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THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILI SENTINEL SUNDAY MORNING MAY 24 1885. T7IIO WRDTE SlllKESPfiAUE! A Contribution to an Interesting cnsslon. 17 Itneon tb Author of 8hakspre, l'lM?-3Ir. Donnelly' Theory Ol. coed-Sbftkripear' foctrj and Ilacon'a l'Mloaoph j. Did Francis Cacao write the plays cribed to William Shakespeare? Mr. Igaa Salles Djnnelly says yea. Criticism and comuiCLt say no. 8 srinbarne likens 8hkei peare to au unsounded sea ; and for t o cen turif a ciluds ot eyerj pfca?e and caliber hare been ludnyorlcg to explore this es. No Other single source has giren impetus to tucb a liter? ry flood a? that which cataes from the Shakespearean dramas. They hare been ttcd.ed atd admired by.tha ablest men tbat bave lived ticca their publication. Coleiiu'ge, forlcsUncs, who I bellera to hare been quite as competent as Oeneral Datier ii;et.a BcLlegel. whc) critical judgment T7Ü1 co ru pare not dUadvtntagaoaslyirith th&t cf -A 1 1 It ton Morgan; and Goethe, too, who Trill pculbly Staad saauldsr to thjulder TTitU Ignatius Connelly. To know a man welt were to know hlai talf." Many of the mcsteininent;critlc3 of the Chtkeepearean drama were no less posts and philosophers than critic J. ladasi Gbeths is tctrcely less tban Shakespeare, and Cole jidge tcarcely lets than Ooethe. They knew, in the genual some that we knew an; thing, the human soni. They anew tLexueelvis; by the afflnlty of genius thij kLew their equals, and certainly none to competent , they to know whorns sever the Infint'H Father created above them. Their acquirements embraced the learning ot their Ilm. They küew Shakespeare; they knew Bacon. Ara they also kne that the mighty mied h:ch mapped out the Ins'auratb ilfgta did not evolve Othello and Macbith. 1l addition to these observations on criti cism we may consider that Sitnte-Bsnve the kms of crit'es, who "sounded all the then! 9 and depths'' of learning, and wh03a knonlidgeof character was not a whit less than that of Shakespeare saw nothing to Indicate that Francis Bicon was the author the Sbakeapearean drama. As believers In the Baconian authorship I have teen co name mentioned deserting special consideration tzcept that of Ilsnry Temp!'; and eTen his opinion, e7ery one will admit, was only pre eminent in matters Of state. Entering upon a political career tt tbe age cf twenty-three as Lord ot the Admiralty, passing on from that to Secretary ot War, atd from that to Prime Minister, unit? in this capacity looser thai any other man, except Liverpool, and almcst continuously In some otlica of government from the time of bis political dYcnt nntll his death, his estimate of the plajs that bear Shakespeare's came, and the question at to whether Shakspeare or Ba-;:m wrote them,is hardly worthy to bs placed bs tide that ct some others who favor tne au thoiship.ot Shakespeaxe.much less to counter act it. Mr. Donnelly eaya he baa discovered the cipher of Bacon in Henry IV. and the Merr Vives and upon this bases tbe theory that Bacon wrote the Shakespearean plays. This is a bo'd assertion, and to substantiate it it is necer isry to present a premiss fully as bold. Mr. Donnelly, however, Is equal to tbe occa sion he has created. He declares that Bacjq Is a unireisal genius. This is aboard alto getter unworthy a critic who agnizes to re veal the secrets of the great. Farthermore.the detection of universal genius is beyond the ken cf those who thus far, at leas:, have claimed to discover It in Bacon. The best argument in favor of Shakespeare is that cf nature, and yet, strange ai it dnh appear, this is brought forward in favor of lis cc d; not in its simplicity, in which alone are its beauty and force and truth, but in a way nhich shows that nothing but vast in tellect, strengthened and enriched by labori ous study, could bave produced the Bhakespe arean plays and that Bi- con was tbe only man or his sge who po seised this requisite great in tellect and universal knowledge. Let cir cumstances do what they will they can cot complttely obliterate the divine mark, and tne appreciative soul, though the winds o' adrersitv pile the clouds into a mount at deep as Pelion, will see it and rejoice. SLsfcespeare, it is laid, was the son of a wcol dealer (Mr. Donnelly prefers botcher) whoator.a time had ben in good circle etanca. having occopWd is h'e native tpwa the effice of High Bailiff and Chief Municipal Dignitary, bnt gradually sunk into great dis tress aaa ultimately was a recipient of chailiy. "Genies," lays Irving, "delights to neslle its cifapringin strange places." Whit of Ebtkesreare's childhood? Nothing his toiical. and yet the generat conclusion can not t-e far from accurate. We know that his father was poor, and that his iotellestual diet was cot at all like the cnriculum of Cam bridge. His name in childhood 13 not resplendent with tbe halo of the school angel as In manhood with that of the world's first genius. He was not the infant Bowuet, nor the infant Bacon, nor possibly the infant Ba!rac. Whether precocious or dull we know rot. It is evident that his mind was not hampered by the early atd ignorant discipline of the choolmas'.or. He as free of the customary environ ments cf Education, and fortunate that he was free; for all hi3 productions In arter life are the fullblown fruit that grows unhinder ed from an abundant soil and falls in its season. Though the plays may have been well re Tiled, they do not baar the marks cf strain c; drudgery in composition, which xnmt bave been the case bad Bscoa wnttea them when he was young and obscure, or even after he began his judicial and political career, and before he reached the position of ChaLcellor. It is manifest that Shakespeare was astndent in joatb. His work aband anty shows it. But of wnat was he a stu dent? Of nature and human nature ths sum and substance of his poetry. Above all Shakespeare knew man ; and had the gentle man Bacon known him one tenth asj veil as the ileteian Shakespeare he might have achieved glory as a statesman insteal of ansae. Ii is a thallow and pedantic trick to sneer at the baeeboxn genius and kneel to the learned aristocrat. The paltry spirit In which the rediculous claim for Bacon is made is cbvicus net to determine the authorship of the jlsjs, nor to enhance the fama of Baccr, but rather that those mik ing it may be reputed erudite. If dis cipiice is so highly advantageous quite IndJsrenfabe would it be amiss to es'.ab'Ua BChco's specially equipped for the training of pect? I know the voice of a perse:utsd world will say no, but if we can derelop Shakespeares let the work begin. Francis Bacon was cot a poet by ntturs, yet beheld the poetic marvels ot his IIa gnistic, historical and metaphysical stoiles! A marvel verily a more astounding one thtn if these plays which Shakespeare bought cf Bacon had been writtea by himself. After 11 It may be philosophical to concluds that ihere Is glory enough in Shakespeare's plays lor a dozen men, and cow that the poet ot Stratford has had his share there is enough left surely fcr a contemporaneous Lord Chanceller. If the Judgment is irrevocable that Shakespeare has had his day, why, then, let Bacon succeed him. In one respect Francis Bacon was like all other men of pronounced originality he was himself. If the task given a young and vi cicus mind is congenial it soon cetaes to be a task; but if otherwise it Is most irksome, and the mind will refuse it and take another course. In this it follows Instinct, fleeing as it does to a refu?a, and shows its natural bent. You dca't find Bacon in a pirldisal nook poeti cally entranced, but in a corner studying Arblctle. Eacca never did. anything in n-'.uxity nzz clrsrly indicative cf his great fnttlfcctcal g'fts than was his early mattery Cf Atiaiotle; erd had the desire for knol dfetben consume! hlrn, as it did the Stag j riie, the Irataaratlo Mtgoa woald now bs a perfect edifice instead ot the domeless tern- E)e that it 1?. Natnre reveals this, and Mr. 0 nelly will hardly dispute it, DasonUn enthaeia&t tbat he is; for to do so would bo to f Latter his idol and deprive Sir Francis of th title cf "universal genius," though it still If ft him mprems in poMry. At thirteen Bacon entered Cambrk's and at e'phteen wrote n roost scacioat etsy on "The Slate cf Europe." 01 this work and its j cum author Shaw says: "The political knowledge exhibited in tnis little treatise, and the profound wisdom aud a:utenesi ditp'njed in it. would astsnlsh us as the wok cf ore haidly entered upon the period of t dolcicerce, if any rcanle.tatlon of intel lect conld icrpriss cs on the partot this asiennhlng person. It is clmous that be had already felt tbe mysterious vccstlon et genius that teeret oracle which joir.ts out to tte highest order of miuds the tree path 1 hieb Providence intended them to purtn. a path from wnich they never de vfate with f mponity. Eicon so strongly felt tbat tbe true bent cf his chatacter would lead him to consecrate his future life to sub lime and solitary meditation, and was so prccdly and jestly confident in the yet un exercised streogth of his intellect, tbat he entreated Bnrleigh to procure htm from the Stato some provision wh!c!i would enab! him to prcst cute his studies in uninterrupted leiture." If philosophy then was the ürst and last love of Bacon and all the world kDows it was asd he permitted theaUore ments of statecraft to obscure his sublime visions, and the voice of the siren to stills that ot tbe angel, he prob&b'y created such pccple as Lear and Hamlet when at leisure when there was nothing serious to engi;a his attenticn. After be enterei politics, tupgrdatand tormented, as he certaiily wae, by the coniciince, so to speak:, of his philosophical genius, he had little time for poetry. No sconer had he struck the cur rent of popular prosperity iban bis eye be came ringie, his ambition absotbin?. Mr. Donnelly lays, "Yes, but you should reu ember tbat Bacon, though always a gentleman, was once young, poor atd obrcure," and though he Joe3 not positively say so, ho implies that B 1300 wrote the Sbakesnerean dramas when bewai ' jcutg, pcor and obfeure." If this is Mr. Donnelly's meaning bis puillon is ridicu lous. Every astute student of Shakspeare tecs distinctly the poet's different tsge ot growth, and aligns to each its proJustloa. Bacon write the8hakesperean plfMS before he was appointed Queen's Counsel'.' It could cot bave been. Now what is claimed for Bicon, pure and simple, is this: tbat in youth he was the sulltmcat post,, in maturity the most co n prebeneive statesman, and in after life the greatest practical phllcscph'.r a "universal genius." Here are three extraordinary lives in one, and that life cut short A striking f cculisrity ot it is tbat the middle part is tbe a est and the to ends the bf liest. It is sid'y out of ihape so extremely swayhaoked that the ends nearly meet. Are the achieve ments of youth superior to those of maturity ? If Bacon wrote tbe plays wbea young, be never did anything elee so well, and would therefore be the solitary exception. But genio?, though peculiar, docs not drive catt foremost. It is strange, as Joseph says, tbat so great a statesmen should have been 10 sublime a coet; and stranger that this rare poetis light should have been dimmed so suddenly; and s'nnger still that when Bacon realized his oc:upa ticn wis gone he should have applied him self to philosophy rather than to poetry. Grant that Bicon wrote some of the plays after Robert Cecil brcame conspicuous, ia it probable tbat he thought to humiliate Cecil by producing Bicbard III? It is not appar ent tbat Kichard was seriously afftcted with Lumllity les so, perhaps, than any other chaiecter except one in ths whole round. A deformed idiot might have bit the mark, bnt a deformed king never. Richard's am bition was a kingdom, and ha secure! it. His bold ard subtle mind was ever equal to the demands cf the most exacting occasions. He walked in blcod, to bs sure, and main tained himself by blcod. and though his leg wss drawn and his body dwarfed by a creoked back, his mind was the loftiest in his realm. If Cecil could have seen hlmsslf in Ricbanl ho mizht have felt complimented. If Baccn detested him ho would not have devised this means to debase him. 8ich pretentions do not magnify the opinion of Baron: and though Mr. Donne:! v cau not convince us tbat he was a poet, he should bave more ie?pect for the memory of the pi'at philosopher than to depteciate his merit. Atd a to the date of Rtclnnl.it is contidertdoaeof Shakespeare's early produc tions. Mr Donnelly claims that 3acou's cipher rurs through the Shakespearean plays, lie has detected it Jn "Henry IV." and the "Merrv Wives of Windsor." and says that "Hamlet" is one fifth larger than when first wiitten. He says further, that whoaver wrote the cipher wrote the plays. Bit this la Lot evident. It docs not necessarily fol ia w that the author of the one is the author of the ether. Mr. Donnelly virtually admits this when he declares that the cipher was written separately and subsequently, and then ineerted. Even if he has found Bacon's cirber in the plays of Shakespeare, he does not hold in bis hand, as he proudly asserts, tbe lives of Shakespeare, Bacon and Ral eigh. Yontg Beccn, like young 8pincza, knew himself to be a philosopher; but. unlike Pnno7a, Le cou'd not toil in poverty aad cbicuritv, gainicg a livelihcod by so ace hum b e means, tbat he might write philosDphy. Bacon was too great for either tbe law or the State, but unfortunately was cursed with a passion for tplecdor and magnificence. After be entered tbe eervice of his sovereign he wes never at his best, his abilities being con strained to an nncatural coure, and when ke reached the end ot "t, humili ated and broken hearted, he siw tbcre was nothing in It to re com- rcerd bim to posterity. Tbe question is, which is greater in its sphere. Shakespeare's poetry or Bacon's philosophy? We scare sly ktow how vast the complete system of phi lesophy might have teen, bat the poMry.we know, is utapproached. Now, if ni a poet, he cculd stand absolutely ahead, and as a philosopher only abreast for we do rot think bim greater tban Aristotle why did he cot, in retirement, attempt to rest his fame on poetry rather than philosophy? and why was it cot his solace in distress? Bat we td him true to his nature, cotwitstnnding Mr. Donnelly's distasteful effort to make him an intellectual and psycological hfraiaph rodite, feeling in the dark fcr the lost thiead cf hisgenins, and when he finds it he knows it and straltway perinea it until he dies, canted away by the impulse of his one great power. Remember it was in youth Ba con sketched the Irstauratic, intending, at a future time, to complete it. It is not like ly, then, assuming at an early sge judicial and political duties, imbued from the first with a psramount idea and evolving it ai far as be was able at ths first opportunity, that he wrote the plays of Shakespeare. Mr. Donnelly truly says Bacon wanted to te known to future ages as one of tbe world's great men. He was undoubtedly one of tbem, and his ambition in this regard was eminently just His history as lawyer and statesman, we believe, he would have gladly disowned, conscious that his fame as such would pale when compared to that of o.hsra; and knowing his God given strength, his career up to tbe sge of fifty-nine must have been .Cusatiafylng. His life was now far spent, and If he had written the Shakespear ean plays, he might have added to them an aggregation or characters greater than either Prospero 'or Macbeth, for he was at the sge to mingle the ripest sentiments of poetry with the ripest speculations cf philosophy and this :'s what he would bave done had he been tbe pot cf the plays. Bot ths In stanratio was planned, and by its consumma tion be hoped when young to win a name that the glory of the Stagyrits would not dim. He could cot cow hope to completely unfold his design, to vat was it. Here too be taw tbat be was ba filed, that he must be known to posterity as a corrupt politician and ths author ot an inoompleta oystsux 0! pbiJoeophy. That was inevitable. Bat ths wcrld it more generous than to measure Bi cot simply by what he did. It lees in toe iklton of Iii system a genius far pblloso pbv unsurpaied. Becon understood that Shakesosare's pcetry wss and ever would be inoomparab'e. Tb:i reflection. In the lie tit of the remaraah'e dirover7 rcsdo by Mr Donnelly, b.gts au oti t tbat we would f4in reject. 7 can cot believe that Bacon wrote th Shake tpmran flays, and therefore regret to learn tbtit bis cipher ban been found in then. Of course, says Mr. Doarelly, tbe world does net rare whether it apotheosizes Sh:ike.speae or I3for it wonid simply crown tu post W droit tbat. But docs Mr. Donnelly re alise tbat tbe cvfderceof the cipher doe not piece 1I19 Sfcakeire areau cbapiet on the Bcsn!an bro ? Docs he sea iu the cipher a stk'T a? "Wocld he who did not blnsh at self-con-tut diet ion to p'eaie Elizabeth; who raised the tscd of an irgrate azaics'. llorleigh, his ftucd ai.d protector, for the advancement cf Euex, end then turned and throttled Efssx whennrred too bard by Builelh: who, es liOrd High Coanccllor, sold his honor to Ytliers fcr favor, retired in disgrace and bepgf d the Lords that they "prets not too bird upon a broken reed' would such a character invent a cipher and Insert it in another's work? Wculd Lord Bacon do H? We prefer to thick he wculd cot, and cau't thank Mr. Donnelly for intimating that ne wculd. For, tay what we will, Biroa was a great soul. Ei'oknc Rohan. Indianapolis, May 22. WASHINGTON. letter from tho National Capital. IMcfs of Statlatlct-rictorea of Professor Dodß, James Mmmo and Car rol I). Wright. Washington, May The statisticians 0! A'a&hington are occupying a pretty large sbare ot public attention just now. Professor Nimmo, tbe head of tbe Bureau of Statistics of tbe Treasury Department, is packing bis gripsack preparatory to leaving the placs which he has held for the past seven or eight 3 eais. Mr. Carroll D. Whight is hard at work gettiig his twenty epec'al agsnts into the field, end Professor Dodge, the Statistician of tbe Horticultural Department, has Just launched upon an nraispected public a cal culat on of facts and figures which will only be appreci&ted by the few who bave time to give them a careful study. Editor Switzler, of Missouri, who hi) been named to succeed Mr. Nimuo, is hrre preparing to take the po sition on the first of the coming month. Mr. Wright, although appointed by President Artnur. expects to retain bis place, and Pro fe'scr Dodge, vrho has been at his present tost abont twenty yean, feels that he is in no Immediate danger. Tan figare which the 8 ccy of statistics cuts in tbe administration of a great and intelligent government such as this is greater than many would supposs. An able statistician is a person of 1,'raat value to the Government or a deru'tsaent. ' It Is wonderful," said a gentleman cor rected for many yea's with the statistical woikcfthe Government here, "to tee the prottlhot this vork in the past few years, and tbe increased interest tbat is being taken in it. Ycu would be surprised to ees the in ten at tbat people tako in the class of matter that a few years ego failed entirely to inter est them. Indeed we find the ic terest grow ing in much creator proportion than our foice or enr ability to eupply the increased demand upon cs for tbe same." "You get a zozA many calls for Informa tion, then?' "A gocd many! Well Tbciuands of tbem " " From wbat class of I should eay so. people do they Cime: "All corses. Of course when Congress is in eftsion we ceta great many demand 1 frcm members wbo want th9 Information for use in debates. Bot you would be surprissd TP.OF. J. P. DODGE. to see the interest people generally take in this matter. We get inquiries from all classes of people members of State Legisla turen, merchants, teachers, students, preach er?, lecturers, manufacturers and faamrs. Tbis is especially the case when the tariff or torxe question cf that sort is bsing dis cursed in Congress and in the newspap9rj." "You consider this a healthy siu, do you cot?' "Very. When you see the people begin nii g to take an interest in statistical infor- msiica, you may ba sure they are thinking on roate"re of importance. Yes, the doval opu-ent in this regard in the past few years ta been very great." Yoa get more calls for informtioa in this line tbaa ycu did a few years-ago?" MA great many more yes, ten times as we did ten years aio; and the work of gath erirg the statistics ia looked upon much more favorably cow than it was a few years ago. Then it was looked upon with aversion; there was a sort of feelirg Uta1, it was au in terlerence with private business, and that the facta and figure so gathered would not bs of any material value. There was a dsnand with a certain clas for statistics, but they were few in number." What is the scope of the work under taken by the Treasury Bureau of Statis tics?' "Importsand exports, and internal com merce We give with exactness the amounts of tbe imports and exports, and a pretty good estimate ot internal commerce. Of course it wcnld be impossible to cover everything in internal commerce. for that would Include evejy business transaction down to th sale cfapcundot coffee, hut we get the great movements in a gratifyisg way." "It must take a lirze force of employes to accomplish this work? ' "Yes. We have thirty five men here now, srd all the collectcas of port and their forces of men are required by law to assist u tor chhicgusthe Quantities and value ot the various articles imported and exported. By this mi ans we are able to state ths precise quantity and Talc e of over 1.000 different articles and classes cf articles that are im ported." "How dees your system compare with that cf other countries?" "Very favorably. We get tbe statistical reports of other Governments, and find by ccmparlson that our3 is mere satisfactory tban their3. Then this is by no means the enly statistical bureau of the Government Esch department has it3 etat sticin who deals especially in the class of information suited to his department, so the amount of ic formation gathered by tbe Governmeat m this way Is something wonderful." Mr. Nimmo, who has been so long con nected with this service.goes to California as scon as bis term of service expires, at the cd of the present month, but will return here and continue to make Washington his home. He has been in Government work fcr twenty years, having been selected in 1SG5 to formulate and put in practice a sys tem of admeasurement of ocean yeiesia, and lirfr soon thereafter made Chief of the Tot t age Division, going on from this posi tion to tbe present ooe through a grade of portions of trntt. His work has beu Urg4 iy cf a literary character, also, and his oro deciers rank htgb with those who make a stt tly ot this data of work. 7 he Bureau of Labor Statistics. undr Mr. Cairoll D. Wright, of Massachusetts, is eral tul'y petting itself into working orJer. Tb re are to be fonr or five sgsntseent to Eoicpe to gather fads bearing on labor de predicts, aud tbe remainder ot tlie lot of twenty or twenty five will orerats in this c-miiry. Mr Wrieht, who Is very familiar M this werk, will himself täte char of the- woralrg force, espccja'ly iu Nw Li plai d where ho has thoroughly plowü ths a ft. A -A JAMES MM MO, JO. field. Ihere is a good dea' of interest felt in tbe work of this bureau. Statisticians here speak in very high terms of Mr. Wright and very hopefully cf his proposed work. Tbe business ot this season will bs the in vestigation cf labor depressions and on effort to ascertain their cause. Tbe attention of Mr. Wright and his force of assistants will be especially devoted to this subject, in all parts of tbis country and in Europe as well. Another statistician who covers theeatin country even more thoroughly than any of those earned is Professor Dodze, the ö.atli tic'an of the Department of Agriculture. His division has a Section of Correepondencs and Invettlf ation, a Section of Crop Rsturns atd Record and a Section cf Rittwayand Steamship Transportation Kites. Tne cron inciting ejiteai includes a corpa of about SOoO correspondents, reporting from more than 2 CCO producing counties. A parallel and supplementary work Is carried on tbrorgh statistical agents representing e.ach Sta'e and Territory. Tceoe a;enta are execu tive officers cf State cilicial systems of crop reporting in ths States where such work is organized, thus coreb'ning State and Na tional organizations and unifying and pjr ftctlcg the work. The Inauguration of crop repcrlicgin Eorope for the information of American farmers who depend more or lets cprn the European, demand f or their cereal and meat products has been attended with a treed degree of success. Professor Dodge, through these correspondents, is able t give eech mcnth a very accurate statement of the condition of the crops of the country. Hs furnishes to the press on the afternoon of the 10th rf tbe month the condition of the crops tbe country on tbe 1st of the month, follow ing with the details a few days later. His Carroll p weight. work is very closely watch rd, especially by those interested in the pries of grain, and constant but unsuccessful efforts are made to get "advance information" through whbh parties mieht mske fortunes in grain speca Jatioris Professor Dodge has found in his twenty yeats in this position a steMlly gow irg interest in statistics, especially in the past lav year?, since tbe resnlt of the last reusus is beglccirg to make itself apparent in its e 11 ct op tbe public mind. "There are evl dercep," he paid to your correspondent, "of a nlgber popular appreciation of tbe uses and utilities of statistics, and auranc'S cf a fartter reach and Bnpsrior accarach in the work. In tte past ths greatest bir to effi ciency in census work was found in the igno rance, the Indifference, or the actual oppos' tion of individuals from whom primary data must be obtained. Man, in the individual ity cr selfishnees cf his wild or savage state, has net learned to yield gracsfully some thirg of hia natural rights to tbe general welfare cf the community. He it suspicious and fears a tax levy if the inquirer is a gov ernment official, and some economic adau tage if be is a fallow craftsman. It is won derful to observe ths lingering of some ftnch prejudice in tbe minds of multitudes of no litt le inHüfieuce and a degree of culture. It Is pratifying to see this prejudics disap pearing in the practical, culture of the pre- ent day. The spirit of statistical inquiry is everywhere felt. Statesmen are imbued with it, cewepapers hsva caagbc the inspira tion, end ple&'ant sermons find illustration thrcngh its xcflnences." A Missouri farmer refused to loo'r. at a eample sewing-machine recently, as ne at wa? s "eoweJ wheat by hand." He is re'ated t tbe man who did not want a threshing machine on his farm. "For," eaid he "gtre rre a bsiness-tug or a barrel a aye, and I can mak my family toe the mark according to law and Scrlpier." Anybody Can Do It. "lie caught a cold." The slowest pedestrian, the meat unskillful fisherman, can catch a cold. A cold may make only a short week's visit, or it may take a cotion to stay lor ger. In the latter case it selects a favoritle location, and mak'sa home there. Then it becomes wbat we call a "set tled" cold. First it Is fall of discomfort, next it Is full of danger. Bow shall we unsettle one of these colds and rid onr bodily bouse of It? Permit ut to Introduce the following good people, who will say half a doz:n words apices on tbat point: Tor pain la tne chest and lungs, resulting fr:m colds, Benton's L'ajclae Piasters bare afTirded me the sp cdlest relief." F. Edward Cramer. "Bes IIiYe i'o e." Chicago. "I cauaht a cold, tad pa: ns in mv lenzs, ca lghed all lat winter (liij-4). used all kinds of cosgb. syrups without benefit. I was cured b Benso i'a Capclne Piastsrs," John Burns, Kansas City, Mo "I say to my friends, 'If you bave co'.d oa the chest, as I bad, use Benson's Capclae Plasters, aad they will cure you ss they cured me.' " E.C. Greene, 8C2 West Jackson street, Cnlcaso. "A fold settled oa my chest. One of Benson's plasters turned out this troublesome squatter." A. Heileisle, 120 Deirborn street, Chicago. 'I had a severe pain in ray breast ana side. Benson's Capclne Piasters pave quiet ani com plete relief." A. C. Werner. Kansas city. Mo. "I have used several Eenson'a platera for ptin In the back, caused by a severe cold. 1 pronounce ttem good. People wöo try Benson'a plasters will never touch liniments asala." O. Ziaa. 5:2 Locust street. St. Loula, Mo. Ask to see the Thrte Red Seals. Imitations of Benson's plaster are soil under similar na-ne. AVfcen bu Ting Benson' examine ttie plaster your self tcfore it is wrapped op. Tbe genuine has tbe Tbree Red Seals traJe mark oa its face. Look tor tbe Tbree P.cd Seals. ( 11 Hl A PYRAMID OF NOVELTY. THE GREAT WEEK OF MAY 25! WEEK OF MAY.25! DR1W, SACEZHTT, CO.'S The Gicat Laugh Creators of Modern Times, tho Mighty Mastors of Minstrel Mirth. 30 Cosmopolitan Colossean Confederated Creators of Comedy 30 Who bave len Immodeiately and Monstrously Predominant with tic Nfction'a Lauch ProJuwrs, aad Particularly, Remarkably and Notably Complete in all their Enden vox to Pic.w. Wo head ilio list with tho coming Men of Minstrelsy, ALF BARKER Who arc nothing if not original. Tlioy aro Chestnut- Hating Comedians. Novel and Original First Part! A TONY GOLDEN,! Character Mirale. I Ohio's Swell Society GORMAN B. SHlDER.i HARRY SULK LEY, i (JHAS. DEVERE, ! HAB 11 Y DKAYIUfJ, The rppn'ar Favorite. t A Novelty Comedian. i HntttuE Coined Un. I)aac!n Comedian. The Kastodcn Four B1IS. ST. GEORGE MUSStfY Quoon of IrJh Imporsorntora. ITrnuli: Lew Orlsloal Topical Voc illat. nSTEW PBATUBBS IIsT CURIOSITY SCA.XiD! JAMES WILSON, Ice Expanrloniit. lO CTS. Admits to All. lO CTS. 3 4 v r vv: BITTERS i I i i ... ! t rnnre IH j LIVER rs rr m aTtrTrc!'N r2S ! STOMACH ! AND I BOYELS! ALL DRUGGISTS . PSictlcniLR.: ianniUoo, tlahitnal Conatipa- ' fioa, liivo Complaint, Sieb Hrc.ib.clio, Uiüasöä K(4 uejs, JIt-o. Etc. licoctalss osl" thof uriti Diai, J-TcnjT t r N lira Biri:. izzzz, zzssi,&t a. v. j. ttirmii o: Tin: hüoom it. LO.'.S . ;Q ?usas ctr. f ii PIPE AND jf FITTINGS, eclllne Aecnts for Natlozal Tnbe Works Co., Globe ValTes, Stop Cock, Enjrine Trlmnln??, PIP ION 03, CÜTTEK.S, VISES, TAPS, Stocka and Die, Wrenches, etcaa Trap, Pumps, Binta, H03E BELT ING, BABBITT ilSTALS, (I2i pound Boxe), Cotton Wlpfcs waste, white and col ored (100-poand bales), and all o'Jier supplies cssd in connection with 8TEAM, WaTR and GAS. in JOB 01 RETAIL LOTS. Do a reeu lar tteara Cttin? buslne'is. Estimate and contract tc heat Mills. Shops, Fac'orie and Lumber Dry Bouses, with lire or exhaust steam Plpa cut to order br steam power. 015HT & JTLLSOM, 75 an 77a.Peaa.6t. m mm ÜUUÜ 1 . -.1 s 1 B MM 11 BEST OF. ILL SHOWS! OK mm Ah PAUS r 1 ilWlu AND ARUNDEL, j HARRY PELL, j JAMES rOX, OioFolo!st. ! MhMh Lfan. 5 Cr.Mt Haruli?. Singers Tho Peerless Cleveland Quartet! BARKER, LAPETRIE, GOLDEN AND DR&YTON. Mi.' nnd Proaii9ro in, : PROt. CHARLES, Golde a Temple of Mu!c. ,wtt PERFECTION TliH Cut represents au entirely ne w AUTOMAT I J MUSIC STRUMENT, which far surpass antbing of the kind ever bro oio the jublic. It cau either 1)3 uaA ia the Parlor, Church, Dancing Academy, and cm be played by a child a9 well as a grow ISi.'Vs'J-Si.ir a. M Pike, $18 CO with oce roll of music. The late M popular music 3lays cn hand. ' CHARLES MAYER & CO. 29 and 31 West Washington Street. WE ARB STILL IN THE LEAD In llie CARPET and WALL PAPER Tritte. And cui low Fricca are to in contrast with the old atyle and rte-tar enii of the ttock of ome cf O Jt roiDpeiilora tnat vre have öcüe a driving; bnsincsa. Tüo.": wb9 LOOK ALL OVER XOWIN Finslly buy of up, 10 that there la really no ute to o elsewhere. W can sal wi.l p!?t yo i. Oir CARPETS AND MATTIUGS In all grades are New, Stylish and Neat; while ia WALL PAPERS We simply defy competition. AWNING?. CCRTAIN3, tie HERMAN MARTENS, 40 Soutli Moridlau Otroot. FURNITURE. It will pay to seo our largo New Lino or Bedroom Sets. We have a very complete lino of Fresh, New Goods, at prices that DEFY COMPETITION. KING- & ELDEE, . 43 and 45 South Meridian Street. -p A "P"uä"p I.1DIÄSA PIPES C011PANY, T71X O, DaVAY. Prccidcat. S3 East tltryland Otrcet, MUSEUM! III ! LA PETRIE, iRS W. J. CD WAY, Baaloty 8icet3ti Ar.titi Tony Kyan, WizVd fcViOltt. I LOWEND A BALDWIN, Armies I Hinter. ,... AT LAST. 1 'MifTtV 7.."' 1 1 ' -- a