ere day spring quick to heaven as the bolt OF
arbalest.
Cone homeward down the river by the island Of
the blest,
Come homeward down the river-homeward
homeward. Home TO rest.
Break O. day! Break O day!
Pretty night, steal away.
Break o day."
Indianapolis. John Corburton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

Open 9 a.. m. to 8 p. m Sunday, 10 to II.
Majestic Building. Pennsylvania and MaIy-
land streets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

Munyon's Improved Homeopathic Rene
dies-A separate cure for each disease are
sold by all druggists. With them every one
can become their own doctor. Thousands of
homes have no other family physician than
Munyon's Remedies Mostly Is cents vial.
Whatever your trouble, call and consult
Munyon's specialists. No money is received
upon any account from patients for advice
or medical attention, and there is no obliga~
ton to buy medicines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

In about two weeks the sail boat hove in
sight, and when she was beached an
emaciated, wounded wretch crawled out,
the sole survivor of the crew that had sailed
away so confidently two weeks before. Be
fore he died he told how the raseals had
succeeded in reaching the coast in safety
and with little difficulty had found a small
vessel suited to their purpose. They tried
to get away with it in the night, but the
owner discovered them and attempted to in
terfere, with the result that he paid for his
vigilance with knife slash which settled
him in a minute But the pirates did not
get far away before they were overhauled
was hanged except the teller of the tale
who had escaped, but had been mortaly
wounded in doing
Inc carpenter and the sailor prospected
daily about the raVine and the beach, but
hGWng nothing except their knives with
which to work, they made little progress.
Still they picked out of the crevasses d con-
siderable amount of gold. one day they
borrowed a Ratchet from the old German
and penetrated the raVine which ran up
the side of one Of the mountains. Some dis
tance up the slope they cleared away the
underbrush and found the ledge TO be COM
posed of soft, rotten stone impregnated with
gold in large quantities
In act, the entire mountain seemed TO be
streaked with the precious metal AS they
worked, however, their lives were in con-
slant jeopardy, for the mountain side
seemed 10 be alive with poisonous reptiles,
scorpions, tarantulas, eac, The danger from
these pests grew so serious they adj
vanced that they finally gave up all at
The silver star., 1897-05-13

District Attorney Tarsney passe|
through Dolores on Monday en-
route to Silverton to attend cour
He will, in few days, start cas-
where he will deliver series q
speeches on bimetallism. Mr.. Tar
ney says his new publication |
a success. He paid the editor d
the Silver Star a pleasant visit.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

The Durango Herald seems 4
have awakened, and is furnishiu1
a daily paper to the people th'I
cannot help but be appreciated b
its many readers. Locally, editoi
rally and geographically the He1|
aid is the best paper ever publishsl
in this neck of the woods.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

The fellows appointed to go over
TO England to ace what the people
Of the United States wants or needs
departed on Saturday last. We
hope that England will be conserv-
stive in the matter.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

There will be memorial services bed
in the Congressional church at Cots
May 20 at 1890 o'clock a. m. Ever1
body invited. All old soldiers. includ1
ing Mexican war veterns, confederaie|
and sons OF veterans are especially nj
quested to attend and take part in ths
exercises. BY order OF the committes
4. T. EpMoNsoS Adjutant. Warren pol
No 50 G. A. r.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

1t is said that a Georgia Demo-
erat will be appointed minister TO
Greece by President Mckinley. OF
course, he was Mckinley Demo-
crat. ."-Ex. No, he was probably
q Bryan Republican.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

When George Washington was
an infant Of about six months old,
he was taken with severe attack
OF colo, and his mother tried to get
him to go to bed and he declined.
She asked him why not. He winked
his eye at the nurse, and replied:
Mamma, cannot lie.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

What are the wild waves say
ing, inother'" They say that ~
Kinley is a TRUE Democrat an|
Cleveland an equally true RepubH
can. Anything to keep silver an|
a nation of suffering people dowd
--Silverton Standard.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

If care will kill cat, which
nine lives, We should think It wou
be particularly hard OH man y
has only one.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

Mrs. Hawkley departed on Tue
days northbound train for TFc9
Lake where she will remain for
summer.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

The Summit hotel on Pixies Pea
Will be conducted this season BY
q. Hicrsted. The name and al1
tude ought to go we'll together.
The silver star., 1897-05-13
THURSDAY, MAY Is.

n.rSaey '1s7Er sss,z " w. ~ sSsss.
n STONEY CREEK \
go isas-s ,s4 six ,ss ,ts ,Sss La ssS Va ,sas II
FROM Our Special Correspondent.
John Denby was visiting at Mr..
Stearett, last Sunday.
Ike Linstrum was elected treas
urer OF the school board last week.
Mrs. Charles Cochran of Rio
.adi is reported very sick the la
grippe.
Miss Mabel DENLY has to Rio
Ladi to stay with Mrs. Cochran in
her illness.
Mis-. Bissell of Mancos, who has
been visiting Mrs. Nablock, has re-
turned home.
The rfver was higher at this point
last Sunday night that it has been
for the last five years.
There has been so much wet
weather that it is going to make the
farmers late getting in their crop.
Dick Gould has located claim
on Stoney creek that assays two
ounces of gold. but the vein is only
six in,hes thick.
The most ofthe ranchmen around
here have gone to the gold excite
ment and are stalking out claims TO
be worked later on.
Jess Love passed through here
this week enroute to his ranch on
the West Dolores where he will
spend the summer.
Judging from the amount of out
FITS unloaded here the past three or
four weeks there must be a great
deal Of prospecting going on on the
West Dolores.
There is a rumor current that
there will be couple of weddings
in this vicinity in the near future.
lfthere is not it wont be because
they are not old enough to get the
license.
The sight of that mysterious air
ship has ratified Ike I.indstrum con-
siderably. He does nothing since
he saw il but wander back and forth !
from his cabbin to the postoffice. |
He looks as if he had lost some
thing,
Sunday being a beautiful day the |
young folks were all out promenad-
ing, and some that were not so
young were out trying to catch on.
II we have two more Sundays as
nice as last all of US that are not
married already will be in great
danger.
The people here I'D ;,,e to
know il the county road is going to
be opened this summer. They
used 10 do 4 little work on the road
when the county commissioners all
lived in the valley, but since we got
one up here we doa't get anything
done. What is the mat, dad.
There is great excitement about
siN miles south of Rico, on the Do
lores river, somewhere near the old
Saider placer claims. Some one
has found 4 large vein of mineral
that assays s ounces to the ton in
gold. There have been five differ
ent assays on FIVE different parts OF
tie vein and none assayed less than
; ounces to the ton in gold.
CoMo CT ANA.
The silver star., 1897-05-13

5. r. Robinson was a visitof
Dolores last Monday.