Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1885 — Page 3

THE LICENSE OF THE PBESS. Liberties Taken by Many Newspapers with Purely Private Concerns. Misuse of the Practice of Interviewing—Scandalous Attitude of So-Called Humorists Towards Women in Public Position. Mrs. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox has followed up her many successes in the field of rhyme by a venture into the domain of prose, having written a novel entitled “Mai Monlee,” which is on the point of being issued by Q. W. Carleton & Cos., New York. In this work Mrs. Wilcox gives her views on many important questions, and in one chapter treats the subject of license of the press, as follows: “It is a question,” said Percy, “which must, before many years, be decided—ju6t where the lreedom of the press should end, and where the rights of individuals should begin. It seems to me that even our so-called best newspapers take unnecessary and unlicensed liberties in these days.” “But the public appetite demands such a varied and highly spiced diet that we are obliged to gratify it in every legitimate manner possible. If we do not our rival sheets will,” explained Homer Orton, an American journalist. “That is all very well when you keep to legitimate means. But I call the invasion of homes, and the cruel and often untruthful assertions concerning the private life of unoffending individuals, illegitimate means of feeding a depraved appetite. The average newspaper humorist, who utterly disregards the truth in his anxiety to concoct a taking item, I do not consider a necessary feature of high journalism—do you? If he only succeeds in raising a laugh, he considers his object in life attained. He reminds me of the tribe of the Damaras, who are described as so utterly heartless that they roar with laughter on beholding one of their number torn to pieces

by a wild beast.” “Still, it is not so much heartlessness as insensibility and thoughtlessness and a desire to be bright and witty which causes a good many of these things to be written,” Homer responded. “I heard that oyerv excuse advanced only the othef’day,” Percy replied, “and I heard this response made, which is quite apropos now: ‘lt has been observed by thoughtful naturalists that often, when a lion or boll kills a man, the poor beast really has no malice in his heart, and does not mean any harm. He only intended to play with his accidental comrade of the moment. But then a lion has only claws and a bull only horns with which to make their humor felt, and so they are fatally misunderstood.’ It would seem to me, then, that the chief of a large newspaper ought to consider himself as responsible for those accidents as the keeper of a menagerie.” “But often the cnief of a first-class newspaper has no idea of the really scurrilous items which sreep into his paper,” explained Homer. “Like the chief cook in a large hotel, he cannot taste of every dish prepared by bis subordinates; and no managing editor could survive the strain, Tou know, of looking over his humorist’s column ©very day. Our madhouses would overflow if sueh a method of journalism were inaugurated.’’ “Still, it is a lax system which permits such errors (if we can call them errors), to occur,” Percy insisted; “and, if guests were constantly being poisoned or rendered ill through the criminal carelessness of the hotel cook, I fancy he would be called to account for not knowing what dishes his subordinates prepared. A newspaper should be the friend and companion of the people, and ft welcome guest in every home. Instead, it is too often a treacherous spy, a maligner and falsifier. Almost every day we read statements concerning people which are absolutely without foundation, and which result in no end of mischief and trouble.”

'“You, no doubt, refer to people in public life —politicians, authors, actors, and the like—do you not?” asked Homer. “I know they are considered targets for the shots of our humorists all over the country; but then you must remember that if a man gives his name voluntarily to the world and forces his work or personality upon the public he cannot expect both the benefits of fame and the seclusion of private life. It is unreasonable. Ho has, in a measure, himself over to the public, and be must take the consequences. And, really, the fact that the busy newspapers of the present day give time and space to discussion or comments upon any individual ought to be considered highly complimentary.” “That depends entirely upon the nature of the comments,’ answered Percy. “Nor do I refer entirely to public people. Our wealthy men, and their wives and daughters are subjected to the same coarse comments. Their personal defects are ridiculed, and the pitiless and ghastly electric light of publicity is turned on their most sacred joys or sorrows. Items devoid of truth and wit appear every day concerning people who have committed no offense greater than to succeed in some special calling. They are copied, enlarged upon, and believed by a majority of the masses. It is a degenerate system of journalism which permits it It is high time some manly journalist began a crusade against it.” “I agree with you perfectly,” Homer Orton answered. “I would like to have the leading newspapers of the country band together to protect the people from insult and petty libels in their columns; and I would like to see the imaginary interviewer done away with by every respectable journal.” “What is the imaginary interviewer, pray?” queried the Englishman. “He is a reporter who, if he is refused admittance by any person be wishes to interview, deliberately invents an interview—describes the personality aud manufactures the conversation to suit his own taste. No one was ever more misused in this respect than your own Oscar Wilde, unless it was Mrs. Langtry. The most astounding postures and inane remarks were attributed to them by people who never saw them. It is not, however, our first-class journals which have permitted this.” “VVould you not recommend the abolishing of the interviewer entirely?" suggested Percy. “Certainly not,” Homer responded. “The newspaper interviewer is a benefit to the press, to the country, ana to all public people who have a name and a reputation to make. That is, when he is a truthful gentleman, and does not abuse the hospitality of those who admit him to their homes. The school girl who sends for the autograph of a public man pays him a graceful compliment, and he should write it for her without a murmur. Just in the same way, the whole public offers a quiet tribute to the man of reputation when an interviewer preseuts his card. The newspaper would never ask for an interview to publish unless the masses of its readers desired it. And the interviewer should be met courteously, and the public man should realize that this sort of thing is the duty he {lays on fame. If he has positively nothing of nterest to say to the interviewer, or is too busily encaged to be interrupted, he should tell the caller so in a respectful and polite manner. Many a public man is badly treated by the reporter in print because he treated the reporter badly in his house.” But what have you to say of the interviewer who is well treated, and then repays the hospitality he has received by an article bristline with rdicule and untruthful misrepresentations of the personality or conversation of his entertainer? I have known this to 'Occur.” “I do not believe it occurs very often,” Homer answered. “When it does there is usually personal malice at the bottom of it, or a catering to the lowest order of scurrilous journalism. It is a great pity that the victims in such cases have no dignified redress. A thorough caning ought to be considered consistent with the situation. But I think, as a rule, respectable newspaper men endeavor to do the right thing by those who have treated them with courtesy in this matter. The trouble is, journals are not careful enough in the representatives they send on these commissions. It requires a great deal of delicate tact to write acceptably of a man’s home life and personality during his lifetime No thoughtless boy or sensation seeking reporter should be commissioned with such a task. I positively know a New York journalist, who possesses a bright mind and wonderful command of lanbesides an easy and elegant deportment, who considers it fair play to gain information through private letters or confidential conversations with his friends, and then to use such knowledge for press purposes. He boasts of his •kill in this respect,^ “Impossible!” cried Percy, indignantly. “Quite too possible,” Homer replied. “His

devotion to journalism and his desire to feed the public appetite have destroyed every particle of moral principle the fellow ever possessed. Os course, such a man reflects discredit upon the whole profession That he is an exception to the rule, I know: but that he is retained at all upon a respectable journal is to be regretted." “There is still another feature of American journalism to be more regretted and blushed for, I think,” said Percy. “That is the attitude of our so-called humorists and paragraphers toward public women. Nowhere else in the world do women occupy so exalted and honored a position as they occupy in America. No other women in the world have accomplished so much in various public callings. Yet nowhere else are they subjected to such insults as they receive from tje newspapers throughout the United States, from the prima donna to the President's wife, sister or daughter.” “Are you not a little extreme in that statement, Mr. Durand?” asked Homer Orton. “You must recollect that the royal family are discussed very freely in print; and ladies who have become famous ought to consider themselves members of the royal family of genins, and take newspaper criticisms as a natural consequence.” “It is not newspaper criticisms to which I refer,” answered Percy. “Os course, half the success of an actress, a sing jr, an author or a painter depends upon public criticism, and often it happens that the severer the criticisms the greater the success. But it is the loose familiarity and the coarse jests of the item-seeker of which I speak. Only last week I saw a wretched little item, intended to be humorous, but actually brutal, going the rounds of the press, concerning the advanced years of a famous operasinger, a woman who has reflected credit on our nation by her brilliant and stainless career.” “I saw the item to which you refer,” Mr. Elliott said, “and I wondered if it was consistent with the national boast that Americans are the kindest and most thoughtful men in the world toward ladies. It seemed to me an un-called-for and ungentlemanlv incivility toward a noble lady,”

“I often wonder,” continued Percy, “if the fellows who perpetrate those things stop and consider that the public Women whose names they use so freely are somebody’s sisters, wives or mothers, and that in nine cases out of ten they lead a public life, or first entered a public career, to earn a living. If the newspaper men of the country ever do take this view of the matter, I should think their first impulse would be to shield, and protect, and help| every self-support-ing woman in the land. At all events, I should think every sensible journalist would realize that, while it is the province of the newspaper to furnish able criticism on the voice of the singer, the book of the author, the speech of the orator, it is not its province to indulge in poor puns or insulting comments on the age, the personal defects, or the domestio life of the singer, author, or speaker. These things should be tabooed by respectable journals, just as they are tabooed in respectable society. Our journalists should be as careful in their reference to the private matters of indi vidualß in print as they are in conversation in their parlors, where scandalous or impertinent references to the absent would’be considered •bad form.’ Really, I do not understand how any of us who read the daily papers dare boast of American chivalry.” “The chivalry of the average man,” said Dolores, who approached the group just at this moment, “consists in protecting a woman agamst every man save himself.”

ROBERT GARRETT'S PALACE. His Magnificent Residence Costing 8750,000 Exclusive of Furnishing. Baltimore Letter. The palace being built by Mr. Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, on Mt. Vernon Place, will be ready for occupancy in January. It is the most costly dwelling ever erected in Baltimore. Exclusive of furnishings, the cost of it will amount to more than $750,000. Like Mr. Vanderbilt’s Fifthavenue mansion, in New York, it is built in the most aristocratic section of the city. During Mr. Garrett’s last visit to Europe he purchased in Paris and London unique designs in decorative goods such as are rarely seen on this side of the water. It is said that he paid $1,500 a pair for curtains for the parlor and library, and for carpets almost phenomenal prices. The furniture and decorations for the parlor and bed-rooms are to be of the most original patterns, luxuriously upholstered and handsomely dildad and Lu ibo vbaiuLcie modot u art predominates. The walls are whitecoated in imitation of basket-work, with here and there a simple flower, intended to relieve tbe monotonous interlacing of straws. The ceiling of the main hallway is msde in cherry pannels of octagonal shape, extending back to the grand spiral stairway, finished in the same wood with ebony trimmings. Overlooking the area is an atlas-shaped skylight made of cathedral stained glass in delicate tints, all blended together in perfect harmony. The most extravagantly-finished apartment is the ball-room, adjoining the east parlor. In it are little niches for statuary, and at regular invals massive columns support a ceiling elaborately worked in plaster and then bronzed. The flooring is of solid, polished yellow pine, white the walls, except the lower portion, which is wainscoted in Italian marble, are snow-white. The conservatory, immediately in the rear, is already filled with plants and shrubbery, though space has been reserved for Mr. Garrett’s fine collection of orchids. Majestic chandeliers and electric jets in tinted globes, by special contriv auce made to furnish soft, luminous rays, are plentifully scattered throughout the house. The most striking adornments of the apartments are the imitation antique mantels, selected by Mr. Garrett himself while abroad. They are for the most part made of mahogany, upon which are carved characters of the mediaeval ages. The one in the library is perhaps the oldest. Its shelf is supported on either side by a child scantily clad and frowning under her heavy load. Above the shelf the space is occupied by a panel bearing the inscription, “A little place called Paradise.” The top floor, with its large, airy rooms and bath, is to be occupied by a chef and his assistants, as well as by the other domestics. Many of the ideas used in the construction of tho building were those of Mrs. Garrett, whose good taste is well known in Baltimore. At present Mr. aud Mrs. Garrett are the guests of Mr. Frick, Mrs. Garrett’s father, at his handsome country place on the Frederick road, a few miles from the city limits.

Why the Hessian Weeps. Croffnt’x New York Letter. There is a strong suspicion hereabout that Puck and Puck’s proprietor do not love President Cleveland witn the fervor displayed before the 4th of March last. It will bo remembered that thecartoons ir. Puck glorified the present incumbent of the White House week in and week out. It was ready to lampoon, both with pen and pencil, Mr. Blaine, his supporters, and whoever else had any opinions adverse to Mr. Cleveland. The reason for this change has leaked out, but has not yet been published. Mr. Keppler has a brother-in-law, Mr. Schuman I think is his name, who occupies a position as book-keeper with the Corbin Banking Company. Mr. Schuman wanted a German consulate; Mr. Keppler promised he should have it In due time the proprietor of Puck wrote a personal letter to the President, pointing out the services he had rendered Jin defaming Biaine|, and declaring that if this favor could be accorded him by the administration he would ask for nothing more. The answer was not according to bis anticipations. It began by setting out a few moral maxims, and ended by saying that, according to the new doctrine, elective offices were the only reward of party services, and that Mr. Schuman should seek to deserve an election at the hands of his countrymen, for the post of consul he should not have [Hence the fall in Puck’s thermometer. ] Steamship* News. Glasgow, Dee. 7.—Arrived: State of Georgia, from New York. Lon PON, Dec. 7.—Arrived: Grecian Monarch, from New York. Queenstown, Dec. 7.—Arrived: City of Berlin, from New York. New York, Dec. 7.—Arrived: Celtic, Aurania, from Liverpool. I’ve suffered for years with neuralgia and headache, and have tried almost every known remedy and mauy prominent physicians, but failed to get relief. I was persuaded by a friend to try “Salvation Oil,’’ which I did. I found it a great relief after a few applications. I cheerfully recommend it tt all who likewise suffer. G. H. McGee, Auctioneer.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1885.

EVILS OF ROLLER SKATING. The Providence Rinks To Be Closed on Account of Immorality. Providence (R. I.) Special. The brief announcement made in the city newspapers to-day that the Board of Aldermen had voted on Thursday not to grant further licenses to roller skating rinks gave rise to considerable speculation. The only information to be gained from the report of the regular proceedings was that tho board went into executive session, heard a report of an investigation concerning the rinks, and voted unanimonslv to discontinue the licenses. The correspondent this evening learned upon good authority that the report which was submitted in private to the board disclosed a state of immorality among young girls belonging to respectable families hardly to be believed were it not that the evidence upon which the report was based was carefully gathered and prepared. For some time there had been complaints heard in this city of a perceptible increase in the number of young street walkers. The girls complained of d:d not openly solicit company at night, but they made it their regular practice to promenade up and down the streets on pleasant afternoons and carry on open flirtations with those specimens of humanity known as “mashers.” In many instances the promenading was carried on well into the evening, and by girls of very tender years. Assertions were made in certain quarters that the roller-skating rinks were responsible in part for the bad conduct of the girls. Four weeks ago Mayor Thomas Doyle determined to trace out these, and at his suggestion Chief of Police Child detailed officers to attend the rinks in citizens’ dress and thoroughly investigate the matter. The worst that had been said about the existence of immoral influences was confirmed by the official report of the investigation. The officers night after night saw degraded women mingling with young girls as freely as though they were of good character. Every night the officers saw professional “mashers” entice young girls, some of whom were in short clothes, to accompany them out of the rinks. The officers followed these young girls, saw them go into saloons where liquors were sold, and then later followed them and their

male escorts to houses. In one rink a week ago the officer detailed saw a young girl come in who had just begun to learn to skate and was unable to go about alone on the rollers. He questioned one of the regular male patrons as to who and what she was. The young fellow remarked that he didn’t know who she was, but unless she was made of different stuff than the rest of the young girls who came to the rink she would be some one’s prey in less than two months. Nearly all of the girls who were followed belonged to good families, and some werq'Very respectably connected. For that reason, presumably, the aldermen heard the report with closed doors. The action of the mayor is approved by all good citizens, many of whom have long asked for the suppression of the rinks. The strangest feature of this matter is that the largest and most frequented roller-skating rink building is owned by one of the leading churchmen of the State, one who has long been very prominent in religious and temperance affairs. He leases the building to the person who runs the rink, and while legally he cannot be held responsible for the ruination of the thirteen and fourteen-year-old girls, there is a public sentiment here that is disposed to hold him morally responsible. After this month no more roller-skating rink licenses will be granted

PASTEUR’S PROCESS. How He Inoculates to Prevent and Care Hydrophobia. Paris Letter. The little country boy, Theodore Jupille, about fifteen years old, stepped forward and pulled his sleeve backward-to show me where he was bitten by a mad dog. There were several wounds, pretty nearly healed up, on both arms, and this is what he told me about his adventure with the dog: “It was a wild beast, Monsieur, that caused these wounds about two weeks ago at my home in the Zura mountains. I had charge of a flock of sheep, and looked at six children, playing near by, when suddenly the big dog of a neighboring farm made his appearance and dashed at the children, howling peculiarly. The children fled, but the doe pursued them, so I followed with my whip and trid to chase him off. After the first lash of my whip he turned around and bit me here in my right hand I liberated ray right hand with *ujr left,, v.ut noi, omore ne on, ray thumb another time. Then I took the string of my whip, tied the mouth of the dog as tight as I could, and suffocated him. “You see,” said Pasteur, “I did not say too much. He not only exposed himself to the assaults of a mad dog, but comes here to me to get the poisou of another mad dog injected. If that is not bravery I do know what is. Show the gentleman your ab(tomo D _ Jupille laid this part of his body bare, ami I noticed several old stripes where the injections had beeu made. “I made six of them already,” re marked Pasteur. “A dose like that administered to the boy would have killed a rabbit in seven days.” “But how do you get your poison?” “It is very simple. I first take the poison from tbe brain of a mad dog. With this I vaccinate a rabbit, which will die within fourteen days, and this gives me the poison for a second one, which is vaccinated the same way. I continue this practice until I have reached the twentieth or twenty fifth. From there up to the fiftieth the rabbit will die in eight days, and after the fiftieth the animal will become mad in seven days. This procedure enables me to determine the most important feature of the treatment, viz.: The duration of the period of incubation. There were people who were inflicted with the fatal disease several years after the accident, while others died after a few weeks. By these experiments I could grade tbe poison, as it were; if the poison I have injected to Jupille would not have been moderated by proper treatment, he would now suffer by hydrophobia. But by my treatment he is, as you see, as well as he can be. He does not complain of pains; he does not fear hydrophobia any more, and from now on he will be able to attack everv mad dog without risking to be inflicted with the dreadful disease, which he might have contracted by his heroic deed. ”

JOHN WILKES BOOTH. A Daughter, His Only Living Child, Now Playing in Chicago—Her Story. Chicago Tribune. In view of the curious rumors occasionally hatched in the newspapers regarding John Wilkes Booth, who shot President Lincoln, the statements of his own family may not appear irrelevant. It has been suggested from time to time that the corpse interred as that of the assassin was not truly his, and that John Wilkes Booth still breathes the air of life. Such fairy tales, though they have always appeared sufficiently grotesque upon their face, have frequently been permitted to go unchallenged by the near kinsman of the actor: and, indeed, not many are aware that his widow and daughter are now alive, and fewer still that the only child of John Wilkes Booth lives in Chicago.* Mrs. Henderson, who, under the name of “Rita Booth,” has been playing with Allison and Pelch’s burlesque comedy company during the last week at Grenier’s Garden on West Madison street, is the daughter of the man who fired the fatal shot. She was married not long ago to Mr. Henderson, formerly manager of Grenier’s Garden Theater and of the Chicago Museum, aud now Slaving a minor part in the company of Lillian lussell. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson live at the Park View Hotel, at Monroe and Throop streets. “How often I have heard that absurd story about my father being alive,” said Mrs. Henderson, last night, between the acts in which she appeared. “I saw him buried, and so did my mother. He was very little at home during my childhood, and I only recollect seeing him twice on his visits to Virginia; yet I remember him perfectly. My mother went to see the body at the undertaker's. The head was severed from the body, but she took it up and looked at it. At first she had some misgivings about his identy, but upon looking at his teeth all doubt vanished. One of bis teeth was built up with gold in a way that could not be mistaken. He is safely buried, and it is painful to me to recall the subject of his death. Neither am I willing to be brought into public notice as the daughter of my father. “My mother lives in Scotland, Conn., not far from Norwich. I once had a brother, but he died in infancy, leaving me my father’s only child. I have two half-brothers, a circumstance that may have givon rise to the story about Mr. Booth having an aduit son. We have always lived very quietly. Some years after my father’s death my mother married an officer in the navy

and became Mrs. Bellows. They had two sons, one of whom is at home and the other in New York. My mother is now again a widow. I have been on the stage since I was fifteen. I waa only five when my father met his death. Most of my theatrical experience has been in the East; but I like the west better, and am settled in Chicago. We have lived under a different name from our father’s, and, as for myself, only my intimate friends know that Mr. Booth was my father. lam extremely reluctant to have the fact brought to public notice now.” Mrs. Henderson is rather tall and slender, but it was imposssible last night to discern, through the disguise she wore, any resemblance to her famous father. She has some thought of going home to her mother for a time after the expiration of her present engagement. Working Up the Mineral Product. Washington Special. The United States Geological Survey will shortly make a report of elaborate investigation of the undeveloped wealth of the Appalachian range south of the Pennsylvania line. Tho statistics to be presented showing the forest growth in that region will be especially interesting. An estimate of the stumpage value of the trees in Wesf Virginia alone exceeds $400,000,000. Besides this, the report will show that nearly one-half of that State is underlaid with coal in such condition that it may be easily worked. Iron ore and limestone abound. The investigations of the bureau establish the fact that as fast as the trees are cleared away the land becomes available for pasturage. The report also gives the latest discoveries and estimates by the bureau of the timber growth and minerals of western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, northern Alabama, northern Georgia and portions of Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The work of the survey has progressed so far that this forthcoming report will contain a great ■deal of interesting information about these sections. Much of the country gone over by the bureau is little else than a wilderness at present, and the fact that there is a good deal of room in these wild regions of the Southeast and South for this country to grow is demonstrated by the report

Patent Cure-Alls. Boston Transcript. There are r.o doubt proprietary medicines which are precisely what they purport to be; but, generally speakine, the man who indulges in proprietary medicines does not know what he is taking into his system. The name is no index. Prussic acid, arsenic, iodide of potassium and sugar of lead are contained in some of tbe commonest patent medicines, which, masquerading under innocuous titles, may do no end of harm. A TALK ON TEMPERANCE. Major George A. Hilton’s Lecture at the Circuit Court Room. Major George A. Hilton delivered another of his characteristic temperance lectures in the Circuit Court room last night. His illustrations were many and to the point, and his denunciation of the liquor traffic was as severe as words could malje it. License, high or low, met with no favor, the licensed liquor traffic being characterized as “the great national highway to hell.” Said Mr. Hilton: “The blighting hand of the traffic regards no place too sacred for its intrusion; in the basement of the house in the second story of which Lincoln died, is published the Washington Sentinel, the national organ of the brewers: in one room of the building Liucolu gave up his life that 4,000,000 slaves might be free; from another a paper is sent forth in the interest of a slavery worse than African slavery. Over each house of Congress floats the stars and stripes; in the basements beneath are two saloons as bad as any in the country. As two hundred funerals per day result from the traffic in which the United States government is the heaviest partner, it would be no more than proper that the flags on the Capitol be kept at half-mast, and the Goddess of Liberty on the dome be continually clothed in mourning.” In speaking of the pecuniary advantages of saloons in a community, the Major called attention to tuts met mill when property was oirerea for sale the proximity of drinking resorts was not advertised as an inducement to purchasers. He mentioned as one of the results of the prohibition victorv in Atlanta that Colonel Inman, of New York, had purchased SIOO,OOO worth of stock in the proposed Midland Georgia railroad, and agreed to place $500,000 more upon the market. The speech was well received, considerable enthusiasm being manifested. This afternoon, at 3 o’clock, the Major will hold a meeting in Christ Church, and this evening, at 7:30, in tbe Circuit Court room. These will be the gentleman’s closing lectures in this city.

THE CITY IN BRIEF. Charles Kinander yesterday appointed administrator of John Strou'g estate. The regular meeting of thet ate Reading Circle will be held in this city on Friday/ Carrie Schmitz has sued Milford L<-.„ t h e Superior Court, for calling her a vile name. wants SI,OOO damages. The annual fair and festival of Plymouth Chnrch will be held this evening. A cordial in vitation is given to all friends to attend. Supper will be served at 6 o’clock. Marriage licenses were issued to Frederick Niemann and Mary Eggerts, Edwin A. Root and Florence Eddy, Eugene Bradley and Anna Brown, Matt Golon and Nellie Muldoon, Charles S. Newhouse and Ella Myers. Alderman Prier says that ho heard nothing of the reported quarrel between the Boston aidermen over the proposition to go home by way of New Orleans, and does not believe such a proposition was seriously considered. At a meeting of the members of the Indianapolis Caledonian Quoiting Club, last night, it was unanimously decided to have their third annual concert and ball on Jan. 25. It is proposed to make tfiis the best of all their popular entertainments. Charles Starr, a deaf mute, was arrested yesterday for assaulting an old man named Jackson, on Lockerbie street. To this charge that of attempting a highway robbery was added, as Jackson claimed that Starr searched his pockets after he had knocked him down. The young ladies of the Second Presbyterian Church will hold a bazar in the church parlors this evening. Home-made candy, and many articles both useful and ornamental, which will make appropriate Christmas presents.will be for sale. Admission, including supper, 25 cents. Supper served from 6 to 10 o’clock. While going to a small fire on North Mississippi street yesterday afternoon, one of the horses drawing the headquarter’s fire engine stumbled and fell. The harness broke and the engine passed over the horse. Instead of dying on tlie spot, as a fire department horse ought to, he got up and finished the trip with more spirit than he had manifested before the accident Hendricks’s Funeral Bills. There will be a meeting of the Hendricks funeral finance committee, to-morrow, at the office ot the United States marshal, at 2 o’clock p. m. Parties having bills against the committee will please file the same with John J. Cooper, or present them to the committee at the meeting, “I have tried Athlophoros in my family, and it has worked like a charm. I have kept it for the last two months,” writes druggist L. J. Kimball, of Norway, Mich., giving his experience with the great rheumatism and neuralgia cure, SOCIETY MEETINGS. Masonic— attention, sir knights: raper Cotnmandery, No. 1, K. T. Annual conclave in Masonic Temple this (Tuesday) evening, at 7:30 o’clock. Election of officers. PHINEAS G. C. HUNT, E. C. William H. Smythe, Recorder. FOR SALEFor sale-a lease and furnishings of the saloon and boarding-house situate No. 73 North Alabama; will be sold very cheap. Apply at Bryce’s Bakery, Nos. 14 and 16 East South street. LOST. Lost— plain gold ring—return to oscar VANDERBILT, 4ti South Illinois street, and get $5 reward.

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THE JOURNAL STORIES Brilliant Authors Who Are Writing for Our Columns. Ayear ago THE JOURNAL began publishing short stories by the most famous American writers, includ ing the principal contributors to tho leading magazines. In this time we have furnished our readers as many first-class short stories as the three leading magazines—Harper’s, the Century and the Atlantic.

The Past Year. ,A glance at the periodical literature of the day wifi show that all the noted American authors are contributing to the service. Among the principal contributors are: JL LIAN HAWTHORNE, a regular writer of short stories and serials for English and American magazines, announced as a contributor of short stories to coming volume of The Century, SARAH ORNE JEWETT, author of a serial in this year’s Atlantic, and of several novels and short stories. Os a volume of her short stories the Nation says, “The autumn is not likely to bring anything more wholly delightful to lovers of the best light literature.” ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS, author of “The Gates Ajar,” and of short stories in all the highclass periodicals. FRANK R. STOCKTON, author of the “Rudder Grange” stories, “The Lady or the Tiger?” and some of the most generally popular short storioa ever written. HELEN JACKSON, ono of the most distinguished names in American literature. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, a constant contributor of delightful short stories to all the magazines. MARION HARLAND, the famous V Irginia authoress GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP, author of “An Echo of Passion,” and of numerous short stories. J. T. TROWBRIDGE, the prince of story-tellers of the good old-fashioned, popular sort. THOMAS W. KNOX, tho famous traveler and explorer, author of stories of adventure in India and China. RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON, the famous Southern writer, author of a score of stories of Georgia life, in the Century and Harper’s. E. W. THOMSON, the new Canadian writer, whose stories have won for him in a single year acceptance from leading periodicals. Mr." Thomson’s first story gained him a prize of SSOO from a popular periodical.

SIDN EY LUSKA, author of the remarkable novel, “As It Was Written,” published this fall in America and England. Mr. Luska’s work is compared by the leading reviewers to “Called Back,’* and is admitted to be of superior literary quality, although of as absorbing interest. BRANDER MATTHEWS, equally popular in England and America, author of successful novels and short stories in the leading magazines, J. S. OF DALE, author of stories in Harper’s and the Century. His shortstory, “Mrs. Knollys,” w’hich appeared in the Century, has been pronounced “the best short story of the past ten years.” THOMAS A. JANVIER, author of stories of Mexican life, in the Century, author of the famous stories signed “Ivory Black,” which have just been published in book form by Scribners. H. IL BOYESEN, the famous Norwegian novelist, languageT ft ViWhf -UOamJ earned the within two years, and has since written numerous novels and short stories for the leading magazines. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON, the charming New England poet and novelist. OCTAVE THANET, a young writer, whose stories in the Century and Atlantic rank her as one of the most fascinating and popular American writers. MARY E. WILKINS, the noted writer of stories of New England life for Harper’s Monthly and the Wide Awake.’ MRS. M. H. CATHERWOOD. a writer of Western stories for Harper’s, the Wide Awake, and other leading periodicals. J. ESTEN COOKE, *the noted author of novels and stories about Virginia. F. 0. BAYLOR, whose work in Lippincott’s has attracted the attention of Harper Brothers, who have engaged her for the next two years. MARY BEALE BRAINARD, whose story, “Dinky," in the Atlantic was pronounced “incomparable” by the Critic. Mrs. Brainard writes charming dialect stories of Southern life. HENRY A. BEERS, author of numerous stories in the magazines, including “Split Zeyphr,” a capital story of college life, in the Century. HARRY W. FRENCH, the famous traveler in Eastern lands. FANNY FOSTER CLARK, author of numerous stories for Harper’s. JULTAN MAGNUS, author of short stories and comedies for Harper’s Monthly.

The Coming Year. The second year of our new departure in fiction will be signalized by a series of stories by our most popular local writers, supplemented by the most famous American novelists, making a list that wik far surpass the combined attractions of the great magazines in number, popularity and absorbing interest of stories, and in number and fame of authors. In order to enable us to reach all the best writers, and to offer them such inducements in extent of publication and in compensation as to secure t heir best efforts, the Journal has arranged, in co-operation Ah leading papers in Boston, New York, PhiiaMa, St. Louis, San Francisco and St. Paul, to office lei* 6 * 6 s^°r * oil simultaneously, and a central East Fisty ° n established “iNew York city, at 114 sent, and the I?. * here all storie are By this mean; tße,eCteJ /° r ,mb[icati °n' ~ ... , ' thost famous and popular American writers will be . 11 umns. It ia impoasibKT** to “"tribute to our colof the stories for the c<\?‘ Ve a deta,led programme tention to the following ' car ’ " e Aviteat 1. The most popular contrft* 111 will continue to write for us. >rS l ,ast . vear 2. A special feature will be a ser. the following famous novelists: ' d ' ‘* es b F JOEL CHANDLER II ARRIS, author of , “Uncle Remus" sketches. famous CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK, author of . rnous "In the Tenaesseo Mountains.” fa FRANCIS HODGSON BURNETT, author of the fa mons “Surly Tim's Troubles,” “That Loss o’ Lowrie’s, ” and other stories. JULIAN HAIVTHORNE, author of the powerful story, “Such Stuff as Dreams,” which we will publish. E. E. HALE, author of the famous story, “TheMan Without a Country.” J. T. TROWBRIDGE, author of most popular tales for young people (and grown up people, too. ) ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS, author of “Gates Ajar, ’ etc. FRANK R. STOCKTON, author of the most popular short stories ever written. A. A. HAYES, author of thrilling stories of adveuture in the far Southwest. E. P. ROE, the famous American novelist COUNT CHAPOLSKY. author of thrilling stories of adventure as a Nihilist PHILIP BOUKKE MAKSTON, the famous English bard, the only English author who writes for our columns. JAMEST. McKAY, authorof a series of short stories, which began in the fourth volume of Scribner’s Monthly, and the last of whioh appeared in the Century for last August. And many others equally famous, including nearly all the most charming American writers living.

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