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PRICE FIVE CENTS. INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER . 13, 1895 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS.

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Nearly all the Indianapolis women know the Boyd & Jones Coats by acquaintance or reputation.

Velor Coats and Capes With fur, jet or feather ornamentation.

Cloth Coats

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Fur Coats Capes And

They are ready now, and it is just as well to see them at once. The stock is at its best, and some of the choice things cannot be duplicated. Electric Seal Coats and Capes. Alaska .Seal Coats and Capes.

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r .U V. .'. .4 - an. r , r. a as - )( - )K - )K - )( - )i( - )t):( - , vv v 7 New Fall Dress Goods To-Morrow ' Grand collection at about one-halrusual prices. French Senses, 43 Inches wide, new fall shades, the 75c quality, to-morrow only 43c yard. German Henriettas, 45 Inches wide, heavy weight, all the new fall and evening colors; the dollar sort; to-morrow only 59c. French Broadcloths, heavy quality, grand finish; the Jl quality; to-morrow only 50c yard. New Fall Plaids, grandest assortment in Indianapolis, hundreds of pieces to select from, to-morrow 8c, lec, 20c, S8c and &c yard. New Fall Novelties, richest and rarest assortment .stacks of them, none like them elsewhere; to-morrow only 13c upward. - 100 pieces Novelty Suitings, C6 inches wide, for 8 l-3c. - - 8.3 pieces Boude, Cheviots and Bourette Suitings for 19c. 40 pieces Serges arid Cashmeres for 12. l "lOO pieces fine ' Siik-and-Wool and.. Mohalr-and-Wool Novelties for 49c. 4S-lnch all-Wool Broadcloths and Henriettas for 59c. 4 50 pieces Sllk-and-Wool Flaids, changeable effects, 53c and 25c. Black Dress Fabrics You will find bargains here ' that competitors cannot approach. 42-inch Black all-Wool Serges at 21e. ' 40-inch Black Wool Henrietta Cloth at 15c 44-lnch Black all-Wool Crepons at 39c. 40-inch Black High-finished Brilliantlnes at 22c. Black ail-Wool French Brocaded Dress Goods at 75c. Black Sllk-FInlshed all-Wool Henri-. etta Cloth at 2V. 42-inch Block. all-Wool High-grade Suitings at 42c. Kine quality Fast Black Sateen at 6Uc. We will offer with this lot 100 pieces Black all-Wool Suitings, In Whip Cord. Biarritz Cloth. Diagonal Storm Serges and Sbastopol Goods, worth up to $1 yard, at S9o. 54-inch Black all-Wool Heavy Wale Suitings, worth $L25, at 4So.

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Girls' Coats and .'Dresses Girls' Coats - Dresses Pleasing styles, especiallyvadapted to the age of the wearer, just as correct as our grown folk's clothing. . Our buyer is now in the East, and is sending us daily new lines of every conceivable style. Come and see us, and examine what we ; believe to be the finest that crin be produced. , -

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IN OLD SAN ANTONIO

TEXAS TOW WHICH AMERICAN VALOR HAS 31 ADC FAMOUS. V L Delightful Re ao rt for Iuvnlld In dian In nil Who Have Grown Rich In the Shadow of the Alamo. This town Is probably the most cosmopolitan spot on the face. of the earth and partakes more of an old world city than any other In the Union. It is situated one hun-' dred miles from the Gulf of Mexico an! well on to the Mexican line.. On -ntering the city one is at once struck with Its foreign anl ancient, appearance, . "with its main streets, that were once cow paths which the cattle followed 'in going to the river for water, and other streets formed from the burro train goln$ Into Mexico. This river Is named after 6t. Antonio de Bexas and is : a clean stream of water supplied by springs a few miles above the city. The water is clear as crystal. . Thirty-live miles of this river Is within the city limits t.nd the stream , Is spanned by twenty-nine bridges. A great many stores and private houses are located on the river bank. In addition to its other attractions it is the most historic spot in America. It was here that many bloody battles were fought for Texas independence. The town was settled as far back as 1600 by Spanish Catholics, and a long chain of missions were built, the first one being erected In the town and the dntlre chain reaching to San Francisco, the buildings being from, four to forty miles apart. The four missions In this Immediate vicinity were, in early times, rsed as fortresses, the first in the chain being the Alamo; where David Crockett so heroically lost his life. Santa Anna . stood on the lookout of San Fernande Church and. ordered Crockett, Bowie (of bowie knife fame), and others to surrender the force under their command, which was fighting for the independence . of ' Texas. One' hundred and seventy-nine men with sublime recklessness refused to surrender and all were shot or bayoneted; not one being wa9 left to tell their fate. They. killed several hundred of the Mexican force and after the battle the Spanish took the American -dead and piled them on what is now called the Alamo plaza first a row of fence rails and brush then corpses laid In rows; again rails and brush, with men's heads in op posite directions, and all burned, the fire lasting for three weeks. I have learned that this was a common mode of disposing. of the dead. SAN ANTONIO'S MISSIONS. The four missions were designed by a famous Spanish architect of the seventeenth century. A great deal of fine stone carving still remains and some of the frescoing is still In a good state of preservation. Each of these missions had a convent attached and were used as fortresses against the depredations of the hostile-Indians. Each mission was well fortified, wells furnished water, there were great irrigating ditches and granaries attached and each was well able to stand long sieges. The Mexican race are numerous and with their half-clvillzed -methods are a peculiar people. Their Indian origin is mucn more marked than the Spanish. Some make very good citizens, but the greater part are averse to work. Saturday 19 beggars day, When they are free to beg where they will, this privilege being granted"" by the city government. In religion, they are Catholics and it is a frequent sight to see a Mexican going, to early mass with a fighting cock under his arn After he 'has said his pray ers he goes outj wjth a friend to a quiet placed and gambles on his - bird's fighting qualities. At" night the town Is cay with many colored lights and long tables "tere set with gaily, colored glare; there the natives take their meals. The stands are in operation all night and are patronized byall classes bf people; but, to the average Northerner, thrre is too much red peper and a suspicion of djrt in the food offered. Some of -these natives live in "holes dug, in the sides of hills; other abodes are made of eld fruit cans and pieces of tin stuck together with mud, with an earthen floor. The Mexican happy. He sticks close to the customs of his ancestors and can never better his condition, and In hi9 habits he is more Indian fhan Spanish. Here is an incideijt that illustrates their mode of life. jA man employed a fairly intelligent man J' of his class and, thinking to better his condition, gave him lumber and built him a shanty'with a rough board floor; he added a cook stove, and, the Mexican promised to make use of his new abode. Some days later, going to see how he enjoyed his new surroundings, his employer found the cook stove thrown out. doors and standing on end in the mud; the floor of the hut had" also been thrown out. The senor was cooking' in a blinding smoke, with an old Iron pot hanging on two sticks, while Don Pruden-", clo de Oibie Bastera, the relic of a once noble house,. looked on. Among the convent-educated class the women are very proficient ,In needlework', and their drawn work is beautifully done on the finest of sheer linen, and fine as a cobweb. Their paintings on Mexican onyx, done in water colors, are exquisite. In the more modern part of the city the buildings compare favorably with any city in the Union, but there is great deficiency In hotel accommodations, during the season there are 45,000 visitors, a large portion being invalids of , consumption. Here are seen invalids from every nation, on earth, who find, in San Antonio a peculiar atmosphere, the city being much higher than' the sea,, with very little rain and delightful gulf breezes. The city Is filled with -Northern people who have come for health, and have found the climate so beneficial they have never, cared'-to return. If consumptives came to. this climate before the disease was advanced too far they can be entirely returned to health, and' It is not an unusal sight to see people going about with only one lung and in numerous cases given up to die. It Is to Northern push that the city owes Its advancement and prosperity. . - INDIANA PEOPLE.. . Indiana is . well to the fore who have come here and made immense v fortunes. Mr. E. 11. Terrell, a lawyer and minister to Belgium under the Harrison administration, and Colonel Breckinridge, of Warrick county, Indiana, are among the richest men in Texas; also, ex-Adjutant-gen-eral George W. RussV who is a several times millionaire. He is sole owner of the Gulf railroad and electrlo car line running to the West Kni; also, three ranches and city property by the squares. At the West End he has created an- artificial lake of nearly one hundred acres, fed by artesian wells throwing up water Irora twenty toy one . , nunarea ieet. uunng ine seacol i this lake Is , coverei with ducks, . and the shooting Is enjoyed by himself and friends. The picturesque cowboy is but little seen,' giving way to a more modern civilization; and where once great htris of cattle roamed to-da- are seen thousands upon thousands of acres of cottonr looking like one immense flower garden with its vivid green and danty flowers of pink, changing to lavenier, and then to .white. Great Selds of corn, ripened and ready to harvest, are le!t standing In frost or "ow tiers T7T 3 T1,

usni iau or snow, which lasted a few hours. The entire population turned out and had a i snow-balling, and everything t I t. A. .49 was utilized for sleighs, one man having his horse hitched to a rocking chair. Still further north in the Indian Territory-Is paradise, and if the location of the Gar den of Eden has been loat It could be re in vae maian i.erruory. or a greener or more verdant and beautiful country cannot bo found. With its thousands and thousands of cattle it presents a most beautiful pastoral scene One blot the government should rectify. All through the country are seen moving wagons with father, mother and starved sons and daughters seeking land upon which they can find a home, while the lazy InJian, often, owning as many as a thousari acres, will not cultivate It. This land should be opened to the deserving homeseeker of our 'own race. B. San Antonio, Tex. AMERICAN TEA. It Flourishes In South Cnrollna and Is Growing, in Favor. Georgo E.' Walsh, in New York Independent. ' The trouble; between China and Japan over the island of Formosa has had the effect of Interfering very much with the tea-growing industry Of that island, and a graauai increase in the value of this product from now on Is anticipated by the traded The tea crop in China and Japan has also been seriously interfered with by . the war, and the crop will be smaller than usual. Formosa teas are expected to advance In prices from 20 to 30 per cent., while other grades will feel the effect of this rise and be advanced by it. But while his may make the tea-drinking public anxious about the cost of their favorite beverage, it will givo a decided Impetus to tea-growing in this part of the country. . .-. Comparatively few people realize that good tea has been raised, cured and successfully sold In this country, and that ever since 1S32 a regular crop has been harvested In . South Carolina. Tea seems so closely Identified with the Eastern countries that many cannot think of it as being cultivated except in an amateurish way elsewhere. ; But In about 150 pounds of good tea were raised at the Pinehurst farm a short distance from Summervllle, and most of it sold in the market at $1 a pound. Since then the crop ha been -steadily Increasing, and this coming season's product will probably aggregate over three hundred pounds a small quantity compared' with the consumptive demand, but large enough for the beginning of a new industry. - ixkng oerore any trouble between China and Japan was anticipated tea gardens were being experimented with in South Carolina; and under the indefatigable efforts of Dr. Charles U. Shepard, the owner of Pinehurst, the gardens have gradually been brought to a state of culture that makes them successful rivals of the best Formosa or China tea gardens. Belore the war an experiment was made with tea plants in South Carolina, and young plants were brought over from China and Ceylon. Before a lair test could bo made of them the rebellion broke out and the plants weto neglected. Since then these semi-wild plants have been suffered to take care of themselves, and many of them are veritable trees now. A few of the nativesset tiers gathered the leaves every year and made their own tea out of them; but tt never seemed to occur to any of them that the tea plants were of any special commensal value. It was not until Dr. Shepard took hold of the old gardens and tried to cultivate then! that tne teagrowing Industry' received any value. He was familiar with the industry abroad. He besides giving the plants the proper culture, he Introduced new plants and varieties from the East. Lnder his careful manipulation the young Plnehurst , gardens have yielded crops equal in quantity and quality;-to the , best Indian gardens of the same age. The yield or tea in this rogion ranges between 'S0 and 300 fxwnds to every l.tW plants. Only the young .kaves aro picked and these yield the finest grades or tea. rono or the tea so far picked here has sold for less than 75 cents per pound and most of it brings $1 and upward. Dr. Shepard dot's not consider ii proniauie io rn me nrferior grades in competition with Asiatic chop labor. The cost" of picking and curing the , leaves at" present rates in this .country 'would not make it possible ta market, the tea for less than cents a pound, and even at this price the margin of profits Until this year only the Assam hybrid leaf has been picked at the Pinehurst gar dens; but this season a rajr crop w:u ce gathered from Chinese and Japanese plants which were brought over here for exwri mentation. Both the green and Oolong teas that have been raised in China for an indefinite period will be cured for market. If these plants prove as well adapted to the climate and soil arouni Charleston as the Assam hybrid plants the great American green tea drinkers may be supplied abfchitely puie American tea to their liking.. The Assam variety of tea is the hardiest grown, and the true Assam is such a vigorous grower that it will produce leaves seven or eight Inches long and three brbad.' But nearly all the plants here are a cross between this plant and other varieties. The true Asam is now raised only in a small part of British India, but intermediate between the Assam and China plants are many varieties that have been called Assam hybrids. They exhibit many modifications between the parent plants and can be adapted to many soils and climates that would kill either of the original stocks. Hybridization has thus made tea raising possible in the C7ciioli n 2. s But the new tea gardens of China, India and Ceylon plants, that were set out at Pinehurst a fenv years, ago, are about to yield crops, which prove that even these tenderer varieties can be cultivated successfully in America. The coat of a packago of seeds of these trees delivered in this country is about . but many of those sent ,here are of little real varse. They refuse to germinate and the cost is thus Increased. The future gardens here, however, will be planted with cuttings rather than withr seeds, and this will be much quicker and a more satisfactory way of getting the plans into bearing condil?rom present Indications Dr. Shepard considers the outlook for tea growing In the South as very promising and he thinks that in time tea estates oX a few hundred acres will be scattered throupii the United- States. There will probably -be more profit in these than in either cotton pr vegetables. At present the chief difficulty is the trouble in securing the properly skilled labor. The work, of picking and curing the tea involves a irreat amount of slow labor, and this must be cheap, skilled and Intelligent. The cheap tea pickers and curers in the Eastern countries form very important factors In tho development of the industry in this country. Considerable outlay of money is required to start the tea gardens, for it takes several years for the plants to get in good picking order. The tiiue require! from seed is from five to six years, and a little lea when' planted from cuttings. The leaf cicking can bo done by women and children, and a 'few estates In the South' would give employment "uiwicus of farmers children. The old government tea gardens, that have been neglected so long, have come into the possession of the owner of pinehurst, who has the privilege of removing the old plants and taking cuttings from them. These plants are now being Improved In every possible way by exirt cultivation. By manuring them they grow vigorously, and produce much better tea leaves than tho&e gathered when they were left to care for themselves. Cuttings from these young trees alo produce good new gardens of considerable value. At various .times In the past attempts have been maJo to cultivate tea in the South, but the efforts were all ppasrendle and not attended with v'ery? good results. Near Old' Point Comfort a few tea plants were started, but the cold was too severe for them, and they have been injured beyond hopo of recovery: Professor Massey, of tb.9 experimental station, has several times advocated the culture-cf tea plants in the South, and the instructions for haniling them have been given out throujrli the bulletins to farmers. In the new farming of the South tea culture '.will, in time, undoubtedly aume an important place,' ajthouah at present it. Is confined to a few experts and pioneers in the Industry. ' Spontaneous Combustion To.k Recorder. 'Well, my daughter, what, is there about this ycuns Boriij to fire your heart?" "I-dcn't imow. papa;- perhaps the fact thV fc I tzzT-tj to fcura iruiy have Lln-

VIRGINIA B003I TOWNS

AFTnitSIATJI OF OVKItSFnCTLATIOX ix a soLTiinuv M:iGiinonnoon. The Work of the Professional Iloomer Exemplified In the? ioathrrn End of the Sliennndoth Valley At tho southern extremity of the Fhenandoah Valley branch of the Norfolk A. Western railroad may bo seen, the more or less melancholy effects of a great boom a, boom characterized by tho usual amoar.t of insanity. The symptoms are largo hotels, which looked as 4f they might have strayed away from Chicago lake front anl founi themselves guestless and forlorn (a a Virginia field; business houses four, five. e!ght stories high la the ssame sad plight, with tho same distinct air of belonging elsewhere; most of them wholly or pertlr. unoccupied; sliewalks In the ernbryordo etae of development, pavementa ca,ttere3 here and thero in a fitful way, alternating with little paths through the grass; groups of apartment houses with strangely urta.a airs; rows of small cottages exactly alike, built for tho laborers who were going, to work In "the big factories which never came or came but for a day which wcro going to be operatel by capital whica never matcrialized-or was quickly withdrawn. A boom town whose aspirations have Teea checked Is an anomaly, something r.elJicr city, nor country, nor village, nor lik anything known to tho genius of man, but if tho sympfoms mentioned or prcpeat and the air a solemn rtillness holds you may safely diagnose the case of a Loom town. The unsuspecting traveler, though, could only look through tho car window and wonder in the name of common sen?. what ever struck such a locality. From 1SS7 td'lS?i thero was much talk about the New South, Its new-formed emancipation' its awakening, its vast undeveloped resources. Its .commercial and industrial future. All this agitation was "of -great and permanent benefit to th country but one of Its attendant evils was the tendency to land speculation which it aroused. There dawned a day of great expectations for little towns. With the assistance of the profqssional boomer many a villago became infused with tha idea that it could build a seventy-flve-thouand-dollar boulevard about itself and come fine day awake a metropolis. Some capital was really invested, some manufacturing interests started, and the movement, onco begun, swept certain localities like fire. THE ROANOKE BUBBLE. About 1S91 the car shops, of the Norfolk &)Vestcrn railroad were located at Roanoke, Va. This iniustry gave employment to several hundred men. Other Northern capital was invested in several smaller enterprises. Result: A tremenJous boom, in which ,the towns in a radius of twentyfive miles joined. I havo before me a map of Roanoke, no the real Roanoke, but Roanoke" glorified and sublimated. On, this map are all kinds of "bulMing sites," "manufacturing sites," "proposed" boulevards, terraces and circles, "proposed" hotel sites, a "proposed" hospital, and land companies Innumerable, with the prettiest names. Avenues! Their name is legion; they were named after the States of the Union, the great men of tho Old Dominion, and aher. these had given out they fell back on the old English county names of Virginia. Whole farms were laid out in this way, and the city on the map looked as if it would eoon Just cover tha earth. That's the fort of thing men do when they are booming a town. In spit of all this, however, Roanoke has "lived." The little city is now on a somewhat solid footing, and, having put away the madness of town lots and unreal values and come down to making pig iron and building freight cars, bid fair to become prosperous and permanently growthful. It has some fine natural advantages, aijong which is a Fplendid water supply. A great, renerous PDring gTJ?hes out at the foot 0f a mountain spur just without the city limits, throwing up hundreds of gallons cf the purtst water every minute. Engine pump It up to a reservoir above, an tho place has a water supply that is perpetual anl inexhaustible. Aside from the car Rhcps of the Norfolk & Western company the most important industry Is the manufacture of pig Iron, carried on by the Crozier furnaces. The oro Is found in th mountains close by In great quantities. Two very fine hotels aro tho pride of Roanoke the Ponce do Leon and Hottl Roanoke. They are well equipped and have every modern appointment. They were built, of course. In boom times, but their patronage is still sufficient to warrant their operation. A fine rolling mill was also built In those palmy diys of talk, but never operated, but they tell me that the wheels are expected to go round very soon, now that the hard time hav relaxed a little. Business men rather enjoy talking about the boom. Those days of feverish excitement, paper towns, big deals anl beautiful bubbles are recalled like the past battles of old soldiers. Their conversation Is spiced with the slang . peculiar to booms. Every day the papers have not less than, a full page of advertised auction sales of lands and town lots. Tho notices are. full of references to the "aforesaid mortgage' and other legal terms, which doubtless strike terror to the heart of some one who, as they say. was left "in the suds, HOW RESIDENTS SE2 IT. "Yes," caid a man who male, some deals in those days, "the population, of this town is about 14.000 ergaged principally now la fighting negotiable notes. I'll tell you what's been the curse of this place building and loan associations. Thero are at present not less than six or seven million, dollars worth of mortgages held on property here by those affairs Rut Jhn no newfpaper would publish that, for they believe in 'em." All of which Is on way of looking at it. -fAnother man said: "I'll tell you, the worst thing for this town were thoM professional boomers. They came from noboiy knows where, put up at the best hotels fine teams, diamonds and' all that and tounht and sold lots without any money and talked." There are two lots in Roanoke which In thoFe days were sold one day forand the next for T,000. Now yoa ooull havo them, and have them quick, for i,000. "Who wero the principal investors la this n-al estateT was asked. "People from all over the United States. If they could not com themselves they sent funds to some agent, expecting to reap great profits." Considerable Philadelphia capital was put in, and when it was withdrawn ths bottom first began to show signj of falling out. The little town of Salem, seven tj-M south of Roanoke, is a fearful example to any who would fain put their trust in boomers. The indispensable hotel Is t?;pre a fine brick structure, which could. I believe, easily acommodato the ii;iro population of th xace. et down in o ftell which hid lines plowed throu'i St at regular intervals to Indicate, lots, it 1. 1 an air cf apolcy'for its existence crc.r- ; cu:h i:r'rc;-'-j cr.t'.V.z? Ca :