Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 358, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1900 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1900.

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New York Store Established 185.1. Sole A icrnt Hnttrrlrk rattern. Three Things to.... Remember When vou start out on your last day's shopping". Our Stocks are Largest Our Facilities are Greatest Prices on Holiday Goods arc being cut. Jot them down in jour memory. Pettis Dry Goods Co.

Nuts New and Fresh I OrailgeS j Sweet and Juicy Pop Com j That Will Pop 1 Candy That Is Pure Plum Pudding, Fruit Cake, Mince Meat, Fruit Jellies, Jam9, Sweet Cider, Stuffed Dates, Figs and Raisins. Xraas Trees and Xmas Turkeys TBE N. A. MOORE CO. 162 and 164 N. Illinois St. Phono 892. AMUSEMENTS. Maude Adams Is said to speak more words In her latest role of L'Alglon than are assigned to either Hamlet or Cyrano do Berge rue. xxx Cyril Maude and his clever wife, Miss Winifred Emery, two of London's favorite actors, are reported to be contemplating an American tour in Capt. Robert Marshall's latest success, "The Second In Command." xxx levers of tuneful, catchy music, pretty chorus girls picturesquely costumed, bright comedy and elaborate stage pictures will hail with joy the engagement of "The Burgomaster," at English's Opera House, Fri day and Saturday nights and Saturday aiternoon or tne current .wee. XXX This morning, at the box office of English's Opera House, peats will be placed on sale for the engagement of "The Burgomaster." Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday afternoon, and of Howard Gould in "Rupert of Hentzau," Wednesday and Thursday nights of the current week. xxx The editions de luxe of the souvenir book of Maude Adams In "L'Alglon" and of the acting version of the great Rostend play, which has Just been Issued from the celebrated printing house of R. H. Russell, New York, are among the finest works or the printer's art turned out during the past year. xxx Romance and realism are delightfully combined In the new melodrama, "Caught in the Web," written by Joseph Le Brandt, which will be seen at the Park for the first time Thursday afternoon of the present week. The claim is made that no play of recent years has been sent on the road with uch heavy scenic equipment as is used In this production. It is safd to carry furniture, carpets, draperies, electric lights and every particle of scenery used. xxx "In Grand Utopia" will introduce the Utopians to an Indianapolis audience at the Empire Theater this afternoon. The management announces a number of high class specialties and novelties, including "Going to the Races," "The Man Behind the Gun," "Return of Uncle Sam's Heroes" and a satire on the modern department store. The bill Is said to be replete with good things from the rise until the final fall of the curtain. xxx The Grand Opera House enters, this afternoon, upon Its second week of fashionable vaudeville with the assurance of popular favor won by undoubted merit. The programme for holiday week Is made up of the best specialties to be obtained. These Include Kara, the king of all Jugglers; Mr. and Mrs. Sidman, the clever portrayers of rural comedy; Zeb and Zar row, peerless trick bicyclists; the brothers Herne, mystlflers; Ilayman and Hayman, story tellers; Polk and Kolllns, the wonderful banjo players, and several other artists of equal lame. xxx "Rupert of Hentzau," as dramatized by Its author, Anthony Hope, Is a story complete in Itself, but to those who have read the preceding Zer.da story, "The Prisoner of Zenda," or seeu the dramatization of that romantic tale of love, hatred and intrigue, the presentation of the sequel will have an especial charm. Howard Gould, the eminent romantic actor, will be seen In the dual character of Rudolph Rassendyll and King Rudolph V of Ruritania In "Rupert of Hentzau." at English's Opera House, Wednesday and Thursday nights of the current week. xxx The table at which baccarat Is played by some of the characters in "Man's Enemy," In the Monte Carlo scene. Is said to have been an old Louis XV writing table, and two of the gilt chairs shown In the production are also claimed as historical,- having been part of the contents of Fontalnbleu Chateau. Manager Gus Hill has mounted this famous melodrama In the most lavish manner. It will be seen for the first time in this city at the Park Theater, this afternoon, and wilt continue the attraction at that house the first three days of the week. Joseph Arthur's new play, "Lost River," will be given Its initial presentation In this city, at Knglishs Opera House, to-night, with one of the best companies . ever brought here from New York. The cast, headed by William Courtleigh ami Mary Sunders, includes Charles Abbe, Hans Robert. P. Aug. Anderson. James Lackaye. Eugene Thais Lawton. Mabel Taliaferro, Ada Dwyer and John Winthrop. With such talented players to Interpret a play. It Is not ieen how it eouM well fail of success "Lost River" will also be the Christmas attraction at the matinee and night performances to-morrow. XXX The managers of the Zoo have arranged a programme fur. this, holiday week, at that popular amusement institution, that bids fair to surpass,- anything heretofore attempted in the ten weeks of its existence.

Mrs'. Murphy," the remarkable aeronautic monkey, who gave a demonstration of her ability Saturday, will repeat the exhibition to-morrow afternoon In the lot back of the Cyclorama building, ascending in a balloon several hundred f-et in the air. ad. at a signal from her Instructor, Prof. Woodford, cutting herself loose and descending gracefully to earth In a parachute. In the arena within the building a continuous series of thrilling performances with wild beasts will be given throughout the day and evening. Alberta will put her Russian black bears through a number of wonderful feats; Zulclka. the graceful Oriental dancer, will present beautiful tableaux. In which she will appear surrounded by a group of lions; Iorrenzo will make his perilous entry into the den of the ferocious lioness. Sultana; there will be an interesting exhibition of the newly acquired baboon, also of the chimpanzee, who displays almost human ability in the matter of accepting instruction. To-morrow (Christmas) all the animals in the Zoo will realize that the day is a holiday on account of the more than ordinarily tempting bill of fare provided for them. The monkeys will enjoy the rare fun of taking presents from a real Christmas tree. Altogether, the outlook for a great week Is most promising.

Sothern Itendy to. Act Again. ST. LOUIS. Mo., Dec. 23. E. II. Sothern, the well-known actor, who has been laid up for some time from a serious accident that resulted in the cancellation of numerous doates and a consequent heavy financial loss, arrived here to-night from the East, in company with Virginia Harned and other members of Daniel Frohman's company. For the first time since his illness Mr. Sothern will appear to-morrow night at the Olympic Theater in "Hamlet." In . which he will assume the leading role It is said that Mr. Sothern has entirely recovered from the effects of his accident. Hope Booth Company Disbands. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Dec. 23. "The War on Women" theatrical company, headed by Miss Hope Booth, has disbanded In this city, owing to poor business. A CHINESE DINNER. Louis J. Beck nntertnina a Xnmher of Ills Friends in Unique Stylo. A unique and enjoyable affair was the Chinese banquet given at Moy Kee's establishment last night by Mr. Louis J. Beck, the amusement promoter. In honor of his friends among the local hotel men and newspaper representatives. Nothing but Chinese ,food was served, and the use of chopsticks. Instead of knives and forks, was rigidly enforced. Much fun was had by those familiar with tho method of handling the sticks watching the ludicrous attempts of the uninitiated to take up articles of food with them. "I would never be troubled with dyspepsia if I had to eat all the time with these things," said V. R. Williams, "for I would not get enough to eat." After the banquet was concluded the twenty-live guests were regaled with the pleading fumes of Chinese tobacco. Inhaled through various forms of Chinese pipes. AT THE POSTOFFICE. Christmas til ft Piled Hlifh on the Carriers Desks. This morning the mail carriers will thoroughly appreciate what Christmas Is to the average person. Last night Christmas presents were piled high on the desks of the mail carriers at the postoffl.ee. Even the desks were not large enough to hold the presents and boards were arranged overhead so that they could be piled above and yet be kept In their proper places to avoid confusion. The carriers cannot carry all the mall when they leave the office and the second-class matter will be shipped to drug stores and different places along their routes on the street cars, to be picked up along the line of distribution. No firstclass mall is sent in this manner. This is the only method by which the presents can be distributed, for some carriers have enough mall on their Toutes this morning to make a cartload. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. W. II. Qulnn is spending the holidays with relatives in Anderson. Miss Margaret M. Connelly wll! leave this evening for Anderson to remain during the holidays. Miss Rena Tucker will remain In New York during the holidays, where she is studying at tho Art Students' League. Robert Carlin, of the Howe Military School, is home to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carlin. Mr. Gus P. Keller and Miss Carrie Hartshorn were married at 2:30 o'clock yesterday at the residence of Mr. Hosea, 1112 Pleasant street. Dr. E. W. Hammon performing the ceremony. The King of Italy' Taet. Pall Mall Gazette. King Victor Emanuel III has stood another test, and has come out triumphantly, richer than ever in the love and confidence of his subjects. The government proposed to augment the civil list, which Is already the goodly sum of $3.010.000 yearly, by an annual appropriation of $100,000 to Queen Margherita. This, on the one hand, is only proper, as the late King Humbert did not leave great private riches, but, on the other, a people so heavily oppressed could not contemplate with equanimity fresh taxes for tlHj royal family. This had already given rise to preliminary murmurs which would doubtless, at the opening of Parliament, have assumed a volume which would have wounded the widowed Queen. The King, to save her this, and more perhaps to save the people from fresh hardships, has absolutely refused the allowance for his mother, declaring that he will himself deduct that amount from his civil list in her favor. "Wife Merry, Haslmnds "Weep. Trenton (N. J.) Special In New York Herald. Phoebe Fajola, twenty-five years old, was sentenced to-day to one year In state prison for ligamy. Whn brought out to be transferred to the institution to begin her sentence she strongly objected to going In the Jail van. requesting to be taken in a cab at her own expense. She chatted merrily on the way. and when the prison was reached she paid the cabman with a five-dollar gold piece, telling him to buy a good Christmas dinner and saying that If he was alive next year when she was released she would treat him to another. To the deputy sheriff who had her In charge she gave only 50 cents worth of cigars. Her two husbands stood on the Jail steps as she rode away, both of them shedding tears, while she was In the happiest mood and waved her handkerchief to them both, saying: "Au revolr! Bonsolr! You both have my consent to seek another wife during the coming year." Wage Earner anil Their Pay. Evansvllle (Ind.) Courler. It must be agreed on all hands that Hon. Carrol D. Wright, national commissioner of labor, wants our public to know about many matters of Interest, and succeeds in getting at a vast amount of Information for their use and behoof. His eighteenth annual report includes a careful compilation of wages In various countries. This includes facts and figures regarding the highest, lowest and average wages paid and the hours of labor in ninety-two countries, provinces and colonies, exclusive of forty-seven States and Territories In this country. Some idea of the thoroughness with which Commissioner Wright's work has been carried on may be gathered from the fact that no less than 4.453 occupation and subdivisions of occupations are included within the scope of nis inquiries. It is safe to fay that his latest report will be scanned and studied with keen interest by a multitude. The SIol Question. Detroit Journal. The fact is that the Indiana mob will never be punished as a whole or In part. No jury can be summoned which will convict any man participating in the outrage. This I true not only of Indiana, but of every other State. When the spirit of venKeance is aroused by the committing of a diabolical crime, whether by a negro or a white man. and the mob organizes through a community of concern or Indignation, which is indefinable and indescribable, and wreaks its vengeance upon the murderer or rapist the machinery of Justice Js imxotent to redress the wrong cone.

WEALTH OF THE WORLD

REV. T. J. VILLERS SAYS TOO MUCH OP IT IS SPEXT FOIt I.l.MHICS. Administered a Rebnke In HI Christ. mn Sermon Services at the Third Christian Church. In hi3 Christmas sermon at the First Baptist Church last night. Rev. Thomas J. Villers took occasion to administer a sharp rebuke to Christians who spend more money on the luxuries of life than on the dissemination of tho gospel. Mr. Villers described the visit of tho Magi to the cradle of Christ In the stable at Bethlehem and their offerings to the infant whom thoy believed to be the new king, whose coming had been expected by them, and then said: "We sometimes think that as they poured out unto Christ gold, that It was well enough for them; but Jesus Christ Is expecting our gold and our gifts at this Christmastide. We say sometimes that Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss. Well, some professed Christians kiss Christ at the communion table and then deny Him at the collection box. Do you know that In this country for popular amusements four hundred millions of dollars are spent every year, and for hats, and the different things that go with the hats there are twenty-five millions of dollars spent, and for Christmas jewelry at a single season of Christmastide twenty-five millions, and for toys two millions, and for candy two millions and for Christmas dinners twenty-five millions more are spent? And yet during eighty years we hive given but cJghty-three millions of dollars for Christ. We spend that much for liquor in this country In twenty-seven days, and for tobacco In fifty-four days. The wealth of the world is not yet consecrated to Jesus Christ." The music at both the morning and evening services yesterday was exceptionally line. Tho vocal numbers were selections from Handel's "Messiah." The redition of the famous "Hallelujah" chorus last night by the augmented choir of thirty-eight voices was perhaps the notable event of tho day. REV. C. C. ROWLISOVS SERMOX. Large Audience Gather at the Third Christian Chnrcli. Rev. C. C. Rowlison, pastor of the Third Christian Church, preached to a large congregation yesterday from the text, "And the word became flesh and dwelt among; us," John i, 14. He said, In part: "The Roman Church centers its theology and ritual around the cross. The gospel it preaches is one of salvation from this world. The ancient Greek Church founded its theology and ritual on the doctrine of the Incarnation. The gospel It preached was one of salvation in this world and for this world. The dominant thought of the world to-day is more in harmony with the Greek doctrine than with that of the Roman Church. In science and philosophy this is emphasized by the doctrine of evolution, In theology by the doctrine of the Immanence of God, in religion by the appeal to accept the life of Jesus as the divine ideal. "In the processes of nature the spirit of God is seen more and more to manifest itself in the formation of a universe out of chaos, in the 'development of organic life, the growth from lower to higher forms until In man divinity is realized and man, conceiving himself In the image of God. cries, 'Abba, Father.' And yet man has always felt his sinfulness, his weakness, his separation from God. However, the doctrine of this unity as an Ideal was ever maintained, and in the law; by special and elaborate ritual, through the sacrifice and struggle of prophets and saints, men endeavored after the perfect life, for unity with God. Now, this ideal, thhr divinity striving to realize itself, was called by the ancients the logos,' 'the wort;.' "In the first chapter of John the writer Is not philosophizing, but he is saying to philosophers, and every one else, this "Word" which you say so much about, this statement of the divine nature, I will show to you, for "The word became flesh and dwelt among us." And while in their hopelessness of attaining this ideal, while finding righteousness described in the law, yet finding also themselves unable to keep the law, the same apostle says. "God sent forth His Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." The cold theories and ideals and dreams of divine living become in Jesus Christ warm and glowing with actual life. Jesus seldom says, 'Accept my teachings.' His great word is, 'Follow me.' I am the way, the truth and the life.' You want to see God. 'He that hath seen me hath seen the Father also. You want to know how to live a divine life In this world of pain and sorrow and loss, follow me: I am a man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me and ye shall find rests to your souls. You want to know how to live a divine life In this world of sin and corruption and death: 'Herein is the love of God manifest in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.' I am come that ye may have life and may have it abundantly, .'lie that Hveth and belleveth in me shall never die.' "Thus the Word became flesh in Jesus Christ, and In Him It Is manifest how it may become flesh in each one of us. In us God Is seeking constantly to reincarnate Himself. So at this happy Christmas tide He is seeking another Bethlehem. He would come into our sordid lives and fill them with sweetness; Into our base, animal lives and make them divine; Into our gross, carnal lives and make them spiritual; into our cold, envious, hateful lives and make them warm with love and Christlikeness. How silently, how silently. The wondrous gift Is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of Ills heaven. Jo ear may hear Hla coming. But In this world of sin, Whre meek souls will receive Him still. The dear Christ enters in. O holy Child, of Bethlehem! Descend to us, we pray; Cast out our sin, and enter In, Ue born In us to-Jay. We hear the Christmas angls The great glad tidings tell; O come to us. abide with us. Our Lord Emanuel! THE MIDNIGHT APPETITE. What Xew Yorkers "Who Stay t'p Late Get to Eat. New York Commercial Advertiser. If New York is the paradise of epicures. It can also soon prove its right, if it chooses, to the title of the Klondike of purveyors. Some enthusiast has figured that there ere at present only two places where the honest wayfarer may pay more for honest food and drink than In New York: Namely, at Maxim's, In Paris, where the names of dishes printed on the menu have no prices attached and the charges for which are regulated by the mood of the waiter or the condition of the guest; and In the Arabian desert, where the guest Is charged naught for his dinner, but is compelled by etiquette to give his host a horse. Maxim's menus are florid affairs, artistically as well as commercially. One of them lies before me fair souvenir of delicious cooking and of piracy supreme. It is printed In black, red and gold, and sports In one corner a blonde youth In a tall hat and a sylph in white tulle suggestively tipping a champagne glass. The blonde ycuth has his hands in his pockets and his monocle focused on his liver. That also Is suggestive. The prices charged in uptown restaurants are regulated, so experts agree, not by tho volume of patronage received in the day. but by the extent of the dinner and after-theater trade. The place that is popular after the theater is the place that flourishes, and when such a popularity is once won the prosperity of the proprietor, apparently, has no limit. It has been said, whether Justly or unjustly, that, with generous furnishings and equipment, the more ruinous his prices the more popular will Boniface become. There is one uptown establishment where the waiters receive $3 tips for "holding a table." These things can be accounted for only on the theory that the vast after-theater floating population regards its midnight appetite with less

affection than the chance to spend Its money. Its method of allaying the former and accomplishing the latter are equally dramatic. In other words "Del's," "Sherry's," "the

Waldorf," were terms supposed to convey the Idea of limitless extravagance as scenes for a midnight supper. There are now several establishments In upper Broadway boasting of figures on their bills of fare calculated to put Charlie Delmonlco or Louis Sherry to the blush. The thing Is in no way remarkable except that the very per sons who pay them without a moan or sigh still cherish the hallucination that an tne extravagance is in Fifth avenue, and would shudder at the idea of going there, 'mere is never a night of the week when these places are not crowded, and the only wonder is where all the money comes from. If the crowds Increase so do the prices. In a way it is perfectly legitimate. Mine host can care only for so many. If some are turned away those who remain must pay. A thoroughly sound proposition. A glance at the cards of three restaurants, all of them within half a mile of each other, and all catering to the aftertheater element, will disclose some interesting figures. After such a glance it Is easy to see how a very ordinary supper may cost a man what would keep a family of four persons comfortably for a week. One is not Inclined to grumble at $2.D0 for a pheasant, and canvas-back duck, as we all know, is cheap at 4. A dozen escalloped oysters at $1 seem to approach luxury, and a thimblefull of prepared crab meat at the same price suggests enjoyment for the purveyor. It is when glancing at the list of vegetables and other necessary concomitants of a modest feast that shudders permeate the system and dreams of bankruptcy prevail. A baked potato for 30 cents, lima beans for So, cauliflower for 50, stuffed tomatoes the same and asparagus for 51 may not produce nightmare, but they suggest it. Coming to the salads, one loses one's head, or one's solvency, as the case may be. There is little on the list tor less than 75 cents and the "dressing" is extra. Just as if the mixing of one's own salad were not the one compensation of the person paying for It. One purveyor has invented a dish that he calls "crab meat a la Dewey," that he claims is having what he calls "a great run." It is full of peppers and naturally rather hot. It costs SL50. and its victims never complain. Some person of evil intent started the report recently that there was to be a scarcity of lobsters. The restaurant price of a broiled lobster Immediately rose to $1, which may account for the blush of the crustacean when it Is served. The aftertheater element is partial to lobster, and will have it at any price. It Is a child of the night and will make the purveyor's fortune should all else fail. It gives countenance, in a way, to the prices charged for other dishes, and the good nature with which It is consumed affords no foreshadowing of the after effects. One of the potent truths of civilization is that no man can cherish anger for long against the host who feeds him well. The obligation is too deep. That, perchance, 1 why the restaurateur's popularity Is enhanced by the fact that his patrons given him their all. But, whatever the reason, the fact remains that tho most expensive Broadway and Sixth-avenue restaurants turn away patrons night after night and that the frenzy of those patrons to gain admission is In exact proportion to the height of the charges'. The midnight appetite exists and will be paid for. Gayety and glamour may be equally responsible with good food for the miracle. It is curious, however, to think the time may come when Delmoniqp and Sherry may stand at the door of mine host of Broadway, humbly and hats in hand, and ask him how he does it. AS TO HOSPITALS. People Who Like Them and Others for Whom They Hare a Horror. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Two queer metaphysical problems," said a New Orleans physician, "are the hospital habit and the hospital horror. I have encountered any number of cases of both and have always found them more or less of a puzzle. The hospital habit is well known to every Institution in the country, and in speaking of it I have no reference to the scores of constitutional loafers and vagabonds to bo found In all large cities who would rather spend their time in any kind of shelter,' evert that of a jail, than go out and hustle for a living. The people I have in mind are of entirely different stamp and are generally of rather superior Intelligence. For some mysterious reason they become fascinated by the peculiar life in a hospital and will resort eventually to all kinds of subterfuges to continue In it. It is clear they are not attracted by a prospect of idleness, for they are always morbidly anxious to curry favor by making themselves useful, and will work harder than the paid patients, so the only way they can be accounted for Is on the theory that they are really in love with their surroundings. One of the most singular cases of the hospital habit that ever came under my observation was that of an Englishman who spent a couple of years here In the latter eighties. He was a middle-aged man, well educated, well read and capable of earning a good living at his profession, which was that of an accountant; but he had fallen under the trange spell of the hospital and apparently lost all other intcrest in life. I am satisfied he was In excellent health, but he pretended to be suffering from some obscure spinal trouble, and feigned the symptoms so cleverly that he had spent the best part of six or seven years In different institutions. Meanwhile he had become an excellent nurse and was so far superior to the average hired help that the surgeons winked at nls fraud for the sake of having him around. There are a great many curious phases of human nature continually in evidence In a sick ward, and I really believe this man derived an intellectual pleasure in their study. He evidently had a taste for the bizarre, and the place Interested him as one might become interested in some morbid novel. We had many long talks, and what he said showed a high order of thought. Finally he drifted awa3 and. I dare say, he Is In some hospital at this moment. Others I have encountered seemed to find some frightful, perverted pleasure In the mere spectacle of human suffering, and I have known one or two women who Invariably tried to be present at surgical operations as volunteer assistants. Another habitue, also a woman, told me she enjoyed the peculiar smell of drugs thft Is nlw?.vs present In n sick ward. "The hospital horror Is a less cryptic emotion." the doctor went on, "but some of Its manifestations are sufficiently queer. Viewed In the abstract, a hospital is eminently the proper place for anybody who is sick, and In future years I am sure no serious cases wfll ever be treated In private homes. Imperfect sanitation, Incompetent attendance, danger of contagion and a score of other reasons suggest themselves immediately as against the practice, and statistics show clearly that the percentage of recoveries Is very much higher In any wellconducted professional Institution. It often happens that the very tenderness and oversolicitude of friends and relatives militates against a cure, and all these things are, or ought to be. perfectly apparent to anybody who gives the subject a moment's thought. Y'et there are thousands of people who have an unconquerable dread and loathing of a hospital. They would rather be sick In seme cheerless tenement, neglected, ui -attended and deprived of every comfort, than to occupy the best special room that a flrst-class institution can afford. They may be entirely isolated from the general wards and see nothing whatever of the internal workings of the establishment, but the mere knowledge that thej' are under the same roof preys on their nerves and retards progress. I was called in last winter to attend a man who had contracted pneumonia and found him in a miserable gallery bedroom, with no facilities for heating and the most squalid and depressing surroundings I ever saw in my life. Some friends came to the rescue and arranged for his admission as a pay patient in one of our very best hospitals. I thought he would be overjoyed, but he turned livid with fright and aversion and begged piteously to be allowed to remain where he was. 'My God! doctor he pleaded, 'don't let them take me there! I can't stand it!' I told him bluntly he would die unless he was moved, but that prospect had no terrors compared to those of the hospital. He was an intelligent man, knew perfectly well he would get the best of care at the place suggested, but was simply unable to overcome an innate sense of repulsion. He died a few days afterward in his bleak little bedroom. On another occasion a patient of mine was taken to a hospital much against his will, and given every attention in a beautiful private room. His convalescence was very unsatisfactory, and I couldn't understand what was operating against recovery. One day he burst into hysterical tears. 'Ohl doctor!' he walled, 'take me away! Take me anywhere out of this ghastly place!' He had no complaint to make; It was 'just the Idea,' to quote his own words. He was sent home and was soon well. It is useless to argue with such people; the prejudice Is unreasoning, and they can no more help It than they can help the color of their hair."

VIEWS OF A LAB0R1TE

PETE II CIRRAN SAYS STRIKES WILL NOT SOLVE SOCIAL PKOI1LE3IS. British Trades Unionist Urses Political Action and Legislation as a Remedy for Evils. CHICAGO, Dec. 23. "You can never selve the social problem by strikes; that Is my opinion after twenty years' experience In the movement," said Peter Curran, chairman of the General Federation of Trades Unions of Great Britain, In speaking to the workingmen of Chicago to-day at a meeting held under the auspices of the Building Trades Council. Mr. Curran came to ttiis country as the fraternal delegate from the British Trades Union Congress to the American Federation of Labor convention, and represents about 2,000,000 organized workers In the United Kingdom. He is president and organizer of the Gas Workers and General Laborers Union, with general offices in London. Mr. Curran said: "After spending more money In England during the last twenty-five years on the Industrial battlefield than would keep seven hundred men legislating for our interest In the houses of Parliament, we have come to the conclusion that we must have something to say about the making of the laws tinder which we have to work, and we must get away from the old orthodox political parties If we hope to secure what we seek. Tho only possibility of our securing labor legislation Is by sending our own men to Parliament, not as our masters, but as our servants. You never can solve the social problem by strikes, never remedy the social evils in which you complain by muscular force. You must do It through legislation. I am 'not in favor of any law which would take away the right of tho worker to strike, but I am not an advocate of strikes. There is only one solution and that is in common ownership, for as long as we allow the land and the machinery of the country to be held as private monopolies by the few, so long will we have industrial disputes and upheavals." . GOTHAM'S NEW DISGRACE. Scope of the Horrors Itevenled by the Hospital Investigation. New York Herald. The more the abuses in the alcoholic and insane wards of Bellevue Hospital are looked Into the greater the horror grows. Facts already established fully bear out the Herald's charges, which have started Investigations that must let the full light of publicity in upon the secrets of these dark scenes of malignant cruelty and result In the abolition of the system under which they have outraged humanity. "We cannot assume that evils exist on the evidence of Inebriates and morhpine fiends," said Commissioner Keller. Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, whose damning statement was made through tho Herald columns yesterday. Is scarcely to be classed lti either of these categories; nor Is the coroner's physician who made the autopsy upon the body of the unfortunate Hilliard, and who says "there was no question in my mind that the man had been killed." Commissioner Keller seems shocked at the revelations, and, as our news columns this morning show, has entered upon an earnest Investigation. He is quite right in probing even at this late day into the monstrous practices in this institution under the care of his department; but believing that he is thoroughly sincere it yet goes without saying that he would be glad to see the abuses disproved or minimized, and while his investigation is commendable so far as It goes, It is by no means sufficient. The inquest by Coroner Fitzpatrick into the death of Hilliard will begin to-morrow, and this should prove more effective in bringing out facts. But this inquisition has direct relation to one particular case. A broader and more sweeping Inquest is needed, one which will cover not only all departments of Bellevue Hospital, but the entire administration of our public charities; and the January grand jury could perform no higher service to the community than to take this work in hand. For more than a year the Herald pleaded In vain for the opening of the new Gouverneur Hospital, while patients suffered in the overcrowded and unsanitary old structure or were rent elsewhere for lack of space the deaths of many being doubtless directly attributable to their being unable to stand the strain of the transference. We have again and again called attention to the dangerous and indecently overcrowded condition of the Kings County Insane Asylum, but our rulers can spare no money to ameliorate it. The unsanitary and overcrowded fire trap occupied as a women's prison In connection with Raymond-street jail has been denounced in our columns times without number, and the last three successive grand juries In Kings county have made it the subject of presentments, but the comparatively small sum needed to remedy this Infamous state of affairs is withheld by the board of estimate. This august body the other day refused the moderate amount asked by the Harlem Hospital, and one of its members growled out a threat that If the charter revisers' suggestion were complied with, putting boards of humane and public spirited citizens in control of the hospitals, they should receive no public money at all. The revelations under which the community is now shuddering answer the question whether such boards of control are needed. Funds for the public schools and for the charities are doled out grudgingly and with hypocritical pratlngs about economy to mislead the unthinking, while millions without stint are paid out to a horde of needless place holders, the money that should be used for the care of the sick, destitute and unfortunate being thus diverted to building up and maintaining a political machine. A public hospital should be a welcome refuge from the sordid surroundings of the sick poor, and the horror which seizes upon them when they are carried to one of these Institutions Is the strongest possible indictment against them. Need of reform in the system no less than in the personnel at Bellevue ,1s evi denced In the anomalous position of the insane ward in which Hilliard died. It is exempted from the inspection of the State Board of Charities, because everything touching Insane patients is under control of the State Commission in Lunacy. But this body deals only with persons committed to an asylum, and therefore the In sane ward at Bellevue, In which patients are held pending commitment, is not under its Jurisdiction. Hence the shameful conditions described by Dr. Hamilton, by which he says the ward is virtually In control of persons not officially connected with the Institution, and who, it is charged, extort moneys from Its patients for their personal profit. One of the most extraordinary of all the statements made in connection with the in stltutlon is that of Coroner's Physician Donlin, who declares that there has always been a suspicion as, to the treatment of some of the patients whose bodies were car ried from the hospital to the morgue; that the hospital physicians sometimes do not file their reports for forty-eight or sixty hours, and that "we often flnd cases of fractured skulls and other Injuries, but we cannot tell whether the injuries were re ceived In the hospital. We have so much work to do that we can only report them and go on about our work." The qutstlon arises: For what purpose are the bodies examined If the suspicious reports made by the examining physicians are Ignored by the coroner to whom they are made? The whole administration, we repeat, should be subjected to a drastic and relentless investigation. It Is demanded by the humane and generous people of this great city In the Interests of its good name and of the poor and the unfortunate, to the care of whom they so liberally contribute. IXVESTMIiMS IX WESTER LAX 1)9. Good Place for Money Where Quick Returns Are Xot Expected. Chicago Bonds and Mortgages. We notice with much approval a very decided tendency on the part of Investors who are dissatisfied with a comparatively meager return on their present holdings to seriously consider the purchase of Western lands lor the purpose of holding for an increase In value. This is wise and farsighted on the part of the inquirers, and if carried to f, legitimate conclusion, and if investments are carefully made, will result in laige profit to them. Eastern investors as well as capitalists, throughout the country, will do well to re

member that where a yearly income 1 not a necessity to them Investment in Western lands at the present prevailing low piice

is one of the safest, ana in a tew years vnu prove an exceedingly profitable manner of rlacing their Idle funds. There are at present In the Northwest, middle West and South large tracts of wild lands, well watered and as productive as any, as y.l unsettled and at present remote from cities and towns, that are to be purchased at low figures and on easy terms of payment, which, as the country near to them is peopled and developed, will enhance in value at a rapid rate. This has been the history of our farming sections in the past, and the same Hstory will repeat Itself for many years to come. It Is no uncommon thing to find In different sections In the West Improved land held and being sold at from J30 to J30 an acre, while lands equally as good tut removed some twenty miles away, and somewhat more remote from railways, can be bought at less than t2 an acre. Many acres of land were bought this year in North Dakota at not to exceed Jl.". which, owing to the saving crop of flax raised on them this past summer, have advanced and are now being sold at from $20 to S30 an acre. What is true of this land will be equally true of lands Judiciously purchased at present In sections of the country that have been proved desirable in the past. Farm, timber and lands are to be found in large tracts in manyof the Western States. Many Investors In Western securities have formed opinions based on their previous transactions, that the farm loan Is the only safe investment in which to place their funds away from their Immediate supervision, but while the farm loan when carefully placed Is always safe and profitable. It is not the only Inducement offered by the West to the Eastern capitalist. The purchase of land appeals particularly to those who can afford to wait a few years without dividends in order to reap a rich reward later. Fortunes have already been made In the purchase of such lands, and fortunes will yet be made by those who take the trouble to Investigate this form of employing their money. A VOICE FE0M TEXAS. It Proclaims Good to the South from Republican Governance. Ahin (Tex.) Sun. We, In our humble way, fought the present administration, believing that Bryan's election and Democracy's victory would result in much good for the "land of the free and the home of the brave." Democracy was defeated, and we, with all other good citizens, abide by the result. The administration has everything Its own way; a good working majority In both branches of the national Congress, and all questions of national interest are up to them. First and foremost Is the Nicaragua canal. There is no other project before Congress that means so much to the country at large and the South In particular. From present indications It seems that the administration is thoroughly alive on the canal proposition. In this connection we wish to speak of th Philippine Islands. We were opposed to the annexation of the islands, believing, as we did, that "forcible annexation is criminal 'aggression," and that it was an unwise policy to go seven or eight thousand miles across the water and take possession of islands peopled by a race which, at least, could not become Americanized for many years. But tho entire question was settled at the ballot box, and the Philippines are ours as much as is Alaska or the Sandwich islands. So let's cease shedding tears of regret, drop moral ethics and accept with as good grace as possible the Inevitable. From a strictly commercial standpoint there is no question that the retention of the Islands will result in much good. With the Nicaraguan canal as a short cut and the Philippines as a base of operations the trade of the Orient Is ours. With 500,000.000 diamond-eyed Celestials to clothe with cotton goods the South will forge rapidly to the front. Mark our prediction: Before anothtr score of years rolls by 00 per cent, of the cotton mills of the United States will be in the South, where they rightly oolong. THE HOBO WAS I1UXGRY. Proved It When a Kind Friend Un dertook to Fill II Im L p. Philadelphia Inquirer. "These stories you read In the newspapers about hobos striking on the street for a meal or the price thereof when they are full up to the top with food and really want only the coin may be founded on fact, but after this I am going to take them with large-sized discounts." The speaker wasa benevolently inclined friend of the Saunterer. The expression on his face was one of such complete dls gust that the Saunterer had to laugh. "Oh. it's no laughing matter," exclaimed his friend, "I read so many of the yarns that last night when a particularly able bodied hobo held me up over on Chestnut street with a pitiful story of having had nothing to eat for two days I got wise, as I thought. " 'Hungry, eh!' I said to tho hobo, 'well. come along with me and I'll see that you get plenty to cat.' "Bight around the corner was a restau rant where I was known, and toward It I led the way. As I hurried along my mental machinery was working something like this: 'This fellow Isn't hungry at all. Prob ably has had half a dozen square meals to-day. He thought I'd be easy and hand out a quarter. I'll fool him. though, by planting him down at a table, ordering a lot of stuff for him and then instructing the waiter to keep on bringing more. If that don't convince the hobo that he picked up the wrong man I'll miss my guess.' "Well, I carried out the programme by ordering an extra-sized steak, a double order of potatoes, a lot of fried onions, coffee and bread and butter galore for any man. While It was being nerved J. concluded to step in next door to get a drink. " 'Give him all he wants to cat,' 1 said to the waiter, with a wink; 'fill him up and I'll settle "I left, intending to return In four or five minutes. As luck would have It I met several acquaintances, forgot about my hobo, and it was an hour before I got back to the restaurant. The hobo wasn't to be seen. " 'Where's the hungry man?' I asked the waiter. " 'Just went out, was the reply. " 'Humph!' Suppose the sight of so much food when he didn't really want a bite made him sick. eh7' "The waiter grinned a broad grin. " 'Well, not exactly.' he said. 'He man aged to make out protty well. Pretty near put us out of business, though. Here's the cnecK, si r. "I nearly dropped when I saw the fig ures. Believe me or not. but the hobo had eaten just 12.75 worth of stuff, and the restaurant was anything but a hish-nriced place at that. Hereafter when I'm hit for the price of a meal I'm going to give up tne coin. The other way is too blamed expensive for a man of limited means." Smallpox In Xevr York. Letter in Philadelphia Press. Officially we are known to have had In this city within the past two or three weeks sixty-four cases of smallpox, and the attacks of the disease have been of the most democratic characttr. Invading the homes or the wealthy as well as places where squalor prevails. But some c.f the physicians are quoted as saying that the d:sease is much more prevalent here than the official reports indicate. One physician 13 quoted as saying that there have been over 400 cases of smallpox, and the health officers, bting alarmed at that, have regarded It as a part of their Justifiable official treatment to report a much less number than really exists. Vaccination is going on by wholesale. In fact, ho general have been these surreal attentions that the sore arm is discovered everywhere. The spread of this epMemlc is undoubtedly due to the fact that we have had no outbreak of smalljvox in the city for a number of years, and it is not until an epidemic similar to the one now rnglrg prevails that general vaccination takes place. So far the disease has not appeared in the crowded tenement districts upon the East Side, and that may K due to the greater caution the health department has observed In that part of the city. Looking Backvrard. Detroit Journal. "The autobarrow." explained the cftlxen of the year 20G0 A. D., "has almost entirely superseded the wheelbarrow. Wheelbarrows are very little used now except In the payment of election bets."

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DISTRICT ATTORXEV GAItlHM'.R TO SlHIti:M)i:il HIS OFFICE. .Members of His Staff Decide lo .Hold Their Pol (IonEtiKettc A. Phllblu to TiLe () filer at (luce. NEW YORK. Dec. 23.-Eugene A. rhliMn. who has been apjoInted by Governor Roosevelt to succeed Asa Bird Gardiner as district attorney, in an interview today said the first thing he would do would be tu resign as a member of the State Board of Charities and that he would take charge of tho district attorney'r office aj scon as he received the official notification. "I had made no effort to get the appointment and it was entirely unexpected. shall not make a clean sweep of the district attorney's ofllce. I shall remove no man who Is competent to fill the cfT.ca he occupies and who In doing his duty." Tho members of District Attorney Gardiner's staff held two conferences to-day and It was decided that they would not nsign, though several of them at fir?t strongly favored the resignation of the entire staff. At the conclusion of the conference Assistant District Attorney Mclntire said: "Of course all of us feel that Colonel Gardiner has met with great Injustice and as individuals we protect against the Governor's action. Our sympathies are with Colonel Gardiner and wo will stand by him to the last ditch, but it was decided at the conference to-night that Colonel Gardiner will not enter into any legal content over the matter, but will surrender the ofllce." ME. CLEVELAND'S VIEWS. Indirectly They Contain a Utah Tribute to Republican Policies. Chicago Journal. Grover Cleveland's essay on the future of the Democratic party has naturally k t the Bryanite to sneering. It is so easy to eay that the second Cleveland administration was the cause of the Democratic Inability since then to carry an election. But nobody believes It, not even the IJryanltea themselves. They know as well ui everybody else that what Mr. Cleveland says is true that since liiG the party has been wandering after strange gods, that since the Chicago convention It has been, not a Democratic party, but a revolutionary party of political lunatics. Thouifh It has not been particularly successful Plnce the civil war, at any rate it lia3 been sane and sensible, which can not te raid of It elnce it wan seized wltU the Bryan madness. And If Mr. Bryan represents the revolutionists, Mr. Cleveland as unquestionably represents the conservative, level-headed Democrats whore principles may be Incorrect, but who, nevertheless, have principles. No honest Democrat will dare to assert that the advice Mr. Cleveland gives Is not good advice so far as it goes. Th difficulty with it is that is is not definite enough to be of any particular value. He counsels entire abandonment of the policy advocated by Bryan, but he does not enunciate any policy to be followed Instead. This is not surprising, for no reasonable man can find any fault with the present policy of the Republican party, which has conducted the people through the wilderness . into a land flowing with milk and honey. There Is no use atguln against prosperity such as that which ha followed the inauguration of Mr. McKinley. But the fact that opposition to the party in power is bound to be fruitless is small satisfaction to the party in Opposition. Unless Mr. Cleveland can supply a rallying cry that will appeal to the Democratic hests he might better keep still. The truth is that so long as the Republican party continues In the course It in following now, the Democratic party must remain an eliminated factor In the life of the Nation. The Republican party is the party of construction; it is the party that does things. Until the Democrats cease tc be obstructionists solely, until they can agree upon a constructive policy of their own, they cannot expect the country to intrust its destinies to them. This fact, however, does not "lesen the admiration of the ieopIe for Mr. Cleveland, who must rank in history as one of the four great men who have occupied the executive mansion, the peer of Washington. Jackson, and Lincoln in tplte of the fact that the London Dally Mall's year-book calls him "the mediocre Democratic leader who was swayed by his Anglophobe secretary of state, Richard Olney." Fancy Grover Cleveland swayed by Richard Olney or anybody else! Spain Golnsr to Work Washington Post. "There are not many Instances In history where a disastrous war has proved a blessing to a country," said Mr. Earl C. Shattuck, cf Birmingham. Ala., who ha Ju.t returned from a European trip, "but such Is the case with Spain. I spent three week In Spain, mostly in Madrid and Barcelona, and 1 was amazed to find signs of such industrial activity on every hand. If the thing keeps up at the present rate Spain will, in a generation, become one of th great industrial nations of the world. There) ccems little doubt that all this new life in Spain is the result of the thrashing we gav u her. Spain has been chiefly engaged for the past few hundred years in ex.ploltInx hr colonies; now, that she no longer hai any considerable colonies to exploit, thi people must turn to some other way of gaining a livelihood, and Industrial acttviiy is the result. It is not becouM; Spain is without resources that her people have remained poor, it was because men of wealth and Influence were not Interested in tha development of the country. Most of them had made their money in the colonies, ar.-l they expected their sons to do likewise. The common people were willing to werk but no opportunity was afforded them." Drachmann Charms London. Chicago Times Herald. Holgcr Drachmann, tho D.tnl.h poet and dramatist, is the recipient of many flattering attentions from Englishmen of letters. Already he has been banqueted half a dozen times. He spciks excellent English, and whenever the opportunity present itself dwells upon the influence which English literature, especially the poetry of Shakseare, Byron and Keats, ha exercised upon his own productions. Much the most graceful tribute paid to him has come from Edmund Gosse, who described him the other evening as "extremely voluminous and excelling in songs of patriotism, songs of love and wine and feinting, songs of the sorrowful life of the poor, the blood-red song of revolution, and, above all. the song of the sea." Mr. Gosse called him "Denmark's greatest living poet, the most representative of her sons, and the most vivid and striking personality she can offer to the guzo of Europe in this last year of the nineteenth century." It Is understood that Mr. Drachmann has received several urgent requests t go to America, where he is assured of a warm welcome. The Color of the Coin. Hartford Courant. General Adonlram Judson Warner In a sllverlte emeritus. When he published hl Ilr?t book in defense of the white metai, William J. Bryan was a lad of sevc nicer, in the freshman class at college. The old general 1 not a Bryanite. He thinks th Lincoln. Neb., man too persistent for any vim. He looks uion the t-ilver question in this country as a thing of the past a tale that I told. "Why should ve turn away from our present advantages because th color of the coin happens to be yellow Instead of white?" lie asks. Sure enough! Why should we? IfepMes, as a matter of literal fact, the color of mot of the coin passing from hand to hand In th trannuttlonn of daily life Is v. lilte and not yellow. The general must have noticed that, Mr. Crumpncker's Corrective. Portland (Me.) Pre.s. It is to be hoped that Mr. Crumparker, of Indiana, will conclude to present his minority report in favor of enforcing th fourteenth amendment against tho South. It is a rank Injustice to reduce the representation from the North, as the Hopk'ns bill does, and allow the South to retata its present representation In rlte of the facl that it hat disfranchised half the voters.