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THE Joi n*At* BUSINESS DIRECTORY. BICVCLEfc- WHOLES ALK AND JftBTAU— H. T. HEAKFEY CYCLE CO. (BlovoN-s and Supplli B), 21A-21S N. Pennsylvania t. CARPET CLEANING—HOWARD STEAM CARPET CLEANING AND RENOVATING WORKS. Tel. sl6. FLOKIS’I’S—BERTETiMAN FLOBAL COMPANY, New No. 241 Mass ave., 226 N. Del. (. Tel. 840. laundries— UNION CO-OPERATIVE LAUNDRY, MANTELS AND GRATES— P- M. PURSELL • Mantels, rump*), Mass. ave. and Delaware st. THE M S. HUEY CO.. MFCS. (Mantels. Orates and Tiles). New No. 1301 Mass, ave. PATENT LAWYERS—CHESTER BRADFORD, 1233 to 1236 Stevenson bid*. 15 E. Wash. st. H. P. HOOD & SON (Arthur M. Hood), 32-33 Union Trust bldg, 120 E. Market st. V. H. LOCKWOOD. PLUMBING AND STEAM HEATING— J. S. FARRELL & CO. (Contractors). BALE AND DIVERT STABLES—HORACE WOOD (Carriages. Traps, Buckboards, etc.), 23 Circle. Tel. 1097. SHOW CASES—WILLIAM wiegel, UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS AND CANES— C. W. GUNTHER (Manufacturer), 21 Pembroke Arcade and 56 Maas, ave. UNDERTAKERS—FRANK BLANCHARD, a? N. Delay, are at. Tel. 411. Lady Attendant. WALL PAPERS— H. C. STEVENS. New Styles Wall Taper. Low Prices. 930 N. Senate ave. Tel. 2on 2352. PLANNER A: BUCHANAN—22O North Illinois street. Lady embalmer, for ladles and children. Office always open. Telephone 641. Hacks at lowest prevailing price. C. E. KREGKLO. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, has resumed business at bis old establishment, 223 North Unaware street. Everything new and complete. Office telephone. No. 250. DROTY—William Droty, Saturday, Dec. 31, at 6:45 p. m., at No, 2113 Ringdale avenue. Funeral notice later. CARD OF THANKS—The family of Mr. J. Cody desire to express their thanks to the friends for the kindness shown during the sickness and death of the wife and mother and for the sympathy expressed during the hours of sorrow and darkness. Special thanks we desire to offer to the officials of the Big Four Railroad for their generosity in providing so readily for the transput tatlon for the funeral party to St. Paul and return. . Congregatlunul. IfcjYMOUTH CHURCH —Southeast corner New and Meridian streets. Rev. F. E. Dewmat, pastor. Services Sunday morning, 10:45. lllrnon by the pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a. rn. gfgday evening, under auspices the McCulloch SBMh Mr. It. B. Gruelle will deliver an address; ‘Woods and Sea—The Spirit of Nature.” Cajhg. s is one of the ''Message of Art” ■ will bo illustrated by the stereepticon. roMiwji SHPV Spiritualist. FIRST SPIRITUALIST CHURCH—Comer Alabama and New York streets. Sunday morning meeting at 10:45 and etening meeting at 7:45 o'clock. Mrs. Anna L. Robinson, of Port Huron, Mich., will lecture both morning and evening and \TIII give testa. All are welcome. FINANCIAL. LOANS —Money on mortgages. C. F. SAVLES, 75 East Market street. LOANS—Sums of S3OO and over. City, property and farms. C. R. COFFIN A- CO.. 150 East Market street. MONEY LOANED SALARIED PEOPLE holding permanent positions with responsible concerns U|Hin their own names without security; easy payments. TOLMAN, Room 701. Stevenson building. MONEY—To loan on Indiana farms. Lowest market rate; privilege for paym-nt before due. We also buy municipal bonds. THOS. C. DAY & Room 325-330, third floor Lerncke building, HPnlanapolis. ON FURNITURE, PIANOS ETC., Without removal. Interest 7 per cent, a year. On Building Association Plan. PERSONAL PROPERTY SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. Room 4. Lott 1 ard Building. 24’- East Washington. £a>ans— ~~~ TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS to loan in sums of $lO, sls, S2O, S3O, SSO, SIOO. S2OO or any amount on FURNITURE. PIANOS. ORGANS, BICYCLES, STORE FIXTURES, ETC., At rates which honest teopla can afford to pay. The property to remain In your undisturbed possession. EVERYBODY WHO W ANTS MONEY CAUL AND SEE US. INDIA NAPOLIS MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY, Room 10, 57 East Market street. ~ FOR RENT. ™ FOR RENT—Rooms, pri.ate family; bath; gases. 027 North Illii.ols street. IFOR RENT—Brick factory building, 24 Garden street, two squares south of Union Station. W ANTED —To rent nicely furnished room; central. North Side location desired; references exchanged Addreca D, care Journal. FOR SALE. Ictr SALE—Ten R.I.P A.N.S fol 5 cent* at jMWrugglsts; one give* relief. ■ m SALE— Nickd slot machine; fairest wheel; BBnew, cheap, 621 North Illinois street. FOR SALK—REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE - Real Estate—No cash needed; fine residence lot near Fifteenth street: will sell to any one who will build at once and will take mortgage security at *< per cent, on long time or will sell cheap for cash. Address A. H., care Journal. FtIHJVRADL^^^^ FOR TRADE—Fine residence lot near Fifteenth street; worth $2,200. with SSOO mortgage; will trade for cottage in any good location, not worth more than the equity. Address A. H., care Journal. WANTED—maIe: hell W r ANTKD-Government positions. Don’t prepare for any civil-service examination without seeing our Illustrated catalogue of information; sent free. COLUMBIAN < OKRESFONDENCE COLLEGE, Washington, D. C. WANTK D—F BNA LlO HELP. WANTED—A middle-aged lady, experienced, to take charge of small laboratory. Address D, care Journal. \\ ANTED—AGENTS. WANTED —Agents everywhere; S2O weekly; also partv to handle agents and retail trade; sample, 10c. L. WATSON. 634 Main. Terre Haute, lnd. \WANTED —Agents (<>r newest, best lnterchangc- \ able sign in market; sells at sight: price. 65c e,i ■ . 1 .VfEKt 'll A NGEA BLE SIGN COMPANY, Room 9, 146 Monroe, Chicago, 111. A\ ANTED—S WANTED —Ten salesmen at once: sold to business men only. Apply to GEO. W. WOODJi.iN. Hotel OneidaW .NTED Five salesmen wanted by established h i.-t sellii g dry goods and general trade; give mtertiiis in application. Box 127, Detroit, Mich W ANTBD—MISCELLANEOUS, WANTED— A good business man with a few hundted d.dials that Is ready to act promptly on a safe and profitable proposition. Address \V, care Journal. ______________ W ANTED- Young nv-n. eur illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade In eight weeks; mailed free. MOLER BARBER COLLEGE. CTilcag" \VANTED- Man as manufacturer’s agent; must be u bright, clear-hea led business man with a few hundred dollars cash and ready to do businesti at cnee. Address L. care Journal WAN TED—To buy coal yard: one which ba* son ? business; need not be very extensive; must be frve of Incumbrance; cheap; do not care to have much stock; rent of yard property not too high. Address 11, N , care Journal. CLAIRVOYANT. CLAIRVOYANT— Mra. Griswold reads past, pres•at and future of nne s life. Gives them luck, •uecess and happiness. 546 East South street. Hoars. 19 a. m. to S p. re ASTROLOGER—Madame May, the great astrologer and clairvoyant, brings back absent friends and lovers, >ettles family troubles; reliable advice on ;i!1 business matters Gents, 50c and ladies, 25c. Home Sundays. Sittings every day. Call 125 N. Davidson street. BUSINESS CHANCE. BUSINESS CHANCE—Have you $509 cash and do you wsnt to tain ae much more every month In safe, b-giUma;* business? Address A. care Journal. SUSINKAS CHANCE—Unusual opportunity to Invest S3OO or more, securing large remanent income: capital safe; prop- < sure. H. GRIFFIN. UU lUvwdv ray. New York.

MUSICAL. MUSICAL—MUSIC BOXES. sl4 Regina Box, with 20 tunes, SIO.OO. sl4 Regina Box. with 10 tunes, 8.00. 170 Regina Box, with 10 tunes, 48.00. S7O Olympia Box, with 10 tunes, 48.00. $45 Olympia Box, with Id tune*, 32.00. CARLIN & LENNOX. MUSICAL— ' “* SHEET MUSIC SALE. W’ith each purchase of music we will give one copy of Artillery March, by Burt Short. All music sold at one-half marked price. Also a special lot of music at 5c and 10c a copv. CARLIN A- LENNOX. 5 to 9 E. Market at. ARTILLERY MARCH GIVEN AWAY. This popular march by Burt Short we wilt give away to every purchaser of sheet music this week. All music sold at one-half price. Also a special lot at 6c and 10c. CARLIN & LENNOX, 5 to 9 E. Market st. LOST. LOST—Black opera glasses at matinee at Grand Opera House. Return to 1311 North Capitol avenue. Reward. KEELEY INSTITUTES. The Plainfield Keeley Institute successfully treats and radically cures Inebriety, morphine and tobacco addictions. Indianapolis office, 113114 Commercial Club building. All business strictly private and confidential. Tel. No. 2427. OPTICIAN—Dr. Emerson Druiey, Optician. Specialty. Glasses scientifically ground and fitted. Open evenings. Examination free. Office 229‘A Massachusetts avenue. First Square. COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. The Officer* Elected—lnterchangeable Mileuge Ticket*. Two hundred members of the Commercial Travelers’ Association of Indiana met yesterday at the Board of Trade building- and elected the following officers for this year: President—Jefferson Caylor. Vice President—George W. White. Secretary and Treasurer—W. F. Henley. Board of Directors—James R. Ross, J. F. Jewar, Charles F. Worth, M. P. Lynch and C. A. Ross. Mr. Caylor is with the W. D. Cooper Shoe Company, Mr. White is with the D. P. Erwin Company and Mr. Henley, who was re-elected, is with the W. H. Armstrong Company. Rev. F. O. Ballard opened the meeting with prayer. Mayor Taggart made an address of welcome, in which he said the traveling men were the best advertisers for a city. Charles R. Duffin, of Terre Haute, and James H. Newman, the retiring president of the association, responded to the mayor's speech. The secretary's report showed that the membership had increased to 1,025, a gain of fifteen during the year. The treasurer’s report showed that $22,000 in death claims had been paid out, and the finances of the association were In excellent condition. For two hours the association had a lively discussion of the old interchangeable mileage ticket question, which was a feature of contention at last year’s meeting. Some of the members spoke in favor of it and some against. No progress was made, for a resolution condemning the ticket and asking the railroads to substitute some new scheme was turned down. Thomas A. Dean, of Chicago, was appointed a committee of one to lay the matter before the Central Traffic Association with the hope of inventing a plan to settle the controversy. The association indorsed a bill to be presented to the Legislature providing that in all rooms in hotels there shall be knotted ropes for tire escapes, that the buildings shall be equipped with other lire escapes and night watchmen shall be employed. The Commercial Travelers’ Club opened the doors of its new clubhouse in the afternoon and evening. The residence No. 259 North Meridian street, formerly occupied by the L. A. W., has been thoroughly altered and renovated, and the spacious rooms were thronged with the members and their friends. The lower floor is handsomely furnished. Several partitions on the upper floor were removed, converting several small rooms into a spacious billiard hall. The club derived a profit of $l2O from the ball at the Propylaeum Friday night. The membership is now in excess of one hundred. HORSE WITH DIPHTHERIA. Flr*t Case Apparently on Record I* from Indiana. The first case of “horse diphtheria” ever on record in this or any other country was unearthed yesterday by Dr. J. N. Hurty, of the State Board of Health. W. D. Steward, of Yvliitestown, this county, lias a horse winch became sick a few weeks ago, and a veterinarian who was called in found that a membrane nad grown in the animal’s throat to such an extent that it protruded through his nostrils. Such a growth had never before been met in the experience of the veterinarian, and he promptly took a sample of it for “culture” to the State Board of Health. This was done by placing it inside a glass tube, hermetically sealed, in which a blood serum had been placed to help along the growth of the bacilli. As soon as it reached the office of the State Board of Health it was seen that the membrane showed every sign of and itheria in its appearance and growth, but Dr. Hurty was nonplussed, because such a thing had never been heard of before. In a short time the “culture” ueveloped pus organisms beside those of diphtheria, and when the nature of the membrane became known to a certainty o.e result was made known to the veterinarian, who began to treat the suffering horse for diphtheria, much after the method pursued with human beings, and is proud of the fact that he is the first veterinarian who ever treated a like case. MR. GONSER’S “PERK.” I)B hied It, Onl* to Find Himself a Loser. There is a laugh due the Statehouse officials at the expense of Deputy Secretary of State George (looser, and the latter is in dread lest the secret leak out. But everyone has promised to keep it dark. A few days ago a man walked into the office and asked to have a copy made of one of the records of the office, and, as it was not in the way of regular business, a fee was charged the individual and was promptly paid, he handing over a dollar bill. Gonser, to do ttio fair thing with the other employes ot the office, made a division of the spoils, and, instead of having the bill changed, he simply took the change out of his pocket ami passed it around in proportion. Shortly afterward he had to spend some money and tendered the bill he received from the liberal stranger, only to learn that it was a counterfeit. Since then he has looked with suspicion on anyone who tenders a bill in payment for anything in the office. Marion Club’* Open House. The Marion Club will keep open house tomorrow from 4 until 10 o’clock. Ladies will be received during the afternoon and evening, and each one will b presented with a floral design as a souvenir. Kleusmann’s orchestra will furnish the music The entertainment committee of the club, composed of L. G. Rothschild, W. K. Cooper and Geo. H. Batchelor, is working hard to make the reception a success. The reception committee is as follow’s: Ronert H. Brysdh, chairman, George B. Elliott, John C. Ruckelshaus, Dr. Homer Joins, diaries Spahr, James W. Fesler, J. M. Gentle, \\ . H. Schrader, B. E. Uhl, Marie Walker, Frank I*. Littleton, S. P. Welman, James M. Noel. S. P. Stoddard. D. L. Stine, A. M. Glossbrenner, B. F. Osborne, John McGregor, Henry Harding, A. Whitcomb, Otto Belzer, C. K. Thornton, H. C. Pittman. J. B. Nelson, W. W. Darke, R. B. Mimdelle, Joseph Morgan, Pearson Mendenhall. Janies E. Greer. Charles A. Bookwalier. Marion Eaton, John G. McCullough, B. G. Hitz. O. L. Carter, C. D. Bowen, G. E. Varney, Campbell Cobb, F. H. Wylie, Gavin Payne, W. H. 8011, S. M. Hi 111 go as, C. E. Steinwender, Charles Good, H. F. Haokedorn, R. B. Tuttle, M. H. Raschig. William Bosson, F. G. Campbell. L. D. Hay, F. C. Cutler, W*. H. Clapp, Thomas Shufe-lton, W. H. Nickerson, C. C. Hartman, W. L. Essmann, W. G. Beach, Albert Barnes, H C. Aufderhtde, B. 1* Abbett and F. W. Noble. € off man Didn’t See the Engine. Jerome B. Coffman, fifty-five years old, living at No. 1735 Hoyt avenue, was injured yesterday evening while crossing the Big Four Railroad track at English avenue. Coffman has an oil rout© and waa driving home from Irvington when he was hurt. In crossing the railroad track he failed to tiotice an approaching switch engine. The locomotive struck his vehicle, knocking it from the track. Coffman struck the ground violently and his nose was broken and he suffered several scalp wounds. He was taken to the City Hospital.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1899.

CLOSING THE CITY BOOKS MORE IMPROVEMENTS THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEARS. Employment of Inspectors n Bothersome Problem to the Officials. e All day yesterday city officials were busy closing up the work of IS9B. Members of the Board of Public Works spent the entire day signing records and otherwise fixing everything in shape for the closing year. They expressed satisfaction at what had been accomplished during the year, in which more public improvements were undertaken and carried out than ever before. Notwithstanding the large amount of work that was done, the board enters upon the new year with 106 petitions for new improvements carried over. On these nothing has been done, except that in some instances the engineer has been directed to prepare papers for the work. The board has found Itself confronted with a very serious problem in the matter of employing inspectors. At one time last year there were sixty jobs of work in course of construction. This, according to the board, required the employment of a large number of inspectors. There were some cases where one inspector had to look after two jobs. While not wishing to draw discredit upon conscientious contractors, the board asserts that unless public improvements are watched the contractors will shirk responsibility and avoid the specifications by putting on less cement, a thinner surface of asphalt or a thinner foundation of gravel and concrete, as the case may be. A large part of the last year seventy inspectors were kept busy. While not saying so for publication, it is understood the board realizes the difficulty of always getting experienced and conscientious men for the work of inspecting improvements. This one item alone, placing a large expense on the city, had much to do with delaying other improvements that property owners petitioned for. While realizing the difficulty in this direction, practicable remedies have not suggested themselves to the board. Although it was the policy of the board the last year to make as many improvements as possible, the board was handicapped by lack of funds available for superintending the work. Even while insisting that contractors shall do work entirely in accord with the specifications under which their contracts are let, there are many property owners who object to the inspector system and the expense it entails. “What substitute can you offer?” is the question the board has to ask. A member of the board said yesterday that he felt the body had reason to feel proud of the year’s accomplishment. Among the important work done was the resurfacing of Washington street, the completion of t..e Capitol-avenue macadam roadway and the improvement of Morris street with asphalt block, not to mention many Northside cross streets that were improved. Definite plans for next year have not been completed, so far as street improvements are concerned, but tne board has already decided to improve the roadways of North Delaware street. Ash street and Bellefontaine street. It is said that property owners on these streets are “clamoring” to have improvements made. One thing on which the Board of Works admits a certain amount of lameness is the street cleaning. Admittedly, in the opinion of the board, the pneumatic or suction sweepers are the best for improved streets, hut the trouble is there is a monopoly on these machines and the controlling company will not sell them, and will only lease at a price asserted to be prohibitory. In this as other cities there is room for some mechanical device that will do w r ork equal to that of the pneumatic suction sweepers. PAYING CITY HILLS. Last Month’* Police Court Revenue Broke All Record*. Controller EJ. M. Johnson was a busy man yesterday, closing up the business of the year. But little trouble was experienced in collecting moneys due the city, and last night Mr. Johnson said that every bill was paid—or at least warrants had been issued for every dollar due, if they had not been delivered. During the day more than $4,200 waa turned over to the controller as the city's share of fines and fees collected in the Police Court in the month, the largest sum that has ever been collected from that source. Will Recommend (he s.’o9. Controller Johnson said yesterday that ho would recommend that the Council appropriate SSOO for the use of the committee on investigation and impeachment to use in the park purchase investigation. Mr. Johnson did not consider this as absolutely necessary, believing that the contingent fund was available, but in order to avoid any conflict of opinion he will send a message making the recommendation to the Council to-mor-row night. The contingent fund contains about SI,OOO, and may be drawn for unexpected expenditures not enumerated by the various boards. Market Fee* for ISOS. Clerk Davis, of the Board of Puoiic Safety, collected for the city during the year 1808 fees amounting to $4,025.0-1. Os this amount the sum of $1,000.25 was “curbstone” fees. This class of fees is paid by people who sell produce from the sidewalks near the market house. The sum of $563.55 was collected from the hay market. . THE CHRIST CHURCH CHIMES. A Little More Cheerful Nowadays, Says the Guardian Angel. “Well, sir,” remarked the Guardian Angel of Christ Church last night, “I am feeling pretty line. A year ago I did feel a little as though I were going to the demolition bowwows, but 1 took the don’t-worry cure, and here I stand just as stanch as aa apple tree in June, while my poor neighbor next door, the Columbia Club building, seems all torn up o\er things. True, 1 feel a ringing in my hoad, a touch of the grip perhaps, or ” And here the ringing was quite apparent, sound waves beating down on. Monument place and reverberating around the incased circle till the rarefied atmosphere was surcharged with the singing noise that followed the Initial sounds. The chimes of Christ Church were ringing in anew year, welcoming it with a lustiness that left little respect for the lately deceased A. D. ninetyeight. , "You chaps are continually dishing up sentimental things about me,” the Guardian Angel went on. "Writing about me as if I were the last rose of summer, or the sere and yellow leaf, or some other botanical specimen ready for the ash heap. What’s the use? That’s the sort of stuff to sing to sentimental school giris or verdant youths who grow tired of the world after their first rebuff In a love affair. Why. I am not old. What if I am gray—l was born that way; and these withered ivy leaves that you see clinging about me, a mantle as you call it—that’s mv last summer gown, and I'll have anew green one early next summer. Come around some day and hear me sing a bridal song, and then dare to remark that I am growing old. That one cracked note, my upper C, is no evidence that my voice is failing. Some tunes, you know, can be sung without a high C, and I do very well with them. I used to dread these New Year's eves, for I don't think any artistic church chimes should be required to do chorus work with a ribald lot of fire bells and steam whistles but my professor down in the loft below says that art for art’s sake doesn't count on New Year’s eve. Besides. I get a chance to do a little solo work, and I hope I may never live to see the day when a steam whistle or a fire bell can learn to play ‘Old Hundred.’ ‘America’ or others of my repertoire. Why don’t I sing any other tunes but this half doz(;n or so? Well, the professor seems to think I know enough, and I suppose he is about the only professor in these parts that knows anything about my voice. And to show what she could do the Guardian Angel began one of her stirring songs, her voice being heard clearly above tho humming din of the whistles. Presently her voice ceased and the humming noise went on. "You see, or rather you hear.”

she went on, “that I use the same accompaniment for ail my airs on New Year’s eve. “As I was saying a few moments ago,” she went on, “I vigorously protest against this fashion of sprinkling sadness over our intellectual pabulum. Why, a man cannot Write a successful novel nowadays without soaking it with pathos or distress, or some grewsome subject Bah. talk about me growing old! Here you were preaching my funeral a year ago. and I am still standing, and I will he standing long after you folks have gone to rest To be sure the vestrymen will have their little joke about tearing me down, but I don’t believe they will have the -heart to do it. So don't say more about my last days. Tell the people how very cheerful I am to-night. What matters It that a year has slipped by? There are plenty more to come. Laugh and be glad to-morrow, not because to-morrow you die, but because to-morrow and to-morrow will bring you more joys and gladness. Indeed, there were some incidents in the last year that I am glad are affairs of the past—glad to have them go by. “Do you remember that Sunday May day, when the first of our soldiers went marching down Meridian street on their way to war; how the mist filled the air and how wondrously strange it all seemed to this generation; how rhe iron and wemen lined the sidewalks and cheered end choked alternately. while the heavily-accoutred youngsters marched proudly by. their i-carts beating in rhythm to the martial ardor of the hour? Wasn’t it a grand sight to see them marching by the noble monument, which commemorates the valor of their fathers? Now, while you folks were soi ling and praying for their safe return, I was cheering them on with my tun- s. That’s my creed nowadays, the gospel of cheerfulness.” REVELRY AND TABLEAUX WITH THIS THE GERMAN SOCIETIES WELCOMED THE NEW YEAR. Merry Scene* at the German Roane and at Maennerchor Hull—at the Elk*’. _• With revelry and music, dancing and hilarious good feeling the German societies of the city celebrated the changing of the years last night. When clocks struck 12 and the roar of bells and whistles, mingled with the crack of pistol shots, went up to the sky, the societies of the German House and tho Maennerchor made merry in their halls and It was the hour of the gray light before the men and women left for their homes, happily smiling in the face of 1899. The main auditorium of the German House and the ante-rooms were filled with people and the dancing began at an early hour and continued intermittently until a few minutes before 12 o’clock. It was the scene of heightened gayety that all the functions at the German House are. At two minutes of 12 the attention of all was drawn to the stage and the curtain rose on an elaborate tableau. Father Time (Mr. Prinzler) sat enthroned, scythe in hand and beard flowing as majestically as ever. Below him at his right hand posed the figures representing the war and victory of 1898. Columbia (Miss Mamie Schulmeyer) surveyed the scene. Soldiers and sailors stood about a cannon, the flag was conspicuous, and the whole was a beautiful representation of the prowess of American arms. A great gong boomed the twelve strokes and the Angel of Peace (Miss Berger) mounted the steps leading to Father Time’s throne, and, with outstretched arm, pointed to the tableau on the right of the stage. Here was depicted the prosperity and glory of 1899. Commerce and manufactures enriched the land. The hand of plenty poured wealth into the lap ot. the Nation and all was strength and happiness. The Genius of the German House (Miss Geite), in the costume ot the German woman of the fifteenth century, stood at the side of Apollo (Mr. Frank Mans), representing the music society, and a stalwart young Turner (Mr. H. Grumann), representing the gymnastic society. The German Club was represented by four characters. At either side of the stage four pages with the numbers 1898 and 1899 on their breasts indexed the whole. In all there were seventy people on the stage, and they were grouped so artistically and costumed so handsomely and the whole tableau was so imposing that the curtain went down amid enthusiastic applause. Part of it was given for Mr. Richard Lieber, whoso work the tableau was. The dancing and merriment again came on, and held sway until a late hour. A similar scene was that at the Maennerchor. There were the vivacious picture of the dancers in the hall and the laughing crowds around the refreshment tables. The dancing had begun at 9 o’clock with a grand march led hv Mr. Fred Krauss and his mother, with two hundred members of tho society following them. The orchestra and the male chorus alternated In furnishing music. At a few minutes before midnight the dacing ceased, and a curtain at the rear of the stage rolled up. revealing W. Freidorieh's picture. “The Feast of Victory,” appropriate to the poem of the same title bv Schiller. The tableau was of the return of the victorious Greek from the fall of Priam’s castle walls and the destruction of Trov. The ships were ready to leave the Hellespontic strand, richly laden with spoils, and the triumphant Greeks were exultant with joy at the prospect of the homeward journey, accompanied by the captive Trojan women mournfully deploring their fate. The picture was welcomed with hearty approval. No more than at the German House was the tableau the end of the night’s entertainment, and neither of the societies outcelebrated the other either in enthusiasm or length of time. FROLIC OF THE ELKS. They Celebrated the Incoming of the \ ear The animal frolic of Indianapolis Lodge. No. 13, B. P. O. E.. at Elks’ Hall, on North Meridian street, was nne of the most successful New’ Year’s entertainments the order has ever held in this city. Besides the efforts of local members of the order members of the professional theatrical organizations playing here lent their talents to the enjoyment of tho evening. Tn the early part of the night the Elks assembled In the hall and passed the time in an informal “smoker,” souvenir pipes with a liberal supply of the weed being provided. Exalted Ruler Feibelman was routed from his seat and his place taken by P. J. Ryan, who made a successful chairman, fining everybody in sight, either for doing certain things or not doing them In the customary manner of the Elks. There was a pretty ceremony at midnight. While church bells outside w r ere chiming the midnight hour a brother inside struck the gong, and at the last stroke Marshal James P. Quigley pulled a cord that was connected with two large, flags hanging behind the chairman’s seat. As the flags rolled back a card was seen, inscribed with the words: “Rim Up Old Glory—Good-bye to Spain.” The cheer that arose was drowned in the strains of the "‘Star-spangled Banner” by an orchestra, and the audience joined in the patriotic song. Luter in the evening there were solos by Messrs. William Broderick, Lloyd Rand. Harry Brown and Jack Walsh, of the Bostonians, recitations by Mr. Bradford, of the Grand stock company, and an entertaining exhibition of dancing by Mr. Bundy, of the team of Bundy and Hayes, performing at the Empire Theater. During the evening a buffet lunch was served, and the large crowd was served with pujich. A Boston Minister to Preach. Rev. William Bayard Hale, D. D., LL. D., of Boston, Mass., will preach at St. Paul's Church to-day, morning and . evening. Dr. Hale is one of the most eminent preachers in the American pulpit. Although only thir-ty-one years of age, he is well known as a frequent contributor to theological and secular reviews, and as the author of “The New Obedience." He was select preacher at the University of Oxford, England in 1895. Trouble Among; Messenger*. Frank Fassold, in charge of the messenger boys in the employ of the American District Telegraph Company, was fined $1 and costa In Police Court yesterday for assaulting a messenger named Endicott. The two had some words, and Fassold, after turning Endicott out of the office, is said to have pounded his head on the sidewalk. Workhouse Prisoner Escapes. Robert Sims, a colored prisoner at the workhouse, escaped at 6 o’clock yesterday evening. He was westing in the kitchen, and while ths cook w M absent for a minute

Don’t Worry About what the New Year will bring to you. Just put one of those good 10cent cigars called | (jeneral rthurj In your teeth, and you can look all the world in the face with an easy con= science, and the satisfaction that goes with the best 10=cent smoke ever made. Ivouis O. Descliler, Corner Pennsylvania and Market Sts. Corner Meridian and Washington Sts.

Sims slipped out in the darkness and was seen no more. He was sent to the workhouse from the Criminal Court after being convicted on the charge of assault and battery. He had served forty-one days, and six months still lay before him. CITY NEWS NOTES. The Free Kindergarten Society realized $244.47 from the flower show. The Light Artillery will hold its holiday festival and Christmas tree at its armory to-morrow night. At the College-avenue Baptist Church today Rev. E. A. Hanley, of Chicago University, will preach morning and evening. W. F. Christian, the father of Dr. Christian, fell on the sidewalk in front of the Grand Hotel yesterday and his leg was broken. George H. Thomas W. R. C., No. 20. will hold its regular meeting Tuesday at 2 p. m. Public installation of officers of post and corps will take place in the evening. The next lecture in the McCulloch Club series will be given next Wednesday evening at Plymouth Church by Miss Charity Dye on the “City of Washington.” This will be illustrated with stereoptieon views. There will be a memorial service for Mrs. Abby Voorhees .Tudson Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock at Christ Church. On account of the service the members of the Orphan Asylum board, of which she was a member, will attend and their regular meeting will be held Wednesday morning instead. Rev. A. L. Hassler has just returned from Columbus, 0., where he officiated on the evening of the 29th ult. at the wedding of Miss Bessie Melrose lying, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. De Witt Long, pastor of the Fifth-avenue Presbyterian Church of that city, and Dr. Ernest Eugene Levers, surgeon of the Union Pacific Railroad, of Rock Springs, Wyo. YV. S. Cropper Aeqnitted. W. S. Cropper, who was arrested Friday night on the charge of grand larceny, was acquitted yesterday morning in Police Court. Cropper was accused of stealing $l5O from J. McGraw, of Columbus, O. The robbery was alleged to have taken place on a train just betore it left the Union Station Friday evening. Detectives Dugan and Aseh, who made the arrest, say they believe Cropper is innocent. State University Glee t'lnb. The University Glee Club, from the State University at Bloomington, Ind., of which Charles Noeman Hassler is the musical director, will give a concert at Plymouth Church next Friday evening. The club has been on the road for the last two weeks, giving concerts, and will wind up here on the 6th. The Mnrpliy .Meeting*. Francis Murphy, the apostle of temperance, will speak this afternoon at 3 o’clock at a meeting to be held in Shovel’s Hall, on East Markbt. street. In the evening he will address a meeting to be held in the First Presbyterian Church. EXTERIORIZED SENSIBILITY. New Freak* of Hypnotism Served Up in Pari*. Pall Mall Gazette. Avery puzzling young pex-sotj is at present exercising the curiosity of Parisians. She is kuown to fame as Mhe. Lina. Till recently sho was an artist's model. Then Colonel De Rochas and M. Jules Bois discovered her strange capabilities, and Mile. Lina has since passed much of her time in hypnotic trances, a state in which she performs wonders that must be seen to he believed. Her sponsors it will be well to remark, are men of high standing and acknowledged reputation and not professional organizers of raree shows. Colonel De Rochas is at the head of the Ecole Polytechnique, a government Institution, and one ot the foremost ed~ ticational establishments in France. M. Jules Bois is among the most talented of the younger school of French novelists and an accepted authority on hypnotism and kindred subjects. Presented under these auspices, Mile. Lina cannot be dismissed as a vulgar impostor. Her pretentions, at any rate, deserve to be looked into. They are wonderful enough. Mile. Ihna, for instance, is the best subject Colonel De Rochas has so far come across for demonstrating the phenomenon lie terms the “exteriorization of sensibility.” When in a trance her sensibility leaves her body and can be localized by the operator in any object he desires within a few feet of her. If this object be pricked or otherwise manipulated Mile. Lina experiences exactly the same sensation as if the act had been performed on her own person, whereas her body while she is in this state is wholly insensible. It may be objected that this sort of thing might be feigned. Coloned De Rochas, however, vouches for several cases in which deception would seem to be out of the question. On one occasion, for example, the sensibility of Mile. Una had been transferred to a photographic plate. "Various experiments were made, and then the subject was brought back, as it was thought, to her normal condition. After the lapse of a considerable time Mile, Lina was suddenly seized with shivering and then with violent sickness. It was found that simultaneously with the appearance of these symptoms M. Euer, to whom the photographic plate belonged, had immersed it, unknown to the rest of the company and in a dark room in a distant corner of the house, in a chemical bath, and was developing it In the, usual way—a process which had afflicted Mile. Lina with a sort of seasickness. In another curious set of experiments muHc played an important part. It was found that when a piano was played within hearing of Mile. Una while she was under the hypnotic influence she adopted attitudes suitable to the music played. In every case the attitudes were so strikingly beautiful and apposite as to excite the admiration of the operatic artists and painters who had been invited to witness the experiments. Here, again, the suspicion might arise of deception. though there is no reason to believe that Mile. Lina has ever had any musical or dramatic training. But direct proofhas been forthcoming of the genuineness of the phenomena. A Polish musical composer who witnessed some of the experiments asked to be allowed to apply a test that would satisfy him that Mile. Lina was not merely going through a performance rehearsed beforehand. What he did was to play a Polish country dance that has fallen even in Poland into almost entire oblivion. To his astonishment Mile. Una went through the dance exactly as it ought to be performed, though it w’as utterly impossible that she could have learned the proper gestures and measure. Money That la Not Vocal. Chicago Tribune. It is said that “money talks,” and yet, although the Standaru Oil people are suspected to have a good deal of that commodity, It seems Impossible to make them talk. Soothing: Influencei*. Washington Post. The arrival of Jim Corbett and the Cherry sisters will hardly act as oil on Havana's troubled waters.

HE BORROWED A SHIRT ♦ MARK TWAIN BEFRIENDED GEORGE HBARST ON THE COMSTOCK. He Loaned Him a White Shirt, and Society YY'as Shocked When the Transaction Became Public. New York Times. “If you want a story, it must be a story of the Comstock. That’s the only place I know, and 1 reckon it’s Just about as interesting as any other place.” The man who spoke was "William F. Bailley, of Dayton, Nevada, one of the oldest of the old-time miners of the West. He went to Virginia City, Nevada, with James G. Fair; he knew John W. Mackay and James Flood and all the men of millions who found fortunes on the Comstock. This is the first time that he has been away from Nevada in thirty years, and it is his opinion that New York is too big, too noisy, and too stylish. Mr. Bailley is a guest at the Hoffman House. “Those were the days,” he said, “the 60’s and 70’t,. Those were the days when money was like water, and a man with SIOO,OOO was considered broke. No one would trouble about carrying nickels and dimes then, and if a man asked for a loan of SIOO he was looked upon as a tramp. If he had asked for $2,000 he would have got it in a minute, for no man liked to see another starve. But all that is past and gone. From sixty thousand people, the population of the Comstock has dwindled down to eight thousand, and a nickel is as welcome to the average man nowadays as an old sombrero to a goat. “In those days, when Mark Twain was reporting for the Virginia City Chronicle, when Sam Davis was printer’s devil, and ‘Curly Bill,’ the stage driver, and old man George Hearst, the great prospector and Mark Twain's partner, were the ruling spirits of C street, there used to be some hot old times. There was a great rivalry between Hearst and Mark Twain whenever any social function came off, and it was a hard race between them to see which would dress the best. “One night ‘Curly Bill’s’ niece was getting married to a young fellow who washed tailings at the Empire mine, on the Carson river, and it was a swell affair. Everybody in Virginia City and Dayton was pres- < nt, and to accommodate the crowd ‘Curly Bill’ threw open his biggest barn and paid $250 to have the orchestra from Piper's Opera House furnish music. HEARST IN NEED. “Well, It seemed that Hearst’s washerwoman had ‘gone broke' in a faro game, and had put up all of her customers’ clothes to try and win back some of the money, and Hearst’s boiled shirts went with the lot. On the day of the wedding he went all along C street to buy a shirt, but there was none that would fit him. The boys had all taken a fancy for boiled shirts, and dealers had run out of stock. True enough, there was a box car load of them on the Frisco freight train, but that was three days behind time, owing to a snowslide in the Sierra Nevadas, George began to get nervous and foresaw that he would have to go to the wedding in his red shirt unless something happened. So he went into the Nevada Bank about 2 o’clock in the afternoon and posted up a notice stating that the ‘Cashier had been authorized to pay $l5O to any man who would bring in a No. 15 white shirt with a starched front.’ “Two hours later, when the bank closed, no one had appeared to cash In a shirt, and George was in trouble. lie had to have a shirt, and he knew he couldn’t borrow it, for a man who would stoop so low as to borrow a shirt in the early Virginia City davs would run a chance of getting lynched for insanity. George knew this, hut he had to borrow—and from an intimate friend, who would say nothing. The only man whom he knew well enough was Mark Twain. So he wrote a note to Mark, apologizing most humbly, and begging the loan of a ‘tilled whitey,’ as shirts were called then. Mark was thunderstruck when he got the letter, but. despite the rivalry that existed between them, ha couldn’t see his old friend go to a wedding looking as if he had lust come out of the eight-hundred-foot level. “So he wrapped up one of his best and sent it to George. He also sent a letter calling George to account for doing such a thing, and said that if it got abroad it would ruir, him socially, and ‘that he couldn’t even expect to be elected mayor of Red Tail Gulch.’ “George didn t reply, but appeared at the wedding in fine style. The shirt was too large by several inches, and George had evidently found that he could not button on a collar, so he,came without one, and in its place was as handsome a piece of new red flannel, knotted sailor fashion, as ever I saw. His trousers were tucked in his boots, which were polished like brass; his clothes were new and fitted as well as any in Virginia. and his long gray hair was oiled with two kinds of hair dressing. He did look great, and when he kissed the bride her prospective husband wasn't any too easy. Hearst always was a winner with the girls. "The wedding was over, and the newly married couple had Just started on a honeymoon trip to the Moundhouse. Wine was flowing pretty freely, for ‘Curly Bill' never did do anything unless he did It in style. Some of the boys had begun to whoop it up and were getting gay, the faro bank was running in full blast, and the horse stalls of the barn had been turned into poker rooms. A DREADFUL DISCOVERY. “George went into one of them and took a hand. In about half an hour he came out with about $5,000 and Invited the crowd to drink with him. The fellow who lost most of the money was a young chap named Joe Dolan, who lived in Picche. His uncle was rich and owned a big ranch of cattle. He gave Joe $2,000 a week, but the boy lost it in Virginia gambling, and was one of the worst losers in the town. He was angry because Hearst had won, and while George was setting them up he remarked very loudly: ‘That old guy with the stuff looks as If he was ready to be lynched.’ “It struck hard. George dropped his glass square on the floor. In the heat and the excitement he had removed the red flannel from his neck and was going around with nothing in its place. That Is what made Joe Dolan get sc fresh. Well, Hearst went

up to him, and without saying a word took out his pistol and handed It to seme one who was standing by, and then struck Dolan in the jaw hard enough to stagger him. Dolan's anger was up. He took off his coat, ahd every one saw- that he meant to fight the old man. Now it looked as if George wasn’t going to have as much chance In that fight as a ; new hat, but lie showed that he could use his fists, and Dolan didn’t have a child to beat. Both men went at it in good style, and the crowd stood around, in a ring to give them the regulation space of twenty-four feet, while two constables were called in to see that they got fair play. After about fourteen minutes of hard fighting George got a blow on the right jaw that settled him. Hs fell in a heap and was carried into ‘Curly Bill’s’ front parlor to recuperate. Kind friends bathed his head in water and fanned him. and in a spirit of the greatest hospitality they took off his coat and vest to let him breatho easier. Then someone suggested that it would he wise to open his shirt, and so they worked at the band which George had pinned up in a dozen different ways to get it to fit him. As they tore it open they saw very dlearly, in large, black, indellible letters, on the inner band, the name ‘S. Clemens.’ “It was a staggering blow to Virginia City society. Someone suggested that Dolan might have had foundation for his remark, and immediately sent word to Mark to see if he had missed any of hi a shirts lately. Mark tried to explain matters as best he could. He told how George had been forced to borrow the shirt, and did everything in his power to exonerate his old friend and partner, but it wasn't until George came to and retold the story of the loan that they would finish washing vhe blood off his face. “And when that box-car load of boiled shirts arrived from ’ Frisco George Hearst bought it on the spot.” TRAGEDY OF THE FENCE. Missouri Fend In YVhieh tlie Rllyena YVere Shot Full of Hole*. Letter in New York Press. Bloody feuds from rail fences grow, or from some other equally Insignificant cause, and there is no place on earth where family quarrels are more lasting or more sanguinary than in the Southern and Southwestern State*. When, in Cnristian comity, in the Ozark region of Missouri, the Meadowses declared war upon the Bilyeus because the latter family resented the announcement of the former that a fence owned in common should be removed, the hostilities resulted in the death of three of the defendants and the wounding of one of the aggressors. The two families are so united by intermarriage that it is hard to pick out a certain member of either and say with any degree of exactness just what he or she is. After it is all over, old Johnny Bilyeu declares, notwithstanding that he lost a son and two grandsons, it “was a bully good scrap.” and he wouldn't have missed it for any number of sons and grandson*. The Meadowses and one of the surviving Bilyeus are under arrest, and will be tried for murder. but old Johnny Bilyeu says “it's a shame to hang a feller for licking his man In a fight, even if he is a Medder, durti him, and has been killin’ Bilyeus.” For old Johnny is past eighty years old, and ha* been in many a standup fight. He shoved ammunition to his son Steve, and his two grandsons Jimmie and Pete, and cheered them on with cries of “Give 'em hell!” But, a* it turned out. it was a game of take as well as give, and nobly did the Bilyeus take it. About the middle of November Bud Meadows got his volunteers together and started out to raze, that fence which divided the two farms. He had leveled only a little gap when Steve Bilyeu and his son Pete came running out from their house with guns in their hands. There was a cessation of the leveling just then, and the work was postponed till the week after Thanksgiving. Then once more Bud got hi* cohorts together and sallied forth. This time his men were armed, and they confronted armed men. The procession moved in the following order: From the Meadows house came Bud Meadows, Bob Meadows, Jake Bilyeu. Steve’s brother, Hosea Bilyeu, Steve’s cousin, ana the husband of Steve’s sister, Frank Tabor, who had married Steve’s daughter: Martin Bilyeu, Steve's brother’s boy. and Mrs. Bud Meadows, and Mrs. Bob Meadows, daughters of Steve’* brother. Notwithstanding their contrary names and relationships, they all were Meadowses. The enemy advanced to the scrap in this order: Steve Bilyeu, with his sons Jimmie and Pete; Mrs. Steve Bilyeu, with a big pruning knife, and in the rear, hurrying along as well as his aged legs would carry him. was the redoubtable patriarch, old Johnny Bilyeu, who carried his eighty years and his gun with equal ease. Someone tired a shot—who no one knows nor cares. But it was the signal for the opening of the battle. It was hardly an equal contest., as the Meadowses outnumbered the Bilyeus, but the latter kept up their end pretty well. Frank Tabor was hit, and an instant later Steve Bilyeu fell Mrs. Bilyeu skipped over the fence and with her knife pruned ors a piece of Bud Meadows’s arm. While she was thus engaged, Jimmie and Pete, her two sons, fell beside their father, and the greater part of the Bilyeus being hors de combat, the Meadowses withdrew. Mrs. Steve leaped across the offending fence and knelt beside the warm bodies of her husband and sons. There was little that she said—she never wastes words or tears on those who fail in a glorious fight. Going home for help, she had the bodies removed to the house, and the funeral was attended hy all the good people in the neighborhood except the Meadowses. Arrests followed, and this feature of the affair grieved oW Johnny greatly, for, as he said, it s a shame to hang a feller fer licking his man In a good fight, even if he Bilyeu?” d€r ’ dUrn hm * an ’ has been Rillin’ Might Have Been Poet Laureate. Mainly About People. Mr. Swinburne, whom most English poet* themselves now place at the head of their gentle craft, lives at Putney. The Pines i* an unpretentious house in the quaint-look-ing road which rises to the heath. 1 Mr Swinburne is extremely methodical. His walks, his haunts and hi* dailv doings are systematic. The well-known portrait of the poet gives little idea of the tine face head of the man. who might have been ttii Poet laureate. Slim built, of medium stature caring nothing for the vanity of dreS a wideawake and a cutaway coat , stick, umbrella or gloves, ‘he breasts hill almost daily. His step i s 2 5 n lb * jerky and he picks hi* way as daJntilv and society belle crossing the Chamns PK- * * Hesitation, almost timidity, ments; then he will break awav at long speed. His preferences *,* Wherever a line of trees is there Mr buine likes to walk. He will strike into th maze of gorse on Wimbledon , leave all recognized roads £hi£d No ono casually meeting him could tai. hi™ , ne other than what he is reflnla hl ™ , for \y ■ ,Te face often*has C ' o C A°‘"' look; the glances are nervous vLi fJ” countenance bears the brand nt th * sensitiveness. On Sundav ®*trem burne used to frequent Swln * lceal hostelry, where he would P the nectar of Boniface. A miLi however, once tried to interview n?* 1 s £f ,be but Swinburne saw the mol remarked: “J[ see you are lan dly really must excuse m.- i'm ? s ’ but you Since then the poet