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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

tiny space allotted to each man wherein
he must bestow his various belongings. The
have fiat sides, where any number OF ar
ticles may be hung, the actual shape, on
the contrary, being something like a wig
wan. with sides sloping to about a foot
nine men are bunked. The heads of the
camp cots are against the sides of the tent
the soldiers pile up their knapsacks and
personal effects. It will be readily seen,
therefore. that row of pockets a foot deep
out of the way. 1t would be a good plan,
in making the pockets, to mark one
Socks another 'handkerchiefs, a third
"sundries,'' while a fourth might be a
sponge bag, and fifth and sixth reserved
for toilet articles. With four tapes sewn
at equal distances at the top the pockets
could easily be fastened to the tent with
safety pins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
THE OLD CLERK.
A Pathetic Picture Frequently Seen
in the Business World.
New Orleans Picayune.

New Orleans Picayune.
He is familiar figure IN almost every
business houss-the old clerk White-haired,
tEin, with clothes that are always of a de-
cent black and scrupulously brushed, he has
sat behind the same desk or stood behind
the same counter for dear knows how many
years, growing thinner and older and mus
tier as the time went by. Sometimes we
meet him in the early morning going down
to office or store walking the same route
he has trod for twenty or thirty years with
q regularity SO perfect that the very police
man on the beat might set his watch by his
movements. Often late at night, when We
are going home from the theater, we see
him through the iron-grated windows, still
bending over his ledger, for he works slow
make UP his accounts. His eyes are grow
ing dim and he fumbles with his glasses,
manship and his brain it's swiftness. He does
not understand it, but the fly boys all
about him, young enough to be his sons,
rush through their tasks and are out and
gone while he is still laboring over his.
Slowly but surely it is being borne in ON
him that +n he cannot compete oq,oe WIFI
toners have begun to Complain of fs
cruel. called out that he wanted somebBdy
who was alive to wait on him, not thattold
fossil. A woman complained that he had
not matched sample, and asked why they
kept blind people. The old clerk heard them,
and it sounded like the knell of his own
foreboding thoughts. He knows that the
seen it happen before with others. First, he
will be retired to some other department
with less work and less pay. They will re-
member for a time the many years of faith
full service, in which he has seen the firm
grow from small beginnings to present
wealth. Then, after time. they will forget
even that, and one day, when he has been
slower than usual, orr some mistake has
passed unnoticed by his dim eyes, they will
send for him to come to the presidents
room and he will be told that they think it
best to put a boy in that department. Some
body who is young and quick and can get
about swiftly. Sometimes they give him
little pension. Oftener not, but in either
case he goes out poor, heartbroken old
man. They talk to him of enjoying leisure,
but he has never learnt the art of idling,
and so he hangs about the store after he is
dismissed, walking by it through sheer force
Of habit. To others it is a commonplace
enough store Office. To him it is the
mausolem where lies buried his youth, with
all its dreams and hopes and ambitions, and
there is tear under the smile on his win
try old face as he says that he has left
Blank & Blanks and has got too old to
work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
The Rattan Chair.

New York Times.
Every woman does not know what is the
trouble with her big rush chair which looks
so cool and pretty on the piazza, but which
seems, all Of a sudden, to have contracted
spinal trouble and absolutely refuses to
stand upright without having something to
lean against There are cross pieces of wood
on the inside of the round, barrel-like lower
part, which prevent the chair from collaps-
ing altogether, but the back is weak and
fiimsy. The cure is not a difficult one and
it is easy to apply as soon as there is a
rainy day. The chairs are made from water
rushes, and even in their unitarian state
they crave moisture. If the chair is put out
on the lawn in a hard rain and allowed to
stand until it is thoroughly soaked, it will
dry quickly and regain its necessary back
bone. If the rain does not come at a con-
venient time. the garden hose will be equal
ly effective and do the work more quickly
The chair dries in a surprisingly short time
1t should be soaked as often as once a
month.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
To Do Up Lace Curtains.

Decorator and Furnisher.
There are many and bitter complaints OF
the poor wearing qualities of lace curtains
as compared with those that LASTED for
years in the times of grandmothers. !"
Compliments often insist that the quality
has deteriorated, and that there are no such
goods made as those bearing date of forty
years ago, many of which are even yet in
a more presentable condition than our own,
that have passed through perhaps two or
three cleanings in as many years.
The reason for this is, more than any
other one thing, the difference in the pro-
where the modern professional curtain
cleaner is unknown, it is altogether proba-
BILE that the curtains last as long as ever.
They are carefully washed under the per-
sonal supervision of the housekeeper or by
her own hands, are put upon the grass to
bleach, and when sufficiently clear are
rinsed and starched, not too stiff. for that
might cause them to break, but just enough
to make them look new. They are then
neatly and regularly pinned down upon the
parlor carpet and left to dry with locked
doors, to keep out intruders, and open win
dowS to let in the air. When taken up they
are almost if not altogether as good-looking
as new, and have suffered little if any in
jury during the process. Treated in this
way tamboured lace curtains will last until
the OWuGIS dI6 W6dIlCu Will SSclIlS lleuI
around and get new ones for variety. The
modern process is very different. The cur
tain is put into a large cauldron, with
scarcely water enough to cover it. and
boiled in the strongest bleaching chemicals:
1t is slightly rinsed and stiffiy starched. If
it is torn or the threads are broken, a Sec
ton of net lace is dipped in thick starch or
paste and laid over the broken spot, which
has been partly closed by being drawn to-
gether with very fine thread. The. net is
then pressed upon the curtain with such
force as to unite them like one fabric. The
curtains are then dried, folded and sent
home to be put up There is sufficient
strength in the starch and threads to hold
the material together while the starch re-
mains, but when next it is necessary to
clean them they will be likely to drop apart
by their own weight soon as they are
thoroughly wet. Very few curtains will
bear the third cleaning of this sort. 1t has,
therefore, become one of the breads of the
housekeeper's life to have the curtain clean
ing season come around. 1t is much better
to have this done at home If possible, as a
really good set of curtains ought to last at
least until they are hopelessly out Of
fashion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
HOW THE LANGUAGE GREW.
Words That Were Adopted Over Pro-
test of Priests.

Brander Matthews, in Harper.
There would be both interest and instruc
ton in list of the many words securely
which were bitterly assaulted on their first
appearance. Swift praises himself for his
valiant EFFORT against certain of these in
truders: 4 have done my utmost for some
years past to stop the progress of mob and
banter, but have been plainly borne down
by numbers and betrayed by those who
promised to assist me-" Puttenham (or who.
ever it was that wrote the ANONYMOUS Are
of English Poesie, published in 1881 admit
ted the need OF certain words to which the
puristS might justly object and then adds
that many other like words. borrowed ont
of the Latin and French, were not so well
to be allowed by us" citing then among
those of which he Observation-Disclosures
egregious and compatible In the Poetaster
acted in 1901, Ben Jonson satirized Mars
tons verbal innovations, and among the
words he revlled are clumsy initiate spu-
rious. conscious, strenuous defnnct retro
grade and reciprocal.
Puttenham wrote at the end of the six
teenth century, Jonson at the beginning of
the seventeenth, Swift at the beginning Of
the eighteenth; and at the beginning of the
nineteenth we md Lady Holland declaring
sorting that she had tried in vain to srat
Sheridan to forego ii.
At the end of the nineteenth century the
battle is still raging over standpoint for
example, and over reliable, and over
lengthy, and over score of others, all of
which bid fair to establish themselves nj
timately, because they supply a demand
more or less insistent. The fate is more
doubtful OF photo for photograph and OF
now as vulgarisns. just as the abbreyiation
of mobile vulgus to mob struck Swift as
vulgar; and it may be that in time they
will live down this stigma or fllegitimacy,
Just as mob has survived it. Raccoon and
oppossum are also yielding the ground be-
fore coon and possum. Then there is the
eous OF vocables in my sight-what Is to be
its fatef
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
Sunday Journal. by Mail. s. Per Year.

our public men will learn that in this year
1898 we have territorial area OF 3.59S.000
square miles. 1t appears. therefore, that,
commencing in 1903. we have acquired no
less than 2392,OO0 square miles OF territory,
or in round numbers, our policy of terri
holding.
This constitutes pretty definition OF the
ignorance or worse exhibited by number
ex-President. 1t makes no difference how
we got this additional empire, since we have
got II, party by purchase, partly as indem-
no difference whether the acquisition was
wise policy or not, or SO reckoned or op~
posed at the times when IL was acquired.
question the policy now. We suggest the
establishment OF college Of history for tnM
education OF some OF our public men AND
&C badly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

under all circumstances. lived In a glass
house, unless when ait les petits chateaux.
Inc children were early trained to bear
ennui and to behave like little stoics. real
~ do not see the harm. Thus trained, they
dled game on the guillotine. The only
woman who made a row was La Dubarry.
She was low~born person.
The snufbox belonged properly to Fart de
Ia femme. What skill was laviShed OH it!
One showed ones ring in taking a pinch of
snun. The taste for scents was not much
developed. How could it be when nostrils
the snuffbox as being Indispensable. Snuff
was the only deodorizer. Ladies quite gave
it up after the revolution. 1t was on the
wane before. La Nouvelle Heloise did not
take snuff. nor did Marie Antoinette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
SCHOOLS FOR PUBLIC MEN.
One Needed Where They Can Learn
About Acquired Territory.
Philadelphia North American.

We have great number of colleges sew
eral universities and many technical
schools. and some of them have been found
ed and endowed by wealthy men and wom-
en-. 1t seems never to have occurred to any
public benefactor that there should be a
school of history devoted to the enlighten-
ment OF our public men. That such a
school is needed to put our public men on
an equality with students OF history must
be evident enough to the reader OF the de-
bates in Congress and some OF the adj
dresses made to graduating classes at our
institutions OF learning Some of these gem
tlemen do not appear TO be aware that by
our treaty with Spain hundred years ago
our western boundary was the middle OF
the Mississippi river TO the gulf, and that
we set up In the national life business with
territorial area of 100000 square miles,
BY reference to any standard geography
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
Old Wharves.

Here is dark blur on the waterside-
An old wharf that the bays dulled pillows lave
1t is the plaything of the wind and wave;
For hither Commerce doth no longer guide
Her venturous argoses secure to ride
Bringing the fruit of labor free or slave
Spices or fabrics or the spoil of knave.
Old loves. old hopes, old faiths like this may be
Abandoned wharves from which no shin sets
sail, P ~
And none comes in from out the worlds wide
sea. 1880
Old charts on changing reefs will not avail
And sudden need will drive an argosy
To seek new moorings, give new harbors hail
Meredith Nicholson, in New England Magazine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
Some Details of Dress.

New York Evening Sun.
Any one who closely observes the little
details of dress cannot fail to note how
many and wide-spreading the gathers are
in the rear of the newest skirts. what a
number of novel shapes are given to the
waists of evening dresses, where they are
cut out over the shoulders, and that ropes
of beads are worn about white necks at
dances. A striking throat garniture. and
one of the most costly a woman can now
display, is a double row of opal beans
strung on a silver wire and with discs of
crystal between the beans Emeralds
topaz, amethyst and the dozen and one
varieties of semi-preciouS stones now so
greatly in demand are all cut to resemble
small beans and f1exibly wired for the neck
Nothing in the way of jeweIled neck orna-
ment is worn high and close; from the base
or the throat and circling out broadly on
the chest all decoration is fastened All
signs point TO continued use of excessive
~ nigh trimmings about the necks of day
lght costumes. Long-necked women pass
broad ribbons about their threats twice
ana then tying fiaring bow under the
chln, pin the loops and ends so that they
SUCK out like double pair of wings under
Ihe ears. Another attractive method is to
gamer great rosettes of the crispiest black
or white tulle in the side of the collar so
that the ears are almost concealed in the
downy clouds that puff out high before
tnem A new sleeve for cloth dresses is de-
sisned to accentuate the length oil the
4
highly priced these days as a long slender
sleaSlcs some of these cloth, cotton and silk
tIiIust through them. except half way to
e eIe ei r@n line Of fine little hooks and
eyes run along under the sleeve from a
space six inches from the armpit clear "a
the wrist BY this means an apparentiv
seamless casing of material fits the arm as
close as the wearer's skin, and the sleeve
is curiously cut on the bias to helm ont tbis
effect and to get the correct, extended 81
we'll out on the hand. just fold or a fat
epaulet tops the shoulder '
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

One of the most practical presents that
can be given to a soldier is row Of wall
pockets made like g shoe bag, to pin to the
side of the tent Those who have not Wis
tied camp appear to have wrong ideas
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

London Truth.
/ dare say that our great-grandfathers
were delighted with the belongings of our
great-grandmothers. But for comfort one
would hardly select the eighteenth century
strait-laced corset. Above 1t was a corsage
all lined with buckram and whalebone. The
hoop-expanded skirt was garlanded with ar
tlhcial flowers or other fallaIs. 1t was hard
10 SIT down properly in it. When once the
"earer sat down. she liked TO remain seated
a Doit-uprighf position was obligatory. The
HalI was expected to remain undisturbed
81 several days. Hence the necessity when
III Ill feIred for the night, 10 be propped UP
~ go P pillows There was really no other way
ga SnJ0ylng a little comfort. The coVerlets
80 - pliiow cases were considered adiuncts
a. lie ts bedgown. most luxurious object for
SSline There were bath coverlets or en-
cas,,os "a flannel, for visitors might be re-
'eo IN the bathroom. Fashionable people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
A Clever Continuance.

Philadelphia Press.
It's just fun to do your own work If
you have the right sort of husband to
plan little helpful contrivances," said a
bright, enthusiastic little housewife recent
ly in recounting some of her kitchen ex-
periences in her cozy new home.
Il was surprised and dismayed at first"
she continued, ito discover how many.
many steps 1 had to take from kitchen
to dining room, from dining room to pantry
and from pantry to range and dresser. sim
ply for the table-setting cooking and dish
washing for a single meal, but at the first
word of complaint and WEAKNESS that
thoughtful husband of mine Immediately
planned and prepared little labor-Sav1ng
contrivance that has proved invaluable
"A light stand was made on strong legs
with large casters so that 1T may be
easily wheeled from place to place.
1T is three feet long by two wide, and
has two shelves below the top.
With this 1 need to go to the dining
room but once or twice in getting a meal
for a large company.
When the table is cleared the stand is
wheeled from the dining room, carrying
ali the food and the dirty dishes at once.
It is wheeled first to the pantry, and the
food is removed and from the pantry to
the kitchen sink
'.As the dishes are washed and dEed they
are again placed on this stand and wheeled
to the dresser.
TT may seem like a little thing, but it is
surprising how many steps may be saved
in a single day by its use.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

the requirements of the case. The first sem
tence IS quoted as an instance of how any
desired sentence may be spelled out and
transmitted by the signal system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

Mrs Rorer, in Ladies' Home Journal.
At II o'clock sharp the first meal of the
day should be taken: Two well-broiled
chops, or sweetbreads, or eggs in any form,
one slice of well-baked whole wheat bread,
buttered and thoroughly masticated, and
one green vegetable. Eat enough to satisfy
hunger, but of the more heterogeneous COM
pound. For dessert cup custard, or fruit
grapes, peaches, oranges or baked apple.
For the night meal have clear soup,
red meat-in fact. any meat except pork and
veal-a succulent vegetable, like spinach,
cooked celery, a little lettuce, new peas,
string beans, a little raw cabbage or we'll
cooked caulitlower All meat must be
broiled, roasted or boiled-not fried. half
pound of meat may be eaten at this meal.
A piece Of well-toasted whole wheat bread,
without butter. bit of well-ripened cheese,
and a cup of clear coffee may form the
dessert The success Of this treatment lies
in doing without breakfast. The patient
may eat sufficient to satisfy hunger, but no
more, in a few days she will find that the
so-called hunger is not felt at the pit of the
stomach and in less than a week she will
enjoy the two meals day-the first at noon
and the last at or o'clock-better than
she has ever enjoyed her three meals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

louCSS lOI Tic use VI VESSELS 1lSSLllS dI SScs
few general inquiries and answers such
as would most probably be required; atten-
ton or demand signals; danger or distress;
leaks and accidents, communications; news;
shipping phrases; regarding captain, crew.
and passengers; invitations; police; quar-
antine; latitude and longitude; time; date;
weather and winds. Another section COM
prises phrases regarding assistance, repairs,
stores, and supplies; another regard
ing the boilers and engines; anchorage,
soundings and pilotage form the subjects
for another chapter. Sailing directions, bus
mess transactions, auxiliary phrases, and
even table of current coins, weights and
measures of different nations, and numerals
and fractions, all have their equivalent in
iag signals, and form the basis for chap
tiers in the code book. The part of the code
devoted to geographical names is naturally
an extended one. BQJK is the signal for
Maine. which has been seen in SO many
places as part of the oft-repeated phrase,
Remember the Maine, Remember the
being represented by RING OCH. The al
of the second part of the CODE does not ap-
pear to be much Of an improvement over
spelling by single letters, as four signal
flags are required in nearly every case for
the letters and groups of letters. which in
no case exceed four in number This must
be used, however. for all words not in the
code book and for proper names each letter
or group of letters being signaIled ac-
cording to the directions given For in
stance TO signal the name Dewey. ii would
be necessary to hoist the CBMB for the
first syllable and CF'VR for the second. IL
he wished to have a council of war with his
captains, he would signal Climb ssthe Adj
n1iral wishes to see you soon as ccnve-
nient." Should he desire to signal Request
Captain Murphy to come here at once" the
flags used would be DI1C, Request captain
to come here;' CRD1, Muir EFBN. phi:
WVK; v, HIN; at once. 1t may readily be
imagined that proper names are avoided as
much as possible in signaling. and doubt
such IL
never be sent, the signal DHC-'. Request
captain TO come ere"-usually answering
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

'SAA y htC 4 lBufeS.
Dy-Daily, S-SleepeSh
Car, D-Dining Car.
a ST. LOUIS R'Y.
siOn--BiE Four.
ARRIVE
u City & w &C, dy. 9:25
S'wst'n lin, dy, d Sill 80
BIB. q Muncie ex $40
Cleveland ex. 600
BIB. e. And'n ex. S;45
n. Y. ex. dy, s...1O:5O
iOn-Big Four.
New York ex, dy, s. 4:05
Mat & T II acc.....10:30
st. Louis express. $40
kn' kb r SD, d s,dy 0;1O
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23
will be Here Again One
Week, June az to 26.

The imperial organ of the hu.
man system is the eye. All
through the Bible God eulogizes;
534 times does that book speak OF
the eye. The eye is one Of the
organs most liable to render life a
miserable failure, a loathsome bur-
den. Loss of sight is the very
king of terrors. While any i'm.
pairment of vision is source OF
CHASTITY anxiety, of constant dread,
of sickening mental worry, to say
never a word of acute physical an
,guish.
The defective eye always makes
itself manifest in one way or an
other. Headache, blurring dizzl-
ness, inflammation, granulation;,
winking, trembling, smarting, all
of which, and many other SYMPTOMS
should be taken as warning OF
approaching untold misery. If
you have any disease of the eye
ear or nose, throat and catarrh, or
if YOU need glasses do not fail to
take this rare opportunity to call
OH DR.. Kalem g. Sapero, the emil
nent physician and surgeon, who
is one of the most successful men
of the age in the treatment of his
specialties, the eye, ear, nose,
throat and catarrh. For years
past he has devoted his entire
time to the diseases of these or
gans and his fame has spread
from coast to coast as most able
practitioner, Nor do patients
need to be referred to strangers to
learn the truth of his ability, for
right in our own town and vicinity
hundreds have been benefited by
his treatment. He will again be
in Rocky Ford at the st. James
June 22d to 28th. Those who are
unfortunate and unable to pay
will receive the same attention
without charge. If you have to
have treatment or if you require
glasses ground, call early. Diff
cult cases and school children's
eyes solicited. Consultation and
examination for glasses free.