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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

Aluminium gray is the way fashionable
colors keep up with the procession.
The latest French skirt models grow mar
rover and closer on the front and sides.
A little water and a hot cinder put into a
musty teapot or bottle will make either per-
fectly fresh again.
Russian women ard Japanese men are
said to be the most skillful workers with
the needle in decorative effects That the
world holds.
Lime placed in an open box on a shelf in
a cupboard or pantry, and frequently re-
newed, will absorb the damp and keep the
air sweet and dry.
Chiffon merveilleux is the name of a love-
ly fabric that makes up into ideal gowns,
neckwear and light capes. 1t may be had
in both single and double width, and is not
expensive.
One of the novelties of the season is the
shaped fiounce of black net embroidered
with jet silver, steel or iridescent beads. IT
is all ready for use, and freshens up
black satin skirt wonderfully.
Some novelties in theater wraps re-
versble capes of black fur, which are made
for both day and evening wear. The FUR
side is worn out during the day. and in the
evening the lining of brocaded velvet is
SEEN The collar is of fur both sides, and Is
high.
The amateur photographer who has not a
ruby lamp for use in the developing room
or closet may envelop the bulb of an cleo
trio light with red rag shade, with the
same result as to workmanship, an entire
freedom from smoke, ana also a much
stronger and steadier light.
A handsome three-fold screen about two
feet high, is utilized by it's owner to hold
photographs gathered during journey in
Scotland. 1t is covered with one of the clan
plaids, in rich blues and greens, and is filled
in symmetrical arrangement with land
scapes, historical buildings. and the noble
faces of Scottish heroes. The idea is sug-
gestive and adaptable to other lands, pc
RODS, or association of events.
The cuirass bodice of shfmmering jet
spangles and fine beads, embroidered in
spreading design or sewn in close bands on
net and chiffon, was very conspicuous
feature of the variety in dress at the horse
show. The glittering armor was not always
of jet, however, for both gray and white
chiffon, heavily embroidered with steel or
silver, were prime favorites. Entire bodices
of iridescent spangles on black net were
also to be seen.
Fashionable dressmakers. both here and
abroad, are making most liberal use of
beautiful artificial flowers that look exactly
like natures own to decorate evening toll
ets and not a few fichus and bodices are
actually smothered with roses. Large soft
punches wholly without foliage are seen on
many full-dress toilets, and demi-trained
gowns for bridesmaids are decorated with
rose garlands, the flowers are arranged
in Empire clusters down each side of the
skirt front.
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The Proper Care of Clothes.


The question of space is one that requires
considerable thought. OF course, when there
is plenty of space and plenty of money,
there can be wardrobes galore, with hooks,
shelves and drawers, where each article can
have a place for itself. Where both econ
omy of space and money have to be exer-
cised the problem is more difficult. Within
the last two or three years some clever de-
vices have come into use by which the
capacity of hanging closets can he doubled.
If the depth of the wardrobe be great
enough to allow of them, two curtain poles
in sockets are fastened at a height which
will allow a long skirt to clear the ground
On these poles are put the wire frames
used to hang coats on, and it is surprising
how many skirts can be disposed of, ar
ranged side by side, but sufficiently far
apart to give each skirt plenty of room.
Above these two curtain poles are two
others, a yard higher up for the waists,
frames. But these are differently arranged
for it would of course be impossible to reach
so high. All along the poles, at regular in
tervals, are put eyes, through which runs
a cord that is also fastened to the knob
on the frame, and then, in pulley fashion,
the frames can be lowered or hoisted as de-
sired. Keeping skirts and waists thus
spread out is a great help towards always
having them fresh. A padding of some soft
material can be put over the frames, and
a small sachet put therein to give faint
paper inserted in the sleeves will keep them
in shape. and if there is danger of dust, a
covering Of cheese-cloth can be put over the
waists.
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beautiful book Covers.

New York Tribune.
Miss Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff is an artist
who develops her fancies in leather In her
studio at No SO Washington Square many
specimens of her handiwork are on exhibit
ton. and in a talk with Tribune reporter
she told of her fondness for her speciality.
IT am a bookbinder," she said, and 1
took up the business principally because
of my fondness for books / love them so.
They are real friends and should be taken
care of with genuine appreciation"
when did you first take up bookbind-
ing?"
About eight years ago. l spent six
months with the great publishing firm Of
Cobden-Sanderson in London, and what 1
learned there has been invaluable to me.
really like to make book-get the sheets
from the publisher, refold them and bind
them. 1t is difficult work. and as many as
thirty-five or forty processes have to be
gone through before the binding of a book
is really finished. l do not like 10 bind
first editions. as q rule. l like to wait and
see whether the book is TO live and be
worthy of preservation Then ! like to give
it a beautiful cover, that is at once last
ing and artistic / have young Canadian
girl with me learning to bin, books, and
she Is an apt pupil | am fond of teach
ing, and have some promising pupils, but
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EIy'S Cream Balm

be considered. The returns from the years
business do not come in until the farm has
been operated practically a year. 1t is not
uncommon to hold the product for six
months or year after it has been har-
vested waiting for a profitable market.
Eighteen months is about the time that may
be said to elapse between the first plow-
ing and the return of the cash for the crop.
Eight per cent. is not an exorbitant rate for
money in North Dakota. This per cent.
should be charged for the operation ex-
penses of the farm-that is upon $50 for
each acre. The interest, therefore, on the op-
Grating expenses would be 45 cents per acre.
The final subtraction from this gross profit
must be made in the form of interest on the
capital invested in the farm. Accepting the
estimated value of the land. improvements,
and machinery to be $50 per acre, and con-
ceding that for a sound investment per
cent. would be fair interest return to
capital one comes to the real profit, which
is not such an exorbitant profit after all.
Subtracting from $4.75, the gross profits,
45 cents the interest on the operating ex-
penses, and $3.50, the interest on the capital
invested, the real profits dwindle TO $3.50, or
less than per cent profit on the capital
invested in land, improvements, and all
operating expenses. Figuring the items of
interest with the profits-mal1ng the result
a gross profit-the rate of profit is about
doubled,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
OCCUPANTS AGAIN SMOKED OUT
Another Fire in OLD sentinel Building
"A Hairdrcsser's Escape,

An alarm from Box 45 about 1 O'Clock
this morning brought the fire department
to the old Sentinel building, at Meridian
street and Monument place. The fire was
in the cellar of Robert brakes grocery,
fronting on Meridian street. The firemen
had no difficulty in .extinguishing the blaze,
but the dense smoke found its way to the
upper rooms of the building and routed the
occupants of warm beds. Miss Margaret
Davis, the occupant of a room in the rear
part OF the building, was awakened by the
smoke which filled her room, and she ran
out into the Railways in her night dress.
screaming fire.
Lee Nixon, private secretary to Repre-
sentative OveTstreet with others ran up
stairs to awaken. the sleeping inmates Mr..
Nixon experienced great deal of trouble
in arouslng Mrs. Jennie Ruble, hair
dresser on the second floor. He pounded
and kicked the door and yelled fire" but
could get no response from within. Finally
she was aroused and Sprang from the bed
Her room was black with smoke when she
opened the door. AS the firemen We're leav-
ing the building they were attracted by the
pitiful cries of a cat in the rear of the
Drake grocery. One of the men rescued
the feline and carried it out into the air.
Seven out of its nine lives had expired
through suffOcation. The fire is supposed
to have started from a box of excelsior
The heavy smoke that rolled up from the
cellar caused most of the damage, which
will not be heavy.
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such a degree that the very children of the
home are made to feel that there is no vir-
tue equal to the virtue of doing without
everything that they want. Every expend-
fture that would give pleasure is held in
allegiance until such time as the family may
feel that they "can afford it,, and. as Il
rule, this time never comes and the pleas
ire is relinquished. There is more of pathos
tLan anything else in the remark made by
child of this family when there was a
funeral next door. The long line of car
riages and the stately hearse. the flowers
and the mourning garb of the bereft family
suggested nothing to the mind of this eco
ironically trained child but an outlay of
money, and she said to her mother We
home, could we. mamma?' While IT is
n,anifestly unwise to spend money so reck-
lessly that one day imposes a burden on the
other. it is equally unwise to deny one S
self the simple pleasures of life in order TO
save for some future that may never be-
come present They who save at the cost
of all lberality have a false conception of
true economy.
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Western Farm Laborers.
N. al. White. in Scribner.


There is a season between May and the
hands who work on these North Da-
kota wheat farms wait for the crops to
rtpen. In fact except the half-score of men
who are regularly employed upon each
place, all the men who are engaged upon
the big farms-in blowing season. at seeding
for threShing comes, the men who do the
most important work-are transient labor
ers Frequently they are birds OF passage,
whose faces are familiar to the foremen,
but whose homes may be a thousand miles
away Men of this character are not no
boes,' yet now and then tramp does rest
from his loved employ and works with the
harvest hands, A majority of the labor
ers comes from the South in harvest time.
These men are regular harVeSterS, who be-
gin with the early June harvest in Okla
horna, working northward until the season
closes in the Red river country. Men of
this class never pay railroad fare. Thou
cry thousand acres in wheat--ride into the
bonanza district on the blind baggage on
passenger trains. When they have leisure
and taste for scenery they Jolt placidly
across the continent homeward bound in
what the lingo of the cult calls 'side-dooT
the larger towns in the middle West-in st.
Louis, in Omaha, in St Paul, in Chicago
or in Milwaukee. And they bring home
probably a million dollars in wages. They
are steady, industrious men, with no bad
habits and small ambitions. On the best
farms there is no drinking and card-playing
is strictly prohibited. The foremen say that
cards keep men out of bed at night and
they have not their best strength TO work
during the day. There are no anusements
on the farm, and at o'clock the fatigue
usually drives the men to bed.
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Home Companion.

There are some parents whose con-
sciences are so painfully constructed that
TO them the Santa Claus hction seems a
wicked falsenood not to be encouraged. We
pity them and lament their honesty If con-
sistent they must frown upon all that man s
Imagination has done to adorn life, to en-
bellish the world AS for Santa Claus, may
he not be regarded by the Christian as
typical of the giver of good gifts? And to
the honest nineteenth-century pagan does
his coming not commemorate the birth of
the acknowledged highest type of earthly
man? Santa Claus needs no apologist. He
has made lives better and brighter since his
first coming.
do not regard the Christmas tree a
bother, even if fatigue and sacrifice are
its price. Remember how rich you are in
having some one in your heart and home
who is expecting Santa Claus. And remem-
Der the splendid privilege of comforting so
much happiness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
SchooI Mo-. 41Dnmnged.

School No. Al. at the corner of Woodburn
and Warren avenues, West Indianapolis.
was damaged by fire about o'clock last
night The fire started On the second floor,
from an overheated stove. The building
was damaged to the extent of about 800 by
fire and water. 1t will be a week before
the building can be occupied again.
Yesterday afternoon the residence of DR..
Wall. No. 2l1 Indiana avenue was slightly
damaged by ire. Early yesterday mornin Z
a frame stable at No. 1913 South Illinois
street caught fire and was partly burned
Loss $780,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

Entitled to respect, is the
man or woman who can
keep thoroughly well. Fail
ures are many; coffee af-
fects the heart and diges-
ton of some who do not
suspect it. Postum Food
Coffee works a revolution
for such.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26

The trains will consist of Pullman drawing
room sleepers, standard Queen &c Crescent
day coaches. which are provided with we'll
furnished lavaturtes, smoking rooms etc,
service of cafe, parlor and observation
cars than which there are none finer any
where. The schedules, it is announced. will
be as fast as have ever been made to the
South
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
TOO Much ECONOMY.
PHILADELPHIA Times.

Philadelphia Times.
When economy becomes the chief end and
aim of existence in the house; when IL be-
comes a kind of domestic god, before which
all must bow down and worship. the happi-
ness of the home is likely to be sacrificed
and the spirit of peace is not likely TO dwell
therein. There is in existence home in
which this system Of economy prevails to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
The Pront for the wheat Grower
hite. I'm Scribner.

Accepting the cost of operating a bonanza
wheat farm at $50 an acre. and accepting
the average selling price OF the wheat at
So cents a bushe an average yield OF
nineteen bushels TO the acre. one finds that
the product OF an acre Is $l0.I5. This would
seem To leave net profit 10 the capitalist
acre. From his gross sum there must be
subtractions. The matter Of interest must
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
a EnyOred One.
Philadelphia Nc

Philadelphia North American.
Visitor lin penitentiary)--Wa that octo-
geniar convict who died yesterday a life
prisoner?
Warden-Oh, no. He was the youth con-
victed of murder seventy years ago. The
Supreme Court may pass on the last point
raised in his case next week.
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SnCIETY NnTICES.

MASONIC-Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite The
brethren are requested to meet at the temple
house OF the Rite this afternoon at ! o'clock for
the purpose Of attending the funeral OF samuel
Hanway,s thirty second degree, at Mapl1ton NJ. e
Church. Funeral services at the cemetery con-
Quoted by the Rite
N r. RTCKLE. #. r. G.. NJ.
JOSEPH W. SMITH, Secretary.
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Mayor Dunlap Calls a Meeting.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Nov. 25.-Mayor Dun
lap to-day issued call for a mass meet
ing of Andersonians, Monday night, for the
purpose of taking action on the matter of
gas waste and appointing a joint committee
with other gas belt towns to call on the
Governor and ask that an extra session of
the Legislature oe called in order to stop
the gas waste.
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Philadelphia Mort

FnlIautIpIIId INOIIIl <AIntTICdI.
Moneyworth--Why will the newspapers
publish columns of the revolving details of
murders? Here I've wasted two good hours
reading through the mass of trash about
the last.
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WANTED-MALE HELP.

WANTED-A first-cass male stenographer land
typewriter with machine: other need apply
frst-class wages Call to-day at o'clock a. m
at Columbia Club.
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Mass Meetings to BE Held Next week.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Nov. 25.-The COM
mittee appointed last night began commune
eating with the mayors of the different cit
les in the gas belt to-day and have received
favorable replies to their request for mass
meetings to protest against gas waste Mass
meetings will be called in each of the cities
for next Wednesday evening, at which pc
titions will be signed for presentation 10 the
Governor asking for the enactment of a
law to cover the case. The feeling Of the
citizens of this county is very bitter. The
blazing gas wells can be seen for ten miles
and millions of cubic feet of gas are escap-
ing daily. All that the city of Alexandria
now is it owes to natural gas. The people
mere feel that the wealth and welfare of the
whole State is affected With the entire gas
belt fighting to retain its prosperity and
the State aroused to the danger of losing
it's great industrial enterprises which have
given to Indiana its magnificent growth OF
the past ten years, it is believed something
can be done to save the gas. 1t is hoped
that within the next two weeks there will
be upon the statute books a stringent H. cas-
ure covering the present emergency The
citizens of Indianapolis, Richmond, Lafay-
ette RushVile, Connersville and, in fact, all
within radius Of fifty miles Of the gas
belt are interested in this movement.
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The annual Thanksgiving service of the
Womans Home Missionary Society of Rob-
erts Park Church will be held at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Emil Wulschner, $40 North
Meridian street. this afternoon.
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rheumatism is due TO Tactic acid in the
blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla neutrazes the
acid and completely cures the aches and
pains of rheumatism. BE sure to get Hood 5.
Hoods pills are easy to take easy to
operate. Cure indigestion, biliousness. 25c.
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BUSINESS CHANCELThe whole or an interest
in the leading merchant tailoring store, locat ted
In a I've Indiana gas-beit town OF 10000 popula-
ton; good location and nice clean stock OF wool
ems Will invoice about 81, s00 good opening for
right party. Address MERCHANT TAILORS.
care Journal.
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Observation-Disclosures
BUSINESS CHANCE.


WANTED--To rent, lease or buy photograph gal
lery In Indiana. Address WiLLYERD,' 12lz
Olive street, ST. Louis, Mo-
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rOR SALE

FOR SALE-The Union Trust Company (tTustee)
offers for sale 1,Sl1 shares of the common stock
Of the Belt Railroad and stock Yard Company ct
indianapolis. Sealed bids for the whole amount
or any part will be received up to and including
Dec. Is. The company reserves the right TO re-
5ect any or all bids. H M FOLrZs Secretary
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DIED.

GROFF-A1rs. Helen Croft, wife Of Robert r.
Croft, at sos North East street. Notice of fun
eraf later
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SOCIETY MEETlNGs.

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AIASONIC-A. A. o. y. NJ. S.-Nobies attend
Stated meeting Of Murat Temple this HI1dayl
evening at 7:45 clock for business. BY order
BRUSH. Pctentate.
SMITH. Recorder.
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life; l think it heredi-
tary as my father was
afflicted with 1t. l have
suffered great distress,
my heart palpitated to
such an extent as to
shake my whole body.
So distressing was it l
could only with rraat-
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FUNERAL NOTICES

FINEHAL NOTICES.
HANWAY-The funeral services Of the late
Samuel Hanway will be held Friday, Nov IS. al
1:3o y. III. at Mapleton Church. News and Sun
please copy.
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GAS MUST BE PROTECTED
STATES INDUSTRIAL CENTER GROW
ING THOROUGHLY AROUSED.
Millions of Dollars at Stake--DeIega-
tiOns Sent to All Cities ia
the Gas Belt.

Mr.. j. C. Condo, of Alexandria, is in the
city, sent by the mass meeting of the citi-
Gems of Alexandria held Wednesday even
ing as a committee to interest the people
of Indianapolis in the struggle to save the
natural gas from the waste incident to oil
drilling in the field His task will be an
easy one, for the people here, from the Gov
ernor and state officials down to the small
consumer of gas, nave been for weeks fully
alive to the threatened danger. The Cover
nor, attorney general and gas inspector
have held a number of consulta-
tions on the subject, and the inspector has
brought twenty-eght prosecutions under
existing laws to prevent the waste. These
cases are now in the courts in addition
10 this the state officers watched with keen
interest the injunction suit brought in
Madison county, and were not little dis
appointed when it was decided adversely by
Judge Mcclure This case will probably be
appealed to the Supreme Court when the
attorney general will take hand in the
argument.
At the Alexandria meeting there was
much talk of petitioning the Governor for
an extra session of the Legislature, and
that course may be followed. Committees
were sent yesterday to Muncie, Anderson,
Marion, ElWOOu, hOkOIuO anu OtHSI SeiS
towns to ask them to lend a helping hand
in the movement. They appreciate the fact,
as Governor Mount expressed it a few days
ago, that the extra session is the last re-
sort, and they will only ask it when all
other means of stopping the waste have
failed.
I'VE have in the gas belt" said Mr.. Con-
do, investments amounting to $75,000,0J0 in
manufacturing industries. These industries
employ $4,000 men, and pay them $5O,OO0,0OO
a year in wages. They turn out product
valued at $3.50 900 coo annually, and these in
dustries depend upon natural gas for their
existence. The money they spend is dis
tributed all over the State, and a large
share of it comes to your wholesalers and
jobbers in this city. AS against this per-
manent industry, with large capital in
vested and employing so many thousand
men, we have the oil drillers, most of them
nonresidents, many of them irresponsible,
doing no permanent good to the State, but
simply taking out the oil, letting the gas
go up into the air and leaving the territory
when they are done a barren waste like the
old oil fields of Pennsylvania. They invest
little or nothing in the oil business, and it
brings with it nothing permanent in the
way of industry. They simply pump the oil
from the ground and carry 1t off, and the
State and its people are the poorer for the
operation. Our manufacturers have done
what they can in the courts, but the people
are alarmed over the prospect of the con-
tinued waste OF the gas.