Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1895 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, '3IONDAY, APRIL 22, 1895.

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In scenery, bric-a-brac and stage furniture, the flavor of the time Is preserved, and, notwithstanding the dramatic intensity of the situations, the characters move with a minuet-like grace. All the critics have praised the' brilliancy of the writing, which almost reaches the plane of blank verse, and is a delight to the cultivated ear. The company Is admitted to be one of uncommon excellence, and gives evidence of the most careful and , conscientious selection. These a r. tha n.ma. An (to a, thau Bnoalr for themselves: Messrs. J. H, Gilmour, Thomas Whiff en. Frank Mills, S. E. Springer, Guy Standing, Frederick Strong, Harry Phillips, Harold Howard, and Misses Mary Hampton, Minnie Bowen, Carrie Keeler and Emily Dodd. With the prestige of phenomenal success in the principal cities, Including a run of two hundred nights at the Kmpire Theater. New York, this beautiful play comes to the Grand Opera House for an engagement of three nights and a popularpriced Wednesday matinee. The Grand should be crowded, for both play and company are alike great. Park The XenvJIle To-Day. . Madame and Augustine Neuvllle will re turn this afternoon to the Park for three days, appearing in their old favorite, "The Boy Trarnp." The company Is said to be a food one and ihe play as exciting as ever, he Park's patrons are familiar with the play, which Is very popular here. Ada Gray, In "East Lynne," follows on Thursday. ; - - - . Empire Boxing; and AVrestllnjr. Thft nrotninim at the Emnirer tn-ntcrht will consist of boxing and wrestling, introducing George Gaylor's pupils and others, Including Christ. Wrade, William Sapp, Samuel Murbarger, Harry Leary, Charles Graff and several other local boxers. The event of the evening will be a wrestling match between Harry Williams and Roy Clark. . ThV "Palmy Day" Fact Scored. Stuart Robsoe has taken up the cudgel In defense of modern plays, playwrights and actors, and pithily presents some strong points against those who are wishing for the "palmy days." From the Baltimore Lyceum he writes as follows: "As the ' pulpit appears to have tired of Us attack upon the stage, the 'Old Playgoer' comes forward to tell us how very demoralizing Is. the drama of to-day and' ,ine incompetence, oi ine moaern actor.. These complaints,, though frequently entfr-. iSLinmg, are-always promiess. iney aate wick to me time when ttoseius was an actor in tiome. ine paimy uays or. tne drama are always in the past, and the feeble cry of the decline of acting will go on forever. Seventy years ago William Hazlett wrote that the drama of his day was barren o great actors, and yet Macready lived, and Miss O'Neill and the elder Kean. "Thirty years later the comedian Burton talked in the same strain. I had the honor of playing in support of that great actor many years ago. At rehearsal, one morn-, ing, some one spoke highly of the promise of a young actor who was growing into considerable notice,, when Mr. Burton said: ".'The young man Is entirely without ability, and I am sorry to say it, for the great players are dying away and we have no one to replace them.' "The young man alluded to was named Edwin Booth, and within the sound of the comedian's voice stood a pair of players who afterwards became as great as heJohn K Owens and Joseph Jefferson. That acting, upon the whole. Is better than it was forty years ago is manifest In the fact that audiences are far more Intelligent, and exacting than they, were then. The most critical of "palmy day playgoers would applaud a bit of false sentiment wolch would nowadays excite ridicule. For instance, in Boston, many years ago, at the old Tremont Theater, Charles B. Thome, the elder, played for his benefit a drama called 'The Boston Truckman.' An Important scene represented the rescue of a child from a burning house by a highly moral truckman. The bad man of the play ridiculed the trackman for his attempt to pose as a hero, when the indignant res--mi fTHH TrtiA mr taunt m. tint vi o ture In her most liberal mood never carved a man more perfect than a Boston truckman.' This speech was received in all seriousness and loudly applauded. "Not the least Important qualification for a tragedian was lungs, and the comedian who was vulgar, clownish and fat owned three Important elements of success. The more paint on his nose, the more ridiculous or ragged his attire, the more he could Nimble about the stage, the better his auctience liked him. I sometimes wonder if the good old people who rail over the degeneracy of the drama ever read an oldtime prompt book. An acting copy of 'She Stoop to Conquer,' with interleaved 'business of a long line of famous comedians, reveals gags, lines and sentences of such nrtaittvA InnAi'Annu a m xf mi 1 .i v. sit..... i the coarsest performers of a Western mining town. - 'These recollections occur to me when I read that a prominent actor in New York declares that a certain class of plays should be suppressed by law an opinion echoed by a worthy old gentleman ia Boston, who popes as a dramatic censor and Shakspearean critic, who asserts that all the good actors, save one, have passed away; that only demoralizing plays are successful, and that no play of distinctive literary merit has been written in our day this last assertion in face of the fact that the greatest writers of the age are engaged in playwriting. "Is there such a thing as a demoralizing play? I have heard several sermons that I thought demoralizing but the worst play 1 ever saw praised virtue and condemned vice. Somehow or other X think the stage is all right in spite of the; ravens who croak of its decline, and that the constant try , of 'degeneracy i3 not warranted by the chronicles of nc hundred years ago. Richard Mansfield is doing as much for the Blase as Macrcady vcr did. and Henry IrvTHE REASONS 17I1Y Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil and HypopTiosphitcs is so , useful in all wasting diseases, such as Consumption, Anaemia, Scrofula, Rheumatism, Bronchitis, and Marasmus and Rick- ;.; cts in children, is because it furnishes to the depleted blood the' fattening and enriching properties of the oil; and to the bones and nervous system the phosphorescent and vitalizing properties of the Ilypophos--phites, which together nourish the body 'arrest the progress of the disease, and commence a process of repair that finally means restored health and vigor. , Don't h perwaeftd try ttcctpt a nvbttitut! Scott k Bewnc, N, Y. All Druggist. 50e. ud $1.

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ing Is doing more for its elevation and puritv than any other actor ever tried to do since the days of Shakspeare himself. "I have been on the stage nearly half a century my experience surely gives me proper license to speak, and I here polemnly declare that. plays" of the present day are purer, the actors better- and the general character of the stage higher" than at any time during my career." . Hfrm. Adams's "The .National Flower., It has "been announced that the popular operetta' composed by Mrs. Carrie B. Adams, teacher of music in the Terre Haute Normal School, "will be presented in. this; city early next month under the auspices of ladies connected, with Roberts .Park Church. The title of the operetta Is "The National Flower," and It has been received with great favor In several cities where it has been presented, und:r the direction of Mrs. Adams, as it will be here. A brief outline of the piece will give an idea of its novel properties- A court is constituted, of which women are the officials, and a jury of young ladies, with the exception of two mature spinsters, hears the presentation, of the arguments of the respective competitors for the honor of being the national flower. The candidates are daisies, lilies, roses, the sunflower, an onion, a Canada thistle, weeds, an oak tree, goldenrod and clover. The respective candidates are dressed In costumes representing the flowers and plants they personate, for which each pleads in a beautiful song. The jury endeavors to decide in favor of the most useful as well a3 the most beautiful flower. The old maids continually disagree with the remainder of the Jury, and confusion reigns till Uncle Sam finally mounts the jury box and offers some valuable information. He is allowed to make a selection, which happily pleases all, and the contest is satisfactorily ended. One bt John Drerr JoUelets. On last Sunday John Drew was in a small ConnecUcut town waiting for a New York train, when the manager of a local theater, approached him. "Could you bring your troupe here some night?" asked the manager. "I'm afraid not," answered Mr. Drew. "Why?" "My manager has arranged the tour complete." , "Them New York managers is no good. I had trouble with one last wefck. Our theater Is new here and the dressing rooms hain't finished. So I let the actors dress behind white sheets strung along the wall, Weil, this New York duck kicked at that. "Where's the dressing rooms?" he asked. . " "Behind them sheets,' said I. " 'Do you mean that the men and women' of mv company dress together?' "What's the matter? Don't they speak?" " - Xotea of the Stage. "Captain Paul" will be produced for arun at the Fourteenth-street Theater at Once, with Robert Hllliard In the leading role. .. Nellie McHenry and her entire company were guests of Buffalo Bill at his home in North Platte, Neb., and were royally entertained, March 27. Mamie Gilroy is on her way to San Francisco with the "A Country Sport" company. Miss Gilroy. is as great a favorite with the people of that coast as she is in the East. Arrangements have been completed for the next starring tour of Robert Hilliard. . The enterprise is projected by H. C. Barnabee and W. H. MacDonald, the proprietors of the The Bostonians. Paul Potter's royalties from his "Trilby" dramatization are already $1,200 a week. When Wlllim A. Brady gets his dozen or more "Trilby" companies started, Potter will ibe making perhaps $3,000 weekly out of the craze. "Little Lord Fauntleroy," under the title of "Petit Lord." was played at a matinee performance at the Comedie-Parisienne The part of Fauntleroy is played by a young actress, the children in France not being sufficiently precocious. j Sarah Bernhardt has purchased an island In the Bay of Naples. It is described as an enchanted oasis of land in a beautiful wilderness of water. It was once owned' by Fouquet whose dismantled but once, splendid castie Bernhardt intends to restore. . . W. B. Gross, of "Shore Acres" fame, is in the City making arrangements for the return engagement at the Grand next week of that fine production which made such a hit here two months ago. The same company will be seen, with James A. Herne at its head. Helen .Blythe will commence her season early in September with a varied selection of plays. Among them will be "Plot and j Passion.; by Tom Taylor: "Leah," "Chatterton," and "As You Like It." During the season Miss Blythe will produce a new play called "Reaping the Whirlwind." The season of Professor Kellar, the conjuror, which was to have closed this week in St. Louis, has been extended to June 1. This step has been taken owing to the steadily enormous (business done by Kellar. Immediately upon the close of his tour, Mr. Kellar will proceed to Erie, where his workshops are situated, and where he has the foundations laid for several new acts for next season. The talented and popular comedian Nat C. Goodwin begins his annual engagement at the Grand Opera House next Thursday evening. - This engagement is always anticipated as one of the most pleasurable events of the season, and it will have a popular opening in Mr. Goodwin's revival of Henry Guy Carleton's brilliant comedy, "A Gilded Fool," which will be given Thursday night. "David Garrick" and "Lend Me Five Shillings" will be given Friday night and "A Gold Mine" Saturday matinee and night. t ....... In London the virtuous indignation of the citizens, condemnatory of Oscar Wilde and his plays, which led the people to keep away from the theaters where he was represented, has drawn its horns, so to speak. At the St. James, the production of Henry Arthur- Jones's new play has been postponed., as the business of "The Importance of Being tamest" Is again large. "When Mr. Tree gets back to the Haymarket, the once' abandoned plan of moving "An Ideal Husband" to the Criterion will be carried Into effect, the receipts having picked up. Charles Frohman has concluded to produce "The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Empire ... in New York to-night.' Once a?a,n..lt 13 PPrent that "the play's the thing," not the roan. . . AVOOD-PI LP PAPER.

Hook and Paper Printed on It Xot Likely to Re I. listing'. Boston Transcript.. : The Listener has observed many recent statements In the papers about the probable early decay and disappearance of books and newspapers which are printed on wood-pulp paper. Some of these statements are probably quite extravagant. The length of time-that any book or a newspaper will exist depends, in a great measure, on the care taken of ft. Any loose newspaper Is doomed to go Into shreds and dust some time, and any well-bound book, protected against dampness, insects and wear will last a great many years, even if it is printed on wood-pulp, A great proportion of our books are not printed on wood pulp, but on rag paper of fair quality; indeed, it is altogether probable that a greater aggregated number of books is well printed, on durable paper, . every year now than since the invention of printing. Nevertheless, it Is perfectly true that wood-pulp paper is, as papers go, an ephemeral and vanishing substance. The Listener has In his-possession two old newspapers which contain matter of Interest to him. One of them was printed in 1873, quite evidently on wood-pulp paper, and the other was printed in 1813. The paper of 1R13 is in much better and solider condition than that of 1S73. The latter paper, indeed, though it has' been handled but little, Is Irv a sad condition. Its edges have crumbled away; the paper has broken apart in places at the folds, and some of thtype is illegible. The older paper has been rubbed so much that the type is somewhat dimmed in places, but the paper is perfectly good throughout, as sound at the folds as anvwhere else, and Intact at the edges. At its present rate of disintegration, the paper which is twenty-two years old will not hold together another twenty-two years, whereas the one which Is eighty-two years old looks as If It was good for another eightytwo. - This state of things is not without Its compensations. We can look with complacence on the probable utter disappearance from the face of the earth, within fifty years, of the cheap Journalism of the prvsent day. Its fading away will be to tine credit of the reputation of the present time. But It behooves people who have matters which they really wish to preserve legal documents, fainiiy records and printed remembrances of all sorts either to le-jrn something about paper, so that they will be aware what sort of stuff they are ustnfr. or else to pay a dealer in whom they have confidence a sufficient price to secure a pt rmanent paper. Then, if they will have it printed or written upon with permanent ink. they niny have confidence that iheir memorial will survive at least an long as therv is any use for It four centuries, anyway, with care. And anvone who thinks that four centuries is not long enough for anything of his to endurs had bettt-r ask himself how much he has nowthat, i.s older than that.' o AVheelw for 151 m. Washington Star. v "We are on the verge of a revolution." fhe cried. "No. .Maria," replied Mr. Meek inn. ; pn-, tlcntly but firmly, "you can go out and rideyour hlcyi-le if you want to: but I'm blest1 If I will." .

FROM SOUTHERN MILLS 1

CQTTO.V GOODS COIIG TO IXDIAXA FROM DOWX IX DIXIE. Competition vlth Xevr England Fc ' torles Hovr Local Trade with Sonth America Im Hampered. A wholesale dry goods merchant on South Meridian 'street says but few persons are "aware" of the- inroads the Soutnern cotton mills are making on the manufactories of cotton goods 1n the New England States. The wholesale dry goods houses of this city are handling large quantities of the brown cottons of SouthenV- mills production and many of their colored cottons, but the Southern mills have not made the advance in "the manufacture of colored cotton goods which they have in"plam. cotton goods. Still it is true that while the Southern mills ere making a heavier weight goods, these goods are not as smoothly woven and finely finished, but in time they will probably overcome the difference in quality which 1 now In favor or the New England mills. Writh each year the good3 the Southern mills turn out come nearer to the standard of the New England mills. The local manufacturers of shirts, pants, overalls, etc., are using large quantities of the Southern cotton goods and find they give perfect satisfaction. The Southern manufactories deliver goods free of freight to all customers in the North, which is an important Item, as the New England mills do not and never have delivered the goods freight prepaid. Most of the cotton goods of Southern manufacture come from the Cnrolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, with some from Texas, in speaking of this matter one of the largest of the manufacturers of shirts, pants and overalls said: "We are all using large quantities of these goods. They are shipped in bales of one thousand yards or cases of two thousand yards, and one thousand cases of these goods Is now used In Inaianapolis where ten were five years ago, and where a hundred cases or bales were used three years ago. - Wre are still buying many cotton goods from New England, as the Southern mills do not offer the variety that the New England mills do." The manufacturer then exhibited Amoskeag cotton goods of New England manufacture and an imitation of the Amoskeag goods made in Tennessee, and only an expert could tell which was the best make. He said tn Southern mills had the advantage in tne way of labor. They were employing the lower classes of white people, who had not been used to such wages as the employes in the New England mills get. He thought that with eacn year the Southern product would cut Into the business of the New England mills more and more. Then he had learned that New Englanu manufacturers were more or less interested in the Southern mills, and all over .e cotton states mills are now going up built with New England capital. "One tntng is quite certain,"said the manufacturer, "New England, if she is to keep her cotton 'manufactories running, must turn out better goods than do ' the Southern mills and enter new fields for its markets, as the manufacture of cotton goods' in tne Southern states will, in time, make a powerful competition with the New England mills." England Reaps the Benefit. This is the season to which the Nordyke & Marmon Company ha3 looked forward with no . little solicitude as the condition of trade now forms a basis for outlining the coming year"s trade.- As compared with the two preceding years, the present shows a marked improvement but not up to the oldtime standard. Orders have been closed for a number of new mills, among them the rebuilding of the one-hundred-barrel mill recently burned at Rushville, Ind. These new jobs will not necessitate an increase in the working force in the shops. Some foreign orders are coming in but the vigorous efforts and expense, which heretofore could be counted on to get foreign business is not now so sure to bring returns. There is as much mill machinery as ever going into the countries that were formerly supplied from here, but on account of lack of direct shipping facilities and the absence of an international banking system, foreign buyers cannot buy to advantage here. Direct shipment by reliable line3 would stimulate trade by a reduction in freights and at the same time facilitate delivery. The complications Involved in making a remittance to Indianapolis, or in fact to any city In the United States, aside probably from New York city, is bewiluerlng to the foreign buyer of mill machinery. As a rule he is not an extensive importer and although he is satisfied in price and quality of goods, he hesitates when the question of remittance presents itself. He cannot comprehend why it should be necessary to make remittance in English exchange, If the United States is the great and progressive nation it has been pictured to him. England is now reaping the harvest planted by efforts made here in Indianapolis to Introduce improved milling machinery in South America, Africa and Australia because of that country's ability to make direct shipment and prompt delivery, backed up by.a system of exchange that is as simple as it Is inex-' pensive and effective. Tribute. Is paid to England in the way of exchange in almost every shipment of mill machinery ever made from this to a foreign country, except in rare instances to Mexico. A gentleman writing Nordyke & Marmon Company -from a country whose monetary system would be the glory of the most ardent advocate of silver says in his letter covering remittance (English exchange of course) that it took two dollars of their silver money to buy exchange for one dollar of our good money. and goes on to say that he can see no hope for any relief there from the adoption of free coinage in the United States, as the machinery he buys will be paid on a gold basis so long as it is paid for in English exchange whether it is quoted to him on the basis , of so many gold dollars worth two of his or at twice as many silver dollars equal in value to his. The fact is, he says, he realizes that he pays in gold whether or not the United States is added to his country on the silver tail of the gold kite. The Indianapolis Wool Trade. With each year, of late, Indianapolis has become a larger wool-buying point, a number of large dealers, as well as the two woolen mills, doing a good deal of business. George Merrltt.& Co. have just sent out their annual circular in answer to the question: What will be the price of wool at shearing time? The firm says it is a question often asked, and a safe answer cannot be given yet. Farmers should be advised of the importance of putting their wool on the market In better shape than ever before, In order to compete with the corefully -prepared wool of Australia and South America, which comes on the market sorted and very carefully graded, making it very profitable to the manufacturer. This wool is tied up with a small, smooth, hard twine whose fibers cannot become loosened and mixed with the wool. The firm has the following letter written by a large Eastern manufacturer: "We have been very much troubled this season with the sisal twine with which the fleeces nre tied; we have had to throw aside thousands of pounds of wool on this account. This causes us loss and damage to our goods, and it is our intention now to hereafter avoid all wools tied with this "wine that will damage our goods. I write this timely note that you Way notify your Western correspondents. The fiber mixes with the wool and greatly injures its value. A small hard twine should be used on wool. Sisal twine, binding twine and the soft, coarse wool twine should never be used, and if it is used, you should make a difference in price because of it." More Riiftlnea than Lnt Year. Frank He.wlg, superintendent of the Indianapolis Chair Manufacturing Company, states that the works are doing more than at the corresponding period in either of the last two years. The. company's pay rolls show 27S men at work, and the company has shipped 30 per cent, more carloads of chairs in XI arch and SO per cent, more this month thus far than last year. Most of the goods are shipped by carloads, going to the Northwest, the Pacific coast and rh Southwest. The eomf jiny hat become quite noted for the good quality of its work and the novelty of its designs in chairs. lO.fMJO llnshelM of lorn n Day. The cerealine mills and the Indianapolis hominy mills are enjoying quite a boom In business, after a dull period. The National

starch works, "as for some . time past, are very busy, running to" their fullest capacity. The three establishments are daily converting from ten thousand to eleven thousand bushels of corn a day into cerealine products. Export, as well as home trade, Is improving. : Industrial Xotes. The Indianapolis cabinet- works closed down, temporarily,, Saturday jiight. The Indiana Cotton Mill Company has contracted with Chandler & Taylor for. two boilers, each of 150 horse power. An oiden-tlme activity begins to appear at the Atlas engine works. Weekly the establishment Is shipping ten tr twelve carloads of engines and boilers. The National Playing Card Company haa resumed operations arid has in the neighborhood of one hundred people at work. The outlook for these works has improved of late. In the year 18W there were handled by Indianapolis wholesale grocers 108.2W barrels of sugar and over six hundred carloads of canned goods and other California products. The Gardner Abattoir Company has gotten its twenty-five ton daily capacity artificial ice plant completed and will, besides cooling its own packing houses, sell on the Indianapolis market. . ' r The; Laycock Manufacturing Company has ninety people at work, running full time. The company has gotten up, of late, several new designs in the wire goods it manufactures, for which there Is a good, demand. The fine pine flooring and the heavy oak timber being put Into the Rhodius building, on Capitol avenue, is being shipped here from Arkansas. The flooring is planed and grooved ready for use before shipped. At the present time the Dutch, of Holland, are furnishing the cabbage for the Indianapolis maTket and the ctates of Utah and Montana the Irish potatoes, Canada our beans, and California our celery, yet Indiana counts itself an agricultural State. Two of the roads running in here are now daily running stone trains, the several large new buildings and the street improvements having caused the demand. It will, it is stated, require a thousand carloads of stone for the foundations of the buildings already under contract. Through the Cuban revolution, Ellis & Helfenberger, of this city, lose a $12,000 Job of furnishing the Iron fence for a national cemetery, the order having been countermanded last week, the excuse being offered that the country was so disturbed that the scheme has been abandoned. The express companies, it is stated officially, are now doing the largest, business at Indianapolis at any time in the forty years they have had offices here. Since the companies lowered their rates there has been an increase In shipments of all descriptions of . light articles, such as bicycles, fancy goods and. notions. A number of business men have taken hold of the project of securing the American starch works for Indianapolis, the plant at Columbus having recently been burned. This is the only antt-trust starch works In the country and it is stated that the next day after the plant was destroyed the starch companies in the trust advanced prices of starch. - i. General Manager Landers, of the United States encaustic tile works, says they are working full-handed and full time, shutting down at noon on Saturday as . for years past. He says since Congress and the Legislature adjourned their business has steadily improved. The company was, last week, awarded the contract to furnish sixteen thousand feet of tiling for the new St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, and twelve thousand feet for the new Union Station at Sc. Joseph, Mo. Chandler & Taylor have, for the last two years, been enjoying an excellent foreign trade, shipping engines and boilers to Mexico and South America, but home trade, until the last month, they say, has been very slow. In the last thirty days they have reoeived several good orders from points in this State and Pennsylvania. Last week they shipped an engine and boiler to Rushville for a flouring mill, an engine and saw mill to Waverly, Ind., and from several other points in .this, nd adjoining States they are receiving ' more inquiries than at any time In the laBt two years. THE "ALADDIN OVEX."

Mr. Atkinson Glve a. Practical Demonstration, ot H -Merit. Washington Letter,-in New York Tribune. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin gave a dinner on Sunday evening that was uniqua as Washington dinners go. The cook entertained callers, during the process of preparing the dinner, attended to other matters of business in. different parts of the city, rested over night, had leisure for Easter services, arranged the alshes? of the menu at intervals,, titen served the dinner and joined the diriiieJtlftty.v Among tbv invited guests were Secretary and Mrs. G .sham. Secretary and Mrs.- Carlisle, Secretary and Miss Morton, ex-Postmaster-general and Mrs. Bissell, and the Japanese minister, Mr Kurino. The cook was Ldward Atkinson", of Boston. The occasion of the dinner party was a practical demonstration of the working of the famous Aladdin oven, preparatory to its being turned over to the charge of Secretary Morton for universal introduction and use. Mr. Atkinson is in Washington to explain the process of making the Aladdin ovens and give tp the Department of Agriculture the right of the free use of the patents' for Introduction in. the agricultural colleges throughout' the United States. - 4 "I am anxious now - to devote myself to other lines of work," said Professor Atkinson "This has been crowded upon me because of the great need that it be done. Too many lives have been sacrificed at the altar of the cook-stove, too many families haye been destroyed in the terror -of the Blddy reign " not to count this a national evil calling for remedy. I have given twenty years of hard labor and careful thought to experiments on nutrition and economy of foods -and in developing this oven on an economical, simple basis. I have made ex-, periments in one way and then in another, first going around Robin Hood'B barn, then back, then taking a shorter cut. until now I have perfected an oven in. which meals can be prepared for 600 at a cost of 25 cents for fuel. The toughest meats can be made tender and juicy the parts of the food which are most often wasted can be utilized in wholesome dishes giving the maximum of nutrition for the minimum of expense, and a course dinner can be cooked without having to serve In the first course a roasted cook. I had the ovens patented for protection from imitation and to cover the cost of making the Invention. They are now in use in many places and have paid their way, and I wish to put the matter entirely out of my hands. I gave a seven-course dinner to my Whist Club and friends, including oranges and coffee, which cost 13 cents each for food material. Each cigar consumed after dinner cost more than the dinner. - "For the dinner this evening I put my beans and pons into the compartments of the oven. After a few hours I made the Boston brown bread and Indian pudding and left them to bake. . This morning I prepared my spring lamb, with green peas, fricasseed chicken and -egetables, and had no more trouble with them until it was time to serve, for our 7 o'clock dinner. The ovens are simple in arrangement, and can be made of different materials. T. Booker Washington, of Tuscogee, Ala., makes the ovens for his large school of planks plastered with mortar, and is carrying on cocking on a large scale. He is going to have one on exhibition at the Atlanta Exposition, and conduct a restaurant on our plan. There will be profit in it for him, too. He is one of the brightest and ablest men I have ever met. and has done an Immense amount of good In elevating his race. We have made a great study of the food problem in Boston. I lately gave a dinner of four courses soup, fish, meat and vegetables, and mush with molasses for desertto nine of the poorer students at Harvard, who want to economize. Thare were three others. Each had a pound and a half of strong food, and the cost for the twelve was si cents. We have established the new England kitchens on a paying basis. One of our ladies is making money on five-cent dinners. Mrs. Ellen Richards has been my right-hand helper in this work. I cannot praise too highly what she has done. I have lately been talking with a man who proposes to cope with drunkenness In a practical way. His plants to open a large New England kitchen and have soup on one side of a partition and lager beer on the other, where men can take their choice. He believes that if good food and other attractions are offered on the same terms on which beer is now sold, the majority would prefer the soup. Secretary Morton is alive to the importance of good food. In fact, the air is, full of it." Found Among; the KKRshellM. Chicago Post. . The White House gardener was sweeping the White House lawn after the annual Easter egg-rolling games of the children of Washington. In the eggshells and other debris he caught sight of a small piece tf pasteboard. He picked It up and examined it. It was a pass of the Pennsylvania Railway Company Issued for the benefit and use of Richard T. Olney, Attorney-general of the United States. Mr. Olney goes to his horn.a In Masaschusetts about once a month. For part of the distance he travels over the Pennsylvania rails. Th 'ar both ways is about $12. By means of the pans the Attorney-general sves $144 a year or $,V?6 for his entire term of office. For this consideration he is willing to compromise himself with a railway corporation that has frequent dealings with the government, and that is only prevented from Sv-'zing valuable land in Washington by the constant watchfulness of government officials. The pass was returned to Mr. Olney. He will continue to ride free. Engraving, expert workmen at March's.

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XO REASOX AVHY EASTERX PEOPLE SHOULD PAY TWICE ITS VALIE. . Secretary Morton Innists Hii Export Flfrnrea Hare Xot Been Padded and -Explain a Discrepancy. WASHINGTON, April 21. Secretary Morton was to-day shown the charge in the Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune of Friday, that he had inflated the statistics of pork exported to Germany, as his figures do not correspond to the official figures of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury . lDepartment, and show a much greater aggregate than is given by that , bureau. Secretary Morton said, in reply, that the figures of the Department of Agriculture are jurt as much official figures as those of the Bureau of Statistics and that concerning the exports of pork to countries requiring certificates of Inspection, the;inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry have no opportunity to obtain the exact figures which is not shared f any other department of the government. Every package of pork which goes to Germany or France must be. stamped by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, who takes its exact weight, and every shipment of pork to those countries must he accompanied by a certificate issued by an inspector, showing that the meats have been properly inspected, and giving the stamp number of every package. The inspector reports all the certificates Issued with the packages, the weights, the destination and consignees. "I do not pretend to know," he "added, "how the figures of the Bureau of Statistics are made up,; but as some of the inspected pork is shipped to Germany by way of Holland, Belgium and other , countries', it is possible that the discrepancy arises from this pork being credited to these countries Instead of to the country of ultimate destination. The Department of Agriculture not only has a complete list of all the shipments, showing the shippers in , this country and the consignees, and covering the entire amount of pork referred to in the statistics given out, but it now appears that the exports for March have been larger than for any previous month. The total exports of microscopically inspected pork covered by the. certificates issued during the month of March is 7.329.142 pounds, of which 5,527,64 pounds was destined for Germany, as compared with 6.229,386 pounds shipped to that country during February,' and 4,622,2m during January. . "The New York Tribune will find by reference to a letter written by Gen. W. B. Franklin, commissioner-general to the Paris exposition, Oct. 16, 1889, that its editor, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, stated that the small numr ber of pork raisers in France should not require the whole nation to pay larger prices for so important an article of food as pork merely for their benefit." In regard to the beef question, Dr. Salmon 4 ha3 reported to the Secretary that there is an undoubted diminution of the- class of cattle from which the beef supply is drawn. Taking the figures of the statistical division, which he believes to be approximately correct, and excluding dairy cows, there were In 1892 37.651,239 head of cattle In the United States,- 56 to each 1,000 of population. In 1895 there are only 34,364,216 of such cattle, or 493 to each 1,000 of population. This shows a great diminution in the beef cattle in the country, and also that the increased prices of such cattle in the stockyards is legitimate. Under such circumstances, however, the market should be strong and the cattle be readily disposed of at advanced figures instead of being weak and depressed, as it is constantly reported to be. The price of beef in the Eastern cities has gone higher than is Justified by the price of live cattle and the reported break In the market for cattle on account of alleged decreased consumption has come in advance of any lowering on beef. In each case the effect has shown itself in advance of the cause. A letter has just been received at the department from a prominent and perfectly reliable man in central Illinois, who states that the beef sold in his town is shipped there sometimes from Kansas City and sometimes from Chicago. The retail price of first quality meat, as good as ever found in any city, is for loin and porterhouse steaks and roasts, 15 cents, and for round and rib roast of the nest quality, 12 cents. tAs such meat can be shipped from Chicago to New York for less thancent per pound, it is difficult for the department to see why the consumer in the Eastern cities should now be forced to pay double these prices. THE COMPOSITE GtXBOATS. Xevr Featnre of the American Xavy That Will Re Tried. WASHINGTON, April 21. The bo' -d of naval bureau chiefs has been for th past week spending many hours almost daily in considering the designs for the six composite gunboats ordered to be constructed by the last Congress, and it is doubtful if the chiefs have been so much perplexed and at variance since they first undertook the work of revising plans for the cdnstructlon of naval vessels. It was the intention to make these new vessels midway in size between the Petrel type and the Machias class, so they were fixed as ot 873.6 tons displacement, one purpose In keeping them just below. 1,000 tons being to permit of the assignment to their command of energetic junior officers, who might develop their executive faculties years before they could aspire to command larger gunboats and cruisers. Since this size has been agreed on, however, there have been shown . evidences of a disposition to reopen the subject and build two large and two small boats, the latter specially designed for use In the upper Chinese rivers, but it is improbable that this, now, will prevail, as the necessity for the presence of American gunboats in such waters is not apparent in times of peace, and they could not pass forts in time of war. But the feature of the plans which has developed the 'widest difference of opinion is that of sail power, for the designs prepared by the construction bureau as a basis for the board's action include a full outfit of sails. The boats have been given a spread of canvas of 11,000 square feet. It would be desirable to give them more, but ia could not be done without Infringing on space otherwise needed. . This amount of canvas practically makes the gunboats full-powered sailing crafts, and in this they will be much different from any other of the vessels of the new navy. Some of these vessels are provided with auxiliary sail power, just enough to enable them to keep on low headway in case of accident to their machinery, but the tendency in late years has been towards the abandonment of sail power altogether, as it has been contended that the loss of speed resulting from forcing so much top hamper into the teeth of the wind ia greater than the assistance derived from running free before the wind. It is also thought that slnco the general adoption of twin screws, the probabilities of a.x-ident have been so reduced as to justify sails being Ignored altogether Therefore, In the case of these new boats, chief constructor Hichborn has taken the ground that auxiliary sail is worse than useless and that the boats should either abandon sail altogether or be suppiled with full sail power, enough to enable them to make long cruises witnout use of coal until an emergency arose that required them to make good speed. The construction bureau has adopted the latter view out of consideration for the peculiar service for which these vessels are destined. They will doubtless be used largely for service on foreign stations where they may be safely placed Instead of largfr ships, in the interest of economy, and will thus often be in places where coal is difficult to obtain. As they are to be sheathed with copper, they will be able to get along for two or three years at a time without going into dock, so that their ability to keep the sea and away from a home navy yard will depend solely on their ability to get along without frequent coaling. For service at Samoa, In the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sei, and on the expensive Bering sea patrol where speed is not an object at all times, the chief constructor holds this sail power will make the vessels of great value and that they will b the most economical cruisers In the navy. He has also pointed out that the ships so equipped will prove to be almost the only practical , school our navy officers can find to study sail navigation, and this is an important point In time of war, when prizes may be made of sailing vessels which must be sent to port in charge of a competent navigator. The other bureau officers of the depart-, ment have not as yet accepted th views of the cblef constructor on this point, and Mome of them a r urging that th vessels be given twin screws, which would require

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AX IXTERXATIOXAL CASE. Important Decision to Be Handed Dona br the Snpreme Conct. WASHINGTON, April 1. It is generally believed that the . United States Supreme Court, before the adjournment of the present term, will render a decision in the case involving the validity of foreign judgments in courts of this country. Barring the question of a rehearing in the income tax cases, this is probably the most Important matter now before the court, and the fact that notwithstanding the cases were argued during the term of 1893-91, and still remain undecided, would appear to Indicate that the members of the court have encountered difficulties in dealing with them. There are two of these cases, but the points involved are so much alike that a decision in one, in all probabdlty, will be equal to a decision In the other. The first of the cases is that of Samuel J. Ritchie vs. James D. McMullin, and is an appeal from the decision of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern district of Onio, affirming the judgment of a Canadian court in lieMullin's behalf, against Ritchie; the second, that of Henry Hilton and others vs. Guatave B. Guyot, from the United States Circuit Court for the Southern district of New York, affirming a declson against Hilton and Llbbey, successors to A. T. Stewart & Co., for the sum of $280,352. In the latter case Guyot appears as the official liquidator of the affairs of the firm of Charles Fortin & Co., glove manufacturers of Par-3. It appears that In 1866 Stewart & Co. entered into an agreement with Fortin & Co. to sell in this country all the gloves the French firm could manufacture and to divide the profits equally. In 1879 there was a disagreement and Fortin & Co. seed the New York house In the Tribunal of Commerce of Paris and obtained a Judgment for the larger share of their claims. The case was appealed to the Paris Court of Appeals, but the judgment was affirmed. In the meantime Stewart & Co. had closed the house which they had hitherto maintained in Paris and sold their property there. The Paris firm, on discovery of this fact, entered suit In the federal Circuit Court of New York and asked for the execution of -the decree of the French courts, maintaining the sufficiency of the judgments of the foreign courts. The Circuit judge acceded to this view, and gave Judgment for the full amount. Hilton c Libbey, as the successors of Stewart A - Co., then brought the case to the United States Supremo Court, where it was twice argued for Guyot by Messrs. William G. Choate and William D. . Shipman, and by Messrs. James C. Carter and Elihu Root for Hilton & Llbbey. Enormous interests are involved in the decision. It is claimed that judgments to the amount of $16,000,000 have been rendered in the Canadian courts alone against American citizens, the validity of which depends on the decision in these cases. The lawyers agree that" there is scarcely any doctrine ot the law Which, so far as respects formal and exact statement, is in a more uncertain condition than that relating to the force and effect of the judgments of the courts rendered in one nation by the courts of another nation. Many decisions have been rendered in England, but they appear to have left -the question in an involved . and confused condition. Messrs. Carter and Root laid down the proposition in their argument on the Hilton case that the question of the conclusiveness of a foreign judgment depends on the circumstances under which it was rendered, and where it was not so conclusive as to preclude Inquiry into the original merits of the controversy then the State is under its ordinary obligation to the party demanding the inquiry, to give him at least one full and fair opportunity of having his cause adjudicated on its original merits. This opportunity, they claim, was denied them in this case. It Is understood that a decision has been reached by the court in the case, but it is not known whether the opinion of the court has been prepared or when It will be handed down. It is not considered probable, however, that he court will again allow the matter to go over through a recess. ' ConKresamnn Httt'a Condition. WASHINGTON, April 21. The condition of Representative Hitt, of Illinois. Is practically unchanged to-n!ght. His physician is in constant attendance." and to-night a consultation was held oyer him by two Washington physician and a prominent, specialist from Baltimore. He is desperately 111. but there Is still hope of his recovery. Representative Cogswell, of Massachusetts, is better to-day, and is expected to Improve steadily ; ; SILVER AGITATIOX IX COLORADO. An Explanation, ot the Activity of the . SUverlten. Denver Correspondence New York Post. The silver agitators, Jones and Stewart, of Nevada; Warner, of Ohio, and Sibley, of Pennsylvania, seem to have decided among themselves unanimously: "We will agitate;" and forthwith to be making straight for Colorado, ground apparently in very little need of silver agitation. In reality, their campaign of education possesses deep significance and encouragem"-'1 to sound-money men. It is really a sh at the silver leaders are alarmed, an. reason of their fright is the state pinion here, which their close study o. has enabled them to discover in advance, - 'hey. it would seem, have discerned in Colorado undercurrents at work transforming public opinion against them, which, although not very apparent as yet on the surface, have the potentiality of irresistible force. In the late election silver was dealt a very severe blow by the overwhelming defeat of Populism, with which party many silver believers. Democratic and Republican, identified themselves because of Its pronounced silver plank, and the ultra silver politicians like Jones and Stewart, Warner and Sibley, who separated themselves from their parties, are left without a party leg to stand on, and are seeking to re-establish themselves In politics. The whole tenor of their speeches and the editorials In the newspapers here (Democratic and Republican) Is the founding of an absolute silver party if both the great parties next year refuse to take up Hlver on a 16 to 1 basis. People here have asked: Why all this speech-making here? Why not carry on the campaign of education in the East, where it is needed? And there has been no reply. And this leads to the most significant fact of Jill, which will perhaps explain the real reason for the present silver agitation. It is recognized here by keen observers that a change of sentiment Is working in the people of Colorado which looks favorably upon gold monometallism. It is becoming noticeable that the bitter feeling of Coloradians towards the East, natural enough after so much loss to them, is giving place to milder expressions. v They are bec oming accustomed to new conditions, and find their situation not so irksome after a I' The stoppage of one great industry hiA transferred attention and enterprise in other directions, and the sight of better times has shown the foolishness of putting all one's trust into one enterprise. The great revival of gold-mining has made a special impression. The offset of the decrease of $9,000,000 In silver' production by the Increase of $5,000,000 in gold production in 1894 has had great Influence in directing the thought of the people into new channels. The mining columns of the newspapers are full of news of the opening and developing of gold mines, rich In yield and promise, which to-day would be lying unnoticed except for the stagnation of the silver industry. There can be no doubt that the silver leaders know of the true condition of Colorado at the present time, and that their agitation is in part to counteract the tendency. Its existence will not be confessed by them, and it is sure to be denied. Most Coloradians will declare that there are no "goldites" in Colorado. Still, they are nu merous enough, and can be easily found among the bankers, merchants and professional men. if one is willing to believe that they exist here and inquires for them. They have not been declaring themselves from the housetops, out of regard for their own Interests. The newspapers are said to be not unaware of the change going on. Their noisiness now Is said to be dictated by the desire to "let the people down easy" while thev are waiting for another Issue to which to transfer their superabundant energy. "Coin's Financial School" as an educating Influence is very much thought of by the silver men here, and the Denver Chamber of Commerce has taken upon Itself the expense and labor of sending it out. Its vulgarity, however, is having its Influence as a boomerang. The name of the publication has in fact become a byword, and in apologizing for it even the most uncompromising silver advocates are now wont to sy: "Oh well, to be sure, it is ridiculous, but it really contains a few good points." KiMhcsaled from Mend A. Coe. CHICAGO. April 20. George C. Lowelt. for the past three years confidential man and bookkeeper far the real-estate firm of Mead Coe, ha been arrested, charged with embezzlement. Mead & Coe placed the amount of the defalcation at $,t;,)0. whil Iowell is alleged to have confessd he embezzled fSS.OiO. Iwell stated that he had lost the money through speculation on the Board of Trade. The detectives believe the money wa not lost through speculation, but is at present hidden away, possibly in forne safety deposit vault. T.oweil la twenty-five year?, old and unmarried.

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THEIR C0XFIDE5CE 0FTEX IEAE3 , TO SUFFERING. An Ohio Woman's Experience, as Tiers Related, Is InterostiDU to ETerj , American Woman. tsrtctiL to or tr lucres .J , It Is a rery sad fact that the more a woman trusts to the skill of her physician in treating her female complainta, the longer she is apt to suffer. Lydia E. Pinkham fully realized this fact when she commeneevl that exhaustive study that has enabled the women of the world to help themselves. She discovered the source of female complaints, and produced the Vegetable 'Compound, which is their absolute cure. , : When such testimony as the following is given, the woman vho thinks should act quickly, and no longer permit herself to trust to incompetent doctors. Tba Vegetable Compound is sold by all druggists, and every woman should have it. " The doctors had told me that' unless I went to the hospital and had an operation performed I could not live. - I had falling, enlargement, and ulceration of the womb. , . "I was in constant misery all the time; my back ached; 1 was always tired. It was impossible for me to walk far or stand long at a time. I was surely a wreck. I decided that I would give your Compound and Sanative Wash a trial. " I took three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkharrifs Vegetable Compound, and used two packages of Sanative Wash, and I am now almost well. I am stouter and healthier than I have ever been in my life. My friends and neighbors and the doctors are surprised at my rapid improvement. I have told them all what I have ben taking.1 Mns. Aknetta Bickmeieb, Bellaire, Belmont Co., O. BEWARE OF. FILTHY SOAPS Clean and Wholesome Soaps Are Necessary to Health and Cleanliness. Animal Fats from Questionable Sources Fre- ' quently Cause Skin Diseases. Nine-tenths of. the so-called toilet soapa used by ladles, no matter how cleverly their natural odors may be disguised by strong scents, are filthy: In thcmselv?a-atti wholly unfit for use.' Many of the fats use in soap-making to-day are obtained from animals that have jbeen condemned, by inspectors as being diseased and unlit for , food. Yet this rank offal goes into th vats of soapmakers to reappear In an article of every-day necessity, to be applied to the sensitive and delicate skins of chiH dren and of ladles. Little wonder it is that NUMEROUS MALIGNANT SKIN IMSEASES follow the use of the animal-fat soaps so extensively bought by cultivated and refined persons, who, if they gave but a moment's thought to the subject, would certainly not purchase them, no matter how attractively they might be presented by tha manufacturer. In many States the subject of food adulteration i receiving attention. The dangers that lurk in animal-fat soaps are more deadly and of greater Importance. Science has indicated that pure and wholesome soaps can only be made FROM VEGETABLE OILS, and that such oils must be selected as will' not become rank, or rancid. Most of tha soaps In the market contain an excess of alkali, and this is always Irritating and harmful to the skin. Such soaps frequently ruin a naturally fine complexion. Th latest achievement In scientific and sanitary soap making is the . S-A-N-A-D-O-R S-K-I-N S-O-A-P. This is made of the finest selected vegetable oils, and has reeeved ithe warimst commendation of chemists and physlcUn.1. No ingredient entering into its composition i In the slightest degree dangerous or unwholesome. It contains a new discovery in antiseptics which purifies and invlgoratea the pores of the skin, cures skin disease, keeps the skin tra. parent, soft, ; flexibla and healthy. Its ue will PRODUCE THE HEALTHIEST OF COMPLEXIONS, and prevents the formation of pimples, blackheads and all other skin Imperfections. S-a-n-a-d-o-r S-k-l-n S-o-a-p dtfTert from all other skin soaps in being absolutely free from arsenic, corrosive subltmt and other poisons which have been relied upon to produce the results now unfailingly obtained by the NEW ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLE, which is absolutely nonpolsonous and harmless. This1 antiseptic principle peculiar to S-a-n-a-d-o-r S-k-i-n S-o-a-p renders It most desirable for bathing purposes. It removes all irritations and inflammations, speedily, heals all abrasion of the skin and proven most refreshing. Not only Is It admirable for the complexion and the hahds, but it will be found Invaluable for washing the hair and scalp, as it cures dandruff and scurf, promotes a healthy action of th scalp and aids the growth of the hair. S-a-n-a-d-o-r Skin Soap is specially recommended for the tender skin of children and t0 BATHE THE RABIES. ' Every mother can use this soap with tha utmost conildence upon the velvety skin of her precious baby. Its mild and soothing qualities render it a sweet boon to mother. No other soap so promptly and efficaciously removes the offensive odors of persplra-t's"a-n-a-d-o-r S-k-i-n S-o-a-p Is made by Sanador Medical Company, in and 12 Vandewater street. New York city, and can be obtained of all druggists and dealers in toilet articles. . Hfl'RESrY It quenches your thirst That's the best of it. SlmproTCS your health That's the ret of it CtCSSa9COt6ltMCSCJ Klciclt Tonic Cures All Disease?, Ask your druggist. The Sunday Journal, hy Mail, $2' a Year

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