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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
AID FOR FRENCH.
The Household Cavalry Sent to the
Assistance of the General.

LONDON. Jan. 5.-The War Office this
afternoon published dispatch from Cape
Town. dated Jan. 3, saying that at General
French's special request the Household
Cavalry, battery of field artillery and
the first battalion of the Essex regiment
had been dispatched to reinforce him tenn
porarily.
A dispatch from Rensberg. dated Jan. f.
evening, says: ''Colesberg has not yet
been occupied. The Beers Unexpectedly
attacked the British left at daybreak this
morning, but were repulsed. They occu-
pied hills to the north of the town, but
were eventually driven out of their posi-
tions after an hours shelling by our guns.
They still hold, however, the hills imme-
diately surrounding the town, preventing
the British from advancing along the rail-
way. The British loss in to-day's engage
ment was light. while the Beers are re-
ported to have lost 100, including twenty
prisoners who were taken by the mounted
infantry about midday. The Boer attack
ers numbered 1000 men. The Inniskillin
Dragons drove their way through the
Beers. who were forced to retreat, by a
heavy artillery and musketry fire. Major
Harvey, of the Tenth Hussars, was killed,
and Major Alexander wounded while the
Hussars were pursuing the retresting
Beers after the attack on the British left. I"
Beers after the attack on the British left.
Lieutenant Gibson, of the Inniskillins, was
also among the wounded"
General Gatacre's report OF the Molteno
affair confirms the Associated Press dis
patches showing it was merely determ-
ined attack on a police outpost, which was
successfully repelled. There were no Brit
ish casualties.
A dispatch from Belmont. Cape Colony,
dated jan 5. says: Colonel Pitchers coll
CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE.)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
HER HUSBANDS VALUE.
Mrs. Prunier Given $4,000 for Loss
of Her Mans Affections.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The case OF Mrs.
Malyina Prunier. of Burlington. VT. against
Mrs. Lillian Ash, Of New York, whom she
sued for $4,000 damages for alternating the
affections of her husband, Fred ]. Prunier.
was decided to-day when the jury awarded
Mrs. Prunier $4,000. Mrs. Ash is the resid-
uary legatee of the late William Campbell.
the millionaire wall paper manufacturer.
Prunier is professional nurse and nursed
Campbell. He admitted that from Camp
bells death. in December. 1896. TO Jan. ].
1895, he had had no other patient than Mrs
Ash. whom he had known as Mrs. Camp
bell He said that he was still in Mrs.
Ash's service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

WASHINGTON, JAN 5-Secretary Hay
has received a cablegram from Ambassador
Choate, at London, stating that he had an
eminently satisfactorily interview yester-
day with Lord Salisbury relative to the
seizures of American goods by British war
ships. Lord Salisbury listened intently to
the representations on this subject. made
by Mr.. Choate by direction of the State De-
partment, and took them under considera-
ton, promising voluntarily to give the mat
ter immediate attention and to return
speedy decision.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

cussing the questions arising out Of British
seizures of the American flour and German
vessels, said: ''In the case of the seizure
of American flour the one country cannot
afford nor can the other country permit
any such principle as this which Great
Britain. in its extremity. seems to be
clutching at. 1t is apparent that she is
laying down a terribly dangerous precedent
for herself
Professor Woolsey preferred not to ex-
press detailed opinion as to the seizure Of
German vessels until the facts had become
more manifest He added that the seizure
of goods alleged to be contraband in the
Suez canal might give rise to a larger con-
troversy than a mere ordinary seizure
would occasion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
steamer Ma.hona Released.

LONDON. Jan. 5.-A dispatch from Cape
Town dated to-day says the prize court
has released the British steamer Mashona,
captured by the British gunboat Partridge
early in December with American flour,
said to be intended for the Beers, on board,
but ordered her cargo to be warehoused
pending a trial of the case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-General Otis!
latest list of casualties is as follows:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-General Otis
latest list of casualties is as follows:
Killed-In action at Panique. Dec. 81,
Twelfth Infantry, Company l.. John q. A.
Carter; engagement at Santa Rosa, Oct. q,
Thirty-seventh Infantry, Company II,
George Lambkin; Twenty-second Infantry.
Company X, Harry H. Stone.
Wounded-In action at Mont Albon, Dec.
a. Forty-sixth Infantry. Company I. WILL
lam Patton, chest, mortal; Eleventh Cav
airy, Company ID. Sergeant Joseph l.. Hor-
demon, foot, slight; Company l.. Harry
Ross, thigh, slight; Company II, Sergeant
Fred Stanley, leg, slight; action near San
Mateo, Dec. 10. Twenty-ninth Infantry.
Company II, Peter Thompson, corporal,
thigh, slight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
Powell sortie. Again.

received from South Africa to-day was one
from Cape Town stating that 1t was ru-
mored there that Colonel Baden-Powell had
again defeated the Beers at Mafeking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.
Views OF Prof. Woolsey on Great
Britafn's Action.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Jan. 5.-Prof.
Theo. s. woolsey. of the chair of interna-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

mann. Seventeenth Infantry. now In the
Philippines, has been ordered TO South At
rica to report on military operations in the
Transvaal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24

Manila. =. L.. Dec. %, 1S99-lce is
highly esteemed in Manila, because it is
hard to get 1t is also very high priced
This statement should give a hint as to a
very profitable field of investment out
here. In the hospitals government-ma
ice is supplied. The people at large. in
Guiding the American and European resi-
dents are obliged to go to the local ice
company, which has plant with n daily
output of something like twentyf0ur
tons.
Few better opportunities of the smaller
kind exist than for the man who thor
oughly understands the retail tobacco
business as it is carried on in the United
States. 1t is purely a matter of taste as
to which Is the best tobacco for a pine.
Hence there must be a great variety IN
Guiding all the wel-kn0wn American
brands. About the only American tobac-
cos 10 be found here at present are those
supplied by the army cOmmissaries. All
tobacco sent out here must come in sealed
tin. Otherwise the climate will get at
the weed and cause it 10 mould. OF
American cigarettes there is already a
plentiful supply in Manila. As to Amcri
can or Havana cigars it would he hope
less TO try to sell them i'm Il place wher"
Il good cigar can be bought, retail at tina
rate of fifty cigars for - cents in Ameri
can money. But for Il thoroughly assert
ed stock of sweet American smoking to-
baccoS there IS every prospect in the
world. Hap will be the man who first
starts type tier agency in Manila.
Outside, of L owned by the govern
tins new metz polls of ours. The demand
for them is growing every day. but not
the supply
At the same time il is well To say that,
at the present writing. there is n very
healthy demand for competent American
StenoSrapherS and typewriter operators.
both in American business houses here
and IN some of the government offices.
Good salaries are obtainabe for the
work. Furthermore. as the market for
such Ia Dor may become gluttcd nj any
time. ! would advise those who wish to
try II to do so only after obtaining Il
guaranteed position through corresponds
enCe. Under no circumstances come out
here without the price Of a return ticket
OF Saddlery and harness goods there is an
, abundance in the market, but it is cheap
! and trashy.
The man owning from three To six ex-
press wagons can establish an excellent
/ business in Manila mt any time in the
near future. At present there i no such
thing as an express company for local
and suburban work.
And this naturally brings MS to another
Subject-American horses. Here is a
splendid opportunity for the man whV
knows the business and who has the cap
ital TO conduct it, The demand is simply
out Of sight in the distance beyond the
/ point of supply HorSeilcsh of any kind
I is at present Il source Of wealth in Ma
/ Mia.
J There is considerable wealth here. some
/ in the army families and some in the
4 commercial circles. and these people want
as handsome hOrSefieSh as they can get.
( fer Manila is essentially q snowy and cN-
D rWslN d frfa M kAslsf
drivers and satidlp-horses would change
+ owners speedily here. All the horses
should lee If the best.-H. Irving Han
/ Cotk in LeSlie's Weekly
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24

We have heretofore said upon the
above subject that Christian Scientists
have done all they properly can do in the
way Of advertising when they unobtru-
sively make known the fact that they
hold themselves in readiness to respond
to calls for healing sickness CT other
wise aiding those who need and desire
such services as come within their PROV
incc and line of duty, and that the push
ing methods which TOO much obtain II
the business world have no legitima'e
place in Christian Science.
We herewith re-emphasiZe that 50.
ment When the line above indic3sti -
passed there is danger of faili's INTO
methods which bring reproaeh 'p"if our
cause. If notices are inserted III the Io-
cal press. they should be fire.. from any
undue attempt To draw attG1tion 10 any
particular person or practitioner OF 70
magnify the healing achieemehts OF one
above another The mJheit TINS RUE
is departed from. the Impartial ana I'M
personal methods Of christian Science
are violated the Spit OF competition or
rivalry asserts itscls and mere personal
benefit or commfcialism usurps the
place that SHOULD and must he, held
sacred 10 the him purposes of Christian
Science practic<-ChriStian Science Sen
,:r.l
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24

Heretofore the geological history OF the
earth has been studied only in the record
of Stratiicd rocks and their contained
fossils. But in every place there have
been land-periods in which. of course.
erosion took the place of sedimentation.
This Kind of record is very imperfect.
because there are no fossils. Until re-
centlv no account was taken of these
erosion periods except as breaks of in
definite length in the record-as lost in
tcrNGls. But now. and mainly through
the work of American biologists, inter.
probation of these erosion periods has
fairly commenced, and 30 important has
this new departure III the study of geolo-
gy seemed TO some that it has been hailed
H. a new era in geology. connecting il
more closely with geography. Heretofore
former land periods were recognized bv
upcoHiormities and the amount of time
iN the degree of change in the fossils
bat now the amount of time is esiimat-
ed IN existing land surfaces by topocraph-
ic forms alone. This idea was introduced
INTO geology by Mai. j. w. Powell, and
has been applied with success by VIII
liam Morris Davis, w. j. Niece and
cthCrs.-From "A Century of Geology"
by Prof. Jose ph lie Conte. in Applctons'
Popular ScieI CO Monthly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
THE SYMPTOM TUNNEL.

On November -, 1898, work was be-
gun on the SimpIon tunnel. The contract
calls for its completion in five aud one
half years, and the price TO be paid is
TIE Hsl long lens ~ Ia Nv al WI ~
completed it will be the third one CON
eetans III iias MN Nh oalsln GJnn'tleS ~
of 49, miles, or from to s per cent. on
travel from Paris to Milan, as compared
with the Mount Gents or st. Gothard
tunnels. The Mount Gents tunnel has ii
length Of eight miles and the St. Gothard
Il length of three miles.
The Simplon tunnel begins in Switzer-
land, near the little town of Brig, in the
valley of the Rhone. Canton Wallis. and
ends in the valley of the Divcria, ON the
Italian side near lsella. 1t will he per-
fectly straight, except for small curve
mt the ingTess and Consul .Adolph
l.. Frankenthal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
The United States Building
Irans-SiDerian Railroad.

1hree great engineering feats, now in
the minds of three leading nations, prom
Use to alter the commercial and diplo-
matte conditions of the world One is
the trans-cOntinental canal route across
Central America. Another IS the Afri
can Cape-tO-Cairo railway of Cecil
Rhodes. The third is the Trans-Siberian
railway of the Gar. The first and sec
ond of these are hardly beyond the stage
of contemplation. They will be known
as twentieth century feats. The last,
however. is a Nineteenth century fact;
it is well under way. European powers
are watching its progress attentively;
for it is recognized that in spite of the
peace conference suggested by its pro
lectoys if contains. I'll IL Ct the essentials
''the man who walks like q beas to Sc
cure ultimately his slice III the partition
of the East. Just now, too. it is OF EVEN
mere interest TO the people of this count
try than the lsthmian canal. because
abstractly speaking, the Siberian
railroad is being built in the United
States.
Let the latter proposition be explained
first The contracts for the equipment
Of the Siberian road are being given to
American firms. Carnegie and the Mary
land Steel company are to supply the
rails: the Baldwin Locomotive. works are
working night and day ON the locomo-
lives; the Pressed Steel Car company is
10 supply frcght-car bodies: Wcsting
house and another New York firm will
make the airbrakes and the electrical APP
paratus: the bridges are being made at
sparrow Point, Md. Stationary engines
and other features of the machine shop
equipment have been made in Pittsburg-
Cincinnati, Schenectady and other Amer
lean cities. Altogether this means the
employment of an army of American
workmen and the influx from Europe Of
many thousands of dollars. Furthermore.
the adoption of these American-mad
goods means that many of the supplies
of the future necessarily will be bought
from this country. In practice it is
found much cheaper for a foreign Coun-
try to replace a broken driving wheel,
for instance. from the original maker,
who keeps it in stock, than il is to make
the wheel abroad This applies to most
of the equipment SO the effect of these
Siberian contracts is highly cumulative,
Theodore Waters in Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
AT AN AFTERNOON TEA.

It's Lent at last. and with 1t. balls
Aud parties hav. been banished;
How speedily have teas end calls
s,cpplauted what has vanished.
l'pmptly today at five O'Clock
left my latest verses,
And sauutered forth around the block
10 tea" at Madame Purses.
The glare Of golden lights within
\ glamour to The eye lent;
] entered. What merry din,
For not a soul was silent.
! greeted Madame, spoke her fair,
Then. left 90 my devices.
Went Hitting here and fitting there
n search of mental spices.
IL vain my scarch Where'er / went
The talk was void and yapid.
Some spoke s.0w-boneyed compliment,
Some gushed in phrases rapid.
From one | heard of coming style,
From one of coming scandal;
One said she hated old Carlyle,
Another hated Handel.
Miss pry laughed slyly at Miss Prim.
Miss Prim at pert Miss Pry laughed;
Miss Pride sc0Fned both. ad Interim
Why marvel then that / laughed
heard politician try
His colleague to disparaCe;
! heard married lady cry
IN speer at love in marriage.
Around me thus flowed glibly out
Small m0ts ana cOinmUuplaccs.
Pique, pride, dissembicd JOY, and doubt
ON fair and ugly faces.
And rs the tai tea-urn / sought.
Wiki gowns Of bright and black cloth.
Why Is this called the time" I thought,
"Of ashes and OF sackclothT
Town Topics
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
WEARS RIBBON OF HONOR.
Facquin, the Man MiIIiner, Made q
CheV Iier of the Legion.

The naughty gentlemen who parade
the bouleyards wearing the tricolored
button Of the Legion of Honor in their
coat lapels are almost choking with in
digna ton.
A milliner, man millincr. a dealer in
artificial flowers, wire. crinoine and
straw, has been made a chevalier of the
legion and will be able to pose and strut
with the coveted tricoiDr in his coat lapel
with as much pride as if he had won
the ribbon by some distinguished service
to science or art. or on the battlefield.
Pacquin, the man milliner of the Rue
de la PaiX. hardly where the Vendome
column rearS its head above the modest
sign of Worth. the dressmaker, is now
a chevalier of the legion and all Paris
is agape with the news.
What, Pacquin," the other chevaliers
say. "a member of the legion, Absurd
ridiculous. impossible. Why he's mil
liner. And I'-and then they burst
forth into description of the distin-
guished service which won for them the
coveted bit of tricolored silk ribbon.
Pacquin was made Il chevalier because
in addition To being the best millincr in
Paris he has done great deal TO teach
Paris tradesmCn how to get and hold
foreign trade. 1t was for his services
to French foreign trade that the govern
ment decorated him.-New York journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
Riritan Sermons.

We fndthat the Puritan oratory, in
quantity At least, if moi in quality. was
enough 10 overpowcr the most daring
moder4 mind. Holy Master Cotton
minisoer of Boston. came out from Eng
LAM with two clergymen-elders they
wdlld then have been called-to accom-
AMY him. and they preached a sermon
apiece on every one Of the forty days II
the voyage. After every meal they had
a sermon. We know that when Samu'
Sewall. afterward best known as Judge
Sewall. preached his first sermon he was
too shy to look at the hour glass. and
preached two hours and half before ~
got 10 the end Of the Sermon.-From Co.,
r. w Higgirson's Address on "Puri;a"
Oratory.'
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
HUMOROUS ITEMS

Manager lof dime museum er+o.;u
nurriediyl-'Say! One er vous t'i my
run down ter the bicycle store ~, -.
repair Kit; the boa constrict,ly.s 80 e
tured. Judge. pane
Did | understand yol to say thai on,
81 yoar y, ancestors .% fought during the Rev
grandfather fell at Bunker Eon ipS't-
Cleveland Plain Dealer. p'e
Flora-"George told me last night tLo.
he believed | could break a mans be aet
with my smile i'"'t
Laura George was talking nonsense
\ man heart is not like mirror
Weekly Telegraph
Warwick-"I don't think the sneat.r
who spoke last night in favor OF cxnaT-
SION d!d me cause very much good :
Nl5kW ne, No! Why not:" War
wick Why. he alluded to The Fil;n;no
Puck.
Office Boy-"Please. sir. I'll like n ..
10 my grandmother tuperai this after-
noon" '''i-
The Editor-'.You should be econom
zeal. Don't waste Your grandmothers sa
early IN the season: save them for m
Final ''-Tit-Bits. 'n
Charles Lamb was one day pl
whist with a certain old lady ia
partner. whose hands showed m IN
want Of care. He gaZed Mt thnm
then with a smile, remarked All
were trumps. what Il hand you've b
Weekly Telegraph.
A volunteer in a Colorado regime
MDnila has been cured of stutteri,
being shot through the throat bv a
ser bRlet-Exchange. Another
in South Africa has been cured al
by being shot through the heart by
other sort of old projectile.-Yo
Statesman.
Teacher-"How many of my sci
can remember the longest sentence
ever read" Rilly-"Please, mum,
Teacher-"What! Is here oalv
Well, William, you can tell tie re
the scholars the longest sentences
ever read Imprisonment
life. '-Tit-Bits.
Judge Ito witnesS) 81 understand
you overheard the quarrel betwee
defendant and his wiH|'
Witness-"Yes. siEf'
Judge-"Tell tho court. If you
what they seemed TO be doing"
Witness-"He Seemed TO be DOH
listening. '-Collier's Weekly.
And now" said the minister. "we viii
sing Old Hundred
just as the announcement was made
brother m tie amen corner commenced
singing The Ninety and Nine"
Hold Sn. there, brother" said the min
lister, YOU amt in the store n0w-there's
no one cent off on these goods. Atlanta
Constitution. ~
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
Private Charities Preferred by the
Poor.

Anyone who is ut al familiar with tn,
feelings of the plain people must I've
aware that, rs rule, they ire more will
ing to he sent. in case of sickness To Il
hospital managed by private corpora
Yet vigorous agitation 10 abolish all
public aid 10 private charities has been
lately set on foot by many well-meaninc
citizens, who, ii seems 10 me, look at
The subject too exclusively from a theo-
retcal standpoint. On the other hand,
rs the supervisor of Catholic charities
in New York city has very well put that
side of the question, the private institu-
tions give the use of their grounds. build.
ings and equipments to lhe public with.
out charge, and in addition do the work
cheaper than il could be done in public
institutions +. L. Wheeler in Atlantic
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24
science AT school.

TIL following comes from an Austria
liam school magazine: III we break a
magnet in halves each piece becomes Il
magnet. Ii we break each piece in halves
each of the smaller pieces becomes A mag
net. until we come To something which
we cannot split up. Each Of these pieces
which cannot he split up further is called
a microhe - Household Words
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24

Alrc0dy the sw0rdhsh has become non
ular as an article Of diet. although II
was not many years ago that the flesh
OF this fish was considered unit "a eat.
Around Block island today there are nu-
merouS SwordtiSh hunters. who depend
upon the industry for living. The fish
are sold in New York and Boston at
paving prices. and most summer hotels
have SwordtSh steaks on their hill Of
fare The swords Of the fish are sold
rs souvenirs Baltimore News
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-03-24

Kansas is 10 have cucumber iaIl.
on large scale. The project is to sen.
100 acres near Lawrence. on the -rl'
Of the proposed electric railroad.
cucumber crop natures just as De
term ends. when pickers cen be easily ?.
cured.