Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1887 — Page 3

THE JdSTDlAXAPOIilS JOCTRNAX,. MONDAY, ISfOVEMBER 14, 1S87.

THOUGHTS FROM THE PULPIT

Eev. E. J. Gantz Devotes His Sermon to Social Life and Its Amusements. fie Thinks the National Game May Become a National Disgrrace-Rev. Haines Discusses the Servant Problem Other Discourses. Rev. E. J. Gantz preached in the evening at Central Christian Church on ,;Secial Amusement," taking for the erening lesson the first fifteen verses of the third chapter of EcclesJastes. He said it was remarkable to consider how largely the social instinct is developed in man. Sometimes a man assumes a solitary life, tat he does this by way of penance. This principle is recognized ia the laws, where solitary confinement is administered as a very severe punishment. One of the saddest things that strikes a visitor at a penitentiary is the sight of Urge bodies of men speaking to no one. All philosophers recognize the streccth of the social instinct. They sometimes deplore the evils that pervade society, but they treat the instinct that makes society as a force that exists and must be directed and controlled. Thousands of dollars re spent annually in this country for 'buildings for the cultivation' of the social powers. We have great societies like the Masons, Odd-fellows, Knights of Iytbias and others, organized for the development and regulation of social powers. Ladies sometimes object to these societies because they are not admitted, but there are more social institutions for women than for men. In fact, the lodge may be taken as a confession of man that he needs social training before he is fit to associate with woman. 'I wish our church," said Mr. Gantz, ''bad a million for missions, but I would not want to withdraw it from institutions for social culture." Men seldom minele together much without some kind of amusement. Amusement is as old as the world, and it may have originated with God. There are some things in the world that cannot be accounted for on any other theory. Why was the monkey created, if not for the amusment of mankind? God might have made lambs walk like five-year-old sheep, but he did not, He made them to gambol and frolic. Children are like them in that respect The Hebrews had no public games, like the Greeks and Romans, but the children had their games, and adults their manly sports. The public gatherings were of a religions character, but they served to bring the people together socially. The public sports of the Greeks and Romans were comparatively pure at first, but they became degraded. That what is to be feared in this country. Some preachers draw tbe line between sinful and harmless sports, and say that billiards are wicked, but croquet is all right. "I cannot be so exact," Mr. Gantz said, - "but we know there is a dividing line. There is a growth of degradation. Scylla used 100 wild beasts in the publio games in bis rule, but the passion for blood irrew until Titus used 15,000, andthemenof those countries grew so hardened that they could see pure women thrown to the beasts of prey without ' a shudder. Base-ball has been our national game, but it Tnay become our national disgrace. I do not say it is now. I have never been on the grounds liere, but I will warrant that every loafer who could raise 0 cents has. It may be said that it is better tor him to go there than to spend his CO cents in a bar-room. Very true; but he could find something better than either. There may be betting on the games, but that does not make ' the game bad. . Men will bet on anything. I have heard of men spitting at a mark, and betting on the result, but that is no reason for not spittinsr. I cannot quit using my horse because another man drives his horse to death. I think it unay be safely said that the sports of this country are improving in character. " "Some men say they play chess for mental discipline. If their motives were analayzed it would be found that they played for amusement. So soma say they go to the theater to study elocution. They may think so. If you hear of me going to a theater you may know I went for amusement. I do not go often because the plays produced do not amuse me. I do not see how the cheap stuff put on the stage nowadays can amuse any intelligent man. One is ashamed of humanity when he sees his fellowmen enjoying it" "There are some amusements apparently popular that are disgusting. You pick up a paper occasionally and read a long account of a doglight or a cock-fight Tnink of it Seventyfive or a hundred men starting out in the early morning to some secluded spot to see two cocks fight Why, there are more brains in two cocks than in all the men there. The newspapers get hold of it and give an account a column and a half in length. I do not blame the editors for it They pander to the tastes of the people. Their readers want it. "There is nothing that cannot be degraded and made frivolous and sinful. Conscience must mark the point where the line is crossed. An editor who heard Ingersoll said he laughed with the populace, but the next morninsr he had a bad taste in his mouth, he felt that he had made sport of holy things. So when one is led away to sinful lengths in his social amusements. On reflection he feels that he has a bad taste in his mouth. His conscience reproves him. There is no such reoroof to one who enjoys the social pleasures offered by the church of God. All who will come into its fellowship may experience the highest and sweetest social joys and foretaste the fellowship of a blessed eternity." A Sermon on the Servant Problem. At the First Presbyterian Church.'last evening. Rev. JL Li. Haines delivered the first of a series of addresses relative to Christianity in the household. His topic was the "Servant Problem," for the solution of wh ich he referred to Paul's letters to the Epbesians. Mr. Haines said that for 1800 years the servant question has been unsolved because of the mistaken relations which the employer and employe bear to each other. It would seem that the domestic millennium is still a long way off as many mistresses of households have apparently resigned the w selves to the undesirable situation. They are continually discussing how to get help and how to keep it, but it appears to be a harder question than any that enters into politics. Reliance, for the most part, is placed on the intelligence offices, and the result is the procuring, in a majority of instances, of incapable servants. This is the mistress's side of the question, and that of the servant is no belter. Servants complain of domineering and tyrannical mistresses, who think all the virtues can be obtained for $2 per week. Again, the children of the household are encouraged in mistreating the cook or maid. So there is continual friction between the employer and employed. -The only satisfactory solution of perfect home life and management must, come from Christ's wonderful gospel. When Christianity first came to the world the people thought social conditions were to be revolutionized, but Saint Paul told them to stay where they were. Christianity did not intend to change the fixed ord-r of affairs. It was to deal with the higher nature of men and make it possible lor a good citizen to live under such a King as Nero. It did not mean revolution, but the ennobling of circumstances that surround men. Every person who - works is a t servant The term covers the domestic help, the salesmen and clerks. the laborers and skilled mechanics, the lawyers, doctors and ministers. All are in service ministering to the wants of their fellow-men. The gospel comes to them, withoat exception, enjoining obedience, with a conscientious solicitude to do the. work that may be imposed upon them. There must, in the harmony of relation between employer and employed, be on the part of the latter a conscientious regard for the former and his or her interest The service must be done with that obedience which Christ teaches. It is not the character of the task that make life noble or ignoble. It is the spirit with which it is per- , formed, and that spirit should be like unto Christ By this most common and trival work can be done on the highest principles.' The reward may not be obtained in this life, out It will be sure to came in the life hereafter. Genuine and Spurious Religion. At Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church the congregations wore large at both morning and evening services yesterday. The Sabbathschool in the afternoon had an unusually interesting session. Dr. Keen's sermon at nieht was from the text, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God" I Cor. ii, 14. Natural religion, he said, is that which is constructed from the natural religiousness of tha souL 3Ian is a religious being. There are belonging to the soul, even in its depravity, elements of religious aspiration, religious susceptibility, religious sentiment, and religious perceptions of truth. These are the materials out of which the soul may weave for itself a fancied salvation, a presumptuous self-righteousness, having no real metal of righteousness. A religion, however imposing and pleasing, that

has no other elements than these is spurious. It is cot of God. It has no substance of eraee.

Tne constituents cf natural religion are the respectable virtues, such as amiability, generosity and kindliness, combined with high ideals of right, truth and God, and tinctured with some degree of reverence. It enrorces reiorraation from the worst vices, without supplying the reformatory power. The enticements of natural relirHon ar manv. It is popular; men praise it It is liberal; it allows wide latitude to thought and conduct It is agreeable; it demands no sacrifices, imposes no crosses, re quires no professions. lut mere is equany an emptiness in natural religion. It brings no satisfaction, ministers no joy. inspires no hope, it insuiates the soul from uod, ana intercepts tne Divine Snirit's Dower. It receiveth not the things cf the spirit of God. It is worthless for this world. It will prove insufficient for the realties of eternity. The ?(ew Pastor of the Sixth Church. Rev. Charles A. Evans, the new pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, entered upon his ministerial duties yesterday morning. The church auditorium was handsomely decorated for the occasion, and the music, which was spe cially prepared, was very fine. -Mr. Evans preached on "The Mind of Christ." taking for his text, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" Phi!lippians ii, 5. His leading thought was that it was impossible to be come true patterns of Christ, but that in a gen eral way we should become imitations of Him. Illustrating the first part of the thought, he said tne pnotograpner could not represent an object just as it was; all he could do was to give a general outline of it: so it was in foliowiner Christ. Man could not hope to reach perfection as He did, but like the artist who sketched the land scape, be could become an imitation, and attain a condition as near the original as possible. Last evening Mr. Lvans preached to another large congregation on "Cnnstian Contentment. Mr. Evans is a comparatively young man, and previous to his call to this city had charge of the Presbyterian Church at Holly, Mich., for two years, lie comes to the Sixth Church very highly recommended, and the sermons he preached yesterday indicate that he is an able man. The Sixth Church now has a very bright f oture before it. It has been without a regular pastor during the last year, and without any since Sept 1. During the summer Rev. Wm. C. Covert, a student of the Chicago Seminary, held services once a month. The church is out of debt and has a very handsome edifice. During the summer it has been refurnished within, and is a very attractive place. Here after there will be services at the church every Sunday, morning and evening, and Sundayschool in the afternoon. Dr. Van Meter's mission Work. Yesterday was a busy day with Dr. Van Me ter. He spoke in the morning at Tabernacle Church, in the afternoon at Tabernacle and North Baptist Sunday-schools, and in the evening at Meridian-street Church. Much interest was taken in his work, and liberal contributions were made. Tabernacle Church and Sunday school donated about $150. The religious work of the Italian mission is not denominational. It aims to help put the Bible into the hands of every Italian family; to help organ ize and sustain Sunday-schools; to help estabusa day and nieht schools, and to assist in distributing tracts and other religious literature. In addition to this it renders medical assistance to the sick poor. Tv 1 v . . i . i - . . . 17 r. v au meter says mat tne worn is not lor the purpose of proselyting, but for bringing men nearer to Christ He says he in a Protest ant, and would like ta see all men Protestants, as he is a Baptist and would like to see all men Baptists, but he has no time to preach secta rian doctrine. It is not eertain that he will re main another week as he intended, though he will if possible. He received information yesterday of sickness in his family that may call him to New York. U0W TUAMPS LIVE. Their Methods of Operation A Reporter's Observations of Their Success in Beg'gin'r. The coming of wintry weather brings to the city the tramp-beggars with as much regularity as it sends to warmer climes the birds of sum mer.. Already this improvident class of human ity is beginning to appear in large numbers. During the last two weeks the station-house hfts sheltered an average of five per night. They beg by day, and during the early part of the night they stroll into the station-house and ask for lodging. The only bed they are furnished is the hard floor of the "tramps' room," but it seems to suit them. The room is always comfortably warm, and it is that attraction that brings in the wanderers. Persons who have been about the police station a long wliilo recognize among the many who beg for a night's lodging faces that have been reappearing in the same role for years. They are professional tramp-beggars. They are never seen in the city during the summer months. Then they go to the country to ply their vocation. They start upon their long tramp early in the spring, and some of them travel 4 thousands of miles between the opening of spring and the beginning of falL They ' usually travel in squads. "Generally a half-dozen of us spend the summer together," said one. old-time tramp at the station-house the other night, as he was making a pillow out of his coat, preparatory to laving down on the hard floor for his night's sleep. "We have a regular plan for operations. In the morning we determine upon a place we will reach by night and then separate, all taking ing different routes. Whether we are hungry or not we always make it a point to stop at every house. We do that to test the generosity of the peoxle along the route. When night comes we reassemble and compare notes as to our success. A record has been kept of all the houses where we have been fed, or given clothing. The next day if we are in no hurry to reach another part of the country we may return to the point we left the morning before. We simply swap routes, and the unsuspecting farmers do not think that the second visitor has been posted by the one who came before. If the route proves tb be a good one we may work it for several days, or until each man in the squad has worked eacn of the routes first laid out between the two points. That is the plan we follow through the summer. At night we sleep upon the ground, unless it is rainy weather, and then it is easy to find some empty shed or country school-house in which to get shelter." These professional tramp-beggars seldom ask for money during the summer season, but when winter comes and they are compelled to flock to the city, they depend almost wholly upon the begging of money to buy their food. Their methods are well-known to the public. Reporters, who are compelled to be upon the streets much at night, perhaps encounter more of these beggars than other people. The common .plea which has been addressed to nearly every person, is: "Mister, please give me a nickle to get me something to eat; haven't had a bite to-day," or "Please, sir, will you let me have 5 cents I have the consumption and have had nothing to eat since niorning." Those who make the eonsumption piea generally have a hoarse, hollow voice, and their appearance and conversation indicate that they tell the truth. There are others who only lack 10 cents of having enough money to pay for a bed, according to their story, when in reality they perhaps have several dollars. It is remarkable how many people are caught by the stories of thelazy vagabonds, and contribute to their support Saturday evening a Journal reporter encountered a hungry-looring beggar on Washington street, near Pennsylvania. " To see how ho plied his vocation, and how he thrived, the reporter watched him. for a time. In the course of twenty minutes a half-dozen persons had contributed money to him in sums of from 5 to 10 cents, and during the evening ho must have made a fair day's -wages. Women seem to be the most susceptible to the plaintive stories of the impostors. Three out of every ten will stop aud ask somefaing about the vagabond's condition, and then almost invariably make a small donation. If they had visited the station-house at midnight they could have seen the same beggar, with six others of his like. stretched upon the floor of the big room devoted to tramps a strong, neartny man, tally able to make a living by honest labor. The question has been raised whether or not the station-housf should shelter these vagabonds. So far as the officers are able they do bar out the old chronics, but it is a hard thing to do. After a tramp has been coming for lodging regularly for a week or more, if he is recognized, he is c harged with being a. vagrant and is sent to the work-house. The police cannot afford to refuse lodging to the many who apply for it, because many really unfort?mate strangers apply f or a place to sleep. The Stock of Hogs and Cattle. Chicago. Nov. 13. The Farmers' Review, to morrow, will say: "The reports from Indiana, Illinois, M s'ouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wis consm, Minnesota, Michigan and Kentucky, for the last four weiis, on the number of bogs aud rattle on the farms, show a smaller number of noes than usue.l, but no material change in the number of cattle, and that hog cholera is much loss prevalent .than last year."

MUST rimOP THE USURPER

Democratic Politicians Decide that Green Smith Must Go to the Kearv He Will JfotuBe Allowed to Fiurfl Tromiv.- " nently in the Campaign Yoorhees Likely to Be dominated for Governor. The Democratic politicians are a little apprehensive of Green Smith's ambitions. They understand what they are, but how to suppress him is the disturbing question. The party leaders, it is sauf, are desirous of having an early agreement with .Mia as to the manner in which he can be rewarded for his bulldozing methods last winter. ; They want to get him out of the coming canvass if they can, but will put him off in the backwoods where he can do no particular harm with his antics and his record as a usurper. If this cannot be accomplished they will plumply tell him that he can have nothing higher than the nomination for Lieutenant-governor. For weeks those conversant with the power that was behind Smith's usurpation in the Senate have, at odd times, dropped information that the Jennings, county bulldozer, having served a purpose, is no longer necessary to the fulfillment of party plans. "I was afraid at one time, "said a Democratic State executive committeeman last night, "that we would have to nominate Smith for Governor. It would be an awful burden, hut I could hot see then how it could be avoided." The fact ls Smith is getting more credit from the party than he destrves. If the Democrats who were saying, until recently, 'Bully boy," Green Smith,' and all that, knew what trouble we hact with him, they would see on what a slender thread hung our hopes of controlling the election of a United States Senator. Time and again we had to hold Smith up to what we expected of him. , Had he been left alone the morning after tiie Supreme Court gave its decision I believe he would have run away from the Capitol, and left us inethe lurch. Green Smith's nerve? Bah, he has none. He is all noise and fury, especially whenhe. can r f ly on a crowd of Democrats to come tcv his assistance. We don't want Green Smith in the next campaign. If he. has to come in it will not be as a candidate for Governor." , "Whom do you intend to nominate?" was asked. "Daniel W- Voorhees. - He savs he'won't ac cept, but he has got to take the place. It is to be a campaign of big guns, and Voovhees must understand that the party expects him to lead it" It is rather early for a meeting: of the State committees, but on Wednesday afternoon next, both tho Democratic central and executive committeemen are to have a consultation. It is said that it is for business purposes only, but as Green Smith and other politicians are to be there, the suggestion made by a Democrat, last night, that the coming campaign is to be dis cussed, has considerable probability about it. "It is likely," he said, "that a plan will bo ar ranged so as . : to bring to the front again the troubles of last winter. An intimation has been received that Governor Gray stands a chance of becoming Secretary Lamar's successor. If the Governor should go to Washington as Secretary of Interior, we have nobody left but Green Smith. You see the importance of having him in a consultation with the central and executive committees at this time. But in any event he will be told not to expect the nomination for Governor when the convention meets." MORMON MONEY. The Great Tithing System of the Polygamlsts Some Food for Christian Reflection." ; St.. Y.miia Pnt:DirinrrhRev. D wight Spencer, who arrived in the city yesterday to take the position of acting secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Society of the Southwest, comes fresh from the fields of Mormon is tn, where the polygamous crop is flourish ing. JJr. bpencer nas been at work in L tau and the surrounding Territories for the past seven years, and what he doesn t know about the Mor mons is not worth Knowing, lie and Bishop Tuttle, who for twice as long was mission ary bishop of Utah, often met in their warfare against the common enemy. In conversing with Dr. Spencer one is impressed with the fact that the Mormons are getting a tighter grip . every year. lie admits it in nearly every question put to him, and . adajjt it with a seriousness that leaves ' no doubt of the genuineness of the preacher's fears. 'There is no disguising the fact that Mcrmonism is spreadiing steadily," said Dr. Spencer yesterday to a Post-Dispatch reporter. "I at tended a great meeting in salt Lake City the other day. and there heard things that ought to raise the mighty arm of Christendom. It was triumphantly declared that the Mormons have a bishop in every country under the sun, and that the faith is being propagated with great success. Naturally , people want to know how the money is secured to keep the fires of faith burning all over the world. The sinews for this silent but destructive war are obtained by the tithing system, which is as -inexorable, in its operations as the most tyrannical impost ever levied. To understand it thoroughly one must understand the priesthood thoroughly. The priesthood numbers about 30,000, and the members perform their duty without pay. Each priest has only three or four families or so to look after, and as a consequence, be knows to a pound how much wheat, corn and other produce is raised, and can figure out exactly what the tithing tribute should be beforehand. If the offering is less than this the delinquent is brought before the church. It is, perhaps,' needless to say tnat tnis system of espionage is so effective that there are very few cases of derelictions. Last year by tithing the Mormons raised $560,000. This vast sum is devoted almost entirely to the propagation of the faith, as the priesthood is not an expensive body." ' vv hat percentage of the Mormons are polyg - amous?" "Not more than fifteen. That is not saying. however, that there would not be many more if the laws were relaxed.' In fact, many of those who are content now with one wife have told me that they were only waiting for the repeal of the laws, which they declare are unjust in every particular. That they are certain of the repeal there can be no doubt. The priests tell them so, and the people believe the priests. They . honestly think the priests speak by divine revelation, the very voice of God." "In en the masses are to rest in their belief in the divine authority for their practices?" "iSo doubt about it in the least. They are more devoted in that respect than any body of Christian I know. Bat it is such a blind belief that they are easily led. Of course, thev have the Bible as one of their books of authority, but claim that the later revelation of the Mormon propnet exceeds It in value." "Are the leaders hoaest in their belief, also?" "Undoubtedly they are, or at least they seem to be." "To what extent do the Mormons dominate the affairs of the Territory!'' "Completely, you 'mieht say. The Eastern people have no idea of their predominance. Out of 205 polling places ! reported' at the last elec tion, bixty-five showed not a single vote cast by a gentile, and in ttfo-thirds of the rest only from one to fifteen. 'It is this complete ascendency that does so mueh to nullify the Edmunds law. Take, for instance, the duty of a United States marshal. He and one or two assistants are actively opposed' by the entire force of the Mormon community, by all the city government, by the sheriff, by all the petty officers and a hundred tale-bearers. Where an indictment is secured against a Mormon by the grand jury, he is in nearly every case informed of it beforehand. But in spit of it all, there have been a number of successful prosecutions. But in

most instances these successes are in the city. In the country polygamy is goiug on just the same, that is, openly. In the cities no reasonable man believes '(polygamy has been stopped, but it is now practiced with secrecy. Marriages being celebrated by' the church, of course they can go on just the same as before, "as the law cannot get hold of those ceremonies." "Are the Mormons a law-abiding people?" "Well, that depends. If the laws are their own they abide by them, but if not they don't pay much attention to them. But any attempt at instituting aaconparison between the gentiles and Mormons in tbe matter of crime must fail, since the church smothers every crime committed by a.Morrfon and blazes out the sins of the eentiles." "If the Edmunds law is reducing the number of polygamists, how do they continue to grow?'' "By immisrrarton. In addition to their other funds, they bave'what is called a perpetual emieration fund. This is spent in furnishing bonuses for deluded foreigners. Polygamy has little to doa in inducing immigration. The Mormon missionaries say little about it. They go "to tbe poor Scandinavians, for instance, and -offer them free passage and so many, acres of Jihd. The foreigners do not care for anything but the chance to get to America, and they embrace the Mormon belief and th chance at the name time. When they arrive they get the latid as promised them, but only as a tenant of the. church which owns all the land. By these landoffers they are able to start numerous colonies "in the neighboring Territories. When they get half a dozen Mormon families settled in a valfey they practically get the entire X. .it. : . .

control of the valley, as bo gntilewa nt to live in the same community with tbenr.a Dr. Spencer will present" these facts to the churches of the Southwest and try to arouse the Christian people to a Benee of the danger that threatens the sacred institution' of the home.

MR. ASU MRS. SEARLE AT II03IE. Marriage of Mrs. Mark Hopkins to a Country Gentleman Their Residence. Kw York Graphic. ' The marriage of Mrs. - Mars Hopkins, the widow of the California twenty-millionaire, to Mr. A. F. Searle. suegests.Tmuah of a woman whose princely expenditures have been remarkaoieior meir absence or all petty 31ms and socia motives. She is known as the builder of a $5,000,000 mansion at Great Barrington, Mass., and as a patron of art, science and' literature in the spirit of a feminine Maca?na& Mrs. Hopkins was the daughter of Mr. William Sherwood, of this city, an author of some note, and from him inherited her literary and aesthetic tastes. When she married Mark Hopkins he was poor California hardware dealer, and she shared with him the arduous labors of their early days. When wealth came with the completion of the .Central Pacific railroad. Mrs. llopkins knew how to employ it. .During her.t husband's life her bounties were many and discriminating, and she has spent her huge income' since his death in a way to justify his confidence in her good sense. J . Mr. Searle is a country gentleman of leisure, a resident of Great Barrington, whose pet fad is architecture. When Mrs.-: Hopkins befcan to build her big house she - asked . Mr. Searle s advice on some of it3 details. - .The acquaintance thus begun ripened into love, and this marriage is the result! The match is thought to be a thorouehly suitable one by the friends of both Mr. and Mrs. Seitrle. Mrs. Hopkins has been living of late at the Yietoria Hotel, iu this city. On Saturday last Mr. Searle arrived from Boston. The ceremony, which occurred yesterday morning at the Trinity Chapel, on Twenty-sixth street, was performed by-the Rev. Dr. Piatt, and was . exceedingly simple. A Delmonico breakfast to the few friends invited followed the ceremony. ' The instrument which brought the bride aud groom together the Great Barrington palacemerits all the praise that has been bestowed upon it. It is a decided "and striking architectural success. It is built of blue dolomite stone from neighboring quarries, and its cost will be over $2,000,000. Over the main entrance are the letters representing the date when the house may be finished MDCCCLXXXVIII. Passing beneath them the vestibule is reached. This is entirely of blue stone floor, walls aud ceiling and leads to the main hall, extending from tower to tower across the front, some sixty feet. Overlooking the ball is the library, the ceiling of tne hall being on level with the library ceiling. The hall is to be tiled and wainscoted in imported marbles, the main staircase being of tbe same material. At the end of the hall to the right on entering, and in tbe tower is a reception room. In tne corresponding tower to the left are a cloak room and an hydraulic elevator, operated by water brought from Lake Mansfield, on the opposite side of the village. This abundant supply of water will be utilized in running tbe largest pipe organ iu any private house in America, which is 0 he placed in the music room at tbe terrace. Tbe same water power will supDly tho fountain on the lawn and run the $35,000 organ in the Congregational Church in the village. This organ is the gift of Timothy Hopkins, the adopted ' son of Mrs. Searle. In the largest o f the two towers is the breakfast room, and above it Mrs. Searle's boudoir. Opposite the main entrance is the hall, and beyond it the atrium, which is to be filled with statuary. Yet beyond is a wide piazza. On this floor are the dining room and billiard room, magnificently upholstered in oak. Above are chambers, dressing-rooms, baths, smoking rooms and libraries. The music-room, a marvel of gold-leaved stucco work in its decoration, is on the first floor. , Below are kitchens with appointments fitted for a dncal palace. In the stables are accommodations for many horses. WOMEN WHO GAMBLE. Pictures from the Fashionable Caisnos of Alx-les-BaiitS. Correspondsnca Boston Herald. liters are two casinos at Aix-les-Bains, and, consequently two cambling saloons and two sets of little horses. The more "s-rioua" of the two casinos, tbe Cercle d'Aix-les-Bains, has replaced the former inferior salle de neu with a new and bumptuous apartment which fairly rivals that of the gay resort of the place, poetically and significantly denominated the ViUa des Fieurs. I foe Villa des Fieurs is "fast," and though ladies occasionally wander in there out of curiosity, it is scarcely the place to which any selfrespecting young woman of" the presentday would take her own mother. As often happens, however, the surroundings are prettier and more fascinating than those of the Cercle. Only man is vile. The two casinos, though taking in about 700,000 francs apiece each season, are not supposed to make much money, and do not declare dividends. They are philanthropic institutions, designed for the amusement of the populace. The salaries of an operatic and theatrical troupe and of an orches tra and band, the cost of fire-works and ira-. provements are presumed to eat up the profits of the restaurants, the performances and the gambling tables. Tue Cercle d'Aix-les-Bains pays Colonne a really enormous figure for the eervicesof Himself - and orchestra, one of tbe finest in Europe, but it is hard to beHeve that money is not made over and above expenses at the Villa des Fieurs, where expenditure on the part of the public is lavish and where they gamble for high stake?. The gaming table is a far more liberal place than tbe table d'hote, for in the salle de jeu respectable but curious matrons rub shoulders with frisky and painted young persons who would never be allowed to dine in their company at any hotel. One becomes used to everything, aud existence in a continental watering-place soon accustoms Americans and English to the spectacle of a duchess putting down a ten franc piece side by side with the golden lonis of a cocotte, and of a respectable and ehurch-going citizen of the United States rubbing shoulders at cards with the cut-throat adventurer. A celebrated English com'edian and a well-known singer. American by birth, English by reputation," Italian by name, fairly haunts the green cloth, replacing the excitement of active life before the footlights with the hope and fears that hang upon a nine-spot. The most desperate gambler at Aix-les-Bains is, however, a woman, Greek by birth.' This "devotee of the green cloth does not take her seat at the table, on account of her sex, but plays over the shoulders of a sterner man in 100-franc bills, and she risks 500 francs with the same imperturbability that she might put down' TOO sous. This woman, who is immensely rich, has a face that a painter might take as an unlovely model. The expression is that of a ferret, and the ratlike countenance has its resemblance to a rodent intensified by a nervous twitching of the tightlv compressed,, thin lips and the conical' chin. The small eyes 6tare from nnder a mass of grizzled gray hair; the skin is red and guiltless of the softening application of Anythine like3 poudre de riz. This celebrity, who changes tiqm the tables of the Cercle d'Aix les Bains to those of the Villa des Fieurs and back again, does not devote, much attention to her costume. It consists of a black dress, not too well made,f a black jet bonnet, and, like the true gambler that she is, no gloves. While she plays she keops'shifting and counting the white and blue 100-frane notes. When called upon to give changeshe takes gold from a purse; but, as a rule, she despises tbe metal aud deals only in paper. Pinafore Revived in London. Cable Special. J Pinafore," manned by jolly British tars, floated into its old moorings at the Savoy Theater last evening in tbe presence of an audience representative of all who are notable in tbe social and literary world, but the honors of the revival were almost exclusively Miss Wilmer'a, the Boston belle whom New York will never forget, but mostly remember, when the moon is not shy. Minister and Mrs. Phelps. Mrs. Rosnalds and many well-known Americana were present, and even an insular audience unbended sufneently to admit that if a soprano-were not British,' the next best hailing place was Boston. Gilbert told me be had never heard the part of Josephine so well sung or acted as by Miss Wilmer, and that tbe part he is preparing for her in the sew opera was the best he had ever written. t Obituary, fipec'al to the Indianapolis Journal. . Gkeencastle, Ind., Nov. 13- Dr. Samuel E. Fisher, one of the oldest, best known and most respect physicians and citizens of this city, died at bis residence, this morning, rafter an ilmess of three weeks. Dr. Fisber ihad resided in Greencastle in the practice of medicine for over thirty-five years, and had been a prominent Republican. Odd-fellow and Mason. The funeral will take place from the residence on Tuesday at 2 p.m. 1 Steamship News, : New York, Nov. 13. Arrivedr-Aurania, from Liverpool; La Bourgogne. from Havre; Belgenland, from Antwerp; Tbingvallaj from Copealiagea. OrEENSTOWK. Nov. 13. Arrived: Servia, City of Richmond, from New York; Lord Gough, from Philadelphia. Havre, Nov. 13. 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He yesterday received a communication from tbe War Department informing him that be had been granted a furlough of one year, and that Gen. E. A. Hodges, at present chief quartermaster of the United States army at New York city, bad been ordered to report for duty in bis stead as soon as the transfer could be effected. It will take but a comparatively short while in which to reach a final statement of the affairs now in charge of General Hodges, and be is expected to reach Louisville during the present week, or by week after next at furthest. H will at once be shown over the government vrorks in JeffersonviKe by the retiring assistant quartermaster-general, who will, as soon as practicable, make a formal transfer of the depot to him. General Saxton wiil then spend a few weeks in Louisville, at pert ect ease and rest from all work, arter which, with his family, he will proceed to bis native home, in Philadelphia, where his retirement will he enjoyed, and wbere he will ocenpy a portion cf bis time preparing his final statements for tbe governmental auditors, when tbe regular transfer of tbe office of quartermaster at Jeffersonville will be made. General Saxton came to Louisville from San Francisco four years ago to relieve Gen. James A. Ekin, who was then placed upon the retired list by virtue of his age. In California ha was assistant quartermaster, and in being promoted to t be position of quartermaster of the largest depot of which the United States army could boast, was paid a compliment as high as it was deserved. He at once established himself in the depot and began tbe management of its extensive business in a manner which won for him the praises of bis superior officers at Washington. With the. men under him.be was at' all times well liked and strictly obeyed, and in his departure they will sustain the loss of one of the most popular men ever in charge of the depot. General Saxton is a ranking colonel in the United States army, with the title of brevet brieadier-general in tbe quartermaster's service. He is a graduate of West Point, having, since bis graduation in 1816. advanced from one point to another until he became a colonel. He served under Gen. Grant at Shilob, and was at the snrrender at Appomattox Court-bouse. General Grant mentions Colonel Saxton in his memoirs, and in every relation in life as a soldier his fellowofficers epealc of him as a most efficient official and a model soldier and gentleman. For several years it has been General Saxton's desire to retire from the service, his long continued duties as an army officer having worn him out physically. General Saxton is quite wealthy. 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The little shop moved on a tiny railway track in the floor, so that on,the approach of a visitor who could not appreciate "jimcracks," the Doctor could push the table, tools and all, under the large one, entirely out of sight. The majority of brain workers have had some pursuit, taste or handicraft which relieved the tension on the brain of steady application in one direction. Sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Gladstone's tree-chopping or ilr. Hawthorne's potatoe digging, it was severe physical exertion that gave rest to the mind, but oftener it was the employment of the fingers and brain in some lighter work than the daily craft. Hans Andersen cut paper figures with marvelous skill; one of the great Russian novelists makes clay pipes of every shape, and one of the most eminent clergymen in this country dabbles in chemistry and has nearly blown tip his f amil j on several occasions.

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