Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1901 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, ATRIL 8, 1901.

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S Establish! lK.V. fole Agent Ilntteriek Patterns. Opening ToDay MUSIC DEPARTMENT This rapidly rowin department has been moved to South Balcony, East Aisle, to accommodate the ;rcat increase in trade. Special to start the new location: Just Iterance She Made l nem uoo ihjj i.jes Coon. Conn My Sunflower Sue Viola Waltzes Possum Tattus, two step. Pettis Dry Goods Co. Potatoe: A Carload of fine Colorado Potatoes. FINE COOKERS THE N. A. MOORE CO. U- ancy Grocers 162 and 164 North Illinois St. Phones 92. AMUSEMENTS. To-night at the Zoo a benefit will be given for the Kmmanucl Baptist Church. "Chiquita" will be an added feature. She will arrive at 2:4'J o'clock this afternoon. After being dark for a week, the Empire Theater will present T. E. Miaco's City Club Company, a burlesque organization, for one week, commencing with to-day's matinee. XXX Strictly moral plays seem to be in the ascendency in popular favor just at present. Here is the list, all of them great successes: "Uncle Tom's Cabin." "Lover's Lane," "Way Down East" (coming to English's soon), "The Little Minister" and "The Christian." V X X William Friend, who plays a prominent role In "A Stranger in a Strange Land," the next offering at the Park beginning Thursday afternoon, was a member of A. M. Palmer's company, and is said to possess a handsome stage presence as well as abundant talent. XXX During her Xew York engagement next season, for which a theater has been secured over the heads of the trust managers, Henrietta Cmssman will revive several of the plays in which she made hits In her stock company days. Notable among these will be her revival of "Sans Gene." xxx Alice Fisher, wife of Alfred Fisher, late director of the Grand stock company in this city, is one of the principals in the exceptionally strong cast secured for the Brady production of "Betsy Ross." Joseph Holland will play George Washington and Miss Phoebe Davis will impersonate Betsy Ross. XXX At considerable expense for postage "William A. Brady, proprietor of the tine production of "Lover's Lane," at the Manhattan Theater. Xew York, is sending to dramatle writers in the larger cities beautiful eouvenlrs in the form of silver candlesticks with vari-colored shades. These souvenirs make dainty mantel ornaments.' xxx Grace George will probably be the most extensively heralded star next season that has ever toured this country. The methods to be employed are said to be not only unique, but on a scale of extravagance never equaled. William A. Urady is her husband and manager, and he is famed for the lavishness of his theatrical productions. xxx J. S. McQuade is registered at the Hotel English. Mr. McQuade Is In the city to herald the coming of Daniel Frohman's famous Daly Theater Companj-, Monday and Tuesday nights of next week, in Ii. C. Carton's play. "Lady Huntworth's Experiment." Earlier in the present season hi v as here representing "At the White Hore Tavern." XXX Hilda Spong. who made such a success In "Wheels Within Wheels," "The Ambassador" and "The Maneuvers of Jane," at Fowers's Theater. Xew York, early In the present season, is starring at the head of Daniel Frohman's fine stock company in the brilliant play, "Lady Huntworth's Experiment." and will be seen at English's Opera House Monday and Tuesday nights of next week. xxx Leonora Jackson, the famous violinist, supported by Josephine Elburna. soprano, and Sedrn Pratt, concert pianist, appeared at the Western College for Women. Oxford, O., April 5. and was given an enthusiastic reception. A numU'r of Indianapolis young women are in attendance at this college the Misses Eleanor Barker. Jane Ketcham. Nellie Shover, Carrie Butler and Bessie Brown. xxx Hartley Campbell s exciting and realistic melodrama, "Siberia," which will be presented at the Park Theater the first three days of the current week, beginning this afternoon, deals with the unbridled passions of the Russian nobility and the retaliation of victims. Snowstorms, knout punishment and Ruian imperial and prison life are vividly portrayed, and each act ends with a strong tableau. XXX The Llebler production of the fine double bill. Browning's "In a Balcony" an 1 Yeatss "The Land of Heart's Desire." which wtp be shown at a single engagement In English's Opera House In the next few weeks, is th dared to he one of the inodt extraordinary dramatic events in years. The cast o? Uw Browning play is made up of Mrs. Le Mnvne. Otis Skinner and beautiful, talented Eleanor Robson. x Louis Mann, notwithstanding the sidesplitting fun whk-h lie and tiara Lipman are at present creating ia the new comedy, "All on Account of Eliza." is ambitious to appear In still more pretentious roles. It is more than possible that he and Miss LipTnuii will be seen before the ( lo.-e of next f-va.-on in "The M reliant of Vt-nb-e-' and a production of a French classic Mr. Mann and Mi.-s Big in in will he at Eugli.-h's Friday and Saturday of next week. . "The Hells." v.hlch Mr. Creston iark and Mi.-s Adelaide Prince present, is one of the .invim -,t dramas on the stage t -day. Pi Is an adaptation by I.roj(J!d Lewis from th.; French of Eckmann a:,d Chatuaus'rf "Juif Po'enals." The re rnor-c-strh kcn Methi.:s. Inunted by ti.e Jllng f the bells, an.r!s Mr. Clark a par; n. whk-h he gives evidence of the tragic power which has won for him a prominent place among

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tragedians. Miss Prince appears as Annette, daughter of the burgomaster. xxx The Boston Lyric Opera Company, presenting three popular operas, will commence an engagement of three nizhts and a Saturday matinee on Thursday of the curlent week. "The Idol's Eye." by Smith and Herbert, made famous by Frank Daniels, will be given Thursday night and Saturday afternoon. De Wolf Hopper's great success, "Wang." by Morse and Goodwin, will be put on Fri lav night. "The Fencing Master," In which Marie Tempest seored a great triumph, will b the offering Saturday night. xxx The management of the Grand has an attractive vaudeville till to offer for the week opening this afternoon. The performers need only to be named to give an idea of the merit of th programme. They include Familie D'Arville. Eugene OEourke. Minnie Allen and Will H. Murphy. Johnnie Carroll, Lotta Gladstone. Burton and Brooks, the musical Kleists and the American olograph. There will be plenty of good sinking, dancing and comedy, In addition to two clever playlets. xxx Xever in the history of the drama have fo many clergymen appeared in plays as during the present season. There was the scamp Allen in "Richard Carvel" and close on his heels that line fellow of a cardinal in "A Royal Family;" then "Lady Huntworth's Experiment" furnishes two men of the cloth, the sedate vicar and his impulsive curate; still another representative of the Church of England appears in "Mrs. Dane's Defense," and there is a cardinal in Viola Allen's "In the Palace of the King." Julia Marlowe's new play. "When Knighthood was in Flower," exploits the Bishop of Lincoln. The most prominent clerical character, perhaps, is Rev. Thomas Singleton in Clyde Fitch's latest dramatic success, "Lover's Lane." The whole action of the piece revolves around him. CITY NEWS ITEMS. A social with a programme of recitations and music will be given to-night by the Indianapolis Prohiblton League at the hail. New York and Alabama streets. The Political Equality Society will meet this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Philip Rappaport, 1j5 North Alabama street, instead of yesterday afternoon as was announced previously. To-morrow night Camp No. U, Union Veteran LVgion, will hold a meeting open to the public to celebrate Appomattax day. This day is observed by all encampments in the country with appropriate exercises. The Woman's Auxiliary of Christ Church will hold an Easter meeting this afternoon In the Guild room. - A musical programme will be given and reports from domestic and foreign missions will be read. Mrs. William Taylor and Mrs. Preston Keller will be the hostesses. In the items of real estate transfers yesterday it was stated that the property at Delaware and Maryland streets, purchased by J. L. Keach from Mrs. Elizabeth Knarzer, was occupied by Arthur Jordan. The property sold, Mr. Jordan says, Is south of his and adjoining other property previouslj' owned by Keach. A horse belonging to Mr. Bougton, living at 100 Oxford street, ran away yesterday, and in trying to jump over John Dovley's fence at 101S Temple avenue, became fast, and the fence had to be torn down to get it loose. A large crowd collected, and the usual number of suggestions were made while the horse suffered and attempted to free itself, before the plan of tearing the fence down was put into effect. The entertainment of the Misses Emmi Kathryn Wernert and Anna M. Heser, of Peoria, III., who have returned home, was ccncluded with a theater party at the Park or. Saturday evening, given In their honor by Miss Pauline Kithryn Stein. This was preceded on Thursday evening by an enjoyable gathering at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar D. Bohlen, and again on Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Stein.

A ForrlKnfr Lout In the City. Last night a foreigner about twenty-one years old, with rings in his eats, wa brought Into the police station because he was lost. He had just arrived from Europe, and as near as the officers could ascertain his native land is Poland. He could neither speak nor' understand English, and the officers were in a quandary as to what to do with him. Neither did he know where he wanted to go, but the address of a relative was found in his pocket. The district patrolmen who have Polish residents in their trrritqry were called up and instructed to make inquiry as to whether any one was expecting to arrive. All night long the patrolmen hunted, and at an early hour this morning Desk Sergeant Hyland received a message from two patrolmen saying they had located relatives that knew him and were expecting him. The woman's name is Anna Platisha. living at 723 Haugh street, Haughville. The patrolmen also stated that the relatives did not treat them kindly for bringing the Information, criticised them for waking them up, and finally ordered them from the house. Two Small Fire. A fire In the Baldwin block at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused a loss of about $23. The fire started In Room 20, occupied by B. F. Watson, from an overheated stove. A vacant house at 027 North California street was found at 7:30 o'clock last night to be on fire. There was thought to be little doubt that It was of incendiary origin. The loss to the unknown owner was about $1(0. THE GREAT NILE DAM AT A SSL' AX. KKyiif Fertility Kxpectrd to lie Increased by the Work Under Way. London Letter in New York Sun. Very few reople appreciate the gigantic nature of the irrigation works which John Aird iz Son are now carrying out in Egypt. The undertaking, unsurpassed in magnitude and difficulty by any similar engineering feat of modern times, is already well advanced toward completion. When complete it Is hoped that thousands of mlies ot what is now Egyptian desert will be transformed Into smiling pasture land. At present the cultivated soil of middle and upper Egypt consists of a belt of land on either side of the river extending as far as and no farther than the line reached by the waters of the high Nile. Tho rest 1 arid, unproductive sand. Xow, the Xile waters are peculiarly rich in a sediment invaluable for agricultural purposes, and yet every day enough Nile water and soil to create several Egypts ar allowed to run into the Mediterranean. It is to impound this water that a great wall of granite Is being built on the southern side of the first cataract at Assuan. The wall stretches from the right bank of the Nile to the left, a distance of a mile and a quarter, and. when completed, will rise ninety feet above the level of lqw water. The top of It will be as wide as Fleet street, and will accommodate as much traffic. The wall is pierced by sluices. They number lv). Tho groat steel doors with which they are provided will be worked by machinery, at once enormously powerful and yet so delicate that a child could let loose millions of gallons of this water hich is to be Egypt's salvation. At some periods of the year :h,xx) tons of water will rush through the sluices every minute. The "dam will bottle up l.noo.OOO.OuO tons of wattr; but the effect of the wall will be apparent over H4 miles of the river, in ether words, a lake 114 miles long will be formed. The cost of the scheme has been fixed at jC.'.urt.fioo: but the Egyptian government will not be asked to pay a sixpence until the work has been completed. The settling ot this little bill will extend over a period of thirty years, so that Egypt is Rettin her colossal dam on the sime system as thrifty housewives pet their sewing machines the deferred payment system. It will prove a good bargain for Egypt, for it is calculated that England is virtually making the land of the Pharaohs a present of something like XM".O.0.(m3. In addition to the great wall at Assuan, a subsidiary dam is being built at Assiut. On the former 12.(V men are employed, the vast majority natives. They receive be. tween three and four piastres a day. or about lis a week, which is twice m much as they usually earn. On pay day the money is brought in bullion on camels across the desert from the Assuan bank, and it is an Interesting sight to see the patient bearers of the goht kneel down while their precious burden is distributed among the eager thousands of jabbering, h ippy toib-rs. Tiie stone for the great wall Is being ohtaint d from the quarries of which the Temples of Philae are believed to have been built the unhappy Philae which, when the dam is completed, will bo submerged and partly disappear from eight for the iirst time In its three thousand years of xistenee. The granite blocks that ure being quarried for this, t ho first great engineering achievement of the twentieth century, bear th-- marks of wetljs used thirty centurits ago.

PRESIDENT KANE HEARD

EXECUTIVE OF WAUASII COLLEGE AT 1'IHST 111ESI1YTEIIIA. He Prenclie tin Interesting Hunter Sermon Dr. Ilruske nt Second Prenliyterla ii Other Service. President W. P. Kane, of Wabash College, preached to a large congregation at the First Presbyterian Church yesterday morning from the text, "Who hath brought life and Immortality to light?" Timothy II, i. 10: He said In part: "If all that Easter day means could be blotted out of human experience, how it would change every phase of life and every thought and hope uf the future. Fortunately, there is no ground for the support of even a doubt as to the certainty of Christ's victory over death. "The apostle Paul declares that Jesus Christ brought life and immortality to light. Let us admit that belief in immortality does not depend upon the resurrection of Christ. We find glimpses of this truth in the Old Testament. In the writings of heathen philosophers we find speculations and arguments even as to its possibility and its probability. But everything was vague, uncertain. "Immortality is not simply continued existence. It is far more than that. It is the ceaseless dominance of the soul life; the unending advance and triumph of spiritual aspirations and power. We must not, therefore, confound the Christian doctrine of resurrection with tho doctrine of natural immortality. "I name three particulars in which Christ brought life and .immortality to light. "First He changed that which was a mere hope, an aspiration, into an assured fact. The hope of immortality has never been wholly absent from the human heart. But outside of Christianity that hope has never been more than a pitiful endeavor to clutch life to the last in spite of death's remorseless loosening of the grasp. It never ministered to the cheer or courage or hopefulness of human life. Among all the Greek monuments that have been exhumed there is not so much as a single inscription of hope found pointing to a better, larger life and the possibility of reunion beyond the grave. "In all pagan literature there Is not a line of comfort and cheer for mourners weeping beside their dead. In the Old Testament the thought of immortality as a comforting truth comes only occasionally to individuals. It is not proclaimed as a doctrinal truth. It is only in Christ that immortality has been brought to light. "Second W are to remember also that Christ presents the Immortal life as a present realization. It is not something that awaits us beyond, but something we may have now. It Is not that we shall be immortal, but that we are Immortal. '11 that bellevth upon me hath everlasting life.' To be at one with God: to be a partaker of God's life: to feel the pulsation of His thought, of His love, of His purity within us that Is the life eternal. It is not n question of duration, but a matter of character. "Life as a mere continuance of being Is not worth thinking about. That 1 a mere incident. The significance lies in the kind of life that Is continued. "Third-Christ Insists also in His teaching that the realization of immortality must be a personal achievement. It cannot be taken second hand. It is not a doctrine to be accepted; it is a life to be entered upon. I can be convinced Intellectually through argument that there is such a thing as immortality, but that does not make me immortal. Let us not misinterpret the meaning of this glorious Easter message. "It Is not that because Christ rose from the grave and triumphed over death that, therefore, all men are made partakers of the life immortal not that. The message is this: They that live the Christ life, who are quickened and actuated by His spirit, thev have in them the same power that was In. Him, and. like Him. the gravo cannot be holden of death.' It all depends upon the quality of life you are producing. When a man's thought, vision and energy nre wholly givn up to this world he has nothing left with which he can take hold upon that other world. Such a man inherits nothing from the resurrection of Christ. There is no Easter message that means anything to him. 'Join thyself,' sa-3 Augustine, 'to the eternal God and thou wilt be eternal. " . FLETCHER-PLACE CHURCH. Hev. Dr. Tevls Preachen to a, Large Congregation. An unusually large audience filled the large auditorium of Fletcher-place M. E. Church yesterday. In connection with the sermon the pastor administered baptism to a largo class. Dr. Tevls preached on tho subject of the resurrection of Christ. He took no text, stating that there were innumerable passages of scripture applicable to the hour. In substance. Dr. Tevls spoke as follows: "Doctrinal preaching is not the rule nowadays. Preachers dwell more upon the practical duties of life, such as charity, henesty and the like. And yet doctrinal preaching was the strength of our fathers. On such themes they builded some of the greatest sermons that ever swayed the people. A great building must have a great foundation. What magnificent sermons have been preached on the resurrection of our Savior! This fact is one of the foundation stones of the Christian temple. At the resurrection the most deadly blow should be struck by infidelity, for around" that evidence of Christ's divinity cluster all the other evidences, like stars around a common center. Shattter that, and the harps of humanity, each string of which is a hope vibrating with the music of tho skies, become unstrung, and henceforth unresponsive and mute. In view of this, is it any wonder that God saw to it that the evidences of the-resurrection should be complete and invulnerable? Around that crucial point were thrown the very perfection of preliminaries and culmination. "The evidences were made all the more conclusive and convincing because the doctrines and life of Christ clashed with the prejudices of the people. Two special classes of people were there the Roman government, warlike and depending on force of arms for supremacy. The land spark'.ed with military splendor. The armies of Rome maintained a high order of organization. Into their midst came the meek and lowly Nazarene and tossed a dove into a sky filled with war eagles, with the statement. 'The meek shall inherit the earth.' The very uniqueness of tho statement attracted the attention of the people. Indeed, everything that Jesus said was startling to the people, for 'He spoke as never man spake before." His assumption of authority aroused tho suspicions of the officers of the government, for they were jealous of the rights of Caesar. r "On the part of the Jews there was hatred. They were fond of their formalities. They were proud of an illustrious ancestry. They esteemed themselves a highly favored people. The doctrines and life of the Savior conflicted with their ideas. They wanted the royal purple, and the sceptre of authority. Christ comes in perfect sim pliclty of habit. They looked for a commanding appearance. Christ was meek and lowly. 'His visage was marred more than any man.' Christ taught that true greatness did not consist in elevated positions, nor yet in gilded externalisms, but in great thoughts. In noble purposes, and In divine nspirations. All these things caused the people to watch with Intense interest the culminating event. Besides, He himself had thrown down the challenge, 'destroy this temple and in three days 1 will raise it again.' No wonder that extraordinary precautions were taken to see that He was dead when taken from the cross, and that no chicanery or fraud should be perpetrated at the tomb. Pilate seals the tomb with his own seal, and places a guard of forty picked soldiers there. Hut an army in God's sisht. and in comparison with IV. power, is insignificant. We shall not discuss the evidences of the resurrecting so familiar to all, such as the claims of the soldiers, in apology for the absence of the body. He appeared at ten different times to various people, and once to five hundred, alter his resurrection. The mystery of this event, on the divine side, admits of no explanation, only upon the hypothesis of divine power. Hut it Is a fact. The genuine religion of humanity rests upon f?cts; not upon theories or speculations. A fact is a thing as it is. A theory is something created by human speculation, often with the shadow of a doubt upon it. Things as they are. aro what worry men. The preaching ot facts will convict and convert tho world. "Two tremendous, sublime, and awful' facts confront every man. Life and death. Life, with its intricate mystery; its delicious harmony: its magnificent motion and activity. Death, with- its pil'V ti'nce; It awful hush; Us profound thai-u.e to

every harper who tries to play the unending music of the eternal. "The side with which we are better acquainted i the land of the living and dying. The land of cradles and coffins. The side for which the world Is hungry. Is the answer to the question, 'if a man die shall he live again?' Jesus himself answers the question. I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.' "Everj' home in this congregation has seen the crepe; ha3 heard the hoarse voice of the truck in the hearse. We preach death in a new garb. He Is a fair angel who never frightens even a babe. 'He is risen.' This fact swelled the music of heaven into a joyful harmony. It comes to the troubled heart of humanity, like a central current, bearing upon Its bosom mighty argosies, filled with the priceless hopes and deathless longings of the race. 'He is rien,' and some day we shall cast our trophies at His feet and crown Him Lord of all."

MERIDIAN-STREET CIIIHCII. The Edifice Crowded Iloth Morning nnd Evening. Meridian-street M. E. Church was crowded yesterday at both morning and evening services and many had to stand in the aisles. The morning service consisted of special music by the Meridian Choral Society and a sermon by tho It e.V. William A. Quayle, the pastor. The sermon opened with the reading of the account of the resurrection, upon which the comment was made that it was "the sweetest and most beautiful story that was ever written." A pleasing Incident of the service was the singing of an Easter hymn which was composed by the pastor. The verses of the hymn were printed and given to members of the congregation as they were seated, and they were sung with seemingly more than usual enthusiasm. The verses of the hymn are: Lord. Thou hast risen from the dead, Thy grave is empty now; Xo longer is tho tomb Thy bed And winter cold Thy brow. Our graves are open to God's south. And His noon light shines in; His might, which knows not flood nor drought, Hath conquered death and sin. If our beloved faint and die. And we are sick with grief We laud and sing what time we sigh, "In Christ is our belief." He fled the grave, His grave and ours, And left it tenantless. Ami for those first glad Easter hours His name this day we bles?. The evening service was the special song ervice by the Choral Society under direction of Max Leckner. AT SECOND PItESUVTEItlAN. Rev. August Druske, of Alma University, Fills the Pulpit. Rev. August F. Brüske, president of Alma University, Alma, Mich., preached at the Second Presbyterian Church, yesterday morning, to a large congregation. He was here simply to fill an unoccupied pulpit. A special programme of Easter music preceded the sermon. The speaker used for his subject and text the eighth verse of the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever." The discourse was short but pointed. He said the verse was ono to make men think, and to think means to act. The meaning of the verse, which he interpreted as being an exemplification of the stable and unchanging personality of Christ, he contrasted to the unrestful agitation now going on that is termed "evolution." The so-called evolution of law, man, society, government and morals he said indicates a departure from the old Hebrew text. In answer to the modern questions now stirring the people he cited the text which he said 13 a solution ii Itself were it faithfully believed in. The Jesus Christ that lived nineteen centures ago, he said, is the same to-day as He was then, and His mission among men Is applicable to modern conditions the same as it was in ancient and medaeval times. Illustrating the meaning of the text he said Christ showed that He was ever the same in His life, truth and work. The Rev. William Y. Chapman, of Franklin, X. Y., who has been called to the pastorate of the church, will occupy the pulpit next Sunday morning and evening. QUEEN ALEXANDRA. Sbe In Expected to Prove Equal to the Duties of Her Aevr Position. W. J. Stead, in Review of Reviews. The Queen is a woman of common sense, of good average ability, of sound principles and of exceptionally personal grace and beauty. That she will ever be a great Queen may be questioned, but no one can dispute that she will be a good Queen. She has had her trials, some of which are public, and others, perhaps even worse to bear, are those into which the public has never been taken into her confidence. Her health has been nothing like so robust as that of her predecssor, who hardly knew what Illness was, and although she is not yet sixty, and has experienced no decay of her physical powers, she has suffered lor some time from a difficulty of hearing, which is one of the most annoying of the minor miseries of life. That she will take a part in politics Is not very much to be expected. There was an extraordinary story current in some newspapers that she had personally telegraphed to Lord Kitchener, imploring him to stop' the houseburning in South Africa, but that is the only political action, which, either truly or falsely, has even been attributed to her. That the, Queen did not sympathize with the house burning may be taken for granted, but that she never telegraphe-d to Lord Kitchener may be regarded as not less certain. But the question of what kind of Queen her Majesty will make still remains to be answered. Those who have watched her career from her childhood upward, and who have seen the fidelltj- with which she discharged the duties belonging to eacn station in which she found herself, have the best justification for the confidence which they express, that she will prove herself a monarch not unworthy of tho illustrious position to which she has been called. That she has no ambition for the gewgaws of royalty is no doubt true. That she has never concerned herself actively in political affairs is equally true, but it does not follow on that account that when she is elevated to a supreme position she will not apply herself with patient, earnest assiduity to the discharge of the duties of her new position. It is not an easy one. In is indeed one of exceptional difficulty and delicacy. Queen Victoria for the last thirty years of her life confined herself almost exclusively to' the duties of a sovereign. She was a stateswoman, and lived a life of statesmanship. To her, for year. court and society were practically non-existent. It is. however, different with Queen Alexandra. Upon her falls the onerous burden of restoring the Queen of this realm to her proper and rightful position as the kader of society, as the living center of a brilliant court. It goes without saying that in all great ceremonials her Majesty, with her inimitable grace nnd her still youthful beauty, supplies all that the mot exacting idealist could desire. Queen Victoria, witn all her many and great qualities, was, in her old age. of homely appearance, and her features were pathetic rather than beautiful. Rut the task which lien before her Majesty Is far more Important than that of being the beautiful center.of a radiant spectacle. It will depend upoit her to keep up tho high moral traditions of Victoria's court, and at the same time to make the Queen a living personal force in two great directions as the constant counselor upon whose Inspiration and stimulus the King will ever surely rely, and as a leader in society whose influence will be lc-lt In the discouragement of all that is vulgar and ostentatious, and of everything which jars upon her own refined nature and womanly instincts. "Worthy of Encouragement. San Francisco Chronicle. Honesdale. Pa., has a woman's association which is of some practical value. It has been organized to foster public improvements in a town with only 3,X inhabitants. The association has built a retaining wali along the river flowing through the town, constructed a pretty river walk, beautified the bridge, turned a frog pond Into a park and done many other things which have been of esthetic benetit t; the community. Women's clubs like the one at Honesdale arc worth encouraging.

CELEBRATION OF EASTER

THERE "WAS A LARGE ATTENDANCE AT ALL, THE CIIL'HCHUS. A Fine Display of EnMer Millinery Was in Evidence Special Musical Programmes. Easter services were held in most of the city churches yesterday. The attendance at these services was generally large. While the morning was hardly an Ideal one for the display of Easter millinery, there was no rain, and the people ventured out in their best raiment. There were attractive floral displays in many of the churches. Wherever there were special services the music was a particularly prominent feature. Most of the congregations had arranged for Easter music, and the programmes were generally enjoyed. This was particularly true of the services at Tabernacle Church, where the congregation enjoyed a double treat. There, were no services at this church last evening, and owing to this fact a part of the evening programme of music was added to the morning programme. The additional numbers included the trio for harp, violin and organ by Misses Pcrtha Schellschmldt, Louise Schellschmidt and Miss Shoemaker, and a soprano solo, "Galilee," with violin obligat o. At the First Tresbyterian Church in the morning the programme included a chorus, "As it Began to Dawn," and a quartet, "Easter Day." The programme also included music by a male quartet. Mr. Coster, violinist, assisted in the morning services. In the evening the choir, consisting of thirty voices, under the direction of Edward Xell, gave the cantata "Christ, the Victor," by Dudley Buck. At the Second Presbyterian Church there were morning services only, a special programme of music being given. At Memorial Presbyterian Church there was Easter music both morning and evening. The regular choir was assisted by a children's chorus of sixty voices. At the Fourth Presbyterian Church the Easter music was under the direction of G. W. Benton and was given at the morning service. The Seventh Presbyterian Church also had a programme of Easter music. There was special music at Meridianstreet M. E. Church both morning and evening, at the latter services the cantata "Christ, the Victor" being part of the programme. The Sunday school of the church gave the cantata "The Crucifixion and the Resurrection" at 8:30 o'clock. The music at Central-avenue Church yesterday morning included a soprano solo, "The Easter Sunshine Breaks Again." by Miss Ada Connor and a solo by Mrs. Mary Christian. The programme was in charge of the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music. At Roberts Park there was a special programme of music in the evening consisting of the cantata "Christ, the Victor." The Choral Society was assisted by Chas. Ebert and Benjamin Richardson. Among the numbers given at the Central Christian Church was a quartet, "Christ, the Lord, is Risen," and a soprano solo, "I Know that my Redeemer Liveth." At the Third Christian Church the choir gave the cantata "The Easter King" in the evening. At the First Baptist Church the Easter music was given at the morning service. Among the numbers given was a duet, "Oh, Glorious is the Lord." a quartet, "The Resurrection." and a solo. "The Heavenly Song." At the South-street Baptist Church there was special music by the choir at the morning service. At Fletcher-place M. E. Church Miss Barbara Langhorn assisted the choir, rendering solos at each service. In the afternoon at 2 o'clock the orchestra, under the direction of J. B. Cameron, gave a programme of music. At Plymouth Church there was a special programme of music both morning and evening. There was special music in the Episcopal churches, there being an early celebration at 6:30 a. m. at St. Paul's Church. At Christ Church a programme of music was given at the morning service and at 4 p. m. At Grace Cathedral and at St. David's Church there were special programmes. In the Roman Catholic churches Easfer was celebrated. At St. John's Church a programme of music was given at 10:30 o'clock In the morning and in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. The services at St. Patrick's Church began at 10 o'clock. A musical programme was rendered at SS. Peter and Paul's in the morning and afternoon and also at St. Mary's. THE PJIfLIPPIXE HOSTILITIES. Investigating: Society Has at Last Verified Government Report. From Bulletin VII of the Philippine Information Society. On the evening of the 4th of February an insurgent officer came to the front with a detail of men, and attempted to pass the guard on the San Juan bridge, our guard being stationed at the west end of the bridge. The Xebraska sentinel drove them back without firing, but a few minutes before 3 o'clock that evening a large body of insurgent troops made an advance on the South Dakota outposts, which fell back rather than fire. About the same time the insurgents came in force to the east end of the San Juan bridge, in front of the Xebraska regiment. For several nights prior thereto a lieutenant in the Insurgent army had been coming regularly to our outpost Xo. 2, of the Xebraska regiment, and attempting to force the outpost back and insisted on posting his guard within the Xebraska lines; and at this time and in the darkness he again appeared with a detail of about six men and approached Private Grayson, of Compny D, First Xebraska Volunteers, the sentinel on duty at outpost Xo. 2. He, after halting them three times without effect, fired, killing tne lieutenant, whose men returned the fire, and then' retreated. Immediately rockets were sent up by the Filipinos, and they commenced firing all along the line. The attack was repulsed, as all know. That night Agulnaldo issued a proclamation declaring war "against the United States, and he followed this the next' day with another proclamation showing how the war was to be carried on. There seems to be little doubt that a rising of the natives against the Americans in Manila was planned for a few days later, but the conspiracy was detected and foiled. The editors would say that after careful study of all the accessible evidence, they find that according to the most authoritative statements the outbreak occurred as a result of a trespass by four armed Filipino's on territory admitted by the Filipino in command to be within the jurisdiction of the United States. The action of the Filipino trespassers seems to have been an instance of bad discipline in the insurgent army. Certainly it was not ordered on that date by the insurgent leaders although the indications are that the leaders had planned to attack in a few days The claim that our forces instigated the attack for the purpose of securing the votes necessary to ratify the treaty is absolutely unsupported by any evidence which has come to the attention of the editors. MRS. XATIOX AT HOME. A Knnsn Editor Talks About the Snloon Stimulier. William Allen White, in Saturday Evening Post. Airs Nation was a local character when she came to Wichita. The Topeka correspondents wanted Eastern papers to take a story about her joint-smashing. The Eastern papers wouldn't. They didn't know Mrs. Nation. They didn't care anything about her. Then an artist stepped to the wire, not a sign and house painter, but an engraver, who etched in these words into the query for a story: "Mrs. Nation has sent for Jerry Simpson to act as her attorney." The Eastern papers were then anxious. They knew Jerry Simpson. They answered: "Send stuff." Then it spread. Such is the Influence of art on great events. Telegrams began to pour In on Mrs. Nation. She became vain. Inloriously vain. When she got out of jail she had no idea of smashing joints further, until she found that she could take on the clairvoyant state of irresponsibility. She gathered a few followers. There was to be a general jolnt-smashir.g a,t 6 o'clock one evenIn. Being irresponf Me and headstrong, Mrs. Nation broke the agreement and legan her smashing at 5 o'clock. When she was arrested aRain she came down the street hysterical and wabblv, and bowing riKht nnd left to the multitude. She turned to a reporter and said: "How many do you think are following me now?" "A thousand." he answered. "Isn't it fine'.''' shc exclaimed, slowing.

She was rational then. When she breaks out, as she occasionally does, against her friends as well as cainst the joint kepers. she is irrational. She can work hers If up to blind passion sometimes, and sometime she cannot. She collapsed one niht in Topeka; but cowardice leavts her when she Is rhapsodical; she is as fearful as any one when this excitation is not upon her. and she cannot induce it. She is a deeply pious woman and has reread the Bible so many times that quirks ami tropes and metaphors put a wholesome bark on her conversation. She is argumentative, and given to much wrangling. Like many persons of limited mental capacity she is sure of her distinctions letweeii riyht and wrong. Then-fore she has been free to act without restraint. Th person who spends valuable time toying with the equities of a circumstance, trying to locate and mark out the boundaries of exact justice before proceeding, is unlikly to follow the strenuous life. With Mrs. Nation. "Be sure you are risjht. then tzo ahead," translated, means, "Interpret your Bible and -then get your hatchet." This absolute confidence in one's correct reading of the Scriptures generates the faith that stores up courage of great voltage. Thi faith of a little child sustained Joan of Arc; it guided Peter the Hermit. It sustained John Brown at Harper's Ferry. It is often misdirected faith; frequently it destroys those who hold it; certainly it Is blind, and those who nurse this faith are probably mentally diseased. But some way perhaps in God's own way this faith moves mountains, often mountains that seem to be highly necessary and almost respectable. But when they have moved, in their stead men find still waters and green pastures that are altogether good and lovely. THEY ENJOY CARICATURES.

Men in Political Life Who Laugh Over Pictures of Themselves. Washington Star. The present generation of public men, as a rule, are inclined to smile, rather than to become heated, in the contemplation of cartoons in which they are caricatured, no matter how grotesquely. Senator Hanna, for example, has often been compelled to literally hold his sides over some of the cartoons in which he has most ponderously, and yet most comically, figured, and it is said that he has preserved the cream of all these cartoons. Mr. McKinley never falls to smile at the caricatures of himself. He recently received from a New York publishing firm a book of cartoons in which he figures most rldicuously made for a Democratic evening newspaper of New York by Opper, one of the funniest of the funny artists. The President is said to have devoted an hour to the collection of cartoons, and to have emitted many chuckles as he turned the pages. Vice President Roosevelt laughs with the utmost heartiness over most, of the cartoons that are made of him. He is personally acquainted with many of the cartoonists, so that the humor of their work has an added weight of appeal to him. The newspaper men who accompanied Mr. Roosevelt on his big swing around the clrcule during the campaign last fall say that whenever they heard an unusual volume of laughter from the compartment of the vice presidential candidate they knew that Mr. Roosevelt had got hold of a batch of newspapers containing uproariously idiotic cartoons of himself. The cartoonists' accentuation of the proportions of his teeth particularly amused him, although when he was a police commissioner in New York and in that capacity came in for a good deal of caricaturing, he was at first somewhat surprised to discover that his teeth formed so striking a feature of his physiognomy. "I will tell you an vt hing proper for the public to know," he would say to newspaper interviewers at that time. "if. in heaven's name, you will only leave my teeth out of the stuff you write. What have my molars got to do with the conduct of the New York police department?" And then he would smile so that his really fine, if prominent, teeth would flash out, and the newspaper men would have a lot of difficulty to restrain their chuckles. Mr. Roosevelt is not at all sensitive as to those teeth, as. indeed, he has no reason to be. i.J . contrary, he has had a lot of fun with them. Secretary Gage smiles dreamily over the caricatures of himself, but does not comment upon them. The points of Mr. Hay's full mustache rise with the smile beneath wiien he contemplates the absurd cartoons that are made of him. Mr. Root on!v Sjances at the cartoons drawn of him. jen. Miles has enjoyed the cartooning to which he has been subject for a good many years. He is so impressible looking a man that the artists have some trouble in making him look ridiculous. It is said that Lord Paurtcefote gave vent to many a quiet chortle over the funny caricatures that were made of him during the controversv over the Clay-ton-Bulwer treaty, and that he has a high appreciation of the. humor (if not the invariable good taste) of American cartoonists. Speaker Henderson's rubicund countenance has always been wreathed in smiles when he gazed upon the funny drawings the artists have made of him, and Mr. Cannon was often observed during the last session with a stack of Illinois papers piled up on his desk going over the cartoons and smiling very broadly. Mr. Beveridge, the young senator from Indiana, is said to have carefully preserved all of the cartoons made of him since his entry into public life. It is natural enough for those who enjoy cartoons of public men to imagine that the cartoonists are inspired by the most malig nant feelings toward the eminent figures whom they hold up to pubic laughter, if not obloquy, with their pencils. Nothing could be farther from the truth, however. Men of artistic instincts are not often partisans in politics, and most of the bestknown cartoonists of this country for the past quarter of a century have, as a matter of fact, been neutrals in politics. Cartoonists are in the employ of publications of differing political stripes, and they have to "follow copy." They do the work they are Instructed to do by their employers. They conceive the Ideas and execute them, of course and this work requires them to keep in most careful touch with political affairs but personally they are in no wise involved in the political antagonisms which their pencils portray. The best cartoonists in this country are a high-grade and wellpaid lot of men, and It is not at all an uncommon thing for them to stretch their legs under the mahogany of the very public men whom their pencils picture the most unctuously or even, bitterly. Women and the Franchise. Xebraska State Journal. It is a very liberal estimate, without the official figures from the pollbooks, that fifty women in this great city voted at the school election last Tuesday. Think of it; out of a grand total of 6,ooü entitled to vote less than a paltry 1 pr cent, availed themselves of the glorious privilege. And yet we are told by a few ardent suffragists that the great majority of our wives, mothers, sisters and sisters-in-law are almost perishing for the want of the elective franchise and the self-respect and independence its possession Implies. In the face of the returns from this city, what can the leaders say of the general feminine yearning to vote and smoke cigarettes? The women of this city are intellectually far superior to the women of Omaha, Merna or Chadron. yet they are perfectly willing to trust their husbands to look after the solemn affairs of government while they get the children ready for school and put in the balance of the day shopping. If practically all of the women of Lincoln, who are not only brainy but beautiful, care not the snap of their artistic fingers for the privilege of voting, and prove it by staying away from the polls when they mlsht vote if they would, have we not the right td conclude that woman suffrage Is not one of the demands of society to which great statesmen are under obligation to pay tho least attention? Vncle Sum Is Pntient. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The capture of Agulnaldo has afforded an opportunity for a Filipino named Slxto Lopez to break forth again in laudation of the rebellion in the Philippines. Lopez has been living in Roston for some months, in dose communion with the little Americans of that town, and doing his best to aid and abet the Insurgents in their work of killing American soldiers, possibly It is riKht and proper to allow Americans in Boston to exercise the rieht of free speech, even to the verge of license, in denouncing the United States government, but It does not seem to be at all necessary to permit an avowed agent of the Filipino rebels to talk so freely as Sixto Lopez is permitted to do. It manifests this government 'scon tempt for his influence, of course, but it also marks the Americans as an exceedingly patient and tolerant people. .ew York Sails from Algiers. ALGIERS. April 7 The United States armored cruiser Xew York, flagship v( Rear Admiral Rodders, senior squadron ,mm:i nHrr of the Afi:itle tfHlfi.n from Algiers this evening ou her vuy to ' Manila.

GREAT EASTER THRONGS

EW AOItlC (IIIIKIIF.S CROWDED AMI CROWDS Illti:i A WAV. Decorntiou of (inn c Dedication of l'!iritfuu clence Teui pie M rm. Edily'm Letter to the Faithful. NEW YORK. April 7. It was a sombre I-astcr rain-eo.ited and much umbrti'aed. Ir. did not rain -nout;h to drive the peopl rtraighi from church to their homes, nor did it shine tnoush to draw them in the old-time throngs to Fifth avenue. Altogether It was the dreariest Easter In tv. enty years in New York city. In Fifth avenue between L':;V and 2 p. m. to-day the crowd was not great. Many a w inter Sunday se s more people abroad there. At no time during the day was progress difficult. Society was absent. It had gone out of town or had decided to wait for a more propitious day. At all the churches in the city th most elaborate Easter services were held and the weather seemed to have no uHireeiable effect on the attendance. At e.id Trinity Church more than one thousand people were unable to And even standing room within the doors. The music in the church was of the finest character. Many of the graves in both Trinity and St. Pauls graveyards were decorated with flowers in honor of the day. In St. Paul's the hupe tomb of tho Rhlnelanders was fairly buried beneath hydrangeas, hyacinths and Easter lilies, and in Trinity graveyard there was the same lavish display f llowers. Archbishop Corrigan officiated at SL Patrick's Cathedral and the great church was more than filled with the crowds that came, and at that only those who were provided with tickets could gain admittance. The magnificent edifice of the Second Churca of Christ. Scientist, at Sixtyeighth street and Central 1'ark, west, was dedicated to-day, just two years after the cornerstone was laid. There was a very large attendance, for the great part made up of people of other cities. There was no attempt at decoration, with exception of a few plants and flowers around the reader's dais and desk. The addresses were made by Mrs. Laura La thro p, the first reader of the church, and John Carroll Lathrop, her son. who is the second reader. Instead of tho benediction, a letter waa read from Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, in which she cent good wishes to the church. InN tho course of her letter Mrs. Eddy said: "Ye sit not in the idol's temple, ye build not to an unknown God. Ye worship Him whom ye serve. Roast not thyself, thou ransomed of divine love, but press on unto the possession of unburdened bliss. Heal the sick, make spotless the blemished, raise the living dead, cast out fashionable lunacy. The Ideal robe of Christ Is seamless. Thou hast touched its hem and art being healed. The risen Christ is thine. The haunting mystery and gloom of His glory rule not this century. Thine is tht upspringlng hope, the conquest ovr ein and mortality that lights the living way tc life, not death. May the God of our fathers, the Infinite Person whom we worship, be and abide with you; may the blessings ol divine love rest with you. My heart hoert around your churches In Chicago, for the dove of peace sits smilingly on, thes branches and sings of our Redeemer." Chicago Church Dedicated. CHICAGO, April 7.-Probably 10.O persons participated to-day' in tho dedication of the Second Church of Chrlit. Scientist, at Wright wood and Pinegrove avenues. So great was the assemblage that a quadruple service was held. After the firt service the side doors were opened and tho audience passed out, while another group of worshipers entered through tho front doors and participated in a repetition of the ervtce. Twice more the ceremonial was repeated to audiences similarly admitted, and still crowds lingered about the church, eager to get in. The salutatory address was delivered by Reader Bickncll Young, aftrr which a greeting from Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy was read. The church. Including the ground upon which it stands, cost the society about JUV.Ooo. The Czar's Gift to a Church. NEW YORK. April 7. At the Easter services to-day of the Syrian Greek Orthodox Church in this city it was announced that Czar Nicholas II of Russia has given 2.U.) roubles, or about Jl.ooO, toward the bailding fund of the church which is soou to be erected in Brooklyn. THE COLLEGE-IIRED .EGRO. Some Interesting Statistics Concernin KT the Educated lllaclt Man. The fifth number of the Atlanta University publications has just appeared, and is entitled. "The Collc-ge-hrcd Negro." It Is an attempt to study the work of the negro college graduates both North and South and to estimate the value and probable future of the Southern college for colored people. According to this report there have been about 2.rw) mgro college graduates. Of the larger Northern institutions Harvard has eleven negro graduates, Yale and the University of Michigan ten each. Cornell eight, Columbia four, and Pennsylvania four. Of the smaller colleses Oberlln leads with 12s graduates, the University of Kansas sixteen, and Bates fifteen. The bulk of these graduates are Southern born. Ninety per cent, of those born in the South stay there and work and 60 per cent, of those born in the North come South and labor among their people. About 10 per cent, of these graduates are women. Most of the graduates marry between the ages of twenty-five and thirtyfive, and while their families are not large they are of healthy normal size. The most interesting question, and in many respects the crucial Question to be asked concerning college-bred negroes is: Do they earn a living? It has been intimated more than once that the higher training of negroes has resulted in sending into the worl'l of work men who can find nothing to do suitable to their talents. Now and then there comes a rumor of & colored college man working at menial service, etc. Fortunately the returns as to occupations of cellege-bred negroes are quite full nearly tt per cent, of the total number of graduates. This enables us to reach probable conclusions as to the occupations of collegebred negroes. Of 1.1C2 persons reporting, there were: Ter cent. Teachers 53.4 Clergymen Physicians, etc 6.3 Students 5fl Lawyers 47 In government service 4. In business 3 5 Farmers and artisan , 7 Editors, secre taries and clerks 2.5 Miscellaneous 5 Over half are teachers, a sixth are preachers, another sixth are students and professional men; over i per cent, are farmers, artisans and merchants, and 4 jer cenL are in government service. Most of these do not c hange their occupations often and nick to their callings nearly 3) per cent, have been employed at their present occupations ten years and ovi r. The work ef some of the rrofe?5lons is taken up in detail and there an? reports of philanthropic work and political activity. There Is a mot htriking yrnpoiurr on the n ro proldt ms and their piobahle solution, a bibliography of works by negroes and the opinion of a number of prominent Northern college presidents and others on the higher training of negroes. In nearly e very case these favor sue h training properly iven to comjetent students. It is shown that colored students contribute very nearly as much toward the expenses of their training as whites. The final conclusions e.f the study are: 1. The great mass of the negroes need common school and manual training 2. There is a large and growing elemanj for industrial and te hnical training and trade schools. 2. There i.-i a distinct demand for the higher training of persons selected for taP ent und character t be leaders of thought and mi.-.-iotiarics of culture among the masses. 4. To supply this demand for a higher training there outfit to bo maintained sexeral negro colbgs in the South. 5. The aim of thexe college.- should be to supply thoroughly trabu-d teachers, preachers, professional men. and captains of iieiustiy. It is. howexer, earnestly recommended that thin college rk be concentrated In iibout twelve high grade institutions in the S-'tith. instead of Mattered as it is now in thitty-four. i'hi pamphlet of llj pages may be ob t-ln.d of the itnixcrslty lor the nomln of cents.