The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-27

up great windstorm and blew the arches
down, and toppled over the statues and tore
the flags and bunting to ribbons: Next day
there was TO be Il great procession.
Colonel Ingersoll has way. when he
wishes to point joke, Of pausing and walk
ing slowly to the other side Of the little
desk in the center of the footlights lie did
this then and went on:
Fifteen thousand God thankers were to
march in procession The rain came down
Ingerson thrust his hands into his trousers
pockets looked In droll way out over the
audience, shook his head and said: No
procession
4 had fair weather for my lecture, but
God sent a storm 10 keep the people from
thanking Him for the victory over Spain.
What would you think of a man IT, when
you went up to his house TO thank him for
something. he turned the hose on you?"
When the audience had got through with
laughing at this Ingersoll's manner changed
to deep earneStneSs.
Il do not thank God for the victory In
that God had anything to do with il. And
if there is God He knows / do not know.
| 10 not thank God. | thank Dewey and his
| men. | do not thank God for the destruc-
| ton of the Spanish fleet at Santiago. I
/ thank the brave American men, | do not
thank God for the capture of Santiago. /
thank the men who dug the trenches and
laid in them beneath the blistering sun and
fought. thank the men, 11 the living and the
our flag up San Juan hill and planted it
there"
IedTS CCuFseQ DOWN the speakers cheeks
and his voice trembled with emotion
Why did God help us whip the Span
iardsE we civ not need any help. but He
neIped US. The ministers thank God for
would have thanked God just the same.
They would have said then that we were
defeated because we are nation of infides
because of baseball. bicycles, boomers and
beer"
The cast for MIR. Barnes of New York"
at the Grand next week will show Mr.
Hansel in the title role. MIR. Kirkland as
Count Danella, the plotting Corscan; Miss
Shannon as Marina, the Corsican girl
whose oath of vengeance against her
brothers slayer forms the central figure of
the story, and Miss Daily as Enid
Anstruther. The cast is the largest of the
stock companys productions thus far. The
scene painters are busy this week. There
are six scenes in the five acts making 1t an
unusually heavy production. From the al
ready large advance sale next week prom
Uses to rival the Jim the Penman" engage
ment The closing performances of "A
Scrap of Paper" tonight and tomorrow
matinee and night will attract large au-
diences.
.'The Kings Musketeer,' Henry Hamil-
| tons version of Dumas story, coming to
Bnglishs next Monday, was produced by
Mr.. Sothern for the first time in Philadel-
phia. The new play before it was cut was
| an enormous affair There are twelve
scenes in all, and edch or them, painted Dy
Mr.. Unit. of the Lyceum Theater. New
| York, is an unusually elaborate set The
| consequence was that at the first perfor-
nance the play was not ended until ten
| minutes after u O'Clock. and at the end of
| the fourth act-somewhere about 1890 the
entire gallery burst into appropriate har-
mony and whistled I'VE won't go home till
morning" Again in the final scene, when
Anne of Austria, in summoning a servant,
struck a gong once a voice in the gallery
shouted, My Cod Maggie, it's l o'clock. =
| 1t is not generally known that Dumas got
| the material for his famous novel, The
| Three Musketeers," the theme of Sothern' $
new play, from an account of the adven-
| lures of a real knight of Gascony. He was
| a Monsieur D'Artagnan, who became cap
| tain of the Kings musketeers at the court
| of Louis XIII, and whose memoirs were
| published in France about 1900. Like
| Cyrano de Bergerac, he existed in the flesh
| and though he was a greater duelist he was
| less a poet. The Illustrations in the work
| all emphasize the slightness of D'Artagnan,
| and make him understood in comparison
| with his three companions, Athos, Porthos
| and Aramis. so that it must be conceded at
/ once that Mr.. Sothern's appearance Is de-
/ cidedly in favor of an accurate presentation
| of the hero of THE Kings Musketeer."