Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1899 — Page 3

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, AriilL 17, 1899. 3

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There are five acts In "Led Astray the scenes of which are divided between the Chandoce chateau in the country and Paris. The first act will show the exterior of the Chandoce chateau, the second the boudoir of tho Countess Chandoce In Paris, the third the ball room at the chateau, the fourth the Hois de Houlogne In Paris, where the duel takes place between Chandoce and De Iesparre, and the fifth the library at tho chateau. The choice of photographs offered to the women who attend to-night will help make the opening audience one of the largest of the season. In Furblsh's Fifth-avenue company, which made "Led Astray" famous twenty years ago, George Uonlface played the part of Rudolph Chandoce, In which Mr. Hansel will be reen this week. De Lesparre, Mr. Kirkland's part, was played by Ben Porter, who was killed some years afterward In Texas while defending the ladies of hi3 company from a drunken ruffian. At the time of the tragedy he was associated with Maurice Barrymore la a "Diplomacy" company. "The Ivy Leaf," at the Park this afternoon, will give the audiences at that theater a taste of romantic Irish drama, the first of the season. Seats go on sale to-day for "Pousse Cafe," which will return to tho Park Thursday for a three days engagement. The first announcement of the Grand's eouvenir for next Monday night will bo made to-night In the programme. Much curiosity has. been aroused concerning it. "The Merry Maidens" will begin a threeday engagement at the Empire this afternoon, with Sam Rice, James Curran and a strong company. Ben-IIur to De Dramatized. CRAWFORD3VILLE. Ind.. April 1S."Btn Hur" Is to bo dramatized with the consent of Gen. Lew Wallace, The author made this statement here to-night, with the accompanying assertion that the religious features of his famous book will be carefully safeguarded when It ts rendei on the stage. General Wallace has given his consent only after great pressure. Kver since the publication of "Ben-Ilur" he has been besieged with applications by nan;u gers and actors to permit its dramatization. Lawrence Barrett, the younger Salvini. and the Klralfys are among thoso who have thus petitioned him, but hitherto he has feared the book could not be adapted to the stage and its religious feature protected. He la now iatit-fied this can and will be done. Julia Marlowe's .MoTementa. New York Mall and Express. At the end of the run of "Colinette," at the Knickerbocker, Julia Marlowe will sail for Europe. She Is to summer in the Bernese Alps with a party of Intimate friends that will Include Mildred Aldrleh, a well-known theatrical writer, who used to be on the Boston Herald. Miss Marlowe tells me she is looking forward eagerly to her annual two months of absence from the glare of the footlights. Jn June sho will be in Ixmdon to attend the International Council of Women, to which she has been elected a delegate as representative of her sisters in the theatrical profession. Refore the council Miss Marlowe will read a paier called "The Women of the Stag-." Her several weeks In the Alps will not bo all leisure, as she will have to familiarize herself then with roles in new plays Charles Frohman has secured for her. HUSBAND AND COFFEE Would be Foolish to Stay With It I must tell you about my husband and his experience with coffee. He hail been nervous and more or less irritable, suffering with nausea and waterbrash from time to time and sleeplessness, with a considerably amount of indigestion. I finally Induced him to leave off the coffee, for while his ailments were different somewhat than mine, I was convinced that it was the poisoning of the nervous system that caused his troubles as well as my own. Wo have now been using Potum over a year, and are in the very best of health, stout and hearty every way. You may be -uro we have lerned to make Postum so It tastes flue, for we believe in "good things." We made Postum rather sloppy at first. I cannot describe what a blessing1 we have both derived from the ue of Postum. I have written these facta in the hoje that from others may lx tm-ilted by the statement and leave off the coffee that is tho real cause of no much physkal suffering. A friend of ours, Mrs. Ernma IXihlgren, l.ad dreadful stomach trouble for years, bloating after meals, great nervousness and rerlous constipation. The physicians could rot do her any good, but Immediately after ehe left off coffee and began Using Postum, he got over her nervousness, constipation and other sufferings, and now enjoys line health. Hhc ! not like the name person; cheerful at all times now, while formerly he was very dsKndvnt and ill. Mm. Lena Noble. Fairfield, la.

ANSWER AARON MADE

iu:v. mr. dewihrst rsi:s it as a SCHJIICT OF HIS A 1)1)11 ILss. University Vesper Yesterday erm on by lie. Messrs. Smith and Mcintosh. Every eeat In the Second Presbyterian Church was taken yesterday afternoon at the 4 o'clock vesper services of the Fr.iwrsity of Indianapolis. Rev. F. L Dowhurst, of Plymouth Church, gave an Interesting addre-ss, and a beautiful musical programme was-given by the quartet, composed of Mrs. lymlc Ea.-rhig. soprano; Mr. Alice Evans, contralto; B. F. Millor, tenr, and Iu!s Hochez. baritone, with Cliarles Hansen oranbt. The soloist was Mr. Iochrz. who sang Mendelj-sr.hn's "Lord, God of Abraham." from "Elijah," with fine effect. Mr. Dowhurst's address was on the molding of character, taking for his subject. "The Craving Tool and the Melting Tot." Ho referied to the foolish answer Aaron mado to Mcses when called to account for the setting up of the golden calf as a deity. Aaron tleclarlng that he had cast tho earrings and other trinkets which the people had given him into the fire and they had come out a golden calf. Aaron carefully concealed the fact that the graving tool had been the real factor in the making of the Idol, throwing the responsibility on the fire, an irresponsible element of tho universe. "Bven Moses, stern statesman though l.e was, must haw laughed lr Aaron's face at such a ridiculous explanation," said tho minister. "But. after all, when wo think over tho story carefully It doesn't appear any moro grotesque or inconsequent than a good many other things in life; in fact, it seems very much like them. It resolves itself into a question which, In one form cr another, we are constantly confronting. The fire represents tho blind and impersonal forces that are outside of man, the great, mighty movement of the universe that goes on whether man Is there or not. You cannot put yourself down anywhere in human history, you cannot open any volume of great literature In the world, you cannot search the highways and byways cf the; great religious faiths, you cannot listen to the complaints with which men have sought to justify their failures and their sins, without hearing In some form the echo of those ancient words of Aaron. '1 cast the gold into tho lire and there came out a calf.' Hut somewhere, also, you will find a strenuous voice calling forth out of the conflict, 'Nay! he took a graving tool Into his hand, and with the graving tool he did it.' " The minister told of having once been present at a meeting of the parole board at a penitentiary when a dozen prisoners eligible to parole, were asked, separately, if they could live sober, honest, industrious lives if all were allowed their freedom. The answer would In mos't cases come, rJoubtfully. "I think I can." "But don't you know you can?" the warden would interrupt. And back would come the ringing reply. "Yes, sir, I know I can!" Mr. Dewhurst said that whatever becomes of our pet philosophy, it introduces confusion and contradiction into life unless we are able to feel that resolve and determination is the most real, tho most central, the most sacred fact of life. "It Is more than folly." he concluded, "it U wrong and base not to live In the sight of tho best and noblest and fairest things that have been disclosed to the world. None of us can say, in any sincerity or truth, that we cast Into the tire the opportunities, the talents, the capacities we had. and that they came out the result that is to be seen, for even as we speak the words the tell-tale graving tool is in our hands. We know, and every right-minded- man knows, that we cannot thus shake off theresponsibiilty for what we are." IHSCOt USE AT TAREHNACLE CHURCH. He v.J. Camming Smith Top! The IIlniulnatlou of Our Hest experience. In his opening remarks yesterday morning Rev. J. Cummlng Smith, pastor of Tabernacle Church, referred to the Intermarriage of races, a topic that was recently discussed at a ministers meeting In this city. The pastor said that an Incorrect report of his position on that ubjcct had been made. He would speak further along this line cn next Sunday morning, he said. The pastor's theme yesterday was "The Illustrations of Our Best Kxperlences." In the course of his remarks he suld: "No distance of time can dim the beauty of that ancient assembly summoned by Hezeklah for a national sacrifice accompanied by the music of joy. It was one of those rare moments when the race shines at Us best. It stood for repentance, surrender and devotement. These wero attended with every emotion of exultancy. The picture dispels the terrible pessimisms which haunt cur time. There are men who hold that pleasure dances attendance on the low action of our animal nature, but that as we ascend to our better nature we find dreariness; that scholars only increase sadness with the Increase of knowledge; that men who curb sense and aim at a severe life are austere and unhappy; that missionaries are mad martyrs. This creed if not formally avowed U floating through the air like a subtle malaria, It hangs like a weight of lead on men when you call upon them to rbo to a 'religious life. When Governor Roosevelt prescribes a gospel of sinewy endeavor and high purpose tiie school ot epicures look at him as a phenomenon in our easy, airy time. But our supreme experiences furnish the richest luo after all. When we rise to culture, to repentance, to strenuous altruism, we are conscijjs of tho royalty in u.. Wo rind a Ftill and stirk-ss life unendurable. The truj Christian developing upward Is the only normal man. Our land has known Its heroic hours; ome, when it struck for independence; ayaln. when it broke the chains of the s'lave and forged a new bond of unity between the States; and attain, when it set the isles freo from the haughtiness of riailrid. Never showed our teal Americanism to better advantage than in those baptisms of lire. Tho church ha passed through furnaces of trial but never was her real temper so gloriously revealed. I flo not disparage the intervening periods of quietude or languor; I only affirm that all great causes sheathe hcir truest, sternest worth in stormless epoches. We waste pity over our heroes. As a fact the men of courage, and championship have proved tho divine possibilities- In us all. Men of bravo thought and patriotic sacrifices have thir own exaite-d enthusiasm. Classic: art even his fastened the fallacy and painted ClTist with a drooping form or melancholy a& pet-1. Sorrow was His, but aiso was Ills career a triumphal rror.s and ictorious Joy. It is when forest is heaviest with foliage or fruitage that the trees pour forth their fullest choral music cf birds. There are theories abroad of socialistic equality and a desire to quell the strife of Ule. If they aim to give a fairer char.ee to men In the race thoso theories .Me lorn of equity, if they aim to lower the standards of struggle they weaken ihe species. Men need the good of pain to rouse them to work. We pray for no placid millennium when men shall feel fr to relax cu'ort. and lo.-e tho glow of sturdy purpoe. fktue while wialth sometimes does i: t hint a strong man. it banns a ma wn-t ;ttls back into luxury. Years of s!e.-pv ease dwarf his jMjwer. Society is full of hum who are sure of their bread, indeed. ho are lapped in opulence and who are unhappy. They are wretched because thev ignore the old law that devotion to a puipose, deletion to tho best truth are absolute love for some cause outside of the close cuit of our own cares, are the essentials of happiness. Ho gain who loses. "Our splendid science has taught the grim sid of this law: it has shown k-.w the weak organisms so to the wall; hist.rv has s'hown how tho unlit nations have lailin bv the way, and our own fierce rivalries have shown a thousand wreck on the shores; and with all these bitter facts In view men have lost faith In God w ho launched s u h a hard world. And so it looks. Nor no I pretend to harmonize Ills infinite enevolenre with a history of courage and h.'notrv. I:ut our faith is that a tetter order of " things has emerged: that to-day Is better than yesterday; and that it is not a struggle for existence so much as a struggle for character. You cannot explain infinite benevolence floating such a world as ours unless It be to drill men above pain for a higher manhood. And. at least, all who have made o'uniary sacrifices have felt a joy alien to a shut and selfish breast, and. therefore. If men predict that new troubles await our Nation If we add new-won t.-ies to our domain, we retort that those empires that cannot Bhouider obligations fcrow weak. And It

men see ahead storm brewing for the church wo reply that revolutions have brightened the church and fore d lur out of her asv luxurious indifference. All this will oniv bring out the- central power of ChrNt in noble sacrificial lives. To true faith, a fotecast of tho next century eneoura.res the most perfect optimism; but an optimism that blends with the idea of heroic sacrifice. The future man will not be a receiver, 1 ut an outgiver. who will know h-nv to ...mtat the currents of error und the loftv j y of being a real part of the world deep lile by courageous sacrifice. Even heaven would case t charm our best lifn if it were ciJ of heroism and enterprise." . , rot inn im:siiYTF.KiA. cnuncii. Sermon ly Hev. (irorjto I.. .Mncklntowh YcMenluy .MornlnK. "And ono of the company aid unto Him, 'Master, speak to my rvothrr, that be divide the inheritance with me.' And He answered, '.Man, who mado me a jude and a divider over you? A man's life conbisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posses seth. "Luke, xli, i:;. This was the text of liev. George L. Mackintosh's sermon at tho Fourth Presbyterian Chinch yesterday morning. In part he said: "A vast multitude bad gathered to bear Jesus. Iu every direction rolled a swelling sea of e.:g r faces. Here were Pharisees who hated Christ and yet were drawn by a Strang" fascination to hear denunciations of themselves; lean scribes from Jerusalem taking ntf.s and marking objections: lawyers who were ready to ask questions; pompous priests with empty heads and sleek countenances; merchants who had left their wares; . farmers with fresh clay on their garments; artisans carrying the implements of their trade; travelers from Syria and Greet e: a great host of women and some children. It was a motley crowd, swaying anil surging from center to circumference. But all are anxious to hear the great teacher. Kxpc-ctation ts on tip-toe. The first words ot Christ fiill clear and distinct as the blow of a hammer on the anvil. Instantly tho crowd is hushed in the silence of attention. "There was one man. however, who was impressed beyond all others with the power of the speaker. This man had an ax to grind. He was looking lor some ono to turn the grindstone, lie had had a dispute with his brother concerning a certain inheritance. Consider the quality and quantity of this man's egotism. Here ere ten thousand people gathered to hear the words of the world's greatest teacher. Christ has spoken for a lew minutes only when the voice of this man rises raucously in interruption asking that Christ might use His influence to cause his brother to make a division of the property. "What was tho matter with the man? He had allowed his soul to be eaten up by this controversy. Tho bitterness of il had soaked into every fiber of his being. Tnis thought of the undivided inheritance filled his mind morning, noon and evening and coursed through his midnight dreams. It poisoned his bread and meat and turned his honey and wine to gall and bitterness. It changed the whole sweet cycle of living into a hard and baneful cynicism. The words of th great teacher suggest one thought to him, 'here is the man who may help me to the inheritance.' It may be the man was entitled lo somo settlement. But that is not the point. The question is why he should allow his whole life to pivot on this single Issue. Was there nothing at all In the words of Christ to stir any other thought in his soul? Christ's idea, of life was very high and very broad. He did not object to property. But He thought one ought not to bury himself alive in ins property. He did not object to money. His disciples carried money. But he objected to that consuming love of money which may crowd out from the soul every other, love. He would have a man work and earn his bread. But he knew that man could not live on bread alone. He thought that a soul which was capable of walking the starry way of hope suffered an eternal loss if chained to the remorseless treadmill of avarice. "If Christ were speaking to the men of today I think he would say to the merchant, 'Go on with your business; make money, but make other things. Make something of your bookkeepers and clerks; make churches and charities possible. Make character even at the expense of cash.' He would say to teachers In schools and churches, 'You aro not working for a greas name, but for a great cause.' To lawyers, 'Attend to your business and get your fees, but do not make business. Your clients are not fcheep to be shorn nor fowls to be plucked, but human beings who are to be helped to justice. "ao the gieat mass of men who labor so hard and apparently get so little, 1 think He would say, 'Do not be discouraged or think too meanly of yourselves. Y'ou are just as good as the kings and the millionaires. It is betttr to make a chair or a table than a black Friday. The Son of God was a carpenter. Cod Is not a respecter of persons. Faith, hope and charity are free. The beggar gets them on the same terms as the king.' A man should not tie himself down exclusively to any small local interest. He should not live in one corner of the vast tenement of life. The man in the lesson was one who, owning a beautiful mansion, persisted in living only in the cellar and the kitchen. He had forgotten what life really meant. And do we not sometimes forget.' When a. man makes a fortune at the expense of his health, has he not lost a greater fortune? When he attains position at the sacrifice of character lias he not lost position? When he digs continually in the earth when he might also look up to the stars has he not bitterly failed to appreciate the scope of his life and tho richness of his inheritance?"

St, Jolm'n Aftwifttant Cnrnte. Rev. Michael W. Lyons, a new assistant curate at St. John's, delivered the sermon at that church yesterday morning. His topic was "The Good Shepherd." This was Father Lyons's first sermon since he came to St. John's Church. He is a young man of excellent address, and the congregation was much pleased with his remarks. Somo special music was given by the choir. The Hundred Year Club. Harper's Baar. The Hundred Year Club Is the latest development of the end-of-the-century mania for societies. These would-be centenarians have quite discarded the idea of a thrce-seore-and-ten limit to human existence. Ihey declare that the life of man "should be normally from ll. to year," and while they admit that this increase of days may not be secured by the present generation they exject that the average life will be considerably lengthened. The circular issued by the club enumerates several objects to be secured In addition to greater length of days. Some of these purposes are relevant, as, for instance, the decrease in the cost of life insurance which will come with increased longevity. Others appear to be rather remote from tho main project, as when stress is laid on the fact that "these clubs will develop the faculty of conversation which n.akes ono appear to advantage In society." fter all. this may be an important feature of the work. If the same people are to be meeting on another for something like a century. It is by no means unessential that they should learn to make themselves agreeable. It would not be easy to regard the Hundred Year Club with satisfaction if through its efforts certain persons should extend their hold on life to the traditional ?dnety-nine-year lease without improving in the meantime. The projectors of the society themselves ne'imlt that even suicide club might be of use. if only tho right people would join them But they say that the Hundred Year Club Is for the people who ought to live forever. Tills open up on interesting question which the- circular neglects to answer: How ts the. club to exclude from Its membership those who might better be cut off in the tlowr of their youth say. at fifty or sixty? This is an important point: but. as the club Is very, very young itself. It may be allowed a little more time In which to settle those questions. I'ovror of tho Mormon Irlptlinm1. Kugene Young, in North American Review. The priesthood can always rely on the women. They have been tho strength of tho church, even under that system of polygamy which made them "living martyrs." They have the full right of suffrage, ami none who i not in accord with th church authorities nv l look for their support. The men re subject to a constant discipline that keep them at all tinier In sympathy with the ambitions of the leaders. There are l,.'iOo Mormon missionatl'SJ now in thn foreign work of the church, the brightest of its younjr men. the future leaders in all matters. They are compelled to sacrifice everything and to labor for two or threr years far freni home in th Interest of their religion. Norse who goes through this experience ever forgets the power of tho priesthood. r.d ea li understand Is that If he should show too great a spirit of independence, he nviy be called again to make the sacrifice. No young man In the church may b married in or.e ,f the temple unles he is faithful and obedient to Ids superivus. and no yu!g woman would consider herself married in th isisht of God unles she was "si-alid" by th proper authority s. 1m business. In ioIitics, In social life, everywhere, the young man meets the church, and he must be of Iron if he dares to stand out against it. Many h ive done so in the past, but they have been the exetptlnns. Their number have r.ever been sullieb nt to offset the church itself. A Safely Men are. Washington Post. By sending his fleet home In installment Admiral Dewey may le able to wear out the enthuiam of the people, and thus render his own return le:-s dargerous. ' Take Haas's Liver Pills.

COLONEL FRED FUNSTON

KA.XSAN WHO HAS WOX FAME IN TI1C riHMPPINn islands. Ilovr lie Led III Iteelment Thronsh a ltlv-r I'mler Fire Can Speak nft Well an Fight. St. Ixudi Republic. Col. Fred Funston, of the Twentieth Kanwhich Is making history over in the Philippines, is a true type of the American soldier. Born on a little farm In Ohio and receiving only an ordinary education, ho has been a newspaper man, a cowboy, a coffee planter, a government explorer, a Cuban filibuster and Indian fighter. Today, at tho head of tho "Fighting Kansas," as tho Twentieth Regiment is known, he Is as reverently adored as ever was the Littlo Corporal by the Old Guard. Two weeks ago, while under a heavy fire from a force much superior to his own. he eent a message to G-eneral MacArthur as laconic as any of Grant's and as deliciously humorous as Colonel Starke's before the battle of Bennington. General MacArthur had sent an orderly to Colonel Funston to find out how long he could hold the position ho was then occupying. Colonel Funston never smiled as he replied: "Until we are mustered out." After all the "Fighting Kansas" has accomplished, the message was not egotistical. But a few days before the war correspondents had sent out a story of their bravery and that of tho Montana boys that bad thrilled every heart that beat beneath the stars and stripes. It was of tho battle which preceded the taking of the town of Malolos, which Colonel Funston occupies at present. Tho insurgents, after being driven back from their breastworks about the town the night before, had taken refuge in the town itself and were prepared to make strong resistance. Bags of sand had been plied In all the streets and trenches, from which the Filipinos cculd fire without exposing themselves, dug along the river front. Tliis river, or, to be correct, creek, surrounds the town on three sides, and an attack on the other side was impractical. The American forces lay on the south side of tho creek, out of sight from the town, but the Insurgents, in some way aware of their position, sent volley after volley tearing through the thicket. Few men were struck, but the strain on the men, unable to do anything but He still and wait for the reinforcements which might come and might not, was unnerving them. Colonel Funston saw this. He was afraid to wait after two of his men had fallen; his command, ho feared, would be useless If the men had to stand this sort of thing much longer. A hasty message was sent to tho officer in command of the Montana boys, who lay to the left of the Twentieth, and a few minutes later the reply came back. Colonel Funston had determined to take tho town without waiting for help. The cheer that went up as the order to fall In was given told the insurgents something was coming. They learned long ago that when the American soldier cheers there is going to be trouble. So they waited with ritlos ready and sharp eyes peering over the breastworks. The tiring ceased entirely, and as the Twentieth Kansas and the Montana regiments lined up Colonel Funston, standing at the edge of the creaek. but still hidden by tho thicket, shouted: "Boys, wo're going to take that town. Hold your guns high and strap your cartridge belts around your necks. " This order was hastily obeyed, and then the regiments formed along the river bank, facing the town. The word was given, Col. Funston plunged through the thicket and the next minute the "Fighting Kansas" and the Montana boys were waist deep in the waters of the creek. As the men appeared upen the bank, tearing their way through the brush and undergrowth and then wading into the water, the insurgents opened with a volley which they had been saving for Just such iin attack. But never a man faltered, though some fell, and across the creek they started, carbines high in air and cartrit?ges s,afo out of water. Shouting, splashing, singing, thev waded in. The bullets whistled over their heads and skipped along the water like seashells thrown by a child, but on they went Colonel Funston In the lead cheering his men. Only once was the order not to lire until the other shore was reached disobeyed. Two young fellows In Companv C, who had enlisted together and been comrades through all the campaien, were fording the stream to the extreme right. Half way across there was a sandbar that took them so far out of the water that they were only knee deep. At that Instant there was a-"pung" and one of these two fell backwaid into the water, struck in. the head. His comrade never turned, but his rifle came to his shoulder, there was a crack and a negro who had been sitting on top of the lower breastworks arose to his feet, swayed back and fcrth for a minute and then fell sprawling down the side of tho fand pile. Colonel Funston was a dozen feet away from the man who had disobeyed orders. "Gc-od!" he shouted, and a moment later he gave the general order for firing. It might seem a foolish command, for the greater part of the men were still so deep In water they could not aim their rifles from tho shoulder, but the insurgents, who had been half way above the piles of rand bags and doing much damage, hastily got out of range sight and their firing at least was stopped. A minute later the Kansas boys, dripping wet, but with ardor undampened. climbed onto the bank and ran up the sides of the sand hills from behind which the insurgents had been firing. The Filipinos couldn't get out of their Intrenchments quick enough, and seve ral hundred were killed at close range. Half an hour later the town was in possession of the American forces. Colonel Funston was born in North Carlisle, o., Nov. 9, ivv. Three years later his parents moved to Kansas, where they settled in Allen county. Both of these old people are still alive and there Is no prouder couple In the country than the father and mother of this gallant soldier. And be Is as devoted to them as any son could be. Each week there comes a bulky letter from across the Pacific ea. and when Its arrival becomes known half the neighborhood gathers about to hear the white-haired mother read the story of her Ioy's triumphs. These letters are usually written by the wife of the gallant colonel, but he always finds time to add at least a few lines. Mrs. Fred Funston. who is with her husband in the Philippines, has been his wife but a few months. Last year, while the Twentieth Kansas was at Camp Merriam, near San Francisco, Miss Tdna Blankard. of Oakland, visited the encampment with her father, who was a soldier during the civil war. She was introduced to Colonel Funston. and he, apparently as hard a fighter in love as war, wooed and won her. Three weeks later they were married and she accompanied her husband to Manila, A LIFE OF ADVENTURE. Colonel Funston's adventures began before he was eighteen years old. While attending the country school in Allen county he and two of his boy friends decided it would be much pleasanter to live with tho Indians than to go to school and do chores about the farm. They secured three guns and. a epiantity of ammunition, and. gathering a supply of food, et out to find a camp of native Americans, who were often seen about that part of the country at that time. Finally they came to the Osage reservation, where Black Dog was chief. There the youthful adventurers took up their residence and remained for two months, until found by their parents and forced to return home. Thi boys were loath to leave the camp, as they had become great friends with the Indian. This friendship was never forgotten by the old chief. Black Dog. and only a year ago he sent a messenger to Colonel Funston asking him to visit him. Colonel Funston went back with the messenger and remained nearly a wek with his old friend, much to that warrior s delight. At the age of nineteen Funston entered the State I nlversity at Lawrence. His favorite studies were the languages and the s- lent es. He also bad a great liking for Hugiish literature, but none of his classmates knew be had any llterarv ability t.ntil the fall of lv, when his father was nrmlnated for Congres3 on the Farmers' Alliance ticket. The old gentleman had a magnificent oioo. well adapted to open-air speaking, and the strength of It gave him the nickname of Foghorn Funston. The candidate was not an eloquent man. however, and his first speeches were not a success. One night Foghorn Funston eroused the entire State by delivering a forcible and ev?n eloquent speech. His supporters were jubilant, but the campaign manairer was alarmed. He sought out his candidate as soon as the meeting was over, end toid him he had ruined his chances for ketlon. The old farmer wanted to know how. ("Why, the fellow that wroto that ipeech

will come forward now and accuse you of plagiarism. That will sioil your chance," fald he. "Xo fear of that fellow claiming credit for his speech." answered Foghorn. "Fred got that up for me." And after that the old gentleman achieved quite a reputation as an orator, and to-day he gives the whole credit to his son. who prepared his spetches. Colonel Funston he was only plain Fred then old not always hide Ids talent under a bushel, however. In iHvs he drifted Into Little Uoek. after spending the summer on a ranch, and rpplieii for a place as reporter. lie wa st id In his cowboy clothes, and the editor looked upon the request as a joke. He gave him a chance, however, and within a few weeks the cowboy reporter was writing editorials. The News, for which he was working, vas then an organ of influence among the Democrats of Aikansa. A couple of months after Funston went to work for it the owner of the paper went to a meeting of the Democratic state committee in another city and left Funston in charge. The present colonel Is a Republican, and he was then, and he did not like the policy of the paper. Here, he saw, was a chance to do something for his party. So the morning after he was left to run the paper it appeared with the platform of the Republican party xit the head of its editorial columns, and beneath this was a long apology for the course the paper had followed in the past. The editor wrote that he had made a great mistake, but he had seen the errors of his ways, and from that time on lie would support the Republican party and its candiAs if this were not enough, there were sevral local stories about Democratic politicians which reflected no credit on them, it may bo imagined Little Bock had a sensation. Democrats were so angry they threatened to mob the oftico, and the Republicans were jubilant. Tho owner of the paper returned as fast as a train could bring him after he learned of his paper's change of policy and Funston left town on the next train. After this brief journalistic career Funston went farther west. He mined In California and lassoed steers in Texas. While in the Lone Star State on the 1XL ranch he did alone what half a hundred cowboys had been trying to accomplish for more than a year. A party of Apaches had been harassing the cowboys for many months, driving off cattle and stealing' horses. They were camped in a ravine, and nil efforts to dislodge them had proved futile, for they were too strongly intrenched, and it was Impossible to get thm from the rocky pass in which they had taken refuge. HOW HE SCARED IXDIAXR. Funston grew disgusted after seeing some of his best steers elriven away and said he was going to drive the Indians out alone. He rode to the nearest store, twenty miles away, and brought back several little red bundles. The other cowboys attempted to dissuade him from his purpose, but he started for the ravine with his little red packages. Tho cowboys thought he must have dynamite in those packages he had brought from the store, but they listened In vain for the report of the explosion. Bui they did hear the report of a regiment of infantry firing volley after volley. And to their surprise they sav- the Indians issue from the ravine and dash off across the prairie as if riding for their lives. It seems that Funston's purchase had been firecrackers. He had gone to the mouth of the ravine and climbed on to tho cliff, so that he overlooked the tamp. He luid then lighted package after package of the crackers and thrown them Into the air so they would explode above the heaels of the red men. To them it sounded as if 4.000 men were firing at them, and whe:x they saw one or two whom Funston had picked off with his rltle fall they Jumped on their horses and rode as if the evil one was after them. While still connected with the IXL ranch Funston and several of his friends saw a bull fight at Chihuahua. Juan Perez, the toreador, slapped a flower girl as he was leaving the arena and Funston at once took up her part. Perez challenged him to a duel, which was fought the following morning in the bull ring. Perez was injured so he was not able to tight bulls for several months and Fun.ston wa slightly hurt. In Ftmston was chosen by the government to accompany an exploring expedition to Alaska. Here he had more exciting adventures. At one time a woman who was with tho party, two professors and Funston lost the main party and wandered for two days without food amid the snow and ice. Finally the sun came out, and, although neither of the professors was able to do it. Funston guided the party back to camp by Its raj's. Ono of Colonel Funston's stories, told on the lecture platform, is an adventure he had on an Iceberg in the Bering sea. The party of government explorers of which he was a member was sailing along the coast, when Funston sighted two polar bears on a largo Iceberg floating near the ship. He and four other professors set out In an open boat to kill them. The daywas beautiful and the sun was shining brightly. The boat arrived at the edge of the berg and the bears were shot. Just as the party was ready to fasten the boat to the berg the sun was suddenly obscured and a heavy snowstorm, such as Is only seen in the Arctics, began. The men could not see twenty feet ahead. Funston called them about him and after a short talk they decided the best thing they could do was to remain on the iceberg. Their boat was pulled up and split to pieces to make kindling-wood. The bears were skinned and their meat cooked over the fire. At night the men wrapped up in the bear skins and went to sleep. The storm continued two days, and during this time the five men continued to reside on the berg. In the meantime they had made a trip around the berg and found it to be rotten. Largo chunks were continually falling oh. On the third day the storm ceased and they found themselves seemingly in midbeean with only a few other icebergs in sight. But they tried to be cheerful until the big berg upon which they were camped commenced to crack and break to pieces. Then thev knelt and prayed. Jooking up suddenly Funston saw a ship in sight. It was the Flora, their own vessel, which had ben pursuing them for many miles. They were taken on board and a minute later the big iceberg cracked Into a thousand pieces. When Funston returned to the United States In 1KT the Cuban question was the principal topic of conversation. Funston formed a company and went to South America, where he was engaged in the coffte business for a few months. But he felt he ought to help' the Cubans, and he left his plantations and went to Cuba, where he Joined the forces under General flomez. Within two months he was promoted to colonel, and as chief of artillery was in the fiercest battles. He was twice wounded and was finally captured. He was paroled and sent to the United States, where he lay for some months in a hospital in Xew York. Upon his recovery he lectured for some months on the situation In Cuba. When war against Spain was declared he offered his services to Governor Lcedy and was appointed colonel of the Twentieth Kansas. His regiment was eent to the Philippines in December, and since that time the officer and his men have been winning fame for their fighting qualities. The F.dltor and the Aelverllser. From Speech by Fditor of Brooklyn Kagle. Advertisers and newspaper men together make the character of a public journal. The editorial page, all contradiction to the contrary notwithstanding, is the most imnortntit page of the newspaper. The news pages, by their fairness, thir cleanness, their Intelligence nnd their enterprise, largely make evident the ability and the resources of the sheet. But the editorial page reflects not onlv the obfiity, but the character of the Journal; its virtue as well as its vigor: its conscience as well as Its capacity; Its courage as well as its conscience. The editorial page Indicates the quality of the constituency of a newspaper. I know that It could not get along without the news pages, but I also know that the news pages would get along in limping and halting fashion without the editorial page. Recall newspapers with poor editorial pages or with none, but with bright news pages. Thev may have vogue, but they do not have lrrluence. Thev may have circulation, but they do not have power. They may be able to sav things and to spread things, but they cannot do things and cannot get things dore. And the exact measure of their lmpoteney Is suggested by the blare of their claims of efficiency and of accomplishment. Happily thes newspapers of blare are just few enough to be as distinctive as repulsive, nnd desirably to differentiate themselves from the general Journalism that, nt home and abroad, was never more respectable nnd more honored than It is to-day. T give a short duration to the Journalism of dirt, defamation, demagogy and boasting. That journalism, in all its few examples, is becoming the victim of a throat-cutting competition and of a reciprocal evisceration: and the other Journalism, holding its steady course, was never more prosperous and never more deserve-diy so than now. I expect that it will still further improve. I concede that the gret advertisers have greatly Improved it. Their announcements have the charm of narrative. They have the sequence of argument. They have tho attraction of fancy. They have the incentive and the decoration of metaphor, of literary allusion, at times of ioetry Itself. Literary Success. He trt to be a iet. bat he failed! ESefor h! Mtorle the rorl pa.ledj And h! novel thty were rot. But a fortune now he's ptt. For h killed a girl fcnd wrott "Why I was Jailed." Philadelphia North American.

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THE REAL JEFFERSON

HHPITF.D SIMPLICITY OF THH "SAGK Of 3IOTICi:i.I.O'' A MYTH. I'nctn Concerning the Author of the Declaration of Independence leathered Acar 111 Old Home. Charlottesville (Va.) Letter in Chicago Jtecord. It is well for every one who can. and particularly for students of history, to make pilgrimages to the homes and haunts of American statesmen. It gives a better understanding of their lives and purposes. It vitalizes and humanizes their principles and teachings and corrects many false imprcsflon? that have been acquired by careless writers and thoughtless reading. No one can visit Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, which occupies the crest of a beautiful hill overlooking thJy city, without being convinced that the so-called Jeffersonlan simplicity whs a myth. Tho fable about Jefferson riding into Washington on horseback and hitching hi? horse to a sapling while he went into the Capitol to be Inaugurated President of the United States appears first in a book of travel written by an Englishman named John Davis, who visited tho United States from 1T!S to 1S02. It is related by him in good faith, but the story was evidently told by some wag for the purpose of impressiivs him with the queer ways of the Americans. There are similar yarns in the same book without any more foundation, and the reader is led to believe that the people Mr. Davis met In Washington and elsewhere during his journey took an unkind advantage of his credulity. Thomas Jefferson was Inaugurated with the same pomp and formalities that attended the incoming of every other President of his generation, and. notwithstanding all he has written in support of democratic ideas and social equality, he was an exclusive, high-toned aristocrat, who, as Jefferson Levy, tho iresent owner of Monticello, declares, introduced into America many of the frivolities and fashions he found in France, including the use of finger bowls at the dinner table. Mr. Jefferson was a man of much manner and great formality, according to all the evidences and traditions that remain of him, and they are numerous. He rode in a coach imported from Parl3 and drawn by a $1,C00 team of horses; was always served by butlers and footmen In livery, and dined with ceremony off silver plate. At one time he had s.ooO worth of wine In hi. cellar, and more than 1.0JJ bottles were found there when he died. Jefferson was always extravagant and lived beyond his means. He Inherited one of the largest and most valuable estates in America, but was not only penniless when he died, but his friends were appealed to and the Legislatures of several States nj5proprlated money to pay his debts. The greater part of his estate was sold under the hammer, and Mrs. Itantloiph. his daughter, exchanged the beautiful mansion of Monticello for an ordinary two-story brick house In this town, which is still standing, and was never worth more than J2,"0. LOST ALL EY EXTRAVAGANCE. A man named Barcklay took (Monticello off her hands, assumed the mortgage and gave her tho little house In town. Thus the graves of Thomas Jefferson and his family passed into the hands of strangers, as his books were sold to the government at the rate of $2 a volume, and formed the nucleus of the congressional library. When he graduated from college he enjoyed a large fortune for thoso days. He made much money at the bar. At middle life he was estimated to be one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, but. because of his lack of simplicity, his bad management ..rd his extravagance when he died he dii not possess an unmortgaged farthing. The Jeffersonlan coat-of-arms, f.hich appears freque-ntly, is not an evidence of democratic ideas. It represents a shield bearing the heads of three lions above a blue field, and Is surmounted by a fourth lion's head with the tongue out. It even appears upon the fence that incloses his tomb. He selected his own burial place, and the sketch of his monument, the draft of his epitaph, with instructions for his funeral, can now be seen at the State Department in Washington In his own handwriting. When he was a boy Dabney Carr. the son of a neighbor, was his most intimate friend, and there was a tender, sentimental affection between them. It was their hiblt often to lie dreaming in a grove near where Jefferson afterward erected his manJion. nnd they swore a holy oath that whoever outlived the other should deposit the bor.es of the dead at that beautiful spot. Carr's grave is there, with that of Jefferson's mother and wife and several members of the Randolph family, who .were his descendant?. The monument that now marks Jefferson's grave is the third that has been erected at that place. The two othera have been carried off in smxill chips by relic-hunters, and the high fence that surrounds the little cemetery does not appear to be a complete protection to the last, which was erected by the government, because vandals have already mutilated it. Jefferson's epitaph is well known. He wrote it himself, and briefly stated the three achievements in which he took the greatest pride. He docs not mention his official honors or political services. He desired to be remembered as the author of the Declaration of Independence and of the law guaranteeing religious liberty to the people of his State and as the founder of the University of Virginia. Jefferson was not an orator. He had a constitutional trouble with his throat which Impaired his voice, and had great difficulty In making himself heard even in tho small courtroom where he used to practice Jaw. but he was a most voluminous writer. His descendant? here tell me that there aro more than 2.".000 letters in his penmanship, properly authenticated and preserved, and volumes of manuscript In the University of Virginia, the last one containing a record of the minutes of the board of visitors only a few days before his death. For a man who wrote so much he was a marvelous penman. Kvery page is neat, every letter plainly and perfectly formed so that hi? writing Is easy to read as print, and up to the last It shows a firmness and regularity quite aw marked as the pages he wrote In early manhood. A "LADY'S MAN. Jefferson was a "lady's man." He was noted as a gallant all over Virginia. He had one serious love affair while in college with a young woman named Belinda, who lived at Carter's (Jrove, a famous old place near Williamsburg, the seat of William and Mary College, where he was educated. He afterward married a widow whose acquaintance ho mado at Williamsburg while he was studying law. Her name was Martha Bkclton. Her father was a Mr. Wayles. a planter who had a fine place called "The Forests," a f'-v miles from the city. They seemed to attracted to each other by their musical tastes. He was devoted to the violin, and she played an accompaniment upon the harpsichord. He has left a number of letters concerning his courtship, which nre published In his biographies, and Indicate that he was not off with his old love before he was on with his new one. He had considerable trouble, adjusting his conduct to the satisfaction of his own conscience. The story gots that he was spurred Into an engagement with Martha Skelton by the rivalry of two of his friends, with wherh he came, to an understanding that they should draw cuts for the first proposal. If she rejected the first he was to retire and give the rn-yt a chance, and If he was not accepted the. third was at liberty to propose. Jefferson drew number one, nnd started for the Watts plantation. His rivals followed him. and hung ever the hedge, listening to the music as he played duets with his love. They concluded from the tones of his Instrument that his wooing -aus successful and walked home disconsolate. The mansion a. Monticello was half built when Jefferson took his bride home. They drove in a buggy from Williamsburg, a distance of at least loo miles, and arrived In the midst of a fearful blizzard. He tells in his diary that the now was more than two feet deep In the read, nnd thnt bis horse had a desperate struggle to haul tlK-m through. They spent their first night In a little brick houso that Is still standing, attached to tho slave quarters, and lived there until the mansion was completed. Jefferson's married life was short but happy. They lived In great luxury and elegance. They had 400 slaves, whose descendants are unreasonably numerous in this locality. Monticello was the finest mansion In that section of the state. Its hospitality was famous, particularly its dinners and wines, and so were the balls that were given there in the early days. The ballroom does not suggest the conventional Ideas of Jeffersonlan fcimpiielty. it 1 a stately apartment, with Pompelian decorations in tho frlezt, cjad a lofty celling. The dining room 1 pr-

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For WEDDING PRESENTS In Solid Gold. Heavy Solid Silver. fin China and rich Cut Class at WHOLF-SAL.U PRICKS, see 16 Cast VVnshlngton Street. served as he left it and Is equally appropriate to a man of his tastes,' p?ltlon and wealth. The hall is typical ot hospitality, high, spacious and well lighted, with a gallery under the ceiling, from which the ladies could observe the receptions which Mr. Jefferson frequently gave to his constituents, and it furnished a place for the band when he pave a ball. The library is not so large as I expected to find, and Mr. Jefferson must hive scattered his la.Of) books, that Congress bought, all over the place. Tradition says he kept many of them in the billiard room, which Is over the grand parlor. A billiard room does not conform to democratic simplicity any more than liveried servants, silver plate and a wine cellar. Imbedded in the ceiling of the wide portico Is a curious compass, by which the guests of the hous could tell the geographical directions, and over tho main entrance is an ugly old church clock. WHFRE JEFFERSON DIED. The stairways, unlike those usually found In the colonial mansions of Virginia, are narrow, steep and crooked, and the tory goes that the body of Mrs. Jefferson, who died In one of the upper chambers, could r.ot be carried down. Tho collin had to be lowered with rois from the gallery of the great hall. Mr. Jefferson died in a room on the first Moor, which is arranged In a peculiar way. The bed was placed In a low archway between two rooms and fitted very closely. One of the rooms belemged to Mr. Jefferson, the other to his wife, and they appear to have kept their own apartments as long as the lived. He undressed hlmelf in his room and crawled Into bed and crawled out on the same side In the morning, and she undressed and crept In and out on hers. They tell me that the same arrangement Is found in the connubial chambers of many Southern homes. Jefferson's birthplace Is in sight of tht portico of his mansion. The house In which his father and mother lived stood upon a sunny slope in the valley of the Hlvanna river, which winds around like a silver ribbon among the hills of red clay. There ! so much oxide of Iron In the son ihat'J,. stains the hands and looks almost the color cf crimson. The house In which Jefferon was born burned many years ago. and he traded the o'd farm of sou acres for a bowl of arrack punch. "Pantop," another house of his far down the valley. Is still 8tandlnff ard now occupied as a school for young women by Mrs. Sampson. The land is lean, but the view is superb. From the cupola of the mansion you can look Into half a dozen counties. The home of President Monroe, known as Ashlawn, lleis about eight miles down the valley. Madison's home was a few miles north, and called Montpeller. Therei was a brewery on the Monticello- estate where the founder of the University of Virginia made 1km r. But he could not have found it profitable, for he turned it into a nail factory, and behind the roofless walls the Levy tamily. who own the place, have since burled their dtad. Trie death of his wife wan a shocking1 blow to Mr. Jefferson. She was a most congenial companion, and not only Fvmpathlzxi with his political and Intellectual tastes, but her pagacity and social attraction furnished a powerful re-enforcement for his ability nnd skill. It was many yeurs after her deMh before Monticello recovered its gayc-ty. but when his two daughters grew up h returned to soci al life, and, according to tradition, th widower was the hero of several love affairs, although it is aid that h never again Furiously contemplated marriage. At one time he was challenged to fight a duel, hut declined to do o because his Jealous rival was of inferior social standing. JEFFERSON'S PROTKGE. Tho parents of Edward Coles, the first Governor of Illinois, were near neighbors and intimate friends of the Jefferson. For Mrs. Coles, who was a woman of groat personal and intellectual attraction, Jefferson showed great affection, which was Inherited by her son. He was Mr. Jefferson's protege, was assisted by him to obtain an education at William and Alary Colltge, where lie graduated in IStC. served for a time as private fretretary and afterward a tecretry of President Madison uion his recommendation, and It Is believed that It was through Mr. Jefierson'H inlluence that be w made Governor of Illinois. Mr. Jefferson wa the father of Hx children, but onlv two daughters survived. One of them m;irried a man named I'pp, whose,' descendants still live in the neigh borhood The other was Mrs. Randolph, whose, husband wits afterward Governor of Virginia and a man of considerable note. She kept house for her father, inherited his property, and from her descended u large and influential family. It Is not true that Mr. Jefferson escaped from his house through an underground passage when the British sldlers appeared, as Is commonly stated in his bio graphics. There is an underground passage ceimmunlcating with the slave quarters, snd it wm used by them, but the circumstances of Mr. Jefterson's escaio are lamihar by tradition to all the old residents. A man named Jack Jouett. who kept hotel in Charlottesville, was luss'ng through a neighboring town when it was attmked by Iord Tarit-ton'M army. H rode rapidly home, warned the Virginia Legislature, hich was in session at Charlottesville, and then went to Monticello to adviee Mr Jtffernon. The latter wan unconcerned u to hi fate, but saddled his horse, took his sword cane and a pair of field pUss-ei;, and rod

I to tho top t.f Carter's mountain, which rls aoout i,,'f icei oenmu -Mo mice no. mere no remained nearly all day. watching the approaches to Charlottesille, but could see nothing of the enemy, and toward night started to return to his home. He had not gone far before he noticed that he had bvst his cane, and rode back for it. As he dismounted to pick It up from the ground he took one more look through his glasses, and saw the whole valley swarming with red coats. Ho rode down the other side of the mountain hastily and totk refuge in a neighboring county, where he had an estate. When the advance guard of the Pritlsh troops arrived the butler was hiding the silver under the Moor f the dining room. He had torn up some of the Ix.ardf. and as the army tame nearer dropped down Into the cellar with the sl.ver. while the other servants replaced the planking. He lay there thirty-six hours without fo.'d. guarding IL lrd Tnrleton was at Montfeei, for alout twenty-four hour, and lods'd thn but he had the place well protected and no harm was done. (lut of Proportion. IJuffalo Commercial. Tho "swell" I mo-ratic dimer may hv been worth ?U a plite. but the speaking was not worth 10 cents a ticket. QUIGIC RELIEF, SURE RELIEF. iBOWirs DroncHiai Trccnes For Cowzq end Ccz, FiuvSlnntla t: nature cf rfinu b.