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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
Needs of the Chorus Girl.

Washington Post.
Behind the scenes at one of the theaters,
where a comic opera was playing, not
room where five chorus girls were making
UP. One of them studied singing three
years and was a roommate of an old
friend of mine in Florence in the days
them had divorced a trapeze performer to
go into the chorus and had an Irish ac-
cent that made the wire-inclosed gas Jets
splutter. The third had a husband who
had been with her in the chorus twenty
to support. The fifth was the sort of
chorus girl you read about.
While | sat on a trunk in the corner
and watched the grease paint and powder
and rouge go on their faces, and watched
them melt pomade on wire hairpins over
the gas jet to lengthen their eyelashes. a
huge box from a Vermont-avenue florist S
was handed in. IT was addressed to the
cOmic-weekly chorus girl, and a sealed
girl lifted the paper and looked at the
flowers.
Orchids" said she, land American Beau
ties and striped carnationsi Isn't that
a shame? It's from a man 1 don't know
and don't want to know. IT must have
cost him at least SIS. If | go out to sup
per with him that will be at least a
tenner more. Twenty-Five dollars on all
these fool things, and me needing new
Twenty-Five dollars wasted to crafty the
vanity of some saphead, and, oh. what a
godsend twenty-five big. round punks
would be to mel"
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MRS. SOFFEL INDICTED.


PITTSBURG, Pa, March Establishments
in three counts against Mrs. Catherine Sof-
fel, wife of ex-Warden Peter h. Soffel,
growing out of the escape of the Biddle
brothers from Jail on Jan. 30, were consid-
cred by the grand jury to-day and true bills
returned. Should Mrs. Soffel be convicted
upon the three charges the maximum ag-
gregate sentence that could be imposed
upon her would be sixteen years in prison
and fine of 81 800. The first charge Is for
aiding criminals to escape. The other
charges are separate indictments for feloni-
Gus assault and battery upon Charles Rey-
nolds and James @. McGary, jail guards.
Reynolds was shot by one of the Biddles
and McGary was thrown over or jumped
over the railing from the cell tier and Sc
riously hurt on the night of the escape. 1t
probably will be month before Mrs. Sof-
fel is brought to trial.
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He Gave Her N Lesson.

Philadelphia Telegraph.
He had been calmly studying the situa-
ton for some time. and then he mapped
out his plan of campaign and went home
"Old Smith failed to-day. 1t was de-
liciously sad he said
John and 1 rode. up in one of those
crowded trolleys instead of his carriage. II
horribly entertaining he went on.
Il wish you could have tasted the butter
al the restaurant to-day. IT was divinely
rancid
why dad. YOU are going on your headr'
said his youngest and most impertinent
daughter
Not in the least, my dear he said
pleasantly. I'm merely trying TO follow
the fashion l worked out 'divinely rancid
with a good deal OF labor. II seems TO me
rather more effective than awfuly sweet
| mean to keep up with the rest OF. YOU
hereafter. And now" he continued, ''let
me help you TO a piece OF this exquisiteIy
tough beef 80
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TIME TO DO SOMETHING.
Congress should Act Promptly i'm the
Reciprocity Matter.

OHiCdSO JOurItdl
Leave thy damnabe faces and be-
gin." cries out the impatient Hamlet to
the player. and that is what the American
people are now crying to the committee
or ways and means making faces over the
Cuban sugar duties
The people do not take the House of
Representatives seriously, or its commit
tees but, inasmuch as it is a necessary part
of the law-making power and must go
through certain forms in order TO make
legislation effective, the sooner it does its
part the better for the country. The ways
and means committee has been hemming
and having over the business long enough,
for 1t doesn't matter one picayune what the
The question will be settled in the Senate,
but as il is revenue measure that is TO
House
We wonder whether. il the trainers of
cecadence of the House under the Reed
rules of order, they would have COM
mitted any power or duties To it whatever;
in these days. But let that pass.
What the people would like to see en-
acted by the House is any bill looking
10 reciprocity with Cuba, with any reduc-
ton i'm the tariff duties. no matter how
small The committee is talking of a %
per cent reduction. All right, make il
that" put ii in legal phraseology, pass
the rest, what ii omits be safely left
TO committee of conference.
The desirable thing is TO stop the chat
ter and begin the work. Already the Gu
ban planters are awaiting congressional ac-
ton, and il is almost a scandal that no
definite conclusion has been reached. Tardy
favors are no fsvors. This business should
have been disposed Of last month. The peo-
pie are waiting now for the committee on
ways and means 10 get a move on itself
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DE WITT TALMAGE ILL.
Caught Influenza in Mexico, brt VIII
Return to Washington To-Day.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March 13.-Rev. L.
De Witt Talmage is resting quietly at the
st. Charles Hotel, greatly improved, and
will be able TO continue his journey to
Washington tomorrow morning. He
rived last night from the City of Mexico,
accompanied by his wife and daughter and
DR.. Lawrence Shields, chief surgeon of the
American Hospital in the City of Mexico.
Mrs. Talmage and DIR. Shields were fairly
bomharded with letters, cards and tele-
grams from all parts of the world asking
to the condition of the doctors health.
But the doctor was not able to arise from
his bed nor to see any one. Mrs. Talmage
sat patiently al his bedside, unwilling to al
low any one to attend his most trivial
wants.
DR.. Shields, who will accompany DR.. Tai
mage and family to Washington, gave out
the following statement to the Associated
Press which fully covers all the details of
his distinguished patients illness and pres
ent condition: DIR T. De Witt Talmage
attacked with influenza in Mexico
City on March 3, two days after his arrival.
Owing TO the altitude of that city it was
deemed expedent to remove him to his
home in Washington. His present condi-
tion is favorable, having steadily improved
after leaving Mexico, the debility showing
his malady being the only affection at this
time He viii be able to resume his work
in about two weeks
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SAWS AND MILL SUPPLIES.

He sang that, and Love Among the Roses
and "Moriarity' around the world. And he
was only one of jovial crew, hieh liVers,
honest and thirsty souls, most OF them. Like
every honest good fellow, they spent their
money freely Rich again and again, and
paupers at the end
Billy Rice with his stump speech. How
many ludicrous monologues. temperance
lectures and what not, punctuated by the
thumps from an impossible cotton UNI
brella. have the minstrels given. The Morris
lest Ministries of all; Mr.. Birch, Mr.. Backus.
Mr.. Bernard. Mr.. Wambold. au fresh in
properly regulated and grateful memories;
Luke SchOolcratt, the watermillion man,
and Harry Observation-Disclosures jam rivos;
turn off the "reminiscences
They say Neil Bryant is lying stricken
over IN Brooklyn at "A hospital and they
say he is more than seventy. Lord. Lord,
what a foolish thing time isl u must be
nearly twenty years since Nell Bryant
stripped of the cork. and he Is forgotten
already He was in twenties when he and
his brother opened a theater on Broadway,
somewhere in the four hundreds, three or
four years before the war. Bryant's min
strels had their home in Fourteenth street
afterwaTd, say, from 1851 or Whereabouts,
and moved TO Twenty-third street in 1870.
perhaps, but We are not swearing TO any
statistics. Bryants MINISTRIES were as well
known as the custom house. and they have
chased the blues away from thousands.
George Fox, too soon TO become the melan-
choly figure which used To be led about
the streets of Cambridge in the early EOS.
was at the Olympia. Mr.. Birch and his
facetious halo were at five hundred and
something Broadway. Kelly and Icons
MINISTRIES were on Broadway. near Eleventh
street. Harry Beckett was at Miss Lima
Edwins theater-Oh. yes. there was such
a theater in 20 and near il, We think.
was the Globe. where we had the ineffable
pleasure Of seeing MIR. Josh Hart in the
Yankee Sea Serpent Mr.. Antonius Pas
tor the immortal, was on the Bowery then.
Mr. Pastor came over with Mr.. n. Hudson.
and his hand already grasped that immortal
opera hat or dry hide" May Tony live
forever and day; but most OF the theaters
and the actors of that time are gone.
The race of negro minstrels will be ex-
tinct as the cave bear or the mammoth i'm
a few years. They gave good deal OF
harmless pleasure; and there are many who
will join in kind recalling and remem-
brance of those noisy, rollicking and senu-
mental artists. IL can not be dened that
there is some selfishness I'm the regret. The
death of the favorites OF his youth makes
a man feel more keenly that he. too. Is
growing old Poor old Neil Bryant. and all
the rest of that gay company, The Finches
of the Grove are silent. The Cave OF Har-
mony is closed.
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METHUEN is AT LIBERTY
BRITISH GENERAL HAS BEEN RE
LEASED BY HIS BoER GATORS.
by Mr.. Brodrick in the
House of CommOns-Case OF
DIR. Thomas and Wife.

LONDON, March 1S.-The war secretary,
Mr.. BrOdrick, announced in the House of
Commons to-day that he understood that
General Methuen. who was captured, Sc
verely wounded, by General Delarey. March
10, had been released and was expected TO
arrive at Klerksdorp, southwestern Trans
vaal. to-day. The generals condition was
favorable. Mr.. Brodrick added that the
exchange of General Methuen for Com
mandant Kritzinger had not been contem-
plated. The trial of the commandant had
been postponed because consideration OF
the evidence TO be presented had not been
completed.
Timothy NJ. Healy Qrish NationalisD,
amid Nationalist cheers, invited the gov
eminent TO show equal magnanimity and
release Commandant Kritzinger
MIR. Brodrick said subsequently that the
telegram received did not specifically say
that General Methuen had been released.
but from the fact that he was in the
hands OF a British medical officer, il was
presumed the general had been released
Later in the day, the following dispatch,
dated Pretoria, March 13, was received from
Lord Kitchener: General Methuen was
brought TO Klerksdorp to-day. He is doing
well. Everything possible is being done
for him"
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FruitIess Conference.

ST. LOUIS, March 13.-The Southwestern
Passenger Bureau continued in session to-
day. telegram was received by the ad-
visOry committee from General Passenger
Agent Prince, of the International & Great
Northern Railroad, stating that the ques-
ton of that cOmpanys membership had
been referred TO their vice president, and
his decision would be transmitted as soon
as received. The meeting then considered
the subjects the docket, but no final &C
ton was taken on any of them, 1t being
necessary to secure the votes of absent
lines. No further communication from the
International q Great Northern having
reached the advisory committee up to a
late hour, a resolution was adopted refer
ring the entire question of existing differ
ences to the advisory committee of the bu-
reau, with full power to act, and the meet
ing adjourned subject to the call of the ad-
.ViSOry committee.
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Grossmith Mt PropyIaeum.

The entertainment to be given by Mr..
George Grossmith at the PrOpylaeum next
Tuesday evening is attracting general in
terest and promises 10 be one of the events
OF the season. He is 10 introduce his pro-
gramme with piano-forte solo upon the
theme, Home, Sweet Home, which ne
will embellish with such variations as he
alone - capable Of The first part OF the
programme viii consist of - Few Idle
Thoughts which will include some expert
mansions OF the London apartment-hOuse
district and the love songs by Mr. eros
smith. called :" Twas I'm the Time OF Tur-
nips. and oh, That To-day Were To-
morrow. The second part OF the enter
tatnment Will consist OF the new musical
sketch. 'Somebodies and NobOdies" in
which Mr.. GrOssmth will describe the no.
bodies who fancy themselves somebodies
and the somebOdies who are possibly no
bodies. the latter classification being ex-
tended 10 include himself Some of the
features OF this sketch are the descriptions
OF the English policeman and butler the
major and his song. somebOdies on "A train
somebOdies at an English banquet and an
English college student. The songs How
10 Work Up a Pedigree. words by George
Grossmith. jr.. and '.The Merry Bankrupt"
words By George +. Sims. are introduced
during the sketch. The third part of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
A Great Failing.
New York Tribune

New York Tribune.
There are certain. qualities which the So
cial aspirant must suppress if she desires
to be popular in her world. If inclined to be
what is called ''touchy." the tendency must
be overcome at once. for it does not pay to
be offended in Vanity Fair No one has
time TO consider the rights or the wrongs
of case. and tho complainant is generally
held to be In error. simply because IL an
noys people TO listen to the details of a
quarrel. individuals who have feelings
are also considered great bores To be with
such persons who are easily hurt" or
who misconstrue any chance carelessness
into an intentional slight is most tiresome.
while the most wearisome Of all are those
who talk about their grievances and expect
sympathy. The world eXacts that IL shall
be amused, and the people who let their
troubles and annoyances slip from their
minds like the water from off a duck ;
back have the best chance in IT,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
AT Cripple Creek. at the Park.

The first play that the Park Theater had
this season-Hal Reds AT Cripple Creek
lis again being acted there with the evil
dent approval of the audiences. It's most
stirring incident is the rescue of a little
girl. Tatto. from murderous Mexican
Waketah, an Indian friendly TO the whites
is the rescuer- The scene is a gorge in the
Rocky mountains. The Mexican has the
child on one side of the gorge and the In
dian is hiding on the other side. The Indian
catches q tree, swings out over the gorge
clasps the girl just as the Mexican throws
her over the edge and swings back to solid
earth again
The fun of the play is in the love making
OF Joe Mayfield and Belle Gordon May
field is a rough miner with a good heart
aud is called "ParsOn' by his companions
Miss Gordon is an Eastern girl who goes
10 Cripple Creek answering advertise
ment for a gOVerneSs. IL is a ruse 10 get
her into .'The Temple of David" a dive
NfayfieId rescues her and finally they are
married.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
Pro-Boers May Appeal to President.

CHICAGO, March ia second letter, in
the shape of a formal demand, has been
sent to Secretary of State Hay, asking for
passports for DR.. and Mrs. Hiram w.
Thomas to visit the concentration camps
of South Africa. Should Mr.. Hay again
refuse to act, it is stated that the matter
will be taken to the President. Should Mr..
Roosevelt uphold Mr.. Hay, final appeal
will be made to Lord Pauncefote. The sec
ond letter TO Secretary Hay is signed by
John knight, who was appointed by Gov
ernor Yates TO arrange with the State De-
partment for DIR. Thomas's mission.
Peter Van Missing, of the Chicago Trans
vaal League, said to-day: IF the British
government objects to DR.. Thomas because
of his well-known pro-Boer utterances, we
will select some one else. We have Sc. 600 on
hand and in Philadelphia there is 5000
more waiting, and all over the country ii
is the same. In Europe there are many who
want to send similar relief"
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Mrs. Onahan's Funeral.

CHICAGO. March 13.-Prelates of the Ro-
man Catholic Church joined to-day with
laity and priests of Chicago and several
other cities in paying tribute to the mem
DRY of Mrs. Margaret Gertrude Onahan,
wife of William J. Onahan, who was chair
man of the great Catholic congress at Bal
timore. The funeral services were held al
the Holy Family Jesuit Church West
Twelfth and May streets, the largest Cath
Ollie church edifice in Chicago. The struc-
ture proved inadequate TO accommodate
the thousand who densely thronged the
massive structure and filled the surround
ing thoroughfares. Archbishop Ireland. of
St. Paul. came TO Chicago especially for
James French. vice president of Notre
Dame University. was archpriest and Rev
Thomas r. Sherman, S. J.. deacon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14

CHICAGO, March 1S.-Central Passen-
ger Association lines have granted a rate
of one cent mile for the round trip TO
the Grand Army National Encampment to
be held in Washington Oct. to IL. 1t was
also decided TO put into effect rate to
New York on a basis of so added to the
Washington rate, which would mean a
round trip rate from Chicago to New York
for $26. An innovation is the allowance
of one stop-over each way TO permit the
old soldiers to visit battleflelds. Dates of
sale will be Oct. to g. return limit Oct.
IL and extension limit Oct. 81
1t was unanimously agreed to confine
interchange of business with the Lake
lines TO such lines would give assurance
that they would cease paying commissions
and dealing with ticket scalpers.
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Notes of the STAGE.

In the bill of vaudeville at the Grand
next week will be the Picchiani troupe OF
acrobats Press Eldridge. a story teller,
and Jenny Eddy and her pickannnies as
sisted by Dave Fitzgibbon. d pianist
When the Pike stock company. of Gin
cinnati presents William GilIette's Secret
Service at the Park Theater the latter
half of next week Thomas NJ Reynolds
who was a member of the Grand Opera
House stock company, Will be seen in one
of the characters.
The act of BerOl and BerOl in the show
given by ."The Brigadiers" at the Empire
this week is new here. They make pic
lures by fastening vari-cOlored rags on a
black BACKGROUND. The KnickerbOckers -
a company new 10 the Empire, VIII visit
II next week
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
OBITUARY.
David Sloane Stanley, Corps Com
mander i'm Army of the Cumberland.

mander in Army of the Cumberland.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-Brig. Gen.
David S. Stanley, United States army re-
tired, a notable figure in many campaigns
and one of the few remaining corps COM
manders of the Western army, died at his
residence here to-day. aged seventy-three
of chronic Bright's disease. He was presi-
dent of the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland and for four years was COM
mander of the National Soldiers Home in
this city.
David Sloane Stanley was born at Ches-
ter, o. on June /, 1923, and was educated
in the public schools, at Canaan Academy
and at West Point being graduated from
the Military Academy in 1882 married Anna
NJ. Wright, who died in 1895; was second
lieutenant in the Second Dragons; first
lieutenant First Cavalry captain Fourth
Cavalry major Fifth Cavalry; during the
civil war brigadier and major general of
volunteers and commander Fourth Corps,
Army of the Cumberland; fought through
the Corinth and Atlanta campaigns and
was wounded in a hand-to-hand fight at
Franklin: took part i'm the Nashville cam
paign; after the war colonel Twenty
second Infantry; brigadier general United
States army: retired on June /, 1892.
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patent clamp attachment. which adjusts
them securely and easily at the proper
place. single large pearl. fitting close
TO the ear lore, is one Of the most popu-
lar designs, though almost equal IA
voritc is a combination of this pearl with
one or more diamonds just above il. A
silversmith is the authority for the state
ment that pair of solitaire pearl ear
rings is the most popular of expensive
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
Canada Atlantic Road Sold.

OTTAWA, Ont, March 13.-One million
dollars in cash is said to have been paid
over to the directors of the Canada Atlantic
Railway Company by the Webb syndicate
as a guarantee of good faith that the pur-
chase of that road will be contaminated.
The first option given was to expire on
March Is. but it has been extended until
June so, and the million dollars has been
paid over. Yesterday the Canada Atlantic
directors decided TO issue bonds to the eX-
tent of 81. 100000, and that figure is believed
to fairly represent the price to be paid by
the Webb syndicate for the railway.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14

SHERIDAN, Mont. March 23.-Britsh
Agent ]. A. Conway, who is buying horses
in the United States for the British cavalry
in South Africa, has secured a large num-
Der of animals in this vicinity. These horses
will be shipped to Utah, where they will be
to South Africa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
Arrest of an Alleged burglar.

CARBONDALE. ILL.,. March l3.-Officerr
have captured Thomas Williams. accused
of being one of the gang who entered the
Willisville postoffice Tuesday night and Sc
cured a large number of stamps and all
the available money in the Office. Williams
was arraigned before Commissioner ClaNton
to-day in this city and was held 10 the
federal grand jury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
Gen. Augustus II. Martin.

BOSTON. March 13.-Gen. Augustus p.
Martin, former mayor and also former po-
lice commissioner of Boston died to-day at
his home in Dorchester. General Martin
was sixty-seven years OF age. At the time
of his death he was water commissioners
for the city. He served in the civil war
with great distinction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14

Springfield Republican.

We have a visiting artist. Philip Burne-
Jones. son of his father. who says every
city has it's particular smell. and that New
York has IL we'll defined i'm any part of the
city Londons smell. he says, is pungent
and rather unpleasant: that of Paris Is
rather pleasant; Venice has a peculiar
flavor. partly of the sea; New York's ''ap-
proximates a perfume" and Is more like
that OF Paris. Mr.. Burne-Jones is going
To Boston to find the New England SMELL
What will he think OF Pittsburg. Cincin-
natl and especially Chicago?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
Altgeld's Death DepIored.

DENVER. Col. March 13.-The Colorado
House of Representatives to-day adopted
resolutions deploring the death OF John F.
Altgeld, "a great commOner whose life
stands monument of civic coura ge
steadfastness and incorruptibiity in the
most trying circumstances and in the midst
of calumnes and temptations TO which
many noble but more yielding natures sue
cumb
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-14
Leon ID. bancroft.

CHICAGO, March 13.-Leon d. Bancroft,
a well-known newspaper man, died here
to-day from stomach trouble. He was thir-
ty-three years old and was employed on
the Inter Ocean. At one time he was man.
aging editor of the Pittsburg Dispatch. He
also held responsible positions on several
New York city papers