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pate at which a dirty official was standing. Ho shook his head as I entered, but 1 pretenlril not to see him, and pushed my way In. I entered a court, which looked for all the world like a bam yard surrounded by low wooden etabls. with heavy tiled roofs. This court was filled with donkeys, horses and dos, and half-naked children rprawled In front of the doors to these buildings, which were, in fact, the ofllces of the department. The buildings were filled with clerks, who wrote away at bare tables, the lfk'ht comlnff In through latticework walls backed with white piper. They scowled at m? as I looked, and one of them gave me to unterstanl that I haJ better move on. I next visited the famous Hanlin College. It was wors than the State Department, and everything about It was shabby and Koinq to prel. I tried to pet into the board et punishments, where the horrible cruelties which the Chinese rovern men t metes out to Its rebels and criminals are passed upon, an where to-ture is common, but I was stopped at thj!oor and was positively told that I could not po in. It was the same with all the government departments. They could not have been shabbier had they been knocked up out ef odd pieces of old Noah's nrk. and fverythlns was filthy and the picture of ruin. The only really new things in the city seemed to be the clothes of the official. , and I laughed again and again as I saw the?? mandarins bow down in the mud and go through the forms of the Chinese court amid their filthy surroundings. They are amonjr themselves, as far as words go, th most polite of all nations, and they look upon us as boors and barbarians. The most of the people believe that they will conquer the world, and I doubt whether a thousand out cf the million and a half people in Peking know anything of the Japn.ne54? victories. The court officials distribute all sorts of lies, and they have probably told the people that they have whipped the Japanese on both land and on per. and that the Mikado will be brought to Peking. The majority of the citizens of the Chinese capital really believe that America Is subject to China. They think that Col. Denby is sent to the capital to pay Uncle Fam's tribute, to their Emperor, and this, I am told, is their opinion as to every foreign legation. They have nicknamed the ftreet uion which the foreign ministers live "the street of the subject nations," and they would consider it a disgrace to ask our minister to dinner, and I venture that Colonel Denby has never been on Intimate terms with a dozen high-class officials. This, I know, will seem strange to Americans, but it is actually the truth. SCENES IX THE STREETS. Peking; Is a most cosmopolitan city. We have in America only the Chinese of south China. These come from the hot countries at the southern part of the empire, and they are small and lean In comparison with the people of the north. They dress differently, and they have a different dialect and different habits and customs. Peking U frozen up for Fix months of the year, and you can have ice sledging on the Pelho at Christmas. I found the people of every Chinese state different, and the dialects are us various as the languages of Europe. Here In Peking you find representatives of every Chinese state and there are celestials from all the big cities. Thibet, Mongolia, Manchuria and parts of Afghanistan are all tributary to China, and people of a half dozen religions Jostle each other as they wade through the streets. The strangest sights to me at first entrance were the nomadic Mongolians, who rode Into the city on great camels or dromedaries, which were covered with wool from fix to twelve Inches long. These come from the cold regions of Mongolia or Siberia, and during my visit to the Chinese wall I passed caravans of these cam-Is marching In Finale file and fastened together by Kicks thrust through the thick flesh of their noses. They were loaded with great bundles of furs which they had brought down frcm the north for the dilettante mandarins of Peking, and were carrying kick brick tea and coal to the Tartars and Itussians. Many of these wjre ridden by Mongol women, who, in coats, pantaloons and fur caps, rode astride, and la other cases by men. who were clad In sheeptklns, with fur caps pulled well down over thfcir fierce Tartar eyes. I saw hundreds of Thibetan lamas in their gorgeous robes, end I met many Mohammedans from the west part of China. I wish you could see some of these Pe kingese streets and the queer sights upon It. They are filled with a stream of yellow humanity or all classes, ages and sexes. Tou pass gorgeous officials on Mongolian ponies, the backs of some of which are decorate ! with arrows, and you know they are on their way to the shooting matches. outside of Peking. You go by silk-gowned mandarins in carts, who scowl at you as you peep into the little gla?s windows In the walls of their vehicles. You see schol ars with spectacles as big as trade dollars, and everywhere you go you are assaulted by beggars. I remember one bey who followed me day after day. The weather was bitterly cold, and I shivered in my fur ul ster. This boy was naked to the waist and his arms had been cut off at the shoulder?. He held a pan in his mouth and followed me. switching his body this way and that to show me his mutilation. I was glad to Five hlra two or three cents to be freed of the sight. Another beggar, who has Ion been In Teking, is a man who has an iron skewer thrust through his cheek. This skewer is a foot long, and is about as big around as your little finger. He twists it this way and that and keeps the flesh ragged and sore. He beats on a gong as he poes through the streets, and you are glad to pay him to keep out of your way. There Is one gate in Peking which is always crowded with beggars, and one of the finest bridges of the city, a structure of marble. has been given up entirely to beggars. It is full of the lame, the halt and the blind, and men with festering sores, women without eyes, and persons possessing all sorts of horrible di5eases crowd together upon It. They ru5h their way from it into the citv and threaten to cut themselves if you don't Kive them alms, h'Me by side with these beggars walk the gorgeous officials, and Ioverty and wealth march together in pairs'. There Is no place in the world where the contrasts are so great, and for ninetenths of the people it would seem to mttheir condition could not be worse. These 'hinese are as industrious as any race on the globe. They are ieaceable and easily fruverned. and if the celestial ofiicials, including the Kmperor and all his court. coulJ be wiped from the face of the globe, the people would quickly grow rich and China would be one of the most favored spots on the face of th earth. FRANK G. CARPENTER. I : 1 . t . II. -1 .a. it ou can ir nav u k: uvu 1 1 von cn!v insist UDon it. They are made for cooking and i heat:r.inc,er7Cor,ceihIeslvlc ' and si ze. fcr er.y land d f ud and ; u itti price from io o 70. j TfiegenuincsJl tear this tradej mark and arc sold with a written iguarwrtee. for sale by World's Fa?r, 101 to 11.1 Wet Washington fct. TJwruS-'ijnStow Gxnpary. ' u.xni MMin or iiovts awo utivjt r m wona i tmurr cmoco. au rwo. :w row. arr.

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BIG HITS IN GOTHAM

OXLY TWO DRAMATIC FAILVItKS OUT or a sconi: or srcci:ssi:s. Comic Opera Star Fairly Ilojr tho CriMTiln Xetv Fortnne In "Shenandoah" Loral 11111m Thin Week. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. XKW YORK, Oct. 5.-The regular the atrical season In the metropolis Is under way, and, as the racing men say, running steady under a pull. There have been onlytwo failures thus far la New York, al though all the fir3t-cla.3 theaters have been open for periods ranging from four to six weeks. That la to say, there have been only two absolute and unmistakable failures. There have been a couple of successes of the half-and-half sort, but the record In the main I. quite remarkable. The two failures are "New Blood," by Au gustus Thomas, at Palmer's Theater, and 'Lem Kettle." at the Bijou. Of "New Iilood" a great tfeal was expected, partly by reason of Its having come from the pen of so skilled and brilliant a writer as Mr. Thomas, and partly beer use it had been heralded from Chicago, where It was originally produced, as a. big and striking theatrical composition. It Is considered amazing that anything at all in the shape of a play produced at such a popular theater as Mr. Palmer's should not draw large audiences. Mr. Palmer, who staxed off his season with an enthusiastic statement that he was going to produce American plays in rapid succession, has precipitately withdrawn from that attitude, and MI33 Olga Nethersole, a British actress, who is called by her admirers "the English Bernhardt," is to be the next attraction on this stage. In a London melodrama called "The Transgressor." Miss Nethersole visits the United States under the management of Marcus R. Mayer, but her plays will be produced under the direct supervision of Augustln Daly. It is shrewdly suspected that if Miss Nethejrsole fulfills expectations In the matter of acquiring popularity In this country she will become a permanent fixture In Mr. Daly's rapidly-increasing force. Across the street from Palmer's Theater, at the Bijou, Mr. Tim Murphy has had hard luck with a play particularly written for him by Henry Guv Carleton. under the title. "Lem Kettle." Mr. Carleton has surprised his friends and many admirers by the very poor quality of the work he has given Mr. Murphy to do. It nad been believed that a man who had turned out such good plays as "The Butterflies" for John Drew ought to be able to furnfsh about the right kind of a comedy for the use of so skilled a player as Mr. Murphy. But if "Lem Kettle" had been written in three days' time it could scarcely have been more crude and unsatisfactory'. Mr. J. Wesley Koscnquest, the manager o3 the Bijou and Fourteenth-street theaters, who is not one of those theatrical men to whom it appears to be good policy to habitually exaggerate receipts, told me frankly last night that "Lem Kettle" was a failure, and was doing no business to speak of. "JERRUM" JEROME'S PLAY. Jerome J. Jerome's new comedy called "A Way to Win a Woman," produced one night last week at the Lyceum by Mr. Sothern. does not seem to have awakened a very profound degree of enthusiasm. Mr. Jerome is one of those British litterateurs who finds an occult sort of satisfaction, in the affectation which his double-ender name Indicates. He spells it Jerome J. Jerome, and pronounces it "Jerrum" Jerome. He has written a lot of very bright sketches for the comic papers devoted to showing up the unreality of stage plays and stage Impersonations. Having thus demonstrated that everything unreal about the theater is absurd, he gives us a play of his own vastly more preposterous than any of the old-fashioned things he has so humorously poked fun at. He tries to make a heroine of a young woman who won't marry the man she loves because he hasn't a. year on which to sup port her. He then makes his hero misappropriate a trust fund in order to get money enough to marry. In the end, when the hero Is found out, he magnanimously confesses, and the heroin; concludes that she didn't want $25,000 a year anyhow. This Is the main thread of te story, many of the incidents of which are utterly and ridiculously improbable. For his traveling season Mr. Sothern will probably rely principally on Paul Potter's play, "The Victoria Cross," which Is a great deal better piece than this latest contribution to contemporaneous dramatic literature. The town 13 full of comic opera, and all the big musical productions are doing a large business. Delia Fox, in "The Little Trooper," De Wolf Hopper, in "Dr. Syntax." and Francis Wilson, in "The Devil's Deputy," are all playing on Broadway, within three blocks distance of each other, and all three of the theaters in which thev are appearing are packed and Jammed with people at every performance. Miss Fox's success was the most instantaneous and convincing of the lot. She had met with almost countless difficulties prior to her first performance, but with rare courage and nerve she clung to her original design and made a literally tremer lous hit. Her houses have been the largest ever continuously known in the Casino, and those who ' are best Informed regarding her receipts and expenses calculate that she will clear on her winter season, barring any serious disaster, not less than $00,000 a pretty good profit for a hitherto untried attraction. Mr. Hopper has this season tried the experiment of giving us a feminine chorus in long skirts in place of the usual tights and "shapes" of comic opera, and the result is pleasing, inasmuch as it' shows that this kind of entertainment can be attractive to the general public without the exhibition of the female "form divine." Mr. Hopper himself has made a great personal success, and the present season promises to be about the most prosperous he has ever had. Mr. Wilson, at Abbey's, started out with the rather perilous undertaking of charging $2 a seat, but the result has shown that when metropolitan playgoers really want a certain entertainment they are quite willing to pay handsomely for it. "The Devil's Deputy" is a success of the strongest description, and it will fully restore Mr. Wilson to the position of one of the most potent theatrical attractions In America. THE GAIETY GIRL. At Daly's Theater the English burlesque company playing "A Gaiety Girl" is drawing most wonderful houses. The theater has been literally jammed at every, repre sentation of this exceptionally bright and lively work, which has Just sufficient naughtines3 in It to whet the public appetite to its keenest edge. The younger generation of rich New Yorker3 are half daft over the pretty girls of this company, and have not "tumbled" yet to the fact that almost the entire feminine chorus was recruited by Mr. Daly here in New York. By the careful cultivation of the British accent, thes smart American lassies have succeeded In "stringing" the moneyed youngsters of Manhattan Island into believing they were "furriners." John Drew has a great success at the Empire Theater, where, in "The Bauble Shop." he is playing the first serious character of his career as a star. The personaee . he depicts is a member of Parliament who nas been a gtod deal of a rounder, and Who pulls UP in time to save himself from the odium of having wronged a young girl who trusts him. The public taste is, apparently, in just the condition to accept a hero who is not of the jrooly-fjoody type, and Mr. Drew has simply torn the town open in consequence. It had been Intended by Manager Frohman to present two or three of the plays in the Drew repertoire during this New York run which is to lat until the middle of November. That design has been abandoned In view of "The Bauble shop's" big hit. ' The greatest financial success known in this city in many a year has been scored at the Academy of Music, where, I understand. "Shenandoah" has done a business averaging $l,7uo a performance for the past four weeks. The production Is conducted upon a very large scale, some forty horses and three hundred persons being employed in the representation. It now looks as though Bronson Howard's creat melodrama would run through the entire season at this big theater. Richard Mansfield Is drawing very large houses to the Herald Square Theater, which j-.eJ to be called the Park Theater before t?h?r!es Evens cot ho:d of it and remody.d It at a cost of ,fr. Mansfield's new piece. "Arms and the Man." has made a very decided sensation with that part of th community which is ever craving novelty. It alms to turn everything upside down in the way of preconceived notions, .-r-d every one of its characters turns out i-i the end to be entirely different from whr.t he or she apvarel to be at the Lec'tnnlr.?. It Is a whimsical piece of ?itirlc.il uo:uense. and in It Mr. Mansfield give

ua one of his finest examples of character ; acting. All told, this is a big theatrical

season In rscw orK. LEAXDEIt RICHARDSON. Editor Dramatic News. Haiilon Stiperbn" To-Morrow Mjxht. When the history of the stage for the nineteenth century is written Hanlon's wonderful extravaganzas will come In for their share of praise. The Hanlons revolve in a sphere of their own In the amusement world. Their name has become famous in many countries on account of the productions of spectacular trick pantomimes. They started in this country with the "Le Voyage eh Suisse," of which "Superba" is the legitimate successor. When this latter piece was produced a few years ago It was pronounced by competent critics to be the very finest trick pantomime that was ever fcen in this country. If those who sawthat production would see it to-day they would not know it. Even the Hanlons themselves are surprised at what they hive brought it up to. But Mr. William Hanlon has labored incessantly in the interest of his pet attraction, and It is no longer "Superba," hut "New Superba," as he styles It. ThU final achieve ent will be at ISngllsh's all this week. lrobably no more popular attraction will b here during the season. It is interpreted by such well-known specialty people a Charles Guyer, the four Schrader brothers. Miss Julie Mackey, of "You Can't Lose Me, Charley" fame, the lady with the remarkable voice of baritone quality. Miss Jean Mawson, Maud Mldgley, Bonnie Goodwin and others equally well known. "Superba" is, doubtless, the best show of its kind ever placed before the public. it is the masterwork of those most marvel ous wonderworkers, the Hanlons. The good and evil fairies, the wonderful scenery, the transformations, the trap doors and disappearing chairs, tables and windows are presented as In the older days, but "with all the modern improvements. The spectacle of railroad trains rushing around sleeping rooms and colliding with awful crashes, the grewsome "execution chair" which the persecuted maiden enters, and from which she vanishes in a mystifying manner, and other novelties give "SuKerba" an "up-to-date" aspect that would e missing in the spectatcular plays of a few decades ago If revived for the benefit of modern audiences. There Is no neces sity to attempt an elaborate notice of "huperba at this late day, after its several seasons of wonderful success, but it can be said that "Superba" will be seen In an entirely new dress. The engagement begins to-morrow evening and will continue all this week, with popular-priced Wednesday and Saturday matinees. "Athenla" Coming? Thumdny. "Athenla," the newest and latest comic opera success, is coming to Indianapolis. By a special arrangement the Wales Opera Company, now on its way to Boston, has been secured for the Grand Opera House the last three nights of this week. "Athenla" Is written by John O'Keefe and composed by Leonard Wales. The piece was produced on Sept. 10 at McVicker's Theater in Chicago, and has since run to laige houses. Mr. Leonard Wales, the composer, was at one time very active in Indiana politics, having been editor of the Fort Wayne Gazette during the stirring campaign of 18S 1- Mr. O'Keefe, author of the book, is a well-kncwn litterateur of New York city, and possesses reputation as a magazine poet. "Athenla" bubbles over with bright satire directed at he United States Senate, and the Jokes at the expense of that august body will be appreciated. As to catchy musical numbers the score embraces over a dozen. The company is well equipped, a strong light opera organization, with a magnificent chorus and a capable contingent of principals, fifty-three people in all. Among those in the cast are the charming little prima donna soubrette, Miss Grace Golden; the extremely funny comedian. Charl e A. Uigelow; Mis Ivitty Marcellus and Miss Mary Marble, Miss Lucille Saunders (late of the Bostonians), Georse Broderick, the well-known basso; Kd Morri?. the clever Irifh comedian; Albert McGuckIn. the Knglish basso, and Fred Huntley, the popular tenor. The greatest side feature of the show 1.4 the famous "Ix Regalonclta" trio of dancers, who present at every performance a most remarkable "fairy ballet," especially arranged for this engagement. It has never been equaled by any child dancers. "Athenla" will be given next Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, with a matinee Saturday. -ovf Lilly tiny'a Gnlety Company. ,fM Manager Harry W. Semon will bring1 the famous Lilly Clay's Colossal Gaiety Company to the Empire Theater this week. It Is among the best burlesque vaudeville shows on the road this season. The stars are -Vpnes Evans and Nettie Huffman, wfro have been the cards of numerous attractions. Aside from their advertised beauty and expensive costuming, these two have exceptionally good voices, and are said to h-i the highest salaried performers in their line. Marvelous Melville is another strong card, and will appear in a daring feat called "La Chute de Clel," which, translated, means "the fall from heaven." Frank Goldie and Sallie SL Clair will offer their own comedy creation. "Ginger Jane." Little Charlie comes in for a full share of the applause by his clever wing and bucjc dancing. Leslie and Richards are anoiher team of fun-makers. The McDowells, John G. and Lizzie, have a new society sketch that is full of comedy. Ray bemon and Lillian Beach, as the genteel Bowery boys, h;tve a clever bit for the audience, and all their songs are noted for being fully "up to date." Gertie Harrington has a taking banjo song-and-dance act. and wears ten different costumes, a complete change for every performance. Mile. La Mar, the accomplished premier, who was the favorite dmcer'of the "Black-Crook" and ether extravaganzas, leads the grand double ballet, and will therefore be seen in two numbers. Living pictures that are strictly true to nature and selected from some of the best that can be seen in any first-class art gallery, will be presented, with all the calcium and electric effects. "Don Jose" is the principal burlesque, ami it embraces the entire strength of the troupe, the Miss es Evans and Huffman playing the leading parts. It tins some catchy musical numbers. Matinees will be given daily, and the evening performance will begin at 8. "Wilbur Opera Company Thin Week. The engagements of the Wilbur Opera Company at the Park Theater are always eagerly looked forward to because it is the only season of cheap opera that Indianapo lis has. Wilbur's organization has made itself deservedly popular here. There will be a change of opera daily, the opening bill to-morrow matinee and evening being "The Mascotte." Besides the beautiful costuming and pretty marches seen in the several operas there Is this season Introduced the most beautiful set of living pictures said to be seen outside of New York. Twenty-four of these pictures are shown, some of the most noteworthy sub jects being Comrades," "The Angelus." "Magdalen." "Nature's Mirror." "Birth of Venus."- "Nymph of the Wave." "The Moon Fairy." "Psyche" and "Grace Darling." These pictures are beautifully shown, and the papers in all the cities have devoted much space to them. Th Wilbur company gave them in New York during its four months run at Proctor s Theater. They will be shown every afternoon and evening this week during the opera. The repertoire for the week is as follows: Monday, matinee and evening. "Mas cotte;" Tuesday, matinee and evening. "Fra Dlavolo: Wednesday, matinee and evening. "Falka:" Thursday, matinee and evening. "Bohemian Girl:" Friday, matinee and evening, "Merry War;" Saturday mat inee. "Indiana Saturday night. "Grand Duchess." There is a chorus of forty people and the folic wing principals, all of whom are favorite; hre: Susie Klrwin. Elole Morti mer. Llllie Taylor, J. K. Conly. W. H. Kohnle, E. A. Clark. James A. Donnelly, Fmmet Drew and J. Clarence Harvey. Mr. Kohrle's home wns formerly in this city. ana re nas nunareus or inend3 here. GoMip of tbe StnRe. Madame Janauschek and Kate Claxton will play a full seasoil together. The Llliputians are scoring big successes in "Humpty Dumpty Lp to Date at New York. Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew will produce "Marion de Lorme" when they appear In New lorK. "Aladdin. Jr.." the latest Chicaco Opera House summer extravaganza, Is ncaring Its LUOth performance. Sarah Bernhardt has added "The Second Mrs. Tannueray" and Oscar Wilde's "Sa lome to her repertory. The twenty-fourth anniversary of Oliver Byron s appearance as a star was recently celebrated at Long urancn. An opera by a woman Mile. Augusta Holmes will be among the novelties to be given at the Paris Grand Opera this season. It is probable that Digby Bell and Laura Jovce-Bell will be members of Lillian Rus sell's opera company during her coming American tour. During the coming encasement of Otl Skinner at the Grand he will appear in.

two plays, "His Grace de Grammont and "The King's Jester," both standing-room hits from the first night in Chicago. The announcement Is made of the marriage of Frank I. Frayne. of the "Jane company, and Adelaide Goundre, iOf the "Blue Jeans" company.

Burr Mcintosh, who will be remembered I for his splendid character of the bearded , blacksmith in "In MIzzouri." has written a j play called "College Days." At a New York theater devoted to the German drama,, two of the ushers are German barons, and an Austrian nobleman Is officiating as a stage hand. Messrs. Dickson & Talbott have issued a beautiful Ada Uehan souvenir printed in colors on different shades of satin, for the engagement here. Sale of seats Oct. 20. In Charles Frohman's "Amazons." coming here next week, are Johnstone Bennett and Isabel Irving. This is the fir?t presentation of Pinero's popular comedy In this city. Hope Booth, whose attempt to star in England was a failure, has returned with eo.00 worth of diamonds which, she says. came to her unsought from English noblemen. . Lily Post, formerly a bright particular star In light opera, and Mrs. Thomas Barry, who starred for a number of years with William Redmund, are members of Ada Rehan's company. Ibsen is outdone In a new piece called "The Black Dove," at the first performance of which, in Kew, England, most of the audience got up and left the theater when the plot became patent. William Morris Is soon to appear in a new romantic play something after the "Monte Cristo" style, written for him by Nelson Wheatcroft and George Backus, and pronounced very strong. Th T.niv Clav Gaietv Company travels In its own $10,000 coach, the girls all being kept under lock and key. Edward Kendall, the business manager, holds the lo-ball pool championship of Massachusetts. Th lataot T -nnrlnn nnncra received state that "The Queen of Brilliants" continues to draw immenselv at the Lvceum Theater. and Miss Lillian Russell in the -title role has fairly taken London by storm. "EVom TiMTrard's Rav comes- the announcempnr rhnr Mnrirarer Jefferson is engaged to marry Glen MacDonough. Miss Jeffer son is a granddaughter or josepn jenerson. Mr. MacDonough is quite well known as a playwright. The run of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at t hp Star Theater. New York, has been cut short by several weeks, and on Oct. 22 W. It. Crane win prouuee a. piay hv Paul Fitter called "The Pacific Mail." Crane spent thousands in getting up "Merry Wives," and has got a decided frost In New York. A r, T?oVii n'a InlHil enfl fPTTIPnt AS a. Star at Boston has been phenomenal. The theater has been packed at advanced prices and the papers have all considered the oc casion important enougn ior special editorial comment. The nerformances have been of unusual strength and the company perfection, so the Boston papers say. Nat Goodwin is in Chicago, looking bet ter than ever, and with his company he is rehearsing for the opening of hia season. ivMMi occurs at TTnolev's this evening. His first play will be "A Gilded Fool," and he will follow It with "in .Mizzoun ana ine Gold Mine," presenting "David Garrick" for the first time during his last week there. it is timateri that New York managers lost not less than $100,000 by the cyclone which was recently announced by the Wpather P.nreau and didn't come. People were afraid to go out for several evenings, expecting the storm to break at any hour, and business dropped everywhere. Some one suggests a suit ior uamages against the weather prophet. Tli-r Morris's Reason will beirin Oct- 13 wlfh the firwt nerformance in this country of "The Best Man." Ralph Lumley's threeact comedy. Mr. Morris will also present this year another three-act comedy called "Behind the Scenes," togetner wirn last season's successes, "Moses" and "The Vag abond." Mr. Morris's company will Include Mrs. Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh, Florence Wood. Gertrude Rivers, Agnes Pax ton. VanMan farrmhell. Mrs. Herbert A. Carr. Charles Charters, Frederick Thompson, V. . Constantine and J. W. nowen. The annual revel of the Anonymous Club at the New York Casino next Thursday afternoon promises to be a jovial occasion. The club is composed almost exclu5ively of newsnaner men. and manv prominent performers have volunteered to appear. The New York baseball team win appear on tne stage in uniform and DeWolf Hooper will recite "Casey at the Bat." Delia Fox, Jefferson D'Angelis, Paul Arthur, Mrs. John Drew. Sidney Drew. Madeline niriey. waiter .Tones the T.lllnuf ians. Grace Eikins. Fougere, .Mabel Stephenson, Marie Lloyd and others well known will also appear. FltAMt h. STAXTO. SomctldDK About Ihe Southern AVrlter of Popular Verne. Philadelphia Times. Having lost his father at a very early aje, Frank Stanton spent the three years or his lite rrom nine to twelve sawing wood for a living. From then on for a number of years he work?d in the lields under the hot Southern suns, gaining his knowledge of book3 from his voracious application to them after the sun had sone down on his field of daily labor. It is to this period of his lire that the poet has recourse for the materials of his "Sons of the Soil," but it is to the mellowing, Idealizing intervention of years that the Inspiration Is due. As he himself says, a man who Is in daily contact with a plow doesn't wax poetical on the subject. When about nine i'ears old the poet was for a little while oRice "imp" on the Savannah Mornln? News, and while there It was part of his duty to sweep the olllce of a slim younp news reporter by the name of Joel Chandler Harris, "unce Remus" had not then been born into the world of siories. and Mr. Harris was em ploying his ppare moments In wrltir.s verses, mm the .ews omce tneir patns led apart, and each passed out of the other's memory till very recent years brought them together again. From farm labor Mr. btanton went into the newspaper office, drifting about through South Carolina and Georgia as a typesetter and printer, all the time scat tering his verses like nowers a;onpr tne way. A good Providence kept the youth in tho field3 till his heart was bound to nature, and from thence led him into circumstances where he might pour out on the hearts of men the sunshine that had been gar nered In his own. From printer and contributor he became an editor. And while at. the bead of a lit tle paper called the Smlthvllle News he received a letter from Joel Chandler Harris asking for poetical contributions to the Constitution. Little did Mr. Harris suspect that the verses which were charming people rar and near were irom tne pen of the little black-eyed chap who had played the "devil" In his office in Savannah. In a short time came the offer of a reportorlal position on the Constitution from Henry W. Grady. This Mr. Stanton declined, and It was not until the death of Mr. Grady that he accepted, through the Influence of Mr. Harris, an editorial position on that paper. From then on his pop ularity has been on the increase, till he is known and read in two hemispheres. Though our poet is by no means without honor in his own count ry. it is from distant places that the most flattering testi monials come. In Paris hi3 genius has been recotrnized nnd complimented, while in England he has made a place for himself in the hearts of the people. Jerome's Magazine copies his verses regularly, rnd he often receives personal letters from En glish readers who have heard the echo of his ?ongs across the seas. In a rece.it meeting of London authors Mr. Stanton's little ballad. "Clarlsse," was rad. Those who know the gem can appreciate the re ceptlon it received. When, in reply to a question, the name of the author was given, one of the number exclaimed en thusiastically: "Well, he has beaten Dobson on his own grounds!" During the Columbian fair Mr. Stanton was once the honored guest at the Fortv Club In Chicago, and received quite ah ovation from its members. So far Mr. Stanton has been known chiefly through current literature, as only a small collection of his poems has yet appeared. Though this work passed through several editions and won a success unhoped for by its modest author, he has allowed three years to pass without coming before the public again, except through periodicals. It is with genuine pleasure that his friends, personal and unknown, look forward to the complete edition of his poems, which is to be brought out by Appleton & Co. In October. An English edition will be issued at the same time. That he Is eminently a song writer is attested by ihe fact that as many as seventy of his poem have been set to music In England and America within the past year. Hovr to Select on Ornngr. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dig oransres are not good. Thev are all skin and fiber. If you want "a yellow ctp of wine" buy small fruit: that K fruit, that, runs 173 or 200 to tne Pox. Weigh it in the hand and take the heaviest. Sweet, sound oransres are full of wine and sugar and very heavy. A thin, smooth skin is a good sign. Wide, deep-pored skins are unmistakable signs of a coarse, spongy article. Bright yellow oranges usually cost more than russet because they are prettier. When the commission merchant buys in a hurry he saves time by taking an orange between hi hands and squeezing it to death. If it runs a cup of wine he takes a much of the cargo as he needs: if it runs drv h cuts the price or refpss to trade. There is no surer way to tell tne real value of an orange, mandarin or grape fruit.

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Capt. Geo H. Davenport, the Popular and Wellknown G. A. R. Veteran, Relates an Experience. A Leader and Power in Grand Army Circles.

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CKVl. GEO. II. Capt. George H. Davenport, of Bernardston, Mass., is a most popular and widely-' known man, especially in' Grand Army circles. He is pension agent, and everybody knows him. He is best known to the whole country through his 'discovery of "Davenport's Silver Pomade," probably the best article of its kind in the world. Captain Davenport is a most entertaining speaker, and his relation of the following incident will be interesting to everybody. "I had been troubled severely for years with heart disease, and the effects of malarial poison contracted in the army. I was so nervous and weak that I was unable to do any hard work for years. "I consulted many doctors, but have found no good results from them. I Anally used Dr. Greene's Xervura blood anil nerve remedy, and can say that it has done great things for me. "I have been helped in the heart trouble more than from any and all other things I ever used. I find that for weakness and nervous excitement it is a great help. For instance, on Memorial Day I addressed the G. A. R. at Xorthfie'.d, and on the following day at Whateley I gave an address be BUSINESS DIRECTORY ! . i t;i;t,-jltlUO. LA U.N LVNt PRICES REDUCED. C!ia'iipio:t lru an i tsrwl Kill..i ltwu t'rnces Wrought Iron t'enreM ami Gate, lru Fenco Posts. ELLIS & HELr'KNMliatGlSU. 102 to ltk isouttt illssis!iil' fttrt'ct. SAFE DEPOSITS. SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT. i AtMlute saMy ntniAt Tire an I liurgUr. Finest, ami only Vault of the kind iu the Slate, l'oliccir.aa day ami night -on gu;irl. DeNigiMxl rort!n ife 1c -inp of Mcuey. Uomls, Wills, LeeU, Abstracts, ."vl Tf-r riatc, Jene.8 ami valuaUSe Truuk and Pckr as a. ttc S. A. FLETCHER & CO.. Safe-Deposit JOHN 8. TAKKrNGTON, 5lana?or. kill A 5 S FOUMJIIY AAii n-wjnuu 6UOP. PIONEER BRASS "WORKS!"Mfr. ninl Dealers in all kin Not Bras Go U. lmirf ami llslit Calluses. Car lie iritis: a pflcialtr. y. pair ami Job Work pr unptlr a:teulol to. llit 110 SotitU renusjlvanU L Telephone 013. i , DEMISTS. DENTIST E. E. REESE Kavt hl St.. lot. Meridian and l.-n SEALS AND STEXCILS. 14 CAT A IOC IJlTpR " ' STENCILS .STAMPSi vH CATALOGUE FREE - DADOES. CHECKS &C feTELI335. 15 SMEftDlANSL GwiMD FioorI HAILWAY TIME-TA11LES. Indianapolis Union, Station. ennsylvania Lines. Trains liun by Central Tirao. TiCk.k Orriczs t SUtiou and at corner Illinois and Washington Ktreau. TRAINS RrtK A KOLLOVT Dailj. t Daily, axcept Sandar. Fbom Iwdianapoli to Lxatk Arbiyb ColUUi Olii. . i ... '.i.-ti-Uu .o-ai A.iSvim tluiaailpiiUiuua vvt lork.... A.oUuiu "lo.lj .baUiu.oie uiil vViisinuum.... 4.0oa. "iU.iJ p u Ltaluuitud aDrmgdeid 4.00a a tlai.i JM...W-V.H. iud. 5uuU i o.iy... t a j. tK) u u Martinsville and Vmcenaes... .o5aia 5.0iia KitlinioiiU ikU'l Col.tiuouj. O... tH.uU i u );..'!) ,, 4 I .... ....It. i . . . - . - . " MaiUsuti and Loii.aville. ....... tti.U'ua li50p,a LogAnsuortanU Cuicno U.ljH;a m3Ab tin Liayton and UoiamaiH 11.45a:n .. jvujh uu 5priuif noia . .. .. . pjt 12.30 p a Philadelphia Mud York... i.43 out u U'tt Baltimore ami iluutou.... M-lip-a l,j.3Ju.'n t'olumlitia. Iiid..anl Jxuiavill ; , ,m "lLoi am Kl)l(tUtIown anil KscliiiMtuu.. T.1K ncx i.in Martinsville aul Vincenn... H.aopm. U0.40 am Pitlnburjcand fc-ut "5.10 i.a 11.4.11 m Uartiin d1 Xtnia .". lOpm 11.40 miu loganaportand Cnicagt "UJU pm i.-Jj ani Best Lin to Cincinnati "For anr information call at City Ticket Oiflce. Sn. West WmIiIukton street, corner Meridian: 'train arrive and depart from Uniuu Station, 1 t llowa: Lfave. Arrire, Cincinnati Exp ess am '3 am Ciit., Tolruo id Uetrolt tlthoO am 1 l'i. am Uiii, D.ijrton and Lima -J;;5 pm f 7341 r,w Cin. Whtlba'e Limited M-mi jm n-55 pm Ciu.. Toledo an-l Oetroit tG:15pm l"i 3U am ljaily. t Daily, except Sunday. VANDALIA LINE. Hally. ! nwii T iw! ifi 11 n tw1 i 1 .. . r . w , 1 V. fcLLoula Accommodation..... f 7:30 am Arrive, 17:40 Dtu "lerrolliriteAcciMum.fclutK.n J,.rv"a fc.JjVul fclre ll-u pm .40 am Iram. couuecl at Terr ILtul rf B. ATM lolnis. KTausvUiealeepcc on night train! fi tt Meeplnx and parlor cara are ruu on lUroujrU trains. LUulek cra a Train -JO and -U Its Sunday 'Journal, by Hail, "Sia" Yea

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fore their G. A. R. without any apparent fatigue, which I could net have done before I useI Dr. Greene's Nervura. "I have often recommended this wonderful cure for disease to my friends, and; shall be happy to answer any further inquiries from anyone." The experience of the gallant captain Is the experience of even-body. All who use this great curer of disease, this restorer of health and strength. Dr. Greene's Xcrvura blood and nerve remedy, report that It invariably makes them well. The weak, nervous and ailing should try it on the strength of what everybody who has used it says of Its wonderful curative powers. It will cure you. Why waste time in trying uncertain and untried remedies when here Is a physician's prescription, a discovery made by the greatest living specialist In curing nervous and chronic diseases. Dr. Greene, of S3 West Fourteenth street, New York city. If you take this medicine you can consider yourself under Dr. Greener direct professional care, and you can consult him or write to him about jour case freely and without charge. This is a guarantee that this remedy will cure, possessed by no other medicine in the world. BUSINESS DIRECTORY AVS Al) SIILI, SUPPLIES. Jllino h lrer. oueaauare autitU Union Station. SAWS ttrLTINC and EMERY WHEELS. Specialties o! W. B. Barry Saw & Supply Co 132 S. Tenn. St. A!l khuU of Saws Itopaire-l. Nordyke & Marmon Co. IKsran. ls.'l. Founders & Machinists Mill and" Elovator U:iilier. Iixliaiiapolifl. Jul. Holler HKli. Mill Ueiriuz. Do It inc. UolUu;. cl'th. dram c!m:uii' Maoiiiimr. Mi.ldliuK I'nrin.Ti. i'oruiV.a MIU. vie., etc lae atreot-cara lorMiock yariU. AJiSTItAiTI " 'M r LI'?. 1HlOOOK Srklri. fcuc ctnaor to Wm. C. Anderson. ABSTRACTER OF TITLES si LAST MAKKLT ST. rv iv 'ii "ST, hhiv Amsrl;an Detective Agency, Xorthwcet corner Washington, aud. Delaware ts Kvoms i ami , Iniliaua,Hlia. Jnd. Tel. 14-J.i. ThU utcriiry la pit-pared t ! alt legitimate tie. tective imsuu-as li.ir.mie.l t it Uy 11 tnts. lUilroad. an t ail otu'r curpura lion, Mcicii:lile iluust:. Attorneys an l private individual. We e:ii4.oy ,niy t:i inont skilled oi.er.ttiTe. All imsiue . rn-tly connrieuiiul. C'urrt-apoudeuts ta all principal c1;m. JAML8 CAMPBELL. Ai:a..t. .'iiMavi. DIt FItAlVCIS J. 1LUDI0XD Office, 38 East Ohio St. IIOUItS-9 to 11 a. m.: 2 to 3 p. m. (STDistafces of the Stomach and Nervous yyatem. DR. C. 1 i-LETCH R. EESIIiKXCE 573 X..rt!i Meridian :re 0 k lcL.-3tJ'J South Meridian street. Oilico llo;ir-i bliia. ui ; to 1 u. m.; 7 U tip to. lelephonea-otUco. iM; roii.lo.ice. Il7. DR. J. A. SUTCLIFFE, " Surgeon. office-OA East Mar; strt Hours-? t 11 a.m.; .to a p.m. Sunday excepteL Telephone I'll DR. BRAYTOfi. JlkMIJNClssort Kat Waaldnztou at. Ohio leicpKouj 1131DR. SARAH STOCK 1 On, a.7yornt delawaue sthelt. DR. REBECCA W. RO.ERi, I)Ihkasks ok WOMEN' AND CHILDULNi?FCIC7l9 Marlon H ock. Ofiiee Hour. '. t Wence, 44o ..wrtii Meridian atreet. GRCUNB -yo - 0 pti ci an - Cf? til LA5T MARKt'T ST' mOIAJJAPOUS-lND. MOTORS aniiDMAJUi ire With forj-ed Iroa flel t MMeia, lorelectrio p-iwar, acatnlescent luhtiiif electro T!tioj. Commercial Electric C) 12 1 South Teuiis'' ICtUaiUtpolia. IuJL

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