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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03
FREE LUNCHi
HELP YOURSELF!
1T is MORE BLESSED TO GIVE
THAN TO RECEIVE.


Birds flocked to Evanston until the town
was in a perpetual flutter, and Mr. Foster
was hailed as the greatest benefactor of the
sordid age. Sparrows twittered to him as
he fell asleep. Swallows famed his SUM
bers and owls crooned a soothing lullaby all
night long. Nightingales sang in every tree
and the festive jay clattered his discordant
thanks from the spout of the town pump.
Woodpeckers hammered away at the lamp
posts until their bills were dull, and the
Audubon Society made Mr.. Foster a life
member.
have gone to Fort Sheridan and Evans on Is
in tears The unfeeling City Council, I'M
true to it's promise. unfaithful to the trust
imposed and cruel as the grave, has decided
to let the bird boxes remain untitled. They
are on every tree and lamp-post, but the
seeds that were to gladden. the hearts of the
brides and at the same time fill their little
crops are not there. Mr.. Foster is furious.
The inhabitants are in a state of nervous
prostration and the birds aSe flown The
Audubon Society is preparing bill TO pre-
sent to Congress in the matter. The Back
Lot Society is moving for a cancellation of
the city charter Mayor Dyche is repen-
tant but like the maq in Sankey's song--too
late.
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MozART,s "REaUIEM.v
He Composed 1t When Oppressed by n
Feeling of Melancholy.
Harper's Young People


The famous composer Mozart was so
completely wrapped up in music that he
was almost like a child in every other re-
spect. Like many weak-minded people, he
was always in constant fear of death, and
it was only by constant application TO his
work that he kept his spirits from sinking
preaching dissolutions Whenever he was
not occupied by his studies he was the VIC
tim of a profound melancholy, and occa-
Sionally these gloomy fOrebodingS possessed
him even while he was at his work. The
circumstances under which he composed
his celebrated REQUIEM were remarkable.
One day when he was feeling unusually
depressed, he received call from a
stranger-a tall and dignitied man, whose
manners were unusually dignified and i'm
pressve He told Mozart that he came
from person who did not wish his name to
be known to ask if he would compose a
solemn mass as a requiem for the soul of
a dear friend who had recently died and
whose memory he wished to commemorate.
Mozart undertook the work, and promised
to have it finished within a month. The
stranger asked him the price of the work,
and, after paying him 100 ducats, took his
leave The strangeness of the visit seemed
to have q powerful effect upon the mind
of the master He brooded over ii for sew
eral days. and then suddenly calling for
writing materials, began to compose with
extraordinary fervor. The incessant appli-
cation was too much for his strength 1t
brought on fainting fits, and increasing ill
ness forced him to stop work.
II am writing this requiem for myself"
he said one day to his wife; lit will serve
for my own funeral service" And he was
never afterwards free from that impress
sion
At the end of the month the mysterious
stranger called and asked for the requiem.
Il have found it impossible, said Mozart,
ITO keep my word. The work has inter
ested me more than / expected and have
extended it beyond my first design. | shall
require another month to finish IT." The
stranger made no objection, but stating
that it was only just to increase the pre-
MUM for the additional labor. he laid down
IN or a eli IN
turn at the appointed time, departed.
Mozart, much astonished at the
whole proceeding, ordered serv-
ant to follow him. but the man lost
sight of him in the street and was obliged
to return without having learned anything
about him. Mozart was now firmly per-
suaded that he was messenger from the
other world sent TO warn him of his APP
preaching end. and he applied himself With
fresh enthusiasm to the requiem. In spite
of the exhausted condition of his body and
mind the work was finished within the
month. At the appointed time the stranger
returned: the requiem was ready; hut
Mozart was more.
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ALLEGED MISMANAGEMENT.
Suit Against Officers of "a Life Insur-
ance Clearing Company.

CHICAGO, Oct. "A special to the Chron-
icle from st. Paul says: A sensation was
created this evening in insurance and other
business circles by the bringing of suit
against the Life Insurance Clearing Com
pany. asking for the suspension of Thomas
B. Scott president, and II. Burton Strait,
secretary, for mismanaging the offices of
the company This suit is brought by Rus
sell r. Dorr, owner of seventy shares of the
capital stock. The business of the company
is given as in excess of $2,0O0,0OO, ad its capt.
tai stock 100000. The last statement filed
shows that the concerns surplus Dec. 81,
1885 was $113,O04. and Dec. 81, 1896, it had
grown to $135, $40. Mr.. Dorr declares the
Statement last issued is grossly fraudulent
and intended to defraNd the holders of both
insurance and stock. There are other
charges of fraud of quite as startling a ma
ture. Besides asking the suspension of the
officers of the company Mr.. Dorr prays that
the court decree and compel the payment
to the company of all money or property
that Scott and Strait have acquired for
themselves or has been lost or wasted by
the violation of their duties by these two
officers.
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soul, is not attained by being too conscious
~ sought. 1t droppeth like the gentle rain
from heaven, and in solitude and self-de-
pendence. 1t is a quiet Preside thing,
which neither needs nor desires the con-
tribution of the exchange place. One gets
ii, as one gets grace, from above, in the Sc
clusion of ones closet, and as the guest of
one own SOUL So far from ministering 70
real culture and scholarship, | make so bold
as to say that no club social or technical,
male or female bond or free, can do more
than to receive the results of individual
mere stimulation This of itself is good, if
one does not make too much of it, and in
small towns, where the wheels of life go
slowly, where books are scarce and the re-
sources of the individual are not abundant
~ developed, woman's club is, no doubt,
necessary means to growth and diversion,
even though the work undertaken be sol
emn enough to make German university
professor laugh. But, that was profound
truth of Margaret Fuller's, The soul that
lives too much in relations becomes at last
a stranger to it's own resources
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views of DIR. Guiteras.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. DIR. John Guiteras,
employed by the government expert
on yellow fever, is registered at the South
ern. Il have visited Biloxi, Ocean Springs
Scranton. Cairo Vicksburg Mobile. Mem
phis, the northern parishes of Louisiana
and New Orleans" said he land l can say
that the present yellow-fever epidemic is
of average severity. | found the health
boards in the infected districts efficient, and
they are using up-to-date science 1t is
owing to these scientific methods of oper-
ating in the infected districts that the
scourge has been kept from spreading more
than it has,
DR.. Guiteras says st. Louis need have no
fear of the fever as it is too late in the
season for the scourge to gain foothold
here.
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DUTCH BELTED CATTLE.
Orson ID. 'Munn's Fine Herd Add I
Their Record as Prize Winners.

New York Herald
Mr.. Orson ID. Mum, one of the editors OF
the Scientific American, is justly proud OF
the handsome herd of Dutch beIted cattle
which are much admired by the lovers of
fine stock who visit his place, Lewellyn
Park, Orange, N. j. At the New Jersey
state fair last week out OF the thirteen
head exhibited seven took first prizes and
two were awarded second. At the live
stock exhibition held in Madison-suuare
Garden in 1895 thirteen prizes were awarded
for the herd and separate animals compos-
ing it, A herd of sixteen Dutch belted cat
tie, it will be remembered by breeders was
awarded the biggest per cent of prizes OBJ
tanned by any cattle exhibit at the worlds
fair. when there were probably more cat
tie of various breeds gathered together
than ever before.
1.-THE Dutch belted, or blanketed breed of
cows" said Mr.. Mum yesterday, ARE ma
tives of Holland and are distinct family
from the HosteinS, with which many con-
found them. Comparatively few have as
yet been imported into this country, al
though the breed antedates the seventeenth
century. In Holland they are owned and
controlled by the nobility. In color they
are very black, with a continuous pure
white belt around their body. which makes
a strikingly beautiful contrast. Their form
Is usually very fine and their constitutions
most hardy, enabling them to stand sud-
den changes in climate and to thrive on any
variety of fodder AS milk producers they
are excellent.
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DIsINFECTIoN OLE MAILS.
Steps Taken by POstohicc OmciaIs to
Check YeIIoH Eever


WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-The following
telegram has been sent by Postmaster Cen
eral Gary to President Isaac Levy. of the
New Orleans Board of Trade, regarding the
governments plan for checking the spread
Of yellow fever:
your telegram of the 30th ult. to the
president transmitting resolutions has been
referred TO this department for reply The
federal authorities are in constant COM
munication by telegraph with state boards
of health and superintendents of the rail-
way mail service, and every possible effort
Is being made to so disinfect all mails and
mail clerks that local quarantine regulations
may be raised at all points as against New
Orleans. Yesterday Sept. 800 many points
in Texas were quarantined against Houston
against that city has been raised through
the efforts OF this department.
I'VE propose, now, TO establish dsin-
fecting camps outside OF New Orleans on
every railway. and to meet all mails to and
from New Orleans at these camps, not al
lowing either cars or clerks 10 proceed be-
yaGd. These, or such other regulations as
We may secure will no doubt greatly re-
iieve the situation. We must not forget that
commercial interests. This department de-
sires to conserve both and allay fear of
contagious disease spreading"
This dispatch was based on resolutions of
the New Orleans Board of Trade, wired to
President Mckinley Sept. 80. Yesterday aft
ernoon, Just after the Cabinet session Post
master General Gary and Assistant Post
master General Shailenberger had a long
conference with the President over the mat
ter. Mr.. Mckinley is taking a keen interest
in the developments in the infected districts,
ard inquired carefully about the plans al
ready in operation and means for relieving
the distress in the commercial circles COM
patible with public safety. The telegram
sent by the postmaster general was the re-
suit Of this talk.
General Superintendent White Of the rail-
way mail service, had a conference with
Surgeon General Wyman, Of the Marine
Hospital Service, to-day. DR.. Wyman de-
cided that Il necessary he would establish
camps on the borders of the State of LOUISE
ana so that not only the mails from New
Orleans. but also all mails from the State
going into Texas will be properly disn-
fected. This viii give Texas quarantine
against the whole State. and % far as New
Orleans mails are concerned, give them a
double disinfeeting process Aavices indi-
cate that the situation In Texas Is greatly
veileved through prompt and efficient disin-
fActing seryice. Postal authorities believe
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Iinnincott.s Magazine.


Three civiliza tions-the French, the Span
ish and the Anglo blended
in forming New Orleans. the French always
dominating in blood, manners and customs.
The ideals of the French gentry and no
bility were introduced * far as they Were
practicable in d young colony by the Sieur
and paramount in it's development they
stamped it with a chrism of distinction up
TO the time of our civi war but the spell
which ultimately will make over all Amer
lean cities into one likeness is now at work
there JAS yet, however. along with the in
herent cosmopolltanism of New Orleans,
distinctive civic temperament attracts the
attention of the student of sociology. The
natives take a hght-hea4ted, child-like
pleasure in their Mardi Gras festivities
their ordinary street manners are so
amiable and kindly that a welI-dressed lady
may wander alone through the poorest
parts OF the city without disagTeeabie no.
tice from loafer or urchin; but this sauvity
covers a powerful undertow. Suddenly by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. because of
many false rumors that have been circu-
lated throughout the country tending to
create the impression that there is yellow
fever in Louisville, citizens and merchants
I'm the South have been misled in placing
restrictions and embargoes on this city. A
public meeting Of the merchants, railroad
officials, State Board of Health and the city
authorities was therefore held to-day at the
Board of Trade. A statement was given out
asserting that there have been only two
cases OF yellow fever. both imported. some
weeks ago, and since then we have had
several heavy frosts, and this in addition TO
the fact that yellow fever cannot exist here
should be sufficient reason to prevent quar-
antining against Louisville" The statement
is signed by c. c. Mengel jr., president OF
the Louisville Board of Trade; George G.
Norton, of the j. NJ. Robinson-Norton Com
pany; Theodore Ahrens, of the Ahrens q
OFT Manufacturing Company; George II.
Todd, mayor of Louisville, and Joseph M.
Matthews, NJ. D., president of the State
Board of Health.
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STREET RAILWAY SUIT.
Frank De II. Robson Wants Affairs of
Company Investigated.

CLEVELAND O., Oct. 2.--Late this aft
ernoonFrank De Haas Robson the base
ball magnate, began suit in equity against
the Cleveland City Railway Company, M. A.
Hanna, the president; J. B. Hanna, the
secretary, and John J. Shipherd, one of the
members of the board of directors asking
for relief and the appointment of a referee
to investigate the affairs of the company,
as well as injunction to prevent the pay
ment of the dividend declared at a recent
meeting. In the petition, which is volum-
nous, Robson charges that after the con-
solidation of the Cleveland City Gable
Company with the Woodland-avenue and
West Side Company into the Cleveland
City Railway Company, the secretary and
treasurer of the consolidated company
signed in blank certificates of stock that
was to be exchanged for the stock of the
old companies. These certificates were
given to Shipherd, who was the transfer
agent 1t is alleged that of the eight mil
lions of stock 81 ,000 600 worth, which was to
be held in the treasury to be issued on the
order Of the board of directors, was wrong
fully issued by Shipherd, While cable stock
which would have been Cancelled when
turned in was used by Shipherd as collat-
eral for loans at three banks, which are
made parties defendant in the suit. Presi-
dent and Secretary Hanna are accused of
carelessness in permitting Shipherd to issue
the stock without authority from the board
of directors.
Secretary Hanna says IN reply 10 the al
legations of the petition that Shipherd and
Robson were named in the agreement OF
consolidation as the trustees of the cable
company, and that the stock which was to
be issued to the cable stockholders was
given to him as such trustee that neither
the president nor the secretary or the con-
solidated company had anything to do with
the settlement with the cable stockholders;
that matter being left to Shipherd, VINO
was the treasurer of the cable company at
the time of the consolidation, and to Robi-
son, who was the president of that company.
IF there has been any mix-up in the AFFAIRS
of the company because of that, said Mr.
Hanna, these two trustees are legally re-
l,l.,f l,r.
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PlNGREE'S MISSION.
object Of the Potato Patch Governors
Trip to Venezuela.

DETROIT, Oct. 2. = The Evening News
says: Governor Pingree did not go to Ven
ezuela to secure a concession for railroad
or anything else from the Venezuelan gov
eminent. The Governor carried letter
from President Mckinley to General Cres-
Jose Andrade, Venezuelan minister at
Washington, to his brother, President-elect
of the republic. Both stated that Governor
Pingree was visiting South America for rec
reation and incidentally to see how the
Venezuelan government is conducted"
Colonel e. S. Sutton, however, who accom-
panied the Governor has an idea of organ
izing a syndicate to purchase from the gov
eminent an asphalt lake in the interior of
Venezuela
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one subject-freSh air. According to this
periodical poor ventilation is the cause not
only of ill-health and disease, but melan-
choly, insanity and even crime itself. The
woman found the editorial rooms to be
in the singular number, consisting of one
small apartment way up under the roof of
what had once been a dwelling house. But
even more singular than the number was
the fact that when the woman opened the
door it was all she could do to enter. Such
a blast of smoke, and steam, and heat, and
foul air as burst forth. 1t was some time be-
fore her eyes could become accustomed to
the haziness of it all. but when they did
she discerned family the figures of four
men, each putting away at a big pipe. The
one window was closed, and although the
day was mild that champion ozone-destroy-
er, gas stove, was in active service. The
woman stayed just two minutes in the
rand was accomplished, but because she
knew it was a case of being carried home
on a shutter if she remained longer. 1t was
a significant commentary upon the great
gulf that divides preaching from practicing.
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Growing More Malignant.

BILOXI, Miss, Oct. "A study of the
weeks reports does not offer much of an
encouraging nature as to any effect of the
measures put in practice to check the fever.
The disease has probably invaded every
quarter of the city and there are but few
families who do not report cases of fever.
From two to three new cases the list has
gradually increased to twenty or twenty-five
cases a day. The type is becoming more
malignant The Health Board reports: yell
low-fever cases under treatment, ia; total
yellow-fever cases to date, 208 total deaths
to date, Z; new cases to-day, Is.
McHenry, Miss, reports all fever patients
doing well, with no new cases.
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BIRDS BETRAYED.
VOIney w. Fosters Kindness to
Feathered SOngsterS All for Naught.
Chicago TimeS-HeraId

Chicago Times-HeraId
Bird boxes have stirred up the latest ire
mendouS excitement in lively, sensational
Evanston. Last week the city was shaken
to its center by Bogarts return. The week
before blind pigs caused a social earth
quake. The week previous the order OF
Keeping the college girls indoors was the
ground on which the regular cataclysm was
based. Evanston is beating Niles Center as
O place where there is always thrill. The
bird box sensation is the liveliest that has
struck the town. Families are being torn
apart by it. The whole municipal fabric is
totterng. The collegians forget their num-
bers in their football practice. The servant
girls break the dishes and men swear to per-
petrate deadly feuds. And Volney W. Fos-
ter is to blame. Mr.. Foster is kind. He is
as fond of the dog as he is of the master.
The little bird, to him, is dear the boy
who SHES the rock that kills or Mains And
so it came that in his tender heart Mr.. Fos-
ter hit upon q plan to help the birds. He
went to the City Council and said: Il will
feed the Evanston birds If you will help
me. AS the City Council is always holding
out inducements to birds to come here and
live / think that my plan is good. l will
pay for the construction and placing of 500
boxes to be nailed to trees and lamp posts,
if the city will keep these same boxes filled
with bird seed. The Council was amazed.
Then it was pleased. The agreement was
made contract. Up went the boxes with
this sign on them:
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NINETEEN NEW CASES,
Making 3OS i'm and Around Edwards
Up TO Date-Nurses Stricken.


EDWARDS, Miss, Oct 2-There have
been nineteen cases of fever officially re-
ported to-day, of which ten are white as
follows: Mrs. c. Noblin, Julia Butler. Car
RE Butler, Mrs. Anna Alerson. John Bell
Demarchi, Miss Olivia Lewis, Father Pen
dergast, Mrs. W. r. Ward, A. II. Haven
knott jr., McFadden Keister.
Deaths to-day, one that of Lula Mckay,
the first colored person who has died from
the disease here. Total deaths TO date, 10;
cases to date in town and country, 305;
number discharged and convalescent, 17S;
number now under treatment, us; number
seriously ill, s.
Mrs. w. G. Redfeld, ST., and her young
est daughter, Lillian, are so i'll that very
little hopes are entertained of their recov-
cry Mayor Redheld, who had the black
yomit yesterday, is doing well tonight. DR..
McCallum is also doing nicely Father Pen
dergast, who was stricken to-day, has been
a tireleSs, cheerful worker, and will be
much missed by the sick. Two nurses from
|icksburg are among the latest to succumb
to the disease.
The mail. if it could be received daily,
would be a blessing. To be shut up here
with scarcely paper to read, is hard in
deed. A Vicksburg paper received here the
other day was passed around so much that
the printing was scarcely readable.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 2. - Gen
Minor T. Thomas died at his home, in this
city, to-day, aged sixty-seven years. Gen
eral Thomas was a native of Indiana, but
came to Minnesota when still young man.
and at the outbreak of the war of the rebel
lion was chosen second lieutenant of Com
pany of the now famous First Minnesota
His advancement was rapid until near the
close of the war he received his commission
as br.gadier general. Since the war ne fol-
lowed the profession of civil engineering,
being connected with the old ST. Paul &
Pacific road, now part of the Great North
ern system. AS a railroad builder he has
lived in Detroit, New Orleans, Texas, Cali
fornia and elsewhere. His widow and one
daughter survive him. The remains will be
inferred at Galveston, Ind.
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II Is Hardly Thing to BE Consciously
Acquired.
IL

Well TO blurt out the awful truth at once,
l have never thought so highly of intel
lectual stimulation as | have of some other
things In life. ii is by no means clear, as
yet, that the power of intellect upon life is
of the greatest value; just as the history of
human nature does not go to show that
seeing clearly and doing well have been in
variahly associated. One man or one WON
an, with that extended and clarifying Wis
ion which is occasionally the flower of q
well-informed mind, but is oftener the fruit
of a beautiful spirit, is a greater power for
all right mindedness than the most active
intellect under the most conscientious
stimulation. And as to the opportunity for
culture offered in the womans clubs, it
seems to me that in a last analysis true
culture eludes any conscious effort to ac
quire it. / have liked to think that Gull
ture, like all other graces OF the mind and