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'Phones B92. THE DRAMA. At the Theater To-Day. ENGLISH'SVirginla Harned, in "Alice of Old Vlncennes." 8:15 p. m. GRAND Vaudeville. 2:15 and 8:15 p. m. FA HK "The Convict's Daughter," 2 and t p. m. UMPIRE W. Ii. Watson's Burlesquers, 2 and S p. m. Note of the Staare. With Wilton Lackaye in the company that la to present Augustus Thomas's new play. "Colorado," will be Violet Rand, once Ingenue of the Grand Opera House stock company here. xxx Bertha Galland and her company will leave New York this week to make a tour. Ehe will use only the dramatization of The Forest Lovers." Sydney Grundy's play, "The Love Match," has been shelved. The reason for this play's failure. Mis Galland's manager thinks, is that the audiences disliked to see the heroine with a lover while she had a husband, even though the husband was a criminal. A more probable reason is that the public did not rind this complication interesting in Mr. Grundy's presentation of it. The first performance In this city of "Alice of Old Vlncennes," a play made by E. E. Rose from incidents in Maurice Thompson's novel of the same name, will be given at English's Opera House to-night by Virginia Harned and her company. It will be Miss Harn.d's first appearance here as a "star." Performance! will be given every night this week and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.- An attempt has been made, because of the Indiana significance of the play, to interest the people of the State in the presentation here, and excursions on the railroads to this city will occur daily. xxx "The Helmet of Navarre," Bertha Runkle's story in play form, will be presented for the first time at the National Theater, in Washington, to-night. After performances in Washington, Baltimore and Montreal, the company will go into the Garden Theater, New York, on Dec. 2. Charles Dalton is the "star" and other well-known players in the company are Robert V. Ferguson and the veteran Rose Eytinge. Last season Mr. Ferguson had the part of the elder Pitt Crawley in "Becky Sharp." The characterization was not less original and Interesting than Mrs. Fiske's Becky. xxx James O'Neill has made a statement that "stars" are made now by press agents and that extravaganza and burlesque are on the rampage. Daniel Frohman, in reply, ays: "Mr. O'Neill overlooks the fact that things have changed since 'the palmy days when he was at the Union-square Theater. The public is much greater than it used to be, so that we have to have many more theaters and attractions. Furthermore modern theater-goers do not care for the kind of -play that used to appeal. Our audiences want to see across the footlights men and women who move through complications that are much the same sort that are more or less familiar to those in the auditorium. The grandiloquence of old is past. The aim nowadays is not so much to put forward one transcendental genius with a fair supporting company as it Is to band together well-bred, well-groomed, Intelligent and proficient actors and actresses, able to give an air of verisimilitude to the scenes and situations in which they ore cast." HOLINESS ASSOCIATION. X Ifew Religions Society Organlied In This City. A Holiness Association has been organised at the Penlel Temple, at the corner of Senate avenue and Eleventh street, with the following officers: President, Rev. C. C. Brown: vice president. George Hltz; secretary, Mrs. Kate Applegate; treasurer, Robert McCann. David Bacon, Dr. D. M. By and Mrs. Bye have been elected a committee to act with the officers In planning camp meetings and mploying evangelists. The association already has a membership cf about seventy-five. The organization was effected by the three evangelists that held revival services at the Temple The revivalists were Edward Fergerson. culled the railroad evangelist: "Hud" Rohin-on the Texas cowboy, and Andy Dolbow a reformed priz.? lichter and circus rid. r The three left Thursday. Fergerson and Robinson going to Baltimore to conduct a revival and Dolbow to Chicago to attend a convention. While they were here they conducted a very successful series of meeting There is no record kept of converts, as the church Is nonsectarian and rersons may belong to any other church and to the holiness also. The object of the association Just organized Is to spread Its doctrine over the city. The Rev. Brown is now conducting the revival, which will continue Indefinitely. Meiting.s are held every night. Annual MrrtliiK To-Iny. The Indianapolis Benevolent Society will hold its annual meeting this afternoon at 4:.V at the rooms of the Ch.irltv Organization Society. 3" North D la ware street. 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RIAL FREE DELIVERY

IT HAS l'llOVKD A VAST IlKNCFIT TO INDIANA FARMERS. Slitj-Vine Cauntlet In Thin State Have Ilnral Routes ami More Are Clamoring for the Same. COMPLETE HISTORY OF SERVICE IT WAS FIRST TIMED NE A II IIARTSVILLC, IND., IN ISOThe IlnrnI Carrier Xow a 'Welcome Visitor Many Dlfllcultle Und to lie OTercome. Shortly after sunrise on the morning of the 15th day of October, 1836. there drove out of the town of Hartsville, Ind., in Bartholomew county, the "Hoosler Schoolmaster" country, a man In the service of the United States government. The one-horse, one-seated rig which carried him carried also an insignificant package of mall matter, scarcely more than two dozen letters and half as many packages and papers. Along the twenty-four miles of his way he called at the houses of barely thirty farmers, moat of whom hardly turned aside from the milking of their cows and the feeding of their pigs to greet him. The greater number of them had not asked for him, hardly understood the nature of his business along their roads and saluted him with a bare nod or a curt word or two. That man with his small bundle of letters was among the first of the rural free delivery carriers, the first of a long line of similar governmental servants who have done more to aid the farmer in the getting out of life all there is in it, who have helped him to reach an equality with men of the cities and towns, who have increased the value of his lands and who have removed for him many of the unpleasant bumps of existence, formerly an accepted portion of rural life, than any Institution since Plymouth rock. The man was a pioneer in the truest sense of the word, as much entitled to the glory attached to the ground breakers of America as the men who felled the forests, who drove the savage farther into the wilderness and who laid the foundations of the Northwest Territory. The nameless man in his humble way is entitled to much of the honor and respect accorded to Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clarke, Zebulon Tike, John C. Fremont or any of the others of the great galaxy of American pioneers. Like them he represented an idea, and humble enough in personality was the first exponent of a plan to give the farmer -of the United States a postal service equal in all essential respects to that enjoyed by the resident of his capital city. To him in the live years Just completed has been added 5.000 other carriers of rural free delivery mail matter,, for in the whole United States there are now slightly more than that number of routes. In Indiana alone in the five years his labors have been duplicated by 400 governmental servants who every morning in the year start on their long, often arduous routes, bearers of no man. knows how much comfort and happiness for the homes along their ways. His pocketful of letters has Increased to a well-stuffed mail pouch, and where once he was regarded with indifference he Is now hailed as about the best friend the farmer has. INDIANA'S SHOWING. Indiana's showing in the freo rural delivery sytem of the country is one to be proud of. Of the 5,000 carriers of the whole country she has 400. Ohio stands first and Illinois second, but Indiana is a close third. Of the ninety-two counties of the State sixty-nine are well covered by rural carriers, and of the twenty-three counties not yet served four are expected shortly to have rural free delivery. The greater number of the counties benefited by the service lie in the northern and central portions of the State, where roads are better, railroads more common and the population mure uwcjuy seuiea. statistics prove that people in northern and central Indiana write more letter?, take more newspapers and. being more alive to the conveniences of rural free delivery, are more clamorous for their representatives at Washington to get it for them than the residents of the southern part of the State. The topography of the country in the upper sections of Indiana is more favorable to the development of the system, the problems of rough cutup, hilly country intersected by bad roads being comparatively unknown in the northern half of the State. The following table never before published, givts the Indiana counties served by the rural free delivery system, the number of routes in rh ty and the counties which have no such Counties. Allen Bartholomew Benton No. Routes. 9 Id 4 iia.niU4u ..................... ) Boone " 11 Carroll Cass .. 4 Clark V i ... 1 -I Clinton , Dearborn i Decatur !!!!!!!! De Kalb Delaware Tj Elkhart ' t?, Fayette . Fountain 3 5 5 12 Fulton Gibson Grant & uamuion Hancock !.!!!!'.!" G Hendricks . 5 Henry . 13 Howard !!!!!! 6 Huntington a Jackson 2 Jasper Jay .' 4 Jefferson 3 Jennings ." Johnson Kosicusko 12 Lagrange 4 Lake 2 Eaporte 3 Lawrence 1 Madison 6 Marlon 15 Marshall 6 Miami 6 Monroe 1 Montgomery lt Morgan 2 Noble 6 Owen 2 Parke i Pike 4 Porter 1 Putnam 3 Randolph 16 Hush 6 Scott 5 Shelby 9 Spencer 3 Steuben 4 St. Joseph ' 6 Tippecanoe S Tipton 2 Vanderburg 5 Vigo 1 Wabash 6 Warren 1 Warrick 5 Washington 2 Wayne 10 Well 4 White 1 Whitley 8 IN SOUTHERN COUNTIES. The counties in which rural free delivery has not yet been secured lie for the most part In southern Indiana. They are Adams, Brown. Crawford. Daviess. Dubois. Floyd. Franklin. Green. Harrison. Knox, Martin. Newton. Ohio. Orange, Perry. Posey, Pulaski. Ripley, Starke, Sullivan. Switzerland, Union and , Vermillion. In these counties the postal department has found the task of establishing routes impracticable as yet, but the constant road Improvements go

ing on and the awakening of the rural population to the advantages of the service will cause routes to be established in most ,

or trie counties mentioned witnin me m.u 1 live years. Delaware county lias the great- j est number of routes, twenty-six. and in all tne county mere is not a single xarmer who does not receive his letters from the rural carrier. Montgomery and Randolph counties come next with sixteen routes each, and Marion and Bartholomew follow with fifteen. These counties, with Henry, 1C fsr- ticL'n W uvnfl . r l (2 Vwl Vi v Vi n v TlAt ural advantages for a successful carrying i on of the system, excelled by no counties in the State. The rural delivery routes In Marion county, now numbering fifteen, will be Increased within the next three months, it is stated, until the entire county is com- i pletely served by rural carriers. For each rural free delivery route there 1 is one carrier under the general control of j the postmaster of the town from which he . receives his mail for distribution. He is a ; man usually well acquainted, to begin with, among the farming population which he is to serve. His route is usually from twenty : to forty, or forty-live miles in length, and . In all weathers he must cover It. He pro--J 1113 uu itrcim Ulm uic nr' iiif, vi v. and pays all the expenses Incident to the wear and tear of horses, wagons and harness. Vor his services the government 1 pays him J0 annually. In other States J the statement has been made that I the sum is ridiculously small; and tha it i is eaten up by expenses; in Indiana, how- j ever, the place is eagerly sought after and 1 there is lively competition for the appointment. Experience has shown that Indiana carriers at loast have been able to live comfortably and save money from their salaries. In addition, the carrier has come ; to be an exceedingly popular man In the community where his work is done. Along about Thangsgiving time, or Christmas, he ; is frequently remembered by the farmer or ' 1 L . l 1 4 1A 1 At A. I ine nousewiie wun suDSiannai presents a bushel of apples, potatoes, feed for his horse, chickens, a fat turkey and sometimes even he finishes his day's work with a squealing porker tied to the mall wagon. THE PARENT STATE. Indiana may claim the proud honor of being the parent State of rural free delivery. It was in the administration of General Harrison that the first appropriation was made to experiment in such service with regard to its practicability. It was Perry S. Heath, who, as first assistant postmaster general, fought and won, against the opposition of Eastern congressmen, appropriations amounting to more than half a million dollars for systematic experimentation, and the present existence of the perfected system may be ascribed to his thorough j understanding or the needs of the rural I population and to his energy in combating j the fears of congressmen and department ' officials that the expense of a general rural free delivery service would cost a sum en- j tirely out of proportion to its value. It a me iaie uovernor .Mount who, in a number of addresses, impressed the people of the State with a thorough understanding of the Immense value of rural free delivery, and he pointed out to the farmers in particular how much it would mean to them. It H In Indiana that the model rural free delivery routes of th country are found. The Lafayette rural route is regarded as the highest development of the system. It may be taken as an example of other routes In Indiana almost as fully perfected. The rural carriers are governed by the same rules as the carriers of the city delivery service; they wear the same uniform, provided at their own cost, and each has furnished hinTself with a special delivery wagon with "U. S. Mail. Rural Delivery Route, No. , Eafayette," painted on the front and sides. Each wagon has a sliding door at the sides with a glass front, and is fitted up with pigeon holes in which the carrier sorts his mail as he goes along. There is also a contrivance for heating the wagon in cold weather. All the hnxe ai line tViu rnn t o are of galvanized iron, furnished by the ! i",llu"! ie route, painted and closely resembling in appearance the regulation boxes used in cities. They are nailed to posts of such height as to bring them to a level with the postal wagon. As he drives up alongside the box the carrier opens his sliding door and drops the mail in the box, at the same time raising a zinc signal which is attached. If there is any mail for him to collect he finds this signal raised; if, in return, he has none to deliver he turns this signal down. If the signal is not raised and he has no mail to deliver he drives by without stopping. Each carrier has a whistle, with which he signals the owners of the boxes to let them know he is coming with his mail. The same gen eral system as the one in use at Lafayette is in use all over the State, and. while the Lafayette route Is an ideal one. the other services, working along the sama lines, give general satisfaction. GREAT ADVANTAGES. The advantage to the rural population of Indiana and all other States in which the rural delivery system Is in force is simply incalculable by any known standards of measurement. To the farmers living along a rural free delivery route it means a daily mall service to each one of them, with all that such a boon implies. It means a prompt conveyance of letters, either of friendship or business, quick answers and quick replies. It means a morning paper fresh from the press, with all the news of the world piping hot. It means market reports more valuable and necessary than to the great grain merchant or stock dealer. Under its enlightening influence the isolation of the farmer from the rest of the world disappears, and he comes in closer and more vital relationship with his fellowman. It means, too. the enhancement of the value of his farm. In Indiana It has been estimated that farm land lying along rural free delivery mutes has increased in value Irom 12 to $.5 per acre. It means better prices for farm products, the producers being brought into daily touch with the state of the markets, and thus being able to take advantage of information heretofore unattainable. To these material advantages may bo added educational benefits conferred by the relief of the monotony of farm life through ready access to the newspapers and wholesome literature. The advantages enumerated arc not at all theoretical, but have been demonstrated and set forth in statistical reports of postal officials. An old farmer formerly possessed of a radical aversion to changes of any sort in the things to which lie had become used ir. a residence of a half century in an upper county of the State was asked not long ago by a postal official what he thousht of rural delivery. "Well." he said, "it's this way. It used to be- when I wanted to write to John that I would put it off and put It off, thinking: 'What's the use? I can't go to town until Saturday, and I can't mail the letter till that time.' So I would go on and on. and John wouldn't get his letter for a month. Now I can post it at my own gate, seven miles from town, and know that John will get it in a day or two. One thing, though." he e-ontinued. "it costs me more than the old way. My wife writes about five times as many letters as she used to." A half dozen years ago these advantages had not been foreseen, and when the proposition to spend the government's money for the new service was brought forward It aroused a storm of opposition. The antagonism came largely, from the fourthclass postmasters who run country postoft:ces in connection with their gcne-ral stores. They flooded the Postal Department with petitions against the inauguration of rural free delivery, declaring that their business would be ruined if the rural routes were established and the farmers relieved of the necessity of making weekly trips to town after the ir mail. One postmaster of the class mentioned sent an appeal to the Postoftlce Department, of which the following is a verbatim copy: "Sir: You may not believe me. but when you eiiscontlnue the rural postoftlce you s-ver one of the most coveted institutions in this liberty-loving land ef ours. How ofien. oh. how often do the older men of a neighborhood assemble at the pnstofliees of our country and exchange social courtesies and compare notes, telling about Sallie's new boy and Katie's blue -eyed girl, or my wife's tine chicks, or the spotted sow's tine litter and Katie's fine foal. Why, sir. I am honest when I say that the people would cease to know anything pertaining to neighborhood life and become fossiliztd to the world, as far as conversation is conce rned, aiul if Sally Ann should have a new beau r.obodv but Sally Ann herself would know it!" BADLY FORMED JUDGMENT. The protest of the country postmasters was undoubtedly sincere and they undoubtedly believed that the establishment of the system would be a turning over of their world fraught with perils; but the government decided that It could not afford to neglect real interests for fancied ones, or provide resorts for the encouragement of conversation at the sacrifice of public business. Another class which made the bitterest fight of all against the rural delivery, and a class which waxed fat in Indiana, were the "star rout " contractors. As everyone ktws. a star route contractor Is one who bills for the privilege of carrying the mails from a railroad town to one in the country whose mail supply must Le delivered by man and beast. These contractors were accustomed to. and in many idace do to-day, sublet their contracts at

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6 large profit; and unsavory scandals have arisen In the postal service because of the misdoinps of several star route contractors. The government found by experiment that the rural carrier, while he was delivering letters and packages to the farmers, could also carry to the town formerly served by the contractor its bundle of mall. It found consequently that the contractor was a superfluity, and that his salarv could be saved to the government. The rural carrier did the work just as well and was cheaper. The star route contractor Is still a large factor in the postal service of Indiana; but his doom has been pronounced by the success of the rural service: and like the old pony express of the Western plains and the stage coach he must go; his passing is only a question of time. Opposition from a third source came from a highly reputable class mainly in the Käst, who feared the heavy expense to which the government would be put in giving such generous service to farmers. They declared that the Postofflce Department did not pay its expenses and with the Institution of the rural delivery it would simplv swamp the treasury. When Mr. Heath rirst started his crusade for rural delivery he was laughed at by an Kastern senator of Immense influence in the upper house of Congress. "Why." said that dignitary. Tf you succeed with your idea every farmer in the country will be clamoring for letters at his front Kate and it will cost the government $-X,-,ikh) the flrst year." It was only when the idea was dinged in their ears time and time again that the Postal Department was the only department of the government which is expected to pay its own expenses, that it is not run to make money, but on broad educational lines, on -the theory of serving society in a generous manner, that war on the reform abated, and the promoters of the reform were able to succeed. HOW TO OBTAIN IT. To obtain a rural free delivery It is necessary to conform to certain restrictions and conditions set fcrth by the Postoffice Department. A petition to the flrst assistant postmaster general signed by ail who desire the service should be prepared. It should set forth the nature of the country where the delivery is desired; whether the country is thickly or sparsely populated; the principal vocations of the people; the character of the roads and the distances which under existing conditions each person has to travel to receive his mail; and it should be accompanied by a map or a plat indicating the route or routes proposed. Then the recommendation and indorsement of the local congressman should be secured, or that of one of the senators from the State. When the department receives the petition in proper form it refers the papers to the special agent in charge of that division of the rural frte delivery service. The agent assigns a special agent to visit the location indicated, who maps out a route or routes, and selects rural carriers to be appointed by the department. Among the conditions for the establishment of a service, demanded by the deparment, are good roads. That is a prime requisite and without them it is practically impossible to get the service. No route can be established under ordinary circumstances that is less than from twenty to t . nty-five miles in length or which serves less than one hundred families. Kach person served must put up at his own expense appropriate and secure boxes for the reception of mail matter. All carriers are required to give a bond of pXI, equallug their salary. They are required to carry with them stamps and postal cards for the accommodation of their patrons. The institution of rural free delivery In the Tnited States is under the direction of the superintendent of rural free delivery. Nominally he acts under the orders of the tirst assistant postmaster general; but In reality he Is independent. His territory is divided into four divisions the eastern, middle, western and southern. In charge of each division are officers entitled "special agents in charge." a:id tinder them are "special agents." Indiana is a part of the middle division with Illinois. Michigan. Kentucky and Missouri. AH rural routes are inaugurated by these otilcers. but after they have been put in successful operation they pass into the control of another department whose directing officer 1 called the "supervisor of Inspectors." Frank M. Dice, of Crawfordsvllle. has charge of this division. Th oilicers of the rural free delivery service are charade rizeM all over the country by a remarkable enthusiasm for their duties"; and many of them, on account of the fact that the demands of service is never absent from their minds, and that they are continually thinking, discussing and planning how to better it, are called "cranks." To these cranks, however, the Indiana farmer and the farmer of every State in the I'nion which has the benefit of rural free delivery, owes a debt which can never be paid: and which Is constantly growing heavier because of the rapid increase in th amount and quality of the service provided. Prominent Oh loan Here. William K. Dundy, of Cincinnati, a United States district attorney, was at the Denison Hotel yesterday. He says the Republicans of Ohio feel confident they will reelect (lovernor Nash, and they expect to have a sufficient majority In the Legislature to return Mr. Poraker to the United States Senate.

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THE OBSERVANT BANKER HE TALKS All OUT nAltnCItS AM) THE FLOTATION OF COMPANIES. The 3Ian of Flnnnce Sayn Till City Is Full of Alleged Philanthropist Logls of Situation. "When I entered the barber shop after that story about barbers was published," said the Observant Banker, "I was greeted by my barber with, 'Say, Boss, do you know what you did? You writ me up in de newspapers and I'm goin to sue you. You's done made fun o me and you's got to settle.' "I let him ramble on giving the details of what he was going to do to me and said nothing in reply. But I had an ally, the man on the next chair, who in confidence told me 'That nigger is the greatest liar in town. When I first saw him. Boss, he had rings In hi3 ears and had just come from Kentucky. He claimed to be a Guinea nigger, that his mother was a Molly Giassco and his grandfather an Indian. Now you see, Bo5s, he is doing you.' "I conveyed this thought to my barber who at once swelled up like a toad full of buckshot and said, 'You see dat nigger? I doan believe he has ever got ripe. Why, when he came here he couldn't find de stairs dat goes down to tie cellar. His parents made him climb a ladder every night to go to bed. Let me tell you. Boss, when dat nigger first came here a man wanted an aig shampoo. What do you suppose de fool nigger did? Why. he broke nine aigs on de "nan's haid and co'se dey slipped off on de floor. De boss asked him if he was trying to make an omelet and told him how to do It, to mix de aig up in a cup and den put It on. Aigs was SO cents a dozen and dat nigger nearly broke up de shop; and now to think dat nigger shoidd pomp hlsstlf up and tell you what he thinks! 1 tell you what. Boss, he is nothing but a lice and don't 'amount to nothin. Don't you believe anything he says.' " "Are you underwriting any financial schemes or projects at this time?" the Observant Banker was asked. "No, Buddy, I am not 'doing any writing just now, but it is wenderful to see how many good things people are willing to part with nowadays. Why, the papers are full of advertisements of things to sell, and that Is what gets me. First a fellow will start a trust or combine, you tell us all afcout it in your paper, and di-re-ctly there is preferred stock on the market at a premium and people buy. Again 1 say, why does not the philanthropist ketp this real good thing, why not cherish it in order that he may not go to the poor house? "In this connection I want to be put on record as testifying that our little town has more people in it to the square inch, trying to assist others Into 'good things' than any other in the United States. "Just to keep up with the procession, my boy, suppose we pet up a trust. 1 will let you in on the ground floor if you will help. Here Is my idea: We will bottle tip all the coal smoke In town and build a laboratory in the alley south of tiie public library. Alleys, you know, are city property, and there is already established in that particular alley a reduction plant that occupies half of Its width, so we will take the other half and close up the alley. Now for my scheme. Carbon, my boy. carbon! Coal smoke is full of it, and carbon, you know, makes diamonds! That will be our business. With the aid of our neighbors In supplying plenty of smoke, and a helping hand from the city, we will have something better than the waste-paper box franchise they granted some time ago. It looks to me as though the experiment would be a success. At any rate, we would have the approval of all the housewives if we should eio away with the smoke. "As to what we would make out of the scheme personally, my boy, you will have to wait until we have advertised our preferred stock, nontaxable, guaranteed 6 per cent., and see if It takes. If it does not, of course, we can trade It off for skunkfarm stock that some man Is advertising for sale In the northern part of the State, or else we might put It In with the man who has found goM in his gravel pit in Madison county, or we might Join our forces with the man in Brown county who raises rattlesnakes fe.r their oil that cures consumption. Don't re alarmed, boy, for we will light somewhere." Arretted nnd Itelenaed. Robert Whaley, an insurance agent, living at 215 Kast Morris street, was slated at the police station yesterday on a charge

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of wife desertion. His wife Issued a warrant for his arrest. He heard of the fact and surrendered himself, being at once released on bail furnished by his brother. MEN WHO SELL GOODS. Item Concerning the United Commercial Travelers. The members of the United Commercial Travelers are making extensive preparations for their trip to Terre Haute next Friday to assist In instituting a new council. The headquarters of the Indianapolis contingent will be at the Fllbeck Hotel. All are requested to be at the hotel at 8 o'clock. Besides the council to be organized at Terre Haute Friday night are three other cities in the State asking: for charters. It is the Intention to bring these "knights of the road" Into the fold as soon as possible. With the addition of these three new lodges to the State's roll, Indianapolis will then have the Grand Council. U. C. T. Notes. At the meeting Friday night Harry II. Somerfield was taken through the mysteries of the order. XXX Alex. Rumpler has been transferred from Buckeye Lodge, No. 75, to membership in the Indianapolis Lodge, No. 4. xxx Messrs. Altland, Dewees, Davis, Mullin, Pfau and Rumpler are among the latest additions to the membership rolls. XXX Brothers Jackson, Johnson and Thompson are straining every bit of energy that they possess to make a great increase in the membership for 1902. XXX The new club pins ordered by the association are not yet completed. D. A. Gauld & Co., of Columbus, O., have notified the secretary that they will arrive soon. XXX Wesley II. Shilling, an old-timer, made his way Into the city last week and surprised the members by calling. He was much surprised at the work done recently by the U. C. T. XXX Brother Member Jordan, who recently met with a serious accident In Louisville, Ky., has returned to this city in apparent health. He was, howevey, unable to attend last Friday's meeting. xxx Albert A. Stephens has been overwhelmed with letters from his customers in the past week asking him to bring all his samples with him. He has packed his samples in anticipation of a good trip. xxx The social feature of the club. It is said, will have to be abandoned, as it requires too much work of the secretary. It is that official's desire that some other member take up the work and continue it for the winter. XXX The secretary says that he will locate In Room 8, Board of Trade building, in case he removes from Room 5, De Soto building. It is said that thU will benefit many of the U. C. T.. a they live In that locality. Due notice of this contemplated change wili appear next Thursday. xxx The members of Indianapolis Lodge, No. 4, have become alarmed at the long absence of their brother member, John F. Gardner. Various rumors have leaked out regarding his absence. Any information regarding the mlswlng one will be acceptable to Secretary Meldner. xxx Secretary Meldner now believes In the adage, "A fool Is born every minute."' Recently he read an advertisement In an Eastern paper calling attention to a "grip tag" which was elaborately described and which told for $1.25. Meldner was much in want of such an article and hastened to tend the money to the agent. Now the secretary is willing to dispose of his "gold brick" for the amount of postage he used. A BOY AND HIS DOG. Thnnjtht lie Would Have to Part with Anliiinl to Hate Uar Treated. "As I came from the office of a doctor friend to-day," said a man In the lobby of the Hotel English a few days ago, "I witnessed a bit of life's pathos that affected me deeply. Just outside the door stood a tiny, ragged, dirty urchin gazing wistfully up at the physician's sign emblazoned In letters of gold. There were only two clean spots on the lad' face, and each of these was Just beneath an eye, where the flow of tears had pushed the grime a little further down. The little fellow's eyes were

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: 4 f 4 LS 1 1 i 7 .190. Date above. LIIJL'CATIONAL. VORICO'O ySJ0LLEG E Second largest In the world. ri3 building & seat 4'jO students, and making, tor hott tin;, half rate of JÜ0.OO for Life Court, to make it largest in the world. Shorthand In half th usual time by the (Jrcfts sytleni. Write to-day. J. H. BL00R, Dentist Office 114 Iemcke Uullding. itesidence 1711 North New Jersey street. Telephone New 143. beautiful, though, and there was an Irresistible appeal within their depths. 'What do you want, my boy?' I inquired, as kindly as possible. " 'I'm looking for Dr. B.'b office,' he f aid. 'Does he stay here?' '"lou have come to the wrong place,' I replied, and then added, out of natural' curiosity: 'What do you want with a doctor, little fellow?' " 'Why, I want him to 'tend to my ear said the lad. 'I got run over a while ago, and the wagon hurt my ear.' As he sai l this the lad began to cry again, the wound giving him fresh pain doubtless. "I looked at the ear, which he Indicated with his grimy little hand, and perceived that he was telling the truth, ani that ha had suffered a panful injury. And then, for the flrst time. I noticed that the little fellow's other hand, which he had all the while kept on his left shoulder, was resting gently on a very small dog, a mere puppy. I asked to see the dog, and the lad reluctantly placed It In my outstretched hands. " 'That's a nice pup you have I sMd. 'but why do you carry him with you? Have you no plnce to keep him?' " 'Why. I am gelng to give him to the doctor for fixing my ear," said the lad. his voice more choked with sobs than ever at thought of parting with h!s diminutive friend. " 'Oh. I guess Dr. B. won't charge you anything for treating that ear.' I replied. " 'Don't you think he will, sure enough. Mister?' exclaimed the urchin with breathless eagerness. " I am quite eure he will not.' I said, and I cannot describe th transformation that that little street gamin's face underwent as he realized I was In earnest. Forgetting the pain of his wound, he made a quick grab for th dog and fairly danced his way down the street to Dr. B.'s office. After all. when one reflects how lit t lo It requires to bring sunshine Into r child's face, Isn't It a marvel that, there should b any unhappy children In the world?" IRVINGT0N ATHENAEUM. Fire MeetlnK "Will lie Held Thli Year The Speaker. The directors of the Ifvlngtcn Athenaeum met Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Jameson to make preparations for its first meeting, which will be held on the evening of Nov. 21 In the Athenaeum Hall at Butler College. The Athenneum Is an organization formed a year ago by members of the Butler faculty anil well-known Irvington and Indianapolis people, its object being to bring before Its members distinguished literary men of this and other countries. The success of the club last year was beyond expectations, its membership reaching nearly two hundred, among them many prominent Indianapolis and Greenfield people. Four meetings of the club were held during last winter, the speakers being Dr. Henry Van Dke, Col. Thomas Wentworth HiKsli.n, Hon. Charles Denby ami Mr. Bll.-s I'erry. This vear there vill be live meetings of the club. At the meeting Nov. 21 the speaker will bi Mr. Woodrow Wilson, of l'rim e ton, N. J., who will I cture on 'T.itriotism." Mr. Wilson Is now considered the leading authority on colonial history of America and oin- ef the most distin-guishe-el speakers In the Bast. Tie second meeting of the club wi!i be on Jan. 7. the gu. st of honor tir.g Max O'Rell (I'aul Blouet. the famous l-Tcnch humorist. The subject of Ms lecture will be "l'eeuliar IVople That I Have Known." The other m- tlns have not b t-n definitely arranged for. but will be announced later. In co-operation with Chicago ai.d Kastern clubs plans are teirg made to bring before the club a prominent mm from Kngland. Correspond, no- Is being carried on with stral not.d Bnnllshiren. but as vet nothing assured can t- stated. The officers for the club this . ir are a. follow: I're sident Demarchus C Urown. First Vice 1 'resident Julia lr.iydon Jameson. Second Vice President Alfred K. Butt. S cretary VYM D. H we. Trtasuier-Botert Hall. Director Dr. A. W. Itr.tyton. Arnos . Butler, Scot Butl-r. Hilt n l. Brown, tlrace Ju'.iat; Ciuk. Alien B. Philpult. O.car Helming. Tl.orv.ris C. Howe. Dtiav.ia Smith and Mrs. B.J. T mil. The reception committee for lb- 'flrst meeting will be iomi'd of Mr. and Mrs. Demarchu C. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Allied F. l'utts. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander jAiuttou.

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