Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 May 1889 — Page 2

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Enforce the law.

Public gambling must go.

Enforce the cow ordinance. *V

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Retrenchment is the demand of the day. _____________ Terre Haute struck oil and went Republican. ___

Time makes all things even. Public gambling must go.

Wesley Hauck's election was a very big vict ory, the more the facts are nnderstood.

Terre Haute is the banner Republican city in the Hoosier President's state this year.

Hundreds of Democrats in the city voted for Republican candidates to get a change from the gambling room gang that dominated their party's machinery.

Anywhere from 810,000 to $15,000 can be saved to the city by retrenchment in the fire and police departments and anywhere from 820,000 to 830,000 can be collected by a saloon license fee.

Mr. Siedentopf is not, and has not been for several months, a representative of the Third ward in the city council. He should either return to the city or resign and give the ward a chance to have a representative.

At 8 o'clock Tuesday night a faro bank dealer "bet $25 that Schmidt was elected mayor and he bet his money on the advice of those who manage the Democratic campaign. Up to that time the gamblers felt safe in having an executive who was with them.

THE EXPRKHS owes an apology to Mr. Duddleston, the Republican candidate for city clerk. His majority was not 1,1G0, but 1,170 is the correct report. The error of ten votes in favor of Mr. Duddleston was found in the Sixth ward. THR EXPRESS is Mr. Duddleston'a obedient servant, and he can have whatever he may call for.

The Ft. Wayne Democrats had a quarrel among themselves, and the Repubcans elected the mayor. New Albany had something like the same kind of a light we had here, and the Republicans elected Morris McDonald, an esteemed citizen, for mayor but scanning the returns from the city elections in the state we find nowhere the decided victory 6ecured in this city.

If there were not other and most conclusive evidence that the gamblers used all their influence and money for the Democratic ticket the depression and general acceptance of defeat among them, Tuesday night, was proof positive that they had banked all their hopes on the losing side. They expected no quarter then. Don't let them recover and put in a pleasant plea now, to again make dupes of Republicans.

A

CONFESSION.

Mayor Danaldson should not forget that a mayor, a llrst-class mayor, an honest, industrious fearless and capable mayor was once promoted to the governorship of a great state, and from that to the presidency and Is to be called to that station" again. What lias been done can be done again. Uovey's successor Is to be elected three years hence anil—well, there Is a president to be elected In 18% and again In ll»03.—| Gazette.

The writer of the above paragraph no doubt started his pen in the demanded good will toward the Republican mayorelect. A sense of the fitness of the oc-. casion moved his pen for a few lines, but ail the store of gratitude and decency failed the writer when he reached the comparison with Mr. Cleveland, who was once the mayor of Buffalo and the worshipful editor in his peculiarly sneering way dropped to sarcasm.

But whBt does he say in fact? Mr. Cleveland's only recommendation in public life was that he reformed the corrupt city government of Buffalo. On that opportunity was builded all his national fame. Does our contemporary mean to to say that the Democratic party of Terre Haute has so mismanaged affairs that the way is open for a reform mayor to equal the efforts of Buffalo's Cleveland? Does our contemporary plead guilty?

While there may the extravagance of intended sarcasm in the Gazette's paragraph, the truth is that the new mayor of Terre Haute has an opportunity, should his mind tend to such things, to do that which will elevate him in the opinion of .the people who are careful to note all the signs of the times. The people of Terre Haute have declared against the Democratic rule which the Gazette, by implication, says is bad. The people of the Wabaah valley and this congressional district see and understand all these manipulations of popular will and will quickly applaud the man who has the courage and appreciation of the true interests of his party.

C.O. D.

Putting Out a Feeler.

Smlthers (not sure of the state of her feelings) —Miss Laura I am going to start South to-mor-row, to be gone some time. You will think kindly or me when I am far away, won't you?

Miss Laura—Oh, yes, I'll think more kindly of you when far away than at any other time.

Boot Vs. Bonto.

Mrs. De Blllete—I really nuist travel this summer for my health. It Is men'a worry though, to make up one's mind what route to take.

Aunt Hannah—Why Lord, child, If you're feelin' bad at this time o' year, the best root you can get is yauer dock, to my notion.

A Summer Idol.

Laura-What lovely, shapely hands Mr. DIbley has! Miss Jennie (scornfully)-Yes, he hasn't a single broken linger. I'll Just bet he never played a game of base ball in his life!

Notelets.

Some

or

the "Sanitary Science" people have

been agitating the question of making bathing compulsory. It won't work. It was tried In Noah's time, and the only people who escaped with their lives were those who kept out of the water.

A Eastern piano firm manufactures an Instrument whldh they call the "baby grand." Probably It Is like other babies—should be seen and not heard.

When two women fight, the result Is apt to be on the Mugwump order—considerable scratching by both parties.

A high society pin—the terrapin.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

San Francisco Alta: One feature In Tuesday's procession drew cheers and tears all along toe line. It was the little band of American Jaok Tars who survived the wreifct^'of the vandalla at Apia.

Savannah News: Probably by the time the second centennial of Washington's Inauguration Is celebrated the monument which the New Yorkers propose to erect to the memory of General (xrant will be in place.

Hartford Courant: It Is an Interesting and not wholly unpleaslng circumstance that Mr. William C. Whitney, who has a more active brain and more agreeable manners than either Mr. David B. Hill or Mr. Grover Cleveland, has also a much larger barrel.

Peoria Transcript: The mayor of Chicago has announced that he will have no "public gambling In the city. The boys who have been accustomed to silting on the postofflce steps and playing sevenup for a dollar will have to stop, or the mayor will say something unpleasant to them.

Philadelphia Inquirer: The South is full of men who talk by the hour of solving the negro problem. It Is also full of men who discourse by the week of the glorlons constitution. But we notice that none of these eloquent gentlemen have yet hit upon the constitutional solution of the problem In which they are so deeply Interested. This solution is merely to enforce the principle underlying all our laws, which teaches that all men are free and equal.

Philadelphia Times: The first aim of all American Institutions of 1-irnlng, from the universities down to the common schools, should be to educate American citizens and prepare their pupils for a wise discharge of the duties of American citizenship. The children of the poor should not be left to think that the highest duty of an American citizen is to get into office and be fed at public expense, and the children of the rich should be taught to love and not despise the country In which they live.

New York Sun: Our country need not fear that Its lack of.a costly and crushing military establishment of the old world pattern denotes lack of real defensive strength. Ceremonies conducted and controlled by an organization of citizens, with national and state co-operation, brought together a fine body of drilled and equipped troops, and also enough other marching organizations to swell that force to a great army. And these were only types of millions In reserve, on whose prompt services In an emergency the government cap rely If It only has a good supply of weapons and equipments ready.

TUBF NOTES. #Ss

NEW YORK, May 8.—The sale of trotting stock from Senator Stanford's Palo Alto farm in California, began at the American institute building to-day. The attendance was good and the prices were very satisfactory. Among the earlier sales were these: Elector s, 1880. sire Electioneer, dam Lady Babcock, to Miller & Sibley, Franklin, Pa., $2,200. Clarissa br f, 1887, by Electioneer, dam Caribel, to M. A. Dougherty, New York, 82,050 Liiela, br. f., 1887, by Electioneer, dam Lizzie Collins, Miller & Sibley, 81,000. Coin, b. c., 1886, sire 'Electioneer, dam Cecil, A. J. Feek, Syracuse, N. Y., 82,500. A brown filly foaled in 1885, sire Electioneer, dam Alvavetta, Robert Steel, Philadelphia, $1,CC3. Alva, b. m., 1884, sire Electioneer, dam Alvavetta, Robert Steel, $1,350. A brown colt foaled in 1888, Bire Electricity, dam Cecilia Clark, Uhland Brothers, Milwaukee, Wis., SI,350. -.t

Jay-Eye-See, Harry Wilkes and Phallas are not likely to be seen on the turf again.

Sir Walter, jr., 2:18,li, the fastest stallion of record to-day in New England, has been sent to the Bates farm at Watertown.

The bay horse Morris Almont, jr., by Almont out of a mare by Ben Butler, died at Liberty, Ind., recently. He was the sire of the pacer, Grover C., 2:20.

Alcantara, 2:23, was deprived of three probable representatives in the "teens." First White Socks, 2:20)£, died. Then Alcagetta, 3 year-old record 2:25. The last on the list was the black mare Lady Emma, 2:25, which died in Johnson's stables at Stockton, Mass., April 30.

At a meeting of the stockholders of the Kentucky association it was decided to issue $30,000 of bonds and use the proceeds for the purpose of improving the grand-stand, stables, fences, and everything that is needed to make the course first class, at Lexington.

H. Bartlett, of the firm of Burt, Coe & Co.. Ottumwo, Io., has sold to a Russian syndicate, at a very low price, the 4-year-old colt Jupiter, by Seely's Rattler, dam Lady Whitman, second dam by Hambletonian. He is represented as a colt of rare promise, having shown trials better than 2:20.

The American institute building at New York was visited by a large number of people yesterday who are interested in the trotting horses, to view the collection of ninety-three horses which Senator Stanford has forwarded from his Paola Alta ranche in California. They will be sold at the institute at auction to-day. It is expected that some good prices will be realized.

Globe-Democrat: Ira E. Bride, of the firm of Bride & Bush, came up from Nashville yesterday, and bad a conference with Mr. Green in regard to the St. Louis pooling privilege. Ater some talk he and the fair grounds president came to an understanding, whereby Bride gets the privileges for $2,700 a da. It is more than •probable that he was acting for the Western bookmaker's association.

A Cynthiana, l\y., dispatch says the stables of Captain Moore, between Ruddells Mills and Shawanna, near Cynthiana, burned, consuming fifteen valuable horses. Of them, Van Wilkes was valued at $15,COO. A colt among them was valued at $10,0CD. There is no insurance. The following is a list of horses burned and values: Twilight Wilkes, 85,000 Bourbon Bismarck, 84,500 Bismarck Pilot, 84,000 Johnson, $2,0C0 Von Wilkes, 2 years old, $15,000 Mike, $1,000 Star Bismarck, $3,500 Kentucky Hambletonian, $10,000 Bourbon Mark, S3.0C0 Lily, 82,000: Perfection, $1.5C0 Count Bismarck, $1,5C0.

Do not water your young plants too much. Some flowering plants are easily killed if water gets in the crowns..

A MASTERPIECE OF CRIME.

Translated from the French of Jean Rlchepln for the Courier-Journal, ill.

A crime is in troth a masterpiece only when its author goes unpunished, and the glory of the deed is complete only when justice has falsely condemned another.

Oscar Laniseotte was unsuspected. Justice did not hesitate an instant about finding the assassin. Beyond a doubt it was the coachman. The fragments of letters were infallible proofe. Who but the coachman, the lover of the maid, would have been so well acquainted with the house and the old woman's manner of life? The step from robbery to murder was a natural one. Bafides, the piece of necktie gave undeniable testimony. To crown his misfortune, the coachman had bad antecedents, and as a final piece of circumstantial evidence he was unable to give a satisfactory account of his actions on the fatal evening, or establish an alibi. In vain he made denials and protested his innocence everything was againBt him, and not one point in his favor.

He was tried, condemned to death and executed and the judges, jury, lawyers, newspapers and police agreed that his punishment was merited. There was only one obBCure point in the whole affair the money could not be found. It was thought that therascal had hidden it in a safe placejMjpUn only to himself, but no one cUubted that he had stolen it.

In short, if ever a criminal received a fitting punishment for his evil deeds, it was this man.

IV.

It is often said that the consciousness of well-doing brings profound peace. But few have had the boldness to say that to go unpunished for a wicked action also causes happiness.

Oscar Lapissotte was fully able to enjoy the successful issue of his uouuie crime, and to partake of the fruits thereof with an absolute serenity. He felt neither remorse nor terror. The only thing that troubled him was his immense pride in his deed, which increased little by little.

It was, moreover, the pride of an artist. That which made him forget every moral consideration was the perfection of his work, and the feeling that he had shown himself to be marvelously ingenious and Bubtle. In this thought his thirst for superiority found something with which to satisfy itself, even to drunkenness.

In every other respect he remained a mediocre man, obscure and justly unknown. He made good use of his new fortune to force open the doors of the newspapers and reviews he feted the critics but he was unable to make the public listen to them. His verse, his prose, his dramatic attempts, were stamped with the seal of commonplace mediocrity. His fellow-craftsmen were slightly acquainted with Anatole Desroses (as he now called himself), the amateur author, who had more money than talent. But renders cared nothing for his money, and all agreed in refusing him the least spark of originality. He was only convicted of absolute literary incompetence. "And yet!" he sometimes said to himself, with a strange fire in his eyes, "yet, if I wished—! If I should describe my masterpiece! And there is no doubt that it is one! Anatole Desroses is perhaps a blockhead, all right but Oscar Lapiscotte is a man of genius. It is terrible to think that a plan so well schemed, so admirably conceived, so vigorously executed and so completely successful, should remain forever unknown. Ah! that day I had a real inspiration! MonJDieu! the Abbe Provost scribbled a hundred wretched romances, and he only wrote one, 'Manon Lescaut.' Bernardin de Saint Pierre left only 'Paul ^nd Virginia.' There are many remarkable men of genius who produce but one great work! It remains as a monument in literature. I belong to this family of great minds. I have done only one fine thing. Wherefore have I lived it instead of writing? If I should write it I would be famous. I should have only one book to show, but every one would wish to read it, for it would be unique of its kind. I have accomplished a masterpiece of crime!"

Ere long this idea became a monomania. For ten years he fought against it. He was consumed by regret that he had not written the thing instead of acting it, then by the desire to narrate his deed as apiece of fiction. That which haunted him was not the "Imp of the Perverse," that singular power, which forced the people in Poe's story to proclaim their secret it was only a literary proposition, the hunger for renown, the pruritus of glory.

Like a cunning counselor, who refutes one objection after another and makes plausible the most spacious arguments, this fixed idea pursued him with a thou sand seemingly rational syllogisms.

Why should you not write the truth? What have you to fear? Anatole Denroses is safe. The crime was done long ago, and is forgotten. The doer of the deed is known he is dead and buried with his head between his legs. You will appear to have given an artistic setting to an old incident of the law courts. You can put all the obscure thoughts, all the motives which drove you to the murder, all the ingenious means employed in accomplishing it, all the peculiar circumstances, supplied by that marvelous inventor, whom we call chance. You alone are in the secret of the work, and no one will divine that you in reality committed the orime. They will see in your tale the effort of an extraordinary imagination. And then you will be the man you want to be, the great writer who developed late, but produced a masterpiece. You will make such use of your crime as no criminal has ever done before. You will win not only a fortune, but the laurel. And who knows? After the first success, when you have gained a name, your other books will be read, and people will no doubt correct the unjust opinion which they have of you. On the road to fame it is only the first step which is difficult. Courage! Show a little of that wonderful daring which you had at least one day of your life! See how it led you to success! It can do so again! You have but to seize the opportunity, which is at hand to-day. Will you let it pass? You know how skillfully the thing is done. Well, then, tell me the story without fear, without circumlocution, proudly, in its majestic borribleness. And if you are willing to take my advice, satisfy your pride, be outrageously bold, and renounce the* pseudonym, which passes as your name, and sign it with your real name, which will pass as a pseudonym. It is not Jacques de la Mole, Antoine Guirland, or even Anatole Desroses—those creatures without talent whom it Bhould ren­

der illustrious—it is yourself it is Oscar Lapissotte. And one fine evening Oscar LapisBotte seated himself before a pile of writing paper, his head on fire, his hand feverish, like a great poet who feels himself ready to give birth to an immortal work, and lis wrote, with fierce unfettered rapidity at one astting, the story of hia crime.

He related the miserable attempts of this Oacar Lapissotte, he described his Bohemian life, his repeated failures, his established mediocrity, his terrible bitterness, the ideas of suicide and of crime which danced in his brain, the revolts of a heart deceived by its own visions and eager to avenge itself upon the crushing realities of life—a romance of subtle psychology, the anatomy of his own soul. Then with bold strokes and a terrible fidelity he sketched the scenes at the hospital, what happened in the Rue Saint Denis, the death of the false assassin, and the triumph of the true murderer. Then with a curious and Satanic subtilty he analyzed the motives which led the author to publish this accoiyjt of his crime he cloeed with an apotheosis of Oscar Lapissotte, who put his name to the confession.

"The Masterpiece of Crime" appeared in the Revue des deux Mondes, and had an enormous success. One can get an idea of the furor it caused from the following extracts from critical articlee: "Everyone knows that under the pseudonym of Oscar Lapissotte is concealed an au^ior who takes pleasure in this sort of disguises, M. Anatole Desroses. After having for a long time wasted his talents in trifling newpaper work, M. Derosee now gives us his true measure. The story is drawn from a judicial drama, which took place ten years ago in the Rue Saint Denis. But the imagination of the romancer has transformed a vulgar assassination into a striking work of literary Bkill. Poor Gaboriau himself could scarcely have devised the complications whioh M. Anatole Deroses has so ingeniously invented."— (Phillippe Gilli in Figaro.) "This leads me to say a word about the creeping feeling that came over me in reading 'The Mosterpiece of Crime.' There is in the analysis of emotions a metaphysical

Bkill

which spoils for me

the extraordinary imaginative power of the tale. The oddity of these subtle details is like an agreeable ragout. The author will be the most celebrated among the forgotten and despised of our time." (Charles Monselet. Evenerment.) "The author of this story is a lyrical poet, we take it. No more is he a realist. His fantastic genius has the wings of tragedy. One might say that Anatole DasroseB is rather a foster child of the Furies, those bloody hounds that howled upon the footsteps of Orestes, the murderer of the great Clytemnestra, than a nurseling of the white-throated Graces. But what matters the field so long as laurel grows therein?" (Theodore de Banville.—National) "No remorse! it is then the crime of an atheist. If a ray of christian faith penetrated the shadows, M. Anatole Desroses would pass for the Dante of the modern Inferno. As it is, he is only the Disderi." (Louis Veuillot—Univers.) "A masterpiece in truth, this "Masterpiece of Crime! His pen has the gleam of a-sword and the edge of a scalpel. It ma'kes deep cuts into the serenity of crime and dissects it, while it throws about it an aurecle of whirling flashes. One sees but the more clearly, that is all! It is the sulphurous brightness of th6 eye of Satan, and hers is also the hand or Satan that is, the enraged hand of M. Anatole Desroses tearing away the robe of crime and showing the human heart in its nakedness." (J. Barbey d'Amerilley.—Constitutional.)

Sarayc gave a lecture upon the "Masterpiece of Crime" in the Boulevard des Capucines. He compared the author with Hoffmann and Poe, said a few words on dramatic art apropos of the psychological preparations which introduced the scenes of the murder, and finally granted that the author had a little spark of genius, and patted him familiarly on the back.

In Bhort, there was a chorus of eulogies, aside from the indispensable snarling of the envious, the stupid, the prudes and other small fry of journalism. [TO BE CONCLUDED TO MORROW MORNING.]

White Caps After the Mew Messiah. ROCKFORD, III., May 8.—White Caps

have notified the Rev. George Schweinferth to leave the city in ten days. If he does not go they Bay they will break into his house, take him to the woods, strip him, tar and feather him, and roast him alive. They claim he is breaking up families. Schweinferth has employed a night watchman, purchased guns and dogs, and proposes to be ready for them. The Rev. Schweinferth is the head of what is known as the Beekmanite sect, and is worshiped by his followers as the Christ, leading many women to idolitroue worship of himself.

The Ocean Trip Record Broken. NEW YORK, May 8.—The steamship

City of Paris, of the Inman line, which arrived at Sandy Hook at 11:15 o'clock to-day, has broken all records from Queenstown. Her corrected time is 5 days, 23 hours and 7 minutes. The best previous time on record, which wae made by the Etrurin, was days, 1 hour and 59 minuteB. It is the first voyage across the Atlantic made in less than six days, and there many men in maritime circles who prophesied that the trip would never be made in less than that time.

The V. M. C. A.

PHILADELPHIA, May 8.—The twentyeighth international convention of the Young Men's christian association was called to order in the association hall by General O. O. Howard, of New York, vice president of the last convention, in the presence of the most prominent laymen of the Evangelical churches, not only of the United States and Canada, but from England, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and other counties. There are about one thousand delegates present.

A Starch Trnst.

CHICAGO, May 7.—Messrs. Frank Schuler, C. P. Wright and W. F. Piel, jr. starch manufacturers, held a secret meeting here to-day. One of the gentlemen informed a reporter that the gathering was merely to discuss friendly trade subjects and did not contemplate the formation of a trust.

The Dr. Gronin Mystery.

CHICAGO, May 8.—It has been decided to drag the north branch of the Chicago river and a number of deep pools in the north part of the city formed by the digging out of clay for brick, ig search of Dr. Cronin's body.

PEARS' Soap secures a beautiful complexion.

ILLA WILCOX HEABS OF KANKAKEE.

The Poeteaa Reminded That She H« OfUDM the Ladle* of That City.

If Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox should chance to set foot on the classic shores of the Kankakee river at the spot where the town of the three k's stands, she will find the Kankakee dames are "real mad," as the society journals of that city express it, says the Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Wilcox's offense lay in a letter which she wrote to'a sister scribbler, in which she scored the latter for what she considered a breach of the proprieties. To emphasize how abhorrent to her was the conduct of her correspondent Ella makes an allusion to the "women of Kankakee sitting with their limbs over chair-arms in company."

The trouble with the fair Ella was that in seeking to be funny she got hold of the wrong town to be funny with. Had she said St. Louis, or some other insignficant village, there would have been no notice taken of her effusion, for, as everybody knows, no one caree whether the St. Louis ladies hang their limbs over chair-arms in company or not, anyway, so that they keep their feet off the floor and leave people room to walk around. With Kankakee people, however, it iB different. Kankakee is near enough to Chicago to know better than allow any poetess of passion thuB to make fun with its fair name without resenting it Mr. Richard Green, of Kankakee, writes to the poetess as follows:

I noticed in the Chicago Tribune of April 17 the correspondence between yourself and the young lady of California. I think her behavior toward ion was ungenerous and Impolite. But are you not conscious that jou are guilty or the same Impropriety towards the ladles of Kankakee? I can assure you that they are as well educated ahd refined In manners as you can And In any other suburban city. Our public library, churches and scholastic Institutions are equal to any city of the same dimensions, and superior to many. I have been In Kankakee for more than twenty years and have never seen or heard of those "arm chair gymnastics" to which you refer. It Is altogether unfair and mean without reason to make this city the dumping-ground of vulgarity or the Jumpingoff place of civilization. Kankakee Is an Indian name and signifies "beautiful water," and our noble river which runs through the city well deserves the appellation. K. GREEN.

The reply was as satisfactory as could be desired and it came by the next mail Mrs. Wilcox writes:

WINDSOR, Wis., April 23.—My Dear Sir: Your justly indignant protest against the slur upon your city Is at hand. Upon my honor as a woman, my dear sir, I did not know there was such a place on earth as Kankakee. 1 once read the name In a funny poem, some absurd lingo about "A beautiful maiden of Kankakee." The word remained with me as a sort of Impossible make believe 8pot. It was In that sense I used It. I beg the pardon of all the fair ladles of the real Kankakee. Yours sincerely, ELLA WHXELER WILCOX.

Hereafter the poetess will consult a geography before going into the humorous kind of passion writing.

DISCUSSING NUDE IN ART.

Most of the Women lit. tlie New York Sorosls Favor It. Special to the Chicago Tribune.

CHICAGO, May 7.—Sorosis has been discussing the nude in art. Most of the women in that exclusive society think that nude in art is helpful to public taste. Miss Isabella Smith, the artist, who is the chairman on art of Sorosis, introduced the question and read a Bhort paper at yesterday's meeting. Those who listened to her included women of all ages and conditions. There were no men present, and each speaker Bpoke openly and earnestly. Miss Smith said that the highest expression of pictured or sculptured art was the nude human figure that it was God's beBt handiwork, the temple of the soul, and that no one should be degraded in looking at the nude in picture or sculpture. She admitted that the taste of the multitude didn't approve—did not rise to the height to agree with her remarks, but said that the multitude must be taught to rise, and that art. should not lower itself to the standard of the multitude.

The discussion of the question was then opened by Mrs. Hitchcock, who read an interesting paper in the affirmative. She began with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and remarked that sin and clothes entered the world about the same time. "Whenever I look at a nude woman in picture or sculpture I alwas feel that my sex is degraded," said Mrs. Romelia L. Clapp. "Artists talk ahout the nude human form being the highest type of art, but if it ia why do they still insist on wearing clothes? Sin caused Adam and Eve to don Bome drapery. When we become sinless we can perhaps afford to go without clothes. When we do I shall approve of the nude in art."

Miss Eggleston, the daughter of Edward Eggleston, the novelist, spoke a few words. She is a tall, pretty girl of 20. She said: "I have been studying the nude in art since I was 15. In my class there are twenty girls, all with sweet and attractive characters, and I cannot see that studying the nude in art has injured any of them."

'C Five Persons Burned to Death. WESTCHESTER, N. Y., May 8.—The

dwelling house of Watson Bownes] was destroyed by fire about half-past one o'clock this morning and five persons were burned to death. The household consisted of Watson Bownes, his wife, his mother, Mrs. T. B. Bownes, and two children and two servants. Bownes gave the alarm and started to carry his wife into the open air. In doing this he was severely burned about the feet and body and Mrs. Bownes was also burned about the head, neck and shoulders. While Bownes was rescuing his wife he could plainly heac cries of agony from his mother and his two children, who were sleeping with their grandmother but he was unable to save them and they perished. The two children were aged 3 and 5. Kate Dumi, a servant, and her sister Annie, who came to visit her last night, also perished.

Gives Up the World and Millions

Miss Kate Drexel, the second daughter of the late Francis A. Drexel, of Philadelphia, who left $0,000,000 to each of his three daughters, Tuesday entered as a postulate or earnest seeker of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy, ia the mother house of the order at Pitteburg. This is not exactly equivalent to entering the order, but those who know Miss Drexel believe her act amounts to a complete renunciation of her family, of her surviving sisters, her dear friends, and her great wealth.

Compulsory School Law In Illinois. SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 8.—In the

house, to-day, a bill was passed making it obligatory on all children between the ages of 7 and 11 years to attend school at leaBt twelve weeks each year. Also a bill to authorize proceedings supplementary to execution against property. It is substantially a copy of the New York law upon this subject.

Let her .Spread

Wanamikerism Is spreading and bringing forth Its legitimate fruits.—f Sew York Star.

So it is. Never in the history of the postoffice was the improvement so marked, ljet her spread.—[Chicago Inter-Ocean.

KXPRBS PACKAGES.

Should every one his quarter give. This church, which now Is small Will audi capacious quarters have

As will provide for all. So we hope you'll gl»e the quarter, which Should freely granted be, And some day may the good Lord gtve

Some quarter unto thee. —[Beligious Contemporary. An Oglethrope (Ga.) boy has a cat which is performing maternal functions for three young foxes and two kittens.

A boy was killed the other day in San Francisco, Hear the Palace hotel, and the body permitted to lie for houra on the sidewalk.

A Redding (CaL) man has made a lot of sugar from the native maple, and connoisseurs pronounce it equal to the eastern product.

Henry Kellogg, of New Haven, has invented a Bubstance which he oalls kelgum, and which he claims is a perfect snbstitute for rubber.

One Dr. Theniue, of Vienna, has invented a process by which he declares that good heavy sole leather can be made from the wood of old red beech trees. He has applied for patents.

Miss N. Troyer, a teacher in the San Francisco schools, succeeded in retaining her position and keeping the fact of her marriage a secret for five years, when it was revealed by a divorce suit.

Hoffman & Moore, of Apalachicola, Fla., have a cat that is 16 years old, and has presented the firm with an average of twelve kittens per year for fifteen years, making a total of 160 kittens.

A paper contains the following in advertisement: "Coffins and Caskets. *1 will sell 20 per cent. Cheaper than any other Party. Ladies and gentlemen Laid Out at any hour of the Night or Day."

An Albany (Ga.) young man made deBperate love at a dance to the wearer of a mask. Imagine his surprise when the object of his addresses raised her face covering and said: "You ought to love your aunt."

The making of veneered diamonds is anew Parisian industry. The body of the gem is cut from quartz and then by galvanic action coated with a solution made from diamond chipe and stones too small for cutting.

Apiece of coal weighing five and a half tons has been cut at Abercara colliery, Cornwall, England, to be sent to the Paris exhibition. The block measures 7 feet inches long, 5 feet inches wide and 3 feet 9 inches deep.

A San Francieco doctor delivered a lecture the other night before the Cooper medical college, in which he entered into an eloquent defense of the pun from a medical standpoint. He claimed that it produced laughter, which is antagonistic to nearly all disease. WK

Easter Sunday a lady living in Riwside, Ga., had two hens confined insa coop. During the day, between thera, they laid three eggs. The lady does not know which of the hens to suspect of this overproduction and is anxiously awaiting further developments.

The largest pension but one ever granted to a union soldier was recently granted to Christian Holzworth, of Lowville, New Yorlr. He receives aback pension, exclusive of expenses, of $12,979.90, and a monthly allowance of $72. Mr. Holzworth is an inmate of the Lewis county asylum and iB incurably insane.

Dr. W. C. Harding, a San Francisco dentist, has gone crazy experimenting on himaelf with a

new

ana3Sthetic. The

drug was his own invention. It enabled the practitioner to~*transplant teeth without inflicting pain, but produced nausea. It was in his efforts to overcome this difficulty that the doctor lost his mind.

John A. Fulmer, of Moravia, N. Y.,has in his possession a neck yoke which has a history. It originally belonged to Major General Frederick William Augustus Baron de Steuben, who came to mis country in 1770. He died in 1804, so it will be seen that this neck yoke is quite a relic. The wood appears to be white oak.

Oliver Shepherd, a lad of sixteen, living near Champion, Ind., had an exciting experience with a black snake the other day. He was passing along the road near his home when the reptile appeared from

Borne

bushes and attacked

him. The boy Btarted to run, and was closely pursued for nearly a mile by the snake.

J. D. Stafford, of Grantville, Ga., let all the water out of his carp pond. At the bottom he found a large hollow gourd, within which were two catfish, too large to get out. They had entered the gourd when Bmall, and had remained there until their bodies were too large to pass through the door which admitted them.

A young Polish lady, who is desirotis of cultivating her musical talent, begs the assistance of kind friends "to enable her to procure a piano, which her parents cannot afford to purchase." This is her address, as given in a London paper: Jadwiga Janina Bogus Taweka, Piotokow Trybunalski, Ulica Moskiewske dom Dolinskiogo, Poland.

A Washington woman, prosecutor in an assault and battery case, who called the court's attention to the marks on her face, the result, she said, of the beating she had received, almost fainted when the judge ordered an officer to closely examine the injuries. He rubbed a handkerchief over her face, when the marks instantly disappeared, having been made with paint. The case was then dismissed.

The Jolins Hopkins Hospital. BALTIMORE, May 8.—The Johns Hop­

kins hospital at Monument stand, Broadway, was formally opened this ''morning. It is one of the finest and most complete institutions in the world, embracing seventeen buildings, which cover four acres of ground and are surrounded by ten acres more of beautiful parksge. Its construction was begun more than ten years ago and the total cost was $2,050,000.

Ex-Congressman Townshend's District. MCLKANSBORO, 111., May 8.—The Rs-

publican convention to nominate a candidate for the Nineteenth congressional district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Townshedd, met here Tuesday. The Hon. Thomas Ridgway, ex-state treasurer, secured the nomination on the first ballot.

A Jockey Sentenced to Be Banged. NEW YORK,May 8.—James Stone, the

colored jockey, who was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Henry Miller, the bartender of Coney Island, was sentenced to be hanged on the,25th of June next.

A Woman Found Guilty of Manslaughter UTICA, N. Y., May 8.—The jury in the

case of Mrs. Crosby, on trial for the mur der of Emma Burdick at Norwich, N., Y., brought in a verdict this morning of manslaughter in the second degree.

Long-Standing

Blood Diseases are cured by the persevering use of Aydl's Sarsaparilla.

This medicine is an Alterative, and causes a radical change in the system. The process, in some cases, may not be quite so rapid as in others but, with persistence, the result Is certain. Bead these testimonials

For two years I suffered from a severe pain in my right side, and hadf other troubles caused by a torpid liver and dyspepsia. After giving several medicines a fair trial without a cure, I began to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I was greatly benefited by the first bottlo, and after taking five bottle3 I was completely cured."—John W. Benson, 70 Lawrence St., Lowell, Mass.

Last May a large carbuncle broke out on my ami. The usual remedies hail no effect and I was confined to my bod for eight weeks. A friend induced me to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Less than three bottles healed the sore. In all my experience with medicine, I never saw more

Wonderful Results.

Another marked effect of the use of this medicine was the strengthening of my sight." Mrs. Carrie Adams, Holly Springs, Texas.

I had a dry scaly humor for years, and suffered terribly and. as my brother and sister were similarly afflicted, I presume the malady is hereditary. Lasi winter, Dr. Tvron, (of Fernandinr Fla.,) recommended me to take Ayer S a a pa a an O TO a For live months took it daily. I navo not had a blemish upon my body for the last three months.?' T. E. Wiley, 146 Chambers St., New York City.

Last fall and winter I was troubled with a dull, heavy pain in my .4ide. I did not notice it much at first, but it gradually grew worse until it became almost unbearable. During the latter part of this time, disorders of the stomach and liver increased my troubles. I began taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and, after faithfully continuing the use of this medicine for some months, the pain disappeared and I was completely cured."—Mrs. Augusta A. Furbusli, Haverhill, Mass.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla,

PREPARED BY

Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Prlco $1 six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle.

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Pleasant, profitable, everybody likea it. We WH* inaugurate it

MONDAY MORHM. Mill 6."~

For one week this special Hosiery, Underwear, Glove sale. ISiTA clean sweep in all these lines, regardless of cost.

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At the same time: 1,000 parasols, all styles, colors and shapes, from last season, half price. 100 dozen Ladies' Jersey Pitting VestB 15c, worth 35c. 100 d«5zen.Ladies' Jersey Ribbed Vests 19c, worth 45c. 50 dozen Ladies' Jersey Fitting Lace Trimmed Vests 25c, former price 50c. 25 dozen Ladies' Fancv Striped Cotton Hose, regular made, 15c, former price 25c. 50 dozen Ladies' Black Tjisle Thread Ilose 59ck former prioe 50c. 50 dozen Children's Fancy Lisle and Cotton Hose 23c, sold, from 35r to SI a pair. 50 dozen Lisle Thread Gloves 15c, former price 35c and 45c. 50 dozen Black Silk Mits 15c, cheap at 25c. ''j

MONDAY, MAY 0.

S. AVKKS & 01,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

^AMUSEMENTS.

NAYLOR^S OPERA HOUSE:

ONE WEEK OF COMIC OPERA,

COMMENCING

MONDAY, MAY 6th.

MatineftB Wednesday and Saturday.

GEO. A. BAKER'S

Benjaett-Moulton

Comic Opera'Cohipany.

|I1 48 PEOPLE 48

.. ..

Our Own Orchestra! New and Elegant Costumes! Two I'rlinu Donnas!,

RKPKRTOIUK FOR THK WKKK:

Monday Boccaccio Tuesday The Bet«ar Student, Wednesday Mutlnee Merry War... Wednesday Evening Macalre Thursday Tlie Black llussar Fridiw! The Bohemian «lrl Saturday Matinee Robert Macalre Saturday Evening Chimes of Normandy

Prices: 15. 25,35 and 5(1 cents. Secure seats at Button's book store.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (I*) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping 4 Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. Allother trains run dally Sundaysexcepted.

VANDALIA LINE. TTHTA 1. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOR THK WKST.

No. 9 Western Express (S&V) 1.42 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train 10 l« a. 111. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 1§ P. m. No. 7 Fast Mall P-

LKAVK FOR THK KAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.30 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (SAV) 151 a. in. No. 4 Mallund Accommodation 7.16 a. 111. No. IS) Atlantic Express (P&V) 12-42 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line 2.00 p. in

ARKIVK FKOM THK KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (SAY) 1.30 a.m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.0l)p. m. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation C.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. in.r

ARKIVK FROM THK WKST. J?

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (9) 1.20 a. m./ No. 6 New Yerk Express (SAV) 1.42 a. 111 No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAY) 12.37 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line 1.40 p. m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

IJCAVK FOR THK NORTH.

No. S2South Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. 64 South Bold Express 4.00 p. m. ABR1VK FROM THK NOKTS No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon-. No. G3 South Bend Mall 7.90 p. 111.

For Inventions promptly secured. Reference, by ner-g mission, to Hon. Wm.' Mack. Address

O.E.DUFFY, 607 Seventh Street, Washington, D. C.