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The herald., 1898-11-27
THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL. THE CUL-
TURE OF MANHOOD. BLESSED

AKE TIE IROSS-BEA MEMS.
These tastefully gotten up booklets are as
worthy of being read as of being praised
for their refined appearance. Nothing
could be cleaner and more wholesome than
these short treatises, and their cheapness
and excellence commend them to every
body.
The herald., 1898-11-27

1t is probable that no country has ever
invested so much spiritual, moral and mon
etary capital in education, taking into ac-
count the brevty of its history, as the west ;
it has done far more for its intellectual life
Years. 1t is, in fact, repeating the history
Of the east, for it is eagerly assimilating the
experience of the race expressed in its
thought, its art and its history. This is the
impulse behind the passion for knowledge
the instructive desire to know what the
race knows, and then to cooperate in the
race life and work. In the fact of declama-
tory assertions of independence of the past,
this instinct steadily aserts itself and has its
sway. The struggle Of the new community
The herald., 1898-11-27

JANE AUSTENS' NOVELS. New edition.
with a series of charming frontispieces
by Edmund II. Garrett. u vols, ldmo.
cloth, extra gilt top, - cents per vol
ume. In sets, half crushed morocco,
gilt top, s27; half crushed morocco,
extra, or half calf, Roger Payne tool
ing, $50. Little, Brown Co.
This new edition of Miss Austen's works
is printed in beautiful type, on choice laid
paper and contains several stories not in
any other edition, and also full memoirs and
some letters hitherto unpublished. The
wonder is how books Of this class and quail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-26
MRS. ABBY v. JUDSON DEAD.
Passes Away at Home OF Her Son at
Governors Island.

Charles r. Judson, of 1880 North Illinois
street. received news yesterday afternoon,
in the midst of a Christmas nIerrymaking,
of the death of his mother, Mrs. Abby Voor-
hees Judson. at Governors Island, n. Y.
Until year ago Mrs. Judson, widow of the
late Charles F.. Judson, resided in this city.
She was known to a. large circle of friends
and acquaintance as an estimable woman.
Her husband died about ten years ago. Mrs.
Judson was the daughter of Captain Abra-
ham Voorhees, and was born in Ohio. She
came to Indianapolis with her father about
fifty years ago, and was married TO Charles
E. Judson when about sixteen years of age.
All Of her life was spent in this city until
she went to her son. Captain w. " judi
son, Of the United States army, at Cover
nors Island, a year ago.
z The cause of Mrs. Judson's death is I'M
known TO her children here. A week ago
they knew that her health was not the best,
but nothing serious was anticipated, and the
of her death by telegraph
was for many years active member of
Christ Church, where the funeral will be
held. Arrangements for it have not yet
been made. Beside the two sons. Captain
", Y. and Charles E., Mrs. Judson left a
daughter, Jeanette Judson. AT the time of
her death she was fifty-three years of age
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become a Red Cross nurse. Villain has been
promoted to captain. Comes in and orders
Jack to a tent where he has no attention
and plenty of flies and malaria. Gladys
finds him and nurses him back TO health.
Last act in the home of Gladys. Jack IS
we'll again and has been promoted by Col.
Roosevelt for great bravery on the field in
rescuing villain Through the influence Of
Roosevelt and his friends he has become
excessively rich in Wall street. Gladys
father was about to fail in business when
Jack offers him the use of his millions. Here
comes fine balcony scene. Moonlight, city
below brilliant with electricity. moon in
sky and that sort of thing. Villain invites
Jack out on balcony and tries to throw him
off. Jack drags him back into the room
to expose his perfidy Gladys recognizes
her stolen ring on his finger and Jacks sees
through it all. Gladys and Jack clasp hands.
Soldiers rush in and arrest villain for falsi-
Gladys blesses the happy couple Villain
led away Kissing and gnashing his teeth.
Hows that for a curtain
MY boy. that's the stuff the people want.
War dramas with a Jack and Il Rose ana
q Gonzales And If you can work in Dewey
or Miles and lots of comic sergeants and
bO's MS and things, and unlimited national
airs by bands and the flag at proper in
tervals you have a war drama. Of course.
the footbeats of a couriers horse coming
nearer and nearer. the telegraph instru-
ment, the balloon and other things can be
brought in where needed, and it Is as easy
as shooting fish,
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and then she got mad and said she had her
opinion of any man would take lady
10 a theater where they insulted her sex
like that Then we made it up, and she
got it into her head she wanted to hear
Fay Templeton. Well. / brought her here,
and as soon as Miss Templeton comes out
she begins 10 sing:
80 keep away from Emalina. Winger.
She's a frivolous and finty-hearted singer.
She's out for the stuff.
And if you hain't enough
Bif, Kerfop. Down you go.
So long as she can work you for a dollar
She's closer dan your little brothers collar.
But a poor man haint no show,
rs been dar, and ] know.
So keep away from Emaline
And save your dough.
We'll, that song made her so mad that
she walked right out, and yesterday. just
to smooth her down again. we went up to
the Bijou. But that was worst OF all. a
big. stout, blonde party comes out and
begins to sing
IF you amt go no money, you needn't come
round.
1T amt right. / tell you. Ny girl says
she won't enter another theayter until
these coon songs get out Of date. They
arc an insult TO our fair sex, THAT'S what
they are
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workmen employed there are very different
from the white-fingered clerks in the big
buildings round about; Already the huge
brokers buildings of the vicinity frown on
their plain-loolSing assayer's building from
such close range of height and solidity AS
to seem Degrading of room in that valuable
block and although its being there is a
convenience to the bankers, its own immediz
ate business could be carried on just as well
in any other part of town where space was
of less consequence, and the plant could
spread out all 1t wanted to, in the matter {
tubs and watts, furnaces and gas ranges. The
present superintendent was one of the origi-
nal officials charged with the planning and
altering of the old private bank building
for government occupancy in 1854. Building
operations did not Progress then as speedily
as now, and it was fully two years before
all was in readiness for occupancy. The
attention from the press at the time, and
when the first lots of bullion were being
assayed the place was thronged with inter-
time, not out-of-town sightseers, for the
city was not so hurried nor crowded with
business and people as it is now.
CIVIL SERVICE IN FORCE.
The assayer's office as conducted now and
for years back is one branch of governs
ment work in which the civil-service system
is in actual operation. The civil-service
commission representative who lately res
viewed the place and it's management saids
"They could move us anywhere and things
WOulu 20 Oll just the SdkUe Inc men ara
we'll schooled and competent and we change
hands seldom far oftener from age or siclA
ness than delinquency. From $3.50 to S. q
day is the average pay for their eight hours
work"
The old doorkeeper, who is survival Of
the first staff 'separators' ever employed
in New York, ana was pensioned off with his
present easy-going post only when his
strength failed likes to talk of the Wall
street of his early memory from top to bot
tom. There used to be sarsaparilla foun-
tain across the way when / first came here.
a trim little place for cigars, and where yon
could get paper or a box of lozenges when
you wanted. None of the houses on this
block were anything to brag of in them
times. This was the finest building on the
street. and there wasn't any Washington
standing out there on the steps next door.
All these big sky shooters have gone up, ie
seems to me, in no time, and the street isn't
like the same except for the steeple at the
head of 1.-THE finest steeple in New York;
or London, either. and I've looked close at
EN- all in both places. No matter how high
the buildings get they can't make that
steeple look squatty5 And the old man,
brought back to duty and everyday affairs
by the familiar sight of boy with a sachel,
asks sharply rs to the sachels contents, and
turns the bearer into the right path for the
receiving counters.
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SPEAKING OF THE JEWS.
Efforts to Americanize the Foreign
Element and Get Rid of Yiddish.

New York Letter
Tonight the Rev. DR.. Madison G. Peters,
OF the Bloomingdale Church, occupies
synagogue pulpit. He will preach to the
members of the Madison-avenue Jewish
congregation on How to Make Things Co.
On the following evening DR.. Peters will
preach in his own church on What the
Jew Has Done for the World" Such liber-
atty among the ministers will go far
towards accomplishing the foremost object
of all religions that is so admirably ex-
pressed I'm the injunction of our Master:
Love thy neighbor as myself A Chris
tian minister preaching to Il Jewish congre-
cation showing wherein Christianity excels,
and on the following evening preaching to
Christian congregation on the points where
in Judaism eXcels, is certainly a stride for
ward in theology that was not dreamed of
half a century ago. AS a contrast to this
policy of progress | must chronicle Mr..
writer visited the lower East Side, where his
Russian and Polish coreligionists have their
quarter, in company with Abraham Cahan,
the author of ''YekI," and Morris Rosenfeld
the poet Of the sweatshops, as he is some
times called The trio called at all the Jewish
Jargon newspaper offices and took in the
Thalia Theater, where Shakespeare and other
classic authors must undergo the agony of
being played in Yiddish. Zangwill conversed
with several of the Intellectual leaders of
the Ghetto, as we'll as with the participants
in the play he witnessed, making also pur-
chases of Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
The sense of this visit and the incidents
connected Herewith are Numerically OPP
posed to the doing of DR.. Peters cited be-
lore. me Jewish quarter OF New YORK cam
not be properly called Ghetto, for the Jewry,
the Ghetto of old, was the abode of the
rich and the poor, the educated and the
illiterate Jew. Not so in New York. Not
withstanding the fact that critics were so
liberal in their praise of the poems Of Morris
Rosenfeld-that is, the Yiddish poems-this
sort of literature does not meet with the
approval of the general thinker.
Yiddsh is not dialect it is a jargon; or,
in other words. it is a patois, mixture of
bad German and equally bad Hebrew. Is
this the sort of language worthy of being
extolled? There has never been any gram
mar written of Yiddish. simply because it's
gibberish is not governed by pathological
rules. In Russia, where the Jew is perse-
cuted and not given even the opportunity
to acquire a knowledge of the language of
the country. he resorts to this jargon, but
here every available means should be and
in fact is being employed by the educated
Jews to make this jargon extinct. 1t is 4
very deplorable fact that there are sufficient
readers to-day in New York to support four
or five Yiddish papers. and enough specta-
tors to fill nightly two Yiddish theaters.
Assimilation OF all foreign elements by
means of the English language. the Consti-
tuition of the United States and universal
enlightenment. and in religious affairs men
like Dr. Peters, is the crying need of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-26
they Begin Young.

New York Evening Sun.
"At what age" asks an interested CORE.
spondent. docs a woman begin to hold
up her dress skirt2 / was going down the
steps of the elevated the other day. when,
right before me. L saw two tiny tots, hard-
ly more than six years old, and each hold
ing up her tiny dress skirt, in precise imi-
tation of the way the mother beside them
was holding up hers. That there was abso-
lutely no need for the elevation of such
abbreviated pettcoats was only less anus
ing than the air of doing the correct and.
above ALL the grown-up thing on the part
of the little girls. They plainly considered
themselves as conforming TO the laws Of
young womanhood. the necessity for the
personal application Of the law. as In many
another instance. being overlooked II force
of habit can make a woman hold up her
reoently-acquired skirt, is Ii force of hered-
ity the unconscious influence of ages upon
ages of long-skirted ancestors, that prompts
a little girl to ho.d up the skirt which she
has never known save In a shortened states
And If not heredity. then is 1t the force OF
desire to appear older than she is, which,
alas before very many years, the little girl
will feel less strongly?
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song of the Locomotive.

Blackness out of the blackness.
FrOnted with dazzling light.
With demonish grOan and vomit of flame
1t teareth through the night
Splitting the vale with a mighty Shrek
Flying er glints of steel
With whirl by the edge of a precipice
Or a lunge where the marshes reek,
And the ooze is under the wheel.
High in the air like a wounded bird.
Spanning the trestle's thread
Ere it plunge through the mountain of rock with
a
To glide by the river-bed.
Ever and on like haunted thing.
Trembling and crazed with fear
With a fire at its heart that il eating deep
And the speed of dragons wing
As il crosses the plain and the mere
Blackness cut Of the blackness
Monster Of steam and steel
Yet a thing that Is living and human as man,
soul in the shaft and wheel.
Servant of that abides his will
Child OF his Drawn and brain.
1t has made OF the earth but little place.
1t has leveled the granite hil
TIL the ends OF the earth plain.
George Richards Parr, in Chicago Post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-26
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.

The Terpsichorean Club will give its first
anniversary dance at the Brenneke Academy
Thursday evening.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall left yesterday for
Washington. She will spend the holidays in
Washington and New York
Mrs. Edward M. Lentz of Louisville, Ky,
IS visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Alloways, 200 East st. Joseph street.
The George III. Thomas w. r. c.. No. 20.
will give social tomorrow afternoon at
Showers G. A. r. Hall, on East Market
street.
The local alumni of the State University
will give a reception Wednesday evening
at the Propylaeum. to the alumni from over
the State. The reception will be from g
O'Clock till midnight. The reception commit
tee consists of DR.. and Mrs. Allison Maxwell,
President and Mrs. Swain, Rev. and Mrs.
A. y. Phillput, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Rabb,
j. w. Fesler William l.. Taylor and Judge
and Mrs. lanes II Jordan
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production. It is agreeable reading, but 1t
does not reflect the English equivalent of
the French poetic and dramatic flavor. Ger
trude Hall. who is a poeteSs of charm, and
has hitherto proved a translator of expert
ness. Is the author of a translation which
has some currency, but does not seem TO
possess distinction. Naturally, the test used
by Mansfield IS the one in which an intimate
interest is felt. He examined many trans
lations before committing himself to the ac-
ceptance Of any. and the one which he uses
presumably has. from that very fact the
stamp of authority. The translation played
by Mr.. Mansfield was made by Howard
Thayer Kingsbury, and is published by Lam
son, Wolfe a. Co. of Boston. II Is said that
Mr.. Mansfield has with his own pen made
some minor changes which his experience
i'm the choice Of infections. words and phrases
would probably suggest TO him. though not
to a litterateur, who is neither actor nor
dramatst. Such famous pieces the
satirical reitcration bout the nose, the duel
of the ballade, the recipe for cream tarts
the NO, thank YOU" speech. the kiss lines
the repartee in the mutiny scene on the Ar
ras battlefield and the death remain almost
word for word No work has had a greater
sale than "Cyrano dc Bergerac" in decade
In France it IS now in its three-hundred-
thousandth and the many editions here.
since Mansfied's gorgeous production and
superb creation gave it vogue and perma-
nency, make the total of copies sold almost
incalculable
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Detroit Free Press.
II suppose that Written is a great hero
in your community" said a Detroiter to al
friend from one of the interior towns.
oh / don't know"
Don't know? Why, man, his bravery was
remarkable. read all about it in the pa
pers. When his store was on fire he rushed
to the scene disregarded the warnings
shouted to him, pushed his way through the
binding smoke and seething flames and
dropping hrebrands to his Office dropped on
his knees in the live Goals before the safe,
worked the hot knob until the combination
caused the glowing doors to open, seized a.
valuable paper rammed it beneath his vest
to protect it from the raging element and
staggered forth again from the consuming
cauldron. 1t was one of the most thrilling
acts of bravery l ever heard of"
do you happen to know what that paper
was for which Whittem risked his life?"
NO but il must have been very inns
portant document No man would incur
such danger without his very fortune was
at stake"
You'd think so wouldn't you? Well, sir
that paper was the pedigree of Whittem 3
trottin' boss that never beat 2:2s, and never
will
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Nichols sisters as "Niggerv Minstrels.

Nichols Sisters "Nigger" MinstreIs.
Haverly's minstrels is an aggregation Of
black-faced singers and comedians, built up
very much on the lines of all of Haverly's
companies with the exception of one start
ling but successful departure. He has two
women in the company who black up just
like the men. and are out-and-out niger
Ministries in every sense Of the word. These
two are the Nichols sisters, who have spent
years on the Southern plantations ana
know every little oddity of the negro char
acter to perfection.
They are both pretty and bright, even
under the black of their make-ups, and
add to their naturally attractive appearance
a brightness and CleVerneSS that gives ZeSt
and flavor to their work.
The Nichols sisters were born in Indian
apolis. but went to Alabama early, when
plantations there AS girls from the North
the oddities of the negro character appealed
to them strongly, and made lasting inn
preston upon them. Even when little girls
they could not resist the temptation of imi-
tating the language and manners of the col
ored people They appeared at benefit in
New York last fall and half dozen man.
ayers were after them at once, and now
they are on the stage making success
with their limitations of the Alabama negro
girls in q regular minstrel trope. being the
first women to make the venture.
Female negro minstrelS are rare, there
being only a few in the country. Lucy
DAILY did some black-face work in Gay
New York" and Josephine Gassman is a
success at it in vaudeville, but the Nichols
and become regular out-and-out "nigger
rninstrels
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"Report for Duty a New War Play.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 25.-"Report for
Duty" a new military drama, was given for
the first time at the Star Theater here last
night by the Brady Stock Company It's
author, ]. II. Tillotson of Toledo, wrote
"The Planters Wife" 'Ilynnwood" and
Queen" The scenes are laid at the White
Sulphur Springs. Va, in 1861, and in the
Blue Ridge mountains in 1864. The plot is a
new one on old lines-the separation of low
ers and kindred OH account of the civil war
and is tersely told. signal scene and a
most realistic battle scene add materially
to the piece. Nearly two hundred people are
used in the production. there being fifteen
speaking parts and the rest rehearsed and
drilled until the whole ensemble is perfect.
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IN INDIANAPOLIS CONVICT.
Remus COwger, Burglar. Escapes from
the RefOrmatOry.

Remus Cowger, serving four years term
IN the Reformatory at Jeffersonville for bur
glary, escaped Saturday night and is still
at large. Cowger was sentenced to the Mich
igan City prison by Judge McCray. of this
city Oct. u, 1896. He was transferred to the
Reformatory April II, 1897. He was a trusty,
and took care of the keepers rooms over
the front office. He was first missed at II
O'Clock. A reward of $50 is offered for his
capture.
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Minnie seligman cat Liberty. ;.

ST. LOUIS. Dec 25.-Miss Minnie Seig-
man resigned the position of leading lady
of the Imperial Theater Stock Company last
night. She will be succeeded by Miss Jessa-
line Rodgers The resignation, it is said
was the result of a disagreement with the
management of the theater
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-26
suicide of Actor Buchanon.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. 25.-Raymond
c. Buchanan, aged twenty-eight a member
of Gillett's Secret Service company, died
here to-day of an overdose of chloroform.
When discovered he was dead on his bed
with a letter by his side announcing the
death in New York of his infant son on
Dec. A.
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Philadelphia Press.

THlIaueIphla Press.
The failure of another Beilamy colony,
founded three years ago at Hastings. e. c..
was 10 be expected. OF practicability there
was not whit in Looking Backward" Its
fantasies were convincing just as fairy sto-
ries are convincing while you are under the
spell. To carry his ideas into practice a
complete reversal of all the ordinary in
stincts Of human beings was called for
Naturally it does not need profound knowl-
edge Of human nature to perceive that such
reyersals come slowly. not by leaps, and
not by the fats of dreamers Hence with
things as they are, Bellamysm can only sue
coed when 1t has the least semblance to the
Simon-pure creed of its originator.
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Detroit Free Press.
What have you here?'' asked the fresh
taurant.
Everything, sir
'Everythng2" sneeringly. Have it
served at once.
Hash for one." yelled the waiter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-26

Salesman-NOw Madam. look at these
antique solid oak dining room chairs.
Customer-They must be decidedly unconl-
Portable.
alesuan--A--yes. ma'am. Style of tG50
you know when comfort vas not in fashion
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A Passing Wonder.

Washington Post.
We have often wondered what would hap
pen to Editor Stead If his opinions should
become Improving.
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1t is stated that Julia Marlowe may soon
be seen in new play by Clyde Fitch, based
upon the early life of Barbara Frietchie.