Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1891 — Page 13

4. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, -SUNDAY. AUGUST 23, . 1891. 13 AMlfiKMKNTS. "WITH HOLMES ANDAYHITTIER better, as the darkey said, "go to' and learn a lesson from the real geninaes of the conn" try. Both the "Autocrat" and the author of "Snow Hound'' were dressed good enough for a reception. Dr. Holmes had on a suit of fine black broadcloth, and Whittier had on broadcloth coat and vest and cassimere pants. Whittier, of course, wore no jewelry, and with the exception of a single neat gold stud, Dr. Holmes also refrains from wearing gewgaws. Krneraon. Hawthorne, Longfellow and Lowell gone! Holmes and Whittier alone are left of the old guard. , . Long life to both of them. Interesting Ccat with tbe Illustrious Poets, the Last of the Old Guard. PARK Simple Life cf the Quaker Bard, "Who Still Ke-UiniHiiHcDtal8treDi:tli-0nTcrWendeU Holmes' Librarj Sorro w far LowelL The Only Theater: Open.

ITrwtrorypoTt letter la Brooklyn .tanflr!-rnim. The poet Whittier caiue Lere from Wakefield, N. H., where be has ben in the habit of spendmu a portion of eterj sammer. He ie stopping with his cousins, Joseph and Gertrude Cartland. in their beautiful home on High street. Although in a rerj feeble condition, he eees a few risitors each day. Mr. Lowell's death has been a severe shock to him. but to all who have called since that sad event ho has told something of bis love aud friendship for the exeat genius who now lies sleeping in Cambridge. In his shy, timid manner he welcomed me yesterday. "In. Holmes and myself are the only two left now of tbo old guard." be oaid, mournfully. "Mr. Lowell." he continued, "was better known abroad than any other .American man of letters. He was promising when be first came out of college. .His, Bigelow papers, in the future, will be rend as much as they were in the past. However, there is nothing like them in American literature. "My eyes begin to trouble me some, but as they have served me so well I ought not complain. I do very little work now: my correspondence takes up most of my ime." In the interview, which 1 did not care to prolong, as he seemed so poorly, Mr. Whittier said that he bad never been out of the country; his worn had always kept him here. IMore I left him he advised me to call on Dr. Holmes, at Ueverly Farms. "Vou will rind him an witty and as bright as any young man, although I am only a year and a half older than he is." The room in which the Quaker poet receives his guests is furnished comfortably and quaintly. On one window pane hangs a transparency the kitchen scene from Snow Bound." This poem was written in 1865, in memory, the poet says, "of tht household it describes" The household" was Whittier's own. Off of the kitchen in the picture is the mall bedroom where John was born. Over the mantle in the rcceDtion-room hanns a picture of the old birthplace in UarerhilL Of his "occasional poems" "The Eternal ' Goodness" is preferred by many for its broad humanity and love of the Creator. It starts off with: 0 Friends! with whom my feet tare trod Tne quiet allies of prayer. . Glad witness to your zeal for God And love of man I bear. 1 trace your lines of argument: Your loftio linked and stroiie I weigh aa one no dreads dissent And tears a doubt as wrong. . But still my human hands are weak " To bold your iron creeds; Against the words ye bid me speak M j heart within me pleads. - Who fathoms the eternal tbowMf Who talk of pebexue and plan! The Lord is jrood! fie needeth not The poor device of man. There are eighteen verses more. HOLMF.5 AT BEVERLY FARMS. Beverly Farms is a matter of twenty-five miles' from ' New b,ury port, and a more Healthful or attractive spot cannot be found in the btate of Massachusetts. A great many wealthy people, who long for quiet and separation from .the "madding crowd." have summer homes there. It is a ten minutes' walk from the station to the cottage of Dr. Holmes. Wheu it is fine ho can be seen driving every afternoon behind a fine team. ' The pretty cottage which stands back oil . the road is Banked in front bra great bed of rocks. On the front veranda stauds a willow arm-chair, with a huge top. At least a half-dozen reporters from the Boston papers have attempted to interview Dr. Holmes since 31 r. Lowell died, but be declines to talk about his fiiend ut this time. Like Whittier, he is sutiering from toe shock. As 1 walked up the road he drove by in his Victoria and entered tbo house. Acting on Mr. Whittier advice 1 called " at the cottage, where a comely, nice-mannered maid servant ushered me into the parlor. After taking in my card, she returned, saying that Dr. Holmes would see me in his study. "So you have come from Mr. Whittier, I am so glad," he said, shaking hands. "Howdid you find himf lam so vtorrivd about him. and want to ee him very much. 1 ho papers have been saying that I wan ailing.. t6o, but you can say tbt you found inn well as well as could be expected at my age I shall be eighty-two in a fortnight. "1 went on to boston to look after aom matters this morning, and to-morrow, of csurse, 1 go in again to attend the funeral of my friend. Ob, he .will bu missrd. He was the life and soul of a club they have in Cambridge, to which uiy brother belongs. Whatever you do say, do not mention ihe - fact that 1 am weighed down with letters. The newspapers have said that so often that I fear tbe public is weary hearing it. I have a very competent secretary. he answers a great many of ray letters. $ho knows how I want them answered. - "Yes. 1 believe in women for this work. They are admirably adapted for it Mv library in Boston was recently marked and ' catalogued by a young woman who is au expert at such work.' in the desk near where we were sitting was a number of small bius, in which tbe corrrgpondence was separated with answred letters." "unanswered letters, etc.' In the twelfth chapter of 'Over the Teacups" Dr. Holmes devotes several pages to criticising the hypocrisy of . kind-hearted people. He says: "It is the most painful exhibition of human weakness, it has occurred to him that it might be profitable to reproduce some of my unwritten answers to correspondents. THE AUTOGRAril F1KN18. If those which were actually written and eent were to be printed in parallel columns with those mentally formed, but not written out response- and comments, tho reader would get some idea of the internal conflicts an honest and not unamiable person has to go through when he finds himself driven to the nail by a correspondence which is draining his vocabulary to find expression that sounds agreeable and signifies as little- as the phrases used by a diplomatist in closing an official communication." Here is what he thinks of in autograph fiend: "Want myantogTaDh.do you? And don't know how to spell my name! An a for an e in my middle name. Leave out the 1 in my last name. Do you know how people hate to have their names misspelleaf V h;U do you suppose are the sentiments entertained hy the Thompsons with a p toward those who address them in writing Thomson!'' Here is a sad case of mistaken identity: "Think the lines you mention by far tho best 1 ever wrote, hey! Well, 1 didn't write those lines. What is more, 1 think thev areas detestable a string of rhymes as "I could wish my worst enemy had written. A very nleasant frame of mind 1 am in for writing a letter uf ter reading yours? Here is a case of "godfather:". "I am glad to hear that my namesake, whom I never saw and never expect to e hit cut another tooth; but why write four pages on tne strength of that domestic occurence! ThU is for the irreprrsiible one who thinks he or ahe knows it all: "Yoa wish to correct an error in my broomstick poem, do yont You give me to understand that Wilmington is not in Essex county, but in Middlesex. Very well, but are they separated by 'running water!' Because if they are not. what could hiuder ' a witch from crossing the line that separates Wilmington from Andover, I would like to knowf 1 nevermeant to imply that the witches made no excursions beyond the district which was especially their seat of operations." While sitting in the Holmes study, I could not help observing the extreme neatness of the desk and the orderly arrange tnent of the papers and books Some of the rising literary lights of both sexes who think that it enhances their genius to appear in slovenly dress and keep their "dens'' like a second-hand shop, had

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He Drank with the Greatest Kaae and Talkert with Mnch Freedom. Charles T. Tneterman. in Murray's Magazine. Sitting at breakfast one morning in the club-house at IVra, 1 noticed at another table Mr. MacGahan, the well- known American newspaper correspondent, who had accompanied the Russian army through the campaign, and had achieved a high reputation for personal valor as well as for lemarkable ability as a graphic desen ber of events. His companion at table was a military officer in uniform, who, when I exchanged bows with MacGahan, turned toward him as if asking who I was. In a few moments both gentlemea arose and. coming to my table, MacGahan presented me to General bkobeleff. He was a man I gTcatly desired " to meet. The valor and splendid military renown of the hero of Plevna were in everybody's month, and he possessed a personal magnetism that won for him the friendship of every one. A thorough soldier, his face informed one at the first glance that he was open as the day in his sentiments and democratic in his instincts. As to the men under his command, it would be difficult to say whether military respect or personal love for their commander proved the stronger motive for their admiration of hun. A strict disciplinarian in camp, be had a friendly word or grasp nf tbe hand for each and all of them. He did not talk to his men of personal bravery, but he set so conspicuous au example of it in his own fear Ir as exposure to danger that his officers were more nervously anxious for his safety than for their own. A few days after we met again by chance at the club-house, and Skobebrt', being alone, insisted upon my breakfasting with him and ordered two or three bottles of champagne. In vain I protested that at that early hour I never drank champagne, but he would have it and drank it Jike water, without the slightest perceptible e fleet. This is a Russian habit, and in Skobelefi's case, I fear, led to excesses not altogether disconnected with his untimely death nfter his return to Russia. . Like all hia countrymen wuom I have known,; he talked with the utmost freedom." On military and political affairs he gave his opinions without reserve, and ' censured certain high otlicials among his countrymen to an imprudent degree, lint even his censorious remarks left the impression on my mind that he spoko from conviction, and not from personal feeling, lie pressed me to visit him in camp at San fetefuno. and ottered to send a mounted escort and horses to meet me on my arrival at the railway station. This honor I declined, but I went down to see him in tho course of the week, and was treated with great hospitality. I arrived in - the afternoon, and just before nightfall he took me over the camp. Seme men were preparing their evening meal around huge smoking caldrons; others were lying about at ease on tbe turf or in the tents. At tho General's approach they started to their feet and stood at "saint' motionless as statues. With a pleasant word to them, he passed on to show me tnV arrangements for tho. night. I expressed my surprise at the height of many of the men. "Ob, these are nothing," he replied; "come this way," and we advanced to a group or men tutting in a tent. Th.e he called out by name "StrogenolT," "Polinott," and eo on to stand up; and a file of men stood before um, not cm ol whom was les than six feet two. The appearance of this vast camn of toldiers "ofi iluty,' lying, tauding. sitting about lu groups, some sleeping in the oddest attitudes orstretched out on their backs, open-mouthed and snoring, in their war-st:iined and weatherbeaten .uniforms, their sun-browned faces' giving evidence of the toil and hardships of the campaign, was in some respects more impressive tliau when, a few days after tins visit in the litrnl lieht of the evening, I saw them in the blaze of uoon day pass in review m all the perfection of thorough equipment and discipline. Thackeray's Height and 11 air. IflnneapoliH Tritmne. Thackeray's general appearance in 1854 must have been very strikmg, judging from Anthony Tmllope's reference to his face and figure, bis six feet four incnes in height, with his flowing hair, already nearly gray,' and his broken nose, his broad forehead and ample chest, lu that same year K. MWard, K. A., was engaged upon a series ot paintings . of personal friends , and trreat men "in character," including Dickens, Lyttnn, Macaulay, Hallam, Thackeray and others. Of these, the portrait of "Tackmiy at Home" (exhibited in the Royal Academy in lbtU) is most HiiceeHsful. Here is ween the great novelist (who had just retired from Punch and was writing "The Nwcomes") in his bedroom study at Onslow square, wearing a (lurk red dressing-gown ana slippers, and sitting in a rather original attitude, with a writinu-desk on his knee. A quill is held in one hand tint! a: cigar in the other. whil his head. well, thrown back, gives the same effect of dignity to his portrait as that which characterizes Laurenee's crayon drawing. " In the meantime Thnckeray's hair was becoming more bleached, and in when but forty-six years of age, it had assumed . quite a silvery whiteness. This and his great height and erect bearing made him conspicuous in every assembly..-: In talkiug of his stature he remnrked to a friend of his. as recorded in tho Magazine of Art, "After six feet it all runs to Md." This same physical peculiarity caused Carlyle to speak of him as a "half monstrous Cornish giant." and J. L. Motley, the historian of the Netherlands, as a "colossal infant," with additional reference to his "smooth, white, shiny, riuglety hair, ttaxeu, alas! with advancing years, a roundish face, with a little dab or a nose upon which it is a perpetual wonder how ho keep his spectacles, a sweet but rather piping voice, with eomethinie nf the childish treble about it and a very tall, sliahtly stooping figure." Women Physicians. Pr. Lucy V. Hall, in he Epoch. It is sometimes said, in a sneering way, that tbe woman who becomea a physician, in some degree, at least, unsexes herself. I once heard of this charge being mildly made by a male member of my profession, one of tho purest and sweet est-miuded men I have ever known. The l.idy physiciau to whom he made the remark said to him: "Doctor, did you over stop and think which one it is who is unsexed. the man or the woman! The male doctor enters tbe very sanctum sanctorum of tho home; he treats wives and ybting girls and stands in the most confidential relations to them. Would he be admitted if he were just an ordinary man? Did you ever stop to think that the maledoctor must nnsex himself much more than the female doctor?' The physician was honest enough to admit that ho had never looked at the subject in that light. Reall3 however, there is no sex in medicine. In the future, when we shall hare undo a little more progress, no such talk will ever be heard; tbe question will simplv be one of competency, as to who can best do this, that or the other thing in the cure of diseases." New Dome Industry. Philadelphia Telegraph. A burglars' and housebreakers' trust seems to be regarded by some of our con temporaries as a caricature, a movement to run the trust organization into the ground: but there may be serious business intended by the promoters of ibis latest "combine" for all that. One of the most famous of Loudon's great criminals, the eminent Jonathan Wild, instituted a thlevea' trust which he conducted for many years with distinguished success. The modern form of monopolistic consolidation . was not known in the days of the celebrated Wild, but be improvised methods in many respects similar to those now employed, and managed a widespread conspiracy for conducting tbe plundering business with economy and dispatch. If Wild eonld succeed with the limited facilities at bis command, why should not the clever cracksmen of, our day be able to unite for the netter prosecution of their unlawful undertakings? - , Mighty Tlard. Barn's Horn. One of the hardest things to do is to believe that the man is honest who doesn't look at things as we do.

Ever ii1 SMALL PROFIT IN PLAYS The Kichpst ManarRiu America Made Their Money in Variety Theaters. rUrs Proposed ana Finaurial IMp to the Drama The Alnch Trtik-d-el-riajr Abraham Lincoln Go sip of the SUrp. MONEY IN THEATRICALS. More of It Expended than Itecviveri, It Is Anerted. fibecul to the lB!ianai-o:in Joiirna. Nuw Vokk. Aug. 22. "More money is expended in providing dramatic ainiiNement lor the people' of the United State than ,the people pay for it.' This assertion, that more capital in put into the theatiical business than ever gets out again, was in ado by a participant in a peculiar meeting of managers held privately this week. Some o( his companions looked incredulous; 'It is absolutely true," he went on, and I qualify my statement only by leaving the variety sbow branch of the business out of the calculation. There's big pro tit in variety, as we all Know. Tbe three richest men in American management tt-day that is, of thoie who made all their money out of the stage got their fortune chietiy from variety theaters. Reckoning only on legitimate theatricals, and iu their aggregate, they don't pay expenses." The conference conceived a proposed means of making theatricals pay. and the prime mover was putting forward an argument in justification of the plau, which was nothing else than to make alcoholic trallic helo support the drama. Seven managers were present, and they were harmonious iu the belief that the liquor law should be so amended as to permit bars in places accessible directly from tbe theaters. At present the statute forbids tbe vale of intoxicants in any room which can be entered from a theater without going into the street on the way, the intention of the lawmakers having been to diiteinvest the two diversions of drama aud drink. This . law is observed generally in the Broadway theaters. Once In a wnile a door is opened from a lobby into a bar-room, but the offense has to be stopped quickly. The consequence is not any curtailment of tippling between acts, but the division of it among the groggeries elose to theaters. Now, the seven managers in secret session agreed unanimously that the liquor tratiie dependent upon each theater could and should belong to the house, and be made to swell its revenue, "The bar Would pay the orchestra." said one, in whose mind the cost of orchestral music was begrudged, as it is generally among managers. "Wouldn't it degrade legitimate theatricals just a little bit," was a rather timid suggestion. "Not if it's done right." was the very positive reply. "It should be made fashionable. London theaters, with their open bars in corridors and lobbies, should he cited as a swell example. Degrading? Nonsense. Why, don't yoa remember that the late Lester Waliacfc opened a bar in his new theater, and. not only that, but outfitted it with bar-maids imported from London. It was a brilliant idea. The fellows were a little shy of ordering drinks from tbe girls behind the counter, bat the strangeness was wearing oil rapidly, and in a month a bar would have been a booming adjuuet of the swellest theater in to wo. But thepolice wouldn't allow it. The bar was down in the cellar, with a stairway from the main lobby, and that was a violation of the law. What wo want to do. and can do. Is to amend the statute so as to permit a bar in a theater. Then every manager can scoop the drink business that by right belongs to him." Your correspondent spent a single honr in going to the offices of Broadway theater managers, other than .those who had attended the conference, and in that short time be found eight who declared unhesitatingly that they would not sell drinks on

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their premises, n- matter how much freedom the law inisrht Kive. Four. of them had leaned their theater with a teriinty that th adjoining Ktnre would not b ii!d for bur-room. Friends of the unsullied drama or of temperance neert have r.odroaitof barn in legitimate New York theater. A majority ot tho managers ;ir against it, no matter it it would be "so Kngli.h." ' T.OCAI. THEATEKS. The New l'lav of "Ahruhun Lincoln to lie Jvcn at tli Grand. The Park Theater will have a practical monopoly of the "show" business in this city this week, as neither of the other two houses will be open. At the Grand the seaeon will not commence regularly foreeveral weeks yet, a very wise provision, when the prevailing warm weather is taken intoconsidcration. Previous to this, however, there will ho a' notable engagement at the Grand, aud one'lhnt will excite more than local interest, iu the production (for tho tim time on any stage) of the new play 'Abraham Lincoln." No play produced in recent years has excited so much commeut in advai-.ee as this. Mr. McKee Kunkin and the other authors of tbe play will be here two weeks in advance to rehearse the company and a ii a u no for. the' production, whieb it is intended to make complete in every particular. The Park will have for its attraction this week the new protean wtar, "Little (Joldi," who brnn to twinkle only a few weeks j aio. lnt whose state work has been much I praised, fche is quite young and pretty, and is said to he the possessor of strongly marked taleut and to show tbe erlects of careful schooling. Two playn, boWi especially rewritten for her. will ie given. "The Kocky Mountain Waif (to-morrow, Tuesday. Wedneadnjv ami batunlsr matinees and evenings) and "Ziz, the Pride of the West" (Thursday and Frirtay matinees and evening.-). As their titles indicate, thene plays deal with lite m the est. 1 hey are I comedy dramas, sdording the ?tar every possible opponuniTj", nnu mty win no produced with special scenery throughout. The supporting company includes J., W. Cope. Louis Westhorl'. Kd H. Lee, Peroy H. Clillord, Henry .1. Yorkey,R. J. Harrison, little Eme Clarke, Lawrence Russell, Miss Ada Craven, MUs Genevieve Harrison and others. Gossip of the St use. Francis W ilson's new opera is called "Tho Lton Tamer." Harry Smith's and Rignald de Koven's new opera is called The Dey." Billy Emerson has signed with J. II. Harerly for a tour of America, Europe and Australia. Percy Denton will be tbe manager. ' y . Mrs. Bernard Becre, tbe weil-kuown English actress, will make a tour of America under the management of Marcns A. Mayer, beginning in November. The receipts for 8ol Smith Russell's first week in "Peaceful Valley" were $6,yfX). He has evidently made a genuine and lasting success in Mr. Kidder's new plav. Clara Morris opens trie regular season at the Fourteenth-street Theater in New York Sept. 21. when she makes her first appearance in the metropolis iuiiardouV'Odette." Robert Downing, the tragedian, allowed his two young daughters to seo him play "The Gladiator." They said: "We liked it ever so much. It was eo funn?I. And papa hollered so!'' George Edwardes, manager of the London Gaiety Tneater, ban made a proposition to Nat Goodwin to undertake a three years' tour of the world. It is probible that the comedian will accept. v Clyde Fitch, author of "Bean Brummel," is to have a new three-act comedy, entitled "Pamelia's Prodigy,'' produced at the London Court Theater in October. Mrs. John Wood will appear in the cast. Tbe newest accession to tbe ranks of the American stars is Lillian' Rowley, who Is to tour this seahon in "An American Girl," a comedy drama written to tit her abilities by Grattan Donnelly, of Philadelphia. The principal play which Miss Eaatlake, the English actress, Intends to use during her tour of America as a star is "A Yorkshire Lass," by Wilton Jones. When it was produced m Lonu S last winter the critics spoke -ry My of-it as boiug

OPEN more Dearly true to nature Than moit English plays of recent treasons. Miss Eastlake's Americau tour will begin at the Walnut. Oct. R. George Barrett, tbe English comediau, brother of Wilson Barrett, will appear iu the followiug plavs during his Americau tour. "The Book-maker." "The Chipies," "The Color Sergeant," and a new comedy by A. W. Pinero; but his principal play will be a comedy drama, in four acts and a prologue, by John Harrison, entitled, "Another Man's Shoes." , The lank, limber, agile and tall comedian of the Parlor Match Company, Mr. Evans, i at Mount Clemenn. Mich., almost incapaciated by sciatic rheumatism. Every erlort'which physicians have made to ease the extraordinary pain fro:n which be suffers has failed, and the l'arior Match Company has rehe.irned without him. His part will bo thken by Thomas I as Mack. , Mine. Modjeska. who in now in New York, has a number of new plays. One of them, ."Marie Antoinette," is oy Albert Roland Haven, author of "Josephine, Empress of the French." Another is "The Tragic Mask." by E. Reynolds, of Pittsburg. . She will appear in snvetal Shakspereun plave, including 'Macbeth'1 and "King John." Her leading man is T. . 13. Thalberg, now playing at the Louden Adelphi. There is a line in a Western melodrama now being played in Deuver which is said to throw the audience into convulsions of delight. The dunk aud soggy heroine is having a thrilling encounter with the villain, which part is played by au actor both bold and bad. Suddenly the heroine raises her right baud to heaveu, and says, in au acid key: "Stop. James Randon; not another step forward, or 1 will show ;vou to the world as the base scoundrulyou are not." THE ROMANTIC ELEMENT NEEDED. There Is bat Little of It in This State 'to Inspire the Novelist Capture of Yincennes. A well-known book-seller, and a. modest man withal, who would not have his name iu print on any consideration whatever, was not averse to talking ou literary and other matters the other day, notwithstanding the thermometer stood at 90 in tbe shade. "This is a very quiet summer among Indiana authors," remarked this ruthprity. "Ben S. Parker appears to be the only one who Is doing anything of consequence. He is getting out a book containing sketches of Indiana writers an i poets, with selections from their writings. This will be a valuable addition ! Hoosier literature and preserve many excellent- things that would otherwise have but the transient existence given by newspaper publication." "How is General Lew Wallace getting on with his new story!" "I learn from a friend that he is steadily at work upon it, but as he is a, very careful and painstaking author, no guess can be made as to when it will be published. 'Ben-Har' was on bis hands for many years J beiore it was completed and given to the world, and tbe same was true of bis 'Fair God.' Tbe last-named work, which was General Wallace's first effort in novel-making, recalls to my mind the fact that the late Major Jonathan W. Gordau long had the intention of writing a novel, the scene of which should be laid in prehistoric Central America, but I do not believe he ever wrote a line of it. Like General Wallace he had been in Mexico, and like him tbe inspiration for a novel bad doubtless- been given by reading after the historian PrescotU . This was natural, for certainly more romance attaches to the Spanish settled portions of this continent than - to any other. There really is little of tbe romantic attaching to the settlement of New England, New ork or Virginia. Hawthorne and Irving did marvelonsly well considering the material they had to work upon." "flow about Indiana!'' "This State is almost barren of romance, such as a novelist must have. There are some elements of it iu the French exploration and occupation of the West, and it is strange that more has not been made of it. Little or none of this romance attaohes to Indiana. Yincennes when held by the French was simply a trading post, and as

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prosaic as Southport brAlfhonville to-day. Tippecanoe Wag the tC(?ne of & battle, a small one, and nf very small importance politically. The greatest event that ever took place in Indiana vmt the capture of Yincennes from the British by George Rogers Clark. I do not buppose tltero is one citizen of Indiana in a thousand who identities that capture with the etriiagle of the colonies for independence, or knows that it was one of the events of the revolution, bearing more important ronsequences than, perhaps, iny battle fought during that struggle, except Saratoga and Yorktown." "How so?" .k "George Rogers Clark, by the capture of Yincennes, wrested from England all that she had north of tbe Ohio and east of the Mississippi. He not only made that vast area American, but be brought the French, who occupied the scattered posts, to our side. Clark is the . earliest and most heroic .figure In Indiana's history. His memory is perpetuated in this State by the . county named Clark and a little town in that county Called Clarksville. Little Vermont has done better by Ethan Allen, whose services to his State and to the Nation were incon erable by the side of what George Rogers Clark did. The Larkin G. Meade statue of Ethan Allen in tbe Capitol is the most heroic marble there. We have a vacant place in our State Capitol that could be no better tilkd than by a marble atatue of Clark. That spot is under the dome, and the statne should be placed there. If the Legislature would not make au appropriation, I have no doubt it might be accomplished by popular subscription, and 1 think the people of Yincennes would head the subscription." THE DOG'S ATTACHMENT TO 3IAN. So Devoted to His Matter that n I Heartiest to Ills Own Kind An Exception. . Ouida. in North American Review. . It has often been mooted as a vexed question why all meu of genius or greatness are so fond of dogs. The reason is not far to seek. Those who are great or eminent in any way find the world full of parasites, toadies, liars, fawner, hypocrites: the incorruptible candor, loyalty and honor of the dog are to such like water in a barren place to' the thirsty traveler. The sympathy of your dog is unfailing and unobtrusive. If you are sad,. so ia he: and if you are merry, none is so willing to leap and laugh with yon as be. For yonr dog you aro never poor; for-your dog you are never old; whether you are in a palace or a cottage he does not care; and fall you as low as you may. you aro his providence and his idol still. The attachment of tho do to man outweighs and almost obliterates at taehment in him to his own race, there is something shocking to our high opiniou of him in the callousness with which he will sniff at the still' body oi a brother dog: he will follow his master to the grave, and sometimes die on it: but tbe loss of his own kind leaves him unmoved. 1 never knew more than one exception to this: it was, however, a noteworthy one. 1 had two puppies of the Molussus. commonly called the Maremnia, breed; large, white, very beautiful dogs, with long hair; varying in size between a Newfoundland and a collie; the old Greek race of watch-dog- to which, quite certainly. Artfos belonged. These puppies, named Tan and Paris, lived together, fed, played, and slept together, and were never separated for a moment for seven months. In tho seventh month Paris fell ill of distemper and died. Now, by my own observation I can declare that Fan nursed his brother as assiduously as any boy could have nursed another; licked him. ' eleaued nim. brought him tempting Pits to eat; did all tnat he conld think of, and when bis brother at last lay there cold and nnretnniive. to his ellort. his grief and astonishment were plainful to see. From that time he ceased to play; from being a very lively dog ho crew grave aud sad; he had a-wistful, wonderine inquiry in his eye which it was pathetic to behold; and although he lived for many years after, and was as happy as a dog caa be, he never recovered hia spirits; ho had buried hia mirth in the grave of I'ana. Something was lost for him with his brother which-he never regained. This is the only instance 1 have knowrxof a dog' love for'another dog. t . ' Mlnplaced Anxiety. Barn's norn. . . Some folks who are always anxious about whether we shall "know each other there," pass their next 'door neighbors iu the street without speaking. .

Managers Dickson it Talbot announce for (his iceck an unusually interesting engagement, and one that is sure to please the patrens of the rarl; tcho tcant to "keep up tcith the procession" and see everything that is new in a theatrical icay. TKc attraction is

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THE WINSOME SUNBEAM, ElTTLE GOLDIE TO-MORROVT, Tuesday and Wednesday and Saturday, matinees and evenings, the Great Realistic Comedy Drama, the ROCKY ' MOUNTAIN WAIF Thursday. and Friday, matinees and evenings, The Fot of tlio West, "LITTLE GOLDIE" is a nac tar in the dramatic firmament. She is young, pretty and very clever, and.las made an unmistaabh hit in her engagements in other cities. She has fagun her career very favorably, for Iter manager has had the good seiise to put-' rive a thoroughly excellent compcriiy to support her, and special scenery and appointments for her plays. They, also are ncic, and are full of comedy, sensation, specialties and otlur' attractive features. SrOPULAR PARK PRICES 10c, 20c, ,30c. . Matixees 10 and 20 Cents. FAIRVIEW PARK Mrs. W. Z. LOVE, Or nn AsHistant. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, August 25, 6 O'dddc. FREE EXHIBITION. Balta Ascensions and ParacMs Jnmps Car ran t interval of ten minute daring the afternoon aifl till IU:0 at nigat. IV Free i:iectric Foanunu displays ererjnlrbt. Fanriaya eieepiM. Oiclc-rooia tor oare of baskets , and band-tatrasrA. Telephone Ro. 1601 inoonneo. tion wit!i all i-ointi In o.tr. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. k rnirTVO TL IX K. li A CO If an nfao Hirers sal A 1 JVli O Kepirerof ClHCULAlk CROS CUT, BAJS'D, and all vUier BltuK. fctaery Wbeela and &f Hi buppl'e IIUnoiit-vt, onaa-jaaraaouta Union suuua. SAWS SAWS BKLTINCr and EMERY WHEELS, Specialties of W. B. Barry Saw & Supply Co.. 132 & 124 S. l'taix. aL All kinds of tiava malred. "MTfj supplies AND nTTC jMLLiLi Ojnxults Union Mation. vJILiO Circular Sawa. Bel nr.. Krnry Wheel. File, Wool aim Iron PuiWa. oil Cupa ajd tirf. Telephone iUt. IL MILLER OIL CO. , BAKBEH HUPPLIF.3. J. E. BODINE A OO. 27 and 2Y C'lroJa itTret Manufactnwa oX Ilia lodiauapolu Razor aal Bar Ixr k urmture. EEMOVAL. MAY BROTHERS, MANT12I.S, Hare rmorort to Ue n -rttu at corner Delaware an l Ohlt street, whera llivj hor the large.t atorkof Mantel" In the cat jr. Call and cxamlua oar oo1a beiore placing order. TTe tiar th fcivf at aM Vt ltn of e?ia? anl MphmMle VlIKEL.Rlnthelij. Ajrrataforthe Iarilswa IMrjcla Mftfi line ot ratla-Victor l BAnv Utraana Hagle. 13!.ASr.& WILLETS 70 North Pennsylvania St rP"Acenta wanted In everr town. The Sunday Journal, $2 Ter Annum

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