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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

"Mr. DoOley" Finds a Serios Theme I'm
Recent Scientific Investigations.

Peter F. Dunno in Golfers Weekly.
The Saxon government has undertaken an
inquiry to solve the secret of old age. and In
this pursuit has studied the life histories
of seventy-three persons over ninety years
old living in the city of Dresden. The
fruits Of this investigation have been pub
lished, and some of them are so appalling
that only a strong journalistic instinct COM
pels us to record them. The majority of
the aged are of medium height. None of
them is bald. majority are deaf. All of
them sleep eight or nine hours daily. Out
of seventy only five are of serious DISPOSE
ton. These facts are not extraordinary.
Lots of hair, good sleep and a cheerful
spirit are recognized as friends of health
and wisdom But what can We say of the
other disclosures? 1t is lamentable fact
that nearly all these ancient souls abhor
cleanliness. They wash their hands, but
they are opposed to baths. Pure air has
always been supposed TO be an ally of good
health and prolonged life But these old
rascals will none of it. Their rooms are
seldom aired. They sleep in closed bed
rooms Most melancholy fact of all. they
are not total abstainers- One wicked old
woman confessed that she couldn't live
unless she got drunk three times a week |"
The Oldest man in Dresden, man OF one
hundred years, likes a little drink on his
birthdays On the whole. though. the evil
dence in favor of alcohol as preservative
of life Is not as strong as the evidence In
favor of impure air and uncleanliness
That seems to be indisputable- The old fell
lows united in scorning ventilation and
baths. Have the hygiene sharps been on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Feb. 2s.-Six per-
sons were seriously injured and a number
slightly hurt in a collision between local
passenger train No. IA and a light engine
on the Monongahela division Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad at the junction near
here. The names:
JOHN BRESS, fireman, hurt internally,
condition serious.
PROF. FRANK r. HALL, head and face
badly cut and bruised.
KIRKLAND TOWNSEND, leg broken.
GEORGE CAMPBELL. cut about head
and badly bruised, leg hurt
MRS. MARY p. THOMPSON, ankle and
hip hurt.
H. G. THOMPSON, fiagman, shoulder in
jured.
The injured were taken to Brownsville
for medical attention. The collision was
head-on and In the impact several pas
senger coaches were thrown from the track,
the windows smashed and the passengers
hurled in all directions.
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FAT MEMS DISADVANTAGES.
Other Things They Are the
Prey of Pfckpockets.
New York Commercial.

New York Commercial.
Did you ever notice that most of those
who get their pockets picked or their scarf
pins lifted in big cities are fat persons
WELL it's the fact. Fat women are easy
marks-but women, rule, rarely car
ry much about them worth the while Of the
kings" among the pickpockets. It's the
fat men they are looking for.
There was the case of Irwin Leadbetter,
the brewers collector who had $4,000 in
bills and checks pulled from his pocket
while he was standing in Third.avenue
l. car not long ago, besides losing his
scarfpin worth $50 and his watch and
chain. Leadbetter weighs 30 pounds, and
in a crowd short man, slick with his fin
collectors front without being noticed.
Then, again, fat men are almost always
of easy temperament, good natured and
that Rcatch on quick and thus get the
pickpocket into Jail.
Like all good dips" molly Matches" of
Chicago, was always a respectable-looking
fellow-when out of prison. He can pass
unnoticed in a crowd. He has had lots of
experience and knew his business thorough
ly. His reasons, as given by himself, were
these:
Experience has taught me that nervous
ness and Effectiveness are usual character
istics of thin people when in crowd.
Therefore. they are more apt to turn around
suddenly and take quicker notice of any
push or jostling they may receive. / have
invariably found that such people are con-
stantly the alert so that they are not
so easily got at as more corpulent and con-
sequently easier going people. 1t is a
deuced sight more difficult to take anything
from them without detection than it is
from the individuals of more extended cor
porosity who fall into passive attitudes
and reveries that render them quite uncon-
scious of the sly, stealthy hand of the
pickpocket.''
This theory is known to all expert po-
lice, and they govern themselves in ac-
cordance with the rule to always watch the
fat ones when looking for dip
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purposes, for preserving, purifyins
and identifying the skin, scalp, hair
and hands, the facts would have
been known long ago, and Cuficura
would have gone to the grave-y.rds
Of medicinal failures.
As . matter of fact, Outicurs
remedies are very much alive OF
course our statesmen do not ask yues-
lions Of people who come 20 buy
them, but from the ever growing de-
mand / assume that the good work
Of Cuticura has been spread through
the community by word Of mouth,
and with all due respect to the news
papers, that is the best advertising
In the world.
"Time and competition are the
hardest tests, and Cuticura has with
stood them both. Mothers use the
Soap and Ointment to relieve their
tormented babies, whose tender
skins itch aud burn with eruptions
as unsightly as they are agonizing,
because it rs not only effective in
the highest degree, but it Is pure,
sweet and wholesome.
"Grown up people who buy the
remedies for their personal use,
swear by them, / know. Cuticura
Soap is the most popular of skin
soaps, and its sale probably exceeds
that of all other skin soaps combined.
1--WE have sold at retail over
85, 900 worth of Cuticura Soap, Oint-
ment and Resolvent this year, and
have as yet not heard one word of
complaint
have no more interest in Cuti-
cura than in other things we sell,
but since you ask my opinion, i
give it as freely on this subject as
1 would on any other
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CHURCH PAWNsHOPS.
Queer Institutions Organized for
Benevolent Purposes.

New York Commercial
Most New Yorkers-more especially the
Episcopalian contingent-know something
of the Provident Loan Society, a sort Of
philanthropic pawnshop scheme started by
few moderately prominent and moderate
ly rich citizens a few years ago-about
1884 or 50 or thereabout- One of it's prime
OBJECTS was to knock out the usurious
uncles who were wont to prey on tenn
porarily embarrassed church folk.
This ecclesiastic pawnshop is in upper
Fourth avenue, right in a very ecclesiastic-
al neighborhood, and it has rather a
churchy air about 1T until you go up against
the diamond expert'-then you would
think you were in ky Goldfogle's place sure
enough.
For long time 1t was thought that this
was the only ecclesiastical pawnshop in
the United States. But now Boston turns
up with one. In the heart of the exclusive
Back Bay, under the very caves of aris-
tocratic Trinity Church. little pawn shop
HourisheS, remarkable not only for it's en-
vironments, but in that it undoubtedly is
the cheapest in the world. the only one
conducted by a church and the only one
tnat is run solely on philanthropic basis.
-Four per cent a year is it's rate, so
cheap that every pawnshop in the city
and in the world, in fact, would be plunged
into bankruptcy if run a similar plan.
From a tool to a jewel and from a bit of
silver plate to your salary, can you go to
Trinity Chapel pawnshop and raise the
money for your emergency.
This philanthropic pawnshop is open
every day but Sunday two hours daily,
from III to l. The sexton at the chapel
door says, Yes. they do lend money here
and he points out little room in the rear
OF the church, where the money is lent and
the pledge received. 1t is a plain, uncar-
peted, bare little room, big enough to hold
small bookcase, desk, chair and a
settee, and a very few persons. Miss
Mitchell, the woman in charge, sits behind
the desk, a book before her.
with only 4 cents interest loan of
dollar for whole year, shouldn't think
1t would pay to keep this place." the re-
porter interposed.
1T DOESN'T she answers.
Though l am very busy here, and es-
pecially so on Saturdays, when many come
to redeem their pledges, the profits barely
pay my salary, but then it's philanthropic,
not money-making scheme"
The business originated during
tremely hard winter a number of years ago,
when there was great suffering among BOs-
toms poor. 1t was the idea of several of
the prominent members of Trinity Church,
who advanced the money to open and carry
on the business until ii might be self-sup-
porting.
I'm its ten years of existence" says Miss
Mitchell, hundreds of men and women of
all ages have been helped out in and tided
over their hour of trouble by the Trinity
Chapel pawnshop."
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NO. NaM~

1fyou have any business with Mr..
William c. Bolton, President of the
Bolton Drug Co., Brooklyn, N. Y,
you must elbow your way through
crowd of customers, and you VIII
find him working at a modest little
desk in the rear of the hong counters.
A man who has five large stores
to look after must learn to do at
least two things at once, and Mr..
Bolton, whom a reporter found at
the store, 264 Futon Street, con-
tinued to work as he talked.
81 have been in this business long
enough to see many proprietary
articles rise and fall he said. II
have never stopped to analyze the
reasons for the failures. AS for the
successes, merit and good manage
ment account for them merit chiefly.
"Take Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Resolvent, for example. In our
stores we have handled them for
years, and the sales have gone on
increasing right along despite lively
and persistent competition.
There are thousands, yes, tens OF
thousands of people in this good
borough of Brooklyn, who consider
them standard household articles,
as thoroughly to be depended On a.
to-morrow's sunrise.
"In my Judgment, the hold of
Cuticura Remedies upon the public
confidence is explainable upon one
ground only; that they really do all
they are said to do.
"If they failed to cure eczemas,
rashes and other torturing, disfgur-
ing skin, scalp and blood humors,
or if the Soap and Ointment did not
possess delicate emolient properties
especially fitting them for toilet
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CONFESSION OF A FINN.
Shot 81 Man i'm n Duel to Avenge an
Insult to the United States Army.

GAINESVILLE, o.. Feb. >2S.-The story of
duel TO death to avenge the insult to
the United States army is the confession
OF Isaac Tuuri. a Finnish citizen OF Fair
port this county. made 10 Sheriff Hughes.
Tuuri's roommate, Michael Polsa. was
found dead in an orchard near town. Oct.
Is last. with two bullet holes in his head
Tuuri was arrested on eircumstantiai EVIL
dence and was indicted two weeks ago Tor
murder. John Weiro, fellow-country-
man, who Tuuri says witnessed the duel.
was arrested to-day. charged with muir
der. We stood six feet apart and Polsa
counted three" said Tuuri 1T was the
agreement that we draw our revolvers at
1 got my gun UP first Polsa staggered at
my first shot, and fell dead at the second.
We left him there
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WRECKED BY THE WIND.
Cotton Building Badly Damaged and
Several Persons Hurt

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Feb. 2S-The Avon
cotton mill at Gastonia was partly wrecked
and four or five operatives injured, two
probably fatally, by windstorm which Wis
tied that town to-day. One hundred and
fifty feet of the southern wall of the fac
tory was blown down, falling inward
the operatives and machinery. Sadie Beat
ty, aged twelve, and Bessie Lay, fifteen,
were badly crushed. The injuries of the
other operatives were not serious. The
damage to the factory is 5000. The town
academy building was wrecked, chimneys
were blown from the graded school build
ing and the Modena cotton mill was slight
ly damaged.
At Clifton, S. c., the dwelling of James
Reynolds was blown down and his twelve
Year-Old son killed.
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OFF FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
Departure of the Transports Logan
and Fitzpatrick.

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 2S.-Two great
United States army transports, the Logan
and Fitzpatrick, both loaded with troops
and troop baggage for the Philippines, got
away at noon to-day. The scene at the
government wharf was a stirring one,
strikingly reminiscent of the days or the
war. 1t IL the first time in year and
half that the government has found IL
necessary TO dispatch two of these vessels
on the same day All the room on the Kill
patrick was needed for the Fourteenth IN
fantry Regiment, ordered 10 Samar. Inc
fitzpatrick sails for Samar direct. me
Fourteenth has been in the Philippines pc
fore and most of the men and officers know
what they have TO face. Col D T. JOceiyn
commands the regiment. .
On the Logan for Guam and Manila are
the first squadron OF the Thirteenth CaVa al
~. 20 men, a detachment of marines, 100
men, and $50 saloon passengers. with the
cavalry is Lieut. Col. f.. ID. Thomas. Con-
sui Ragsiale, bound for Tfen-Tsin, IS one
OF the Logans passengers.
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Asphyxiated I'm His Room.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. sd. E. Yates,
forty-two years old, of Savannah, was as
phyxiated in his room at hotel here. The
coroner will determine whether the case
is one Of accident Of suicide. Yates was q
travelling horse dealer. He registered at
the hotel last Wednesday. Thursday night
he retired early and was not seen again
until the odor of the escaping gas attracted
the porter's attention TO his room. He had
been dead some time when discovered and
the gas was turned on full force. A letter
of recommendation from G.. Z. Patterson
was found among his possessions.
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The susquehanna Swelling.

wILKESBARRE. Pa. Feb. 2s.-Recol-
lections of the disastrous flood one year
ago to-day, when the Susquehanna at
tanned height Of thirty-three feet above
low-water mark, are again brought forci-
bly, to the minds of the people of the Wyo-
ming valley by the steady rising of the
river. The heavy rain of to-day all through
the watershed of the north branch will in
all probability cause heavy rise in addi-
ton to the sixteen feet of water which
carried out the ice between here and the
Nanticoke dam to-day None of the water
and ice from the Chemung and Chenango
rivers has reached here yet, and many an
ticipate an unusual volume of water and
ice within the next twenty-four hours.
The residents of the southern part of this
city and on the West Side lowlands are
preparing to move, as the water is nearly
bank high.
At 10 o'clock tonight reports from Bing-
hamton and Elmira. N. Y. indicate that
a large body of water may be expected
from all the streams emptying into the
Susquehanna. 1t now looks as if the river
at this point will flood all the low lands by
morning.
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ACRE DISPUTE REOPENED.
Brazil Il Reported to Have Made q
Fresh Demand on Bolivia.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The Post to-
morrow will say that information was re-
ceived by cable in an authoritative quarter
here to-day that Brazil has made fresh
demand upon Bolivia for cession of terri
tory. The Post will say:
mot satisfied with Bolivian compliance
with her demand for temporary military
occupation of a portion of the Acre terri
tory pending determination of it's owner
shin by The Hague tribunal, Brazil has
demanded possession of another strip of
land. 34440 square miles in extent. The
Bolivian government has been informed
that unless occupation be permitted force
will be sent into the territory to hold it.
In support of her demand Brazil has sta
toned fifteen men of war in the Acre river.
what action Bolivia will take upon the
demand is not known. Not only will Be-
livia and Brazil be involved. but Peru,
which has put forth a claim to portion
of the Acre territory. probably would in
sist that her rights be safeguarded."
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CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Feb. 2s.-The storm,
which subsidized early to-day. was of
the worst of the winter. Little snow fell,
but, with what had lain on che prairies for
several days, the new snow was whipped
up and carried across the country In thick
clouds. The temperature went to five de-
grees below zero, and the high wind made
the cold bitterly felt. Stockmen from the
eastern part of the State say that this has
been the most disastrous winter to stock In
ten years. Conservative estimates place
the loss at q per cent. while some owners
will lose full half their holdings.
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Muskingum rivers. At Lancaster the Hook
Ing river has broken its banks and the low
lands are flooded. The village OF New
Bremen Is under two TO six feet OF water.
At Finday and Kenton the Ohio Central
Railroad tracks are submerged. Many peo-
pie In the section of Findlay adjacent to
the Scioto river have been compelled to
abandon their homes
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across at the rate Of sixty miles an hour.
The fireman. NJ @. Christian. was sur
prtsed and locked over at Engineer John w.
Smith and was Mortified to find the en-
e1neer crouched against the reverse lever
after the train was brought to a standstill
a deep cash exposing the brain was found
In his right temple. It Is thought that
while bending out Of his cab window he was
struck by some protruding object and
Killed Engineer Smith was one of the old
est and most reliable enginemen on the
Panhandle
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 2s---The ID. O.
Observatory sailed to-day with its destina-
ton in the neighborhood of Santiago. Chile
The expedition viii be in charge or WIZ
". X. Palmer OF the University of Cali
fornia. The government of Chile has taxi
en- Official notice OF the coming OF the ex-
petition and has offered TO further IL
purposes in every way possible
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KnickerbaCker Hall
Boarding and Day School
for Girls

the wrong track all these years? Has the
race been really shortening the duration
of life by sleeping in well-aired rooms and
subjecting itself to the painful incon-
yenience of the bath? This is matter that
invites serious consideration. Perhaps the
doctors would reply in the words of the ia
miliar yarn: How much older these peo-
ple would be IL they had bathed'
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NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-There was a COL
lision in the North river to-day between the
ferryboat New Jersey of the Pennsylvania
Company, and the ferryboat Ridgewood,
of the Erie Railroad Company. Julian
Legert, of Rutherford, N. j., and William
Hays, of Paterson, N. j., were badly hurt.
The New Jersey struck the Ridgewood on
the mems cabin side, making big hole in
the side. The Ridgewood was crowded with
passengers and a number of women on
board became hysterical.
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COLUMBUS. o.. Feb 2s-Floods are re-
ported in many Ohio towns as the result OF
the heavy rains of yesterday and to-day
following the recent thaw. At GAINESVILLE
families have been forced to move from
more than one hundred houses on account
Of the high water in the Licking and
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superannuated Ministers.
Springfield Republican.

The attention called to the deplorable pow
erty of superannuated preachers of the
pensions are rather charitable doles than
tributes of honor for faithful service. has
compelled the increase of the contribution
from the profits of the book concern from
$4,000 to $4,000 this year. This is giving a
penny or so more In charity. The big Meth
odist denomination. which raises so 1000 coo
to- glorlfy the new century, ought to be
great many Methodtsts.
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HUNTINGTON. w. Va. Feb. 2s.-On the
Red River Railroad, in eastern Kentucky,
to-day, freight train went through a tres
tie and Engineer John Stetters, of Ceredo,
w. Va, was fatally injured and Fireman
Watson was seriously hurt. Landslides in
the mountain district are playing havoc
with trestles. ten-foot rise in the Guyan
river at Logan is reported.
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TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Methodist Preacher Throws Himself
In Front Of q Train.

CHICAGO, Feb. S.-Rev. j. w. ID. Cald-
well. for many years presiding elder of the
Methodist Church at Chicago. and now
pastor of the Union-avenue Methodist
Church. attempted to end his life to-day by
throwing himself In front of a Grand Trunk
train at Forty-sixth street. He was uncon-
scious when picked up. his leg was broken
and he was internally injured. He was
taken to Wesley Hospital where. II was
said he might recover.
Or. Caldwell was arrested last night on a
charge OF disorderly conduct and released
on bail He left home this morning to an
swer the charge In Police Court. and In
stead of going there deliberately walked In
front OF the rapidly-moving train.
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HICKMAN, KY, Feb. ga party of
three women and four men left the resi-
dence of Mrs Cooper last night to cross
the Mississippi river for home. The cur
rent suddenly carried their skiff under a
pile of drift. All but one were drowned.
Miss Higgins escaped by jumping on top
of the drift. The women were the Misses
Hubbard. The names Of the men are UNI
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Three KILLED. rhree Hurt.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, Feb. 2s.-The South
western Limited on the New York Central
road. west-bound. was wrecked at the East
Syracuse yards tonight. The killed are:
CHARLES BABCOCK, conductor.
j. Z. KELLER, brakeman
j. ID. GOURLEY, brakeman.
Three other trainmen were seriously in
Jured- All were from Albany. They were
asleep In caboose which was detached
upon track. Freight cars on the same
track being shifted struck the caboose,
which jumped the switch and slid along
another track, lodging across the main west
bound passenger track. Here the South
western at full speed struck it. The engine
toppled over, crushing the car and killing
the men inside. The engineer and fireman
stuck to their posts and were rescued from
the wreck. The porter in the buffet car had
his left hand torn off, A number of passen-
gers were shaken UP. but none was severely
hurt. The ten cars Of the Southwestern
are standing at the side of the main track
and are total wrecks. The Boston Special,
due ahead of the Southwestern, got behind
IL and was held in a block east 1t passed
around the wreck and continued west.
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FINDLAY, o., Feb. %.-Nelson Jacobs
and Henry Thomas, farmers, were drowned
to-day while trying to ride over sub
merged bridge spanning the Blanchard river
east of the city. Both were swept away
by the swift current
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Three Employees killed.

SYRACUSE, N. Y. Feb. 2S.-The Buffalo
limited. west-bound, was wrecked at East
Syracuse at 100 p. m. Three persons were
killed. All are said to be railroad men.