Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1897 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER T, 1897.

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vt the city *ovtbc money must be dfanuf—r! froca his post.

07 m4 orrct M»» 7. MW. f T90U8AKD DOLLAR * BGAMDAL. i of th« «A4*vfU printed in «f yatenduy, rmwirM fMO from * oontnactors to bo «Md in » city officials, and with threat for flu ft* can expect no b to beUeve *»<• denial of with the Incident The pwwee that Mr. Holt has tamed to Om* contractor* or their attorney* i5.d». Its wottld nooer hare done thl* if not Moaired it More than this, that <no suit has been brought to recover the money and the aoeumne* from the contractors that none will be hrotifht heenuse, aa Mr. Robinson says, “we have the money in our eocfc,’ clinch the ease against Mr. Holt Ho has made no attempt to explain the peculiar transaction, or to offer any apology for his part in It Instead of that ho broadly denied that he had ever received the money, and of coarse that carrlsd with it a denial that ho had paid it back. But Mr. Robinson's reputation for veracity If. »a good as that of Mr. Holt, and be makes affidavit that the mousy was paid to Holt by Setbert, and that It was returned by Holt under threat of suit Thus against Holt's unverified denial we have Itobtnaon s affidavit, and the facts which sustain It. Manifestly, Mr. Holt Is so discredited that he can not be allowed to retain his position as park commissioner. He should have the decency to resign. While It is true' that Mr. Taggart Is not responsible for Holt s appointment, he will be responsible for retaining him In office. That la a burden which he can not afford, and which he ought not to be willing to carry. To say nothing of the provisions of the charter which forbid, under severe penalties, any member of the city government from being Interested In any contract. with the city, no man that would do what Mr. Holt haa dona Is Ot to bold office. Of course, we understand that Mr. Taggart and Mr. Holt are close friends; but, though that fact makes it sit the more difficult for the mayor to do his duty. It also would make a failure on bis pert to do his duty all the more auspicious Mr. Robinson's affidavit rather tends to exculpate the administration. After alleging that, subsequently to the payment of tha money to Holt, Mr. Holt, Mr. S«tbert, City Attorney Curtis and Rnglneer Jeup had advised the Board of Public Works to make the changes In ths sewer speoiflcatlone. It 1* stated thet these tbgngw bad been “requested by City Bngtnsor Jeup long before the matter set forth In thla affidavit took place.'* Thus the city engineer had become convinced of the reasonableness! of the re •lueet made by the contractors before the fS.wW transaction took place, If not btfore It was thought of. Mr. Robinson refuses to make any chargee against the administration, and gives It as his opinion that Mr, Jeup la an honest man. Certainly he haa borne that reputation, and be is entitled to the benefit of it. But Mr. Holt la a part of ths administration, and the transaction, to which he was a party, must reflect upon it And it la a nasty business. It ia not necessary _ for Mr, Taggart to know what was done with the money, it is saough tor him to know that Mr. Holt, a member of his official family, received it, and that the men who paid It to him expected him, in return, to Influence the city officials in their Interest. That, with Mr. Holt • a triage denial ot ovary thin*, la the case against Mr. Holt. It to serious enough to call tor Mr. HolVa prompt dtemtoaal. in case he does not resign. It to hardly necessary to say that The Mews has not the slightest effim to shield any one in this business. It does not believe that Mr. Tags art or Mr. Johnson to in any way Involved In this soandai. though their interest la seeking to bring Holt and the contractors, together to unfortunate. But it It did tygeuld not tor a moment hesitate to urge the people of Indianapolis to vets against him next Tuesday. The News to criticised by the Republican organ this morning In its usual lucid style tor ita editorial of yesterday. Though this to a small matter, it may be worth while to say that that editorial was baaed on ths toots in our poeeeaaion at the time, and that It to abundantly sustained by those facta In its main features wo are quite willing to stand by it. But at the time it was written the affidavits, which appeared in the paper yesterday, were not in our possession^ and they could not be secured In time to be used for editorial information. And we frankly admit that the facts contained in them give the affair a much more serious aspect, aud that they Involve Mr. Holt hopelessly. But tt to still true that it the men who paid 15.000 In the apparent hope of corrupting the city government had succeeded in their nefarious purpose, they would not have sought to recover the money. The return of the money to them is complete evidence that they did not get what they paid for. Ai the same time Mr. Taggart's reto Mr. Holt are such as to make for him to wipe out even »n which Mr. Holt's conUnumetnber of the Park Board will bring upon him and his administration. It to not enough to show that the attempt to corrupt the administra-

AUTOIfOMY AJTB CUBA. I This news to important if true'' was I ths csteb-itoe of a topical song which ] ws* popular is :ts day, and ft applies with MM* ««*MM to ths dispatches from Madrid this asorffing. Th«e art to the effect that the Liberal ministry has decided to grant autonomy to Cuba. If true, this signalises a great victory for ths Cubes hmurgetrt* It means that SB these long years of struggle and bloodshed and martyrdom have not been In rain; that the liberty tor which these people have fought to almost within their grasp. We doubt whether the Cubans will be istfined to accept say scheme of autonomy. The morning dispatches say that “ths government decided to grant autonomy to Cuba under tbs suxerainty of Spain," when, as a matter of fact, toe granting of a scheme of autonomy implies ths recognition dad acceptance of the suserainty of ths soother country. There would seem to be no good reason why Cube should continue to scknowledge gpetosh suxerainty. The offer of autonomy to a eonfseslon of Spanish wee knees ’and there to no doubt that, with He heavy debt, its dangex from the Csriists and its other internecine troubles, Spain can not afford to spend more Money or waste more soldiers in an eftort to subdue Cuba. Oen. Weyler has cabled to henor Sagasta: T wfll not resign," and K will be remembered that ths Liberal leader, bearing no love for Weyler, has sold that if weyler did not resign be would be recalled Of course, Weyler does not want to resign. If all accounts be true, be has made e good thing out of this war. From sources which would seem to be direct and trustworthy we have learned that Weyler has been bent not so much on property conducting the Cuban war In the Interests of Spain, as he has been to tins hto own pockets. It to charged that sines hto military occupation of Cuba ha has amassed a large fortune; that money meant tor the bare-footed, hungry Spanish soldiery has found Its way to Waylegto pocket and tha pockets of his friends. Some chargee of this nature have been made against Weyler by the Liberals in Spain who are now in power, so that It would seem that Weyler's recall to certain. Trade in Cuba has been almost ruined. Industries have been destroyed, towns and cities have been wiped out, men. women and children have been slaughtered and imprisoned. Is the granting of autonomy a sufficient compensation for these things? One would think not. The Cuban people have fought for freedom; they have won their way well along the road. The march forward should continue.

ANOTHER SCANDAL. We note that the Republican organ has nothing to say this morning of thd scandal In connection with the granting of a license to the notorious Wade Hill. Hill to known to be an enthusiastic supporter of Harding for mayor, and It to a fact tha{ Henry Harding, a member of the Board of Commissioners granting the license, 1* a brother of the Republican candidate for mayor. When he heard that a remonstrance against giving him a license was bsln* prepared be talked with hi* attorney*. Keeling * HuggKeaUng being our old friend, “Jos." who to one of ths leaders in the Republican campaign - and pledged himself to work and vote for Harding provided he got his 1 teens*. He atoo say* that he has been promised that, if Harding to elected, the •pcclai policeman who has been kept in lhat district for a year to watch hi* place, will be removed, and that he Will be allowed to run his "Joint'' aa he pleases. It to said that Hill mads ail sorts of promises before hto case came before the county commissioners, and he la on record as having said two day* before hto case was considered, that be would get hto license. Hill admits that he to pledged to vote for Harding. County Commissioner Harding says that he knows Hill, and that he has visited hto saloon to see what sort ot a place he to running, and he further says that he does not see any reason tor heeptng a special policeman to watch the place, and he expressed the opinion that if hto brother were elected ths policeman would be removed. That the license was granted to Hill for political reasons seems to he dear enough. There could be no other reasons. His saloon to a terror to the neighborhood. No more formidable remonstrance was ever presented to the county commissioner* than the one in this cam. But what the respectable people of the neighborhood could not accomplish. Hill and GOO of hto friends did accomplish by their remonstranoe against the granting of a license te Henry Summon, who is a Taggart Republican. Hill controls several hundred vote*, and when he promised to vote for Harding ho got hi* license. This to not a pleasant story. There Is no question that the license ought to have been refused. But it was grunted by the board of county commissioners, of which board Mr. “Newt." Harding s brother is a member, and one of the attorneys representing H1U before the board was Mr. “Joe" Keeling, who to now campaigning for Harding. More than this, a license was refused to another man who conducted. In the same neighborhood, a much lem objectionable saloon, and the remonstrants in this case were friends of Hill. And Hill to doing his beat to secure the election of Harding. Why should he not exert all hto Influence tn that behalf? He Is simply keeping the pledges which he says be made in order to get hto license.

THE OCEAN RECORD. The achievement of the new steamer of the North OermAt Lloyd fleet, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Gross#, in crossing the Atlantic on its Eastern trip in five days, fifteen hours and ten minutes, thus breaking all previous records for fast time, to noteworthy. This passage Is better by eighteen hours and fourteen minutes than the time ot the Hamburg liner. Fuerst Bismarck, which haa held the Plymouth record since August L UK, and It beats the Southampton record held by the American liner St. Louis by about, thirteen hours. The Kaleer Wilhelm, therefore, ie net only tbe largest liner afloat, but also the fastest.

e. as was tha record WUheim. Up to to*

Owing to Modern improvements in eoastr action, roiling has been reduced to a minimum, the engines are balanced by the Scbiidt system, which does a way with much of the constant and monotonoos vibration which, next to sea sickness, to the greatest bane of aa ocean trip, and it is said tbe great length has to some extent counteracted the pitching The progress in steamship construction has been very rapid recently. Usually the time af passenger steamers Is taken from New York to Queenstown, and even then It to reckoned from Sandy Hook light to the Queenstown light, not

from dock to made by the K

tbs record from Bandy Hook light to Queenstown (Roche's Point) was eight days, two hoars snd forty-eight minute*. The record was brought to seven days, twenty hours and nine minutes by the Baltic in 1*3. and this record wvs towered by degrees through the following yean until MB when the Alaska brought it down to six days, eighteen hours and tMrty-aeven minutes. In Iffit the distance was lint traversed under six days by tbe City of Paris, which mad* tha record of live days, nineteen hours and eighteen minutes. This record bas since then been beaten twice by tha City of Parts by the Majestic, by the Teutonic, by the Campania and by the Luoanla. tha tost named vessel making tbe distance in five days, seven hours and twenty-three minutes. It must be remembered always In comparing these records that the distance, approximately, from Bandy Hook tight to Roche's Point light off Queenstown is only MB miles, white from dock to dock between New York and Plymouth it to approximately, S.WQ miles. A passenger sailing on the Kaiser Wilhelm could have taken luncheon in New York on Thursday of tost week and could have had dinner In London yesterday. There is no reason to believe that advancement in speed progress to to stop at this record. On the contrary, new inventions are opening new fields of possibility, and tbe day may come when our children will look back to this time and wonder how we could ever manage to get along when It took us over five days to cross the ocean.

AN '‘ED" ON "ADS." No abbreviations in a newspaper office, and they are many, are more frequently used than “Ed." and “Ad.’* The one is an abbreviation for editorial, the other for- advertisement. All “copy” In a newspaper office must be classified, and hence the use of words and phrases as guide line* for the copy-cutter In the composing-room. Thus It comes about that few abbreviations are commoner than Ed. and Ad. The first runs In a pretty steady stream. The latter swells and subsides like other streams, according to the season of the year. This year It Is Rowing bank full, attending to business as an advertisement should — an example to recreant nature which ought by now to have tbe streams bank full, but has Hot- “Ads.” flowing bank full means bank full for all concerned. Merchants advertise because they have the goods to sell and because, feeling the pulse of the time as they are accustomed to do, they know when to advertise. Arid, it might be added, where! But the Ad. columns of The News speak to this point better than tha Ed. columns. The latter can only call attention to the former. They can not add to their eloquence nor their value. The wave of prosperity Is running Amerlcawards. It is an 111 wind that blows hobody any good. The short crop* abroad, which mean & scarcity and a shrinking business there, mean for us a rise of prices and good times. In the end we shall feel bad effect*, of course. The world to tied together. But for the time being, the demand on our service to supply a world deficit means prosperous times for us, and so the figures of commercial agencies and of the market reports have testified. But, as always, after a period of depression, buying is conservative. The people are measuring their purchases by their needs, and they are counting the cost of their purchases. Here Is where the Ad- columns of a paper like The News play a valuable part. Merchants who purvey goods are experts. In the long run It Is to their advantage to sell when it 1* the buyer*’ advantage to buy. No reputable merchant can, in the long run, do otherwise than give hto buyers good advice and tell the truth, aud no reputable person tries to do otherwise. So buyers may be assured that they can take the statement of reputable advertisers for tbe truth; that when they say stocks are full and prices favorable for purchasing, such are the facts. A varied tale these Ad. columns tell, too! They set forth indications of all the material riches of civilisation. They can only give hints. If space allowed, they could only give hints. Seeing is believing. They mean to Invite the buyer to see, believing that, seeing, he will buy. The Ed. column has nothing to add to the Ad. column, except to say that he is wise lhat jreads the Ad. column, marks and inwardly digests. The wave of prosperity gives reason of its being In the stocks that fill the stores and in the crowds that are after them. The time to buy to now. He to not wi*e that thinks the time to buy is some other time, wheir stocks have been picked over and remnants take the place of full lines. Of course, there are sacrifices on special occasion. There are really bargain sales, and many of them. But staples, things one needs most and needs longest, are staple in many meanings of the word; as a rule, they hold their price for one thing. And so in a large way tbe time to buy is when the season for buying to at hand, when the need for the things to be bought is real. The time for fall and winter things to now. For further particulars. see the A<L columns of The News-

we have repeatedly criticised the of Works tor Its undue far wooden block pavement; and tn Many other ways we have pointed out fault* In tbe administration- Bui. on the other hand, we have tried to he fair toward tt In presenting Its good feature* and to defending it from partisan mlu eprenentatteras. We have proved beyorad the atteapt to dispute that the fiaanee* of the city have been admirably^jod economically managed; that the ordinary routine aervtces of the city, the polics, fire and saw!vary Occluding street cleaning) services were never better. U so wen; performed- and we have shown that the Bookwalter campaign speech, charging a dreadful conspiracy to “work” off some undesirabto land belonging to tbe mayor upon the city to, tn Its o=a—rttol features, a fairy tale. Moreover, we have pointed cot that neither the Republican platform nor Mr. Harding, nor the Republican campaign speakers, nor the organ makes any aUgfetcet pri«—i that Mr, Haidtog. If elected, will obey the charter requirements as to the merit system, or will enforce the liquor law* moro strictly, or will more earnestly work for tbe creation of a park system, or tn fact do anything to Improve tbe municipal housekeeping. Tbe Republican ratopnlgn has been one of mteropraasutation from the start. The weakest points' of the administration have not bean attacked, because the Republicans have no wish to strengthen them. The attacks on the finances have been disingenuous, and on false premises, and the attempt to show wrong and conspiracy to the Park Board has been utterly discredited.

The Hon- William C. Whitney has gone to Europe for another rest- Tammany made him tired.

Why after returning the money should Mr. Holt stoutly deny everything? It is amazing he should have taken the money in the first place; It te more amaxlng that he should now be Indulging In the aboolutely futile pastime of denying everything.

Of course, Sterling R. Holt should go. There to no alternative.

The latest news from the Klondike state* that chocolate drops are “three for twenty-five cents.” Now this gives us some idea of the distressing conditions which prevail up there.

Col. William I. Frown, the editor of the New York Daily News, has resigned from the Tammany Hall executive committee. This action may have very considerable results. The Daily News has been a steadfast supporter of Tammany few many years. This paper, which is almost never seen outside of the metropolitan district, has an immense circulation among the tenement house people. If it opposes the Tammany candidates, or gives them only lukewarm support, there can be no doubt that thousands of voters will be detached from the Tammany hosts.

Mr. Hanna is doing lota of talking. He to getting in form for another term in the Senate.

Senator Lodge says that Hawaii will be annexed. Senator Lodge ia a good many, but he Is not the majority in this country. In the Detroit conference of the Methodist Episcopal church there is a surplus of nearly 100 clergymen. This state of things prevails notwithstanding the fact that every one of the clergymen was “called.'’ The Hon. William C. Whitney tried to act as peacemaker between the New York Democrats and got mad enough to fight. The Tammany ticket seems to be an open defiance of the decent people of the great metropolis. It ought to be impossible of election, and we believe the chances are decidedly against it. But with the opposing forces scattered under three standards, it Is impossible for any one to feel confidence. As it looks now. it Is any one’s victory, with Low‘* chances apparently rather the best.

A Mississippi mob dragged a negro from the court room and hanged him. but there have been no more lynchlngs in Mexico.

The Agricultural Department is doing all it can to encourage the sugar beet industry, but people are disposed to wait and see whether the sugar interests have their way about Hawaii or not. General Weyler says he will not resign. How would It do to send Mr. Ker. chevai after him?

Just for what did the sewer contractors give Mr. Holt the money? What did he make them think he could do for them? Ncbody m ill believe that 18,000 was given to secure Mr. Holt’s influence to get a change In specifications which saved the contractors nothing but a little inconvenience.

Before going after tbe Insurgents, Spain may have to turn in and flay Weyler.

The Ohio campaign has become so spirited as to attract the attention of the Pension Office. Claimants from that sCtJite have first place given them. The New York Tribune seems to be rather Inclined to advise the playing of Piatt’s game; that to. it appears to favor the withdrawal of both Mr. Low and General Tracy, and the selection of some

both candidates. But there’s the rub. It is In inconceivable that the regular organization or, in a single word. Piatt, would accent any man that did not promise to be subservient to Platt. It is Impossible for the Citizens’ Union, without abandoning- every thing it stands for, to accept a candidate that would be Platt s tooL There seems to be little doubt that both Low and Tracy will re-

main in to the finish.

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On one form near Flint. Mich., there are UM.MO cabbages. . There are more distilleries In Massachusetts than there are tn Kentucky. There te a dearth of deep-water sailors at Son Francisco because of the rush to

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on the line. '—Harper’s Bazar.

The fastest trip between Australia and Colombo was made not long ago by the P. A O. steamer Chico, in eight days,

the distance being AMO miles.

Bee- trees ore being found tn numbers in parts of Vermont this fail. One near Nashville held a honeycomb two feet

long and several inches thick.

The gold bricks made In Seattle from Klondike goffi are nine Inches long, three inches wide and three-eighth* of an Inch

thick, and are worth ILTOO each.

Husband—My friend hardly recognized you to-day. Wife—That's strange, for I wore the some hat you bought for me

three years ago —Fliegende Blatter.

A mill employing fifty men te now engaged In making paper from the bagasse, or sugar cone refuse, which was once tbe greatest nuisance to tbe sugar-grower. Critic—The great trouble about picture* nowadays Is Artist—That no one that has enough money to buy one has taste enough to want one.—Brooklyn

Life.

The Mobile (Ala.) Register says that the course of the yellow fever there demonstrates that what the city needs and must have is sewerage and plenty of pure drinking water. A British pauper, age seventy years, came into a small Inheritance lately and treated his friends to a champagne supper at a swell London hoteL It. killed him within three days. Patent 9X40* in the German Patent Record is: “Frauleln Elfrida Latikiewitz, apparatus for keeping the cheeks full. This apparatus is worn In the mouth and is fastened to the jaw.” Tbe hand of Jim Stevenson, a Lexington negro, is sold to measure eleven Inches from the wrist tq the tip of the middle finger. The thumb nail is described as of the size of a half-dollar. Queen Natalie of Servla lost a diamond ring at Biarritz, and vowed that If It was found she would give It to the Little Slstera of tho Poor. Tho ring, worth IX000, was feund, and the ex-Queen is selling It

by lottery.

In repairing a cable off Cape Frio a whale wa* lound entangled in It by the cable snip Norseman, but it hud not broken. The whale must have been there for two or three weeks, and had been bit-

ten into by sharks.

Prince Victor Emmanuel of Naples Is said to be an expert electrician. He experiments on all its applications to light, sound, motive power, and photography, and was one of the first persons In Italy to investigate the Roentgen rays. Found Wanting: The Rev. Saintly—Ah. sir! When that new planet breaks away from the sun the temperature on earth will rise to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit! Are you prepared for that. Summer Hotel Proprietor (aghast)-<5reat Scott! No. I've closed up my hotel and let all the

help go!—Puck.

Englishwomen who have to earn their living are encouraged by advertisements like this, printed by the Westminster Gazette: “To Ladles of Some Small Means—Wanted, from October, a gentlewoman by descent, accustomed to domestic work by circumstances; single, early middle age; fond of active life and open

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She was the daughter of a street railway magnate. And the good-looking young man had Just kissed her. A moment later he looked in her eyes with a disappointed expression. "Can’t you pay that back?” he murmured. The lovely girl tossed her head. “I believe,” she said, "that you favor lower fares." "Yes,” he reluctantly admitted. "I do.” "Then,” she said, haughtily, "you need expect no transfers on this system." And the young man knew that the magnate had won another round.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “The rules for tho manufacture of humor," said the professor, "are very simple—that Is. of course, some kinds of humor. Ordinary comic paper humor may be made by taking a plain statement of fact or a plain statement of something that isn’t fact-ln fact, any old statement—and misspelling It. It’s the simplest thing In the world. If you refer to the man In the moon, and spell it that way. It Is plain, ordinary dull prose, but If you make tt read ’the mann In the mune,’ It Is nothing less than bright scintillating wit” Shortly thereafter the professor w&s promoted to the department of magazine humor, where nothing but age counts —Chicago Post. The following example of “cricket EngI'sh” recently occurred in on English paper; "Haines came In and GravA at once pulled Bull to square leg for a double and in the same over cut the same bowler through the slips for three. Haines at this point brought himself Into prominence by a pretty hit to square leg at Stock's expense, and then off drove the same bowler, which on the overthrow added another single, while Graves put Bull to the off for three. Two more were added through Stocks s inability to get a move on and then the second wicket of the morning fell. Graves being caught by Marriott at coverpolnt

off Bull.’’

Frank L. Stanton says that on one occasion when William Hamilton Hayne was visiting Samuel Minturn Peck at the latter’s home in Tuskaloosa, the two

tienerai iracy, *uu me wjuvwuu ol suiuu , latter S nome m wo third man agreeable to the adherents of ’ poets woofo, and paired

to rest beneath the shadows of the pine*. “Here, are your favorite pine*, Hayne.” said Peck; "let’s dream a few poems

Tammany haa stopped purring.

Five thousand dollars is an unlucky i number hereabouts. i : The News has no desire or intention j to apologize for any shortcomings of the I present city administration. Careful ! Waders of the paper know this to be | tho case. We have criticised it severely ' for its neglect to obey the charter in I regard to the merit system: we have exposed its laxity la enforcing ths liquor

All talk of compromise between the New York Republicans may as well be declared off. Senator Foraker is to speak at the Tracy ratification meeting Satur- ;

day night.

New York city should be certain of one reform. The platforms of the Re- j publican. Citizens* Union and Democrat- |

ic parties ail declare for the retention j this would

by the city of its ownership of municipal franchisee. They insist that the privileges involved should be let for fixed terms and for the city's profit.

A Urweisas Rain. Etoep is the silence of a summer noon. When a soft shower Will trickle soon. A gracious rain, refreshing the weary bower— O sweetly then for off Is heard The clear note of some lonely bird. —Keble.

beneath them.” The languid summer day had its effect on them, and they were soon snoring and dreaming away. But suddenly both awoke and started down the home road at top speed, shouting as they ran. An army of yellow jackets had discovered them, and, not being partial, to poetry, had forcibly and feelingly resented its intrusion on their domain. Later, at supper. Peck asked: "Did you moke a poem, Hayne?" "No,” was the meek reply; “I made a poultice.” “So did L" said Peck.—New York Trib-

une.

Most of New York’s noted society Wautie* have been painted by a woman whose miniatures long ago became famous, and she was noted os the roost successful and fashionable artist in that line that New York possessed. Now this fortunate artist is in London, where she {•aimed a miniature of the Prince of Wale* tn tbe costume that he wore at the famous bail given by the Duchess of Devonshire. The privilege of painting

hate been tn itself honor

enough lor most artists, but In additior. the Prince sent tbe artist a diamond heart-pin which represented Persimmon, the Prince’s horse, ra diamonds, with the Jockey's colors dope in enamel. After the fact of the presentation became public the price of her miniatures went up to and persons are wondering if the Influence of the Prince of Wales's patronage will be strong enough to have the same effect here in New York.—New

York dim.

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Cse Hereford** Acid Phosphate. Dr. T. D. CrxJwrs, kopt Watout Dodge XM' .um, Hartford, Oran., says: "It to a remedy of great value in budding up functional -nergr aad brain force.”

On Board U. S. 8. Torktown, Va_ October i-A sham battle had been ordered, with the following scope of operations: L Ths object of tho attacking force shall be io cut a lias of railroad running northwest and southeast, three nautical miles from Gloucester point. The defense. unsupported by any troops In ths vicinity, and without fortifications, hasbeen dispatched to guard against this raid. It depends entirely, first upon preventing z tending, and, second. If a landing is effected, upon its better knowledge of ths country, to defeat the raiding PBitr. X Ths attack will begin at 1 o'clock: L the attacking force will move from ths ships at that hour. A landing of the whole or part of tha fores must be effected by I o’clock, or the attemot will be held os having failed. t The object of the attack, i. the cutting of the railroad, or ths placing of the attacking fores In a position to do this damage—most be effected by 5 o'clock, or will be held to have failed. The defense had been tended from the New York. Mains and Puritan In ths morning, carrying their dinners to give them a chance to get good and ready for us. They were equipped exactly as we were, except that for designation we all wore white caps and they blue. Adjutant's call sounded on tbe Brooklyn, Iowa, Indiana and the old Massachusetts at one bell. Signal to embark the attacking party was made on the flag-ship, and we shoved off from the ship* at two bells, sharp. Our company had our second sailing launch, and were in tow of the second steamer. Koch battalion had two steam launches, two sailing launches and four cutters. We made In slowly, in a double column of sections, with the Indiana’s battalion on our right, the Brooklyn's astern of them, and Iowa's astern of us, os if we were going to tend at Sarah creek. Working In slowly to, say, eight hundred yards, we could Ae the enemy’s blue caps hui rying tn double time to receive us and prevent a landing. Suddenly, after a wait that was very tiresome, and the men hod begun to grumble. “Does he think we kin land here if he waits ter 'em all ter git ready fer us?” Captain Harrington sang out: “Column left! Full steam! Give wav alll Jump ’em now!” and swung sham off to the left. Awa> we went down the coast for Gloucester Point. We could see the enemy tumbling over fences snd down gullies, but ’twas no use; we were going six feet to his one, and had a straight course for Gloucester Point, while he had to go up hill ana down, over fence* and ditches and fob low the shore line. A Race for the Beach. Suddenly there came from each steam launch a shril, blast and the command, “Cast off! Land!” Every tow-line was dropped. In an instant every boat swung to the right o«r a* if on a pivot, and then came a mad race for the beach. Imagine our launch going in on a shelving beach. She carries sixty men and draws three feet of water, seven oars on each side, two men to the oar, rising and falling like clock-work, and a good fast clock at that, twenty-eight strong men lifting the boat nearly out of the water, and ail the others swaying backward and forward with tbe stroke, to help push the boat along, the officers and coxswain singing out, ’’Lift her, men! Stroke! Stroke! Give it to her! Beach her! High and dry now! Send her in! Hurrah! We are the first boat again! Out you go forward; Jump now!” and ths launch, in spite of a three-foot draft and having a hundred feet to go after she strike* bottom, rides In on her own bow wave, half her length out of ths water. “Fall in, men! Sharp, now! As skirmisher*. march! Forward, double time! March!” and away we go, tearing up the beach to the first Band-hills, where we find one poor unfortunate company of the enemy. We have a battalion all ready. We halt at the hilltop, lie down and fire rapidly, until the waving of a blue flag by the umpire tells us we have repulsed "the enemy.” “Rise up! Double time, march!” and across the road, over a wire fence, through, under It, any way to get beyond * eirf. till for kneeling!" Glad to rest for a moment, we stopped, fixed bayonets, and poured our fire into them. Then they charged us! "Cease firing! Charge!” and away we went, coming together with bayonets fixed, and several of the fellows forgetting tt was in fun, rifle belts came into play. The fifth company came tearing obliquely across the corn-field. In the enemy s rear. We had ’em surrounded’ Their big first sergeant, Wagner, grabbed one of my men. nearly tore nls blouse off, and was bearing him away bodily, when his officer said, “Hold on, sergeant; we're captured. A Moment’s Breathing 9p*ce. By that time the three other battalions were tended and deployed, and we, who had cleared the landing, lay down to let them pass, while we formed up and became reserves. About that time I had a fearful pain in my side, and thought I could never get my breath again. We lay there In the corn, after forming In ® column of companies, glad to be reservee, and thought our part all over, but the railroad was three miles away, and we had succeeded In capturing and paroling only two companies. But we were landed, and the enemy’s scouts beaten, and their main body outwitted. Then it was marching to the front by the left flank and right flank, through fences, over ditches, plowed fields, postures and orchards innumerable. Every clump of trees had to be explored for a bidden foe, even' house looked behind, when a rcout reported a company of the New York’s men behind a fence watting to pour in a deadly Are. "Captain Wood.” sang out our first luff. “Take the first company and flank those fellow*:” Away we went. “Aa skirmishers, march! By the left flank, double time, march!" Column right and moving in single file at a swtlt trot, we went through a hole made in two second* by knocking the fence board* and wire off the post* with the butts of our muskets, through a pine woods so thick one couldn't see s hundred feet ahead. "By the right flank, march! Charge!" and yelling like demons, we burst through the woods and Ixrfore we realized what was up were engaged hand to hand with a company of the enemy we hod rolled up like a coble, stowed In a chain locker. While they were trying to rally in some kind of shape, the second company came over the fence where they didn’t come through It. and we had another capture credited to the Massachusetts. You should have heard the mer. cheer when the umpire shook tus blue flag! While the enemy were paroled and sent home in disgrace, we formed up, our dead and wounded taking a good drink from their canteens, declaring they were game yet, and away we went, battering down another fence, nearly scaring « cow to death, driving some more of the enemy away from a farm bouse and dlsh,dgliig him from his next position behind a hedge. Finally getting him between two battalions, we would have eaten him without salt cr pepper if the admiral s orderly bad not come up with information that tt was too hot. end exercises were to cease. ‘Silence' was sounded and “a**embiy.' and the bugle calls went ringing through the woods and re Ids «s each bugler up and down the tine took up the call, and faintly afar off, tbe enemy** reserve sounded it. Exettfwg Scenes. I wish you might have seen Tom O'Keefe standing on his bead in a ditch where l*e had landed after rolling down

i a hilt.

! jump on

browbeat the j think of a

j Muller coming

game to the last A three-mile run over that kind of ground te no fun when it te

as hot aa tt was yesterday.

The farmers were amt in force to see ths fun. As ws went up through one horse-lot to look tor ambuscades all the women folk were out driving the chicken* Into ths stable. They must have seen soldier* before. I think father was camped about hers with the Army of the Potomac. You know he tSkes chicken. We captured a watermelon patch in the first cornfield, and how the bayonet knives worked while ws were letting the other battalions go ahead! We marched back along a hot, dusty, sandy road and took to the boat* "’sr* • up to oar

knees m water.

pulled them off white ws i

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■ As I cam* up the ship's side I heard Dick Richards say, "Wsa, If oil the country round here’s Hke that. I don't blame Cornwallis for surrendering tt" Neither do 1. and Johnny Morgan said, *1 wouldn’t have missed ths fun for 15. but I wouldn’t go again to-morrow if I could help It for a hundred." I believed him. my dear sir, I believed him! We landed two carpentsra from each ship to-day to fix up the fences. When tbe fight was stopped ws had two hours to spare, and would have tsken the railroad In thirty minute*. WYNNE.

AMUSEMENTS.

The Walker-Black. Concert. An artistic program bas been arranged by Miss Sara Layton Walker and Mr. Charles Holman-Black for ths concert which they wtU give to-morrow night at ths Propylasum. Miss Walker snd Mr. Black will be assisted by Mr. Sol Marcosson, a talented violinist, of Clevsland. Tbs accompanists will be Mr*, s. U Kiser, Mira McKenzie, Mr, Preston and Mr. Hansen. Following te ths program to be rendered: "Ntght Hymn at Sea".... Oorlng-Thoma* Miss Walker and Mr. Black. Adagio — “Gondolier*,” Perpetuum Mobile (Suits In a) Franz Rles Mr. Maroosson. Aria-"Jeanne d’Arc" Bemoerg Miss Walker. Recitative and Aria—“Hsrodlade”.. Massenet “Vision Fugitive." Mr. Black. “Les Heures d'Or". Go ring-Thomas Mira Walker and Mr. Black. a. "Le Cygne" Saint Saens b. Hungarian Dance..Brahms-Joachim c. "Scene de la Card*” Huboy Mr. Marcosson. a. "If I Knew” .......Jessie Gaynor b. “In Springtime” c. “The Blackbird” Victor Harris Miss Walker. a. "Invocation" (with vloUn) Guy d’Hardelot b. Madrigal .Victor Harris Mr. Black. The Theaters. Murray and Mack are still playing to crowded houses at tbs Park Theater. Bruns and Nina’s vaudevilles will remain the.attraction at the Empire Theater ths rest of the week. Next week the Empire stage will be occupied by “M’lle Anl's Monarch*,” a vaudeville company. ' / Coupons, Instead of admission tickets, will be sold hereafter for the balcony at the Grand Opera House. The prices remain unchanged. Seats can now be reserved In that portion of the theater, both for matinee and night performances. -e — The Moneyless Man. To the Editor of Tbe Indianapolis News: If ths author of the poem, “The Moneyless Mon," could read the version in The News of Tuesday he would not recognise It. When that poem left his hand for the printer it was a perfect piece of poetic workmanship and conception, but ths version given by you te anything but perfect. The measure in many lines te all out uf kilter, while many of the words are meaningless m the connection used. Take the third snd fourth lines of the second stansa as printed: “Where the rich hanging curtains tn a shadowy fold Sweep peacefully down with thetr trimmings of gold." Curtains are apt to make more than one fold, and then it Is a fearful stretch of poetic butchery to make them sweep peacefully down. But the worst butchery of Colonel Stanton’s work te In the fourth stanza and second line. Soma years ago I was present at a little company In Washington, where the author of the poem was also a guest. I was asked to recite something for the company, and chose thl* poem, telling the author I had taken the liberty to change on# word. When through he thanked me for tbe change. It was in the last line, which I made to read: "You will find a welcome up there, though a moneyless man." I send you a copy of the poem as it originally appeared, with the single change mentioned. b. Indianapolis, October 6. The Moneyless Man. Is there no place on ih* face of the earth Where charity dweltoth? where virtue hate birth? Where bosom* In kindness snd merry v III hCNtTC T Where the poor and the needy may ssk and receive? Is there no place where a knock from the Will brine a kind angel to open the door? Go! March the wide world, wherever you can; There te no open door to a moneyless man. Go to yon hall, where the chandelier’s light Drives off with its splendor the darkneee of nl*ht— . Where rich hanging curtain# In shadowy fold Sweep gracefully down in tbelr shadows cf gold; .. ^ Where mirrors of silver take on and renew In long lighted vtotae the wtlderln* view; Oo there, in your patches, snd find if you con a welcoming smile for a moncyletj man. Go to that church whose cloud-reaching spire Give* back to the sun U«e tame look of rod Are; Whose arches and columns are gorgeous within. And whose walls are as pure as a soul without ■In; Walk down tbe long aisle, see the rich and the great In the pomp snd the power of their worldly figrtjiti Walk down, tn your patches, and find if you can, Who opens a pew door to a moneyless man. Go to yon Judge In his dark, flowing gown. And hto scales wherein law weighs equity down; How he frown# on the weak, and smiles on the strong. And punishes rtght and Jnetlflte wrong! Where Jurors their lip* to the Hi Me have laid To render a verdict they have already made! Go there. In your patches, snd find If you can Any tew for tbs cause of the moneyless man. Go to the bank, where mammon hsa told Hto hundreds and thousand* of silver and gold; Where, safe from the hold of the starving and poor Lies pile upon Ptt* of the glittering ore. Walk up to tbe counter—ah, there you may May . . . 'Till yosr limbs grow old and your hair turns gray. But at the bonks you will find no one of the elan With money to loan to a moneyless man. Then go to your hovel, no raven bas fed The wife who has suffered too long for her bread; Kneel down by her pallet, and kiss the death frost From the lips of ths angel your poverty lost. Then. In your agony turn upward to God. And bias*, while tt smites you, the chastening rod; Then at the cloas of your life's little span Ton’ll find a welcome up there, though z moneyless man.

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— — Unit Concerning Bont Repair*. David B. Barm ore, of Madison, has brought suit tn the Federal Court against, j. W, Smoot and Thomas Moor* for, IM4.7L He claim* that he' made repairs and supplied material* for the steamer! Rescue, a boat of 110 tons burden, plying) on the Ohlh river, and he sues to re-

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