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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-09

Building Permits.

The Keyless Lock Company. brick factor, snl
Office building. $500
W vonderseer. shed. 1909 North New Jersey
street. So.
street. 1925
n. O. Leth addition. 1885 Howard street 500.
:. Salmino. cottage. Elder avenue. 81. 40
J. y Harlan, repairs, Az West Eighteenth
street. sf-0.
r. IL Myers. frame cottage. West Washington
street. near Addison. 81. 20
+. H. l.. Wolf. two-storv frame dwelling Park
way avenue. East street 81 400.
James Krager. repairs. soS Highland avenue.
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The County Commissioners yesterday an
nounced the appointment OF AL Harcourr
as superintendent of the county poorfarm.
to succeed Superintendent Smith. Frank L.
Dougherty was reappointed superintendent
OF the Juiietta Insane Hospital.
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OF the = Of the q 4. Sec IS. To Is.
II 2 decatur township ................
indianapolis Land and Improvement Co.
TO Alice a. Jones. Lot pa. "a section OF
west faTh -. .. :. .--.---+...
Mary Jane Ogle 10 Earl NJ. Ogle q al,
Lots 90. l05. JOG. l5s. 2l3. PA and 27e.
a. NJ. Ogle Ct ais East Park add
(New York 81, near Eastern av. ........
Transfers. %; total consideration. s.
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The Weeks Transfers.
SALES OF REAL ESTATE.


Instruments filed for record in the recorders
Office Of Marion county. Indiana. for the twenty
four hours ending at p. m. June S. 1901 fur
nished by the Indiana Tigle Guaranty and Loan
Company. No. l2s East Market street. Both tel
ephones 3oo5:
Cora Bell ct al. TO Vim. c. Kokemiiler
et ux.. Lot Is. Hosbrook's Prospect-st
Robert w. Long TO Hattie Huismier,
part Of Lot 81. Julian OF Ais sub and
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Shelton c. Evans. OF 5iiz West Washing.
ton street. who was in the employ OF Gus
Hauck, a commission merchant. was ar
rested yesterday upon complaint OF his
employer on a charge OF embezzling SO. th
proceeds OF a load OF produce which Evan
is said TO have sold without making AMI
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James w. Simmons. of Bloomington.
Monroe county. has filed petition I'm bank
ruptcy IN the United States Court. His la.
bilities are So, cal IS and his assets amount
20 $3.50 IL Is stated that the debts wen
contracted by the firm OF j. W. Simmons q
Co.. which went out OF business In 1SS&
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-09

The letting of the contract for the new
Hall of Science at the State University.
has been postponed from June Is till June
Is. The hall is to be 100000 building.
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erty OF Mrs. ]. Davis to William Rowe
Two lots also sold in Irvington for
$500 each. One of the lots, which is on Uni
versity avenue. was sold to Hattie Huls-
mier who will build modern dwelling on
the property. The other was decided to Hat
tie Poeher by Florence V. Jones.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13

cotton; the East Indies, Egypt and
smaller countries the other tenth. We
can hardly maintain this ascendency
with the efforts making to take away
the business. Japan, for example, is
manufacturing cotton cloth, and takes
largely of our supply. Now she has
cut her demand in two because by
using cheap Indian cotton and mixing
it with the American article she can
place her goods on the market at less
price than if wholly made of our ma
terial. Another competitor will ma
terialize in a few years. With the
damming of the Nile and the estab-
lishment of the irrigating canals which
are part of the enterprise, a vast
tract of Egypt will be opened up for
the cultivation of the cotton plant
An area equal to four large American
states will be reclaimed and much of
it will be devoted to cotton raising
European and Asiatic manufacturers
expect to get the material much
cheaper, because Egyptian labor is
paid so little in comparison with
American.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
Bridge Named for a Heroine.

A railroad bridge across the Des
River, near Boone, Ia, is to be called
Kate Shelley Bridge, after a heroine
who 20 years ago saved a passenger
train from destruction there. She was
then girl of 16 and was seated in her
mothers cottage when one night she
saw an engine fall through bridge
during a raging flood. Lighting Ian
tern, she sped away through the storm
to Moingona, told of the disaster and
saved passenger train from follow
ing the Inflated engine to a watery
grave. The state of Iowa gave her a
medal for her bravery, her name has
been celebrated in poetry and prose,
and, as lasting monument to her he
roic deed, it has been decided to name
the structure now in process Of con-
struction the Kate Shelley Bridge.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
ONE OF THE
IMMORTAL POEMS
OF LANGUAGE.

+ Are safely garnered there.
Though h life become a dreary waste,
We Know its fairest sweetest flowers,
Ifansplanted into paradise,
Adorn immortal bowers.
The voice of bird-like melody
That we have missed and mourned so
long.
In everlasting song.
There is no death! although we grieve
NV, When beautiful. familiar forms
From our embracing arms.
Although with bowed and breaking heart
We bear their senseless dust to rest,
And say that they are dead
Beyond the mists that bind us US here here
Into the new and larger life
or that serener sphere
They have but dropped their robe of clay
~, 70 put their shining rairent on:
h T6yey ha are MOT mot far
Though diSsenthalled and glorified,
M They .;.a still are here; and love us yet;
They never can forget.
And sometimes, when our hearts grow
Amid temptations fierce and deep,
Or when the wildly raging waves
or grief or passion sweep,
We feel upon our fevered brow
Their r gentle touch their breath of
Their arms enfold us. and our hearts
Grow comforted and calm.
And ever near us. though unseen,
The dear, immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life--there are no dead.
These lines We're first printed in a
Philadelphia magazine. Some time
thereafter, man named Eugene Bull
mer, writing on the subject of Tim
mortality" quoted the poem, without
crediting the author. One paper
clipped the poem, changing the name
of E. Bulmer to e. Bulwer. Other pub
locations copied it and the poem went
on record as the work of Lord Edward
Bulwer-Lytton.
A friend of McCreery who stood
high with President Grant, asked the
author of the poem be appointed Of
fetal stenographer and quoted the
verses as proof of his ability. Then
general said the poem was very good
but what he wanted when he became
public business and that the fellow
who was good at writing poetry, gem
orally was not good for anything else.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
Terrors of the Pl,er,mar e

AS is always the case when the first
day of the Courban; Bairam festival
falls on Friday, there will this year
be an enormously increased outpour-
ing of pilgrims from all Mohammedan
countries to Mecca, writes Cairo cor
respondent. From Algeria and Tunis
alone more than 10000 are expected;
from Egypt and the Egyptian Soudan,
and from Morocco and the Saharan
hinterland, there will probably be
twice as many more, while from Tur-
key in Europe, Asia Minor, Central
Asia, India and the Far East the null
titudes cannot even be guessed. 1t is
unnecessary to add, considering all the
conditions of the Mecca pilgrimage
that the danger of epidemics in Europe
is greatly augmented Milwaukee,
Wisconsin,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
Mars UNIT for Human Hab,tat,on.

An article of Prof. Edward S. IIol-
den in McClure's Magazine knocks a
good deal of the romance out of the
conjectures regarding the inhabitants
OF the planet Mars. He says that spec
troscopic observation made at this
Lick Observatory, far more complete
and thorough than those made at
other stations, lead to the conclusion
that the atmosphere of Mars is GER
tainly less in amount than that sur
rounding the SUBMITS of the highest
Himalayan peaks. 1t is by no means
certain that what air there is is Of
the right kind for human beings to
breathe. All telescope observation
leads to the conclusion that there are
no clouds on Mars. If there were air
and water clouds would certainly form.
The sky of Mars is absolutely sunny.
1t is safe to say that, speaking gen.
orally, Mars is planet without water,
without air in many marked quantity,
and totally unfit for the abode Of hui
man beings.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
TWO PRESIDENTIAL TRIPS.
Some of the Features Tint Dlstipg u,shed

Gen. Harrison's Tour.
There are many points Of similarity
between the transcontinental tour of
President Mckinley and that made by
the late President Harrison exactly ten
years ago The trip made by Gen.
Harrison was a memorable one in
many respects, outside of the nota BILE
series of speeches which broke all rec
ords up to that time. 1t was the long
est trip ever made by President in
Office, and was remarkable in that not
single accident or incident occurred
to interfere with the elaborate railroad
schedule or to mar the comfort or en-
joyment of the Presidential party. The
party left Washington at 1910 O'Clock
a. III. Tuesday. April II. 1891, and after
a journey of 9,22S miles returned home
at $50 o'clock May Is, on exact sched-
ule time to the minute. Stops were
made for longer or shorter periods at
the principal cities in the states of
Virginia Tennessee. Georgia, Alabama,
Arkansas, Texas. Arizona, California,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah,
Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana
and Pennsylvania. At no time was
there any break in the arrangements
and the entire prearranged program
was carried out to the letter at every
point on the route. During the entire
time the party was on the road it oc-
cupied special train Of five magnifi-
cent Pullman coaches, and, with the
exception of locomotives, no change
was made in the composition of the
train from beginning to end, and there
was not single change of cars on any
of the different lines traversed. The
train was made up of an observation
car. dining room car, combination
library and smoking car and the pri-
waite car New Zealand, which latter
was assigned to the special use OF
President and Mrs. Harrison. The
train was lighted throughout with
electricity and provided with every
possible facility for comfort and con-
venience including a fully equipped
barber shop. The Harrison trip oc-
cupied 81 days and covered 9,22s
miles, while the Mckinley trip will oc-
cupy 3S days and will cover about TO-
500 miles.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
. THERE IS
NO DEA TT

One of the immortal poems of the
English language, the authorship of
which has long been the subject of
much controversy, begins with the
lines, There is no death; the stars go
down to shine upon some other shore"
Scores Of school books and maya
zines, in publishing these, have
ascribed their writing to Lord Bulwer-
Lytton. AS a matter of fact they are
products of the genius of j. l.. Nc
Creery of Iowa.
The Origin of the Poem.
Driving homeward one afternoon in
March, 1868, over lonely country
road, his mind ran from such material
things as the possible foreclosure of
the mortgage on his little printing
plant at Delhi, and the future source
of his daily bread and butter, to his
higher and spiritual destiny. He pom
dered upon the question of immortal
ity At first his meditations were SOM
Der and gloomy. But as night came on
and one after another the stars APP
peared in the sky. the subdued and
impaired a more serene and hopeful
tinge to his thoughts and feelings.
Gradually the conviction came to him
that life was eternal and this conclu-
sion framed itself in the first four lines
of the poem. When he reached home.
and the duties of practical every day
life were ended, he devoted himself to
the expression of his poetical ideas and
these lines were the result:
THE POEM.
There Is no death the stars go down
To rise upon some other Shore
And bright in heavens jeweled crown
They shine for evermore.
There is no death! the forest leaves
Convert to life the VieWleSS air;
The rocks dsorsanize to feed
The hungry moss they bear.
There is no death! the dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer show
erS
To golden grain. or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
There is no death the leaves may fall
The flowers may fade and pass away
| They only wait through Wintry hours,
The warm. sweet breath of May.
There is no death. the choicest gifts
That heaven hath kindly lent to earth
Are ever first to seek again
The country of their BIRTH
And all things that for growth or joy
Are worthy of our love or care,
Whose loss has left us desolate,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
a UNIQUE Mls$ouRl TOWN.

No Taxes Are Levied hut = Great De
gree of Prosperity Is Enjoyed.
The problem of municipal govern
ment at minimum, expense has APP
parently been solved most successfully
by the little town of Shunlway. in Eff
fingham county, Missouri. Shumway
which has population of 800, was
founded 26 years ago, but was not in
corporated until 1895. The inhabitants
CT the village are chiefly Germans and
every one has some honest occupation.
Shumway has more than three miles
of brick walls, all constructed since
the village was incorporated. The
village has paid 65 per cent of the
costs OF constructing the walks and
the property-holder the remaining IS
per cent. 1t has put requisite num-
Der of crossings and placed the thor
oughfares in better condition than in
many places of 5000 population. The
most remarkable part of all this inn
provement is that not a cent of tax
has been levied by the village authori-
ties since the incorporation took place.
license issued to one man, who has an
exclusive privilege of dispensing the
ardent" within the village limits. He
pays $500 per annum into this village
treasury for this privilege, and, while
several other residents have essayed to
open saloons, the village board has
frowned upon every attempt. believing
III 49, 0f - <S11o
every requirement. The president and
the board of trustees receive no sal
aries or fees for their services. The only
salaried officers are the village clerk,
who receives SIS per annum, and the
village, marshal, who draws $50 per
annum. The marshal's duties are
chiefly those of janitor when the
village board is in session. Only on
holidays and special occasions is he
required to serve as an officer. Not a
single arrest has been made in the
past year, and in the villages history
nearly every one of the dozen persons
arrested has been intoxicated. When
ever it becomes necessary to appre-
bend an offender the populace turns
out en- masse, and assists in making
the arrest. The captive is locked up
until sober. and the proceeds used in
constructing more walks or improving
the streets. The villagers enjoy a
great degree of prosperity, every man
of family, with but strikingly few ex-
ceptions, owning his own home and
keeping his property In excellent
shape.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
Our Country. Oldest settlo,n.nA

Arizona now claims the oldest set
Element in the United States and is
telling st. Augustine and Santa Fe
that they are at least half of CEN
fury behind her little town OF Tucson.
the county seat of Pima county, where
there are 5000 in habitants on the
Identical spot settled by Spaniards in
the middle Of the 18th century. The
claim is based on recently discovered
documents in the old mission Of (San
Xavier, dated 1852. which tell Of AZ set
Element being authorized by the
church, and other parchments Which
place the founding of Tucson in 1855.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13

Emperor Williams public plants
against the weakening authority of the
crown must raise a smile in Turkish
councils. where preventive measures
abound. Avoid suggestive dots in
the body of an article" reads re-
cent official circular to Turkish news
papers; they tend to raise suppose
tons and disturb the tranquility Of
the readers mind" Again: DO not
publish articles TOO long for compile
ton in single Issue The notice. To
be continued causes an uncomfortable
tension of the mind" Piquant formu-
las, certainly; only the sultan seems
TO forget that other phrase, "The end, :"
which sooner or later must be writ
ten for all governments not republi.
can in form.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
DUTCH HoUsEcLEANlNG.
Houses Are Scrubbed Within and With
out Every Saturday


Every Saturday is housekeeping day
in Holland. Early in the morning,
writes Mary A. Peirotto in Scribners,
every stick of furniture is rubbed and
wiped carefully and taken out of the
house. Then the women, with their
skirts tucked up, entirely flood the
rooms with bucket after bucket Of
water, brought up from the canal by
means Of the shoulder-yoke. With
broom and brush they souse and
scrub the red-tiled floor and finally
pull up plug in one corner to let the
water flow outlet US hope into the
canal.
While the floor is drying a great pol
ishing goes on in the street Quaint
old brass lamps and candlesticks, to-
bacco boxes and ash trays, huge milk
cans-all are FURNISHED until, like
golden mirrors, they reflect the red
checked, white-capped faces bent over
| them.
The lacquer-man is busy on Satur-
day. He goes from house to house
painting the bread-trays and honey
cake boxes with designs of gaudy birds
and wondrous leaves and flowers.
The street is in turmoil until noon,
when order is partially restored and
the scanty midday meal partaken Of
In the afternoon washing is resumed
The exteriors of the cottages are
scrubbed from roof to pavement, and
every trace of mold removed for in
this low, wet air the green moss gath
ers quickly. Then the brick pave
ments are drenched and carefully
dried, and | have even seen the
women slip off their sabots and tiptos
to their doorways in their wooleI
chaussons, so as not to soil the i'm
maculate sidewalk.
Lastly, toward evening, the entire
village goes to the canal, and all the
sabots are washed and whitened witt
pumicestone, spotless for the morrow
On Saturday evening all the pickets O
the low back fences are decorated witt
rows of dripping footwear, carefully
graduated in size from the big woode1
sabots of the father down to the tin!
sabots of the youngest born.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
HE WAS A MARTYR.
CHARLES GOODYEAR GAVE HIS
LIFE TO SCIENCE.
Tho Genius Who Discovered tho Pro-
cess of vulcanizing Rubher-Never
Knew Many Days That were Free
from Want.


civilization and civilization has done
good deal for rubber, says writer in
Ainslee's Magazine; but both are in
debted to Charles Goodyear, hero and
martyr
A Connect cut Yankee.
Goodyear was Connecticut Yankee,
born at Naugatuck, Dec. 20, 1900.
Those now living who remember him
in the flesh knew him as frail little
man with soulful eyes and a sympa-
thetic nature. Goodyear after de-
voting the energies of his life to ex-
periments discovered inflammation,
process which neutralizes the adhesive
ness of rubber, while hardening it, so
that heat does not dissolve it or cold
impair it's elasticity. The chemists
had sought the great secret in vain.
Triumph was reserved for man who
was always in debt and sometimes in
prison, and occasionally reduced to the
most pitiful shifts to keep the wolf
| from the door. Goodyear was origi-
| nally hardware dealer in small
way, but he got interested in rubber
when it began to make a stir in the
world with the first Importation of
shoes from Brazil. They were soon
being made in New England, but the
business tumbled to ruin when the rub
Der decomposed in hot weather and
| gave out an offensive odor. Goodyear,
although without money or credit, set
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13


American public schools and educa-
tional methods are going to the ends
OF the earth. Cuba. Porto Rico. Ha-
wall, and now the Philippines. are
making the acquaintance of American
teachers; and that they are good
teachers Is plainly indicated by the
care with which the war department.
through the civil service commission
Is selecting them. Applications fol
positions are pouring in at the rate OF
twenty-five day. Only those are
chosen who are graduates of either a
college or a normal school. have had
several years experience in teaching
and now hold positions, and can offer
conclusive proof Of success in their
work.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13

John Newman, formerly an Indian
ighter and a pioneer Of Arizona re-
Gently recovered bar of bullion worth
$4,000, which he had buried in the
ground at the root of tree near Phoe-
nix, Ariz., more than thirty years ago
during an Indian attack. He was
driven out Of the country, but made a
map OF the surroundings from mem
Dry. He returned a year later. but
che face of the country was altered.
and he could not find his map. He
went to Europe. and has been living
in London nearly ever since. A few
months ago he discovered the Old map
or chart. among some papers. He had
accumulated a little money by mining
in South Africa, and with 1t he pur-
chased ticket to this country, and.
with friend, began search for the
lost bullion. He located the tree and
recovered the bar.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13

American scholarship has been crit
icized for lack of thoroughness.
What was to be expected of a nation
that so lately set up housekeeping.
and had a wild continent to subdus?
But we are gradually settling to the
business Of superior education. The
number of postgraduate students to
each million inhabitants steadily rose
from eight in 1880 to ,seyenty-four in
1S9S-the latest year for which returns
are given. And this statement does
not include those who pursue their
studies in European univernitiaa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13

Already several steam plants have
made experiments with the newly de-
veloped oil found at Beaumont Texas
as SO far the tests appear to have been
satisfactory. The Jennings Electric
Light and Power company put in the
necessary apparatus for using the oil
as fuel, and began its use in it's large
plant, which supplies the town with
light and power. At Houston also ex
periments have been made in the same
direction and with satisfactory results
while several Of the canal pumping
stations in Southwestern Louisiana
are getting ready to change their fuel
from coal and wood to oil. If after
full and sufficient experiments it is
found that the Beaumont oil will be as
cheap and as satisfactory in other re-
spects as coal, there is no telling the
extent of the demand that will be
made upon the oil wells for steam.
heating purposes.
Americans, like the Russians, have
4 fifth season in each year. The pc.
Rod between the autumns rains and
the winter frost has a name in Russia
which is rendered. "the time when nc
man can travel" Our fifth season is
educational rather than meteorologi
cal. It is the graduation season. Their
ever man travels. in memory, back te
diploma days, and each boy and CIR
journeys in anticipation through com
ing years which are to be bright and
fruitful. The season is once more
near at hand. May it bring the usual
treasures Of memory and of hope!
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-13
Origin of Tammany,s Tiger.

The origin of the tiger as an en-
blem Of Tammany is said by w. G..
Montanye, coffee and spice dealer in
New York, to date from the time
when William NJ Tweed, then fore
man of big Six fire company took
a fancy to a picture of royal Bengal
tiger in the elder Montayne's store in
the sos. Tweed adopted the en-
blem for the Americas Club. and it
soon was accepted by all Tammahy.