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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-15

Hogs-Receipts, 2,46O; shipments, 1880.
The quality was somewhat improved, there
being several cars Of good heavies on sale.
which sold at s4071Q4.1O. The market
opened active. with all buyers operating,
and the offerings were soon disposed of.
Choice light weights were in good demand
on New York and Baltimore account. as
also medium weights of 100 to 200 lbs. East
ern packers were unable to get their full
quota of heavy weights. The market closed
steady. Quotations:
Good to choice medium and heavy 81. 564 10
Mixed and heavy packing .......... 3.g5a4OO
Lights, common to good ........... 3.gOd4 90
Pigs, common to good ........ 3.5Oa3.S S.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 3OO; ship
ments, $50. With more liberal receipts than
for some time past the market opened &C.
tive and strong on all grades and all sold
early. The closing was steady at quota
TONS:
Good to choice sheep e 2563 x
Common to medium sheep .......... 2. 25G3 90
Good to choice lambs OO04 "a
Light to medium lambs ............ 3y00I3 *
Do@Ao 2.00I3.0
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INTERSTATE STOCKYARDS, INDIAN
APOLIS. Dec. MISUNDERSTANDING, $780,;
shipments. 120. The market opened quiet
but fairly steady on all good grades. while
medium and common were sharply lower.
Choice butcher cattle were in fair demand
at quotations.. while the feeling was rather
weak for the common and lower grades.
Feeding cattle were in good demand at
quotations. The closing was quiet, with all
sold. Quotations:
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LIVE STOCK QUOTATIONS
THE WEEK so FAR SHOWS A DE-
CLINE IN THE PRICES OF CATTLE.
Hogs Active at Better Figures Than
Those Current Wednesday-Con-
ditiOn of other

UNION STOCKYARDS, INDIANAPOLIS,
Dec. u.-Cattle-Receipts. loo; ship
ments. 800. The receipts of cattle were COM
paratively liberal for this time In the week.
and considerable fat stock was represented.
The market opened with a sluggish ana
Indifferent demand from ell sources Tor
fat, heavy steers, and early bids were so
much lower than statesmen had expected
that not many sales were reported az the
start. Later the offerings were changing
HANDS slowly at about 10Q15c lower prices
than yesterday, making a decline or about
4Oc for an average, so far this week, COM
pared with the close of last week. There
was.a very fair inquiry for tidy light
steers, and they did not show much. II
any change, in prices. Female butcher cat
tie also sold at quotably steady prices.
Quotations:
Good to prime steers. 1850 lbs and
upward 1880. -So.1V4 o'"o
Fair to medium steers, 1850 lbs
and upward o.VV4 900
steers SIS
steers -. .............. 44Oa 475
Medium to good 900 TO l,lOO-lb
steers ..... ..-....---...--..... 4-l0H 500
Good to choice feeding steers...... 4.40@ AS
Fair to medium feeding SteerS.... AUG 4.S0
Common to good stocKers......... 300I 4.40
Good to choice heifers.......--... 400d AS
Fair to medium heifers........... $500 3.75
Common to light heifers........... 5000 $40
Fair to medium cows........ 3.009 $40
Common olu Loo $50
Veal calves 5.OO1 $50
Heavy calves 5000 500
Prime to fancy export BULLS. lisa $50
Good to choice butcher bulls...... 3.4OG 3.65
Common to fair bulls $500 325
Good to choice cows and calves. IS. 00a50.0
Common to medium cows and
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Sheep-Receipts, 200; shipments, small.
There was a very good inquiry from local
butchers for sheep and lambs, and, not
withstanding the competition was limited.
the offerings changed hands promptly at
strong prices, compared with those current
recently. Lambs averaging Sc lbs sold at
s5.lJ, and less desirable grades at $3.50.
Sheep sold as high as 81, with common to
good kinds at S2G2 Ga Quotations.
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Hogs-Receipts. 5000; shipments. $500.
The hog market opened with rather a
brisk demand from all sources, and soon,
with active competition between local
packers and order men, the offerings were
changing hands promptly at strong to 21zc
better prices than those current yesterday.
The pens were soon cleared at opening
prices, and the market closed steady. Quo
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ALCOHOL. = f3U-JV, asdIttIud, -0U5C. dIulH. q
ac: camphor. 57as2c: cochineal, 5O@55c: chioro.
form, 5SG65c; copperas. brls. soc; cream tar
tar, pure. 3Od33c; indigo, 65gs0c: ~licorice. Calab..
genuine. 3564oc magnesia. carb.. 2-oz. 2o922c:
morphine, Z. & w. per OF, 81. 30g2 IS. madcer. ID
Gl6c; oil. castor. per gal. sl.e4dI. 10; oil. berga-
mot. per 10. g. 65: opium. $50: quinine. p. & W..
per or. 40Gi5c: balsam copaiba. 55460c; soap.
CASTLE. FIR. 12dl6c; soda bicarb. 2i116c: salts.
EPSON. llsdic; sulphur -four. 212G5c: s%altpeter. 10
@i4c: turpentine. 55lzG60c; glycerine. 17G20c:
iodide potassium. -. 5062. 50: bromide potassium,
55G60c: chlorate potash. 15G9c; borax. sG12c;
cinchonidia, 37di2c; carbolic acid. 32G35c; linseed
oil. raw, ACC: linseed oil. boiled, SOC.
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% bu; crushed coke, i2c per bu. IS per % bu;
Blossbure. s. per ton: Connellsyille coke. IS per
ton: smokeless lump. $3.50.
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Queer Case Of Ube @on1an tn Black'
IS This an Instance Of Mistaken 1den-
lily, K1epton1ania, Morphine or
Most Hardened crinina1ity2

she does not speak again until she has
gained control of nerves and voice.
Then she reverts to the diamonds once
more.
IF 1 stole them" she says, what did
I do with them? to whom did l sell
them? or where did I hide them? l
could not eat nor drink nor wear them
as they were, most certainly. And if
l were clever enough to make such big
'hauls, as they call them, would l con-
denim myself to dress like this-under-
meath. at any rate?" She throws out
? scornful foot in the sheltering shadow
of my chair and whisks her dress skirt
up sufficiently high for me to see the
cheap cotton petticOats, the common
stockings and the ready-made and
rather shabby boots which she wears,
ard nod understandingly The
woman to whom money comes easily
from any source is apt, If she be truly
feminine. to invest a satisfactory per-
Cent2ce of it in the frills and furbeloWs,
the beribboned and belaced and silk
en- under arrangements. the wearing of
which would make her feel cozily con-
tent even though her gown were Of
faded calico. Mrs Mills has none of
these. and in her eyes this seems con-
vincing proof of her impecuniosity.
Perhaps 1 spent it for morphine, ="
she goes on. They say 1 am a 'fend,
YOU know. Look there"-and she holds
out both hands to me horizontally and
straight from the shoulder-'1 have
been here since the Sth Of August with
no chance to get any drug at all, even
had I wanted it. Do you know how a
morphine fiend's nerves and muscles
act when you suddenly and completely
deprive him of his medicine? Mine are
as steady as any woman's in my state
of health could be; much steadier than
MANY womans would be after going
through what | have experienced IN
the past few weeks. Another thing:
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him Homely because his chief charac-
tiers are plain and often illiterate people
centers and hence untouched by metro
poltanism. There is a passage some
where which reads: impressions. made
on the retina are really made on the soul
and he mind becomes what it contem-
plates" Where then did Balloon get it's
interesting population? The town was
one of the most forlorn wastes of West
ern Ontario, featureless at all times and
in autumn and spring "a dreary water
scape spreading for miles around, show
ing hitler and yon, just the scalp of
mound that served as buoy to tell the
proprietor where his farm waited for
summer to dry it out In harmony with
the location were the houses, all dull gray
weather and 'Dod-a-bit," says George
McGarriger quite the parsonage of the
book. IT I see what use the Almighty
has fer Balloon, onless it's Jest fer the
sake of holdin the world together," But
the landscape seems not to influence the
characters. for variety is characteristic of
these people. and George and Mary Nc
Garriger, Andy Harris Grisdale, Dan
Littleton, Delby Cramer and Tom
Brimmicorn acquaint one with the chief
plicity of the people is perhaps best re-
vealed to the intending reader in the
curiosity which brought them from miles
around to hear from the inmates own
lips I'LL there was to tell of the ghostly
vistayions at Balloon House No re-
peated chronicles for them on a subject
50 llHpOTtttHt. l he aulnOr is character
painter of ability and old George, than
whom mo man ever gained so wide a
notoriety on so little evil in character
and CONDUCT" Dan, the village satirist.
who could no more restrain his buster
ing words than his Irish grandsire could
control, his, shllalah when he saw an in
Viting head to hit at Donnybrook Fair"
the lovely and lovable Dabby; Mary, the
canny Scotch wife of old George, strong
alike in heart and mind. and others Of
the little community speak words of wis
dom ard foolishness that made the book
a curously interesting one. Some of the
words of wisdom are contained in old
Georges homily on "cussin," a repeti-
ton of what one Bill Wilson. defunct,
was wont to say when asked why, when
he did everything else that was wicked.
he stopped at 'cussin.'
wy, George, dye take me fer nat'ral
fool? l don't do nothin' fer nothn' Wen
| know it! I git drunk to forgit some
things, an have q good time. Wen |
fight it's to best the other Teller If I
lie it's to gain pint that amt in reach
of the truth. Wen 1 take things It's be-
cause I want 'em. an cant get EN- SO
cuss, the other Teller wouldn't be hurt by
It, an I would. Anyhow, George, I
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LiterdrY Notes.

The Houghton- Miffiin Fall Announce
ment,' is long and interesting. and in
tons, Among the tormer are John
Fiske',s Dutch and Quaker Colonies in
America. Julia Ward Howe's "Remi-
nIscences' and new books Of fiction by
Miss Johnson, author of Prisoners Of
Hope; F. Hopkinson Smith, Miss Jewett
and Bret Harte.
Mr.. Walter n. Page has resigned the
ed edit Of the Atlantic Monthly and
literary work OF the allied houses Of
harper Hilp & Bros. and the Doubleday & Nc
editorship of the Atlantic is Mr.. Bliss
Perry, known in literature as the author
OF two novels and number of essays
and stories
at Grato's Fame" by John Myers
O'Hara is receiving at the hands of ali
1t is a collection of choice Ivrics and
sonnets and creates a desire TO read
something long, broad and comprehensive
from the same pen.
The Saturday Review has at last paid
the following handsome tribute to an
American writer. In a review of Hugh
Gwyeth," which IS now in it's f0IIrth cd
ton, the Review says: 1--WE found If
dlfhcult to tear ourselves away from the
fascinating narrative. Even Mr. Anthony
Hope does not inspire more joyfully the
eAhilaratton of battle i"
;, Rand, McNally & Co. will shortly pub
ltsh novel by Frances Aymar Mathews
entitled "A Married Man" I'm HAMPTON
Roads, a romantic novel by Charles
Eugene Banks and George Cram Cook.
ana The Bondwoman,' by Marah Ellis
Ryan.
Ex-senator John J.Ingalls has written
Ior the Saturday Evening Post of Phila-
delphia two valuable papers uDon the
later career of President Garfield. The
B BTst Of these paper will appear in the
rosy OF August 26 In the same issue will
be found contributions by Ian Maciaren,
Harriet Riddle Davis, Julian Ralph and
Charles Battell Loomis
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come to Southern California, where he
managed, by injudiciously starting
paper which was not suited to the eli
mate and at the same time investing
in some mining enterprises which were
absorptive rather than productive. to
dispose of their joint capital Of $4,000
in a surprisingly brief period Of time.
After that he was employed for time
as city editor OF the Fresno EXD0sitor.
and later came with his wife to San
Francisco. where he worked for seven
years, doing the City hail detail and
other regular reportoral work for ore
of the morning dailies. Twenty-one
months ago jovial, generous and sum
ry-hearted Harry Mills died of con-
sumption in Los Angeles, leaving his
wife penniless and utterly worn out by
the constant and self-fOrGetful care
with which she had surrounded him
during every moment of his last twelve
months stay on earth. Dying. he
thought that II he had left her nothing
else he had left her at least friends in
plenty, for his home had ever been hos
pitable, his nature sympathetic and
companiorable, and his heart always
ready to share his purse, be it heavy
or light, with any one who asked a
favor
Ray Mills had friends enough in
truth while her husband was living and
his love and care were Insufficient for
her, but to-day how many has she?
About the same number, perhaps. that
you or I. dear madame, might find our
selves possessed of under similar cir
cumstances, but of surety no more.
She tells her brief history of the past
quietly; almost. indeed, as if she We're
speaking of some one else. whose joys
and sorrows were a matter of indffer-
ence to her Hers has been a hard
school and in it she has learned the
wisdom of reticence and self-repres-
sion, but she flashes into a vivid white
flame of anger as she speaks of her
present.
There never was a woman more
wrongfully and unjustly accused than
l." she declares. II am surrounded by
a network of lies that, if I were
weaker person, would almost make me
doubt myself. l am accused of having
stolen over $4,000 worth of diamonds
and jewelry during the past four
months. and during three of those
months I was i'll in bed and the rest
of the time l was making a narrow liv
ing by shampoOing and hairdressing.
II / had been the successful thief which
they say I am / would scarcely work
as hard and live as poorly as l have
done. Now that I am in here"-sweep-
ing a contemptuous glance around
which seems to take in every bar and
bolt and prisoning horror of the crime
haunted place-"people are using me
as a foundation upon which to pile all
manner of falsehoods and wild mag
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9 \ "Baldoon" lie Roy Hooker has given
i to the public a book of quiet homeiy in
terest. Quiet, because although there
is tragic interest in the incidents re-
sulting from George McGarriger's inherit
ance. sufficient to assume the dignity or
a plot-although the romance of the trust
ing widow Cramer and the fortune
hunting Horace Bristol is there to attest
the value of side lights, although there
ARE loving couples in plenty whose rough
pathways are in need of good smoothing
although there is the haunted house, the
village gossip and the sword-tongued
satirist. Mr.. Hooker does not WELD
sensational pen, and the pathos and
strong passion of human life is told with.
out exaggeration, as "he has had eyes to
see and ears to hear what was being done
and suffered and enjoyed and said, in
the self-centered little community about
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New Books Received

THE HEART OF A BOY-The growing
success and literary value of Edmondo
de Amicis Heart of a Boy" have
prompted Laird & Lee to issue an edition
de luxe, suitable for holiday gifts, presen-
tations and school prizes. The publishers
have aimed to perfect the text, and have
added number of illustrations by famous
Italian artists, many of them full-page
half-tone engravings Those who have
read De Amici's Military Life" written
when he was but 90 his books of travel
and his graceful verse know the health
fulness of his optimistic views, his poetic
imagination and the strong simplicity of
his literary style. The translator of The
Heart of a Boy" (CuOre) is by Professor
G. Mantellini from the two hundred and
twenty-fourth Italian edition.
The Heart ear :, Of Boy scIhoolb Boy
ton de luxe) laird Lee, Chicago)
CHICAGO. SATAN'S SANCTUM-On
reads: Il am to speak Of stories you will
not believe; of beings you cannot love; Of
foibles for which you nave no compass
sion; of feelings in which you have no
share" The preface attacks the admin
istration of Mayor Harrison, the selection
of his Corporation Council, and hints that
his reelection is due to the solidarity of
the votes of the vicious elements of the
community. 1t asks how long the contin-
uous Superintendent of Police is to be al
lowed to throw his kindly protection over
the haunts of vice. The text is a plain
revelation Of the corruption of the police
force, the evils Of all-night saloons, houses
of ill-repute and the like, the workings OF
boodlers and bribers, politicians paving
the way for the next election, and all
kinds of corruption never dreamed Of by
the pure in heart. One good optimistic
note is sounded thus: But there is virtue
and power enough to change all this The
moral sentiment and enlightened self
interest of the city, once aroused and
properly guided, would overwhelm all op-
Chicago. Satan's Sanctum." BY L. o.
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WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA-The vol
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tionary of living men and women of the
United States, and aims to give without
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have gained more than local distinction
in any branch of usefulness. Though in
its first edition, it is very comprehensive,
and should prove as useful for reference
as the well-known British publication of
the same name that has appeared with
annual revisOns regularly for nearly
fifty years. Two valuable features will be
found in the appended addresses and the
neurology giving the list of the prominent
people who have died since 1895.
who's Who in America" "a. N. Mar
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gins to tell me, quite simply and with
no hint of playing to the gallery"
whatever, the story of her arrest and
imprisonment
She has hardly begun, however. when
there is a stir of new arrivals and the
sound of voices in the low browed hall
way. A man comes IN with a bare
headed, grimy-faced baby of two
years old or so perched on his
shoulder, and going to the desk is
Immediately surrounded by a group
Of interested policemen asking ques-
tons, making suggestions and some
Of them-those who have young
sters of their own at home, doubtless
poking friendly fingers and making odd
noises with their mouths at the solemn
eyed and silent infant. who, evidently
thinking that his adventurous spirit
has led him into a den of dangerous
wild beasts, sits awed into the sem
blance Of small stone image upon the
shoulder Of his rescuer.
Mrs. Mills snaps the thread Of her
story and leans forward with eagerness
to look at the new corners.
It's a lost child" she says to me ex-
planatorily over the curve Of her
shoulder Poor little thing-what a
fright his mother will have over him.
Some way it seems dreadful to see a
baby in such place even for a mo-
ment, but the other night 1 had the
loveliest time with one" The small
wanderer and his blue-coated retinue
have moved around the corner out Of.
our line of vision now, and Mrs Mills
straightens up and faces me again.
You see they brought a woman in
here who was so intoxicated that they
did not dare to leave her baby with her,
so they brought 1t to the matron's
room and begged the privilege of car
ing for 1t through the night. 1t was
the dearest little thing, only eight
months old, and it Struggled up to me
and put it's little arms around nv neck.
and" she stops abruptly and looks
away, the edges Of her eyelids redding
suddenly and faint fush-the after
glow OF that maternal love which
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Why do they call me the Woman IN
Black when [ have not worn a full
black suit since my first year of mourn
ing for my husband? 1 have worn
black skirt and jacket and white, or
black-and-w white, shirtwaists ever since
early spring, a black hat trimmed with
white aigrettes, and a white veil-a
wash one at that, because they are
cheaper. Any one who would call me
a woman in black must be color blind
indeed, and if woman so dressed
really committed the robberies of which
l am accused, why didn't they hunt
her up and arrest her instead of me?"
She is asking questions now-ques-
tons which 1 cannot answer-and l
feel that it is time to go. AS I rise she
rises also and stands looking at me
half dOubtfully. as if she were longing
to read my thoughts.
Il don't know" she says brusquely
after a feety second of hesitation
whether you think me truthful or a
liar, and I don't much care, for it really
doesn't matter. While 1 know in my
inmost soul that I am not guilty, moth
ing of that counts, you see, and I have
faith that the truth will triumph I
do not believe that twelve honest men
will believe the lies they tell about me
nor sanction this awful injustice. For
the sake of my relatives and my few
real friends, however, 1 want to say
Just this: By the love l bore my hus-
band and my dead babies, l swear that
I am Innocent"
I go out into the sunshine with these
words ringing IN my ears and queer
disbelief in my own Impressions tug
ging at my heartstrings.
Is Ray Mills-the Woman in Black
and White-guilty of the crimes laid
at her door, or Is she not?
If she is, then she is the most wick
edly forsworn woman that I ever met.
FLORENCE MATHESON.
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frightened her life for a few brief days
in the past-softens the lines and light
ems the shadows of her face. Mine
died. she says, after a moments OPP
prcssive silence. And then she winks
hard once or twice and turns to me
again. smiling that queer little set
smile of hers which seems someway to
be a barrier between herself and the
big world which she has found so cruel
since she has had to face it alone.
I'VE were talking of something else"
she says, quite composedly, and then
she ties the ends Of her thread of mar
rative together and winds the skein to
the end. Her story: differs materially
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from that told by her captors In all
that relates to her alleged crimes and
her arrest, but as regards her past 1t
TALES exactly with what l have heard
before from other sources.
Born of Pennsylvania Quakers. she
at sixteen repudiated the strict rules.
the quaint garb and the "thees" and
thous' of that sect to marry Harry
Mills, a young man Of comfortable
property, whose ambition lay in the
line of newspaper work into which he
had entered when only a lad of fifteen.
Some years after their marriage the
young couple concluded, on account Of
Mr.. Mills far from robust health. to
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inings. Persons whom l do not believe
ever owned a real diamond in their
lives are trying to gain a little cheap
notoriety by declaring that 1 have
robbed them of small fortunes locked
up in precious stones. 1t would be
funny, if it were not so terrible, to see
how eager human beings are to rend
each other on occasion, as wolves rend
and devour the weak or wounded ones
OF their packs"
She pauses for a moment, softly
beating her clinched hands together in
her lap, her upper teeth for the instant
overlapping the lower and gnawing at
the scarlet line Of her under lip. and