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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

At a recent West Philadelphia christen-
ing the little newcomer was given the name
of Prudence. An elderly gentleman COM
menting upon the fact afterward, re-
marked with satisfaction:
Good, old-fashioned name, that; i won
der sometimes why so many OF those good
old Puritan names are TO be found only on
tombstones these days.
PERHAPS" replied the younger man he
addressed. Sin this strenuous age It's such
a difficult matter to live up to them,
that parents are considerate enough not 10
inhict such a burden"
The elderly gentleman pondered a mo-
ment and then said amused: Then you
have a fancy that ones name influences
ones character
why yes, don't see how II could fail
to do So Just look around and see what a
lot of ordinary folks there are with the
majority Of them Williams and Henrys,
ways been thankful that my name Is
George, so nothing extraordinary is ex-
pected from me. But, speaking or names
like Prudence, l have a family In mind
where there three daughters. Faith
Hope and Charity. and they are living per-
sonifcations of these qualities"
Well remarked an interested listener.
named his three sons Tom. Dick and Harry.
and they did full credit TO the names. the
Harry in particular"
A man who comes over 10 his business by
ferry every morning here chimed in: Talk
ing OF names one that puzzles me the most
of any have heard. belongs 10 man in
Gloucester. IL Is Curious"
..well, what is it, asked the elderly
man, impatiently, after long pause.
Curious, just Curious. You spell IL
with a capital letter" explained the man
from New Jersey.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

And the other Woman with Mission
airy Ideas Didn't Like 1t.
New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
At certain woman's club they were dis
cussing foreign missions the other day.
They had all signed the monster anti-Turk-
ish atrocity petition, and several members
were hot on the trail Of the Sultan-in words
and thought anyway.
Then UP rose a member who has been
campaigning for the fusionists in the neigh
borhood of Hester street and Madison street
and other crowded localities.
I'm no friend of Turkey" she said by
way of introduction. Don't approve of it at
all. But you are ali so ardent and so much
in earnest and so indignant that you remind
me of story told of the King of Abyssinia
king Menelik. He had received many COM
plants from various sources that mission
airy from Europe was annoying people by
trying 10 thrust a new religion down their
threats. He used to preach in the streets and
visit families who hadn't invited him. and
enter shops and exhort the merchants to
prepare for death. He meant well, of course,
but the Abyssinians didn't like it.
'Menelik ordered that the missionary dis
turber be brought before him. Where do you
come from?' the King asked From Ger
many, answered the missionary. Why
asked the King. TO convert the Abyssinian
Jews, your Majesty but are there no Jews
in your country demanded Menelik. The
missionary admitted that there were q few
passed through did you find no Jews or
heathen? The missionary admitted that
Jews and heather seemed to be plentiful
everywhere. Then said King Menelik, car
ry this man beyond the frontier, and let
him not return until he has converted all
the Jews and heather which lie between
his country and mine.
And when the pert little political club
woman sat down all the other women said
was "Welli'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

this, and is empowered TO bring new evil
dence which may tend to prevent the dis
solution of The marriage.
"When, however, misconduct is proved
divorce is granted, and the guilty party, on
the application OF the innocent party, can
be punished with Imprisonment.
"a divorce further entities the innocent
party to recover all the presents he or she
may have made.
According to the constitution of the
Netherlands the civil marriage must always
precede the religious ceremony. The latter,
indeed, is left entirely to the conscience
of the parties concerned. There is also q
law providing that no man or woman under
thirty can marry without the consent or
parents. If the consent be refused the cou-
pie have to appear before a judge, who adj
yiSeS them as he thinks best.
MANY countries have now abolished all
marriage fees. This is the case in Norway,
while in the Netherlands certain days in the
week are set apart when persons may be
married without payment.
THE most diverse forms OF marriage and
divorce laws are found in the United States.
The forty-five States, the five Territories
and the District of Columbia have separate
and independent laws on each subject. Mar
riage between whites and negroes is pro-
hibted in a majority of States, especially
in the South. There are also thirteen States
i'm which there is no legal limit to the ages
at which parties can marry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
Mound Builders Work.

Milwaukee Sentinel
state Senator George W. Wolff. OF Elk
hart Lake. who has been occupied the past
scasoa I'm surveying the Indian antiquities
OF the town OF Rhine. Shcboyean county, for
the Wisconsin Archaeological Society. OF
which he Is member. recently visited a
hitherto unsurveyed group of mounds near
the Gerber ponds, town OF Rhine. The sec
ton Is intensely interesting 10 the archae-
ologist on account OF the multiplied evs-
deEces OF Indian occupancy in prehistoric
has we'll as comparatively recent times IL
Is traversed by the great terminal moraine
known the kettle range. and is dotted
with lakes, kettles, and drumlins, amid
which are village sites. antique hearts
shell heaps. eftgy mounds, burial places
and lookouts. where. in DAYS gone by
watch fires by night teiegraphed intelli-
eence from clan 10 clan.
The mounds at Gerber pounds. are
archaeologists say, all that is left OF large
Indian settlement. In mo6ern times Potta-
watou1ies. SacS anu Foxes, and Winneba-
goes hunted promiscuously over the terri
tory and camped on the shores OF the ponds.
The site consists OF eight 10 ten acres and IS
OF the highest points in Sheboygan
county. being over 80 feet above the pond
and over Loo feet above the sea. ~ large
part OF the site has been under cultivation"
says Senator Nolff FOR fifteen years, and
there IL little left for the archaeoogist.
The mounds, as L recollect them. the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
OUTWITTED THE DOCTOR.
,, The Morphine Fiend CunninEly
Turned the Tables on Him.
Washington Post.


''When first came out of the medical col
lege there was nothing / wasn't equal to-"
said young physician. "I fairly butted into
trouble, and once / came to grief. One of my
first patients was q man who was almost a
maniac from the morphine habit. He be-
longed to influential family, and had all
kinds of money, and his friends besought me
to do what 1 could to cure him of his fright
full habit We decided that the best thing to
do was to take him to a sanitarium. He said
he was perfectly willing to go if I'd take
him. So one fine day we set of for New
York. Ny patient behaved beautifully, and
loaded me with attentions till it really
seemed if it were he and not who was
the person in charge. l was too busy with
my own business to pay any attention to
the people on the train, but he was chatting
with the Pullman conductor before we were
half way To Baltimore. When we pulled into
Philadelphia he suggested that we get out
and walk up and down a bit. consented,
and We left the train. On the platform there
was a porter with an invalid's chair and
man with him. My patient walked right up
TO them.
lis this Mr.. Dash?' he asked The man
bowed in assent.
Z" Then you got my telegram" said my
patient. Well, here's the man.
And before 1 could get my breath they
had me in that chair and were rolling me
Off My patient had telegraphed to a sani-
bringing Mr.. So-and-So over for treatment,
and he had signed my name to the message.
OF course L made row, but the craftiness
of that morphine fiend was too much for
me. He had the conductor and the porter
on his side and I was half way to the sani-
tarium before convinced the doctor of his
mistake. BY that time my patient was
safely on his way to New York, and
didn't hear from him again till his money
gave out, and he turned uD in Washington
with so plausible a story of my desertion of
him that I've never been able to convince his
family of the truth. I've had NOR phine fiends
TO deal with since then, but If ever l start
on a journey with one again I'll have him
gagged and Grated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
Curious Facts Regarding the Laws Of
Foreign Countries.
Washington Star.

There many curious and interesting
facts regarding the marriage and divorce
laws OF foreign countries" said r. j..
Brown. who has recently returned from a
trip abroad, where he made study OF the
question.
Breaches of promise are averted in Hun
gary by an express declaration of the civil
marriage act 1S95), that the relations ere
ated by betrothal do not give the right
to command the conclusion of marriage,
but II either party withdraws from an en-
gagement without just reasons he or she is
bound TO grant compensation to the extent
of the outlay incurred. Divorce I'm the
English sense does not exist, but the courts
can decree the personal separation of a
married couple without dissolving the
bonds Of matrimony.
"A curious law prevailing In France pro-
vides that. before being married children
of a family, although over age. shall seek
in respectful and formal terms the advice
of their father and mother. 1t makes no
difference. however, whether the consent OF
parents is given. for the couple can be mar
ried a month after under any circum-
stances. This is also the case in the Meth
erlands.
1.-The German courts adopt remarkable
procedure in divorce actions. In the inter-
est of public morality an attempt at re-
Cancellation must be made between the
parties In the presence of the judge. The
attorney general is bound to cooperate in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
SKILLED TELEPHONE GIRLS
In Great Demand I'm the East-WOrk
Is Very Trying.
Boston Journal.

boston journal.
Wanted. every day in the year. bright.
energetic girls between the ages of sixteen
and twenty, for good positions. 1t would
appear that the industrial situation was
fairly well adjusted for a proportion of
working girls. And yet the telephone COM
pany is sometimes so short of switchboard
operators that the management is obliged
to advertise and to enlist the assistance of
their women employees to find girls for va
cant places.
A girl needs to be wide awake at the
switchboard, and only the bright ones are
accepted by the examiner. Very few OF
those fayorably passed upon by her fail to
qualify for positions after the tuition period
of one month.
As rule girl over twenty is received.
The theory of the work could be much
more easily impaired to a mature woman,
but the actual manipulation of the switch
board seems to be impossible to the ma
jority OF women past the formative period
of life. This calls for certain dexterity,
an accuracy of touch, which becomes per-
fectly mechanical. 1t seems to be an ac-
cepted fact that il is impossible to acquire
these in early life, but very rarely after
ward.
To become an expert operator requires
long practice and superior ability The rank
and file of the girls remain simply compe-
tent. For those who. by virtue OF excep-
tional intelligence and character. excel their
fellows there are opportunities for advance
ment. Each central Office has a chief op-
orator and a number of supervisors, one to
every nine operators, and these positions
command good salaries. They are all sup
piled from girls who show ability at the
switchboard and are possessed of strong
characters and intelligent minds. Naturally
a sharp lookout is kept for promising ma
terial and no girl who deserves it ever
misses promotion.
There are opportunities also for good op-
orators who are not qualified for the highest
positions. Every outside switchboard calls
for an operator trained in the central office
and these positions often pay larger sal
aries than the central office girls receive
Whenever an application for an operator
comes to the office the manager and the
chief operator consider the girls whom
they deem competent to fill the position
The girl to whom they offer It, of course
accepts or declines she wishes.
The switchboard Is more or less trying To
the nerves of the operator but this is off
set by the consideration with which they
are treated by the company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
PEPPERS ARE POPULAR.
Consumption of This Vegetable In
Rapidly increasing.
New York Commercial.


In the lobster palaces and fashionable
restaurants one sees dozens of persons eat
ing baked, stuffed peppers nowadays,
,;,,e formerly peppers We're not on the
says a produce commission merchant in a
recently published interview. twenty times
as many peppers as IL did twenty years
ago. The city's consumption of peppers
amounts TO thousands OF barrels annually.
Then We get green peppers now from
much wider range OF territory than for
year around.
I'VE get peppers In winter from Cuba, and
we get few from Porto Rico. We natur-
ally think of the pepper homely sort
of domestic garden product, but those
early peppers that We get from Cuba coma
in small crates carefully packed as
peaches would be, and they bring high
price. They so principally TO hotels and
restaurants.
1--WE get early peppers from Florida, too.
and later some from Virginia, around Nor
folk, and then, as the season advances, wo
begin 10 get peppers from New Jersey.
which is really the great source Of our pep
per supply. There are sections of Jersey
in which produce farmers make specially
of peppers, plant them by the acre and
raise great crops of them
1.-THE enormous increased local consump-
ton of peppers In recent years Is due In
considerable measure TO increased demand
from packers. Peppers are now more ex-
tensively used than ever before In the prep
aration of condiments and sauces and there
are New York packers of pickles and pre-
serves who would think nothing OF buying
peppers in hundred barrel lots. But the
great increase in the demand comes in still
greater measure from the vastly increased
foreign population of the city, and from the
Italians especially, who. great consumers
of all fruits and vegetables, take with the
rest of the green things they buy. quanti-
ties of peppers, eating more or less of the
sweet peppers they would fruit.
$50 the homely pepper, once familiar TO
us in its stuffed and picked form. and
known TO a thing OF regular but OF
limited sale has come 10 cut quite figure
as an item in the city's wholesale produce
de
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

the receipts. J. H. Hackett and Richard
Mansfield are openly their own managers
and pay no percentages. but a salary, to
the business managers that they hire.
William Faversham, Charles Richman
and Robert Edeson receive weekly salaries
of $500 and a percentage of the profits. and
the management. of course. assumes all
risk. John Drew has the same kind Of
arrangements with Charles Frohman. al
though his salary and percentage are, OF
course. much larger. and his earnings de-
pend in a large measure on the quality of
his play. When he has a good one his
earnings may be large, but when they are
bad they are horrid.
Wilton Lackaye is one OF the actors who
hold out for a large salary and never act
until they get IL. Consequently, he acts
only with Amelia Bingham. who engages
the most expensive companies of any man
ager, or with j. *. Hackett.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
Successful Men Who Were Not Rich.
Francis Bellamy, in Eyerybodv's Magazine

We have fallen under universal witch
craft. y sense of the power and luxury in
money, beyond all the wonder-taies. has
suddenly come to US. 1t has turned our
fashionable society into Il materialism
which is no longer ashamed of its poverty
of ideals 1T Is hard and merciless of heart :
it is skeptical of unworldly motives; its
smartest relish is for the strokes and ruses
OF the manipulators of finance. In times
like these il is good to remember Agassiz
who refused TO lecture at $500 n night be-
cause he WAS too busy to make money:
Charles Sumner. who declined to lecture at
any price because, he said. as senator all
his time belonged to Massachusetts; Spur
geon. who refused 10 come to America TO
deliver fifty lectures at 81 200 a night say
ing he could do better-he could stay in
London and try 10 save fifty souls: and
Emerson. who steadfastly declined to in
crease his income beyond 81. 200 because no
wanted his time To think. Such stories of
fine haughtiness did not seem quixotic TO
the young men in college thirty years ago.
y generous idealism was. abroad, and il
was unashamed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
Winters Logging Camps.

Preparations for the winters logging are
In full swing I'm the great pineries of the
north. Crews are already out for n number
of lumber companies sporting OUT roads
over which 10 haul the cut of the winter
Others are busy building new camps, or re-
fitting and renovating the old ones
But, Notwithstanding the fact that prepa-
rations are actively on foot, there is said to
be little doabt but that n curtailment in log
ging operations has been contemplated and
will be put into force this winter. Contract
ors are little disposed this year to take any
chances, and are making no reduction Ia the
figures they are submitting I'm. their con-
tracts; and In view or a possibly lesser de-
mand for lumber during the coming season
and consequently lower price-timber
holders are not willing TO let contracts for
cutting timber at the figures paid last year
There Is no doubt but that the demand for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

lumber is less than that of last year. though
the boom company officials are loath 10 adj
nit that they will carry over less logs this
winter than they did last year. This is gen
orally a good criterion of the demand Tor
lumber during the coming season. and, as
such, has been accepted by lumbermen ior
years.
a pretty good estimate is made of what
the demand will be for the coming summer
by The boom company and the local mills
and more logs than will actually be required
are seldom carried over. Logs carried over
from fall to spring in water have to be cut
in the spring or they lose in quality TO de-
gree that renders them almost useless.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

Rochester Post Express.

Recently il has come out that I'm many
q slum street in certain parts OF London
there are old women who will supply 10
their neighbors. for penny or SO a time.
small quantities or medicine. all this hav-
ing come free from various hospitals. One
old woman I'm Lambeth has lived for years
on the medicines obtained In this way. She
posed 10 be "ailing." and will get a bottle
of medicine from each at the earliest in
tervals possible. She plants relations. too.
upon the hospitals, and gets the medicines
they receive. In this way she procures
quite stock OF medicines Intended for
different ailments. and these are doled out
at a far;hing s-worth at a time. Her
medicines NO doubt set badly mixed. and
no doubt the patients do We'll but
doctors stun Is doctors stun. whether
1t touches the spot or not Aud was IL
not VoltaIre who described doctors as men
who pour drugs OF which they know little
into stomachs OF which they know lessg
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

stood wedged in a mass of Turks within five
feet of him twenty-five years before, on
the day when he formally girded with
the sword OF Osman. He was then
slender, erect young man of thirty-five
years, pale-faced and smooth-shaven but
for a black musatche. His bearing pro-
duced no particular impression of power:
and 1T was matter of somewhat surprised
interest to see this immature prince now a
king in fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

when my term is finished The editor
did not leave town. Instead, he became
a candidate for mayor, and was victorious
at the polls. Again the mayor called upon
him and delivered himself of q TRADE, at
the conclusion of which the editor replied
meekly: Your honor, it's just this way:
The moment you step out i shall step i'm,
and then, Of course, your respect for the
dignity OF my office will protect me from
viOIence"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

faced man OF between fifty-five and sixty
years, with thin, rather fine features ex-
cept for his prominent nose. a well-kept
but grizzled beard covered the lower part
of his face. He had slight forward sink
ing OF the head and shoulders as though
the years had weighed too heavily upon
him. Yet he showed kingly dignity as he
drew himself up 10 salute the throng press
ing To the windows OF the rooms assigned
To the comfort OF European visitors. had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01

Nebraska State Journal.

A story which is a favorite with General
Joseph Wheeler, relates 10 the mayor of n
Southern town and the editor of a paper
published there. The editor, little man,
had caustically criticised the mayor, who
was a giant I'm stature, whereupon the lat
ter called upon the newspaper man and
out OF town, for shall certainly do SO
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-12-03
Clear the Roads.

The Department looks to the patron!
of the Rural Free Delivery service, whc
are receiving the benefits of the service
to use their utmost personal endeavors
and also to exert their influence will
the road supervisors, or with those off
cials who are responsible for the condi
tion OF the highways, to the end thai
the roads travelled by rural carriers may
be always kept open and in such pass
able shape that the service can be regu
larly and punctually performed,
Should the regularity of the service be
needlessly destroyed as the result of in
attention and lack of care bestowed or
the highways, the permanent with
drawal of the delivery will very likely
result.
Rural letter carriers are required tc
serve their routes regularly at all sea.
sons of the year and in every kind OF
weather, when it can be done without
seriously imperiling their lives or en-
dangering their conveyances or the u
s. mail which is in their custody.
Patrons should clear away the snow
drifts, so that carriers can drive up to
and reach boxes from their vehicles
without dismounting.
1t is NOT a part Of the carriers duty
to break out the roads after severe snow
storms.
Rural carriers are expected to ener-
getically try to serve their routes even
though the conditions may be extreme.
ly adverse, and any undue lack of zeal
on their part should be promptly
brought to the attention of this office
for such action as the merits of the case
may require.
General Superintendent.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-12-03

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