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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13

NEW YORK. March 12.-The condition of
Post, who has been critically i'll with pa
ralysis since Tuesday at the Waldorf-As-
toria, is reported to be improving. men,
Der of the family tonight said he was
much better and had regained his power
of speech, which had been interrupted for
a time. On account of the complication of
kidney trouble from which Mr. wilkins has
suffered for several years his condition is
still very grave, and further complications
may develop.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13
GLOVER NOOK" SOLD.
Home of the Late Alice and Phoebe
Carey to BE n Blind Asylum.

CINCINNATI, March 12-"Clover Nook"
the home of Alice and Phoebe Carey, sis
ters, whose poems are widely known
throughout the literary world. has passed
out of the hands of their heirs and will be-
come home for the blind. under the man.
agement of the Trader sisters. of Avon
dale. These sisters. one of whom is blind
have been active in providing library for
the blind, and had expressed a wish TO OBJ
tain the Carey homestead for home for
the blind. William A Proctor. a wealthy
citizen, purchased ii and placed il at their
disposal. The homestead has an ideal loca-
tion near College hill and comprises twen-
ty-six acres.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13
BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF.

First Asks His Sister on Which Side
HIS Heart Is Located.
BELLEvILLE, H.. March 12.-Remorse
and fear over the belief that he had killed
a playmate. Laura Wainwright. by hitting
her with a stone to-day, caused Warren
Fleming. nine years old. to shoot himself
through the heart after ascertaining from
his eleven-year-old sister on which side
his heart was situated.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13
BLOODY FIGHT IN FLORIDA.


NORWALK. Fla. March 12-Assessor
Bullard. of McMeekin. who arrived at this
place to-day. reports a desperate encounter
between the hands of rival tVrpentine
camps near Orange Springs. in which eight
men were killed and a large number wound
ed. contention arose about matter of
little Importance between some Of the negro
laborers of Megg's camp and those of Laws
camp. This aroused the fury OF the entire
crowd and precipitated fight which ended
I'm a general fight. The place is not acces-
sible by wire and further details cannot
be obtained tonight
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13
TRAFFIC IN FEMALES.


SEATTLE, Wash, March 12.-Investiga-
tion on the part OF the customs officials
into the slave traffic in young girls brought
from Japan into the United States and sold
to men who farm them out for immoral
purposes has revealed deplorable state OF
affairs and to a much greater extent than
was ever before anticipated. The Japanese
consuls at Seattle. Vancouver and other
cities In this district will lend their aid in
breaking up the business and their fnfu-
ence to have every person deported for con-
nection with the traffic punished on their
arrival in Japan. Assurances have been Civ
en- that the japanese government will be
disposed TO take the matter up and enforce
the laws. which provide q severe punish
meut for such acts Of miscondact.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13

CINCINNATI. March 12.-All fear Of a
disastrous flood here is dispelled to-day
The river has been stationary since a. m
at 495 feet. 1t is expected. however. that a
further slight rise will come. not exceeding
fifty-two feet, by Saturday. and that fall
will begin on Sunday.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13

1SS2. There will soon be a vacancy in the
grade of brigadier general in the marine
corps. and the officer who gets the promo
ton will probably be made commandant OF
the marine barracks In this city, and II Is
regarded as one of the most desirable as
signments in the service. II Is understood
that Colonel Denny stands an excellent
chance of securing this promotion.
Indiana postmasters appointed to-day:
James ID. Armstrong. at Manville, Jefferson
county, vice Ida NJ. Storm. resigned, and
Nettie L. Landlord, at Malott Park, Marion
county, vice Carl G. Ryan. resigned.
The postoffice at Waskom, Jackson coun-
ty, has been ordered discontinued. Mail
will be sent to Brownstown.
William Hoshaw has been appointed regu-
lar carrier and Daisy Hoshaw substitute
on the rural route at Chalmers. John w.
Hilligoss regular and Annie f Hilligoss
substitute at Anderson and Walter will
liams regular and Fred Saalwachter sub
stitute at Wadesville.
Senator Fairbanks probably will address
the Friendly Sons of ST. Patrick at a ban
quet to be given at the Union League Club
I'm Philadelphia next Tuesday. The sena-
tor has received Urgent invitation to be
present on this occasion, and IL his engage
ments permit he will accept.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13

PADUCAH. KY. March 1.-THE river to-
nixht marks l6.6 feet and u rising slowly.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13

The indications tonight are that the crest
of the rise will reach here Saturday night
at forty-eight feet.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13

The postoffice at Waskom. Jackson coun-
ty, has been ordered discontinued. Mail
will be sent TO Brownstown.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13
vandali.m-whoI IL Re.ponsibIes

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The disgraceful riot at our own Purdue
University brings the growing vandalisms
at colleges much nearer home than they
have ever been before and emphasizes as
nothing else has heretofore done the duty
of the proper authorities TO enforce the
laws against all such crimes A study OF
the case fixes the responsibility wholly upon
the methods that have obtained everywhere
with the college authorities In dealing with
the rioters. Some mild discipline has been
administered by them-a suspension. or. in
extreme cases. expulsions. while the State
has been wholly Indifferent. The State 10
not so much 10 blame as the college au-
thorities for IL never has been called upon
to take cognizance OF the offenses whenever
they came within its jurisdiction. There Is
no reason why an assault of one student
upon another should not be punished by the
State as well as an assault OF one drunken
man upon another. President Stone may be
depended upon 10 do his duty as far as col
lece discipline is concerned. IL the grand
Jury OF Tippecanoe county will do its duty
this outrage I'm a quarter OF a century. The
State, as the owner OF the university. has
a right TO demand the protection OF its prop
erty by the local civil authorities. and the
university itself has a right TO demand pro-
lection. Every college I'm every State should
Mainly announce that while IL will see to
the enforcement OF college discipline IL viii
take no aart In administering the civil lau.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13

Work on sketch plans for the proposed
public buildings at Muncie. Richmond and
Logansport will soon be started by the
supervising architect. Titles have been Sc
cured for sites in these cities. The working
plans for these buildings will be Completed
early I'm the fall. but building Operations
will not be inaugurated for nearly a year
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
Not Quite What He Meant.

The man who thought he had the
knack of saying pleasant things, cal
culated to warm the cookies of the
oldest heart, was revisiting the town
in which he had spent summer 20
years before.
I'm Miss Mears. | don't know as
YOU recall me-" said a coquettish
elderly spinster, approaching him In
the post office the day after his ar
rival.
The ready heart-warmer turned
with his most beaming smile, and
wrung her hand.
Recall you!" he echoed, reproach-
fully. 'sAs if one could help it, Miss
Mears! Why, you are one of the
landmarks of the town!'-Youth's
Companion.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
ALL THE STARS ARE AGLOW.
Scientists Declare That Like the sun
They Are Masses of Burn-
ing Matter.

During the last 60 years searchers
of the heavens have made the discov-
cry that the celestial bodies known to
us as stars are similar in many respects
to the sun, some considerably larger,
others smaller, but on the average not
much different in size and nature from
the sun. They are-at least the VS.
ible stars are-great glowing glopes
of gaseous matter.
AS a rule these vast furnaces burn
steadily. Sometimes, however, the
fires seem to die down and then blaze
out again as of yore. Three hundred
such stars are known to astronomers,
says Chambers Journal; they are
called variable stars because of the
waxing and waning of their light. Now
and again the seething fires prove too
strong for the bonds of attractive force
which hold the star together, and with
one mighty upheaval the vast globe is
shattered into fragments, blown into
atoms, veritably 'dissolyed into thin
air"
Thousands of years after this eXplo-
sion the record of the catastrophe
reaches the earth, and solitary watch
er in the old barony of bennington,
in the year of grace 1901, sees new
star suddenly blaze out in the mid
night sky, to fade away only as It's
predecessors had done, leaving, per-
chance, not a trace in the sky to tell
the spot where once a world existed.
Among the millions of stars are to be
found bodies in all stages of develop
ment. Some are glowing with an in
tensity of heat and light far beyond
our utmost conceptions; others are
slowly cooling down-already they are
dull red in color; some are cold and
dark and dead.
No telescope will ever perceive these
latter bodies and no camera will de-
tect them. We only know that they
are there by their influence over the
light and motion of bright stars. One
of the most interasting sections of the
new astronomy deals with these dead,
dark stars, and, although no eye has
seen them, or ever will see them, still
we are able to ascertain their size,
weight and position just as if they
were in the zenith of their glory.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
PLATINUM SELDOM STOLEN.
ProfessiOnaI Thieves Realize That,
Although Valuable, 1t Is Not
Easily Disposed OF.

One kind of valuable plate quite
abundant in New York is seldom
stolen by burglars, though the metal
of which it is made far exceeds sill
yer in cost, says the Times of that
city. Every college chemical labora-
tory and scores of factory labora-
tories have costly vessels made of
platinum. The plain metal is usual
ly worth about it's weight in gold,
and made up into crucibles and other
vessels used in laboratories it is
much more valuable than in its ordI-
nary form. The makers of such
ware, in fact, must earn large prof
it's, for their charges are high, al
though the metal is made into the
simplest forms, without decoration
of any sort. A tiny crucible, hold
ing perhaps only a gill, is worth
eight or ten dollars, and some OF
the larger vessels used by chemists
are worth several hundred dollars
each.
The value of these vessels is SO
great that they are locked up every
night in a safe in any well-conducted
chemical laboratory, and frequently
counted. Damaged vessels, and even
the smallest scraps of platinum
wire, are carefully treasured, and
sent to the factory from time to
time in order to be made over into
new vessels. A chemist has some
what the same feeling toward his
platinum plate that a housekeeper
has toward her solid silver, but the
chemists plate is worth far more
than any but the most elaborately
wrought silver ware. 1t is also much
more liza BILE to damage.
The presence of small quantity
of lead in a hot crucible of platinum
is likely to bring about puncture
of the crucibIe. A punctured crucible
must go to the factory, and repairs
are very costly. Much of such ware
used here is made in a little Pennsyl-
vania town by a single firm, and
there are few workmen who under
stand the art of handling platinum.
Treated with care, platinum vessels
are almost indestructible. They
seem to suffer nothing from the high
temperatures to which they are ex-
posed in the laboratory, and however
long in use, a brisk rubbing rem
ders them as beautifully bright as
on the day when they came from the
factory. They are ordinarily cleaned
however, by the application of hot
water and acid solutions, as they
gradually lose in weight by rubbing.
One reason why platinum imple-
ments are seldom stolen by burglars
lies in the fact that they are not
easily disposed of. The metal is hard
to melt, and large vessel is not
easily hammered out of recognition.
Pawnbrokers are shy of accepting
articles of platinum, because such
articles, having a comparatively mar
row use, are not hard to trace.
Small crucibles and platinum wire
and rods do occasionally disappear
from laboratories, but the larger
articles are rarely stolen. When
man presents himself in the shop
with metal worth in the neighbor-
hood of $3.50 pound for sale, he is
naturally expected to tell how it
came into his possession.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
WANTED TO GO TO FRISCO.
An Incident of Life in Alaska When
the California Metropolis
Was Wonder.

''In the pioneer days of Alaska said
Capt. j. S. Criter, an Alaskan pioneer,
"San Francisco was the first place the
natives ever heard of as associated with
untold wonders. The person who had
been to Frisco and back became the
greatest man alive in the SiWash estl-
nation. 1t was the ambition OF every
Indian, particularly the young men, to
go to Frisco" says the New York Sun.
"One time two missionaries got into
a quarrel at Nualato, and one killed
the other. AT that time people had to
be taken to San Francisco for trial,
and this missionary was arrested
promptly and sent down there. Among
the witnesses who were taken along
was a young Siwash Indian.
when he came back he was, of
course, the lion of all the Indians in
that district, and he made their un-
sophisticated eyes bulge, and aroused
envy in every native breast by the tales
he told of what he had seen at Frisco.
One young Indian became so enthu-
siastic that after thinking the matter
over, he decided to go to Frisco him.
self.
Me 60 to Frisco he took to de-
claring on every occasion.
Not long afterward this Indian way
laid and killed a white man near Cen
tral City. He made no secret of it, and
a delegation of miners took him into
custody.
You kill white man.? he was asked.
"'Oh, yes. Me kill white mani the
Indian replied, eagerly.
"'Why?' they asked him.
"'Oh, me kill white man; me go to
'Frisco!' he replied
THAT was all. The missionary had
killed a man and they had taken him
to Frisco, so this Indian had simply
killed his man so they would take him
to Frisco.
'The miners concluded, though, that
to take the Indian to Frisco would es-
tablish rather a dangerous precedent
in that country just then, so they took
him out in boat one night and dis
posed of him otherwise. No Indian
ever killed man in Alaska again with
the object in view of getting a trip
to Frisco"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
One of Aliens Stories.

Apropos of modesty in politics, AL
len told story one day of an aspir-
ing citizen in Mississippi who used to
quote grandiloquently the familiar
saying: ''The office should seek the
man, not the man the office" A few
days later he was observed election
eering for himself in the old-fash-
ioned style, with whisky, cigars, etc.
Being reminded of his recent lofty
utterances, he answered: Il still
maintain my position. The office
should seek the man; but, by gad!
sab. the man should be around when
the office is looking for him" Fran,
els E. Leupp, in Century.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
Hard Work All Around.

First Stranger Con railway train)-
So you are selling Pref. Blanks new
books, are YOU? Strange coinci-
dence. I am Prof. Blank.
Second Stranger-That so? Then
voa wrote the very book l am agent
for?
First Stranger-Yes. The hardest
work I ever did was writing that
book.
Second Stranger-Well, well!
That's another strange coincidence.
The hardest worl. L ever did was try
ing to sell it.-Tit-Bits.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
IncurabIe Case.

Husband (vituperatively)-I was an
idiot when l married you, Mary.
Wife (quietly)-Ies, Tom, | knew
you were. But what could do? You
seemed my only chance, and thought
then. that you might improve little
with time.-Tit-Bits.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
Those LOVING Girls.

Edyth-Yes, have decided 10 marry
Jack for the purpose of reforming him.
Mayme-Poor fellow! Is he really in
need of such heroic reatment?-Cln-
cinnati Enquirer.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
So S'udden!

Mr.. Dumhead-Nelso was coming to
call. but / told him you would be en-
gagged this evening
Miss Olemade (rapturously)-Oh,
am!-Princeton Tiger.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
ou;te Another Thing

s.He was unable to meet his bills,
understands"
'Well, that's where you're wrong.
He couldn't dodge them."-Chicago
Post.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-03-27
Literally Exact.

The Politician--Now, don't quote
me as saying anything.
The Reporter-Oh, no! I'll simply
publish what you said.-Puck.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02

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writes Mrs. o. n Fisher. OF 1861 Lexington Ave,
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02

Diphtheria relieved in twenty minutes.
Almost miraculous. DR.. Thomas Eclectrlc
Oil. At any drugstore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
APATHBTIC STORY.

A pathetic story was revealed in the
death off young mother by Illuminating
gas at the boarding house of Mrs. Mary
Barrett, in New York, yesterday MORN
ing. During the heavy rainstorm Thurs
day evening Mrs. Barrett heard timid
ring of the dOorbell. Going to the door
well-dressed young woman, of evident
refinement, carrying in her arms an
infant, asked for lodging. Mrs. Barrett
told her that she did not take women
boarders, at which the young woman
burst into tears and said she had been to
half a dozen places and was tired out and
could 90 no farther. She said the baby
was two weeks old and she had just left
the Sloane Maternity Hospital following
the child's birth. She pleaded with Mrs.
Barrett to let her stay over night. Mrs.
Barrett was touched, and took her In.
She was given Mrs. Barrett's own room
on the top floor, and retired about 10
O'Clock, seemingly in good spirits. All that
she would say about herself vas that she
had named the baby Walter, after her
husband. Yesterday morning the odor of
gas came from the room. The door was
forced and the young woman was found
on the bed, dead The baby had
tumbled off the bed, but in doing so
the sheets had been pulled with him,
and as he had rolled under the bed had
formed sort of canopy over him, pro-
tecting him from the gas. He was cry
ing Justify. The police searched the
woman's effects and found four letters
addressed to her at the hospital. They
we're written in loving terms and signed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02

"Walter" They were all postmarked
"Fairmont, w. Va" At the morgue
last night the woman's body was identi-
fed by George Howard, for whom she
worked as seamstress at Cedarhurst,
L. l., year ago, as that of Mrs. Mamie
Smith. Mr.. Howard believes she was
married. He says she is a daughter OF
Mrs. Royal, of Disputanta. On an
empty envelope in the room was this
address: "F. J. Davis, Disputanta,
Va, Prince George county"
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
Cholera Infantum.

This has long been regarded as ono Of
the most dangerous and fatal diseases
to which infants are subject. 1t can be
cured, however, when properly treated.
All that is necessary is TO give Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy and castor oil, as directed with
each bottle, and cure is certain. For
sale by Richard Gibson.