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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
WOMEN WHO FIGHT DUELs.
Some of Them i'm Vienna and Paris
Have Been Desperately Wounded.
Pearson'S.

Monsieur Cherette was quite willing to
have chat if | would wait till he had fin
ished the lesson he was giving to some score
of lady pupils of various ages who. clad i'm
tight-fitting black or crimson satin knicker-
rockers, padded leather jenkins and UNI
signify wire masks, were either engaging
III pairs under Monsieur C.S direction, or
sitting chatting on benches at the side of inc
fencing room.
.''Of. course women fight duels," exclaimed
monsieur Cherette when we were seated.
Equally of course these affairs are usually
nushed up, and so, as you say, seldom get
into the papers
You noticed that pretty blonde-hared
little woman ] myself was fencing with?
Wen, she has, to my own knowledge. gone
side of her head-luckily in q spot easily
covered by her hair-a nasty scar to serve
as reminder that even excellent fencers
may sometimes be pinlxed by the inexpert
Affairs of honor between women were
far from infrequent in Vienna fifteen years
ago. and / assisted at several I well re-
member one in which the combatants were
both young and belonging to the best So
ciety. which was refought for very singu-
lar reason. There were four young lady
friends present-who had sworn to abso-
lutte secrecy-and myself, in addition to the
well after each one had been pinl1ed on
the body several times apparently without
the slightest injury the combatants sudden
ly remembered that, though they had re-
moved their dress bodices, they had not
their corsets.
And added the speaker, with smile.
whalebone fashionable Viennese corsets
were, at all events in those days, you would
not feel any more surprise than / did at the
difficulty they had found in injurng one an
OLner
They Immediately proposed to take the
articles off, but ] interviewed. stating that
honor was satisfied. in the hope that they
would make it up. My good intentions were
unsuccessful, as ] heard afterwards that
they refought the affair at a friends house
In deshabille. when the younger of the two
was so severely wounded that her life was
des-aired of
''As recently as the present year | assist
ed in an affairs d'honneur. in which the
cCmhatantS were two ladies' The meeting
which never came to the cognizance Of
either the press or the authorities-took
place early one May morning in the neigh
borhood of Suresnes
"One of the ladies rode down with her sec
ond on a bicycle, the other seeking the COM
narrative privacy of a brougham. They
both wore their fencing costumes and
fought for some fifteen minutes ere one re-
coived a sufficiently severe injury to satisfy
honor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
WESLEY'S LETTERS TO HIS WIFE.
An Approaching Sale Unveils the
Great MethOdist's Married Life.


All the world knows that John Wesleys
marriage was more or less "a failure, and
some very interesting letters bearing on the
subject will be sold at Messrs. SOthebys
next month. They extend from the year
1751 to 177S. The earliest is dated from Tets
worth March q, 1751 and that is written in
praise God enough for making us helpsmeet
for fqi each other am utterly ;n at
writing in q very different strain The let
ter from which we extract d few lines is
dated Norwich, Dec. %. 1885,
Il was much concerned we night before
/ left London at your unkind and unjust
accusation. You accused me of unkindness,
cruelty and what not. And why so? Be
cause / insist on choosing my own company!
Because | insist by conversing, by speaking
or writing. with those whom / mot YOU
judge proper. For more than seven years
this has been a bone of contention between
you and me, and it is so still. For / will
not ] cannot, give it up. But then you will
rage and fret and cali me names
Nineteen years later (Sept. l, 17T0 the rev.
erend gentleman again returned to the at
tack: Some years since without my con-
sent and knowledge, you left me and settled
at Newcastle. l received you again, with
out any terms, nay, without any acknoWl-
edgment you had gone wrong. Two years
ago you left me again, without my consent
or knowledge A few days since L met you,
and (to my great SurpriSe) you seemed will
ing to return But, it may be asked, what
reparation are you either able or willing to
maker"
Writing eleven months later from Bristol
(Oct. 2, 1873, he observes: AS it is doubt
full, considering yoLr age and mine, whether
we may meet any more in this world. 1
think it right to tell you my mind, once for
all, without either anger or bitterness.
After abiding to the fact that his wife left
him without his consent or knowledge, he
goes on to observe:
Ever since (and, indeed, long before) you
have made my faults the constant matter of
your conversation, Now, suppose husband
has many faults, is it the part of prudent
wife to publish or to conceal them? You
have published (my real or supposed) faults,
not to one or two intimates only Though,
perhaps. that would have been too much),
but to all Bristol, to ali London, to all Eng
land to all Ireland. Yea, you did whatever
in you lay to publish it to all the world.
thereby designing to put d sword into my
enemies hands,
The apostle of Methodism concludes thus:
s"If you were to live thousand years you
could not undo the mischief that you have
done. And till you have done all you can
toward it [ bid YOU farewell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
PoRTo RlCAN NATIvEs.
They Are Hard working and Have a
Charming Personality.

The Independent.
The personality of the Porto Rican is
very charming one Generations of i'll treat
ment have developed in them patient res
ignation which has about IT nothing OF cow
grasp nothing is heard or recriminatlon,
and none will be practiced. Ihe same nos
pitality Will De oHereu 10 tIe opd i;4 -
to those of other nations, and that hospltal-
The social life of the cities is identical
with that of most all other tropical Spanish
American countries. The mass in the cool
Of the morning. at which 1t IS TO ne reared
religious thoughts are not the onlye p ltis
sexes; the retreat after sundoWn, Where
slim-waisted dainty senoritas glide up ana
down the plaza to the sound of tlne mill
tary band; shopping by gasIlght, Whlc .l. ue-
Velopes into a series of skirmishes between
buyer and assistant. dear to the heart or
the fair sex, and an occasional pall at tne
captain generals palace, where costumes
may be seen which have the undenlaDle
stamp of Rue de la Paix, and faces which
and enchanting. small features, iarse'
black lustrous eyes and perfect oval OUT
ment on the sensual-faced Spanish woman;
and she is of more renned instincts ana
gentler disposition. AS motaers tney are
unexcelled. and literally sacrifice themselves
for the welfare of their children Inc Cap
itaI San Juan, being the seat OF govern
Ponce is commercially of more Importance
and is of more modern constructor ana al
Vanced IDEAS. .. ..-...,...
us to a class of peasantry ground down py
unjust taxation. Living in hut CONSTRUCTED s
OF palm branches thascne4 tn 6,c,t p suit
from the New England looms, ana sur
rounded by numerous family. usuahy IN
a state Of nature. as he passes nis usly
working in a patch of corn or sugar cane
and his evenings dancing the nallTe uAlizas
TO the sound Of the gulro ana tlppls. ne e
facilities afforded him for learning 20 90 80;
and knows our ccuntry only by the DRIED
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
Washington Post.


They came into Fourteenth-street car
somewhere near $ street, one recent bitterly
cold evening, he and she, theater bound. He
was six foot man. and you might have
arrived at a tolerably accurate estimate of
his weight by allowing, say, thirty-five
pounds to the foot. He was wrapped in a
fur-lined ulster. Wide fur cuffs half hid his
heavy gloves. and great fur collar covered
his ears. Now and then he remarked on the
intense cold, and shivered. She was as
blonde as the Morse Freja and fragile as a
morning glory. She was all a-shimmer of
soft silk Her small feet were shod in the
thinnest of shoes. On her curled hair she
wore a creation Of lace and spangles and
plumes. that left half her head bare, About
her shoulders was fur collar which ex-
posed her thin silk sleeves from shoulder to
wrist. 1t was her only wrap, but she WASH t
cold She said So and she looked so. She
hadn't even a blue nose to disproye her as
sertion He was half frozen. She was as
warm as toast. One of them was the stronger
and one the weaker vessel, and the more
make up my mind which was which,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
The Progressive west.
Hamilton W. Mabie, in the Atlantic.


1t is probable that no country has ever ex-
pended so much spiritual, moral and mon
etary capital in education, taking into ac-
count the brevity of its history, as the
West: 1t has done far moro for it's intellect
ual life than the East did in the same num-
Der Of years. 1t is, in fact, repeating the
history of the East, for it is eagerly assimi-
lating the experience of the race, expressed
in its thought, it's art and its history. This
is the impulse behind the passion for knowl-
edge; the instructive desire to know W nat
the race knows, and then to cooperate in
the race life and work. In the face OF de-
clamatory declarations of independence of
the past this instinct steadily asserts itself
and has it's way. Real freedom comes from
that mastery, through knowledge, OF his
toric conditions and race character which
makes possible free and intelligent use or
experience for the purposes OF progress.
This is the process through which the West
is now passing and which gives its society
a deep and appealing interest. FOR out OF
this movement for the clear realization IN
its own consciousness of Its race relation
ships and inheritance, modified by It's own
conditions and shaped by its own neeus, are
to come, at no distant date. its own ioea1s'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25

1.-THE recent outpouring Of Grant anec-
dotes" said Mr. Robson. has reminded
me of one which, however, is not told for
the first time / was playing some years
ago in q well-known managers theater out
of New York. The first act was over and
we We're chatting in the wings with our
manager, when one of the boys rushed in
on the stage to tell US that General Grant
and his family were in one of the boxes. A
flush of grat3fied pride mounted to the
managerial face, followed by look Of
agonized doubt, as he evidently reflected
that perhaps the general had 'dead-headed'
into the box. Did you send him a box, Rob-
SOM he asked me, and on my replying IN
the negative, he pulled out a card from els
pocket and. scribbling a line on 1t. told the
boy to take it to the box office. and bring
back an answer. The boy rushed of, his
head full Of the general, and returned in
a few minutes with the same card, which
he handed to Mr.. Manager: A CHASTITY look
crossed his face as he read II, and without
a word handed 1t TO me. The first line read.
in the rather shalSy managerial caiigraphy.
Did General Grant pay for his box. wnlle
underneath appeared, No, but my son.
Fred Grant, did u. 5. Grant
The boy had taken It to the box. but not
I'd the box office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25

IIiish and rice il sends m for his consump-
lion. His bette noir is the Spanish civil
GUARD, who patrol the country in mounted
pairs, and whose boast is that they never
Dring IN prisoner alive. He pays direct tax
70 lne government in the form of impuesto
tSSsrrltorlal, or assessment on the value of
his farm. and the cedula. or Internal mass
port; and It has been stated that these
taxes amount to about 60 per cent. of his
net income. But he is ready for emancipa-
ton, and, when educated. will prove a yalu-
able and law-abding citizen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
BELLAMY1sM SCORES FAILURE.
Some of the Many Obstacles to Success
in Carrying Out the scheme.
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Vancouver Correspondence San Francisco
Chronicle.
The socialistic community that started a
cooperative society near Hastings, b. c.,
three years ago, is a busted" community.
Bellamy's dream Looking Backward was
the ideal aimed at by the little band of we'll
meaning vis.onaries who to the number of
two hundred, left comfortable homes in
Vancouver 10 wander after strange gods in
the trackless wilderness of British Column
bia.
one hundred thousand dollars. or $500 each,
was the amount of cash provided to found
the city of Bellamy, as II was called, and
lowed to pay into the common treasury an
euuivaIent in time checks In exchange for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
A Tactless Fellow.


OTeVtIdllu I1edutI'
He-Have you lived here very long?
an nv age It would be impossible for one to
have lived anywhere very longl
OF course after that he found 1t Impossible
I'd keep the conversation from dragging
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25


their places, that they might ease the COM
mon charge.
But when the war of the revolution came
the expenditures of Massachusetts in be-
half of the general government were nearly
equal to those of all four of the States of
New York Pennsylvania, Virginia and
those of Virginia, Maryland. North Caro-
lima. South Carolina and Georgia. Indeed,
other New England States there would
have been no revolution, and Great Britain
would to-day be ruling the Dominion OF
America instead of the Dominion of Can
ada They set the example of resistance to
the odious navigation acts when they upset
the tea into Boston harbor, and when
guards were stationed around the State
house in Boston. with cannon pointed at
the doors the attempt to suppress free
speech was found to be in vain.
Mr. Fiske estimates that 15,0O0O 600 of the
descendants of the New England Puritans
now inhabit the United States. Wherever
they have gone they have impressed upon
the community where they went the char
acteristics which made them a moral. law
The first settlement OF the great Northwest
Territory was at Marietta, by Gen. HufuS
Putnam and a New England colony. The
first thing they did after building a. stock
AIDE 10 protect themselves against the In
dians and houses for their families, was to
erect building for enurcn ana an . seh hissI,
a code of laws which, as they had no print
ing press they published by mailing copy
to a tree on the banrs OF the Musklngum
Thus they recognized the cardinal principles
of a republican government-morality, edu-
cauon and obedience 10 law.
| am not a champion of the old Puritan
theology Calvinisgn was pretty hard doc
trine two hundred years ago, and it is pretty
hard yet But this much must be said of the
old New England clergy, that they were
the steadfast friends or liberty, and that
from New England pulpits there never
failed TO come inspiration to the people in
all their contests with English tyrants.
Their sermons and their prayers were very
long, and would now seem to be very dry.
Still, i cannot say that ! approve alto
gether the sensational performances in some
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25


So Mr. Head became the entertaining
chronicler Of the Georgia island He rein
stalled Governor Ogletkorpe as the original
owner of the colony and gave him COM
panions Charles and John Wesley, the
founders of Methodism. When the latter re-
turned to England the trustees Of the set
Element sent to Georgia in the place Of the
famous preacher Geo. Whitefield, the cele-
brated evangelist and Mr.. Head enlivens
the early life Of the island by a series Of di-
verting letters forwarded to England by the
primitive colonists. Tie letters relate the ex-
periences of the fam ols brothers on Jeckyl
island, announcing ne composition Of the
hymns written by CHARLES Wesley, Affirm
ing that the well-known verses describing
1.-The narrow neck of land referred to a
tutting point that reached out into the At
lantic from JeclIyl island. Such an interpre-
tatfon raised violent discussion in England
and America Former testimony pointed to
Lands End as having suggested the words
of the popular hymn and the new claimant
from America received with loud
voiced clamor. Once again was the author
Of "Shakspeare's Insomnia taken at his
printed word. Once again people and press
forgot his former entertaining hoax and re-
garded the lives of the supposed colOnists
with belief unquestioned- Once again the
Legends of Jeckyl Island" brought TO its
amused author an endless series of Ques-
tioning letters and once again he laughed at
the cre0ulous circle of his diverted readers.
The club gentlemen who have succeeded to
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03
PfnGree's Novel Cane.

Governor Pingree was the happy re-
cipient the other day of a walking stick,
which came by express, as a present
from James Milford Of Deer Lodge,
Mon The body of the, cane is the hard
whitewood OF the extreme north. On
the wood are pen and ink portraits Of
Dewey, Sampson, Schley, Evans, Clark,
Hobson and all the other naval heroes
of the recent war, besides pictures of
the Maine and appropriate inscriptions.
The portraits are really works of art,
standing out on the wood in almost life
like way. Accompanying the cane was
a silk cover made in crazy quilt fashion.
The governor dropped all business as
soon as he saw the present and refused
to resume work until he had admired
it over and over again. Milford, the
donor, was formerly resident of De-
troit. Detroit Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

These are the new commandments ten,
Which wives now make for married
men:
Remember that am thy wife,
Whom thou must cherish all thy life.
2-Thou shalt not stay out late at night,
When lodges, clubs or friends invite.
3-Thou shalt not smoke indoors or out.
Or chew tobacco round about,
4-Thou shalt with praise receive my pies
Nor pastry made by me despise.
5-My mother thou shalt strive to please
And let her live with us in ease.
6-Remember tits thy duty clear
To dress me well throughout the year
Thou shalt, in manner mild and meek
Give me thy wages every week.
8-Thou shalt not be drinking man,
But live on the prohibition plan.
9-Thou shalt not f1irt, but must allow
Thy wife such freedom anyhow.
1O-Thou shalt get up when baby cries,
And try the child to tranquilize,
These my commands from day to day
Implicitly thou shalt obey.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03


1t is told of ex- president Ruther-
ford B. Hayes that while attending
school at Kenyon College, he was in
the habit of taking daily walks into
the country with two intimate fun
loving companions. They frequently
INDUCED in repartee with people on
the road, and on one occasion met
their match. In an old garden they
ssw man whose patriarchal beard
suggested the following joke:
One of them DOTTED his hat, and call
ed, "Good morning, Father Abra-
ham," the next said, "Good morning,
Father Isaac" while Mr.. Hayes not
to be outdone, called OUT" Good
morning, Father jacob"
Ignoring the outstretched hand of
the latter, the old man said with dig
nifty; Gentlemen, you are mistaken
in the man. am neither Abraham,
Isaac nor Jacob, but Saul, the son of
Kish, who was sent out to seek his
fathers asses, and 10! 1 have found
them.n
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03

According to the Washington Post, a
veteran of the Civil War, now living
in Kansas, was reading a war bulletin
the other day, when old times came
back to him, and he broke out: Boys,
thirty seven years ago today laid on
my stomach knee deep in water, and
waited twenty four hours for the sun
to rise; and by ginger, kin do it agin!
Hurrah for Old Glory!
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03
CASTORIA

Bears the signature of CHAs. II. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind Y0W Haze AIzOays Bought.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03

its bearing, the more anxious the hunt
ers and the hounds are to capture it?
Had the roebuck a ragged fur and
broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and
a limping gait the hunters would have
said, "Pshaw, don't let us waste our
ammunition on sick deer" And the
hounds would have given few shifts
of the scent and then darted off in an
other direction for better game. But
when they see deer with antlers lifted
in mighty challenge to earth and sky,
and the sleek hide looks as if it had
Kseen smoothed by invisible hands, and
the fat sides inclOse the richest pasture
that could be nibbled from the banks of
rills so clear they seem to have dropped
out of heaven and the stamp of its foot
defies the jack shooting lantern and the
rife, the horn and the hound, that deer
they will have if they must needs break
their necks in the rapids. So if there
were no noble stuff in yoNr make up,
if you were bifurcated nothing. if you
were forlorn failure, you would be
allowed to go undisturbed, but the fact
that the whole pack is in full cry after
you is proof positive that you are splen-
did game and worth capturing. There
fore sarcasm draws on you its 'finest
bead Therefore the world goes gun
ming for you with its best Maynard
breechloader. Highest compliment is it
to your talent or your virtue or your
usefulness. You will be assaulted in pro-
portion to your great achievements. The
best and the mightiest being the world
ever saw had set after him all the
hounds terrestrial and diabolic, and
they Tapped his blood after the Calva-
rean massacre. The world paid nothing
to it's Redeemer but bramble, four
spikes and cross. Many who have done
their best to make the world better have
had such rough time of it that all their
pleasure is in anticipation Of the next
world, and they could express their own
feelings in the words of the Baroness Of
Marin at the close of her long life, when
asked if she would like to live her life
over again:
Would you be young again?
So would not 1;
One tear of memory given,
Onward I'll HE;
Lifes dark wave forded DER,
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home nigh?
If you might, would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and astray?
Nights gloomy watches fed
Morning all beaming red.
Hopes smile around shed,
HeaVenWard, away
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03
Free to the Sick.

shall be in Barton at the Hotel Barton for
one day only, WEDNESDAY, OCT 5th, and
will consult with examine and advise all who
call on me during this visit free of charge,
Also in Newport atthe MemphremagogHouse
Tuesday, Oct. 4.
Lyndonville, at webb's Hotel, Thursday,
Oct. g..
Morrisville, at The Randall House, Friday
Oct. z.
Hardwick, at Centennial. Saturday, Oot.s.
st. Johnsburv, at the New Avenue House,
Sunday and Monday, Oct. and 10.