Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1895 — Page 7

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. TLESDAT, FEBRUARY lit, 1895.

A BO! COIMITS SUICIDE

WM. MILl.KIt. THIRTKKN YEARS OIUU, TAKE* ARSHAK.

K«>i«hlM>rtt Say He \%«a |>eat>ondent »y Nature — Failed In a Selioel Rxawlnatluu — What He Said Before He Uled.

WHlam Miller, a »chool-boy, thirteen year* old. who had been living with hi* etep-parenta, at 103* North Meridian •treet, took arsenic hut night, and died at 6 o’clock this morning. Mrs. r»aggy is the boy’* step-mother. Before she married Mr Daggy. she was the wife of George Miller, a widower, with two aons. He died shortly after marriage, and his last request before he died was to his wife that she take care of his two sons and rear them as her own. The promise was made. Afterward Mrs. Miller became the wife of George H. Daggy. chief clerk of the gen* eral freight department of the I., D. & W. railroad. She has kept both of the boys with her. The elder, Walter. Is now sixteen years old, and the younger, William,

nearly thirteen.

William Miller was, so the neighbors say, a despondent boy, and he frequently talked about killing himself. Just before the holidays he went up for school examination, and failing to pass, threatened to kill himself. Mrs. Daggy's father-in-law. whe lives with them, says, that he has been despondent ever since he missed his examination, and he thinks that this was the cause of the act. What the Hoy Snltl. The boy himself, before he died, *aid that he had killed himself because his mother had punished him. Mrs. Daggy was prostrated by the shock of the hoy’s death, and refused to see anyone. Mr. Daggy, her father-in-law. said that she had corrected the boy yesterday evening, hut he did not know In what wav. William came home yesterday evening

after

o’clock.

In honor of -Isaac P. Gray. Bara of black I will be draped from column to column. ^ , A upectal meeting of the Hendricks ' Club was called for to-night to perfect

arrangements for act' tmm

body

from the

WAYLAYING' STREET-CARS,

was called ror to-night to perfect genients for acting a* escort to the I of ex-Governor Gray on its way

the Union station.

HK HI \GEHKI» FOR KINDXBSS.

PARTY OF MEN SEEKING Tit M E OF OR WE ROBBERS.

*t«ry of « K hokum C'ltg |»«n Which j Sought Only Humihu Sympathy. j Conductor

Ktowu. City War. |

It was only a dog -a mongrel cur, ! homely and ungraceful in every line-u i dog which had never had a house to sleep ' In and which had had to rustle for its < sustenance from early puppy hood-hut if ever there was a dog whose Inclinations ' were sociable he was that animal. He first made himself noticed by the shoppers on Walnut street early one morning and for several months he was as faithful a frequenter of that street as the most persistent of feminine shoppers. When he was first in evidence he caused considerable annoyance to the passerby and received far more kicks than pats—more sharp words than expressions of kindliness. But he did not howl at the kicks nor yelp at the cuss words. He hungered for human .sympathy and he was determined to sacrifice every doggish principle and precedent to achieve his desires. He would look up into the faces of the ones who kicked at or reviled him with an expression which resembled as near as anything about a dog could resemble humanity, that of a sensitive child whose feelings had been deeply hurt. In fact, more than one of the passersby whose sympathy had been aroused declared that the poor brute actually she-A tears over the

II ii mien in g'« Story of nnd w Trank—illn Car Moppcil ll> u WiiKon Bond

of Wen.

There were exciting times on the South Meridian street car line last night. According to the stories of several street car conductors, every car on the line, and there were nine, was stopped by a party of men in a wagon, who were seeking revenge on one of the conductors. Benjamin Falender's grave at the Hebrew cemetery was robbed on Friday night. It is supposed that one of the street car conductors was suspected of helping in getting the body away from the cemetery and that the revenging party was out

after him last night.

Henry Harmening, conductor of car 536, was apparently the man sought. He says that on Friday night at about 8:10 o'clock, when he was making the return trip from the south end of the line, which which passes near the Hebrew cemetery two men with- a trunk got on his car

at Koerner’s saloon, about three squares hardness ~of his fate' or tbe'unkindiiess of south of the Belt road. At South street humanity. i the men got off. One of them lifted the For a Word of Klndneaa. ' trunk from the car and then both took Day after day, rain or shine, the dog j ho,d of £ and talked toward Capitol walked up and down the street, mutely ’ av ^ nue - Harmening says that he knows asking each passerby for a word of kind- ' ? I 0tl !L n * L ° f rnen ?urthf ‘ r than thls - ness or a pat of friendliness. As he be- " e , l ^ k , s t ) ha th * y arp supposed to have came more familiar to the people, many | , V od i’ tl ’ e trunk anc l that he is stopped for a second to give a pat and a I t.Hh ml ^ an understandln *

•‘poor oil doggie" to him. The slightest!

touch, the smallest word of kindness j f ‘«rmeninK M a* \\ urned. seemed to strike a chord away down in Harmening says that he was warned hi* heart. He would not utter a sound, j ~ sl ^Uht that a mob was out after him. but his tall would wag gratefully and If I * ar * so ' ^ one preeding his, with W. ever an eye could express feelings of joy. ' r-nsley as conductor, had been boarded that dog’s did. It would positively almost several men, near the south end of tha beam. Indies were the especial subjects “ ne - a m en, after using threatening of his solicitation.- He would go timidly | language, left the car when they found

toward them, place himself so that tlBy j could not fall to notice http, and If they

the house with hia brother Walter.! He said then that he was going to kill himself. His brother did not believe he was in earnest, and laughed at him. The two boys walked down to the canal, and William said that he believed that he 1 •would lump In and end it all. His brother dissuaded him, and shortly afterward left

him.

William went to the house of Mrs. Woodbrldge, 1134 North Meridian street. At the back gate he saw Arthur Woodbridge age thirteen. He asked Arthur if he might sleep in the barn. Woodbrklge said he might, and told him to wait a minute, and he would see if his mother would not let him sleep In the house. Mrs. W’oodbrldge told him to corne, and she ave him some supper. It was then about o’clock. Young Miller tried to eat. but every few minutes he had to leave the table to vomit. He told Arthur Woodbridge that he had taken poison, but the boy did not believe him. After supper he helped Woodbrldge to got Ids lessons, and then he went op-stairs and into bed with Arthur. He began to vomit bo frequently and was In such pain that Woodbridge got frightened and called his mother. Mrs. woodbrldge found Miller lying on the bed, moaning in pain and

tossing from side to aide. Had Taken Armenlc.

Her son told her that Miller had threatened to kill himself. Leaning over the bed, Mrs. Woodbrldge said, ••William, have you taken anything, carbolic acid,

morphine, or what?”

Half raising on the bed, the dying boy gasped out; "arsenic,” and fell back

again.

Drs. De Hass and Wilson were called They applied various remedies and used the stomach pump on the boy, but could not rally him. At 12 o'clock they carried him on a cot to the home of Mrs. Daggy. Here he lingered In agony until 6 o’clock

this morning, when he died.

In hi* pocket Was found a package of arsenic with his name and that of his mother written across It. Before he died he said that he had taken a teaspoonful. He got the arsenic from the house, where It had been used by Mr. Daggy to poison

cats.

Mr, Unatgy’s Statement.

William Daggy said: “Mrs. Daggy is too 111 to see any one. The boy was really no kin to her. but she reared him as If he wag her own. I was not at home last night when Will came home. 1 under■teuad that his mother corrected him for something. I know he left the house and we knew nothing more of him until Mrs. Woodbrldge came over and told us that he .was 111 at her house. The arsenic that he got 1 had In the house, latst summer a lot of cat? got to stealing our chickens and I bought It to poison them with. There was some left, and I thought we might need it again. William was always a despondent boy, and often talked about killing himself. He seemed to break down entirely after he missed his last examination and I think It was this that caused

him to take his own llXe.”

Mrs. Woodbrldge said: "The boy was very far advanced In his studies, and was away beyond my boy, who is fifteen years old. When he told me that he had taken

would vouchsafe a word or a pat, he would

go Into silent ecstasy.

And yet, though he sought for human sympathy with all the ardor of his nature,, the poor beast never so much us made a motion as though he would follow one of

that Ensley was not the man they sought. They declared that they would stop every car till they found their man. Ensley warned Harmening and lent him a re-

volver.

Harmening says that when his car reached the south end of the line, at about 9:20 o’clock, he saw a wagon full

SnSkSS i “f T « <*• w apparently waf,,„ g for which he seemed to hunger, he would j htra to slow up at that point. It was a

trot off in search of another friend. No one ever saw the animal with a bone, no one of all those Who had noticed him ever knew of his having been seen eating—his appearance showed that he was not well fed—and yet he never Indicated in any way that he desired anything but human sym-

pathy.

One day the dog was misled by those

one-horse, open spring wagon, such as rag-buyers use. The car. instead of slowing, went rapidly around the loop, and the men In the wagon whipped up their horse and dashed after it. They drove after the car eight or ten squares, and it finally came to a stop at a turn at Adler street, where a switch had fo be thrown.

who had grown to notice him. The next j Harmening says that three men got on

day and the next he was absent. Nothing more was, In fact, ever seen of him. Sevi eral friends who had commented on the animal’s apearance and laughed over his longing for kindness, wondered what had become of him, but no one knew and no one knows to this day. If this were a nation which believed in the transmigration of souls or if that dog were In India Instead of Kansas City, people would have said that the spirit of some downtrodden human being of deep tenderness possessed the dog and that. Us desires satisfied, the spirit had departed. Who knows? Louisiana’* Hospital For Lepers.

New York Post.

Indian Camp, where the Louisiana hospital for lepers has been established, la on the Mississippi river, ami in the parish The main building is a fine

his car at the rear end; that one stood on the ground, and that a fifth man stood holding the horse, with the wagon drawn across the track in front of the car. Harmening says that he drew the revolver lent him by Ensley and shouted: “Get off this car, of I’ll let diaylight

through you.”

He rang the bell for the car to go ahead. The motorman, Otto Cooper, told the man at the wagon to get off the track or he would run him down, and the car was started. Two of the men on the rear platform got off at once and the third tumbled off while the car was going at about eight miles an hour, and sprawled on the ground. On his next trip south John Collins and Mot Bonner, road officers, accompanied Harmening. Harmening says that two of the former attacking party got on his car at McCarty street. Seeing ueveral

the four join hands all round, as if preparing to sing “Auld Lang Syne.” On several occasions, when the question was asked of the bridegroom whether he took this woman for his wife, no reply was returned. He then repeated the ques-

■ oia. vYiieii m* iuiu me inai cie nan iaH.cn tion more pointedly, which always [ amenio I.snatched my thing* and ran over brought out the lardy but cool response,

Ir K 1 to Mrs. Daggy’s. 1 said to her, ‘You’d “Oh, ay!” ‘ A common practice, after the knot is

tied, is for the minister to shake hands with the young couple and say. "I wish you much joy.” A bridegroom briskly replied. “The same to you. The minister on one occasion remarked to a middle-aged bride that this was the last time she should sign her maiden name. She coolly replied, ‘T’ve signed it

lang eneuch, I think!”

Gardens and woods extend on all sides of , npr . fi Balnnn Hnrmenine- aavs that he

it, and the scenery is Arcadian. With eight cottages included, there are accommodations for one hundred lepers, but the present colony is much smaller, victims of the disease showing but little disposition to put themselves under the care of the State. The health officers have always found the task of Isolating lepers a difficult one. The last time an attempt was made to inspect a setlement on Bayou Lafouche the lepers fled to the swamps, and there was no reaching them. The announcement of the authorities that the State hospital is now open has filled the unfortunate victims everywhere with dread, and it will be necessary to take many of them to Iberville by force. The Inhabitants of this parish are also making the duty of the hospital staff unpleasant, refusing to supply the patients with food, which, In consequence, is brought direct from New Orleans. Moreover, the servants of the institution have been warned that they w 111 be shot should they venture outside the hospital grounds. It i Is the intention of the authorities to make the colony so attractive that in the end all the lepers of the State will come in and

put themselves under treatment.

Marriage Itt^Seoilnntl.

VVeBlmlnster Gazette.

A Scotch minister has been telling some of his experiences in marrying people, which are rather funny. Sometimes when he has asked a couple to join hands,

better come over to our house at once. WTll’a taken poison, and I’m afraid he won’t last long.’ Mr*. Daggy said, ‘0|t, I gue»B it's not as bad as that.’ She came over, however, and we got some doctors, but they couldn’t do anything for him, and at 12 o'clock they took him over to

Mrs. Daggy’s house.”

Whnt Yoang Woodbrldge Said. Arthur Woodbrldge said: “He told me that his mother had whipped him for being bad at school. Before mother told him he might stay she told him that he had better go home and apologize to his mother, and see if she wouldn’t take him back. I walked toward the house with him, and he said that he would go In and see his mother. He went to the back way and soon came out.

■^\Then he came Over here, and all the time*

he was getting sicker.”

Mr. Daggy says-that he heard seme one shut the back gate, but that the boy did • not come into the house to see Mrs.Daggy. Coroner Castor was called to the house early this mprntng, and viewed the laxly. Miller was a nice-looking boy, with a face indicating much intelligence. The coroner took the package of arsenic found In the boy's pocket, and will make an Investi-

gation of the case. Two Small Fire*.

A fire at 176 North Mississippi street, at 8 o'clock this morning, did ,125 damage to a vacant bouse owned by,John McGraw. The fire Is guppoeed to have been incen-

diary.

At 2 o’clock this afternoon a one-story frame dwelling, at 301 Indiana avenue, was damaged to the extent of |150 by a Hie. caused by a defective flue. Thomas (King Is the owner and occupant, Stvclal Reform. Thursday night Charles Zeublin, of the University of Chicago, will deliver the second lecture in a series on ”A Century of Social Reform,” In the hall of the new Manual TYainfng School. At 4 o’clock in ^ke-afternoon of the same day he will continue his talks on ‘•Social Reforms in Fiction.” This will be at Plymouth church. * ; HerlMMrt Hale's Challenge. Herbert Hale has Issued a challenge to any welterweight wrestler to meet him in either oatch-as-catch can or mixed styles, for a purse or aide bet from K>u up. The challenge is especially Intended for ^ Bert Walker, of Cincinnati. Hale will wrestle Eddie Ross, of Marlon, Ind., February % before the Marion Athletic Club The Marble Dealers’ Meeting. The Marble and Granite Dealers’ Amoclatioci of Indiana ha* oloeed a meeting at the Grand Hotel. Thirty-five Arm* attend'd. The object wa« co-operation In securing a better • clam of work, more .permanent foundations and exclusion of shoddy workmanship in monument bunding. GaUs Gotti, of this city, was elect oil president. ^ "The Fire Chief III. - Fire Chief Webster is sick and the •sistant. Mr. Barrett. Is In charge of the fire department. Mr. Webster’s illness elates back to the exposure at recent hard fires. ) Draping the State Haase. Decorators began the Work of draping the interior of the State fc»-aay

ner’s saloon. Harmening says that he know-s only one of the men, named Schuler, who was the man the party used to Identify him. On this trip the car left the south end of the line at 10:13. Harmening did not make the usual last trip, which would have.taken him to the south

end of the line at 12:02.

Other Men’* Experience*.

While Harmening was telling his story at the crossing of Illinois and Washington streets to-day, several other men of the South Meridian street line came up and told how their cars had also been

stopped.

David Watts, motorman on car No. 196, said that at about 10 o’clock, w’hlle the car was going south, four men boarded it at Adler street and were driven off. He also saw five men In a wagon, as described by Hermenlng, at the loop at the end of the line. He thought that the men were evidently stationed at points where the car was expected to slow up. 8. West, conductor of No. 535, said that at about 10:30 o’clock, while the car was coming north, five men in a vwigon attempted to stop the car at Clay sfleet by driving across the track.

BEAU HICK MAIL

Fulled To Find a WIitMky Still.

Special to The Indianapolis News.

Carbon. Ind.’, February 19.—Officers of the Government, headed by Special Agent Woods and Marshal Hawkins, searched the farm and house of Alex Tuttle, seven miles north of here, to-day, in search of an illicit whisky still. Not an atom of evidence was found, although the locality has been flooded with ’‘white-light-

ning” whisky for some time. Hurtful to the Retail Trade.

Valparaiso, Ind., February 19.—The mayor has issued an order requiring sa-loon-keepers to remove screens so as to give a clear view from the street of the bar and Hs operations. Five of the sa-loon-keepers yesterday gave notice that If the Nicholson bill became a law they would stop retailing and engage In the

wholesale trade. _

A State Blue Rock Tournament. There will be a blue rock tournament, open to all shooters in the State, at the North End Gun Park, Friday afternoon. Fiah Com in I** loner Appointed. Philip H. Kirsch was appointed fish ccramissioner by Governor Matthews today.

CITY PARAGRAPH#

JS the statement that ion church la in need

J. II. Hardin author! Lovely Lane A. M. E.

of help.

Councilman Ryan is ill at his home with fever, the result ot exposure at the Denison House fit*. Some alarm is expressed at his

condition.

The Governor. Scretary of Slate. Auditor of State and Treasurer of State did not meet today to consider the resignations of Monument Commissioners. Secretary Owen was out of

the oils'.

A fire in tike basement created some excitement at the State House at noon to-day. It filled the south corridors with smoke. The fire originated in some waste. It was easily extinguished.

Overatudy Unbalanced Hi* Mind and Hi* Eccentricity Turned To Dress.

Washington Cor. New York Sun.

The most picturesque and remarkable of the great army of eccentric men in Washington since the days of Beau Hickman died Tuesday night. He was the oddtest of all the street characters of the capital city, and every citizen and public official, and thousands of strangers, will miss his grotesque face and figure herej after when they promenade Pennsylvania once i avenue. Francis Key Dunlop was a memslr.” i ber of an aristocratic and once wealthy Georgetown family. He was reared In refinement, graduated at Princeton, and demoted himself to literary pursuits and the study of the law. He was regarded as a ■man of much promise, and was very popular in his early manhood. Overstudy or some similar cause unbalanced his mind, and since then he has been for many years an object of amusement* to the street crowds and of pity to his relatives and friends. Mr. Dunlop’s eccentricity after his affliction took the form of extravagance In dress and personal appearance, and he arrayed himself so fantastically for a street promenade that he invariably created a sensation, and even the habitues of the streets and public places who had seen him daily for many years could never forego the temptation to take another look at him. They did so furtively, however, for whenever he felt himself the target of a pair of eyes he would suddenly turn and scowl at their owner as If he were about to chastise him. He was harmless, however, and never so far as known injured a hair of

any man’s head.

Hln Remarkable Coatnme*. Mr. Dunlop's costume in summer consisted of skin-tight trousers, with big bell-shaped flaps at the feet, and with the cloth cut entirely away from the back of the foot in order to display shoes with inordinately high heels almost pointed at the bottom. The coat, which was Invariably a sack, was very loose, and with boards in the shoulders, upon each of which a basket of marketing could be carried. A low-cut vest, showing a ruffled shirt front, with cuffs to the linger tips, ample flaring cravat of a bright red or blue, a Byronlc collar large enough for Grover Cleveland, and the queerest little straw hat, with vari-eolored band and many sizes too small for the wearer, perched upon the side of the big head, completed his toilet. In winter an under-sized Derby took the

At an entertainment to be given to-morro

by Phil Sher

evenli

don Post, W. R. C.,

Plymouth church

pic

lvw •ri-

pieturv of Admiral

Karmgut, •landing in the rigging of his ship, painted by Mis» Janu*ehek Wirt, of this city, will be exhibited. Tills picture was exhibited at Pittsburg during the Naval Vet-

erans’ reunion last year.

The nale of seats for the Maenw-rehor Carnival to be held in Tiunliiifion Hall u week from to-day began this morning at in o’clock. The tickets are for sate only by Paul IL Krause. 44 and 46 East Washington nUwt, and no tickets are sold to any person who la unable to show an Invitation. The demand for tickets was greater than was expected and it tj calculated that out of Uie invitations Iswed only about ® per cent, will decline to‘ come. Preparation* for the carnival, are being made and the coming of a cootuuier with new design* in carnival costumes is looked forward to. . ' Use of Dr. Price’s Baking Powder than of any other, because It’s absolutely

tturs.

place of the straw one, and an overcoat with broad collar and cuff hid all the costume except the shoes and hat from

public view.

The most striking feature of Mr. Dunlop’s appearance, however, was the arrangement of his hair. It was made jet black with dye. was closely cropped and V rushed forward over the ears, where it almost brushed against the bushy black eyebrows, as fiercely dyed as the hair. To accentuate the blackness of his hair. Mr. Dunlop always kept his neck painted black, producing the effect of a continuous growth of hair. He had a ruddy complexion, and a little, scrubby, black mustache, and wore glasses that were constantly dropping from hi* nose, to his

apparent great annoyance.

Thl* human oddity seemed to derive great: satisfaction from gazing In the shop windows, and he would stand for a long time befor* some picture or article of jewelry apparently oblivious to the fast-gathering enbwd. Suddenly he would glare at them ann then move off rapidly, as though discovered In & disreputable act. Street cars were Mr. Dunlop’* especial abomination, and he would never oro** the street if one were nearer than a block away. Even then he would run at full speed and excitedly gaze about him, as if pursued by fiend* He always walked close to the buildings, and was never seen talking to any one. Mr. Dun-

lop resorted to many artifices to conceal the marks of time, and his age remained a mystery until death. Guesses on this point ranged all the way from thirty-five to fifty, but Mr. Dunlop was, in fact, in his sixty-eighth year when he died. THE NEW V Oil K GIRL. The Yonthfal Matron Hna raptured First I’ince in Society. Mrs, M. G. Van Rensselaer has a paper In the CAnury for February on ’T’eople in New York.” She writes as follows: One can feel sure that nothing will ever quite break the scepter of the American girl. But in New York at least, a rival scepter has recently been Erected, held by her married sisters and her mother. Nay, the youthful matron has actually captured the girl’s right to the first place in society, and she does not yield what she has achieved even when the adjective no longer fit* her. Of course, there is a great gain in this, for social talent, lik* other gifts, must be developed as well as born: and a reflux part of the gain already shows In the improvement of the girl herSelf. Her manners have greatly bettered; she dresses more attractively than ever, because more appropriately; she thinks more about her mind and her Intellectual tastes—indeed, just now her ambition in this respect hardly takes enough account of the boundaries prescribed by her sex and age, and, as wa.s not formerly the case, she continues to Improve as she grows older. Married or unmarried, a well-bred New York woman is now apt to be more charming at thirty than at twenty, and not to have lost very much at forty; and this often applies to her looks as well as her mental characteristics. 1.calls in Style. Of her chief physical characteristic do I need to speak? Other American towns may claim more beauty Within their borders, but all agree that the New York woman. Individually and collectively, leads In that combination of the results of money, good taste, unag^ressive selfcontent, and that highly finished physical bearing which, in the vernacular, Is called "style.” As a rule, I think, she is the most attractive in her daytime clothes. She looks well at a ball and well in an operabox, but better yet In her carriage, and especially in summer, when out-door plumage may be bright and light, berlbbonetl, belaced, and very fluttersome. Shall I venture to say that this is because she is a singularly pretty person rather than a beautiful person? Only true beauty of face and form shows at Its best In balK attire, and the statelier it is the better it then appears. But the stateliness of manner and regularity of feature are not the characteristic merits of New York women; brilliancy of expression, rather, charm of eyes and mouth and color, vivacity, piquancy, and a flexuous grace of movement. And. therefore, when I say that daytime clothes become her best, 1 do not mean the kind which so singularly well become her sturdier English cousin. She is not at her oonniest when tailor-made. If she could wear her tea-gowns in public, the public would probably then admire her most. But failing in this, it may very pleasurably contemplate her at the evening sessions of the horse-show. Almost a special type of costume has been devised for her for these particular occasions, more gay and ornate than any worn with bonnets at any other time in town. And when you see her thus arrayed, and multitudinously repeated, you feel that the horse-show must have been established less to display our steeds than to display our young women in the most scientifically favorable light. THE VALENTINE WRITER.

AMUSEMENTS.

THE grand—••Oliver Twist.” 8 p. m. THE PARK-'Ole Olson.” 2 and S p. m. THE EMPIRE-Guh Hill's Novelties. 2 and p. tn. Y. M. C. A. HALL—Arien Ialdi««• tjuartet.

WHEN HENRY CAME HOME.

A Good Share- of the Poetry Laed I* Stolen. Brooklyn Standard Union. I was taken by a friend to a valentine factory a few days ago—a place which prints about 60 per cent, of all the love missives that are sent by tender swains on February 14. It was the •literan',” or rather, the “poetical” part of the business which attracted me, and I said to the manager, as I sat in his office: "Where do you get the poetry which you use in these valentines?” "Steal it. most of it.” he said laconically. “But some we buy.” “From whom?” I asked. "You will see,” he replied as a card was handed to him. “Anything for me to-day, Mr. ?” asked the young man who had sent in his card. I immediately recognized him as a clever newspaper verse writer. “Yes,” replied the manager. “Here are eighteen—six ’ twenty-five-centers, eight one-dollar ones and four swells. For the first two lots we want eight lines each, but for the last four you had better give us regular poems; pretty long ones, you know.” “When do you want them?” “To-morrow morning.” “Very well.” “That’s the way we do it,” said the manager turning smilingly to me as the door closed behind the “poet.” "And he will give you all those poems to-morrow morning?” I asked. “Sure." "What do you pay him?” I ventured. “Twenty-five dollars for the lot I gave him Just now. Isn’t that a pretty good price? Only eighteen poems you know.” Only eighteen poems! Twenty-five dollars! To-morrow morning! Shades of Browning! “What were those things you gave him?” I asked. “Oh they were the pictures.” “He writes the poems to the pictures.

in *>**

then?

“Of

course How In the world could h6

write the stuff otherwise?” I didn’t venture to reply.

“Why did you say twenty-flve-centers,

and so forth?”

"That is to tell him what we sell them for. He needn’t take so much trouble with his poetry for them as for the dollar ones and the real swell ones, you know," was the reply. “Oh, I see,” I said. "He has different kinds of poems for different-priced valentines. Is that it?” “Sure You don’t suppose we’d waste a sixteen-line poem a regular poem, you know, on a twenty-five-center? We keep them for the ones we get more for. Isn’t

that right?”

I told him I supposed so.

An hour afterward I was reading these

words by a great author:

“Poetry is not a skill, a pleasantry, a device, an art; it Is the secret light and life without which not anything was made that is made. It Is the sacredness of being. In it there are these three; Sense, soul, spirit—nature, life, revelation. Such Is the trinity of inspiration. A perfect poem Is natural, human and divine.”

SparKeun On Smoking.

New York Post. *

Most of the stories about the late Mr. Spurgeon have been told, but here is one which appears in Mr. Adderly’s magazine Goodwill, which may be new to manv: "Many years ago I met the late Mr. Spurgeon, who was a great smoker, at the supper table of a friend. Over our pipes he said: ’Once a pious lady took me to task about my smoking, and said; “Do you read anything in the Bible about smoking?” “No,” I answered, “but we do read of the people passing through the Valley of Baca.” * (Ps. Ixxxiv, 6, Bible version.)’’

Not Unified.

Washington Star. “Didn’t you tell the young man I was out?” said the young woman. ”Oi did, miss,” replied Bridget. “But he towld me to come back an’ ax yez agin, so’s to be sure Oi hadn’t misundherstood the name.”

I’riqfliiK Outfit* For the Military. According to the Berlin Post, .Emperor William has ordered the construction of a special printing outfit for maneuvers and military contingencies. It consists of four specially, constructed wagons, with everything requisite from writing material to press. A Race Track Regret. ■Washington Star. “It’s the horse Oi don’t bet on that always wins at the races,” said Mr. Dolan. “An’ somehow Oi niver can remember to put me money an him an’ let th’ others alone.” An Insinuation. Chicago Tribune. Old Skrooge—Do you think, young man, you could support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed? Her Suitor—I could, but I’m not mean enough to do it. All 1* \ .tjt . > . Atchison Globe. As soon as a man makes a little money these days a water pipe at his house bursts.

Hi* Father 4'(included That it < (rile IS e Education Wan n Good Thing. Puck. Old • Farmer Barne* walked up and down the ilttle platform in front of the small shed that did duty, as a station at Hay Corners. He was impatiently waiting for the trail'.. It came at last, being only, for this time, two hours late. He was waiting to meet his son; and, though he hardly recognized the well-dressed, long-haired young fellow that stepped from the train, the latter knew him. and, coming over, slapped him on the shoulder, saying: “Well, old Rocks, here I am! How’s the Mater?” "Why, my boy, is it you?” was the reply. “Yer maw was feelln’ porely. I kem over alone to bring you back.” Then the old man assisted his son in putting his baggage, consisting of |wo trunks, a vaiise, a bundle of canes and a bull dog. In the wagon, and they drove off. "You got yer diploma, my boy, I hope,” said the old man. “This has been a bad year for us, and we had hard work glttin’ the money to keep you at college." “Yep! I snatched the sheepskin this time. But I came near getting it In the neck. Say, there has been frost crystals for me from the whole shooting match— from the main guy down!” “Ya-as, l suppose those studies was hard; but you got it. Eddication’s a great thing." r “Nix!” replied the graduate, emphatically; “it don’t go now. But I'd 'a' had fruit if I could have kept up my football. But I was no good after I strained my back.” The old man looked dazed a moment, and then said: "You’ll get that place in the bank, I guess.” Lilac* Oa Hi* I’lilcog'. “Well, talk to me! Say, you don’t think I'm going farming and raise lilacs on my phizog, do you?” The old farmer shook his head and whacked the off horse across the rotunda. "I suppose,” he said, "you were sorry to leave your college friends?” “Well, say, I gave ’em the glad hand In great style. But the freshies were sore on me. I was strictly in it when we rushed ’em. Oh, I never used to do a thing to them!” “I hope not,” said the old man; “you should hev let ’em alone.” “Oh, a pleb is always dead leary of ’em! We never got onto ’em much.” “ ’Spose yer sorry your college days is over?” said the old man, %fter a pause. “Well, it wasn’t a graft! Still, I met some smooth people there. I had a side partner that was a dead-fly mug, I tell you!” The old man was silent again, and his hopeful son amused himself the rest of the way inhaling a cigarette with great gusto. But, just as they came In sight of the farm-house, farmer Barnes stopped the horses. “Henry,” he said, “my boy, I’m glad to have you back with us, to see you looking so well, and having learned so much. But mother ain’t like me, you know: so, for her sake, don’t use them big. high-toned words. Of course, I understand all you say, but mother won't. And she'll think you're proud If you talk big words to her; and while I know she won’t say nothing, still you’d please her best, my boy, If you talked just plain, common words, as she understands.” And as he unhitched the team an hour later, he kept muttering to himself: “Henry didn’t do a. thing to them, he said: but he met some smooth people, snatched his sheepskin, was dead In the rush, and had a side partner that was a fly mug. He had a great graft at college, too, and the freshies were sore on him. But he isn’t going farming and raise lilacs on his phizog. Oh, 1 tell you, eddlcation is a great thing.”

PlPERHElDiiECK, * PLUG TOBACCO. Flavor

Consumers of chewim) tobacco win are wiling to pag a little more tka tk price dialed for tlie ordinag trade tobaccos, will find ibis brand superior to all others BEWARE or IMITATIONS.

Hundreds and Tnousands of People Will Pledge You Their Word and Honor That CRESCENT SALVE CURED THEM of Catarrh, Burns, Old Sore* and Piles when everything else had failed. And then IT’S CHEAP, TOO-ONLY 25c a box. A 20c cake of Crescent Soap will cure any case of Scalp Disease on earth. It kill* the dandruff and stops the hair from falling out. as scores of our best citizens, who have tried il. will testify. Over 500,'WO cakes and boxes of these wonderful remedies sold lust year, and order* from druggists every-

where are Increasing dally.

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CRESCENT REMEDY CO INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Send 2c stamp for sample box Salve free.

OVARINE.

The emotions in women are largely influenced by the ovaries, and the ovaries are in turn decidedly influenced by the emotions. Professor Skene, one of the most distinguished authorities on Diseases of Women, states that grief, fear, anger, and even great joy are capable of arresting menstruation. » * * “In order to maintain harmo“nious action of the whole organization “it is necessary that the ovaries shall “exist in full development and functional “activity. On the other hand, these “organs, which are essential to the well“being of the individual, must, when “diseased, exercise a potent influence in “derangingthe brain and nervous system.” These facts go to prove conclusively that a very large proportion of the cases of insanity in women could have been prevented by careful treatment of diseased ovaries. It is also very probable that many cases of insanity could be perfectly cured by careful and systematic Uee/jnent of tho i‘teased ovaries. THE Animal Extracts

' Dr. William A. Hammond has made the important discovery that the ster- | ilized extract of the ovaries of the common pig contains the animal extract ; required to specially nourish the human j ovaries and restore them to normal I activity. The use of Ovarine is of great value in the treatment of those nervous disturbances dependant upon ovarian irritation. It is to be recommended in— Congestion of the ovaries, Chronic Inflammation, Neuralgia, Amenorrhoea, '.caused by ovarian derangements; Chlorosis, Hysteria, Nervous Prostration (Neurasthenia), Sterility, Irritability. The uniform dose is 5 drops (minims) two or three times daily dropped upon the tongue. 1 Price, (a dr.) now One Dollar. FOR SALE BV ALL OaUOOIBTO. IKE COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO., Washington, D. C. Send for Book. ^ i*J

Stop «4hiHK HOW YOU [AN REDUCE LABOR AND THE WEAR OF CLOTHES BY USING

Santa Claus Soap BE5T PUREST AND MOST ECONOMICAL.

Sole everywhere madety

THE NIMMIC1PM

CHICAGO,

Use but half as much of Dr. Price's as of any other baking powder. It’s absolutely sure.

Quaker OATS Does your food nourish and agree with you ? No! Eat Quaker Oats, then see! Sold only in a lb. Packages.

gtfopi Do you know that interest compounded is what piles up fortunes? We are compounding interest for the public in a substantial way. This is your opportunity. Don’t let it pass. Many are taking advantage of our mid-winter cut in prices. No shoddy, remember, in our stock.

Have Your Wife Tell You All About This Great Sale Where Ladies’ Shoes Are Sacrificed For Cash I A lot of Ladies' Kid Button Shoes, patent tips, widths B-G and many sizes; a (2 shoe must go now for 95c. Think quick if you want

a pair.

Many pairs of Ladies' Fine Kid Button Shoes; fine cloth tops; a shoe, but now cut

to $1.50. Don’t wait.

And another assortment of Ladies' Fine Kid Button Shoes, hand hewed, got d soles; a regular $4 and $5 make, but they are on the table at just $1.95. A nimble price; be like-

wise It you need a pair.

Still many other fine shoes, always sold at (4; do you want them now at fl.85? They are in this sale. Your certain gain—our loss. Ladies’ $2.75 and |3 shoes, stylish and good;

now $1.76.

Ladies’$2.25 and $2.60 shoes sliced d'wn to $1.55 Think of it. Don’t think too long ere

all will be gc

Misses’ $2.

OFFICE DESKS Considering the very low prices at which I # am now selling Office Desks, every business man is interested.

High-Roll Curtain Desks,

Flat-Top Desks, Pigeon Jdole Cases,

Letterrress Stands, Arm Chairs lor Offices,

Stools in all varieties.

Low-Roll Curtain Desks, Standing Desks,

Filing Cases,

Revolving Desk Chairs, Typewriter Chairs,

WM.L. ELDER 43 and 45 South Meridian Street

Ripans Tabules: the most effective recipe ever prescribed by a physician for Biliousness, Dyspepsia, or any disorder of the stomach, liver or bowels. One gives relief! Price 50 cents a boa; of Druggists or by mall. THE RIPANS CHEMICAL COMPANY, 10 Srauc* St.. N«w Yomc. For sale in Indianapolis by all druggists.

MASKS and Costume Trimmings, Gold and Silver Braid, Bullion and Tassels. Bells and Bangles. 'KIPP BROS. CO. 37 and 39 South Meridian Street.

jone.

L76 and |3 shoe® now «1.65. nwin nr HsY«?a* STirf /'V

Ladies’ spring heel, bovs’ and children’s •hoes in big variety. See them and you will

buy them.

SOMETHING EOH MEN. Men’s Best Calf Shoes, good soles, button and hals; a $4 shoe;now $2.60. You makef 1.60

dear.

Men’s $3 and $3.60 shoes, good cal’, on the bargain table now at $2. A bargain of bar-

ge ns.

Time is limited for this Great Shoe Sale; the stock te being reduced by the public, who appreciate a dollar saved i* a dollar made. Come and save the dollar while you can.

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FURNITURE At The Lowest Price s Se£

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OCR SPRING STOCK OF CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES Now ready for your inspection. *

From $5 Upward MESSENGER’S 101 E. Washington St. 13, 15 and 17 S. Delaware.

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Over One Million People wear the W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes are equally satisfactory They give the beet value for the money. Thev equal custom Shoes In style and fit. Their wearing qualities are unsurpassed. Hs prices are uniform,—stamped on sole. —1-1 Si to 5,4 saved over other makes. - cannot sunnlv you we can. Sold by G.A. Neermnn, 273 Mn«a. %ve. F. Schrader, 05 W. »Va*h. 8t. F. E. Brown, 150 E. Wash. St. A. Haag 1H0 Indiana Ave. Fountain Shoe Store 7 A 0 Shelby, outs Aldag, 070 E. Washington St. ' PILES D. Vaughn, an old employe of the Grand Hotel writes: “I was troubled witli a bad case of piles for eight year*, tried many things with very little relief. Leas than two boxes of Coleman’s Infallible PI!# Capsules, prepared by N. S. Griggs, 850 hi Washington street, effectually cured ma ”D. VAUGHN. Grand Hotel.” Coleman's Infallible Pile Capsules fot sale by ail druggist*.

w*i\ Da,.:-ns, viMtii W? 'W1 splendid.’’ Nostarving. Noslcknsss. ^YL-t’Hrtlruisrs and sample box free. Address Hsll it Co., E. D.. box 4 >4. Ht. Louis, Mo.

THE HAIL It GADS. Excursion and Regular Trains. THEBiGTouSim YORK CENIRM. The Only Route To Kew York Without Ferry or Transfer. The KNICKERBOCKER SPECIAL, ths finest train In America, leaves Union station 6:40 p. m. daily, makes the run to New York In twenty-two hours, landing passengers in the Grand Central station. This is the only route by which parm-ngsrs can reach K< w York in time for supper or late dinner and attend the theaters same evening.

D A YTOM, TOLEDO and DETROIT. S/^StTSO^J IdEAVe INDIANAPOLIS. No- .» • Iiiciiw.uu vestibule, dally 3:t-l am No. 31 Cincinnati Fast Llhe, dally 8:90 am No 37 Cin., Dayton, Toledo and Detroit Express, daily, except Scndjy 10:50 am No. 33 On. & Dayton Vestibule, dally.,.4:00 pm No. 88 Cin., Dayton. Toledo and Detroit Express, dally, except Sunday 6:10 pa I. D. BALDWIN. D. P. A.

d’M'MTMlili THE CHICAG0 %6!gilPf SHORT LINE DIKING and PARLOR CARS on DAY TRAINS; PULLMAN SLEEPERS on NIGHT TRAINS. Trams leave for Chicago at •11:60 a. m *12:35 a. in. Monon accommodation leave* at ••4:00 p. m. Trains arrive from Chicago at •3:25 iu m., •3:55 p. m. Monon accommodation arrive# at •*11:30 a. ra. Ticket offices, No. 2 W. Washington at.. Union station and Massachusetts avs. Pullman vestibule aieeper for Chicago stand* at west end Union station and can ha taken at 1:30 p. m. dally. •Dafif. ••Excfpt Sunday. ONE - FA.RE m m ii mm VIA PEISVLVA11 LISETickets will be sold February 18 to 24 inclusive, good returning until March 20. Call and see agents: No. 48 West Washington street. No 46 Jackson Place and Union Station Geo. E. Rockwell, D. P. A. VANDAL! ALIN E. •Daily. ••Dolly, except £uud»> From Indianapolis. Leave. Arm* St. Lou la aeconr. ...••7:Uani •*7:4 pr. St. Louis & N. Y. tine. •t.VOam *.':Wt .. St. Louis fast line *11:30am Vv., t Train* 21 and 20 •MitPpm Terre Haute accom „..»M:$Ppm ••w:. . KvauavlUe Express *11:30pm V J »oj gt. Louis Express MLJOpm *4:G*ia Trains connect at Tsrre Haute for H A T. L. Evansville sleeper on night train. Bleeping cars are run on through train* i trains M gad A.