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the homely virtu found In the homes of the middle, classes, and when he would have used this atmosphere a clothing for hi atortes cr hi plays he only succeeded in - making honesty comraonflaw, even absurd. Then ho almost satirized virtue, iiome of his most Interesting efforts, at least from a literary point of view, are to be found In tn prefaces that It has pleased him to place with each' new edition of his stories or plays. Hut there Is something aphoristic, obscure, and even solf-contradletory. in hts philosophy. Just as there Is something forced and patched up In his art. He made the impression f n ambitloui spirit looking out for a way toward sensation, rather than a creative genlu3 distributing Its generous RlftS. Uetween the yars and 1&7Q more than fifty curtaln-ralcrs ami plays from the young Dumas' pen were produced in the J'arls theater. After the ilrst disasters of IST'i, M- liumas retired to hi estate in Iuy, C-iP Dieppe. The day after the Commune he s?nt to a newspaper In Ilouen "La I-ttre tur les Chos-s iu Jour. full of patriotism, ani Invective opalnst. the revolutionists. Iteturnlng to I'arl.. in li.72. he had sj Mrri of plays produced at the Oymnae. The fint two pieces were "I'no Vlite de Noces" an.I "Le I'rincesse Georges." The crat eurwm of the plays was In a measure due to Mile. Almee Iesclee, who played the principal roles. IlesMe "U Dame aux Camellias." his jrreatest dramtlc triumphs have been "Les Idees de Mme. Aubray," a comedy; 'Tne Visit e rto Noces." 'la ITinresse Georges," ".loun.sleir Alphone" an "L'Ktransre." In 172 h published "Lllomme Femme," which repeated the thesjg of his novel. "L'Affalre Clemencau." and a dramtle version of It was produced at the fjymnase In 1!CJ under the title of "La Femme de Claude," a play which was revived at the JUnal.anco Theater by h'nrah Dernhardt in ls4. M. Dumas' -line collection of pictures was sold In UCrj for more than jm.OoO francs. M. Dumas wan Installed a member of the French Academy on Feb. It. 1873. and was tromoted to the rank of commander of the eclon of Honor. Ills drama. "Joseph Ualsamo." baned on his father's romance, "Caxllcstro," was performed for tne first time at the Odeon, March 18, 178. He published in iVH "Les Femmes qui Tuent et les Femmes qui Votent:" In lVd. "I-i Irlnce.e de P.aj?dad;" !n lVv". ienle," and In 1S7, "Franclllon., THE DRAMATIST'S FAMILY. Alexandre Durnas was, by the ordinary French law of succession. Marquis de la FallMcrle, yet perhaps not cae In ten even

. of his educated countryrmn Is aware of ' the fact. Home thirty odd years ago Alexandre Duma married a noble native of Finland Princess Narischklne, nec Knar ring by whom he has had two- daushters Colette, married about fourteen yers ago to M. Maurice Llppma'in, and Jeannlne, who married" the Comte De Hauterlve In 1S30. Colette Is renowned as iKing very eccentric and very fond of flirtations. Jeannlne, who was named by her father after the heroine of his comedy "Mme. Aubray'a Ideas" (rather a peculiar choice, since the damsel of the play Is the mother of an Illegitimate child), Is by no means pretty, th drop, of black blood In her veins, as Is often the case, .showing more conspicuously in her complexion and features than it !oes In those of her Illustrious father. Yet thj younger Dumas was only an octoroon, so that the tinge of color In his children ought to be Imperceptible. It was so In his own case, fcr the pasaage of years sllvered the crlp masses of his curly hale, which was really the only peculiarity In his appearance that toll that his father had been a quadroon. Mile. Jeannlne re sembles him greatly In character and In Intelligence, while the eldest ulster takes more after her famous grandfather, the author of "Monte CrJsto." The children were brought up in a very strict way. Alexandre Inimas did not be. llye that young Klrls should enjoy much liberty. His two daughters were never aN lowed to go to the theater or to balls. Up to the day of her marriage Mile. Colette had gone to but one evening party, and but twice to the theater, on both or which occasions tragedies were played, llut sine she has become a mother Mme. Uppmann goes everywhere, reads everything, pees . everything- She copied hr father's manuscripts and frequently criticised them. And the father often profited by the observations of his daughter. For instance, Mme. Uppmann was not satisfied with tho Ilrst act of "Denlse" until it had been rewrit ten twice. Mme. Uppmann has had four children, two of whom are still living. Until 1592, when he sold his famous collection of pictures and brlc-a-brae, he lived in a magnificent house on tho Avenue de VMlers. It was really an extraordinary thing that M. Dumas should part with hU paintings. - it cannot i saut itiac ne void them for the sake of the money they brought, for he did not need that. Kxpen slvely as he lived. b was u very rich man. The royalties on his tooks and plays brought him a .splendid Incomo each year, more fhan ho could possibly spend. The following Is a full list f his published works: "Les ItDcheu de Jcuncf.w (1X17). "Aventurts da Quatre Femmes et d'un l'erroquet" (lSl-7, vols.), "Ii Dame aux Camellias" (184S, 2 vols.), "U Iloman d'une Femme" C1S4S, 4 vols.). "Diane de Lvh" . 5 vols.), "Ia Dame aux Pertes" (ltt, 2 vols.), "la Vie a Vlngt Ans" (1i), Demi Monde" (li. "I Question tl'Argent" ir7). "Lo-FIN Naturel" (lS-SS), "Ie I'cre rrodlgue" (ls:0), "L'Aml des Femmes" (1S4, "Suppllce d'une Femme" tlSCi), "ilelolse I'aranquet" ISI6. "Idees de Mme. Aubray" (1507). fLettre pur les Chosea clu Jour" (1S70), "Xouvello Lettre de Junius a Son Ami A. D.," with n preface by George Sands (1S71): "Nouvelle Ittre sur les Choses du Jour." "Cne Vlslto de Noce," "l rrlneeso Ueorjr?." "tiiommeFemme" (lS72r. "La Femme de Claude" isrj). "Monsieur Alphonse," "Le Demi Monde" (the play. 1S7S). "L'KtranKere,' "Lo FIls Xaturel1 (tho play. lO), "ls DanlchetT." "Iji Comtesse Itomanl" (1S76), "Jo?eph llaUamo" (1S78), "Ii ITlncesse de Bagdad" (IMD. "Denlse" HSS."). "Fancllllon" (1VS7). "fesarine" tlS18, "Le Doeteur Servans" (184?). "Antolne" 2 vols.), "Tris tan le Uoux" (tK"A S vols.). "Trol liommes Korts" (18.V. 4 vols.). "Kevenants" (1S51, (1S73. "Kntr'actis" HS77-9. 3 vole). "Xouvtraux Intractes" (1.) 1'UOFITrf OF HIS VIsXY?. Heven or eUht years ago a Paris correspondent of the New York t Times Interviewed Dumas on his works and methods. The noted playwriRht said: "I write Just as easily now at I did twenty years ago, , but it amuses me les. The same I play now has les intoxication in its successful results than it had a quarter of a century ago. Now I need no money. I need no reputation. In fact. I don't know what I do need, though I am convinced I need it. One gets philosophical as one grows old. " 1 knew that by hearsay when I was youngr. ow I know It by experience. There was no necessity for me to have written my last play, now being performed nt the Gymnase 'Denlse, X mean but I never can rest. I need never again to have appeared before th French public, but I have not yet learned the art of retiring gracefully. I am glad I wrote 'Denlse.' Uut I am not nearly a glad as I should have been thirty years ago. The profits of a successful piece to-day are enormous. It Is wonderful to think of it. I have already made 22.ouO francs by the book of 'Denlse. I had an agreement with the house of Calmann-rvy by which they were to give me ?) centimes for each copy of the book sold and to guarantee, in any case. 12.0H) f. Well, as I said. 1 have alreadv made 22W) francs. From the fcook of 'La Dame Aux Camellias which I wrte when I was twenty years old. I only KOt l.OX) francs, though at leaM 3i0.000 copies were sold. The protUs of the stase representation of 'Denlse.' if alt goes as successfully as it promises to do. will brirg mo In at least S00.o" francs. Ohnet made that sum cf money hy his 'Le'Maitre des Forges.' known in your country as Iady Clare. An American offered me SO.!) francs for the manuscript of 'Denize If I promised that It should not be printed In France. I declined with thanks. I refused another offer . made rne by an American a short time ago. It was to po to America and lecture. I can't lecture, you know, but that made no difference. I was to cross the Atlantic and show myself as thouch I were some freak of nature. Rome wonderful physiological phenomenon. Mercl. Monsieur. I think not." M. Alexandre Dumas tirew indUrnan nt the Idea of such a trip, and. rising from his chair, paced slowly tin and down the room IWnrc I could recall him to the subject of hlrriself. "I nm not Very fond of speaking about myself," said M. Dumas, "for the simple reason that I had n father and such u father. io much rrreater than myself, and so mneh greater than I could ever boe to be. Alexandre Dumas, pere. Is Immeasurably superior to Alexandre Duma, ids. Fd like to tdt von alxnit my father. No? Well, your blood le on your own head. MKTHOD.S OF WOI5K. "You ask me my methods of work. They ftre not very hard to describe. As I told you before, I always write in the country from 4 o'clock In the morning until 1 o'clock: then I lunch. Occasionally after lunch I set to again for an hour, but It Is very rarely that X do this. After lunch I gnrralty take a long walk and do not toich my pen again during th day. Get tyM8 o'clock and write till 1 and you will I

Le Regent Muster (IS,.:, 2 vols.), "Conteen et Nouvelles" (1S3). "Sophie Frlntemps" HCJ. 2 volt.;, "l-i Holte IT Argent" (ls.5. "L'Affalre Clemenccau" . (WS). 'Therese"

find you have done a rery great deal. Night work, in my opinion. Is not only suicidal, but fails to please the public. One cannot write clearly at night. I am perfectly convinced that good work can only be accomplished by the light of day. The clearest writers have been those who held this view. Dalzac worked by night, and you can feel nlkht In hi works. They are not clearly written, and you cannot seo through them. I wish I could make you understand exactly what I mean. Morfilng; thoughts are always frtsher, the train Is pot incumbered and one's style la less labored. My father, who was one of the clearest writers, would have cooner taken a dose of poison than havo written at night. I am always the flrst up In the house," said M. Duma, laughing, "and I havo never yet !f n able to find a servant to light my tire for me. I have been forced to see that it was set the n'.ght before, so that I have merely to light a match and apply It. Once I had a servant Klrl who was rather anhamed of this. So she said that she would not net the firo at night, but would prepare It in the morning and nee that It was ready for me. Down she crept that day in creaking Hllrpers and dressing gown. and. opening the door of my room, very quietly entered to find me already there hard at work. You should have heard that poor girl apologize. I felt so sorry for her that I set to work, brought up the wood and helped her to light the fire, which she did very speedily. Yes, day work Is the only kind of work I ever tried. Iimartlne, fierlbe and Hugo were all disciples of the morning. They declined to concentrate their thoughts In the small radius of lamplight. The broadness of tho morning sky suited them far better." M. Dumas glanced thoughtfully at tho everlasting- hrlg-htness of the Avenue de Vllllers. which aeemed to coincide with his Ideas. Then he went on: "I write very rapidly, and I have done myself a great deal of. harm by publishing that fact. I was foolish enough when the 'Princess of Pagdad'; was produced at the Comedle Francalse to state that I wrote It in nine days. The critics came down upon me with a vengeance. I can tell you. In this country we must pretend that everything is difficult. We 'can only be delivered aftei very hard labor. The French public estimate a work according to its seeming difficulties. That Is why no one in Franc ever dares to speak badly of verse. Every one cannot write verses. Tres-blcn! It very one cannot write verses they must be difficult. L'rgo they cannot be censured, flood logic. Isn't It? I wrote the play of 'U Dame aux Camellias In eight days. The novel took me a month. 'Monsieur Alphonse.' was the work of thirteen days. 'Le Hupplico (fune Femme,' which I wrote in lead pencil -to be quicker, took me but three days. L'mlle de CSlrardln gave mo the manuscript of the piece and said, 'Make a play of it, and I did It in three days. Kven thn I never worked at night. 'Denise occupied me for three months. I am growing older now. you know. Le Uol S'Amuse' was written in seventeen days and while I was talking, and much to the astonishment of my friends. My father was much more wonderful. In his manuscript there was 'rarely an erasure. His handwriting was perfect, and he wrote much faster than I do. Ho used to say, like Racine, 'My book is finished. Nothing more remains now but to write it Ah. he was a wonderful man, I assure you." M. Dumas seemed Infinitely happier when talking of his father than when speaking of himself. "The French public is a very peculiar one," he said, "and foreign countries Judge it very wrongly. You all think because Zola writes In French that France la fond of such a style. You are all mistaken. The French public will not tolerate obscenity. They read Zola slmp'.y out of curiosity. Ijqvc expressions in a French theater would be Ignomlnlously hissed. A literal translation of Hhakspeare'sj 'Othello would bm hooted from the French stage. Hugo translated Hhakspeare literally. The translation was read while the furiosity lasted, but it could not remain. Our public Is very delicate and sensitive, and that !s what Zola will not understand. The French will allow any license that Is witty, humorous or what we call splrltuel, but the least grossness or willful indelicacy will be resented. I can assure ycu that this Is the case, Monsieur.. Do not Judge us harshly. We appreciate wit, even with what you call immorality as a subject, but wo cannot stand gross-ness."

OTIIF.Il DEATHS. General Thoninn Jordan, n IVoteil Confederate Army OCIeer. NEW YORK. Nov. 27. Gen. Thomas Jordan died to-night at 10:30 o'clock at his home. No. 124 West Twenty-fifth street. Members of General Jordan's family and somo of his Intimate personal friends were present when he died. General Jordan had ten suffering along time from tuberculosis. ' 1 Thomas Jordan was born In Luray. Tage county, Virginia, in 1819. At sixteen he 'entered West Tolnt, where ho was a roommate and classmate of William T. Sherman. General Jordan served all through the ciemlnole campaign. "Afterward he was In tho Mexican war. He waa also with the troops in California and Oregon, in the quartermaster's department. The highest rank that he attained in the United States army was captain. At the outbreak of the civil war he resigned and Joined the Confederacy. He was made brigadier general, and served as chlef-of-staff with General Peauregard. and fought at the first battle of Manassas and at Shlloh. At the close of the war he took the elde of General Peauregard in the latter's quarrel with Jefferson Davis, and wrote an article for a magazine denouncing Davis. For this he was criticised severely In some quarters. He wasx connected with the Memphis Appeal for some time after the close of the war. When' the first Cuban insurrection broke out Gen. Jordan enlisted and fought during 1SSS-70 against Spain. He eventually becams commander of the rebel forces in Cuba. At Ijis Menas de Tana, on Christmas day. 1870, with nearly six hundred men, he held In check 3TT00 Spanish soldiers until his ammunition gave oui. He came to the United States in 1871 to intercede for Cuba, and endeavored to have belligerents' rights granted the island. He was arrested on a charge of violating the neutrality laws, and held for trial. He was never tried, however. Olio Chlera. BERLIN, Nov. 27. Word has btcn received here of the death by drowning of Otto Ehlers, the explorer, who was intimate friend of Emperor William. Kerr Khlera met his death In British New Guinea. Otto Ehlars was a well-known African traveler. He was making- an exploration of New Guinea or Papua when he was drowned. Twenty natives lost their lives with him. and all his diaries, etc.. were lost. v Iter. Octarlaa II. Frothlnirtfen. BOSTON. Nov. 27. Rev. Octavlus It. Frothlngton, a well-known Unitarian divine, and author, dw?d his home in this city to-day, aged seventy-three years. Ho has been in poor- health for the past two years, but had continued hs literary wcrk until within two weeks. ' IVaahTille Growing Very Wicked. NASH VI IXC,' Tenn., Nov. 27.-In the last ten day there have been four murders and two suicides in this city and vicinity. Two murders occurred to-day. One negro smashed the head of unothtr. ani In a drunken brawl with negro women. Walter Cartwrlght, a young white man. was stabbed and his dead body was found In a back yard this morning. To-day also counts up the aulclJe of an elderly white man name! Well. He was drinking and a family quarrel ensued and he killed himself. Child named In Red. PLEVI2LAND. O.. Nov. 27.After Frank? Rrown. a night railroader, left his home nt No. 7fci Heart street, this evening, his wife set about clearing away th supper table. Frankle. - their flf teen-months-old baby, pulled the cloth off the table and with it a coal oil lamp. There was an explosion, and flames burst forth. Mrs. Rrown hurried three of her children out of the house, and found that Ruby, six years old. was missing. She was found dead, burned horribly. In her father's bed. whlthen she had instinctively lied for shelter. Schlatter nt Work AkiiIii. ROFSK, Col.. Nov. 27,-Francls Schlatter stopped on his southern Journey at the house of Mr. Johnson, a short distance north of this town, to-day. News of his condng had preceled him and. he was soon besieged with applicants for treatment. He remained for more than an hour, treating over 1(, after which he resumed his Journey, heading toward Trinidad. Kelly Succeed Thurston. OMAHA, Neb.. Nov. 27.-Judge William R. Kelly was to-day officially appointed general solicitor cf the Union Pacini Railway Company to succeed John M. Thurston, who resigned In order to occupy his eat In the United States Senate. Judge Kelly has been assistant general solicitor a number of years. ' lUft-ht to Four for Acquittal. CARSON. New. Nov. 27. The Jury in the cas of James Henry, accused of stealing bullion from the Cnlted States Mint, retorted to-day that, after having been out b hours, they could not agree. The Jury stood S to 4 for acquittal.- A new trial will ot gin on aionav.

POOH SHOW FOR CUBA

S1M1X rilKPAHIXG TO TIGHTKX HKIl CLUTCH KS OX Till: ISLAXD. : ' TJicunantl of Krcsli Troop on tbe W'ny to Join Cnnipoi's Army Gen. Oouxulesj to lie Shot. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27,-Heavy Spanish reinforcements, aggregating thirty thousand men, are about to land In Cuba, according to official advices received here. The Alfonso XII and ether ships landed three thousand of this new force yesterday. Resides these, ten thousand men have embarked already from various ports in Kraln. It in expected that most of the reinforcements will arrive In Cuba before the end of the month. Combined with the large force already there. Gen. Martinez Campos will have under his command a formidable army. Reports reaching here show Uhat all Spanish generals are acting on the offensive, with- the view of drawing the Insurgents Into engagements. The latter thus far have maintained their guerrilla ambush tactics. Word received here from an official who has seen a letter of General Roloff, the insurgent leader, says the latter states in his letter that the Insurgents are sorely In need of arms and ammunition and aro bo pressed on all sides by large Spanish forces that the contest" cannot be maintained much longer without large supplies of arms. The cable from Barcelona, Spain, saying that the Republican party had come out for Cuban autonomy Is not regarded by diplomats here as serious. The two dominant parties In Spain are the Conservatives and Liberals, the Republicans being a remnant of the antl-monarchlcal sentiment which found expression In the shortJived Spanish republic. At present the Republicans have about twenty-three members of the Cortes. Both of the old parties are said to favor a certain measure of Cuban autonomy, on lines laid down in a measure passed last March. It Is said that the Republican movement now Inaugurated Is not for separation, but for the autonomy advocated by the autonomist party in Cuba, which would give the Island a government substantially similar to that of Canada under Great Britain. The Horsn's Filibustering Trll). NEW YORK, Nov. 27. The following letter has been received from Kingston, Jamaica: "Considerable correspondence is going on between the authorities here and officials at Washington, Madrid and Copenhagen regarding the landing recently of a party of filibusters on the coast of Cuba by the. Danish steamer llorsa, from Philadelphia. Inclosed In a report on the subject by Collector-general Robert Batter Is an affidavit by Kmll Frederlcksen, one of the firemen on the Horsa. who says the llorsa, after leaving Philadelphia, took aboard from a steam towboat thirty or forty people and a lot of boxes and two big row boats. These boxes, which were subsequently opened, contained about 150 rifles, sabers, cartridges and a small gun. On the 15th of November, when close to the Cuban , coast, the boats containing the passengers taken at New York and some of the munitions of war were lowered, being connected with the llorsa by a towllne. Tho boats were too small to take away all the ammunition, some of which was afterward thrown overboard. During the night word was received that a man-of-war was coming, and orders were given to go ahead. The rope which held the boats with the passengers was cut. The collector's report says the vessel arrived at Port Aptonlo about noon on the 16th and was thoroughly rummaged by the customs officers, who found under a bunk In the forecastle a bag containing tlfty-nlne cartridges. The master reported no passengers and said he had none during the voyage, and that he had not deviated from his course; Gen. Gonxnlen to He Executed HAVANA. Nov. 27.-Several additional skirmishes have taken place between the troops and the insurgents in the province of Santa Clara, during which the lnsurgejits lost thirty-two killed and five soldiers were mortally wounded. .. General Gonzales, the Insurgent leader, has been tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. Others of his followers have been sentenced to twenty .years' imprisonment. A number of Insurgents recently boarded the schooner Leradlta, near San Juan, in the Remedios district of the province of Santa Clara. They - carried away provisions, groceries, etc., valued at $3,000 and then burned the schooner. The. fnsurgents made a three days' siege of Fort Gulnla Miranda, the troops forming the garrison offering a gallant resistance to the several attacks that were made upon them. The insurgents lost seven killed In the three attacks, the bodies of the victims being buried. A column of troops coming to the relief of the garrison, the. besiegers retreated. Several skirmishes have occurred in the district of Manzanlllo, the aggregate loss to the insurgents being eighteen killed. The farmers of the Manzanlllo district intend to plant with grain the sugar country. The people have threatened to light against the insurgents If this work is Interrupted. Detroit Policeman Shot. DETROIT. Mich.. 'Nov. 27.-ratrolman Burt .Walker was shot by an unknown person shortly after midnight and Is believed to be fatally Injured. Walker found two men fighting at the corner of Lamed and Antolne streets. He pushed through tbe erewd to arrest them, when some one shot him in the back. Walker Ml. fainting from loss of blood. He was taken to Harper Hospital, but has not been able to tell anything about the shooting. The crowd scattered before other officers arrived. Ftre nt Detroit. DETROIT, Nov. 27. Firo broke out shortly after midnight in a live-story Hat building on Cass avenue, near Columbia street. A large number of people were sleeping In the structure, but, so far as has been learned, all escaped in safety. The building is badly gutted and the los3. it Is believed, will approximate gjO.OOO. The building Is owned by J. S. BIsger & Co., and cost Ho.Om). It Is now detinltely known that the Inmates escaped from the burning structure. 'mil Vonlinrg" on Trial. NEW YORK. Nov. 27.-William Watson, more commonly known as "Ttiil . Vosburg." bank burglar, ex-convlct and green goods man, was to-day put on trial before Recorder Goff for his attempt at victimizing Anton Clmfel. of Ciarkston, Neb., with S.uoo worthless one-dollar bills. Vosburg's attorney recently attempted to havo his client kept out of prison on the ground of insanity, bufthe Jury to which the duestion cf Vosiurgs tnsanlty was submitted promptly declared the man to be sane. American Tun: Confiscated. OTTAWA. Ont.. Nov. r7. The case of the tug Telephone, which was seized two weeks ago in the Canadian waters of Iike Erie for illegal fishing, has been considered by the Hon. Mr. Costlgan. Minister of Marine and Fisheries. The evidence proved that the vessel had violated the law, and Minister Costlgan ordered her to be confiscated and Hold by public auction at Amherstburg, Ont. The ves-el was owned by Kishmifn & Sons, Brownsville, O. LcRlslntlon ARiilnst Whites. TAHLEQFAH. I. T.. Nov. 27.-A bill was passed by the House of the Cherokee Legislature to-Jay repealing the Intermarriage law relative to Cherokee ani whites. Whiles who have been hitherto married Into the tribe will, however, retain their citizenship, but no rights in the nation can hereafter be acquired by whites Intermarrying, provMed, the chief signs the bill. Girl .Murdered. SARATOGA. N. Y.. Nov. 27. The body of little Green was found near the Bemls Heights' battle ground to-day. She had leen missing for some time and search was made for her. The girl's hkull was crushed In a horrible manner. She ha 3 been cznployeJ as a domestic in the family of Simeon Rowley. Murder is suspected. Memories and Relics of Lincoln. McClure's Magazine for December. To-day there are people living in Spenoer county (Indiana who were small boys when he (Lincoln) wus a large one, and who preserve curiously Interesting Impressions of him. A representative of McClure's Magazine who has recently gone in detail over the ground of Lincoln's early life says: "The people who live In Spencer county are Interested In anyone who Is Interested In Abraham Lincoln." They showed her the Mooring ho whip-sawed, the mantels, doors and w Indow-caslng he helped make, the rails he spilt, the cabinets he and his father made, and scores of relics cut from planks and rails he handled. They told what they remembered of his rhymes and how he would walk miles to hea a spvch or sermon, and, returning.

would repeat the whole in "putty good imitation." Many remembered bis coming to sit around the fireplace with older brothers and sisters, and the stories he told and the pranks he played there until ordered home by tho elders of the household. XKW YORK'S STRIKE.

Employers Are 3faklnir lAttle Head wny In Srrurln Xfir .Men. NEW YORK, Xov.-.27.-Thc strike battle of the Housesmlths' and Brllgemen's Union and the two leading iron firms was renewed more vigorously to-day than ever. A crowd of several hundred strikers and sympathizers gathered around the Slge-i, Cooper & Co. building, and a large number of police patrolled the sidewalk around the building to prevent any possible outbreak on the part of the strikers, but no serious trouble was reported. - ' , J. M. Cornell, president of the Iron League, stubbornly began the fight early this morning, nothing daunted by h s failure of yesterday to fill the places of the strikers with nonunion men. iiis agents succeeded in gathering together a considerable number of men who had met at appointed places In response to advertisements. The agent concluded It would be best to alight aUUroadway and Bond street and proceed cautiously to the Job. lest the pickets of the striking housesmlths should discover and capture the new men. At this Juncture President Frank P. Lary. of the Houses ml ths and Bridgemen's Union, happened to notice the gang of men. "I quietly told one of the men that there was a strike on the Job where they were going to work, and It would be unfair to take the places of our men, who -were demanding fair wages and conditions only," said Mr. Lary. "The men conferred 'a moment and then decided to Join our men at Clarendon Hall. Mr. Cornell's agent was greatly chagrined at the failure of his move, and went away crestfallen. I took the men to Clarendon Hall, ana nere tney are." .The. men thus captured were not housesmlths, but had been employed as laborers.. The executive committee of the union took their names and addresses and provided for their immediate wants. They said that they were not. aware that they were to take the places of strikers until they were informed by Mr. Lary. As the demand for the completion of the big building at Broadway and Prince street, now being erected on the site of the old Metropolitan Hotel, is urgent, Mr. Cornell has bent all his energies towards obtaining housesmlths to put up the Iron work. On this Job he has concentrated all his efforts to. obtain men. Theso-efforts indicate that the league has made the Slgel-Cooper building and the Broadway and Prince-street Job the basis of operations to break the backbone of the strike. The strike managers are aware' of the league's plan of campaign, and they have also concentrated all their energies and devoted their best men to picket use about these two buildings, and endeavor to checkmate the moves made by the two league firms against whom the strike is directed. 1 Commissioner Feeney is still endeavoring to bring about arbitration of the strike, but his efforts thus far have been unsuccessful. He is watching the struggle, and If he deems it necessary will notify his colleagues of the State Board of Arbitration that an Investigation should be held. In such an event, witnesses will be summoned from both sides and all the facts brought out for legislative action. JULIAN TO CORBETT ANOTHER CHAPTER OF TUB XKVEIlKXDIXG PUGILISTIC CLATTER. Cluiniplou "Jim" lllffed and flanged on Paper by Fltmlmmona'a Manaurer A Proposition. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27. A letter from Martin Julian, manager for Robert Fitzslmmons, was received in this city to-night. It Is dated Houston,-Tex., and is, in part, as follows: - "There recently appeared in the New York World an interview with James J. Corbett in which ' the champion made a cowardly attack on Robert, Fitzslmmons and myelf. 1 desire to answer this article mot fully. Mr. Corbett says that, looking back over the line, he finds that he is the youngest champion that ever retired. But he fails to say why he retired, giving only as his reason that there is no more money in the business for him. lie falls to say that he is quitting the business because he finds it Impossible to train again for a fight, owing to the condition of his mind and physical constitution. He also says there is no moro money in pugilism. Of course, there ain't for him, because he well knows that there are at least three men in the field to-day, prominently among whom is Fitzslmmons, who can lick him to a standstill in a fair and square fight. "lie goes on to say that Fitzslmmons never intended to fight and, giving his reasons, he claims that our last $5,000, which la part of our stake of $10,000, was put up with a proviso that wo would refund it one month after the fight. This statement, I say. Is a falsehood. That money was put up by John Kcejian, of New York, and was put up with the understanding that it. would stay up. But we have since learned that Keenan, although he professed friendliness for our side, was. In reality, our enemy. He was working right into the hands of the Cor-bett-Brady-Vendlg-Dwyer combination, who were the Instigators of having our side bet attached In New York. "in the same manner. Corbett refers to Fitzslmmons as shallow-brained. While I don't like to discuss the mental capacity of the two men. It Is a well-known fact that Corbett's memory has failed him on several occasions lr the last five or. six months. the cause of which I do not know, but leave the public to judge for itself. "The gall that 'fakir Corbett displayed by turning the championship belt, which he was too much of a coward to defend, over to Maher, whom Fitzslmmons beat so badly that he was glad to nult to save hlm-ielf being knocked out. Is too ridiculous to 'be considered seriously. "As regards Fltzsimmons crossing' the line, going to Hot Springs, I'll say that It was utterly impossible, to fafely cross it anywhere. The entire town was guarded and we could not have crossed without being killed, as such threats were made to us. "In conclusion. I will say that I have already claimed both the middle weight and heavy weight championship of the world for Fitzslmmons, - who Is the only champion; that Fitzslmmons stands ready to defend both titles against the world and all coiners, providing they be white men, for from J5.000 to $10,h0; first come, first served. Should Mr. Stuart fall to drag Corbett out of .the hole, which he has so cowardly crawled Into, then Fitzslmmons will be only too well pleased to flght Maher or any other man living. To further show how willing we are for a flght, I will leave tho selection of a referee to Mr. Stuart and Corbett. I'll sign articles blindfolded. If Corbett wants to prove that he is not a coward, he will accept Stuart's latest offer for a light near El Paso for a purse of fctt.OOO. in which ho agrees to divide the purse between the two men should he fall to bring the fight off the day selected without interference of any ktnd. That Is the fairest proposition ever made, and I do not think Corbett will ever accept, because he Is too faint-hearted to go up against a man of Fltzslmmons's calibre In a fair and square fight, where crookedness and put-up Jobs are not tolerated. When Billy Madden first brought Maher to this couatry, Corbett begged Madden not to challenge him on behalf of Maher. giving as his reason that Maher was Irish and he American, and Immediately after Mahers last light Corbett again begged him not to challenge hlm." Hull Cittne'n Inspiration. McClure's Magazine. "I think," he (HaU'Calne) says, "that I know my Bible us few literary men know It. There Is no book In the world like it, and the finest novels ever written fall far short In interest of any one of the stories it tells. Whatever strong situation I have In my books are not of mv creation, but are taken front tho Bible. 'The Deemster is the story of the prodigal son. 'The Bondman Is tho story of Esau and Jacob, though in my version sympathy attaches to Esau. The Scapegoat I the story of Ell and his sons, but with Samuel as a little girl. The Manxman' is the story of David and Uriah. My new book also comes out of the Bible, .from a perfectly startling source." The Altogether. Washington Post. A young woman who is studying painting told me something- illustrative of the vanity of woman, which Is even more absurd that the chatelaine. One of the life classes In an art school hero in town It Isn't this year's daf-s. so I nm not telling tales out of school had a model once upon a time. The model was young, beautifully put together, will rounded, and in short, everything that an artist desires In a model. She wusn't a professional model, and It took a grt-At deal of persuading to Induce her to pose. She did pose, and for the altogether, but what n eteature a woman Is! she powdered her fat7 and rouued her lips and cheeks.

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rm:siiMAx football tkam kicks AS GOOD AS THE VARSITY. Princeton Freshmen Go Dunn Before the Junior Son of Gll-Pardne and Champaign To-Dny. XEW HAVEN, Conn.. Nov. 27.-The Yale freshmen football team defeated the lTln:eton freshmen -eleven to-day 1G to 6 In the first freshmen same of the two colleges. The game In a measure took the Place of the usual Yale-Harvard freshmen game, which Harvard refused to pay this year. Strengthened by Baird and Suter, of the 'Varsity team, the "Tigers" expected to win, but found the Yale line nearly impregnable to their attacks. The only long run of the game was made by M. Harvey for forty ycarJs, enllng in a tou:3idown. The redoubtable Balrd. the 'Varsity fullback, failed to show his 'Varsity form, for Hlnes clearly outpointed hlhm. Both teams resorted frequently to kicking, resulting in large gains for the blue. The game abounded In fumbling and the play was rather slow. The New Jersey boys maSe effective use of their superior Interference to aid Balrd in making their only touchdown. Besides Baird and Suter, he Princeton freshmen lined up with two 'Varsity substitutes Crowdis at centsr and Wentz at guard. The Yale freshmen played four 'Varsity substitutes Mc7arland, Sheldon, Greenway and Benjamin. Halves, of thirty and thirty-five minutes, respectively, were played. The line-up was as follows: Yale. Position. Princeton. Connor, GilmorcLeft end Hellman Grlswold Left tackle.... Gcer (Cupt.) B. Harvey Left uard Wentz McFarland Center Crowdis Sheldon ....Right guard ...Nicely Post Right tackle Dietrich CJreenway Right end. ..Cobb, Itodgers DeSaulles Quarter back Suter M. Harvey Right half back Colfeli Benjamin Left half back Balrd Hlnes (Capt.) Full back Ayres Touchdowns Harvey Connors, Benjamin and Baird. Goals, from touchdowns Hlnes (2). Cobb. Umpire Smith, of Princeton. Referee Howard Knapp, of Yale S2. Linesmen Nackey, of Vale, and Sterling, of Princeton. ' Pennsylvnnln nnd Cornell. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27.-The last big college, football game of the season will be played on Franklin field to-morrow between Pennsylvania and Cornell. Backers of Pennsylvania are somewhat downcast over the score at Cambridge last Saturday, and the team has been doing none too well since its return. The men are in good physical condition, but they feel very much discouraged over the outcome of . the Harvard game. The Ithaca men, on the other hand, are full of fire and confidence, and believe they will defeat the Pennsylvanlas. Their coach, "Ma" Newel, was on the side lines at Cambridge and gathered many pointers which he expects will help his men. In to-morrow's game. Newell studied espe daily the Pennsylvania mode of Interference and rushing the ball, and believes he can in a great measure render it Inoperative. He has been drbwng his men in blocking kicks, hoping to neutralize Brooke's great strength In this direction. The said of seats has been exceedingly large. Te Cornell team arrived here this mornhig. Betting: has been somewhat brisk, odds of 6 to 3 being offered by the "Quaker" followers. The teams will line-up as follows: Pennsylvania. Positions. Cornell. Boyle i Left end......... Lyle Wagonhurst ....Left tackle Pitch Woodruff Left guard ...Freeborn Hull Center Schoch Wharton Right guard Rogers Farrar Right tackle Sweetland Dickson Bight end ...Taussig Williams Quarter back Wlckoff Gelbert Left half back Eeacham Minds RlRht half lack Sausay Brooke . Fullback llitcnie To-Dnjr'i Uattle at Lafayette Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind., Nov. 27. Never was so much interest manifested here In football as is shown in the game to-morrow between Purdue and Champaign. The teams have met in previous years and Purdue has won a greater number of games. Both teams cancelled dates to. nave clear sailing for Thursday. It is difficult to give an estimate of the relative strength of the teams. On the 9th Inst. .Northwestern defeated Purdue 24 to 6; on Saturday last Champaign beat Northwestern 38 to 4. Purdue expects to play a stronger team Thanksgiving than at Ann Arbor. Profits of a Football Game. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-The official statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Yale-Princeton football game was given out to-day. It shows that each college will re celvo $14,769 as Its share. This is the largest sum ever divided between Yale and Princeton, although previous receipts have been larger. But the expenses were kept very low this year. The receipts were $38,003, the expenditures $8,467; net total, $23,538. susPTJxnKn for lifh. Cnbnnnc, Titus nud Murphy Barred from L. A. AV. Track.. PHILADEIiPill.V. Nov. 27.-Chalrman Gideon, of tho L. A. W., said to-day that cyclists Cabanne, Titus and Murphy, who weic temporarily suspended for alleged crooked racing In a Class B race at St. Louis on Aug. 17, have been suspended for life by the racing board. "What Cabanne Says. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 27. Lucien Duthiel. better known as "Dute" Cabanne, one of the three Class B riders suspended for life by Chairman Gideon, of the National Racing Beard, L. A. V., lives in St. Louis and is an insurance solicitor during the winter months. He was greatly affected by the news. of his permanent suspension, ixc denied that he was a party to, or even cognizant, of any sort of agreement between Titus and Murphy regarding the races at the Pastime Club grounds in this city. "I had decided to retlro from bicycle racing as a profession, anyhow," he said, to-day, "but this conviction brings disgrace to me and to my folks. It also costs me considerable in a financial way. Since tho day I was suspended I have ridden In many races, and won many hard-fought victories, but the prizes have all been withheld. These I will lose unless I can get possession of them by court proceedings. There are about $2,50u worth coming to me. In addition to this, I have received no salary since the day I was suspended the first time. All my expenses were raid by myself and tho collecting of evidence In my defense has cost me a considerable amount. The course of the League of American Wheelmen Racing Board has, in this matter, been on tho star chamber order all the way through. I was prevented from getting the evidence I particularly desired by my absence from this city. More than fifty prominent business men of th's city have written to Gideon In my behalf and the e.x-chairman of tne racing board himself wrote a strong letter to Gideon offering suggestions favorable to me." Cabanne then stated that he would go to New York and prepare to Mie the L. A. W. In Boston, which is considered the headquarters of the L. A. W. .National Circuit Bicycle Races. SANTA ANNA, Cab. Nov. 27.-Thls was the first day of the National Circuit meet. Bali won tho mile handicap from snatch, going through a field of fourteen riders. He also took the thlrd-of-a-mllc open from Cooper. Randall, Wells, Burke and Terrell in good shape after defeating seven men in his trial heat. Cooper, by the best spurt he has made In southern California, came through the bunch and finished eighteen Inches behinj BaU. POMF.ItOY. Minni;R Flt:.D. Though He U .ovr Well Educated, He la Xot Reformed. Boston Letter. In the famous "Cherry Hill" block of the Charlestown State prison to-day I found Jesse Pomeroy, known all over the world as "the boy murderer." The passing of nearly twenty years of his life sentence have made this title a misnomer. He Is a boy no longer. He was seventeen when he was committed; he Is thirty-six now. Yet It is strange, despite these weary years of solitary confinement, how the boyish Immature looks cling to him. Ills sallow cheeks may havo gained an, added pallor,

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10 Cents: For The Curtis Publishing corYtaoHTt tew BY ths a few pounds have been added to his lanky five feet nine, but a thin mustache Is the principal thing that distinguishes the Charlestown boy from the Charlestown convict. His disposition has not improved much under discipline. He has read and studied enough to be a learned man, and has. suffered enough to be a wise one, but he is still rebellious, still restless, unable to accept the Inevitable as finnl. His mind Is alert and ken and his gen eral health good. Physically he seems to have become acclimated to his strange life. He was the first person in the State to be sentenced to solitary confinement for liftHe was first sentenced to be hanged, but bis extreme youth and the evidence that he was born with a tendency to be cruel ln fluenced Governor Gaston to commute the sentence. There was a loud protest against this show of clemency. The whole country had been shocked at the peculiar atrocity of his crime. He cut tho throat of little Kiltie Curran and hid the corpse In the cellar of his mother's house. No . trace of her could be found, but on Anril 22, 1S74, the corpse of four-year-old Horace Millen was found In the marshes in South Boston, where Pomeroy had tied him to a stake and then had stabbed him to. death. The last crime was traced to this murderer, and he then confessed to killing the Curran girl. Poth bodies were shockingly mutilated. When asked why he killed the Millen boy he said: "I don't know; something told me to do it." "When you started off to the fiats with the child, did you intend to kill him?" he was asked. . "I don't know," he replied. "I think I meant to stick a knife into him. but I don't know whether 1 intended to kill him or not." Pomeroy was first sent to the prison at Concord, and thre made several sensational attempts to escape. He was then transferred to Charlestown, and when the prison gates closed behind him they shut him from the sight of the sun forever. He was placed in a cell in the "arch," or the "Cherry Hill" block, where the turbu lent prisoners are contlned for longer or shorter periods. He has a good-sized room, 16x8 feet, with two chinks in the roof which admit daylight. His bed Is a comfortable one, and the entire room is neat and orderlv. He himself Is quite careful of his personal appearance, and has the services of a barber to keep him looking well. He tries various experiments with his beard, but his mustache he wears constantly. Put h is always plotting to escape. Ills Ingenuity in getting and hiding things which can assist him in digging up the floors and walls of his cell is marvelous. No one sees him except his mother, brother, young niece and the prison officials, yet the most surprising things are found in his possession. In 1SS7 he made a saw out of a piece of steel and cut off the bars of v his cell. He in some way caused an explosion of gas and was knocked senseless or he might have reached the corridor. Four years ago he made another saw and cut off the le of his iron bedstead and shoved back the bolt to his cell door. He must have been in the corridor before he was discovered. A drill and saw were found in his ceil. He has times now of picking at the walls and floors, but it is believed that he does It more to annoy the officers than because he has any hope of escaping. He does not ask manv favors. He would like to go in and out with the rest of the men who work in the various shops. He is ambitious to work, and what he does is voluntary. He is given rattan rockers to wind, but he only does six a week, where other "solitaries" in the same corridor do forty. Most of his Urn. Is spent in reading and study. He can npeak three languages, and knows a great deal of history. He is very sensitive as to what the newspapers siy about him. tboush he is never allowed to read them. Ills mother tells him of it, and it is for her sake that he cares. Really, he seems very fond of her, and she Is the one person who has never wavered In her devotion to him. His father is living, but has never come to the prison. His brother has not been there for several years, but his mother, with true affection, comes every two months as often as the law allows to visit him. Shut In as he Is, he has a wonderful knowledge of what is going on in tho prison. His hearing is abnormally acute. ANNUAL CHARITY 3IEETISCy. To De Held In Kngllsh'a Opera Ilnnso Next Sunday Night. The annual meeting of th Charity Organization Society will be held Sunday night nt English's Opera House. The occasion will be the' seventeenth anniversary of the Charity Organization Society nnd tho fifty-ninth anniversary of the Indianapolis Benevolent Society. Gov. Claudo Matthews will preside. The following addresses will be delivered: "The Charity Organzatlon Society," John 11. Holllday; "Friendly Visiting," John W. Kern; "The Vagabond Father," Itev. G. A. Carstensen; Our Children." liev. D. J. Hilison. Bev. J. A. Mllburn and M. L. Haines will assist in the exercises. Arrangements have been made for a programme cf music which includes tho names of Mrs. Lottie Itaschig. Mr. Const. Klegger, Miss Josephine Hoblnson. W. 11. Dngget, Louis J. Dochcz, Oliver Willurd Pierce, and F. X. Arcns. Nicholson I.nvr Ilemonntrnnccn. Remonstrances under the local option clause of the Nicholson liquor law have been filed with the County Commissioners. Three petitions containing the slg natures of a mijorlty of the voters of Law rence township were filed yesterday agalntt Wallace Hajes. of Acton; William Mock, of Oakland; Lacy McKlnzle, of Castlctot;, and Joseph Todd, of Iawrencc. Inannr Patient SufTocutctl. Coroner Castor was notified yesterday morning of the death of one of the patlntx at the Central Ho?pital for the Insane. The man who died was John H. Jackson, an epileptic patient. In one of his I1U re burled his face in the pillow and was smothered. Jackson - was from Lawrerjci county. He had been at the hospital for several years. Sixty-Four Hearts llent urn Thlrt--Tvo. Thirty-two marriage licenses were issued yesterday by the county clerk. One of tho grooms confided in license clerk Frank Fesler and Informed him that he had come all the way from Florida to get a wife. One hailed from Alabama and another from Missouri. The brides all live in Indianapolis. More on Jloury. Mr. Edward Bemls, late professor In sociology at Chicago University, will deliver bis lecture on "Bimetallism In the United States since 1S7V at Plymouth Church.

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