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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

The First Is DisappeariDg-Taking a
Bath In the Syrian Lake.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
There hardly seems a doubt now of the
ultimate disappearance of the Great Salt
Lake." said Walton III. Smith, of Ogden.
ALREADY the lake, through evaporation
and other causes. is greatly reduced in
size, and this, too, within the memory OF
men still living. What effect the ultimate
disappearance of this body of water will
have upon the wonderfully rich and fertile
valley, which the original Mormon emil
grants pre-empted, settled and made 10
blossom as the rose, IL Is too soon TO
prophesy, but its gradual disappearance is
regarded with forebodings and dismal APP
prehension by landholders In that neigh
borhood. To one who has never bathed I'm
its waters the first experience is unique.
At Garfield Beach. where you can make a
dive or jump from a considerable height,
you naturally. If you have not been fore
warned, expect TO enter the water all over.
but In the Great Salt Lake. so brackish Is
II, tina IL Is all but impossible 10 go In over
your head, or. If diving. over your feet.
When you first strike the wetar you have
the feeling OF having landed head on
against a pneumatic cushion. for the fur
Their in you go the greater becomes the
force opposing your entrance. Not the least
wonderful thing In connection with this
lake is its altitude. lying as 1t does 400
feet above sea level
Years ago. continued Mr.. Smith, "I
paid a visit 10 the far East, and in the
course of my travels visited the Dead Sea,
which Is situated in southern Syria. not
far from Suez. Compared 10 the waters
of the Dead Sea, those of the Salt Lake
are comparatively fresh. and a scientific
man whom i met In London gave me this
explanation OF the cause of their extreme
saltiness. All water carries a percentage
OF salt, and In both the cases OF the Dead
Sea and the Great Salt Lake there Il no
outlet to the lakes-and they maintain their
levels through evaporation. Through the
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DEMOCRATS.
They Instruct for Bryan, but Not for
the Chicago Platform.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 26.-The DEM
ocratic State convention reassembled this
morning and completed the State ticket.
The ticket follows. For Governor, w. J..
Sanford; secretary of state, Robert p.
McDavid; attorney general, Charles G.
Brown; superintendent of public education,
j. w. Abercrombie; treasurer, j. Craig
Smith; auditor, w. H. Matthew'S; COM
missioner of agriculture, r. B. Poole.
Senate Morgan, Frank s. White. A. H.
Merrill and r. j.. Rowe were elected dele
gates at large to the Kansas City conven-
ton. The convention was the most har-
monious gathering ever known in Alabama.
A resolution indorsing Bryan and in
structing delegates from Alabama to vote
for him for President was adopted. A Sec
ond resolution, instructing the delegation
to vote for the Chicago platform re-
affirmation, was lost. The platform ad-
vocates the construction of the Nicaragua
canal, and in this connection says the party
pays its tribute Of affection and admira-
ton to our distinguished citizen, Hon.
John 7. Morgan, whose integrity, intellect,
energy and persistence have accomplished
so much, following this great enterprise to
a point where there can be no longer a
doubt of it's ultimate success" The treat
ment of the Porto Ricans Is denounced and
legislation is demanded that will 'curb"
the influence of trusts and combinations.
Resolutions were passed favOring O conSti-
tutional convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

Indiana" the new play by Dorothy
Morton. written for Herbert Kelcey and
Fife Shannon, will be given its first pres
e~ntation in Detroit Sept. 10.
The seat sale for the engagement of 1.-THE
Rogers Brothers in Wall Street" at Eng
lish's Opera House Monday and Tuesday
nights of next week, is being unusually
well patronized.
Miss Caroline Lewis Gordon. daughter of
Gen. John B. Gordon, and reputed very
beautiful. has left her home in Atlanta,
Ca, to go to New York and show the peo-
pie how coon songs really ought to be
sung.
Fanny Rice is to be seen in vaudeville for
which she sails for Europe and the great
ment of next seasons starring tour in the
Rosina Vokes comedies. which begins
Oct. l.
Joseph Brooks has engaged Margaret
Fuller. daughter of Chief Justice Fuller. as
leading lady of the company that will pre-
sent Augustus Thomas's new play, 1.-THE
Gentleman from Texas" next season. in
which Macklyn Arbuckle will be exploited.
Sandol Milliken and Bijou Fernandez will
also be in the cast.
Julia Marlowe's present season ends in
Hartford, Conn, the abiding place of Bruce
Edwards. her versatile press agent, whose
home is a few doors from the opera house.
The other day G.. b. Dillingham;, Miss Mar
loves manager, wrote Mr.. Edwards q let
ter which contained the following sentence:
II suppose you will demand car fare when
the season ends"
John J. McNally is at work On a new
vaudeville farce for next season for Klaw
& E~rlanger's comedy company. headed by
the Rogers Brothers. 1t will be called
'"The Rogers Brothers in Central Park"
The Rogers Brothers will close their pres
sent season at the Hollis-street Theater,
Boston. playing three weeks. beginning
May ii.
The fact that the Grand has been packed
at every performance of "Quo vadis.'' this
week. except Monday night, emphasizes the
wisdom of bringing the stock company's
great production Of it back for another
week. The remaining opportunities for see-
ing it-to-night and tomorrow matinee and
night-will attract very large audiences
and conclude a remarkable engagement.
The closing weeks plays. "She Stops to
Conquer" and Lady Windermere's Fam"
are already finding much favor and the
stock season will end brilliantly.
Klaw & changers new project for next
season, 1.-THE Klaw & Erlanger Opera Com
pany.' will be a very noteworthy organiza-
ton. 1t will be headed by Jerome Sykes.
who made a hit this season as the Genie
i'm Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" The
first opera this company will present will
be De Koven's Foxy CUTLER" which will
perpetuate the character in "The High
wayman" in which Mr.. Sykes made a great
success two years ago. The cast will be an
exceptional one and will include four for
eign artists of wide repute.
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Homemade "Foreign, Cheese.
New York Sun.

new 1Ofk sun.
A foreign cheese that has heretofore de-
fed attempts at successful imitation Is the
French sort known as Roquefort. IL Is said
that II is now made here of n quality so
near the original as TO deceive even Sioux
City amateurs Roquefort Is a little village
of eight hundred inhabitants, situated on
the side OF Mount Larzac, I'm southern
France. The mountain is honeycombed
will caves, connected with one another,
from which flow currents OF air always OF
the same temperature and degree of HUI
nudity. The cheese is pCoduced iron, the
milk OF ewes, and owes it's excellence not
TO any special mode of manufacture. but
solely to the curing process that IL under
goes in the unvarying temperature In
which IL is kept until completely ripe. This
involves a period OF six months. The only
care that Is given IL is TO rub IL OCCASION
ally with salt, which is scraped OF when-
ever any tendency TO softening is induced
by this treatment. A needle machine,
worked by steam, pricks innumcrable holes
In each cheese to admit the air. This acting
upon bread crumbs, which are mixed I'm the
whey, gives the greenish-blue veins that
are a distinguishing mark of the product.
1t has been discovered that the quality OF
air common TO the caves OF Mount Larzac
may be duplicated almost completely in
carefully regulated cold storage. Conse-
quently, what has heretofore maintained
the monopoly, OF making Roquefort in the
village of that name. is possibly destined TO
be initiated by artificial means. All that is
needed In addition Is the herd OF 300.OO0
ewes that supply milk TO the Roquefort
community. Almost all foreign cheese
whose warrants the estab-
lishment OF the plant TO make them are
now successfully initiated In this country
and Canada. Tons of so-cailed Cheddar.
Stilton and double Gloucestershire are ex-
ported from the provinces and the United
States to Great Britain, where they are
sold undetected as the native product.
Neufchatel, Gruyere, G~orgonzola and other
Swiss and Italian cheese are made here by
natives OF those countries I'm such close
Imitation OF the originals that the differ
ence rs not noticeable. Amateurs who are
able TO eat of the foreign sorts at localities
near which they are made may, n their
sense or taste Is unusually acute. be ahla
to discriminate in favor of the native kind.
The average man will eat of the COUNTER
felt with comDlacency and satisfaction.
unconscious of the fact that IL is made on
the Jersey hills or in Pennsylvania and
Ohio valleys, or at a place no more remote
from New York than Hoboken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
The SaphO BurIesquers.

There were two large crowds yesterday
to witness the performances given by the
Sapho Burlesquers at the Empire Theater.
The show opens with an olio. which in
cludes such people as the Bernard Sisters.
who do a clever song-and-dance act en-
ivened with some acrobatic work. Merritt
and Rozelle did some good acrobatic work.
Constance Window is a singer with a good
voice, and her songs were appreciated. Cor
don and Lick still cling to their old-time
musical act, but they manage to bring out
considerable mirth. Byron and Langdon
present the same sketch. The two SOU
b%rettes, the Vivian Sisters. sang several
songs that were appreciated. The perform
ance concludes with a burlesque on the ar
rest and trial of Olga Nethersole as Sapho.
The burlesque is not without it's suggestive
features. This company will be here the
of the week.
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centuries during which they have

countless centuries during which they have
existed this salt, since it does not evapor-
ate, has accumulated until these bodies OF
water have attained their present brackish
condition.
Bathing I'm the Dead Sea Is really fear
full In the first place, you are so buoyed up
by the water as TO literally lie on its sur
face, and after a bath In IL your are almost
as sticky as you would have been had you
taken a plunge into a hogshead OF moiasses
"a state you must endure for some time,
as fresh water does not lie near IL. Il is
only TO be able TO say afterward that you
have bathed In the waters Of the Dead
Sea that induces you to take that nauseous
plunge. The Dead Sea. as you look from its
borders. is seemingly surrounded by lofty
hills. but when once you reach their sum-
NIT and your eye again roves over the level
stretches OF plain, you come to a realiza-
ton of the fact that the sea lies below the
crust or surface OF the earth, and what
you had taken for hills were simply the
sides of the indentation or cup I'm which it
Is sunk"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The board of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, now In convention here,
and about fifteen of the local ministers will
visit the LaycOck factory to-day at noon
and take luncheon with the management
of the firm.
The Young Ladies' Glee Club of the In
High School will sing two selec-
tons at F1etcher-place NJ. E. Church next
Sunday morning, Ave Maria" by Veazie,
and Heaven" by Henry Smart, under the
dictatorship of r. V. Rudy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

Rico from the United States or coming into
the United States from Porto Rico shall
cease. If, therefore, freedom of trade with
us is a plain duty toward Porto Rico, hat
duty is recognized by law. If the perform
ance of that duty is delayed, the exigencies
in Porto Rico furnishes a full justification
for it's brief postponement. An immediate
and perfect freedom of access TO our mar
kets would be worth three or four hundred
thousand dollars a year to certain land
owners in Porto Rico. The arrangement
made carries with it the advantages of
civil government, independent revenues
and manifold blessings to all the people OF
the island of Porto Rico
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
park-Bcnedict'. "auo vadi.."

Alden Benedict's company, at the Park.
yesterday. gave a pretentious scenic pro-
duction OF "Quo Vadis." which differs ma
teTially in many OF it's scenes from that at
the Grand. with which the Indianapolis
public is now pretty well familiar. Mr..
Benedict's production has six acts. and
while the story OF the play is. OF course.
very largely similar to the other versions.
he has introduced several new characters.
notably Aulus Plautius. I'm the first act.
and Peter. the apostle. I'm the third and
subsequent acts. The end OF the story is
worked out In a manner similar to that of
the Grand's production, but there is intro
duced In the fifth act. which takes place In
Eero's garden. the sensational episode of
burning three Christians at the stake. IL Is
in this act that Petronius denounces Nero.
but the act does not end with his suicide,
as I'm the play at the Grand. The death OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

NEW YORK. April 26.-Assistant District
Attorney Townsend has filed a
dalton for the dismissal OF the four indict-
ments still remaining against Francis III.
Weeks. who in 1898 was sentenced to six
years and six months In Sing Sing for de-
frauding estates for which he was execu-
tor out OF a sum aggregating 1880, 900.
Weeks's term will expire next month. The
request was taken under advisement by
Judge Foster.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
A Blow to the Classics.
Boston Herald.

Boston HeTdIu.
The decline of the use of classical quo
tations I'm legislative bodies may be traced
TO the case of Edward Everett, who once
concluded a stately speech in Congress
with a long, sonorous and superbly modu-
lated citation of a passage from Tacitus,
and then took his seat. No sooner was he
through then up sprang a burly member
from what was then a frontier State of the
West. He had once been an Indian agent,
and no sooner was he on his legs than he
began 10 pour out a vehement harangue
I'm Choctaw. After a while the speaker
called him to order. II don't see why my
freedom Of speech should be abridged"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
wandering willie mt Home Again.

LINCOLN, Neb April CIV. ]. Bryan
home to-day and, with the excep-
ton of a weeks campaigning in Michigan
and northern Ohio, beginning next Monday,
will remain here almost i~nterruptedly I'M
til the national convention Mr.. Bryan said
this period of rest was not necessitated by
his state Of health, which was excellent,
but was in pursuance of a plan made some
ago. He said he saw no reason to
change a plan perfected some time since,
and that he would not attend the Kansas
City convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
NOT FOR


Special 10 the Indianapolis Journdi.
ELKHART. Ind. April 8.-Governor
Roosevelt, who passed through here this
afternoon en- route to the West, was called
from his dinner by a crowd of citizens who
had hastily gathered. He held an informal
reception, and in response to a request for
a speech made a few remarks in which he
besought the listeners to discourage any
agitation in his behalf In connection with
the vice presidential nomination.
do not instruct your delegates for me-"
he said, "fo- I have enough to attend to in
looking after the affairs of New York
State" The train pulled out as he was
about to continue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

SAN FRANCISCO. April 2s.-Among the
passengers on the steamer Australia. from
Honolulu. were thirty-seven Galicians, who
were taken 10 the Hawaiian Islands over a
year g under contract to work on the
plantations. On arriving there they found
the conditions prevailing had been mis-
represented and refused to work. They
were imprisoned under a Hawaiian law,
but were ordered released by the govern
ment, and are now being returned to their
native land at the expense of the United
States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

he cried. You let the gentleman from
Massachusetts, run on. and / didn't under
stand the first word OF his lingo any bet
ter than he does mine The scene was
described as very comical, but IL struck
the death knell OF further classical quo
tations in a Congress that had not the
ray Of an idea what the unintelligible
lingo of Cicero and Tacitus was driving at.
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why Hanna Opposed Quay.

CLEVELAND, O., April Ex-senator
Hanna said to-day that the attempt to i'm
pugn his motives in pairing himself against
Mr.. Quay was ridiculous. ST was opposed
to giving Mr.. Quay a seat" he said, be
cause, under the Constitution. / did not be-
lieve him entitled to a seat. on the appoint
ment of the Governor of Pennsylvania, as
IL was made. / never promised TO vote for
Mr.. Quay"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

NEW YORK, April 26.-Maurice Grau
and many members of his company sailed
to-day on the French liner La Touraine.
They are en- route to London. where the
company will soon open I'm grand opera.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27

New York Press
The situation in Wall street is merely a
matter of Gates a jar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
1873

You cannot afford to buy a piano without fir
and examining our immense stock. Our specialt
PIANOS such as the famous
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
TELL THE TRUTH

Dressed chickens, a pound. .12kc
Fresh country eggs, a
New York full cream cheese, a pound. nc
Imported Schweitzer, a pound .30c
McLaren's imperial, picnic size, pound. l5c
Bermuda potatoes, a
Irish potatoes, a bushel....-.....-....5Oc
Oil city Afro-American., 1900-01-27
Dom Paul's NIIcbivonv. y.

A Wisconsin paper is antbn.,.
the statement that Presidant' ~ 5ty Tor
visited America in the earIv '7or onFuser
that time" it says, he was rot VS. AT
ldent." He has several reIatirap pres
Michigan, most of them Iiying % IN
troit and Holland. 1t was I'm an Ds'
visited for several weeks. Tho ne
saw him then and remember Se he VINO
acteristics say that he imprasSoGSN GNar-
observer as having remarbahIo tM %a
dog courage, and as one who ouii'
convinced of the righteousness .. OlGs l,
cause, would turn backward At not,;LS ~ n's
less than divine command. FrooUon.Is Utu,ns
IN the most unimpOrtant matters u y
would fall back on a quotation trol 10
the Bible as justification of his STU +,U4l
and in this trait he evidently hoe I.'u, NV,
changed. He spent five weeks in W;np '
igan, and returned to South Africa -
way of New York and England groatl9,
impressed with what he had sosn :!
the United States" !"
Oil city Afro-American., 1900-01-27
Want q Cotton Mill.

Corsicana, Tex, Jan. 25.-The pros
poets for the success of the Corsicana
cotton mill scheme are growing bright
er-as bright as could be desired. Yes
terday afternoon the soliciting commit
tee took the field after o'clock and by
4:30 they had secured subscriptions to
the capital stock to the amount of s1O.-
900 additional. The committee is com
posed Of Hon. George +. Jester, DIR. s.
w. Johnson, Mr.. J. E. Whitesell, Mr..
w. L. Bullock and Mr.. A. C. Johnson
and each one of them feels assured that
by or before Saturday, when a final
answer must be sent to the northern
m1llman who proposes to take Is per
cent of the stock, the full amount will
nave been subscribed. When the COM
mlttee started out yesterday afternoon
there was to be raised about S29. 600
stock; of this $4,000, was raised in
about an hour, leaving 10000 to be
raised before Saturday. This they saw
they will be able to do without a doubt
and they now regard the cotton mill
an assured fact
Oil city Afro-American., 1900-01-27
w oman GroomS.

Woman grooms" are the peuay,
most excruciatingly swell thing iH
equestrianism in New York The irrn
vation comes from London. where wo
men attendants are provided for falr
patrons by the riding schools. Tboeo
attendants do not ride at respactfn,
distance behind. as do men grooms br,
keep at the side of the employer ready
to enter into conversation. if desired
The groom" must be intelligent and
fairly we'll educated. and look stvlisb
IN her riding habit. She must, of course
be an expert rider, and be able to giv,
lessons in the art of equestrianism
when necessary.
Oil city Afro-American., 1900-01-27
: ew Pavilion Plans

Decatur, Tex, Jan. 25.-work has
commenced on the new pavilion on the
old soldiers reunion grounds. two
miles south OF this place. NJ. d. Sell
lars' adjutant of the local camp OF ex-
confederate veterans, says the building
will cost about $500, and will be com
pleted In time for the next reunion.
The coming gathering of the civil war
veterans promises to eclipse anything
Oh the kind ever given in this county
Oil city Afro-American., 1900-01-27
Experimental Farming.

Waco. Tex, Jan. 25.--Capt. Alfred
Abeel and Mr.. John H. Finks have
been conducting experimental farming
operations in McLennan county for a
lumber of years, and have spent great
deal OF money in making improve
ments and undermining their methods.
They have extended their operations
lately, and this year they will culti-
vate between 1000 and 1000 acres in
corn, cotton, small grain and vegeta-
bles. They use shredders and produce
what is known as corn fodder, passing
the entire stalk. ear and all, through
the machine and converting the entire
plant into foodstuff, except the ear,
which is stored away In corncribs aft
or the usual manner, except that the
corncribs are ratproof, and the ear Is
stored minus the shuck, which is con-
trary to the common Texas practice.
Lately Capt. Abeel and Mr.. Finks
made a purchase of body of land
bordering on the Brazos river on the
east side. three miles below Waco, and
that land will be converted into truck
farm, to be irrigated with Brazos river
water. This will constitute a very
valuable experiment for the state OF
Texas, for it will demonstrate on d
large scale what has been practised
on a small scale successfully, that the
Brazos river water, charged with silt,
aot only serves in the ordinary way
FOR irrigation, but is a plant invigo-
rant of extraordinary strength, con-
tanning a mass of solids to the gallon
equal to Peruvian guano as FERTILIZER
The water will be pumped with
steam power from the Brazos river in
to a reservoir located at the highest |
point on the fam, and will descend |
from the reservoir into the fields by |
the natural course of gravitation under
the regular rules regulating scientific
AS the water will be taken
out below Waco it will be charged to
some extent with sewage. which will
add to it's force as fertilizer. The
farm will be planted in tomatoes, on
ions, early corn, strawberries and 9TH
er lines common to fruit and vegetable
farms, and will be rushed to market as
fast as possible. The people of CEN
.ral Texas will watch the result of the
,ruck farm established by Capt. Abeel
md Mr.. Finks with a great deal of in
crest
The horses and mules used as work
lnimals on the Abeel-Finks farms in
,arious portions Of the country con-
ume 5000 bushels of corn and 10000
,ales of hay year, all the food they
consume being raised on the farms. .
they have a few head of Jersey cattle {
nd between 200 and 800 hogs, but do
lot depend upon livestock much, con- /,
ming their operations to agriculture :
hiefiy and gardening. They keep I
ooks mercantile style, and figure
down to the fractions, and :
hey have been able to make cotton
ulture pay at the lowest prices that
taple has brought since the great de-
line set in by selecting only the best lii
eed cultivating with the utmost care,
the cotton from the wealth
?, picking it clean and watching the =,
larkets so as to get the best figures of a.
le season. el