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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-18
The Resort of the Desperate.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
My love-" said the wife of the naval
hero. 'are you aware that you are quite
out of presentable linen?"
e Yes. my DEAR" replied the hero, "I am
quite too we'll aware of il"
And your socks are really unmendable
and you haven't respectable tie to your
name
ut is a s you say, my love"
But you can't go on like this, dear I
know we are awfully cramped for money.
but still there are social amenities that
must not be forgotten. If you were a poet,
or even an editor. perhaps you might be as
eccentric as you pleased about your clothes,
you must consider the feelings of the pub
lie"
The hero groaned and rubbed his head
feebly.
1T is as you say my dear Alas. I have
known all along that the crisis was ap-
preaching. 1 have fought against it, really
ing that there was but one inevitable re-
sort. / had hoped we could avoid this hu-
initiation. but it is not to be-
And he buried his head in his hands while
his slender frame quivered.
But you must not humiliate yourself -
cried the devoted wife.
1T is too late" muttered the hero. ITO
morrow we will be rolling in wealth-but,
all, at what COST
my love. my love-" cried the distracted
wife, what have you done?"
What have | dOne? he shouted 81 have
yielded to the golden whisper of the tempt
er and written a magazine article five
thousand words long,
And he again buried his dishonored head
in his hands and sobbed convulsively.
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TREATMENT OF JURIES.
Justice Brewer Shows why Most Men
Evade Their Duty.

Omaha Bee.
In his just published book on American
Citizenship" Justice David ]. Brewer, of
the United States Supreme Court has this
to say of jury duty as nowadays conducted:
1--WE are called upon to act as witnesses
and jurors. How many gladly avoid the
discharge of those dutiesi IT is astOnish-
ing when a jury list is summoned TO find
how many sick people there are on 1t. L
do not wonder that they are sick. 1 think
1 should be. The sickness of juror is
like the Sunday headache, which USED TO
be so common in college.
1.-The Jury system, as at present admin
istered in many States al least, Is little
more than a relic of semi-civilized condi-
tions.
THE Juror is too often treated as a Grim
inal or suspected of an intention TO be-
come one. Shut up at night, as II Tor lear
he may become fugitive from Justlce,
given a compensation scarcely exceeding
that which a day laborer receives, listen
ing for days to witnesses who are some
times stupid and often confusing, annoyed
by the wearisome wrangles between attor-
news concerning the admission or rejection
of testimony, L do not wonder that a DuSl-
ness man seeks TO avoid its burdens; ana
/ hope that the time will come when a
juror will be treated though he were an
honest man, denied no more OF the COM
forts of home than the judge himself paid
that which is an adequate compensation
for his time, and then the unanlmlty now
required and which prompts TO all the
strenuous effort to guard against undue IN
fiuences upon one. or TO secure the kindly
assistance of one-a unanimity which Is
called for in scarcely any other tribunal
on the face of the earth-Shall give way 70
a system in which the concurrence OF a
reasonable majority of the jurors shall de-
termine the verdict.
$50 a witness is often insulted by oppos-
ing counsel. He is Intercepted as though
he were presumably a liar and questions
are put TO him with insinuations and in a
manner which every honorable man feels
like reSenting.
But, notwithstanding all the disagree
able features which attend service as a
witness juror, it is an obligation resting
upon the citizen and one which as duty
he should not ignore. Let him strive for
reformation. but meantime not make him
self a delinquent
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Safe Deposit Boxes

be all day about H. A body'd think you
had all the time they was. Them eggs a-Eit-
tin cold. ought 10 leave The last words
are choked by the gulp she gives when he
rams fat and squirting annelid down her
gullet with an alert air OF: "HOws that
Huh2 All right? Huh?' He snatches up
two at time and slaps them In. How
thatg HuhR All riCht2 Huh2' and he
keeps popping in tidbits.
Between swallows she Jaws az him. Just
because she can. about how those eggs are
chilling and how he is the slowest mortal
that ever drew the breath OF life and N
she had known-gulp-if she had known II
was going 10 be this way-gulp-she never
IN the round wOr-glup-world would have
consented Mercy land Is he going 10 be
all day picking Up a few little worms7
AND them eggs a-gettin' cold. He Is snap
ping up big. long fshworms that just miss
being garter snakes and tamping them
down into her insides with staccato:
''Therei How's that2 All right? Huh >
Here's another. How's that2 Huh2 Feel
better? Huh? More2 All right. Here's
one. How's that? Touch the spot7 Huh?
Not enough? All right. Here's a nice one
Good huh? Wide, now. Oh. daisy More
YETI" and so on tin at last she snaps out:
Good land, Dye think I'm made OF rub
Der? Oh, Why. l can hardly get my
breath. I'm so full. No more for me. My
goodness, Them eggs! and she gathers
up her skirts and fits. The nlppy little fell
low piucks q worm or two on his own ac-
count and gives his head a twitch that
seems to say: "Oh, don't know. I guess
I'm pretty good provider, huh? Nan OF
family by Ned"
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statue. Only those who have trained dogs
know what that means. The hardest thing
to teach a dog is 10 keep perfectly still for
a minute.
The posing dog was an inspiration OF
Miss Chester's father. She had carried a
troupe of trick dogs over the country. and
one day she picked up her first white set
ter She sent the dog TO her fathers home
and asked: What shall we teach this
dog?"
Her father pondered a minute and then
replied: Hunting dogs take naturally 10
hunting acts. Well teach this one 10 pose.
point retrieve and so on. with YOU, dressed
in white against a black background, and
then you'll have something new"
So the dogs education began. 1t was a
tedious task. and for eleven months Miss
Chester and her father worked with the
animal, always much as three hours a
day and sometimes seven. For the animal
had TO be broken three times-once TO pose
alone with Miss Chester; the second time
for the stage, where the surroundings
were new, and lastly he had 10 be taught
to stand rigid in the glare of the footlights
and during the applause of the crowds.
The perfection OF Billy's training will be
best understood when il is stated that he
will not even Toll or pant in hot
weather when commanded not TO do so.
Were he to do so it would spoil his poses
on the stage. The simple command, Close
your mouth" is sufficient 10 cause him 10
shut his mouth and keep IL closed until al
lowed TO open il.
The insurance on Billy covers his death
by drowning. poisoning or natural causes.
And the premiums said Miss Chester,
''are something a-w-f-u-li'
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Wanted m Explanation.


Baltimore American.
William" began the wife Of the laboring
man, II am glad you took me with you
to the political meeting last night"
That's right. said the man. "You wom-
en- ought TO take more interest I'm politics.
anyway"
And" she continued. IT believe that the
speech Of Hon. Mr.. Gabb was what you
call the keynote Of the campaign"
1T was. 1t was a wonderful argument"
And when he said that the laboring man
was now making 500 100000 more on the
year than he did six years ago you rose
IN your seat and said he was right. didn't
Yes
And when he said that the laboring man
was buying 100000 more worth Of cloth
ing than he did four years ago you clspped
your hands and said il was the truth didn't
your
Yes"
And when he declared that the Iaboring
man was buying S60.o00.Oo0 more worth OF
groceries than he did two years ago you
hurrahed and shouted and vowed he was
correct?"
And when he said the laboring man was
spending S35.O00c00 more on his wifes
dresses than he did in 1896 you whooped at
the top of your voice and yelled that il was
fact?"
Il did. But why?"
"Why? Well. there's why enough.
Where's that 500. 900. 600 you've been making
every year that / havn't seen? Where's
that S40,0O0,O00 worth Of suits? Where are
you wearing them? Who are you dressing
up and sneaking around TO show or your
new clothes 10. and ashamed 10 let your
poor wife see them. And which wife are
you buying S35. 100000 worth of dresses for
every year, and what family is getting that
$50 100000 worth OF groceries? William. are
you Mormon? You've got a whole lot Of
explaining to do, sir"
why woman, them was just statistics. :"
Statistics, nothing Didn't he say the
laboring man was getting all that money ,
And didn't you, and you alone. get Up IN
your seat and testify 20 everything he said
Didn't you stand there before all those peo-
pie, and act as If you could account for all
them millions Of dollars?'
He was just"
And you came home from the factory
two months ago and told me you only got
your wages raised a dollar on the week.
And here i find out that you have been get
ting a bigger salary than this man that
runs the steel trust and buys oceans and
things. It's pretty state OF affairs when a
man deceives his own wife in this way. I'm
going TO be right AT the pay window next
pay day and see just what you get"
But / tell you"
''You can't tell me anything. There's the
whistle blowing, and you better hurry on 10
work or they'll dock you a couple of million
dollars for being late this morning"
And William went rapidly out inwsrdly
raging over the awkwardness with which
woman grapples a political problem.
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FOUNDLINGs IN NEW YORK.
Odd Corners in which the Babies Are
Picked Up.

r. z. MacAlarney, in Ainslee's Magazine.
At the. outset the odds posted against the
founding are discourag ingly heavy. He IS in
PRODUCED to the public eye in dozen differ
ent ways-on a doorstep. in area or entry,
in handbag, in satchel, or underneath an
empty barrel on a dock edge. He has no
inducement or encourag cement to live, and
yet he frequently does live-at least long
enough to die of scarlet fever or measles
like ordinary children who start life much
more happily. Appropriately, the founding
is for the greater part a creature of the
night. His shrill wall is usually heard by
the policeman on last tour and the touch
of an investigating night stick is. as a rule,
the first caress the founding feels in his
hiding place
short time ago two-months-old mite
was found at night slowed away between
the Orders midway along the Brooklyn
bridge footpath. The slightest push down
ward would have plunged the infant into
the East river. At dawn last midwinter
Harlem janitor, crawling over the ice 10 re-
pair a leak on the roof of the tenement.
found a month's-old baby. wrapped in a
piece of old skirt, asleep against the warm
brick chimney wall. Patromen stumble
over children in all odd hooks and corners
of their beat Garbage handlers haul them
out of ash cans. choking and half-dead.
Yet many of them live. Their lives have
been accounted cheap indeed by those who
should have cherished them. but at the out
set they wear surprisingly well-for cheap
articles.
Contrary TO popular superstituion. there
are no dainty baby clothes. with tell tale
initials no expensive trinkets with mono
grams, after the manner of the story books.
where the founding figures so jauntily.
and is happily claimed in the concluding
chapter by relatives wealthy beyond dreams
OF avarice. Almost invariably the founding
comes to view ungarbed save for the COW
ering wrapped about Ii for cOncealment
and-let us hope-fOr warmth
For the humanity of parents. let IL be
said also that the police records show the
percentage of foundlings increases in sum-
mer and decreases s regularly with the
oncoming of winter. 1t is another interest
ing fact that hard times mean more found
lings. And this may be taken as a corrob-
Grafton OF the theory OF one of the oldest
and most humane captains in the police de-
partment, who would never believe that
any infant was abandoned except for the
reason that there were already too many
mouths in the house 10 feed This partic-
ular police captain would look at the
! founding when the patrolman brought IL
in from his post. grunt and then say: Get
/ ii 10 Bellevue quick-they can afford to feed
/ il there. There's too many mouths in the
! house where that came from-God forgive
en- But in this charitable view the old
1 police captain is not supported by many OF
\ his fellows.
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CANINE POSEUR.
Snow White Setter Carries Life In
sUrance.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat
There is a dog in New Orleans. a snow
white setter, whose owner carries insur-
ance policies on his life in four companies,
amounting altogether to $4,000
The dogs owner is a woman. Alma Ches-
ter is her name. She is vaudeville artist.
The Orpheum Theater has her listed among
it's attractions this week. and her dog is
described as Mile. Chester's Statue Dog"
Four hundred dollars a pound would
for even an extraordinary dog. but that
is the value which Miss Chester sets upon
the setter who has been trained by her to
pose on the stage
She declares that while there are hun
dredS of trick dogs on the stage who do
hundreds of clever tricks. there is only one
posing dog in the world-she owns him. and
he couldn't be bought for less than $4,000.
which is at the rate of 800 a pound She
says that she refused an offer of $4,000 for
the animal from the Duke of Cambridge in
London.
Billy is the animals name. He is A
pure white English setter. The dogs career.
as described by his mistress, is quite as ro-
mantle and interesting that Of many
human beings.
Miss Chester bought both Billy and his
sister, Lilly, in Chicago. a year or two ago.
intending TO train both of them under
studies to the animal she was then using
in her posing act.
Lilly she trained to perfection, but Lilly
died. and then Billy was taken in hand
He seemed 10 lack entirely his sisters
intelligence" said Miss Chester, ''and after
months of work / gave up in despair, and
Billy was put back in the kennel 10 fight
and carouse with a score of other dogs
Then, in desperation, one day l took him
up and he seemed 10 learn as If magic. He
soon became perfect In the poses. Not even
"A hair on his body moves now on the stage
his mouth never opens and he is a veritable
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A Redbreast IdyI.


Harvey Sutherland. in Ainslee's Magazine
Perhaps il is the same mysterious in
ward motion that prompts marbles in a
boy and migration in a bird, but the real
true symptom of the coming of spring is
the returning robin. Any robin al the first
will do. You stop dead in your tracks 70
hear his: GUILTY Quality in the
red-stemmed bushes. a smile comes The
blood beats duicklier. You run 10 tell the
news. Spring is comingl After that you
watch out for '-our robins. the ones that
nest in the old seek-no-fuTther tree at the
corner OF the house. Whether IL is the same
old pair that make such fuss OF going to
housekeeping. who can tell? They look so
much alike, but every year they come. 1
know that when that other symptom Of
the spring, spading up the garden. ap-
pears one of the robins flies down on the
upturned clods and gives a bold. quick look
at me. as who should say: How about IL?
Huh2 All right?" jabs his head down and
snaps IL back with pink fshworm with
ing in his beak. i stand right still and he
hops nearer fiercely plucking out fish
worms that do not want 10 die until his
beak looks like Jove's eagles. full OF
thunderbolts. He flies away and comes
again with a companion Whether IL Is his
wife or oldest son 1 cannot say. think IL
must be his wife, she has such bossy way
about her. j think she says: Now. don's
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A COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY.
The Late j. Sterling Morton's Last
Shot at Bryan.
The Conservative.

Inc CONSERVATIVE
There is a good story OF an elderly indi-
vidual who appeared AT the desk OF a Metro
politan hotel each morning and helped him
self TO the contents OF the match receptacle.
Unfavorably impressed with the appearance
of the individual and little relishing his IA
miliarity at the desk, the clerk frowned
ominoIsly at him one morning and none too
gently remarked that he did not know why
q stranger should feel free 10 appropriate
the hotel matches without leave or license.
ssStrangert'' calculated the offender. Why,
great Scott, man. don't you know me2'
The clerk. somewhat taken aback. replied:
MY dear sir. possibly should know you.
but really do not" With pOmpous dignity
the nan-who had been busily picking IN
matches during the dislogue-impressive
answered: You do not know me2 Well
YOU should. / am the man who comes IN
here 10 get matches
There is a man who appears before the
voters al each election and asks for their
ballots Naturally the people wish TO know
something OF him and his career. They
wish 10 know what part OF his public rec
ord entities him 10 considera ton. what
laws he has fathered. what interests he
represents. 10 what labOrers he has given
employment. how many widows boards are
freighted with his bounty and how many
earthly gardens bloom the brighter on ac-
count OF his having been born. They see
him. they hear him. but they do not know
him. Upon requesting information they are
pornpously. gran6ly informed: You DO not
know me? Well. you should I am tho
man who runs for President" That is all
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MISS HAPGooD's GHOST STORY.
A visit In Spectral Night Clothes OF
the Wrath of n FeIlOw-Boarder.
New York Sun.


Miss Isabel Hapgood told ghost story that
is strictly up TO date at the last meeting of
the Ninteenth Century Club.
Il should like 70 know what II all means y
she said Il live in a boarding house in which
there lived for some time in one room a man
/ tell this 10 eliminate myself from any con-
nection with the supposed psychic influences in
lie was taken suddenly i'll and died. He
was seized with pneumonia and in twenty-four
THAT was in November. The room in which
he died fumgated, papered painted, re-
furnished. and. in fact, in almost every way
renovated thoroughly.
Some time later woman came to live in
the house and got that room. She is not a
sentimentalist or a psychic or a clairvoyant or
a medium or a professed believer in spiritualism.
she is Just plain business sb. woman oman -
happens to sit next to me at the table-and
DO you know. believe some one must have
died in the room / occupy
Il asked her why and she replied:
Well. my mother. who is dead has some
times appeared TO me. and she never comes ex-
cept when something dreadful is going to hap
last I night afer had gone to BED aHd wa:
resting but hadn't gone 10 sleep. 1 suddenly
right away / had forgotten to lock my door.
and got up l went 70 the door and found
that I had not forgotten 1t was locked. The
al asked her to describe the man. She did
snce answered the description OF the former
occupant OF the room who had died there. the
L
How was he dressedT asked.
He was in his nlghtshirt said she" and
at this even the sedate members of the club
laughed.
Had he appeared 70 me I believe ne would
have been clothed otherwise" said Miss Hap-
good. quickly. but even 70 the gray lock she
foid his every likeness. Now, / would Ike 10
nave YOU explain that"
Miss Hapgood addressed her request for in
formation 10 a lecturer who had been speakine
10 the club the subject Progress in Psychicai
Research" But she didn't get an EXPLANATION
OF the incident she had related.
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GAVE INDIANAPOLIS MERCHANTS a
VERY BUSY WEEK.
Prices Well Held, hut Several Lines
Must Break SOOn-Grafn Markets
Quiet, with Little Change.

Trade in the week ended on May II was
highly satisfactory in all lines and with
this on most articles a high range Of
prices ruled The large gatherings of the
week created a large local cOnsumptive de-
Inand and enabled merchants and commits
sion men to hold to prices through the en-
tire week, but a break in the market is
looked for during the coming week, as the
supply of fruit and vegetables is increas-
ing and the range OF prices on some aru-
cles is too high to be long maintained.
Irish potatoes on Saturday showed a de-
clining tendency. although they sold at 81
through the entire week Cabbage is an
other article which IS still high, and, as
compared with former years, higher, but
most green stuff with a better homegrown
supply Is weaker. The produce markets
are in strong position, and no indications
of an early decline Is TO be seen, as there
IS no accumulation of stock. Poultry, eSpe-
cially, is scarce. Eggs are arriving more
freely but not IN Sunlclent quantities 10
affect prices. The dry goods houses mad a
busy week Large numbers or merchants
were examining stocks and bought quite
literally. The druggists also were Dusy.
Linseed oil advanced 1 cent, turpentlne .
cents and all articles in the drug line espe-
cially paints and oils are very firm at quo
tatiOns. A cloud still hangs over hides ana
prices rule weak at the reduction OF the
early part of the week. Leather IS no
lower but in some measure sympathiZes
with hides. Iron and steel are In nrm
tone but the indications Of higher prices
has passed off. at least for the present,
and prices are unchanged. other lines or
trade present no new features unless il be
-four which is stronger in tone but un-
changed In prices locally
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Harper's Weekly.

Harper weekly
To say that a man has no sense OF hu-
NOR is TO say the thing he resents most,
and the thing he finds hardest 10 disprove.
once from fellowship IN all that the world
holds most human, and puts him akin TO
the unlaughing beasts OF the feld-dull.
plodding. material IT is subtle weapon.
often used when one has no case ones
self and finds refuge in abuse OF ones
adversary. For long time man en-
ployed this weapon against woman with
pretty effect and the American Nation it
self quick 10 make a point. has stung all
England with this same keen prod. The
plain facts are that no man, and OF course
no woman. is without a sense Of humor-
the difference is only one or kind rather
than of degree. To the feminine mind
there is nothing in that form OF humor
which makes fun of anything connected
with the individual himself Artemus
Wards readiness 10 sacrifice his wife
relations on the altar Of patriotism finds
no response in the breast OF an Englishman
sacrifice a foreigners relatives the per-
sonal application is removed. and woman
and BritOn applaud. Max Beerbohm has
been studying the kind Of fun which the
theater- going public demands. and sums up
his study IN this way. THE public can
achieve no delicate process Of discernment
in humor. Unless a joke hits IL In the eye.
drawing forth a shower OF iluminatiye
sparks. all is darkness for the public Tn
less a Joke be labeled Comic. Come. why
don't you laugh2 the public IS quite ST.
lent. Violence and obviOusness are thus
the essential factors" OF course all this
applies 10 England only, for we Of America
still maintain that We can see a joke with
out being hit in the eye.