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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

Mrs. Smiley's Husband Played Her a
Mean Trick.

Dragging her eight-year-old nephew by
one arm and carrying two half-empty
glasses of beer in her free hand, a woman
giving her name as Mrs. Smiley entered the
police tation last night and demanded of
Sergeant Crane that he send several po-
licemen to O'Brien's saloon, at the corner
of Capitol avenue and Maryland streets,
and arrest the bartender for selling liquor
to minors.
The beer which she had in her possession
was sold to her, she said, by the bartender
and one Of the glasses was given by him
TO the child at her side On questioning
the woman 1t was found that she and her
husband, who is a bartender for O'Brien,
mad Quarreled and several days ago they
separated. She kept his clothes, she said,
and he, in turn, took her pet parrot and
refused to give 1t back. Last night she
went to the saloon where her husband was
employed. taking her young nephew with
her. She went into the back room and
ordered a glass of beer and the bartender
Drought back two glasses, giving her one
and the child the other. She paid for both,
she said, and they drank Just a little
and she brought the half-full glasses to
the police, that they might see that the
contents was beer.
She was advised to go home and think the
matter over and if possible try some other
method Of drawing her husband back to
her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

has been so good that he has nearly killed
his coolies with overwork, so his neighbors
say as complacently as they would speak
of a horse that had been seriously over
driven.
The system OF practicing medicine in
this city is a singular combination OF Chi
nese and British Institutions. Two medical
concerns do nearly all the business, on an
nual contract. Each head OF a family, or
OF a business house, contracts for medical
attendance at so much a year, and the
amount collected is just the same whether
every member Of the family dies OF plague
Heads Of business houses explain TO ma
that it is a matter OF policy with them to
have their clerical force feel that medical
advice and attendance are free. the war
fare against tropical diseases must be so
constant that any symptoms. no matter
how slight, should receive early attention.
In the same way the young doctors who
serve these firms como out here under term
contracts, each signing an agreement not
TO practice within twenty miles OF the
firms headquarters on the expiration OK
the contract period. This prevents the
young man with an acquainance from
starting into private practice on his own
hook. Young dentists come out here. often
from America, 10 serve the same way, ana
similarly many families have annual dental
region are reaping handsome financial re-
turns, for this Is a profession IN which
Americans are regarded as especially well
equipped. This contract system, In vogue
among the Europeans, smacks OF China.
There the physician Is literally paid 20 keep
q man well, rather than for extraordinary
services I'm time OF Illness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
THE REAL CLUB WOMAN.


Boston Transcript.
II those who. through willful or uncon-
scious ignorance of the real spirit OF the
women's clubs, are led 10 indulge in criti-
cism. either OF a harsh or facetious nature,
OF these organizations could have heard the
address which Mrs. DIMES T.. =. Denis0n,
president OF the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs. rave before the Massachu-
sets Federation at Worcester recently. IL
MI have sD,;ri led them them to modify, Il mot to
not every woman joined 10 a club takes the
deep and broad view that Mrs. Denison
holds OF life in general and OF club life In
particular: neither has every club membe
the same sense OF humor that comes TO Mrs.
Denison's aid when she attempts 10 straight
en- a complication or a strained situation
But. as she IS the leading club woman.
through her office. In this country, what she
says should be accepted as representing
the whole aim and trend OF the club idea.
She Is the mouthpiece. the interpreter. OF
the clubs.
In beginning her remarks Mrs. Denison
said hat the press has ever been chary OF
giving praise TO the women's clubs. and then
she proceeded TO take up. item by item the
specific charges made against club women.
and IL she had found in her experience any
thing on which such accounts could be
founded she unhesitatingly admitted the Jus
she saw that clubs and club women could
well profit IL they would but take up and
analyze them 10 hnd the kernel OF truth hid
den in each. Was not this a broad and
even heroic bit OF counselg And yet how
few who know nothing OF the animating
spirit or the clubs would believe hat their
members. IN convention would
give voice TO and applaud such womaniy
humility? IL proves quite as much as does
any OF the achievements already set down
20 the credit or the women's clubs that they
are deeply thoughtful. intensely In earnest
and determined 10 turn even sings and ar
will land them on and up 90 the high goal
they have set for themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
NO HORSES AT HoNG-KoNG.
other PecuIiarities OF the Place That
Impress Visitors.

Correspondence Boston Transcript.
The natural beauty of Hong-Kong can
hardly be exaggerated. whether the city DO
seen from the harbor, or from the Peak
which looks down upon the town and q
majestic piece OF waterway where the ship
ping Of all nations is gathered. The city
proper couples a narrow fringe along the
water front, wide enough for about three
long parallel streets. although much OF
even this space has been reclaimed from
the sea, and between the Queens road. the
streets inland there Is so considerable an
ascent that many OF the cross streets are
simply flights OF broad stone steps.
There are no horses In Hong-Kong and
they have no forests, two facts which sim
pity greatly the bodybuilding problem. Its
streets resemble the walks on a worlds
fair ground; they are smooth and reason
ably hard. and were laid out by the British.
I'm founding the city, at a reasonable width
Hong-Kong. I am informed that there is
one stable, but I'm a three days visit 1 did
not chance to see such an animal. Rick
shas." the little tw0-wheeled vehicles In
which most of the population ride, drawn
by a Chinese coolie, with one or more push
ing from behind, IL the occupant be will
ing to pay for high ~speed-do most OF the
passenger business. The rest is done in
chairs, supported on long poles, borne on
the backs OF two or four coolies. according
to the length and difficulties Of the trip.
One physician here keeps seven coolies TO
convey him about, four for the chair n
three for the ricksha- He uses the latter
on the low level, but in reaching residences
on the side of the mountain. often involv-
ing climbs over steep stairs, he is COM
PEELED TO have a chair. This mans business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
RAT WITH A WOODEN LEG
REMARKABLE tai OF THE BIG
GEsT RODENT In HISTORY.
Contribution to Unnatural History
by the BIacksmfth-The Fight to
the Death With Two Dogs.


Washington Times.
Rats is got more sense than most men,
broke forth the blacksmith.
us that an observation or a confession?'
put in Eddie. the bricklayer. with a brave
attempt at sarcasm.
1T is NEITHER responded the blacksmith,
with a whitening glance. TITS telling
tales out of school, glaring significantly
at the daring man who had interrupted
him, but who Immediately subsidized.
81 mind one time when 1 was bothered
with rats until l got altogether out or
patience with EN-, albeit they do be friends
Of mine most in generally. So / set trap
after trap at night only to find out in the
morning that they had been robbed of
the cheese or bacon with which they were
baited.
Finally / tried a steel trap, such as we
used to put in the preserves before We
come to the land of the free. Sure enough
one night I heard the trap click; then /
heard a squeal, and as / turned over to go
to sleep 1 says to myself: One of youse is
down, anyway
Bright and early the next morning /
went down stairs to the trap. and behold
~ was ~ MP
rats leg in 1t. Believe me, a rat had been
caught, and he was a jolly big one, too,
but two inches above where the jaws of
the trap had come together-just above the
second joint-that leg had been gnawed of
as nice as ever a railroad train could cut
off a mans leg. And such a leg Ii was.
Upon me soul, i had caught the biggest
rat that ever lived, judging from the size
Of the leg, and the spaipeen had deliber-
ately bit off his leg and skinned out, leaving
me that leg as a sort OF souvenir"
Nav, sir, IL was not a trophy" This TO
the baidheaded plumber who had butted
in with an amendment. Twas no victory
/ had gained and no trophy had l won.
That rat had beat me fair and square, even
If it did cost him his leg.
'"That. rat was on me mind for a week.
L was sorry for the duffer. and yet 1 some
how wanted to get even with him, for /
knew that the creature had never crawled
off and died. No. sir, A man or a dog or a
| rat with the nerve to get free at the cost
| of a leg will die of old age. Powder and
| shot no more nor steel traps will put him
out Of commission. Them that's game lives
TO play out the string whether II do be long
or short.
well, I was smoking me pipe before
candle light one evening when 1 heard a
thump-thump-thump on the steps going
to the garnet, and 1 wondered what it is.
| A creepy sort of feeling comes over me.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

Rube. while on one OF his tantrums, under
took 70 become a mixer of fancy drinks in
one OF the Quaker City's barrooms.
Jiggs Donaghue has been sold by the Mil
waukee Club to the Chicago White Stock
ings. Donaghue will remain with the Brew
ers until the close of the present season. He
viii join Comiskey's team next season.
Manager Strobel. OF the Mud Hens, has
signed a new infelder named Andrews, who
will join the team Tomorrow. Andrews was
with the Chicago American League team.
but adorned the bench the greater part of
the time.
The Milwaukee Daily News says: Claude
Elliott. OF the Milwaukee American Associ-
alton team, said TO be the best pitcher in the
league, has been sold TO the Cincinnati Ma
tIonal League team. He will join the Reds
next season"
Bradley. third baseman of the Cleveland
team. like Lsjoie, was slow in getting
started In making up his batting average.
The daily scores from the games in which
the Napoleons are concerned find these two
players with several long hits to their
credit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
FIRST BUMP OF SEASON
ELL LILLY COMPANIES TEAM LOSES
ITS FIRST CAME.
PIutos and Mooney-Mue1lers Break
Even I'm Doub1e-Header at
Capital City Park.
Standing of the Clubs.

The Tom Keenes, by defeating the Ell
Lilly C~ompany's team by a score of IL to 4
yesterday In their game a. Garfield Park.
gave that team its first defeat Of the sea-
son. The game was filled with a number Of
good plays on both sides. The Tom
Keenes won their game by their terrific
batting of Kennel, seventeen. hits being
recorded of his delivery. Irish, pitcher for
the Tom Keenes. was injured In the fifth
inning by sliding into first base. He was
forced to retire, Sussman taking his place
I'm the box. Sussman kept up the good
work set by Irish and the Eli Lilly's were
unable to overtake the big lead made by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

Walter Cults was arrested last night by
Sergeant Leet and Patrolmen Musgrove
and HUH and locked up at the police sta
ton on a charge of obtaining goods on false
pretenses and being drunk. Cults, 1T is
said. rented a horse and buggy of a local
livery barn yesterday morning for a few
hours and still had the horse and buggy in
his possession when arrested last night. He
secured the rig on the representation that
he was a bartender for a saloon keeper at
Brighton Beach, and it was found that his
assertions were false. When placed under
arrest he was lying in a drunken condition
in the bottom of the buggy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
Each Took a Game.

In the double-header played yesterday at
the Capital City Park between the Plutos
and the Mooney-Mueller Drug Company's
team the clubs broke even. The Plutos
took the first game. 4 to 2. In the second
game the Mooney-Mueller Drug Company's
team won, 10 to 4. The first game started
scored until after the fifth inning, when
the Plutos broke the ice and scored two
runs. They increased this lead in the sixth
by one run, and the Mooney-Mueller team
got two runs. In the seventh inning the
Plutos secured one more run.
Tn second contest was enlivened by the
hitting of the Mooney-Mueller team, which
pounded Koelling at its will.
Batteries-Ffrst game: Plutos, Koelling
and Elan: Mooney-Mueller, Mazur and
Murbarger. Second game: Plutos, Keel
ling and Elan; Mooney-Mueller, II. MUIR
barger and E. Murbarger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
Baseball Notes.

Lajoie Is now one of the hardest hitters
of the American League. Larry was a long
time getting in shape this season, but he
made good all that Manager Armour said
of him.
Manager McAleer, of the st. Louis Ameri-
cans. has offered Manager Cantillon a price
for Pitcher Elliott. Cantillon has refused
IT. and II is not likely that McAleer will
be able to get Elliott this season.
RUDE Waddell, the eccentric soutnpaw of
the Athletics. has again joined the team.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

"Sketchers." This is an organization COM
posed of students who, being deeply inter-
ested in art and severally plying their
brushes, have bound themselves into a
closer union for the purpose of mutual help
and encouragement. Their purpose is the
promotion OF art in general and the free
development of each members particular
artistic gifts. BY watching each others
methods. by criticism and suggestion, each
one is aided b. every other one; and by
keeping constantly in mind their high
standard all are led to strive for the best.
While "Sketchers" is but a new and also a
small organization, its influence is a potent
and much-needed one. Many hopes are en-
tertained and plans are being made for seri-
Gus and beneficial work next year, and a
stronger and wider influence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
AT STATE FAIR
SHOW ANIMALS TO COMPETE FOR
PRIZES TO BAND MUSIC.
Carload of BlOOded Horses Coming
from Kansas City-Avards to Be
Made i'm S~eventeen Classes.

The State Board of Agriculture Is ar
ranging a horse show for State fair week.
which Secretary Charles Downing says will
be on a lavish scale. He says that it will
bring not only scores of animals from
over Indiana, but from other States, and
this department Of the fair will include
seventeen classes. Some of them will be
draft. coach, light harness. pair turnouts.
tandems, four-in-hands, roadsters and high
steppers. The premiums to be awarded
for show horses and races will amount to
Sl2, TAI, and the show will be under the di-
rection Of two members of the State board.
William M. Blackstock, of Lafayette, and
w. T. Beauchamp. of Terre Haute.
The show will be held on each day Of
the fair, beginning Tuesday, Sept. Is. On
this day the classes that will appear in the
prize ring will INCLUDE French draft and
Percheron, Clydesdale and English shires,
Belgians, Cleveland bays, h~ackneys and
American coach, French and German
coach.
On Wednesday the classes will include
grade drafts. coach and carriage pairs,
roadsters and ponies. Thursday will be an
important day for the horse show. On that
day the standard bred, light harness, best
appointed pair and t~urnout-for individuals
and Observation-Disclosures. tandems, high
steppers, equipages. coach and car
riage pairs and saddle horses will be
shown. There will be a band concert
on each day of these exhibitions of horses.
Mr.. Downing says that the signs now
point to enough horses TO more than fill the
barns that are usually allotted to animals of
the show class on the fair grounds. He
has had word that A. G. Ashbrook, of Kan
sas City. will send a carload of show horses
to the fair and will make entries in ten
classes. Ashbrook will also bring a coach
that is said TO have cost s.. 800. One of the
Ashbrook horses that will be seen will be
the jumping mare Thistledown, which has a
record of 7 feet 1% inches. Another will be
the high-school mare American Beauty.
The secretary says that the State fair
will give both city and country people op-
portunities to see show horses of high class.
Before an animal can compete for a prize
IL will either have to be recorded or be
eligible of record in official books. The
American German Coach-horse Asso-
citation and the Belgian Draft Horse Asso-
citation will offer social prizes to be COM
peted for in these classes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
Her Common Sense.
Philadelphia Ledger.

My husband says women have no COM
mon sense, but | tell him a little story
when he says that, in proof that he is
wrong. He always laughs when L tell it,
but / can't make out whether | convince
him or not. 1 went out to the
can exposition with him.. We went in a
hurry, and as usual left all the planning
to him." said the woman who prides herself
not even know the name of the hotel at
which we stopped. and as we started out
the very next morning for the fair grounds
/ did not find the opportunity to ask. In
wandering around the grounds we lost each
other. and i was almost frightened to
death. /, knew it was useless to hunt for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The monthly meeting of the
Missionary Society of the Tabernacle Church
will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock In the church p~arlors.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Seward will entertain
the Woman's Auxiliary of Railway Postal
Clerks tomorrow evening at their home.
lis Dillon avenue.
A lawn fete for the benefit Of the Fresh
Air Mission will be given Wednesday even
ing at the home OF the Misses Cahill. 1913
Fletcher avenue, by the Jolly Five, Club.
A souvenir edition of W. NJ. Fogarty's poem.
The Fresh Air Mission Babies" will be
sold for the benefit of the fund.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

Harry Smith, a farmer giving his resi-
dence as nine miles from the city on Hig-
gins's pike. was arrested last night by De-
~tectives Lancaster and Kurtz and placed
behind the bars at the police station on a
grand larceny charge.
Smith, it is said, stole a horse and wagon
and drove to the city, where he became in
toxicated. He sold the wager for $40 and
was trying to make a bargain with a horse
dealer TO sell the horse for $50 when the de-
tectives placed him under arrest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
Family Near Starvation.

Mrs. Ella Clemmet. 215 West Maryland
street. reported to the police last night that
a woman by the name of Mrs. Miskell had,
some time ago., engaged several rooms at
her house and was living there In destitute
circumstances. She had several small chill
dren who were at the point of starvation
according to the story told by the Clemmet
woman. The condition of the Miskell fam
lily was last night reported to the charity
organization and an investigation of their
CIRCUMSTANCES will be made to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
How. Toads Hide Themselves.

The Garden.
II you poke about the corners Of a gar
den you will soon understand how the
stories of toads imprisoned in a solid rock
arise. You hardly ever find q toad in its
chosen retreat without wondering how Il
managed to get in and how 1t proposes to
get out again, and our ancestors enshrined
in a hole as the name of a dish in which
a piece of meat is baked inside a batter,
with no visible means Of entrance or exit.
This peculiar faculty of the toad for bury
ing himself without leaving a trace behind
is due to his trick Of burrowing backward,
as a crab does, his strong hind legs SHOW
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

my husband in that crowd. and as I did
not know the name of my hotel l could
not hire a carriage 10 take me there. I
almost cried I was so worked up.
Finally / had a brilliant idea. ] remem-
bered that my husband always left his adj
dress with his business partner. so l hus-
tied to a telegraph station on the grounds
and wrote this message to his partner:
"a what hotel are the Johnsons stop
ping?'
''Then / signed the name of Smith and
rave my address at a station on the ex-
position grounds. After a little the an
swer came back. giving the name of the
hotel. Then / called a carriage IND clam
bered into it. About midnight my husband
returned to the hotel, claiming he had
been hunting for me for five hours, and
he certainly looked worn out. Yet he al
ways laughs when 1 tell the story"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

By means of relaying the dots and dashes
from a telegraph ticker over the telephone
Frank w. Samuels. manages OF the Postal
Telegraph Company, heard the fight re-
turns at his home in Mooresville Friday
night The idea was a very original one
and a number OF friends heard the returns
with Mr.. Samuels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
GOLD WATCH AND $225.


Walter Rolan. 37 South Davidson street,
was arrested yesterday afternoon by BIZ
cyclemen Hull and Griffin and slated at the
police station on q charge of grand larceny.
He was arrested on a warrant sworn out by
a woman named Kate Reed, 16 South Senate
avenue, who charges him with stealing
$225 in money and two diamond rings TO the
value OF 800 from her. She said that he
was her divorced husband and had taken
the money and rings from her after they
were separated by law.
Rolan said at the police station yesterday
that the money and rings actually be-
longed to him and never were her
property.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16

The Duesseldorfers Of this city began a
series OF three games yesterday at Green
field and won the first game, shutting out
their opponents. 4 to o. The game was re-
plete with good plays on both sides. Both
pitchers were steady throughout the nine
innings. Long hits were few. Both clubs
played an errorless game. The remaining
two games will be played to-day. Score:
r E
Duesseldorfers l o o o. s q
Greenfield ......0 o 0 o o 0 o o 90 6 0
Batteries-Roell and Massing; Derrick and
Cummins. Umpire. Strong.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
From Track and Stable.

Star Hal. 2:091k. is regarded as a sure 2:O5
PAGER.
Monte Carlo and Dan T.. now have records
of 2:07h.
Willard Sanders will race viometa, 2:14Z.
thisf fall.
Cresceus. 2:o2A. is now in training at the
Cleveland track.
Geers has received an offer Of 500 for
Billy Buck, 2:10h.
Ella Patohen. 2:AA. is a new trotter for
Joe Patchen, 2:o1M.
The champion gelding, The Abbot, 2:03A,
is ready for retirement.
The Monk and Louise Jefferson race at
Brighton Beach this week.
c. K. G. Billings has driven Greenline,
2:07%, a mile in 2:06A to wagon.
Lou Dillon. 2:o24, will make her next trial
against time at Brighton Beach tomorrow.
Johnny Ray has sold Tiger. 2:o7x, to an
other member Of the Cleveland Driving
Club.
Dan Patch, Lou Dillon and John A. Nc
Kerron will go after new worlds records at
the Brighton Beach meeting this week.
Trainer William Rogers, who was injured
in a mix-up at Marion last month, has been
compelled to go back East to his home as a
result of his injuries. An operation was nee
essary and blood poisoning was feared.