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PRICK FIVE CENTS.
INDIANAPOLIS. SUNDAY MORNING. 31 AY 10. 1003.
PRICK FIVK CENTS.
TALKS OiN LIVE TOPICS
EXILED FRENCH ORDERS
EVOLUTION OF THE CIRCUS
CHORUS GTRIy RBMBMBERBD BY HER TJNCI,B
WUrlr WVB ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC
; LESSOX POINTED m QUCK-LtXCH
It ESTAL'KANTS IX THIS CITY.
31. IVY Sir.MnUHS COMIXfi TO AMERI
AX INTERESTING CHAT "WITH AN
OLD-TIM C SHOWMAN.
CAN iiKLicaois noises.
. Kot Many Hlgh-CIass Cafes and Res
taarnntn for the Size of the Town
Other Stories nf Interest.
He Recnlln the Days of the Old Wagon
Showi-Dan Itice In Ileytlay
of Success.
Influx, of the Regulars Not Viewed
AVholJy with Favor tiy Arcli
lilihops and Bishops.
SUNDAY
JO
The establishing of two or three new
'quick-lunch restaurants here In Indianapo
lis serves to Indicate the peculiar spirit
that pervades thla city during Its business
hours," remaiked a well-known restaurant
manager the other day. "I know of no
other town of this size where there are so
few cafes and high-class eating places. In
dianapolis business men or, at least, the
vast majority of them simply refuse to
take an hour away from work In the mid
dle of the day for the purpose of enjoying
a good, well-cooked luncheon. The men in
the business district are so completely en-
grosscd with their business affairs that
they are unmindful of anything else, and
they hastily swallow a sandwich or a cut
of pie at noon Just as a matter of duty
rather than because they really care for
anything to eat.
"It's the quick-lunch restaurant that is
most popular In Indianapolis. It seems
that most of the men who take their noon
day meals, down town have neither the pa
tience nor the time to have their food
cocked tq order. And of course a restaur
ant cannot have everything prepared in
advance and still be a first-class eating
house. In some quick-lunch places here
in town the hustling, bustling patrons are
allowed to help themselves to. the sand
wiches, pies, or rolls which are heaped on
the counters, and in these places the cus
tomers are placed entirely on their honor
to pay for what they cat. Many of them
forget by the time they have finished their
lunch Just what they have consumed and
this causes. lots of trouble sometimes. You
cee. they are so taken up by their thoughts
of business affairs that they eat mechan
ically, and the chances are that some of
them would never think to pay their bills
at all If the waiters did not remind them
that 'they had forgotten something. I
don't wonder that tot:rist3 from the old
country are always being surprised at the
everlasting 'hustle of the American busi
ness man. In all of the European coun
tries the business men take from an hour
and a half to two hours away from 'the
work every day for the purpose of quietly
enjoying their midday' meal. We certainly
live at a fast pace in this country and
what with the hurried swallowing of pies
and doughnuts and other articles of rich
pastry it's a wonder to me that Indian
apolis is not a city of dyspeptics."
xxx
"If a man or woman has any supersti
tion in his or her make-up and most of us
have plenty of it the race track is sure to
bring It out," remarked E. J. Dougherty,
a traveling man. In the lobby of the Grand
Hotel one evening last week. "I have been
putting in some spare time while in Louis
ville this week watching the 'ponies' out
at the famous Kentucky course, and I've
never before been so impressed with the
superstitious nature of man In " general.
Did you ever know before that a race
horse owner will vigorously object to hav
ing his animal photographed. The race
horse that has his picture taken is sure to
'go wrong for several days, and some own
ers will not enter their horses In any races
until at least three days after the camera
has done its dreadful work. I learned from
a well-known horseman at Louisville that
during the winter racing season in New
Orleans Sam Hildreth. one of the leading
turfmen of the West, refused to bet on
Wltful in the Crescent City Derby simply
because the heavy rains in the South had
bo flooded the infield where he had been
accustomed to standing while watching the
races that he was compelled to move to an
other spot near the Judges stand. He felt
that he could not possibly win a bet that
day on account of having to cnan his
location.
"All owners of race horses are given up
to superstition, but the people who play
the races regularly are Just as susceptible
to so-called magic charms or hoodoos.
Every little episode is twisted into a good
or a bad omen. Every race track 'regular
has his own creed in which he firmly be
lieves, but there are several beliefs In which
all turf followers share, one being that if
you lose on Monday you'll lose all week.
I've known enthusiastic racegoers who had
started out for the track to turn back home
tipon coming In contact with a funeral.
Others blieve that If they see three white
horses while en route to the races they are
pure to come out winners on the day's
eport. In' fact, a close observer at a race
track is bound to come to the conclusion
that men and women are nothing but big
children after all."
XXX
"This cold, long-drawn-out spring has had
quite a disastrous effect upon the milliners
business in Indianapolis." declared a popu
lar maker of women's hits yesterday. "I
don't recall any other spring season when
hats have sold so slowly, not only in the
many small shops, but in the big depart
ment stores as well. There have been so
few warm days since Easter that women
have continued to wear their winter hats,
which seem in much better taste, since
everybody I still obliged to retain havy
clothes. Sooner or later every woman in
town will have new warm-weather head
gear, of course, but it is very discouraging
to milliners to have the season drag on at
Buch a snail's pace. Business before Easter
Started out briskly, for the longest stretch
of warm weather this spring was during
the latter part of March and the first two
weeks of April. You see, no woman wants
to w?ar a light straw hat strewn with sum
rner flowers, together with a heavy gown
end, perhaps, a winter Jacket."
xxx ..
According to the Indianapolis mail car
riers, it is surprising how many people re
fuse to make use of the big boxes placed in
different parts of the city's down-town dis
trict for the purpose- of receiving newspa
pers and packages. "It's an odd fact," said
a postman the other day, "but there seems
to Nf a prevailing opinion that these large
rnall boxes are not emptied as frequently
as the smaller letter boxes, and many men
who ought to know better will leave the
newspapers or packages which they wish to
Bend through the mail on the tops of letter
boxes, where they can be stolen, instead of
placing them In the big receptacles, which
are, of course, perfectly safe. These larger
boxes were put in us for the double pur
pose of relieving the collectors of letters
and other first-class mail matter and to put
a stop to the habit of placing newspapers
and packages on th letter boxes. But the
habit still continues Just the same."
.So It la.
Chicago Tost.
It is a terrible thing, when one has arrived
at the eminence enjoyed by General Corbln,
to be fed upon by a plain yellow dog.
Miss Ilulme Is a chorus girl in "The Chinese Honeymoon, Company, now touring. Her
genius thus far has been rated at a salary of 2 per week. News has been received from Eng
land that she has come Into a fortune, the gift of an uncle In Staffordshire, England, by
which sh will receive 110.000 per year. Despite this wealth. Miss Ilulme announces her Inten
tion of continuing her stage career.
IF SCIENTISTS WERE DISHONEST
Discoveries They Have Mnde That
31 Ik tit Have Dren Pat to Dad Account.
Pearson's Weekly.
' It Is a lucky thing for society at large
that scientists are seldom. If ever, dowered
with criminal Instincts. For, supposing the
converse held good! Supposing, for in
stance, that Professor Dewar, the discov
erer of liquid air, had been an Anarchist.
In that case he would have had ready to
his hand a secret and deadly explosive
which would be Infinitely more powerful
than dynamite, while needing neither fufe
nor detonator to set it off. All that would
be necessary would be to fill a steel bomb
the bigger and thicker the better with
liquid air, and hermetically close it. Imme
diately the Interior contents , would begin
to expand as the imprisoned and tortured
atmosphere commenced slowly to return
from its liquid to a gaseous state; and this
expansion would continue until, if the bomb
could be made strong enough, the well-nigh
inconceivable pressure of 12,000 pounds per
square inch would eventually be developed.
Then the enveloping walls of steel, even
if a foot or more in thickness, would inev
itably fly into innumerable fragments, and
with an explosive violence which would be
sufficient to wreck anything and everything
within a radius of probably thousands of
yards. Indeed, It has been estimated that
a single gallon of liquid air could, given cer
tain conditions, be made equal in destruc
tlveness to 10,000 tons of gunpowder. Or as
sume, on the other hand, that he had been
a criminal of the Palmer type a secret
poisoner. In liquid air he had at his com
mand a far more deadly toxic agent than
even prusslc acid, and one, moreover, which,
had he chosen to keep his discovery to him
self, he might have inconceivably used with
almost perfect impunity. For even the very
smallest quantity of liquid air, administered
internally, would prove almost immediately
fatal, eating its way with vitriolic swiftness
into the victim's inmost vitals, destroying
tissue, muscle and bone, and yet leaving no
trace of itself.
Marconi, again, the inventor of wireless
telegraphy, took all the world Into his con
fidence as soon almost as his marvelous
discovery was first lighted on. But what if
he had chosen to keep his knowledge to
himself and utilize it, as he could easily
have done, to further dishonorable ends of
his owri?
It is quite conceivable that he-might have
made millions on the stock exchanges and
bourses of- Europe and America, for by
means' of his tiny instruments, while the
cables slept and the telegraph offices were
closed, he could have transmitted and re
ceivedthrough his accredited agents, of
course exclusive Information of vital im
portance. Or supposing that Professor Roentgen, the
discoverer of the X-rays, had been a pro
fessional thief. He would have had at his
beck and call a something which no other
member of the fraternity had even dreamed
about a something which would have en
abled him to see how many and what valu
ables were in this or that receptacle, or the
amount of coin a person had in his pocket,
his purse or his satchel. His "rays' would
have been to him. in fact, a sixth sense,
possessed by no other living creature in the
whole wide universe.
The story of the man who found out how
to spilt Hank of England notes Into two
rarts laterally, and who was su honest and
so disinterested that he went forthwith
and made a present of his knowledge to the
directors of the institution in question, is
well known. In the main, the details are as
usually stated, although it is doubtful
whether the discovery could have been
turned to any practical account if even the
discoverer had been a rogue in embryo In
stead of an honest and law-abiding citizen.
It Is a fact, however, that only a year or
two back a similar but far more dangerous
discovery was accidentally stumbled upon
by a poor alien engraver, who freely made
a present of his knowledge to the Panker'
Association. This man found out a method
by which he could imitate the water mark
ing on letters of credit and other similar
documents. It was a simpi- method, and
easy of application by even the veriest tyro;
and there is no doubt that had he chosen
to do so he might have swindled the Lon
don banks out of hundreds of thousands of
pounds. Since then, it may be mentioned,
perforations have been universally substi
tuted for the old-fashioned wter markings,
so far as the indication of the amounts Is
concerned.
Then, again, there is the very typical case
of MM. Fremy and Verneuil, who first dis
covered how to produce valuable rubies arti
ficially. By means of an electric furnace,
developing the terrific temperature of 3.000
degrees centigrade, these two eminent sci
entists were able to fuse small and compar
atively valueless stones and minute frag
ments of stones into a viscid mass, and this
in due process they succeeded in molding
under pressure into one perfect, and, of
course. Immensely valuable, whole. To the
two savants In question this discovery sim
ply represented an interesting scientific
fact. That there was a fortune in the
process, if kept secret and utilized with a
certain amount of unscrupulousness, was
utterly and entirely beside the point. They,
In fact, took the whole world into their con
fidence, and, although since then "recon
structed" rubies, as they have been chris
tened, have been placed upon the market,
It has been done entirely without the knowl
edge or consent of the original discoverers.
SOME GOOD ADVERTISEMENTS.
Cnrlooi Dita Gathered Together from
enr and Far.
Printer's Ink has gathered together from
various sources these curious bits of ad
vertising: '
Dairymaid wanted, able to wash and Iron
(four cows.) Hereford Journal.
General servant wanted, small house,
family of two, one agreeable and obliging.
Lynn (England) Advertiser.
A shoemaker has this card in his window:
"Any respectable man, woman or child
can have a fit in this shop."
A Western paper - refuses to publish
eulogies gratis, but adds: "We will pub
lish the simple announcement of the death
of any of our friends with pleasure."
Ram's Horn.
"See here, you chump; I placed an ad In
your paper showing the public how to get
rich quickly and you place underneath " it
another ad on 'how to cure the dope habit.
Brooklyn Eagle. '
The manager of a concert given in a
small town instead of putting "not trans
ferable" on the tickets posted a notice on
the door: "No gentleman admitted unless
he comes himself." Youth's Companion.
"Pedal ligaments artistically lubricated
and well illuminated for the infinitesimal
remuneration of 5 cents per operation" is
the sign displayed over a bootblack's es
tablishment in Charlestown. Boston Her
ald. SIngleton-rThat is a queer sign: "Wanted
A girl to feed ruling machine." Wederly
Nothing queer about that. Somebody
wants a nurse girl to look after the baby.
Chicago News.
Among the answers recently received to
an advertisement for a nurse to attend an
"invalid gentleman" was one 'giving the
usual particulars and concluding: "I think
I shall suit. My last patient is dead."
London Globe.
Fred Grant's Trouble.
Nebraska State Journal.
There is a tempest of indignation down In
Brackettville, Tex. Near the town, at Fort
Clark. Uncle Sam has a few companies of
soldiers. They go to Brackettville for their
liquid refreshments, and owing to the qual
ity of the red liquor kept in the saloons, of
a brand that suits the native Texans to a
dot. they become wild and raise hob. Gen
eral Grant, in whose department the fort
belongs. entered a complaint to the War
Department about the character of the
saloons and the popular quality of the
drinks they set forth. The report was con
veyed to the ears of the first citizens of
Brackettville and they are hot. They have
entered a counter complaint at the depart
ment of the high-handed doings of the
soldiers after they get drunk at the bars of
the Texas metropolis, and Secretary Root
has an argument on hand as complicated
and vexatious as that old problem of the
school men ae to which comes first In the
procession of nature, the hen or the egg.
The general claims that the Brackettville
whisky Is the origin of the trouble, while
alt Brackettville charges the soldier with
ineffectiveness because he can't carry the
wholesome beverage of Brackettville prop
erly. The town demands the removal of
Grant from the command, and the general
wants Brackettville removed from the
neighborhood of the fort. The quarrel will
probably get into the W. C. T. U. sisterhood
before long in connection with their con
viction that canteen beer Is more demoral
izing than Texas whisky. If the women
get after the general good and strong he Is
surely a goner. It will be useless for him
to emulate his distinguished father and
fight it out on that line if it takes all sum
mer, because he has no artillery that will
silence a single gun of the association if
he fires away for forty summers.
The Sovereign People.
Boston Herald. .
A story Is told by the Hon. Harry Gor
don, formerly a well-known Kansas man,
but now lieutenant governor of Ohio, at
the Grant celebration in the Brunswick
Hotel, shows how Ignorant some foreigners
are of what our democracy means, and how
proud Americans are to enlighten their
darkness. The opportunity of doing this
presented itself to an officer of the navy,
soon after his vessel had entered cine of
the Japanese ports. A bright student came
on board and asked:
"Who is in command of this ship, sir?"
"The captain, sir," answered the officer.
"Yes, I know." said the Jap; but who is
over the captain?"
"Why, the admiral," was the reply.
"Then who Is over the admiral?" queried
the student.
"Well, the secretary of the navy at Wash
ington." "But who Is oyer the secretary of the
navy?" askrd the Jap.
"The President of the United States, of
court e."
This seemed to end the Investigation, but
it didn't, for the Inquisitive foreigner pro
ceeded to inquire. "Who. then. Is over the
President of the United States?"
The people of the United States." And
that ended iL
The smell of fresh sawdust U filling the air.
The shout of the youngster Is h?ard here and
there.
Kaleidoscope blllboaids whine forth ev'ry where
Up city and down:
The streets arc all lined with the holiday crowd.
The gay, ROiden wagons and horses so proud
Are irre-ted with cheers that ring out long- and
loud.
And the umr-ltty-dum
Of the big brassy drum
Announces the fact that the circus has come
J There's a circus In town!
Hurrah for the tents, by the spring breezes
swayed!
Hurrah for the peanuts and red lemonade
And the hard, wooden seat which I Just wouldn't
trado
For an mpfror' crown!
Hurrah for the glitter and dimmer of gold.
iDon!t tell me the circus can ever grow old.)
Hurrah for the horsomen and acrobats bold.
And the rlppltty-xip
Of the rlngmastsr's whip.
And the snug silken tights from the toe to the
hip.
-And the circus In town.
It's all very well for you oldsters to say.
"All shows are ajike and at home we will stay."
I!y Jlngs! I own up that I can't keep away.
So hurrah for the clown!
Hurrah for the girls and the hoops they Jump
through.
And all the performers and all that they do.
Hurrah for the fhow. and the dime concert, too.
And the clangitty-clang.
And the slarpitty-bang.
And the tumult and din of the whole circus
gang.
And the circus In town!
Louis W. Jones.
"Talk about evolution! just think how
the circus business has evoluted during the
last half century," said an old-time show
man who now makes Indianapolis his
home, as he gazed with admiration at an
enormous billboard upon which were dis
played, in all of their kaleidoscopic glory,
the pictorial advertisements of the first cir
cus of the season. "I remember, as if it
had been but a few years ago," he con
tinued, "the time when the greatest circus
in all the United States was an organiza
tion made up of ten performers, a business
staff of three men, four musicians in the
band, sixteen horses, six wagons and a tent
with a top to it the first canvas top ever
known in the circus business. That was
the circus of Howes & Turner, organized at
Salem, N. Y., and I traveled with It for
several years, being quite a youngster then,
with an uncle who acted as ringmaster.
The members of the band and also the per
formers had to help put up and take down
the tent and drive and take care of the
horses. We gave no street parade, and if
the day's receipts reached $100 everybody
with the show felt as if life was well worth
the living.
SMALL ADVERTISING BILLS.
"We only had small advertising bills in
those days, with wood cuts on them that
would make you laugh If you could see
them now, and the advertising agent went
ahead of the show on horseback, tacking
up these modest little posters In hotels,
postoffices and blacksmith shops. In the
early days the circuses and menageries did
not exhibit together.. I think it was along
in 1S50 that the first circus and? animal
show exhibited at a single price of admis
sion and under the same tent. The menag
erie feature' was added for the sole purpose
of attracting church-going people, who
considered it wrong to attend the ring per
formances, and it often makes me smile to
myself as I recall the hundreds of well
meaning but dreadfully narrow-minded
folks throughout the country who used to
visit the animal tent and then hasten away
from the grounds without so much as a
glance at the sawdust ring, where the bare
back riders, . tight-rope walkers and acro
bats were giving their performances. It
was George F. Bailey who originated the
menagerie feature, he being the first to ex
hibit wild antmals and an elephant just
think of it, one lonely elephant!. Hackallah
Bailey, an uncle of George F. Bailey,
brought to this city the very first elephant
that ever set foot on American soil and
turned the big animal over to his nephew.
The greatest care was taken not to give
anybody a chance to get a free peep at the
wonderful monster. In 1853 Seth B. Howes,
one of the early pioneers of the circus busi
ness, and a man who was always keenly
alive to what was valuable as a drawing
card, imported a number of carnivorous
animals from the London Hippodrome and
went on tour with the biggest circus
menagerie that the United States had ever
seen. Mr. Howes died just two years ago
at his home in Brewster, N. Y., having
lived to see his many prophecies concern
ing the American circus fulfilled. He al
ways held in the old days that America
wolud go ahead of all the world in its tent
shows.
EARLY CIRCUS PROPRIETORS.
"The early circus proprietors of promi
nence, besides those mentioned, were Lew
Lent, John Robinson, Van Amberg, Dan
Rice, Nathan Howes, Dr. Spaulding, of
New Orleans: Charley Noyes, James L.
Thayer, Alexander Robinson, James Con
ner and, of course, the great P. T. Barnum.
Dr. Spauldlng was the acknowledged king
of Southern circus men. He ran
his 'mammoth palace circus up and
down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and
along In the sixties he introduced a novelty
in tho form of the railroad circus, or the
first circus that ever traveled by rail. He
couldn't make his railroad show pay, how
ever, and soon returned to river travel. It
was an expensive undertaking in those
times to transport a tent show over the
railroads. There never was, and probably
never will be a more popular circus per
former in this country than Dan Rice. Dan
was known everywhere, and the very name
brought a smile to the lips of the good
country people. Who remembers the name
of a circus clown nowadays? I'll venture to
say that the most ardent of modern circus
goer could not for the life of him call the
name of a single clown with any of the big
shows now touring the United States. Peo
ple do not know one performer from an
other now; such a thing as a favorite cir
cus performer is unheard of. In the great
spectacular tent performances each par
ticipant is just like a drop in a bucket of
water. ,
"But when Dan Rice was In the heyday
of his success people who cared nothing
for bare-back riding, gymnastic exhibitions
or acrobatics would go to the circus to
laugh themselves sick over the clown's
songs and jokes and capers about the ring.
It isn't generally known that Rice had with
him for several years a man who resembled
him greatly, and who, whenever Rice was
'indisposed,' as often happened to be the
case with the redoubtable Dan would
make himself up in an excellent imitation
of the original clown and go through Dan's
customary stunts in the ring, without any
body in the audience being the wiser for
tho deception. This understudy was Doc
Thayer, who afterwards owned a circus of
his own and who became quite prominent
as a showman on his own account in cer
tain parts of the country. Thayer was aa
pÄ JA- . L
JJ MkK V; 7
Truxton Beale, former United States minister to Tersla and son-in-law of the late James G.
Blaine, will go to Europe with his newly- wed second wife and remain abroad for a long time.
His new wife was Miss Marie Oge, the beautiful girl in defense of whose good name he shot a
San Francisco editor. The pair are going to Europe mainly to live down the publicity incident
to the affair.
awful fakir. lie could not more resist
Jollying up an audience than he could re
sist a glas of liquid refreshment. He would
wind up his foolery by making a speech In
which he told the people how proud he was
to be in their town 'the best town, by the
way, he had visited this season, he would
go on to add.
TROUBLE IN KENTUCKY.
"I remember one occasion when he got
himself Into hot water down in Kentucky.
He had been enthusiastically applauded,
and, mounting to the top of the spring
board, his favorite roosting place, he made
a low bow and said: 'Ladies and gentlemen
In all my travels from season to season
there is no place I love to visit so much as
Burkesville. Your town has a wonderful
attraction for me, 'and I always look for
ward to my annual visit here with pleasure
able anticipations.' ' The audience, instead
of bursting Into rapturous applause, re
mained as quiet is if In attendance at a
funeral instead of a circus. And then a
voice roared out, 'If you think you're in
Burkesville, Dan Rice, you've got another
think a-comln.' The fact was that Doc
Thayer, who had never been In that section
of Kentucky before, didn't know that the
original dates of the show had been changed
and that the circus was exhibiting in a
town twenty miles from Burkesville. It
was a long time before Dan Rice could
square himself for his understudy's blun
der. "Barnum is always credited with being
the original circus fakir, but there were
many fakes practiced before Barnum had
even thought about fooling the public. I
remember one tent show, before Barnum's
reign as a circus manager had begun, ad
vertising, in connection with the other wild
animals of its menagerie, a 'marvelous
Jungo the only one ever captured alive.'
Now, what in the name of common sense
is a Jungo?- You may search every natural
history from beginning to end without ever
encountering such an animal. I paid my
money to see the Jungo along with thou
sands of other cheerful Idiots. I was a
young boy at the time and it was before I
had dreamed of becoming a circus man
myself.
KEPT IN A CAGE.
"The funny part of the thing was that
the jungo was kept In a cage packed al
most full of hay, and all that the inquisi
tive spectators could see of the terrible
beast was the top of a shaggy brown head.
It always chanced to be sound asleep in
the hay while on exhibition. The keeper
would always stand by and tell the people
who assembled about the cage that the
jungo was terribly dangerous and that it
had just gone off to sleep after keeping
every one connected with the show in a
state of terror all morning long. - Human
nature is such that when people are told
that a thing of which they can catch but
an unsatisfactory glimpse is a menace to
life and limb they gather about all the
more eagerly, waiting for developments.
Well, that Jungo was the drawing card
of the show for the entire season, and I
never met a single person who actually
knew what the thing lcoked like.
"The circuses do not resort to faking
nowadays. All of the big tent shows are
exactly what they claim to be. The me
nageries are well worth seeing and the
performers in the rings and on the plat
forms are all perfect in their feats of dar
ing, skill or strength. The evolution of
the 'American circus within fifty years'
time has been wonderful, especially to the
old circus men who have watched the
gradual changes taking plape. Am I going
to the. circus, did you ask? Well, I should
say."
An Unnatural Boy.
Philadelphia Record.
"I've seen a good many queer things in
my life," said the cartoonist, "but never,
until last night did I see a boy asleep at
a circus. I suppose there were 13,000 peo
ple there, and In all that crowd the boy
slumbered soundly. If anything in the
world would, keep a boy awake you would
naturally think a circus would, but it' had
no more effect on this one than an hour's
.ana
sermon on a hot Sunday. He was asleep
when I took my seat directly behind him
just before the performance began, and 1
missed a lot of it watching him and won
dering when he would wake up. Several
times I took pity on him and was about to
lean over and arouse him. but my curiosity
to see how long he would slumber got the
better of me and I didn't do it. The last
thing on the programme was the chariot
race, and the noise woke him up. lie
yawned, stretched himself and prepared to
go to sleep again. The people were work
ing their way toward the exit when I
shook him by the shoulder. 'Is it all over?'
he asked in surprise. I assured him that
it was, and he buttoned up his coat and
wai .ed away with the air of a somnam
buliet." oi!d-
TIME LAWMAKERS.
Difference Bettveen Tiro Hoasca of
TLesislature Defined.
Richmond Times Dispatch.
It is getting to be very much the custom
nowadays for newspapers to speak of the
"upper" and "lower" houses of the General
Assembly.
That nomenclature some years back was
resented by the members of the House of
Delegates as too much of an imitation of
British speech.when reference was made to
Parliament. Here in republican Virginia
delegates rarely could be brought to admit
that there was any "upper" or "lower
house, and Speaker Ryan was wont to ex
plain that the only difference between a
senator and a delegate was that the former
was entitled to receive a penknife from the
State and the latter was not. Even that
difference has been removed at thjs ses
sion. The delegates now draw a penknife
from the State just as a senator does.
Originally the idea was that a member of
the Legislature needed a knife in trimming
his quill pen. When the quill went out of
vogue, and the metal pen came in, the
House cut off the knife perquisite, and so
it was for many years, but lately members
found out that their pencils needed to be
sharpened, and provision thereupon was
made for, the distribution again of knives.
So customs and fashions return, though the
reason that dictated them no longer exists
On gentlemen's frock coats, above the
tails, buttons are still placed, though
swords and swordbclts- are no longer worn.
In time we even look for the restoration
of the legislative snuffbox, when it will be
come the duty of the clerk (dark) of each
house to keep a supply of snuff sufficient
for each member, and to send the box
around the House whenever any difficult
question is up for consideration, or when
members show a disposition to fly into a
temper with one another.
Another old "fixture" of the Capitol was
a big stove, on which an aged colored worn
an roasted peanuts to be sold to members
and visitors. That old stove is still pre
served as one of the most valuable antique
assets of our commonwealth. It was made
In England In 1770 and was considered a
wonder of ingenious mechanism In its day.
It is a three-story affair, and was not built
for cookerj', but for heating purposes; but
all the same It was found to be a pretty
good peanut roaster, and was so used In the
rotunda many years. It was first used as
a neater in the House of Bunresses at Wil
harasburg, and was brought to Richmond
wnen me capitoi was transferred here.
In those days the colony didn't have anv
"upper" or "lower" house. What It had
was "the" House; a goodly company of
Ilorid-complexloned gentlemen, many of
whom queued their hair, wore velvet coats
ana lace rumes. knee breeches and buckles.
and low-quartered shoes. At least, the rich
planters did. The men of the mountains
were not so ornate In their dress, and no
wonder, for they had to ride down here
horseback, and had no trunks In which to
bring dress suits; no wagons in which to
naui the trunks, and finally, in most cases.
no. such suits to put into the trunk afore
said. But they were intelligent, good,
brave gentlemen all the same, and the
crack of their rifles was heard In the revo
lution, along with those of their lowland
compatriots, from the hills of Boston to
the rice fields of South Carolina. The bonds
of fraternity which bound them together.
we doubt not. were cemented, if not formed
at Williamsburg when they took snuff, or
roasted peanuts maybe together. Later
on as a commonwealth Virginia adopted the
bicameral system the Senate and tho
House what some of our friends now
speak of aa the "upper" and "lower
house.
Special to InilanaroU Journal.
NEW YORK, May 9.-Rel!gious of the ex
iled French orders are already arriving in
this country, and, contrary ta expctatlons,
they are bringing large sums of money with .
them. So far members of the following or
ders, a formidable array, have either ar
rived, or have started from France for the
United States and Canada: Men, Holy
Cross, Franciscans, Capuchins. Alexin
Brothers, Augustlnlans. BenMlctlnes,
Blessed Sacrament, Carmelite, Christian .
Brothers, Dominicans. Holy Ghost. Jesuits,
Marlsts. Oblate Fathers, Sacred Heart. Pas-
slonlsts ar,d Vincentlan Fathers; and wom
en, Assumptionlsts. Notre Dame, Sisters of
Charity, Companions of Jesus, Dominican
Sisters, Fianclsean Sisters. Good Shepherd
and Helpe "s of the Holy Souls. All of these
come to re'iglous houses already established
here. Thev represent recruits brovght here
by the respective organizations to strength
en their work and to enlarge it. The num
ber of regular priests in the Romzn Catho
lic Church In the United States is 3,S5. a
number almost exactly one-third the num
ber of priests not in any order. Besides
these therA are about 4.300 women n the so
cieties. It 4s already certain that the num
ber of regulars, both sexes, will be in
creased b 3,500 at least, and it is now
stated that 1250,000,000 will, as nearly as can
be estimated, be brought here. Most of the
work of tl-ese societies and orders is educa
tional, ani the new forces of persons and
money wil). be so used here.
xxx
Archbishops and bishops of th Roman
Catholic Church in this country and in
Canada do not look with universal favor
upon this influx of regulars, previous to the
time when Cardinal Manning hac4 his dis
pute with I the Jesuits, regulars cAild como
into dioceses at will. Jesuits did so rome Into
certain parishes in London. Cardinal Man
ning proti'sted, and carried to Rome, to
strengthen his protest, the resignation of a
considerable number of English bishops.
The upshot of the matter was that Tope
Leo XIII; made a new rule, greatly re
stricting Ihe powers of orders, and requir
ing Loth n England and in America that
regulars rrst obtain permission cf the dl-
ocesan before entering any Jurisdiction.
The Congregation of Bishops and "Regulars,
of the Cula, in Rome, exists to settle dif
ferences between bishops and thee priests
of the vailous orders. Objection to them on
the part of American bishops llos in the
lack of cr ntrol, save in parochial matters.
Apart froJa these matters the regular priest
obeys hls'; superior In the order, not the
bishop of1 his jurisdiction. So long as the
French itifiux but strengthens existing
work nothing can be done; when new or
ders come.' if any attempt to do so; it is said
the American and Canadian bishops will
be leard.
XX
Lutherans of the General Synod will con
sider, at their approaching meeting in Bal
timore, Ue adoption of common , forms of
worship, bf administration of the sacra
ments, and a common hymnbooJc for all
Lutherans in America. For years leaders in
the Synod have sought this end, 'declaring
it to be absolutely essential, if Lutheran
unity is f'ver to be brought about. Five
years ago agitation secured the appoint
ment of ;i Joint committee, having repre
sentatives in three bodies, the General Syn
od, the (Jenerhl Council and the United
Synod of the South. Several independent
synods refused to Join. Chief among them
was the Missouri Synod, the largest in
America! :it holding that Lutherans not
within Itq fold are not Lutherans at all,
bnt schlsuatlcs. Their refusal to be repre
sented ws not, however, regardc.l as hav
ing great Velght, In spite of numbers. Upon
a commoiji order of public worship agree
ment hasj been reached by the ommlttee,
and on ministerial acts. Including baptism,
matrimonii and burial of the dad, only
slight disagreements keep members of the
commltteq apart. On hymns thery Is much
work yet Uo be done. The proposed book is
now in ;use in many GenerM Synod
churches. A common hymnbook f;r Sunday
School ha; strong support. '
I XXX
That the proposed common orders are
practical!. Identical with those ! used for
public worship by Lutherans throughout
the world;, is no mean reason, s?y leaders
who favsr them, why they hould be
adopted $or Lutherans of America. If
adopted, me books will be ccmmoH services
for M.OOO.JOO Christians, It Is claimed, or
twice as Jnany as are using any' one book
of worship. Definite action will tx taken, it
is said, t force the matter into shape at
Baltimore! although final adoption of all
innovations may not come for pome years.
The General Synod begins its sessions on
June 3. 'ihe presidency of the Synod for
next yeait will probably go to Trot. E. J,
Wolf, of J Gettysburg, and a w ell-known
writer onJLutheran subjects. The Rev. Dr.
W. S. Frtas. of Baltimore, Is the retiring
president.! The growth of English Lutheran
home misjlons and their needs, a revival of
the Muhlenberg mission in Africa?, and ex
tension oi mission work In India are other
subjects p be ronsidered in Baltimore,
f xxx i
Methodilt Protestants are to haVe a double
celebratloi next month, viz., the r0th anni
versary tff the birth of John Wesley, and
the sevenjy-flfth of the founding Of the de
nomlnatkji. Each conference wlli have Its
own celet--atIon, but in the Maryland Con
ference, tie largest In the body, thS occasion
will be ujm1 for the raising of a a!ance of
$5,000 needed to complete the parent for
property purchased for a book concern and
publl sh In .house. The building burchased
Is In Baltimore, and cost J25.000. It! is to be a
glfi from! the Maryland Conference to the
General 1,'onference, and the letter will
equip it vith a printing plant, giving Meth
odist Protestants, for the first tin e in their
history, iheir own publishing rant. The
"Method! Protestants," of which the
Rev. DrJ F. T. Tagg Is editor, will be
printed tjiere. This Is the oldest religious
weekly IrJ America, having been established
in. ISIS as jthe Wesleyan Repositor y.
i
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Mule-Hoof Hoc.
Muskogett (I. T.) Letter.
Mule hlof hogs may be a cxrrioMty in
some plains, but they are a common lght
in this col ntry. Probably 2 per o.nt. of the
razorbacV; hogs of the Indian country have
hoofs Ju.J like a mule. A hog, buyer of
Kansas vlty was down here not many
months alio and offered a reward of $5 for
each muly hoof hog brought In. In addition
to paytnti the regular market prle for th
hog. Omi fellow rounded up a Carload -of
hogs and f lghteen of them wer of the mula
hoof varWty. The hog man withdrew his
proposition Immediately. One of the . pe
culiar th5gs is that In the samo litter of
pigs half i of them will have regular l-l
foet and ae other half will be inula hoofed,