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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-22

s.rs IN one year. As thumb the pages OF nay
scrapbook, having turned & through note mat
they are nearly an long: which must aean'
s,,nnose that the writer's either have take much
leisure and imagine also that have little else
20 do but read them. Maybe this points TO lazlncss
and maybe that would explain many Things
Again. in nearly all cases the HANDWRITING Is oao'
al least q - strange. and SO. hard 20 read.
AsevAe L knew how TO read character in this as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26

prisoner OF proper age learns TO speak their
language. they are compelled to marry.
Although / had for five years escaped the
enforcement of the law, and doubt
would have escaped it longer had it not
been for the action of that Villains Simon
Girty. who insisted that / should marry
him, although he had a wife and children
living nearby. 1 had informed him on
several occasions that 1 had husband
living To this he paid no attention, but
continued TO press his suit, or demand. for
he then threatened TO call upon the tribe
to compel me to comply with his command
There was a chief of the tribe. who, for two
years or more wanted me to marry him.
Finally, TO escape the fiend Girty, married
the chief. lie was a very good man. We
lived together for over twelve years. He
died five months ago, leaving me with three
children.
My life for the past twenty-five years
has been full of sorrow and misery, re-
lieved for a short time by meeting with my
sister Sarah after a separation of eight
years She had married French Canad-
ian, an excellent man. They were search
ing for me when we met. Sarah's husband
erected a cabin for her near our wigwam,
and after making her as comfortable as he
could, he left to be gone for four months
going directly to Detroit to lay in stock
of goods, when he would return to the
Wyandots.
During the four months spent with my
sister 1 was very happy. But this happi-
ness then was brought to an end by the
sudden death of Sarah. She died in child
birth. The mother and child were buried in
one grave. The husband returned in few
days to find his wife and child dead and
buried. His grief was intense. In a day or
two, taking his only child with him, he left
for Detroit, where his mother resided, in
tending TO leave the child to her care. Be
fore leaving he gave me the cabin and
promised he would do all in his power to
inform my friends of my whereabouts.
MARTHA VANCE
by Henry Ironside, Merchant and Trader"
This letter came too late to be of any
benefit to poor Martha Vance. Her hus-
band was now dead. Her father, Luther
Miller. with his family, had many years
before removed to the vicinity of Fort
Greenville, with the hope that he might
learn something regarding the fate of his
two daughters, and was never heard from
after leaving Boonesborough. The result
was that the letter from Martha Vance
was not answered, there being no one left
in the community who had any knowledge
of her. She was never again heard from.
E. FENWICK COLERICK.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
AT THE COUNTY FAIR.


Nelson Lloyd In Scrfbners Magazine.
Standing outside on little elevation, we
looked down on a field of bonnets. which
seemed to mutfie a mighty buzz. now dying
now swelling again, now silent as a clerical
looking man stepped 10 the edge of the plat
form at the distant end
Lot %. he cried, reading from a cata-
logue In his hand. Lot 56-best boy baby
over one year and not exceeding one year
and six months-shown by the mother.
Prize, 81. Twelve entries"
The buzz became roar Twelve mothers
nfted themselves from the chaos of bonnets
and climbed TO the platform. From that
moment the clergyman and his fellow
Judges were lost TO our view. At rare in
tervals we could catch sight of Al bit of
quickly gone again.
Ny minister mopped his brow. ''I was a
Judge last year. he said
A meek little man was standing close by
aid we heard chuckle.
II - remarkable the way the women go
In for it, he exclaimed ''Why. it'U lake
EN- month to get over the decisions, and
Tor the rest OF their lives them Judges won't
nave any regulations for eyesight or sense.
! know how II was with my wife She put
Emily In with the best girls under one,
last year. The child wasn't even placed
This year she has William in Lot So and
spose she's busy this minute explainin'-''
lie stopped. He made a rush for little
woman who was forcing her way out of the
crowd. She was holding a baby so high i'm
his arm Ii was William
Several times that afternoon we saw the
same young gentleman, and on every &C.
casion he was reposing on the arm OF the
meek. scofftng little man. and he so reposed
tnai ,he blue ribbon could not be missed
While the baby show may be a source of
much dissension in a community Il serves
one good purpose
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
EATING BY MUSIC.


Harper's Weekly.
There are good things i'm Punch. not al
ways, of course, but sometimes, and a re-
cent instance was some answers to the in
quiry: Should there be music at meals?"
OF six replies. that attributed to Mr.. j. p.
Sousa was: There is no doubt that the
nearer the trombone the sweeter the meat"
which was frivolous; but this answer, at
tributed to Mr. Henry Bird, really goes into
the merits of the question: You ask.
Should there be music during meals? But
what OF the converse ?-should there be
meals during music? Ii seems TO me that
to offer music at restaurant is a confess
sion OF failure on the part of the chef. Our
music at the st. James's Hall concerts
would have 10 be bad indeed before we pro-
vided the extra inducement of food TO go
with it, There is decided point TO that.
Music at meals fairly implies a failure
somewhere, and If Ii Is not In the cook, Ii
thing. and certainly the restaurant keepers
would not provide IL unless they believed
their patrons liked 1t. The natural accom-
paniment Of dinner is talk, but music is a
hindrance TO conversation. 1t makes it hard
TO hear what is said. and keeps voices
strained. 1t must be that people who want
TO converse over their food don't like lie, and
II there are so very many people who do
like it they must be folks who are glad of
any din by which their conversational de-
fects may be concealed.
But do so very many people like 1t. or is
IL only fad which most people are tired
or, and from the bondage of which they
would be blad to be released? In New York
as In London. all the best restaurants have
orchestras now, aud it is hard to get a
good dinner outside of a club or a private
house without having music forced in.
Whatever restaurant started the practice in
a past already dim must have found it
profitable. but IL is quite possible that the
public taste no longer Graves thisNindulg-
ence. All fads tend TO live on awhile after
the taste for them has been satiated. The
force OF habit preserves them for a time
but their doom eventually arrives.
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Leo XIII for the succession, but that Is
pure conjecture. y short, nobody knows
anything about him. Personally, he Is
man Of medium figure, irregular features,
and a peculiarly white complexion. IL Is
a thoughtful face, but what is he thinking
about? Rampolla's appearance piques con-
tastic speculations. There Is something
about Gotu which discourages In advance
anything of that sort. You feel that, AFTER
infinite guessing, you would leave him
where you found him, and end just as wise
as you were when you began. When the
great Carmelite Church of Santa Teresa
officiated. 1 took occasion. for the sake OF
my own curiosity, to observe him closely
for an hour, At the end OF that time
mournfqIly confessed s. TO myself IL, well
of. AS for the rest. Just then some
American friends carried me of and helped
me to think of .things about which the
human mind could reach some sort OK
conclusion.
The present occupation of the great office
of Cardinal Grand Chamberlain Is Luigi
Cardinal Oreglia of the Barons OF Santo
Stefano, Bishop of Ostia and Nelletrl:
Dean of the Sacred College, Archpriest or
the Basilica of st. Pauls, Perpetual Abbot
of the Monastery Of Tire Fontane. and few
other odds and ends. To include every
thing his visiting card would require a
sequel He Is now the only living cardinal
might have said: 'sYou did not make me,
but made YOU" But, while Leo broadened,
Oreglia has stood stock still. The mummy
of Rameses has just about as much con-
gruity with the present day and generation
as he has. His continuing TO exist after the
collapse of the Austrian system and the
death of Plus TX and Antonelli, simply
shows his lack of a sense of humor. That
he and Guglielmo Marconi should live at
the same time, and in the same country,
Is one Of the magnificent ironies Of history.
But suryivals are interesting, and GER
tainly Oreglia Is. Looking at his. one seems
70 realize what for instance. Metternich
must have been like. / like that fine old
lighting face; thin now and pale and
scanned and wrinkled, with the keen,
shrewd eyes penetrating through the great
goggles the flowing. fluffy white hair hs
Is figure that commands interest ana
even a sort of grudging respect. To share
his views is out of the question, OF course
He is a kind OF glorified Mrs. Darlington,
trying to sweep back the tide. One after
noon last summer / was walking along the
road which follows the Tiber bank, beneath
Monte Mario. Presently Cardinal Oreglia 8
carriage passed. At the moment
there came from the opposite direction an
automobile, flying along as IL hurled from
the pit of Trophet, and left behind ~ a
hades OF dust and stencil. The cardinal
stuck mis- head out of the carriage window
Just rnomentary vision OF white hair ana
glittering goggles-while the creVass-iike
wrinkles frightened and pulled the corners
OF the mouth he bestowed a sardonic
grin the vanishing chauffeur IL was the
comment of the tenth century on the TWEEN
f.afh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADING.

r. in Worlds Work.

w. ]. Shearer. in Worlds Work.
The most careful students of education
agree that the proper grading of schools is
by far the most important problem of
school organization. The lockstep has been
abandoned I'm army and prison. Why not
in schools? 1t is no easier and more sense
less to make fifty children walk in intel
lectual .lockstep than to keep fifty clocks
ticking together. Yet the decree of the
demon of uniformity seems to have been
I'm together, on together. out together
If there are any left to finish.
Most schools profess to grade the work
for the slower pupils-an outrage on the
large majority who could go forward more
rapidly. Thus the brighter children are
drilled in habits of inattention and idleness.
This criticism which applies to the public
schools applies with even greater force TO
private schools.
Many schools claim to grade for the
brighter ones. Regardless of thoroughness,
all the others are hurried over the work
They fall behind, stumble for time at the
foot of the class, and then, misunderstood,
unappreciateG and discouraged, drop out of
school, quickly obliged to leave lest
"they bring down the examination aver
age" Yet teachers. know that most of the
dropped pupils could have been saved il
only they could have been permitted to go
at the race that the Almighty intended they
should, instead of at an arbitrary rate fixed
by some Board of Education.
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in my own mind that the sisters did event
ually meet. for the French trader could go
where he chose, and Sarah said they would
never stop the search until they found
Martha.
Il was adopted by Wyandot family that
had lost their only son by death. My foster
parents always treated me with kindness
and affection. The Indians all liked me
and / liked them. In time 1 married a
woman in the Delaware tribe and have
three children in my wigwam and am happy
and contented."
THE MESSAGE NOT DELIVERED.
He left the house before it was light the
following morning, and it was the last ever
seen or heard of George Nicely.
Soon after George Neely's visit, Samuel
Vance, sick and broken in spirit, returned
from his long and weary journey through
Nut the Northwest. During the four months
THAT he was absent he had visited every
tribe living between the great lakes and
the Ohio river. and had visited Detroit and
Canada. But all to no purpose A silence
as deep as that of the forest through which
he wandered hung over his wife's fate On
reaching Boonesborough he was taken
down with an acute attack of pleurisy ard
before the message brought by George
Nicely was delivered to him ne became
delirious and died within forty -eight hours
after his return
Many years after the death of Samuel
Vance, the following letter was received at
Boonesborough. 1t had been sent to Fort
Washington, to be forwarded from there
to its destination. 1t was six weeks on
the way:
Traders Point,
Mouth of the Auglaize River Oct. 10, 1899.
ITO whom 1t may concern: On yesterday a
woman came to my trading house. She was
the widow Of an underchief of the Shaw
nees, who had been dead several months.
She came, she said, to make a statement
which she wished me to write down and
forward to Boonesborough, Ky. She spoke
good English.
"I am a white woman by birth. My
name is Martha Vance. My maiden name
was Miller. My fathers name was Luther
Miller. On the evening of my wedding day.
twenty-five years ago. / was captured by
the Indians. in company with my sister,
Sarah Miller, then in her seventeenth year.
and a neighbours son, George Nicely, aged
fifteen years. The band that captured us
was composed of five wyandot and three
Shawnees. We were all taken to San
dusky. When the Shawnees started for
their village they took me with them,
claiming that l was their prisoner. The
Indians have always treated me with kind
ness. i remained single for nine years,
hoping that something might turn up that
would restore me to my husband and
friends
"T had learned to speak the Shawnee
tongue. Under their laws when q white
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
LIVING "DOWN TOWN..
Only Tn American Cities Is There an
objection to 1t.
food Housekeeping.

Good Housekeeping.
In the matter of homes, we seem, of late
years, to have struck our colors, to have
neither care nor desire for permanency.
We want change, and Scorn the sentiment
of taking root" disdain the deep pleasures
such root-taking secured to other genera
tons.
1 CHANGED recently TO drive through dis
trict of handsome homes in one of our large
cities, drearily sad from fast increas-
ing shabbiness and that air Of neglect
quickly to make mute and touching
appeal. My companion remarked: as
not the matter of abandoned neighbor-
hoods the most remarkable thing in
street, these superb homes, fine grounds,
the matchlessness of the general situa-
ton; and fathom, il you can, the reason
for its desertion. A relative situation in
London, Paris, or many other cities in
Europe would insure an unchanging out
ward condition for hundred years-longer,
perfectly kept up to the last detail they
would increase rather than depreciate in
money value, and would probably grow
more beautiful from long continued care
and that air which belongs to associa-
tions."
Such neighborhoods are common to all
our cities, the perfunctory excuse for them
being that the business distric. has aI
why should nearness to that district be
counted disadvantage. when pearness
does not mean infringement in any degree
Down town" is not the region OF facto-
ries, of noise. or other offensiveness; but
rather the well kept and attractive shop
ping center, the region Of theaters. clubs,
Libraries, etc., all OF which it is certainly
an advantage to have within reasonable
distance of ones home if the seclusion and
quiet of that home is in nowise violated
thereby. If people moved from the neigh
borhoods described to the suburbs or out
lying borders OF cities, there would be a
distinct gain-in pure air and nearness to
the country; but such moves are not the
character of the shiftings in question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
The VagabOnd Road.

From one town to another
The staid. brown highway runs
Laid out by the good fathers,
Trodden by and sons;
This way passes the schoolboy,
The countryman with his load,
The bridegroom and bride
a busy procession
OF young hearts and old
And none turns aside
Or pines for the Nagabond Road.
Oh the Vagabond Road have you seen II?
How describe IL in words?
Green. capricious, enchanting.
Haunted by sweet-snging birds.
Still pursuing its pleasure
BY rock. pasture and fall,
Escaping, ascending.
DeDloying-and. where
know not. but surely
Delciously ending
$50 be IT'D in nothing at all
Dusty and safe Is the highway.
Thrice respectable too:
Here are clustered mems dwellings.
Church and market In view.
/. too travel the turnpike
And there x my abode
Yet sometimes, perchance,
I halt for a moment.
When IL by.
And throw a long glance
Far. far down the Vagabond Road.
Dora Read Goodaie. in August Liuulncotf's
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
A seashore Fad.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

fEtsS-
The seashorc fad Of having ones portrait
in the shape of photograph on postm
card has reached this town. Those who nave
"A burning desire To distribute their features
as widely as possible will find this means
the best yet. As a matter OF fact. though:
most people go ir for IL solely as lark ana
order very few OF these personal postais.
Here in town they nothing 20 dangerous
as down by the rolling sea. Here We VIII
hardly be led before the look~peaSant man
unless we be clothed and In our right fnihd
COR at least partly SOL Down at the shore
the marine mlcrobe gets into peoples sss-
tens and plays the most dreadful prahAs.
Consider for instance. the old lady who 80
far forgets the dignity of her years as 10
pose for a postcard coquettishly wrlnkhs
the water from her abbreviated skirt.
Though she be beautiful 10 does not trans
pire so far az the souvenir card testines.
turiously enough the writer has Just re-
ceived two postcard souvenirs. one from the
seashore and the other from Colorado. one
shows the portrait of a bather TO whom Wet
hair is hauntingiy unbecoming. The other
shows a pretty donkey with the sottest
eyes In case one has 60 choose between the
two one should lose no time in picking the
long cared donkey for progress through
the postal scrNice-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
The Treatment of Cramp.
Boston Journal.

Many persons of both sexes are troubled
with cramp in one or both of the legs. 1t
usually comes on suddenly, and while il
lasts the pain is acute. Most people jump
out of bed-the cramp nearly always comes
on just after going TO bed or while undress-
ing-and either rub their legs themselves or
get some one else TO Go it for them. There
is nothing easier than to overcome the
spasms. and the method suggested is as
follows: Provide good strong cord-a long
garter will do If nothing else Is handy.
When the cramp comes on take the cord,
wind Ii around the leg, over the place in
which the pain * felt. and take one end I'm
each hand and give il sharp pull-one that
will hurt a little. The cramp viii cease
instantly. and the sufferer can go to bed
assured that IL will not come again that
night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
AIN OLD-TIME TRAGEDY
A PATHETIC INCIDENT OF PIONEER
DAYS IN KENTUCKY
Wedding Day-Hcr Husbands
UnavaiIfng Search.

1.-The Samuel Vance named in the following
narrative "A nephew OF ex-Governor Vance,
OF Ohio. The facts upon which the narrative
Is founded. many years ago obtained from
a descendant OF the Governors family. This
story, strange as IL may seem, has never
appeared IN any of the histories of that time.
but was well-knowH incident In the Vance
family.-E. 4. CT
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Philadelphia Record (Dem.)

Philadelphia Record (Dem)
contemporary suggests that there
enouid be no more reports of William /
Bryan vituperative speeches. Such advice
II hardly to be commended. II is well that
people should be reminded from time 10
ume OF the wooden idols that they have
<ooiish'y wcrshi2ed for winged Mercuries
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EDUCATIONAL.

u
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26

EDGAR NJ CAWLEY, Director.
509 North Illinois Street. indianapolis. Ind.
Day as well as boarding students may enter at
any time throughout the entire year.
FAN term opens "Wednesday, Sept. 2.
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-03
COUNTY HAS TOPAY
Railroad Assessments Re-
duCed Again This Year.
FROM $3.50 TO $4,000 PER MILE
The Result Of Last Years EquaIiza-
ton Which Compelled County to
Pay State s511 Railroad Taxes.
FROM $3.50 TO $4,000 PER MILE

The board of county commissioners
met this morning in the commission
ers room at the hall Of records and
organized as a board of equalization
by electing Commissioner Cornwell as
chairman and Auditor Eoneycutt as
clerk of the board. The assessment
rolls for 1903, consisting Of five real
estate rolls and enc personal roll were
filed by Assessor Bergman.
The board reduced the assessment
OF $3.50 per mile en- the Washington
and Columbia RiT-r railway tracks to
$4,000 to conform : it'll last years as
sessment which was returned at $3.50
and reduced by the county board of
equalization to $4,000. The state board
of equalization raised the assessment
to the original figure, $3.50, which
necessitated the county making up to
the state the difference of S511.S7 on
the railroads taxes. If the state board
raises the assessment again this year
the county will again be compelled
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-03

Saturday night gift night at Shields
Park was a great success. A large
audience was in attendance and dem
z1nstrated their appreciation of the
splendid program rendered by hearty
applause. Much interest was mani
Tested in the presentation of the gifts
at the close of the program The first
number drawn was $50 which entitled
abe owner to the gift a beautiful
mirror valued at SIS. the same has
not been called for; the second mum
Der, 400 held by Homer Hail, Of Lind
Wash. called for the beautiful easy
chair. valued at $12; the third number
l5S called for a lovely pastel picture,
was not called for; the fourth number
"a. also called for lovely pastel pic
ture. was present ed by Miss I. Lewis.
This closed the first Of series OF gift
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-03
M'kAY-GALLAGER.

In a pretty little home wedding al
the resid 7ace Of Mrs. John Hoskins al
2 O'Clock yesterday afternoon Miss
May Mckay became the bride OF
Ernest Hugh Gallager, a we'll known
young Walla Wallan and a son OF Rev
William Gallager, an old time settler
of the valley.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. J. J. Gallager. after which dainty
refreshments were served by MRS
uCekins. Mr. and Mrs. Gallager Will
make Walla Walla their future home
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and left the city yesterday afternoon,
seemingly satisfied with his adventure
The young men will be tried on a
charge of disorderly conduct in the
police court this evening. Two others
charged with being drunk and incap-
able will tell their troubles to the
judge at the same session.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave We'll. who have
been in camp on the Roberts place
for two weeks, are expected home to-
morrow morning.
Though city taxes for 1903 were due
Saturday morning, there has been less
than $500 collected in so far. This
years taxes, as the rolls turned over
20 Treasurer Shaw show, amount to
$50, 1914.
Lucian Coleman, one Of the owners
and manager Of the WascO mills, ar
rived in Walla Walla today to visit
with the family of J. W. Cookery Tor
a short time Mrs. Coleman and baby
will arrive Thursday on visit.