Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1896 — Page 18

'2 HE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, APRIL 12. 1898. 18

WEEK OF BURLESQUE WAPD AD YOKES IX -A nrjOXTnC , ni.wv open at tiik gilisd.

Little Clirlatoithrr, Thr Merry .'World Hypnotism, Vaailrvllir and Drama the Other Attractions. The offering at the Grand Oiera IIoue th? firs: haf of this week Is a new one to IniUanapoiU theater-Vors. Ward and Yokes, Tsh!lc unfamiliar here; are not unknown. They are rap'.dly establishes themselves as farce-comedy ?tars. As a vaudeville attraction "Percy and Harold" have, for a Ion? time, ranked among the foremost teams on the variety stage. A year ago they mads the step from vaudeville to .farce-comedy, and It Is said that success has followed them from the very first. Of course theater-goers know that farce-comedy Is but one step removed from vaudeville nowadays, and It is cot an lmrKjrtant factor In stellar success what kind of a play. 1 put forth as a vehicle for musical: farce. It the stars, and their support are acceptable. "A rtun on the Bank" Is the title of the piece Ward and Vokes will present here. The two comedians appear In the characters of Lord Percy Sgakup and Jlaron Harold DeCanter, gentlemen of ."unlimited nerve and experience,", whose foremost aim In life is to live without work.-,T.nta desire furnishes the main scenes and Incidents in the piece, which the author does not even, term a play, broad as that term is. He ha3 : simply constructed a vehlcle for the transportation of the fund of merriment which the comedians distribute generou?Iy. With the aid of their highsounding titles, Percy and Harold manage to raise enough money to rent an old bank room, and in this they start a combination bank and saloon. For a time business flourishes, but reverses come a'nd, a crisis eems at hand. At this Juncture' the hosVs jtioblemen run across an old f rfeh-d 'hodeals in "green good?," and he promptly equips tre bank with $73,000 worth of counterfeit currency, with which the depositors are paid olT when the long-feared "run" arrives. t Naturally, the deception is discovered, but rot until the Napoleons of finance have flown. The company includes , the following entertainers: "Happy" Ward, Harry Vokes, Tony Williams. Johnny Page, Al Bellman, Joe Kelley, Arthur Deagan, T. "Wilmont Eckert, Gilbertl Learock. Lottie Moore, Carlotta and Emma Berg. The stars do not monopolize the play, but give the other peopbe sl chance to Introduce whatever of a pkaslns nature they may be able to do. As a consequence, songs, dances and original Specialties abound. ' Ensllnk A Week of Hypnotism. Something new and interesting In the line of hypnotism Is promised in this week's engagement of the Flints, at English's Opera J Louse, commencing to-morrow evening. Mr. ITiint lectures on scientific hypnotism and. In' his experiments, it is said, instructive a3 y(l as entertaining results are sought. No Bo-called tests are given. Many object to these as' being cruel in appearance and disgusting, so that the Flints confine their efforts to such experiments as please and do not prejudice. Every effort la made to have everything neat and attractive, and no small part of their success has been due to the dainty work of little Miss Flint, a young woman who. it is said, combines with the ease of a charming woman a rare quality of hypnotic pcrer and presents her share of the entertainment in a manner that never fails to please. An opportunity Is afforded to all who may wish to test their susceptibility to hypnotic suggestion, and the operators rKdge themselves to abuse no one, "iiUTgfve no humiliating, embarrassing or objectionable experiments. One point? made clear by the Flints' experiments and lectures is the scientific fact that hypnotism Is not a question of will power, but of imagination upon the part of the subjects. Hire's "Little Christopher." Rice's Burlesque Company will be seen at the Grand Opera House next Thursday and Friday nights in "Little Christopher." It is a burlesque of the most modern pattern, full of nonsense, specialties, handsome women and that peculiar Itlcean tinge that is inseparable from the productions of this master of his trade. One can see the tremendous energy of the man Infused in this work, even though it is of English origin. "Little Christopher" as a natural corollary of "1492." Columbus here is only a cabin boy, in love with Pepita, and endeavoring to escape from the persecutions of the master of the vessel. Christopher is put in Jail, changes clothes with Pepita and escapes as a woman, arrives on the Lsle of Barataria, is wooed by the Bey, escapes again, and arrives at the world's fair in Chicago, where things get mixed up a bit, ending, as usual, in the triumph of virtue and love and the defeat of the villain and detective. There i3 plenty of consistency about the story, and the production is said to be gorgeous In the extreme. The costumes are handsome and in good taste. There is not too much exposure of person, and yet there is no false modesty about it all. The music is tuneful and well written, popular and catchy. Nothing more quaint and full of movement than Kerker's "Law of Barataria" has been heard for a long time. The cast is strong, embracing the beautiful and popular Theresa Vaughn as Little Christopher, Willie Collier a the Irish detective. Louise Allen. Yolande Wallace. Pauline Train. Alexander Clark. Ilarry Macdonoush. Bertha Waring; and John Wilson, the tramp. The chorus is large and well drilled, and the scenery, costumes, mechanical effects and much of the music new. The advance sale for these two nights of "Utile Christopher" wlil begin to-morrow morning at the Pembroke. The- Merry World Saturday. The Merry World." which comes to the Grand Saturday matinee and night, is composed of a potpourri of sketches from the popular plays of the day, and during the evening's entertainment are seen the familiar characters of Du Maurier's 'Trilby," breach well-known artists as Amelia Summerville. WKlard SImms, Jeanette Begeard, Marie Laurens. Sol Aiken. Kittle Laurens, Frank Blair. W. B. McCormick, Hattle Moore and others of like renown in the theatrical profession, who all contribute their powers as fun makers to the evening's entertainment. Trilby. Svengali. Jocko. Taffy, the Laird and Little BiKee ail appear, ably mimicked, correctiy costumed, and entertaining in their specialties. The second act is among the comic operas. Selections from "Wang." "Madeline." "Devil's Deputy." , Utile Trooper." "Robin Hood," "Rob Hoy." "Dr. Syntax." , "The Mascot" and "Ma;ic Flute" are rendered by "The Merry World's" cc medians. In make-up and costume closely resembling thv originals of these famous characters. The las: act comprises Smith & Biddle's clever burlesque of the popular Ftory of "Madame Sans en" and In the ilrst scene, which opens in the laundry of Madame tlene, we are introduced to the burlesque characters of Madame Sans Gone, I Neiperg. Fouhe. La Fevre and others familiar tr th.ve who have witnessed this rreat 1ramaJc xucoess. Interspersed through the whel- i-vrformance of "The Merry "World" are numerous specialties, novel and original, and catchy muk. Park Ida Van Cortland In Five 11 ny. "A Woman's Power," arranged by Robert Drcuit, will Ik the opening bill at the Park Theater to-morrow, matinee and nig'.it. by Ida Van Cortland and her company. The play U strong and. as presented by Miss Van Cortl.md and company, h said to b at time, thrilling In Interest. The scene of the play la laid in Hngland. Sir George Calston, aa nnplfsh peer, and lib son Charles, conspire to gain im'ic.-sion of the fortune cf Lt.dy Alicia, who is the ward of Sir James. T.ie first cL dLsJofesi a wayside Inn. where the plot tovgiln ' possession of the heiress's fortune Is bting discussed by Sir James and his son. and overheard by Philip Arnesllffe. a vagabond artist. The plotters leave t!i Inn Ju-t as a commotion is heard without, caused by horses running away with a carriage. Tap occupants are Lady AJiclx and lur companion. Adele Foster, who are unharmed. Thy enter the inn, where the hflrcsi tells lur companion that she will r.ever submit to tho plans arranged for her. by hr guardian and his detested son: but) will marry tho first man who presents him-l self, preferring fome worthless fellow who can be pail to go through the marriage ceremony and then leave tne country. Sne then carrlta Arsesdiffe, who znsnis his ways

and becomes a celebrated artI?L Charles Calstcn suspects Arnescliffe's identity - and picks a quarrel with him in order to lorce a duel. Lady Alicia hears of the proposed due! and. warming towards her husband. L1J3 ntm fint and kill ttie man wtio has insulted him. This is the climax of the play, which end atlfa:torUy. On Tuesday "Forget-me-not" will be presented: Wednesday, "The New Mgadaien:" Thursday, "Doris:" Friday and also at Saturday matlr.ee. "Fast Lynne," and on Saturday ntht, A Woman's Power" will bo repeated. Kmplre Ileflly and Woods. Reilly and Woods's big Fhow will open at the I'mplre to-morrow matinee fcr one week. Thl3 organization' is too Well known to the patrens of the Empire to need comment, as a treat is in Etore In the way of variety when this company is announced. Tho programme this season Is straight variety. Introducing the following artists: The National Trio. In new songs; Mb3 Ida Howell, 'a comedienne, late of Txndon and Paris music halls: the VThree Rubes," Dixon, Bowers and Dixon: Harrigan. the ."tramp" Juggler, or.e cf the best in the business; Billy Kldrldge. in acrobatic fpecialty; Baker and Lynn. Dutch couple: the three Sisters Lane, in "Barefooted Essence" and the "Trilby Dance." A series of l:ing statue are introduced. The afterpiece U said to be very funny. A local photographer will take a flashlight picture of the audience to-morrow night, from the stage. It is the first attempt of the kind here. There are several parties canvassing for the bicycle that is to be given away by the management of the Empire to the most popular patron, and It is expected that there will be some lively times next week. The one receiving the greatest number of votes during" the engagement ending Saturday night will be declared the winner. - Hie Knrlsschneler To-MruI. At the Grand Opera House to-night members cf the Social Turners of the German House will give a dramatic performance of Helnrlch Laubcr's "Die .Karlsschueler," an historical drama that treats of early. events in the life of Schiller. The company Is all local talent and the drama will be given under the direction of Philip Rappaport. The cast of characters will be as follows: Karl Eugen, Duke of Wurtemberg...... , Mr. Otto Stechhan Countess Von Hohenhelm.., Miss M. Schulmeyer General Relgger, commandant of the Hohenasperg Mr. H. Kaulla Lady Riegger Mis3 K. Heger Laura, her foster daughter. . Misa E. Metzger Count Mareshall von Lieberall Mr. Rich Llebcr Friedrich Scholler Mr. Robert Lieber Pupils of the Karlsschuele Anton Koch .Mr. O. Meyer Peters Mr. George Rappaport PfeifTer Mr. Fred Bachman Von Scharp3tein Mr. B. Schmidt Von Hover Mr. II. Crane Sergant Blelstlt Mr. Hy Moesch Nette, his son Master F. Mueller Time 17&2. Place Castle at Stuttgart. The plot of this Interesting drama, written by the famous Vienna theater director, is as follows: Karl Eugen, Duke of Wurtemberg, was the founder of the military academy known as tha Karlsschuele (Karl's School) Schiller had received his education at that school. He had studied medicine and was surgeon in the army. He published some poems addressed to Laura, the foster daughter of General Riegger's wife. Of these poems the Countess Francisca, the Duke's wife, speaks when the curtain rises. The Duke expects the arrival of the Grand Duke of Russia on a visit and the students of Karlsschuele had to stuJy Goethe's "Clavigo" to perform it for his entertainment. He reprimands Sohiller because he complained that the part of C.avigo did not suit him. lie asks General Riegger, tho commander cf the fortress Hohenasperg, about the poet Schubart, who Is Imprisoned there, and he asks the court marsnal, fSilberkalb, for a report on the Karl&acnule. Riegger tells him that Schiller was frequently visiting Scnubart, and tfilberkalb veils him that the students hoia secret meetings; that Schiller attends these meetings, ana that they are of a revolutionary character, and that Schiller had writ fen a book wnlch the students read at their meetings. The Duke concludes to surprise them, and the wonren conclude to save them. In the second act the students meet. Laura attempts to warn them, but falls. She takes away the dangerous lxok, which contains Schiller's first drama, "The Robbers," and puts it into a pocket of her cloak, so that it would not tall into the hands of -the Duke. The Duke -surprises' tho students "while Schiller is reading to them a poem of Schubart, entitled "Royal Tombs." The Duke orders Schiller to surrender his sword and dismisses him from the army. In the third act we are told that the GranJ Duke of Russia has arrived. The student's appear in Spanish cosiurrjes, ready to play "Ciavigo." It is in the middle of the nlgnt, and they wait until the court is ready, to see the play. General Riegger cotnts, after a search of Schiller's room, with the manuscript of Schiller's -second drama, "Fie3co; or, the General Conspiracy," to hand it to the Duke. Sliberkalb, who is a suitor of Laura, speaks to her about Schiller, and pretends to be his friend. He notices that Laura has in her cloak a book, and surmising that it is "The Robbers," tells her that the best way to save Schiller is to show confidence in the Duke and to give him the book. She believes him and gives him the book. Ia the meantime the performance had been going on. The Duke comes in furious on accouni of the playing. He sends for the actors and scolds them. At the same time Riegger gives him the manuscript of "Fiesco" and Silberkalb hands him The Robbers." He sends Schiller to prison. Laura, who was present, saw how the marshal had betrayed her, and the act closes wltn, a love scene between Schiller and Laura. In the fourth act the Countess, who, in the meantime, had read the took, pleads with the Duke, who has also read it. He considers the publication of the book a great political crime. He speaks to his wife about the political situation, about the republican spirit abroad -and of the danger arising from the revolution in America to monarchical institutions, and he expresses his determination to punish Schiller severely. At last, however, he promises to speak to Schiller once more and to give him a chance to repent. He demands of him that he publish nothing without first showing it to him. but Schiller refuses; he calls the Duke a. tyrant, an J emphasizes in strong language his love for liberty. The Duke becomes furious and leaves him with- the words: "You have spoken the last time to your sovereign." . . ... , In the fifth act we witness Schiller 3 fliirhf. with the aid of the women. The court marshal, who had written to Mannheim, where Schiller had sent his drama to hive It performed In the court theater, to prevent the performance. Just' then receives the answer that It was performed with Immense success; that the production of the drama was a national event, and tr-at It promised a great future for the German drama, freeing it from French influence. The Duke now understands the advent of a new wrld and he calls back the pursuers. With this the drama ends. Itoe Klngsley'a Lectures. Miss Rose Klngsley, daughter of the distinguished novelist and churchman. Canon Charles Klngsley. will deliver the tlrst of a eeries of lectures on "French Art" Thursday night at the Propylaeum. The subject of the first lecture is the period of French art dominated by the classics and romantics frcm 17S3 to 1S30. and the landscape painters for the next fifteen years thereafter. "French painting." says Miss Klngsley, "during the last one hundred years has exercised a very Important Influence on artists of all nations, an influence on the public at largev And the French artists whose works have most deeply stirred us, the French artists whose works are destined to live, arc those who through ikrce and bitter opposition have fought for liberty and won freedom, not only for themselves, but for their fellows. It seem that in America French art is more truly appreciated, mere fully understood, than ia any other country." The rare opportunity of hearing Miss Kingrley in Indianapolis Is furnished by the Indianapolis Art Association, which brings her here. This gifted art critic and lecturer has male a rcputatioa in America since her anlval that is to be envied by American art scholars, and her tour of the United States will do much toward creating a desire to know something about . subject with which only the best students and critics are familiar on this side of the ocean. Mis3 Klngsley will give four lectures hero on the lolloping dates: April 16. 21, 24 and Z, and the price of season tickets is within the reach of any one wha may desire to hear her. The following well-known Indianapolis people stand as guarantors for Miss Klngsley's appearance here: George F. Adams, Mrs. George F. Aiams. Mrs. L. 8. Ayres, Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker. Charles E. Corfln,- Miss N. Crospey, Thomas C. Day, John T, Dye. John C. Dean, D. P. Erwln. Stousrhton J. Fletcher, John L. Griffiths. Rev. M. L. Haines, Hugh M. Hamia, Mr. K. F. Hodges. Rev. N. A. Hyde, Carl Lleber, Ell .Lilly, Mrs. Amelia R Mansur. Mrs. D. W. Marmon. A. L. Mason. Frank A. Maus, Mrs. Eugenia "B. Mcyuat. Alfred M. Ogle. Dr. T. C. Potter, Robert B. F. Felrc. H. D. Pierce, Mrs. H. D. Pierce, Georgo T. Porter, Mrs. Myla F. Rttzinger. II. P. Was-

ca, iL S, Wilson, JU2S3, Wiuun A ,w.

May Wright Xotea of the Stage. Hoyl's "A Milk Whit Flag" Is coming: back to the Grand in a few weeks. The Empire will have as its attraction next weak the Gonzales Opera Company. Ellta IProctor Otis in considering a dramvtlzation of prosper Merlmee's novel. "Gar-men,"-submit ted to her by Wm. A.,Mestayer. MI r.s Otis may possibly star in the play next year. . - . ......... The stagi.nsr of "The Prisancr cf Zendi" Is the most elaborate of all the Sothern productions, and In this immensely popular play Mr. Sothern Is seen to the best possible aivitntige. The play is In a prologue and four acts: . - Sarah "Bernhardt will probaoly appear as "CamJIle" during her two-night engagement here two weeks hence. The other play has no: yet been chosen. She comes direct from New Orleans to this cltv something cf a "jump." when the rize of her company and the amount of scenery carried is taken Into consideration. . AVOME.VM SADDLES. They 3Iut. Be Chosen vrlth Care Their Various Shapes. The Outlook. . . Except for the saddle the bicycle may be said to he a perfect machine. Happily,, many attempts are being made to answer this burning question. A good saddle embodies anatomical modeling; selection to fit the individual form; stanch construction, than it may not alter in shape with use; and adaptability, that it may be set at any angle, moved forward and back, and made more or less tense. The anatomy of woman is such that her saddle must differ distinctly from, tho man's. She-is also more susceptible to inJury than is the man. and It is more difficult to fit her saddle. Although the conformation differs as much in different individuals as tho shape of the hand, it still U an absurdly common belief that a single perfect saddle can be constructed to suit cl needs. Manifestly, each women must seek out what is adapted to herself, and. starting with a few general principles work out her own problem. Some of the characters in saddles that are to be noted and avoided are these: First, a center ridge. This may occur from mistaken construction or from stretching of the leather. Occasionally It may be due to the bending downward of the outer ends of the cantle or transverse rear Iron of the saddle. Secondly, high pommels are objectionable. Saddles are occasionally constructed with a distinct downward sweep In the center. A weak spring will cause this sagging, and many saddles though level at first, will be found to have a hammock shape after much use. from stretching of the leather. Complex springs were once much used under saddles, but the tendency is away from coil springs toward a stiff flat Fpring which will prevent the formation of the deep concavity. A set screw, to be found In every good saddle, will allow the s'.ack in the leather to be taken ou'. Any repairer will correct wcrse degrees of stretching after fixing the spring in a vise. Again, narrowness is objectionable, because the greater width of the pelvic bones In woman permits the wide arch to slip down astride a ridge-pole saddle, as it may not happen in the case of man. Lastly, a vicious tilt, such as an elevated front peak or a lowered front pommel, is to be condemned, and merely calls for mention here because, some women do not appreciate that a very slight alteration In angle will make a large difference in comfort and in safety. Of the various available type of saddle we may make a rough classification. There is the mo3t commonly used and most useful of all the modified man's saddle of the short, broad, flat form, supplied with most wheels on request; it should not be le-?s than eight inches across at the back. Tbere is the saddle built with a pad on each side to carry the weight, a groove In the contr and without front pommel. Lastly, the very broad siddlc with a short, blunt nommel is coming into ue and Is suited to many women. The directions that phy-riian5? should give to intending riders are these: That each woman must be carefully trained by competent Instructors as to right posture, right methods of pedaling, correct height of saddle, correct position of saddle ever pedals, and, finally, should be told to insist that the man who sells her a wheel must let oor make trial until she is suited with a saddle. By testing the machine f on?'s friends, not for a" half hour, but for a considerable ride, and by experimenting with saddles at different heights, positions, angles and tension, one can arrive at a comfortable result. Xot Too Lisht a IV heel. New York Commercial Advertiser. "In the first place," said this man, "weight is one of the most important things to be considered in buying a bicycle, because it Involves so many others. The ordinary rider ought not to purchase an extremely light -wheel. When the road leads over rough places, such as railroad crossings, a moderately heavy wheel gives one a feeling of security that cannot be enjoyed on a too lightly constructed machine. The latter bends and trembles and transmits its own vibration Into the rider's frame in a way that causes a belief that the michine Is going to collapse. On a wheel of ordinary weight all that feeling of Insecurity is changed to one of ease. The ordinary weight bicycle feels rigid and strong under the rider, and only the heavier bumps are felt. . "Four country riding advantage 13 assuredly with the medium weight wheel. It will stand a pounding and a thumping that-would quickly wrench the very light machine out of shape. For all. purposes then the medium weight is better than the extremely light wpeel. The manufacturers recognize this. They have been forced to recognize it by the numerous breaks they were forced to repair in . lightly constructed "guaranteed" machines. As a result, therefore, the ordinary road wheel Is being increased in weight from a pound to a pound and a half, placed In those parts where It will do the most good. Last year the weights were cut so fine that everything was filed down to the thinnest possible edge. Sometimes the filing was too fine in some vital place, and the result was a broken wheel and a disgruntled, sometimes seriously injured rider. By all means buy a wheel that Is heavy enough to carry you, and above all, try it first. If you are not familiar with its points get some friend who Is to try it for you. Bicycles Make Business. Philadelphia Press. One of the most noticeable things about the., bicycle amusement is the business It has called Into existence. Trustworthy figures on the subject are not easy to get, but the recently Issued report of the Bureau of Statistics of Indiana gives some facts on the subject for that State which will be found surprising. There are r.!ne cities in the State havlnff bicycle factories, one city, Indianapolis, having nine plants. The gross product of all these factories last year was valued at $3,0So.377 and the wages paid amounted to $536,034. Employment was given to 1,949 men. 203 boys and 262 girls. The stab'.eness cf the employment is shown by the face that the factories were In operation 10.S months during 1S25, and the remuneratlvenes3 by the average wages for all grades of skilled labor, which was $2.64 per day. About five thousanl people derive support from the manufacture of bicycles. One Thine: to Do with Oar Girl. Atchison Glebe. "I always let my daughters have their say about the color of the lamp shades and the arrangement of the doylies," said a sensible Atchison mother to-day. "I find, as a result, that they are not in such a hurry to get married. The foundation cf most girls' desire to marry is to live in a house where they can have their own way about the lamp shades and doylies." Xot Modest. Providence Journal. Wheelwumen who attempt to ride much against the early spring winds will -be more ready than ever to believe that there Is nothing absolutely essential to dixnity and modesty in the retention of the broad and flowing skirt. The Worst Kind. Boston Globe. The worst kind of' bicycle face is the long face your oldest daughter puts on when she has .sked for a wheel and you have toll her that you can't afford to buy her one. Saddle Is no freak. Try it and see for yourself. . DICKSON & BEANING, Manufacturers, 63 North Pennsylvania St.

Mrs. John C. Wright, Mrs. Sewall. . .

BOOTH-TUCKER IN INDIA.

The Salvation Army Commander! Story of Illi Work There. New York Evening Post. Commander Booth-Tucker cald: "I have epent the last twenty years, off and on. In India, an iJ. think I know tho country as well as any ti3tve Our work there has gone on lines entirely different from those of the ordinary missionaries', and in consequence of that we have had a pretty stiff battle to fight. Ia fact, I am very doubtful whether. If we hud not had a perfect organization like the Army to use, irweuid have been possible to do anything on the lines we struck cut, even experimentally. : 1 was a government official for some time In India, and as a Christian I. wished to help, the people. I felt that tha ordinary missionary methods, which' may have been good as far as they went, wre. very Insufficient. What impressed me most . was the enormous gulf fixed between the natives of the country and their European- rulers. You can imagine what the feeling: would be in . America if France' or Germany (please do not say England) were to conquer tho country and settla' a garrison on it and rule it with an absolutely "beaurocratio government. Well, ther feeling that would exist here actually exists in India. Human nature is a general quality. This enormous gulf, then, was the groat thing to reckon with. For a gentleman to sit down on the side of tho gulf, comfortable, and throw his Bibles, prayer bocks and sermons across the gulf to the -.natives may have been a good thing, but It was .not enough. If I should stand on that tower and talk at the crowd In Fourteenth street it would be good, if I had a good message, and the air would be fresh, and I thlght be comfortable. But I said to myseif, 'National antipathies are human nature I believed In the government of India by the English, for I believed that the natives, if left to themselves now, would cut one another's throats. At any rate that was not our business and the government was a help to us in getting at them. I said, 'Now I will Jump the gulf,- get on the other side, put on their clothes, make myself an Indian.' iThen, of course, all the people on the European-side said 'Horrible! Such a thing has never been done. You will lower our prestige. You will diminish the respect of, tho native for the superior race. You will cause the work of God to be hurt,' and all kinds of stuff and nonsense. 'Well,' I replied, 'there ara thousands of missionaries doing th other thing. They don't need to jump. Tv.ey might break their necks.. 1 should like to take the risk. Fiat experlmentum in corpora vll!. . I will have a try. You go your way and I will go mine.' "That was Just fourteen years ago, and I have not the least hesitation In saying that our action placed Christianity In India on a different footing. Not only did it have the efTect of putting us in the midst of the native life and making the Indians love us and do everything for us. but it changed their attitude toward all Christians. As we had won their confidence, they thought the other Christians who threw the Bible and a sermon from the tower might also have something to say. Well, you might imagine that the man on the tower would thank the man who had jumped into the street for getting him a hearing, but of course the natural question of the audience was 'Why don't you Jump down, too?' Then the man on the tower begins to say, 'You ousht to come back here. You have been a failure and a fraud, and have been sent back to England, and have run away to America, such a rerfect failure are you.' "But seriously, take an Illustration of the difference it has made to the natives. I have been on both sides -ot the hedge. I have lived as the ordinary European lives in India, in a bungalow, with fifteen servants, cut off from the people, and I have known what it is to live in their houses." To Illustrate the Ignorance of India that is characteristic of almost all foreigners fhere, he told of a conversation with an PmglLshman who had been in the country thrlty-eight years, making a special study of it from the outside, who thought he knew the life of the people. Yet that man did not believe there was either poverty or suffering In India. The commander gave many instances of the wretchedness and starvation that i3 out of sight. He said that the seven thousand weavers of India live from one year to the next on nothing but diluted buttermilk. Once he went Into a beautiful village with hl3 begging pail, and at the first house he was given the rice he asked for. Shortly after he learned that that was the last rice of a starving family. 'They are a kind people, bless them," said the commander quletry. Of course. he sent back the rice With interest. That same night a robbery was committed in the village. There was no doubt of the culprit. For five days there had been no rice in the house of a certain man, and now there was found there just the same three small measures, a few pints, that had been taken. He was allowed to escape and no effort was made to punish him. This was but one of many instances where the temper of the people was clear to the commander as it could not be to one who did not live as one of them. They knew the character of the man who stole the rice and the desperate circumstances that forced him to It, a starving family. The details of the adaptations made under the lead of tho commander of the army are as many as the peculiarities of Indian life. The open-air meetings were attractive to them, from their resemblance to rites with which they were familiar. When it came to arguing, the whole question had to be worked out seated. Commissioner BoothTucker wore yellow, the religious emblem, went always barefoot, lived on begged Indian food, never touched meat, and, in short, became entirely a native in his life. On this line the army has gone steadily forward, evangelizing the Indians, not by forcing something foreign on them, but by (becoming part of them, giving them a religion that presented to them merely as a better interpretation of their own, working as much as possiblo with Indian converts. The army now has in India and Ceylon 757 officers and cadets. 2S2 corps. 623 outposts, fifteen training homes, four rescue homes, one prisonmate home, three farms and three homes of rest. The commander expressed the greatest confldenco In the General'3 new scheme, now before Parliament, where he says it has been favorably received. It is an adaptation to India of the "Darkest England': idea. What Exasperated Illm. Washington Star. The agent for a handsomely Illustrated book to be sold on long-time credit a feast to the intellect and an ornament to any library leaned against the side of the house, caught his breath, clenched his fist and looked skyward. "What's the matter?" asked the policeman. "I've met the meanest man," he answered. "I've heard of him and I've read about him in the papers, but.l never expected to meet him face to face." "Where is he?" "Up in that office building." "How do you know he's the meanest man?" "By the way he acted. I showed him this work of art, lectured on It for half an hour, showed the engravings, and when I hinted that it would be a good thing to order, what do you think he said?""I don't know." "He said he never bought books. He didn't have to. He just waited for some fool agent to come along and tell him all that was in 'em, and turn over the leaves while he looked at the pictures." A Good Protectionist. Puck. Miss Gotham (wishing to astound her Aunt Cynthia from Hayseed Corners) What do you think of my new gown aunt? It was made in Paris,, . . ... ,. ... ' Aunt Cynthia (severely) Lau's sake, niece! I allers did hcar- that your father was puny close-fisted, but I'diin't think he'd go go far as to send to Europe an have your dresses made by the cheap foreign pauper labor. The DANBITRY TTAT COMPANY Is lo cated at No. 8 East Washington street. re the Cheapest Because ) frrt ii ti y j Ji line Toesii: DICKSON & BEANING, City Agents, 63 K. Pcan. St.

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