Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1896 — Page 1

Vol. 26—No. 32.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

Tbe decision of the supreme court this F'week regarding the apportionment act of the last legislature does not effect

Vigo county, so far as the election of representatives atid a senator is concerned, that is to say, it does not disturb the representative and senatorial districts heretofore in force. We will elect this fall, unless the 1886 act is overthrown and a«ew law passed at a special session of the legislature, as we did in 1894. We will have two representatives and one senator from this county, and with Sullivan and Vermillion eieot a joint representative. Previous to 1886, we elected two representatives and one senator, and were not Interested in a joint district. The la* of 1885 was passed with a view to utilizing the immense Democratic majority of Sullivan to elect a Democratic representative toy over coming the Bepublicau majorities in Vigo and Vermillion. The Democrats came near being disappointed in the first election that was held under the 1885 act, for in the 1886 election John T. Beasley, then a resideut of Sullivan, defeated 'Decatur Downing by tbe narrow majority of 20 votes. Mr. Downing contested the election but was not awarded tbe seat. There were other Democrats disappointed in that election, for when tbey^gerry mandered the state, and made a-congressional distriot to o*der for Hon. John'E. Lamb, it was expected that he would have no trouble in carrying it by overwhelming majority. But he didn't and was slaughtered in the honse of his supposed friends. This is all ancient history, now, and it is only recalled by the fact that the congressional district was made by the legislature that gave us tbe legislative apportionment under whioh we will elect this fall, unless another act is passed, which is not at all likely

It was announced semi-offlcially this week that Mr. Lamb's law partner, John T. Beasley, is to be the Democratic candidate for congress in this Republican distriot this fall.

Inother interesting bit of information was made public this week, to the effeot that our old friend, James T. Johnston, of Parke county, "our Jeems," is an active and pronounced candidate for .•governor.' a

Every day has been ''ladlea' day" at the court house this week, during the -Keller murder trial. Nettling like it l^cwas ever before known in a VJgo county trial. Women of all ages, sizes and ooloro have crowded and pushed and shoved to get a place for the privilege,of standing three oi #ur*h0urs ja,t a lime p^hen It Isn't possible to heicr mors thati one word out of fifty that is offered in |v testimony. It has been a long time N since we have had a murder case in

Kawhich circumstantial evidenoe cut as muoh figure as in this one, and the curiosity is so great that there is no doubt but that if the Opera house Gould be secured for the trial and an admission fee ^charged that Parke county could raise a handsome sum toward defraying the -enormous expenses of the trial. Many .persons have asked the question thiB week if Vigo county will have'to pay the costs in this trial, and the majority of people do not understand that the olerk of the court here certifies to Parke county the billot costs, and the board of commissioners of the county from I & which the case is venued must allow the *blll. A venued oase like this works a lj|^ hardship on those who are called aa witnesses, for in criminal aotlons witnesses are not allowed their expenses, it being the view of the law tbat it is a duty that every oitizen owes the community to give his time, or as much of it as is necessary, to discover and punish the perpetrators of a crime.

The contest that has been on for some time past for the position of chairman of tbe Republican state committee resulted in the election of John K. Gowdy on Tuesday, his opponent, Enoa Nebeker, of Fountain oounty, retiring before a ballot was reached. Mr. Nebeker is a "warm baby" when it comes to politios, and ke comes from a oounty where they grow\warm babies" but he couldn't out them

Jbtard this time. The Vigo oounty member of the state committee, Mr. Filbeok wl» a warm advooate of Mr. Nebeker, put the latter didn't get enough irotes tap he in the swim. Mr. Gowdy is pumpkins" as a politician, himfjas it was announced before thedis,ot conventions were held last month that he couldn't be in it from the start.

The results seem to establish the faot that he was in it before the start. Mr. Gowdy comes from the same county, Bush, that acknowledges to the birth of a very well known Terre Hautean, Ben Havens, and when they meet they call each other "Jack" and "Ben," like old friends do. When Mr. Havens was a candidate for commissioner from this state for tbe World's Pair, "Jack" Gowdy turned out and worked like a Trojan for tbe suooess of his old friend Ben Havens, and did as muoh as was possible for one man to do, whose party didu't have the selection, to secure that position for the ex-Rush oounty man. Mr. Havens, it is very well known, is a protection Democrat, and it would not tak«* very much to oonvert him to Republicanism, and possibly the success of his old Rush county crony will send him over Into the Republican camp.

StOW WOMEN WOULD 00 VJSRN, An exchange tells a charming story of a man who went to sleep the other day and dreamed he was In a oity governed by omen. It was scrupulously olean, and while walking around he saw three men arrested for spitting on the pavements. garbage barrel at the rear of each lot

was hand-painted and tied with blue ribbon. Mail-boxes were decorated with drawn work throws, and fire plugs had cushioned seats on top of them. Sweet pea vines were climbing over the electriclight poles, and a hand-painted cuspidor ocoupied a prominent place on every oorner. There was no business, not a team being allowed to pass up and down tbe main street for fear of making dust. The town was deserted save for the policewomen who marched up and down to see that no one with dusty shoes stepped into town. During the dream a man was hanged in the suburbs for being out with the boys the night before.

PEOPLE MP THINGS,.

The King of Portugal, when be appeared in public, in London recently., wore the orders of the Garter, of Christ, of the Tower and Sword, of Santiago, and of Our Lady of Villa Vicosa. Where* upon the irreverent Amerioan, who happened to be present, said tbat he looked iike a bargain counter on "ribbon" day.

An agent of one of the Alaska trading companies who arrived in San Francisco recently says the Alaska Commercial company is now, and has been for along time, operating a mine on Unga Island, the output of which average* $60/000 a month.. He says tbe ricaueas of the mine has been carefully kept a secret, and now is known to but few people in Alaska.

Three children of Charles Dickens are now living, Charles, the eldest Henry, the seoond son, who married the daughter of Antoine Roche, a Frenchman, who won some reputation as a tutor in the families of English noblemen, and Minnie, who is forty years old and unmarried. Miss Dickens, as well as Charles, have written for both English and Americau publications. There are seven grandchildren.

A New'Yorker has gone into the business. of searching out pedigrees, and styles himself a "pursuivant of arms." He says that the number of families in this country who are entitled to ooats-of-arms, but are ignorant of their rights is very large, tbe number being particularly great in the South and West, where the successors of ancient families emigrated many years ago, and have lost sight of their family rights in heraldry.

Of the new senators from Utah, sFrank Cannon, the son of Mormon Geo. Q. Cannon, is a handsome man of thirtysix, a graduate of Utah University, and has been a printer and editor. Senator Brown is a Vermont mau by birth, edu cated at Miobigan University, who went to Salt 'IiSke for his- health, aWSF^there built up a large praotioe of law. He is a brother of the Rev. Olympia Brown, and some people say if he is as able he will make his mark in the senate.

There Is a craze among young men for startling waistcoats. At the New York horse show this was very noticeable. The dudes wore, russet leather waistcoats of every conceivable shade. They also wore heavy ribbed corduroy. Another fabrio whioh they affected was English moleskin. The white waistcoat has also made its appearance with evening dress, and it is worn In white duok, white corduroy, and white Marseilles. White silk waistcoats are also worn with evening dress, but they become soiled if a man breathes hard.

Tbe first oase of a colored manbe ingap pointed to a publio office of any importance in Kentuoky occurred last week, when John Washington Postell was made steward of the Western Kentuoky Lunatlo Asylum. The place of steward is next in importance to that of Superintendent. Postell, although technically a negro, has llt.tle African blood, and praotlcally looks like a white man. This perhaps makes more significant the fact tbat his appointment is exciting general oomment and some criticism in Kentucky.

Miss Clara Barton, who is leading personally the Red Cross Relief Society in Armenia, exhibits a remarkable degree of energy and resolution for a woman some years past seventy, though her health is exoellent and she considers herself thoroughly equal to the task. Miss Barton lives In the old house in Washington that General Grant used as his headquarters during war times. She has always been associated with charitable sooletles, and at the olose of the Civil War she resigned her clerkship in the United States Patent Offloe to organise societies of nurses for service on the bat-tle-field.

The olty engineer's force is engaged in making surveys for the improvement of atl the alleys In the business quarter, between Seoond and Ninth-and-one-half street, from Walnut to Cherry, which are to b^ paved with brlok this summer. The olty commissioners' reports on the change of grades of these alleys have been approved by the council and the contracts will be advertised for at an early date. The work will oost many thousand dollars, and give employment to a large number of men during the oomiog summer.

The will of the late Mrs. Mary Miller was admitted to probate this week. By its provisions she gives her property on north Sixth street to her son, Henry G. Miller,.the home on north Eighth street to her son Charles, on the payment by him of 9500 to his brother Andrew, the shares held by her in the United States Baking Co., are to be divided between Charles and Andrew Miller, and her personal property is to be divided equally between all her children. Christian and Charles Miller are made executors of the will.

BAB'S'LETTER.

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HE "CLAIMS IT WAS PATE

that threw this woman into his arms, that made him realize that he was a man and not a spirit, and "then, poor, conceited, wretch, he thought he did penance fofhis sfrjE VhenUagot up" befbte the fcfr gregation and told them tbat he was the greatest sinner among them, but, like David, he had fallen, and that he had asked their prayers. ^.

Where was thedramatist's skill rOt did he count on all his audience being stupid? That wasn't a penance for that man. You and I know that once we talk a thing over we feel better. It was magnificent exhibition of the vanity of a clergyman. If, instead or gettina: up in the congregation and speaking his little speech, in whioh he compared himself to David, he had kept quiet with his sin ever before him, fed the hungry, warmed the oold, cared for the sick, and made his life the penance for his sin, it would have amounted to something. But no, with his magnifioenfc r*«\ity, he takes it for granted that all the1 orld, or all his world, Is Interested in his sin. My dear friend, generalizing, the world doesn't care about our sins unless they happen to be the kind that are considered bad form. There are only two people interested in our temptations and our falling or our resisting, and these are God and Satan. The sum and substance }f it all was, that this melodramatle clergyman, who, to the very last, says the only hap piness he ever had was when he was sinning, simply gave to his congregation a sort of gossip, a kind of exaggerated essay, with himself as the hero, and his sin as the obief incident, and nobody was the better for it. He shamed the church to whioh he t^elonged he shamed the father whose name he bore, and he did nobody any good. The best expression of penanoe is good works.

My dear good woman, just remember that TBCS CLERGYMAN WITH WHOM YOU FLIRT, spiritually, Is pbysioally, a man, and the toss of the hand, the drooping of the eyelid, the quiver of the lip and the whole dainty get-up is as attractive to him as it is to any other man, and his temptations are three times as great because you make them so. If you feel that you must tell a olergy man your sins, do it with a chaparone. The lovely library with its stained glass windows, the rows of beautiful books whose bindings tend to snake a soft framing to the pictures, the table covered with religious books and with religious symbols, the prie dieu, the soft carpet whioh sends forth no sound as the clergyman approaches you, all tend to what might be called an aesthetic penitence on your put. The place isn't oold it is warm. The fragrance of flowers is in the room, and yon feel how good a thing it is to be a sinner. Then yon tell this man of the sins on your soul. You dilate on your temptations. You quote from you? favorite authors, you whisper of the woman or the man whose effect upon you is least good, and you go away feeling yourself a salnjt. Though you remember that Reverend Iced Purple pressed your hand In such an expressive way when you left! And there is a pleasant smile about your lips and you feel sore that the pressure of the hand was from the man aad not from the priest. Possibly the next time he gives you a special blessing whioh includes a kiss on your forehead, and then—well, then is

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURI&Y EVENING, FEBRUARY 1,1896.

("Copyright, 1890.] NEW YORK, Jan. 81,1896.

It is the story of St. Anthony over and over again A saint

and

a woman, and

the woman is backed by the devil, and the saint—-well, not a la Kipling, indeed, It is the same story. It was told about St. Anthony this story, long, long ago and then, in a way, Hawthorne toldit in the ••Soarlet Letter," and then a more modern novelist told it again, but not quite in the same way, inasmuch as it was the saint and "not the syren, who did the temptlqg. But now a modern dramatist puts it upon the stage and audiences are horrified or pleased, wearied or delighted. But nobody seems to Totalize that some part of the same story Is being told every day. When woman was made, an experiment bad already been tried on man and subtlety was left out of his composition. In the creation of woman it was not omitted. From the very first she had what might be called^ little

of her own, and these little

ways were approved of and increased by her olose acquaintanceship with the serpent. if

WOMEN BEFORE CLERGYMEN. Too often, and I am a woman who says it, religion in woman is hysterical and dramatic consequently, in approaching a clergyman, nine times out of ten she looks for a certain amount of spiritual enjoyment. Sheijoys in laying bare her heart to him, she feels a keen delight in telling of her sins, and lingering over them as if they were virtues, and, I will give her tbe benefit of the'doubt, she for gets that this olergy man is a man as well as a priest. -If she is dainty, sympa thetic, charming to look upon, apd of that mysterious age whioh gives her the privilege of speaking a little more plain ly than a girl would, she becomes a firebrand that touches, not only the soul, but the heart Of the man who meets.her. Take the mm in the play. He is a High Churohman who fasti rigorously, who is stern and cold, sev§r«. and really more than bitter with the sinner. Most people are who have never been tempted He forces an unhappy girl to confess her weakness before the whole congregation Then there comes into his life a woman, hard of heart and sweet of face charming in manner and flippant of speech exquisite in dress, and with all the dainty touches that individualize a woman, such as a sweet perfume, about her..

another story. But you see how it begins. It would, be a good idea if you wtiuld remember that, while the Magda|ine confessed to Ohrlst and was forgiven, there is nothing told of her going around the world announcing her sins and dwelling oo the quality of them from the various churches^-

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he went out alone and weptbltterlv. He may have repented in sackolotb, but he wrought out his salvation in good works.

Phere came into my life once a woIan who had been In the habit of making just such confessions as I have deh&lbed. However, she was a good woman. After a while she footed no happiness in the church to which she belonged, and she became a member of the C^tholio .ohurcb. To me, she confided tlwgreat joy she ex pec ted from her first confession. She made it—but not where it"was warm, not where the odor of flowers was strong, nor where there was a soft carpet and a soft cushion to kneel upon, but at six o'clock In tbe morning in a cold ohnrcb, in a cold confessional and to a priest whom she could scarcely see. She began her pretty little story of her dainty little sins, as she had been in the habit of doing, when she was told to stop, and the priest ooldly and calmly informed her that she hadn't come there to gossip, but to accuse herself of doing wrong, to hear of the right, and that he didn't

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mances, nor did he desire to hear stories about her friends. The trouble is that women expect in a clergyman tbe spirit ual?to triumph so entirely over the pbyjrigUl that a fail is impossible. They forgf&tbat Satan dared to tempt Christ himself. What will he do with men Who ore fighting to overborne him and ytf^who are far, very. far, from being immaculate? The manliest of poets expressed in four lines what the average woman expects from a clergyman: "Be agod andholdine fWj/ With acharnx! ,-pH' Be a man and hold me -Mp With thine arm Hit is an impossibility, and yet, and yet, the world goes oh and the story is told, and the only sinner who really makes hts penitence worth anything is that one wlio fills his life with deeds that speak of the goodness of heaven and tell lof the n®toy of Christ. That is enough about t^e play and what it suggested

TAOT IN WOMEN.

^Speaking of women, I heard a clever one gjve, as^her idea of the best method of bonding a man, this answer: "Make him'ft creature of habit. Do you know hbw much truth there is in that? If you ate:in doubt about a man, try it. .Get Mfflipjn the habit of sitting in a certain

Wtabl£3 get him iii the hfcwwwiftt| your face smiling at him across the dinner tableland he is rather upset when he is opposite another woman. That woman who understood a man who had loved many women, that^jjffffaian who was neither young n^^Sutiful, Madame de Main tenon, sqpof Louis the Fourteenth: "He is used to every chair in my room, and if their places were changed it would annoy him. He is used to walking a certain distance every evening to see me, and to go further or less would be a trouble to him. I know the things that please him*! the food he likes, I know what annoys him, I know the people who are pleasant and those who are unpleasant to him, and I never contradict him unless I feel that he is in remarkably good health and anxious to Impress upon me how much more he knows than I do. Then I start a little discussion, but in it I never give a hint of the great knowledge I possess. I permit him to come out conqueror, and he forgives me and loves me all the more beoause of my seeming* ignorance. After a man has passed 40, the woman he lqves is the woman he is used to." I wonder if this Is true? I am tempted to believe it.

MOST -SIGNIFICANT WORDS.

Did you ever realize the value of maglo words—words that will bring you blessings or words that will result In your suffering? Words that you oould utter to your friends, and words that said to your enemies will bring all sorts of trouble upon them 7 Of course, the most important of ail words is "Abracadabra." This, written on a bit of parchment, and put in a silk bag, worn about the neok, will drive away all evil spirits, and bring good health to you. Could this have been the beginning of the scapular? People who were very wealthy got preoious stones or bit of gold, and had this mystic word written upon each, and then the preolous bit was oovered with a golden case, not unlike a locket, and swung on a string of pearls, gold, or of diamonds, as one's desire or purse permitted. By-the-bye, this was the name Callgontro gare to his favorite horse. If you hayeJilf ohllls (and oh is there anything W^ilithan a chill, unless it is the fever that comes after it?) then have "Abracalan" written on your parchment, and the chills will disappear as rapidly ac our monthly allowance. It appears, a* ordlng to history, that there is a certi iti amount of sex in these words, for what enrol a bad headache, a fainting spell or indigestion in a man will do no good whatever to a woman. For these ills a man should have, either on the parchment in his bag, or on his shirt cuff,-or, indeed, wherever it is most convenient, the word "Anamaaptas," while a young woman with a leaning toward headaches, and these other ills, requires "Anamzapta."

FOB GENERAL USB AROUND THE HOUSE,

when the kitchen lady is insubordinate and the children all show symptoms of getting the measles, the word "Agla" is handy. It wouldn't be a bad idea for people who have discovered its good qualities to have it painted on stiff cardboard in very large letters, frame it, and permit It to take the place of the wonted

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favorite plirase, "T'ell," but instead draw yourself up in the roost dignified manner, stare the serpent in tbe eye, and say, 'tOsyak" I do not know how to pronounce this word, and I beg that nobody will ask me if they is soft or hard one of the charms about the mystic words is that you can pronounce them as you please, for it is doubtful if, west of Calcutta, anybody but a few Oriental professors knows just how they should be uttered. I should like to feel tbat I am giving you muoh that is good in offering this mystio slang, but it seemed to me that, as words don't amount to so very mnch, there could be no harm in trying them. In tbat they are unlike patent medicines. If you have a ruby or a sapphire, or even an emerald sufficiently large to take it, get the word "Bedooh" engraved upon it, and all the money you want will come to your^|

motto which in many houses has formed In the brilliancy of armor will be intenthe chief decoration (T), [sifted, and the startling effeot a master-

If, id use the language of that immor- stroke of the electrician's skill. For tal Mr. ChlmmieFadden, "you're cbasin'j this purpose a superb electrical plant is yourself around the country" and meet carried by the oompany, under the a snake, you.need not trouble to use his supervision of a capable electrician. Anptirase,

IF SOMEBODY WOULD ONCT PROVE THIS, I would pawn the entire furniture and belongings of "The Hut" to get a ruby and have the dinky word put on it. But, alas! although I have heard the tale and am repeating It, I have never even met an Oriental gentleman who had struok it rich, so to say, by his mystio word. When you have an enemy and met him, hurl the word "Abraxas" at him, and immediately a ladder will fall on him, or if It is a she, her hat will go out of fashion* but whatever happens you will get the best of it. A really, righty enemy, one on whom you wish all sorts of dreadful things to fall, can be made to suffer dreadfully if you send bim sheet of paper with "Abrazapta" written on it. It seems to me that if these letters were spelled out on children's blocks there would be a great run on a's. Perhaps it Is because it is the first letter, and therefore difficult to learn. Well, I don't care very much, for in my own n&me I have the mystio letter Abounded on each side by the mystic letter B, so, though you can't find Venezuela, there Is no difficulty in discovering BAB

AMUSEMENTS.

S6L» SMITH RUSSELT

Sol Smith Russell, who is a favorite in Terre Haute, will appear at the Opera House to-night in a double programme, presenting his new play, "An Every Day Man,V and the ourtain raiser, "Mr Valefrtine's Christmas." It has been sdttaa time since Mx*. Russell appeared

deserves to have a good house. A WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE* M. G. Hochstetter, who is a travelling salesman for a Hannibal, Mo., shoe manufactory, gave a private exhibition of wonderful hypnotio powers at the Opera House Thursda3r night, and mystified those who were fortunate enough to be present. Mr. Hochstetter is a young man of twenty-eight, and has possessed this peculiar power since he was twelve years old, but it is only in the past year that it has developed to its present ex tent. The most striking feature about the man is his eyes. They are of unusual size and prominent. When he looks at you in a fixed manner, you cannot rid yourself of the impression that he is reading your very thoughts. In the exhibition Thursday night, he placed a colored man, a porter at the Filbeck house, under hypnotio influence with a few passes of his hands, and the man performed a number of feats that well might be called physically impossible under ordinary circumstances. For instance, he stiffened the man until be was rigid as a poker, and in this manner placed his head on one chair and feet on another, in whioh position the unconscious man sustained the weight of three men who sat on his body. In another test Dr. Glover thrust the point of a knife through the lobe of the porter's ear It brought no blood, and the man was per feotly unconsolous of the performance. Another subject he made believe he was a dog, and he ran about the stage searching for a rat, barking exactly like a dog would under like circumstances. He put Charles Fllbeck and James Crawford under the mystic spell, and made them believe they were little boys again, and they played tag about the stage in a most childlike manner. In a number of other instances he showed that be possessed the peculiar power in the most striking manner. Many persons who went to the exhibition as doubting Thomases, came away believing that whatever the power he possesses may be called, it is a wonderful thing. Mr. Hochstetter will give another exhibition at the Opera House to-morrow night, and it will pay every one to witness it. The prioes of admission have been fixed at 25 and 50 cents, and it will certainly be worth that to see him use this mysterious influence. TOMPKINS' GORGEOUS "BLACK CROOK."

The patrons and lovers of amusement will be regaled with a gorgeous representation of the ever perennial spectacular drama, Tompkins' "Biaok Crook," at the Opera House next Wednesday evening fresh from its revival of a year's run at the Academy of Music, New York, and the Boston Theater, Boeton. The magni fioent spectacle will be seen here with striking additions, notably tbe "Ballet of Gems," together with the grand ballets In which the renowned European premiers, M'lle Kraakee and M'lle Maveroffer, fresh frem terpslchorean laurels at Follee Bergeres, Parts and the Circus Cislnelii, have been especially engaged. marked Innovation will be the introduction of oounUess eleotrioal effects in the Amaxonlan March, where-

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other important addition is the "Trilby Ballet," and tbe olever Musical Marionettes. The celebrated Rixford Brothers, and the Great Bretoni, in his unique Chameleon changes, will certainly bid strong for thepublicappreciation.- This unrivalled revival of "Tbe Black Crook" employs one hundred people, who travel in hve special coaches at a daily expenditure that is only excelled by a representative Grand Opera Company or a Bftrnum Circus.

EIGHT BELLS.

There are at least a dozen laughs to the.,^ minute in "Eight Bells," as given by the Brothers Bryne, whioh will be presented at tbe Qpera House next Thursday and Friday evenings, with its' two carloadB of scenery. The brothers are aorobats of considerable skill and pantomimists of unlimited resources. The surprises in the way of unexpected disappearances, somersaults into third story windows, vaulting over walls and through walls where there is apparently no opening, and innumerable other tricks of the nimble performers keep the audience wondering and laughing without cessation. Nothing oould possibly be funnier than the horse and oarriage in which the lovers were to elope, which is made tbe means of some surprising aorobatie feats So also is the scene at sea, where the pantomimists have full play. This scene terminates by the complete revolution of the ship, the passengers turning over with it. Besides the Byrne Brothers there are several other exoellent members of the company who Introduce taking special?, ties.

NOTES.

Olga Netbersole is becoming as famous as Emma Abbott lor her stage kiss. A fair soprano was heard to olose the Gloria in a ohurcb servioe lately "World without men, ah me!"

Sarah Bernhardt's salary is $1,500 a week. Yvefcte Guilbert receives, under her present contract, $7,000 a week, and Calve earns $1,200 for each of her appearances. Olga Nethersole earns $250 a week. What with his salary and percentage of the receipts, John Drew makes in good times $500 a week. A competent leading man or woman, like Henry, Miller or Herbert Kelcey, Viola Allen or Isabel Irving, can be had for $200 a weefa The only player that has ever reoeived, even in this prodigal coHftttX, 9

Alte^gual £o that of Bern-

hardt was ~,Mmer. l^qd^es^a, .w Rdwin Booth* who knew ndthing^wfrout the value of money, once engaged the Polish, actress at a salary of $1,500 a week.

Clarence Merritt, proprietor or the National house, died on Wednesday after an illness of two weeks with brain fever. He had complained for some time with pains in his head, and bad been treated for the trouble by different physiolans, but uotblng serious was thought of it, when he took to his bed two weeks ago. He grew gradually worse, however, and for some days was unconscious. He had been a resident of this city for about eight years, beginning as a olerk for A. C. Bryoe A Co. He then was with Wm. Sohluer for a while, and then opened a tailoring and gents' furnishing establishment himself, In whioh business he continued until he assumed charge of the National house In June last. Deceased was thirtysix years old, and was a native of Louisville, where his sisters and father reside. His sisters, Mrs. Chas. Price and Mrs. Wm. Marshall had been with him slnoe a short time after be was taken slok. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and the Elks, and was prominent in the old Wabash and Iroquois social clubs, and at the time of his death was president of the Wabash olub. His funeral was held on Thursday, under tbe auspices of the Masons, and the members of the other organizations attended as escorts. The body was taken to Louisville for burial, Chas. H. Traquair and James K. Allen accompanying it as an escort from Social Lodge No. 86, A. F. fc A. M. of whioh he was a member.

Franklin flhge, an old and well known resident of this oity, died at his home on south Center street, last Sunday morning, aged seventy-two years. He was a native of Livingston oounty, New York, and was born January 10, 1824. He came to this city in 1839, and had lived here oontinuonsly since then. Ho was a brother of the late William H. Sage, and was the last member of the family tbat located here at that time. His halfbrother, Silas Finch, is a resident of this oity, and he also left a half-sister, Mrs. Charlotte Cory, who lives in Michigan. Mr. Sage was formerly engaged in the oooperage business on south Second street, but for several years bad not been active in a business way. He was married In 1857 to Miss Charlotte Stoner, of Canton, O., who survives him. He left three ohildren, Miss Florence the well-known musioian, John, who runs a restaurant near the Big Four depot, and Frank, of tbe Vandalia auditor's offloe.

"Fort" Heyden, the saloon owned by Louis Heyden, on tbe grade just north of the wagon bridge, was burned to the ground at one o'clock Friday morning. There is a rule of the fire department that no apparatus can be sent out of the city until tbe fire chief has been notified. When the word reached Chief Jones the building was practically destroyed, but the firemen were able to save Heyden's residence just north gf the "fort."

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3&'*} lis

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