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AMUSEMENTS. (irnntl-"The* Jien Dominion.” A season of refined and gentle comedy opened at the Grand last night, when Clay Clement returned with his beautiful play, "The New Dominion.’* Mr. Clement's former visit, under the auspices of the Flower Mission, earlier in the season was his first introduction to Indianapolis theater-goers, and the impression he made at that time justified him in desiring to cultivate further friendly relations with this city. Mr. Clement gives promise Os becoming a powerful Western genius who may some day storm the citadel of art and let in sunlight on a waste of degenerate sensationalism. His efforts have been so sincere and his success already so marked that one gladly searches for the nicest things to say about him. While his play is not the greatest American comedy nor his impersonation of the unique German baron the greatest piece of art on the stage, both are surprisingly well performed and both have the added glory of being original. A breath of real life now and then on the stage is a. relief from what is found in the borrowed English plays and served up by English actors, who just now seem to he the favorites in the larger cities. Whatever pleases in New York has to be accepted by the provincials, or they will go hungry. Mr. Clement has followed no school in his playwriting nor In the manner of his production. His Baron Hohenstauffen is by no means a copy of anything done by Kiehard Mansfield, who icr some years has set the pace for original German characters. Mr. Clement is not an imitator, but, no doubt, when he grows more experienced In the methods of the great character actors his own art will broaden. When that time comes petty criticism will not serve to hinder his success in New York as he is now a success in the West. There are many delightful points in "The New Dominion'' that no one but Clement would have thought out. The pretty storv about the flower is a pure gem and is said to have been introduced in the school readers in some of the Western States. The comedy episode w r here he teaches the Virginia girl the German alphabet, Is an unaffected and entertaining bit of real art. Thu play of emotions fs not severely contrasted, but In the mellow, impressionist shading of the character ho impersonates there is enough to study without sensational emotionalism. There is a strong gentlemanlv scene when the baron rebukes an insolent Southerner that results in repeated curtain calls for the star. The play is a love episode. with Just enough plotting on the part of and well-sketched villain to charm an audience. As Mr. Clement’s first venture in play-building, “Tht New Dominion’’ gives the author a high place among the modern dramatic writers, ft gives promise, even, that tills Western star may huve the material for the great American play which seems always In the future. There are a few changes In the cast since Mr. Clement’s last appearance here, and they art not for the best. Jeffries I). Williams still gives his excellent Interpretation of the reckless, unprincipled Southerner, and Miss Nell .MrEwen continues to win applause for her natural and winsome ways as the op* nliearted Randolph girl. Miss Karra K< nv. yp simply bosses the whole stage in tin role of the widow, but William B. Mack, the new man playing the >o..ng attorney in love with the widow, is not well cast. l*\ W. Wal-

eott's Colonel Randolph Is hardly dressed for the par) and Annie Fllbourne. who displays more life than the previous Mrs. Randolph won here, does not give the character the Southern characteristics that she might. The settings for ‘ The New Dominion" are all, carried by Mr. Clement, and one seldom sees a more appropriately staged play. "The New Dominion” will remain at the Grand the rest of the week. Dr. Nansen, who comes to the Grand next Monday night for his long-expected lecture, allows his slumbers to continue long past daybreak in the morning and the hour is close to 10 o’clock before he arises and leisurely descends to his breakfast. This P doubtless more enticing than the polar bear, roasted, fried, broiled and raw, which form* <1 the famous explorer’s dally repast during the months after he left the From and wended his way across the trackless regions of the north, with but one companion. The three years of hardships encountered during his absence, together with the wearying solitude of the icy polar regions; are said to have left their imprint on the features of Dr. Nansen, and despite the bright twinkle of his bluq eyes his face, when /in repose, wears an expression of gloominess. The many dangers and hairbreadth escapes from death of the trip had i Iso their part in fixing the features of the Arctic wanderer, and the recounting of many of these is one of the features of his lecture. One day, many weeks after the explorer and his companion, Johansen, had left the Fram and started out with nothing but two small boats to proceed farther north, they arrived at a point at the ice floe whence there seemed no break. Leaving the boats on the edge of the floe they landed and walked on. The boats jarred in some manner, slipped into the water and, wafted by the wind, were rapidly drifting away when discovered. Without a moment’s hesitation, the hardly explorer threw off his heavier outer clothing and swam after the boats. The water froze on his clothes, and when he Anally managed to draw himSilf aboatd it was but in time to save himself from drowning. A few moments more in the water would have frozen his clothing so stiff that he could not have moved his arms and he would have sunk. “It was a most terrifying experience,’’ says Mr. Nansen' "for. had I not reached the boats, we would have been left in the bare Arctic regions with no bite of food, and not even so much as a small pocket knife to enable us, to get more.” The always-welcome Sol Smith Russell and his great play, ‘‘A Bachelor's Romance,” will make his first appearance in English's new opera house on Friday evening. A most superior company of artists is said to accompany Mr. Russell on his tour this year. Mr. Russell has done a good deal during the past two years to advance himself in the affections of a public that was already predisposed in his favor. In Miss Martha Morton’s comedy he has one of the best opportunities of his career. “A Bachelor’s Romance” is in every respect a play of which Miss Morton may feel justly proud. Its theme is clean and simple and worked out clearly and coherently; the dialogue is natural and often wPty, ar.d the situations, while never theatric 1 in the abused sense of the word, are always effective. “A Bachelor's Romance" will be given on Friday night and Saturday matinee. On Saturday night Mr. Russell will appear in anew triple bill, consisting of “Mr. Valentine s Christmas,” in which Mr. Russell made a lasting Impression two seasons ago. This will be followed by a production of “The Taming of the Shrew,” MV. Russell taking the part of Petruchlo and Miss Edith Crane will appear as Katherine. The concluding play will be J. Madison Morton’s comedy, in two acts, called “The Spitfire.”

Jessie Bartlett Davis, the famous contralto of the Bostonians, now in the zenith of her powers, is a Westerner by birth, having been born at Morris, 111., in 1559. and received her early musical education from her father, who was the village choir leader. On the removal of her family to Chicago she completed her musical studies with Fred W. Root and became well known in that city as the leading church-choir singer. Upon the formation of a local opera company to sing “Pinafore” she was selected as the little Buttercup, and her introduction tp the lyric stage may be said to date from this performance. Continuing her success after studies abroad, she appeared with Patti in a concert tour, singing the role of Siebel in ’raust” and creating a great furore. Her subsequent history is a matter of record. An engagement with the American Opera Company followed, an'd after a year’s retirement she was engaged with the Bostonians, and has remained with them ever since. Mrs. Davis’s repertoire is extensive, including not only the grand operas, but a list of roles familiar to the musie-loving public, which she has created since her connection with the Bostonians. Not only is Jessie Bartlett Davis a great singer, possessing a liquid contralto voice of phenomenal range and sweetness, but the most finished actress on the lyric ktage. Beautiful in face and figure, and with an engaging and magnetic personality, she has obtained a reputation and following possessed by no other woman, and which is in keeping with her genius. It is but just to say that in the new comic opera, “The Serenade.” rendered this season by the Bostonians, Jessie Bartlett Davis, in the role of Dolores, has made an unqualified hit. The Bhstonians come to English’s for two nights only, Monday and Tuesday, and the sale opens this morning at the box office. Sam Morris, the comedian, uses his poodle Nip in a couple of scenes in his new Alaskan melodrama. “On the Yukon,” which will begin a three days’ engagement at the Park this afternoon. Nip accompanies his master to the theater and when Morris has made his bed and placed a glass of water at the head of it the dog retires. Morris can go in and out of the room, or change his clothes a dozen times and Nip never moves, but the instant the scene where he appears js near at hand, the poodle arises, shakes himself in preparation for his dramatic duties, goes on the stage, and waits at his proper entrance for the cue for him to appear. When the word is given he is never late. Thp actors wonder how it is that Nip knows when hr is wanted, when even the human actors have to be sometimes called. Pat Reilly, of the Reilly & Woods Company. whit-b comes to the Empire for a week commencing Monday matinee, is one of the most grotesque entertainers on the vaudeville stage and lie is always popular. His ready wit. originality, and adeptness in cartooning with chalk and brush popular faces from memory gives his work a versatility and finish fihat is strikingly attractive. Papin ta is said to throw Loio Fuller in the shade. Her dances are described as marvelous in their color effects. They are the sensation of the season with Hopkins’s Transoceanic?. This company never fails to play to the capacity of the Park during its week's engagement here each year. It will be at the Park all next week. The popular-priced Saturday matinee at the Grand will be one of the greatest of the season at that theater. Clay Clement and his delightful play never fail to attract the women in large numbers. It is a production that appeals with remarkable force to the gentler sex. Wall from British Circus Men. LONDON. Jan. r>.—According to an application made at Bow-street to-day by Walter Butler, described as a clown, and two others, there are 150 employes of Barnum & .Bailey’s circus who. after three weeks of unpaid rehearsals, have been dismissed with a week's notice. Sir James A. Vaughan, the presiding magistrate, said the matter must he investigated by a civil court, and advised the men dismissed to engage a lawyer. Several supers have written to the newspapers, claiming that the dismissals have been wholesale and that their places have been filled by "Yankee circus artists” after the show' was successfully started. George Starr ridicules the matter. Ho says t e men dismissed were all incompetent. He adds that they were paid during rehearsals and that their places wen* filled by new hands. They were not replaced by Yankees. Advertised “V Stow Party.” Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. Jan. s.—Lewis Mackay, manager cf "A Stag Party,” supposed to be a cousin of the play written by the fate "Bill” Nye. came here to-day to give a show in the Optra House, f.nd ran ugainst the Good Citizens' l*engue. On an affidavit charging the circulation of obscene pictures and literature, Mackay was arrested. He took a change of venue and the ease is set for Saturday morning at 9 o’clock. The trouble lias caused some excitement, end the opera house was packed to-night. Y, N. C. A. Basket Ball. '•’he most hotly-contested games of the present basket bail series were those played i tin** association gymnasium lust night betw*. n the Whites and the Reds and the Yellows and the Blues. The game between bo Bine., and tlie Y flows was "xclting ! "a: bout, and when time was called the stoid 7 to 6 in p' >r of the Yellows.

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Os the seven points made by the Yellows. Reeves made three; Ora Pierson, two. and Harden, two. Bauma threw one goal for the Blues and Ryce two. The Reds and the Whites played *a less even game than the other two ‘earns, the score standing 16 to 7 in favor of the Whites. The Whites played the cleanest game of the evening, having only two fouls called against them. Os the sixteen points made by this team. Earl made six. Fleming, six, and Hester, four. Findling scored fiur for the Reds, Bishop, two, and Charles Pierson, one. Charles Pierson, captain of the Reds, did not play his usual star game last night. The standing of the league is as follows: Teams. Played. Won. Lost. P.’ct. Yellows 5 2 3 66 Blues 5 3 2 .10 Whites 5 2 3 .60 Reds 5 3 2 .10 officers of the Game—J. M. Pri hard. referee; Ernest Shillabeer, umpire; Hal Pyburn, scorer.

WILLIAM E. ENGLISH MARRIED United with Mrs. Helen Orr Pfaff at Christ Church. The marriage of William E. English and Mrs. Helen Orr Pfaff look place yesterday at noon at Christ Church. The ceremony w'uh pronounced by the pastor, Rev. A. J. Graham, in the vestry room of the church. Only the Immediate members of the families of Mr. English and Mrs. Pfaff w r ere present. Tiny were Mrs. Rosalind English Walling and Dr. Willoughby Walling, of Chicago; Captain and Mrs. Kensler, grandparents of the bride, and her cousin, Miss Lillian Griffith, of Chicago. Mr. John J. Curtis, an intimate friend of Mr. English, was also present. At 2:10 o’clock yesterday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. English left for Washington, where they will stay for several days before taking up a permanent residence in Indianapolis. 'Die close friends of Mr. English and Mrs. Pfaff were not greatly surprised at yesterday’s happy event, as it has been known for some time that Mr. English was lavishly furnishing his apartments in the English Hotel with a view to bringing a wife to reign there. Mr. English’s first wife was Anna Josephine Fox. a well-known actress, to whom he was married in 1880. This marriage occurred during the first year of his management of the English Opera House. Mrs. English died five years after her marriage at the old English homestead. They had no children. The maiden name of the present Mrs. English was Shockney, although many knew her before her former marriage as Helen Orr Huffnel, the name of her stepfather being Huffnel. She is the granddaughter of Col. John M. Orr, of the One-hundred-and-twenty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, who fell at the battle of Arkansas Post. The bride has for several years resided with her grandmother, Mrs. Kensler, on East New York street. Shortly after her graduation from the Indianapolis High School, in 1890. she' was married at the age of seventeen to John A. Pfaff, a schoolmate, and they went to Colorado to live. The marriage was not a happy one and in 1895 they separated, and Mrs. Pfaff procured a divorce in Arapahoe county, Colorado. There were no children by this marriage. She at once returned to Indianapolis and lias since resided here. Mr. English had known Mrs. Pfaff in her childhood and they renewed ‘heir acquaintance after her return to this city. The bride is twenty-four years of age. She is said to have considerable literary talent, and a number of short stories from her pen have delighted her friends. She has a bright, pretty face, a graceful figure and most attractive and winning manners.

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Miss Grace Hooker will give a card party Friday evening. Miss Eleanor Miner will entertain several of her friends at cards this evening. Miss Hudnut, of Terre Haute, is the guest of Miss Susan Stewart on Nofth Illinois street. 1 Miss Gilbert, of Utica, N. Y.. is visiting Mrs. Lydia G. Mitchell on North Delaware street. Mrs. William Winkler, of Louisville, is now ,the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Fahnley. Mrs. A. J. Miles, who is visiting Mrs. John S. Duncan, will return to Cincinnati the last of the week. Miss Margaret Fox. of Virginia, is visiting her brother, Mr. A. P. Fox, and family on Home avenue. Mrs. Frederick P. Rush will give a coffee this afternoon and a card party Saturday for Mrs. William Winkler, of Louisville. Mrs. Harry Irvine, of Chicago, and Mrs. Julia Holland Donahue, of Washington. D, C., are the guests of Mrs. Theodore Holland. Mr. Thompson Starr, who has been spending the holidays with -his parents, has returned to Orchard Lake Military Acudemy, < Michigan. Miss Mabel Folsom will be at home informally Friday afternoon for her guest, Miss Helen Colelazer, of Minneapolis. There are r.o invitations. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Van Winkle and daughter returned yesterday from Louisville, where they have been attending a large house party. The glee club of the State University at Bloomington will give a concert at Roberts Park Church to-morrow evening. The club has already made a good reputation. Mrs. W. R. Galpin will receive informally to-morrow afternoon at her home, 2118 Broadway, from 3 until 6, for her guest, Mrs. F. T. Galpin, of Wiseonsin. No invitations. Mrs. John W. Holtzman will issue cards of invitation for a gene*ral reception to be given Thursday. Jan. 13, at her new home on West Eleventh street. The guest of honor will be Mrs. Holtzman’s sister, Mrs. Stevens, of Reading. Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wood gave a dinner last night to twenty friends who were asked to meet Mr. and Mrs. Tantls H. Levey and Mrs. Stevens, of Reading, Pa. All the decorations were violets and pink roses. The guests from out of the city were Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Noonan, of Cincinnati. A number of the residents of the Chalfant gave a sleighing party last Sunday night, in the party were Mr. and Mrs. Follows. Dr. and Mrs. Clevenger, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Court Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Vtetch. Mr. and Mrs. Upton. Mr. and Mrs. Pierson. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney. Mr. and Mrs. Waterman. Mrs. Alfred Burdsal held an informal reception yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Miles, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. John S. Duncan. Sirs. Burdsal was assisted by Mrs. Thomas Burdsal, Miss Olive Burdsal, Miss Maxa Bryan. Miss Juliette Bryan and Miss Dryer. The house throughout was decorated in pink and white roses, with gariands of green in the dining room, extending from the chandelier to the corners of the room.

Irvington. Professor J. TANARUS). Forrest is home from a week's stay in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Gist have returned from Richmond, Ind., where they spent tho holidays. Miss Schaum. of Chicago, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Tibbott at their home, on Grand avenue. Mi*, and Mrs. De Witt Griffith entertained a number of friends from Indianapolis at cards on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Will K ttenbach. of Idaho, and Miss Grace Kettenbach. of Cincinnati, 0., visiWl college friends at Butler this week. Mrs. JujjDs Banning entertained informally laf/Ufiight in honor of Miss Katharine Banning, who will return to her home, in Akron, 0.. to-morrow. The January meeting of the Sheridan Dramatic Club, which was to occur next. Friday evening, has been postponed for a fortnight from that time. Moses Thompson, of Haughville, was tried in Police Court yesterday for drawing a knife on his wife. He was sent to the workhouse for thirty days. Mrs. Omar Wilson went to Chicago on Monday to attend the convocation exercises at tho University of Chicago, and will remain several days with friends. LOYD —HEITMAN. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR. Ind., Jan. s.—Mr. William A. Loyd and Miss Edith Heitman were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's mother last night, Elder Thomas Jones officiating. CITY NEWS NOTES. Ruckle Post and Relief Corps will hold a public installation in their hall at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Bellefontaine street this evening. The annual meeting of the Englewood Christian Church will he held to-night and after the report of officers, a reception will be tendered the eighty-one new members who have joined the church In the last year. The men of the congregation will serve the refreshments Mis. J. Judson Higgins recalls the in vita - * Lora for her tea Thursday on account of the illness of her daughter.

A YOUNG MAN’S SUICIDE PHILIP HERMANN. SON OF AN UNDERTAKER, SWALLOWS MORPHINE. • ♦ A Note from “Corn” Advising Him to Brace l p for Her Sake, at Least. Philip Hermann, the adopted son of George Hermann, an undertaker at No. 26 South Delaware street, died at 10 o’clock last night at the home of his parents, No. 326 North New Jersey street, after an illness of only a few hours. It is believed the young man took his own lift*. Dr. Charles H. Abbott, the attending physician, is confident that death was due to morphine poisoning. Young Hermatm was between nineteen and twenty years of age. He has been connected with his father in the undertaking business. Yesterday morning he went with one of the men of the establishment to West Union to deliver a coffin, and on the way back to the city he complained of having a headache. At the corner of Pennsylvania and Washington streets he left tho wagon and told the driver he would stop at Huder’s drug store and get a dose of medicine. This was about 11 o’clock. Between 12 and 1 o’clock one of Mr. Hermann’s children saw Philip sitting in the office of a livery stable near their home. The child informed its mother, and Mrs. Herman w*ent to the stable and asked Philip to come home. He returned to the house with Mrs. Hermann, and when he sat down she noticed that he seemed very sleepy. She advised the young man to lie down and rest. He arose, and, taking a small paper from his pocket, unrolled it and swallowed the contents. As he did so he remarked to his mother; “I have now taken 20 cents’ worth of morphine.” Mrs. Hermann accepted the statement as a joke. The young man went into a room to lie down, and when Mrs. Herrman saw him again, at 3 o’clock, his condition was alarming. The nearest physician was summoned, and Dr. Abbett, the family physician. was also sent for. When he arrived he found unmistakable evidences of morphine poisoning. The physicians w r ore unable to revive the young man, and at 10 o’clock last night he died. The Hermann family and the friends of the young man cannot understand why he should desire to end his life. It is said that during yesterday afternoon a note came to the house addressed to young Hermann. It read: "Philip, how are you? Brace up, it not for your own sake, for mine.” The note was signed "Cora.” Later in the evening two girls drove up to the Hermann home in a cariiage, and one of them without alighting asked one of the children as to the young man’s condition. The child replied that he was very ill. When it was suggested by the child that the young woman talk to Mrs. Hermann, they drove away. It is understood one of these girls was "Cora,’’ who sent the note during the afternoon. It is claimed she resides in West Market street. A few years ago young Hermann was rather reckless in his habits and fwused his parents considerable worry, Butjjately be has been doing well and his father was much pleased with the change in him. He lias been attending closely to business, and has been saving his money. It is supposed that he took the first dose of the drug in the livery stable, where he evidently went after leaving Huder’s drug store.

A NEGRO HIGHWAYMAN Assaults Miss Knnpit Near Institute for tlie Htlud, Miss A. Knapp, a young woman residing at No. 112 East Vermont street, was viciously attacked by a negro about 7 o’clock last night, while walking on Pennsylvania street near the Institute for the Blind. The negro’s evident purpose was robbery, but he was foiled in the attempt. It was a hat that undoubtedly saved Miss Knapp a terrible injury. She had been in the north part of the city and was walking slowly homeward with her purse in her hand w’hen she was attacked. The negro had secreted hlnjfceK behind a gate opening into the yard of the Institute for the Blind, and as Miss Knapp passed he leaped out The young woman thinks he carried a large club from the effects of the blow that was intended for her head. He brought the club down with crushing effect, but it was the hat that suffered most. Miss Knapp was only slightly dazed and began to scream for help. Her cries were heard a block away and the negro ran without attempting to snatch the pocketboolc., The blow knocked Miss Knapp’s hat from her head, and for an instant she was too dazed to know just which way to turn. Then she started for Potter’s drug store, at the corner of Pennsylvania and North streets. She arrived there very weak from fright, but, much to the surprise of a half-dozen men, declined to swoon. The hat was a sad piece of wreckage. It was a ruined mass of feathers, frills and ribbons. Detectives Dugan and Asche presented themselves at the drug store shortly after the assault and started out at once on a search for the highwaymen. Miss Knapp resolutely made her way home alone. She was unable to give a clear description of the negro, as he did not wait long enough after she screamed for her to get a good view of him. Train Crußliex into a. Motor. An east-bound street car on the Washing-ton-street line was,run into by a Peoria Eastern passenger train at 6:30 yesterday morning. The accident; is attributed to the heavy fog prevailing at the time. There were only a few passengers in the car. and, aside from a, shaking up, no serious injury was received by any one. The vestibule of the car was wrecked and the car itself turned around. E. Phelan, the motorman, says that he made every effort to bring the ear to a stop while the conductor went ahead to see if the track was clear, but it seems that the brakes did not overcome the momentum of the car. The train was running at a slow speed. Marion f’ltib Bowling; Score. The second game between the bowling teams of the clerk’s office against the team from tin; auditor's office was played on the Marion Club alleys last night in the presence of a large crowd. The Clerks again defeated their opponents by the following score: Clerks—Roysc. 130; UilHgros.s, 122; Beeler, 105; MeGaughey, 83; Han, 135; Fosier, 107; total, 682. Auditors—Kay, 92; Bretz. HO; Kggor, 142; Juduy, 104; Shepard, 107; Smith, 91; total, 646. Homeopathic Society Officers. The Marion County Homeopathic Medicine Society held its annual business meeting at (he Denison last night and elected the following officers: President, Dr. K. c. Stewart; vice president. Dr. W. K. George: secretary and treasurer, Dr. O. E. Maddox; board of censors, Drs. Compton, Currier and Rodgers. A WUlinmz-Strect Fire. A frame cottage at No. 71 Williams street was damaged by tire last night to the extent of $l5O. The house was occupied by William Hamilton. GIRARD COLLEGE CELEBRATION. Condition of This Great Imm til nt ion After Fifty Yearn. Philadelphia Record. The semi-centenary of the opening of Girard College has been in a sense anticipated by the public dedication on the city hall plaza of the statue to its founder. This nn morial commemorates the citizen Girard, with its bas-relief of the ship “Water Witch” on one side of the pedestal, and the inscription on the other side to "Mariner and Merchant.” On the rear the granite testifies, however, that the statue has been erected by the aJumui of the college, as well as the people of this city and commonwealth. to "Philadelphia's Greatest Philanthropist.” Perhaps the most, important and happy feature of thLs seini-centenniai year has been the humanizing of Stephen Girard s memory. This has been done—first in Mr. George P. Rupp's admirable historical essay on Girard day, May 20 last; and second. in United States District Attorney Beck's eloquent paper in the current Cosmopolitan. At the time of his death Stephen Girard was the richest man it America, and there were few private fortunes abroad that surpassed his. The Girard estate was then valu'd at over $7,000,000. He bequeathed to his relatives $140,000; to public charities of Philadelphia. $120,000: and, utter some private bequests, the residuary fund to erect and maintain a college for poor white male orphans. Girard purchased for his college

site the place then known as Peel's Mall. The grounds contain forty-one acres. The college was opened on the first day of January', 1848. with one hundred pupils and five buildings. The number of pupils has increased to nearly 1.800, and the number of buildings to fourteen. The faculty is nowcomposed of sixty-seven professors and teachers. As Mr. Rupp has said: “Any one who will read the portion of the will of Stephen Girard that relates to the endowment of a college for orphans will readily perceive that he did not intend to create an ordinary orphan asylum. He put himself in the place of a father to the orphan, and determined that his adopted children should have all the advantages that were within the reach of children favored by circumstances of their parents.” Girard expressly stated: “I would have them taught facts and things rather than words and signs.” A PIECE OF SATAN’S LAND * RETURNED MISSIONARY SAYS ISLAND OF HAI-NAN' IS SIV-( l RSltl). Ami that Every Form of Wickedness and Vice Flourishes Among the Native Inhabitants. * Chicago Inter Ocean. Hat-Nan. the Chinese island recently seized by the French, is neither an earthly paradise nor a desirable place of residence for foreigners, according to the account given by Rev. Alfred E. Street, who speaks from a missionary exiverienee of tive years in what he graphically characterizes as “the devil’s land.” Mr. Street is at present a resident of Chicago, and in 1892, becoming interested in the spiritual welfare of the Chinese, was sent by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions to this far-away dot on the ocean to labor for the conversion of the heathen. “The French have been contemplating this step for nearly three years,” he said yesterday. “Hai-Nan is rich in minerals and the beds of its mountain streams yield gold in large quantities even when garnered by the crude methods adopted by the natives. ‘Lois,’ as they are called in the Cantonese dialect. About three years ago a French savant was sent by his government to explore the mountains of the south and center of the island. He was a geologist and metallurgist, and was liberally supplied with money. He hired a large retinue of Chinese to convey himself and his Implements on the proposed prospecting tour, but, though they accepted his wages as long as he would pay, the savant never succeeded in penetrating to the places from which the gold he had secured on the coast had been brought. I must tell you that the Chinese are ruled by the densest superstitions, and one of these is that all ‘foreign devils’ can see two feet under ground. Every foreigner is a ‘devil,’ in their estimation, and his only possible business in their country is to seek for treasures. ARE RULED BY SIGNS.

“Now, this is a highly dangerous thing for them, because of another superstition called ‘tong shui.’ This phrase literally translated means ‘wind and water,’ but its meaning is almost boundless. It stands for good health, good luck, success In growing crops, success in following the chase, and many more things of similar nature. No Chinaman will start on a journey, build a house, or bury his dead in the island of Hai-Nan unless assured either by the almanac or the song shui man that the time is propitious; or, as they used to say in Ohio, where I was born, ‘the sign is right.’ But. according to the Chinese of that portion of the empire, it is the easiest thing in the world to destroy the song shui. To dig a hole in the ground, no matter how small, will, as a general rule, bring disaster on an entire district by destroying the song shui. “Asa result of this superstition, and the other typical characteristic of the Celestial which prompts him never to give you just what you want, the retinue agreed among themselves to take the savant on a little jaunt he didn t anticipate. Totally ignorant of the country and its cowpaths, which serve as roads, they bore him hither and thither for days at a time, but instead of reaching and penterating the mountains, at the end of each day’s journey he found himself once more back on the seacoast. Threats and prayers were alike useless. Bribery, which will accomplish almost anything in China, was in vain. The ‘foreign devil - was looking for treasuries beneath the surface of the earth, and there was gold in the mountains. He would discover it and dig holes to secure it and then the song shui of the whole island would go to unutterable ruin. So at length the Frenchman gave up the attempt, after satisfying himself, however, of the value of the gold diggings by the purchase of considerable quantities of the dust smuggled out of the workings by the natives. STRANGE ECONOMIC NOTIONS. “A little later the French again tried to gain a foothold by establishing an albumen factory at Kiung-Chow, the capital, a city of about 20,000, or half as populous as the encyclopaedias give it. At the same time they attempted to establish a French consulate. The country produces vast quantities of hens’ and ducks’ eggs, which are sold cheaply enough, you may be sure, in a country, where a laborer receives but 5 cents a day and a carpenter or mason only 7 or 8 cents. But the albumen factory failed for a curious reason—they offered too high a price for the eggs. Tn Hai-Nan the more you buy of a thing the higher price you will be called upon to pay, and the higher the price yon offer the less likely you will be to get what, you want. To say nothing of song shui, the Oriental believes that no man will do other than lie. cheat and steal except from fear of punishment. Consequently, they dread an ulterior and evil motive underlying every action of the ‘foreign devils.’ Asa result, not only did the Hai-Nanese refuse to sell their eggs, hut, being the greatest thieves since Barabbas the robber, they literally stole the factory and its appurtenances piece by piece. “Another reason why the French cast their envious eyes on Hai-Nan is that the harbor. Yulin-Kan, in the southern part of the island, would make an excellent naval station and base of supplies. Hai-Nan is. or was, the furthest southern point in the Chinese empire, lying between the Gulf of Tong-King and the China sea. It is fifteen miles south from the mainland and formed a part of the province of Kwang-Tung. It is about 150 miles long, running from southwest to northeast, and one hundred miles broad. "Its population is very dense, consisting of about 1,500,000 people, mainly Chinese, who conquered the aboriginal 'Lois’ and overran the island. The population is overestimated by the statisticians. The people are given over to every sort of vice and crime known to civilization and to many varieties of vice happily unknown to Europeans. Leprosy is frightfully prevalent, and outside every town is to be found a colony of outcasts in all the disgusting stages of this most horrifying disease. These poor wretches hold out the stumps of their arms, from which the hands have dropped off, and supplicate for alms. When you have given them something they as likely as not spit at you and utter a volley of Chinese obscenity so unutterably foul that no man has ever dared to translate it into English. THE CURSE OF OPIUM. “Drink is responsible for untold poverty and degradation in our own land, but the drunken orgies of New' York's ‘tenderloin’ and our own levee are heavenly soirees compared with the saturnalia of opium fiends in Hai-Nan. These benighted people have no shame so far as their use of this drug is concerned. They smoke it whenever they cun beg, borrow, or steal cash enough to fill their pipes, and yet none deny the awful consequences of the use of the somnolent poppy vapor. “The total foreign population of Hai-Nan is forty-one souls, sixteen of them missionaries. half of whom are women, and the remainder attached to the British consulate, the customs department, and two or three Portuguese Jesuits, w r ho still attempt to carry on the mission founded two hundred years ago. The climate is a terrible one for people born in a temperate zone, and fevers, particularly malarial disorders, quickly debilitate the constitution. Among the Chinese men there is absolutely no moral code, and though the women profess one. their profession is about as far ns it goes. Along the roadways all over the island are erected stone slabs upon which are engraved moral precepts and laws of the kingdom, but the only purjHise they seem to serve is to point out to the people the various kinds of sin It is possible to commit. What they do not find out in this way they sit up at night to study out for themselves. Bands of robbers infest the island, who will steal anything that can be moved, including the bedclothes u urn a

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sleeping man. The ordinary conversation of the people Is too grossly foul to bear translation. They are densely, almost hopelessly, ignorant, and superstition holds them in a state of fear by night and day. “Under these circumstances it is but little wonder that the work of conversion is so slow. Since our mission was established in 1891 we have made sixty converts, and now that we have at last secured a mission property, after eight years of litigation in the corrupt Chinese courts, we expect to make better progress. As scun as my health is fully restored, by next fall I hope, I shall return there, for my heart bleeds for those poor wretches who need salvation physically, morally .ml tphitually.” SVRUOI’S NEW PLAY. The Author Rends His Comedy of French Revolutionary Days. New York Herald. The dramatic event of the past few w eeks in Paris was the reading of M. Victorien Sardou’s new' play, entitled “Pamela. Dealer in Fancy Goods.” The author read it himself at the Vaudeville, and the first public performance will be given in a week or two. It is a dramatic comedy, full of adventures, and among the characters represented are such notable personages as the Dauphin (Louis XVII). Barras, the Prince de Care.ocy, Mme. Tallien, Josephine de Beauharnais and many other women of that time w'ho were celebrated either for their beauty or their wit. The scene is laid in Paris during the ' Ist days of the convention: in other wore. , it embraces a period of fifteen days—May-June. 1795. The convention was then in its last throes, and Barras was coming to the front. The play is based on a conspiracy which was formed at that time to carry the Dauphin off from tile temple. Pamela, the heroine, is a historical character. She was a. famous shopkeeper of that period, her shop being' situated in the Rue de fa Lot (now Rue Richelieu), on the left side as one goes to the Theater Franoais. and a few steps from the passage which leads to the Rue do Montpensler. The sign over the shop was a tricolored rainbow. lake the other women of her class at that epoch, Pamela was an alluring and very clever little woman, who liked nothing better than to hold In her hands the threads of some difficult intrigue. Her part will be played by Mme. Rejane, who is delighted with the role. Barras. as may readily be imagined, plays an important part in the comedy. Indeed, it is an open secret that the first part of the piece was inspired by a page in his memoirs. As Barras's sincerity, however, has often been called in question. M. Sardou has taken good < are not to use anything from this page which he could not verify. The first act 01 ens in the apartment which Barras occupied in the Palais Royal. Barras says of this apartment, which he hired from Mile. Montausier. a woman of considerable reputation in the theatrical world of that time: “Having known Mile. Montausier in prison. I was fortunately able to secure her liberty, and as a result she showed unbounded gratitude whenever she saw me. One day. witii the best grace in the world and using the Provencal patois which she knew l liked, since it was my own and not hers (site was born at Bayonne), she offered me an apartment near her own. She had one. very suitable for a bachelor, and if was indeed a bachelor’s life that I then led at Paris, for iny wife, who had remained faithful to her southern home, had never set foot in the metropolis, and consequently no one supposed that I was married. So far as m.v freedom was concerned, then, ! was a bachelor, hut from an economical standpoint the case was quite different, for l really kept, open house and never thought of the expense. True. I was not always in a position to entertain as I desired, but I was always delighted to give a welcome to patriots.” Among those who visited Barras was young Bonaparte, and. if we are to believe the versatile memoir writer, the future Emperor at one time thought seriously of marrying Mile. Montausier. Tn M Sardou’s play Bonaparte does not actually appear, but frequent references are made to hitn. and altogether he plays no mean part. The play consists of five acts and seven tableaux, its importance and length may be imagined from the fact that It took the author two full hours to read it. Small Talk. New York Sun. Mr. Albion W. Small, described as “liead professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. '* has returned to Cook county “from a live months' trip abroad.” We had not missed him. As befits a professor of “sociology" or sclollstlcs. Prof. Small is full of observations. which he bestows freely upon his less gifted fellow-citizens. 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American “sociology” or seiollstlcs has made itself the laughing stock of all men of sense. THE OFFICIAL. HANDSHAKE. Public Men Find It Necessary to Study the Art. New York Commercial Advertiser. The different styles of handshakes now coming into vogue may interest Washington socially, but they will have no official recognition. Official handshaking In Washington is already a science and a study. If a stringer calls upon a member of the Cabinet lie 1s generally greeted with a handshake. Nearly all of the heads of departments shake hands with each new caller. Chief clerks and private secretaries hardly ever shake hands with a caller. The greater the man the more apt he Is to greet one with a handshake. President McKinley is an expert at shaking hands. He presses quite firmly, smiles and lets go. Secretary Sherman’s handshake is much like President McKinley's, only he holds on longer. Secretary Long's handshake is a strictly business one; it is simply a brief, brisk pressure, and then he 'wants to know what the caller’s business is. Mr. Long’s assistant in the Navy, Department, Mr. Roosevelt, is a much more accomplished handshaker than Is the head of the department. Mr. Roosevelt grasps the hand and smiles, presses it again and smiles, releases It and smiles a third time. This combination of three smiles to one handshake produces a charming effect. Secretary Alger and Secretary Gage have good, hearty handshakes, hut they are not to be compared with Secretary Wilson's. Jt Is said that there is no man living who can place an egg endwise between the palms of his hands and crush it. If Mr. Wilson has tried it and failed the tiling certainly cannot be done. Secretary Bliss is said to do less handshaking than any other member of the Cabinet. While the President was receiving the public in the East Room of the White House recently there stood in one corner of the. room a thoughtful-looking young man. It was the first time he had seen the President and the first time that he had ever attended a presidential reception. The President looked tired. The young man watched him intently as he grasped the hands of the people In the line. Then the thoughtful young man turned tn a stranger who stood beside him. “Ever live on a farm?” he asked. The stranger had lived on a farm. "Ever turn a grindstone?" was the next quo on. The stranger had enjoyed that pi jre. "Well, don't the President look to you a little as if he w<*ro turning a grindstone?” Tiie stranger thought a while and then said that he guessed the President did look a little that way. Ilenetttn of Travel. Cb Record. i ~ung Chang's experience as u traveler has had its effect. He seems to be quite as much Impressed by the gunboats of the powers as other Chinamen are by the eclipse. The Gentle Art. Washington Post. Mark Hanna doesn’t do things by halves. When ho makes enemies he makes the sort that last. •Inst Walt. Washington Post. Mr. Hanna requests the audience to remain seated until the end of the fourteenth round. Cure n Houilnolic in lfi Mlnntea By using Dr. Davis's Anti-Headache. Ail druggists. AAA A in 1 Jiahies t 1 Thrive On It L Gaii Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. and Little Book“INFANT L 1 HEALTH” Sent FREE, £ j Should bs In Every House. tor. CONDENSED MILK CO. W NSW YORK. L

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