Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1899 — Page 3

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O Caught WoTN; You are, generally, \ hjj when first quality flour ( M is expected at a “cut” or “bargain sale” price. ...PRINCESS PATENT FLOUR is the highest quality produced. Guaranteed and sold by all grocers. Blanton Milling Cos. Marott ■■■m All the year round the masses find the best values in shoes at the second largest shoe store In the world. 22, 24, 26 and 28 East Washington St. ■■■■mMarott IUJMTIQT Dr. A * fc - BUCHANAN L/Im 110 1 32.33 When Building. "amusements. It Is the impression around the Grand that the stock company’s performance of "Moths” to-night and all this week is going to be one of the treats of the season at that house. "Moths” is no ordinary play. Its elements of strength are far reaching, and its dramatic worth has long been recognized and makes it peculiarly well adapted to a company like that at the Grand. The four characters of Vera Herbert, Lord Jura, Prince Zuroff and Correze form a particularly strong quartet. The stage settings and the costuming of this play will be a feature worthy of admiration. Mr. Bellows has expended much time and thought on the production and the various people in the cast nave had their parts longer than usual, so that their study has been more careful than ever. Mr. Conger’s picture will form the souvenir for to-night. There are three acts in Grant Stewart’s comedy, "Mistakes Will Happen,” which Jacob Hitt’s company will present at English’s to-night for the first half of the week, and it is said that they are three as amusing acts as have been seen in an American farce this season. The first shows the dainty apartment of an actress, with all of those little knick-knacks dear to the professional woman’s heart. The second act is novel, and shews a coachhouse so divided that both the loft and the ground floor are seen and both are pracUeal. The third act shows the interior of a fashionable boarding house. An excellent company, headed by Charles Dickson and Henrietta Crosman, will be seen in the farce. Seats may be obtained at English's to-day both for Alice Nielsen, in “The Fortune Teller,” which will be sung Thursday and Friday nights, and for "The Turtle,” which Sives a matinee and night performance at inglish's next Saturday. Bob Fitzsimmons and his vaudeville company arrived last evening for their opening performance at the Park this afternoon and to-night. They will remain three days, giving a specialty bill. Fitzsimmons wil) spar three round at each performance with "Yank” Kenr.ey and. also give his bagpunching exhibition. There is an actor in "Mistakes Will Happen” who is most gallant, and in his younger days, when his gallantry was largely in excess of his pecuniary means, it once got him into a rather awkward predicament. There was a young lady, of whom he was very fond, and to whom he liked to send great bunches of flowers, and he had made an arrangement with a gardener to let him have, from time to time, a bouquet In return for his cast-off clothes. One day an exceptionally handsome bunch of roses came from the florist and he at once sent it to the lady in question. Certain of a friendly welcome that evening he called at the house and was very much surprised with the frosty reception. "You sent me a note to-day,” the young lady remarked in the most frigid tones. “I—a note?” the actor inquired in astonishment. “Certainly, along with the roses.” "To be sure I sent you some roses.” "And there was a note inside. Do you still mean to deny it?” And with these words she handed the astonished actor a scrap ct paper upon which was written the following words: "Don’t forget the old trousers you promised me the other day.” The popular City Club, under the management of T. E. Mlaco, will open at the Empire this afternoon. Jack Rose, Nellie Waters and Herr Sigfrled have been added to the company since its appearance here last summer. Irving LueN the- Lycenm. LONDON, Feb. 19.—The Lyceum Theater has definitely passed out of Sir Henry Irving’s hands. The prospectus of the new company will be issued this week. Associated with Comyns Carr on the board of directors will be William Creel, the lessee of the Garrick and Comedy theaters. Irving will reappear at the Lyceum Theater or. April 4 in "Robespierre,” and from Sept. 1 until the end of the year Wilson Barrett will play at the Lyceum. A period covering one hundred performances will be always reserved for Irving during the early part of each year. Theatrical circles were absorbed most of the week in the charges of Manager Loewenleld. of the Prince of Wales Theater, that an organized mob attempted to ruin “The Coquette” when it was produced on Saturday. Mr. Loewenfeld also asserts that the gang was instigated by rival managers. Interviews with all the other prominent managers have been published, and they are unanimous in expressing themselves against the belief of any organized opposition being responsible for the scenes occurring at many first nights. But there is no doubt that much of this first-night opposition Is caused by the presence of claques, which are becoming as much of u nuisance here as in Puris. Tlie dramatization of a "Tale of Two Cities," by Freeman Wills, produced at the Lyceum Theater on Thursday, met with only moderate success. It has been practically settled that the entire Teatro Della Scala company will come from Milan to the Drury Lane Theater in June. Note# of tlie Stage. Mansfield was obliged to cancel a week of his "Cyrano” engagement in Boston on account of a bad cold and overwork. Maggie Mitchell has retired from the stage, but la soou to be replaced by her daughter Fanehon who Is the wife of J. W. Alba ugh. Jr., and the mother of two children. Robert Tabor, the husband of Miss Julia Marlowe, it* very ill In I-ondon, and has

been taken to a hospital. He was to have played the part of Sydney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities." Mrs. Patrick Campbell is to be seen soon in an adaptation of "Tess of the d'LTrbervilles.” She Is starring in England with "Magda,” "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray” and “The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith. ’ Helen Bertram, of the Bostonians, says her eight-year-old-girl is not. to be an actress. and Louise Montague's son, who is not yet twenty-one, is taller and actually looks older than his remarkably well-pre-served mother. Apropos of Olga Nethersole's departure in dressing "Camille” in the costumes of the period when the play was written, it is interesting to recall that the idea is not original. Sarah Bernhardt did the piece in this manner at the Renaissance, in Paris, on Sept. 30, 1896. Vaudeville pays the good artist good money, vide Lew Dockstader. Six years ago he owed $60,000. He entered the vaudeville ranks and to-dav he is free and clear of indebtedness, having paid every dollar of claims against him before Jan. 1. 1839. Charles Hoyt, the playwright, is now in Florida under the care of his physician, who is traveling with him. The doctor states that Mr. Hoyt’s illness is due to spinal trouble, and he hopes to have the playwright in good condition again within five or six weeks. “Trelawney of the Wells” has had a great success this season, and Wednesday night celebrated its one-hundredth performance at the New York Lyceum Theater. The distinguished English playwright, Pinero, has good cause to feel very warmly toward the American theater patron, for very few of his plays have lacked support in this country. Miss Louise Hepper. Mr. D. L. Dow, Mr. George Leslie, Miss Belle Bucklin, Miss Louise Royce and Miss Margaret Ferguson, with several chorus women, left New York last week for San Franclaco, from where they will sail for Australia on the Mohican next Wednesday to present "The Belle of New York.” They will open at Sydney, N. S. W., on April 16. The list of remarkable dramatic successes Is headed by “Rip Van Winkle,” which Mr. Jefferson played first In 1859. Mr. Jefferson is the richest man on the stage. He is reported to be w*orth $2,000,000 at least, and most of this has been earned for him by "Rip Van Winkle,” notwithstanding that for many years past he has played very short seasons. All told, he has given “Rip Van Winkle” five thousand times, at gross receipts averaging SI,OOO a performance, thus aggregating $5,000,000. Here is what Mrs. Leslie Carter says of her new play, “Zaza:” “In French the play is unpresentable. Zaza remains had to the end. But in Mr. Belasco’s translation Zaza is transformed by her love and by the appeal w : hich the child makes to her latent goodness. She reforms. She leaves the man who has so cruelly deceived her and tries to lead a new* life. The difference between her and Camille? It is this: Camille know's better; Zaza does not. Camille is badness idealized; poor Zaza is only a woman throughout her stormy history.” Miss Louise’ Closser is deserving of a little paragraph all to herself. Miss Closser is an actress in the stock company at the Grand Opera House. Last week she played Virginia, the broken-hearted, whose heart was subsequently repaired, in Bronson Howard's “Aristocracy.” I remember Mary Hampton’s playing of Virginia, five or six years ago, as an especially delightful performance; yet I cannot think of it as being a whit better than Miss Closser’s, original though it wa., and in some of the scenes it seems to mo that the young woman of the Market-street stock company is easily the more effective. I don't know just what opportunity Miss Closser will get in the Grand Opera House organization, but I trust that it will be broad enough to bring out for our instruction and entertainment the artistic virtues she seems to possess. —St. Louis Republic.

The glut in the chorus girl market is evidently at an end, for Frank Perley, who is starring Alice Nielson in “The Fortune Teller,” Is paying all the way from S4O to S6O per week to some of his .best chorus girls. He has four of them, who are earning that princely salary, stop at the Southern or Planters’ Hotel, dress In the best, and otherwise conduct themselves like young women of affairs. One of these fortunate young damsels is Miss Violet Jewell, another Miss Nellie Marsh, a young Columbus (O.) beauty, with a well-trained, high soprano, pretty face and the daintiest little figure Imaginable. Miss Marsh made her debut in the chorus of “1492.” Afterwards she went with “In Gay New York,” “The Lady Slavey” and “One Round of Pleasure.” When Mr. Perley was gathering in his chorus forces for “The Fortune Teller” he selected not only good-looking people, but picked fresh, young voices. Miss Marsh came under that caption, and she was at once offered a salary of half a hundred dollars a week. She plays in “The Fortune Teller” Jan, the tailor boy, a small speaking part. Miss Marsh's aim is not to become a prima donna, taut a gay and dashing souhrette. She has the qualifications, to say the least, and having those, the opportunity will undoubtedly soon offer. Thirteen may be an unlucky number for some people, but Mr. Daniel Frohman, the manager of the Lyceum Theater, isn’t one of them. If you’ll just take the trouble to count you’ll find that there are just thirteen letters each in his name and in that of his playhouse, and then, too, curiously enough, the same mystic number appears In the names of some of the most prominent actors under his management, like Edward Sothern, Edward J. Morgan, James K. Hackett, Mary Mannering. Charles Walcot, Mrs. Toni Whiften, Wm, H. Courtleigh and Harry Woodruff. And as yesterday was the thirteenth anniversary of Mr. Frohman’s organization of the Lyceum company —thirteen, again, by the way—and the beginning of the thirteenth week of “Trelawny of the ‘Wells,’ ” and likewise the thirteenth day of the month, the members of the company thought it would be appropriate to give the manager a little memento of the occasion in the shape of a pair of gold cuff links, forming the number “13.” W. Noah Lawrence (thirteen again), the business manager of the house, made the presentation speech, and Grant M. Stewart (once more thirteen) read an appropriate poem. Mr. Frohman was completely surprised, but managed to make a neat little speech in reply, which contained just thirteen words and lasted about the thirteenth of a minute. And you will notice that this report pretty nearly got on the thirteenth page.—New York Herald. CITY NEWS NOTES. The students of the University of Indianapolis will give a theater party Wednesday evening. Victoria Lodge, No. 22, Knights of Honor, will entertain the Grand Lodge officers this evening. Mrs. Clark Mallery has returned from a visit to Michigan. Mr. Mallery will return Thursday from New York. Dr. John M. Dunlap, one of the oldest and best known physicians of tho city, is seriously ill at his apartments, No. 19 West Ohio street. Mrs. Thomas J. Viliers has invited the Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church to meet at her home, at Meridian and Eighteenth streets, Friday afternoon, March 10, at 2:30 o'clock. St. Patrick.’# Day Parade. The committee on arrangements appointed by the Aneient Order of Hibernians to arrange for a celebration of St. Patrick s day met yesterday afternoon at the Occidental Hotel. The line of march for the parude was approved. It will form at. the corner of Capitol avenue und Washington street and move at 2 o'clock over the following line: West on Washington street to Blackford, countermarch on Washington to Capitol avenue, south to Maryland, east to Illinois, north to Washington, east to New Jersey, countermarch on East Washington to Alabama, north to Market, west to Tomlinson Hall, where the exercises will be held. Replies have not been received as yet from all organizations invited to participate, and the assignment to places will not be made for two weeks. All the Irish societies of the city have been Invited to join in the celebration and participate in the parade, and ull of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the State have been Invited here. The Catholic clergy of the city will be invited to participate in the exercises in Tomlinson Hail in the afternoon and at the Masonic Hall in the evening. Tlie chief address in the afternoon will be delivered by Rev. M. J. Byrne, of Fort Wayne. For the evening entertainment the services of the National Quartet have been secured. This organization is composed of M. J. Dufficy, C. Hartley, A. Weaver and

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Thomas Shea. A special musical programme has been arranged and will include Irish music and patriotic American music. ELKS MINSTRELS. Arranjcementn for the Annual Entertainment of Imliu mi polls Lodge. The annual charity entertainment of the Indianapolis Lodge of Elks will be given at English’s Opera House on Monday evening, March 13. Previous appearances of the Elks Minstrels have won for the order the reputation of giving a performance up to professional standards, and the committees in charge of this year’s entertainment a*'e confident that they will sustain the good name. Rehearsals are being held now, and the progress made is sufficient, it is claimed, to justify the committees in believing the performance will be even more ambitious than in preceding years. Anew first part, with a comic-opera twist to it. will open the performance, prominent local Elks donning the burnt cork and curly wigs. Tickets have been placed on sale, which may be exchanged for reserved seats at the box office, but no seats will be reserved until the “board” is opened at 9 o'clock a. m. on Thursday. March 9. The parade in the morning will be the usual conspicuous pageant and the entire lodge will appear therein. The local lodge expects to entertain on that day visiting Elks from all over the State, their previous minstrel entertainments having attracted many from other “herds.” The arrangements for the entertainment this year are in the hands of the following committees: Executive Staff—George R. Colter, chairman; Bert Feibleman, vice chairman; H. S. Beissenherz, secretary; William Kottemun, treasurer. Music and Talent Committee—B. Feibleman, Joseph TANARUS, Fanning, William E. English, Jay G. Voss, James F. Quigley. Printing and Advertising Committee James M. Healy, H. S. Beissenherz, 11. F. Haynes. Programme Committee G. W. Kevers, Sol Munter, Valentine Fahrbach, W. C. Allen, M. G. Hornaday. Parade Committee—William Kotteman, S. M. Craford, F. G. Kamps. Press Committee—George R. Colter, S. V. Perrott, James F. Quigley, A. R. Keesling. Stage Committee Harry Grace, H. J. Beissenherz, A. P. Reiter. The chorus for the first part has been rehearsing under the direction of Karl Hoenig, choirmaster of St. Paul's Church. It embraces a double octet of ladies’ voices, the ladies being introduced in a novel manner into the “circle.” The musical /freetor is Samuel Cooley. The interlocutor will be James F. Quigley, and the endmen Messrs. Overman. Porter, Fahrbach, Feibleman, Barret, Gasper, Seguin and Kamps. In the olio professionals appearing at the different theaters that week have volunteered to appear, together with the local or specially engaged talent. An Overheiitod Stove. An overheated stove in the home of Anderson Williams, No. 581 Bright street, started a fire last night that caused $25 damage. The house is owned by Benjamin Thornton. A BIG STEAL. Estimate of Wliat Spaniards Tool*; from Cubans in Two Yeur*. Washington Special. Persons in the War Department have been doing some figuring on the amount of money stolen by Spanish officials in Cuba during the last two years of the insurrection, prior to the declaration of war by the United States. The statement is made on apparently good authority that during most of that period about 50,000 names wore carried on the army pay rolls in excess of the actual number in the service, and that the pay for that number of men was appropriated by General Weyler and a small circle of intimates connected with his immediate establishment. The pay allowed Spanish soldiers was $9 in gold a month. Up to within a short time before the blockade by American vessels the Spanish government attempted to keep its soldiers In Cuba fairly well paid, and the army w*as not over four or five months behind in receiving its pay. It would therefore appear that Weyler and his combination secured some $8,000,090 from the padded army pay roll. The Spanish paymaster paid the private soldiers $9 in silver instead of $9 in gold, and on the 140,000 men in Cuba cleared $6 in silver a man a month. The allowance for provisioning the army, $6 a soldier a month, was also stolen outright, and the officers made a practice of taking that sum from the pay of the men, excusing the operation by explaining that owing to distress of the government an order had been issued requiring the soldiers to pay for their subsistence out of their small stipends. It will thus be seen that somewhere between $20,OOO.OCX) and $30,000,000 was stolen directly from the army and the government under the Weyler regime in the way described. There was also enormous stealing of money appropriated by the government for the purchase of ammunition and other supplies. Millions of dollars were sent into Cuba, or, at least, drawn from the national treasury at Madrid, for the purpose of material for defenses in Cuba that found lodgement in the pockets of official thieves in the confidence of the government. One case has been mentioned by newspaper correspondents of SIOO,OOO having been appropriated for ammunition at Havana, w*hich was reported bought and stored in the magazines, but which transaction was on investigation found to be purely fictitious/ no actual material having been bought. The money was deposited in the pockets of the purchasing agent. From what is now known of the Cuban situation, army men believe that Weyler could have suppressed the insurrection within sixty or ninety days any time he wanted. The wholesale robberies carried on under his regime explain why he did not attempt to put down the rebellion. Wevler is supposed to have cleared not less than $10,000,000 during his stay in Cuba. His subordinates and associates divided the rest.

A SIGNIFICANT SMILE. And a Suggestion that It Be Embalmed in Oil. Washington Star. Mr. Cleveland is reported from Princeton a3 smiling broadly over the news from Manila. He could not repress an exhibition of the satisfaction he felt at the clash between the Americans and the Filipinos. His first and only thought was of a prediction he had made that something of that kind wa.s likely to occur. .Advised thus that his prediction had been fulfilled, the spirit of exultation took possession of him and he shook hands warmly with himself. He asked no questions about the number of the slain, or how the sacrifice stood distributed between the contending forces. He probably did not care. All dead soldiers look alike to Mr. Cleveland. He simply smiled and turned away. Happy man! Unerring prophet! But Mr. Cleveland had another right to smiie. He had not only prophesied, hut had helped to bring about the fulfillment of his prophecy. He had added his weight—the weight of his voice—to the impeachment of the country's integrity. He had helped to hold tip the peace treaty while Aguinakio strengthened the Filipino position around Manila. He had helped to tie* the hands of Dewey and Otis and keep them for five weeks inactive in the presence of a busy and treacherous foe. And here was his reward. Naturally, he smiled. It accorded with the man and his purpose. Turning from the pleasing intelligence of the battle, Mr. Cleveland submitted himself to the hands of an artist now in his house for the purpose of painting his portrait. The canvas has been ordered by Colonel Lamont. and presumably will be hung on the. wall of the colonel’s study. But is the public not entitled to a sight of the well-known face lighted up by a pleasure so unusual? The artist will have caugh the prophet in the hour of triumph. He will have transferred to canvas the proud expression of “1 told you so.” It would be unreasonable to expect Colonel Lament to consent to a tour for the picture. But it ought to be copied and put upon the biograph or some other stout reflector. The people ought to be allowed to see the smiling effect produced on a man whom they have twice called to the presidency by the intelligence that American soldiers carrying the stars and stripes have been killed in battle with Oriental savages. A Personal Appeal. Puck. Unctuous Stranger (who has been asked to lead in prayer at the Blackville Baptist Church prayer meeting)—“Oh. Lord, prepur’ us all to die; so dat v.’en dat dread moment arrives we kin calmly say: ’Oh. death! whar is dy sting? Oh. grave! whar is dy victory?’ And. oh. Lord! if dar am any present here to-night dat am not prepared to die, guide them, we beseech Thee, around to Room 47, at tie American Eagle Hotel, whar I am stopping as de general agent ob de Coontown Life insurance Company.” Yen, Indeed. Chicago Record. “Don’t you hate to have a man tell you the same story twice?” “Yes; especially if it is the one that I told him,” In Cumcn of Typliold or other dangerous fevers, Heart Chocolates keep the heart in proper action and save the patient’s life. 50c. All druggists.

COUNTRY ABOUT MANILA LOCATION OF THE TOWNS MENTIONED IN WAR DISPATCHES. - The Old and the New City— Where the Railway Runs—The Mater Sup-ply-River Pasig and the Bay. . Amos K. Fiske, in St. Louis Republic. The conflict between our troops and the Philippine insurgents in the suburbs of Manila will give interest to a more detailed description of the city and its surroundings than has yet appeared. The Island of Luzon is, in this latitude, from seventy to eighty miles wide, but the Bay of Manila cuts into its western side about thirty miles, and the Laguna de Bahia, in the interior, occupies more than twenty miles of its width. The Pasig river runs from the laguna, or lake, through the city into the bay, and its windings make it about fifteen miles long, but the bend between bay and lake, south of the river, from Old Manila to Cavite, is less than ten miles wide. The naval, arsenal and land defenses at Cavite are on a point or hook which projects in a curved fashion into the large bay, partly inclosing the small bay of Bacoor, across which and on the road to Manila is the considerable town of Bacoor. There Aguinaldo first established his headquarters, proclaimed his provisional government and rallied his forces after being set ashore by Admiral Dewey, subsequent to the naval battle of May 1. Though it is only about seven miles in a direct lino across tlie water from Cavite to Manila, it is fifteen miles by the road, which winds along the coast and passes through a number of villages. The last of these on the way is Malate, about a mile and threequarters from the old w*alled city of Manila, which is on the south bank of the River Pasig, at its very mouth. At Malate the Spaniards had barracks for both infantry and cavalry, and it was from there that they attacked our troops when they made their advance from Cavite at the end of July and the beginning of August. The place was taken by our soldiers after these attacks, and was made a base for their advance upon the city when the refusal to surrender made tlie assault of Aug. 13 necessary. The fortified inclosure in the angle between the south bank of the Pasig and the bay is the Manila of history, founded by Legaspy in 1571. The massive walls, somewhat shaken and cracked by earthquakes. run for a mile along the bay and an equal distance along the river, and connect around on the land side by an irregular curve, giving the inclosed space a nearly triangular form. Outside of this landward barrier there w*as originally a deep moat, into which water could be let from both river and bay. It is stiil there as a broad ditch, clogged with unwholesome deposits. THE ODD CITY. At the northwest angle of the walls, near the junction of river and bay, is the “Royal Fort” of Santiago, with its gloomy ramparts and dismal dungeons and its antiquated ordnance. There are three gates along the river, flanked by bastions, and from these in old times drawbridges crossed the river and were raised at night, when the gates were also securely closed. In front of the eastern end of this wall, facing the river, is the Paseo de Magalhanes, or Promenade of Magellan, graced by a monument of the famous Portuguese navigator who first acquired the Philippines for Spain and got himself killed near the island of Cebu. There are only three bastioned gateways in tho wall on the landward side of the old city, severally named Parian, Real and Santa Lucia, Two of these are on the eastern and one on the southern segment of the curved barrier. Near the southern point the Royal Gate (Puerta Real) is flanked by the bastion of San Diego and protected by the San Gregorio battery. Within this fortified inelosure of the old city, w’hich contains about 15,000 Inhabitants, was the seat of the secular and ecclesiastical authority of Spain’s Philippine colony for three centuries and a quarter. On the plaza near the fort is the cathedral which replaced the one shattered by the earthquake of 1863, and fronting on the same space, which is adorned by the statue of Carlos IV, was the governor general’s palace and near by the official residence of the archbishop. In the old city, with its many stone buildings and its paved streets, are also the royal Court of Chancery, the churches and convents of San Augustin and of the Recoletos of San Francisco, covering a broad area; the spacious grounds and substantial structures of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas, which has a fine physical laboratory; the Municipal Atheneum, which is an educational institution in charge of the Jesuits, and has not only a physical laboratory but a natural history museum and a well-equipped astronomical and meteorological observatory. There are also the large and well-managed Hospital of San Juan de Dios and a military hospital with beds for 1,000 patients. Old Manila is a monument of the Spanish power of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries. Outside of the -walls on the bay side, opposite Fort Santiago, is a monument to Anda, the doughty old judge who resisted the English occupation when the chief judicial officer shared power with the archbishop and the governor general. From that along the shore the Paseo Malecon, or dike promenade, leads to the Luneta, beyond the south wall, where the beauty and chivalry of Manila used to take their evening drives, while the populace thronged the promenades and listened to the military band which discoursed music from a stand within the elliptical space about which the drive ran like a race course. MODERN MANILA. But the modern commercial Manila, with its swarming population of nearly 300,000, is across the bridges, on the northern shore of the Pasig, and has grown, from the coalescence of several pueblos or villages and suburban districts, into one municipality. The flat area Is divided by creeks and estuaries which make their way to the river and form natural boundary lines to several sections and are crossed by many bridges. Directly across the river from the old walled town is the great business district of Biondo, which grew out of the Alcayceria, to which the Chinese traders were confined in the early days when the Spanish hidalgoes scorned trade for themselves, but forced tribute from it for their own support. The street now chiefly occupied by business houses concerned in foreign trade or conducted by Europeans is the Escolta, near the river and parallel to it, while the Rosario, running through the heart of the business district, is thronged with the shops and bazaars of the ever-busy Chinaman. Beyond Binondo and stretching along the bay front on low ground, is Tondo, which is made up of long, narrow streets, now* muddy and now dusty, according to the season, lined with humble Nipa-thatched shanties of a swarm of native Malays. They mostly stand on short stilts of palm trees und are made of bamboo ajid covered, top and sides, with the frow’sy thatch of Nipa leaves. Here, if anywhere, are the slums of the city, but in Tondo there are a good market place, a small theater and a fine church. Outlying Binondo, on the east and extending along the river toward the lake, are the quarters, or pueblos, known as Santa Cruz. Quiapo and Sun Miguel, which contain most of tlie better residences and suburban villas. In Santa Cruz are a, flower market and a theater, and it contains within its limits the famous leper hospital of the Franciscans, while in its confines is a cemetery for Chinese and other “lnfleles” or infidels. Quiapo contains some fine buildings, including the market of Quinta und the establishment of the Recoletos of San Augustin, with its sanctuary of San Sebastian and here a suspension bridge 350 feet long across the Pasig. Crossing a wooden bridge over the Estero de San Miguel, or Sanu Miguel estuary, one passes from Quiapo to San Miguel, where there are an extensive barracks and many comfortable houses, including some fine villas along the river hank. Furthest out of th*se is Malacamag, the summer palace of the Spanish governor general,j which is surrounded by gardens and has wharves of its own on the river. There is quite an island in the middle of the river opposite San Miguel called San Andres, upon which there are a convalescent hospital, an insane asylum and a poorhouse. The lower end of the island supports a bridge across the river and near the upper end are the hatterio* of San Andres and San Rafael. Further, but to the northeast, hut still near the river, is a region called the Arroeeros, or “rice mills." where the great tobacco factories and the slaughterhouse are and where there are also a botanical garden, a Spanish theater and a dancing pavilion called the Klosko. Beyond this area of city districts, which are divided into wards, are open spaces, apt to be marshy or sandy, and scattered suburban villages. On the south side of the

river there is no extension of the urban area outside of the walls of the old city, but two or three miles east of Mnlate and about the same distance frotn the river is the village of Paco, while about as muen further to the east and on the bank of the river is Santa Ana. Two or three miles further up on the same bank is San Pedro Macati. These suburban villages are more numerous beyond the outskirts of the sprawling modern Manila north of the river. THE RAILWAY. The only railroad in the Philippine Islands runs from Manila north near the coast for a few mile's and then up a rich valley of sugar cane and rice Helds, through the flourishing province of Pargasinar to Daguoo, on the Gulf of Lingayen, which cuts Into the west coast of Luzon, 130 miies away. Malalos, where Aguinaldo has established his “government,” is on this railroad, about twenty-eight miles from Manila, and is a place of 15,000 inhabitants. , About the first station out of the city is Malabon, near which is the considerable suburban town of Caloocan. This is seven miles north of the city, and in the intervening space are La Loma and Gagalangin. The Spaniards established a line of blockhouses from Caloocan on the north around t.o the heights of Santa Mesa and San Juan del Monte, which are beyond the San Miguel district; thence across the river to Santa Ana, Paco and Malate on the south, making a semi-circle of about seventeen miles. Manila has an excellent and abundant water supply, which was provided by the foresight and munififoence of a private benefactor, and not by the wisdom or liberality of the Spanish colonial government. It is drawn from the River Mariguina or San Mateo, which joins the Pasig a little below the lake, i hero are a pumping station at the river and a reservoir beyond the heights of Santa Alesa nnd San Juan del Monte, between winch the aqueduct makes its way down to the city. After Aguinaldo had proclaimed his prov.slonal republic at Baeoor last June and had rekindled the fires of rebellion in the provinces beyond Manila, he rallied his forces about the outskirts of the capital, and one of the first of which he seized posses3lon was the water works, near San Juan del Monte. \\ hep the city surrendered last August the water was turned off; but, while General Merritt did not deem it advisable to dislodge the insurgents, he induced them to allow the water to be turned on again. Aguinaldo had already grown jealous of the American occupation and established his government’’ at Malalos, commanded the railroad and after the surrender his troops showed a disposition to press into the outskirts of the city. There was danger of collision and of looting by the native soldiers, and in September General Otis insisted upon the evacuation of the suburbs by the forces of Aguinaldo. His orders were complied with in a surly and reluctant fashion, and the insurgent posts were established further back. Th'* troops of Aguinaldo took possession of some of the Spanish blockhouses and were massed especially near Caloocan and the reservoir f tnd San Juan, where was No. i in the line of blockhouses. To guard against entanglements or hostile demonstrations our forces were posted upon the outskirts of the city on an interior line facing that of the Filipinos. Especial attention was given to the post near the water works, where the collision took place on Saturday night. While the deep water of Manila harbor is down at Cavite, oven merchant vessels of moderate draught cannot get near the wharves, but have to discharge their cargoes by means of lighters, it is possible to send light draught gunboats and monitors near enough Malabon to sweep with shot and shell the region near the coast from Caloocan to Manila. The River Pasig has a mole running out each deep side of its mouth, but the stream is not deep enough to admit war vessels of the smallest size, and is hardly available for strategic purposes. except for transportation. There is little danger of attack in much force, except from the north, where nearly all of Agulnaldo’s force is found. His force is drawn from half a dozen Luzon provinces above Malina. though he has succeeded in stirring up trouble at Iloilo, on the Island of I anay. There is no sign of support elsewhere, and Aguinaldo’s claim that the Filipino government and authority are established over the islands excent at Manila is ridiculous. It is doubtful if one-tenth of the population of the islands know' what is going on or have any idea of what it means, and if half a dozen active mischief-makers and their American accomplices at Washington could be suppressed the trouble would speedily subside. AN INDIANA PLANTATION. Mr. B. F. Gifford Owns 33.000 Acres of Land in Jasper County. Wabash find.) Plain Dealer. A man in Wabash county, or in most any part of the great State of Indiana for that matter, who owns from three to four hundred acres of land is considered a nabob. And it is a forgone conclusion that so long as the farm is well stocked and worked there is no danger of the proprietor becoming a charge on the county. But how does a three hundred or four vi ina i-. ea ‘ acre . f arm compare with that of Mr. B. F. Gifford, of Kankakee, 111., who owns and farms over 33,000 acres of land in Jasper county, this State? One can hardly realize that there is in Indiana a single farm containing fiftv-two sections Yet that is the extent of Mr. Gifford’s broad acres. Some time ago Captain Thad. Hoke had occasion to visit the great “Indiana plantation,” as Mr. Gifford’s farm might, be called. He had never been in that immediate vicinity before, but he knew about where the headquarters of the farm was located, and meeting a man on the road he asked to be directed to Mr. Gifford’s farm. The man looked a little puzzled and said: “Which farm do you mean? You commenced traveling through Mr. Gifford's land six miles back yonder. ’ Captain Hoke replied that he wanted to go to the headquarters of the plantation and was directed to the office in the center °i ? ari P where the proprietor transacts all his business. Mr. Gifford’s Indiana land is nearly all reclaimed swamp land. He owns the largest landed estate in the State and claims to be the largest swamp land owner in the world.

Besides the 33,000 acres in Jasper county he owns 2,800 acres—in itself quite a truck patch near Kankakee, 111. owns a large steam dredge, which has befn operated dav and night for five years, and has completed over seventy-five miles of ditches. These ditches are from six to twelve feet deep and from fifteen to twenty feet wide. The dirt thrown out along all of these ditches, except one, is washed away from the bank and scattered by hydraulic pressure, the apparatus being rigged up on a boat, the water from the ditches, which at places are bank full, being used for that purpose. Mr Gifford is now engaged in the construction of a railroad for his own use a™ l is now graded as fur as the Indiana.’ Illinois & lowa Railroad. It is his intention to run it to the Chicago stock vards. The grade for the road was made from the dirt taken from one of the big ditches. The railroad runs along the bank'of the ditch Every acre of the vast tract of land is cultivated. Mr. Gifford has 250 tenants on his farm, and all are very comfortably situated. Each tenant is provided with a nice, two-story frame house and a good, big barn. The buildings are exactly alike and average five houses to the section. Mr. Gifford has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in reclaiming Indiana swamp land, and he continues to purchase and ditch swamps. If the largest farmer in Wabash county should gather and market 2,000 to 3,000 bushels of corn in one season he could he very proud of his work and it would probably be the topic for discussion at the next farmers’ institute. Yet last year Mr Gifford sold over a million bushels of corn besides hundreds of thousands of bushels of oniens and other products, and nothing has been said about it. He will continue to dredge more swamps to raise more corn and onions. Mr. Giffordds a very plain, unostentatious man. He visits his Indiana estate frequently and keeps a strict account of everything. He claims that large fortunes will never be made in America again except in legitimate speculation. funned Beef and \Vliltexvitsli. Philadelphia North American. If the report of the war investigation board is to stand and be accepted by the administration as disposing of the matters which came within its scope, what practical end is to be served by the board which has been appointed to investigate Major General Miles’s charges with regard to the beef supplied to the army during the war? The war board has reported that there was nothing wrong with the beef; that General Miles was mistaken, as was also his chief surgeon, Dr. Daly. This is conclusive enough, and as the board was acting under the authorization of President McKinley, the report under ordinary circumstances would be accepted by the administration, and there would be an end to the matter. The fact is. however, that the clrcumstances are not ordinary, and the report is not accepted. The people generally look upon the report as a pUMn job of "whitewashing,” done with a lavish brush. The President iriferentially discounts it by appointing. coincidentally with the filing of the report approving Alger and the beef, a board to investigate the beef. If this board does its work thoroughly the report which it files will be accepted by the people, but if it does Its work ill, the people will continue to believe the testimony of General Miles, Surgeon Daly and the thirty or more regular army officers who have united in declaring the beef bad. So, for all practical purposes, this report of the war board Is nil. its work has gone for naught, and it would better never have been appointed.

If it’s in the blood | Ayer’s I Sarsaparilla j will take it out. ) Other kinds may, 5 but probably will not. s THE CASE OF GUY HENRY ♦ “HIGH-HANDED’* WAY IN WHICH HE IS CIVILIZING PORTO RICO. Discordant and Corrupt Elements Suppressed and Cities Being Governed by the People. * Hartford Courant. Some of our “anti-imperialists” ought to attend to the ease of Gen. Guy V. Henry. It looks as if he were going ahead recklessly without the consent of the governed. He is upsetting traditions that are centuries old. He pays no hoed to the tears of women, the sobs of children. And yet he dares to continue to call himself an American. General Henry is the military governor of Porto Rico. From Mayaguez to Humacao, from San Juan to Ponce, he rules the roost. Even now his iron hand is making itself felt, and the persecuted people know not which way to turn. Mr. Erving Winslow, the secretary of the Anti-Expansionist League, cannot have been tending to business, for surely, if he had been, General Henry would never have ventured so far. For many, many years the children of Porto Rico have been accustomed to do without the restraints of clothing until they were six or eight years old. This custom was both satisfactory to the children and economical for the parents. How mothers were able to identify their children without the aid of clothes will never be known. The chances are that the thing was Worked on the grab-bag principle, and that each day It was the iuckiest mother who took home the prettiest child. But now what problems in domestic economy confront the prudent housewives of I’orto Rico! The children must be clad, says General Henry, ana properly. The poor women down there have not the slightest idea of how a child’s clothes ought to look. They have been accustomed to seeing the sweet little darlings wandering around clad only in their native innocence. Are they now to be trussed up in the style of little Lord Fauntleroy, or is it sailor suits that will please the greater number? It seems as if it were incumbent on General Henry to furnish fashion plates to the anxious mothers. Something must be done, and that quickly. The new’ regulation wili be hard upon the parents, but think of what it means to the poor children! They, who have heretofore rejoiced in the free and unrestricted use of all the limbs that nature gave them, must now be swathed in woolen, cotton or other objectionable impediments. Cruel Gen. Henry! We see your finish. But, to speak seriously on a serious matter, General Henry is making a great record as military governor in Porto Rico. His reoent order suspending for a year the foreclosure of all farm mortgages is calling out expressions of relief and thankfulness all over the island. The alcalde of Utuado has written to him: “Such a saving measure was hailed with indescribable enthusiasm and a great demonstration took place in token of gratefulness to you.” The people of Adjuntas immediately telegraphed to him: "You have prevented great conflicts to (sic) Porto Rico and deserve well of your powerful country. This island will remember with gratitude and love the name of the Illustrious ruler who has done so much for its prosperity.” Concerning another of General Henry's recent orders—the one prescribing the method of classifying lands for taxation—the Porto Rican secretary of finance testifies that no such equitable measure has been known in the island since the eighteenth century. “It dispels all doubts,” he says, “and allows no escape to those who, with their plaints and claims every year, endeavor to elude the payment of their taxes. They are always the same individuals. There is to-day ar urgent necessity for regulating this tax. without its being burdensome to landholders, and the most equitable way of doing it is the one ordered by Major General Henry.” As another illustration of this particular “proconsul’s” Ideas of his duty and manner of performing it, we reprint from the current number of the Army and Navy Journal the text of still a third order, issued last month to Captain Mansfield at Aguadilla. Here it is:

“It having been demonstrated to me for some w'eeka that matters are generally mismanaged at Aguadilla—that the councilmen quarrel with one another, that they refuse to act in the interest of the people, and that money is corruptly used—you will notify the alcalde and the councilmen that they are deposed from office and that the civil authority is entirely suspended in the town. The above order will also apply to Moca. You will assume command of the town, exercising the necessary civil functions, and use your troops as required by the circumstances. l'ou will then call a meeting of the representative men of the town and, as soon as they agree upon reputable men to govern the town in the interest of the whole, you will induct them into office and report to me that they are desirable men. From the report of the commission, composed of one Radical and one Liberal, which I sent from here. I have concluded that the Liberals are more to blame than are the Radicals, so that I have no objection to a Radical Council if good men of that party are obtainable. The jail is also reported as dirty and overcrowded. You will release therefrom all who are serving light sentences and order the jailer to clean the prison. If the latter has neglected his duty, replace him with a capable man. If the judges have failed to do their duty, report them to me for removal. In carrying out these orders I assume that you will use good judgment and discretion. If any opposition is displayed, either through failure to carry out your orders or through disrespect on the part of any one. you will cause the offender to be placed in Jail and report the case to me. You are authorized to call upon several of the reputable men of the towm to investigate the accounts of the city officials for report to me through you. I have frequently warned the people of this island that w'hen they failed to govern themselves as they should after having every opportunity to do so, I should take control. I hope this action with reference to Aguadilla will be an object lesson to the other towns on the island.” If this is tyrannous, a continuance of just such tyranny for u generation or two would be the greatest boon a benevolent Providence could possibly bestow upon the people of our new dependencies. The longer they are left under the firm, just rule of the level-headed, clean-handed gentlemen of the army, the better. The more closely their future governors from civil life resemble these army men in character and competency the better. The people would not look on well pleased while the good work done by the Leonard Woods and Guy Henrys was being undone by misfit appointees with a hunger for salaried office and a political pull. They would not look on patiently. WaNliinKtoit'a Birthday. Ths frost lay thick on the diamond pane*, That wintry morning when tie was (torn, And the snotv lay deep and the snow lay whtt On fields, and fences, and shocks of corn. But the beautiful mother sweetly smiled In the quaint old chamber under the eaves. At the baby Washington fast asleep In the cradle carven with laurel leave*. Before the pride of his pictured face My mind reverts to the long ago. But not to the lee of the Delaware, Nor to Valley Forge in the drifted snow. For I see the roof of the homestead old, The cherry treea in their frozen fleeca, And the velvet pink of a baby’s cheek laths carven erudite-a sceus of i*ac.

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Office Hours—9 to 10 a. m.; 2to 4 p. m.; 7 to I m Telephones—Office, 907: residence, 427. Dr. W. B. Fletcher’s SANATORIUM Mental nnd Nervous Dlseasea. 218 NORTH ALABAMA BTREET. -_-_-_-.n_-.rv, l r7?o h optician J V DIM BOM HOUSE. / INDIANAPOLIS-IN D jr SEALS, STENCILS. STAMPS. ffro t/prciU sEALsrm STENCIIiS,STAMPS; FUSE RADGES, CHECKS &C. ' TELI366. USSLMERiDLANSIOROUNPfiooR.iI ■ - 111 . 1 11 a RAILROAD TIME TABLE. ON and after Sunday, Nov. 20, 1898* trains will run as follows: (Central Standard Time.) All trains enter l/NION RAILWAY STATION. —l*. M. Time In Illttck Face Figures.— Trains marked thus: Dy—Dally, S—Sleeper. P—Parlor Car, C—Chair Car, D—Dining Car. CLEYE., C IS., CHI. A ST. LOUIS R’Y. Cleveland Division—Dig Four. DEPART! ARRIVB New York ex, dy s. 4:25' V City & W ac, dy. 9:2S Muncle & H H ex.. 6:35, S’wst'n iim, dy, and 8.11:30 Cleveland mail 10:50 13. H. & Muncle ex 3:l© And’on & B H ex.. 11:15 Cleveland ex 6:00 U C * W ac, dy.. 4.80 U.H. A And’n ex, H:4K Knick’b’r, dy, ands. 0:25 N. Y. ex. dy. s...lOtftO St. Louis Division—Blw Four. St Louis expr 7:30i New York ex, dy, s. 4:05 S'wst’n lim, dy, and e.11:45 Mat & T H acc 10:39 T. H. & Mat. ac.. 4:250 Kt. Louis express. .5:40 T H & Mat acc, Kn’kb'r sp, and s.dy 6:10 Cunday only 6:10 1 NY &, StL ex.dy 811:20' Cincinnati Division—Big Four. Cincinnati f i, dy a. 8.45, Greensburg acc 9:09 St 1. & Ctn f 1, dy, s 4:15, Cin'tl acc, dy 11:18 Cincinnati uecom... 7:00 C A St L mall, dy Cincinnati uec0m...10:50 and • and p 11:49 Cincinnati dy p....2:45 Chi. Lim., p 4sIK Greensburg acc... 5:30! <Tn * Ind ex, p... 0:40 C'tl A Wash, F. L, C lAStL ex, dy a. 11 (Off dy, and, sand p... 0:20. Chicago dy s 11:5(9 Louisville Line. Loulsv f 1 dy s 8:45 Louisv f 1 dy a...11:5© Loulsv day expr...24:45; Louisv day expr...11:49 Cliicngo Division—llls*' Four. Lafayette aCcum.,.. 7:lojCln f 1, dy, s 3:39 Chi f m, dy, and p....11:45) I<afayette acc0m...10:39 Chi. Lira, and p 4tis Cln. mall.pd, dy. 2:38 Lafayette acc 6515 Lafayette acc 5:48 Chi F L. dy s 12:05 C’ti A Wash, dp. 0:10 Michigan Division—Big Four. Benton Harbor ex.. f1:35 Wabash acc, dy.... 9:28 Mich mall and ex. .11:15; li.Harbr m'l ex... 3:10 Wabasli acc. dy.. 4:50 Michigan expr.... (4:48 Peoria Dlv.. West—Big Four. Peoria ex and mall. 7:25; Col A ('in ex. dy, a. 3:89 West'n ex. dy, p...11:45 Champaign acc0m..10:29 Champaign acc... 4:35 N.T. ex £ mail... 2:429 Peoria ex. dy. s.. 11:15 Peoria ex, dy, p.. 6:141 Prorln Dlv., East-Big Four. Columbus express.. 5:10 Springfield expr 11:35 Sp'fteld A Col. ex.3:2o' Columbus expr...10:40 PITTS., GIN., ( HI. A ST. LOUIS R’Y. Indianapolis Division—Penna Line. Eastern ex, dy, 5... 5:50 Fast ex, dy 7:58 Fast x, dy 8:25 Llm'u mail, dy s d.8:08 Calumbus accom.... 8:30 St L ex. dy, da.12:25 Atl'c ex. dy. and a.2:30 Ind'p’ls acc 3:118 Day ex, dy 3:00 Malf express, dy.. 6:50 BtL&NY, dy sand.. 7:10 West'n ex, dy, s.. 10:00 ClitcMKO Division—l’ennit R. R. Lou & Chi ex, dy p. 11:361 Chi A Lou f ex.dy a.8:29 Lou& Chi f ex.dy s 12:05!Chi & Lo ex, dy p. 3:45 Louisville Division—Pennu R. R. Lou & So spt, dy. a. 3:30 Mad A Jnd aco 10:29 Lou & Mad ar. dy a 8:15 ! 8t L & C f 1, dy, p.ll 28 lnd A Mad accom. Mad & Ind acc...5:40 Sundar only 7:00 Ind A Pitts, dy. s 7:00 Tnd & Mad ac 3:30 Mad. A lnd. acc.. L. A At’a. dy, p..4:00 Sunday 0n1y.....11:10 Louisville acc 7:10 L A Chi ex dy a.11:30 VANDALIA LINE. St Louis ax, dy.... 7:20 New York ex, dy a. 6:19 N Y A StL, (1y sand. 8:10, Casey accom 10:00 StL ex. dy, sd p. 12:35 St Louis ex, dy.... 8:?9 Casey acc 4:00 Ati’c ex, dy, ands p 2:25 Fast Mail, dy 7aOo Fast Line, dally. 4:45 Western ex dy s i 1:35 StL & NY. dy, and 7:05 INDIANAPOLIS A VIVI ENNES H. R. C’ro A V’nes ex. dy 8:15' Vincennes expr 10:49 Vincennes expr... 4:20 Cairo expr. dy 4:50 CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYT'N R’Y Ticket Office. 25 W. Washington St. •Cln ex 1:55 *Cdn ex 12:48 •Cln fast mail 8:05. *Cln fast mall ...... *:.'<o ••Cln A Detroit ex..to:4'i ‘(’ln A Detroit ex..11:4* ••t in A Dayt’n ex.2:47 **rin A Ihtyt'n ex 3:21 •Cln & Dsyt'n Mm.4:4f I ’Cln A D’y’n lim. 10:35 •Cln. Tul. & Det..7iO( ••Ctn, Tol A Det. 7:50 • Dftilv •• Ex. Sunday. LAKE ERIE A WESTERN R. R. Mall and expr 7:Oo!lnd’p!s ex. dy 10:29 T. D <V M C ex, dy 1:2I Mull and expr.... 2:35 Evening expr— 7:0*1 Toledo expr 41:00 INDIANA. DECATUR A WESTERN' R’Y. Mali and expr 8:16! Fast expr. dy. c.. 8:59 Chicago express 11 JO'Tusco.’a ace 10:49 Tuscola accom 3:45 Chicago expr 2:40 Fast ex, dy, a c. 11:10 Mall and expr.... 4:40 (’., i, L. R'Y. (Mnnon Route.l Chi night ex. dy. a.13;65 Ctn vest. dy. a 3:39 Fast mail. dy. 9 ... 7:00 Fast mail, dy, a.... 7:6* Chi expr, p ll:*0 Cln vest, dy. and p. 4:87 CM vest, and p 3:3ft Chicago expr..... St<§#

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