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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25
L.. T.. & st. LIS New Coal Cars.

Judge Woods yesterday authorized the
Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis Railroad
Company to purchase 500 coal cars. each car
20 have a capacity of $1,000 pounds. The
cost will be $5o,00. He also authorized V.
IT. Malott. as receiver for the Terre Haute
& indianapolis Railroad Company. TO pay the
semi-annual interest on existing mortgage
Indebtedness. which will be due July and
which will amount to $685. 500.
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F. G.. Cnmpbelr's Place in Chicago.

Frederick G.. Campbell, summons clerk In
the county sheriffs Office. was yesterday
notified that his place as deputy clerk in the
to which he was appointed several months
ago. was ready for him.. He was instructed
to report for duty about July l. He Will be-
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In the true happen
ings in the every
day life of everyday
people are materials
for most thrilling
novels. There are
every day stories of
heroism, suffering
and the final tn
umph of good over
evil-of happiness
finally browning en-
deavor. Here is a
case in mint.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25

The Oneida Bowling Club has reorganized
with the following members: o. w. VIII
liams, president: NJ. c.. Knox, vice presi-
dent; w. III. Schiake, secretary and treas
urer; w. O.. Kimmel, captain: Cllff Allen.
assistant captain: Fred w. Gielow. Charles
b. Cooper, Ferd Kaths, A. q. Eyles. Webb
Jay. III. II. Good. j. w. Hopkins. J. A. Bu-
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THE CORPORATIONS.


The County Board OF Review adjourned at noon
yesterday until Monday. Several corporations
were assessed during the morning. Members or
the board say they are having less trouble than
usual this year in fixing values satisfactory to
those who appear before the board. Thus far
there has been little contention as to the amount
Of the assessments. Following is the result OF
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Incorporated.

The Regal Chemical Company, of Eikhart.
was yesterday incorporated with a capital
stock of $3.50. The company will make per-
fumes, extracts, toilet soaps, etc.
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nixorced from Jo.eph ballard.

In the Superior Court yesterday Mary F..
Ballard was granted a divorce from Joseph
Ballard. The latter is a colored physician
of this city.
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Travellers Accident Association.

The Commercial Travellers Accident As
sociation at a meeting here yesterday elect
ed the following officers:
President-Robert r. Walden.
Vice President-John A. Dugan.
Secretary-Treasurer-Carey Mcpherson.
Observation-Disclosures Taylor, Joseph II.
Stubs and Walter Nicols.
The association showed a gain of 2oi men,
bers in the last year.
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There is no argument 81 good as an alb
~solute, plain, truthful statement of fact.
There is nothing so interesting as fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25

In the county Of Escambia in Alabama
Is the little town of Flomaton and there
lives Mrs. Mollie Grimes. She was a
good wife and mother but several years
ago she found her health slipping away
from her. She realized that this meant
the inevitable nervousness and irritability
that would surely lose for her the afec-
ton of her children and husband, and
that as her health declined discord and
misery would appear in her home. She
was filed with the loving motherly in
stinct, but two miscarriages in succession
almost broke her heart. She had almost
lost hope when the clouds rolled away
and the light of health and happiness
returned.
She tells her story in these words:
II was almost heart-broken TO think I could
not raise any more children and had TO suffer as
j did. / had lost two children by miscarriagcs
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and 1 fully expected 10
lose another when. in
August 1897. I learned Of
and & taking DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription and took il un-
Ill after baby was born
in November. With my
other children I had SUI
fered everything that
flesh could suffer but this
time I was in perfect
health and had q very
easy time. Iwasin labor
only short time. lean
not praise DIR. Pierce's
medicines enough for I
believe they certainly
saved my baby's life and
maybe my own life as
well took the Favor
tie Prescription aud ale
The Pleasant Pellets 81
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-08-12

Lake LEROY, in western Australia, il
lake only during the rainy season.
AT other times of the year the water en-
tirely evaporates and leaves solid floor
of crystalline salt. This floor is almost
smooth and residents along the shores
of the lake have adopted an ingenious
method of getting over its surface.
The sailing vessels which are used in
the ordinary way while the water lasts
are fitted out with set of four small
wheels, the sails being still used for
propulsion. AS the'surface of the lake
covers an area of over 100 square miles
the novel boats have a considerable
range of travel. They are used to trans
port freight as well as passengers, and
are great saving in expense over any
other means of transportation.-Chi
cago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-08-12
NEW YORK MAPLE SUGAR.
Surpasses vermont's Famous
Product.

al have sopped pancakes in the
maple sirup, and got toothache from
the maple sugar, and stomach ache
from the wax puilings of the maple
bilin's of five states and 16 counties, all
the way from old Vermont to Michigan,
including Schoharie county, n. ""
said a man from that part of the
state, land have been ready to stand
up and say, and to bet heavy on what
l said, that the sun never shone on any
land nor quickened it to the production
of anything that could even begin to
think of being one-half as good as the
maple sugar that Schoharie county
boiled down out of its sap, or the maple
strip that Shoharie county got out of
its sugar, or the maple wax that we
pulled out of both of 'em. But that was
before l got over into Otsego county.
When l struck sugaring-off of Otsego
county's first run of sap had to admit
that 1 had never known before what sap
could really be made to give up. But
by and by was domiciled in Delaware
county. Then ! stood up and declared
that had found out at last what maple
sugar really was. began to think that
whatever of excellence there was in the
maple sugar of Shoharie and Otsego
counties was due to the circumstances
of their contiguity to Delaware county,
and reflected on how fortunate Scho-
harie and Otsego were to be there.
''As matter of fact, now that am
reminded of it by the census we have
just taken of this seasons yield of
maple sugar in those three counties,
and found that it isn't far from 1,000,-
600 pounds, l don't suppose there is any
difference at all in the quality of the
sugar made in all that particular maple
belt extending from the Delaware coun-
ty Catskills on the south through Scho-
harie and Otsego and into Cortland
county, this state, and embracing
Wayne and Susquehanna counties, in
Pennsylvania. If the sugar makers of
that belt would only give the attention
to this business and apply to it the sys-
tematic methods that have made the
products of the Vermont naples world
famous, they would soon be as famous
as their brethren in Vermont. AS it is,
their product ranks second in the mar
ket to that of the Green Mountain state.
Anyhow. a million pounds of maple
sugar from springs running of sap
in three counties isn't so bad. 1t sort
o. fills in the chinls in the bank ac-
count, and makes us feel good for put
ting in the corn and taters. We're a
great nation up Schoharie way
N. Y. Sun.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Philadelphia collected 100000 a.
taxes on trolley company dividends last
year.
To clean asphalt pavements in UTICA
last year cost about two cents a running
foot.
Portland, Ore, claims to have the
fastest stern-wheel steamboat in the
world. The Hassalo, recently complet-
cd for the Columbia river trade, has
made spurts of &c 2-3 miles an hour.
Radiation takes place more rapidly
from the surface of plants than from
the air about them, SO that on very
still nights the plants are sometimes
several degrees colder than the sur
rounding air.
A German railroad now building in
eastern Africa, where the climate is
most dangerous to white men, recently
offered positions to civil engineers at
81, 125 per annum, station masters, ST.
900, and locomotive drivers, 5000.
So many cattle were killed by light
ming while standing near wire fences,
in the state of Illinois, during the sum-
mer of 1898, that it has been proposed
to diminish the danger by means of
ground wires, which would conduct
the electricity during thunderstorm
from the fence wires into the earth.
Like many another long-retained no.
ton, the idea that dogs perspire in an
unusual way proves to have no founda-
ton in fact. Replying to an inquiry,
Mr.. S. G.. Shattuck, of the Royal college
of surgeons, states that dogs cannot
sweat by the tongue, as the only glands
in dogs tongue are in the posterior
part, and these have a mucous-secreting
structure. The dogs skin, moreover, is
abundantly provided with glands like
those producing sweat in man.
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You Put Upon Them a BADLY
Written Book.

A curious case between publisher ana
author came to conclusion with a
verdict that was substantially, if not
technically, for the author. The pub
fishers get 25 cents instead of the $77O
they claimed. The author gets the 1925
of his counterclaim for final payment
due under the contract.
The publishers sued the defendant be-
cause work on Imperial Britain
which they had employed him to
write, contained good many inaccura-
cies. 1t was, in consequence, they said,
unfavorably received, and they lost
money by it.
But the weak point of their case was
that they passed it for publication with
al rs inaccuracies, and evidently with
out any reading" worthy of the name.
They were thus on the horns of diem
ma. If they had read it, they were re-
sponsible for its errors. If they had not,
they had little right to complain.
The defendant really seems to have
erred by excess of zeal. He consulted SO
many books of reference on the subject
that he got them mixed. He had given
to Wales Merthyr Tydfil for capital,
and had set down china clay, soda, ar
senic and EPSON salts under building
stones. An earthworm wormed itself
in among his reptiles" and he virtu-
ally granted the Isle of Man its indie
pendence by failing to include it among
the British isles.
On these points he made the most
handsome acknowledgements. The ar
senic and the salts got in through
mistake in the numbering. A mistake
of that kind would account for any
thing. With their peculiar system of
revision, the publishers ought to have
congratulated themselves that bricks
and mortar did not get in among the
medicines.
In regard to another blunder, he de-
clined, with charming candor, to defend
the statement that Pretoria was the
capital of British Zambesia. Yet it
might have been, if some of us had
had their way with the Transvaal.
Many books are written; how few
would bear editing in open court?-
London News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-08-12

Cook one chicken or fowl until ten
Ter, saving the stock therefrom; re-
move all bones and chop into dice, not
too fine; boil two cups macaropi in
salted water until tender; strain and
chop into inch lengths; then putting
butter in your baking dish, have layer
of chicken, layer of macaroni and one
of bread crumbs; pepper and salt
Continue alternate layers until dish is
nearly filed, having bread crumbs on
top. Now take two cups of the stock
and one-half cup cream and thicken
with -four until like thick cream. Pour
this over chicken and macsironi and
bake about thrce-quarters Of an I;orr.
Cincinnati Enouirer
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PUNGRNT PARAGRAPHS

"Hsss do people begin divorce pro-
, ceedings, anyway" by getting mar
ried. philadelphia Bulletin.
He-"You know there never was love
without jealousy" She-"How about
Adam and Eve?"-Boston Transcript.
Madge--'In my time I've had two Of
fers of marriage" Marjorie-"How did
he come to propose the second timer
Town Topics.
Papa (from head of airs)-"Daugh-
ter, what's that noise in the parlor like
pill rolling around in box?" Daugh-
ter-"Oh, it's Cholly, papa, He's just
had an idea."-Syracuse Telegram.
Lover (bravely)-''Sir, / want TO
marry your daughter" Father (cold-
ly)-"Well, I'm not surprised at that.
If were in your place, l think should
want to marry her myself. "-Somerville
Journal.
Amateur Sportsman-"What did ]
bring down, Pat?" Pat-"Yer dog, sur;
blew his head all off," Amateur Sports
man-"Where's the bird?" Pat
picking at the dog, sur. = st. Louis
Republic.
Deacon Jones-"Do you think it is
right for people to go to sleep in
church," Deacon Brown-"Of course
it is, at least in our church. If it wasn't
do you suppose Parson Dulltlry would
put them to sleep?"-Boston Tran
script.
Incredible.-"Franklin," said Jeffer.
son, as they sat slipping cool drinks in
the Patriots club over the river, II
see the Philadelphians have given you
statue" $50 soon as this?" queried
the sage, in surprise. Philadelphia
North American.
Old Lady ION ocean steamer)-'Mercy
me! Is this all one ship?" Travelled
Granddaughter-"Why, yes, grandma.
and we haven't walked quarter the
length of it yet" Old Lady--"Gracious
How near will we be to the land when
we get to the other end?"-Bostor
Traveller.
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principles. Yes, dear, we know all about
that young man from the city, and an
not denying but what he has been kline
and polite to you; but John loves you
and true, honest heart has John.
"You don't like the idea of farming
Why, your fathers a farmer, child.
Was it not only this morning that you
were telling me how dearly you loved
your father and what a grand good mar
he was? You think that fathers occu-
patton is different from q husbands /.
My dear little girl, one must be wise in
making choice for life. Fine feathers
do not make fine BIRDS and though
John is rather plain in his looks he
would always be proud of his wife. You
say you are not sure that you love him
and that you may love that city young
man?
swell, dear, l will have to tell you the
story of my own love affair, story you
have never known. should not tell il
to you now, but il may help you to de-
eide about John. As you know, j was
born down in the village, and was con-
sidered the village belle. My father was
a graduate from Williams college, al
though he was poor and a farmer, so ]
had better advantages in the way of
education than most country girls, and
was deemed quite accomplished. When
] was about your age /, too, had a lover
he was something like your John. He
was rough in his ways, farmer, and
often his hands were soiled with honest
work, which did not please my girlisb
fancy then; but l lived to learn that it
was better to have soiled hands than to
have soiled soul.
But at Is felt as you do now.
and knew that my lover was rather plain
and oldsfashioned in his ways. One win
ter, just before we were to have been
married, some city young men visited
our village and gave concerts and shows
in the schoolhouse. Much to our as
constituent they remained in the vii
lage all winter, and one of them board
ed Mt our house. My mother was dead
then and father and lived together.
The city young man seemed to admire
me very much, and soon was listening
to his fiattering speeches and forget
ting my betrothed lover. My new adj
mirer was making love to me, and VOW
ing that he adored me he asked me to be
his wife. He told me was too beauti-
full to pass my life in dreary farm
house, and that the man had promised
to marry was only an ignorant country
farmer-and l, foolish girl that was,
listened to him and believed him.
i began to be ashamed of my lover
md Of my engagement and to look with
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-08-12
WORKING TO MUSIC.
the Aid of an Orchestra In
stead Of a Boss.

Building . railroad in the Soudan is
not carried on to the sound of the voice
of an Irish "boss" directing a gang of
Italian laborers. AS becomes the mild
er atmosphere of the tropics, railroad
in those regions is built to the "las-
civious pleasing of Lutte" or fhe
African equivalent. The SOFAS are
the working people and the 'sgriots"
are the musical ones. The 'sofas" will
not work unless the ''griots' play. So
every gang of men has it's orchestra.
The 'griots' play on flutes and rude
harps the peculiar ''rag-time" tunes of
Africa, and the picks and shovels of the
''sofas" go industriously as long as the
music lasts. Let the music stop and
the work slackens and then fails alto
gether.
Fancy a gang of Italian laborers en-
ployed in the construction of a line of
railroad in the United States insisting
that I'll Trovatore" should be PLAYED
for them while they worked. In the
Soudan it has been found impossible
to get work out of the natives in the
construction of railroads unless music
was furnished. Every contractor who
has tried it has failed. So to the sound
of music the steel rails are penetrating.
the Congo region and forcing their way
through the Soudan. To every gang of
40 or so men there are assigned two
harp players and flute player. As
long as the music keeps up the black
laborers do not seem to feel fatigue.
Generally the musicians get tired be-
fore the laborers do. The music pro-
duced by these cheerers of labor would
not be inspiring to white mar, for it
is filed with that peculiar plaint1 eness
which one hears in the negro songs of
the south. To the Africans, however,
She tunes seem to be an inspirations
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-08-12
MORE WAYS THAN ONE.
A Smart Boys Clever scheme for
Buying Stamps at the
Post once.

The proprietor of well-known hotel
In the center of the city sent one of his
office boys to the post Office for postage
stamps. The cash drawer contained 81. so
in pennies. and the proprietor want
ed to get rid of them. Bundling them
up into neat packages, he dispatched
the Office boy to Ninth and Chestnut
streets with them.
''Get rs two-cent stamps" the hotel
man said, ''and hurry back"
Well, the boy got back, but not in q
hurry. In fact, he was gone SO long
that his employer called him down
when he did return.
Where on earth were you?" the hotel
man asked. go over to Chicago for
those stamps?"
mo, sah," replied the boy. 81 only
went to de post Office. But they don't
seem to like pennies there very much,
sah.'
'Why not?" demanded the hotel man.
"Cause the young woman at de win
dow wouldn't take more'n "a cents
worth at time, sah.'
Then you didn't get the stamps ?"
"Oh, yes, sab. Indeed / did git de
stamps, sah."
How did you get them if the stamp
clerks wouldn't take the money!"
The young fellow grinned.
Worked scheme on 'em, sir, worked
a scheme on 'em. She said she wouldn't
take more'n "a cents worth of the
stamps at time. See?"
His employer nodded in the affirrca-
tive.
"Well," continued the young fellow,
II scratched my head after she told me
that, but pretty soon tumbled to a
scheme. fishes out "a cents and lays
'em down on de stamp window"
Gimme 12 twos,' said.
1.-THE twos were laid out on the
counter. Gimme IL more twos,' / add
ed, when ! had the first lot safely
tucked in my pocket. 1 got 'em, and
also enough more lunches to make up
the $1.50 worth wanted before got
through. Of course, the young woman
was mad all over, but / couldn't help
that, sab. l was there to get you de
stamps, sab, and had to do it."-Phila.
delphia Inquirer.
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WIDOW SAVES HER HOME
1000 subscriptions and Lifts
q $500 Mortgage.

South side women are just now talk.
ing about the feat of plucky woman
in saving her home. She is widow,
and her husband left her a house and
| lot incumbered with $500 mortgage.
She had no way to lift the incumbrance.
and when it came due she could do moth
lug but throw herself upon the mercy
of the holders of the paper. They were
decent people, however, and agreed to
give her three months extension of
time. Two months of this respite was
wasted in attempts to secure assistance
from acquaintance.
Just about the time the widow had
given up hope she saw the offer of a
woman's periodical agreeing to give
$500 to anyone who should secure 1000
annual subscriptions within specified
time. The time expired in just month,
and the task seemed hopeless. But the
woman seized the chance and went to
work that very dag.
She had fair success from the first
day. When she thought it would do any
good she told her story, and many peo-
pie who cared little or nothing for the
magazine subscribed to help her along.
She visited residence districts only, and
appealed to the woman of the house al
most entirely. AS the days went by
many women grew interested in her
brave effort, and little clubs and So
cieties did what they could to help her.
Many women would say this: "Now, if
you find at the last minute that you are
few dollars short, come to see me and
I'll subscribe again. can send the pa
per TO country cousin"
The woman had many ups and downs.
Some days subscriptions were secured
easily and rapidly; other days she made
little or no Roadway. AS the end of the
month drew near things grew less en-
couraging. Her acquaintance had
long ago been exhausted. The available
territory in the vicinity of her home had
been thoroughly gone over, and people
living at distance, she found, were
much less apt to lend sympathetic
ear. Still, the list grew steadily, and
there was always a fighting chance.
The last day found her just dozen
subscriptions short, tired out and near
ly hopeless. She was casting about in
her mind for some way to raise the
money necessary for the ~ subscrip-
tons, when the door bell rang. 1t was
q note from a woman who had already
subscribed, but contained dollar and
warm words of encouragement. This
note was the first of many such mes
sages. And before evening the list of
1000 names was complete.
Out of the woman's brave effort has
grown double result. She was not
strong physically when she began her
canvas, but the exercise unavoidably
connected with her work has made her
a healthy woman. She got the $500 and
she saved her home.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.