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"Romeo and Juliet," and her personal success was tremendous. The house was crowded with representatives of the wealth and fashion of the Quaker City as well a3 the musle-lovlng public, and the fair diva was almost overcome by the volume and enthusiasm of the applause that greeted her efforts. Her voice Is, if anything, better than ever, and her acting shows the result of her constant study. Bonnard, the new French tenor, made his debut in America as Romeo. Although he was visibly nervous, he revealed a voice that compares favorably with that of any artist who has undertaken the part here. In addition he possesses a fine stage presence and acts well. Benzaude also made his first appearance in the role of Mercutio and was well received. Boudoresquc renewed his success of last season as Friar Lawrence, and the other parts were Intrusted to the singers who were with the organization last season. The New York Symphony orchestra was led by Signor SeppiH, although Walter Damrosch will wield the conductor’s baton when the Wagner operas are sung. The season is to consist of twenty performances, covering a period of six weeks, and Manager Ellis promises several novelties. To-night’s opening indicates beyond doubt the success of the season. Joseph Jefferson Goes South. NEW YORK, Nov. 30. Joseph Jefferson, accompanied by his son Frank, left this afternoon over the Pennsylvania Railroad for the South.-He will go to his place in Louisiana, where, it is expected, he will remain for some time. Notes of the Stage. "The Merry Maidens” will continue at the Empire the rest of the week. "Down in Dixie," which comes to the Park to-day, is well remembered as an old and popular friend. Next week the Grand Stock Company is going to put on "In Mlzzoura,” which Augustus Thomas wrote for Nat Goodwin, and in which the great comedian had a successful season five years ago. Charles F. Towle, representing Klaw & Erlanger, is here in advance of Sousa's opera, "The Bride-elect," which comes to English’s Dec. 13 and 14 for two performances. Tunis Dean, business manager of the company, will arrive next week, making his first visit to his old home since he left years ago. Miss Gertrude Coghlan, the daughter of Charles Coghlan, plays one of the important parts in his famous play, "The Royal Box,” that of Celia Pryse, the stage-struck girl. Miss Coghlan has proved herself possessed of the inherent dramatic talent which has made her father and hex aunt. Miss Rose Coghlan. such conspicuous figures on the American stage the past fifteen years. Public appreciation of real merit in a play and of real dramatic power in an actor has never had a better illustration than in the success of Charles Coghlan In "The Royal Box,” which comes to English’s Friday night. Mr. Coghlan had but six days’ advance advertising for his New York opening. While he was well known, his play was not. The actor and play proved an Instantaneous hit, even at advanced prices, $2 being charged for seats in the orchestra stalls, and Mr. Coghlan’s receipts steadily advanced from $330 on his opening night to an average of $1,200 at each performance. Even his transfer from the Fifth-avenue Theater to tho Garden Theater made no difference in his business, and his twenty weeks’ run in New York became a notable theatrical event. Fanny Rice, w'ho gives a performance of "At the French Ball” at English’s to-night, has an intimate friend In Buffalo, an old schoolmate, in the retail millinery business, with a handsomely fitted shop in one of the busiest thoroughfares. Miss Rice never visits Buffalo without spending considerable of her time with her old schoolmate, and during her engagement there last season called at her friend's establishment and found tho latter behind the counter displaying goods to a purchaser. Not wishing to interrupt, Miss Rice took a chair at the open door. A poorly clad woman with a child In her arms entered the shop and asked alms of Miss Rice’s friend. The latter, not wishing to appear uncharitable in the presence of her customer and at the same time thinking it would be funny to play a practical joke on her old schoolfellow, directed the beggar to Miss Rice, saying: "I can do nothing for you. There is the proprietress; you must ask her." The unfortunate woman approached the actress, who, quick as thought, redirected the woman to the counter, remarking in a loud tone: "Give this poor woman a dollar out of the cash drawer. ’

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. Burton Parrott has gone to Chicago to visit Mrs. A. R. Baker. Miss Woodland, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Taggart for a short time. Mrs. Charles Bender and son, of Muncie, aro visiting Mrs. Lynn Stone, No. 614 North Illinois street. Mrs. Roy G. Caylor and son, of Noblesville, are visiting Dr. and Mrs. J. T. McShane, No. 2218 North Meridian street. Mrs. W. L. Caldwell gave a family party yesterday for her sisters, Mrs. Gordon, of Washington, and Mrs. Watson,, of Chicago. Mrs. Emma Matthews will give a luncheon to the members of the East End Lady Knights Club at her home. No. 1131 East Washington street, this afternoon from 2 to 5. The second concert of the Indianapolis Maennerchor will be given Wednesday evening of next week. The society will be assisted by Karl Schneider, violincello, and Oliver Willard Pierce, piano. Mr. and Mrs. Biegmar Muehl and daughter and Mrs. Kate M- Collins, who left in April for a general European tour, have returned home. Mrs. Collins will continue tomako her home with her sister, Mrs. Muehl. Miss Wilhelmlna Seegmiller, director of art in the public schools, has returned from a two weeks’ trip East. While in Brooklyn she gavo a course of five lectures to the art students at Pratt Institute and in Boston made an address at a conference of the New England art supervisors. Miss Ada Comingor gave an art exhibit of her own work yesterday at her home at the Pressly. Miss Comingo'r has a variety of w'ork in oil, water colors and pastel. A number of portraits show a decided talent for that branch of art, and she also shows skill In her reproductions of landscapes. Conscientious effort marks all that Miss Comingor docs, and her collection of pictures won for her commendation alike from artists and friends. The exhibit will continue through to-day. Mrs. John N. Hurty gave a pretty tea yesterday afternoon for her visitor, Miss McGregor, of Milwaukee. Bouillon was served in the upper library by Mrs. John F. Johnstone. Mrs. Jaquitli and Mrs. Benjamin C. Kelsey. Below stairs the guests were greeted by Mrs. Hurty and Miss McGregor. Pink flowers in variety were used to adorn the rooms. Mrs. Hurty was assisted in entertaining by Mrs. William J. McKee, Mrs. George R. Sullivan. Miss Roache, Miss Jane Roaehe, Miss Miriam Moore of Evanston. Miss Katherine Sullivan and Miss Isanel Palmer. A number of out-of-tow’n guests attended with thtir hostesses. Miss McGregor will be the guest of honor at a luncheon to-day at Mrs. McKee’s and the Misses Roache will give a matinee party Saturday for her. Last night at 8 o’clock occurred the marriage of Miss Julia Regula and Mr. Clinton Lowe at the homo of the groom’s parents, Sergeant and Mrs. John Lowe, 516 Douglas street, Ret". Mr. Vlllers officiating. The bride was attended by Miss Belle Lowe, sister of the groom, and Mr. Fielding Beeler acted as best man. Miss Regula W'as handsomely attired in a tailor-made traveling gown of pigeon gray cloth, with trimmings of braid, and Miss Lowe wore a dress of bluo empress cloth, trimmed in white satin and braid. A reception and dinner followed the wedding ceremony, which was attended by about one hundred guests. The parlors were prettily decorated in palms, foliage and cut flowers, and in the dining room a color scheme of white and green was carried out. the decorations being white roses and palms. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe were assisted in receiving by Captain and Mrs. C. F. Dawson. After the reception Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Lowe left for an Eastern trip. A Beethoven programme was given at the Matinee Musicale yesterday afternoon by the second division. The piano quartet “Andante,” from Septuor, and “Turkish March,” from “Ruin of Athens,” was played by Miss Swain, Miss Beck. Miss McKenna and Mrs. Rice; Mrs. J. T. Eaglesfleld played the “Ixirgo, from Op. 10, No. 1;” Mis. rnrront Swain sang the aria .rum

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,Ah, Perfldo;” Miss Sarah T. Meigs gave the first movement of the “C minor, concerto,” with orchestral parts on the second piano by Miss Beck and Mrs. E. M. Ogle sang "Erlkoenlg.” In addition to the programme was a group of musical monologues, "When I’m Big I’ll Bea Soldier,” ‘Out to Old Aunt Mary’s” and "In May,” by Mrs. McGibeny. All of the numbers were interesting and well presented. At a business meeting after the programme it was decided that the vocal divisions of the musicale should accept the invitation of the Amphion Club to join in giving a meritorious work in connection with the Symphony Orchestra at the next concert of the orchestra. The next meeting of the musicale, Dec. 14, will be the last before the holidays. A short programme will be given and tea will be served. ATTKISSON—EVERBACIv. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Nov. 30.—At 8 o'clock to-night at the residence of the groom’s parents, Mr. George L. Attkisson and Miss Emma Everback were united in marriage, Rev. J. M. Baxter, of the First M. E. Church, officiating. At the samo time the groom's parents, C. J. Attkisson and wife, celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. MESSICK—SEN OU R. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Nov. 30.—The wedding of Miss Cora Senour, daughter of Mrs. Frances Senour, and Mr. John It. Messick took place this afternoon at the residence of the bride’s mother. Rev. J. W. Duncan officiating. Mr. Messick is engaged in the drug business in this city. CARE OF THE INSANE. Report of State Charities on This Question. According to the estimates made by Dr. Joseph G. Rogers, based on the best statistics available, the present gross total of the State's insane is approximately 4,300, or one in 675 of its present population. The proportion of insane In Indiana is less than in the States of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and lowa. In some of the New England States it is but approximately half what it is in Indiana. A report of the State Board of Charities in discussing present methods of caring for the insane of the State says: “Many of the persons released from the Central Hospital for the Insane as incurable and others who have not been admitted are to be found in the poor asylums and jails. Some of these are acute cases. It is contrary to the Constitution of our State, Tvhich declares that it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law for the treatment of the insane, and contrary to the policy of the State of Indiana as defined by the Legislature that the State of Indiana shall care for all of its insane population, and that these unfortunates should be confined in jail, to be the objects of ridicule and torment of the criminals confined there. They have committed no wrong: they are guilty of no crime; they are sick in mind, and we commit an outrage by permitting them to be confined in the criminal’s cell. The poor asylums, which should be homes for those incompetents or unfortunates, the sick, infirm and crippled, who cannot fight life’s battles, are made to care for others, the diseased minds. The fact that these Insane and others who are feeble-minded are confined in our county poor asylums make them places of dread to many who should receive the benefits that they are intended to confer. In addition there are no facilities provided in county poor asylums for the treatment of such as these. "When our new insane hospitals were erected, it was in accordance with a plan which contemplated additions to certain departments, to round out each institution. These have never been made. There is no provision 'made for caring for the crippled or Infirm. There is no special infirmary or hospital for other than mental diseases provided for at any of these institutions. If proper provision could be made for these in each one of the hospitals for the insane, accommodations could be made for about 600 of those who now seek admission. When this has been done this provision can be made in some other way for those for whose care no accommodation has been provided. This might possibly be by colonizing the chronic and harmless Insane near enough to be under the management of the present hospitals. Farms could be provided, cheap but comfortable buildings could be erected, and the expense would not be so great as In a hospital proper and the results to that class of patients would probably be equally beneficial. While we regret the fact that our jails and poor asylums contain so many chronic insane, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the acute cases are the ones that are to derive benefit from hospital treatment.”

Children in Poor Asylum*. According to a report of the State Board of Charities, there are a number of counties in this State that are violating the law which prohibits the keeping of children between the ages of three and seventeen years in county poor asylums. This is in violation of the law passed by the last Legislature that after the first day of January, 1898, no children should be maintained in any poor asylum in the State for a period of more than ten days. On Oct. 31 twenty-ithrce county poor asylums contained children between the ages prescribed by law. Monroe county has seven, the largest number. The Board of State Charities will call the attention of county commissioners to this violation of the law. DEATH OF MRS. M. A. SIDDALL. She Had Lived In Till* City for FortyFive Years* Mrs. Melinda A. SiddalJ, aged sixty-nine, well known among Grand Army people of this city, died of paralysis yesterday morning at her home, 423 East Louisiana street. Mrs. Siddall suffered a stroke about eighteen months ago and another last Saturday night. She become unconscious and remained so to tlio time of her death. She was the widow of Dr. James P. Siddall, who was assistant surgeon of the Twentysecond Indiana Regiment in the civil war. She was born in Columbus and lived in Indianapolis forty-live years. Among the organizations she was interested in were: The Women’s Relief Corps, Queen Esther Chapter of the Eastern Star, W. C. T. U. and Flcteher-place M. E. Church. The funeral services were held at the family home last night, and the burial will take place in Columbus to-day. Mrs. Siddall leaves two children—John Siddall, of British Columbia, and Mrs. A. Stratford, of this city. CITY NEWS NOTES. Atwater C. Burnett, of Logansport. filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday. His liabilities are 59,175 and he lias no assets. Private Fred G. Wall, of Battery L of the regulars, is home from Fort Barrancas, Fla., on a furlough. He has two medals secured in the service, a bronze one for gunmanship and a silver one for target shooting. Editor James B. Wilson would like to have It understood that he is not the Wilson who sued his wife for divorce in the Super* lor Court a few r days ago. He says his domestic relations aro running smoothly enough. A horse was stolen from in front of Dr. Dodge’s office Tuesday, and yesterday it was found dead In the road seven miles west of Greencastle. The thief, who is not known, had probably driven the horse to death. It belonged to John Scudder, liveryman. The semi-annual meeting of the Women's Missionary Social Union was held in the Central Christian Church yesterday. Mrs. C. N. Eldridge, who w’as to have given a Bible reading, was suddenly called out of the city by the illness of members of her family und was compelled to disappoint her audience. The chief of police of Greencastle has asked the Indianapoijs police department to look for James F. Hill, of Greencastle, who was a member of Company I. One-hundred-and-tlfty-ninth Regiment. Hill was paid SIOO when he was discharged, and his family, not having heard from him, fears he has met with harm, The Deal Not Closed. Word was received from Cincinnati yesterday indicating that the deal by which W. E. Hutton, Senator Foraker and Herman Goepper were to secure eight breweries, including the Home Brewing Company, of this city, was not closed at noon, as had been expected. Andrew Hagan, secretary and treasurer of the Home Brewing Company, said the option had been extended and he expected the sale to be made by Feb. 1, 1899. r Sew Matrons Delected. Mrs. J. D. Speer has been selected as matron at the Indianapolis Orphans' Asylum. to succeed Mrs. A. V. Mendenhall, who

resigned. Mrs. Speer was formerly a resident of this State, but for the last three years she has had charge of a children's home at York, Mrs. Speer will arrive to-day to assume her new position. Mrs. Kate Stewart succeeds Mrs. Perry as matron of the Alpha Home for Aged Colored Women. The body of Mrs. Perry, who died Tuesday, will be sent to Topeka, Kan., for burial. maiTwith a red face. Three M omen Tell of How He Swindled Them. Miss Gertrude Adams, Mrs. Trendall and Mrs. Terry, all of No. 323 North Illinois street, reported to the police yesterday afternoon tfjat a red-faced, red-mustached man, who said he was an agent of a "novelty company." had called on them and sold them some stationery for $5. In recounting the virtues of the goods he said of the envelopes that there was "money in them.” The women found no money in the envelopes, and therefore Informed the police so that tho scarlet complexioned man might be deterred from "selling money” if the police found him. Arrested for Pension t’ mud. Wm. W. Chapman, of White county, is under aigest by the federal authorities charged with violation of the pension laws. His brother Charles accuses him of appropriating money paid to him by the government to his own uses. Charles Chapman was a minor and entitled to pension money dating from the death of his father, amounting to about S9OO. He made his brother his agent for the collection of it, and alleges that he never turned over any of it to him when he secured it. Robbed the Clothes Lines. William Edwards, nineteen years old, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Thornton and Kinney on the charge of petit larceny. The detectives say be has been the cause of several housewives of the northeast part of town losing linen from their clotheslines in the last few weeks. Edwards, it is alleged, presented the clothing he stole to women much older than himself with whom he was friendly. MRS. CODY’S TRIAL. Evidence Tending to Show She Tried to Blackmail the Goulds. ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 30.—James B. Stears, of Rouse’s Point, w*as examined today in the trial of Mrs. Margaret E. Cody, accused of attempting to blackmail the heirs of tho late Jay Gould. Ho told of preparing and acknowledging certain papers, which comprised an agreement between Mrs. Cody, Mrs. Angell Amasa J. Parker, jr., relative to the claim of Mrs. Angell as tho alleged widow of Jay Gould to dower in the Gould estate. This witness and D. Lindsay testified that Mrs. Cody was the moA r er in the preparation of the paper in the case. Nicholas J. Dack, who acted as Mrs. Cody’s secretary while she was in Albany, was recalled and gave further testimony regarding the letters he had written to the Goulds at Mrs. Cody’s dictation. Mr. Dack testified that before he w T as hired by Mrs. Cody ho was asked if he knew how to w r rite several different hands, and one of his letters, written In backhand, was presented to snow that at Mrs. Cody’s request he had tried to disguise his handwriting. It developed that Dack had written several dictated letters to the Goulds under different names, and that Mrs. Cody had taken one of them to Oswego to mail. In this letter the writer told George J. Gould that Mrs. Cody was a responsible woman and could bo trusted. David J. OarValho. an expert In chlrography. testified that letters purporting to be written and signed by Mrs. Cody, Mrs. Angell and others were all written and signed by Mrs. Cody. Judge M. O. Brown, of Laramie, Wyo.. who was counsel for Mrs. Angell’s daughter, Mrs. Pierce, in an action instituted by the latter to establish her rights as a claimant to the Gould estate, described an interview with Mrs. Cody and Mrs. Angell, In the course of which he told Mrs. Cody that Mrs. Angell had said to him that she was never the wife of Jay Gould. Mrs. Cody wrung her hands and said, “I shall be advertised and denounced as a blackmailer.” At this Mi;s. Angell reiterated her disavowal of any claim upon Gould or his heirs. Two other interviews satisfied Judge Brown that there was no case for his client, Mrs. Pierce, and ho withdrew from the litigation. Mrs. Emma Lewis, at whose house Mrs. Cody boarded while stopping at Rouse’s Point, testified that she wrote letters for Mrs. Cody; that on one occasion while she was writing a letter the question of the alleged marriage of Jay Gould to Mrs. Angell was touched on, when Mrs. Cody exclaimed: "I don’t believe she was ever married to Jay Gould any more than I am.” Witness recited another instance wherein Mrs. Cody had told her that Mrs. Pierce was not Jay Gould’s child, and that shoVould tell who her father was If she wanted to. Miss Helen Gould was the last witness called by the prosecution, after which District Attorney Cook notified the court that the people rested its case. Miss Gould testified as to the dates of her parents’ deaths, identified two letters sent to her signed by Mrs. Cody and swore that she never answered them. Counsel for the defense will open to-mor-row morning and expects to have its testimony in by tho recess hour, which is 1 o’clock. If lie succeeds in doing so the case will reach tho jury l>y nightfall, tho afternoon session being devoted to the summing up.

NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL. Constrnctor .lolin F. Ilitnscom, of League Island, on Trial. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30.—The courtmartial appointed to investigate the charges made against Naval Constructor John F. Hanscom, the League island officer, accused of having allowed workmen at the navy yard too much pay for overtime work, proceeded with its inquiry to-day. The session of the court was held in a room in the yards and docks building at the navy yard. All the members of the court were present, including Commodore Howison, the president, and Lieutenant Knapp, the judge advocate. The proceedings opened with the reading of the various specifications of the four charges against Hanscom, and the latter, who was present with his counsel. Attorney Theodore ML Etting, responded “Not guilty” to each of the specifications read. The examination of the witnesses was then begun. Drawn Cliess Game. NEW YORK, Nov. 3D.—'Tho fifth game of the Janowski-Showalter chess match was contested to-day at the 'Manhattan Chess Club and after six hours’ play, when fortysix moves had been made, tho game w r as drawn. The score of the match now stands: Janowski, 3; Showalter, 0; drawn. 2. The sixth game will be played on Friday. ODDITIES OF POISONING. Some May Eat with Impunity Certain Foods Which Are Rank Poisons to Others. The constitutional differences and 1 peculiarities w r hich exist among individuals should always be carefully watched and considered. One person can handle poison ivy with impunity, while another Is poisoned if only in the vicinity of the vine and without contact. Some members of a family residing in a malarial district will suffer regularly with chills and fever, while other members will not be at all affected. Food that is actually poisonous to some persons, will not so act on others. One person may eat all kinds of green fruit and vegetables with impunity, while another person could do so only at the risk of life. Certain kinds of fish are actually poisonous to some people and perfectly wholesome to others. It la this peculiar condition of the system which constitutes the danger point in the individual case and should be prudently observed by each one for himself. Intestinal derangements frequently arise from and are aggravated by certain kinds of food. Thus a person affected with kidney or liver trouble should not eat very white bread, since the extreme w’hiteness Is often produced by the use of alum with an inferior article of flour, and as alum is knorri to be poisonous in its effects on a sound constitution this is why alum baking powder is never used by people of judgra*’ ol and discretion. More of earthly happiness depends upon what we eat than many people realize, and it is for this reason that tho different States are ono bv one* passing pure-food laws.

HOW DREYFUS EXISTS SOME SHOW OP MERCY IX HIS TREATMENT FENDING REVISION. - Embalming Outfit Wan Sent to Der il'a Island When It Wan First Reported that He Was 111. Sterling Helllg’s Paris letter In New York Press. Alfred Dreyfus, in his prison on the He du Diable, is at last to ’‘benefit by a regime of favor” pending the investigation of his case. This news comes to the French public at the sr.mo time with the first truthful details of what the old regime lias been. And there details present an ensemble as mysterious as any other part of the mysterious affair. Sinco the beginning of 1897 Dreyfus has been In solitary confinement, without a view of either land or sea. He has even been in irons. The government has furnished him only with rations of goat's milk and bread. And, though the Dreyfus family Is allowed to send him stipulated monthly sums for extra food and other comforts in a tropical climate, the great mass of this money has accumulated—unused—to the amount of $1,400. One of the most curious documents that has come to light is a page from the account book of the firm at Cayenne from whom all the monthly purchases of Dreyfus are effected. When it is remembered that his only rations are goat’s milk and bread, this meager list of thirty days’ provisions is eloquent of an economy that can scarcely ba voluntary'; and it presents vividly the dilemma of a refined man forced to make choice between health, cleanliness, comfort —and nourishment. Here is the list:

One litre of wood alcohol, for cooking; 3 bottles of orange flower water, 3 pots of preserved butter, 2 pounds of chocolate, 2 boxes of cheese, 6 bottles of soda water, 2 bottles of mineral water, 6 pairs of socks, 2 pounds of tobacco, 50 cigars, 1 wooden pipe, 2 large boxes of matches, 1 largo package of writing paper, 2 packages of candles, 1 bottle of granulated kola, 10 pounds of soap, 2 pairs of white cotton trousers and 6 white handkerchiefs. Other months showed orders for canned meats and vegetables. Excepting always the goat's milk and bread, the prisoner has lived on these canned goods since early in 1897, when his mysterious close confinement was begun. He might buy fresh meat and vegetables; but it is said he will not cook them. Between Dreyfus and the directeur of the administration penitentiaire there has been a silent struggle going on, a struggle in which Dreyfus always gets the worj'; of It. Seven miles out in the ocean, twentyseven miles northwest of Cayenne, He tne three Salvation islands, side by side, anb separated only by two narrow channels. The lie Royale, almost a mile long, contains a little colony of convicts. The lie Saint Joseph contains some stores and a small station. Between them lies the lie du Diable, inhabited by only Dreyfus and his guards. It Is a sun-blistered little island, bare of trees except for one small grove. Down on its lowest, barest point, far from the grove of trees, there is a wooden tower. Upon its top there is a Hotchkiss gun. Beside the wooden tower there is a wooden house, surrounded by a high, broad porch. THE LITTLE PALISADE. This is the habitation of the guards. Then there is seen beside it a high, palisade, et high as the first story of a house. Within the palisade there is a hut. It is within the palisade that Dreyfus lives. The hut is his prison, and the ground within the palisade his prison yard. He sees only the sky. The palisade, the hut, the house, the porch and tower have all been photographed; and a traveler who got his Information at the lie Royal itself has told the dally life that Dreyfus leads. At 6a. m. one of the guards unlocks the hut door, and the prisoner may walk Into his yard. He takes the air. He looks up at the sky. And then he walks. From 11 a. m. till noon he is locked tip again. It is his lunch hour. From noon till 5 p. tn lie may walk In his yard again. He takes the air. He looks up at the sky. And then he walks. And then he is locked up In the hut again until next morning. Within the hut he has his room to clean, his bed to make, his dishes to keep clean, his daily cooking to be done, his books to read, his writing paper and his pencils. Occupied hour after hour in abstruse architectural calculations—architecture is his favorite study—Dreyfus is heard now and then to murmur his two favorite phrases, “Thai goes well!” and ‘‘Now it will not be long.” The guards never speak to him. He never speaks to them. He has refused to have any word with the penitentiary administrator. Nor would he reply to the governor of Guiana when he came to see him. It was not always thus. During the first two years of his life on the sun-baked little island Dreyfus enjoyed what M. Roberdeau, the governor, has called a bten-etre relatif—“a relative well-being.” He then inhabited a cabin, in which they had kept a herd of goats, a little cabin on a bluff, beside the only grove of trees. His guards lived in a larger building that had been a barn. At night they locked him in. By day he roamed about, collecting bugs and seaweed in the cool hours, reading and writing in his grove when it was hot. He had his food from the cantine of the lie Royale. “During thcße first t vo years,” the governor himself is credited with having said, in a moment of indiscretion, ‘‘the prisoner was permitted liberties* so difficult to explain that they might well authorize certain suppositions. It would be curious to seek along this line-as a psychologist. Guarded by men of experience, owing, no allegiance to the authorities at Cayenne and acting under direct instructions from Paris, Dreyfus, nevertheless, was allowed to roam about the island as he pleased, continually tempted to engage in plans for an escape. CHANCES TO ESCAPE. At low tide the rocky shore of the lie du Diablo is separated from that of the lie Royale by less than one hundred yards of channel. Across it Dreyfus often talked with individuals from Cayenne. He consistiy refused their offers of assistance. Did he fear a trap? Did Dreyfus fear he would be shot escaping? Or, conscious of his innocence, had he resolved to wait in patience? It is tho common talk at Cayenne, among a population more in sympathy with the convicts than their jailers, that he might easily have been rescued any time within the first two years. ‘‘lf he only would!” is the continual phrase which travelers hear in wine-shop conversations, now that the revision has unsealed men’s lips. If he ftaa given a million he could have been rescued at any time!” The million and the rescue are synonymous. , „ . One individual, a liberated convict named Dupont, now acting as a petty money lender in and out the penal settlements, even made a trip to Paris to propose a plan to the Dreyfus family. He was received by Mine. Lucie Dreyfus, “but she would not comprehend.” On the other hand, she was extremely anxious to employ him as her agent at Cayenne, with a view of softening Per husband's captivity. He would be her known and official correspondent, accepted by the penitentiary authorities. This position the good man refused, because to be the known agent of the Dreyfus family would have hurt his business. The man chosen later, Paul Dufourg, a negro baker and confectioner, has earned hjs money. “Some time after the arrival of Dreyfus at the islands,” he said recently to Jean Hess, the African explorer, ' I received a letter from my Paris correspondent asking f I would consent to occupy myself with the material interests of the prisoner. With the letter caine a draft for 1,000 francs. It was such a mission of humanity that a man of heart could not refuse, however unpleasant might lie the consequences. They have been painful for me. But Ido noKiomplam I would do it again. The authorities of the administration penitentiaire replied to me that they hud received no instructions to allow the prisoner more comforts than any other convict Like the other convicts, he might order food from the canteen. Now, it was known at this time that the prisoner was ill because no one had seen him walking on 'the island. I therefore wrote to the fofnllv to hold the minister for the colonies responsible for the prisoner’s life, subjected i, t ‘ was to a regime not corresponding to the of the sentence of the court-mar-tial* CONDITIONS CHANGING. “I sent them at the same time a complete medical report on the Salvation islands and on the conditions under which Dreyfus might hope to resist the action of the climate, Joined to the privations of imprisonment! For this I paid 1,000 francs to Dr. Susini, of Cayenne. Thanks to the use made of the document in Paris, the material condition of the prisoner, which had been hard, was notably ameliorated.” A letter from Mathleu Dreyfus to Dufourg

will indicate the character of the concessions he obtained from the penitentiary authorities: ‘‘Paris, June 7, 1396. "Monsieur Dufourg, Industrial, at Cayenne—l confirm my letter of yesterday. My sister received only last night the letters from her husband. In one of these letters my unhappy brother asks for several objects which it will be Impossible for us to send him by the steamer of June 9. For this reason I beg you to do your best to buy them for him at Cayenne. Vichy water. r>^-.Ro nse( j and, if possible, a few more books. a/ sister has sent you to-day by parcel post soap, chocolate and two undershirts. Have the kindness to hand the package over to the penitentiary administration tor my brother. Again once more I thank you for all that you have done to preserve the life of that innocent man until the day of the discovery of the truth. • MATHIEU DREYFUS.” Then followed the best period of the life of Dreyfus on the island. It was not to last. Early in 1897 M. Lebon, then minister for the colonies, began prescribing extraordinary measures against the ‘‘escape” of the prisoner, who had resisted all temptations to escape for more than two years. How M. Verignon, directeur of the administration penitentiare at Cayenne, then began to make a study of "the chances of escape” reads like a detective romance of the most dangerous type. In the wine Cayenne they chuckle over it to-day. ior scenery there are three islands, lying in the somber night, without moon, without stars. The wind is on the sea. The breakers dash against the rocks. It was at such an hour that M. Verignon got up his expedition. Leaving the lie Royale in a small sailboat, with three picked men and an Indian pilot, he sailed round the lie du Diable. landing in a little creak. Silently they picked their way to the goathouse beside the little grove where Dreyfus was locked in. Nobody stopped them. Every one was sleeping peacefully. An “escape” would have succeeded. What is more curious, the adventure was repeated. This decided M. Verignon, It seems. He reported to M. Lebon, at Paris, that the prisoner was “not safe under the regime existing. MORE HARDSHIPS. Soon there came from Paris a voluminous “secret dossier” in duplicate, with minute Instructions for the treatment of the prisoner “in all foreseen eventualities.” Dreyfus was made to leave his grove. He was no longer left to roam about the Island with a guard behind him. The new buildings down on the sun-blistered shore were quickly run up, the wooden tower that holds the Hotchkiss gun, the house of the guards, with its broad porch, the palisade which is the prison yard of Dreyfus, and the hut Inside which is his solitary cell. It was now that Dreyfus became rebellious and was put in irons. He raged against the new regime of solitary confinement in a tiny prison yard without a view of sea or land. Then they cut off the privilege of the canteen, and told him that for occupation he should do his cooking. Dufourg. the agent at Cayenne, advised the Dreyfus family to protest fn Paris against the close confinement as Illegal, contrary to the terms of tho court-martial's sentence, which were that the prisoner should be “kept” simply “in a fortified place;” but the campaign for the revision had already been begun in Paris, and the minister would receive no communication from the family. The doctor of the penal colony protested, saying that he could not answer for the life of Dreyfus under the changed circumstances. The answer was to send from Paris a complete embalming outfit. “If Dreyfus dies.” they wrote, “send on his body. 'Otherwise It will be said that you allowed him to escape.” . „ _ Ever since the public sentiment of Cay* enne has been in favor of the prisoner. Fhe Governor himself admits that Dreyfus has been treated harshly. As for the convicts, liberated and confined. It has been, for a vear and more past their ambition and deilght to send the prisoner Indications of the progress of his case. His guards have found wo“ds written on his shirts as they came from the laundry. Another trick has been to scratch certain letters of the labels on the baskets of provisions that are sent to Dreyfus monthly. Thus when every letter “R” upon a label would be scratched the prisoner might know that the revision was in progress. “How do you know that Dreyfus noticed such minute things without being warned to look for them?” one of these men w r as asked. “He is no fool,” he answered. “Do nat be deceived. A prisoner’s eyes are always sharper than a Jailer’s.” Ip confirmation of the general belief at Cayenne that for some months Dreyfus has had information of the outside world there is the story of a soldier just returned. One day, when he was helping to convey provisions to the palisade he heard the guard cry from tho hut inside, “Quick! quick! the prisoner is dying!” He rushed in. Dreyfus was lying in a dead faint on the floor. Together they revived him. When Dreyfus came to and saw tho stranger there he spoke, the guard said, for the first time in a year. “I am not ill,” he said. “I am very well. But I will be much better when I get out of this hell. You can tell them that I know—” Here the guard stopped him. “Tell them l am posted.” Dreyfus shouted rb the door slammed on the frightened soldier.

THREE NAVAL HEROES. Why Constructor Hobson Refused 950,000 for a. Series of Lectures! WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Naval Constructor Richmond Pearson Hobson has recently refused an offer of $50,000 from a New York lecture bureau for a stated number of lectures during the season. Explaining the reason for his refusal to a friend to-day, Mr. Hobson said: “Before the sinking of the Merrimac my lectures would have been worth probably not more than 50 cents; the sinking of the Merrimac seems to have made them worth $50,000. The work which so suddenly raised my stock in literary trade was done in simple execution of my duty as an officer in the American navy. I did not feel that I had a right to use the performance of that duty for my financial betterment. I therefore declined the offer of the $50,000.” Deign an Didn’t Kiss Chorus Girls. DES MOINES, Nov. 30.—Osborn Peignan, the Merrimac hero, spent several hours in the city yesterday on his way to Stuart, where he will spend two or three weeks vlsting his mother. He says the story about the chorus in New York kissing him is a canard. “I went to see Jefferson de Angelis,” Diegnan explained, "and some way he heard I was in the house and asked me to come to his dressing room after the performance. He introduced mo to all the girls but, my! I would not let them kiss me—their faces were covered with paint and grease and powder.” Asked regarding the report that he would decline to go to the Naval Academy, he said there was no truth in it, and that ho W'ould certainly go if Congress gave him permission. Deignan Is writing an article on the sinking of the Merrimac for an Eastern magazine for which ho receives a handsome sum. “Bill” Anthony on th© Stage. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Sergeant “Bill” Anthony made his debut as an actor last night. Ho was on the stage about fifteen seconds, hut the hero of the Maine made the most of a part which did not afford many chances for a display of histrionic ability. The stage of the Grand Opera House was the scene of “Bill’s” effort as an actor, and the play “The Red, White and Blue.” There are four acts in the play and Sergeant Anthony did not make his bow until just before the end of the last act. Then he dashes into view in tine style at the head of a party of American marines and sailors who arrive just in time to save the lives of a lot of Americans and Cubans who are penned in an old fort by the Spaniards. Bravo “Bill leads on the rescuers in gallant style, pushing down the whole side of the fort to get in, and flourishes a sword a yard and a half long. Rubber Tires* on a Fire Enulse. NEW YORK, Nov. 30— A good trial, with satisfactory results, has been given to the rubber tires with which engine No. 23, in the fire department, was equipped several days ago. The engine has been called to seven tires since the three-and-one-half-Inch tires were fitted to the wheels, and most of the runs have been made under unfavorable conditions Two alarms were answered when the big snowstorm wks at Its worst, and tho tires did their work well. The driver was able to take the engine around the turns at greater speed than was possible with the old tires. This was noticeable on the asphalt stretches, where formerly the driver was obliged to pull up his horses a block away from the turn. There was also a great lessening of vibration and Jars. It is claimed that the reduction of vibration will save fully one-half In repairs, and that the tires will pay for themselves in a comparatively short time. Rolling Mill Assigns. BIRMINGHAM, Ala Nov. 30.-The Birmingham Rolling Mill Company filed a deed of assignment to-day. The assignment was made to John M. Barr, a director of the company, and Thomas Ward, the generic manager. The liabilities are estimatedat $200,000. No creditors are preferred. The BirmJ igham rolling mill Ift one of the largest

Wasson’s %\2V2 fors2sJackets Ladies’ Jackets of Kersey and fine Venetian Cloth, tan, black, navy and new blue, new box fronts, and some with new storm collars, all silk-lined, Cfl $i2.50 value, for..Q t ' ou Ladies’ Jackets of English Kersey. no two alike, in light tans, castor and black, fine taffeta and satin linings, former price sQ S2O and $25, for Ladles’ Tailor-made Suits, of Venetian Cloth. Coverts and fine Cheviots, in brown, new blue and gray, jackets all silklined, skirts i>lain 'and new flounce, all man-tailored. sls CQ 7 R and $18.50 values, for H.P. Wasson & Cos. Give us and *‘Y. B.” a call at our ne# stand. Pflttnn RriK ..•Distributers. rdllUll Drus > l-i is. Wusb. vSt, Kot Open Sundays. industries in this district, and its assignment was wholly unexpected by the public. The president of the c< mpany, J. G. Caldwell, himself made a personal assignment in Louisville, Ky., about ten days ago, and this fact may have hastened the rolling mill’s creditors to pres., it. The “quick” as-* sets are $500,000, with corresponding liabilities of $275,000. Tne company went heavily into debt four or five years ago to buy machinery. The Dowager Empress of China. Charles Denby, In Engineering Magazine. China is in the hands of a strong, Intelligent and revered woman—the Empress dowager. She is one of tho historic characters of the world. She ruled China for thirty years during the most difficult period of its history—the period when foreign plans and methods were being introduced, and new Ideas, thoughts and schemes were driving out the old. She ruled China well. Talk of her killing the Emperor! Why should she do it? He is her most devoted, loving and affectionate child. She saw the young and weak Emperor beset by factions, dragged hither and thither by the bribed agents of one country and another, and she took again, in her worn but strong hand-3, the reins of power. She will hold them as she held them when in 1862 she sent tho bowstring to four of the leading men at Peking who dared to conspire against her. She is a great woman. Profound. Washington Post. Nothing attracts like the mysterious. Nothing satisfies like the Incomprehensible. I mention these facts by way of explaining the great satisfaction I saw a gathering of women display one evening recently in the remarks one of their number w'as making. It was something about genealogy she was saying, and the pith of her discourse was contained in a remark which she repeated three times. “Descent,” said she, “descent is the moat hereditary thing in tho world." And all the women applauded so vigorously that you could see at once they knew precisely what she meant.

TWO PRETTY SCHOOLGIRLS Being Slowly Poisoned to Deaths y' Coffee—A Mother's Story* "Our daughter Maud gradually began to show more and more nervous trouble during her school days last spring, and it came to such a pass that she was not making tho progress desired, and was so terribly nervous that except by the utmost effort she could not sit still or get her mind upon her work. One evening I asked her what in the world ailed her, and told her to put her lesson asido until morning, so that she could §§ MRS. NELLIES A. VOSBIRG, . Indinnula, la. ■ rest. She said: ‘No, mother, I must get this lesson to-night and be up early to get another in the morning. I don’t know why it Is, but I have been falling behind my class for over six months, and I must work In order to graduate this spring. I believe I will go and make mo a cup of strong coffee; that will brace me up.’ So a good cup of coffes was made and Maud got through with heg lessons at 11 o'clock. "The next morning I heard a rattling at the stove about half past 4, and went down to find Maud there building a fire. She said she could not sleep and that she had to study, so she thought she would make sqme coffee, as it helped her the night beford. II went back to bed with a heavy heart, for there was a thought of danger creeping in. Step by step my mind went back over the last year and the acts of our dear daughter during that time passed before me like at panorama. She used to be so well and happy, but now she acted as if she was almost crazy with nervousness, and a wreck of her former beautiful self. It dawned; upon the mother’s mind that Maud was fading away, and, looking to God, I breathed a silent prayer to the dear Father to save my child. “The next morning I started out to consult the family physician, but Just at the door I met a neighbor’s daughter on her way to school. A year ago this young lady h;td been confined to her bed for months with nervous prostration, and it was whispered about that if she lived she would be likely to lose her mind. Her parents sent her away to a viilugo near by, and this was the first time I had seem her since her return. I saw that sho was tho picture of health, and I said. ‘Why, Fannie Trayer, what have you been doing with yourself? I never saw such a change In my fife.’ She answered, ‘Why, you know I finally found out that the coffee I was drinking was ruining me, and when I got out to auntie's she took the coffee away entirely and gave me Postum Cereal Food Coffee. That Is the only thing I have had. and you can see what th result Is. I am just as well as I can possibly be, and getting along beautifully with my school work.’ “I was so deeply Impressed with Fannie’* experience, and her former condition tallied so closely with Maud’s, that 1 abandoned mv proposed trip to the physician’s and went Instead to the grocer’s and secured a package of Postum. That night Maud had Postum Food Coffee instead of coffee, and th'e next morning the dear child said she had slept and was very much refreshed. The effect was so instantaneous that I was very much surprised, and feared perhaps there might be some medicine* in Postum, but I have since been assured that it contains no medicines whutever, but that, on tho contrary, it Is made of pure cereals, so handled by skilled experts in its manufacture that the delicate small particles of phosphate of potash are retained in a natural state as found in certain parts of the cereals, and that this, together with the albumen in food goes quickly to work to rebuild the nervous system. Our daughter has been saved to us. She graduated with honor, and instead of the nervous wreck she was at one time, she Is now the picture of bounding health,"

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