Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1898 — Page 9

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RICHARD W. THOMPSON HIS REMINISCENCES OF PRESIDENTS WHOM HE HAS KNOWN. Incident and Story Covering the Nation'll History from the Time of Jefferson to the Present.

rCopvright, 1898, by Prank G. Carpenter.) TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. S.-I came to Terre Haute to have a chat with a man who saw Thomas Jefferson, who was dandled on the knees of James Madison, whose boyish head was patted by Monroe, who saw John Quincy Adams when he was in the White House, and was serving l with him in Congress when he dropped dead in the Hall of Representatives. This man was given political advice when he started out in life by Andrew Jackson. He knew Martin Van Buren. He was one of the presidential electors who put William Henry Harrison in the Executive Mansion, and he refused the mission to Austria when it was offered to him by President Taylor. He had close associations with Fillmore. He was a friend of Frank Pierce and he knew well James Buchanan. He served in Congress with Abraham Lincoln and during the latter's presidency he was his trusted friend. He knew Johnson; was a friend of Grant’s, and during the presidency of Hayes he was the secretary of the navy. With the exception of George Washington and John Adams he has associated with every President of the United States, so that to-day he forms, as it were, a bridge between the past and the present. The man I refer to is the lion. Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana. He is now eightyeight years of age, but his intellectual faculties are as bright as they were when he managed the navy of the United States, and his soul is as young as when he was admitted to the bar, now more than sixty-four years ago; Tall, straight and fine looking, his blue eyes shine with life, his skin is as fresh as that of a baby, and the chief signs of his age are in his silvery hair and the slightly feeble way in which he moves about from place to place. His voice was strong as he chatted with me, and as I looked at him I could not realize that he had lived more than twice as long as I upon this earth, and I asked him the secret of his wonderful vitality. Mr. Thompson veplied: “I suppose the secret of my good health is largely due to temperance in eating and drinking. I drink very little, and I never eat anything that does not agree with me. I was born, you know, in Culpeper, Va„ and when I was approaching manhood the doctors held a consultation over me and decided that I would die of consumption. They said my only salvation was to keep out of doors, and my father made me take a horse and tour over the mountains to Kentucky. I did this, and spent the greater part of two years on horseback, coming home with much more flesh than when I started, and in excellent health. I don’t think the doctors knew what they were talking about, but I have no doubt the horseback riding did me good.” “I see that you use tobacco, Mr. Thompson,” said I, as I pointed to the cigar which he was smoking. “Yes; I have smoked all my life, and most of the time to excess. Not long ago I became subject to a sort of fits, and the doctors told me that it was due to nicotine poison. They said I was otherwise perfectly healthy, but that my system was saturated with nicotine. I then proposed to stop my smoking, but the doctors advised me to reduce my limit to four cigars a day. I have done this, and am now free from any bad tendencies of any kind.” HENRY CLAY’S LECTURE. “Then the moderate use of tobacco is not so bad for one, after all?” ‘‘l think man would be a gTeat deal better off without it,” replied Colonel Thompson. “I have used it, but I have a strong constitution and my temperance in other things has enabled me to withstand Its bad effects. I once chewed tobacco to excess, but I have not used it in that way for fifty years.” “How did you come to stop chewing, colonel?” “There is quite a story in that,” was the reply. “You see, almost all young men chewed tobacco fifty years ago. I had a quid in my mouth almost all the time. I was particular as to what brand of tobacco I used, and when a friend of mine from Virginia presented me with a lot of very fine plug tobacco, I took it with me to the House of Representatives and laid it away in my desk. I was, you know, then a member of Congress. There were a lot of other tobacco cliewers sitting near me. Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, was on one side, Garrett Davis was on the other, and there were good fellows all around me. So 1 passed my titbit around. There was a good lot of tobacco and I supplied the party. I noted, however, that the plugs seemed to be going faster than was right, and it bothered me. For a short time I suspected the page boys, and accused them of stealing my tobacco. They denied it. At last one.morning a page came to me and said: ‘Mr. Thompson, I can tell you who is stealing your tobacco. It is Senator Mangum, of North Carolina. I at once went to tho Senate and found Henry day and Mangum sitting together, both chewing busily. I charged Mangum with the theft, lie owned up to it, and told me that he did it for my good. Thereupon Henry Clay broke in, and the two gave me a lecture on the evil effects of tobacco chewing. They told me that I was chewing too much and that I would certainly ruin my nervous system if I did not stop. In short, they made such an impression upon me that after supper that night I did not take my usual chew. My wife noticed the omission, but said nothing. 1 thohght the matter over after I went to bed that night and decided to stop. I gave away what tobacco I had left, and I have not chewed from that day to this.” A HEALTHY OLD MAN’S HABITS. “Tell me something about your habits, colonel." “I don’t know that I have any,” was the reply. “While I was secretary of the navy at Washington I did not touch a glass of wine and do' not now I take about three teaspoonfuls of whisky a day by my doctor’s advise. My best meal is my breakfast, and I enjoy good beefsteak and eat plenty of it. I drink one cup of coffee at this time.” “How about cakes?” “I like cakes and waffles, and I eat them.” “How about the other meals?” “I don’t care muen for them. I eat only plain food and very little of it.” “Do you take much sleep?” “Yes; I have always slept a great deal, and I sleep late now'. When I was in Washington I had to be up as late as 1 or 2 o’clock every night, but I usually remained in bed until late in the morning.” “Do you believe in cold baths?" “No, I think one should bathe simply to keep clean. This I do. One thing which has done more for my health than anything else is the use of a pair of horse-hair mittens. With these I rub my skin until it glows from crown to sole night and morning. This keeps It in excellent condition. 1 have done this for more than forty years every night and every morning, and I doubt, not it has saved me from ill health. My skin la now as soft and rosy as that of a baby.

I perspire easily and the rubbing keeps the pores of the skin open. The pores of the skin are, you know, the sewers of the human system, and I keep my thousands of sewers always open.” “You speak of not using wine at Washington, Colonel Thompson. Mrs. Hayes, I believe, set the example to the capital by not using wine on her table at her state dinners?” “Y'es, that was the case,” replied the exsecretary of the navy. “But my use of wine at Washington was not confined to the period while I was in the Cabinet. I never drank a glass* during all my public service, in Congress and elsewhere. I felt that I had need of all my faculties and that 1 could not afford to impair them by the use of wine. As to Mrs. Hayes, she insisted that no w’ine should be used at our Cabinet and at her private dinners. She did not do so at the state dinners given at the White House to the diplomats. She refused to serve wine at the dinner given to the Grand Duke Alexis, although Secretary Evarts asked her to do so. The omission created such a decided sensation that she gave in to the State Department thereafter on the basis that the diplomatic dinners were national matters, and not a private entertainment over which she had control.” “Mrs. Hayes, however, was a very strongminded woman, was she not? You know it was charged by some that it was she and not her husband who ran the government during the Hayes administration?” “That is not true,” replied ex-Secretary Thompson. “Mrs. Hayes was a woman of strong character. She was a lovable woman in every respect, but not an ambitious one in the way some people thought. I don’t think she bothered herself at all about the policy of the administration. She liked the social position which came with the presidency. She was fond of being the lady of the White House. She was always present after each Cabinet meeting to shake hands with us as we came out of the room, and she seemed to delight in seeing people and making them happy. At one time, I remember, we considered the advisability of moving the business offices of the W'hite House to the State, War and Navy building, but Mrs. Hayes objected to this, saying she would not then be able to see so much of the Cabinet and of the public men whom she so delighted to meet.” “How about Hayes, was he an honest President?” “I think he was,” replied ex-Secretary Thompson. “I will not say he was the purest man I have ever known, but that he was among the purest of men. I think he did what he thought was right, and that this was his sole aim. I don’t believe he was much actuated by desire for self-aggrandize-ment.” STORIES OF LINCOLN. “When did you first meet Lincoln?” I asked. “Lincoln and I grew up together about the same time,” replied Colonel Thompson. “He was on one side of the Wabash river, in>lllinois, and I was on the other side, in Indiana. We had known about each other for years before we came together. 1 knew, of course, of his election, and when, at the first of the session, I saw a tall, ungainly man coming across the hall of the House of Representatives, with a smile on his face, I knew that it must be he. He apparently knew me in the same way, for as he reached me he held out his hand, saying; ‘How are you, Dick?’ “ ‘How are you, Abe?’ I replied, as I took it, and then began a friendship which lasted untih Lincoln died. “I very fond of Lincoln,” Air. Thompson went on. “We were much together during his first term in Congress, and I believe he made his first entrance into fashionable society with me. A most accomplished lady from Y T irginia, a friend of mine, gave a reception early in the season. About fifty distinguished men were invited, but Lincoln was not among the number. I concluded he should go, and I went to my friend and told her that I wanted an invitation for him, as I was anxious that she should meet him. She gave me the invitation. I remember how Lincoln looked as he sat among the company that night. He was, you know, tall, angular and awkward. Some time after his presentation he became engaged in conversation with my lady friend, taking a seat on a very low rocking chair at her feet. As he grew interested in talking he kept edging closer and closer to his hostess. He was so low that his knees almost came to his chin, and to get rid of his legs he wrapped them one around the other. As he grew more interestetd he came so close that his knees touched the lady’s dress, and as I looked I thought he must finally end in her lap. The next day I met my lady friend and asked her what she thought of Lincoln. She replied at once: ’That man has elements of greatness in him. Os all those at my house last night I think he has the best chance of being President of the United States.’ This was about ten years before he was thought of as a presidential candidate.” LINCOLN AND THE BOSTON MAN. The conversation here turned to Lincoln as a story teller, when Mr. Thompson said: “President Lincoln did not originate the best of his stories. He had a very receptive memory and stored away every anecdote he heard. His mind was such that lie was able to use such things in the way of illustration. His favorite way of conveying an idea was by a story. For instance, take an incident which occurred one night when I was at the White House. I had been spending the evening there with President Lincoln. I was lying on my back upon a lounge. Lincoln was sitting in a chair, with his feet propped up beside me. We had chatted for an hour or so, when the clock struck half past 10. I then got up and said that I must go home. I told the President that he must be tired and that he ought to go to bed and get the rest which he needed to fortify him for the worries and troubles of the morrow. “ ‘No,’ replied President Lincoln, ‘don’t go yet. Stay a half hour longer. I have an appointment at 11 o’clock with a man from Boston, who has a claim of something like $200,000 against the government. I have told him he could bring his papers here at 11, and he will surely call on the minute.’ “ ‘All right,’ said I, *1 will stay.’ “Well, the man was announced as the clock struck 11. As he came in President Lincoln took his papers and said: ‘I can’t look over this matter now, but if you will leave the papers I will attend to it as soon as I can find time.’ “There were a number of parties opposing the claim, and I could see that the man wanted to get some lt ea as to what his were before he *eft. He volunteered a question, hoping to draw the President out. Lincoln appreciated his feeling, and told the following: “ ‘You make me think of a lawyer out in Illinois who wanted to turn merchant. He had not succeeded at the law, and he decided to close his office and open a store. He wrote to New York for a stock of goods and offered his fellow-attorneys as references. The wholesale house wrote to one of thise as to the respons.bihty es the woulJbe storekeeper, whom we will call Tom Jones. The reply which was received was about as follows: “I think Tom Jones is good. I know he Is rich. His assets, I should say, amount to at least $200,000. He has, in the first place, a wife, a beautiful, dark-haired brunette, who is worth to him or to any man SIOO,OOO. 1 am sure he would not sell her for that. I know I should not if she belonged to me. He has (Continued on Fourteenth I’uge.)

AT THE LONDON OLYMPIA HOW BARNIM & BAILEY’S GREAT SHOW TOOK THE BRITISHERS. ♦ AVonderftil Engineering? Work, Costing 975,000, the Loudon Council Caused Managers to Put l T p.

Special Correspondence of the Journal. LONDON. Dec. 29.-The opening of the great Barnum & Bailey show at the Olympia, London, marks an era in the history of amusements in the English metropolis. It seems to have -been an occasion fraught with more interest to the London public than anything ever produced in the city of immense holiday spectacles. In the first place, the big three-ring American circus is a novelty to the British people: in the next place, it has been put on at the Olympia on a scale of magnificence unknown even to the circus-going millions of your country. The fanciful appetite of the Londoners has been whetted by a former visit of the big American show, by that other popular American amusement Institution, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, and nothing now seems too gigantic or too gorgeous for them to enjoy and digest. This thing has been accomplished under difficulties and despite obstacles that would have caused almost any other manager to have given up the stupendous project at almost any stage in disgust and despair. As a result of persistence, energy and liberality of expenditure, the colossal enterprise fairly got under way on Boxing day, with tho prospect of the early realization of its manager’s most sanguine expectations. The great buildings of the Olympia are the best adapted to such an enterprise of any ether permanent show place in the world. The dimensions are such that the ground floor area actually occupied by the show is considerably more than double that available at the Madison-square Garden, New York. It possesses many advantages over the lately destroyed Colosseum, at Chicago, and is in the stage and arena of the main building alone larger than the original of that name built in Rome some two thousand years ago. The axes of the celebrated Roman arena were 252 by 148 feet, whereas the arena of the Olympia, even encroached upon by the spectacular stage as it is, measures 300 by ISO feet. This main building, however, forms, with its great elliptical hippodrome course, its colossal stage, broad corridors, restaurants, offices, etc., less than half the space taken by the American show. The Palmarium—so called from its great iron columns representing gigantic palm trees—and the annex thereto, which house the menagerie and freaks and the four hundred horses, respectively, make up the other floor area. The arrangement of the circus arena and spectacular stage is worthy of special note, for herein lay the chief obstacles encountered. The interior is designed as a perfect ellipse, but the presentation of a miljtary spectacle required one complete side jfrom wall to wail (460 feet) for a stage and ample greenroom, dressing rooms, etc. This left an imperfect ellipse, in which are placed the usual three rings and two platforms bounded by the hippodrome course. Bordering the latter come, first, boxes similar to, but nearer the ground than those of the Madisonsquare Garden; next, what are known in England as stalls; next, tho galleries that rise backward to the roof, all around. In the exact center, above the stalls, is the richly draped royal box. Entrances are by numerous tunnels, from the broad mirrorlined corridors decorated by Moorish arches. The seating capacity, considerably reduced by the stage, is 10,000. LONDON COUNCIL STEPPED IN. When the work had been undertaken at and the manager of the show pledged in honor and bound by contracts to proceed, the London Council stepped in and required him to erect a fire-proof curtain wall from end to end and construct all partitions, dressing rooms, etc., of metal. He was also compelled to have all scenery treated with some sort of fire-proof material, including both canvas and backing. To contemplate a fireproof wall 460 feet long and ninety feet high was appalling. But there was more to come —there must also be an iron drop curtain. As the height of the proscenium arch was to be forty-five feet, it was necessary that the curtain wall should be moved out far enough to get a reach of ninety feet, so as to provide the space above for the direct lift. The proscenium opening is 240 feet, and no fire-proof curtain covering such an opening could be rolled. It could only be moved up and down in well-oiled grooves and by hydraulic power. It would have to be counterbalanced like window sashes, and the weights, cables and machinery to operate would have to be practically Invented. Nothing existed, in fact, from which to draw a pattern or a precedent. Engineers of respectability declared the work required by the London Council precedent to the opening of the show could not be done. The Council insisted—otherwise no show. There were but six weeks in which to perform the apparently impossible, and the opening had been already postponed from the 11th to the 27th of December. Finally a distinguished engineer at Stoke-on-Trent examined the problem and concluded it could be done, but that it would cost a great deal of money. Whatever the cost, however, it had to be done. The Council was not only inexorable—it added new conditions eVery time it was appealed to by the agents of the show. The result of the calculations of the English engineer is a triumph of ingenuity and skill. From the pig iron of a few, weeks ago stands a steel framework as a curtain wall 110 feet to wall on either side of the proscenium opening and 90 feet to the roof. There are two steel towers at each end of the opening and to these are bolted two other massive frames of riveted steel 240 feet long by 45 feet high to roof, leaving the opening below 240 feet long by 45 feet high. Between these two upper frames the steel curtain rises in grooves on the towers, to be let down in less than two minutes in case of danger. Over all the steel, on either side and above, is fastened a wire netting and this is covered by asbestos plaster leaving the outward appearance of a solid wall of stone and mortar. There is no bridge in the United Kingdom with a span equal to that of this proscenium arch and no other work of such a character and speedy execution was ever known to the engineering world. It costs £15,000—575,000. The stage of the Olympia is 30 feet deep, though behind it is a green room twice that width and the full length of ti e building. The former spectacle stage erected by Kiralfy was but 15 feet wide. The big drops are 300 feet long and 65 feet high and weigh three tons each. There are two heavy set scenes each covering about 7,000 square yards of canvas. There are mosques, towers, fortified cities, rivers, mountains, forests, etc., representative of the upper Nile, where the plot of “The Mahdl” is laid. The spectacle was prepared by Mr. Bennett Burleigh, a famous war correspondent in the Soudan, and is put on as an afterpiece to the circus, as "Columbus” was put on in America some years ago. It is a military piece and pictures camp life and battle in the Soudan. A hundred Soudanese, of various tribes, fresh from their native land, have been injected into the play, which employs about 600 people. Among these are

100 English cavalrymen from the Royal Reserve, two batteries of artillery and the incidental full uniform and equipage. The raw natives of the far East present a distinct entertainment in themselves, in their curious costumes, camp trappings, arms and religious rites and pastoral games. In the battle which ensues between the natives and the British troops, infantry, cavalry and artillery are hotly engaged, and, as if these were not enough to furnish the necessary noise and excitement, a gunboat from the Nile takes a hand in the melee. There are bombardments, cavalry charges, artillery practice and hand-to-hand engagements of the most blood-thirsty character, the getting of the British forces into action forming one of the most thrilling battle scenes ever placed upon he stage. All of this is made to clothe a story of love and British heroism. IN THE PALMARIUM. Abutting on the main building, or the Olympia proper, is another large semi-cir-cular building, with the fiat side joining the former, and called the Palmarium. In this are displayed the menagerie and the freaks. Entrance is by three passages from the corridors of the main building, though as in the case of the latter, there are numerous emergency exits for immediate convenient use. The Palmarium was used for an extra show, for which an extra price was charged. It is built like a wheel within a wheel, a broad outer corridor opening into the middle space by great archways placed at regular intervals. The central roof is supported by noble iron columns representing palm trees, the umbrageous capitals of which give a peculiarly inviting aspect to the place. Beneath these palms are tethered the great elephants, the camels, zebras, buffaloes, and all the vast collection of “It'd animals.” The cages, beginning with Johanna and the carnivarl on the left, are arranged around the semicircular corridor in the rear. No better arrangement of the liberal space allowed the big menagerie could have been devised. It affords a grouping at once convenient and picturesque. Between the archways against the walls of the central room, are high and narrow stages on which the numerous freaks are displayed. And finally, the inevitable band has Its dally stand—and discourses sweet music, while the British public hustles up and down, along the cages, or stands agape before the sword-swallowers, fire-eaters, giants, midgets, tattoed and bearded ladies, armless and legless men, and so on. The showmen have already nicknamed this place ‘‘the jungle;” and the tropical effects, the roar of the lions, chattering of monkeys, trumpeting of the elephants, and all the other familiar sounds and sights of the American zoo, suggest the peculiar appropriateness of the title. An altogether new circus attraction here is the horse fair, to be seen daily in the annex. In the distribution of stables, or tents, at home the Barnum show was unable to exhibit their variety of 400 horses as a whole. Very few people, comparatively, were able to visit the places containing the superb ring stock, and no attempt was ever made to place these animals on exhibition. Here, however, there are facilities in space and distribution to open an immense stable in which there Is ample room to roam about, and where a full military band plays during the exhibition hour. It takes wonderfully with the English, every man and woman of whom seems to be imbued with sporting blood. The Annex is across the street from the Palmarium, and Is entered by a roomy, well-lighted, underground passage that suggests the tunnel connecting ttye Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, with its pile of buildings across the street. At the top of the further incline the visitor is ushered into an immense and lofty room, some three hundred by four hundred feet, irregular in shape and lighted by immense arched windows and skylight. The big columns that support the vaulted iron roof are similar to those in the Palmarium. The roof proved to be a condenser of moisture, shedding it back in copious showers upon the unprotected horses, and this exposure brought more animals to their knees in a single day than fell during the twelve days’ ocean passage between decks. It was death to remain, and yet there was no other place to receive. The more precious animals were hustled out, and the process of putting in a wooden ceiling began. In a week and with the expenditure of a thousand pounds the change was effected, since which the place has been dry and comfortable. And now that the big American show, which has been kindly treated piecemeal in hundreds of columns and pages of Illustrations by the London press, is finally open, the prospects of ample returns for the great exertions and immense expenditures of ready money are very bright. It promises to be the London social fad and to fully justify the expectations of the great American showman. It reaches the popular heart, and, as it is all to be seen lor a shilling, it comes within the popular pocketbook. CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.

The Woman Who Tries liualneii. Fortnightly Review. If a woman is ever to retain her present position in the business world, she must look to it that she makes her value felt. She has many advantages, she is punctual, painstaking, patient of monotony, amenable to discipline, ready, and willing; indeed, she errs as a rule rather from excess of zeal than from its defect. But she has two things to learn: First, that her health is her only capital, and secondly, that to rise above mediocrity it is necessary to think for yourself. For this last shortcoming her educators have much to answer for; but it cannot be too clearly understood that in the struggle for existence there is no room for the typist who has not at any rate the intelligence of the average newspaper compositor, nor for the secretary who forgets to post important letters, or incloses the latter to "Dear. Mr. A.” in the envelope addressed to “Mrs. B.” It is lapses of this sort which mar at present so much of women’s work, and to which apparently all but the very few are so singularly liable, largely, I fancy, because they have been studiously taught to leave out of account physiological facts. What wonder then if they insist upon ignoring the most elementary laws of health and show a tendency to look upon eating and drinking as a criminal form of selfindulgerfce? I don't say that a proper supply of blood to the brain would free the world of folly, but it would be at least worth trying whether more meat and the disappearance of all prejudices against sofas would not go s* long way toward securing that desirable consummation. Tlioekerar uni Oratory. Laurence Hutton’s London Letter. One morning when his amanuensis called upon him Thackeray said. "Am well? No, I tun not well; I have to make that confounded speech to-night.” "You need not let that trouble you; you will be all right,” said Hodder. "Nonsense,” Thackeray replied, "1 can’t make a speech, confound it. Why didn't they get Dickens to- take the cnalr? He can make a speech. I’m no use.” And it was so. He committed his speech to memory, forgot it on his legs, brought it to an abrupt conclusion, and although soon afterwards Dickens proposed his health in very flattering terms, Thackeray was too miserable to even make an attempt to redeem his failure, and went home as soon as possible, a miserable man. Ho could have dictated a fine speech to Hodder without stumbling, he could not in company even speak the speech ho had written and "memorized.” There is an innate self-consciousness in the English character—a fear of appearing ridiculous that is fatal to many an oratorical effort. Dickens was an exception to the rule of authors, who are rarely good speakers. "The first time 1 took the chair at a public dinner,” said Dickens, "1 felt just as much confidence as if I had done the same thing a hundred times before.” The success of Dickons is only the exception that proves the rule. We are naturally a modest people. Mark Twain is impressed with this. He finds we are also very ancient—mentioned In the Bible, "Blessed are the oieek, for they shall Inherit the earth.”

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PRINCE EUI WHA IN WANT - ♦ KING OP COREA NEGLECTING HIS SOX AND PROSPECTIVE HEIR. Sent to America to Be Educated, but Given No Honey to Pay His Board —General Church News.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-His Royal Highness, Eui Wha, the probable future King of Corea, is in America, and is having a not pleasant time. He came here with letters of commendation to the Rev. Dr. F. F. BlUnwood, senior secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. The cause of his embarrassment is the failure to receive remittances. Tnis failure is due, it is said, to the Russian advance in the far East, which advance gives the Corean authorities no time to think of support of the future heir to the throne, even if able to find the cash to remit. Hence Prince Eui Wha, as some prospective kings before him, has been having unpleasant interviews with creditors, one of which is, in the prince’s case, his landlady. The reasons for the prince coming to America to be educated, and that largely under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Ellinwood, are most interesting. On the night of the murder of the Queen of Corea by a mob of Japanese mutineers, the King of Corea called loudly for assistance from his American friends. Those who promptly responded to the call were the Rev. Dr. H. G. Underwood and O. R. Avison, M. D., the former a well-known missionary of Seoul, and the latter the physician in charge of the Royal Corean Hospital. There is no doubt that these two Americans saved the King’s life on the night in question. On this account, and because of friendships between the royal family of Corea and the Presbyterian missionaries, dating back some fifteen years, the King decided on a Western education for his heir. Correspondence was started between him and Dr. Ellinwood, which resulted in the prince coming h#re and an arrangement by which money to support him was to be sent through the Presbyterian board. The statement is made that the King of Corea, quite apart from religious convictions, is convinced that Western civilization is best for his realm. Hence his heir is sent here to learn our language and to attend a typical boys’ school. Immediately on the prince’s arrival he was plainly told by the Presbyterian board that he would be given funds only as fast as the same W’ere received from Seoul, and that not a penny would be advanced to him. This rule has been adhered t.o. The money from Seoul does not arrive, and the cause Is supposed to be the distractions occasioned by the advances of the Russians. The prince has been in Washington for some months pursuing the study of English. Members of the Corean legation are understood to have loaned him small sums, but at the moment he is anxiously parrying the advances of a boarding-house keeper, as any commonblooded Individual might do under the circumstances. Prince Eui Wha is said by some to be the second and by others to be the third son of the King. At any rate, ho is not the eldest son. That person is weak in both, body and mind and the young man now here has been selected as the heir to the ( throne. He is twenty, but from an American average, exceedingly small for his age. Were it not for his complexion, he would easily pass for an American lad of twelve. * * • Fave as It may be doing work in a few local parishes, the United States Church Army, organized about a year ago and affiliated with the Episcopal Church, is dead. A commission had the work in charge under the Parochial Missions Society up to last September, and since that date as an independent body. That commission, falling in an effort to secure a clergyman as the official head, has permitted Itself to expire by limitation. The Church Army came into existence through some committees appointed by Bishop Potter, of New York. As its proposed work was similar to that of the Parochial Missions Society it was placed under that body. Col. H. H. Hadley, formerly of St. Bartholomew’s Mission, New York, was chosen military director, and prospective headquarters in Pittsburg, Chicago and San Francisco planned. Army work was done In half a dozen cities, and a Church Army of Massachusetts was formed. * • • An evangelistic association, similar to the one of long standing in New England, ie forming to work in the cities of New York and Philadelphia. Evangelists to be employed by it include the Rev. Dr. A. C. Dixon, of Brooklyn; the Rev. Dr. F. B. Meyer, of London, who has promised to come as often as possible to assist; the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, of Philadelphia; John McNeill, of Glasgow, and Dwight L. Moody. The purpose is to put evangelical work in the two cities on a systematic basis. The association is made to cover two cities instead of one because a larger field is thereby afforded and because the movement originates in Philadelphia, where it hag been in successful operation, as an experiment, with a view to making it general, for the past two years. It is to be known as a ‘‘forward movement,” and it is to be put into effect by securing the co-operation of as many pastors in both cities as possible. Meetings are to bo held each winter for at least eight consecutive weeks. * * • The remarkable success of the recent Child Study Congress, held under the charge of the Society of St. Paul, has led to a decision to hold similar congresses in future. Some of them may be appointed to meet in Chicago and others in St. Louis, in order to be central to different Romani Cathollo teachers. No permanent organization was effected, because it was felt that such organization was unnecessary, in view of the fact that the congress could be called together at short notice without it. The recent one assembled simply upon invitation and future ones, with the prestige of one success, can be assembled In the same way. The congres is felt to be a long step in advance in Roman Catholic educational work. The papers read were of an unusually high order, and the discussions more helpful and freer from indiscretions than some dignitaries in the church expected. There are a good many of the latter who frankly say that parochial schools are not, from an edrjeation standard, the equal of the public schools; that in far too many cases men who have failed as priests are put at the head of them in order to provide them a support; and that it is time schools paid for at great sacrifice of Roman Catholic laity are brought to the standard of the public schools. Hence the favor with which this Child Study Congress is regarded, and its immediate success. That of next year is to be held in the West, the city yet to bo selected. * • Many cities contain more Jews than does Jerusalem, but with the consolidation of Brooklyn, New York becomes the greatest Jewish city In the world. The number is about 350,000, which is twice as great as the number resident in London. Os the 1,000,000 Jews in this country it was estimated by one of the speakers at the recent Jewish Historical Society’s meeting that fully one-half have arrived within the past fifteen years from Russia and Slavonia