Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 April 1898 — Page 1

Ju Gilbert

ON THE QUI VIVE.

The Indianapolis News has been printing sbme very interesting news this week concerning the recent investigation of city and county affairs by the grand jury. The most striking feature of the publications, aside from their remarkable disclosure of truths, is the printing of what is said to be testimony given before the grand jury. The members of the grand jury, and every witness before it, are sworn to absolute secrecy, and one is led to wonder what superior methods the News has of securing information. In his green and salad youth Q. V. remembers that one time, when he disclosed some of the secrets of the grand jury by way of a newspaper publication, he had his hair streaked with gray by being threatened with confinement in jail for giving away giand jury secrets. The printing word for word in the Indianapolis News of testimony given before the grand jury would indicate that somebody has committed perjury. J®||j V,

The Republicans are going to have a "love feast" in this city on the 14th of April. The "love" portion of the meeting is to be furnished by members of the party from other districts than the Fifth. It is understood that Mr, Filbeck, the district chairman from the Fifth district, will pose at the "love" feast as the "star eyed goddess of love," a part for which his sunny .disposition, his pleasant manners, and his conciliatory ways eminently qualify him.

There never was a time in local politics, HI least in recent years, when such a perturbed condition of affairs existed, as there is now in both parties. In the Republican ranks the "bosses," who are in control of the district and county organizations, are going about like roaring lions, seeking harmony. They will have harmony, even though they have to use a meat axe to secure it. The Democratic "bosses" have selected a ticket for the city campaign, and given orders that it must be nominated, and it has produced a state of affairs that makes things look like wholesale rebellion against the leaders if they are successful in carrying out their programme. It makes a very complicated condition of affairs, and the feelings that have been aroused will no doubt tnake the primaries of both parties very interesting this year.

A "good citizens'" movement has been "started in this city, in the effort to have Governor Mount put a stop to the alleged violation of the closing and gambling laws hejfe .The Ifie movement is that a great many of the ••good citizens" desire to keep ituder cover in sending their signature to the governor, for fear that it may injure their business. A "good citizens'" movement like that will never amount to anything-

The addition of Henry C. Ilanna to the list of Republican candidates for mayor complicates the matter materially, as it puts three candidates in the field from one ward, the Fourth. Mr. Hanna has the reputation of being something of a hustler and is destined to cut some figure in the convention that meets two weeks from tonight. He made his formal announcement this morning, and this means thfi there is to be a hard fight in the Fourth ward for the delegation for mayor. Mayor Rosa lives there, as does Alex. Crawford, who is making the most thorough canvass for mayor that was ever made by any man, and now that another Fourth warder puts in an appearance, in the per* son of Mr. Hanna, the primaries in that staid old ward give promise of being very interesting. In the fight for treasurer there will be but three candidates in the race, Charles Balch, who is a candidate for re-election, and has behind him a record that no other city treasurer has had for at least fifteen years, that of being perfectly straight and square in his accounts, Edwin Ellis, who comes from the same ward, and brings with him the reputation of having always been an enthusiastic, ardent Republican, and Frank T. Borgstrom, whose connection with a responsible leading financial institution makes it certain that he must be a competent, honest young man or he could not hold it. Up to date no candidate has developed against Will Hamilton, who seems to have the most certain "lead pipe"' cinch that any man ever had as a candidate for public office when he was not a candidate for re-election. Mayor Ross isn't going back any in his campaign, aud while he has no bureau of publicity and promotion he seems very successful in getting a good send-off every once in a while. For instance* at the street fair meeting Tuesday night at the Grand Opera Hons* when Col. Aldrich gave him a great send-off on account of his record as mayor of the city during the past few -.years, ______

Mr. Faris was successful last night in the election of delegates from this county to the district convention at Martinsville, and it seems probable that he will have a solid delegation from Vigo, as, despite the cries of "wolf, wolf," from his managers, there was no manifest opposition to him here at home. It is claimed that "Jim" Johnson will have the support of his delegation from Parke county, and that Mr. Faris will lose several votes In Vermillion county, and that these will be in favor of Judge Coffey, of Clay, who will, of course, have the cordial support of his own county. If Silas Hays has the support of Putnam county, as Is reported he will, Mr. Faris will need the enthusiastic support of his own county to secure him the nomination. A special train will be run

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from this city to Martinsville next Tuesday night, for the congressional convention, going by way of the Big Four, and returning immediately after the convention, and it is supposed that a big crowd of enthusiastic Faris men will attend the meeting from this county.

There has been a quiet boom started in the past few days for Col. John 23. Beggs for mayor, and the only thing that stands in the way is the refusal of Mr. Beggs himself to become a candidate. He absolutely and positively refuses to become a candidate for that or for any other office. He says that he would not take the place if it was handed him on a silver platter. It is a fact that few people here know, that Col. Beggs is an Honorable. He was a member of the state senate in 1870-74, and is therefore entitled to wear the Honorable before his name. He is one of the nicest men in the world, and if he should be a candidate for mayor he would get a vote that would surprise people.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

No much some people go to church, others won't believe they mean it. When a doctor attends the funeral of his patient, you may know he has done his best to cure him^' I|#

We know when a baby smells soapy that its mother is not a dirty housekeeper. Just because a singer can't sing is no sign that the song will be short.

We are always surprised when we are on time to find the train on time, too. People who have the least cause often become the worst conceited.

The poorest songs are not always the shortest, j^1* gSCil A man never forgets a lawsuit he once had.

We wolider why a life insurance agent always goes the best dressed of anybody you meet.

Feople of whom you would least expect it, will stutter when they get in a hurry. A school teacher and a boy's mother never call him by his nickname.

Very few men will acknowledge using hair vigor to cure baldheadedness. It is only the really busy people whom anybody wants to see.

There are men whosg chief pride is to keep their horses fat. |J§ t/, Lots of people wear the green in honor sof St. Patrick, who don't know him from JohuL. Sullivan^

There is nothing a man will argue more than a point of which he is pretty doubtful.

Nothing contains as much information that is wrong as the books entitled "Every Man His Own Lawyer",

How much good time that people could put in reading is squandered. Most people put in more time talking about nothing than they do, about, things of moment. V*?

It is not the mau who works hardest who makes the most money. The slowest man in Washington wA") never known to be late when he had av engagement.

Any woman likes to say that her boy married a girl too good for him, but secretly she does not believe such a thing possible.

When we see how silly some folks act, we feel pretty well satisfied with ourselves for awhile.

Shaving off mustaches goes in epidemics, like yellow fever and small-pox. A man who wears an overcoat with a greasy collar has got past the age where he thinks much about his appearance. ip

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LITERARY NOTES.

The April McClure's contains a series of heroic stories of the Gordon Highlanders, whose gallant assault at Dargai last autumn sent their fame ringing round the earth. Their behavior at Dargai, notwithstanding the praise it has justly brought them, was no new feat for the Gordons—they have been doing just that sort of thing for a hundred years: and the article in McClure's will tell the story of a number of their thrilling achievements. It will be fully illustrated.

One of the conceded big things of the year in the way of illustrations is the drawing made by W. L. Taylor picturing Christ's entry into Jerusalem riding on an ass. It was made for Dr. Bradford's article, 'The Last Week in the Life of Christ," In the April Indies' Home Journal. The picture is said by the best critics to be one of the most remarkable illustrations that has ever been made by an American artist, and they insist that it be done in colors, larger in sice, for public exhibition.

Two admirals of the United States Navy will contribute to The Youth's Companion during April. Rear-Admiral Lester A. Beardslee (retired February I, last), whose long career at sea has taken him into every part of the world, will relate a bit of personal experience in his article, "How the Yukon Was Opened to Gold-Hunters." Rear*Admiral Pierce Crosby (retired), famous for his captures of blockaderunners during the War, will tell afresh.

in his paper on "The Barbary Pirates,'* the thing in the greatest demand. It costs how the intrepid Decatur caused the forty cents a can in Havana, and besides scourges of the Mediterranean to look on 1 the babies, there are thousands of adults the Stars and Stripes with wholesome whose stomachs, weakened from long respect and fear. starvation, can digest nothing else. I am

THE REMARKABLE RED CROSS WORK.

The Rett "Cross Orphanage—"One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World .Akin. "-The Tragic Situation in Cuba.

Special Correspondence of The Mali.

HAVANA.

This morning, when I stepped into the dormitory instead of the usual rows of silent, pathetic figures, with listless hands lying idly before them, waiting for—they knew not what, I was greeted with a chorus of shouts, "mira Senora!" Mira Senora! ("Look Lady"), from happy children, eager to show their treasures to a sympathizing friend. My skeleton girl of the day before, who seldom replied to any question, however kindly put, and ne**er spoke voluntarily except to beg a penny from passing visitors, (the begging instinct bred in the bone),—now lay smiling on her pillow, with three small dolls, brave in red, blue an4--

VOL. 28—NO. 40. TEREE HAUTE, EST)., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1898. TWENTY-EIGHTH TEAR

CUBA LIBRE."

Cuba, March 25th.—Could you

step into our new orphanage this bright morning, you would see something to bring tears to your eyes. Forty little waifs, lately rescued from starvation and not yet out of danger of death from suffering undergone, are blissfully happy over a few toys—the first they ever owned in their lives. It came about in .this way: By Dr. Lesser's order, each child who is able to sit up, is put out on the broad marble veranda which faces the whole eastern side of the house, for an hours' sunning, after its bath and breakfast. Being in charge a few hours the other morning, I was sitting out with the children—almost baked in the sunbath myself—while holding in my lap a small girlskeleton whose protuding bones could hardly bear the wooden chair^-when a stalwart young American sauntered up the path. He proved to be an angel in disguise. Said he: "I came up to say good bye to Miss Barton, as I am leaving Havana this evening, and finding her out of town, I thought I would come over and take a look at the new orphanage." It happened that I was boiling over with indignation at the recent action of the Spanish government in refusing to pass through the Custom House a box of children's toys, which some kind soul in the North had sent with the more substantial supplies from the United States therefore when the young man expressed a desire to do something for the hospital, I told him the story and suggested that he make his donation in the form of playthings for the patient little children who had to sit or lie all day long on their beds. The idea pleased him and he rushed away in true American fashion saying that he wonld "hunt the town'? and send up toys right away. Sure enough, that very afternoon a big box arrived, which contained more downright solid comfort for the small folk, in the form of dolls and tin carts etcetera, than was ever packed in equal space before. The name of the sender is Mr. Butler Duncan, of No. 1, Fifth avenue, N. Y., and I hope this paper may meet his eye, so that he may know how much good his generous gift has accomplishedi^4v.w*»«'8f gh fctonsttJ-thcrse -watt faces when the toys were distributed —the look of incredulous wonder, gradually merging into one of delight,. slowly followed by an expression of fathomless contentment when they realized that the precious articles were their very own! Even the tiny five-year-old boy with the big head and pipe-stem legs and face as aged as Methuselah's own, actually laughed when a small wooly dog with black bead eyes came into his possession. The little lad was found one morning in Lps Fossos, lying on a dead woman's breast. Although I have watched him closely during the several days he has been in the asylum, I never before saw }him smile or cry or exhibit the slightest jsymptom of dislike or desire. Hour after hour he sat motionless on his bed, apparently indifferent to sublinary things but with great solemn eyes, black as sloes, taking note of everything going on, and the inscrutable expression of the sphinx on his old, old face. The first human* emotion he has been known to evince was over that wooly dog, and last night he slept with it tightly clasped in his arms.

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row beside her transfigured face. Even the swarthy baby-brigand—a son of a ruffian, if signs of heredity count for anything—who erstwhile issued his frequent orders with an air of one used to command, and who disdained to obey any regulations of the institution until reduced to a sort of armed traced by a season of solitary confinement in an upper chamberhad temporarily lost sight of his own consequence in the superior merits of a red tin cart.

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whole world kin." Child nature is very much alike, in palace or in hovel. From generation to generation, among the richest and the poorest, children make their dandelion curls in the sunshine, the girls choose miniature babies and the boys noisy playthings, by instinct—as young birds build their nests without instruction, the first as perfect as the last.

But do not send any more toys to the asylum, dear friends. Thanks to Mr. Duncan, it is now well supplied in that line, and the everlasting wrestles with the Custom House may, for the present be averted. Let your generosity take some other form. Just now, condensed milk is

told by a Cuban lady, whose whole family have been devoted to the care of the poor lever since this time of suffering began, that at least a hundred babies within her fknowledge have died this week fop want [of milk. It is impossible to send too many boxes of it—bales, carloads, shiploads of it. If there were plenty of condensed milk now in Cuba and people to feed it judiciously to the sick and starving, |the death rate would be .lessened fully eighty per cent.

Recently I accompanied the Senatorial Commission: and the Red Cross family to Matanzas, to investigate the condition of affairs in that once flourishing city of per haps 35,000 inhabitants. First the three mile carriage ride from our suburb, "the Cerro," to this ferry on the other side of Havana. Then a hasty almuerzo of bread raid chocolate in the water-side cafe la Luz. Then across the bay in the crowded boat, mixed up with chattering Spaniards itind Cubans, soldiers, servants and Monkey-carts past the melancholy wreck of the "Maine" and the "Montgomery" lately arrived, and Spain's war vessel, I'Alphonzo Xn"—to the long rows of now fmpty sugar Warehouses on the Regla |ide. And then a three hours' railway fide to Matanzas, capital of the adjoining province of the same name. Everybody was somewhat uueasy that morning— find with cdnsiderable reason. Rumors j|rere rife of insurgents near by, and the compan|ment of a carload of soldiers resh from Spain, going to some station in interior, increased the danger far ore than .it gave protection. Accidents frequent along this line—obstructions aced on ^hg.track, bombs thrown upon train,-shots fired through the cars, previoul journey over the same roadhen bound* for a sugar plantation forty ilea beyond Cardenas—led me to believe assertion of my Cuban frieuds at I am a "raascotte." The day fore |inr exploding bomb killed passenger and injured several |u the day df my return a train on another l^ranch of the road was wrecked, and the day after three passenger cars were pitched own into arroyo. Every train tfiat {asses this |jtvay. has its strong guard of soldiers inigw iron clad car attached—a tattle car Covered with iron plates in \fhich are^ ^pop-holes for guns —each s6ldier starting at his gun, ready for ihstant actiln. On the day of our journey to Matanza^ burning cane-fields on either side told that the insurgents were not inactive nor far away, At one time we counted seven fires within the range of vision. But we were also assured that

^ver^%rraOhr6tfgnoutt®lana, are all posted in is going on and that the presence of so many Americans, (their supposed friends) rendered the train safe from attack. On the other hand, it was asserted that the greatest danger would come from Spanish treachery, that soldiers in the forts might have orders to fire at the hated Americans—especially as outspoken Senator Gallinger was of the party —and the action afterwards attributed to the insurgents, as so many Spanish atrocities have been. But nothing happened. In perfect safety, we pursued the even tenor of our way and arrived in due time at Matanzas. The ladies of the con gressional party did not venture to make the trip. There were Senators Money and Gallinger and Smith, Representative Amos G. Cummings, Editor Klopsch, of the Christian Herald—he who has agreed to furnish the magnificent sum of $10,00 a month for six months' to the Red Cross Society from the Christian Endeavorers of the United States, besides secretaries, two photographers and the usual contingent of reporters The Red Cross party including Miss Barton, five members of her staff and her humble friend, your correspondent.

Matanzas is one of the oldest and quaintest cities of Cuba, and before the war was one of the wealthiest, but is now most woefully down at the heel. Four centuries ago a populous Indian village, named Yucayo, occupied the same delightful situation—between two rivers, with a broad bay in front as blue as the sky above it, environed by green hills in the form of an amphitheatre. History tells us how in 1693, Don Mauzaneda purchased 150 acres of land from King Carlos II, including the then deserted Yucayo, whose original inhabitants had long since been killed or enslaved by the thrifty Spaniards. The new owner immediately settled thereon a colony of Canary Islanders—which perhaps accounts for the peculiar yellowish-brown complexion of the inhabitants of today. The founding of Matansas was completed with an expedition unique in Cuban affairs and worthy of the builders of Chicago. The Canary colonists arrived on Saturday afternoon in October. The next morning Bishop Compospilla assembled them and with massand ceremony solemnly changed the heathen name of the place to "San Carlos San Severino". On Monday, the third day, the cornerstone of the cathedral was laid and the site marked out for a castle and fortress—the rains of which still remain. The colonist were afterwards given a considerable space in the adjacent Yumuri valley for a cattle range, and for many years devoted themselves to the raising of cattle for beef. Hence, in time, the place became known as "El Matanzas de San Carlos San Severino"—Matanzas meaning slaughter pen but the name being too long for everyday use for lazy people, seven-eightsof it was soon omitted. Hie growing city eventually climbed up: the hillside and stepped over the rivers San Jwa and Yumuri. which are supposed to bound it on the north and south. That portion of the city now lying south of San Juan, know as Pueblo Naevo, {Combined *, Eighth page.)

BOY GENIUSES.

[Written for the Mail.]

If there is anybody on earth I delight in more than in anybody else, it is the boy genius, the boy who before he was big enough for his whiskers to sprout, had been admitted to the bar as a full-fledged lawyer, and before other boys are big enough.to cease having stone bruises, are winning cases in the courts with one hand tied behind their backs and then the boy doctors who prescribe for patients, before they are big enough to put one foot right down after the other has been taken up and boy preachers, who point gray-headed sinners the way to everlasting life, while they are too young to know the way of grace from the milky way.

I like to observe these boy geniuses, Who, instead of hooking watermelons and fighting shy of the neighbors' brindle bull pup, are engaged in the commendable occupation of solving problems In Euclid, and in unravelling questions that men of forty or fifty would be appalled at.

I say I delight in keeping tab on the boys who, when they should be engaged in sliding down the cellar door and in tying tin cans to the neighbors' dogs, are enjoying themselves by discussing questions of theology, and are discovering comets with their tails in the air, cavorting through the heavens at a 2:40 gait, as if their very lives depended on their getting there.

They tell us that Horace Greeley was one of the species known as boy geniuses, and see what he came to. He never learned to write so that his own mother could read it, aud very often he couldn't make out what it was, himself. His parents worried a great deal over Horace's inability to write a legible hand, and they went to their graves, regretting that they had a boy who preferred to fool away his time committing the Bible to memory rather than to ba learning to write without sticking his tongue out.

If he hadn't been a boy genius, and had committed large portions of the Bible to memory, while a boy, he might have been a writing teacher and who would not rather be write than b3 president, if I may be allowed to inject a little levity into an otherwise serious and depressing topic To think what Horace missed by persisting in being a boy genius rather than to learn to write.

If I couldn't be a drum major or a funeral director, I would rather be a writing teacher, because then I would not onlv be expected to know nothing else, but would not be a suffce^s If I dld. To bs. a sifeeessfulfw recKiessiy abandon himself to knowing nothing. The less he knows, the more successful he will be. He must not only know nothing, but he must parade the fact, and every time he opens his mouth, he must subtract from the sum total of human knowledge. And then to think that Horace Greeley sacrificed all his chances by assuming the business of being a boy genius.

I was a good deal that way myself. Folks often spoke to me about it. Only, my genius took a different course. Instead of committing to memory vast acres of Scriptural passages, and instead of fooling away my time writing books, I put in my youth doing the things I ought not to have done, and leaving undone the things I ought to have done. I am still that way. I am also a beautiful writer that is to say, my handwriting is beautifult. I can flourish on the capital letters, and I make the shades at the right spot, and frequently I can read my own writing with ease quite awhile after it is written. That is the difference between my writing and Horace Greeley's. There are other differences also, but that is probably the chief one.

Horace wrote for the papers quite fre quently, I am told, but his writing was so bad that the printers couldn't make it out, so it had to bs returned with thanks. Mine is always written plain enough, but it is always returned without the thanks. In that, Horace and I are nearly alike. That is the penalty of being a boy genius.

While I was noted principally for what I did not know, Horace was remarkable for what he did know. But the principle is the same.

I once knew a boy genius. He knew everything that was worth knowing. He could work examples "in his head" that the rest of us couldn't work on our slates. He knew Latin and Greek with his eyes shut. He could teach philosophy better than the books had it. He could play the violin, and he could write a hand as plain as a copper plate, and flourish birds natural as life He was the wonder of the school, and also the envy. Nobody had the least doubt that before he was old enough, people would be clamoring to make him president, and they were already looking forward to the time' when bands would go down to his residence and serenade him* Mid call on him for a speech, and they would cheer him and maybe all the students would get a postoffice or something. Indeed, this boy was the monarch of all he surveyed and could ride on the platform when the cars were In motion, if he wanted to.

Time went on. He is still not elected president. Moreover, there seems to be no great clamor that way. He is not talked of, and the only time I have ever seen his name in print was when he was appointed administrator of his father's estate. All the work he has done in politics was as a member of a marching club, in which he carried a torch and broke great chunks out of the atmospheric air by shouting for his party. We do not remember that any boy genius ever became president.

Absalom was a boy genius who got foxy and imagined that his pa was holding him down too closely. He called David "my old man" or "governor" or "his nibs," and never «got up. in the morning till breakfast was ready, and he smoked cigarettes, parted his hair in the middle and wore russet leather shoes. He would go to Jerusalem and shoot craps with the boys and bet on the races in a manner that was disgraceful in the extreme.

His father finally sent him off to college, but all that Ab. would do was to let 3" his hair grow long and play football and other intellectual games of that character. 4

His parents grieved greatly at his unseemly conduct, but Ab.. being a boy genius, heeded them not, and finally went so far as to throw his pa out of the city council and usurp the office himself. He managed to do a good deal of wire pulling before thaw who voted for David got onto his game, but when they did take a tumble Ab.'s bead wouldn't have been worth six bits.

He had been out in some of the back townships nailing some campaign lie, aud as he was returning his pompadour got tangled up with a sour apjfe tree, and Ab.'s soul didn't go marching on worth shucks. And yet David mourned greatly and was all broken up by the loss of his son, which shows that some meu can have a great deal of affection for very worthless sons. Indeed, Absalom was a great success as a boy genius, but as a dutiful son, he wasn't worth the powder to blow up his magazine in Havana harbor.

pmncfes, the handsome military and thefull d*-ess of the Europeans, furnish, a panorama of color that is almost dazzling. Not less magnificent are the furnishings of Mrs. O'Donnell-Duleep's bungalow, with its display of rare Indian curios, the fort of Candahar, with its great gun, and the Post Dak at Julduk. It is claimed for "The Cherry Pickers" that it is the best thing that Joseph Arthur has written and its production here is awaited with keen interest. r.KWIfl

MORRISON.

Lewis Morrison, the eminent actor, who will present "The Master of Ceremonies," a dramatization of George Manville Fenn's famous novel, at the Grand Monday night, is one of our best known and most popular actors. An evening with Lewis Morrison is sure to prove an intellectual treat. In the leading role of Stuart Denville, Mr. Morrison will present to the theater-goers of this city a character entirely dissimilar from anything he has as yet been seen in here. Those who only remember his "Mepbisto" in "FaUst" and his famous "Cardinal Richelieu" will readily concede his versatility and genius in undertaking and successfully portraying such a strong character on entirely different lines The scenes are located in England and the period is the reign of George III. The role of Stuart Denville calls for pathos of a high order. Mr. Morrison is not a one part actcr, but one who portrays all roles equally well, no matter if they call for cocjedy, tragedy or pathos. Leading critics say Mr. Morrison is not only a great actor but the best actor of the present time. "The Master of Ceremonies" will be handsomely mounted and costumed. In Mr. Morrison's support will be seen White Whittlesay, Barton Hill, Gordon Foster, Chas. Willard and twenty others. Miss Florence Roberts is his leading support and in the role of Claire Denville in this play is seen at her beBt.

Mr. Morrison will present "Faust" Tuesday night. fas# VAN DTKK A EATON C£

A firsst-class show at cheap prices is the demand of the theatre-going public. The Van Dyke & Eaton Co. are meeting this demand by presenting a repertoire of bright plays and excellent specialties at 10,20 and 80 cento. Grand Opera House, beginning April, 7th.

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And this highly edifying column of cogitations means to admonish us to be willing to plod. If# you can't ride on the varnished cars at 'once, be satisfied to walk. And so I like boy geuiuses, because they are really no competition. Like the man who broke jail, they are not in it.

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AMUSEMENTS.

THE OHKITRY LMCKKKS.

"The Cherry Pickers," which will be presented at the Grand tonight by Manager Augustus Pitou's splendid company, is said to have cost that famous manager quite a fortune in its production. Taking advantage of the oriental character of the story, he has lavished money, light and left on the costumes and the scenery. The first act is especially rich in oriental beauty. It represents the gardens of the British Residency at llawul Pindee, where there is a reception being held in honor of the viceroy.' The quaint architecture of the building, the ldfty terraces, the rioh

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Everett Hbevr and Mattie Hill. Harry M. Gibson and Lora M. Hoffman. Doll Newman and Anna Van Arands.

The negotiations of Terre Haute capitalists for the purchase of the St. George hotel at Evansvllle have fallen through. The terms exacted by the owners of the hotel were too great to make the property prosperous and the negotiations therefore ell through.