Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 October 1897 — Page 4

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As yet the New York Journal has not •been able to arrange with Spain to declare •war upon the United States.

It seems that Premier Sagasta's autonomist policy is going to last about as long in Cuba, as it requires to be stated

Iowa has a singularly ingenuous saloon man. His name is "Stormy" Jordan and he calls his place "The Road to Hell.'

Senator Wellington of Maryland is apt to find qiiut this year that he is in nowise neeesBarj^fto the Republican party in his state.

Mark Hanna is attending strictly to business in the Ohio canvass. The chances for John R. McLean are growing slimmer every flay.

The United States will get every dollar that is due it from the Union Pacific Railroad. Now let the liars of yellow journalism tuck their tails.

The fact that Weyler is cabling to Madrid assurances of his loyalty would indicate that he thinks he has squeezed the Cuban orange about dry..

The statement from New York that General Tracy is gaining ground would indicate that the anti-Platt humbug is failing fo have the desired effect.

The gold reserve in the national treasury is $152,174,084. It is an argument in favor of the reasonableness of the confidence that is everywhere restored. r-^-=

Tom Johnson says Henry George is "runsing like a cyclone." The Jeffersonian should not have forgotten that the Boy Orjtor ran something like that in 1S96.

The Democrats of Greater New York are represented as puzzled whether to vote for George or Van Wyck. Well, it is a fact that one is about as bad as the other.

If Great Britain and France make up their minds to fight they ought to know how to go at it. They have had plenty of experience trying to annihilate each other.

Foot ball in the East continues to be perfectly harmless. As evidence of the fact it may be cited that in a recent game in Pennsylvania only one man had his neck broken.

The Henry George people will not invite Mr. Bryan to speak in Greater New York. Whatever has prompted this course on the part of the friends of the single taxer, there Is no. encouragement inKtit for the other candidates.

Says Tom Johnson:.- Greatex New York's energetic political import: "Tracy will be second in the race no matter who is first." This means of course that Seth Low .will get the drubbing he ought to get.

The yellow journals had Spain and tle United States on the brink of war twentyfour hours ago, but all is peace again. The Dons are not nearly so crazy as some newspapers would make them put

The King of Siam has ordered the execu tion of oue of his couriers- ftff aa alleged breach 'of etiquette. The^exact/"nature of the offense is not known, but it is believed that the fellow ate, with his knife.

Chief of Police Kipley of Chicago has discharged 434 Republican policemjstf .to order to put.Democrats in their places. The funny feature of the matter is that the citief calls his action "civil service

General Harrison says it is an impossibility that General Tracy should be "anybody's tool." Of course no mat j\Vhose head is not a vacuum really believes General Tracy is dominated by. Platf, 'o .an^boc^: else.

Some of the Paris papers are recommending that united Europe support Spain against the United States. Uhff$i3Europ4» It well aware that Uncle Sam has 3$en wrfftderfully kind to Spain and thfe "Parisian lournals mentioned are simply giving an illustration of the French way of talking through one's hat.

THE FEDERATION OF CLUBS. Professor John B. Wisely of the Normal School has proposed a federation of the literary, art and musical clubs of Terre Haute. H« is of the opinion that such an organization would be of benefit to the city in many, jractical and important ways. The matter vas recently laid before the clubs by Processor Wisely and since that time the subtect has received considerable thought and tas been discussed more or less fully 1}$ Those immediately interested in ii. It ap»e*r» that the large majority of the club teople of the city, both men and women, are lisposed not only negatively to favor byjc positively to champion th& federation idea. However, there is a minority firmly opposed any such undertaking and H. is supporting

fta: aide of the argument to the best of its ability. To The Express it does not appear that there iis anything startling in this proposition to federate the clubs of the city. The idea is. not a new one. It is not pregnant with any? very grave possibilities of evil. The plan has been tried in many cities and there is no record of its having brought woe upon its promoters. It is perfectly safe for lawabiding people to get together and exchange opinions and do what they can to demonstrate that in union there fe strength. They may usually be depended upon so* to manage their common affairs as not to ffet into any serious trouble among themselves or with anybody else.

Yes The Express would say that it ought to he perfectly within the limits of prudence for the Terre Haute literary, musical and art clubs to combine. They are composed of pretty intelligent and conservative people. They have the qualities necessary to permanence as independencies and in all likelihood they would lose none of these virtues in the process of consolidation. Surely they could be trusted not to rush headlong into a building experiment over the wreck of which the sheriff would ultimately make a holiday. Certainly these sensible men and women, after becoming associated in a federation, would not lose their ability to handle their affairs with circumspection and success.

Is there wofk^fttr^such'an organization? There ought to ber' Werfe ought always to be work for organized brains. There ought always be a mission for concentrated moral, force. Undoubtedly the federation Mr. Wisely proposes would find something important to do and in all probability it would be able intelligently and effectively to do it. There are lines along which it might proceed with -complete propriety to ends of usefulness and progress. There are other lines, to be sure, that such an organization would do well to avoid and that it probably would avoid. For instance, The Express does not believe that any organization of literary, musical and art clubs, or any similar body of people whatsoever, has any business to try to wedge its way as an organization into politics. If it expects to affect political affairs, let It do so through educational methods and individual devotion to sound principles of personal conduct and public policy.

The Express believes the federation of clubs might well become a fact. -.

THE ADMINISTRATION'S VICTORY. The administration has conducted the negotiations in the Union Pacific matter with rare dexterity and tact. By the terms of the agreement made by Cleveland's attorney general, Judson Harmon, the reorganization committee was to pay $45,000,000 for the government's lien, and everybody at that time thought the government thus was to obtain a fair price for its claim, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Prior to that time no one supposed it would ever get half of this sum and when the building of the road was first started, back In the war days, nobody though the government would ever receive a direct cash return of any part of its expenditure. By its skillful application of pressure upon the syndicate, however, the •McKinley administration has forced an increase of the bid by successive stages until now the $58,000,000 mark has been reached, and the government's entire claim is met.

Of course it was the administration's move to postpone the sale to December 15, which caused the syndicate's last bid# that for $8,000,000 additional.', whith has brought the total up to $58,000,000. and wipes out the government's lien. The reorganizes were frightened at the prospect thaj: the question would come before congress, when the whole question would be thrown -into confusion. They had certain interests to protect, and these might be jeopardized if the matter were dealt With by cbhgress at the present time. Thus they have b^ep impelled to offer a larger sum of money .to the government than any other syndicate could be induced to furnish, and the deal has been closed. There has been some doubt and uncertainty for the past few months as to the ultimate outcome of the transaction, but all this has been ended now.

This iis one of the greatest financial triumphs wlilch has ever been scored by any administration in this country's history. So far as the public has known, no other responsible bidder was in sight, and yet the syndicate has been forced, by successive advances, to increase its offer to the extent of $13,000,000 over the ori'oinal bid. The government now gets the whole of its claim, and vastly more than anyone a year ago thought or had any reason to think it would ever receive. The administration's sole concern in the matter was the protection of the interests of the people, and in this purpose it has been grandly successful. All the troublesome alternatives of the sale of the road at two-thirds or three-fourths of the government's lien, of the receipt of payment by installments covering a term of years, the lieu to stand, until the last installment was paid, or thfe bidding in of the road by the government and the subsequent disposal of it on such conditions as it could obtain have been happily avoided. Next week the property will be sold for the full extent of the claim, and the government's connection with the road ends forever.

CURRENT EVENTS

The Boston papers give much space to the Debs meeting held in Faneuil Hall last Monday nigh}*. All the papers have pictures of him, but as is almost invkriably the case, they do not look like Debs. The smooth face and bald head ar$ reproduced, but the artists do not seem to be able ..o get the Debs expression. The Boston Globe says: "Mr. Debs had an immense audience. Faneui! Hall, where the meeting was held, was crowded to the doors, and a speaker could not well ask for a gathering more in harmony with him. "If enthusiasm and generous applause inspire a speaker then Mr. Debs lacked nothing. That he appreciated his surroundings is seen in the fact that he talked for almost two hours. The audience remained with him to the end, notwithstanding the fact that most of it was obliged to stand throughout. "Mr. Debs is a taking speaker, lit" is forceful, at times epigrammatic, often dramatic, and he likes goetry. He gave his audience plenty qf ihe latter las1 evening, and he showed his familiarity with many ofr the best poe'ta from Shakespeare to Joaquin Miller. Bobby Burns seemed to be his favorite, though he includes in his list two of Boston's poets. Lowell and Boy in O'Reilly. "A surprisingly large number of women ^«re in the audientfil Tfce galleries, which -were rec^rvt-l for' the fair sex, were fi'led with them and tjjere was a generous sprinkling of them on 'the platform- A surprising feature of the attendance was the number of young people. The women, as a rule, were all youug. There were scores of young

fellows who looked not more than 20, mpst of whom had a very studious appearance, 'i

Debe spoke in Cambridge Wednesday night" and Saturday afternoon hie is to address the Twentieth Century Club.

H. M. Duffield, the Michigan politician who was appointed superintendent of the Coast a,nd Geodetic Survey to succeed Dr., Mendenimll, who left Rose Polytechnic to accept the position, has been asked to resign. Duffield is not a scientist at all and Dr. Mendenhall was forced out to give him the position solely as a political reward, Edward S. Holden, who has just stepped down and out as chief astronomer at thy? Lick observatory, and Professor Pritchett of Washington University. St. Lotiis, are* talked of as Duffield's successor.

A recent publication by a Marion paper calling attention to the increasing number of divorces In the local court there has started a like investigation in other counties in the state. It Is shown that this year has been more prolific of divorce cases than any former year. At Logansport the' average is one divorce suit a day and this is about the same as the number of marriage licenses issued in the county.

Mr. George B. Lock wood, formerly editor of a Terre Haute paper and now private secretary for Congressmap Steele, has this to say of Cleveland: "The sole service of mugwumpery to this country up to date is the discovery of a great reformer, who came into the presidency a poor man and came out a millionaire, who went into office while the natioii was in the flood tide of an unexampled prosperity, and went out of office leaving it within the shadow of an unexampled industrial panic, with the army of the discontented gaining refruits by thousands from among those who had previously been loyal supporters of our institutions. Some men achieve fame by pushing the car of progress. Some by blocking its wheels. Tbe first mugwump president belongs ta^the^latt-sr category."

The following article from the Oakland (111.) Ledger is being copied in the newspapers of towns of like size with the comment that the nuisance described by the Oakland paper exists in these other towns: ,, "We may have called attention to tjiis growing nuisance before and we may not, consequently we do so now, at the earnest solicitation of a number of persons who have watched the evil grow from day to day. Wei are talking about the number of young girls who prance to the postofflce a dozen tiroes a day, like the man in the sdng, looking for a letter that never caine. "Almost any hour of Cue day yoi: enn see pert little girls in striped and white F'nafores and with a Tarn 'Shan:-.»r set jauntily, on their heads, bob into the postoffice iobby and inquire of 'he'postmaster if there is any mail ifor them. Of cou ic there is na mail, they did not expect any. But the inquiry in their eyes gave them a business look and set them up in their own estimation several notches. "There is no law by which this nuisance can be stopped, and we think the postmasters' only way out of the difficulty would be to get a big bulletin and hang it outside the office. As fast as a letter was received for one of these kids it could be duly bulletined, thus doing away with them going to the trouble of asking for letters. It would also keep the kids from interfering with the'patrons of the office, by usurping all the room the little cubby hole, affords /or the transaction of the business."

"FUNERAL OF MAJOR HANNEGAN.

His Co-Workers,/-At,-Jibe Capitol Act As Pallbearers.

Funeral services over the remains of the ,late Sellman Hannegan were conducted yesterday afternoon at the residence of Dr. Frederick Maxey, at the corner of Twelfth street and Rhode Island avenue, says Wednesday's Washington Post. The service was that of the Catholic church, and was conducted by Rev. Father Ryan, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Messrs. R. J. Bright, Amzi Smith, R. B. Nixon, Arthur Bond, Mauchlin Nevin and John Hamlin, co-workers yvith the deceased at the capitol, served as honorary pall-bearers, and four capitol policemen were detailed as active pall-bearers. 'Mr. Duncan Hannegan, of the geological survey, who was summoned to Washington from Texas by the news of his father's1 death, and Miss Hannegan, a daughter'-' of! the dead man, were present at the ceremony.1 The interment took place about 3 o'cldck at Mount Olivet, where Major Hannegafr's oldest son, Edward, is also buried.

1TSKBE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29.1897.

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Chicago Tribune: According to the Philadel-" pfela Ledger, whlcft would not sny a thing.

pointed through the efforts of one party boss of t!he ward, hold lucrative positions in the gas works, which employs

Philadelphia Bulletin: The bureau of industrial statistics at Harrisburg-, :n us report for 1896, just published, throws some interesting light for worklngmen on the subject of strikes in Pennsylvania. During the past year there •were recorded sixty-eight strikes, of which twenty-four were formally ordered by labor organizations. But of the entire number of strikes'only twelve resulted in the purposes for Which thex wert ordered, eleven were partiy*successfui. hut forty-five, or about two,thirds, of air the strikes were complete failures. In other words, there is only one chance in three, aeording to the figures of the bureau, that a strike in Pennsylvania will either succeed or partly succeed. These flgures do not prove that workingmen should not strike at all, but they do show that they need to be very careful that they have a just cause and that they know the ground they stand on.

New York Sun: It wolild certainly be a very great relief for Spain if she, were to throw off Cuba. The lif* of her people, and her treasure, and her resources ar? wasted thWeiShe has suffered humiliation there dEhe has brought dishonor upon herself: she hai stirred up the hatred of the Cuban people: she has lost the favor of the t'nited States by her conduct there. It is tim^ for (her to relln*quisfo Cuba. We printed yester^ay a dispatch from Madrid to the London Times which spoke of the gloom that exists in Spain "the situation," said thr correspondent, "Is one of almost unrelieved gloom." It is all because of Spain's losses and sufferings In Cuba, which have been of a character fitted make any countrv gloomy. Cuba can never again be to Spain "what it has toeen in past times. The only hope for Cuba lies in freedom. If Spain were to withdraw her army from Ouba gloom which she suffers would vanish and' the light of better times would fill her sklts. The people of Spain should compel their government to cut off Cuba and let it tflke care of itself.

Philadelphia Press. Titose"Democratic newspapers that are advising President McKinley to appoint a Democrat to succeed Judge Field on the Supreme court "bench sp as to pre-i serve, what they call, "the balance." appear So be troubled with short meir.ories. in th» first place they forget that Judge field when appointed by Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, and that he subsequently became a Democrat. In the second place they fail to remember that Mr.'Cleveland had three opportunities to exhibit a non-partisan spirit In appointing Supreme court,judges and that be failed to improve any one of them. He appointed a Democrat on each and every occasion. The only president in recent years who has appointed a judge not of his own party to the Supreme court bencn is Benjamin Harrison who named Howell E. Jackson in 1893: There is every reason to suppose that President McKinley win make politics subordinate to fitness ia his selection of a auccessor ta Judge Field, and that the man $e names will be acceptable to the oountry. The Demo-' crats are. however, the las who should suggest that politics be wholly tgnored in tb« matter.

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THE DJSWEY SYSTEM

XT WILE. BB INTRODUCED AT THE TKKBK HAUTE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Tfals CatslogsiDC Scheme Will Be Made to Apply Only to Educational anil Scientific Books.

It has long been appreciated that the style of catalogue in use at the Terre Haute .public library is not entirely satisfactory. It classifies books according to their character and if one ia not acquainted with their chatr$cter, or if the book is of uncertain character, the patron of the library has some difficulty in getting What he w&ats. The need of the library has seemed to be a dictionary or alphabetical catalogue.

There is a movement on foot to supersede the present method of classification, but only in part. The Dewrey system of cataloguing will be introduced, to apply not to all the books in the library, but to those of an educational and scientific nature only. This Dewey system is a complicated affair. It imparts a great deal of information about the books in the library if one is able to interpret its mystifying language. It divides all books into ten general divisions, divides these ten divisions into ten subdivisions and these latter into ten smaller sub-divisions. Books are indicated by figures, decimal points and letters. Three cards must be written for each book end upon these cards go the shorthand, Greek, Hebrew, Sanscrit or whatever you are minded to call it that tells all there is to be told about the book.

One of the carcte is for the name of 'he author. Another is for the title of the work. The thirr^ is what is known as a shejf card and its uflce is to aid in tracing books tbat get misplaced. The Dewey system ot an easy thing to undsrstand. It is sufficiently elaborate to fill a good sized bok with what looks alarmingly like the subject matter of a work on differential calculus. To catalogue a library by iiieach of tb.'s scheme is to do more work than would ordinarily suffice to produce an aggravated icase of brain fever. There are 15.000 books in the Terre Haute library and merely to think of writing three cards for each one of them and of putting a liberal educa:-cn 'on each card is enough to make the avcicge person tired.

Fortunately all the books in the library are not to be brought under the dominion of 'the Dewey system. "Don Gordon's Shooting Box," "Deadwood Dick" and "Buckskin

Pete" will not be honored with the elaboration and mystery of5this mathematician's dream in library cataloguing. All fiction and juveniles will be excepted. Mr. J. Q. Button, a member of the board, said so. He did not think it advisable that little tots from Sand Burr Hollow and Happ Alloy should be required to finger through the cards provided for by the Dewey system in a search for Mother Goose. Only the smart people will have to wrestle with the new card cataloguing. Of course it* will be intelligible to them and is expected greatly to facilitate their research.

For example, a young man wants to write something or to knbw something on the. subject of electricity. He goes iiito the library and pulls open the drawer tha: bas upon it the letters standing for the name of the author or of the book for which he is looking. He lingers through the cards In the drawer until he fin'is the one he wants and recorded there in the si^n language of Mr. Dewey he discovers moie information about things on electricity than he ever heard of* At-.laast they say this is •the way the Dewey.-, system operates. Librarian Cunningham of the Normal is a man who knows all about Dewey. He not only has read his big book of frigbtful looking symbols, but las comcitted them and has them flying ibout in h':: brain. .Mr. Cunningham, it is uniler.?tjc 1. mted to apply the Dewey methods to every book in the public library, but the board seems to have thought that that would be too much of a manifestly good thing.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scene* With the Koblllty of the Old World. Lord Esher, who has just retired at the age of 82 from the lucrative position of master of the roll6, a judicial office which in point of dignity and in emoluments ranks Immediately next to that of lord chief justice of the realm, is still today a strikingly handsome and stately man, whose intellect in no senfie has been impaired by years, and who merely retires because he wishes to spend the remainder of his days, along with ,his equally youthfully minded wife, in the :enjoyment of society. Like most other judges of the high court of judicature In

England, he greatly distinguished himself

was st^lfjt were not -5n athletics at school and at the university, and rowed in the Cambridge eight in the interuniversity boat race of the year of the queen's accession to the throne.

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work that ought to be done by not moire than 500. That is an example of the manner in Which the Chicago gas works and street railways would be run If the mu&itiipal ownership cranks had a chance to put their theory into operation.

More than any other member of the bench, he bas been a Conspicuous and popular figure in society, and not only In English so|tlety, but also in that of France, says the

Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. His wife is a French lady, the stepdaughter of the well known Colonel Gurwood, whose name will be remembered by all who are interested in military history in connection with his standard work of the "Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington." Lord Esher's son is that Reginald Br^tt, who has taken such a prominent part in Liberal-Unionist politics, after having won his spurs as private secretary to the duke of Devonshire, and is married to a lady who has American blood in her veins— namely, Miss Van der Weyer, daughter of the former Belgian minister In London, and of his American wife.

As master of the rolls Lord Esher pre^ sided over Supreme Court of Appeals No. 1, where he dispensed justicc in a slap-dash but very satisfactory fashion, scorning written opinions or reserved judgments and giving his decision clear, sharp and to the point as soon as ever counsel had uttered their last words. But as master of the rolls he was likewise intrusted with the care of all the state documents of the united kingdom from the days of the Norman conquest in 1066 and even prior to thaft date. These are 'preserved in that huge building known as the Rolls house, which opens upon Chancery lane through an arched gateway. It may 'be added that the master of the rolls is precisely on account of his Keepership of the gtate records more frequently consulted by ^he queen than any other law officer on 'points concerning the prerogatives and duties as sovereign.

To few men is given the satisfaction of reading their own" obituaries. Still fewer aee themselves lying placidly on their family tomb. Yet for several years past Lord #nd Lady Esher. both of whom are well and hearty, hare been able to contemplate 'themselves lying side by side on a magnificent tomb in Esher churchyard. They have 'had executed two beautiful white figures, full length, recumbent on the marble sarcophagus, Lord Esher in the gorgeous robes

Of his office, full-bottomed wig. etc., while Lady Esher is depicted am a sweet girl of 20 in a Greek costume.

In spite of the great fuss being made at iparis about the arreat of a marquis who for years past has been the head of a gang of burglars, the event being considered of sufficient importance to {be cabled to the United

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It was in vain that the man protested that he was a foreigner. The police commissioner based his action upon the edict of the minister of justicc, and it was not until fhe matter, was brought before the court th?t the affair was straightened out by the ruling of the tribunal that the decree of the minister of justice could only apply to foreigners who were, wearing the ribbon of a French order without Its having been conferred upon them by the French government. The tribunal added that if the minister of Justice had meant his edict to interfere with the wearing by foreigners of foreign decorations he had gone beyond the powers that were vested in him and hi3 decree was invalid.

From this it will be seen that American citizens readily can wear at Paris the ribbons and rosettes of the various patriotio American societies to which they belong without any interference on the part of the French police, always providing that these ribbons are not of a red of the same hue as that of the Legion of Honor.

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SIOUX CITY OUT OF WATER.

pwing To Financial Complications the City Water Works Will Be Closed Down. Sioux dity, la., Oct. 28.—The greatest consternation has been caused in this city, by the fact that an official notice was published today signed by J. M. Tredway, chairman of the water works committee of tbe city council, that on noon of Saturday next the water works will be shut down for ah indefinite period. This action ta caused by the temporary injunction which Judge Gaynor of the district court recently granted against the city restraining mayor, auditor, treasurer, members of the council, and all officials from transacting any business Involving the expenditure of money.

The petition for the injunction is practically a representation that the financial afCairs of the city are in such shape that,repudiation is the only remedy.

The city owes about 11,500,000, afitf the petition states that all of this save about (300,000 is above tbe constitutional limit of 5 per cent of the assessed valuation of the town, and that .it thefefore la illegal and void.

Representatives of the committee which secured the Injunction hare had several meetings with the members of the city council, but no agreement or compromise was arrived at.

Siopx City owns her water works: they are patronized by fully half the families and business houses of the town.

Well Known Traveling S«leiiman Dead. Charles Kelly tbe traveling salesman for Levin Bros., died yesterday at bis home on South Thirteenth and Qne-half street. Mr. Kelly had been ill for some time and only recently aubmlHed to an operation at St. Anthony's ftosptlal. ••••••."•

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States, I regret to have to Inform my readers that the alleged marquis is no nobleman at all, and that his name ®f Case de Berzieux is quite as fraudulent as his title of marquis. He is the son. of' a Swiss journalist named Robert Caze, who came to Paris toward the close of the second empire, attracted some attention by his .attacks on the imperial government, which led to his expulsion by the French police, and received in a duel with another journalist with whom he had* quarreled at the Cafe Americain.

He was a friend of the late M. de Goncourt, who has left behind a somewhat cruel description of the poverty stricken journalist's last moments, surrounded by the wretched mother of his starving children, whom he left with no means of support whatsoever. The eldest of these children, a boy, through the influence of De Goncourt, found a job in a newspaper agency, for which he received $*16 a nionth, but made use of it to render himself guilty of embezzlement, for which he was arrested and sent to prison. On his release, which was not conceded until after he had attained the age of manhood, he formed a band of young burglars, whose operations he directed, and which was known as the "band of the marquis,". owing to his having assumed the title of marquis, on the strength of which he managed to introduce himself into rich houses, mainly in the foreign colonies. That is all that there is to thf "burglar marquis," whose career has been surrounded with such a halo of romance by^the Parisian press.

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It scarcely need be said that the recent strong edict issued by the French minister of justice against the illicit wearing in public places or thoroughfares of the ribbons of foreign or French orders and decorations, an offense which is punishable by terms of imprisonment as high as two years, does not affect foreigners, but only French folk. This fact Was demonstrated the other day, when one of the commissioners of the Parisian police arrested a Portuguese citizen on the charge that he had not obtained from the French government the authority to wear the Spanish decoration the ribbon of which adorned his buttonhole.

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An Exaggerated Notion Prevails ti to How Maoy People Can Be Accommodated S in tbe Churches.

Nearly 1.209 people in this city have already bought season tickets for the lecturo. course of the Young Men's^ Christian Assqciation.

This means that the new opera house will be "packed at every performance given under the auspices of the association. Of course 1,200 people will not entirely fill The Grand, but there is a good deal of time yet before the first entertainment occurs. It is a foregone conclusion that on the night* reserved at the new theater for the Y. M. C. A. the seating capacity of the house will be taxed and the chances are that standing room will be sold in the foyers.

Secretary Jamison and his associates have decided upon the reserved seat divisions ol thp. house. The entire first floor of The Grand is. to be known as the parquette. An imaginary line Is drawn across the hous« cutting off the five back rows of seats. To ticket holders these reserves sell at 10 cents for each performance or $1 for the course. In front of this imaginary line all soats cxclusive of thdse in the boxes will sell to ticket holders for 15 cents a night or $l.f0 for the course. On the first floor of The Grand there are 565 seats exclusive of tbe boxes. Of these 255 will be held open for those who wish to buy reserve seats Just prior to a certain performance. Three hundred and ten of them will be sold for the course. All the boxes will be sold at Buntin's d^ua^Uwe on the morning of November 5th, when the reserved seat sale opens. The boxes contain a total of twenty-four seats and will go at auction.

In the balcony there are "332 seats ex-1 elusive of the boxes. The first two rows and the loges will sell at $1.50 for the course. There are 111 seats in this division. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth rows will be sold for ?1 for the course. They embrace a total of 146 seats. It is the present intention to leave unreserved the remaining seats in the balcony, although a change of policy may be forced in this particular. There aro about 500 seats in the gallery and none ot„ them will be reserved. 7

It, is interesting to observe that the number of seats on the first floor of The Grand is exactly the same as the number on the first floor of the old Naylor house—565. In the family circle at Xaylor's there were only 339 seats, while in the balcony of The Grand there are 392 plus the twelve box seats. In the Naylor gallery there were 350 seats. In The Grand gallery there are 150 more than that. The total seating capacity of Naylor's was 1,195, while the total settling capacity of The Grand is about 1,500.

People are generally given to exaggerating the number of seats in a building. Perbaps there are those in this city who think some* of the churches will seat more people than the r.cw opera house. This is a mistake. The auditorium proper of the First M. E, Church will accommodate 473 people on the first floor and 177 in the gallery. One hundred chair3 may be added and thus the total seating capacity raised to C70. This is Allowing only fifteen inches for MA pe-aon. By opening the Sunday school room and taking advantage of all available space lets than 1.100 people can be seated in the First M. E. Church. The Y. M. C. A. had 1,143 people In that church many times last winter, but a considerable number were compelled to stand. The First Baptist Church seats 744 persons and has enough chair space to accommodate about 300 more. The First Congregational and Centenary Churches seat about 450 each and have a good deal of chair room left. The Central Presbjterian Church seats 536 people. It will be seen that to over-estimate the seating capacity of a house is as easy as to 'Over-estimate a crowd.

•Twar- Hary McGowan Wlio Dfetl. Coroner Payne yesterday morning conducted an investigation into the cause of the death of the woman at Mr. W. Stout's residence- Wednesday night and found that il was MTG. Mary McGowan of Newman, 111. Death was due to, heart disease,

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