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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
First Experience of an American
Visitor at SsvedIsh Mud BAH

ported on the various ailments that made
life a burden to him, and that his friend
listened with the very worst OF grace dic
not seem to worry him a bit. Doubtless the
other man, too, had story TO ten, out
couldn't get a chance. What brutes white
people are, to be sure.
nga had got through scrubblng me, ana
Maria returned TO take her place. Mali
cious womanl To judge by her breath.
she had taken a nip, presumably TO re-
inforce her ability TO knead the breath out
of my poor carcass But II alcohol, as a
general thing. puts the devil into human
beings, that dose of Swedish punch had
made Maria a more considerate ana better
woman. After putting me under the nnai
spray, she pummeled me but gently on the
back, breast, loins and footsoies-thls time
exempting the toes, thank heaven.
i took liking TO the girl, and thought
to myself: What a boon sickness Is as an
economic proposition. Here are probably
two dozen lngas and Marias making a
comfortable living. inclusive OF much drink
money, out OF a host OF International idlers
like myself, who are not III enough 60 die,
and yet not well enough TO enjoy life with
out doctors and medicines, cures, hot and
cold water, and mud. If IL were not so.
if men did not become equity and fat IN
consequence of a life OF ease and comfort,
what would the lngas and Marias do for a
living? Truly this world Is well-ordered
hospital.
These and similar thoughts passed
through my head as / walked at Maria
side TO my cabin. where size clothed me
in red fiannels, laid me out on COM
Portable Undiscovered lounge. rubbed me-
down once more, and gave me the bas-
tonade to promote circulation. When she
left / leaned back and fixed my eyes on the
ceiling. while feeling of unspeakable we'll
being came over me. / felt like a new man,
like man who had never experienced any
trouble with his toes. SO / dozed of. and
after a refreshing sleep, started In 10
dress like a young swain going TO rendez-
Vous.
While I was buttoning my waistcoat
there was knock at the door.
who is there?' | demanded, with true
Yankee peevishness.
"Inga"
affixed the bolt in addition TO the key.
You can't come in / said sternly; Il
am not dressed"
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something else / tried it. tried hard. until
Maria possessed herself of my right leg
and began manipulating it, while Inga re-
turned TO that tender toe of mine.
'Ouchi'' / said, and both girls gave my
toes parting rub, as If determined TO tear
them from their sockets Then they let go,
and shoulder to shoulder, began to belabor
the rest of my body. i had long suspected
that had too much abdomen for my age,
and Maria and lnga were evidently or the
same opinion. They attacked 1T with vigor,
bounced it from one side to the other,
pressed it and knocked it, using the fiat of
their enormous fists, now and again en-
ploying their knuckles. | fully expected
them TO sit on me, Maria climbing into
Inga's lap or Inga into Maria's 10 crush
out my life. but, whatever their evil inten-
lions, they evidently baked at murder, and
so turned me over TO play a tattoo on my
back. Thus another ten minutes passed
Then This way, gentlemens, and the two
girls discreetly lifted me by the shoulders.
To say that was half dead is to describe
my condition but mildly l felt nke man
ment of torture employed by states attor-
neys of former days. Shame-facedly looking
down, l saw my body covered with mud,
emitting faint odor of sulphur and iodine
This way, gentlemens, repeated lnga,
and 1 staggered into the marble hall. where
Maria played hot hose on me. Ihen tney
took me into their arms and half carried,
half dragged me near, pool of water
reached by steps l dumped in, and
Inga kindly undertook TO cleanse me with
a horsehair brush.
THE OTHER POOR DEVILS.
While she was thus engaged 1 gathered
my vanished senses and looked about. Most
of my comrades in misfortune were gone,
but "Ouchesr and suppressed oaths COM
ing from the cabins indicated their where
abouts. Indeed, the air was blue with
"Ouchesr' and every little while some
strong limbed Inga or Maria passed by,
bound on some pain-giving mission.
Presently felt better, and turned my at
tention to my neighbors, two old Britishers,
who were having themselves steamed In
immense bath-chair ovens, from which only
their bald heads protruded. The elder re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
REPRESENTATION FIXED
FOR COUNTY CONVENTION
Republican Commissioners Decide
Basis of Apportionment for Out
Townships of Marion County.
CANDIDATES ON TICKET

The Republican commissioners met In
the Criminal Court room yesterday after
noon and fixed basis for the representa-
ton of Delegates to the township and couns
~ conventions. For the township conven-
tions each precinct will be entitled to one
delegate and an additional delegate for
every seventy votes and Il fraction over
thirty-five cast for Secretary OF State
Storms at the last election. In the county
convention there will be a delegate for each
precinct and one for every fifty votes cast
and a fraction over twenty-five east. for
the secretary of state at the last election.
The names for the township ballots out
side of Center township were fixed, and the
candidates given positions the ticket,
as has been announced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
THIRTEEN MEN TAKEN
FOR SHOOTING CRAPS

When thirteen gamblers get together
they are unlucky. That was the number
of men brought in a few weeks ago for
throwing dice, and last night thirteen men
were caught in room in the rear of the
saloon owned by Ben Wilson, at Howard
and Reisner streets, West Indianapolis.
Sergeant Weaver and Patrolman Roch-
ford and Wolley walked into the room and
found the men were shooting craps"
Wilson claimed he did not know the men
were back there. He was slated for keep
ing a gambling house.
1t is believed that orders were issued last
night to close all gambling houses A
number of patrolmen in citizens clothes
accompanied by captain and a sergeant,
went forth on some mysterious mission,
and it is thought that they were looking
for gamblers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
LONDON'S IDEA or 4
QUICK LUNCH HOUSE

LONDON. March ls.-For those city peo-
pie who want a meal between the heavy
luncheon OF the restaurants and the light
fare Of the tea shops there has been opened
a quick luncheon" place at - Newgats
street
Ii is the firm of Gabriel Sedlmayer. OF
lagar beer fame. which has opened the res
taurant Ii Is proposed 10 serve quickly A
good meal for anything between pence
and a shilling. High stools line a long
counter and near the entrance are, the
dishes and soucepans containing the food
a customer can thus see what he Is order.
ing, and II II Intended that the food shall
be placed before him by the time he n
seated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
KING LEOPOLD ACCUSED
OF WITHHOLDING MONEY
WILLED HIS DAUGHTERS

CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1, PART p
NJ. Janson would not turn attention from
stronger argument by urging this point.
COUNTESS LONYAY'S CONTENTION.
AS the Countess Lonyay, she protested
against the Kings attitude toward her and
his attempts to dsinherit her. She could
not reproach herself of having incurred
blame either daughter, wife, widow or
mother, and declared her fathers vindic-
tiveness unmerited For the last three
years he had not paid her q centime of the
$1,000 francs a year settled on her for her
separate use at her first marriage Count
Lonyay allowed her TO share fully with him
his fortune, and the Emperor Francis Jo-
seph gives her 100000 francs a year He
encouraged her to marry her second hus-
band, and in the handsomest manner took
her by the hand as she ceased officially to
be his daughter-in-law and declared that
she would ever have place I'm his heart
As TO Count de Lonyay the princess
wished to state publicly that his honor was
untarnished his conduct generous and gem
tlemaniy and that his ancestry will favor
ably compare lin antiquity and deeds with
that of the house of Sake Coburg For
marrying this illustrious nobleman with
the approval of the Emperor of Austria
under whose paternal sway she had passed
in marrying the late crown prince King
Leopold had treated her with the utmost
harshness and contumely. He had refused
10 allow her near her dying mother and
corpse of the late queen lay, allowing her
but ten minutes TO pray beside it, She had
TO enter by stealth She had been deprived
of all royal honors and care taken that she
should not attend the funeral without caus-
ing a scandal which would have dishonored
the dead Queen.
The reading by counsel for the princess
of the will of the late Queen did not cast
an unexpected light on the King of the Bel
CLANS. 1t confirmed the opinion long held
as to his contemplate character, and il de-
molishes the late Queen Victoria's conten-
ton that the house of Sake Cobure could
only produce archangelic princes.
This document will interest LAWYERS
psychologists, students of contempora neous
history and most newspaper readers II
ought with the other facts to make the Col
orado hotel king ashamed of his intimacy
with the Emperor of the Kongo Free State
and King of the Belgians
THE TEXT OF THE WILL
In the name of the Father, the Son and
the Holy Ghost. amen. May the holy. the
ever just and always lovable will of God
rule on earth May it be blessed through
all eternity.
This is my last will, written with my own
hand as will be seen. and on the twenty
fifth of December 1901, at Spa
/ remit ma immortal soul TO the everlast.
inE God. l beseech Him to forgive all my
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
SAID HE VAS "BOUGHT
OYER TO MARRY HER

LONDON. March ia youth aged eight
cen. was summoned at Southwark Police
Court for failure TO maintain his wife. who
is nineteen years of age.
Asked how he came to get married. the
defendant said: well, she bought me over
TO marry her"
What DO you mean?"
when / was out of work she gave me 6s
or Is a week TO go along with
He added that he was again out of work.
The hearing was adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
JAPANESE POST CAPTAIN
is DOMESTIC SERVANT

LONDON, March ia well-known naval
expert, in a letter dealing with the causes
of war in the far East, incidentally tells
story which illustrates the enterprising
patriotism of the Japanese in all classes
AN English merchant. carrying on bust
ness at Vladivostok. had in his employ
ment an excellent Japanese servant One
day last July the Jap came 10 him and
gave notice. saying that he must return at
once TO his own country. The Englishman
thereupon offered TO double or even treble
his wages If he would stay, as he felt he
could not afford 10 part with such use
full employee. NO. said the Jap. i must go
back 10 Japan. and this he did. few
months later the Englishman had occa-
sion TO go 10 Toxic. and there. walking
down the main street. whom should he SEQ
but his late servant dressed in the uniform
of a post captain in the japanese navy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Arthur jackson Missing.

The Indianapolis police have been asked
to look for Arthur Jackson, who disap-
peared from his home in Kokomo last Sat
urday night. The young man was intoxi-
Gated when last seen and it was at first
believed he was drowned. Kokomo au-
thorities are now OF opinion that he came
to this city. a photograph of the missing
man was furnished the police.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Series of Gospel Meetings.

The Rev. Joshua Stansfield has arranged
a series of seven addresses TO be given at
the Second German NJ. Z. Church, corner
of Prospect and Spruce streets. beginning
next Tuesday evening and continues each
Tuesday evening. These addresses will be
Of special interest TO Bible students His
%; Christian Theism." March %: 1.-THE
Bible View of Sin April s: "'rhe Personal
Work of Christ" April II; Experimental
Grace April 10; The Holy Spirit and the
Church." April %; 1.-THE Last Things"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Narrow Escape from Drowning.

While attempting to ford a creek in
Brown county Friday, Charles House, a
salesman for Brinhmeyer, Kuhn & Co.,
with his driver, Joseph Hobbs, of Morgan
town. narrowly escaped drowning i'm the
high water The horses went under but
the two men after hard struggle reached
the shore and saved the horses. House
was injured the place where the ac-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
FRED LINES FOOT
Has TO BE 4MPUTATED

While attempting to jump on a moving
box car at Madison avenue and the Belt
Railroad yesterday afternoon, Fred Lane,
eleven years DID, living at 2110 South East
strot, slipped and fell under the wheels
His left foot crushed and mangled so
as to necessitate amputation. DR.. Jeffries
took the boy to the City Hospital in the
ambulance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
BUTTER md EGGS IRE
THE BOOTY OF THIEVES

B. Brady. living five miles east of the
city on the Brookville road. came into town
yesterday with a load of eggs and butter.
He left his wagon standing near the corner
of Alabama and Washington streets while
he made some purchases. When he re-
and some butter had mysteriously disap-
peared and he reported the matter to the
police.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
BEEFSTEAK DINNER. 1T
THE COLUMBIA CLUB

The second annual beefsteak dinner of the
Columbia Club will be given i'm the BAN
quet hail. under the auspices of the enter
tainment committee, on next Saturday
evening. March %. at o'clock The attend
ance will be limited TO the first 200 ac-
ceptances. An orchestra of five pieces will
furnish the music and an enjoyable time is
promised.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
sudden Rising Causes Death.

LONDON, March 19.-At an inquest in
Sunderland on young man death was at
tributed TO heart failure caused by his sud
den rising from his bed. There is no COM
moner cause of syncope," said "a medical
witness, than people getting up in n hurry
People should stretch themselves and rise
leiSurely.
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NJ. Janson would not turn attention from
stronger argument by urging this point
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-10-07
lrreproachable.

bloodthirsty and relentless villain in
the states. You needn't look alarmed
[ don't blame you, as | know you never
suspected him-neither did |, for he
has been hiding here for years. He
dispatched a message down the coast
this morning to send vessel up, for
he smelled a rat; but we were too
quick and made a raid on the house.
Confound the fellow! He slipped
through our fingers like an eel and
made for the coast Finding himself
closely pressed, he went down these
rocks like monkey, and now sits
below out of reach awaiting the vessel
By heaven! there she is and he sig
nails her!' and he pointed to a schoon-
err that swept around the point under
sail and anchored half a mile from
the shore.
"The excitement was now intense.
and bets were freely taken about the
result. They Of the schooner saw
that they dare not approach nearer to
the shore, and were evidently afraid
to send boat through such treach-
erous reef.
1.-THE sheriff danced with glee at
their discontinue, and, turning to me,
said:
"'Would you oblige me with your
rifle, Mr.. Harding, as my revolver can
not reach him? have instructions to
take his body, alive or dead.
81 politely declined to part with my
rifle for such purpose, much to his
establishment, as Chatlern had never
wronged me and | had no wish to as
sist at his death.
when matters were at deadlock
skiff shot out from the coast, describ'
ing a crescent, spoke to the schoon-
err, and SKINNED in to the rescue OF
the prisoner. All eyes were turned on
the fragile boat, and as it drew near
to the rocks below | saw, with horror,
that the occupant was the sherlff's
pretty daughter.
Nearer and nearer crept the little
boat, lodging through the network OF
rocks till at last it was so near that
| could distinguish the golden locks
and white, set face of the rover. Poor
girl. she loved him despite his wicked
career, and could not but admire the
unselfish devotion of the unfortunate
girl.
1.-THE sheriff was beside himself with
rage and vexation at being cheated by
his own daughter, and as the skiff
shot out, Chatlern, or rather CASTOR,
stood up and waved him an ironic
adieu. Eva stood by his side, the
tears streaming down her face. But
they were tears Of joy.
1--WE watched them till the boat was
a mere speck on the bosom of the
ocean. That was the last have ever
seen of my twin brother Like Bar
kis, he went out with the tide. -
Henry @. Barrison in Chicago Jour
nal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-10-07
Proposed to a King.

King Christian of Denmark, who is
the oldest monarch in Europe, recently
gave reception at the royal palace in
Copenhagen, and among the first to
pay homage to him was very hand
some young lady, who was stranger
to him. Seeing that she fingered near
the throne after the others had passed
by, he turned to her and asked kindly
if he could d. anything for her.
Eyes, Your Majesty" she replied
"The fact is, In. very anxious to get
married, and I've cNme here to-day to
offer myself to you. You need a wife
and I'd make you good one"
For some moments the old sover.
eign was so surprised that he could
not speak, but finally he said: 81
thank you, madam, for your offer, but
! fear that | am too old to accept it. u
Then, turning to an usher, he request
ed him to escort the lady from the pal
ace.
A few hours later the King was in.
formed that his strange visitor was a
young woman of weak mind, but per.
fectly harmless.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-10-07
Useful Turn-Ups,

Policeman, mailcarriers, messenger
boys, business men and not a few
women for several hours one day last
week took part in search for a So
gold piece which dropped from the
hand of a Ninth street business man
who had received it in change at the
postofTice. A lot of smaller change
which had fallen at the same time
was soon recovered, but not the gold
coin. Very few cracks and crevices
among the cobblestones escaped
canes and prying eyes, but all in vain
Even pools of water were swept away
but to no purpose.
1t did not seem possible that II
could have rolled more than a few
feet, although the street for half a
square was carefully scrutinized
That evening the missing coin was
found at least five miles away.
The man who had dropped it hur.
ried out to his home in West Phila
delphia, intending to return to a thea
ter. Putting on his evening clothes
he went to hang up the pair of trou
sers he had taken off when something
dropped to the floor with ring. Be
fore him lay the S. gold piece.
When the piece fell it had landed
in the turned up fold of his trousers
philadelphia Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-10-07

When Ion Perdicaris was resident
of the United States he was associated
with Louis Langerman in a railway
project in Pennsylvania. This was the
cause of Langermans interest in the
Perdicaris kidnapping case.
The story is told that one clustering
night in December Perdicaris asked
Langerman to make an investigation
of certain terminal facilities in a
mountain village After Langerman
had arrived at his destination ter
rife snow storm came up and stopped
traffic on all railroads on that section
Langerman was very anxious to get
back and report the result of his work
to Perdicaris, but he was informed
that it would be days before the first
train would leave, so he telegraphed
as follows:
81 am showed in; no trains running.
Cannot leave either with sleigh or
wagon. What shall do?"
This is the reply he received
"Stay there"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-10-07
The Baby-Cart.

children's Fairgrounds. Besides, I'M
til quite recently, Japan was ma
ton at play, a nation where you
could see grown-ups as well as chill
dren taking part in what we choose
to call childish games. During this
great Eastern war l wonder If Jap
anese men and women have put
away their longtailed kites and sew
en-tailed gold fishes and historical
dolls, and have ceased to hunt lost
souls in firehies. | doubt it, for it
has been the lifelong prayer and ad-
vice of every Japanese parent for
endless generations that their chill
dren, when they have reached the
estate of men and women, should re-
tain their child's hearts.
When you meet grown-up person
who has kept his or her childs
heart, you cannot help loving them.
That is why you cannot help loving
its child's heart.
Childhood certainly is the Golden
Age, in Japan, more than in any 9th
er country in the world, for that gen.
tie land seems to have been created
on purpose to amuse and spoil chill
dren. Not that child is ever spoilt
in that land of gentle mothers, for
child's moral training and almost SUI
pernatural power of self-control be-
gan hundreds of years before it was
born.
When l first drove through ma
tive city in Japan, l thought that
every other shop was toy shop, and
l never could have believed that the
world contained so many children,
for nothing is too young to play on
the Mikado's highway in Japan. Doll
like girls of few years old, dressed
exactly like their little mothers, ex-
cept for their gayer clothes and fan
tastically shaven heads, carry vel
low-faced babies of a few months old
tied on their backs, while they play
ingenious games with gorgeous balls
made of scarlet and gold silk, or
dart about on their high wooden
clogs after the falling shuttlecock,
which they send bounding up again
over the tops of their paper homes
with a wooden battledore decorated
on one side with the gaudily painted
head of woman of the Yoshiwara.
But l soon learned that the streets
were full of babies because the
houses were all empty. No one in
the real Japan ever saw baby sleep
ing in a cot while it's mother was
working or being driven in a go-cart
They sleep with their little heads
wobbling about on their mothers or
older sisters backs, and learn to sit
on their feet with their bent knees
under them before they can stand,
and | soon began to distinguish the
real toy shops, which are more nu-
merous than in any other country in
the world, from the shops which
sold the toy-like furniture and mini
ature household utensil used for the
srown-up dolls houses.
The shops of the Household Gods,