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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
WOMEN STOCK GAMBLERS
Brokers Discourage Them and the
Number Is Small.
New York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
mo" said the wall-street broker, 'the
fact that stocks are still on the bargain
counter is not attracting female buyers in
great numbers. AS for these sentimental
stories of women gamblers on the Ex-
change, they are stuff and nonsense.
my firm has few women clients, as
have most of the other houses on the street;
but we do not solicit the business, as most
OF 1t is distinctly undesirable. Women love
TO gamble-perhaps the instinct IS even
stronger in them than in men-but they are
very bad losers. When We are requested TO
buy stocks an investment for some wom-
an, We are glad to execute the order, but
when woman asks us to make speculative
sales or purchases for her account. no mat
ter how ample the margin she offers, /
make it point to refuse the business where
it can be done without giving great offense:
Bitter experience has taught me that
when loss is reported to a woman GUS
toner. unless she is the woman I'm n
thousand, she feels she has been defrauded
in some way she cannot understand. IL
you bet candy against gloves with a woman
on the result of some athletic or sporting
event, she does not expect to pay the for
felt if she loses, and il is this principle that
she would like to apply to Stock Exchange
transactions.
Then a woman cannot resist the tempta-
ton TO buy stock just because ii is cheap,
without regard to its intrinsic value. To
her share OF stock OF a stock certificate
rs just a printed piece of paper, very little
different from any other piece OF paper
with the same amounts printed on IT. So.
If she can buy shares of the Windbag De-
yelopment Company at five or thereabout,
she does not see the desirability of New
York Central. PENNSYLVANIA: or other divi-
dend-paying stocks selling above par.
Il do not think that the number OF FEM
mime spectators in the market is increas-
ing, despite the incursions OF women into
other lines OF business A few years ago
in the street that other women Were at
tracted by the success OF her bold opera
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
A TRANSACTION IN BRICK.
A Question Raised CONCERNING the
Profits of q strike.

Elkhart Review.
A man who had occasion to buy a large
quantity of brick, amounting to the mil
lions, found that the brickmakers OF Elk
hart charged him s5.25 a thousand at the
kiln and the cost OF delivery would be -
a thousand, making the price SIS thou
sand delivered on the ground for use. He
went TO Chicago and contracted for 100000
OF brick at $3.50 per thousand delivered on
the ground ready for laying. He found
that the retail price Of brick IN Chicago
was IS per thousand IL they could be sold.
but that the strikes in the building trade
had so reduced the quantity OF brick used
that there were In the yards so.ooo.0o OF
brick unsold, and that by reason or the
strikes the demand for this building ma
terial had been reduced 40 per cent during
the present summer. This In a pointed and
plain illustration OF the far-reaching evil
results of labor troubles. and when they
are as useless and senseless as have been
those In Chicago. they excite almost con-
tempt for the Observation-Disclosures OF the dia-
turbers However, the capitalist who
bought the bricks got the benefit OF what
the brickmakers in Chicago lost, and what
the brickmakers in the Elkhart yards did
not get opportunity TO make. The Chicago
employer was forced 10 sacrifice his profits
while another capitalist got the benefit. aud
Elkhart laborers lost a Job OF making e,50.-
600 bricks. How did the labor troubles in
this particular line benefit the bricS-
makers in Chicago and EIkhart?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

10000 were struck. Not one was ever dis
covered in circulation. The quarter dollars
of 1904 are numerous enough-so plentiful,
in fact, that fair specimen can be bought
for s.. and their coinage amounted 10 100
pieces.
"A curious thing has been discovered re-
garding the half dollar OF 1906. which Is not
a rare coin. except in the of those
possessing the rare curiosity I speak of,
which increases the value ten-fold. This is
that the figure % in 1905 has been struck
over a figure A. showing that the coin was
really one Of the undiscovered minting or
1904
What became of the large issue of 1904
half dollars? No one knows or ever Will
know; but it is evident that all OF them
were not issued from the mint, and this
belief that there was some reason for not
desiring the coin to circulate Is strength
ened by the mint celebrating the date on
what was left by making 1905 half dollars
of them.
There were no silver dollars issued from
the mint in 1905, yet 321 were coined, and
are in the hands of collectors to-day, just
as they came from the die. No dollars
were coined by the government after that
until 1S3e."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
LINCOLN'S METHOD.
How a Great Man Kept Out of Temp
tatfon's Way.
Washington Letter in BROOKLYN Eagle.

Washington Letter in Brooklyn Eagle
The facts in a heretofore unpublished
story regarding Abraham Lincoln's high
conception OF his duty as a government
script Of the grandson of George Harring-
ton. who was the first assistant secretary
or the treasury In the Lincoln administra-
ton and great personal friend OF the lat
ter. Later Harrington was United States
minister 10 Switzerland. The grandson oc-
cupieS position in the Treasury Depart
ment and Is writing the memoirs of George
Harrington. Shortly after Lincoln was
sworn In he sent for Harrington and said
to the latter: Harrington, / want YOU to
take entire charge of my personal finances
4 VIII turn my salary check over to YOU
every month. together with what other
moneys 1 may receive. You may invest
them as you see fit. don't want TO know
how you are handling the money, whether
your investments are successful or failures
III there are any dividends / will sign for
them from time to time, and Will draw on
expenses" So
President Lincoln's purpose i'm thus trans
ferring. his private finances to the charge
OF another. with instructions that he be told
nothing about what was being done with
them, was to insure having his mind free
from influences or a personal and pecuniary
character In discharging the duties of his
office, II his money was invested in a cor
poration that wanted government contracts,
President Lincoln did not want TO know IL
. .S from avoiding tue possible charge
porations in which he was financially in
terested, he wanted to satisfy his own con-
science that none of his official acts was
Influenced by the prospect of getting large
dividends
Lincoln had absolute trust and confidence
In the integrity Of Harrington so much so
that he refused 10 receive a single receipt
for money turned over to his agent That
Harrington was true to his trust il evil
denced by the fact that on the death of Lin
coin he turned over to Judge David Davis
the administrator of the Presidents estate
the sum OF $4,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

an active interest in stock fluctuations most
OF the others got out OF the game
"Of course, We hear OF occasional big
winnings in copper or the like made by
some actress. Most OF these transactions
are made on a basis by which the woman
cannot lose. Some broker who claims her
friendship calls her up on the telephone
and says that copper is going up or down
five points, and asks II she would not like
him to buy or sell, as the case may be, a
says yes, and the deal Is carried through.
II there Is a profit netted the woman gets n
check, and II there IL loss the broker
stands IL himself. Outside OF this class the
number OF women In the speculative mar
ket Is small, and seems TO be on the de-
crease"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

meanwhile progressed favorably. Finally.
one afternoon, he was able TO journey
into his study. On his table lay the man
uscrfpt of a half-written sermon on which
he had been engaged when the accident
befell him. When he began 10 read IL,
so he said to the writer. it though
he were perusing the composition of an
utter stranger. The processes of his own
thought lay there before him: yet he
followed these they aroused not the faint
est train Of recollection. Finally he came
to a note in parenthesis- 1t read: THAT
peculiar case"
1t was Dr. Breeds custom. when rein
forcing point by an illustration drawn
from personal observation. to omit from
his written memoranda the name of the
person or persons whose case might fur
nish the illustration, il these were MEM
bers OF his congregation or OF his circle
OF acquaintance. \ reference such as
that which he had now encountered in
reading his unfinished sermon was suffi-
cient to bring the details of the illustration
TO memory.
In this case, however, DR.. Breeds mind
failed TO find the slightest clew by which
that peculiar case could be recalled. The
consciousness of his affection, well as
the curiosity of the scholar, impelled him
to a supreme effort TO break through the
blank wall that had raised itself between
his present and his past. In his mental
concentration he buried his head in his
hands and gave himself up TO solving the
problem before him.
Suddenly" said the doctor, there came
III. DIdIh d CRASHING SchSd-
tion, as If the very fibre of my mental
structure were being torn apart. 1t was
agony while ii lasted. 1t may have been
only a second, 1t may have been a minute,
do not know. but when finally lifted my
head my lost memory came back to me in
rushing tide that was almost overpower-
ing.
1t was a sensation pognantly painful,
yet full of the most exquisite delight
This experience finally convinced DR..
Breed of the truth. of the theory that
mental reservations" have a physical as
we'll as a psychic interpretation; that the
storehouse or recollection lies in the or
derby arrangement of the brain cells; that
association of ideas-that process by
which one so frequently recalls things
depends upon the contiguity of one body
OF cellular impressions to another, and
that finally any physical disturbance of
this cellular arrangement leads to mental
arrangement and. as in his case, to COM
Dlete oblivion of the mast
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
Women i'm High Positions.
Baltimore American.

One OF the largest railroad corporations
in this country has decided that the femae
stenographers i'm its employ will not be a.
lowed TO quality for It's pension list. This
is "A sweeping decision. aud probably repre-.
sents sentiment other than that of the cor
poration. Fifty years ago no one imaginei
that n woman could be a stenogra pher. AMI
the Idea OF their entering the ranks OF me 1
10 compete la heavier brain work would
have been regarded ridiculous. IL cannot
be said that they have conquered ever
branch OF endeayor. but they have done
wonders In the third OF a century. and theF
may even dissipate the prejudice OF this
western railway corporation before the
half OF the present century Is reached.
The reason for this exclusion may come
from the employees. The aggresslyeness 4
women has In number OF instances led { |
combinations OF their fellow-male worked
against them--a kind OF self-defens
movement which can scarcely be criticise
severely. FOR the women have pushed "a
men out OF some occupations whic
formerly belonged 10 them exclusively. Th(
majority OF railroad clerical positions ca
hardly be said 10 he beyond the capacif{
OF bright. brainy women: the management
however. may have inferred that thos
selected for the higher Offices are ofte
drawn from these clerical departments an
there have been notable Instances OF sue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
New York Commercial Advertiser,

NC" ioih CofiineICldi advertiser.
Large as are the sales of winter hats TO
suit all ages and conditions OF women
and numerous as are the shops where such
hats are sold-yet ii does not decrease the
number OF women who cleverly make their
own headgear at home. The building OF a
large portion of autumn and winter hats
owes its start and completion to many
Yards OF braid. For fuzzy. long-haired eff
fects cloths OF a woolly nature from one
70 two inches wide are cut into strips and
braided. In white, black, and all single
colors these inch braids sell for u cents
and 10 cents per yard-the wider variety
at - cents. Plaided braids in several
colors. intermixed with white sell for 30
cents and 30 cents yard. Not only are
these plaided braids for the foundation OF
hats, but they are used for edge bindings
10 felt or cloth hats, selected to match
street suits and enter as trimmings as
well. An extremely modish braid Is COM
pcsed OF taffeta, but quite unlike the
former taffeta braids, inasmuch as the
present effect, though entirely OF silk. re-
sembies some OF the summers dull finish
straw bratdss The price per yard is ~
ceats. aud many Of the smartest winter
hats ara To be made OF II.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
Ny Lady Violin.

I know witch: small. frail and brown is she.
With slender throat and form OF curious grace.
4 see her standing in the haunted gloom.
Vague phantom voices lure me to the place.
She draws me to her with mystic charm
With dreaf dim eyes lean upon her breast:
And then she sings TO me-soft strange, sweet
melodies
Caressing all my unrest into rest.
And remember all that have missed,
But am content: L will no longer seek.
And 10. golden dawn creeps through my heart,
For she has taught my yoiceless soul to speak.
Kathleen l.. Greig. in Parsons Magazine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
Bread for Hogs.
Kentland Qnd) Enterprise.

| IIHu.J
About four tons of stale bread is shipped
every week from the Chicago bakeries to
Goodland and sold to the farmers for feed
ing hogs Il. =. Davidson states that the
traffic has been carried on for several
months and that he finds bread 10 be the
best kind Of feed for fattenng hogs and
also for mich cows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27


There is another coin, of which the GOV
eminent in 1894 made 20,000 pieces. but of
which, as has been ascertained not even
one IS known TO be in circulation. That
coin Is the American silver dollar OF the
mintage of 1904. Two OF these most precious
OF all American coins are in well-known
collections and valued at 81 1850 each
Speaking of these coins a well-known
numismatist said:
1T has been determined to the satisfac-
ton or every numismatist that these two
dollars were not coined until 1898. although
they were struck from the original 1901 die.
They We're secretly made-although such a
procedure is a penal ohfense--for some one
high In influence and authority. who desired
them for certain coin collectors. &c has
never been positively ascertained how the
surreptitious work accomplished but
there is no doubt that IL done.
why the dollar OF 1894 was never seen
in circulation after leaving the mint Is one
of the unsoived government mysteries
"a still greater mystery surrounds the
half dollar Of 1891 OF that coin nearly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19
EDLER AGAIN IN COURT.
Salt Lake Attorney Allowed TO De-
fend Strikers.


Sunnyside Utah, Dec. 1S-Ralph seal
FIJI on two charges this afternoon dis
turDing the peace and assault with n
deadly weapon. A. =. Elder arrived at
moor from Salt Lake and defended wriIe
w. u. Ritter of Salt Lake represented the
state. In the first case Scala was nc
cused Of calling Joe PERI a scaO and
other Objectionable names, and threaten
iu the employ OF the l. tab Fuel compdDy
az the coke ovens and was the complain
ing witness.
William Cherr0 was "a fellow defend
ant with Scala but the ease against
Cherro was dismissed. ON motion of the
state. The second charge against Scala
was that be pulled a revolver I'm the
company store on Nov. ~, while looklas
toward County Treasurer James LOOtbOu
row. and uttered threatening remarks
but had the weapon forced back INTO MS
pocket by companion LOOlbOurOW was
mot present at the hearing, and Constanie
H. %. Rasmussen OF Sunnyside was the
complaining witness in the second case
Justice EiII reserved decision in the first
ease until after the hearing 81 the second
one and then found him guilty on Tie
fire of SO and costs I'm the first case WAS
paid. Nearly all who figured in the cases
as witnesses are italians. and most of the
testimony was given through an inter
prefer.
Before the Scala cases came UP David
Wilson. financial secretary of the union.
waived examination on the charge OF IT.
suiting an officer OF the national guar; Of
Ttah Lieutenant Kneass. and was bound
of 5000. the cash being furnished 81 Rub
ort Lee
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19
SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT AERIAL
NAVIGATION IN NORTH CAROLINA

tanned an even speed of eight miles an
hour
The idea Of the box kite has been adj
hered to in the basic formation of the
flying machine. A huge frame work Of
light timbers thirty three feet wide, five
feet deep and five feet across the top
forms the machine proper This is COW
cred by a tough bat light canvas. In
the center Is the aavigatOr's car. and
suspended just below the bottom plan
Is a small gasoline engine. which fur
nished the motive power for the pro-
polling and elevadng wheels. There
are two siX-blade prOpellers, one ar
ranged just below the frame so as 10
exert an upward force when in motion.
and the other extending horizontally D
the rear from the center of the car.
furnishing the forward impetus. Pro-
trUding from the center of the car is a
huge fan-shaped rudder of canvass,
stretched upon frame of wood. This
rudder is controlled by the navigator
and may be moved TO each side, raised
o. lowered.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19
DEPUTIES SWORN.
Oversight Remedied by County Com
missioners.

Especial % The Herald.)
Price. Utah. Dec 1S-The board of
county commissioner III session THIS ait-
erno0n. confirmed the numerous deputy
sheriffs appointed by Sheriff H. Wilcox
at the time the coal miners strike in the
four camps of Carbon county was IN
augurated. The men. otherwise known
as company guards. are TO draw no pay
from the county. but are to be remuner-
ated for their services by the Utah Fuel
company. They have been drawing from
the company s. a day, IL is stated, ana
are boarded and lodged in addition.
About a hundred Of them are still on
duty. and the greater number of these
are to remain until after the strike Is
definitely settled. A considerable num-
her have been let out. owing to the fact
that they are no longer needed, their
duties being simply to guard the com
pany's property and where necessary to
assist the local officers
Tonight it looks as if the Castle Gate
mine viii on Monday next have quite
twice as many diggers to go to work as
had been calculated upon by the COM
pany officials. The train which left Salt
Lake City at $40 o'clock this afternoon
being picked up through Sanpete and
as far up as salt Lake City. Thirty
came down today from ScOfield. Their
places are to be filled by r contingent
from the south already engaged. Six
teen went there tonight from Price and
Sunnyside, while fOrty-five are coming
in tomorrow from southern Utah settle
ments. With the forty already at Castle
Gate last night this will give 166 as a
starter on Monday. These figures are
given by an employee Of the fuel COM
pany who knows whereof he speaks, and
may be depended upon as reliable.
The output at the two upper camps to-
day is about the same as yesterday. The
train from Suhnyside tonight brought
thirteen cars OF coke and coal. an in
crease over yesterday Yesterdays Hight
output was due 70 a break in machinery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19
Assessment Nc. 10.

MAPLE MINING CONPANY.-PRIN-
cipal place of business, salt Lake City,
Utah L0catiOu of mines. TinriC mining
district. Utah. Notice is hereby given
that at the meeting of the board OF cl-
rectOrs OF the Maple Mining company.
held on the Z7th day Of November. 1903.
assessment No. 10 Of ~One-fifth OF cent
a share was levied upon the capital stock
ing. PAYABLE Immediately TO the sccrc-
tarv at his office. NO 10 West First
south street, salt Lake City. Utah Any
stock upon which the assessment remains
unpaid on Thursday. Dec. g. 1913, VIII
be delinquent and advertised for sale az
public auction. and unless payment IS
made before viii be sold on FRIDAY, jan
tarvFs office 20 pay the delinquent as-
sessment thereon. together with the cost
of advertising and expenses Of sale
JOSEPH ZIItBES. Secretary
salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 81. 1903
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19

square. Lying under the stomach was
found the ascending and descending
colon with the appendix attached IN
Its usual place on the lower end Of the
colon. and also in the thoraCic cavity.
The heart was located on the over
right side of the thoracic cavity, ex-
tending parallel and next TO the spinal
column between the second and fifth
ribs. The right lung was not normal
size. There is no question but that the
anatomical malformation of the differ
ent organs had existed from infancy.
The young man had never been IN and
this is the reason his peculiar cOndi-
ton had fever been discovered. The
case is believed to be one Of the most
remarkable in the history of surgery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19

Norfolk Va. Dec. 1S.--A successful
trial of a dying machine has been
made near Kitty Hawk. n. c.. by VIII
bur and OrvilIe Wright OF Dayton, g..
The machine few for three miles in the
face of a wind blowing at the regis
tered velocity Of twenty-oue miles an
hour. and then gracefully descended to
earth at the spot selected by the navi-
gator. The machine has no balloon at
tachment but gets SIS force from pro-
peuers worked By q small engine.
Preparatory 10 its flight the machine
was placed upon a platform near Kitty
Hawk. This platform was built on a
high sand hill, and when all was I'm
readiness the fastenings 20 the machine
were released and it started down an
incline. The navigator, Wilbur Wright
then started small gasoline engine
which worked the pT0pellers. When the
end of the incline was reached the ma
chine gradually rose until it obtained
an altitude of sixty feet. I'm the face
OF the strong wind blowing it main
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19
FREAK OF NATURE DISCOVERED
Ala POST MORTEM EXAMINATION

Brooklngs s. D.. Dec. 1S.-Surprising
results have developed nj a postmortem
examination ou the body of William
Allison. n years DID who died after
ton days illness, apparently from in
fammatiOu of the stomach. The young
man had said he had been poisoned,
and go satisfy the family a postmOrtem
was held. The surgeons found a most
peculiar displacement of the internal
organs The opera tors found an open
ing through the diaphragm and a di-
lated stomach nearly three times nor
mai size. completely filling the left side
o. the thOraCic cavity. taking the place
o. the left lung. There was no leIt
lung only small documentary lung,
about one inch thick and three inches
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-19
C0UACL@EN HAD
TO nAVE BIG MONEY

Kansas City. Dec. 1S.-The strongest
testimony yet submitted TO the Kansas
city, Kan. grand jury. was given to-
day by John Boddington, a brick side
walk contractor. VINO testified, il is re-
ported. that councilmen demanded a
'rake-off" Of nifty cents per thousand
feet on all brick used in paving streets.
He told the jury that the brick COM
panies paid the cOuncllmen for their
votes and paid them well