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AMUSEMENTS. George H. Broadhurst’s latest farce, “Why Smith Lieft Home,” will open at English’s to-night and remain for another performance to-morrow night. When Broadhurst wrote “What Happened to Jones,” the fact that there were thirteen characters in the farce was widely commented on as showing that one author at least was not superstitious. The cast of his latest comedy, “Why Smith Left Home,” which comprises Maclyn Arbuckle, Fred W. Peters, M. B. Snyder, Harry Bose, Edward C. Tyler, Frank L. Hatch, Marion Giroux, Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Saidie Kirby, Blanche Chapman, Dorothy Usner, Rose Snyder and Jessie Conant, reveals that there are also thirteen speaking parts in this play. It is announced, as w-ell, that there is the same number in his first serious effort, “The Last Chapter,” from all of which it might be argued that Mr. Broadhurst is as superstitious as his fellowdramatists, only instead of considering thirteen as a bad omen, he looks on it as a favorable one.— Charles Dudley Warner would probably have enjoyed, attending the rehearsals of “On the Wabash” which the members of Mr. White’s company held in New York last month under the direction of the author, Joseph Arthur. These rehearsals would have renewed his faith. It was something over a quarter of a century ago that Warner wrote as follows in taking the “legitimate” drama to task and exposing the ridiculous acting of the grandiloquent tragedians of that day: “To our eyes the legitimate drama of to-day is the one in which the day is reflected, both in costume and speech, and which touches the affections, the passions, the humor of the present time.” Had he been describing one of Mr. Arthur’s dramas he would not have altered a word. “Blue Jeans” and “On the Wabash” are essentially a reflection of the dress, speech and manners of an existing community, touching on the passions and loves of living people, though located in an out-of-the-way Indiana village. Mr. Arthur is not an up-to-the-minute dramatist in that he has no use for tinsel and tights, fashionable sins and society scandals in his plots, but he is up to date in the living nature of his scenes, in the struggle of honesty and virtue, in the photographic truthfulness of his creations. These are the qualities that have endeared him to the public, and make the presentation of anew play from his pen an event in the theatrical season. “On the Wabash” will given at the Park Theater all this week, opening this afternoon. Mrs. Annie Yeamans, who is an important member of George H. Broadhurst’s company, presenting the new farce, “Why Smith Left Home,” has been on the stage perhaps longer than any other woman in the profession since the death of Mrs. John Drew. The clever actress has completed her fiftieth year as a comedienne, and no actress has been more respected. Her career in front of the footlights has been long and honorable, and it is by no means ended yet. Joseph Arthur arrived here yesterday from New York and will remain all week, watching his new production. “On the W’abash,” at the Park. This i.s its third week out under its new title. The title of Broadhurst's latest farce. “Why Smith Left Home,” reminds Comedian Maclyn Arbuckle, who plays Smith, of an incident that actually occurred in Birmingham. Ala., several years ago when he was an ordinary “trouper” and the sight of anything but a one-night stand was a big novelty to him. He came into the Southern tow-n hot and dirty from a long, dusty ride, and inquired of the hotel clerk If there was such a thing as a Turkish bath in the town. The clerk directed Arbuckle to one of the queerest In existence. It was a funny little place, with one slab and one attendant. After taking the steam the comedian reclined on the slab to be rubbed down. In a few moments the attendant turned him over on the slab. He had no sooner changed his position than his eye was attracted by some lettering carved on the surface of the slab. It was an Inscription, which read: : Sacred : : to the memory of : ; Mary Jane Bmith, : : Born; Oct. 16, 1860. : ; Died: July 4. 1876. : Arbuckle jumped from the slab, told the attendant to stop at once and got out of the filace about three-fourths dressed. He earned afterwards thut the slab had been originally a tombstone* and had also served as a receptacles for dead bodies at the morgue.. They built anew morgue in Birmingham a few years a go and the proprietor of the Turkish bath got the old Hlab at a bargain. He had formerly been sexton at the cemetery and could see nothing wrong with the slab. “Mistake* Will Happen.” CHICAGO. Sept. 18.-“.Mlstakes Will Happen” was produced at MeVicker’s this evening to a crowded and enthusiastic house. The comedy is from the* pen of Grant Stewart, a young pla>wri|feht, and he has succeeded in giving to the ’public a farcical comedy which really tells a 1 continuous story and in which the situations are logical deductions from the plot. jThe dialogue is bright and sparkling and the situations are excruciatingly funny. The {company is an exceptionally strong one, hieing headed by Charles Dickson and Henrietta Crossman. “Mistakes Will Happen” wa's produced under the direction of Jacob IVltt and he has given it a very elaborate setlting. Result of Mamie’s <)uarrel. Mamie Cohee, 119 South j.lberty street, after a quarrel with a young nban yesterday afternoon, attempted to end Sier existence with laudanum. Almost two ounces of the Stuff was taken, but she was\ found and the Dispensary physicians notified before the drug had done its worst. At onV stage she was in a serious condition, but! by means of the electric battery Drs. Foutfc and Pink pulled her through. I

SUNDAY WITH THE POLICE A VARIETY OF CASES THAT CAME UNDER THEIR OFFICIAL EYES. a An Arrest on Account of \umeruui Fire*—Funeral of AVtlharm, Who Was Murdered. a William Hahn, eighteen years old and living at 63"' Rural street, was arrested yesterday by Patrolmen Koons and Kurtz and charged with embezzlement and arson. It is said that he, with two other boys who have already been arrested, is accountable for several fires in the south part of the city. Three times in the last month has the barn in the rear of 531 South Capitol avenue been set afire, and the last time, this boy was caught running from the place, much excited. He said then that other boys had started the fire, and he was trying to keep out of trouble. These boys did not like John Robinson, who keeps a shop in the barn. The other charge was made against him by a Mrs. Frye, who lives at the corner of Norwood and Eddy streets. She says the boy took a quantity of water melons and grapes which w-ere her property, and failed to turn the proceeds of their sale over to her. He Recognized the Burglars. F. G. Howe, S3B Highland avenue, and William Buchanan, 1303 Brookside avenue, were arrested yesterday by Patrolmen Bray and Jackson and charged with attempted burglary and malicious trespass. Hugh McDonald keeps a shoe store at 1314 Hill avenue and has been troubled with thieves lately. He determined to watch Saturday night and at about 13 o’clock was rewarded. Two forms slipped cautiously to a side window and with one blow shattered the glass. The boys then withdrew into a near-by alley to wait and see if anyone was aroused. Mr. McDonald did not show himself and the boys soon returned and started in. Then McDonald rushed forward and frightened them away, but not before he recognized them. He reported their names to the police, who arrested the boys yesterday. Little Boy on Wrong Train. Warren Kelly, a twelve-year-old son. of Dr. J. D. Kelly, of this city, was sent to the police station yesterday by the township trustee of Franklin. It appears that tho boy was placed on a train, expecting him to go to Frankfort where it is said an uncle, Mahlon Parkinton, lives. From a letter which was in the boy’s possession, bis father and mother have separated and the father was sending his child to the uncle for safe keeping, until he could take it in charge. It Is supposed a mistake was made in the trains, and Superintendent Quigley wired to Frankfort yesterday afternoon to learn if such a man lived there. No answer was received at a late hour. So Motive for Panl'n Attempt. William Paul, single, twenty-six years old and employed at Altman's livery barns at the corner of McCarty and Meridian streets, was found almost unconscious yesterday after taking a large dose of morphine with suicidal intent. He lives at the barn and was found in his room. Dr. Horn was called and after several hours’ work succeeded In freeing his stomach of tho drug and placing him out of danger. No motive can be assigned for the deed. He is in good health, had worJT and was apparently satisfied. One of hj* brothers was found dead on Washington street about a year ago. For Aeeoting n Child. W'illiam Landfare, 24 Kansas street, was arrested yesterday by Patrolmen Holtz and W'allace and charged with offending people on the streets. It is said that he accosted a little thirteen-year-old girl, Huldah Alexander, as she was on an errand Saturday night. The child told its mother about the affair and a complaint to the police resulted in the arrest yesterday. Landfare is a butcher and fifty-six years old. Funeral of Chrl*. AVtlharm. Chris Wilharm, the young man who was mysteriously murdered Thursday night at his home, 1450 Spruce street, was buried yesterday at Crown Hill. The services took place from the German Evangelical Zion’s Church, on West Ohio street. Rev. Mr. Peters, officiating. The church was crowded and hundreds went to the cemetery. A Deaf and Dumb Lad at Large. H. Sherman, a little deaf and dumb boy who ran away from the institute here a few days ago. was caught yesterday and will be returned.

JOHN C. GREEN DEAD. Formerly with Indiana Mutual Life Insurance Company. John C. Green, an attorney, aged sixtyeight years, died yesterday at his home on East Washington street, just beyond the Belt Railroad, after suffering for eighteen months with an ailment of a dropsical nature. Mr. Green was one of the original members of the Indiana Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was connected with It at the time it was thrown into the hands of a receiver, about two years ago. The failure of this company had an effect on Mr. Green’s health, which began to decline from that time. He has two sons, Robert Green, living in this city, and Lucien Green, of Chicago. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Miss Hallie Aurelia Joyce sang the solo “Ava Maria,” by Millard, wfith violin obligato, by Mr. Edward Gauspohl, last evening, at the South-street Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Heaton and Miss Alice Heaton, Mrs. L. P. Newby and daughter, and Miss Floss, of Knightstown, are the guests of Robert Heaton and wife, of North Alabama street. Mtes Mayme Hastings entertained a number of friends at cinch Saturday afternoon at her home on North Illinois street. Among the guests wc-re May Egan. Kit Egan, Eleanor Minor. Helen Rrnestinoff, Mary Murphy. Josie Reaume, Lucy Montgomery, Stella Fox, Mary Hellmer, Doll Fitzpatrick, Ada Thale, Andrea Ferguson and Kathleen Ferguson. THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court. Room I—J. L. McMaster, Judge. Jennie N. Whaley vs. Harry Whaley; divorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff. Judgment against ut fendant for costs. Eliza Woods vs. Elizabeth Chamberlain; foreclosure. Dismissed and costs paid. Oasimer Guenther vs. Katherine Guenther: divorce. Finding and decree at cost of plaintiff. Room 2—Lawson M. Harvey, Judge. Ida M. Rose-dale vs. Albert C. Rosedale; divorce. Deere 1 granted plaintiff. Wm. T. Weedet vs. Viola A. Weeder; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Emma S. Guliek vs. Wm. W. Gulick. Decree of divorce granted plaintiff. Mary Weber vs Reinhart Weber; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Capital National Bank vs. Samuel R. Waters et al.; note. Judgment against defenoants for UGO and costs Henry Smith vs Michael G. Fitche>; Judgment against defendant for {169.60 and costs. Room 3—Vinson Carter, Judge. • Wm. H. Dell vs. Caroline S. Adams ct al.; to quiet title Finding foi plaintiff and title quieted. Judgment against plaintiff for costs. Robert Lindblom vs. Wm. B. Overman; note. Finding and judgmtnt against defendant for $604 92 and costs. Caroline M. A. Haney vs. Scott Haney; divorce. Granted plaintiff and maiden name. Caroline M. A Tanner, r stored Judgment against defendant for costs. Susie Drane vs. Lewis Drane; divorce Evidence heard In part i r.d continued Myrtle Williamson vs. Oscar Williamsondivorce. Granted plaintiff, and maiden name, Myrtle Eaton, restored. Judgment against defendant for costs. New Suit* Filed. Amon Z. Baum vs. Rachael Swain; suit to foreclose mortgage. Superior Court, Room l. George W. Teeters vs. Jennie L. et al.: mechanic’s lien. Circuit Court. Louis G. L’rtel vs. William H. Dye; chattel mortgage Superior Con it. Room 3. Pabst Prewin..* 1 ’• npanv vs. Lorenz Leppert; suit on rot. . Superior Court, Room 3. Henry Coburn Lumber Company vs. John

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Barnes et al.; mechanic’s lien. Superior Court, Room 1. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. This Writer Think* It 1 nde*irable, bat inevitable. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: , Abstractly, nothing is plainer than that the city should own the water, gas, electric, telephone and all such plants, and the time will come, but it will be a century hence, and only after most expensive experiments. when all American cities will control all such Indispensable contributions to city life; but, concretely, nothing is more hazardous and unwise. When a city corporation shall be managed as a railroad corporation or an insurance or banking corporation is, then all such enterprises will belong to the city, but not until then. The men who control in all such affairs pay not a cent of the expenses incurred, except the few who have managed to ingratiate themselves into favor with the masters of the situation. A careful comparison of the election rolls and the tax duplicate shows that more than 60 per cent, of the voters of Indianapolis pay not a cent of tax, and never did. Indeed, we do not have to go far back to find very influential members of the Council in this category. What do such men care how much the property of other people is taxed to maintain them? The water works of this city have been managed from the beginning so as to be fairly remunerative to the stockholders, but whoever dreams that, as municipal affairs are managed, the city can even pay expenses from present rates of toll cannot have studied our municipal methods. To go no further back than a year. There is not an intelligent man in the city who spent an hour with the “gang” that was at work on the Pogue's run improvement a year ago but would conclude that the water works, the street railroad, the Big Four, or any other private corporation would have done the same work, at less than half the cost. When the water works comes under the same management, and come it will, for the voters, not the taxpayers, demand it, the result will be the same. It is not extravagant to assume that the running expenses of the water works will be double the present expenses when the management comes into the hands of the city, which, as a corporation, is controlled by men who have ro interest in it, except as they may live off it. But what are we going to do about it? What can we do? Only one thing is possible, and that is to let our masters have their way. The city will get the water works, and after a while the gas works, and so on. The demand of those who pay no taxes is all in that direction. It will be a costly experiment, but the school of experience is always expensive. But by and by we w'ill have experience enough to break away from the tyranny which now dictates how men who pay taxes mus 4 be at the mercy of those who pay none. We have a great deal to learn yet about municipal corporations and how they should be managed. We are learning, and the time w-ill come when the species of robbery now in vogue will not be tolerated. Yes, let us buy the water plant, seeing we have to, and let the generation of the closing years of the next century either drop it or modify the method of electing directors. They will do the latter. U. L. SEE. Indianapolis, Sept. 16.

Haute a National C'liHrnotcriattc. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: American life is too intense. We are all the time in too much of a hurry. It has become a national characteristic. The great number of paralytics, insane and suicides attest with fearful accuracy the truth of the statement. In this particular there is no nation like ours. This American trait stands out so prominently that the ordinary visitor from other lands at once notices it and comments upon it. It might have been excused when we were younger and in a hurry to plant civilization in the wilderness, but we are old enough to know better and do better now. We ought to have passed the impetuosity and rashness of youth and reached by this time the calmness and thoughtful dignity of mature manhood. But it is very apparent that we have not done so. The sickness and death in the army, about which so much has been said, and which has excited so much sympathy and sorrow of the whole Nation, is but the sad result of giving loose rein to this bad American habit. At the very beginning of the war with Spain the strife among the States was not that they would have the best men for soldiers and have their regiments best equipped for the war, but they should have them in camp first. To do this sufficient time was not taken in the selection of men who could endure the hard and exacting duties of a soldier. Too much haste was had in selecting officers to command them and care for them in camp or on the field of battle, and any doctor would do to care for them and bind up their wounds, if he was ready to go at once The surgeons who had the least to do at home, and too often the least qualified, were the first to respond and were chosen to meet the hasty demand. The number of camps that have been abandoned show the undue haste in their selection. The penalty we pay now, and will pay for years, is the lives of the patriotic men who have already been sacrificed and the thousands more whose health has been so impaired that they will be pensioners on the Nation's bounty the balance of the time of suffering allotted them. War is too serious an affair to be entered on in haste or carried on in a hurry. Undue haste will bring loss and disaster in the ordinary affairs of life. In a much greater degree calamities must come in the extraordinary conditions attendant on the realities of cruel war. And when they do come, as they have in the conflict with Spain, the American people, with the same thoughtless haste and lack of calmer reflection and investigation, determine the cause and fix the responsibility as often on the innocent as on the guilty. In the present case the whole American people is the guilty party. We are all pariiceps criminis. The wicked headlines of the sensational newspapers have done the business. In the war with Spain there was not the slightest necessity for haste. They could send no armies to our shores. At the very beginning Commodore Dewey destroyed their best fleet, which endangered out Western cities, and Sampson, and Schley had their other fleet on our Eastern side bottled up and hermetically sealed in the harbor of Santiago. There was no danger on our Eastern coast line. We can see now that Santiago could easily have been taken without the exposure of Shafter's army. We could have seen it then had it not been for the clamor of the American people of "On to Cuba.” And now that we are arranging for a settlement wfith Spain, let us hope that the wiser and chlmer heads who have been chosen by the President will “make haste slowly,” so that we may not again be on the stool of repentance when their work is done. WILL CCMBACK. Greensburg, Ind., Sept. 17. Getting Back to It. . Baltimore Sun. The Democratic convention in the Second congressional district yesterday announced itself to be in favor of the coinage of both gold and silver “at such a ratio as shall preserve the parity and value between the two metals.” The ratio that would do that is at present about 32 to 1. A piece of gold weighing one ounce is just now at a "parity” of “value with about thirty-two ounces of silver. Declaring in favor of coining silver at this ration of 32 to 1 is equivalent to declaring for a 100-cent silver dollar, though cloudy words are used to give the declaration a “free silver” ring. Various straddles cf the silver question have been attempted, but this one has the merit of showing a disposition to get bac-k to sound principles. The 16-to-l slogan is dropped and instead of that we are to have “such a ratio as shall preserve the parity.” Sixteen to one would not have preserved the parity. We are evidently making progress. After a time we shall have Democratic conventions plainly urging free coinage at the market ratio, which Is the honest ratio. But the silver men of the silver-mining States will take no interest in free coinage at that ratio. Fanatical. New York Evening Sun. The three-year-old son of a family dwelling in the suburbs opened the hird cage the other morning, seized the canary and in a moment of excessive affection almost squeezed the bird to death. “Indeed. I thought it was dead.” said the three-year-old’s mother, in recounting the incident to her next-door neighbor. “Tt lay there perfectly limp and, so far as 1 could see, without a sign of life. I’m sure it would have died if I hadn’t had the presence of mind to moisten its beak with a little whisky. Then it was a joy to see how quickly It revived.” “But.” Interrupted the next-door neighbor, looking much shocked and twirling the little knot of white ribbon in her buttonhole, "couldn’t you have used something besides whisky?" 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A MYSTERY EXPLAINED ■ HOW THE UNITED STATES SECURED THE SHIP SCIPIO. Picked Ip a* a Derelict Near New York with Hold Full of EnKlish Powder and Gun* for the y. ♦ New' York Press. This is the story of a strange English ship which came out of the sea mysteriously without a crew whilu the. war with Spain was on, bringing to the United States navy English ammunition and guns, which we needed badly, but could not buy because of the neutrality laws. The ship is lying at the Brooklyn navy yard now' with the name Scipio painted in large white letters over another name. Yesterday the story of the vessel and her strange and providential arrival off this coast leaked out in the yard, where it has been an ofiicial secret for months. In many respects it is the kind of a story no writer of fiction would care to Invent, because it is a little bit too daring to happen except in real life, in which, after all, the most remarkable things befall. It is hinted that without the ammunition which was “found” in the hold of the crpwless ship the New Orleans, the cruiser which was bought in England before the war, could not have done the excellent work which she did off Santiago. There were English guns which the United States government had been bending every effort to obtain before war was declared, and which, it was announced dolorously in Washington after hostilities began, could not be shipped from England, because it would have been a breach of neutrality, and England would not permit it. Just how it happened that the guns got here after all is a story that cannot be told consecutively, because things did not happen as consecutively iff this case as they do in an ordinary business transaction. The story requires, first, a jump over the sea to Antwerp. Time, early in May, shortly after war had started merrily. Just then there was an Englishman in Antwerp. For that matter there were many, and this particular one was, If anything, rather more commonplace than the rest. He cannot be introduced as the mysterious stranger who lurked about the quays. He was, on the contrary, dreadfully prosaic and businesslike, looking around, as he said, for a chance to turn an honest penny in connection with the war. While he was in Antwerp there sailed from England, as usual, a great East Indian steamer of a regular Eastern line, the Ravenna, of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company. She had arrived in London in May and sailed thence with the company’s flag flying as she had sailed many times before. But this time, instead of plying south, she sailed across the channel, and a day or two later the common-place young Englishman went aboard the Ravenna at Antwerp. She still was flying the British flag, but no one recollects having seen the company’s flag over her. Perhaps it was lost on the way. The ship took on a lot of bgllast—ballast that was packed neatly in large boxes, which were sitow'ed carefully as ballast should be stowed. Then she steamed away, bound for a Canadian port, with crew and machinery in apple-pie order. The weather waa tine when she started, and it continued so for many weeks. Yet the British ship Ravenna never made her Canadian port. A PRECIOUS DERELICT. Here this inconsecutive tale jumps back to the coast of the United States; to be precise, the Brooklyn navy yard, harbor of New York. At that time the yard was sealed to prying eyes and listening ears. All kinds of things might and did happen there which were not shouted from the housetops. One of these things happened one morning a short time after the merchant ship Ravenna had sailed for Canada. This particular happening was not, apparently, an important one. Orders simply went to an American war ship (some in the yard say that it was the United States cruiser Columbia. others that it was an auxiliary cruiser) to put to sea. Scout duty along the coast was what the published ofiicial orders said. That was nothing uncommon, arid pone of the crew of this ship noticed anything' out of the ordinary. She did not scout idly and aimlessly. She steered straight out to sea as fast as she could go. And it was a lucky hand that steered her, for what should she sight, about two hundred miles east of Sandy Hook, but a big black ship, evidently well laden, but motionless and without a soul on board. The cruiser sent a small boat to her, and when the sailors boarded her the wonder grew, for none could see why she had been deserted. She was in perfect shape, her bunkers were full of coal, and she was fit to hold the seas for any length of time. It seemed to be another mystery like that cf tho bark Marie Celeste, famous in nautical history, whose strange story never was learned. Perhaps the captain of the American cruiser was surprised as much as was his crew. But then many inexplicable things happen when at sea, and it is better for the health of an honest sailor not to wonder and speculate too much. At any rate, his duty was plain. He took the big derelict in tow and she was pulled into the waters off the Hook. About that time American war ships were not open to visitors, and the cruiser did not hang out a sign telling about this peaceful capture. In fact, the finding and salvage of the derelict was not reported at the -:hip news station at all. Shortly after the cruiser had sent word to the navy yard two navy tugs, the Narkeeta and the Nina, came steaming up the bay with a tine, big collier, that was sitting rather lower in the water than empty colliers generally Fit. She was flying tho American Hag. tnd the name on her was Scipio. Just a plain, sim§le collier she was, but there was a good eal of old truck aboard of re r. Her hold was full of ballast—ballast that was packed neatly In large boxes, which were stowed carefully, as ballast should be stowed. There is splendid system in cur navy yards. So the ballast was taken out with exceeding care and stored away. Had persons of an unduly inquiring turn of mind been there at the time they might have w'ondered why ballast should be conveyed to the arsenal, of all places, and there locked up so carefully as this ballast was A day or two later they might have noticed some new English guns, and then they would have wondered again, because, as everybody knew', England had been so careful not to let the United States have those guns. But, then there was nobody around with an unduly inquiring turn of mind and, of course, there was no possible connection between the picking up of a derelict, the arrival of a collier, and the sudden abundance of ammunition for the English guns on the cruiser New Orleans—the only .American war ship, by the w r ay, which used smokeless powder in the war. As the Ravenna disappeared, as the derelict disappeared, so. immediately after being unloaded, the Scipio disappeared. At least, she disappeared from that part of the yard where the able ships of the United States navy lie. But the navy yard has been open to the public again lately, and persons of an inquiring turn of mind found the Scipio yesterday. She w-as lying snugly in an inlet near the “boneyard” where the old and useless ships of the navy molder ingloriously. And—under the white letters that spell “Spicio” on her. there are, faintly distinguishable, outer letters. They spell another name. And that name is “Ravenna.”

NONE TO CLATM HER. It Is a remarkable fact that nobody ever has reported the loss of a fine vessel. No crew has been reported missing:, yet no crew has turned up anywhere to report that they deserted their ship off the American coast. Nobody ever has claimed the valuable derelict. Indeed, it is rumoreu that the American authorities cabled to those who, according: to the papers found on her, were the owners, and that nobody could find such persons bearing the names shown on the ship’s papers. The young Englishman. who was last seen in Antwerp, according to general report spent much money, more money than private persons generally do, buying ammunition and other material of war. If he shipped it on the Ravenna, and the Ravenna has any connection with the derelict, and that again with the Scipio, why has he not claimed his property? He seems to have disappeared, too. As far as the Scipio is concerned, she may disappear again soon. On last Tuesday a young Englishman called at the navy yard and was taken to the Scipio. He looked her over carefully and with a practiced manner. Everything aboard of her is in excellent condition, though she is in exile in the "boneyard.” So oerhans the Scipio may depart unostentatiously some day. and then, if the Ravenna, should reappear in English v aters it would not be surprising, for the Ravenna was fitted up some time ago for a British troop ship, and she might come in useful for the transportation home of the Sudan troops after the campaign against the Dervishes is over. She might have been valuable m the same capacity to the United States, but for some reason she never was so used. East June another mysterious craft arrived in the harbor with a great quantity of

ammunition. She flew the British flag and was the Emma K., according to the name on her stern. It was a rather peculiar name for a tramp steamship, and it aroused much curiosity, especially as it was evident that she had taken much risk in carrying contraband of war. There was lively speculation as to what port she could have come from and how she managed to clear. Nobcdy would or could toll anything about her. however. Not even the name of her captain was to be learned. Powder and other ammunition was shipped from her to many forts. It is known now that this vessel, like the Ravenna, sailed from Antwerp, whence, in some way, the United States managed to get many war supplies, even after hostilities had begun. ANOTHER STORY. Did Wive* of Htwclihli Noblemen Fit Ont the Steamer Ravenna t New York Special. There has been a mystery in the Brooklyn navy yard. Laborers and mechanics in the yard have told strange stories of a craft that has been tied to the Cob dock since the war got under way. Many said she was a deserted Spanish boat, and that the coal in her hold was alive with infernal machines. This vessel that has excited so much curiosity was a runner fitted out in England by American women, wives of British noblemen and other Englishmen, with projectiles and ammunition for the New Orleans, which was forced from England unequipped when hostilities began. A reporter visited the vessel. her stern is the name Scipio, but under this name there is plainly to be seen through a thin coat of paint the word Ravenna. It was as the Ravenna, it is said, that she was sent by the daughters of America in the old country. When war was declared the New Orleans, in England from Brazil, had to leave her English port, and the Americanborn Duchess of Marlborough, who was Consuelo Vanderbilt, became aroused to action in aid of the United States. She planned, with the approval of her husband, and interested other fair Americans, including. it is whispered, the wives of high political personages, in her scheme. Such is the information furnished to me by an officer high in the navy. Continuing the story, he said: “Those American women knew that the New Orleans had been forced out by the neutrality laws without obtaining projectiles and ammunition necessary for her English make of guns. They bought the Ravenna outright, and loaded her down not only with projectiles and ammunition, but with some of the guns which the New Orleans had not had time to mount before sailing. One morning the cruiser Columbia, whether by accident or design, has not been officially stated, picked up the Ravenna off Capes Henry and Charles. It was singular that the cruiser should have been there, and it is more so that the Ravenna had not a single man aboard. Comment is unnecessary, but the lifeboats were missing, and the crew has never been heard of, and probably never will be.”

STATE AND NONSTATE SCHOOLS How the Board of Education Came to Be Constituted as It Is. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: It would seem, from a short notice in the Journal of the 14th, that ' the nonstate schools are pushing things. Through the several pastors of those churches that have invested in school plant, they are appealing to the voters of the State. This may not be the best way to reach them, but these presidents are inexperienced in the ways of politicians and may be expected to blunder; but many of the greatest achievements of life are accomplished by man’s strength and awkwardness. They show awkwardness; it remains to be seen if they have the requisite strength. Some time ago, probably a year or more, the nonstate schools proposed a compromise on the only question at issue between the two classes of schools, substantially on the basis of the amendment to the Greeting bill, which the committee on education proposed, namely, that tlie State Board have no educator on it. not even a trustee of any college. The State schools indignantly rejected the proposition, saying they would appeal to the people, and to the people the question has gone. For this appeal the state schools were the better prepared. For a third of a century they had been organized and had so successfully worked their scheme that they had so controlled the state superintendent and the Legislature that appropriations had run up from nothing into the millions, and they hope for millions more. Having their forces well in hand, It was not difficult to secure the nomination of their man for state superintendent on both tickets, and presumably the same was expected, if it has not been acomplished, as to legislative candidates. Now, the presidents of these nonstate schools are mostly preachers, as guileless as children, in political management, therefore they propose to reach the people through their preacher brethren; hence this appeal. How it will pan out remains to be seen. By the way, how the State Board of Education came to be composed of the presidents of the three state schools and the principals of the schools of the three largest cities, not one of whom is chosen by the people, with the Governor and state superintendent as ornamental appendages, utterly powerless as against the school combine, is one of the most interesting chapters in state history. You see, when the constitutional convention of 1851 “abolished the county seminary system and the State University also,” in compliance with a resolution presented, by Joseph Ristine, and another presented by T. A. Hendricks, that no schools but the common schools should receive state aid, “the university located at Bloomington.” as it is called in the act of 1867, which constituted it “a charge upon the State.” and made it a state school, although the Supreme Court has decided (State vs. Carr, 111 Ind., 335) that It is not a public corporation, but a private one. went to hustling just like “sectarian” schools, selling scholarships and “begging” so as to eke out an existence for which the government grant did not sufficiently provide. But. for reasons not relevant to the story, it utterly failed, as it would fail now but for the millions it has received from the State and the large annual appropriations, with larger soon to follow. In its extremity its president and one or two of its trustees spent a week or two lobbying with the Legislature of 1863 for a special appropriation, basing its claim upon the loss sustained by fire a few years earlier. At that time the State Board of Education consisted of Messrs. Morton, Brett, Hord, Rugg and the identical Mr. Ristine who only twelve years before had offered the resolution in the constitutional convention in compliance with which “the county seminary system and the State University also” had been “abolished.” Not one of them favored the application, and not a member of either House could be induced to offer a bill in accord with it. The lobby went home with their eyes opened to the fact that the State Board must be reconstructed if ever their scheme was to work. Now no Legislature was ever manipulated by a more adroit lobby, cultured, modest and above suspicion as to personal aims; so in 1865 they appeared, not to ask si dollar—no, not they, but with the specious plea that the educational interests of the State should be in the hands of educators, not of politicians. To not arouse suspicion their bill, already prepared, was offered by the representative from Vigo, and it went through with little or po opposition, the state officers not caring to be burdened with the care of the schools, and no one suspecting it was a wooden horse loaded with measures which in thirty years was to bleed the State to the amount of nearly five millions. That is how and why the State Board was made to consist of such men as now constitute it. What has followed Is history—pretty expensive history, too, yet the nonstate schools kept on doing good work, and a great deal of it without the aid of the State, never asking it and never complaining of the injustice of supporting themselves by voluntary contributions and being taxed to support the state schools aiso. Though they felt and suffered somewhat from the nonfraternal methods resorted to to obtain students for the university that had been made a state school in spite of the action of the constitutional convention, and which was swimming in every luxury money could buy, they never complained until in 1897, when, through the Geeting hill, this octopus sought to discredit the diplomas of these nonstate schools. Now, that Is the whole case in a nutshell. These nonstate schools, having neither time nor money to spend as lobbyists, and scorning to ask the Legislature to make appropriations out of which their expenses as lobbyists can be paid, as the state schools pay their lobby bills and then decline to make an Itemized statement to the state auditor, they have accepted the gage of battle offered them, and in the absence of the political machinery, a third of a century has given to the state schools they blunderingly appeal to the people through preachers. Whether It will amount to anything or not remains to be seen. The übiquity of the state school machinery has no doubt seen to the nomination of legislative candidates just as to the nomination of state superintendent candidates, but the people Hre yet to be heard from. Some preachers are good mixers when they set about it. Indianapolis, Sept. 17. U. L. SEE.

NEGRO SOLDIERS IN WAR STORIES OF THEIR BEHAVIOR DIR. INU THE SANTIAGO BATTLES. ® Fighter* and Men of Warm Heart*— “Better Christian* than White Men," Say* One of Hie Latter. ® New York Evening Post. “I'd just as soon command a company of monkeys as a company of negroes,” a captain in the regular service said at Camp Wikoff the other day. Whatever thie worth of his taste, the colored soldier has a high place in the estimation of his white comrade as a fighting machine and one little lower in his affection as a good fellow. A volunteer whose regiment was brigaded with the Twenty-fourth (colored) Infantry through the Cuban campaign said that the “niggers were better Christians than the white men.” “We had a lot of trouble about firewood on the island,” said he. “It was hard to find, and it often had to be carried two miles to our quarters. Gathering it was a heavy job for our fellows, for most of them were pretty weak on account of the fever. The fellows in the white regiment in our command were a little better off than we were—they were regulars, you know—and managed to have fires pretty regularly. If we had had to depend on them we would have put cold rations In our stomach all the time. “ ‘Say, old man,’ I heard said to them, ‘let’s cook a little stuff on your fire when you’re through with it, won’t you, please?’ “And what do you think they’d say? “ ‘Aw, go hang,’ one of ’em said to me. ‘We ain’t got enough fer ourselves.’ “It was a good deal to ask of a man. I’ll admit. Why, I’ve seen half a dozen sick men wait around a fire until the men who owned it were through, and then make a rush for the embers, like seven dogs after one bone. But the niggers were different; they had bigger hearts. They stood the campaign in great shape, you know, and it wasn’t much for them to gather firewood. They'd build a fire six feet long, and they never crowded a poor devil of a weak man out if he wanted to use it. “ ’Gimme a chance at your fire?’ the fellows would ask them. “ ’Co’se,’ they’d say. “What yo’ think we made a big fire fo,’ anyway. T* cook our own grub on’y? Come on, honey.’ “That’s just the way they'd say it, and as jolly as you like. The niggers are all right; and I've got a place in my heart for the Twenty-fourth Infantry, I tell you.” The men tell many Instances of like kindnesses. They do not begrudge credit to the colored soldiers for their bravery through the campaign. And the negroes appreciate this show of good feeling. “Why,” one of them said, not long ago, "them Rough Riders are like brothers. I’ve et with ’em; I’ve slep’ with ’em; I’ve fit with ’em; an’ I feel as if I was one of ’em.” A REGULAR’S STORY. A regular who came into clcse contact with the Ninth Cavalry (colored) said: “I remember once we were standing in the bushes along the trail when the Ninth came by us. The men were In great spirits—laughing and talking, though the fight was just a little way before them. “ ‘Hello, boy,’ one big fellow yelled to me. ‘Any fruit on the trees round yere?’ “ ‘I ain’t seen any,’ a man behind me says. ‘An’ I ain't lookin’ for any—not in my state.’ “Well, the niggers burst out laughing, and they kept it up—‘haw r , haw, haw!’ “ What kind of fruit?’ says I. “ ‘Oh, sharpshooters,’ says the big man that spoke to me. ‘Haw, haw, haw!* I’ve heard they found some.” It has often been said that a negro regiment must be well officered and well "pushed,” or It will not give a good account of itself on the firing line. The white privates at Montauk, however, seem to think that the "nigger is a fighter” for the pure love of ii:. “In the trenches at San Juan,” said a volunteer corporal, “the Twenty-fourth relieved us and we them. Lying in the trenches there was hard and nervous work, and it was a happy time for the squad when the relief came. I’ve heard our men kick when they had to go into the fight again, but I never heard a colored soldier do It. It was coming hard one evening, and I guess the colored fellows knew it, and thought we might need a little support, though things hadn’t got critical at all. All at once I was startled by two big men scrambling In nearly on top of us. They were colored soldiers. “ ‘What the ?’ the man I was with began. “ ’All right, boys, don’t get sca’ed. It's all right. We thought yo’ might want a niggah er two, an’ wo come up t’ see.’ “ ’Come up,’ said I, ‘over the hill?’ The bullets were skimming over our trenches, you know, and sweeping the top of the hill, behind which the reserves were lying. “ ‘Co’se, we didn’t come no how- else,’ says one. ‘There was three of us sta’ted.’ “ ‘Where’s the other one?’ says 1. “ ‘We carried him back,’ says they, ‘an’ come on ag'in.’ ”

A BRAVE ACT. This volunteer’s comrade told the story of a negro sergeant whose name he did not know. “It was In that same fight,” said he, “and, as bunkie here has told you, we took turns in the trenches with the Twentyfourth. You must understand that we held both sides of the hill, and that the trenches were high up on the one side and the place where the reserves were pretty well down on the other; the Spaniards were firing on our line from the bottom of the hill, so the bullets went over the crest low down, and it was a darned dangerous place to he. When we were relieved we had to get over that spot to reach our reserve position. There was no cover, and the Spaniards had the range down fine, and, what’s more, they knew just about when they could get us there. “Well, them was a blockhouse on the top of the hill, with a door in the side of it. That door was in sight from both bides; so it took a nervy man to dodge in or out of it. One morning, when we were about to go back to rest, a negro sergeant, who was in charge of the relief squad, dodged in from behind without getting hit. We were waiting to make a run for it when we saw him. The Spaniards caught sight of him as 1 e ran in and fired hot. Out he jumped and yelled; “ ‘Now’s your chance, boys. Come on.’ Then ho got in again. “A couple of the boys ran out and over, and the shooting went on. They were firing in volleys, and every time that sergeant would hear a volley he'd be out waving his hand and yelling: “ ‘They can’t hit yo’! They can’t hit yo!’ Now’s your chance” “I thought I’d see him drop every time, hut they couldn’t hit him. I tell you, he helped us out. He was like a baseball coacher, trying to rattle the other side, and getting his own men around the bases. It was so like it that I could pretty near hear old Bill Joyce yelling, ‘Lead off, there; lead off. Now r ! Slide! Slide!’ And I swear I could see the old diamond at the Polo grounds. Well, we only lost one man wounded. Say, are the New Yorks at home now?” ONE MAN’S TROPHIE3. A strapping negro, who had a silver bracelet cn his thick, black wrist, and another in his pocket, “because it was too small to go ’round,” and some gold and silver trinkets hanging on his bosom, was riding towards the station cn a mule wagon yesterday. He was a strong man, with a slight mustache and a wcolly chin beard, and he was as black as any. “See that?” he said, taking the small bracelet from his pocket. "I got that from a Cuban lady. She was one of these re-re-reeon-cen-trados. We were on a forced march, and she come along—and stood by the road. She grabbed me by the arm and made signs that she was hungry. Then she handed this thing out. I had six hardtack and gave her three. And. say. she kissed my hand. I'm keeping the jewelry for my sister. That’s how I got it; and that’s how lots of the boys come by theirs. What you luffin' at man? Eh!” “Didn’t you see that mule wag its ears?” “Oh! huh!’’ Then the man continued: “It was dang’rous work in them fights. Sho’ it was. Some of the boys says they wasn’t scared. I don't say so. When them shells come buzzin’. it. was mighty hard. I seen onego right down between two of our lines, makin’ a bad noise. 1 thought it was goin' to bust, but it didn’t. If It had, It would ha’ killed us dead. Sho’ It would. It looked dang'rous—mighty dang’rous—as it went by.” A private In a volunteer regiment told a friend that the first time under fire was “a nasty experlence”--that he felt as though he was “up against a now Job that he didn't

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INDIANA Dental College Department of Dentistry, University of Indianapolis, S. W. Corner Delaware and Ohio Streets. Receives patients from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. for all kinds of Dental work. The fees are to cover the cost only. Palmi'rs* Sui'pll.s on<l Wtn.luw cli,,. Best goods. Fair prices. Fair dealing. Prompt service. THE ALDAU PAIXT AND VARNISH CO. 41ili E. UnnhitiKlnn St. EITS CREAM BALM Is a positive cur*. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 60 cents at Drusrgists or by mail; samples 10c. by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 66 Warren St., New York City. like, but knew he’d have to stick It out or lose his bread and butter. “When our regiment was in reserve once,” he continued, “1 saw a reporter legging it back from the front. He was going it for all there was in him, and looked as though ho had a through ticket for the rear. We found the reserve line as bad a place as the firing line, most always, so 1 wasn't feeling very comfortable. “ ’This war correspondents’ life ain’t what It’s cracked up to be,’ said he to me as he passed. “I looked after him, and then I listened to the firing and heard the bullets whizzing. " ‘Old man,’ said 1 to myself, looking after the reporter again, ‘lf 1 wasn't an enlisted man, I’d—run—you—a race.’ ” Pension* for Veterans. Certificates have been issued to the fol-lowing-named Indianlans: Original—James Huskey, National Military Home, Grant, s*>; Daniel P. Bowman, Zanesville. ss. Restoration, Reissue and Increase—Jesse D. Scott, Dafontaine, st> to sl4. Increase—Stephen J. Glover. Orleans, sl7 to S3O; Robert E. Burns, Kirklin, sl2 to sl7; Wesley Walker. Mitchell, slt> to sl7; Addison Holmes, Crown Point, Ss to sl2; Horace M. Saint, Greensboro. sl7 to s2l. Reissue—(Special Sept. 7) Frederick P. Goln. Omega. sjo; Daniei Stim baugh, Fiotu. sl7. Original Widows, etc.—Frances A. Ralph,' Prairietown, P>: minor of Charles 11. liarkin, Boonville, sl2. A Domestic Diplomat. Baltimore Bun. “Papa,” said the young mother. “I’ve decided on a name for the baby. We will call her Imogen.” Papa wu lost In thought for a few minutes. He did not like the name, but if ha opposed it his wife would have her own way. “That’s nice,” said he, presently. “My tlrsn sweetheart was named Imogen, and she will take It as a compliment. “We will call her Mary, after uiy mother,” was the stem reply.

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