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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
CIGARS AS LIFE SAVERS.

Jew York World.

new 1OTh W. ilu
This may not be a sufficient excuse for
cultivating fondness for tobacco in general
and expensive cigars in particular-if ex-
csse be needed-but it's strangely true that
cigars, generally good cigars, have many
times saved valuable human lives. NJ.
Guizot, the great French historian, for in
stance. owes mis- life to a cigar. One day
he was walking in one of the gardens of
Paris when he noticed that he was being
followed by u shabbily dressed man, who
included the historian NJ. Guizot finally
sat down on bench and his unwelcome
follower seated himself there also, all the
time watching him with a threatening air
which might nave proved disconcerting to a
man troubled with nerves" The historian
was not troubled. He pulled cigar out of
his pocket and lighted il. At that action
the strange man arose and muttered that
ne had been mistaken, as the scoundrel he
meant to kill did not smoke. The historian
renee until he learned several days after
ward that man answering the description
OF the fellow who had followed him had
been arrested for murderous assault on q
public official against whom he had a
grudge. He had mistaken NJ. Guizot for
the official. and no doubt would have made
the assault on him had he not pulled out
the cigar.
The late King Humbert of Italy i'm his
youth was habitual smoker. One day
while driving through the streets of Ma
pies he happened to drop a cigar which
he had just lighted He noticed that a
singuarly dejected-looking citizen darted
forward and grabbed the cigar from the
street. He thought nothing more of the
matter until some months later. when ii
was called to his memory upon receipt OF
an unsigned letter relating that the writer
had been on the verge of committing SUI
eide when he had CHANGED to pick up the
cigar which the King had dropped The
smoking OF this, he said. had changed the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS,

SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. .. Sailed
Noltke. from Hamburg. for New York via
Cherbourg: Friedrich der Crosse, from
Bremen, for New York.
MOvILLE, Oct 25.-Arr;ged: Columbia
from New York. for Glasgow: Partisan
from Montreal and Quebec. for Liverpool
and proceeded.
SOUTHAMPTON. Oct. 25.-Arrived: Fin
land. from Antwerp. for New York
Steering gear disabled; will proceed when
repaired
NEW YORK. Oct. 25.-Arrived: Arabic
from Liverpool and Queenstown: Califor-
MIA. from Leghorn and Naples.
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER Oct. 25.-Sailed
Rotterdam. from Rotterdam, for New
York. and passed Beachy Head.
GLASGOW. Oct. 25.-Arrived: Sandman
from Montreal. Sailed: Corinthian. fol
Montreal.
NAPLES Oct. 25.-Arrived: Vancouver
from Boston via 81. Michaels. for Genoa.
QUEENSTOWN. Oct 25.-Sailed: Etru
IA. from Liverpool, for New York.
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Value Of Wide Tires.
ounty (Ind.) Journal.

Owen County Qnd) Journal
John Shank, of Logan county, Ohio. who
has been visiting in this county recently.
expressed surprise that people are permit
ted to haul heavy loads over the pike roads
with narrow-tired wagons. He saws where
he lives in Ohio all two-horse wagons have
tires three and one-haf and four inches
wide. Their pike and gravel roads are
smooth floor. and two horses will haul
three or four tons easily. He says the
broad tire solves the repair problem for
pike roads and that it cannot be solved
permanently in any other way. Mr.. Shank
says that with broad tires there Is no per-
ceptible wear on the roads He states that
the farmers like the broad-tired wagons for
farm use because they do not cut into the
ground when driving over the fields The
use of broad-tired wagons has become so
universal with them that narrow-tired
wagons have been driven from their mar
ketS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26

Country Gentleman.

Country Gentleman.
Owners of country places find a map of
their possession q useful and convenient
thing to have. especially If they have TO do
much planning and directing when not on
the ground. Even though a farmer may be
familiar with every foot of his land, he will
find that a graphic representation before
his eyes is help to methodic work gen.
eral over his plan of campaign feels the
subject more within his grasp with the de-
tails of the surrounding country before him
on paper.
A scale of 100 feet to one inch is about
right, giving space enough to work in many
details of which record is sought Orchards
and fruit trees of various kinds may be indi-
Gated by some letters or legend, the key
to which is on the margin. Also the
boundaries of fields and location of build
ings, water courses and drains are marked
out.
A man who starts to drain should begin
in accordance with some we'll thought out
system which includes all the drainable
portions of the farm, for when once begun
the effects of drainage are so markedly
beneficial that the work is very apt to be
continued. Every drain. then, should be
marked on map for record, the course.
outlet and especially the starting point de-
fined by reference to some visible and ppr-
manent objects. This will facilitate the ex-
tension or the system when so desired at
any future time.
A farm map may contain the marks and
monuments TO the boundary lines and their
corners 1t is then a record of land title
and useful in case of resurveys. etc. Many
a disputed land-lne case has been settled
by map.
map, especially a blueprint copy, has
|. come to be looked upon as almost a neces-
sity nowadays by those intending to dispose
of property. Its value for reference or adj
vertisement increases in proportion as de-
tails of topography and improvements are
faithfully recorded upon it, Almost any
farm owner who has the taste and time for
that kind of work can make a map of his
place, or he may get the assistance of a
local surveyor who ought not to charge
much for that which requires no particular
knowledge or skill.
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/ knew that ia rather be hung than have
them trottiag around away from me ana
with their mother" he said.
WHY did you not kill your wife instead
OF the children. Mcclure was asked
because II I had, would have been
hung and the children would have been all
alone in the world No, Killed them 10
make sure that they were not IN their
mothers care and would have killed my
self had IL not been for arranging Tor tnelr
Funerals / want TO live long enough To
sec them buried. 1 am willing to die on
the scaffol6 now and don't suppose L de-
serve any sympathy from any one. could
not bear TO think of those children being
taken away from rae and would much
rather see them dead and be dead along
with them. than that.
Mcclure talks nationally. yet there are
times when tears gather IN his eyes and he
moans in his grief. He says he is sorry
he had to kill the children. but believed ne
was right in doing IL and Is willing TO take
his punishment. Several physicians who
called on him last night said they believed
he was Of unsound mind, although not ac-
lively insane. Insanity. it is said, will be
his defense. but he says he does not care
whether he lives much longer or not.
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Heavy
Dull Feeling After
Dinner.
Tortures OF Death
From Headache.
DIR. Niles Anti.Pain Pills
Relieve and Cure.

"Nearly every day I suffered from severe
attacks of headache. They usually began
with heavy, dull feeling soon alter dinner
During these spells my head felt as though
there was a tight bandage around It, my
temples throbbed, l became sick at my stom-
ach, and suffered almost the fortunes of death
For two years past have been taking Dr.
Miles Anti-Pain Pills, and have found sure
and immediate relief always. BY taking one
in time the headache Is preventedevery time
Mrs NJ. Z. NOBLE, Garfield, Wash.
"Dr. Miles Anti Pain Pills are all right. I
can recommend them very highly to anyone
who needs a remedy for headache, neuralgia,
or pain of any kind. My health is not very
good, and am subject TO frequent attacks OF
severe headache, but since i began taking
Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills / do not suffer
from them as used to. They never fa;l TO
give relief in a few minutes, and il taken
promptly upon the approach OF a headache
will prevent an attack from coming on
MRS. WIN. PEDRIcK, Gloversville, n. Y.
"Dr. Miles Pain Pills grow in favor with
me every day; for, whereas, 1 used to have
sick headache once a week, sure, can say
that / do not have 1t any more at all. 1
never had anything cure me of sick head
ache before. TUCKER, Wallace.
NY
All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle
Dr. Miles Remedies. Send for free book on
Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address DIR.
Miles Medical Company, ElAhart. Ind
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Storing Root Crops.

Philadelphia Record.
Every farmer knows the difficulty of so
storing roots as to facilitate the handling
of them in winter. Some have no pits or
cellars convenient in the barns, and con-
sequently store the roots in pits outside.
OF course, the outdoor method is not al
ways the best, for the roots will sometimes
keep in as sound condition when stored in
that manner as by any other process. but
when the season is we'll advanced and the
ground is hard and frozen it becomes a
very difficult matter TO get at the crop
when wanted for use. If a large crop is
stored inside the barn, unless the location
is so situated as to be under the influence
of even temperature, the handling of
the roots endangers them when the weather
is extremely cold, and causes them TO
sprout as the temperature becomes high.
Here, then, are two difficulties to be avoid
ed which are heat and cold. What the far
mer wishes is TO store the roots in such
manner as to keep them ut an even tenn
perature, preserve them in n good condi-
ton, and to be easily handled when he
wishes to use them for feeding. OF course.
it is well known that the time fH storing
the crops is in the fall but it is never too
late to repack them, which can be done
when the weather is only moderately cold.
The best plan for so doing is to get some
dry dirt, coal ashes or dry sawdust. In a
bin, barrel or box lay two inches of the
packing material, and upon this make a
layer of roots and dc. not let them quite
packing material, and SO continue until the
receptacle is full BY this method they can
be taken out for use in any quantity de-
sired. and they will keep much better than
if stored in heaps will not freeze nor heat,
and will keep until the next crop comes in.
Even potatoes. both sweet and white may
be thus preserved. Be careful that the
packing material is dry. Moisture should
be avoided as much as possible. At the
present time the difficulty is to procure dry
dirt, which is the best material to use.
while wood ashes are not plentiful Fine
equal to dry dirt. Plaster is excellent, but
somewhat expensivef Wheat chan is good
and so is straw when cut i'm half-inch
lengths. 1t Is best TO do such work, how
ever, at time of harvesting the crop.
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Want. the Decree Set Aside.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 25.-Judge Nc
Ginnis, referee in bankruptcy, has been
asked to set aside the decree declaring Capt
Charles G.. Perkins. of this city, a bankrupt.
Creditors now make the charge that Perkins
omitted to state in his petition that he is a
two-thirds owner of the steamer Jewell, a
packet running between this city and Hen
derson; also that he has a paid-up life in
surance policy for $500. The petitioners re-
quest that the captain be placed on the
same footing as before the granting of petit
ton for bankruptcy. The decision viii be
rendered at q later date.
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Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
The managers of the Maryville street fair
offered a SO prize to the Nodaway county
agriculturist who should exhibit the largest
number of farm products grown on his
farm this season. ". r. Bosley. Of Raven
wood, drove UP with wagonload OF stun
and took the prize. His wagon contained
stalk of corn, thirteen and one-half feet
high. white. red yellow and speckled corn
in ear; wheat and rye, buckwheat. rape.
timothy seed oats. thirteen kinds of green
beans and peas. three kinds of popcorn. two
kinds of cucumbers. one red pig, turkey,
two chickens, two guinea fowls. hedge balls.
strawberry vines, one cabbage weighing
fifteen pounds, celery, summer and winter
lettuce, peanuts, two kinds OF beets, horse
radish, asparagus. blue-stem grass. slough
grass, clover hay, paTairie hay, carrots.
green mustard, six kinds of pickles. seven
kinds OF jelly, jam. cherries. three kinds or
parsnips. three gourds, two kinds OF sun
flower seed, sweet corn, can of honey, castor
bean, one sunfiower. the flower OF which
measured forty-six inches I'm circumfer-
ence, sugar cane, two kinds OF millet I'm
stalk parsnips, an oyster plant. four kinds
of radishes, turnip. four kinds OF Irish po-
tatoes, two kinds OF sweet potatoes. cab
bage, chile flower, two kinds OF squash
green lettuce and onions
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WASHINGTON. Oct. 25.-weather fore
cast for Monday and Tuesday:
Indiana-Fair and cooler Monday and
Tuesday; fresh northwest winds.
Illinois-Fair and cooler Monday; brisk
north winds. Tuesday fair and warmer.
Ohio-Fair Monday, with cooler in north
and western portions. Tuesday fair and
cooler. Brisk northwest winds.
kentucky-Fair Monday and Tuesday,
cooler Monday night.
Lower Michigan and Wisconsin-Fair and
cooler on Monday; brisk northwest winds.
Tuesday fair.
Minnesota--F'air on Monday with cooler in
south and eastern portions; fresh north
shifting TO east winds. Tuesday fair and
warmer.
North Dakota-Fair and warmer on Mon
day and Tuesday
South Dakota and Nebraska-Fair on
Monday and Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday.
Kansas-Fair on Monday and Tuesday.
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To Sugar Cure Pork.

Philadelphia Record.
Hogs of 30 TO $50 pounds weight are best
for family use. In dressing hog it should
be So hung that it can be split down the
back. and the sides allowed to separate. the
head being cut off. The leaf and some other
surplus fat should be removed at once.
This allows the meat to cool thoroughly.
and ii is in good shape to handle. The
meat barrel should be kept in cool place
without freezing. good way 10 keep the
hams and shoulders after being cured Is TO
slice and fry. and pack In jars. covering
with hot lard. Fresh pork may be kept
this way I'm hot weather. but IL must be
thoroughly cooked. While the cured meat
requires much less cooking TO preserve It,
Allow the hog To thoroughly cool before
cutting, carefully trim hams and shoulders
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
PROSPEROUS CANNING SEASON.
Immense Quantities of Tomatoes
Make Money for Farmers.

Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGDALE, Ind, Oct 25.-The big
canning factory at this place has just closed
very successful season. The Van Camp
Packing Company, of Indianapolis had en-
tire control of the plant this year. The
yield of tomatoes has been excellent. On
four acres Alex. Nelson raised 100 bushels
OF tomatoes, making an average of 800
bushels per acre. but T.. d. Heidrick is re-
ported to have made even a better avera ge
than this. Fully $4,000 will be paid to to-
mato growers and $4,000 to employees at
the factory.
WABASH, Ind. Oct. 25.-The Great West
ern Canning Company has closed its vege-
table packing season, after putting up &C.,
600 cans. 1t will continue packing sauer
kraut until Nov. 10. The capacity of the
plant will be largely increased next year.
A huge corn Gamer will be put in.
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A Weary Editor.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

Philadelphia Record.
1.-The more people haunt me with cock
and-bull stories about their fitness for a
literary career, and particularly about their
genius which all the editors of the country
have evidently banded together to crush
out, the less / believe in Them" remarked
a magazine editor who is ever on the look
mere cleverness with avidty. Now If they
would realize that the genius for hard
work-always providing they have some
message worth listening tots seven-eighths
of the battle. But no, youth is given to
talking rather than doing, and, worse yet
talking of itself. Talk is very, very cheap,
and the more il deals with the takers own
affairs the cheaper. AS a rule the persons
who accomplish anything worth while go
ahead and do it instead of tarrying to talk
about 1t. The might have been is usually
n taIker'
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and split the sides in two lengthwise-
Sprinkle bottom OF barrel with fine salt
and rub each piece Of meat with salt Pack
in barrel with hams on the bottom. shcul-
ders next and sides on top. After three
days cover the meat with brine made as
follows: Water, gallons; salt. u poundss
sugar, 3 pounds, saltpeter, 3 ounces; con-
centrated I've, teaspoons. Boil all together
and skim. After cooling, pour over the
meat. Leave in brine from four 10 SIX
weeks, then smoke as desired. The brine
should be strong enough to bear up an egg
For Seasoning Sausage.-For forty-nve
pounds of meat use salt, l pound; sage z
ounces; pepper, ounces; sugar. ounces.
To Make Dried Beef.-Make plain brine
of four gallons water. six pounds salt. one
ounce saltpeter Cover the meat with this.
and leave it in three weeks. then hang up
TO dry.
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SOUGHT A VIOLENT DEATH
c. f.. CAsHS SENSATIONAL SUICIDE
AT TERRE HAUTE YESTERDAY.
Wife and Child Thought to he i'm In
dianapOlis-BraziI Man Dying on
Sweetheart's Grave.

Special to the Indianapolis journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. sc. e.
Cash, who is thought to have had a wife
and child in Indianapolis, committed sui
eide this evening by throwing himself under
street car. Death was almost instan-
taneous.
Cash had been employed a laborer in
the Evansville & Terre Haute freight house.
man with whom he was standing on the
car, and that there can be no doubt that
1T was a case of suicide. The coroner ex.
poets to get the address tomorrow of the
wife from some effects Cash has in ware
house.
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All Above Eighty.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Oct. 25.-There was an
unusual family reunion at Olive Hill. this
county, to-day. -Four brothers and sisters,
all above the age of eighty, were gathered
at the home of Mrs Crooks. who Is one of
the sisters. Those who composed the party
were Fletcher Medearis. of Greensork, who
is ninety-four; Mrs. Keys. of Centerville.
who is eighty-six; Mrs. Crooks. who is
eighty-three. and jefferson Medearis, of In
dianapolis. who is eighty-one.
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DAUGHTERS BRING SUIT
ACTION TO EyJOIN THE OPERATION
OF A CLINTON NINE.
Legatees of Wealthy Miner Think
They See Where They'll Get Small
End Of the Estate.

CLINTON, Ind, Oct. 25-The three
daughters OF the late Stuart Shrkie have
filed suit TO contest his will and enjoin the
widow from operating the Willow Grove
mine. Mrs. Shirkie was given life in
terest in the estate, which was to be di-
vided at her death between the three daugh-
tiers and two younger sons. The daughters
in their complaint allege that if the mine
is worked continuously it will be worked
out and of no value by the time it falls
to them.
The mine is the most valuable in the
carloads a day.
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IMPORTANT TO SEYMOUR.
Court of Appeals ARrms Lower Court
Judgment Against City.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR, Ind, Oct. Pa suit Of much
Importance to this city was decided by the
United States Court of Appeals at Chicago
last Friday. 1t was the case of the city of
Seymour against the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, the trust company being
the trustee of the holders of the bonds of
the Seymour Water Company. The suit
was originally brought in Judge John III.
Bakers court at Indianapolis to require
the city to pay water hydrant rentals, pay
ments of which were refused. 1t was tried
by jury before Judge Baker in May, 1902
and a judgment against the city for the
full amount of the delinquent hydrant
rental rendered. The city appealed
to the United States Court of Appeals,
where the Judgment of the District Court
affirmed.
The judgment with interest amounts to
about $3.50. The city has resisted payment
of rentals the ground that the water
company's franchise, granted about thir-
teen years ago, is void. Another suit, also
attacking the validity of the franchise, is
now pending in the State Supreme Court.
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DISTURBED AFTER TWO CENTURIES



bly, Are Those of French Pioneers.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES, Ind, Oct 25.-The skel-
etons of two children and an adult, prob
ably a priest. were found by Thomas Rich
ardville, while excavating a trench under
the st. Francis Xaviers Cathedral, where
a new furnace was to be placed. The
skeletons had been buried there for nearly
two centuries and have probably never be-
fore been disturbed. The church under
which they were buried was erected eighty
two years ago and the site was a burial
ground long ago as two centuries. The
skeletons of the children are supposed to
be those of French pioneers. One of the
skeletons was almost perfect, even to the
hair, which lay parted on the skull, and
was a dark red color This hair fell off
and crumbled when the skeleton was lifted.
The find created much comment and all
day people visited the scene. A number
of relic-hunters wanted to carry parts of
the skeletons away, but this was forbidden,
and when all the bones are gathered to-
gether the skeletons will be reinteTred some
time this week in the Catholic Cemetery.
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NEW SOCIETY BUILDING
THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE WITNESS
CORNERSTONE LAYING.
BLOOMINGTON Il. OF u. and Red Mems
Home-Delaware County Marriage
Other Indiana News.
snecial tn the Indiananolis Ionrnal

Special to the indianapolis Journal
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. 25.-This after
noon at 3 o'clock the cornerstone of the
new knights of Pythias and Red Men s
building was laid with interesting cere-
mony.
The address for the Red Men was given
by James r. Sedgwick, grand sachem
of Indiana, and for the Knights of Pythias
by Merrill f. Wilson, grand chancellor OF
Indiana. Ross w. Davis was master of
ceremonies. and gave the Introductory adj
dress. About 1900 people were present.
The new building is to be three stories,
with business rooms and lodge quarters,
and the total cost will be about $4,000. The
building will be owned jointly by the two
orders.
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PORTSMOUTH, Oct 25.-Six persons
were injured, one seriously. a church build
ing badly damaged and windows broken for
blocks away by an explosion in the furnace
of the Christian Church tonight The re-
port was heard all over the city. The ex-
ploson occurred just before the evening
Christian Endeayor meeting. when only six
persons were yet in the building-Mr. and
Mrs Henry webb, Mr.. and Mrs. George p
Virgins, Frank Rawlings. and John
Joseph, all injured, Mrs. Webb seriously.