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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
Didn't Like FIattery-Oh, No.
Washington Post.

washington Post.
A girl so pretty that she hadn't the
slightest need to be as clever as she was.
and so wise that she could have done per-
fectly well without tenth of the beauty
she had, stood near me at a Marine Band
concert not long ago. She had with her a
young man whom should call an average
sort of person. He was saying as / came
within earshot:
81 know most men are that way" and
here he paused to enjoy his own super
iority; but I'm not. 1 never could under
stand how the average man can care for
fiattery as he does. 1 always want to hear
the truth about myself. / never want TO
be jollied. I'm funny that way. As soon
as / see a girl is trying TO jolly me / quit.
1t may go with most men, but il won't
with me-.
The dear girl looked up with eyes full OF
innocent admiration She had the kind of
eyes that look best when they look up.
EYES," she said, i've so often noticed
that about you. You seem to have none of
the vanity most men are full Of |
shouldn't think anybody who knew you
at all would ever try to jolly you. You
aren't the kind of a man that cares for
fiattery."
And she looked-why, a whole flock of
lambs couldn't hold a candle to her for
innocence. The man who didn't like fat
terry swallowed IL all down like hero
and smiled. He was perfectly happy. He
didn't like to be jolled. Verify, there isn't
a man on earth who won't dance TO the
tune of fiattery IL only a woman knows
which instrument OF the orchestra to
choose 10 play IL on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
WHY SHE WENT TO A HOSPITAL.
Unhappy Effect of Life in a Washing
ton Boarding House.

Washington Post.
There is something positively pathetic 20
whom ran across yesterday afternoon /
hadn't seen her for several weeks, and she
told me she'd been taking two weeks
vacation.
NO" she answered; I've been In a hos
pital. There wasn't anything the matter
with me-not even nervousness; but was
tired and wanted to go somewhere where 1
could sleep in a real bed You know I've
been in Washington ten mortal years. and
in all that time I've never slept In bed
My sister and took q house when came
here and rented rooms. i slept on sofa
in the parior. 1t was one of those sofas
that split In the middle and open out into
an imitation Of q bed. II hadn't any foot
in the covers at the bottom. For five years
slept there, and six nights out OF seven
the covers pulled on my feet When sister
married I gave up the house and took
room I'm a big apartment house. had only
the one room, so had TO make IL look like
a sitting room during the day, I'm order that
I might have a place TO receive my friends
I couldn't bear the idea OF a boarding
bed that looked like wardrobe. II fell on
me once and nearly killed me. so traded
It off for a sofa. For two years slept on
that. 1t wasn't wide enough to stretch out
on. Later bought divan and had soft
pillows and a cover for IL. II hadn't any
footboard, of course. and IL hadn't any
any headboard to keep the pillows from
falling out at night and giving my head
jerks that nearly broke my neck For ten
years I've slept in scrappy way. My
whole existence has been sham. The
make believe bed has been the symbol OF IL.
Two weeks ago i went TO the hospital. L
had a bed that didn't try TO be anything
else. I had a bolster and a white bed
spread. I had a bed wide enough 10 sleep
crosswise in, bed that was a bed by day
as well by night. I've been TO the
springs and tn, mountains and the sea-
shore, but I've never been anywhere where
I was so happy in that hospital
stayed I'm bed two whole weeks doing moth
ing but getting solid comfort out Of that
bed / am content now to go back to my
divan and my shams. I've had two weeks
OF the real thing and my soul is made
over new within me-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

New Orleans Times-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The great natural bridge in Rockbridge
county Virginia, has been put up for sale.
From the time of George III the natural
bridge Of Virginia has divided honors with
Niagara, as one OF the wonders OF the
new world. 1t approaches the great cata-
ract in grandeur and the awful mystery
of its fashioning. A single block OF lime
stone DIS feet high, and with a width OF
100 feet. IL forms natural span over a
chasm where the sun never enters. The Wis
itor follows a tumbling cascade down the
western slope OF the Blue Ridge noun
tains right in the heart OF Virginia until
he finds himself in dark canyon with
the great bridge towering above him. High
nm on one of the rocks. thirty feet from
the ground are the letters &c. W." quite
alone where Washington when a young
man climbed and carved the initials of the
name which was TO so down in history
m the end OF time. According to one Of
the actions of royalty. the natural bridge.
like all other God-given things of earth.
belonged TO the sovereign OF Virginia. On
acco1lnt of the prominence of the name and
Family perhaps, rather than through love
AZ the part IL played In history, George
TT gave to Thomas jefferson the natural
hrtdre and two thousand of the broad acres
surrounding IL. Long after the statesman
vas ashes the great natural wonder and
the rugged acres spreading near 1t re-
r,ained An the hands Of his heirs. Colonel
Parson purchased the property about the
time Of the civil war. He was killed some
time later Exhibited as curiosity. the
ne f,,ral bridge has for the last fifteen years
Welded about $4,000 year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

vantage of this inexperience. and enticed
these peasants into debt to them. Once In
debt, the serfs quickly became slaves
again-slaves to their creditors. IL was to
put stop to this industrial condition and
this reinstatement that the Jews were
compelled to leave Russia. We have been
most hospitable to them OF these Slavs We
received, for the year ending June 30, 1893,
60 1852. To be sure not all of them were He
brews, but 24,275 confessed that they were.
1t is very likely. indeed, that more than
fifty thousand were Hebrews. The year
previous we received 27,221 who were con-
fessedly Hebrews, and the year before that
%, $50. To get at an approximation OF the
real figures, we would have to double these.
In the year ending with June, 1896, We re-
ceived 45,137 Russian Hebrews. There is no
way to get at the exact facts, but IL is
quite within the truth to say that within
the last decade we have taken into this
country half million of these Slavs. who.
in reality, are Hebrews. That we can as
simulate them seems to be impossible. They
will have to remain race apart. will
also the negroes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

One must have an editorial position In
a magazine office to fully comprehend just
how many people there are with literary
aspirations. The average person has no con-
ception of this vast army. Joseph NJ. Rog-
ers, formerly a well-known Philadelphia
newspaper man, and who is now editor OF
a popular magazine, was in town the other
day, and during the course or conversation
of good fiction We haven't accepted a
single short story In several months" he
said. No; IL isn't that we don't have a
great mass of stuff submitted; it's because
not one story in ten is worth careful
reading. Some are good. but for one rea-
son or other they are not just suitable for
our purpose. II is no uncommon occurrence
for the mails to bring twenty-five short
stories in one day, and our force Of readers
is kept busy. The same conditions undoubt-
eddy prevail in other magazine offices The
great wonder is that the people who never
have their work accepted do not lose heart
and give il up. But they don't seem TO.
They display a tenacity OF pupose which
would be admirable were it not mis-
direcfad"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
A GUESTS MISTAKE.
She Was Wrong in Charging n Hotel
Servant with Dishonesty.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.


I'm disputes where the honesty of a house
servant is involved the guest is nearly al
ways wrong" said an old hotel man, to
whom the question was put in slightly
different form You see, when people are
travelling the customary routine OF their
lives has been. temporarily upset and they
are surrounded by all sorts of distractions.
Under the circumstances 1t is only natural
that they should be careless and forgetful.
and that fact is at the bottom of nine
tenthS of the alleged losses at hotels. Ac-
tual pilfering by house servants is so rare
as to be almost unknown, and, in a life
long experience in the hotel business, /
have encountered only two or three proven
cases. Some of the complaints we receive
would make curious stories. Last Mardi
Gras week, for instance, lady guest came
to my office the morning of her arrival and
said she had been robbed of pearl brace
let and pocketbook containing $40, which
she had left In small valise while her room
was being cleaned up. She was perfectly
calm and told an extremely straightfor-
ward story. Just before 1 stepped out.
she said, L opened the valise and saw the
purse and bracelet inside When / re-
turned they were gone. i shall look to you
to recover them.' We made a most ex-
haustiye search, without results. Two
maids had been in the apartment at the
time. but somehow l couldn't be-
lieve them guilty and wouldn't al
low them to be molested. Meanwhile
the lady was quiet, but firm, and after
several days had elapsed told me she must
have settlement at once l. promised ner
a check that night, and less than an hour
later I received a telegram from the pro-
prietor of a hotel at Chattanooga request
ing me to tell Mrs. - that she had left
a purse and bracelet there while en- route to
New Orleans. L was overjoyed and couldn
resist taking little revenge. So 1 said
nothing until the madame called for the
check. Then / told her politely that had
become satisfied upon reflection that she
had not left the articles in her room. Sir
she exclaimed, turning scarlet, do you
question my word? Not in the least
replied; I merely question your memory
But L tell you saw the things she cried
opened the valise, looked at them not ten
minutes before / was robbed! / demand
immediate payment and the arrest of those
servantsr For answer / handed her the
telegram and spared her feelings by walk
ing away. How do account for such a
case? Oh, merely self-deceptton. The lady
was perfectly honest; she thought she saw
the articles, but all the same she came
very near running two entirely innocent and
humble working people BY the way. she
called me aside at her departure and told
me she was grieved that she had placed
the maids under suspicion. Just to show
them feel kindly. she said. let them d.
vide that between them. She pressed sill
yer quarter into my hand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
THE PARIS WORK GIRL.
She Is Frivolous but Harmless, La
bOrious and Much MaIigned.

Paris Letter in London Globe.
A great feature of Partisan life is the
work girl. that bright, dainty, neat and in
dustrious type of womanhood. Early in the
morning when the shop boys are cleaning
the shop windows, an operation which is
performed very much earlier here than In
London, and when they, the scavengers
and the policemen are the only folk abroad,
the girls may be seen In their hundreds
tripping down from the heights of Mont
marie or from Clichy or from Grenelle into
the heart of Paris Few are pretty,
though one occasionally sees a beauty.
Most are piquant and all are not only neat
but chic as well. They have their fashions
just as richer women have theirs, and each
season most of the girls wear very much
the same sort of thing, particularly in the
way of headgear. More often than not
their gowns are black and they have some
thing white at the throat and bunch Of
violets tucked into the bodice. They walk
in groups and giggle and laugh as they
trudge along the weary miles that lead
them to their hard days work At IL
o'clock, the luncheon hour, they pour out
into the Rue de Ia Paix, the Rue de Rivoli
and the surrounding streets and this time
they are hatless. They have splendid hair
black, red auburn, all the varieties. Near
ly all have quantities of It, as have all
Partisan women of the lower classes, who
rarely wear hats, and ii Is exQuisitely
dressed. The dejeuner is, as a rule, a
meager one. / know of one worlxroom, be-
longing. by the way, to an English house,
the girls may cook something for them
selves. There may be others of this kind,
but it IS not usual, and a rule il is a
question either of being limited to cold
viands brought in the morning or going to
''cremerie'' 'marchand de wins At
either of these places a small but dainty
lunch may be procured for little more than
a franc, though, to be sure, even this rep
resents very large slice out of the earn
ings Of the elegant little ''trottin." Five
francs day is excellent wage, and a
woman must be a skillful work woman TO
get that In very exceptional circum-
stances she may get more. but hundreds of
girls work for francs 60 cents) or 3
francs a day Out of that they must feed,
or. say here, 'nourish' themselves,
clothe themselves, pay for omnibuses on
wet days and for sleeping accommodation
if they do not happen TO live with their
family.
Yet with all this they form one of the
most patient, laborious and altogether ad-
mirable classes, though of the most
traduced. The vicious work girl, out OF
whom certain Partisan caricaturists have
made so much capital, exists, indeed, but
to very limited extent. And this is all
the more extraordinary when one realizes
how much temptation falls in the way of
any really pretty work girl.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
New York Ledger.

New York Ledger.
To read OF the variety OF useful things
that are to-day being manufactured from
Indian corn pith, neglected for centuries as
worthless, is like delving into the mysteries
of an Indian fairy tale. There are three
cellulose plants in the United States.
The largest has Just been completed in
Indiana and has q mechanical equipment
costing over 100000 Here is an interesting
list of some of the numberless articles
that corn pith will become on its devious
progress through the machinery: A prod
uct for protecting battleships. smokeless
powder. dynamite. face powder. patent
leather finish, kodak films, varnish and
car box pacling-aller. IL SOUNDS like a
modern Aladdin's lamp, as though one had
orly 10 put in the corn pith. start the ma
chinery. murrnur an incarnation. and.
presto, the desired article Is at hand. from
dynamite TO face powder. The outer lining
of the constalk, that incloses the pith, fur
nishes a separate revenue Of it's own. as il
is converted into -four that IS used TO
feed and fatten cattle and chickens. Over
160. 0,0o tons OF cornstalks have been an
nually going to waste; to-day this farm
product is worth 50 a ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
where Cape Nome In.
Harper's Week.,

Harper weekly
Cape Nome is situated on the shore or
Boring sea at the mouth OF Snake river.
Seward peninsula. central western Alaska.
u. S. A, 65 degrees north latitude and lee
degrees west longitude. and, by the ocean
route distant from its base OF supply Sc
attic, some 2.700 miles In making the ocean
trip from Seattle one steams westward for
100 miles across the North Pacific ocean
to Dutch harbor, on the Aleutian archipel-
ago. and thence northward 500 miles TO thu
land OF gold passing en- route the govern
ment's seal rookeries on the Prfbyloff
islands. During the ocean voyage of ten
days one is encompassing a part OF the
100000 miles OF Alaskan territory. and on
reaching Cape Nome is as far west OF Sc
attic as Chicago is east.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
Washington Post


A young Englishman who left town
fortnight ago to return TO his native land
after six months visit in America, took
time before he went away 10 tell me about
some of the extraordinary things he has
learned on his travels, and now that he
is on the nigh seas, where he can't posi-
bly, read this. / am free to repeat TO you
most important and singular fact he i'm
parted 10 me concerning Lake Superior.
very learned man told IL I'm Duluth.
Here's what the Euglishman told me the
wise man told him:
You know the water in Lake Superior
Is intensely cold" said he: Its a most
extraordinary thing. too. for ii is many
degrees colder than the water In any other
of the Great Lakes 1t was most interest
ing to me to learn of the curious American
custom that causes II. In winter. / was
informed by a gentleman in Duluth. the
ice freezes on Lake Superior to depth
of twenty or twenty-five feet-fancyl And
the harvesting OF the ice crop. he assured
me- is the chief industry of the laboring
classes. The ice is cut into immense
blocks. that are so large II would be diff
dcult to lift them from the water: so, in
order to preserve them, they are weighted
With shot, attached by ropes to buoys, and
sunk 70 the bottom Of the laks. A most
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

ingenious idea, isn't IL? When they are
needed they are fioated to the surface.
towed ashore, and cut up. The whole bot
tom of the lake Is quite paved with Ice
blocks am told. It's most extraoroin-
airy thing, but one can't help seeing that
that's why the water is very cold It's
really a lake OF iced water, you know.
shall tell them at home that you Americans
are so fond OF iced water that you keep a
whole lake of IL in the States. Curious
idea, isn't IL? But so cleverly American.
you know"
And perhaps some day theren be book
printed in England. which shall let all the
world know why Lake Superior water 10
so very cold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

as anybody knows who has even rudi-
mentary knowledge of physiology II Cor
bett had really broken knuckie, which is
a very rare and serious injury, he would
nave been placed hors du combat inlme-
diately and his fighting days would have
been over forever. No man alive could
strike a blow with his fist after the actual
fracture of joint. The pain would be ex-
cruciating What probably happened, as a
matter OF fast, was a simple dislocation.
which Is bad enough of itself, but not TO
be compared with a broken bone. The
phrase | quoted is merely part and parcel
OF our great American habit OF exaggera-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
OUR RUSSIAN JEWS.
Fifty Thousand Come Every Year
Can We AssfmfIate Themf
eed. in Ainslee's Magazine.

]. G. Speed. in Ainslees Magazine
The majority of Slavs set down in the Of
fetal reports as Russians, Polish, Hum
garians and so on, are really Hebrews who
have been driven away from those coun-
tries. not because of their religion, but on
account of their methods of conducting
business. For instance, the Jew is never,
trader, and. preferably, a money lender.
The serfs OF Russia were freed as our me-
groes in the South have been. They be-
came, as a rule. small farmers. Living for
many generations under feudal and patri-
archal bondage they had little experience
In Independent business The Jew money
lenders and traders Ia Russia soon took 3D.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
rimes-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
II have often been amused" said a New
Orleans surgeon. 'in reading accounts of
prize fights TO learn that such and such
a slugger broke his knuckles' in the
'steenth round. 1t is said by Corbett's man
ager, for instance, that he broke
knuckle' on each hand during his recent
bout with Jeffries. and similar mishaps oc-
cur almost every time couple of bruisers
get into ring: OF course that Is eli bosh.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

Ladies' Home Journal.
a girl" says Mrs. Green. fought 90 b
careful about the man she marries. espe-
cially IL he has money. She oughtn't 70
marry until she's old enough 10 know what
she's doing anyway. s,ss The ecarcest
thing In the world to-day r. . thoroughly
reliable man"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

representative Of -go-aheadism.' And Chi
caso mas not much brain, but has the most
wonderful physical power
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

the new management Of the big company
is being watched with great interest by the
industrial world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17

NJ DOLLAhDC
"One thing. however. that strikes me
most forcibly in walking on the streets
OF Chicago is the total absence of cleepy-
looking faces-there Is not even one sleepy
mortal. tell you. How foolishly the Jap
ahese look in brown skin and dreamy eyes!
Brown itself is the color of melancholy
and stupidity; but it shows some sweetness
and pleads guilty TO contentment. Brown
Is Ike night The white-skinned Americans
are like the day: they are the people Of
hard working, as the daytime is of work.
ne Orientals are the people Of rest and
dreams
The Americans-that means Chicagoans.
since Chicago is the typical city OF this
great republic of riches and business-are
nothing If they do not work hard. as the
Cock Is nothing IL il do not move The
SAleagoans were born to work hard; even
Desgars-lazy enough 70 begin Chicago
handle a music machine.
On, what feverish activity The Chi
clgoans are never still. never pause TO
mink; they are not at rest Even when
they are sitting they must be on the move;
they talk loud on modern topics-on nying
machines or the eloDement of society
peiie. Look at the rOclxing-chair habit or
Americans--a part of their scheme OF per-
petual motion. nowhere else so nearly
achieved.
Why do the chicagoans work so hard |.
for happiness2 I hardly believe they are
working for happiness, but i believe they
are working because they love work; they
amply like 10 go ahead. they cannot De
iazy; they are like the overland train
Americans. II / mistake them not, are
not people with serious ambitions, Chi
ssso. the typical American city, Is the
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05

Ns- For Sale and Rent-Farms. Bushes:
Stands, Town Lots. Money to loan. IL. a,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05
LEGALIZE THE PRIMARIES.

1t is a source of qualification for us
to be able to state that there will be
a primary election law passed at the
present session of the Legislature pro-
vided the proper measures submitted.
While there never was much doubt
but that it would receive the en-
dorsement of our law makers yet there
was an element opposing it, while not
at all large, was extremely energetic
and could scatter discomfort like the
fire brands tied to the foxes tails.
The Legislature is now in session
and steps should be taken at once to
have a good bill drawn up and pre-
sented before the rush OF business
commences. In order to bring the
matter to head, we understand that
the proposed law is now being put in
proper shape and that it will soon be
introduced. As the time is short, it
may be impossible to have its pro-
visions made public before. being pre-.
sented to our Hartford representatives
but every effort will be made to have
its main points made public before it
is finally passed. 1t is the desire OF
the trainers Of the bill to get as intel,
ligent an expression of opinion on the
matter as is possible, and we hope
that all friends of good government
will inform themselves thoroughly
and give the public the benefit OF
their opinion.