Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1899 — Page 3

. .V THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1899. J u

CURES WITHOUT PAIN

Ore of the Best Features of the New Tile Cure. The Pyramid Pile Curo cures all forms of I'Acs without one particle of pain. Thl3 durable point !s not obtained by the use of ir.juriou3 opiates which simply deaden and paralyze the nerves of the parts and make xsattcr worse In the long run. Cut It Is d -n-? solely by Its remarkable healing and fcothlng effects. Ar.d while it thus gives immediate relief, at t: 5i me timo the disease 13 not merely ch. kc J. but a radical cure is rapidly accomhoi. Ar.d the point we want to make clear Is t;4..t all this Is done without a particle of in. This f.ict is one great leason for the popularly of the Pyramid Pile Cure and constitutes one very great difference between It a:. 1 almost any other kind of treatment for Kvery kind of surgical operation for piles Is excruciatingly painful, besides endangerIr. the life of the patient, and In most cases Li r.o: to be compared with the Pyramid Cure, neither In making successful cures wi'hout rain nor In cheapness and safety. Th-j Pyramid Pile Cure has been before t:.- public t-o Ions, and its merits recognized tv too many people, to allow it to be classed, with tni many calve.?, suppositories, pills, etc. and you run no risk in trying It, as Is cfren the cae with untried preparations. If yea are ever troubled with any form of pis r rrctal disease do not forget the Tvr.inud Pile Cure. Prepared by the Pyramid Irug Co., of Marshall, Mich., and sold by Jrurs!sts at t0 cents per package. Ready for the Spring with t:- tir.f.-t assortment of Neckwear ever tr-'ii-'ht to trm city. Men's Neckwear our .W line is unusually handsome. We always have tho best at this price. See the Ijitish Cloth effects, a decided novelty. Ladies' Neckwear in all the late novelties, will be on display this week. This line i3 a new departure in lad Irs neckwear. tdT Shirting sold by the jard 44 East Washington St. CnTShirts made to order. "Contempt Prior 'To investigation is a foe to all knowledge." "The proof of the pudding is the eating." Comments unnecessary. Hence, buy, bake and eat the bread from.... Princess Fatent flour, and you will be satisfied. Every package guaranteed. BLANTON MILLING CO, Drugs First Quality. POPULAR PRICES Huder's Drugstore WASHINGTON AND PENNSYLVANIA STS. Open a'.l nieht. A GAME WITH CINCINNATI. Its Champion Basket Bull Team Com-ing Here. basket ball enthusiasts are looking forward with much Interest to the game between the local Y. M. C. A. team and that of Cincinnati, which will be played In the home gymnasium March 29. Cincinnati has a large basket ball league and many strong teams, and it is the champion team of the league that has accepted the challenge of tho Indianapolis club. Men who have seen the best Eastern clubs claim that the Indianapolis team could hold its own with any team in the country, and Manager Harden is now corresponding with Chicago for a game with the best team in the entire West. A contest that will no doubt be exciting will be the return game with Terre Haute. The latter club is now in rigid training, and will no doubt put up a much stronger game on its home field than they played here. Strong attractions in the way of professional acrobatic work is being arranged for the Cincinnati game. CITY NEWS NOTES. John I. McLaughlin, corporal of the late Or.c-hur.drtd-and-flfty-nlnth Volunteers. left r.t,-rday for Fort Mcllenry, Baltimore, ML, tn route for Manila. A fnur-year-oM son of Henry I BrownIn c. uv: North Capitol avenue, while nlayi. in tho strret. was struck by an Illinois Mr.-t car and considerably bruised yesterday. S:r.thrred to death by its parents, while es'-.p. was the verdict of Coroner Nash, fifur invr igation of the death of the infant ;i!d of Philip Moore, No. 10 South Mi.iuri street. Mirs Margaret Merker. of Louisville, will K-ture next Wednesday evening at Plymouth -nureh on tho National Gallery of 1-"!: i n. This is the next lecture In the McCull M.h Club series. u th evening of March 15 Department (V.-r.rmnder It van will e the guest of John r. Ku.-kle Post. Cm. A. It. On this occasjen tM ivt-l will be presented one to the post e:ii t!t ohr to the Belief Corps. These rtvei-- are made from wood taken from M- -TT" Cistle. near Santiago. Mr-. George P. Bass and Dr. C. I. Fletcher w.:i . stereoptlcon entertainment Saturday tvening at Mick's Hall, on North 1111- !.!? street.- Views of Cuba and Porto Rico he shown, and Dr. Fletcher will give the descriptive talk. The proceeds will be f t the newly organized c;race Presbyterian Church, which is to be located near Thirtth street. The county board of the Ancient Order of HiUrr.Un will nu-et this afternoon at St. John's Hall, at Capital, avenue and Georgia r-'t. at 2 o'clock, to complete the arrumcments for the St. Patrick's day celebration. There will Also bu a rehearsal of th.t evening entertainment, to be given at t.i- Masonic Hall at Hamlin's Hall, at kUke ar.d North atreets. this afternoon. Stolen Good ItrcOTered. Alout J o'clock yesterday morning. Detectives Gerber. Morgan and Dugan arrested Andrew Hays, colored, living at 82) Port Wayne avenue. He has for some time t"n suspected of being implicated In several robberies. The , house was searched from ilr.. Uirkerson, 222D North Delaware irom ilr.. Dirkerson, Teet; a quantity of JV. w. Price. 2i2i 2.1 In addition there wa f jeweiry uKm aum Massachusetts avenue. L'nm fmind a fine blue overrr.at, practically new, a new imitation troradrd silk f kirt, with tag and price mark iti.ifK v.ril nthor articles Which h ive not betn Identiuea. ine cnaxc omitu

grand larceny.

A TERPSICHOREAN EVENT

CARMVAX, TO BE (2 1 VEX IM)KH ACSPICKS OP FLOWER 3IISSIOX. Dancen Ity Society rcoplf A Meeting of Interested Ladles ext Tandny. Edward Hughes Coates is In the city arranging for a production of "Terpsichore's Carnival" at one of the theaters the first week in April. The entertainment will be given under the auspices of the Flower Mission and that society has already begun the preliminary work. On Tuesday morning at St. Paul's pari-sh house, a meeting will bo held to complete the arrangements for the carnival which promises to be the most elaborate affair ever undertaken by local talent. Several hundred invitations were eent out yesterday requesting thj women Interested in Flower Mission work to meet on Tuesday with Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Samuel E. iMorss, Mrs. A. L. Varney, Mrs. A. Mason, Mrs. John It. Wilson, Mrs. W. H. Miller. Mrs. William Pirtle Herod, Mrs. V. T. Malott, Mrs. Samuel T. Held, Mr?. George Brown, Mrs. John C. New, Mra. W. J. Richards, Mrs. Victor K. Hendricks, Mrs. John H. Holliday, Mrs. Henry I. Wallace, Mrs. R. F. Hodges, Mrs. A. B. Gates, Mrs. E. H. Dean and Mrs. George T. Evans. The carnival will be under the general management of Edward Hughes Cotes, who has presented it in the larger cities of the South. He says that several hundred people will take part. The carnival was recently given in Louisville and proved a social and financial success. The dances which are the Important feature of the carnival are said to be beautiful. Among the ladies who have been invited to attend the meeting on Tuesday and who it is expected will bo patronesses of the entertainment are the following: Mesdames Albert J. Bevfridge. W. D. Bynuin, U. B. Jameson, C. S. Jenny, J A. Milburn. J. A. Lemcke, D. G. Ivahlo, Rilus Eastman, Frederick Fahnley. Thomas Hlbben. H. C. Adams. Albert Baker, Clifford Arrick, Hervey Bates, John A. Bobbs, D. B. Breneke. H. I Browning. VV. II. Brown. Howard CaJe. John N. Carey, Ambrose Stanton, Robert Springsteen, Hacker, A. D. Thomas. J. It. Ilussev, Charles F. Haynes. John M. Spann. 11. G. Caldwell, R. M. Seeds, Henry Sevcrln, John renzel, A. P. Hendrickson. W. E. English, D W. Coffin. Day. Alice W. Pierce, H. It. Allen. E. Atkins. John E. Cleland. W. F. C. Golt, H. H. Hanna, H. B. Holman, George E. Hume. N. A. Hyde. E. M. Johnpon. George Pi Hunt. Cathcart. William Coburn, A. Coburn. Clifton Comly. I. C. Haughey, William Hauelsen, Marvin ItMaxwell, Morris M. Defrees. Robert I. poreey, H. E. Drew. Fred Brown, H. H. Howland, Carl Lieber, George Raschig, Itay, Albert Thompson, F. H. Blackledge, John W. Broadham, John T. Brush. Bvbee. John C. Dtan, K. U Dorse v. E. C. Miller. Kate Berry Morris. A. 1. totts, D M. Ransdell. Flward Daniels. J. P. Dunn. Franklin W. Hays. J. W. Leathers. E. S. R. Seguin, G. R. Sullivan. J. F. Wallick. H. S. New. Edwin Farmer, Harry Jameson, Lafayette Page, J. K. Sharpe, James M. Winters. Augustus, Coburn, Governor Mount, Henry Eraser. Henry P. Coburn. O. H. Hasselman, D. B. Jameson, John S. Duncan, George F. Porter, Carl F. Walk, Thomas L. Sullivan, Jessie Clippenger. C. E. Coffin. W. H. Coleman, and Misses Eliza Gordon Browning. Bynum. Coffin, Day, Knippenberg, Atkins, Cleland, Holman, Hyde, Cathcart. M. E. Colgan, Anna A. McLaughlin. Ray, Josephine. Robinson, Ransdell, T. J. Vos-s, Wallick, Adelaide Carman, Georgia Galvin, Jameson, Hasselman, L. Garrard. MR. OVERSTREET HERE. Favors Clanklrnl Style for New Federal Building. Representative Overstreet spent a few hours in the city yesterday and left for Franklin early in the afternoon. He will be here the greater portion of the time until Congress meets next December, but expects to spend a few days at West Baden this week. Mr. Overstreet says that he has assured the treasury officials that the people of this city will not delay the work on the new federal building by a controversy over the site. He expressed himself ns being in favor of a building of a classic style of architecture, as a building of the present style of architecture will be out of date within twenty or twenty-five years. The local architects will probably have an opportunity to compete in the selection of plans, he thinks. Representative Paris Stops Over. Representative Farls, of the Fifth district, was in the city a few hours yesterday on his way home from Washington. He was as pleased as A boy out of school at the prospect of a long vacation. Twenty-One More for Philippines. Twenty-one men yesterday enlisted at the local recruiting office for regiments which will see service In the Philipr-ines. Seven of these were in volunteer regiments during the recent war. Twelve recruits left yesterday for San Francisco, and the rest will go to-morrow. To-day the recruiting office will be kept open to accommodate men from out of tho city, and Captain Black announces that men may remain at the station for a few days before enlistment. In order that they may investigate the service. Board and lodging will be allowed for all those who desire to remain at the station, and if they decide not to enlist they may leave. Tlie Elks' Entertainment. Sixty "people"to use an appropriate theatrical term will "work" in the Elks annual entertainment, at English's Opera House to-morrow night. In addition to the minstrel first part, which is heralded as the "best ever." Mason Mitchell, a member of the company playing at the Empire Theater, will give his recital of the struggle of the Rough Riders up San Juan hill, where he was wounded: Girard Ieon and his donkey a feature of Wallace's circus, will have a place on the programme, and "turns" from the companies at the Park and Empire Theaters will add to the diversions of the amateurs. Delegations of Elks from out in the State will attend the entertainment. May Abandon Dewey Day. Several days ago the Joint committee from the Board of Trade and Commercial Club sent an imitation to President McKJnley to attend the Dewey day celebration in this city on May 1, with the members of his Cabinet It was expected that a reply to the invitation would be received yesterday, but none came. Last night the joint committee met and adjourned with the understanding .v,.,. i,TKca f.ivnrahln renlv 1 received from the President the plan of celebrating Dewey uay wm w auauuuireu. Council Deposed Parish. U. M. Chaille. editor of the Baptist Outlook, and Secretary McGuire, of the Central Indiana Baptist Association, point out that the council which sat to investigate the cae of Frederick G. Parish, of the Southstreet Baptist Church, deposed Mr. Parish from the Baptist ministry, and the church cannot take the decision as a mere recommendation. The council ordained the preacher and the council has the right to take his ordination papers away irom mm, u is neiu. rollce Conrt Cases. Although Bernard Trimpe, the shoe dealer, arrested several days ago upon the charge of receiving stolen goods, had several witnesses in court to testify to his good character the story of the boys who sold the shoes' impressed Judge Cox sufficiently yesterday to hold Trimpe to the grand jury. George Russell, colored, arrested Friday for burglarizing the residence of H. R. Allen, was also sent to the grand jury. AVomun Complains of Shlnicleton. Yesterday afternoon Roland T. Shlngleton, a well driver, living at 1140 Laurel street, was arrested by Patrolman Cox. The arrest was made upon complaint of a Mrs. K'nney. 1220 English avenue, who says that Shlngleton assaulted her and attempted liberties. Shlngleton. he said, bad once before tried to force entrance to her rooms. Worked nn Old Game. Yesterday, morning a man called at the home of David Koontz, No. S12 Belief on-

taine street, and told Mrs. Koontz that her husband had sent him for a coat and vest belonging to Mr. Koontz. She gave them to him. It was learned shortly afterward that Mr. Koontz had not sent any one for his clothing. MR. CLAYPOOL'S OFFER.

Donation of Site In Consideration of n Ilnllrond Franchise. Newton Claypooi says he was not correctly quoted by the News yesterday In his reference to the article which appeared In the Journal yesterday morning. Mr. Claypool repeated the proposition of his father, E. F. Claypooi. that if the city would grant a street-railroad franchise to a company which E. F. Claypooi would organize, the company would give lower fares, would pay off the city's debt and would buy and give to the city for a city hall the present postoffice property, providing, of course, that the new postoiTice is built on a new site, and he favored as a new site the square containing the Cyclorama building. The Journal's article did not go fuWy enough Into the proposition. HAWLEY SEEMS SATISFIED. Clnelnnutl Player Hns n. Talk with 31 r. Brush. "Pink" Hawley, who is about the only member of last year's Cincinnati ball team that has not signed for next season, spent yesterday in the city with President Brush. He did not return from Mr. Brush's home until late last evening, and then had nothing to say. He expressed himself as well pleased with the day, but said that he would prefer that anything which Is to be said about his interview with Mr. Brush should come from that gentleman himself, as he had said some things during the winter and had been represented as having said many more than ho did say. Hawley will leave for Cincinnati this morning. STILL "THROWING FITS." Young Chap, AVho Invited Governor's Sympathy, at Elkhart. George Blair, a soldier of the SpanishAmerican war, who fell exhausted in front of Governor Mount's house not long ago, and who was fed at the Governor's table and given transportation to Chicago, from whence ho wrote a letter of thanks, did the same trick in front of William Axtell's home, at Elkhart, and was furnished transportation to Toledo. Friday evening. He accepted a purse of $"1. At South Bend, it is said, he also "threw a tit." but the storyhe told there did not tally with the one he related at Elkhart and he is looked on at the latter town as a clever "professional fainter." Barn and House Bnrned. Yesterday afternoon, a barn belonging to Wilbur Straughan, No. 1211 Silver avenue, burned, and with it a horse. The origin of the tire Is not known. Loss on the barn was $25. Yesterday afternoon a slight blaze in a stable, at No. 17 East St. Clair street caused a $3 loss. McGrnw Couldn't Reduce. Kid McGraw was unable to get to 133 pounds by Friday night to meet Jack Davis here, and Manager Fennessy wired last night that the match would be off. Davis will be given a later date. Special Council Meeting. A special meeting of the Council has been called for Monday evening. The meeting is for the purpose of transferring control of the parks from the Board of Public Works to the Park Board. An Arrest at South Bend. Postoffico Inspectors Fletcher and McAfee yesterday arrested Roscoe C. Rupe at South Bend. Rupe Is charged with sending objectionable articles through the mails. He gave bond and was released. AVheelvrny Lfagne Meeting. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Wheel way League will be held In the Century Club room in the Denison Hotel, on Tuesday afternoon, at 4 o'clock. MR. KIPLING'S CONDITION. Doctors Say Pleuretlc Pains Are the Only Reminders of Ills Diseuse. NEW YORK, March 11. All the information regarding the condition of Rudyard Kipling that Mr. Doubleday, his friend, would communicate to the reporters this morning was that the sick man felt better than he did yesterday. Later in the day, however, Mr. Doubleday said Mr. Kipling was gaining strength as well as could be expected. At 1:43 p. m. the following bulletin was Issued by Drs. Janeway and Dunham: "Mr. Kipling has continued to improve. The temperature is practically normal. The pleuretlc pains are the only reminder of his pulmonary trouble." Mr. Kipling's condition was said to-night to be much improved. He has seen only his physician and members of his family as yet. Tommy Atkins to Klpllngr. LONDON, March 11. The newspapers here still pay considerable space to the progress toward recovery of Rudyard Kipling. The Times on Thursday published prominently a set of verses after the style of the "Barrack Room Ballads," and supposed to be from "Tommy Atkins" to Kipling on his illness. The last verse ran: "We 'card that you were lighting 'ard, just as we know you would. But we 'ardly oped you'd turn his flank; they said you 'ardly could. But the news has come this morning, an' I'm writing 'ere to say There's no British son more 'appy than your old friend, Thomas A." TWO BANKS CLOSED. The County and the Commercial of San Luis Obispo, Cal. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal., March 11. The closing of the County Bank was followed to-day by the suspension of the Commercial Bank of this city. Liabilities of the County Bank amount to $139,0 and the assets are placed at JGT-O.OOu. The Commercial Bank paid out $1(M in less than ten minutes after opening to-day, and the certain indication of a run on the concern caused It to close its doors. The bank is well connected with other banking concerns, and It is thought that Its suspension will only be of a temporary nature. Did !Yot Open Its Doors. PASO ROBLFS, Cal., March 11. The Bank of Paso Robles did not open Its doors to-day. The failure of the County Bank at San Luis Obispo and inability to realize on assets fast enough to meet depositors' demands are the causes assigned for the suspension. The cashier asserts that the deposits, which amount to about 1IX)jjO, will be paid in full. Shot Ills Sleeping: Wife and Himself. MANSFIELD. O.. March 11. Madison Copus, aged forty-five, a farmer residing near Lucas, a village six miles south of here, shot and killed his wife to-day as she lay sleeping on a lounge In their sitting room. She died instantly. Copus then shot himself and. though still living, will probably die. Suspicion regarding the woman and other family trouble is supposed to be tho cause of the detd. r0O-Hnrrel Oil Well. MARIETTA, O.. March 11. Word has reached here of the striking of a tremendous oil well In Elk Fort, in the eastern part of . this county. The well, which was drilled on the Martin farm, was shut down in order to secure additional territory, but broke loose last ni?ht anil is flowing at an enormous rate. There is great excitement here. The well will flow at least live hundred barrels per day. McKInley Appointed Gnnrdlan. CANTO. O.. March 11. President McKInley has b-en appointed guardian of John D.t William H. and Kate D. Barber. The President is the children's uncle. They, with the adult children of Mr. and Mrs. Barber, are heirs to property left by George D. Saxton, for whose murder Anna Gecrffe will coon be tried.

DEPEW, HILL AND BAILEY

SPEECHES OX DIFFER EXT LINES II Y THREE WELL-KXOWX MEX. I-Am-n-DcmocrnC Lamrnts that Neither Dr. Chnuneey Nor President McKinley Has a Policy. NEW YORK, March 11. Senator Chauncey M. Dtpew was the guest of honor at a dirr.er given at the Lotos Club to-night. . There were present 270 members and Invited guests. Several eulogistic addresses were made. Senator Depew gracefully acknowledged the honor. He Mid: "Some periods of national life arc so commonplace and parochial that they afford little opportunity for useful public service, and make public nfe singularly unattractive, compared with the progress and healthy excitement which can be found In business and .in the professions. There are other periods when public life Is a pleasure and an inspiration. We leave our libraries and the companionship of the ancients when the night is spent to take step by day under the stars and stripes with Dewey, Sampson and Schley, with Shafter, Merritt and our own Roosevelt. "The problems of our politics are solved by American pluck and the heritage which makes us American. They will be solved in the American way. We will prove that we can both preserve every principle of the Declaration of Independence, of the Constitution of the United States and governed colonies. We will keep intact and free from entanglements the Republic and its States upon the American continent. We will educate our wards by the lessons which have made us free and great, to an understanding of law, justice and liberty. We will share with them prosperity, which is sure to come to them and to us In tho expansion of industry and of markets, inspired by order and freedom, and as they become worthy of self-government under the protection of the fiag which has made them free they will have conferred upon them liberty and exercise of its duties and its functions." Ex-Senator David B. Hill, after a few remarks congratulating Dr. Dtpew, spoke as tollows: "Throughout Senator Depew's address I listened patiently for some inkling of what precise olicy he intends to pursue, but in vain. That speech will fit in any part of the country the policy of civilization, whatever that may be. I have noticed that the President of tho United States In his recent speech in Boston has heaped a good deal of trouble on Congress. He has announced no particular policy but left Congress to determine what is best to be done, giving no Inkling of what that policy Is to be. Therefore Congress is to be intrusted with the making of a pollry for the future government of the Nation. "One great question which will confront Mr. Depew when he takes his seat In the United States Senate next December will bo the question of finance. For this he is admirably fitted. This country needs money. I am not going to discuss what kind of money it must be. Your tariff is not sufficient. It Is producing a deficiency every hour. We shall look to Mr. Depew to represent the State and help solve the great questions of finance and help make taxation just In this State. In addition to this there will be the question of the pacification of the newly acquired territory." Rev. Dr. John Watson (Ian MacLaren) prefaced his address by wishing Dr. Depew prosperity and joy in the high position to which he has been called. Referring to the friendly sentiment between the United States and England that "from our Queen to the meanest of her subjects our whole sympathy and supjort was with you in your iecent victory, in the victories of your army and navy we had an Indirect share." Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt said he was impressed with the statements of Dr. Watson regarding English feeling toward America, and that wherever he went, both lforo he reached Manila and after leaving there, he found tho Fngllsh people very enthusiastic in doing honor to Americans as well as honor to the distinguished admiral who had gained tho victory at Manila. o IIA1LEV ON "IMPERIALISM." The Tenia Vents Ills Yleww for Benefit of ' UiiiYnlo Independents. BUFFALO, N. Y.. March 11. Representative Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, leader of tho minority in the House, was the puest of the Independent Club at their March dinner to-night. About three hundred members of the club and Invited guests assembled In the banquet rooms of the Ellicott Club to welcome the distinguished congressman. Mr. Bailey spoke on "Imperialism." He repeated his well-known views on the subject and Incidentally referred to the tariff, free silver and other questions of public Interest. The Filipinos, he dfclared, could maintain as good a government as some of the South American states. If, as Admiral Dewey had declared, the Filipinos were as capable of governing themselves as the Cubans, why not let them govern themselves? He would say to them: Assemble peaceably, form your government, and we will recognlz3 you. There should be no taxation, howeve., without representation. "Our friends, tho enemy," he continued, "had had some difficulty in keeping the peace in the Southern States, and 1 have had some difficulty in assisting them. Why shall we aggravate tho race question further. The Southern negro is a prince compared with the Filipino. "The advocates of imperialism, do they intend to give to tho Filipinos representation in Congress? Have you heard them say anything to indicate that they so Intend? No, they have no such intention. Therefore. I say that If they lay taxes upon them they will frive them tbe same right of revolution against us as our forefathers had against Great Britain. Let us annex the Philippines and henceforth the Fourth of July ought no longer to be a day of rejoicing and patriotic demonstrations. It ought to be a day of national humiliation and prayer. For now if wo have the right to tax unrepresented colonies, then our forefathers of sacred memory were traitors to the English government. "It is a coward's plea to shift upon destiny the blame for the commission of a wrong. If we should take? the Philippines into the Republic it would be like dropping a spoonful of ink into a glass of water. It is tru that the ink would not be so black, but It is also true that the water would not be so pure. It would bo the same as if we introduced In the body politic a foreign substance which never could assimilate and always would be an irritation." He then referred to the recent presidential campaign and tho epithets arplied by each party, and said It is light we want now. not heat. Referring to the Increase of the army, he said every war In which this country had participated had been won by volinteers and yet the powers that be would destroy this patriotic feeling by employing hired soldiers to fight Its bnttles. Referring to the future title of President, he said it would nrobablv be President of the United States and Emperor of the Philippine islands. In conclusion he said he would pledge his life yes. his independence, which he valued more that the party that stands for the Union against empire will command the suffrage of the American people. Mr. Bailey's remarks were frequently In terrupted bv applause. Letters were read from Whitelaw Reid. Senator-elect Beverldgo. of Indiana, regretting their Inability to accept Invitations to address the club. GOETHE'S IlEMARIvAIlLG PROPHECY. The Building: of the Snez and XlcaraKn.i Canals Foreshadowed. Littell's Living Age publishes a translation of a passage from Eckermann, which quotes Goethe as advocating the construction of a Nicaragua canal by the United States and a Sue canal by England. Eckermann writes in his journal as follows: To dinner ru Goethe's "Humboldt," said Goethe, "has indicated, with great local knowledge, several points where, by making use of some rirs ticwinp Into the Gulf of Mexico, one might, perhaps, attain tho object in view, even more advantareousIv than r.t Panama, The decision of all this is reserved to the future, and so a grand spirit of enterprise. So much is certain, that if a cutting be possible of such a character as would allow ships with any kind of cargo and of every, even the greatest, size to pass through such a canal, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean, there would result for th whole of the civilized world, also for the not civilized part of mankind, the most incalculable advantages. I should, however, be astonished if the United States were to let slip the opportunity of getting such a work into their own hands. One may foresee that that youthful country, with Its pronounced tendency toward the west, will have seized upon and peopled, within thirty or forty years, even tho wide stretches ct land beyond the Rocky mountains. One may also

foresee that along all this coast of the Paclflc. where nature has already created the most spacious and most secure harbor?, there will gradually arise very important commercial towns, which will become the intermediaries of a great intercourse between China and the East Indies on the one side and the United States on the other. But In that case It will be not only desirable but almost a matter of necessity that merchant vessels as well as men-of-war shall maintain a mor? rapid communication than has so far been possible by the wearisome, disagreeable and costly navigation round Cape Horn. I repeat, then, that it is absolutely Imperative for the I'nited States to effect a cutting from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean. And I am certain that they will achieve that aim. I should like to live to see it. But that is not possible in my case. Secondly. I should like to live to see effected a joining of the Rhine with the Danube. But that were another gigantic

undertaking, and 1 doubt its being carried out. mere especially when I contemplate the smallness of the means that Germany can dispose of. And. thirdly, I should like the English to be In possession of a canal of Suez. These three things I should like to live to see. and it would be really worth while to hold out here, for their sake, an other fifty years.' MRS. BURDETTE-ELECT THE IUMORIST SOOX AVILL "WED A WEALTHY CAL1FORX IAX. How "Her Little Serene Highness,' Ills Invalid First Wife, Helped lllm to Win Fame. New York Tress. Robert J. Burdettc will get two fortunes when his marriage with Mrs. Presley Charlton Baker takes place, as it is soon to do. One will bo in the person of the fair woman of his choice, and the other in her vast possessions in and around Pasadena, Cal., where she now lives. When he becomes Mrs. Baker's husband Mr. Burdette will abandon the Baptist Church, in which he was some time ago ordained a minister, for the Presbyterian. Mrs. Baker is a woman of charming personality and literary tastes. She and Mr. Burdette have been friends since childhood. She has a son, who Is at school in Belmont, Cal. Mr. Burdette's only son is a student in a Pennsylvania college. The wedding Is set for April 1, and the honeymoon may be spent In Bryn Mawr, Pa., where Mr. Eurdette has a summer home. This will be the humorist's second venture In matrimony. Since the death of the first Mrs. Burdette he has written very iittle, and many of his old readers have been wondering what his reason could be. It was a very good reason, and yet a very simple one. Mrs. Burdette was his muse his inspiration and his gentle critic In one and at her passing away the fountain of his humor ran dry. Burdette was the "local" on the Transcript, of Teoria, 111., when his humorous effusions were first crystallized into type, and that meant that he was city editor, descriptive writer, sporting editor, dramatic critic and the whole staff of reporters. Every day in the week he had to make ail the copy dealing with Peoria affairs that went into the paper, barring the letters from Veritas and old Pro Bono Publico, and he sometimes found it pretty hard scribbling. It is no wonder that, as the chief editor often Informed him, the page was pretty dull most of the time. To add to his griefs his young wife fell ill of a disease from which she was relieved only by death, year3 afterward, and, everything considered, life looked rather blue for him just then. Partly to cheer her and partly to cheer himself, ho spent an hour or so a day writing imaginary accounts of local happenings. which he read to the invalid. They were as far out of the ordinary as most of the real news items which he had a chance to wrlto were commonplace, and Mrs. Burdette found the fictions vastly amusing. One day sho said:' "Bobbie, this absurd stuff of yours is quite bad enough to print. 1 ve survived it; why don't you try it in the paper?" STARTED FUNNY COLUMN. Burdette hesitated, but firally fed a little of it In, and then a little more, and then a little more. To his Joy It was copied ex tensively by contemporary newspapers, and he was Just beginning to feel that he had made a hit when one day the owner of the paper, a man namod Emory, summoned him for a consultation. Burdette went into the great man's room with fond hopes that the new departure was about to be rewarded by a raise of salary. "Sit down. Mr. Burdette," said Mr. Emory. "I understand that only one of the two lunatics that got away from the crazy house last week has been recaptured. What has become of the other?" "Why-why " stammered the local edl tor. "why, I haven't any idea, Mr. Emory. How should I? "Oh. I don't know." responded the chief. "I thought possibly ho might be secreted somewhere about this building and that you might know ebout him. "I haven't any knowledge of him at all," said the puzzled Burdette. "Then it must have been that drunken man I met going down the stairs last night," continued Emory, "or possibly you have some friend with a feeble mind who gets into this office with false keys. Anyway, somebody has been giving a lot of infernal drivel to the foreman lately and it's been printed on your page. I wouldn't insult your intelligence. Bob, by assuming that it grot In with our knowledge, but you must have been mighty heedless of late and you really must be more careful In future. Seriously," he continued In a meant-to-be-not-unkindly tone, "you should not try to write humor. When I want anything funny in the paper I'll write it myself. Good morning. Mr. Burdette." Burdette went home all broken up. Next dav he reslened. "I did that," said the humorist, when telling the story, "because I had been caught In the act and felt like b guilty thing." Burdette started a paper of his own In Peoria a little later, but it didn't go, and still later he went to Burlington. Ia., and Joined the staff of the Hawkeye, which paper waxed and gTew fat, and for years was famous wherever the English language Is read because of his writings. Burdette's humorous lectures were at one time as successful as his writings, and this is the way he got started as an oral entertainer: He served as a private in the civil war, and when the struggle was over drifted to New York, supporting himself partially by working at meagre wages In a store and partially by sending New York letters, to the Peoria Transcript, of which he was afterward to be local editor, tine day he got a note from a public man, then well known but now long dead, asking him to come to a certain hotel that evening. The young man complied with joy, for the invitation included dinner, and he thought fondly of respite for at least one meal from his unpalatable boarding house fare. When he reached the hotel the public man ex plained that after dinner he wanted a friend or two entertained. HIS FIRST RECITAL. "You recite some things pretty well," said he, "and you tell a good story. Maybe you're a little hard up. and I want to help you a little to pay for the pleasure you may give my friends, after it is over, and you mustn't get angry at that." Burdette thought of his shabby coat and didn't get angry. The evening passed away pleasantly enough, Burdette enjoying himself as well as the others. When he was ready to go the public man got something out of his fat wallet and left that something in Burdette's palm when shaking hands with him. Burdette didn't look at it till he got downstairs on his way home. Then his eyes became like snucers, for, instead of a "V," which he had honed for as the outside limit, he saw a "C ' in one corner of the treasury note he held, and the magic figures "lOu" dn another. He couldn't believe himself, and he ran up the stairs two at a time to the public man's room. "Didn't you make a mistake In the bill?" the young man queried, breathlessly. "No, my boy." was the answer. "I wish It was $1.0 instead of J100." Burdette's lodgings were only a few blocks from the hotel, but he went home In a cab that night. Burdette's affection for "Her Little Serere Highness," as he used to call his Invalid wife, was touching, and. in order to be near her. he used to do most of his work for the Burlington Hawkeye at home, writing at a table that stood by her bedside. All his manuscript was read to her before It went to the paper, and he oftn suggested an additional phrase or thought, and as often suggested cutting' down. Sometimes she would take the manuscript herself, and, holding a blue pencil in her trembling hand, pain-racked and drawn with rheuroatizn, would hcrttlt xzzm out nerd

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and sentences that she thought not up to the standard. Uurdette has said that she knew better than any one else he ever met "what not to print." Occasionally she wove into the copy whole parcs of her own. and once she wrote more than half of a story of mingled humor and pathos, joining her writing and his so skillfully that no one but they two could perceive the difference in style. One morning, when her husband was fratherinR up the written pages he wan to take to the ofllce, she slipped into the bundle two or three sheets on which she had written verses. He lirst read them when ne gave tho copy in. They were entitled "The Robin's Nest," and were published over her name. Thev were her only printed verses, but after her death ho found several fragments that had been written with a hand so deformed that it could hardly hold the pen. AFTER TllB FLORIDA FREEZE. Orane IUoaoiu Still for Sale When an Orange Crop In Expected. Jacksonville Letter In New York Post. Ten days after the late freeze F. Hough, of Polk county, sent a box of freshly gathered orange blossoms from his own grove, for exhibition in this city, and tourists are now buying all they want from the old-time colored florist. And this notwithstanding that pessimistic writers have filled columns in Northern newspapers in setting forth the utter ruin of the orange-gTowlng industry of Florida. The truth is that numbers of trea ari saved, and that Florida oranges will be eaten the coming Christmas. In Lake county the trees are budding In many instances, giving promise of a partial crop, and the more experienced residents now say that the greatest Injury in thfir section will not amount to more than tho loss of a year's growth. The Davies groves are confidently expected to fruit this year, and the Thatcher Johnston and Alsobrook groves. In Hillsborough county, S. L. Mays has packed three carloads of oranges, ana he is but one. . D. F. Iirown, an orange buyer, has made a tour of the more southerly counties, and is quite confident that he will make his usual purchases next season. Old growers think the injury slight, and that it is counterbalanced by the freezing-out of destructive insects. Orange county. gioomr Ah 13th. Is looking on the bright side to-day. While many trees are killed to the ground, many others among them the more tender srrare fruit display unmi-takable signs or recuperation. The test of the knife is usually favorable, proving the bark to be green and appy ofttner than dry and discolored. While thtse conditions last, growers havo good grounds for hopefulness. Here. Individual opinion?, of apparent equal worth, vary surprisingly. For instance, Mr. Cheney and Mr. Sinclair, living within two miles of each other, should both be competent authorities on orange growing; yet one pronounces his grove entirely killed, while the other asserts that he has not lost a tree. V. A. Coorr. superintendent of one of the Urgest groves in south I-lorida, anticipates half a crop, at least, next winter. Of course, the living groves are maln.y those which were protected, and growers will rot lose sight of this in the future. W. Lyle, one of the largest grower In Polk county, literally "saved himself by fire," and believes that groves may be saved that way even in tero weather. In le Soto county others kept fifty log heaps to the acre bumlaff through the night of the 13th. raising the temperature 10 degrees. After sixteen days they think that not even th tender sprouts of orange trees need be sacriflcM hereafter. In Volusia county many growers were prepared for the freeze and came out with trifling' loss. Dome persons in Tasco county report a loss of foliage only. Hut the safety of th grore has been at th exDco? I tczpa thr tro cz ht2, tzzZ cl land.

lo be known as Weeks Until Easter wooden sheds, tall poles holding waterproof paper, and even stoves five hundred in ona grove very ureful, but repugnant to th eye. Tho protected pineries are in splendid con dltion, and even the exposed Led ar In many cases recovering, particularly thoe which had not begun to bloom at th tlm of the freeze. In Brevard, the great pineappl? county of tho State, there is a losa ot scarcely 10 per cent, reported. Strawberries arc. all right In some localities, the fruit even being saved In t;e cov ered beds nnd shipped as usual; buC the un protected p!ar.ts will not fruit again undef two ot three weeks. Hy far the greatest damage and the most keenly felt ia that to the early vegetable. on which po many small truckers had spent their all. Thes-e. may bo called a living bur den. for often the crop had been mortgsg edl to make It. Then credit stop!! suddenly and all was despair until Mr. Plant and Mr. Flagler changed the condition by giving them new sf-edi. which the Southern I-x press Company delivers gratis. Mr. Flaglf has added cesh to erabla tho? without credit to purchase fertilizers for the scc&ndi crop. So, with hope revived, people aro re planting- everywhere. The Reason. -' Philadelphia Record. "Old Waybacque has become such a rlc vegetarian that he'8 had his whiskers shaved off." What for?' . "Simply because ther were mutton chops. M ... . i o o v e o o o o o o q Little Folks Like the new Food 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GfapeNirts o o 0 INSTINCT, Boy Know the Kind of Food Ilo Keedft. A grocer in the suburb of Chicago has a son about six years o'd who has teen kept In the country with an aunt a goodly part of the time owing tD his puny, half lifeless condition. This last summer when the little chap returned home he waa round, fat and hearty, but when he sat down to Ms father' tabla he refused the rceat and potatoes and demanded Grape-Nuts, the ready cooked food. The grocer knew about Cl rape-Nuts ani had been selling them over his counter, but it never occurred to him to uo them at hia own table. It was found upon inquiry that the boy began to Improve as sjon as he. waa put on Grape-Nuts by his aunty, and that the evidence of the value of the food wa.3 shown by his condition. It is needless to say the gToccr rjrrllc-i Grape-Nuu to hi little boy without further Question, and the entire family have Jsl&ftd the G mi-Nuts

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