Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 December 1898 — Page 1

VOL. 29—NO. 24.

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the Gazette and tbe Express, growing, of coarse, oat of tbe factional fight in the Republican ranks in this city, has reached 'such an acute stage that the respective editors are not sticking to the ethics of their profession, and referring to each other "our esteemed contemorary," but talk to each other as "George I. Reed" and "William C. Ball." Here is a sample of the argument "Is it your opinion. George I. Reed, that the editor of tbe Gazette is a liar?

WIM.IAM C. BAM,."

Answer from George I. Reed: "I will believe anything that William C. Ball will say on his personal responsibility.

A great many good Republicans are wondering if this little item in the local columns of the Express .is a threat to undo Dan Miller with the aid of Crockett's vote next December, when thegvutleman from Sugar Creek will take his sent as the only 'Democrat on the board:

The appointee for the coumty attorney* ship, whoever the commissioners may select, will have a term of Only nine mouths. He will go out with the reorganisation of the board next fall, when Mr. Wiseman is succeeded by Mr. Crockett.

It has been a custom for years to elect a county attorney for two and sometimes three years, and now it is announced, that the man elected will be able to serve only nine months, or until a Democrat comes in, notwithstanding the fact that two of the present Republican members of the boani will still be commissioners when this Democrat takes his office. What does it mean?

The work of removing the ruins of the old opera house has revived the talk that a new business office block will be erected there in the spring* It is said that the building would now hat* been in process of erection had it not been for the untimely death of B. 3. Cox. It is also said that the Naylor estate had two good offers for the property at Fourth and Main within thr past year and a half, one for $30,000, and the other for 138,00ft, both from responsible parties, bat the property was held at $40x(W, and any other price than this was refused. It Is known that offers have already been made for rooms in the »«w block it it is erected in the spring. Property owners and business men in that vicinity are hoping earnestly that there is something in the rumor, as thedesstruction of tli# old opera house and failure to rebuild, ha# materially interfered with business In that vicinity. In fact in that block alone there are ten unoccupied business sit«m counting, of course, those in the opera house block, which were always occupied. It i* notable, that notwiihstand-

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This attitude of these two cultured gentleman would be ludicrous, and remindful of the Arizona Kicker, were it not painful. Tbe idea of two old, old friends falling out over "Jim" Stunkard's candidacy for county attorney, and indulging in such talk is absolutely painful!

Gentlemen, how can you approach the grace and kindness of Christmas-tide, with such dreadful thoughts in your heart? Junt think of the editor of tbe Express finding in his stocking on Christmas morning a nice little note like this: "George I Reed: Do you think I'm a ljur» W. C. BAIX."

Or on the other hand, imagine the editor of the Gazette finding iu his stocking on the morning of all mornings in history, a little billet doux like this: "William C. Ball: You're not a liar if you'll say you're not yourself.

GKO. I. REED."

Fie upon you, grave and reverent ^seigniors, to break'the harmony of Christians times by such conduct, and all because "Jim" or "Dan" or somebody else wants a little office. Q. V. will draw the curtain for a moment or two, while you can kiss and make up, and when the joyful bells usher in the great day next week you can each have the satisfaction of having made one heart happy during the year.

Come on, now, and do the right thing.

Dan Miller captured tbe prize of county attorney yesterday, laying out the opposition thoroughly. Dan Miller is one of the brightest and nqost capable of the younger attorneys at the local bar, and the commissioners are not simply paying a political debt in securing him, because they are getting a safe and reliable counseller. In addition to that he is and has been an active Republican, and the reward he gets is but a trifle for his services. One of the peculiar things *b(raftM&r made against him was that it was led by Mr. Filbeck, whose hide Mr. Miller saved at tbo district meeting here last spring, when the Tormer was a candidate for district chairman. Parke county had voted solidly against Mr. Filbeck, and seemingly could not be made to change, but on the dcclxive ballot, Miller went to the Parke county delegation, every member of whom he knew personally, and made an appeal to them to cotue over to Filbeck. They didn't want to do it even then, but At the request of Miller, who was the chairman of the Vigo couhty committee, and therefore for a Vigo county man, the delegation voted solidly for Filbeck, and lie was elected. As a return for that Mr. i' Filbeck led the bitter fight that was made against. Miller when he asked for this thousand dollar job, and even went so far ns to bring in personal matters that had no more to do with the county attorneyship than the Ahkooud of Swat has to do with the subscription price of The Mail. That is the way "politics is ruu" iu Vigo county, and lias been for some time, by some people.

ing the increase in the number of office buildings in this city, including the Rose Dispensary and the Grand Opera House,

The controversy between tbe editors of there seems to be no decrease in the

demands for suitable offices, and there are very few desirable offices to be had in the city in tbe real business quarter.

Major Russell B. Harrison seems to be as popular among the councilmen of Jacksonville, Fla., an he was with the members of our council two years ago, when a resolution was adopted here recommending him to the favorable consideration of Receiver Jump, under the latter's conduct of the street car system. The recent resolutions adopted by the Jack sonville council recommended him to the consideration of President McKmley for promotion, "in recognition of the intelli gent, faithful, painstaking and most satisfactory manrtfer in which he discharged the trying duties devolving upon him." Major Harrison's friends there want him to be promoted pa the rank of lieutenant colonel, and they are going after the higher place for him in a most determined manner. Truth to tell, Harrison has ren lered most efficient service at Jacksonville as provost marshal, information to this effect being available outside the lines of press agents and laudatory notices in the papers. He made himself very popular with the residents of Jacksonville, and they are sincere in their efforts to procure promotion for him, if possible.

An effort was to have been made at the council meeting last Tuesday night to reduce the saloon license from $250 to $15U a year, and a resolution to that effect was introduced by one of the members, but the commotion caused by the increase of the tax rate from 11.18 to $1.22 frightened him out of his effort, and he withdrew his resolution.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Blood tells in the way boys saw wood. We have no use for a man who lies to no purpose.

A shirt agent looks so much like a man in a millinery store. The best thing a woman can think of is something good to eat.

An old bachelor generally knows all about divorce laws. For a girl with anew collarette, winter never comes too soon. N

Nothing i* quite as chilly as a man with his Books slipped down. It nft tiat^eg how ignorant, to be asked his advice.

Why do we call it "hand writing?" Does anybody write with his feet? A man who doesn't amount to anything before he is forty seldom ever does.

A man who will sit in a rocking chair and rock, isn't fit for anything else. Nobody is as oblivious to all the world as a boy stuck on a good story to read.

The blackest Negro in Washington is called Lilly. There is nothing in a name. Nobody seems to be as much appreciated as a drunkard who neglects his busluess.

Many women who are Greek scholars marry men who can scarcely talk English. The man who is tla* most apt to get mad at you is the one who has done you a dir mean trick.

One can tell a good deal about what kind of a man he is by the kind of head gear he wears.

When a boy says he doesn't know a pretty strange girl in town, he is either silly or he lies.

A man will say that a paper is not fit for his children to read and at once proceed to read it himself.

Nobody knows as little about how a campaign is going as the candidate who is ruuuing for office

When a man is always telling about how he doesn't want to cheat folks, we get suspicious at once.

A man's idea of being good to sick folks is to send them things to eat* A woman sends them flowers.

When a fellow goes around inquiring for a county map, we generally put him down as a book agent.

We hear people say "work is no disgrace." and at the same time they are the ones who never do a lick.

Lots of men excuse their lack of education by saying they were sick and unable to attend school in youth.

Most articles on how to manage husbands are written by old maids who never had a proposal to marry.

We know a fellow who feels rather superior because he knows of a better poor house than Vigo county's.

Generally when a man starts to tell a story he read in the paper, we want business in the other end of town.

Nothing excells the confidence that folks have in a doctor who has brought them through a very serious illness.

No surprise party was ever considered a complete success unless the man of the house is caught in his old clothe*.

A boy who begins to say that he is sorry he ever learned to smoke cigarette*, really doesn't care much about trying to quit.

A life insurance agent starts out by say ing that he doesn't wish to say anything •gainst, other companies, and then says awrything he can think of,

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Colonel John Begg* has returned from a visit to his old home, Sjbelby ville, Ind.

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JAMAICA TO HAVANA.

A NORTH-WESTERLY COURSE ACROSS & THE CARIBBEAN SEA.

The Southern Coast of Cuba—Isla Del Pinas—Progreso, the Port of Yucatan—Around Cape San Antonio to the Cuban Capital.

Special Correspondence of The Mail. HAVANA, CUBA, Nov. 9th, 189 —One who has never witnessed a sunset in tropical waters may be said to have lived almost in vain. There is no use trying to describe it—the crimson aud gold, green, amethyst, purple and sapphire, reflected in varying tiuts on sea aud shore, on sails and hills, in wonderful but brief pyrotechnics. I have seen hard-headed business? men, as void of sentiment as the cattle and* crops, the ores and machines they hav$ come down here to invest their money in, "gush" like school-girls under the glamour of the western skies and drop into poetry with Wegg-like facility anent the dying day and Twilight letting her curtain down and pinning it with a star.

Tbe trouble with Twilight in these regions is that she lets the curtain* down too quickly, as if it went on roller-springs.' Those who love the Northern gloaming miss that shadowy hour of dreams and fancies.

Here the sun makes no preliminary arrangements |or retiring —he wraps his gorgeous eloak'sbout him and leaps into bed and then the face of nature changes as suddenly and completely as the prompter's bell rings up the curtain on a theatrical transformation scenes 1^*5

Our steamer left Port Royal atf sunset and hardly had we time to note the mossy roofs and towers of that shabby town, all gilded in the evening light, before the picture faded and old Ocean became indeed a "gray and melancholy waste." It is worth coming far to watch the stars blaze out in the tropic night. There seem to be three times as many as are seen in the skies at home—all larger and brighter, not twinkling as in colder climates, but shedding a soft and steady illumination. And then the mysterious, far-reaching milky way and the literally "golden" moon, swinging nearer to earth here than elsewhere! Among the unfamiliar constellations is the Southern Cross, lying prone upon the horizon at dusk and slowly mounting the heavens till midnight, when it leans directly overhead. It requires considerable imagination, however, to bring its irreg$§jp resemblance of the Christian emblem.

Travelers new to the lands over which it hangs always look out anxiously for it, but are unable to find it without assistance and are invariably disappointed in it on first acquaintance. The truth is that although so much of romance has clung for centuries arouud the Southern Cross, which led the Conquistadores to their triumphs ahd atrocities, it cannot hold a candle to Orion, the Pleiades, or the homely Big Dipper, its only redeeming trait being that it guides navigators in one quarter of the globe as the North Star does in another, In reality it is no cross at all— or, at most, a maimed and lop-sided one, minus ahead and arm. But somehow the constellation, beloved of mariners, grows on one's fancy—like the sleepy trade-winds that fan the heated brow—like the taste for aguacates. mangoes and other insipid tropical fruits—like the phosphorescent ignis fatus gleaming at night on the southern seas and luring one to sit on deck till the small hours of the morning. As tbe so-called Cross gradually assumes an upright position, pointing its tip to the two prominent stars in Centaurus, one recalls the sweet story of "Paul and Virginia" and remembers the words of tbe venerable priest: "111 est tarde, il est minuit la Croix du sud est droit sur 1'horizon."

The main course from Jamaica to ifta vana lies in a northwesterly direction across the Caribbean sea, with several ports of call en route. First, almost due north to Santiago—at which point I did not land this time, retaining too vivid recollections of the fever recently encountered there. Through the yellow haze of a tropic morning we saw again the apparently unbroken wall of the Sierra Maestro and at last the historic gap was disclosed —just wide enough to admit an oceanliner. The wonder is that Cervera's 7,000ton cruisers ever managed to wriggle through the twisting: neck of that bottle. The shallow water at the entrance of the sinuous channel does not conceal a sandbar. butt living, growing barricade of coral rock, requiring the most careful piloting to pass in safety. Doubtless the day is at hand wben Yankee engineering will render the broad, deep bay beyond as accessible as it is now one of the finest harbors in the hemisphere.

Having successfully squeezed between the Scylla and Garybdis of Socapa headland and the ruined MoroCastle, we passed the placed that lately knew the Riena Mercedes, and what is left of Hob&ou's Merimac—now swung 'round clear of the channel and made fast to shore. It is significant of American occupation that already zealous reliehuntetm have carried off pretty much all the Merrimac, bit by bit. and distriouted it over the United States. Even from the deck of a vessel anchored tn the harbor, one can discern a marked improvement in Santiago under the new regime. Sickening odors are no more wafted out on the wings of the wind: fewer carrion birds are seen circling overhead, and the vadRMidt is no longer crowded with idle dar keys starving in the sunsbiae. The white tents of the immune camp still

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stretch in triple rows alongshore, with $entinels pacing their weary rounds and soldiers squatted in groups, playing the same old game with greasy cards. The hospital shows signs of occupation, though Mo white-capped nurses are moving about ite corridors, and the Red Cross banner goats above a bodega. But the little band of men and women who risked their lives £ere a few months ago—feeding the famishing people and waging a hand to hand light with grim death for our boys in blue, Ire scattered far and wide. Miss Barton in,Washington, busy on her new book |Lnn fo Wheeler is in her Alabama home Geocge Kennan has re-entered the lecture field Dr. Egan and & few others are carrying on the good work in the western provinces of Cuba and some are sleeping the loUg sleep in the bare little cemetery back jotf Santiago—martyrs, brave and true as a

All the old Spanish maps represent the Sierra Maestro ("Master Mountains.") as a continuous chain, extending from Point Maisi at the eastern tip of the island, to Caba San Cruz—the cape which forms the heel of the boot, so to say, in the instep of :#hich Santiago is located. Though the Spaniards are adepts in embellishing pictures of their possessions, there has •ioever yet been a reliable map of Cuba, produced from triangulation survey. The "Master Mountains" stand from five to ten tniles inland and between them and the -iea stretch two distinct ranges of hills, H&ither of which come down to tide-water. &Tbe tall, bare cliffs in the foreground pre part of tbe unifrom series of benches ,tid terraces peculiar to Cuba and fring£tig its entire circuit of 2,500 miles. Begftjing with a submerged coral reef, they Tlfte irom fifteen, to fifty feet. Back of t|t^m.comes a second bench, or terrace, ilsing nowhere more than 150 feet and ibove that, a third, averaging three hundred feet in height. As the dark Maestro mountains sweep grandly to the east of Santiago, so the no less stately Copper range stretches away to the westward, to tjieir abrupt termination at Cabo de San Qruz. Steamers stand some distance out f?om shore, to avoid the dangerous reefs and keys. But they go near enough for passengers to catch charming glimpses of low hills wrapped in mist and peaceful covers edged with cocoa-palms. The only other usual halting-place on the southern coast of Cuba is Cienfuegos. The harbor of the "City of a hundred fires" is so securely hidden behind wooded keys that its shipping is not visible except at close rangie. It is a matter of recent history

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thought he descried the masts of Cevera's vessels secreted among these islands and he was manoeuvering to get his own ships in unobserved, when the insurgents brought him word that the game had taken refuge elsewhere.

I did not go ashore at Cienfuegos on this trip, having visited the place twice before, and inteaing to come down later by rail from Havana. Then out to sea we went again, away down below IsladePinos—the only island of consequence among the hundreds that encompass tbe Queen of the Antilles. It is nearly square in form— perhaps sixty mile§ long by fifty broad, and of exceedingly picturesque appearance. Two dark hill-ranges cross it from east to west, with wide, green valleys between a great swamp, or jungle, of densest vegetation divides it in twain, and on all sides rivers seek the sea, some of them navigable for several miles. The island is famous for its pine forest and beautiful marbles, its salubrious climate and wonderful tbernal springs. It is already a favorite sanitarium, and Cubans believe that a short residence here is an unfailing panacea for consumption. Lying only 90 miles due south from Havana, going by rail across the narrowest portion of tbe island t* the little port of Batabano, it is bound to be developed in the near future under American rule. This is the island that Columbus discovered on a June day of 1494 and christened La Evangelist*. Three centuries la«er It rejoiced under tbe name of Riena Amalia, and gained its present cognomen because of the beautiful pine groves which fill the air with pungent odors. We are accustomed to think of pine trees as growing only in cold countries and upon mountain tops—but here they flourish to perfection among the palms and cacti. It is a singular fact that tbe pine family, though peculiarly a northern product, has several species which grow best in torrid lowlands.

To the north and east of Isla del Finos the sea is dotted with the archipelagoes of Los Canarios and Baneo de los Jardines,— innumerable tiny islands, each an "emerald gem in the ring of the wave". Traveling among them is unalloyed delight. The boat winds in and out ibe labyrinthine channels, over waters blue and luminous as the tropic skies, and so beautifully transit*.cent that star-fish lying on tbe silvery bottom, or sea-flowers growing leagues below, look as though seen through glass. The air is indescribably balmy, tbe same in summer as in winter, and the eyes are continually feasted upon the beauty of verdure clad shores and distant mountains veiled in clouds—the Guana hsga, or "Golden Raug*" of the aborigines.

Our course from the Isle of Pines was the same as Cortex took—"toward that part oK the horizon where the sun set'': and our next stopping-place was the same as bis, on the coast of Yucatan, Program the Mexican pott, Is certainly far from carrying out the Idea its name implies, having made no progress worth mention ing iu almost four hundred years of Spanish occupancy. Why, oh why. in all

treeless ports, where Sol pours down his •fiercest rays from year to year, do the natives persist in painting everything snow-white, at the risk-of blindness to man and beast? The intense glare, reflected from snowy walls, silvery beeches and shimmering sea is a perpetual torture intensified by hot winds, like a simoon, which blow up clouds of dust but bring no coolness. Groups of dark-faced men lounge idly in the doorways, and women in garments of spotless white are squatted along the curb stones with bowls of cooked meat for sale, or tamales made red-hot. with ahi and odorous of grease and garlic. There is a hotel, so-called—a stone structure thatched with straw, whose ground floor is used for a stable aud tbe entire space above in one long, unpartitioned dormitory. This primitive sleeping-apartment contains no. article of furniture, not even a bedstead. The transient guest is expected to bring hits own hammock, sling it upon, the waiting hooks, and sleep—if he can, amid abounding vermin and the snores and imprecations of his fellow-sufferers. In this part of the world it is considered a pernicious and unhealthful habit to wash ones face in the morning but for "outside barbarians" who sometimes take such fearful risks, a big tin basin is provided, at which each takes his turn, using the same water that has served his predecessors, or replenishing the supply himself from the well in the patio. There is a church iu the village—Roman Catholic, of course a tiny market-place, half a dozen shops of general merchandise and the inevitable custom house. The population is about 2,000—not including the disproportionately large cemetery with its gruesome suggestions of yellow jack and vomitivo. Progreso is. merely a shipping point, and nobody lives here unless compelled to do so by having business at the port. Thirty miles Inland and connected by rail is Merida, the capital of Yucatan, and one of the most interesting cities in the world and hardly a hundred miles farther inland, within a week's journey from New York, the raza indigena roam the forest—savages as untamed and independent today as before the conquest of Mexico.

From Progresso to Havana the Journey is comparatively uninteresting, made mosly in the darkness of night and far from shore. Atdaybreak Havana is sighted, and by sunrise the steamer is anchored between the Moro and Cabanas fortifications, whose "frowning walls" no longer frown upon our countrymen.

FANNIE BBIGHAM .WARD.

Tmfc world is certainly mo vi ng At a rapid rate as the result of the developments of science. A French author finds that, if a man were now to awaken from a trance that began at the close of the Paris exposition of 1889, it would be necessary to explain to him these sensational advances in mechanics and physics alone: (1) The bicycle, which is revolutionizing our habits, yet existed ten years ago only in rare and crude specimens. (2) The horseless carriage, driven by petroleum or electricity, with perhaps an even greater future than the bicycle. (8) The electric railway, which in the next century will modify the working of the great trunk lines. (4) Polyphase currents, enabling us to transmit and distribute natural motor forces at great distances. (5) The Laval steam turbine, a practical means of using steam at high pressure. (6) The interior-combus-tion motor of M. Diesel, the most economical means known of converting heat into work. (7) Calcium carbide, giving acetylene,- one of the illumihants of the next century. (8) The cinematograph, with whose wonders we have been recently sat urated. (9) The Roetgen rays, which are revolutionizing tbe healing art. (10) Liquid air for industrial use. (11) Color photography. (12) Cold light, obtained by luminescence of rarefied gasses under electrification. (18) Wireless telegraphy. (14) High frequency currents, used in marvelous experiments by Tesla and D'Arsonval.

Robert B. F. Peirce, who represented this district in congress for two years, having defeated the late Baylesa W. Hanna in 1880. died very suddenly at his home in Indianapolis Monday morning. He bad been for a long time general manager of the I. D. & S. railway, and was for a time receiver of tbe Clover Leaf sytem. When Mr. Peirce was a candidate for re-election in 1882 he was defeated by Hon. John E. Lamb, as a result of a bitter personal fight made against Peirce by a number of prominent Republicans of this city, who claimed that he had promised each of them tbe postofflce, whicb went to J. O. Jones. Mr. Peirce, who «**as an uncle of Rev, John A. Blair, of tbe Washington Avenue Presbyterian church, died a comparatively poor man.

Wm. H. Duncan and Herbert Madison, tbe experts, who have been working on the city's street improvement register for !-oroe time, completed tbe work this week, and left on Thursday for Clinton to begin the work of putting in shape the books of a firm in that city. They will be occupied on it along time, as the books cover a period of ten years.

According to the Omaha papers, W. R. McKeen. Jr., who left last week to accept a position on the Union Pacific. Is to have charge of the division shops of tibial roa^ at North Platte, Neb., with the title, of division master mechanic. Mr. McKeen i$ pleased to get back into the railroad harness, especially as the da ties of his new position are along the lines in whicb the greater portion of his experience am a railroader has been directed.

Mirth and melody will reiga'supreme at the Grand to-night, when Chas. E. Blan-f ey's latest big extravaganza success "A Boy Wanted" will be produced. The company is the largest and strongest

Those who have seen Mr. Downing in? comedy, wonder why he does not do more of it, for in the part of Mons, Sangfroid, in the "French Marriage," he simply holds bis audience from the rise to the fall of I the curtain, and the laughter that hei creates by his sublime performance, stamps him at once as great in comedy, as he has ever been in tragedy. Mr. Downing will appear at the Grand next Wed-1 nesday night. W "TUB MISSOURI OIRIJ."

known as Tbe A1 G. Field Real Negro Minstrels, but was purchased this season by Mr. Field's partner, Mr. Oliver Scott, who will conduct it in the future under his own name. Mr. Scott's long experience in the minstrel business, and the high-class entertainments he has always given us in the past, is a guarantee that this will outrival anything he has heretofore brought us.

"SUNHIUNB or PARADISE AT,LEV." "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley" will cast its rays upon the stage of the Grand next Saturday night. These rays, now shining for the third* season, are of a bright hue, for while the story whicb Messrs. Denman Thompson and Geo. W. Ryde have woven.into the play has to do with a "slice of New York slum existence," tbe picture is a pleasant one. In other words, the two authors have a bit of the idealistic in their composition and it is to be inferred that, although Paradise Alley is not without its shadows, the gentle Sunshine hovers prettily about its unfashionable neighborhood. The company that has been gotten together to interpret this 'up-to date" play is described as a strong one. ftoim

Nat Goodwin's brother is giving imitations of stage celebrities on tbe vaudeville stage in New York.

One cruel critic in New York suggests that Crane's new comedy, "Worth a Million," be rechristened "Not Worth aCent."

John L. Sullivan will put on a novel entertainment next season, consisting of a moving picture history of his life, showing each of bis great fights.

No wonder that all the novelists are turning playwrights. James M. Barrie Is said to have cleared 1200,000 in royalties from "The Little Minister" so far.

It is said that Lottie Collins' recent attempt at suicide resulted from grief over the condltion of her 8-year-old son, who was born blind and has now heoome deaf.

"Tbe Conntess Valeska," Julia Marlow's new play is to be at tbe Grand Opera House, Saturday evening, December 24tb. It is described as an honest and healthy dramatic offering, and one which is a valuable addition to Misa Marlowe's rppertory. Tbe critic# In several cities have 1 declared that tbe play is strong and fairly reasonable and is full of fascinating milltary pictures.

Miss Frances Olney, the leading lady of "The Late Mr. Early" company, whicb is to play an engagement at the Grand soon is one of those fortunate artistes whose lines have *1 ways been cast In pleasant places. It is said that only through tbe fact that "Tbe Late Mr. Early" is to play but very few one night stands this season thai Mias Olney was prevailed upon to join the organization. Great personal beauty and charm of manner are said to be not tbe smallest of her many gift*.

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Sadie Raymond and a company of capable actors gave us one of the best enter-' tainments last night that we have seen in years. Hubble's opera house was crowded from the stage to the gallery and standing ,V room was at a premium. Too much cannot be said in praise of the laughable comedy, "Daisy, The Missouri Girl." The audience was delighted with the excellent performance and attested its approval by frequent applause. The singing and dano- ,• ing by Miss Raymond and the inimitable Fred was first class, the jolly pair intro-: ducing new and original steps in the fas-" cinating art.-'Commercial, Vincennes.Ind.

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engaged for farce comedy, and the play is said to contain more funny lines and situ- ,»r ations than any other comedy ever writ- $ ten. The antics of "the boy" have made a decided hit. The management advertises

two shows in one, being that, of the com- f-vl edy, "A Boy Wanted," and the other of high-class vaudeville performers, who take active part in the comedy as well as introduce their clever and unique specialities. These people are well-known aud have: made big hits on the various roof gardens in New York—and taking all in all, it will be one of the theatrical events of the season. 1: ROBERT DOWNING,

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