Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1897 — Page 3

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Ike Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one* third further than nay other broad. RilC Jp POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., HEW YORK. AMUSEMENTS™ “The Man from Mexico.” in which Willie Collier is under contract to iwuvoke 160 laughs during each performance, that being the number of minutes actually consumed in the presentation of the play, excluding waits between acts, is furnished with the best piece of stage scenery for the second act of any production that has visited Indianapolis since Fanny Davenport’s “Gismonda.” The scene is laid in the warden’s office of the New York city prison and the barred windows and doors leading to the cell corridors are realistic enough to give any ex-prisoner the shivers. The effect Is obtained by the substantial nature of the scenery. The doors and windows are set in solid frames and the walls of the room are as firm as if built of masonry'. The doors are provided with spring locks and when shut with a slam the whole house does not shake as in ordinary stage settings. The great humorous feature of the act lies in the fact that the surroundings appear really as substantial as a prison Interior. When the plot to escape la concocted there is nothing to mar the impression that the prisoners will meet with considerable difficulty in getting out. Collier is one of tne few comedians visiting this city to sustain his old-time popularity. There will be talk of ids new play long after be has gone. The engagement closes with two performances to-day. Thomas Hardy, author of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” expressed greut pleasure in letters to Mrs. Fiske last season over her success in the play made from his novel, and showed a natural curiosity to see all the criticisms and illustrations relating to the production that appeared in American newspapers and magazines. Much matter relating to the play was ilso published in English papers, and the London Sketch, an illustrated weekly, devoted several pages to an article on Mrs. Fiske’s “Tess’’ and pictures of the play from photographs made especially for it. In fact, so great was the interest felt in London in Mrs. Fiske’s work that before the run of “Tess” in New York last season had closed several overtures had been made to her for an appearance in the English metropolis. It is certainly very gratifying to kow\that to an American actress belongs the honor of first producing and making a success of international note In a play mude from Hardy’s powerful story. The long line of ticket purchasers at the Pembroke yesterday morning when the advance sale opened indicates the strong interest in Mrs. Fiske’s engagement at the Grand next week. “McNulty’s Visit” will be given for the last times this afternoon and evening at the Park. Isham’s Octoroons, with such well-known people as Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mclntosh, Madah Hyer, the Mallorys, Mme Flower and Fred Piper will begin a three day’s engagement Monday afternoon. Scribner’s Columbian Burlesquers will close at the Empire to-night. Next week The famous University of Michigan football team trains on Postum Food Coffee. Their trainer says that he is compelled to take common coffee away from all athletes under his charge, because of its effect on the heart.

at the Empire Cyrene’s Vaudevilles and Sherman and Morrlsey's Comedy Company combined will be the offering. Brail ley Opera House Leaned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., Dec. 3.-Omar G. Murray and Ira Swisher, well known young men, have leased the Bradley Opera House and assumed control to-day. Actors’ Fund Benefit. NEW YORK. Dec. 3.-A matinee held at the Knickerbocker Theater here to-day, under the direction of Daniel Frohman, for the actors’ fund benefit netted $2,600. Votes of tlie Stage. May Irvin’s latest song is called “An Awful Wicked Nigger.” Vesta Tilley has closed her music hall engagement at Weber &. Fields’s, in New York, and will accompany Weber & Fields’s outfit on the road. Reports indicate that a daintier little sketch is seldom seen than that presented by Patrice in “A New’ Year’s Dream,” in connection with "The Cat and the Cherub.” Beatrice Moreland, formerly leading woman with Sol Smith Russell, is now appearing in a sketch. “The Wedding Anniversary,” with Charles Seay, at Tony Pastor’s, In New York. ‘,‘A Ward of France,” that follows Julia Arthur’s “A Lady of Quality,” at.Wallick’s, has a. cast including Maurice Barrymore. Elita Proctor Otis, Maud Granger, Charles Kent, Stephen Grattan and u dozen others. Affie Warner, of “Down in Dixie” company, has been stricken in San Francisco with acute tuberculosis and is not expected to recover. Lulu Tabor, who formerly played the role, has gone to resume the part. Gabriele d’Annunzio’s new play, “The Dead City,” is the piece to shortly be produced by Sarah Bernhardt at her Renaissance Theater. The play has Schliemann, the famous archaeologic explorer, for its hero, and by the title, “The Dead City.” the ancient city of Mykenae is meant, the scene being laid in the villa of the explorer, built by him on this classic ground. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. George R. Sullivan has issued invitations for a tea Thursday. Mr. Eugene Mettler, of Toledo, is visiting Mr. William F. Landers. Mrs. James Miller entertained a few neighborhood friends yesterday at dinner. Mrs. George Burgess, of Cairo, 111., is visiting Mr. Burgess’s mother on Capitol avenue. Mrs. A. L. Varney gave a luncheon yesterday to a party of twelve at her home at the Arsenal. Mr. Edwin St. George Rogers entertained a number of friends with a ’possum supper at hi3 home last night. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Emmet Coffin went to Bloomington yesterday to visit Air. Coffin’s mother for a few days. Miss Mary Hunt, who has been visiting relatives in this city for a month, left for her home in Detroit yesterduy. Mrs. Samuel Reid entertained a few young people informally last evening at' her home on North Alabama street. Mrs. Harry W. Carry, of Terre Haute, who has been the guest of Mrs. J. H. Serif for the last week, returned home this morning. Miss Virginia Foster left yesterday for Pittsburg, where she will be a bridesmaid for a cousin, who is to be married Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Williams will leave in a few days for southern California to spend the winter. They may locate there permanently. Miss Jeannette Orlopp, of this city, will make her appearance in this country, after returning from abroad, in a concert to be given at Chickering Hall, New York, Dec. 28. The announcement has been received here of the marriage of Mr. Albert Lupton, of New York, formerly of this city, and Miss Howard, of St. Louis, which took place in St. Louis recently. Mrs. Walter Fugate and Mrs. H. E. Christian will sing at the entertainment at the First Baptist Church next Wednesday evening. The latter will be accompanied by the whistler from the Boys’ Club. Mrs. Edward Hawkins entertained yesterday at whist, having guests for fourteen Lillies. She was assisted by Mrs. C. E. Merrlfleld, Mrs. T. W. S. Belcher and Mrs. P. E. Mutchner. Each room was adorned with flowers, and the score cards were tied with yellow and white ribbons. Among the guests were Mrs. Elliott and Mrs. Carey, of Terre Haute; Mrs. Hodge, of Evansville, and Miss Hawkins, of Portland. Miss Voss invited a few friends to het home last evening for a first view of her statue, Parks’H Bacchante. Miss Voss had a swell niche made for the beautiful figure and arranged hidden electric lights to illuminate it. The room is tinted an exquisite pink rose color, and the hangings are of heavy satin brocade of a deeper tone. On the walls are paintings and art treasures gathered in ail parts of the world, making a rare setting for the rare possession of the Bacchante. There is probably no room in the city that contains such a collection as the pink drawing room of Miss Voss.

A largely at’ended meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter e the Daughters of the Revolution was heid Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Tarkington, opposite St. Clair Park. A large amount of official business was transacted and an entertainment committee, consisting of Miss Tarquinia Voss, Mrs. Will Tarkington, Mrs. James Braden, Mrs. E. C. Thompson, Mrs. Beck, Miss Romalne Braden, Miss Adams, Miss Gail Smith. Miss Virginia Minor and Mrs. Helen Parry Fitzgerald, was appointed to prepare for a reception at an early date, at which members will be privileged to invite friends. The next meeting will be held Jan. 8, at which time several papers will be read. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand I* Mayer entertained their friends last evening with a dance at the Propylaeum. Receiving with the host and hostess were the Misses Zoller, of Greensburg. Miss Zoller wore a gown of pink silk and chiffon trimmed with roses, and Miss Louise Zoller wore a gown of blue brocaded silk. The hull was decorated in garlands of lycopodium across the breadth and length of the room, and the entire north wall opposite the doors was filled with smilax studded with white and red electric lights. The red lights were placed on the mantel amid the ferns and palms, and lights were in colored Japanese lamps which were swung from the sides of the hall. There was a lattice frieze of laurel, with festoons of laurel and lycopodium around the entire room, making an embroidery of green against the plain color of the walls. Mr. and Mrs. Mayer were assisted in entertaining by Maj. and Mrs. W. J. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Sayles and Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wasson. An orchestra of seven pieces furnished the music for the dance. _ni the most popular airs were played. Suppe r was served in the east parlor, where the table in the center of the room was decor; t* * with a large basket of chrysanthemui ■? the Dresden colors, set on a cloth r; embroidered in the Dresden design. V ? candles in crystal candlesticks gav t soft light through the room. Amo ? the guests were Miss Fenton, of Chicago. Mild Proctor, of Vermont: Mrs. N. A. Gladding, of Memphis; Miss von Starkloff, of St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lovett, of Anderson, and Mr. Eugene Mettler. of Toledo. * DURBIN—TEMPLE. Special to the India ns no) is Journal. ANDERSON. Ind , Dec. 3.—Last evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Durbin, Clarence Durbin and Miss Minnie E. Temple were married. Dr. Wright, of the Presbyterian Church, officiating. Irvington. Miss Edith Griffith has invited the members of the,Young Folks’ Dancing Club to meet with Her Saturday evening. The young men of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity entertained a few’ frienas in their hall after the contest on Wednesday evening. The Sigma Chi gave a party on Thursday night in their chapter hall, on Central avenue. A number of alumni members from Indianapolis attended. Stutn* of Order of Equity. Receiver Blair, of the defunct Order of Equity, thinks it will be almost a year before the trust can be wound up. The heaviest assets owned by the order were tied up in the property recently sold to the Marion Club, on North Meridian street. The purchase price was $16,000, but there was a mortgage on the property which the club assumed. A note was given for the remainder. which amounted to about $1,300. This note is to run a year. Altogether the receiver thinks he will have about $3 600 of assets to divide after an allowance has been made to the receiver und his attorneys. The receiver says two hundred members of the order have neglected to tile their claims. The books contain the names of 1,200 member*. Regal mandolins are finest at Wulsehner'a.

IRE INDIANAPOEfS JOURNAL, SATURDAY DECEMBER 4, 1897.

CAUSE OF PLANT COLORS * PROF. J. M. (OUTER EXPOUNDS SOME REVOLUTIONARY VIEWS. ♦ Relation of Red and the Generation of Heat—Close of the Botanical Series. Professor Coulter, of Chicago University, last night closed his sene: of lectures on plant growth in the ui iversity extension course at the First Baptist Church with a lecture on the facts and causes of variation of plant species. He first reviewed briefly the lecture on color and its significance in nature. An outline of this entirely new and almost revolutionary view of the uses of color in plant life is as follows: “The recent work of Stahl in the great tropical laboratory at Buitenzorg, Java, has brought to light many important suggestions concerning the significance of color. Heretofore we have only sought to explain the green color, most largely displayed In leaves, and the various colors shown by flowers. The former we have recognized as being intimately concerned with an important niece of plant work, namely, carbon assimilation; the later w’e have been in the habit of regarding as a device for the purpose of attracting insects to do the work of pollination. The green color was thus associated with work, and the flower colors, not with work, but with a passive attraction, making hem appear merely in the light of a glaring advertisement. . “The first shock received by our belief in the attractive purpose of the color of flowers Was the discovery by Stahl that many of the insects that are known as pollinators are color blind. This, of course, was a Hat contradiction of the idea that the colors of flowers are essentially attractive. The thought is suggested, therefore, that there is some deeper significance in these colors than attraction, although they may possibly serve that purpose incidentally. “If tiie display of color by the whole plant kingdom be regarded it will be seen that we are dealing with a general condition in the presence of which the idea of attracting insects to flowers sinks into insignificance. In addition to the green so common among plaits, we find a display of other colors, as follows: Among leaves, such as those of the beet, coleus and other so-called foliage plants; spring buds, which usually flush up with some tinge of red; autumn leaves, fruits and great groups of plants, such as the red and brown seaweeds, in which the whole body is colored. Such an extended display apart from flowers indicates that these colors must have a biological significance far deeper than the attraction of insects. CAUSE OF GREEN AND RED. “The clew should have been furnished by what was known concerning the work of the green coloration. Nolhing is better known than that the green color is for the purpose of manipulating the light and that by means of this manipulation certain of the light rays are converted intci other forms of energy by the use of which the protoplasm of the plant is able to assimilate carbon-dioxide. This association of color with plant work in relation to light would have suggested the possibility that other colors may have light relations !n connection with plant worn. Stahl’s investigatkns were directed towards discovering tne possible significance of some of the most common colors, and his most suggestive results were in connection with red coloration. He observed that wherever red coloration occurs, temperature rises. This has indicated that some of the light’s rays passing through the red coloration were converted into heat. He suggests a simple experiment to uemonstrate ' this. A variegated coleus leaf is selected, on which there are splotches ol red. If the surface of this leaf be covered with a film of cocoa butter, such as w r ill melt at a low temperature, and then exposed to light, it wiil be found that the film over the red splotches will be melted sooner than over the rest of the leaf surface. In seeking to apply this suggestion that red coloration is associated with increase in heat, the xtsuit becomes quite striking. The red tiush of early spring buds seem to suggest the need for greater heat at that season. The reds of autumn leave i, which come just when- the living substance of the leuf is ceasing its work and retiring into the stem, and hence is peculiarly helpless, suggests a heat protection. The red algae, submerged deeper than any otner form of marine vegetation, need greater heat, both because of the chilling water anti on account of the diminished intensity of the light passing through the water. The reds ot fruits may also l>e associated with the greater development of heat, which mav assist in those chemical changes which occur in the process known as ’ripening. In this wav it stems possible to associate all the reds with the work of the plant in its need of greater heat. “In reference to the yellow and other colors, hardly any suggestion has as yet been made. It is reasonable to suppose, however, in view of the phase just mentioned, that they also are connected with some special manipulation in reference to the plant activities. This certainly a far broader conception of the significance of color in plants, and it is certainly true that we must hereafter associate color with work, and of course with light related work. Naturally this applies only to colors that are associated with living parts of plants. Colors such as exist in ’neartwood,’ in roots, etc., certainly hold no light relation and must be explained in some other way.”

Professor Coulter opened tire discussion of variation, the last lecture of the course, by stating that twenty years ago. when the study of botany was confined to the analysis of plants, many specimens were found which did not agree with the book, und to identify those, students just took the average of arguments. “Well.” he said, “that is just what scientists are doing now.” A “species” only agrees in certain average characters with its fellows. The naturalists who have created the most species are the ones who think least of species. VARIATION OF SPECIES. The hand of man can make “species” by cultivation; he can change not only the parts, but the whole. But plants do not vary under cultivation alone; they vary in nature. .Variations are notorious in wild plants. This was illustrated by the variations of the. European wild rose, of which seventy species were, made by as many different botanists. Really it is the common “dog rose” varied by geographical location and climatic conditions. Also, in England Bentham said there were only five brambles; Babbington said forty-live; one found fifteen willows and the otner thirtyone, so very marked are the variations. Dr. Asa. Gray studied the asters of North America for thirty years. He then told Professor Coulter that when he began he thought he knew much about the species of asters, but after this long study he did not believe there was any such thing as "species of asters;” they grade into eaeli other insensibly. Groups like asters and sedges are made up of many variations. These groups have taught great truths of evolution. The “rare species,” standing bv themselves, are of least use, but are the ones which have given the base to the idea of species. The lecturer showed that in wild species the per cent, of variation runs from 15 to 25 per cent, and affects from 10 to 15 per cent, of the individuals of a species. The things which favor variation are, first, reproduction by pollen and ovule; indeed sexual reproduction has been the riddle of biology. It is now believed that this form of originating new species was devised in nature to bring about variation, and hence progress and adaptation, by bringing two great und different streams of ancestry to work together. Besides this, there is* environment, including the great tact of n\trition as a cause of variation, and finally what we call in the blindness of our ignorance a “deep-seated tendency” in nature toward variation. This has proved the most successful course of university extension lectures yet given in this city. The attendance has been from 250 to 300. including many physicians and science-loving people, aside.from the teachers, who constitute the majoritv of the classes. Commercial Travelers’ Annual. The Commercial Travelers’ Association will hold its twenty-third annual reception and ball on Dec. 17 at the Propylaeum. On the following day the association will meet at the Board of Trade Hull. The committee on arrangements includes: James R. Ross, chairman, O. P. Aten. C. H. Augstein’, George XV. Barth. Jefferson Cay lor, Robert O. Dearmln. Samuel A. Fisher. William W Fisher, Frank E. Floyd. Edwin A. Finney’ George W. Geiger, John A. Goulding, William F. Henly. Horace E. Hadley, Jack J Hlnman, George Hochstetter. W. B. Judah’ Joseph F. Jewar, T. J. Leehey. M. P. Lynch’ R. H. McClellan, Carey McPherson, C. B.

Meharry, William tT. Morris. W. H. Wright. James H. Newman. James C. Norris, Walter H. Nichols. W. H. Rhodehamel. Charles A. Ross. Thomus F’. Swain. Charles W. Suman. Fred Schowe, Joseph H. Stubbs, Wesley Stalcup, J. A. Syfers. John Van Zant, W. H. Yingiing. Carey McPherson, secretary and treasurer. THE PURDUE ALUMNI. Governor Mount. President Smart and Others Respond to Toasts. The annual banquet of the Purdue Alumni Association, held at the Denison House last evening, was, attended by about fifty of the alumni, with their sweethearts and wives, and it was a goodly company that gathered about the tables in the spacious ordinary. James W. Noel, the retiring president, presided, with Dr. Smart at his right and Governor Mount and wife upon his left. The banquet began at 8 o’clock and an elaborate menu was served, but so admirably brief were the toasts that the party broke up at the seasonable hour of 11 o’clock. As soon as the last course was disposed of, Governor Mount was introduced and received with applause. Speaking to the toast of “The College and Agriculture,” the Governor said: “I am asked in a few minutes to blend in unison two elements that have been regarded in the past as incompatible and incongruous. College education has been regarded by the majority of farmers as an unnecessary expense in their equipment for farm life. This sentiment, I am pleased u> say, is undergoing a revolution. “Farming must now be regarded in the light of a science demanding research and investigation, and as a profession calling for the highest order of thinking. Physical forces are no longer the dominant factors of success. The ability to work intelligently and to plan wisely must now measure the reward upon the farm. Extensive operations must give place to intensive methods. The farmer must understand the forces which are constantly at work in nature’s great laboratory. He must understand something of the elements required in the growth of crops. He must conserve and restore to the soil elements of plant food in the most economic manner. He must be a student of economics. Production and consumption, supply and demand are the basic nrincipies upon which the farmer must build if he hopes to win success. The science of markets, the science of breeding and feeding are the great problems in successful farming to-day. The ravages of insect pests and fungus growths arc new elements to be understood. "I have referred briefly to important factors of success that must be mastered by thought. The power to think, to reason, to investigate, is greatly augmented by college training. In this era of agricultural colleges, experiment stations and farm institutes. wonderful progress is being made along the line of intelligent thought. Mind is greater than muscle. Manhood is more to be sought than money. The measure of true success upon the farm will not be determined alone by abundant crops and profitable herds. Grander than financial success will be the achievement of the coun.ry home that sends forth intelligent, virtuous, noblp manhood and womanhood to bless the world.” Prof. Stanley Coulter made a bright speech upon “The Discipline Committee,” Miss Martha J. Doan responded to the toast of “The Woman in Science.” and Dr. Joseph R. Perry talked “ad libitum,” and kept the crowd laughing ‘*d foustum.” Miss Kate Wentz paid her compliments to logarithms, and Prof. A. Welmer Duff talked of everything else but college politics, the subject assigned to him. George W. Sloan talked of the school of pharmacy, and said that at Purdue was one of the best in the country. He said, in the course of his talk, that he did ;tot regard a pharmacy law as necessary. Dr. J. N. Hurty was called up with nothing assigned-to him us a subject, and talked about it' vefy entertainingly. Dr. James It. Smart, president of Purdue, was the last one introduced and was applauded when he arose after Mr. Noel had told with what courage and energy he had set to work rebuilding; the mechanical laboratory after it has burned. He had been assigned “The Ideal University.” After remarking that it was time for them to go home, he addressed himself to the subject. Nobody had any notion, he said, that he would talk of any qther institution than Purdue as the.‘ttfkfl 1 .pfliVArsity, yet Purdue was not a university as that term was commonly understood. It was a special school, a school of technology, and they hoped to make it an ideal one. A university was an association of guilds, or colleges, with many faculties, where a man could go to study everything that makes for civilization. There are some great universities in this country, hut Purdue' was not one of them. It might be an iijeal school, and he hoped in time it would. Yet it might be called a university in its spirit. If ail the buildings of Yale were burned, all her endowments lest and her faculty dismissed, the university’ would still bo there, its traditions, its history, its spirit. These were what made the university more than the men. The spirit of Purdue was the effort to educate men for a purpose, not merely to turn out educated men. He doubted whether the “educated man” were worth the making. Knowledge was useless unless applied. The spirit of Purdue was that her graduates should go out and use their knowledge for the benefit of themselves and others. They .must h e U> not themselves alone, but humanity. Educated selfishness was a greater danger to the Republic, he thought, than ignorance. At Purdue they taught men to he useful. It might have something of ii commercial tinge, but the preacher, the lawyer and the physician, as well as the engineer, worked for money in part. Yet while working for themselves her graduates are taught to work for their fellow-men. The man who builds a bridge and feels that there is no more to his service than the money he is paid for it is a mighty poor sort of a man. He said he had no ambition to make Purdue the biggest school in the country, but he was ambitious to make it one of the best. There were no little things in this world. It was the man behind the thing or the thought that made it seem big or little. and the great thing to be accomplished is to give attention to the thing in hand and make it worth the effort. Dr. Smart spoke of the spirit of patriotism inculcated at I’urdue and made an eloquent appeal on the subject of state pride, enumerating a whole catalogue of things the State of Indiana has to be proud of. At the close of Dr. Smart’s talk the following officers of the association for the ensuing year were elected: President—Henry A. Beck. Vice President—A. R. Kipp. Secretary—Harry Cox. Treasurer—George W. Sloan. Executive Committee—J. R. Francis, J. N. Hurty und John S. Wright. CITY NEWS NOTES. There will be a market at the Collegeavenue Baptist Church this morning from 9 till 12 o’clock. The managers of. the Girls’ Industrial School will meet Monday afternoon at 540 North Meridian street. The Indianapolis Ministers’ Association will meet in the St. Paul’s parish house on Monday morning. Rev. J. T. E. Lathrop will read a paper on “The Conception of Reality.” John Caven, who. it was understood, was ill some time ago, is enjoying good health. Dr. MeShane, one of his close friends, says Mr. Caven is in better condition now than he has been for a year. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bone and son Fred, of 5126 North Illinois street, will leave today for the City of Mexico for permanent residence. Mr. and Mrs. Borte have a son Floyd, who is at present a resident of the City of Mexico and who has been living for the last six years in either New’ or Old Mexico. It is the present intention of Mr. Bone, in connection with his son Floyd, to go into the manufacture of ink and other chemicals. The family leave a large number of friends here and in adjoining counties. Hentli of Mrs. L. P. Hnrlun. Sarah L. Harlan, wife of Attorney L. P. Harlan, died at 5:45 o’clock yesterday evening at her home on the National road five miles east of the city. Mrs. Harlan was forty years of age. She was tuken ill with pneumonia last Sunday. Mrs. Harlan was the daughter of John F. McVey, who was an old and prominent citizen of the county. The daughter was married to Mr. Harlan in 1877. For several years the family has occupied the McVey homestead. They formerly lived in the city. She whs a member of the Methodist Church. A husband and five children survive her. The funeral will take place Sunday from the family home. Ought to Mailer. Chicago Post. “And will he never be allowed out of here?” asked the visitor. “Never,” replied Satan. “His crime was ono of the unpardonable ones.” “What was it?” “He refused to get u new coal hole cover when the one in his walk became as smooth and slippery as glade Ice.”

A NIGHT FOR FAVORITES TURKIC EXCITING GAMES l\ THE BOWLING TOURNAMENT. Clminpinn* Complete Their Firnt Series* Without n Defeat—Capital City* Still Tuil-Enileri*. Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. P. Ct. Indianapolis 7 7 0 1.000 Lyra Casinos 7 5 2 .714 Social Turners 7 4a .591 Independent Turners... 7 4 1! .591 Gemian-Americans .... 7 3 4 .423 All-Americans 7 2 5 .2*6 Old Guards 7 2 5 .286 Capital Citys 7 16 143 There were three exciting games in the bowling tournament last night, all the alleys being occupied. The Indianapolis Bowling Club, the champions of last season, completed the first aeries without a defeat, winning from the Lyra Casinos on the Independent Turner alleys. The game attracted a large number of spectators. It was almost impossible for the bowlers to find room to play the game, so great was the jam. All the space alon'T the sides of the alleys was taken by ladies and their escorts and it was necessary to allow others to crowd In back of the players. The disadvantage worked evenly against both sides, however, and may have kepi the score down. The score was as follows: —lndianapolis Bowling Club.— Mueller 5 16 17 8 8 7 9 9 13 17 9 7—125 Bauer 7 12 18 23 16 IS 18 14 IS 8 15 9—176 G. Mann feld 25 12 12 9 16 9 12 15 8 8 12 8—146 F. Kottenian..,.l7 12 8 8 9 7 3 17 13 18 is 13—14:1 Pfau 17 5 7 8 6 20 9 8 8 8 12 17—125 Leppert 8 8 13 8 5 9 9 7 18 8 8 12—113 May 9 5 8 9 8 8 9 8 16 19 18 12—129 Hotll 7 7 13 9 7 9 12 7 U 7 19 14—123 W. Off 5 13 9 22 8 14 8 18 14 7 8 9—140 W. Mannfeld...ls 16 8 9 416 817 819 8 8—136 Total 1,356 —Lyra Casinos.— Gay 9 8 14 15 12 8 14 7 7 15 9 5—123 Goebel 16 7 7 6 4 9 14 14 9 8 9 9—112 Von Hake 7 17 8 8 8 16 17 14 9 32 8 16—160 Kothe 16 8 7 8 9 7 5 7 7 8 9 9—loo Mueller 5 7 14 26 9 12 5 18 15 9 7 9—136 Kellar 6 18 15 16 5 8 15 17 8 9 9 8—134 Krauss 8 12 17 13 8 9 6 7 11 19 14 17—141 Perry 8 7 7 16 15 8 8 16 17 7 13 9-131 Wynn 7 9 19 17 9 7 8 8 C 15 8 9—122 Schaf 8 8 7 16 8 21 17 8 16 16 8 6—139 Total 1.298 An exceedingly close game was that at the German House between the Old Guards and the Capital Citys. It was anybody’s game until the last frame, and it looked as if the Capital Citys would win. They were twelve points in the lead and seemed to be playing with utmost confidence. In fact they had kept a little in the lead almost from the start and had the old fellows somewhat cowed. But when the last trame began, and Julius Keller led off with 14 and was followed by J. Becker with 12, while the Capital City players scored only 7 and 8. respectively, there was a turn in the tide. The Old Guards were only one jioint behind and then came August Kuhn, who made two clean strikes In succession and followed with six pins, making a total of 24 ponits. This sent Old Guard colors away up. and with them went the spirits of the players and the game was won. The score: —Old Guards.—

Julius Keller.... 8 15 14 18 9 6 17 9 27 8 16 14—161 J. Becker 8 9 7 9 7 15 7 8 7 17 7 12-113 Kuhn 9 16 12 8 12 6 17 6 3 7 7 24—127 Ivarrman 7 12 9 8 6 17 5 6 8 9 15 B—llo C. Becker 9 15 1 7 6 8 9 8 20 6 9 6 4—117 Jos. Keller .... 9 8 18 19 18 17 9 81216 17 7—158 stumps 18 13 16 9 14 7 7 30 9 6 13 B—lso Wccher 4 12 7 9 6 8 9 8 9 15 6 12—105 H. Kothe 4 7 8 18 19 12 9 14 8 7 8 6—120 Bachman 7 8 5 8 9 9 7 6 8 20 8 12—107 Total 1,268 —Capital City.— Hoover 8 9 7 15 8 8 16 26 7 17 6 7—134 Baumgartner ... 8 9 8 7 24 9 16 9 16 14 6 8—134 Seguin 16 9 8 8 18 7 6 7 12 5 8 7—lll Wood 7 8 9 8 6 7 12 8 4 17 S 13—107 Cook 7 6 8 9 9 8 21 13 21 9 11 9—129 Critchlovv 8 12 16 18 9 9 8 8 12 6 12 8—126 Bookwalter 8 8 17 17 5 16 9 7 12 7 7 B—l2l Pfeiffer 9 7 15 14 12 9 13 17 12 8 7 6—129 Tuttle 14 25 5 14 15 9 7 .7 7 518 6-132 Kahlo 8 8 20 16 6 22 8 515 8 6 15—137 Total 1.260 The Independent Turners defeated the Social Turners on the Lyra alleys, making it a complete victory for favorites. Neither side had a ‘‘cinch” here until toward the close of the gftme. when the Independents began making gains which could not be overcome and won the game by a margin of 24 points. The score was as follows: —lndependent Turners..— Lauter 18 8 17 8 17 7 7 21 9 8 17 7—142 A Seidensticker. 15 7878 18 78838 7—104 Deluse 12 5 15 8 11 17 9 8 18 8 8 8—127 Dicks 6 7 15 18 9 17 12 7 9 8 20 9-137 Slersdorfer 8 9 8 7 15 8 16 9 6 15 16 19—136 Bennlnger 16 6 8 5 17 13 8 8 7 16 9 14—127 C. Off 15 9 13 14 9 12 9 8 f 7 5 23—129 coulon 14 9 6 8 20 8 9 7 9 7 9 6—112 Jungelaus S 8 7 15 8 16 8 12 6 7 7 14—116 Fields 4 13 7 23 21 14 12 8 8 14 13 8—147 Total 1.277 —Social Turners. — H. Si.dken 18 8 27 21 8 8 8 19 9 8 7 8—147 Zwicker ...8 9 9 8 9 9 19 16 7- 9 8 16-125 Hirsch 6 S 8 8 15 7 7 It 721 8 13—122 Niebergall 16 9 17 15 16 9 18 8 15 9 9 18—139 Loos 8 6 8 7 6 15 6 6 8 4 13 10—105 Birk 8 8 8 8 15 8 16 19 20 .7 16 .9—132 Kehretn 9 7 17 9 15 14 8 ,8 9 17 II 6—128 Willem 8 8 7 8 8 9 6 8 9 it 9 7-102 Mode 5 7 8 5 18 5 18 9 8 9 9 B—lo 9 G. Vonnegut....l7 7 9 8 7 9 7 14 16 8 8 14—124 Total 1,253 It was inadvertently stated in the Journal yesterday that the All-American bowling team won from the German-Americans. This was a mistake, as the German-American team won the game. The individual scores were correct, but there was a mistake in the heading. DANGER SIGNALS. Devices l sell on Railroad* to Protect Trail* Service. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When young Herbert Wright, who was passing along the tracks of the Old Colony road, near Boston, not long since, saw a bright red fuse burning directly before him he evidently concluded that It was placed there for spectatcular effect alone, as he rushed forward and in great glee tossed it In the air and to one side and enjoyed the shower of brilliant sparks that followed its contact with the earth. Yet the boy was trifling with one of the most effective danger signals used almost universally by the railroads of this country. The signal had been thrown from the rear end of a suburban train, and. if it had been left in the proper place intended for it, would ha*ve kept the train following at least llfteen minutes in that train’s rear. The train following was an express, and running at a. high rate of speed; the signal was missing; the flagman of the suburban train believed he had fully protected his train, and the express dashed on and into the train ahead with terrible results. Several passengers were killed, and nearly three score were badly injured, as a result of the lad’s thoughtlessnes. Herbert was only twelve years old and when arrested the day following the wreck confessed that he had removed the burning fuse, not knowing what it was. The boy can, no doubt, be forgiven on the strength of his tender age, vet it is a question whether thousands of people twice his age ever saw a similar signal, and would not have acted exactly as he had done under the same circumstances. The best rule to go by when in the vicinity of a railroad is to keep hands off. Every little piece of machinery or obscure burning lamp is playing its little part towards an effective whole, and the disarrangement of one may make the other ineffective The employes know this and depend upon the proper working of each and every one to help them out in a speedy and safe transaction of the railroad business. Os the dozen or more signals used in railroading the red flag hv day and the red lamp by night are the oldest and, no • loubt. the most useful of danger signals The fuse that is thrown from the rear end of a train in foggy weather, and when u stop is not to be thought of on account of the close proximity of nn oncoming train is practically a late invention Many years back a red fuse was used but it had to lie utilised by u lc flußmerl driving the spiked end into the crossties. It wouid burn tin minutes and then go out. tra n following would see the light and either alow down in speed tr stop until the light had burnt out. Jn that wav trains wire kept ten min ites apart. The ihi proved fuse contains a series of colored lights. The first, being red. will burn live minutes; the second, blue, also burns live minutes and the third, white, finishes out the fifteen minutes. By this means an engineer following the train from which the burning fuse has been thrown knows almost to the minute how far he is in the rear, and, instead of stopping, holds his train under control, and governs himself accordingly. This fuse is weighted as well as spiked at one end. and. upon being thrown from a swift-moving train, will immediately assume an upright position, thereby burning better and being seen farther. The torpedo is another effective danger signal, and also a signal of information. In the case of a rear flagman of a passenger train placing a torpedo, he will generally use one, while the flagman of a freight train frequently makes use of two. In the first instance, the engineer following will slow down almost to a standstill and whistle for his flagman to protect his train, while, if it he a case of two explosions, he will know a freight is getting out of his way on to a siding, and slow up his train until that particular siding has been passed. There is no gainsaying the startling effectiveness of the torpedo. The explosion will awake the most sleepy engineer and instantly place him on guurd. The old torpedo was made by placing three percussion caps upon the points of a small cast-iron frame and filling in common gunpowder around the outside. The outside

frame consisted of tin, and was about ns large in eurcumference as the new silver dollar, but about four times as thick. These torpedoes showed defects under certain circumstances, such as heavy rains, the caps refusing to work. The torpedo now in use depends upon concussion for its explosion, and instead of the caps and powder, dynamite is used. To the base of the torped a long strip of stiffened lead is soldered, and by this means they are strongly tied to the rails, and cannot be jarred off by the action of the oncoming train. When the new dynamite torpedo came into use it proved to be a serious innovation to the sons of railroaders living along the line. The old torpedoes furnished ammunition for many a hunting trip, and when this source of supply was sought to be continued, dire results followed. Many readers of the daily press will recall the numerous items that appeared some years back, telling how several boys had been wounded in opening railroad torpedoes; they know better now and use breech-load-ers' A new’ danger signal that bids fair to eclipse the dynamite torpedo in effectiveness is the automatic torpedo lately introduced by the New York Central and Pennsylvania roads. It has been so successful in its operation that it has attracted widespread attention. Several railroad officials of undoubted ability have pronounced it the surest automatic danger signal known. This torpedo, is attached to a semaphore, and is designed to give audible w’arning by the explosion of a torpedo whenever a train passes the signal while set at danger. Several accidents have occurred in the past few years through negligent engineers sleeping at their posts, and, as a result, running by the silent semaphore. When the signal is set at danger, it automatically places a torpedo under a hammer, which is set close to the rail, where a passing wheel is sure to strike it. When the signal is turned to safety the torpedo is automatically withdrawn. After e torpedo has been exploded by a passing train, another torpedo automatically takes its place. Os course, there is no guard against malicious tampering with the apparatus, but, even if there were, it only reduces the percentage of safety, as the original semaphore is still on guard. A machine like this, which is certain to call an engineer’s attention to a danger signal every time, is something that railroad employes have been looking for for the past decade. The railicad commissioners in several Western and Eastern States have indorsed the torpedo, and that it will soon be in general use is undoubted. YALE DEBATERS WON. They Contended that Hawaii Should Not Be Annexed. NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Dec. 3.—Yale oratory carried an intercollegiate audience by storm here this evening, the home debaters winning in their tenth meeting with Harvard in a close and spirited forensic contest on the question: “Resolved, That the United States should annex the Hawaiian islands.” Yale defended the negative side, which won the battle. This is Yale’s third victory over Harvard during the ten years. The debate was held in College-street Hall, which was filled with a representative audience. Many of the distinguished alumni of both universities were in attendance, while many statesmen of even national reputation were interested listeners. The speakers representing Yale were: H. A. Jump. '99; J. K. Clark. ’99. and H. W. Fisher, ’9B. Harvard’s representatives were: W Morse, 1900; J. A. Keith, S. P., and S. Grilk, ’9B. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Y r ale ’56, presided. Each debater took twelve minutes in opening and five minutes in a rebuttal. Yale’s strong attack on Harvard’s argument was her denial that the possession of the Hawaiian islands would strengthen this country from a strategic point, bv that the possession of the islands w ould weaken her and cause her a vast item of expense In defending them. After t*e debate the judges, who were Hon. ,W. J. Hornblower and Hon. J. J. McCook./of New York city, and Prof. W. B. Murray, of Columbia University. were in session but fifteen minutes when they rendered their decision and the announcement was greeted with the heartiest applause. It was unanimous. Mr. Depew made a witty address while the judges were deliberating. At the conclusion of the contest the Y’ale Union tendered the Harvard debaters and visitors a banquet In the New Haven House.

MOON WITHIN A MILE OF EARTH. Power of the Great Purl* Exposition Telescope Now Being, Constructed. New York Commercial Advertiser. The telescope at the great Paris exposition of 1900 v\ ill bring the image of the moon within a mile of the earth. The tube of this telescope will be 180 feet long. The image is to be received upon a level mirror seven-ty-five inches in diameter, and from .that reflected on to a screen so rigged up that six hundred people can view Its startling revelations at one time. This Paris telescope, with its huge objective, will be peculiarly fitted to vivify and enlarge indistinct parts of large stars or planets or suns. The objective of the Flower observatory of the University of Pennsylvania is only eighteen inches in diameter; that at Princeton twenty inches; that at Harvard twentyfour inches: that at the University of Virginia twenty-six inches; that at the Lick Observatory thirty-six inches; that at Pulkowa, Russia, thirty-eight inches; while the Yerkes glass is forty inches In diameter. The glass which the Alvin Clark Company is now making at the Cambridge works for the Paris exposition of 190 Jis fifty-one inches in diameter. It is a thin convex, with a long focal distance. It was formerly thought that the diameter of the object glass of a telescope could not be increased beyond a certain number of inches without fatally diminishing its effectiveness. Objectives rest on their edge, of course, and the weight of a very wide glass was, so great that it increased the density of the lower part of its rim, on which its weight rested, and so modified the refraction of that part of the glass. Refraction is the bend or change in its direction which a ray of light undergoes upon passing through any denser body that the air. Formerly objectives were made very thick in the center of their convexity, so their focal distance, or the point at which all the rays passing through them, crossed, was close to them. The thicker an objective the shorter the distance to where the focal point lies back of it in the tube. With these thick objectives and their short focus. low power magnifying eyepieces to telescopes were used—not over u one-thou-sand diameter eyepiece in the lurgest instrument. But lately Alvin Clark and the Jena manufacturers have turned out very much thinner objectives. Such objectives produce a focal point much further back from them in the tube of the telescope. And this change of focal point has given rise to the employment of eyepieces of four thousand or five thousand magnifying power. The nearer the image of the object to be magnified is brought to an eyepiece the higher must be its magnifying power, and so the old limitation of size—diameter—in an objective has been overcome. Objectives of telescopes are duplex, consisting of a convexity of crown glass fitted lightly into a one-sided concavity of flint glass. This arrangement is necessitated by the fact that rays of different colors have a different, angie of refraction in passing through complex crown glass. But these color rays ar : intercepted by the flint-glass backing, and so the focal point, is preserved. The glass of these objectives must be of equal thickness or opacity throughout. Alvin Clark told Dr. George F. Barker, of the chair of physics in the University of Pennsylvania, that the delicacy of his objectives was altogether owing to his care in going over them personally, and wherever he discovered a comparatively opaque spot, he would clip his finger tip in rouge nowder and gently rub the spot back and forth for a minute. So exceedingly susceptible to this very slight friction are such highly finished and polished piece*, of manufactured glass. The cost of great objectives is enormous. The Lick objective, which stands fourth in the list in size, cost $50,000. Alvin Clark’s reputation as a maker of objectives stands first in the world, so that even Europe patronizes him in preference to its home industries. In making these objectives molten glass is poured into a pot. When the glass has cooled, the pot is chipped awuy from its mass, and midway from the bottom the crystal is sawed through twice. Out of thi. median section the crown glass convex is made. The middle of‘the mold is most tree from impurities and most uniform in density. \Vl>n (lie Bicycle llcll Hln K *. New Y'ork Tribune Despite the almost universal use of the bicycle, thtre are Intelligent people who will have vague notions as to the proper functlon of the bicycle bell. This is doubtless due largely to the wrong and needless use of it which many wheelmen, especially of the Juvenile class, indulge in. Pedestrians are too apt to think, when they hear a bell, that it is their duty either to halt or hasten their foosteps in order to get out of the way. The intelligent cyclist means neither the one thing nor the other when he presses his bell; he simply wishes to announce his proximity, so that he will not cause alarm if he passes close to the person on foot. He prefers that the pedestrian should keej) on his way, since the moment he saw him the wheelman made his plan for passing, which will be disarranged if the pedestrian stops. Asa rule, the bell is to he regarded leas as a warning than as a simple announcement, but it will take a

Children’s Cloaks A Regular Landslide in Prices To=day Better come to-day, and come early, for the best Coats are bound to go first. Choice of any Child's Jacket in our house, ages 4 to 12 years, none reserved, and includes best we have in stock, regular prices $lO. $12.50, sls and $16.50, to-day Qg One lot of Jackets, Reefers and plain Coats, regular prices up Cd .itt to $7.50, to-day for Long Cloaks One lot of Long Cloaks, sizes 6 to 16 years, splendid warm materials, stylishly made, regular prices $lO. $12.50, sls. sl9 and s2<. this includes every long Cloak in stock, best we have, all go to- AC AA day, choice for Balance of our entire stock of Long Cloaks, regular prices all season $7.50, $9 and $lO. all go to- QO/day; choice for $3.75, $1.98 and ytJW H.P. Wasson & Cos. DONEY’S Old Wayne So Cigar. "■■■ 11,1 "."I- U besttHHns Kansas City. Montana, Odorado, Pacific Coast, Utah, Wasliingion, Omaha, St. Paul, Nebraska, Black Hills, —VIA — St. Louis or Chicago. VESTIBULED TRAINS, SLEEPERS, DINING GARS, HM SP*S (¥„¥?) V M SHAW, OI3T. PASS’S AQT..3INCINNATI, OHIO. HOWARD ELLIOTT, GENX MO*. ST. LOUIS, MO. L. W. WAKELEY, GFN’LPAOS'U AQT..ST. LOU'S, MO. long ■> educate the community as a whoh j that idea, especially since nutnerou* i take delight in ringing their bicycle eils loud and long, and virtually ordering everybody to get out of their road. Obituary. SEATTLE, Was#., Dec. 3.—News was received here to-day that Louis Kossuth Church, of Dakota, died At Juneau. Alaska, Nov. 23, of pneumonia. Mr. Church was a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., and served a long term in the State Legislature. In 1885 he was appointed associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota by President Cleveland, who afterwards appointed him Governor of the Territory. WORCESTER, Mass., Doc. 3.—Alonzo S. Kimball, professor of physics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institution since 1872, is dead at the ago of fifty-five years. GALENA, 111.. Dec. 3.—William Desmond, a veteran Mississippi river steamboat captain, died suddenly to-day of apoplexy. To Reform Primary Election*. NEW Y’ORK, Dee. 3.—A conference of citizens from various parts of the United States is to be held in this city next week or the week after in the interest of uniform primary-election legislation. The conference is to advocate the enactment of laws bringing primaries under state supervision. The movement was inaugurated by the Civic Federation of Chicago. Ralph M. Easley, secretary of the federation, is in the city making the arrangements for the meeting. He says that twenty or more States are to be represented. He will issue a call, in which the time and place for holding the conference and the objects thereof are to be stated. Miikiuic Epigrams. Chicago Post. ‘T see that practically all the latest novels are loaded down with epigrams,” said the observing man. "They are,” admitted the critic. “I observe also," continued the observing man. “that a fellow’ can say almost any old thing about woman, label it an epigram and it will pass for a great truth.” “Again you are right,” returned the critic, "and 1 don’t mind saying that you have hit upon one of the great secrets of modern literary effort.” MRS. PETERSON’S STORY. I have suffered with womb trouble over fifteen years. I had inflammation, enlargement and displacement of the womb. j The doctor wanted me to take treatments, but I had just begun taking my husband miEi stantiy, also headache, and / Vm was so dizzy. I had heart trouble, it seemed as though my heart was in my throat at times choking me. I could not walk around and I could not lie down, for then my heart would beat so fast I would feel as though I was smothering. I had to sit up in bed nights in order to breathe. I was so weak I could not do anything. I have now taken several bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and used three packages of Sanative Wash, and can say I am perfectly cured. I do not think I could have lived long if Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine had not helped me.— Mbs. Joseph Peterson, 513 East Sw, Warren, Pa.

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