Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1897 — Page 1

VOL. 28—ISTO. 14.

ON THE QUI YIYE.

President Harrison, of the street car company, unless there is some decided change in his plans, will begin tomorrow morning, his self created job of making a martyr of himself for the benefit of the public. He will like, the King of France, march up the hill with his men, and Tuesday night or Wednesday morning he will march down again. It is, as Q. V. suggested last week, "playing horse" with the public that patronizes him, and without which he could do no business. His action is without reason or excuse. Here is the report of the committee on railroads, which has caused him to take this silly action: "Your Railroad Committee, to whom was referral the matter of car fenders, report the following. "We have written t6 Louisville, and received an answer from the Mayor, who says that so far as he knows they are giving general satisfaction. Your Railroad Committee would recommend that an ordinance be passed requiring the Street Car Co. to place car fenders on all their cars of a device satisfactory to the council^ We further recommend that they be required to reduce their present rate of speed at least one-tbird. Also, that they be required to slacken up at all street crossings, without regard to taking on or letting off passengers. Also, that in letting off or taking on passengers they stop at the near crossing on all brick or asphalt streets."

And here is what the council records show was done with the report of the committee "Referred to committee on railroads and city attorney to prepare ordinance and submit to the council in accordance with report."

This report, then, without any ordinance being before the council, is what Mr. Harrison feels justifies him in proposing to give to the people of Terre Haute the street car service announced for next week. The speed of all cars will be greatly reduced, all cars will slow down, without regard to passengers or vehicles, before reaching the first crossing of each and every intersecting street, all cars will stop on the near crossing to take on and discharge passengers, no street cars from Thirteenth street, north or south, or from south Seventh street, will be run further than where the line intersects the main line. People who want to ride can walk until enough of them go to the president^ and protest, with tears running down their cheeks, "D^ar, good Mr. Harrison, please let us have a street car system once more." Aud then the old service will be' resumed.

We have a good street car system, and it is Mr. Harrison's hustling abilities that has made it so. There can be no question About this. Nobody disputes this. And Tuore than that, Q. V. doesn't believe there is a general demand for slower service, except perhaps through the business quarter. Tint that hasn't been ordered yet, and no out: believes that it will

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Harrison himself. There isn't any excuse for the proposed street car service of next week, and to a man up a tree, it looks as if it wr»s another part of Mr. Harrison's programme to create the impression that the city otlicials 1 and the council are prosecuting him. He likes the business of being a martyr better than most persons.

Somebody will have to sit up o' nights with the Gazette editor, now that It. has been decided that Mike Brophy Is not to b( reinstated as superintendent of letter carriers under the civil service rules. Brophy, who is a clever fellow in a great many respects, was given the place without a civil service examination, and was discharged by Postmaster Benjamin because his remaining there was a detriment to the service. Heal civil service was carried out In the promotion oil Will Shepperd to the position of superintendent when Brophy was let out. There hasn't been much interest in the restoring of Brophy to his old position except on the part Of the Oaxette, and a couple of namby-pamby civil service inspectors who came on here from Washington, held a pretended investigation, insulted several of the witnesses who gave evidence, and theu went back to Washington to indulge in the civil service business of whitewashing. When it became evident that Brophy was to be put back. Postmaster Benjamin and Congressman Faris called for cards in the game, played them out to good advantage, and it seems that the case is settled. It is becoming evident that something will have to be done with the civil service law by congress. The United States courts have recently decided that an appointment for a lifetime is not in accord with the law, that a deputy can be discharged when anew bead takes charge of a department, as for instance when an United States marshal takes his office, and after this is done there isn't much left of civil service, as it is now administered.

It is well known that there Is nothing in the talk of a new brewery here, and that the talk emanates from one matt, who has been preparing plans ami furnishing the information to the newspapers. One night recently a well-known young man about town was In a south side saloon where the brewery builder happened to be. The man s.bout town was feeling tolerably well, and being introduced to the b. b.,hesaidsomething that didn't please the latter. The latter made some slighting remark, to the effect that he didn't know the? young man, and asked, "Who are you. any way?'* The young man know* a great many things, and among ithemj he knows that then*

isn't going to be a new brewery here. When asked this question, he leaned back against the bar, braced himself up, and remarked, as he put his fingers in the armholes of his vest, "Why! don't you know me? I'm the capitalist who is furnishing the money to build the new brewery." He made a hit with the crowd, and the brewery builder had nothing more to say.

Race week furnished some peculiar situations, but I haven't heard of one any more peculiar than that of a Methodist minister who entertained a visitor this week who came here on purpose to attend the races, old Hy, pools and all. At least so it was announced in the dailies.

Old Hy and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts have had a hot time in this old town this week. There wasn't anything in the way of games that didn't go but it seems tnat the game keepers didn't make any big money on the week's work. One game closed up one night early in the week two thousand dollars loser, and when it resumed play the next night with a new dealer, it ag$in had bad luck. One Logansport sport cashed in over eight hundred dollars one night, and before he closed his eyes in rest he had forwarded the money by express to bis home, so that it would be impossible to lose it. There will no doubt be a hullabaloo raised about the way things have been run this week, but it is the same old story of locking the doors after the horse has been stolen. In this case it was known that the horse was to be stolen.

Yesterday was "Terre Haute day" at the races. It might as well have, been known as Macksville day, or Riley day or Fontnnet day, as Terre Haute day. There were as many paid admissions from either of these places as from Terre Haute. It isn't any argument to say that the reason for this is that one dollar is too much to charge. If as many people from Terre Haute would pay a dollar as come from outside the city, the attendance would be gratifying every day of each meeting. It's because the race meetings are run by home people. If some outside men would come here, offer the purses that are offered now, and charge a dollar for admission, with the knowledge that if any money was made it would not be spent as now, in track improvements or betterment of the grounds, or anything of that kind, but would be taken away from here to be spent, our people would fall all over each other in the effort to spend a dollar with the strangers. With our home people it is different, greatly to our discredit.

It is said that the owner of Joe Patchen, paid .John DioJs^spn^jie thftusaud. dollars for reducing his record a quarter of a second this week. This is about the best paid quarter of a second any man ever enjoyed. It's at the rate of *4,000 a second or *240,000 a minute, or $14,400,000 an hour, or $144,000,000 for a day of ten hours. If the popular Terre Haute trainer could put in a few days at that rate he would feel like retiring from the turf, as I understand he wants to do permanently.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

It often makes a man hot when you tell him cold facts. One touch of the milliner's fingers makes the whole feminine world akin.

When woman gets her rights she will be fcian's equal instead of his boss. Apprehension of the future depicts everything but the thing that happens.

The wis# man does not wait for fortune to kuock at his door he goes out to meet it. Some people go without what they want in order te get something they don't want.

All the money dropped in speculation is dropped by men who are trying to pick it up.

A jealous person is always in love, but it's usually more self-love than anything else.

The use of mourning envelopes does not render a person liable to arrest for blackmail.

Some statesmen are self-made, but the majority of the politicans are machinemade.

Passion makes a fool of a sensible man, and occasionally it makes a sensible man a fool.

About the only difference In a saloon and in a cafe is in the price charged for drinks.

If yon start on a journey and forget to take an umbrella with you it's a sure sign of rain.

There are unlimited opportunities for a man who is determined to make a fool of himself.

Men frequently forsake love for ambition, but they seldom give up ambition for love.

Thirteen is always unlucky for some one when it consists of a judge iCnd twelve jurymen.

Great minds may ran in the same channel, but more frequently they shoot different chutes.

The sensible man never complains. If he breaks his leg he is always thankful that it isn't his neck-

Women devoted to society are apt to become clever actresses, and their husbands Indifferent spectators.

Many a woman Is so shallow and artificial that her husband Urea of her as soon aa he has grown familiar with her tricks. is commonly Interpreted feeling. But the eye may moisten, the Mp may quiver, the voice tremble, while the heart remains unmoved. Disordered nerves are no sign of active benevolence.

ABOUT WOMEN.

If a woman be selfish, her selfishness is of the intellect—deliberate. We desire happiness more passionately than men. yet, knowing our weakness and the general forces, we shrink into a corner and weave plots. Men want the gratification of the moment they rarely create, as we do, out of the golden mists of young dreaming an ideal of happiness to be sighed for throughout a lifetime. When a man wants a seemingly unattainable thing he chafes and raves impotently, Romeo-like, until duty or a new fancy compel him to turn his attention elsewhere. A woman in like circumstances lies awake at night to plan and contrive means which will bend. Fate to her will. It was Juliet who carried out the whole scheme that made a Montagu and a Capulet man and wife. Even rigid justice has a tear of pity for the false view of life taken by eyes half blinded by a great love and it will be found that—paradoxical though the statement seems—the selfishness of most women has its origin in their strength of affection.

How many are unselfish, to the point of self-immolation, towards their own beloved, and calmly indifferent to the existence of all other creatures? Yet even in this utter devotion there is selfishness. We will do everything that can be done— sarcrifice everything—for our dear ones but we must have the deed recognized ftu known for ours.

We may. however, comfort ourselves with the thought that—be the proportion of selfishness between the sexes what it may—our special form of that vice is, for the most part, bred of the virtue that is in us, and fed by aflame not all impure. But, alas! truth compels us to look .at the "exceptions that prove the rule." What of the hard old maids with cold hearts and narrow brains'? dying out, and, let us hope will leave no successors. One other type will be quoted against us—the middle aged woman whose whole horizon is bounded by her own kitchen! If that temple be peaceful and flourishing, empires may go to ruin for all that she cares and if any domestic contretemps be impending, all the wrecked lives and broken hearts in the world weigh not as a grain of sand in balance. Selfish shi is, this worthy. Let us not prejudice ou$ case by argument on her behalf, but set' against her in the table of accounts the "crusty old bachelor and the mere man of pleasure, who haunts bis club and always monopolizes the warmest corner.

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For myself. I have taken up a violent dislike for the baked beans girl, and a feeling of loathing possesses me when I gaze upon the hopelessly vnlgar face of the girl who persists in grinning over the bon-bon box.

"What has become of all of the old ladies remarked a man the other day. "When I was a boy there used to be one in nearly every family I knew and visited— wrinkled, white-haired, veritable old women, who, by their venerable appearance, gave a dignity to the household. One by one these dear old ladies, so associated in my mind with the pleasant days of my youth, have, in the course of nature, joined the great majority and, oddly enough, their places have never been filled. "Other succeeding generations have

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passed through the customary graduations of childhood, youth and middle age, but there are no old people, or, at least, coterie of players, and everything about only an occasional specimen bowed down the performance will be thoroughly artis-

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fret over so unnecessarily— for, after all, what will be will be, and there is no use bruising one's self against a stone wall. "Now, thank the lord, they are all married and settled, and I feel as if I had taken a new lease of existence. I find that tiiere afe no end-of things I can enjoy that when ifwas a young woman I had no time or inclination for. So I have taken up paintand have become interested in politics Said social questions have developed a taste for society, have become tolerably proficient in bicycling and golf, and am generally enjoying myself. I certainly do not feel old now. Do I look it?" she added, laughing.

Certainly, no trace of old age could be detected in the superb physique and handsome countenance of the dame, who, twenty-five years ago, would have been relegated to the ranks of old ladies—simply because it was then the almost universally accepted motion that when a woman's children's entered upon their existence her day was. practically over, and that she ipust conport herself accordingly.

A decision recently handed down by an Atlanta judge will no doubt be a source of much satisfaction to mankind as having settled forever a vexatious question, aftd will no doubt take a great and growing anxiety from the minds of those females who are neither young ladies nor married women, but what vulgar people cfcll old maids. Not only is this decision 'ol supreme interest to all the spinsters in tile land it is of vital importance to humanity at large, as it settles forever a question which has been a debatable subject between eminent representatives of both sexes for ages. The decision is that an unmarried woman is not old when she reaches the age of 40. Judge Hulsey, who rendered this verdict, even goes further and says that an unmarried woman is

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ments on the magazine advertising girl. Is any other jaded creature, on the ragged edges of middle life, as tired of the eufcea ui grinning faces in the advertising columns the portion of their property exempted un of the magazines as I am? Every article which is represented as indispensible to our eternal welfare is offered to us in these columns by a buxom female, with a forced smile upon her face and a superfluous amount of self-satisfaction in her general expression of countenance. It is only in keeping with the general prominence of the female portion of society, that women should use their faces as advertisements for baked beans and axle grease and other commodities, but I should think that the constant reiteration of femininity would be a trifle wearing upon the opposite sex. If I, myself an incorrigible female, get tired seeing pictures of big, lumpy women, roguishly taking a bite of baked beans or pointing coquettishly to a sugar cured ham, or dropping a bon-bon playfully into a mouth that reaches from ear to ear, what must be the sensations of a man when he gazes upon this image of the being he has been taught to believe is only a little lower than the angels? As these pictures seem for the mdst part to be photographs, one is forced to the unhappy conclusion that the subjects who pose for them must be, members of the great army of female notoriety seekers, who, having been by .some dire mischance, kept unknown to fame, have decided to be seen by the public with an utter disregard of the sentiment embodied in the old proverb. "Fools' names, like their faces.

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yfOrtv-tourth milestone. The decision came in the Court of Ordinary wh$fi the end in the Cunningham case wasjreached. The Misses Annie and Lillie

Curiginghan made application for a homestead. Their property, it was claimed, had been mortgaged, and the opposition said a judgment was about to be levied on the property! which the plaintiffs declared extempt. The filing of the application for fhot$estead and the caveat filed by the attorneys representing the creditors forahed the issue which has evolved the decision that will be of interest to all unmarried ladies.

The basis upon which the application wi&s made ,for a homestead consisted of

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old respectively that they were dependent upon their own efforts for a support, and they claimed they were entitled, to have

der the homestead law. They were represented by Attorney Lavender R. Ray, and he addressed the judge, stating the contentions of his clients. In his argument W. M. Everette, who was the leading counsel for the creditors, quoted the definition of the word "aged" as given by Noah Webster. The definition is as follows: "Aged—Old having lived long having lived almost the usual time allotted that species of being applied to animals or plants as an aged man or an aged oak." Mr. Everette stated that if a man's allotted time on earth was three score and ten, he was not aged until he was almost through his years and until he was at least 65 or 70 years of age. He took the position that neither of the ladies was aged because they had reached the age of 40 years-

The decision of Judge Hulsey\ istaiued the demurrers upon three grot ds. He decided that they were not age as they so stated in their petition neivmtr were they dependent upon £hemselves under the statates of the code. If they were dependent, he said all other ladies were dependent as well, which could not be true. His last ground for sustaining the demur rers was that no schedule of personal property was filed, as the law requires.

AMUSEMENTS.

At the Casino To-morrow Night, •Edwin Travers' Empire Comedy Company. "A Jolly Night," which will be seen in this city tomorrow, Snnday, night, comes very highly recommended. The play is uproarously funny throughout, and does not rely upon horse play and vulgarity to entertain the people. It is clean and wholesome and is full of lively situations that call for abundant applause. This play is so good that the players laugh in spite of themselves, in some of the scenes, notwithstanding they see and hear it nightly. Incidental to the play many new and novel musical selections will be introduced, together with other pleasing specialties of high order. This company is headed by the clever young comedian Edwin Travers, who is best remembered as "Douglas Cattermole" in "The Private Secretory." Mr. Travers has surrounded himself with an exceptionally strong

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auu XcLTCVU: auu WIUUUMg kindly, bustling old ladies that I rexnem- wanderers return home through receiving

heir as it is possible to imagine. Who ui would dare to call the modern grand- presented as a prelude to the comedy, mother old f" '1 felt old once," remarked one of these

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remarkable end-of-the-century products, lug monarchs of Europe are troubled with **bnt that was years and years ago when defective eyesight. Among those who my children were growing up. and I was wear glasses in private are Queen ictoria, worried So death about their health and the King of Denmark, the Csar.tbe Queen their education and their morals and their Regent of Spain and Holland, nearly every manners, together with their future, and member of the House of Hapsburg, and the thousand and one things that mothers the Prince of Wales. .*: v?r a

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WHY DON'T MEN WED?

It is not only in France that the poor bachelors are threatened with extermination. The anathemas launched against the hardened criminals who obstinately remain insensible to the alurements of conjugal happiness have found an echo on this side of the Atlantic. A cry of alarm has gone up in free America: "Marriage is dying ou£! Men are not marrying any more!"

In the old and new worlds the moralists of both sexes are trying to discover the causes for the decadence of an institution which is as old as human nature, and which seemed destined to last equally as long. If the number of bachelors is augmenting with such a frightful rapidity it is because it costs more to live than it did in olden times, and a man dare not assume a responsibility the expenses of which appear to him exhorbitant. A prudent man, who manages without very much trouble to maintain a modest establishment, considers the fact of taking unto himself a wife as an act of prodigality for which there is no excuse, and looks upon the birth of one or more children as ruinous.

This holds good in Europe as well as in America. Marriage is an association, the expenses and first disbursements of which have grown beyond all measure during the last twenty-five years. The moralists of the masculine gender attribute this in general to the life which the woman of today leads, and which has made married life too much of a luxury for the average man. From the top to the lowest rung of the social ladder you will not meet, according to these pessimists,^a young girl who would consent, on starting housekeeping, to lead the life and accommodate herself to the simple tastes of her grandmother. The necessity of entertaining, the hunt after worldly pastimes and the passion for dress cause to-day—no matter what the social conditions areravages infinitely more serious than those of the past.

It is true that these complaints are, in a measure, justified, but are they not also somewhat exagerated? If married life is more expensive than formerly, it is not altogether due to the so-called exactions of woman. It is simply because civilization has made such tremenduous strides since the times when our grandmothers could., lead a life at once economical and patriarchal with so little expenditure. Words change their meaning in so much that, ho matter whatr classes of society are, the conditions of life are transformed and what was once called a luxury has now-become-a

The insiduous reasoning, in which calcu lating egotism is dissimulated under the thin veil of forethought, appear, so much more decisive to the majority of bachelors because they flatter their secret instincts. We must first recognize the fact that the uneasiness manifest by the men who are not willing to rea{gn themselves to the expenses and sacrifices imposed by a family life is not altogether chimerical.

In proportion as the march of civilization multiplies, the obligatory expenses of luxuries and the necessary expenses of the middle classes become more and more difficult to balance, a man who doesn't exercise a manual trade finds it more and more dif|cult to augment his means of earning ^livelihood.

At the time when the Anglo-Saxons of North America had the wealth of anew continent to exploit, a young household might easily amass a fortune. It was sufficient for an active and intelligent man and young woman, willing and able to work, having a modest competency at their command, to become successful in farming, commerce or trading. Professions even were far from exacting so long a wait for a successful issue as they did at that time in Europe. To-day the battle of life is just as hard in the new world as in the old.

Success comes to a man sometimes when it is too late—after his habits are formed. Some become celebrated and prefer the environments attending their fame to the sweeter monotonies of the domestic hearthstones. Others, without making great fortunes or gaining great glory, find their relaxations in club life.

In France it would be doing the clubs an injustice to regard them as institutions encouraging celebacy they are rather a refuge opened to married men who have fallen into the habit of not passing their evenings at home in order to avoid a tete-a-tete with a scolding wife. In America, on the contrary, the clubs are generally frequented by bachelors, and they are almost indispensible to these poor, forlorn, lonely ones, who have no family ties or hearthstones. Among civilized people on the continent, a bachelor manages to get along fairly well, while on this side of the ocean the question of servants poses incessant difficulties.

The extravagant manner of homes today and the habitual selfishness developed in the overheated atmosphere of a club, often deter a man from matrimony but they alone are not to blame. We must take count of cricket, golf and football. Would you believe it? Hippolyte of Euripides, who has nothing in common with the sickly hero of Racine, whose heart sighed for the insignificant Arcie, but the real Hippolyte of antiquity, the manly worshipper of Diana, finds his prototype in the United States. What matters it if instead of harnessing spirited to his chariot he turns the wheels of a bicycle with lightning rapidity He is no 1ess the son of the Amazon, that immaculate youth who sought in the manly

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exercise of the body a protection against the weakness of love. In France excessive gymnastic exercise does not seem to produce the same effect, but the passion for sport is less universal in that country than in America, and if we may believe the American women—who are trustworthy witnesses in the matter— they assert something that would not be suspected on the surface, and that is the fact that an athlete becomes insensible to marriage, his only thought being to develop his health and strength and to become worthy* to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors on the altar of Artemis.

Cricket and football protect the American bachelor against the wiles and seductions of the "summer girl." This summer girl is a product of American civilization which is entirely unknown in the old world. When a young European girl goes to the baths or to the seaside, is it not unlikely that she indulges in some matrimonial hopes? A fine -sandy beach is an incomparable battleground for husband hunting maneuvers. The "summer girl" on this side of the Atlantio, frequenting the most elegant and fashionable society resorts, knows nothing of such a chase. She is a precious and refined coquette, whose only pastime in this world is to be courted, and who draws back as soon as she has aroused a serious passion. Unhappy is the poor man who is green enough to whisper the word "marriage" in her ear. This unfortunate is almost sure to receive a curt refusal. Obedient to the instincts of a native perversity, the "summer girl" has a taste for "young blood"—the younger the victims the more delight she takes in torturing them.

An American bachelor who has passed through the fire of two or three "summer girl" episodes, becomes timid for the rest of his days. When the time was that marriage was admitted to be the sole reason for living and woman's chief aim in life, a man who had no physical deformity and had sufficient means with which to keep a wife, could, in all confidence, ask the hand of a young girl, for he could feel certain that his request would be kindly received. To-day, on the contrary, he must in nearly every case look for a refusal. A rich American heiress does not surrender her liberty to the first comer, and proposes to enjoy her independence and her fortune as long as possible, while a poor young girl relies on the diplomas she has received after a bard struggle, and looks upon marriage as one of the supreme resources which a wise woman will husband most jealously.

An American writer says: "But these men wait vainly for the word of encourJeteteMsY£ wnefr They resign theriiselves to feed way down in th^ depths of their hearts a secret love, and, fearing to subject themselves to a refusal which would wound theii* vanity, they guard their secret passion as they would their lives. These silent lovers never marry!"

The Grand Opera House. We are to have some fine attractions at the newtheater,during the coming season, as will be shown by the following list of bookings:

Creston Clarke, Twelve Temptations, My Friend From India, Never Again (Frohman), The Nancy Hanks, Otis Skinner, Clay Clement, Charles A. Gardner, A Man From Mexico, Heart's Ease (with Henry Miller, the author), The Indian, William H. Crane, Isham's Octoroons, Courted Into Court, Wilton Lackeye, Captain Impudence, Donman Thompson, Minnie Maddern Fiske in "Tess of the D'Ubervilles," Primrose & West Minstrels, Lewis Morrison in his new production, The Privateer, Banda Rosa, the great Italian band, greatest military organization of all Europe, The Girl from Paris, The Brownies, Span of Life, Shantytown, In Gay New York, Town Topics," 1492, Boy Wanted, Human Hearts, Little Jack Hornej Bessie Bouebill, Old Money Bags, James A. Hearne in Shore Acres, Margaret Mather, Theodore Thomas Chicago Orchestra, Oliver Byron, DeWolf Hopper, opera, E, M. and Joseph Holland in The Mysterious Mr. Bugle, Secret Service, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Tennessee's Partner, The Cherry Pickers, Roland Reed, Under The Red Robe, Francis Wilson, Katie Emmett, James O'Neill, Richard Mansfield, Donnelly & Girard, and fifty others for which the management is still •negotiating. They will be equally good.

The Y. M. C. A. .Lecture Course. The following is the list of dates for the Y. M. C. A. lecture course for the coming season: Clementine DeVere Concert company, November 10 Francis Hopkinson Smith, "Col. Carter, of Cartersville," November 29 Kellogg Bird carnival, December 11: Rev. Dr. P. S. Henson, on "Fools," January 16 George Ken nan, "Siberia," January 24 Gen. John B. Gordon, February 10 Barnard Listmann Concert company, February 28 George Riddle, Lady of Lyons," with orchestra, March 15 Welsh Prize Singers: March 28 J. B. Demotte, "The Harp of the Senses," April 16.

Licensed to Wed.

E. G. Fiedler and Eliza O. Bouchle. Jos. Schvableand Emma Jane Ball. Barton Stewart and Aivira R. Washington. Willard Banders and Martha lsabell Sanders.

Cats are to be dropped from the German military establishment. They have now an allowance of $4.50 a year apiece for training, medical care, food and badges. They are employed to protect the depots of military stores from mice. A German professor, having discovered a typhus bacillus fatal to mice, this will be substituted 'or the cats.

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