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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
INDIANAPOLIS SOCIETY TAKES UP
THE BREAK-IN DANCE OF SOUTH
Tap the Back Loses for Dancer HIS Fair Payuey Princeton
Mems Int,oducfou

cent Eastern youths will dance in Indian
apolis at the Propylaeum this evening, in
the persons of the members of the Prince
ton glee. banjo and mandolin clubs. Upon
these young men, wholly unprepared for the
ordeal, il is proposed 10 spring the South
ern-Indianapolis quality of dance, perhaps
with variations
Two years ago in Cleveland. the Prince
ton musical clubs were introduced TO Cleve-
land society in a somewhat novel and I'M
conventional manner The sixty or seventy
strange young men from the land of New
Jersey were provided, in one way or an
Other-just how did not matter so much
with suitable partners for the first dance.
When the dance was well on the dancers
were told TO join hands in an immense cir
Gle, when the announcement was made that
a grand right-and-left would be ordered,
entirely around the circle, when everybody
in the ballroom would know everybody else
without further introduction. This novel
method of circumventing the social code as
prescribed by Mrs. Grundy was pronounced
u glittering success: With this precedent in
mind, the Indianapolis promoters of to-
nights Princeton ball may adopt the same
method of saving time and an immense
amount of trouble.
II is thought by those upon whose minds
rests the burden OF responsibility for the
dance that after they have been started
with the Cleveland mode of introduction and
have been touched for their partners at
least a dozen times through the medium OF
the Southern indianapolis break in" the
young men OF the Princeton musical clubs
Will come TO the conclusion that Indianapo-
lis society is quite the best OF any TO which
they have been introduced while on their
Christmas tour, and that they Will go back
TO the effete East with many happy Indian
apOlis memories clinging to them along
with several dozen different souvenir dance
programmes and dinner cards, all trophies
OF their social conQuests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28

A new Southern invasion of the North is
threatened. but not in the bloody field of
war. The new invasion is in the social
world. through the medium of the giddy
dance, and Indianapolis seems TO have been
picked as one of the points of first at
tack.
1t is the custom in many of the cities of
the South to dance round dance in way
that would bring dire dismay TO the heart
of the Northern lad who is badly smitten
on the maiden of the hour and has placed
his name on her programme for half the
regular dances and all of the extras. The
Southern lad who wants dance with the
young maid Of his choice picks her from
among the whirling couples on the crowded
floor, catches her partner as best he may,
touches the latter on the shoulder and the
man with the maiden in his arms must
abdicate in favor of the newcomer who has
touched" him for his partner. The man
left without a maiden must then have re-
course TO the same plan of campaign to Sc
cure a partner with whom 10 continue the
dance. Not only once in a dance Is this act
repeated. but several or many times, so that
il is seldom or never that the same youth
and the same maiden are left to dance the
same dance through.
Moving nOrthward from Kentucky, this
peculiarly Southern mode of treading the
giddy maze has struck indianapolis. 1t has
been tried al a number of dances recently,
and has proved popular. except with such
as believe I'm monopoly in girls. Here il is
called The break-in." Others term ii The
butt-in.
A large number Of unsuspecting and limo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
SQUIRES SHOT WHILE IN
STRUGGLE WITH HOLD-UPS
Bullet Found Embedded in Door of
Store-Plowed Into His
Scalp.
ONE. SHOT WAS FIRED

George W. Squires. the grocer who was
held up and shot In his store. at the cor
ner OF Martindale avenue and Sixteenth
street, Saturday night. was some better
yesterday. He is not considered in a seri-
Gus condition unless the shock Of the bull
lot. which grazed his skull, leads to brain
fever.
Although IL was at first reported that
Squires was not shot, but was hurt by fall
ing a later examination OF his head shows
Of the hold-ups struck him in the back of
the head. penetrating his scalp and graz
Ing along the back Of his skull. The bullet
which made the wound was found yester-
day morning embedded in the rear door of
the store.
When seen last night by Journal re-
porter Squires told the following story of
the hold-up: AT 9 o'clock 1 stepped out
OF my store and went over to the store of
my brothers at Hill and Ash streets. where
turned counted my money which amount
ed TO s65. 1 had hardly deposited the money
when two young fellows, both masked, en-
tered and covered me with their revolvers,
commanding: Throw up your hands; we
mean 1t; throw UP your hands, l thought
they were some Of the boys, and laughed
when one OF them said: Throw up your
them that 1 would not, and grabbed the
revolver OF the one nearest me, and as did
so the other one struck me with the butt OF
his gun and then shot me-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
NAN OF PUBLIC. SPIRIT.
Major Richards Pays Tribute to
Memory of Mr.. Langsdale.

"By the death of George J. Langsdale
Indianapolis loses one of its most distin-
guished public citizens said Maj. w. j.
Richards last night. Major Richards knew
Mr.. Langsdale very well, their acquaint-
ance dating from the days of the civil war.
The two men were thrown together much
in the public services rendered the city
within the past thirty years. Major Rich
ards was a great admirer of Mr.. Langs-
dale
II don't know a man whom L admired
more than Mr.. Langsdale," he said. He
was a man of great courage and public
spirit, but despising publicity and ostenta-
tiousness. He always endeavored to serve
his county and his city without coming
before the public gaze. He was very quiet
in what he did, but he always had his
cause at heart and put his whole soul
into it.
For genuine heroiSm and patriotism 1
have never known man the equal of Mr..
Langsdale One instance of his patriotism
L remember distinctly. 1t was when he
lay in the hospital on Cumberland noun
tain, wounded and sick that he resigned
from his position an officer of the army
I do not think any other man would have
done II. but Mr.. Langsdale felt that he was
unable 10 render his country as great serv-
ices in his wounded condition as another
man might who had not been shot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
Unique New Years Greeting.

A New Years greeting as unique and
beautiful in appearance significant of
sentiment is the one sent out by the Wash
ington Post Chapel 10 each OF the chapels
OF the Typographical Union of the United
States The greeting is a large supple
ment 10 the New Years edition of the
Washington Post, containing s-sup
picture OF all the memhsrs OF that chapel.
giving the name OF each member and the
work he does. The picture is located on
a fac-simile front page OF the paper. show
Ing the work done by the chapel The
picture OF the foreman is in the center
surrounded with the other members OF the
chapel IL Is a greeting that should be well
received and appreciated by all the chapels
OF the Typographical Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
GIRL BURNED WILL DIE.
Ziltha Weaver Cannot Recover
from Horrible Accident.

Ziltha Weaver. the little girl who was so
badly burned Thursday afternoon by her
clothes catching fire from the kitchen stove,
IS expected TO die any hour. She is uncon-
scious and is slowly sinking. DIR. Leeth,
who IS attending her. says that there is no
hope for her and that he had not expected
her TO live this long
The little girl was eating peanuts Thurs
day afternoon in the kitchen at her home,
No. 1911 Reisner avenue. Her mother
stepped out Of the kitchen for a minute and
II Is supposed the girl removed the lid of
the stove and attempted 10 pour the shells
from her dress into the fire. When the
mother returned her child was enveloped in
flames
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
Makes n Big Oil Strike.

The Ardmore Oil Company of which Aug
ust X. Keller. of this city, is general sup
erintendent, and in which George Townsend
and w. S. Reed, the traction men, are
largely interested, celebrated Christmas by
making a big strike in the Berne field.
Oil was struck when the drill had pene-
trated but ten feet in Trenton rock and the
we'll is in the class known as "gushers."
Mr.. Keller describes the well as dandy
and says that good fortune seems to be
with him and his associates
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
ALUMNI BANQUET.
Ex-President Swain VIII be Toast
master for |. L. Dinner.

Alumni and former students of Indiana
University who live in Indianapolis and
neighboring towns will hold a dinner this
evening at $3.50 o'clock at the Grand Hotel.
President Swain. now Of Swarthmore. but
formerly president OF Indiana University,
will act as POSTMASTER. Toasts will be re-
sponded 10 by a number of the prominent
alumni. and by President Bryan OF the
university. About one hundred are ex-
pected to be present
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
Proposals for Coal

HEADQUARTERS MICHIGAN SOLDIERS
HOME. Dec. Is, 1903
Sealed proposals will be received at the Of
flee of the Michigan Soldiers Home until II
m. of Wednesday. January 6. 1904 for furnish
ing said home with bituminous coal for the year
ending January Is. 1905.
Thirty-five hundred tons, less, of BIZ
luminous coal, steam lump, mine run slack
delivered in Grand Rapids T. o. b. cars. in
quantities as desired. Bids to state the kind
OF coal it is proposed 10 furnish and the locality
of the mines from which the coal is obtained
Bids will also be received for six months
supply for the term ending July Is, 1904
sufficient bond will be required from the
successful bidders
Payments. a rule. will be made monthly.
The board expressly reserves the right TO re-
tect any all bids.
Proposals must be Endorsed Proposals for
CoaT' and addressed
COL GEO. Z. JUDD,
Commandant Michigan Soldiers Home.
Kent County, Michigan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28

New Pianos. $40 and up. wuIschner's.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28

Gas coke. IS ton. Connesville coke. 81. so a
ton. Best quality. COBURN COAL co.
Table Wines for the Holidays at SCHULLER'S
WINE HOUSE 21o North Meridian street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28

Robert Tonner. the young boy who was
kicked in the abdomen by his father in n
state OF drunkenness. was much better last
night. and IL is believed he will recover.
although his coalition has been very crit
ical. Or. &. j. Fletcher. who Is attending
him. said that there was a great improve
nent In his condition yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
Decorations at ST. vincent's.

The decorations in the chapel at ST. Vim
cents Hospital in honor of Christmas time
are unusually beautiful and elaborate this
year. The Crib" containing the Christ
child in miniature is particularly striking
and at the different services attracts much
attention. The usual benediction services
were held at O'clock last night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-28
Suspected of HOId-Up.

Patrolman Winn yesterday arrested Chas.
Simms, negro, living at No. 215 West Thir-
teenth street, and locked him up at the po-
lice station on charge of grand larceny.
Simms il is said, held up and robbed Henry
Langston, a negro from Nora. Ind, of 81 &C
and gold ring several days ago.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04
Possibilities of Radium.

Mr.. Hammer, who was formerly a
coadjutor Of Edison, has produced
with radium a partial paralysis of the
fish known as the electric ray, so that
it could give no further shocks. He
has. with the radium, paralyzed small
fish SO that they have been drowned.
or at least died In talking of this ex-
pertinent. Mr.. Hammer called atten-
ton to the experiments of Prof. Curie
and others recently in Paris, in which
guinea pigs, mice and rabbits we're
paralyzed and later killed by placing
radium near the spinal column. 1T
is perfectly reasonable TO seppose."
said Mr.. Hammer, that peoples
brains might be paralyzed by putting
powerful rsdium near their heads. say
on a pillow at night. or near the spinal
cord. and thus produce paralysis as
IN toe case Of the animals"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04

erous shroud of mist, and said, softly,
with tenderness that touched him
deeply:
God is very good, Charlie. / can
not doubt his tenderness. All my life
l will leave in his hands as you say
all my life, past. as well as future. -
Then presently she added:
Let us go, Charlie. | leave here
buried in the heart of His mountains
the bitterness that has Swallowed not
only my life but the lives of those
who love me. The mountains are His
and my life is His
But as they paused for an instant
on the rotten bridge with the waters
sobbing at their feet, black with the
slime and smoke of the town, she laid
lifting her grave face to his, flushing
with its new tenderness, she added,
softly:
You have been so good to me al
ways, Charlie! Are you sure-sure
you Dc want nobody but that girl of
.Iohnsop's? l come with empty hands,
you know"
He smiled into the .quivering face
and wide searching eyes anG he an
swered her, taking her two hands in
his closely as though he would never
again let them go from him:
81 am sure, sure that l want you,
Dolores Johnson, more than any WON.
an in Gods beautiful world Your
hands may be empty hands, but they
are beautiful in the work they do and
have done for others, for even these
cruel people here who would have
ruined your sweet life, and the woman
who, now your uncles wife, would
have stained her hands forever for the
darkening of your heart"
And what could she say? And the
lights of the sunset were very tender
over them as they crossed the bridge
and passed up along the road through
the settlement where the changes of
her working had given an air of neat
ness and home life and widening of
view, with its school and church and
kindly touch of neighborliness; and as
they passed the tavern where Jones
and his comrades still sat with their
pipes in lazy enjoyment, the men gave
greeting with a new touch of kindli-
ness that went to the heart of the
girl who had lived her twenty years
among them uncared for and unloved.
And the eyes of her lover were bril-
liant with the depth of his thought
for her, and his arm was strong to
guide and guard her through any pain
the future might bring. and never
again could this pale, beautiful girl of
Johnson's suffer alone or bear her
life's burdens outside of the pale Of
tenderest love.
(The End.)
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04
JUST RUN ACROSS q"
Some People Are Lucky.

Some people make an intelligent
study of food and get on the right
track (pure food others are lucky
enough to stumble upon the right
way out of the difficulty just as .
Phila. young woman did.
She says: Il had suffered terribly
from nervous indigestion. everything
seemed to disagree with me and was
on the point of starvation when one
day l happened to run across demon
stration of Postum Food Coffee at one
of the big stores here.
Il took a sample home and a sample
of Grape-Nuts as well and there tried
them again and found they agreed
with me perfectly. For months
made them my main diet and as the
result l am restored to my former per
feet health and can eat everything !
want to.
When spoke to my physician
about Grape-Nuts he said IT is a most
excellent food Name given by Pos
tum Co. Battle Creek. Mich.
There's 4 reason.
Look for the famous little book.
The Road TO MELVILLE in every
package OF both Postum and Grape
Nuts.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04
CHAPTER XIII.
"That Girl of Johnson's."

Dora was standing at the well at
Dolores old home with her husband,
waiting for Dolores and Charlie Green
who had gone at the girls request 10
the opposite mountain. 1t was
strange freak of Dolores, but with the
usual simple acquiescence in any wish
of hers they had gone, and here Dora
and her husband were waiting Tor thelr
return at the girls old home.
But it was not the home OF the
girls remembrance. The garden was
in fine order and the fence well built;
no longer did the gate swing on its
rusty. rickety hinges. The enterprls-
ing chickens were scratching among
the shrubs at the back of the house,
but not a chicken dared show its race
at the front of the neat little house
where Jim Lode and Cinthy lived
the two young pepole who had always
had a kindly thought for its former
mistress.
Dora was standing at the well
watching her husband as he swung
JDG DuCheL uOMll dihCIS
shadows. her sweet face, grown more
womanly and holding a deeper mean
ing in every delicate line. She STOOD
on tiptoe to look down and follow the
flight of the bucket, but even standing
so she scarcely reached to his shout
der. She turned her pretty head on
one side as a bird might do, and said,
with an air that convulsed her nus
band. though there was deeper and
more tender meaning to her words
that he would not let her know he I'M
derstood.
THE course of true love never did
run smoOth-and look at that poor
bucket. Hal. You are fairly beating
the life out of it against the sides OF
the we'll"
Poor thing" said the big fellow, in
a tone that implied scant sympathy for
the luckless bucket. You had better
say that Charlie is eating his heart
out because your cousin will not love
him. Dot. Is she never going to be
good to him for his faithfulness, dear?
He deserves a good life and a good
woman. Dora; even your cousin cannot
deny that"
Don't talk of Loire as though she
were heartless, Harry Dora said,
softly. with one of her swift wistful
chances up to his face. Loire is not
like other girls"
The other two having passed down
out of the settlement, followed by the
half scornful eyes of the men at the
tavern, crossed the rotten bridge over
the river and assembled the opposite
mountain slowly among the bent
bushes and mysterious mists that
held in their hiding the snares of
death and the pitfalls that lay in wait
ing.
Thar goes thet gal o Johnsing's,"
Tom Smith said. with rough break
of laughter in his deep voice, What
en- Their world she's goin' over yander
fer beats me holler.'
Co.'s ter say her prayers over her
feyther's grave, | reckon joined in
Hiram Sadler, coarsely, but the an
swering laughter on Smiths lips never
passed them as Jones turned his indig-
nant eyes upon them, removing his
pipe from his lips to make reply.
EFT pears to me-" he said, slowly,
with an emphasis that hushed their
mirth, tibet We might hev gained a
mite O. respec' an kindly feelin' arfter
all these years sence Johnsing died.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04
GRATEFUL. HAPPY WOMEN
THANK PE-RU-NA FOR THElk
RECOVERY AFTER YEARS Of
SUFFERING.

Miss Muricl Armitage. So Greenwood
Ave Detroit, Mich, District Organizer
of the Royal Templars of Temperance
in a recent letter. says:
IL think that a woman naturally
shrinks from making her troubles public
but restored health has meant SO much
to me that feel for the sake OF other
suffering women it is my duty to tell
what Peruna has done for me.
Il suffered for five years with uterine
irregularities, which brought on hysteria
and made me physical wreck. tried
doctors from the different schools Oh
medicine, but without any perceptiblc
change in my condition. In my despair
l called on an old nurse, who advised me
10 try Peruna, and promised good re-
suits if l would persist and take 1t reg
ularly. thought this was the least l
could do and procured bottle. l knew
as soon as began taking it that it was
affecting me differently from anything
I.had used before, and so l kept on taxi
ing it. l kept this up for six months.
and steadily gained strength and health,
and when 1 had used fifteen bottles
considered myself entirely cured. lam.
a grateful, happy woman to-day
Miss Muriel Armitage.
Peruna cures catarrh OF the pelvic
organs with the same surety as it cures
catarrh of the head Peruna has be-
come renowned as n positive cure for
female ailments simply because the all
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04

question I asked so long ago, Lorie,
der the tender light of your stars ere
you left me for your new life and pos
sibe forgetfulness.
She met his eyes gravely and square
ly, though the new light Of tenderness
was still in them as she said, slowly,
with almost her old slowness:
THE happiness of mans life does
not altogether depend on the love of
a woman, Charlie"
ITO great extent, darling
But even if | should tell you mo,
you would be happy after while,
Charlie Time heals everything"
Not everything, Loire
Eyes, everything" she said, decid-
eddy. You know that time heals ev-
erything, Charlie-even the old pain
of unforgiveness.
"Hush!" he said, swiftly, and his
hands on both her arms as he held
her facing him, were trembling with
the wish to hold her free from pain.
you are never to say such things
again, dearest. Let those things pass.
You have suffered enough for them,
and God will lay His great tenderness
over them"
She was silent a moment as though
reading his inmost thought, the lifted
eyes grave and searching and tender.
Then she turned from the gruesome
chaSm buried at her feet in it's treach,
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CHAPTER xxll.-contlnued.
.AwAsr q. "a ~ lhyey.' 10.


YES" he said, gently. Il know he is
dead, Dolores, but after death all
things are made straight He knows
now better than he ever could nave
known from your telling, and l know
he has forgotten us"
There were sweetness and solemn
ity in the young mans voice as he
bent above the beautiful cold face that
caused Dora to catch her breath in
sudden compromising of the depth
of the kindly heart, as he slowly re-
peated, the touch on the girls hands
very tender, the light in the loving
eyes entering into her very soul:
There is no death. What seems so is
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is hut a suburb OF the life elysian,
Whose portal we call death,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04

greatest exhaustion. This is a very COM
mon sight and is almost always due to pei
vic catarrh.
1t is worse than foolish for so many
women to suffer year after year with dis
ease that can be permanently cured.
Peruna cures catarrh permanently. 1t
cures old chronic cases as well as a slight
attack, the only difference being in the
length of time that it should be taken to
effect cure.
If you do not derive prompt and satisfac-
tory results from the use of Peruna, write
at once to DR.. Hartman, giving full state
ment of your case, and he will be pleased
to give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF The
Hartman Sanitarum, Columbus. Ohio.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04
An "EsrlX Auto"

AS far back as 1897, when the Cour-
ant was only about 80 years Of age,
DR.. Kinsley OF his city drove through
the streets of Hartford, one of which
has since been named for him. self
propelling carriage. which was really
a steam automobile And in 1888 John
Fitch of Windsor began his expert
ments with the Observation-Disclosures
Ccura3t
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-04
Female Weakness is Pelvic
Catarrh.
Always Half Sick are the Women
Who Have Pelvic Catarrh.

Catarrh of any organ, if allowed TO pro-
gress, will affect the whole body. Catarrh
without nervousness is very rare, but pelvic
catarrh and nervousness go hand in hand.
What is so distressing 4 sight as poor
half-sick nervous woman, suffering from
the many almost unbearabe symptoms OF
pelvic catarrh? She does not consider her
self i'll enough to 60 to bed, but she is far
from being able to do her work without the