Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1893 — Page 9

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EDWIN BOOTH'S CONDITION.

LITTLE DOUBT THAT HI3 ILLNESS IS VERY SERIOUS, Although Pr. Smith Fronounces Iiis r.iticnt home lietter The Stricken Actor l'nable to Talk A Sketch of Iii Uto anil Career ou the Stage. New Yors, April 2d. Thera eem3 to be little doubt that Kdwiu Loath is in a very serious condition iu spite of the reassuring statements of the physicians Pr. Fmith said after his 5 o'clock visit today that Mr. Booth wes better than he had been at anv time since his present attack. Mr. Booth is still unatlä to talk. He recognizes those about him, however, and sleeps mot of the time. His daughter, Mrs. (jroffimao, was with him today. After a late consultation tho physicians announce there is littlo hope for his recovery. A Sketch or Mr. Huoth's Life. With Booth's death will pass from among us the greatest tragic actor of America in this generation, and a modest, kindly gentlenmaa of noble and generous impu.'se, who has woe the Iota and retained the esteem of all who know him. ilia career has been a remarkable one in many ways. His advancement ia his profession was rapid and briiltaut, and for mare than thirty years he has easily retained the pra-eni-nencs phicb he gained ia bis early youth. Edwin Booth is not yet an old man, as he was boru near Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 13, liiX A (Teniae himself, he was also the son of a genius, und hieepleuJid histrionio talents ea:ne to him by inheritance. Junius Brutus Booth, Lis father, was one of the greatest aotors who ever trod the boards of I, j,'M-'!,"!''V;:;';:;'' ;',',') i 1.1 : ",i ' .' . i. in --V - . . i ;. i 'IV V L' S V WV " yf'VVi f A HCi EDWIX BOOTII, FtOM TAISTISG BY SAECENT. the English-speaking etasje. "The elder Looth," writes Williaia Winter, "was a short, pare, muscular man, with a splendid chest, a symmetrical Greek head, a pale countenance, a voice of wonderful compas and thrilling power, dark hair and blue eyes. His son's resemblance to him is chielly obvious in the shape at the head and face, the troh and curve o! the heavy eyebrows, the radiant and constantly shifting light of expression that animates the countenance, the natural graoe ot carriage, and the celerity of morenjent. booth's eyes are dark brown, and seem to turn black ia moments of excitement, and they are capable of conveying, with electrical elect, the most diverse meanings the solemnity of lofty thought, the tenderness of aüeetion, the piteousness of lorlora sorrow, the", awful ense of spiritual surroundings, tho woful weariness of despair, the mocking glee of wicked sarcasm, the vindictive menace of sinister purpose, and the Whining !ara of baleful wrath. In range of fecial expressive ness his countenance u thus fully eijnal to that of Lis father. The present writer saw the elder Booth but once, and then ia a comparatively inferior part Peicara, in Shiel's lerocious .tragedy of "lbs Apostate." Jle was a terrible presence. He wee the Incarnation of smooth, specioua,malirnant, hellish rapacity. His exultant melioe seemed to buoy him ftb)ve the ground. He iloatad rather than walkoJ. His glance was deadly. His clsur, high, cutting measured tone was the exasperating note of hideous cruelty. ife was acting a fiend then, and making the monster not only possible but actual. Ho certainly gave a greater impression of overwhelming power than is given by Kdwin Booth, and seemed a nor formidable and tremendous man. I!ut Lis face was not more brilliant than that of his ranowneJ s;n; and in 'act it wa if anything, somewhat less i-pku ltd ia the power of the rye. If there ever was a genius upon the st.ize the elder Booth was a genius His wonderful eyes, bis tremendous vitality, his electrical action, his power to thrill the feelings and easily and inevitably to awaken pity and terror all these made him a oniqae beir.g, and obtained for him a reputation with old-time auJienees distinct from that of all other men. He wa3 followed as a marvel, and area now the mentioa of his name stirs, 4 ' av ;AW,m .. M i 'T I !:, 'V, . I 1 i7 EDWLf BOOTH AND DACOIITKfl. FROM AW OLD PirOTOCRAPIL among those who remember him, an enthusiasm sueh as no other theatrical inenory can evoke. His sudden death alone aboard a lliosisaippi river steambost in Xovewbor, ISjJ, was pathetie, and the pubiio thought eoneerninj him thenceforward raiajled tenderness with passionate admiration." , Hi Ijrly Career of Kdwin Kooth. Edwin Dooth went on the stage in at the age of siiteen, and for several years t Ls reef is r was his father's constant companion, lie went with Lis father to Caüfornia in 1S72, and, remeJnioit there when the latter returned ea.'t, underwent during the following four years, on the I'aeifiC coast and in the vandwich U:ande and Australia, a strenuous, tut ade Q'iat apprenticeship to his art. YVnea be rcturael t the eastern states

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in 18vk, he had become a finished and aocom pliihed actor, and an admiring pnbiio was qaic! to proclaim Lim a worthy successor to his eifted father. lie first appeared in Haiti

more, where his saccesu was instant and com viele, and during the following four years be was seen in nearly all of the leading eities of the country. Iu the summer of lcCü he visited Kntlaud and appeared ia London, Liverpool and Manchester. lie returned to America ia lMi J. and from SepL 21, lö.t, to March 23. L-67, he was manager of the Winter Liarden theater ia New York. Iiis management was aiade notable by some of the most splendid revivals of standard plays ever witnessed iu America. One of the conspicuous features of Lis career at the Winter Garden was a revivul of "Hamlet," which rsn for 100 eights. This eyent deserves more than passing notice, lie f erring to it Mr. Laurence Huttön, writes: "The JIamUt of Ldwin Kooth without doubt is the most familiar and the most popular in America today, lie is the ideal llauvtt of bait the people in the country, who Lave any idea of Hamid whatever. Mr. looth's Ltamltt ia original in many respects; it is intellectual, intelligent and carsfuily studied; complete to the smallest detail and greatly to be admired. Nature Las given him the melanoholy, romantio face, the mag iietio eye, the Kraoeful peron, the stately carriage, the poetic teu'perameut, whioh are in so marked a degree a charaetenstio of 11 unltt, while his genus in mauy seenes of the tragedy carries him far above the V.'cWt.'j the country Lns seen in many generations of players. He lirst assumed the part in New York under Mr. lturtou's management at the Metropolitan theater in the mouth of iüty, 1&Ö7. The engagement was thorL and 'Hamlet' twas presented only two or three times. 1-veu then, however, it created no little excitement, and was considered a very remarkable and tin:shed rapresentation iu a young man but twenty-four years of ae. Mr. Ilooth next appeared in New York ou Nov- (, l'Ci), at the inter Garden theater. He opened as Jiamh t. and this was his lirst genuine metropol.tan sucaeiss in the part, although it was presented but live tanes duru;g the engagement of four weeks. A year or totaler he played .'i.i- : to the O ?i'f; s of Mrs Harrows. In 103 tie was supported by Lawrenca Dirratt, aud still at the 'Vinter (Jarden he appeared as Iltvi t , from Nov. 2. l'dl, until Msroh 21, IS 5. loo succeosiva Lights. This was even entirely unprecedented in the history of 'Hamlet' in any country, aud probably tho louge.t run tnat any tragedy whatever had at that time eojored. J t n.oved i'r. B loth's iunny friends in New York to present him. on Jan. 2i, 1SÖ7, the celebarted 'ilaralet' medal, the inort O'tiuplimentarj and well-merited testimonial any youu actor no matter how popular bis character hai ever received from the American puldio in tLe history of us stage. During tnis fainou euKa.'emeat Le was assoc. ated with Thomas Liacide as Ur'tvt'di .str with I'haries Keiub e M-v son, an admirable Gh't; with Chatlss VValoutt, jr., as tu-ratio; with (.wen Faweett as '. !; with Mrs. James W. Watliok, jr., as tho i:-e; and with Mr. Frank Chaufrau as tVilc' ; as strong a comoination of talout as tbia traady Las olten seen.'' A Critical Kstiin.-ite or Ituotlt u an Actor. On Feb. 3, 16ÖI. Booth opened üooth'e theater, which he managed for live years. Ilia artistic success was brilliant in the extreme, but the venture proved unprofitable in a financial way, and when it ended, in W4, it left the aator-manager under a load of debts which it required years of hard and constant labor to wipe out. He resumed his tours through the couutry, and a visit which he made to the South iu IH7G becara3 a triumphal progress. The receipts of an eight weeks' engagement in San Francisco exceeded JJö.OOO. a result then unprecedented in the history of the stage. Mr. liooth had taken bis place as the mo.-t popuiir player of his time, and that place hs has ever siuce retained. On his merits as an artist, perhaps no out is better fitted to pass critical judgment than Mr. Will i&vu inter. In his delightful " h'i ioivs of the Stage" this scholarly and appreciative critiO says that in the earlier (tart of Lis career Kdwin liooth was cocustomed to ecar:t Sir (!tl x Orrrui(U, Sir JJi heard JJort.m,; J'enram wad a uumber of other parts of the tcrritic order that he has since discarded, lie was line in every one of them. The li rat sound of Lie voioa when, as .ir J'd:raet Jlurtunrr, ha was hvard speaking oil the scene, was eloquent of mm ''W ,TrX S te'EDWIM BOOTII AS r.ICIIELIF.r. deep suflerincr. concentrated will and a stranga, somber, formidable character. The sweet, exquisite, icy, infernal joy with which, as lUxrant, l.t tcld his rival t.ist there should be "music" was almost comical in its ellcct of terror: it drove the listener across the line of tragicul tension, and made Lim hysterical with the grimness of deadly humor. Iiis swift defiance lo luAi IotvI (i .V.r OV'.(, m l indeed to the hole mighty and territde action with which lie esrried that scene from "U hat, arc you pale?" down to the grisly end horrid viper pretense and reptile spasm of death were simply tremendous. This was in the days when hit acting yet retained the exuberanee of a youthful spirit, before the philosophic mind had checked the headlong currents nf the blood or curbed imagination in its lawleia llighL And tnote parts not only admitted of bold oolor and extravagant action, but demanded them. Through acting every kind, of a part from a dandy negro up to llamltl be at last made a choice of the characters that afforded scope for Lis powers and aspirations, and so settled upon a definite, restrioted repertory. His characters were llamltl, Jlacb'. h, Lrar, Oth Uo, Vaco, Jlirhard the S tund, Ji chard the Third, Shy lock, Cordimil IIW.-, I'.tHfduk, J'ftruCiio, liichtlieu, Luciut, Hrulns, L'ert'ircio, Jiuy Ilia and Don Cirvir de Jlazan, To these be occasionally added JI'trcuM Jh-vtw, Anthony, l'u CUvda Mdnottt and Tha Strnmirr. The range thus indicated is extraordinary, but more extraordinary t-lill was the evenness of the actor's average excellence throughout the breadth of that range. Booth's tragedy, in the opiii.on of Mr. Winter, is better than his elegant comedy. There are other aotors who equal or surpsKi Lini in limed ck or Don C'rnkr. The comedy in which Le exoels is that of silvery speciousness and bitter sarcasm, as iu portious of Ja,o aod JUrhard the TAird, and the simulated madness of Lue ui lirutut, and the comedy of grim drollery, as in portions of Jtichn en his expressions of those veins being wonderfully perfect. But no other actor who h.as trod the American stags in our day has equaled him in cortain attributes ot tragedy that are essentially poetio. He is not at Lis best, indeed, in nil the tragie parts that Le acts and, like Lis father, Le is an untvsn aotor in the parts to which he is bt st suited. No person can Le siid to know Kdwiu Booth's acting who Las not sen Li in play the same part several times. His artistic treatment will generally be found adequate, bat his tuood or spirit will continually vary. lie cannot at will command it, and when it la absent bis performsnce seems cold. This charaetenstio is, perhaps, ins psrable from the poetio temperament. 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tion of it therefore needs poetio warmth and glamor. Booth never goes behind his poet's text to find a prose image in the pagea of historic facL The speotator who takes the trouble to look into his art will find it, indeed, invariably aecurata as to historio basis, and will find that ail easential points and questions of scholarships have been considered by the actor. But this is not the secret of its power upon the soul. That power resides in its charm, and that eharm conaiets in its poetry. An actor who is tine only at points is not, of coure, a perieot aotor. The ran. ark of Coleridge about the acting ot Kdui und Keen that it was l.ke 'reading Miakspesie ly Hashes of lightning." Las misled many persons as to Kean's art XJacreadv bears a similar testimony. But the weight of evilcr.ce will satisfy the readar that Kean was, in fact, a careful ßtadent and that he never neglected any detail of Lis art. This, Mr. Winter believes, ia certainly true of Kdwin Booth. In the level plains that lie l-eiween the mountain pnks of expression Le walks with as sure a footstep and as firm a tread as on the summit of the loliiest erat; or the verge of the steepest ahye. Iiis ahakspearean scholarship is exttniive

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T.OOTII AND and sound, and it ia no lets minute than ample. His stae butiness has bsen arranged, as stage business ou.dit to hi; with icicntitio precision. If, as Kdu Jtic' ar I 11!, he i seen to bo abstractedly toying with a ring upon one of his lingers or unsheathing and sheathing his dancer, those apparently capricious notions would be found t be done because thev were illustrative parts of that monarch's personality, warranted by the text and con. ext. These are little things but it is of a thousand little things tiiat a dramatic performance is composed end without this cue tor di l.:ü, which must be preci", logical, profound, vigilant, uuerring, and at the same time always unobtrusive and seemingly involuntary, there can be neither cohesion, nor symmetry, nor nn illusory image consistently maintained; aud i.ll great effects would become trirkt of mechanism and detached exploit Of theatrical force. Kdwiu liooth, coming after Forrest who was its original in Acierioa, has made Kiche ten so entirely his own that t o aotor living can sttnd a comparison with him in the character. Macready was the tint representative of the part, as everybody knows, and Ins performance of it was deemed magni;ioeut; but when Kdwin Booth ao'e 1 it in London in lvO old John Byder, the friend and advocate of- Macrertdy, who Lad participated with him in all Lis plays, said to the American tragedian, with a broken voice and with tours iu his eyes: "You Lave thrown down my idol." Two at least of those great moments in acting that everybody remembers were furnished by Booth iu this character -the defiance of the piasked assailant at Hour', and the threat of excommunication delivered upon Van d.u. So spectator possesned of imagination and sensibility ever taw, without r.tter forgetfulnees of the etae, the imperial entrance of that laiche. ten into the gardens of the Louvre and Into the sullen presence of hostile maesty. The same spell of veniui is lelt in kiudred momeuts of his great impersonation. His laro, standing in the dark street, sword ia hand, above the prostrate bodies of C-sxiv.s aud li'ideri,o, nnd as the sudden impulse to murier them strikte his brain, breathiug out in a blood-curdling whisper, "How silent is this town!" Lis Jtaiuccio, hairing at the door of the banquet ball, and breaking down in hysterics of ejected gleeand maddeninar axony; Lis Lear, at the supreme moment of intolerable torture when he parts away from Gunenl and llcnan, with Lis wild scream of revengi s that shall be the terrors of the earth; his ll-c ar l HI, with the gigantio F.DWIN r.OOTII AS IAGO. effrontery of Lis "Call him again," and with Lis whole matchless and wonderful utterance of tbe awful remorse speech with whioh the king awakens from Lis last earthly sleep those, atucng many others, says Mr. Winters in eonrlubion, rn k with the best dramatic imagea that ever were ohronio'ed, and may well be cited to illustrate llooth's invincible and splendid adequacy at the great moment of bis art. Mr. Booth's professional career is a familiar story, b'ome ten years ago he appeared In London, and, in eonjunction with Henry Irving, fulfilled a brilliantly successful engagement of many weeks' duration. Extending Lis tour to tbe continent, be also appeared in Berlin and Vienna, where be gained from German critics instant and cordial recognition as an aotor of the first rank. Some time after his retarn to America be formed an allianoe with Lawrence Barrett, and until the death of that admirable a "dor in March, 1801. the two were seen together in a repertoire of Shakspearean and other standard plats. The allianoe was a most timely and happy one, and the tours of Booth and Barrett were plisnomsuaUy successful both from an artistio and monetary point of view, lhe splendid results of so rare a combination of histrionio talent bave already taken their place among the most glorious and lasting tra litione ot the American atage. Mr. Booth also appeared for one asason with Helena Mojeaka. Mr. Booth's last appearance on tbe stage occurred in Brooklyn over a year ago, and a few weeks after the death of Mr.

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Barrett, ginoe that time bis health bas been gradually but steadily failing until the present crisis Las been reached. To name the players who at one time and another bave supported Mr. Booth would be to compile a list ol the most illustrious actors and actresses of the last thirty years. During his 'prenlioo days in the far West he bad the support of trank Mayo, of the gifted Julia Dean iis7De. still held in loving memory by old playgoers and of other players equally alls and equf.lly well known. When he first appeared iu this city as a star in 1'57, urnonj the members of tbe company which bupportcd him were William F, Burton, whose name ae a roaster comedian is secure Charles Fisher, only yesterday gone from among us; Mark bmith, Thomas l'lacide, Sarah Stevens and Mrs. Hughes. In later years Mr. Booth has had the support of Williarn Davidge, James II. Stoddard, Humphrey liland "Dolly" Davenport, John Dyott, David (.' Anderson, Charles l'eters, Charles Barron, F. C. Banys, Kdwin L. Adams, John Mct'ullouah ar.d t redtriok Warde, and of Ada Cluton, Julia Barrow, l.fiia Germon, Jeffreys Lewis, Kleanor Carey, Alex:a Fisher Baker, iiariu Wilkins, Fanny Morant

r.ARKZTT. and Minnie Galw. What delightful and luminous rec-iiieotieus these names recall! The I'rivatc Lifo r Kdwin Booth. Kdwiu Booth, tbe actor, is among the most famous personages of his time, but Ldwin Booth, the inn a, ia known only to a few. It has been sid of him that the general public regard him as one saturated with saduens. isolated from cnmpautotiehip, lo?i!y and alone. This (stitnate is in a measure a just end truthful one, but only in a measure. Those who have the good fortuue to call Mr. Booth friend know him as a man ef tender heart, lively mind and p'ayful huiuo, and with ken sympathies which respond quicily and cordially to the joys and sorrows of others Despite the almost unvarying successes of bis professional career, his privat lifo La been darkened and Faddeacd ly heavy jrifs and terrible atiiictioni. 1 have written that in his early youth he was the constant companion of bis father. He was moro than that. lie was while still a boy the mentor, cuardian und friend of one of the most wayward and ere?ntrio geniuses the world has ever known. Humor, grief and pathoe were strangely mingled in his let in those days, and be grew to manhood thoughtful and pensive beyond his jeats. Sickness, want, cold and EDWIN EOOTir AS IIAMT.ET. Lunger were bis familiar companions during his curly wanderings iu California and Australia, and then just when his success was assured came lis first great eorrow, the news of his . father's solitary and untimely daatb. While fultillinr an engagement in Itichmocd in lrt5S, under the management of Mr. Joseph Jetlerson, Mr. Booth met for the first time Miss Mary Devlin, the gentle and beautiful woman, who a little later became bis wife. His first lovo embodied ail that ia gracious and re3ned in womanhood, but death all to soon put a period to their happy union. Durinj bis first visit to England, in 1(61, his daughter, Edwir.a, now Mrs. Grossman of Boston, was burn, (in his return to America he established his Lome at Dorchester, Mass., where bis wife died suddenly in Febiuary, lSCil, while the husband was fulfilling an engagement in New York. Mr. Booth had only partially recovered from the fearful blow of h:s wife's death when the assatsiuLtioa of Linooln by his lunatin brother es rue near breaking his heart and blasting his lite. Mr, Booth, who wes then aoting in Bostot:, at onee closed Lis engagement and resolved to leave tbe stage forever. Nearly a year passed before Lis friends could prevail upon him to reconsider Lis resolution. As time pnssed and tbe cordial reception the publio jiave him reawakened bis interest in Lis profession, he resolved to build and conduct the noblest temple to the drama yet erected in America. He expended more than $1,000,000 jrsirs imcTi' kooth. In the erection of lieoth'a theater, and the sums spent in its rosnagement were equally generous and lavish. Tbe final failure of this noble venture, whic!i did so much for the advancement of the Americas) etage, was a disappointment from which Its enthusiastic projector bas pever recovered. Mr. Booth's marriage to Mary MoVtcker, who died some years ago, was in tome respcots most unfortunate (n its iiiulti, but bis later years- bar

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been brightened h? the loving and tender care of his daughter, Kdwina, and tbe companionship of her and her children. In his present eickness his daughter is seldom absent from his side, and her fidelity and devotion are beautiful to behold. One of the dominant traits of Mr. Booth's oharacter is his un flawing loyalty to old friends, and many a furgottea footlL'bt favorite has been nisda comfortable in Lis or ber last daye by the eharity. as generous as it wee unobtrusive, of the great actor. In tbe bestowal of charity Mr. l'ooth bas always shrunk from publicity, hut the story oi many of Lis good deeds deserve to be printed in letters of go'd. In bis conduct toward Lis fellow-players, Mr. Booth has always shown the generosity of true genius, and a hundred and one stories are current illustrative of his kindness and bis quick appreciation and rcoognition of merit in others. Touchincr this matter, Emanuel Lederer, who was Mr. Booth's manager during his European tour in ist;i, relates an interesting incident. "When Bogurnil Dawioon, the great German actor," said Mr. Leyerer to me the other evening, "visited thie country in lsGo Mr. Booth went to see bis performance of 0(e!lo and at the clote of the third aet visited Pawison in his dressing room, and after praising warmly bis masterly personation of the Moor, invited him to enaot Otlulo to his (Booth's) Jaio. The invitation was accepted, and together they played most successful engagements in New York, Boston and l'hiladelpbia. A warm friendsntp sprang up between the two men. and Dawison earnestly urged Booth to visit Germany, assuring htm that ho would ba cordially received. It was, I think, the recoLection of Hawi-on'e advice which,, in 1S9.5, induced Mr. Booth to visit Germany aud Austria." For many years whn not professionally engaged Mr. liooth resided in Boston, but more recently Le Las made Lis Lome at the Player' club, in New York, of whioh he was thefoutid-r and which he has most generously endoe 1. One of the chief ornaments of the house of the club, itself a gift from the founder, is .Sargent's famous portrait of Booth, reproduced with this article. This portrait euggeeted the following beautiful lines by Thomas Bailey AlJrich. wuioh Lave now an especial tauoliuess aud pathos: That fnc which no man ever saw Aui I rum his int-iuorr bauistiel quite, With eve- iu hi ll are 1I.iu!cI'h awe Ana Curiliual ltichoiiou's sui.tlo liht. Look from tins f.-xni". A niitr's Laud ll-ct the matte r-pla rr lure. In tho (air ttmpio that lie planned Not far hin. elf. To us most dear ' This liun. of him! "It wis thus II- look il; Mich palli r to.ichel hU cheek; IV til that sain (;' lie erected us Nay, ti the man. coma It bat speak !" SaJ words that .lull hevanl .oiuo day ! ar fail the dar ') cru.'l Tunc, Wti j-e hie.tth e. ps mortal tlmics aTay, buiro lon this linage of his prime, Tliil otiiers ttmidiog in t place Where, favcaj;!iobt". w.; co:iu uo more, Miy know wl.ai majesi 'I he geutlo prince of pla k.is wore! MOVING STEADILY VtSTvVARD.

The Center of Po-iulat Ion Follows the Sun at the Il.ite of a Yi.rd per Hour. Boston tiluba. In a recent speech Senator Dawes made pointed referencatothe mar veioua growth w hich the western eoction of the L'nited States has achittveJ 6ince his entrance into public lifo. The ccntinuousnesa of this growth is ehown by tho steady westwerd iiiovetnent of pojiiilation. When the census of ÜS-jO w.ti taen, two years efter Mr. Dawes' public carter began, the center.of population wrs l ocated at a point twentytiiree miles southeast of l'arkersburr, W". Vu. The census of 1S00 puts the point twenty miles east of Columbus, itui. Here ia a westward movement of l!Jd miierin forty years, civini an averape rat of 5.7- milea t..r year. If the measure m on t is carried kixty year a further back, to the census of 17ÜU, it is found that theru ha?j been in tha liundred years a movement westward of iili) in i I erf, tli u center of population having pushed front n pioint twenty-three milea east of Haitioiora, MJ., to tho locatioa Indiana noted above. Tha rate of progress for tho whole period avenges 5.UÖ tuihs a ysar, or eventy-threo feet a day. In other words, for a century the center has beou tnovinir westward at an averse rate of a yard an hour, with one foot thrown in every twenty-four hours for good measurement. Thealowt-st progress was made in the eecond decade, from S00 to 1810. In this period the population center achieved only thirty-six miles of westing, or at the rate of about two feet, two inches per hour. The ewifleet progress caTte in the seventh decade, from 1SVJ to ISf.O, when tho center move! westward no less than eighty-one miles, or at tha rale of about four fee: teu inches per hour. During the last decade of tho ceneu enumeration, from 1SS0 to LS'JO. the rate dropped n littie below the averaze. forty-ei!it mi lea of westing being made, which would boahout two feet eleven inches per hour. We may udd, to briujr the estima'.e down to the beginning of 1SJ:, that, if the rate of progress noted in the last cen.su decade has been maintained in the lust two aud one-half yeara eince tho eaneus was taken, the present center is found at a point eight nnlo eaet of Columbus, Ind., about half way between that city and Wavr.esburg. And the census of 1900 will, at tho Eime ratio, brinj- it to a point nearly two miles pouth of I niontown, Ind. It is a curious fact that while the westward movement of the population ha3 rovered noleea than ! of longitude ('. LT 7"). this movement has run on almost a straight line, the extreme northern and fouthern vnrie-tion embracing lean than .J of latitude f IS' 50"). To put the contract more distinctly, we may eay that, while the western movement for the century aggregates 005 miles, the extreme northern and eoutbern variation is a little under twenty-two miles, and the finishing: point of the line is onlyix miles south of the starting point. The sliphtness of this variation may bo taken as eiiowing that, if you divide the United States by tho thirty-ninth parallel of north lstitude, the growth of the population in the two sections thud made has been very nearly equal during the 100 years covered by the eleven censuses. In view of the fact that the tide of immigration from foreign countries has sot mainly into the northerm section, such an equality in the growth of tho population is a development that would hardly havo been looked lor. A Grnilunte ami Iirownlhglte. Waverly Magazine, A bright young married lady who had been attending some public and private readings in the citv discovered that her doorbell was out of order. he put up a card upon which was written: i'iell out of order please wrap." Her husband returned. looked ftt tho card, and calling her to him Baid ; 'Been out today, dear?" "Yes." "Been to the Browning- reading?" "Yea, love." "When is thera another?" "Tomorrow night, üh, I seo you aro interested, dear," said she delighted, "and you want to go, don't you ? I'm tto glad." "Well, not exactly," returned tha husband, "but I was thinking, my darling, that I would go if " "Yes, if what?" "If vou " Yes. if I " "Well, my darlinsr," said ber husband, "I will go if you will remain at home and learn to spell 'rap' 1" Dyspepsia in its worat forms will vield to the use of Carter's Little Nerve Tills, aided by Carter's Little Liver Kills. Pose, cos of each aftsr catiae.

POST PRANDIAL REMARKS.

TOASTS RESPONDED TO AT BANQUET GIVEN MINISTER GRAY. 3Iiniter Gray Spoke In His Happiest Mraiti, Thanking Iii Ft llo Democrat 4 ror the Honor Miotvn Ulm The Hun. Charles L. Jenett's Splendid Toast. AsTiiE .Sentinel was unable to publish the toasts responded to at tho (iray banquet by Minister (iray and the Hon. Charles L. Jewett last week they are given today. Minister Gray's remarks were as follows : Jit Fellow Democrats I desire to avail myself of this oyportunity to extend to our generous host and to all those who are present my moet sincere thanks for the honor shown me by this splendid banquet given in my behalf. Ihere is tine thing in life that a man should value hig'.ier than the ii-ctmg honor of of pubiio pisition. It is the esteem, good will and friendship of Lis fellow man. ihe many hundred letters and telegrams whioh 1 have recfived since my appointment as niiuister tJ Mexico, all expressing kindly regard and good wishes lor my stic.;e-s ana happiness in my com.ng new lield of Ubor, and the many receptions given me by kind Iritnds here i:i Indianapolis during the past two weeks, olosinj with this magailicent banquet and mst enioyable occasion. 8i overwhelm me witli kind considerations that 1 cannot now Lud wcrds to adequately eipien tbe deep feeling of gratitude thut Li is my heart lor the same. I see assembled around this sumptuous board representative democrats from every part of the state, whose preseuce on this occasIou is a huh compliment to us and I would be less than a niftu it 1 did not feel tiie deepest sense of appreciation for their attendance. And while A am exir ssiag by words, as best I can. my Learlteit appreciation of the many exhibitions of friendship, 1 am not unmindful that the highest evidence which I can give of my appreciation is to try to discharge the responsible duties of the exalted and honorable position, which, by the gracious consideration of the president, f shall soon Le called upon to fill, in tucii a manner that neither ttie president nor my frieuds hall regtet the conudeiice tepoted in me. Mexico, the com, try to which I am accredited e minister of the I'mu-d Mates, is full of historical reminiscences and rich material resources, ltthall be uiy highest ambition in discharging the duties of my mission to pro mote tio iriendly relations now existing between cur government and people aud the government and people cf Mexioo, and to use my beit endeavors to iucrea.d commercial intercourse beiwueu tii em. The territory of our own country and tbtit o Mexico lying canliauous, their institutions similar, and rao't having a common de-tiny in the experiment of free ßovernmtu there is no just reacou why closer friendly relalioua and a more extended commercial intercourse abould not exitt between tiicra. 1 hope to prove worthy the honor conferred upon lue by the preident aud the kindly consideration aud esteem shown me by ray frieuds, and 1 eh.ill aiweys remember tLu occasion as one of tho most pleasant reealiecions of my lite. Asain tUeoking you for the honor conferred upon me by this occasion, J sincerely wish that happiness and property may abide with you, euch ai.d nil. fcr many years to come. Thu Hon. Charles L. Jewatt spoke us follows: Miu Ciiaiumax The occis oa is auspicious, the purpose patriotic, tiiu pieaeur-e inspiring. To our LouiTid guest greeuacs, good cheer, fraterntl regard. V e hid Lim forth upon Lis high m sbiou wt;h aweiling hearts, for proud indeed the station of one chosen to ralect abroad the splendor cf this imtion at this golden tune. Tne shadows already Petrin to lall ou one cjntury of en teavor aud of ucUievement With expectant facs we turn to tho radiaot coming of the next, and it please God. tbe greatest of all the centuries. Not alone from our ow n exuitact hearts shall come the son of triumph, h'vtn now at Chieasro, the marvelou cauital of wtnterr o.vilization, tliere atsmbies a mighty cjmpauy. To the shores of our own landlocked sea conn all the nations and join the autbem to our country's glory. The uuion is not any Joni-er experiment, or hope, cr sacrifice. In some measure these were always. In all the past, wherever man with halting distrust and holding yet fait to much of old errors nnd old wrongs ventured and permitted somewhat of seit rule, there was experiment. Whenever and wherever, in captivity at the stake or on the field of blood, taint or patriot has pined aud died, there was acriüc. Wherever and whenever humanity has strained with bursting heart to break the chtiLS of intolerance, or beat with bruised Lands the iron bars of circurus!an:o, there was hope. Because of tlite, hut more than these, a the union. These were the voices crying iu tha wilderness of oppression, '"1'iepare!" The A in rr. can union was the coining aud the consummation. The destination of our cuet is Mesho! Tha restlos reiutdio of the southland! With a history tint tells of a people far advanced in the arts and material progress before the dawn of our latter ciriluattou. A laud that oi'ce presented to mankind a t.tran;e admixture of religion aud intolerance of refinement and cruelly of art and barbarism, for whtch time aflords no parallel. A land rich in soil and mine, but poor in all else, equally the eay prey of the early Spaniard or the latter Austrian, and equally oppressed by the native ' Montezuma or the alien Maximillian. A laud of which it mijht have one been said: "Where tho virgins resoft as ths rises they twine, And all t-e to.,- spirit of man it divine." Bot bow wonderful the change! Propinquity is subtle but persistent. It compels change cr overthrow with r.atious as with individuals. Friendly propincuity tenda to equality, and so either lifta or lowers the weaker. It was impossible, therefore, that our well-disposed and adaptable neighbors eould exist on the confines of our own dear Und and not assimtlate a large measure of our wholesome national life, Mexico ad vancee to a permanent greatness which, though based upon her ample resotiroes, is, we may say without boasting, inllueuced, nay almost compelled, by the friendly proximity aud example of these United States. To the peace, prosperity, Integrity, and if needa be the protection of that republic, our friendly resoives are pledged. But what of our other boundary to the north, where an artiticial and arbitrary line marks the bounds beyond which our flag Las not yet gone? What of that? Opportunity is beooming circumscribed. Progress takes on fetters. Our young men long for wider fields of action and thirst for adventure. The great heart of our peopla casts aside the cautious phrase of diplomacy and Las adopted that construction of the Monroe doctrine whioh Benton declared was a misconstruction. Whea they look wiih the eager eyes of patriotic fervor upon our glorious flag they see mora than stsrs and stripes. They know that when ths fathers fashioned tho Hag they wrote within the priceless folds an invisible motto that should not be read of men until the time when thie nation should be the proudest of earth, 'lhe hour ia at band, and eye of faith may see outlined upon our banner those words of manifest ürstiny which are at once a dee aration and a command: Americans shall rule America. Oar guest carries with Lim the Ligh distinction of Indiana's favor aod s'ioice. Aod to be a choice of Indiana ia the at.atrs of these states is not only a high, but, if the term may be permitted, a peculiar distinction. It can not be too often told or too earnestly repeated tbat the erowoing glory of Indiana's sons, living or dead, is that when chosen for partiotpat os in the greater field of national alialrsthey have won their recognition upon their merits. Is this a distinction? Bead the roll of the adnata of the United Mates and you have your answer. Tbe blight of tbe millionaire in politics has never fallen on Iudians, and she has never been shamefully forced to the miserable refuge where only "The jlngllniiof thegnlnra Helps ths hurt tbat honor feels," And so it happens tbat brains, not money, bat btts tbt wuiauiiits for sJwiisiea to tLe

Tst of Indiana's great, where are written ths names of Morton. Hendricks, McDonald, Harrison, Gresham and Gray. To be a great man in public station is to ba lofty in purpos. modest ia self-estimation, earnest in endeavor, faithful to friend, generous to foe. It is to be loyal to publio trust, to party, to country. It is to enter upon the discharge ot dut7 with courage in a spirit cl slfiiacntice. To such a ons 1 now wish health and Lappiuass, to our guest, Mini.ter Is tao F, Gray. THE COMMITTEE ROASTED.

Chairman of the Prison Committee impresses His View. The rcgulsr quarterly mceiinz of tha etatd board oi charities was held Tuesday. Secretary Johnson mado a lengthy report cf the condition of the institutions visited by hi ji throughout tho 6tate. A clipping from the Fort Wayne Timrg of thel'ith waaread. It referred ia scathing t?rms to the rottenness and corruption ia tha management of the home for feeble-minded children, saying that tho trustees had known for a year past of the wrong-doini of "hypocritical Lishop I5!ake." Mome interesting and sensational developments were promised in the near future. Tho ccnt-mtd of this articla were discussed at r-ome length, but just what action, if any, the board took upon it is not known. An investigation will probably be made befcro anything ig read public. The committee on prisons submitted the following report, which was adopted: To the Board of Mate Ciiarities: At my suggestion Secretary Johnson and I ip tit a wcer, frrca the llth of last month to ti.e l:h of ttie same, in visiting and carefully inspecting our slate pruons and relormatories. Wo also bpent cue der on our retain at tbe northern hospital for the ir.sne, as we could do this without aiditional mileaze. The secretary s rtport will probably give in detail an account cf t ur observations cf our interviews with ofiicers at 1 inmate, and our suggestions and advice. I deem it proper, however, as chairman of your cotnm ttee ou prisons, to refer to ti.e t.vca.leJ inrestigation by the committees of the lata legislature of certain cuarges preierred against the warden and directors of the southern pr.son. The unfair metho.ts c-l that investigation and the character of the s.iority and majority reports are such as twtva usually occurred, and as will continue to occur in instant. ons under T &rti j4 n control; aud tiie honest witness, who is guarded in Lis statements of facts, and cautious in expressing opiuions, and impartial between the contending parties ia sure to be misrepresented by one party, and eometimea by both. As the pr.isecutioa and dcfenEe for it waa not properly an investigation proceeded I carefully read the reports and editorials in four newspaper9, and when the proceedings stopped they were not Cuished 1 reread tbe teiti tneny as given in the papers. As the retort in one paper severely reflected upon our te cretary s testimony, and charged Lim with being the guest of the warden's family, and with identifying himeelf witu the defense cf the warden and prison management, 1 proeared the sworn FtPiicgrnpher't type-written copy of Secretary Johnson' testimony, both direct and upon cross-examination, and read it with great care; aud I desire to say that the Focretary's statements 1 believe are true, and his opinions si therein expressed agree with lay own. Upon iavesticatinj the other chargea I found the pecrctary slept during the investigation ia tin Loue belonging to the stats, a part of which is occupied ly the war lea and his family, and that he took Lis meals, not as a guest ot tue warden's family, but as the guest of the state bearding house, and et the tame table with members of this committee of both parties, hence no censure can attach te Lim oa this aocount. In conclusion permit lis to Etats that ons faet was elieited by the investigation above alluded to that gives a stronz additional argumeet egaintt ths ccnlnct system of lalor thai prevails ia our i r. sous this was that a Iars number of the eases of punishment were inllictsd at the instance or upon tLe complaint of the foremen and tcperintendents, who are employes of the contractors and not officers of the prion. Timothy Nicholson. Cuftlrman of Committee on rriaans of Board of State Charities. ILichmoiid, Ind.. April 24. 1S93. It was agreed that tha whola board should act as delegates to tho national conference of charities to be held in Chicago Jans S to 11. Heretofore only one or two members of tha board have been delegated, but tho conference is bo near this year that it was ' deemed expedient for all the board to go. It was decided to eubscribe for fifty cop'c-j of the proceedings of the national conference at Denver last year and fifty copies of the ono to be held in Chicago. This was done on account of the many applications to tho board for these proceedings from colleges and libraries, at well aa individuals throughout tho state. SENSATION IN A CHURCH. JInie. Schiriner-r.Iailtn Astonishes a Con ETeg-ition. (Hamilton llora'.J The musical service at the Centenary church last evening was a little out of tha ueurl line, owing to the presence cf Mini. fcchirmer-Mapleaon, the prima donna wh9 is to appear at tonight's operatic concert at the Grand. Tho prima donna's visit to tho church has not been, It i eeid, productive of entira harmony. Her appe aranca in church partook not a little of the naturo of a eurprise party, for few in the congregation knew that she waa to lift bar voire in song there. When cliertory time came and tha Ftewards started out on their rounds ta gather ia the eheckle, there was a movement among tha choir aingera on the right side and a hendsome lady came down to the front. Diamonds sparkled in her ears, at ber throat and on her fingers: there waa the frou-frou of costly fabrics; tha congregation looked up somewhat surprised and the air was filled with a buzx telling of mingied admiration and wonder. The handsome lady who was Mint. Hchirmer-Mapleson bean to sin; "Thera In a tireen Hill Far Away," by tJounod. One lady in the congregation, after sizing up the vocalist, walked out of her pew and left the body of the church, not to return until tho last note of the exquisite song hail died away and tha cloeine hymn bad been given out. Although not caring to so to the extent of leaving tha church, it is paid tbat tome other members of the congregation are not too well pleased over an operatic artist being asked to eiug to theui. especially as the appeared in such a theatrical way. But otherB of tbern fail to sea anything out of tho way in the singer using the glorious toice which tiod has given her in His praise No Worry. N. V. Weekiy.l Youne Author "What do you think oi my new play?" Friend "Hem I You're In luck, tld fellow." "Think so?" "Ye?, indeed. You won't be worried ta death by ticket speculators." Iledur;-d to a hi'icnc. Ii. Y. Wes.ly. Amateur Landlady "How do you manage to keep your boarders with such pool accommodations and so little to eat?" Mrs. llirudiet (confidently "I let them run a week or two behind with their bills, and they never catch up."