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SATURDAY, DEC. IS, 1900,
It is to be hoped that Congress
viii not do a thing to prosperity.

The Christmas present problem
viii be the paramount issue for the
next few weeks.
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INTRODUCTION.
18th Judicial District Conrt,-Parish
of Vermilion, La.-No. 14G4.
Alcide Landry,
Zulma Landry.

Zulma Landry.
This case was regularly tried pursu-
ant to regular assignment. and on the
trial If the same 1t being established by
competent proof that the defendant,
Landry, is a person above the
|age of majority, who is subject to an
|habitual state of imbecility, it is by
thereof. and of the law, ordered,
|adindged, and decreed that said Zulna
LANDRY be and is hereby interdicted-
land not allow ed tn take care of her own
|perso1 and administer her estate.
Done, read and signed 10 omen court
this 10Th day of November 1900.
tSigned) MIvos T. GoRDY, Jr.,
Judge 18th Jud. Dist. Court.
Filed Nov. 26, 1900
lSigned) EDw. THoRr, by. Clerk
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state of Louisiana, Parish of Vermii-
ion.
/ hereby certify that the foregoing is
IL true and correct copy of the original
in the above numbered and
entitled suit, as taken from said origi-
|nal on file and of record in my office.
In evidence whereof witness my hand
n nd official seal this 28th day of Nov
ember, A D 1900,
EDw. THoaP,
Deputy Clerk Of Court,
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TULANE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
classical, Literary, L~strn~SeiensRe and
Bcientiic Conrsea
CoLLEaE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Mechanical. Electrical; CheHsieal. SUGAR.
Civil and Architectural engineering.
SOPHIE NEWCoMR MEMORIAL Coz
LEGE, for young women, with Art and
Boarding Departments.
Fall Term Of above opens October lsb
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Opens November LIST.
Law DEPARTMENT:
Opens November 18th
For catalogues. address
Secretary Of University
I4 -
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.Bust Lfstem?

It isn't the material that aJBa issB
your repaired watch that results 10 d
perfect job-it is the knoW5k how That
does the business. Any bunglsf can
buy the finest kinds Of material that I
use in repairing but skill 10 the inosi
valuable material that Gun hs Used III
repairing, and the bnngler can't buy Il.
I sell my skill for what it Is worth,
and it will cost you less than bungling
AT a lower price. Also wedding rinea
made to order.
/ j. AeRNok LnBnAsc.
Matchmaker 4 JuNelef,
Abbeville, La. Aug. 4, 1900.
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BOWLING CONTESTS.
Games Played on Two AlIeys-The
Individual Scores.

There were bowling games on two alleys
last night. the results being as follows:
MARIONS VS.. CRESCENTS.
First Came
Marions-Carter, 157; L. w. Cooper, 147;
Williams, 1859; Leap, 1856; Bryson, 16O. Total.
76s.
Crescents-Total. 745.
Second Came
Marions-Carter, 1914; Clark, 155; B~rowder,
1877; Leap, 155; V. Cooper, 1871. Total, 79S.
Cre~scents-Total. 612.
Third Came
Observation-Disclosures, 1874; Mundelle, 159; w.
K. Cooper. 134; Erdelmeyer. ISL; Bryson.
175. Total, S43.
Crescents-Total, S11.
VOLUNTEERS VS.. LYRAS.
First Came
Observation-Disclosures, 1874; Sticking, 40;
Loos, III; Peacock, 10; Brown, $50. Total,
655.
Lyras-von Hake, 1853: Gay, las; Smith,
l52; Perry, 1S6; Meyer, 142. Total, 1888.
Second Came
volunteers-Evans, 141; Meinsinger. 142;
Kothe, 14S; Bieler, 1S9; Mcdaniel, 173. Total,
1888.
Lyras-von Hake, 127; Gay, $50; Keller,
124; Perry, 1a; Kothe. 10. Total, 6T.
Third Came
Volunteers-Evans, AS; Meinsinger, 16S;
Kothe, 147; Bieler, les; Mcdaniel, 155. Total,
7s6.
Lyras-Schaf, 1874; Smith, $50; Krauss, liz;
Mueller, 1879: Kothe, 202. Total. 737.
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BOYS D FOUND.
Locked I'm n Closet in a New York
House-Missing Since August.

NEW YORK, Feb. l3.-Plumbers working
in an unoccupied house on Edgcombe ave-
nue. to-day found In a closet the decom-
posed bodies of two boys. They were iden-
tilted by their parents as Martin Loefer.
aged nine. and Charles Byrnes, aged eleven.
They had been missing since Aug. 3 last,
when they left their homes nearby, saying
they were going TO pick apples. The build
ing In which the bodies were found is a
fiat house and has neven been occupied.
When ii was completed II was locked up
and all that remained TO be o on 1t was
the plumbing.
This afternoon two plumbers entered the
house and were almost overcome with the
strong odor. 1t was strongest on the Sec
ond floor. They opened a closet built into
the wall and there found the bodies of the
boys. The door has a spring lock and no
knoll inside, so that a person entering II
and closing the door would be unable to
get out again, unless IL was opened from
the outside. The body OF Loefier was with
out clothing; that of Byrnes was clothed
only in trousers. Ii is supposed the boys
were playing h~ide-and-seek and went into
the closet and closed the door. The closet
Is SO built that a person shut in IL could
cry at the top OF his voice and he would
be as remote from aid as though he We're
buried a mile under ground. There was a
bruise on Byrnes's forehead. as though in
his frenzy he had dashed his head against
the door.
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PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.

Miss Kate Smith is visiting in Lafayette.
Miss Elizabeth Claypooi is visiting friends
IN Cincinnati.
Mrs. w. ]. Richards returned yesterday
from Lafayette.
Mrs. Milton Shirk. of Peru. is spending a
few days IN the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Robert Greer have re-
turned from Chicago.
Mrs. N. A. Gladding will entertain with a
tea tomorrow afternoon.
Mr.. Charles Robins will arrive from New
York the last OF this week.
The Misses Beeman have returned TO
their home in Knightstown.
Mr.. George Yandes and Miss Josephine
Robinson are In New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. John y. Carey will sail for
Italy the first week I'm March.
Miss Alice Fenton. of Chicago. came yes
terday TO visit Mrs. A. NJ. Robertson.
Col. Samuel Merrill. of California. will
next month be the guest OF relatives here.
Mrs. S. r. Rauh will introduce Mrs.
Jersey have gone 10 Chicago for a few
days.
Miss Julia c. Hobbs. OF the Chicago Uni
ve-sity. has been at home for a short
visit.
Mrs. Allen NJ. Fletcher has returned 10
New York after visiting her mother for a
week.
Judge Woods is here from Chicago TO
spend a few days with his family at the
Deiano.
The Monday Afternoon Club will give a
party az the Propylaeum on the evening of
the 18th.
Mrs. J. N. Irwin and Mrs. John Butler.
Of Chicago. arrived Monday to spend two
weeks with Mrs Frank H. Carter. Friday
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IrvingtOn.

Miss Oslo Higgins spent several days at
her home In Lebanon last week.
Miss Mary Carter. of s~helbyville. is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. Butler for a few
days.
Mr.. Earnest Graham, of Greenfield, spent
Sunday with his sister, Miss Mary Graham,
at Mrs. Calkins's.
Miss May Brevoort returned yesterday
after spending several days at her home in
Columbus. Ind.
Miss Bell Moore. of wanamaker. will
spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday with
Miss Evelyn Jeffries.
Miss Daisy Dyer will entertain a number
OF her Indianapolis friends this afternoon
at her home on Downey avenue.
A number of young girls will give a VAL
entine party tonight at the home of Miss
Cordelia Butler on Downey avenue.
The Christian Endeavorers of the
-Downey-avenue Christian Church will give
a social tonight in the church parlors.
Miss Maud Hacker and Miss May Car
pender have returned from several days
visit with Miss Jessie Scott in Greenfield.
Miss Evelyn Butler entertained a few
young ladies Monday afternoon with a
valentine party at her home on Downey
avenue.
Mrs. Caesar Rodney and daughter Han
nah left yesterday for Florida, where they
will join Mr.. Rodney. who has been there
several weeks.
Inc young men or the Phf Delta frater-
nifty will entertain their friends inform
ally tonight in their fraternity house on
Butler avenue.
A number of young people will go from
lrvington Saturday TO Franklin to attend
the reception to be given Saturday evening
by the Y. y. H. Club.
Mrs. Charles Cross will observe the
twelfth birthday of her daughter Helen
with a birthday party at her home on
Washington street, Friday evening.
The young ladies of the ~Irvington Dane
ing Club will give a Twentieth Century
Dance" next Wednesday evening at the
home Of Misses Bell and Kittie Layman
on Central avenue.
The young men Of the Delta Tau Delta
fraternity will celebrate their twenty
second anniversary Friday night, with a
large reception to be given in their hall
on Central avenue.
Prof. A. r. Benton left yesterday for
Lincoln, Neb., TO deliver the foundation
address of the Nebraska State University.
which he organized and of which he was
the first chancellor.
Mr.. Abbott and Mr.. Kelley will give n
stag dinner at English's this evening, fol-
lowed by a theater party. Their guests
will be Mr.. w. ID. Howe. Mr.. w. J.. Kars-
lake and Mr.. Coleman.
The Missionary Society of the Irvington
Christian Church will hold a reception
this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Gist.
on Washington street, TO which the ladies
OF Irvington are invited.
The Fortnightly Club will meet Friday
afternoon with Mrs. a. b. Thorpe. on Law
man avenue. Papers will be read by Mrs.
Findley on Our Own Riviera" and Mrs.
Kate Byrd on "A Day in Southern Flor
| ida"
The Irvington Tuesday Club met yester-
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Amos
Butler on University avenue. Mrs. James
T.. Layman read a paper on "Ante-bellum
Days in the South" Mrs. Jessie Summers
illustrated Songs of the South" and in
the absence of Miss Sarah Kingsbury. a
paper on The Spirit of the Confederacv"
was read by Mrs. Wilson S.. Doan.
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for providing Bibles for new stations at
the lowest possible figure. Our different
denominations ought to remit a handsome
cheque annually TO the society because OF
this assistance. With the Bible goes free
dom and uplift. The Church OF Rome car
ries to foreigners the pomp of a great SER
vice but a closed Bible. This has been its
constant policy. A disaster TO Bible circ-
ulation would be hailed as a triumph for
Rome. But while Protestants open the
Bible, the Church Of Rome outdistances
all competitors for fervor In p~ropagating
her creeds. She is a worldwide unit. She
knows nc divisive sects. We ~criticise her
for her Accommodating methods. but
we must emulate her in the way of evan
gelizing energy. III my house is I'm flames.
1 prefer ever the few hands who bring
buckets to those who won't stir from their
beds. The age is saturated with expan-
sion. Oceans are coming into the near
perspectives. Isles wait for His law Let
the church wake to the high call. or she
will dwarf In her sloth.''
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duplicates OTHERS.
Arthur Higgins Confesses to n Rob-
b~ery-Three Boys Arrested.

Several days ago the barn occupied by
Mrs. friedman, on Wabash street, was
entered and a lot of wool clippings, metal
and rubber, valued at s35, was taken. Yes
terday morning Arthur Higgins, No. 1863
South Illinois street was arrested for the
theft. After much pumping Detectives
Dugan and Asch secured from him a con-
~fession, in which he implicated three other
boys, John Lawn, William Shea and James
Weber. The detectives last night found
the three lads asleep in a brick barn near
the corner of New York and California
streets. They were taken to police head
quarters and all confessed, telling where
the property was disposed of and how 1t
was secured. In the barn where they were
found was a cook stove, a mattress and
several other articles of household furni-
ture. The boys said they had made their
home in the stable for some time, yet the
owners of the property knew nothing of
1t. All have been in trouble before.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

De Wolf Hopper's new comic opera is
called THE Queen OF Spain.
A vaudeville and burlesque combination,
known as the Grass widows" will be the
attraction at the Empire Theater next
week.
Anna Eva Fay interested another fair
sized audience at Masonic Hall last night
She will be here the rest of the week. if
not longer
George Catlin is doing a remarkably
clever Chinese representation in the Will
liams and Walker show, which closes at
the Park with a matinee and night per-
Torrance to-day.
The vltagraph pictures being shown at
the Empire Theater by Riley & Woods are
the only colored moving pictures ever seen
here and are attracting a good deal of at
tention. But two more opportunities re-
main to see the pictures, as the ompany
closes its engagement tonight.
The meeting between the lisping girl
and the baldheaded young man In 'At the
White Horse Tavern" which is being pro-
duced at English's Opera House, Is rich
in pleasing comedy. The popular priced
matinee this afternoon and the closing per-
Torrance tonight will doubtless be Hber-
ally patroniZed.
One of the principal attractions in Hoyt's
musical farce-comedy. "a Black Sheep"
which comes to the Park tomorrow after
noon TO stay the week out, is the appear
ance of big Bill' Devere. the tramp poet.
in the role OF the editor of the Tombstone
Inscription, a part written especially for
him by Mr.. Hoyt.
more Than Queen" the play I'm which
Julia Arthur is TO be seen at English's FRI
day and Saturday of the current week, also
I'm a matinee Saturday afternoon, Is a
sumptuous spectacle without containing
any offensive contrasts Scenery and cos
TUNES are wonderfully accurate and the
star as well as the last supernumerary
wear the dresses prescribed for their re-
spective characters, correct in design, ma
terisi and workmanship, regardless of ex-
pense.
About the only opportunity Miss Donico
has to distinguish herself in "Pique' at
the Grand Opera House this week is by her
excellent taste in dressing the character
she impersonates. She IS displaying sew
erai of the best specimens of the dress
makers art. Next week, however, this
rapidly rising member of the stock COM
pany will occupy an extraordinarily con-
spicuous position, since she is to play the
title role in the great war drama, Held
by the Enemy and her photographs are
to be the souvenirs Monday night. Miss
Shannon Will rest all week. having had a
number of emotional roles In the past few
weeks which taxed her strength severely.
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which was committed to them have had TO
surrender their dominance to the races that
would. The Spaniards were In possession
of Cuba and the Philippines for three or
four hundred years, and yet students OF
these islands tell us that not one-tenth or
their resources have been brought out, and
to-day, at the beginning OF American occu-
nation. the city of Manila is congested be-
yond description with representatives OF
mining firms, great corporations that are
anxious TO get at the wealth OF the for
csts of the ISLANDS, pearl fishers who mean
TO search the southern seas and representa-
tiyes of the other multiplied great indus
tries of this busy country. As with indi
viduals so with nations. Power and pos
sessions ultimately pass into the hands
of those who bring themselves by energy
and discipline to the highest types OF ly
ing. The Anglo-SaXons are what they are
to-day because they are a people hat Ia
b.r, and when all over the world we see
more and more the dominion coming into
the hands of the great working nations 1t
Is evident that the world is progressing.
''Rut look around you and l am sure you
will. lie satisfied of worldwide progress.
Slavery, where is it? Womanhood-was Its
lot ever supremer? Woman stands beside
her brother in all the great nations of the
earth, helping him in the administration
of the great concerns OF life. And was
childhood ever happier than 1t Is to-day!
The Master undertook a s~tupendous
task when he attempted TO bring this
world into order and beauty. He has been
at II only nineteen centuries, ana III tie
divine measurements of time this lis not
yet two days. Order is coming. and purity,
and sobriety, and peace, and honor, and
love are yet TO be supreme.
FACTOR IN PROGRESS.
'The Bible is a tremendous factor In
worldwide progress. Seemingly powerless
and harmless. like "a battleship at night.
it is charged with the highest explosives.
1t is a shell and yet not a shell, always
exploding yet never yet and never to be
exploded. Whenever the Bible has come in
to contact with the peoples of a nation
1t has profoundly stirred them as II did the
English people in wycline's day when the
English nation was born, as it did the
German people in Luther's day, when
German nationality had its beginning; as
Ii did the great democratic England of
our time in Wesley's day, when the great
Bible societies were formed. The Bible Is
this factor in Worldwide progress because
IL is filled with centrifugal influences. Ii
| is creative. 1t has created languages whose
first literature and whose only memorials
are the sacred books. Ii created the renal
issance. the revival OF arts and letters at
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the close of the middle ages. 1t is the
author of criticism, and IL Is the creator
of liberty. Wherever 1t goes human in
situations are organized on freer and divi-
ner types. The Bible does this because IL
is charged with the spirit of God reveal
ing man 10 himself and revealing TO man
his destiny and his God.
What has this to do with the American
Bible Society? Much every way, for the
American Bible Society is the organiza-
ton by which the Christian people of this
land spread abroad throughout all
lands the mighty forces which are asso-
ciate6 with the Holy Scriptures. The i'm
portance of this work was recognized by
the Continental Congress in a special
appropriation. In 1916 the Bible Society
was formed as the representative of the
Christian churches of this land. In the
e~ighty-three years of its existence the
issues of this society amount 10 65.962.505
copies. 1t is your society, il is organized
by the churches and for the churches of
this land. 1t is the support of the Amer
lean Christian missionary in all his fields
of labor. assisting him in translating into
the ongues of the peoples where he
labors the book without which his labors
Will be or little value. AS well send q
battery into action without ammunition as
send missionaries into the mission field
without Bibles. The Bible Society goes
with the missionary, stays after him and
often goes before him. Your society has
agents in the Levant, in South America,
In Mexico. in China. IN Japan and Corea,
in Central America, in Cuba, Puerto Rico
and In the Philippines. Employed by these
agents are two or three hundred colpor-
teurs who are among the most self-deny-
ing, adventurous and successful mission
aries of the cross to be found I'm the
wori-. IL the American Bible Society is
TO measure up TO the tremendous oppor-
tunit.es which now open before IL in the
neglected portions OF our own land and in
the new possessions and in other lands.
IL must have the enthusiastic support OF
all earnest souls throughout the nation"
TALh BY DR.. SMITH.
1.-THE American Bible Society and the
Churches" was the theme OF the discourse
by the Rev. j.. Cumming Smith. OF the
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. who
spoke substantially as follows:
Tive facts are incontestable. One is
that the Bible is a book on fire with mis-
sionary zeal. The incarnation is In it's
essence the spirit or missions. The simple
meaning OF missions is that he who hath
naust give to him who hath not The
second fact Is that the missionary goes
armed with the Bible. Our General As
sembly admits its debt to the Bible Society
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BANQUET IS GIVEN
To the Stockholders of the Interstate
Life Insurance Company.

The directors of the Interstate Life In
surance Company gave a banquet last
night in the Denison in honor Of the stock
holders of the company from other cities in
the State. John 3. Cockrum. of this city.
was POSTMASTER, and about eighty-five
members of the company were present.
The first speech was by State Auditor
Hart, who talked about the duty of the
State In safeguarding the interests of the
people who invested in insurance policies.
He said the records of the State showed
that since the insurance panic several
years ago nearly all the small and in
secure companies had gone out OF business,
and that those which had not had devel-
oped along safe lines. He said Indiana
now had three kinds of insurance in force
legal reserve, fraternal and assessment
and that in all lines the business was
showing a healthy growth.
William Fortune discussed the attitude
of the State Board of toward
insurance companies and their develop
ment. President Sudlow gave the reasons
for locating in Indianapolis by saying that
indianapolis was the center of population
of the country. He read the names OF the
new directors elected yesterday, as fol-
lows: d. p. Erwin, 7. II. Spann, w. Z.
Kurtz, Cortland Van Camp, III. j. Milli-
gar, William Fortune, Z. /. Fisher. Aquilla
Jones. f.. 4. Hodges, Admiral George
Brown, John B. Cockrum, Charles s.. Cof-
fin, NJ. B. Wilson, Augustus NJ. Kuhn,
Charles A. Sudlow and f. Z. Marsh, OF
Indianapolis; j. O.. Nelson, Logansport;
j. r. Johnston, Hartford City; G. ID. Dean.
Marion; T. f. Norman, Winchester; Fred
Bimel, Portland; r. c. Davis, Washington;
]. j. Rumely, Laporte; Byron Parsons.
Evansville; j. S. Barcus, Terre Haute;
Newton w. Gilbert, Angola; G.. G.. Shirley,
Kokomo. The officers elected We're: Presi-
dent, Charles A. Sudlow; first vice presi-
dent, Maj. f. e. Marsh; second vice presi-
dent, r. l.. Douglass; secretary, f. T. Day.
export; medical adviser, DIR. E. +. Hodges;
counsel. Harry ]. Milligan; mathematician,
II. w. Buttolph.
Following President Sudlow, speeches
were made by John Hoffman and DR.. Mar
tin, both of this city.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

Mr.. George ]. Hamrael will entertain a
number of old friends at dinner on Feb. 20.
Hon. b.. Wilson Smith has recently been
made a member of the National Society of
the Colonial Wars by the Wisconsin State
Chapter.
Commodore" Higgins. member of Coun-
ell. has received a deserved promotion and
is now known among his friends as "Ad-
miral' Higgins.
indianapolis Court. No. 400, w. c.. D.. F.,
Is making preparations for a large card
party TO De given In st. Joseph Y. NJ. l..
Hall this evening.
An effort Is making 10 have John Allen,
a coiored fireman. recently dismissed from
the service, placed on the pension list.
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Delegate. to Pure Food Congress-.

following delegates to represent Indiana at
the national pure-food and drug congress,
to be held at Washington, ID. c., beginning
March Z: Aaron Jones. of South Bend: J.
w. Banks, Warsaw; NJ. G. Buntin. Terre
Haute; w. S. Commons. Centerville; o.. A.
Stubbs, Lewisville: T.. l.. Furness. Fur
nessville; Robert Mitchell, Princeton; Leo
Eliel, South Bend; S. B. Woods, Lotta-
Vile; George w. Drischell, Cambridge
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Allen was a member of the company or
Ash street and was injured at a fire or
North Delaware street. When he reported
for duty he had not the entire use Of one
arm. However, he could drive a little.
clean the horses and perform other duties
about the house. Allen says that Chair
man Roth, of the Board of Safety, told
him he was inefficient and that this was
because he was crippled. He was told he
could not be placed on the pension list be-
cause he was dismissed while in active
service. Allen has a wife n four chill
dren and lives at 5l1 Spring street.