Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1899 — Page 3

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The curtain is lowered for a moment between each of these scenes in order to rearrange the stage for the new station. It is in this act that most of the comedy of the play is introduced. Barnes and Enid Anstruther happen to be journeying in the same compartment from Paris to Lyons. They have never seen each other until now, and it is with the irrepressible Barnes a case of love at first sight. His kindly attentions are roceived somewhat haughtily by Miss Anstruther, and he resolves to adopt heroic measures. She refuses to allow him to get her some lunch, of which she was greatly in need, so ho proceeds to bribe the railroad guard as well as the lunch counter people at each station, and she finds it impossible to get anything to eat. His strategy finally wins, hunger at last forcing her to succumb and accept part of his lunch. In this way Mr. Barnes manages to get on pretty good terms *rith the young lady and she eventually falls in love with him just as he had planned. Gunter’s play is the most romantic, and, in many respects, the most impressive that has yet been put on by the stock company. The opening performance to-night will be witnessed by a crowded house. In addition to the pretentious production of “The King’s Musketeer,” in which E. H. Bothern appears as the Gascon, d’Artagnan, at English's to-night, he to>-morrow night brings the stirring comedy, "A Colonial Girl,” which also partakes of those heroic and romantic features that must necessarily he a part of any successful play by this popular star. “A Colonial Girl” is from the colonial days in American history, and, while revolutionary incidents figure in the story, it is far from being a war drama. The hero is Godfrey Remsen, and Sothern brings him on the scene an heir to a fortune and bereft of a sweetheart, who had previously married an aged man with a title. Out of pique the young hero marries a country maiden whom he has rescued from a number of insulting British soldiers. His former sweetheart, now a widow, at once becomes the chief villain and sets about to break up the marriage. She informs the young wife the reason Godfrey has chosen her. and endeavors to prove he is unfaithful. Bhe finds a letter from George Washington to the hero and has his wife innocently deliver it to a British officer hoping to have him hanged as a spy. British soldiers surround the house, but Godfrey escapes after a desperate tight. A further plot to entangle Godfrey’s wife is frustrated by the hero and a reconciliation takes place, with the closing scenes characteristic of a Sothern play. Stuart Robson follows Sothern at English's, presenting “The Meddler” Thursday night. Wm. H. Crane comes the last two days of the week in a “A Virginia Court - ship and The Head of the Family.” Seats for both Robson and Crane may be obtained to-day. Seven or eight years ago James H. Wallick made a fortune out of his frontier dramas. ‘‘The Cattle King” and “The Bandit King,” which were at that time immensely popular at the Park. Mr. Wallick k a ? }he central figure of these plays, but e ‘ s } a £, e to become a producer himself. One of his productions. ' When London Sleeps, will begin a three days’ engagement at the Park this afternooh. “At Piney Ridge will follow Thursday. The play has never been seen here, but can be recommended. Mr. E. M. Dasher, so long associated with Charles Hoyt, the playwright, is here in advance of Hoyt’s latest musical farce “A Day and a Night.” written for Otis Harlan It comes to English’s for the first time next week. Feb. 9, and will be greeted with the customary large audiences that turn out for a Hoyt production. Without any question Charles Hoyt is the most prolific and fertile writer of American farces in the history of our stage. Hardly a season passes that does not give the theater-going public one or two new plays. The name of Hoyt has become a guarantee that ar v plav that has his name as author will tickle the public palate mightily. Mr. Hoyt has for manv years most successfully felt the popular pulse in hilarious entertainment. He is a playwright who always has a reason and a good one for whatever he does. For in•tance. in his latest comedy, “A Day and a Night in New York,’ one act is supposed to occur during the day, while the other two are at night. Mr. Hoyt has received manv inquiries why this division has been made in favor of the night. "If I had made two acts in the day ><i one ->t n'-’ * " Hoyt, “it would not have been possible for me to locate the comedy in .New i , all. What is dinner time in a good many places i s the hour for early breakfast in New York. Dinner is eaten bareiv in tim< to let the diners reach the theater as the curtain rtecs, while the third meal is taken leisurely somewhere toward midnight. In fact if I were to rewrite this comely, I should divide the first act into two scenes and only have the first one of these occur while the sun shines.” Irwin Brothers’ Burlesquers will open at the Empire this afternoon to play a week. Lillian Waltone, Carver and Black, funny George Sidney and other vaudeville favorite* are in the Jong olio bin and participate in the burlesque. Note* of (lie Stage. S uart Robson is a great admirer and per■ortai friend of Thomas A. Edison, and among the many novelties environed by the fcorr.edlan’a beautiful home at the Highlands

of Navesink are to be found several electric contrivances which the wizard has devised for the benefit, convenience and pleasure of the family. Among others is a large phonograph. which the comedian delights to set in motion for the edification of any friends w'ho may chance to call. Robson finally grewr tired of the stereotyped repertoire of coon songs so-called popular, up-to-date ditties and monologue recitations with which his particular phonograph was equipped, and conceived the idea of having a wax sheet that would reproduce the voice impression of the inventor himself, and wrote to Edison to that effect. In due time Hie. expressman delivered a package from McfiTo Park, and it was in anticipation of a real pleasure, that Robson adjusted the wax roll and turned on the current and prepared to listen to his friend’s reply, litre it is: “My Dear Rob: Pursuant with your request I snd you by to-day’s express my own contribution to your collection of cylinders. Os course you know I have no singing voice, therefore a song is out of the question, and as I know you would not be interested in a dry scientific subject, 1 wili content myself with telling you a little story that a San Francisco friend of mine sent me the other day. Along about the year 1871 a man from Massachusetts w'ent to California in search of relief for an aggravated case of liver trouble which he had fallen heir to. At last, in the southern part of the State, he came across a mineral spring, the waters of which almost immediately cured him. He was so grateful that he built a large sanatorium on the site and people came from all over the country and were quickly cured. About a year ago the man died and so wonderful had been the action of the water which he had imbibed for years that before making the interment it was found necessary to tuke his liver out and kill it with a club. Cordially yours, Edison.” Mr. J. J. Murdock, manager of the Grand stock company, has a collection of photographs of stage celebrities in his room at the Denison Hotel, which, for size and cleverness of arrangement, would cause the eyes of a “matinee girl” to protrude with covetous delight. The first object that catches the eye of a visitor entering the room is a large hammock suspended on the w'all in such manner as to form a network background, upon which pictures are placed by being inserted in the meshes. Then there is a shelf on which are large piles of photographs, left over after the netw’ork had been filled. The hammock is hung by cords extending from the iron rings at the ends and from three or four loops along one side, this arrangement causing it to drop in such a w T ay as to form a natural shelf at the bottom. This affords a valuable suggestion as to the proper disposition ol’ an old hammock condemned' as too weak for active service. In addition to these photographs, there is a confused heap on the t'oor, in front of the mantel, w’hich it would require several hours to examine. Others are hung on the walls or appropriately posed on the mantel. Mr. Murdock also has an interesting and valuable collection of photographic negatives, which he prizes very highly, inasmuch as some of them cannot be duplicated. Among these are negatives of the Booths. Charlotte Cushman, John McCullough and many others whose names are pregnant with delightful memories to the old-time theater-goer. There is one class of plays which the public always expects from William H. Crane, and which it always receives. This is clean and wholesome comedy which never offends good taste, good manners or good morals. Mr. 'Crane never goes abroad for his plays—the home market is good enough for him, and the public seems to approve his judgment. In engaging his company and getting up his productions he works on the plan that the best is none too good, and hence all of his plays are well staged and artistically acted. In addition to his worth as an actor Mr. Crane posseses a fund of w’hat Is known as personal magnetism, and he is liked immensely fur himself as well as for his ability. The comedian’s repertoire this season has been enriched by the addition of two very clever plays, “A Virginia Courtship” and “The Head of the Family,” and they have won much commendation. Mr. Crane is due to appear at English’s Opera House cn Friday, opening in "A Virginia Courtship,” which he will repeat on Saturday afternoon, closing his engagement on Saturday night w'ith “The Head of the Family. ’ - Charles Frohman announces that Julia Marlowe will begin her annual New York engagement at the Knickerbocker Theater on Monday, Feb. 27. Miss Marlowe will produce a translation of “Colinette,” the historical comedy by G. Lenotre and Gabriel Martin which ran for three months at the Odeon Theater in Paris—one of the longest runs ever permitted at the French National Theater. The American version of the comedy is by Henry Guy Carleton. The title part will give Miss Marlowe an opportunity for naive and delicate comedy touches which does not exist elsewhere In her repertory. Though “Colinette” will be Miss Marlowe s piece de resistance this season, she has not turned a deaf ear to the claims of American dramatists. She has purchased the dramatic rights of the novel, “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” by an Indianapolis lawyer, which she has prepared for the stage and which may be seen here before the season is over.—New York Journal.

It has been reported that the fortune of the late Antonio Terry was greatly overestimated and most of what did remain would go to his mother and daughter, so that his wife, who was Sibyl Sanderson, would have to go on the operatic stage again to support herself. In this connection the following cable from Mrs. Terry is of interest: “Nice. Jan. 13.—1 t is so short a time since my husband’s death tnat I have not been able to fully decide the grave question of returning to grand opera. My health, it is true, is now sufficiently good to permit my return, but one must wait a becoming time. Massenet counsels my return, and I am sure the Parisian public will receive me well, as they have always done. The short Interval since my withdrawal from the stage cannot have injured the faculties which previously won me success. “But if I take up my calling again it will be more for artistic than for financial reasons, although Mr. Terry was not quite as rich as he was supposed. He had to make provision for his daughter, a young lady of sixteen. Let me add that the sale of Mr. Terry’s horses takes place not so much because we need money, but simp'y because we do not need seventy horses. “SIBYL SANDERSON-TERRY." COLUMBIA CLUB RECEPTION. To Be Given nt Denison To-Night for Senator Beveridge and A. C. Harris. The members of the Columbia Club will tender a reception to-night to Senator Albert J. Beveridge and A. C. Harris, minister to Austria-Hungary, in the parlors of the Denison Hotel, from 8 to 10 o'clock. The club has extended invitations to the members of the General Assembly, ail state officers, the heads of the state institutions, the Marion Club, Commercial Club. University Club and the more prominent Democrats here and throughout the State. The reception is to be nonpartisan in character, and the receiving party will consist of Dr. Franklin YV. Hays, president of the club, Mrs. Hays, Governor and Mrs. Mount, the members of the reception committee of the club, William L. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Martindale, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lemcke. O. R. Johnson, Senator and Mrs. Newby, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Graham, D. P. Erwin, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hanna and General and Mrs. Lew Wallace. These will be assisted by Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Justus C. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. John C. New, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Atkins. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. C. E Coffin. Dr. and Mrs. W. N. Wishard, Mr. and Mrs. Hervey Bates. Mr. and Mrs Noble C. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Carey Mr. and Mrs. Caleb S. Denny, Mr and Mrs, Harry B. Gates, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hero.. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Hitt, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kenyon. Mr. and Mrs Volney T. Malott, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Parry. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Holliday. Mr. and Mrs. h. A. Joss. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. New, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Hawkins. Lieutenant Governor and Mrs W. S. Haggard, Dr. and Mrs. J. .*l. Kitchen, Admiral and Mrs. George Brown. Col. and Mrs. 1. N. Walk. r. Mr and Mrs. Morris M. De Frees. Mr. and Mrs Charles F. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John B Cockrirm, Mr. and Mrs. Russel M Seeds Mr. and Mrs. Major Taylor. Mr. and Mrs! David Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram P. Wasson, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Young. Mr and Mrs. C. C. Foster. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Baker and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Daniels of this city; Judge and Mrs. Eugene Bundy. New Castle: Judge and Mrs. William j. Henley, Rushvillc: Senator and Mrs. Hogate, Danville; Mr. and Mrs. Charles rs. King, YVabash; Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Roots’ Connersvllle: Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Lathrop, Greensburg. Senator and Mrs. Beveridge and A. C. Harris wili lie with the receiving party in he parlor*, hut, owing to the illness of Mrs. I arris it will lie impossible for her to he •resent. Immediately after the reception he dining room will lx thrown open and Uastg will be announced and responded tp

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1899.

as follows: Governor James A. Mount, “Our Commonwealth;” John W. Kern. “Indianapolis as a Power in the State and Nation;” Senator Newton Gilbert, "Indiana Patriotism;” John C. New, “Our Honored Guests;’’ Samuel B. Morss. “American Diplomacy;” Judge John H. Baker, “The American Law’yer;” Justus C. Adams. "The Business .Man in Politics;” Smt.ey N. Chambers, "Our New Minister;” Col. John O. Wingate, “Our New Senator.” The concluding addresses will bo made by A. C. Harris and Senator Beveridge. DRILLING FOR POLO. A Teuin Ha* Heen Organized for <lie Cyelora mil Kink. Lovers of the various sports and amusements which have grown out of the introduction of roller skating in this country will shortly be given a treat by the management of the Cyclorama Rink. Fred Zwicker, who about the first of the year took the first step toward a revival of the pastime in this city, has transferred his interest in the rink to Edward C. Reick and the new manager has started energetically to secure the best attractions in the country for the amusement ot his patrons. As the first step a polo team lias been orgnized and the candidates for a place on the team are being drilled and “worked out” each day by “Jap” Clemens, assisted by Wilson, an old professional polo player. Similar teams have been organized at Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Chicago, Detroit, South Bend, Richmond and Muncie, and all of them will be seen in this city before the season closes. Before any of the outside teams are brought here, however, a trial game will be played between two teams made up of candidates for the local team and the best players of both teams will make up the team to represent Indianapolis. As an Immediate attraction Manager Reiek has engaged R. J. Aginton, the acknowledged champion roller skater of the world, to give exhibitions of fancy skating every night during the present week. Mr. Aginton has, figuratively speaking, spent all his life on skates, beginning his professional career in Philadelphia twenty-six years ago„ within six months after donning his first pair of skates, in one of the first rinks established in this country. Since that time he has been constantly giving exhibitions all over the world, having returned to this country only last year from an extended trip to Australia, India, France ami England. To-morrow night another attraction is offered in the shape of a fancy dress carnival. Until 9:30 o’clock no one will be allow'ed on the floor without a fancy costume and a suitable prize will be given to the man wearing the best costume and also for the most attractive costume worn by a woman. In retiring from the management of the Cyclorama rink Mr. Zwicker says he has been surprised at the interest taken in skating in tills city and feels that the craze has struck the country with greater force than ever. From all over the country the reports coming in indicate a great revival, and. as the evils w r hich brought about the death of the sport several years ago, through the indiscriminate admission of all people to the rinks have been guarded against he feels that the present popularity of the pastime will be a permanent one. PERSON A SOCIETY. Mr. George W. Cable, the author, is visiting at the home of Mrs. A. W. Hendricks, 74 Woodruff. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Piel celebrated their golden wedding anniversary yesterday at their home on East Washington street by a family reunion and gathering of their nearest friends. A supper was served at 5 o’clock. The decorations in the dining room w’ere of yellow and green, and many of the appointments were of the golden color suitable for the anniversary. Mrs. Piel received in a gown of black satin with duchesse lace. With Mr. and Mrs. Piel were all of their immediate family, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Piel, jr., of New York, with their five children; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Voth, of Cleveland, 0., with one child; Mr. Henry Piel and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Piel and four children, Mis. Amelia Melcher and three children and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Sudbrock. After the supper there was a reception in one parlor, where there were pink roses, palms and ferns, anr. in the other American Beauty rosi>s. The gifts from the children to their parents were a dozen gold table spoons and a dozen gold teaspoons. Rev. Mr. Seuel made an address, and there w r ere numerous remarks of congratulation. An orchestra furnished music for the event. Mr. Piel is seventvfive years of age and Mrs. Piel is sixtyeight. They were married about six miles from this city by Rev. Mr. Isensee, who is still living. Their early life was very simple, but their present home is handsome and they are in affluent circumstances. Mrs. Plcl was Miss ElenOre Wishmeier. The celebration of the golden W'eddlng was a notable event in German circles, and Mr. and Mrs. Piel w'ere remembered with gifts from a number of their friends. The officers of the Indiana Trust Company remembered them with a beautiful floral offering. Other gifts were from the employes of the starch works. Julius C. and Carl* F. Walk, the Sander & Becker Company, and Albrecht and Robert Kipp.

Thurston NY’a* Drunk. The prostrate form of George Thurston, a laborer, living on West Walnut street, was found near his home yesterday by someone who reported to the police by telephone that the man had fallen out of a window and broken his neck. The ambulance followed the bicycle men without further investigation. but on its arrival Bicycle Patrolmen Bray and Holtz were resuscitating Thurston. who was drunk. He was almost frozen to death. YVilllam Green’* Offense. William Green, colored, living at 123 South East street, was arrested for assault and battery yesterday by Bicycle Patrolmen Holtz and Pray, it was claimed he had brutally kicked his wife after she had been rendered insensible by his blows. Died of Neuralgia of the Heart. Coroner Nash was called to Investigate the death yesterday of Anna Seares, a domestic employed in the family of Walker Millikcn, 1514 North Pennsylvania street. He found that death resulted from neuralgia of the heart. NVHI Sail In a Few Day*. Lee Nixon, who has accepted an appointment in the Porto Rican postal service, leaves to-day for Washington, where he will make preparations for his service. He will sail for Porto Rico from New York in a few days. Shot hy Hi* Landlor<l. CINCINNATI, 0., Jan. 29.-William Drew, colored, died at thy hospital to-night of a pistol shot wound received this morning from Daniel Barnett, a white man, who was Drew's landlord. Barnett had ordered Drew to vacate the house and went this morning to see if he had done so. Drew attacked him and Barnett used his pistol. Barnett ia under arrest, charged with murder. Charles Harmoning, a car builder, living at 1130 Spruce street, was arrested for wife beating by Patrolmen Mackessy and Mefford yesterday. He was drunk, the patrolmen said, when he committed the act. A NOTEWORTHY EVENT. Stuart Robson’* Annual Visit—The Meddler a Great Go. § Stuart Robson has innumerable successes to his credit, but according to reliable information. gathered from various sources where this player has appeared so far this season. “The Meddler,” which is to be presented at English’s Opera House for one performance only, on Thursday night next, is by far the best comedy he has exploited for several years. That Mr. Robson’s success in this ew play is genuine and STUART ROBSON. substantial is vouched for in the business he is doing on the present tour, which is the largest in the history of this well-beloved gentleman’s caieer as an individual star. In “The Meddler,” which, by the way, is from the pen of that gifted playwright. Augustus Thomas, Mr. Robson is said to have secured a role that fits his peculiar requirement better than any he has essayed since his creation of Bertie the Lamb in “Tne Henrietta.” it is said also to be distinctly a "Robsonlan” character, and Ins following, which is legion, know that, accepting this statement as a fact, a rare treat is in store for them. .Mr. Hobson's company which will assist him as "The Meddler” is a notable one, and he is justified in announcing it as a "matchless cast.” it certainly is such, and is decidedly the best ever announced to appear with him In Indianapolis. This morning. at 9 o’clock, the sale for Robson will begin, anti if advance demand presages* a profitable engagement Stuart Robson will undoubtedly be vouchsafed tin* largest audience, for a single performance, he has ever played to in Indianapolis.

WORK OF BOTH HOUSES —♦- LEGISLATURE HAS DONE MUCH IN TWENTY-FOUR DAYS. Measure* 'That Will Come l’p This YVeek—Shitleler’* Poor Relief Hill—OoftMip. Twenty-four days of the sixty permitted by the Constitution for the session of the Legislature have passed and in that time the House has accomplished a vast amount of work. This is largely due to the efforts of Speaker Littleton, who has a peculiar way of deciding the vote on motions to adjourn. If a motion to adjourn is made at a time ho does not think the members should leave, he makes a few remarks on the amount of business before the House and in some cases his ruling on the vote on this motion has indicated a sense of hearing that is peculiarly adapted to a speaker who does not desire that the House should adjourn. There has been a hearty co-operation in the efforts of the speaker by the members and the different committees have worked hard and late into the night. The meetings of the ways and means committee are scarcely ever over before midnight and many of the o .her committees, particularly the one on county and township business, have sat night after night until late hours. The judiciary committee holds two sessions each day, as a rule, and from the adjournment of the House in the afternoon until 6 o’clock or later, this committee is in session, to resume again in the evenings. There have been introduced into the House thus far in the session 375 bills and 21 Senate bills have been received. Os the bills brought it 51 have been passed and 13 have been defeated. Three have been withdrawn, one has been returned to the Senate and 13 are now being engrossed for third reading. The committees have killed 93 bills and have favorably reported 60. There are yet in the hands of the committees 174 bills. One bill is set as a special order of business. Among the bills which will come up for second reading this week is that by Mr. Caraway providing for the purity of elections, both general and special. The bill is aimed at the seller of a vote and not at the buyer. Mr. Caraway’s theory Is that if both parties are subject to punishment it will be more difficult to secure a conviction than if but one party to the transaction is liable. The penalty is disfranchisement for from ten to twenty years and the person furnishing the proof of the selling of a vote is rewarded. The offense is not merely to sell a vote on any election, but the penalty applies to any one who sells or otters to sell his vote or to refrain from voting at any general, special or primary election or at any convention for any money, property or thing of value, promise, favor or hope of reward. The bill further provides that the county clerk shall keep a record of all those disfranchised.

WON THE FIRST ROUND. Mr. Barlow won the first round in his contention to unite Boone and Hendricks counties in the same judicial-circuit. The attorneys are opposed to the bill and they appeared before the committee in great numbers. The committee recommended that the bill be indefinitely postponed, but Mr. Barlow was active and was supported by enough members of the House to have the hill sent hack to the committee with instructions to report it favorably. This will bring the bill before the House in printed form and the contest will undoubtedly come when it comes up for a second reading. There will then be an effort made to kill It. Mr. Shidcier’s bill, which was passed by the House, regulating the relief of the poor, is a departure in many ways from the present law. It requires an overseer of the poor not only to make careful investigation of the condition and circumstances of those applying to him for aid* but he shall go further and ascertain if the one making application has any relatives who are able and willing to assist him. Immediate and pressing suffering may be immediately relieved, hut before any further or permanent relief can be given from the township funds, the overseer is required to see if the distress can lie relieved in any other way. If the applicant or any member of his or her family is in good health the overseer is required to insist that those able to labor shall seek it. and it is mandatory on him that he shall refuse to give any aid until he is satisfied that those claiming help are endeavoring to find work for themselves. In such a case the overseer is required to make all possible effort to secure employment for the applicant, and he may call on the residents of the township to assist him in these efforts. Before assistance can be given to an applicant w’ho has relatives living in the township, for the second time, the overseer is required to go to those relatives and endeavor to persuade them to assist the applicant either by money or employment. If the poor person refuses to work no aid can be given him except to admit him to the county poor farm, and he shall there be compelled to labor. When the overseer shall have given aid other than for burial to any poor person or family to the amount of value of sls in any one year, or of a value of less than sls, but has extended the relief over a period of three months, no further aid can be given until the, overseer has presented a detailed statement of the case to the county commissioners, and further aid can only he given by the authority of the commissioners. A copy of the statement shall be filed with the county auditor and with the State Board of Charities. The overseer is further required to make himself familiar with all societies for charitable purposes or for the relief of the poor which exist in his township, and he shall find out from them the assistance they are giving anyone. He is required to give them any information he may have on the work, and he has the authority to ask them for any w'hich he wishes to secure. He may also call on these societies to assist him in securing employment for any applicant. The section regarding assistance to non-residents is rigid. In full it is as follows: “It shall be unlawful for any ovefseer of the poor to aid any person who is not a resident of the tow : nship where he is found, otherwise than by some form of labor, unless the said person shall be sick, aged or crippled and unable to travel, and all overseers of the poor shall endeavor to provide some form of hard manual labor at which they shall set any able-bodied nonresident who may apply for relief to them. It shall ho unlawful for any overseer of the poor to furnish any able-bodied nonresident with transportation at the cost of the township. It shall be unlawful to furnish any nonresident who may he sick, aged or crippled with transportation at the cost of the township until after the overseer shall, by correspondence or otherwise, have ascertained beyond a reasonable doubt the legal residence of the person applying, and any transportation furnished to such persons shall bo in the direction toward their legal residence, unless it is shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the person in distress has some valid claim for support or some means of support in some other place toward which he or she shall ask to be sent.” The hill provides that a quarterly report of all allowances for charitable purposes shall be made to the State Board of Charities. MAIN PURPOSE OF THE BILL. It is the belief that this bill will remedy to a groat extent the abuses of aid to the poor. The main idea of the bill is to compel work if the applicant is able to work, and the mandate of providing “seme form of hard manual labor” for nonresidents is so suggestive of a stonepile that it is believed a certain class of applicants for assistance will give Indiana a wide berth as they journey through the land. A hill favorably reported by the committeo. but which has not yet been acted on by the House, is one by Mr. Brown, relative to the letting of public contracts. The bill requires that a contractor shall give a bond in sufficient sum to cover not only the cost of materials, but the cost of labor also, Mr. O’Hannon’s bill prov iding for an inheritance tax has been favorably reported by the committee, and will come before the House. It provides for a graded tax according to the degree of relationship existing. The more remote the relationship the greater the tax. The House is evidently disposed to permit all appropriations regarding the state institutions to come in only through the ways and means committee. Mr. Reece had two bills making appropriations for the. Northern Hospital for the Insane, but both were killed by the committee. Mr. Root's bill to appropriate money for the temporary care <>f the criminal insane was killed, and wo attempts to revive it failed, Nor is the House disposed to kindly consider the suggestion of the erection of a mansion for the Governor, as the bill for that purpose was

killed by the committee and the House concurred in the action. The disposition of some people to use the House as a place for advertising will not be tolerated by the officers of the House. Thu proceedings Saturday were stopped by Speaker Littleton, who, in language vigorous and forceful, ordered from the gallery a man who was distributing circulars. Another individual, who did not have a proper respect for the dignity of the House, wandered into the back part of the room and proceedcxl to light a cigar. He was quickly hustled out by one of the doorkeepers. The members of the third official house, the doorkeepers, assistants and pages, had a group photograph taken in the hail of the Statehouse. The unofficial “third house” has become so annoying that hereafter the rule regarding passes will be strictly enforced and no one will be admitted on the first floor unless a pass is presented. There has not been u session during the last few days that the lobbyists have not been warned, and once Speaker Littleton threatened to clear the hall and galleries. MAYORS AGAINST IT. Several senators have been advised of the existence of what is claimed to be a pernicious bill introduced in the House at the instigation of the opponents of a mayor in the northern part of the State. The hill will not, it is claimed, seriously affect the mayors of Indianapolis, Evansville and Port Wayne, which cities operate under a special charter, but the mayors of all the other cities will be hit hard. The bill provides for the shortening of the term of the office of mayor from four to two years, and would legislate them out of office in liM), whereas they were elected to serve until 1902. Mayor Steeg, of Terre Haute, is in town, and will devote himself to the task of having the bill killed w-hen it comes up for passage in the House, or, failing in that, when it reaches the Senate Asa w'edge to secure the passage of the bill to practically keep the organization of the State Board of Education intact the students of the Slate Normal School will today present a petition to both branches of tbe Legislature urging that “the State Board of Education, as now constituted, has had the care of the public-school system for thirty years, during which time the system has advanced until it is recognized as one of the best in the country; no charge of incompetency or inefficiency has been brought against it; acting as a text-book commission, the duties have been discharged beyond criticism and to the manifest benefit of the schools of the State; that while opponents of the state schools have said there was discrimination in favor of state schools in granting licenses to teachers, no specific instance has been cited; that the nonstate schools engaged in this attack do not represent one-half of the private or church school interests of the State, and in that respect are not representing any interest except their own; that the attack on the state hoard is unwarranted, is destructive of the best interests of the schools, and will be productive of no good end, and therefore the signers petition the Legislature that the present organization of th<s state board be left intact, save that tw-o or more county superintendents be appointed to membership to represent the rural schools.” BOTH HOUSE'S “SANITATED.” Asa result of the presence of smallpox In this city and the apprehension on the part of many of the members of the General Assembly that contagion may extend itself to the Statehciuse, Dr. Hurty, of the State Board of Health, “sanitated” the chambers of both branches yesterday, and both senators and representatives may tackle the problems before them this morning without any apprehension over the probability of the disease lurking in the hangings or furniture of either piaee. Yesteruay morning the rooms were tightly closed and large quantities of formaldehyde were sprinkled over everything in sight and left sealed up all day. Bet ore night, it was estimated, it any microbes should have found their way into the abiding place of the solons, they would have been killed off root and branch by the fumes of the formaldehyde. The rooms were then thoroughly aired and made reaay for the work of to-day, and as the galleries will be watched for people suspected of being liable to carry around vvitn them the germs of the disease it is hoped to keep out all smallpox microbes hereafter.

AT THE PROGRESS CLUB YESTERDAY’S ADDRESS WAS BY JACKSON UOVI). View* of a Greencastle Attorney on the Solution of the Social Problem. *, An address was delivered before the Progress Club yesterday afternoon by Jackson Boyd, of Greeneastle, whose topic was “A Naturalistic Solution of the Social Frobltm.” In part, Mr. Boyd said: “Jt is impossible for human beings to change a law of nature; but. u is not impossible to modify the structures of nature, forms of matter, so that natural laws will W’utK to human advantage, oo it, is impossible for society' to change human nature, but it is not impossible ior society to mouify the conditions of the. expenditure of human energy (laws, institutions and social torms) so inat it will act to social advantage. In each case there are two factors, energies and structures, in which the energies expend themselves; and while the energies cannot be changed, their conditions or structures can be, and that is all that is necessary to make the individual the perfectfer of nature and society the perl’ecter of the individual. Just as man can arrange apparatus to control electricity, so can society arrange institutions to control selfishness. Each is a problem in mechanics; ana one as capable of solution as the other. * * * “The function of the social sense is to direct the opposing, neutralizing and wasting energies ana ideas of individuals by turning them to one purpose*—the betterment of society—by distributing all the knowledge of the race throughout society, so that it can direct the energies of the individual into the most economic channels possible, and direct Its own organic actions by knowledge, as well as feeling, the moral sense, making of society a higher form of order resulting from tho equilibrium of all the energies of all the individuals of society; as the individual is a higher form of order resulting from an equilibrium of ail the energies ot .uume This is the third great controiment, a sixth law of mot.on, society as an organi.-m directing and controlling the actions of its units and its own actions by public corporate knowledge. To apply these new laws of society to existing society to-day, to orient the race through public corporate knowledge will require a wonderful power Well may we ask, whence the motive for the new order of things? The answer to this question is the same as it was yesterday, as it will be forever, religion, of all the functions of the individual that society has attempted to form concepts of, perhaps there are none more imperfectly underst od than that of religion. What is rei gion 9 Religion has innumerable me nings fiom ihe fetiehism of the savage up to the worship of the ideal God of the savant, yet when the truth is sifted from out the error, true religion is the instinct that perfects the race as seen displayed in every family of animals from the lowest to the highest. The simple joy of life is wonderful, the aedght < f sexual love has been the theme of poet since language began, but the ecstasy of religion mincomparable. No wonder the religious world to-day cries out against our pseudoscience which treats religion as a kind of r acini, aberration. Religion has been and living lhe BTeat c °nipensa.tion for “What individual corporations have clone, for themselves, public corporations will be able to do for society. The individual corporation of to-day is but a teacher of the public, corporatl nos to-morrow. * * * “The rich are not asked to give up their riches, but to use them for the benefit of the race as well as themselves. However if wealth Is wasted, or persistently used’ to the detriment of the race it. ought to be confiscated; for it has ever been a law of society to confiscate the wealth of traitorsand w-ho is more of a traitor to the race than the one who openly defies it persistently uses it and abuses it? Society simply lets the individual hold property in trust for it, because society creates most of its valueand when the Individual betrays the trust by diverting the property exclusively to his own use, he should forfeit it, because he fas stopped its productiveness. This do -tri e s but the scientific- truth under the teaching*--of Jesus in His sermon on the mount It Is stating intellectually what He stated emotionally. He stated the truth as He felt it; it is here stated as seen. Jesus spoke the truth from the point of view of the moral sense; it is here spoken from the point of view of the social sense.” Died at the Central Hospital. Elizabeth Sprechlin, seventy-five years old, committed to the Central Hospital for the Insane from Switzerland county, died yesterday at that institution from concussion of the brain. She had fallen out of bed a few nights previous, suffering injury to her head that, combined with her old age and feeble health was fatal. The case was investigated by the coroner. ■ 1 Wedding presents a specialty at Maxcy's.

THEY QUIT THE THEATER • ♦ PEOPLE WHO DID NOT TAKE KINDLY TO COLONEL INKER.SOLL. * He Delivered Ills Leeture- on ‘•Superstition” Last Night lit English's Opera House. The audience that greeted Colonel Ir.gersoll at English's Opera House last night was rather disappointing In size, due, perhaps, to the nipping cold of the atmosphere and the fact that there were religious services at most of the churches in the city. Colonel Ingersoll possesses great power of wit, humor, sarcasm and logic, but the fact remains indisputable that most people prefer well-lighted and heated churches and homes to paying from 50 cents to a dollar for the privilege of listening to a lecture abounding in gems of rhetoric and bristling with shafts of wit and ridicule. From the location of the applause, which was frequent and hearty, It could readily be discerned that it was confined, in the main, to frlenda and followers of the great agnostic scattered over the house. Occasionally the doughty colonel glanced over his spectacles in his own peculiar audacious style and emitted, with the suddenness and violence of a popping champagne cork, a remark that shocked the sensibilities of some of his auditors, who arose and left the house abruptly. At a point early in the delivery of his lecture on “Superstition” he paused and, with the air of a youngster defying his teacher, said: “Why should we worship our ignorance? Why should we kneel to the unknown? Why should we prostrate ourselves before a guess? I do not know.” This proved too much for a couple of women in the front rows, who had perhaps been persuaded by an admirer of Mr. Ingersoll, “to just go and hear him this once,” and they marched resolutely to the exit, with looks of uncompromising condemnation stamped on their features. Later on, when discussing the probability of the existence of a personal devil, the lecturer spoke of “the old woman who said, of course there’s a devil, else how could they paint pictures of him,” and this fling at the sex cost him two more of his audience. After he had driven out another couple the progress of his address was interrupted only by applause and laughter. Colonel Inger'soll entered, as usual, unannounced and plunged at once into his lecture, without so much as the formality of a bow. His opening sentences were quite characteristic. “Ladies and gentlemen, superstition is the daughter of ignorance and the mother of misery. She wears a robe of pictured legends, hroidered with cunningly woven lies, wet with human tears.” He then proceeded to define superstition. “It is to believe in spite of evidence or without evidence, to account for one mystery by another, to believe that the world is governed by elianee or caprice, to disregard the true relation between cause and effect.” He enumerated minor superstitions, such as the dropping of a dish cloth, which is supposed to mean the coming of unexpected guests, seeing the new moon over the left shoulder, which portends bad luck, and the belief in Friday as a day of ill omen. Referring to the superstition about Friday being an unlucky day, he spoke of Sunday as a holy day and said: “How can a space of time be holy any more than a vacuum can be virtuous?” He also, in passing, took occasion to whack the free-silver fallacy after this fashion: “If Congress by law could make 50 cents' worth of silver a dollar that would be a financial miracle.” The following are some of the best and most pointed utterances of the great Iconoclast. “A miracle is something done by a master of nature, without regard to any fact in nature.

"Sculpture a theological countenance on a gravestone and you will add another horror to death. “I am glad that there is no evidence to support the existence of devils, but. to tell you the truth, I am sorry that the good angels have faded away. It would lie delightful to know that the good angels hover in the air, that they guard the innocent, that they protect the good, that they bend cverthe cradles and give health and happy dreams to pallid babies, that they till dungeons w-ith the gracious light of their presence, speaking words of comfort to the innocent. to the imprisoned. Oh, it would be delightful to know that they follow the erring, the outcast, the friendless, and win them back to virtue, love and joy. But we have no evidence that angels exist. There is not an orthodox preacher that can lay out the route from Indianapolis to the New Jerusalem. “How do you know God cares for us? Be honest. Do you prove it by the history of the world? Has He cared for innocence in dungeons? Has He cared for heroism on the scaffold? Has He cared for the slave beneath the lash? Has He cared for the philosopher when the flames were climbing round his limbs? Be honest. How do you know God cares for us? Thought is a pair of steps by which we reach a conclusion.” MANILA BAY VICTORY. Claiming that Christians believe pestilence and famine and disasters come from God, the colonel said: “Only a little while ago cur President—good man—by proclamation thanked God for the victory at Santiago, and yet he did not tnank Him for sending the yellow fever. To be consistent he should have thanked Him for both, if they were both acts of infinite kindness and wisdom, and I suppose he acted in accordance w-ith precedent. I* do not thank God for the victory at Manila bay. I do not know that He had anything to do with it. I thank Admiral Dewey and his brave comrades. [Applause ] I can understand that—heroism wrapped in flesh, heroism that loves wife and child and dares death and looks at the skull of fate with a smile on its lips. I thank these men. If ever I find that God did it 1 will thank Him. and He knows I will. [Applause and laughter.] If Spain had whipped us preachers would have said. ‘That is because of unbelief. It is because of bicycles, bloomers and beer.” The speaker declared that the popular ideas about hell have become modified, and in this portion of his lecture he hurled forth this remark with his usual vim: "When I was a hoy hell was hot. There was nothing the matter with the draught then. Afterwards it got to be hades, and then sheol, arid then - a place for the dead,” and then thev said, ‘Well, in the next world you won't be allowed to associate with Methodists and Presbyterians and Baptists. I think I could stand that.” The lecture concluded with the following eloquent tribute to science: "We know that science is the only civilizer. It has freed the slave, clothed the naked, fed the hungry. lengthened life. It has destroyed the monsters, the phantoms, the winged horrors that filled the savage brain. Science is the real redeemer. Science is the only possible savior of mankind. VVe need more sense, the development of the brain. Science will put honesty above hypocrisy, even if nypoerisv looks solemn. It will teach the religion of usefulness, and it will put mental veracity above all belief. It will put thoughtful doubt above thoughtless faith. It destroys bigotry in ail of its forms, and, in my judgment, science will in time abolish poverty, in time it will abolish crime, and, tvhat is grander, nobler than all else, it will make the whole world free.” NO NEW CASES. Yeftterdny Brought No Further Development* in Smallpox Situation. The clergy is not disposed to criticise the Board of Health for recommending that the public refrain from attending churches and other places of public assemblage during the fear of a smallpox epidemic. The announcement that the board had made such a request through the morning papers did not reach all the church-goers yesterday and there was no perceptible failing off in attendance. according to ministers who wore asked about it. Rev. J. Cumming Smith, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, said yesterday evening that there was a little less than the usual attendance. "I did not know of the board’s request in this matter until 10:9) o’clock to-day,” said Dr. Smith, “and consequently made no efforts to regard it. I suppose that this is a wise precaution that the board suggests, although it seems to me that there is a little more of a feeling of panic than the present conditions warrant. However, I think the board deserves very much more thanks than, it is receiving for Its efforts to prevent a spread of the disease. If the danger Increases and new cases develop an anuouncc-

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ment will be made of the discontinuance of services at the Tabernacle Church during the week.” Rev. D. O’Donaghue, rector of St. Patrick's Church, said that he had no fears of an epidemic and had hopes that it would “all he over with by next Sunday.” He said he had no doubt but that the board was doing the best it knew and was only guided by ideas of what it considered precaution. Still, he had no fear of an epidemic and said the services would continue at his church as formerly. Dr. E. D. Clark yesterday visited all the houses that are under quarantine, making very careful inquiries, especially in the houses where the ilrst eases developed. In the Spring-street house, from which William Middleton was removed, no case has developed among the seven Inmates, all of whom were vaccinated a week ago. Dr. Clark is watching carefully all the quarantined homes just now, as it is ahout time for new cases to develop among those that were exposed to the original three patients. Dr. Wagner yesterday investigated a rumored case on Dinooln lane, but found there, was nothing in it. A stc v to the effect that there were six cases m the Enterprise Hotel was industriously circulated Saturday night and yesterday. It is without the slightest foundation, according to Dr. Clark, who was Informed by the proprietor that he believed this story was started by some practical joker or other malicious person who wished to injure the business of his hotel on Massachusetts avenue. PILOT’S BODY FOUND. Capt. Stnrtrvant Wan on tle 111-Fated Paul Jones. An Associated Press dispatch last night said the body found near Fort St. Phillip had been identified as that of Captain Sturtevant, the pilot of the Paul Jones. It had been supposed that the body was that of Harry Yocum, of St. Douis, who was a member of the party on the ill-fatod yacht. White pearl cuff buttons, heart shaped, were in the sleeves of the shirt on the Imklv, and friends of Mr. Yocum at St. la>uls, where the news was of wide interest, said they did not know that he had buttons of that kind. This created tho first doubt that the body was that of Mr. Yocum, and the dispatch last night confirmed It. Mayor Taggart last night received a dispatch from a friend at New Orleans stating that the body was that of Captain Sturtevant. At Plymouth Church. Miss Etta Miller, a teacher at the High School, lectured at Plymouth Church last night for the McCulloch Club on “Tho Congressional Library.” She had the assistance of a stereopticon, and through her lecture views of the Congressional Library and the architecture of the building were thrown on a screen. Miss Miller described In detail the scheme of decoration, taking her audier.co through the corridors, vaults, reading rcoms and between the book shelves. Her lecture was a finished description of the library and the magnificent structure it occupies. Stop Coughing | f Every cough makes your throat <4 more raw and irritable. Every cough !■ congests the lining membrane of ■ your lungs. Cease tearing your ■ throat and lungs in this way. Take I Ayer's Cherry Pectoral From the first dose the quiet awl g* Z rest begin; the tickling in the throat J 6j ceases; the cough disappears. Two sizes : $1.00; 50c. Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Plaster 1 I should be over the lungs ot every I a person troubled with a cough. J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.

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