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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

a dissolute and an honest woman is SO fine
that few trouble to bother about 1T, and
any suggestion on the subject would be re-
ceived with ridicule. Why should any one
trouble about the presence OF a So-calied
dissolute woman in a house in a city where
garded so lightly that it is most frequently
ignored altogether, except by those who can
afford the luxury, and care to devote the
time necessary to the performance Of the
ceremony
sunday is the great gala day of the week
in havana. Everything is going full blaze.
from the lowest dive to the SWEETEST cafe.
The streets are crowded The women In
happier times than these were conspicuous
though none went about unescorted unless
reckless of consequences. Truth compelS
the statement that, as a rule. whatever
physical beauty the Cuban woman have
comprises their greatest charm. They are
uninteresting in conversation, for the rea-
son, mainly, that they do not know any
thing.
They are kept almost like prisoners dur
ing their girlhood and young ~womanhoOds
encouraged in Incidence, and have as little
to talk about as they have to do. They
learn to play on the tin piano, that can be
NJ heard 1 lahhgiingE at most any nIah hour OF OF the non day
of their character by the climate here just
as much as men-and they go through the
ordinary studies of girlhood, and then they
come to an intellectual Nirvana. They seem
to be very pious, and take every opportunity
to go to c~hurch-and there are many oppor-
calendar is observed with much ceremony
but one cannot help suspecting that mixed
with their plety Is a worldly desire TO vary
the monotony of their home life.
One sees many more women than men
kneeling on the stone floors of the cathedral
on a feast day; indeed, If one wants to see
Cuban women, the church is about the best
place to go. He will see many an arch face
behind a convenient fan, with laughing eyes
that seem to say the owners thoughts are
not all on the words of the service. II th9
typical Cuban girl is not up to date in her
mental equipment 1t is not her fault. She
has not been brought up according to the
American notion of what is necessary to
make a girl of the period. She is not trou-
bled with any ambition to free her sex or
to make a stir in the world. She was born
to be loved by some lazy man, who will not
ask many questions, and she fills the bill
admirably.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

side. Sometimes a little greenish glow
would shoot up above the red light; the list
was over to port. and the green glow was
her starboard light shining on the foam as
"A streak of fire suddenly shot up into the
s steam anG burst cry - n d 4 sneWei q. q gro sanrs came
from the met around me.s Then up shot an
other, and this rocket verged towards US,
al II c S29Ple all ed directly 81 ybe 10 egf in Got tbe,S die,
tressi Small, yellow dots OF light ran to
and fro, clustering here and there in spots.
They We're getting out the boats, What
good. would that do? Even if they could
I'VE in such a sea, where could they IandI
Mill bay was their best chance, and they
could not find it unless there was a light
there. Besides, ii was too far to the nor ard
ana any light would be hid by some inter-
Run you, Dick and Jim. set a light at
the cove! It's their only chance!
a., A dozen Of the younger m men I'm maze ~ on;
knew anything they could do would be in
vain. AS the different groups of men had
their lanterns: they would only do harm. If
the boats could get off and live, a lantern
seen there would only lure them to sure de-
struction. There was a chance, however, If
they could be guided to the coye-yet only
the bareSt chance,
Now the green light shone quite clear or
was reflected on the foam continually flying
over the steamer. The masthead light was
nearly between the two. She was on her
beams end: and her deck must be perpen-
dicular. A little yellow light seemed to
leave the side, then another-and then-one
went out. From the cliff overlooking Hella
rock-the windward guardian of the cove
came the light of a lantern or two. A little
later a small wind-driven flame and-we
knew the strong youngsters had found tar
barrels. God direct those boats
But suddenly, while the lights of the
steamer seemed to lurch downward, the
long line Of a breaking wave was first liz
by the red light and then that disappeared,
giving place to the clear white light. 1t was
reflected up from the foam against the sides
of a noble steamer. 1t seemed TO run along
from stem to stern, and then 1t went out,
and the darkness was deepened. For 4 few
moments the greenish light fingered, and
that too was wiped out as The others mad
been.
These little bobbing lights danced around
in the darkness. We watched them, know
ing they were the crowded boats. and all
that was left of the steamer. They were
evidently being driven seward. The tide
race runs strong at the Runnel Stone, and
il was now full ebb. We saw one light go
out: we watched the other two. which were
quite close together. AS one would sponge
a mark from off a slate. we saw them Gis-
appear also. We waited and waited, and
at last trod our way across the downs
home. We heard the bell-buoy tolling a
knell; in three weeks another steamer would
be marked at Lloyds sunk or missing"
God have mercy on their souls cried
Capt. Jack. Amen!-New York Evening
Post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A big battle ship has on board an electric
plant capable of lighting a town of 1900
inhabitants.
The desert of Sahara is as large as all
that portion of the United states lying west
of the Mississippi.
1t has been ascertained that plate glass
will make a more durable monument than
the hardest granite
The Netherlands have 1900 square miles,
being about the combined area of Massachu-
sets and Connecticut.
A law recently enacted in Norway makes
girls Ineligible for matrimony, until they are
skilled in sewing knitting and cooking.
There have been Il 900 deaths from plague
in India so far. according to a recent re-
port by the secretary Tor India to Parlia-
ment.
An officer has brought to England from
the Malay States a sladang, a kind of wild
III captivity.
The ground in the vicinity of the Bank
of England is estimated to be worth not
less than $40. OC0, 600 per acre. Land in Pail
Mall has changed hands at 81, 500, 900 an acre.
The great barrier reef along the coast of
Australia is about 1890 miles long. the work
of coral insects. Sometimes it rises almost
perpendicularly from a depth of 1900
fathoms
A pair of scales, much like those of the
modern pharmacies, Is among the objects
discovered this year IN excavations about
thirty miles from Tneoes, and recently ex-
hibited in London
Peru received its name from it's principal
river, the Rio Paro, upon which stands the
ancient city of Paruru. The Brazilian term
para. however modified, is at all times sug-
gestive of a river.
Two ceremonies in Burmah mark when
childhood stops and manhood or womanhood
begins. The BOYS have their legs tattooed
in brilliant blue and red patterns, and the
girls their ears bored.
Siberia has a population Of 5,727.OO0, of
which 1854. COO are males and PIP. COO fe-
males. The population of Central Asia was
determined at 7.721, 900, of which Ass. 900 are
males and 1852, 600 females.
The average height of the French woman
is five feet one inch. The American women
are nearly two inches taller. and the
women of Great Britain one-half inch taller
than their American sisters.
A Roumanian manufactures has an
nounced his intention of sending to the Paris
exhibition of 1900 a pianoforte OF such ex-
ceptional sorority that its tones will be
heard at a distance of six miles.
In Germany when the vote OF the Jury
stands six against six a prisoner is acGuit-
ted. A vote Of seven against five leaves the
decision to the court, and in a vote of eight
against four the prisoner Is convicted.
The English mines are now being worked
at a depth of over 1000 feet. the coal living
In horizontal veins from two to three feet
thick. where the work must be done at a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
A FAD OF THE GIRLS.
They Are Buying Boys Cloves and
Shoes This Spring.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
Girls are wearing boys shoes and boys
gloves. Paper soled boots, long and thin
and delicate, and fragile hand wear that
men are almost afraid TO touch nave quite
gone cut of vogue, and in their place, ex-
Cept, of course, for reception, afternoon tea
and evening wear, have come in heavy.
stout boots and thick, durable gloves that
make the maid of this spring a very differ
ent kind of a creature.
And that these shoes and gloves are gen.
timely boys articles, too, is a fact not 20 be
doubted. A very ~well-known and high-class
mems and women's bootmaker told me the
other day that this spring he had placed a
woman IN his boys department especially
for the girls who came daily to buy boys
boots. Ihe cause of this vogue is, in the
first place, economy. Heavy projecting sole,
broad-toed footwear is all the rage. So, too.
are thick gloves whose fingers never taper.
The athletic, energetic outdoor game play
ing girl is the fashion. The boots and
gloves built for her this late winter and this
early spring have a cut of their own that
lines. Some clever person discovered that
these boots and gloves were identically the
same as those sold for boys, material, cut
and all. The only difference lay in the
price, the boys articles costing half an
much only or even less than half.
Why not buy boys things, them some
brisk, enterprisIng young person suggested.
The advice was taken. gingerly and tentaf
lively at first, but 1t was soon seen tc~1b
hands these boys shoes and gloves looked
precisely the same as those the girls had
been paying 'c-normous prices, my DEAR
for.
The boys gloves that are worn are OF
the tan variety. in tints OF red, brown or
red brown. short fingered and not at all
dainty looking. They are the vogue for
swell girls to-day, however. These, bought
as boys gloves. cost just one-half of what
genuinely girls gloves purchased over an
other counter would come 10. AS a matter
of fact, it Is much ''sweller'' to buy these
than Ii is the girls gloves.
In shoes the fashionable girls do not con-
me themselves 10 h0yS walking shoes or
boots BY any manner OF means. They buy
boys patent feathers. They buy russets,
too, at about the same saving OF good
money. and actually boys pumps to do
service as slippers. these costing something
like IS. while the saHSQ thing on the women'e
side OF the shop wculC cost fully s..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Improbable Counterfeiting.
New York Mail and Express.

New York Mall and Express.
Dishonest people work harder for smaller
profit than honest ones. The secret service
has discovered that counterfeit one-cent
pieces are now being made. When the old
copper cents were in use they were about
the same value in weight as the metal it.
self, but copper has grown cheaper and the
cent of to-day is only one-third of the old
fashioned one. A man or woman working
of these cents in one day. Beside the cost
of the metal, is the cost of the mold and
OF the chemicals used in finishing them.
ter of the face value. Upon this statement
the eounterfeiter would clear only S375 a
day, but the trouble in Showing the queer"
tremely great. so that the maIefactor is
usually Obliged 10 get two or three assist
ants to hell. L. TINS would reduce the
days work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Monterey.

We were not many-we who stood
Before the iron sleet that day;
Yet many a gallant spirit would
Give half his years If but he could
Have been with us at Monterey.
Now here. now there. the shot it hailed
In deadly drifts of fiery spray,
Yet not a single soldier quailed
When wounded comrades round them walled
Their dying shout at Monterey.
And on, still on our column kept.
Through walls of flame. its whitening way;
Where fell the dead. the living slept.
Still charging on the guns which swept
The slippery streets of Monterey.
Ehe foe himself recoiled aghast.
When, striking where he strongest lay.
We swooped his fanking batteries past,
And, Drawing full their murderous blast.
Stormed home the towers of Monterey.
Our banners on those turrets wave,
And there our evening bugles play;
Where ofange boughs above their grave
Keep green the memory of the brave
Who fought and fell at Monterey.
We are not many-we who pressed
Beside the brave who fell that day:
But who of us has not confessed
He'd rather share their warrior rest
Than not have been at Monterrey?
Charles Fenno Hoffman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Some Of These Days.

Some Of these days all the skies will be brighter
Some of these days all the burdens be lighter;
Hearts will be happier-souls will be winter
Some Of these days!
Some of these days, in the deserts upspringing,
Fountains shall flash while the joy-bells are
ringing,
And the w%orld-with its sweetest Of birds shall
go singing
Some of these days!
Some of these days.. Let us bear with our sor-
row. gF
Faith in the future-its light we may borrow;
There will be joy in the golden tomorrow
Some of these days!
Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
WOuIdn't RepeI Them.
Chicago Post

OIIINu6U OoIs
How absurd" she said. as she put down
the article descriptive of a naval battle and
went on with the work that naturally falls
to the lot of a woman who keeps a boarding
house.
Whats absurd?'
Why, one part of this article tells Row
to repel boarders. But who wants to repel
them as long as they pay up every week?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Double Grief.
Philadelphia North American.

Philadelphia North American.
Laura-Poor Belle is dreadfully put out.
Amy-What's the matter?
Laura-Jack Manly, one of her admirers,
is going into the army.
Amy-But she has the other one, Harry
Gutter.
Laura-That's just it. He's going to stay
home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
After the Seance,
CleVelanC

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE medium couldn't fool me on Aunt
Mary"
What do you mean"
Il knew it wasn't Aunt Mary as soon as
she breathed on me. Aunt Mary never like
onions"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Trained Nurses.
Brooklyn Life

Brooklyn Life.
Il don't think much of these trained
nurses one hears so cracked up"
WHY what makes you feel that way?"
The seem to be trained only to get mad
If you ask them to do anything for you"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Helping Along.
Chicago Pos.

d you believe in the saying that Man
proposes and God disposes?' &" she asked.
'Of course he replied.
Then l should think you would do your
share she suggested.
Shortly thereafter everything was ar
ranged satisfactorily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
war Into Africa.

Detroit Free Press.
Your wife is somewhat strong-minded,
isn't she. Littleiohn?
'Strong-minded? A furniture-polish ped
dler came here yesterday, and In five min
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Boston Transcript.

BOSIUH ITdISCIIpI.
Mrs. Groves-Your husband is an awful
sufferer from the rheumatism.
Mrs. F~orrest-Yes, but then he's a handy
thing to have round when one wants to
know what the weather is going to be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Fun We'll He Knew the Danger.

Detroit Free Press.
..Oh, Edwin, Edwin sobbed Athanasia.
Often at evening she would sit by herself
thus and mmun over her faithful lovers
letters.
FOR he had not committed himself in any
of them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
One ON the Bookkeeper.

Chicago Record.
Il told my wife I had to stay down town
late to get a balance"
What did she say?"
She said L seemed to. nave lost 1t before 1
got home"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
HUMOR OF II A
Experience.
Chicago Record.

Chicago Record.
Dorothy goes as a nurse If we have
war"
What experience has she had?'
Her three brothers are football rushers."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
They want a Rest, Too.
Truth

Rev. DIR. Fourthly-How do you manage
to get your salary paid up in full every
year?
Rev. DR.. Fifthly-I give the people to I'M
derstand that without ii / shall be unable
to take my usual vacation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Willing.
Vanity Fair.

Old Gotrocks (savagely)-What's that?
You mean to tell me that you really love
my daughter for herself alone?
Young tHardup (tremulously)-Y-es, sir;
but / think ] could learn'to l-love you, t-too,
sic-in t-t-time, sir.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
Jake's Preference.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Jake, they tell me that you take after
your mother Is that correct?"
Nav. I'm after one of the neighbor girls,
and she's q bird"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
why He Was Tolerated.

utes' talk she sold him some polish she had
made herself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01

Harding gazed in half-blinded stupidity. so
he felt. and could see no details, could make
out no individual face distinctly. 1t all
struck him as some vast spectacle of bar
barous gew-gaw splendor, and yet nothing
that he had ever seen could compare with
it in unity Of effect. The boxes were all
full. and Of beauty and queenly costume, so
accumulated that nowhere else could such
insistenceS upon decoration have been toler-
able. There, however, it was the perfection
of color, grace, brilliance and condensed,
passionate beauty of expression such as the
Greeks of Alexandria dreamed of in their
luxurious exhibitions.
Harding and Rapin were the only persons
in their box, which was well to one side of
the great curve. On the stage a celebrated
ballot favorite was kicking featly through
one of her captivating passages.
I'VE will begin the lessons tomorrow"
murmured Rapin; Il shall be an apt scholar.
yes" said Harding. absently. He was
gazing along the great sweep of beauty and
but excuse me a moment or two the
creole added after a while when the curtain
was down. Il am going to call at the box
He went. and Harding continued his sur
vey, which. now that his eyes had some
what accustomed themselves to the glamor,
became more real and Accordingly interest,"
Presently he saw Rapin in a box. a mag
nificent one, near the center, talking with a
tall young it was she. There
could be no doubt for a moment the thrill
through Harding's heart told as much as the
girls respondent, yet, in a way. subdued
beauty.
Harding's eyes were fixed; the trance of
that old-time love which men used to ac-
knowledge was upon him. His strong.
healthy. boyish nature plunged into the
thick of a Passionate romance as fervid as
it was pure and sincere. And at the very
central moment she turned from Rapin and
looked straight at him. Moreover, he could
see a light of quick interest come into her
face: they were speaking Of him.
thusiastic way. had been telling Mile. Marie
de Northumberland was her name-about
his good fortune in finding a master to teach
him the stroke of ruin" and he had al
rected her attention to the young man In
his box. But, for Mile. Marie de Montmar-
tin. we may as well say that she glanced
mechanically. then looked again. Harding
was g superbly handsome young athlete, a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-01-27

Madison, Wis, Jan. % "A frightful
explosion occurred at 9:45 yesterday
morning at the Chicago & Northwest
ern roundhOuse in this city, as the
result of which three men were killed.
two seriously ana several slightly hurt,
while half the roundhouse and one en-
CINE are completely wrecked, and two
or three other engines somewhat dam
aged. The dead men are Frank Beck,
foreman of the roundhouse, living at
1880 Jenifer street, Charles Wesley
Shelper engineer Of the engine whose
boiler exploded, whose home is in Bar
aboo; Charles Il. Young, engineer, also
OF Baraboo The two most seriously
hurt are Fred. V Baxter of this city,
fireman on the wrecked engine, and
Emil Olson, a machinist in the round
house, also living in this city. The
engine whose boiler exploded was No.
249, which was steamed UP ready to
take out the passenger train which
leaves for De Kalb at TO-: 40. The en-
gineer had just left the cab. and his
body was found beside it. The effect
of the explosion was distinctly felt up
town, a mile away from the scene of
the occurrence. Windows in the bus
mess houses ratified and lighter build
ings shook from its force. The cause
of the explosion is not known. Beck
leaves widow and two children, the
other dead men widows only.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-01-27

ewes cleaning out from under a mass
of disordered white hair, his pale,
bagpard face set and stern as the face
of a merciless inquisitor Of old Spain,
his dak cloak dripping with glitter
ing rain-dIops, his hands and nails
stained as though 10 had dug them
into the black earth, his boots heavy
with mire and clay, his whole aspect
that Of one who had been engaged in
some abho rent deed, too repulsive TO
be named ] stared at my own refec-
ton thus and shuAdered; then !
laughed softly with sort OF fierce en-
jOyment Quickly | threw OFT all my
habiliments, and locked them out OF
sight, and arraying myself in dress
ing-gown and slippers / glanced at
the time. 1t was half-past one already
the morning Of my bridal. had been
absent three hours and a half |
went into my salon and remained there
writing. A few minutes after two
o'clock had struck the door opened
noiselessly, and Vinconzo, looking
still very sleepy, appeared with an ex-
preston Of inquiring anxiety. He
smiled drowsily, and seemed relieved
to see me sitting quietly in my accus-
TONED place at the writing-table |
surveyed him with an cir Of affected
surprise.
"EbDene, Vincenzo! What has be-
come Of you all this while?'
"Eccellenza," he stammered, ''it was
the Lacrima; | am not used to wine!
| have been asleep"
laughed, pretended to stifle a yawn
on my own account, and rose from my
easy-chair
"Veramente,' | sail, lightly, 80
have | very nearly And if | would
appear as a gay bridegroom it is time
| went to bed. Buona notte."
"Buona notte, signor."
And we seyerally retired to rest he
satisfied that | had been in my own
room all the evening, ana l. t mixing
with savage joy at my heart OF
what | had prepared out there in the
darkness, with no witnesses of my
work save the whirling wind and
1ain.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-01-27
PACIFIC COAST SHINGLES

The shingle production of the Pa
cific coast Is taking on important pro-
portions, the Northern Pacific rail-
road having brought east from Wash
ington in nine months Of the present
year 2,264 100000 an increase OF
about 100000 over last year. A
larger gain is still predicted for the
year ensuing. under the stimulus of
revival in the building trade which
is now felt generally throughout the
country