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THE COTJBIEB-JOIJKNAL, LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY MOKNINGK DECEMBEB 14, 1904. 6 SPEEDY I At the Theaters. I I I H-H-S-K- ing and Bonnie Alber, aged fifteen. Is seriously wounded from bullets fired by Swank. Both are attending the public schools and belong to highly respected families.

Swank was talking to the girl at the gate, when her sister called her away. The family considered her too young-to receive his attentions. As the girl turned away Swank fired, the bullet striking the girl in the side. Six blocks away he shot himself through the head. cook Is brought to the house.

Tne clty man runs to catch the morning train and misses it. The sixth scene represents tno arrival of the mother-in-law. In the last of the series of pictures the tenant hangs a "to rent" on the front of the house. The film from which the picture Is made is over a quarter of a mlie. long and a representative of the olograph company is authority for the- statement that It required two weeks to procure the picture.

Included in the expenses was the leasing of a house for a period of six months and the chartering of a special train to fur-n'sh the model in the fifth scene. Tna number Is one of the best In the week's programme at the vaudeville house. Big Price For Strauss' Symphony. Berlin Dec, '13. Rtchard Strauss' new symphony, the "Sinfonia Domestlco," which Berlin heard for the first time yes.

terday has received the highest nonoxa-rlum ever paid in Germany for a musical composition. A publisher has paid Herr Strauss 15,000 for all rights. The critics are much divided in their judgment the work. White House. In view of this fact, the present so-called investigation has very much the air of marking time.

There was a reason for the Investigation, of course, or It would not have been ordered. There are a great many excellent people whose abhorrence of llormonlsm is far greater than their knowledge oi actual conditions In Utah, or In the Senate. They were induced to make a protest against Smoot's retaining his seat by their dislike- of polygamy, but without a clear appreciation of what is practical in a matter affecting such varied political interests. It was necessary to Ehow a decent respect for the wishes and protests of these good people until after the election. It was also thought necessary to hold the Mormon vote In line, though, as it turned out, this might have been disregarded.

The Mormon vote did all that was expected ct It, and the time may come when it will be really needed again. Hence, Senator Smoot feels pretty sure of holding his seat, and it is altogether likely that his confidence Is not misplaced. From this time on, therefore, the testimony will be mainly educational in showing the extent to which the. Mormons have felt safe in violating the conditions under which Utah became a StaLe. "We Pass.

A citizen of Auburn, N. has sent to the Courier-Jotirnal a marked copy of the Syracuse Post-Standard containing a quotation from the Florida Times-Union suggesting the Mayor of Auburn as the Democratic nominee for the presidency four yearB hence. Our friends of the blue pencil must excuse us from entering into any consideration of a suitable nominee for the Democrats In 190S. The Mayor of Auburn may be a good man for such consideration. We do not know, and at present we do not care.

Other things are far more essential to Democratic success in 190S than picking out a Democratic nominee in 1904. To cook a rabbit you must first catch your rabbit. To make a nominee of the Democratic party President we must first get a Democratic party. For the next three years at least let those who believe In Democratic principles devote themselves to building up the Democratic the army to follow may drink no contaminated water. When a town Is reaohed he thoroughly examines Its saoitary condition, and, if there is contagion anywhere, quarantines and guards the infected places, warning the approaching column by posted notices.

He also accompanies foraging parties arid tests the various foods, fruits and vegetables sold toy the natives long before the arrival of the army. If the food is tainted, the fruit overripe or the water requires boiling, notice Is posted to that effect, and obedience to his directions is absolute. In addition to this, he lectures the men In camp on sanitation, hotw to cook and to eat, when not to- drink or bathe, and even, to the paring and cleansing of the noils to prevent danger from bacteria. With these precautions, the armies have been kept free from Intestinal diseases, contagion and fevers resulting from Improper subsistence and neglected sanitation. By this method he thinks that the deaths In Che army from preventable diseases in six months did not amount to 1 per cent, a country notoriously, unhealthy.

Dr. Seaman notes the fact that in sending five military attaches 'to accompany the Japanese army In the field there was no representative of either the medical or commissary department, the very branches in which we have most to learn and the Japanese most to teach. This was undoubtedly a grave oversight attributable to the fact Chat, heretofore, officers assigned to such duty had been sent more for the purpose of taking note of the tactical ar.d strategical movements cf armies and the improved engines of destruction of life, rather than the best methods of preserving it. Another reason which may doubtless be ascribed for this omission is that the commissary and medical departments of the American army were believed, to be eo superior to those of either of the belligerents that It was not believed necessary. This specific information, coming from a medical officer so competent to measure the value of the information acquired by him, is entitled to the fullest consideration.

There Is ro way In which money could better be expended to promote the efficiency of the American army than by sending the most competent army surgeons and commissaries to Japan and Manchuria for. practical study of the two departments of the army, treated- so fully by Dr. Seaman, along the line of his observations. More than a million dollars was spent In the army maneuvers at Manassas last summer, the benefit of which to our system counts as nothing compared to the inauguration of the sanitary methods of the Japanese detailed by Dr. Seaman.

The lack of these was painfully apparent in both armies during tlie Civil War, and the. Spanish War showed plainly that no progress had been made in our military system In this regard. The mortality In camps and hospitals and the canned and borax-treated beef showed- that the commissariat was as defective as the sanitary service. The adoption by the City School Board of a resolution abolishing corporal punishment, at first blush carries with It an Indication that there has been such progress by the pupils in diligence and good behavior as to admit of the substitution of moral suasion for the old-fashioned use of physical discipline. It seems, however, that the action of the board was not inspired wholly by such consideration, it being more in the nature of a relief for the teachers than as a testimonial to the pupils.

Legal prosecutions have from time to time been brought against teachers for administering physical corrections, and the switch and ferrule will henceforth be banished from the schools, thus relieving the teachers the necessity of using them at the risk of Incurring the parental ire. It Is to be hoped that the sparing of the rod will not involve the spoiling of the child, as Solomon put It. This maxim was combatted by Ben Johnson, a more modern philosopher, who, speaking of the management of children, said: "From the rod and ferrule I would have them free, as from the menace of them." There Is a wave of condemnation for the Chadwick woman, upon whom the strong hand of the law has been placed for acts which are no worse than those committed constantly by men who swindle Investors out of their money by-false representations, and yet go free to pose as successful financiers. Forgery is, after all, only one form of misrepresentation, differing In moral crime from the floating of bogus corporations and selling of worthless stocks. In the punishment affixed to the former.

If all the so-called magnates who roll In wealth by practices as fraudulent as those for which Mrs. Chadwick is now held up to obloquy were treated aa they deserve there would not be ptison accommodation sufficient for them. The Japanese guns at Fort Meter having sunk or otherwise disabled for service four Russian battleships, two cruisers, one gunboat and one torpedo boat In the harbor of Port Arthur, art now confining their attention to Port Arthur. Already the effect of the bombardment of the and neighboring fortifications is reported to have been very damaging. The injuries Inflicted upon Golden Hill are said to be serious, and buildings in Port Arthur have been set on fire.

The silence and Inactivity of the Russian, fleets give ground for belief that the naval force has been used to supplement the depleted garrison. If the jury in the Marcum damac-e suit is as courageous as the attorney for the plaintiff several people may last get a slight Installment of long escaped justice. I M-M--M-M I Points iiininntinminn At the Japanese bazar which the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of tne United Daughters of the Confederacy is holding week at 635 Fourth avenue, Mra. Ed Grant will pour tea this afternoon and it will be served by Misses Mat-tio Sevier Bonnie, 'Marie Burnett, Elizabeth DeHart Smith Henderson and Annie Bailey. The bazar draw a large attendance yesterday and is deserving the patronage ol oil those interested1 in beautiful art Tho store where the bazar Is being held ie beautifully decorated In Japanese flags with "peach trees in full bloom" lining the walls.

Dainty klmonas and Japanese parasols hang on the walls and there are many tables holding the handsome china which was so much admired at the Varied Industries building of the World's Fair. Odd conceits in bronze form part of the exhibit, which contains many aruc.es i-tractive to Christmas shoppers. Mrs. NoJand Milton will return home to-day from Raleigh, N. where she nas oeen spending several weetta wiw ner sister, airs, uusoy.

Mr. Jrthn Vjin TW tTonk of London, England, w-ho has been soendlng several days with Mrs. Van De'r Cook at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

M. Womack, has gone to San Diego. on a business trip of two weeks. The dinner party which Miss Emma Loving was to give Saturday in honor of Mr. and Mrs.

Van Dcr Cook has therefore been postponed unta after Christmas. Mrs. William Ttoblneon, of near Danville. Is the guest of Mrs. Wallace Miller.

Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Birdeal), who are at Hot Springs, N. on their wedding iesiw jivjwi. weiv mi ic v.

Mrs. John TWxton gave an informal euchre party last night In honor of Miss Haute rmxton, or Uwenp.boro, The guests included the following: MISSES. Saille Thixton, Grace Thomas, Gulnare Baker, Annio Hodgeson Lela ocoggan, Long, Bessie Clark. Stsndiford Dan forth. Nannie Hancock, Ailene iierr.

MESSRS. Scott Frost, Brown Clifton' Ir- A'bner Harris. win, Eugene Thompson, Norton Gray, Noibert Thixton, Tom Wlntersmlth, James W. Guest, Robert Baldwin. Miss Louise Graham will not entertain at dinner on Deecmiber 27 as she at first planned but will give a country dance on Friday, December 30 at tho Cheatham cabin, Tanglewood, at Kenwood H1JJ.

There will be about twenty-four guests, who win be driven to tho cabin in a tnnrft wn.prAn. Thft tirls will wear coun try costumes and the boys will go in overalls. Miss Susie Dorr will be the hostess at a tea to be given Wednesday arternoon December 28. Mr. Bernard Flexn-er will entertain informally Thursday evening in honor of his sister.

Mr. and Mrs. Philip W-eIssliser returned home vesterdav from New York where they liave been on their wedding trip. They are wxth, ana Mrs. -ercy Thomas, of.

St. James Court, for the present. Mrs. Bayard Kilgore, of Cincinnati, who has been visiting Mrs. Harry Wood, of Belgravla, lias returned home.

Miss Nellie Hegowald will give an informal card party this afternoon. Mrs. Frederick N. Lewis will give an informal luncheon on Saturday for Miss Martha Marvin. Mrs.

Simon Bolivar Buckner, of Glen Lfiy. 'who 'has been in the city shopping, returned home yeBterdpy. Miss Ethel Humphrey will be th hostess at a luncheon to be given Friday in honor of Miss Anita Tone, of White Plains, N. who is the guest of Miss EmSy Hussey. Miss MarguoTlto Henderson has returned from the country after a short visit to Mrs.

James McFerran. Mr W. F. Lyons of New York, spent Sunday In Louisville with Mr. David S.

Green and family. Mr. Tom Adams, who has been visiting his relatives at Bristol, England, since July, will return home shortly after Christmas. IMrs. T.

W. MoChesney, of New York, r.iho has been at Mrs. Virginia Montgomery's for the past week, has returned home. Mr. John W.

-Bacon has gone South to spend a few days this week. Miss Marian Green Who is a student at Vassar College, will return home next week to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Green.

Mr. William. Strelck. of Honduras, will arrive in Louisville next week to spend Christmas with his wife, who is vlslUng her parents, Mr. and 'Mrs.

George Clark. Mr. and Mrs. John Lee Dunlap will leave 'December 23 for New York, where they will spend Christmas. Dr.

Guy Clark, of Russellville, will arrive Friday to spend a few days in Louisville. Mr and Mrs. William Clark win entertain InformaEy Friday evening in honor of Miss Mlna Goodloe, of Lexington who is the guest of her cousin, Miss Abirie GoodCoe. MrB. William K.

Thompson, of Garvin Place, will entertain informally at cards this afternoon. Mrs G. W. Robb end daughter, Miss Jennie Robb, of Frankfort, will arrive in Louisville Saturday to spend the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs.

William Garland, of St. James Court. Mrs. James P. Donahue, of Davenport, will arrive In Louisville Saturday from French Lick, and wIK spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Hermany. She will be joined next wejsk -by Mr. Donahue. Miss Shalfre Johnston, of Memphis, Tonn who has been spending the winter with her sister, 'Mrs.

William Jarvis, of Fountain Court, will return home on Thursday. Brannln Shcrley, win return home the last of this week from Washington, where Sherley has also been In Brooklyn, where tfxn vlsltlnir Mr and Mrs' Rtftoh- en Matherson. Miss Mary Wells, of Blkton, Is In the city visiting her cousin, Mrs. Rhodes Rankins. Mr.

Hughes Moore has returned from a trip to Mississippi. I Mrs. Henry Welssinger and children will leave Thursday week for Paduoah. where they will spend Christmas with Mrs Welssinger's mother. Mrs.

George Hart. She will be Joined later by Mr. Welssinger. Miss Martha Cabel Howard and Miss Leonine Day, of Atlanta, are guests of -Mrs. Benjamin Charles Miller.

vtr. Herbert R. Kohlcr will return from Princeton University on Sunday. December 18, to remain till January 3 with his parents. Mr.

and Mrs. M. S. Kohler. Mr.

and Mrs. I. J. Kahn and family have moved from HOC Second street to 1822 Second street. Mrs.

J. S. Robinson, of 520 Belgravia, will entertain at euchre Saturday, December 17, at 1 p. m. Among the guests at the euehre will be Mrs.

W. H. Coons, of Franklin, who will visit vMrs. Rob-insan through the holidays. Proceeds For Building Fund.

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The stock market opened weak and continued fever-ifh most cf the day though support was noted at times, and there was said to be buying of an Investment nature. A sharp rally occurred before the close In mcst but iinal prices shaded off a little. Rates for Tr.oney were easy, being quoted at -l to 3 per cent, for call loans and ct per for rime loans. Sterling exchange was rirni. May wheiit wes oft at the close to and lay corn was off 14e, with oats unchanged.

The cotton market opened higher than expected, and showed strenprth throughout most of the session, closing prices being tip from 5 to points above the opening. The Chicago cattle and hog markets wre steady, the sheep market strong and the lr.mb market tirm. The Smoot Case Again. Now that Congress is again at work, the Smoot case makes a reappearance and the taking: of sensational testimony has been resumed. When the case was adjourned until after the election, on merely colorable pretexts, few persons supposed that anything would come of it if the action of Utah was satisfactory to the.

leaders of the Senate. Accordingly, the genera! opinion now is that Senator Smoot will hold his seat. In the new testimony adduced we again note that It relates less to Senator Smoot than to the other dignitaries of the Mormon Church, and to the general doctrines of that sect. A clergyman who told a great deal about the teachings of President Smith and others by saying that he found no one to speak a word against Smoot, but, on the contrary, every one gave him an excellent character. The testimony about the general teachings of the church may, of course, be defended on the ground that Smoot is assailed as a member of that church, and that it is intended to show that such a person cannot do his duty as a Senator.

In that way only could the testimony introduced be considered competent. But those who direct the investigation seem more intent oh developing sensational facts with reference to individuals than to bringing out anything that really touches the man investigated. So far as the teachings of the Mormon Church respecting polygamy are concerned, so long and elaborate an investigation is hardly necessary now. This matter has been very fully threshed out In former inquiries. Nor were the Mormons in former times secretive on this- subject, but boldly said that their consciences compelled them to practice polygamy in obedience to a divine revelation making it obligatory upon at least some of them.

When it became apparent to them that they roust do without either Statehood or polygamy, it was found convenient to get a new revelation permitting the abandonment of polygamy. It was explained at the time that the revelation old not condemn polygamy as wrong In the abstract, but permitted them to refrain from preaching it on account of the hardness of the Gentile heart in visiting punishment upon those who preached it. So far as the teachings of the Mormon Church, therefore, were concerned, Congress was fully advised before Utah was admitted as a State. It was made a condition precedent that a manifesto suspending polygamy should be issued, and that the Constitution of the new State should make it unlawful. It was known, however, that these steps were taken under pressure, and that they did not represent the real feelings and desires of the Mormon leaders, who controlled a majority of the votes in the new State.

The one subject on which the Mormon leaders are inclined to be secretive Is the Influence of the church upon politics. But it was well known while Utah was still a Territory that the hierarchy of the Mormon sect was practically supreme, in court as well as ecclesiastical affairs, no matter what might be the theory back of it. Reliance was had upon the Constitution of the State and the terms of the enabling net for the destruction of polygamy, and not on any real change of heart among the Mormon leaders. It "was distinctly understood that if the civil status should ever permit, it would be easy to get another revelation reestablishing polygamy, not merely as permissible, but as obligatory on such as had the necessary means to support more than one wife. Revelations are always kept on tap by the Mormon hierarchy, and are furnished with as -much ease as are' statements from the i Trial and Life-term Sen-tence For Sasoneff.

NO SIGN OF DISTURBANCE AND ONLY A FEW ARRESTS WEBE- MADE ON STREETS. SIKOROFSKY ALSO CONVICTED, St. Petersburg, Dec. 13. Sasoneff, who threw the bomb which killed Minister of the Interior Von Plehve, on July 28, and Slkorofsky, his accomplice In the crime, were to-day found guilty by the Court of Appeals, sitting In the Law Courts building.

The former was sentenced to imprisonment for life with hard labor, and the latter to twenty years' imprisonment. The trial had been expected to last at least two days, but it was rushed to a speedy completion, in view of the possibility of revolutionary demonstrations. The trial was held behind closed doors. Even members of the bar were treated as outsiders. Large police reserves were stationed within the building and In the courtyards of the ordnance factory opposite, while mounted gendarmerie patrolled the front and sides of the building.

Toward noon, the hour set by the proclamation, several battalions of infantry as if by accident marched through the adjoining streets, and exactly at 12 o'clock a company, with a band of music at Its head, 'playing, strangely enough, "The Stars and Stripes Forever," swung a cross street. No Sign of Disturbance. The grim effect. of the fixed bayonets was enough to deter the crowds of students and workmen streaming along the sidewalks, and no vestige of a disturbance occurred. In the meantime, the accused had been brought to the court room from the adpolnlng prison through a rear door.

The bench appointed to try the case consisted of President Senator Maxlmovich and four Associate Judges, Selivanoff, Wilkin, Delaroff and Reme-zoff. On a separate raised platform were -the following representatives of the various classes, whose presence Is a guarantee that justice will be administered in accordance with the law and as required by the Russian statutes: Count Goudovich, Marshal of the Nobility of the province of St. Petersburg; M. Drouzhinln, Marshal of the District cf G-odoff: the Mayor of St Petersburg, M. Lelianoff; the elders of the Metropolitan Communes.

M. Kountousanoff, procurator of the Court of Appeals, acted as prosecutor, and MM. Kara and Sehevsky, the most prominent criminal lawyers of the empire, appeared for Sasoneff. M. Kazar-lncff defended Sikorofsky.

Twenty-eight witnesses and four experts appeared. Sasoneff's father, a merchant of Ufa, was the only outsider present. All the functionaries appeared In full civil uniforms. The procedure followed closely that of the French courts. The prosecutor opened with presenting the case for the Government, the indictment was read and the prisoners were arraigned, pleading justifiable homicide, after which the witnesses were examined.

Sasoneff's Apologia. Sasoneff's apologia is declared to be a remarkable document, showing the prisoner to be a man of superior intellect and learning. It fills several closely-written pages, was drawn up while he lay In the hospital and sets forth the alms and purposes of the Social Revolutionary party, and the figh ting organization, his connection therewith, the reasons and motives" for the murder cf Minister von Plehve and also his version of the crime itself. Sikorofsky being only a common workman Is no such interesting personality. Toward night, when the shops and factories were closed, the size of the crowds increased and there were occasional shouts of "Acquit them." But there was no attempt of an actual demonstration and only a few arrests were made.

DEMAND FOB BEPOUM Is Voiced By 'Writers In St. 'Petersburg Newspapers. St. Petersburg, Dec. 13.

The disturbed and agitated state of public opinion over the Internal political situation is becoming more and more pronounced. -M. Souvorin, over his signature in the Novoe Vremya, this morning insists that a true representative of the people must have a voice In the Government. He does not champion the Zemstvo programme or any particular system, saying that surely there are great men enough In Russia to originate a new system, giving the people a share In the Government without slavishly copying Western models. In another paper appears an article in favor of raising the state of siege, in which the writer gives his personal experience, having been arbitrarily arrested and confined for five days and then released.

The only satisfaction he obtained was an explanation that he had been arrested on Information received by the police, which, after Investigation, was found to be unjustifiable. The paper, Son of the Country, has been suspended for three months for engaging in political agitation. The North Sea Inquiry. Paris, Dec. 13.

The International Commission to inquire into the North Sea Incident is expected to meet here December 21 and proceed with the selection of a fifth Admiral to complete the commission and arrange the procedure. The real work will begin early in January, but It will be interrupted by the Russian Christmas holidays. SCHOOL COMMITTEE i MEETS IN Lexington, Ky Dec. IS. Special.

The Committee on Schools of the Board of Education of the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Church is meeting here at the home of the Rev. G. V. Morris, pastor of the Centenary Methodist church. This committee will hold another meeting to-morrow and will make recommendations for the faculties and curriculum of the schools at Ashland and Barboursville which are under the management of this conference.

The meeting of the full board will be held in January, when the report will be made. The recommendations to be made by the committee will not be made public until then. Those present at the meeting were Dr. J. C.

Shaw, of Ashland; Dr. A. D. Walsh, of Louisville; Dr. J.

R. Watkins, Covington, and the Rev. Mr. Morris. SHOOTS HIS SWEETHEART And Then Samuel Swank Turns the North Manchester, Ind Dec.

13. Samuel Swank, aged nineteen, is dy MACAULETTS-Miss Lulu Glaser in 'Madcap Pnnces; evening. MASONIC "The Burgomaster this aft- err.oon and' evening. -HOPKINS Vaudeville; this afternoon and evening. AVENUE "Shadows of a Great CW.

this afternoon and evening. M.ME. 'RBJANE ON PROBLEM PLAYS. Mme. Gabrleile Rtjane, who will enact the title rote In "Zaza'' at Waoiu.ey-3 next Tuesday evening, has a reportoiro whWh Includes, among other problem plays, a dramatic version pi Daudet's novel.

She declares that s'lie would prefer to play more Innocent but that the managers do not desire ncr to do so. "But I do believe," she savs. that open vice, when shown on the stage, works much less harm to the public than the veiled wickedness and sin that is tne motive of tho modern, drawing-room problem play. Young girls can see a Zaza, a Sapho or a Camlllo and not be contaminated. These characters are admittedly fallen women with whom a you-'8 girl would never oome in oontact.

Iheir sin Is so brazen and flagrant that it Is revolting. There Is no temptation to copy. Then, too, if the play is true, the courtesan always pays the penalty of her wrongdoing, and a strong moral lesson is uiught, which I doubt not is frequently effective. "Tho gutter is not attractive, end out-and-out vice on the Btage never yet corrupted any one's morals. In Buenos Ayrc-s.

which is qul-to as stiff-necked and precise as London, young girls go to see all these plays as a matter of course without causing the least comment. "On the other hand, the hidden immoralities of sooiety when set forth on the stage I consider very harmful. In these society plays the youns girt has the veil lifted for her and the wickedness going on around her every day is lurlng-ly pointed out. She is told the double meaning of words and actions which sho Bhould not know. It ruins her Ideals and shatters her belief in virtue and right living.

"Those plays that deal with a married winnla a lu f-'r, 1 lift WOrSt of all. That triple alliance. I know, in all too common but there is no need to extol it. Open and loathsome vice Is less injurious as an example than this fashionable sin snieiaea Dy nyprocrisy. -MRS.

FISKB IN NEW ROLE. Mrs. Fiske appeared at the Manhattan Theater, New York, Monday night In C. M. S.

McLcClan's drama, "Leah Kiesch-na "Lah TC-lpsphma from all accounts. Is a very strong play, and Its characters-Mrs. Fiske plavin-g the litis part-are assumed by Ohartes Cartwrlght, the noted English actor, who on this occasion will mane ms American aeout; jonu George Arties William B. Mack, Etlenne Girardot, E. J.

Donnelly, Monroe Salisbury, R. V. Ferguson. Cecilia Radelyffj. Emily Stevens and Frances Welstead.

"Leah Heschna" Is a play of the present with scenes laid in Paris and Neusitadt, Austria. The title character is that of a girl who Is the daughter of a notorious Austrian criminal. Her mother was a peasant and the a man of great originality and courage, has trained his daughter In his criminal career, she be- Infi- A nrwmlnftnt flirm- In li Ills TirOleCtS. To the point of her life Illustrated at the beginning of the drama, Leah has pto-cfled nnri unresistingly: but now. just as she is engaging- in a st3rtlng adventure or in jaris aoangeu her father, her moral sense, which has lain dormant, is awakened by her contact with the hero of the story, a French man of note, and she is able at last to understand the degradation In which she hoa hftn raarnl ttl-' moment Sllrt rebels against her mode of life and Is triumphant In her new course.

HAOKETT AND WD7E TO PLAY TOGiETHER. James K. Hackett and Mary Monnering, his wife, are to nlav together next season. according to an announcement made by the actor-monaffer yesterday, jar. JtiacK-ett and his wife have not appeared In the 3ame play since they were members of the old Lyceum company six years ago.

When they go starring together it will be In "The Prayer of the Sword," a romance in blank verse which has been running at the Royal Adelphi Theater in London since September. Mr. Haokett secured the American rights to this ploy several' days ago. He thinks it Is the sort of play In which both he and his wife will be immensely successful. Sicca he began to direct his own affairs he has been on the lookout for a play in which they couid appear together.

Several managers have been negotiating for "The Prayer of. the Sword," but Hackett Obtained it, along with the American rights of "The Walls of Jericho," another successful English play. "The PrayeT of the Sword" Is a four-act tragedy by James Bernard Fagan. The scenes are laid In Italy in the year 1500. and it affords opportunity for beautiful scenic effects and costumes.

OTIS SKINNER AS LORD BY-RON. Otis Skinner will appear next season in all probability as Lord Byron, in a new play taken from the novel "The Outcast." The scenario has been prepared and is under consideration. The only attempt to present Lord Byron's life In a play was made several years by Rida Louise Johnson. James Young, now with Viola A31en, appeared the tiue role or the play, which endured a briefly prosperous tour of several weeks through the South, but died- of public neglect when it was taken to the more strenuous but less romantic atmosphere of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. LOUISVUiLH GIRL'S PLANS.

A season in Portland as lmrenue in the Columbia Stock Company has paved the way for IMiss Louise Brandt, a pretty Louisville girl, who has mode a decided hit in the isorurwest as an actress, to become a "star." Beginning September 1, 1905, the Kentucky ingenue will take the chief role in "Mrs. Dane's Defense," a play by Henry Arthur Jones, tn which Miss 'Margaret Anglln made her reputation. Miss Brandt studied music with the Intention of going Into opera. She was a pupil of Rose Syringe, of New York, and after filling small parts on Broadway and in Rochester became ingenue In a stock company at Toledo, O. From Toledo she made the long Jump to the Pacific coast.

'Miss Brandt's first season in emotional roles wlh take her back toward St. Paul. NOTES OF LOCAL BILLS. The story of the adventures of Alan and Jane Is told In the extravaganza, "Babes In Toyland," which comes to Ma-cauiey's to-morrow evening and runs for the rest of the week. Alan and Jane, who wander In toyland, meet numberless characters familiar to persons who read falrv stories when ther were children.

The book, by Glen MacDonough, Is said to be a departure Trom the beaten oaths. and the mudc, by Victor Herbert, Is de clared to oe ot a quality me.oaious out above the ordinary. 'Louisiana," the musical extravaganza which ran for 250 performances at Delmer Garden during the-' Worm's i'alr at St. Louis, has been booked for next week at the Masonic Theater. The management announces -that tne production win oe presented here on the tame elaborate scale that Characterized Its long run in the World's Fair el'ty.

The piece Is In three acts and a score or more scenes. Olgu von Hatzfeldt, who is singing the prima donna role of Willie in "Tne Burgomaster" at the Masonic Theater this week, has many friends in thiscitv who are arranging to entertain her during her stay, von waizte.at spent tne sum mer hero several seasons ago with the Fay Opera Company. A defect in the heating apparatus at the Avenue Theater yesterday prevented the warming or me water the tank which represents "East river," and A. L. Jarret, the hero, was compelled to take his dally plunge In water of the same temperature e-R was flowing through tho city mains.

An alcohol rub was administered after he had emerged 'from the pool but even with tts added stimulation Mr' Jarret was compelled to acknowledge that the plunge is not what itis cracked up to be from his point of view. "Her First False Step," one cf the most successful of last season's offerings, will be the attraction at the Avenue "Theater next week. This Is a melodrama of the modern school and is said to. contain the usual number of thrills to the minute and to offer some new sensations In the way of mechanical affects. Numbered among the most enjoyable features of the Hopkins bill this week is "The Suburbanite," one of the most entertaining olograph pictures presented here this season.

There are seven scenes In the picture, representing the troubles of a family that decided to take a home in the suburbs for the summer. The picture Is a comedy In itself. The arrival of the city roan and his family is shown. Then comes the truckman, who plays all kinfla of havoc with the furniture when unloading the moving van. In the third scene the children succeed in covering themselves with dirt while at new GOULD' SYSTEM TO SWEEP FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.

Construction of Western Pacific From Salt Lake To San Francisco To Be Bushed, New York, Dec. 13. George J. Gould Is about to accomplish at last the great desire of his life; to extend from coast to coast of the American continent the great railway system planned by his father, says the Press. The last link In the system will be the Western Pacific, which will run from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, the plans for the building of which at onoe were made Saturday In this city.

The directors of the Western Pacific met here and elected E. T. Jeffrey, president of the Denver and Rio Grande, vice president of the new line, and the announcement was made immediately afterward that construction of the Western Pacific would be begun as soon as men could be put In the field. The election of Jeffrey ns an officer of the Western Pacific was the first positive indication of the interest of George Gould in the new line, but when once his election was known railroad men saw that Gould at last had found his long-desired outlet to the Pacific ocean. Will Bush the Work.

President W. J. Bartnett, of the Western Pacific, who attended the meeting of the 'Board of Directors, said afterward arrangements were well under way for the letting of the contracts for construction, and as soon as that was done great gangs of men would be put in the field and the work would be rushed to completion at the greatest possible speed. President Bartnett said two years had been spent in examining all available routes between Salt Lake City and the Go'lden Gate, in order that the best course through the Sierra Nevada mountains might be found. After all that preliminary work, which was as exhaustive as engineers and surveyors could make It, they had chosen iieck-with Pass, an opening through the ranee which was of an easy grade and would require no snow The highest point on tne new line, ne saia, would be 1,900 feet lower than the high point on the Central Pacific, which meant that the grade through the mountains would be not more than 1 per cent.

EXPECTING LARGE CROWD AT CONVENTION. Gov, Beckham Will Address Kentucky Educational Association At Mammoth Cave. The officers of the Kentucky Educational Association expect to have the largest attendance in She history of the body at the coming convention which will be held June 21, 22 and 23 of next year at Mammoth Cave- W. O. Winfrey, of Middles- boro, has just paid a visit to the cave and has secured reduced rates for hotel accommodations, cave 'bus and on the railroads.

The programme which Is being prepared. Is. expected to prove Interesting, and in addition to several of the foremost educators who will lect ure ito the school teachers. Gov. J.

C. W. Beckham has agreed to dehv-er an address on the opening day. MR. REESE GETS PROMOTION WITH PENNSYLVANIA, Made Inspector of Motor Power of the Northwest System of That Boad.

Oliver P. Reese, of Louisville, who has been connected with the Pennsylvania railroad for the last three years, and who had charge of that company's exhibit and testing plant at the World's Fair, has been promoted to inspector of motive power of the Northwest system of the road. Mr. Reese has devoted his itlme to a study of this work since he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad and his promotion Is due to his good work during the testing of engines used on various reads at the World's Fair. DR.

KELLY ANNOUNCES AGAIN' FOR CORONER. Will Ask a Second Nomination From the Democratic Party. Dr. Harris Kelly has announced himself a candidate -to succeed himself as Coroner of Jefferson county. His action Is, of course, subject to the verdict of the Democratic party.

Durlnghis term In office Dr. Kelly has attended strictly to his duties and feels that he has made a record on which he can go to the voters of the party and ask for a second nomination. VISITORS AND FRIENDS BANQUETED' BY LOSERS. At the Louisville Hotel last night Capt. Charles U.

Graves and the members of his degree team of Clay Lodg Knights of Pythias, gave a banquet to the degree team of the same lodge, headed by Capt. B. H. Danks. Members of Boone, Uhlan and IMystdc lodges were present as The two teams Indulged, some weeks ago, in a competition, the losers to provide a banquet to the winners, and last night's affair was Che payment of the obligation.

Over ninety Knights of Pythias were seated at the table and enjoyed the excellent menu. Afterward there were speeches by Benjamin P. Gray, W. H. Houston, jacoo mu a.

d. oeii-singer. Charles L. Wilson acted as toastmastei TO PREPARE FOR VETERANS' CHRISTMAS. Prenaraitlons to make Christmas dav a merry one for the old soldiers at the Confederate Home at Pewee Valley will be made at a meeting of the Confederate' Home Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, which will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home.

The officers of the chapter, have invited all who are interested to meet with them, and those who are willing to assist ana cannot attend the meeting have been requested to send their names to Miss Cora Power at the home. Marine Intelligence. NNnv York. Dec. 13.

Steamer Sln-v-nnfo from Trieste, for New Tork is reported as having been in communication bv wireless telegraph between sixty and seventy miles east of Sagahonack, L. I. p. m. New York.

Dec. 13. Sailed: Hannnvr Galveston: Kaiser "OTlhclm Bremen via Plymouth and Cherbourg: Ulonia, Naples, Trieste and Flume: Bovic, Liverpool: Georgic, Liverpool. Gibraltar, Dec. 12.

Sailed: Princess Irene, from Genoa and Naples. New York Moville. Dec. 13. Arrived: Firrnrs.ota' New York fur Glassrow and proceeded, I ON THE FUNNY BONE, llm HM MH At the Baces.

"What see you at tho races, dad:" asked! little Johnny Jeeple. "You see a. lot of things, my boy; you see a lot of people. You see some girls that have gone wrong and some girls that are going, A lot of foolish girls you see, and soma few that are knowing; Women in cloaks and handsome gowns and fine imported laces, A4id women in faded, rusty clothes you'U see these at the races. "You 3ee some men with jeweled hands and faces hard and greedy; You see some men whose downcast air proclaims them poor and needy.

You see some men to whom life's courso is always bright and sunny; You see some men who're betting thera with other people's money. You see some men on whom long since dark crime has left its traces; The callow youth, the business man you'll see these at the races. "You see a trim and well-kept track, a crowd that roars and rattles When horses form at intervals and fight their equine battles. You see a stand where Jewels flash, where color forms a jumble; Where wealth sits down by poverty, tha haughty with the humble. And if you gaze beyond all this, the pinched and careworn faces That fill the luckless gambler's home you'll see those at the races." Soux Grapes.

Nordy So you think that Nooritch ain't wealthy, all? Butts Ho ain't wxrth over half a mlll ion. Nordy How can you tell? Butta-Jdrs. Noorttch la always telling everybody how they despise foreign titles, Thrown Together. Grayoe How did their Intimacy arise? Gladys Through their taking riding lessons at the same school. G-rayce Why should that make thorn ini timate? Gladys Well, you see, they were thrown together a good deal.

A Tale With, a Moral. Opportunity knocked at the man's door. But the man didn't hear It. He was too busy inside knocking tha neighbors. Moral: It pays to let up occasionally, on the anvil chorus.

A Christmas Convert, Now all my coin has gone to buy Some sealskins' for my wife; And for the next six weeks will I Pursue the simple life, Method In Wis Madness. First Traveler Going to move ta UmphsviUs? Why, man. you must bo crazy. It's the unhealthlest city Inj America. Second Traveler That's why I'm gotna there.

You see, I Just graduated in med lclne. Light At a Discount. Street Vender Sir, let me put you irt one of these patent burners. Doubtless: your light with same amount of gas. Solid Citizen Can't interest me, young man.

I've got three daughters courting. HINTS AT MURDER MADE IN CONNECTION WITH RICHARD CALVEHT'S DEATH. Fatrolman Gilbert Says Shot In the Ceiling Contradicts the Suicide Theory. The death of Richard Calvert, was found dead In the doorway of his home at South Park at 10 o'clock Sun day morning, may develop a murder mystery. George Gilbert, a county pa trolman, in wnose jurisdiction the death occurred, is at work on the case and has developed some suspicious circumstances.

The fact that one charge of shot from one barrel of the shotgun found lying close to Calvert's body was urea into tne ceiling his head. while the other tore away a nart of his chest, leads Patrolman Gilbert to the belief that he was murdered. There Is no evidence indicating suicide or accident. Patrolman Gilbert does not be lieve if Calvert had Intended ro commit suicide he would have fired the shot into the celling; nor does he be lieve an accident would have resulted in the firing of both barrels of tho weapon. Gilbert has been at work on the case since Sunday and said yesterday that he expects to make two arrests soon.

He would not, however, divulge the names of those he suspects, but says he has strong evidence indicating that there was a quarrel and a scuffle between Calvert and some one else, and that the shot In the ceiling is accounted for. He believes this shot was fired in the struggle for the possession of the gun, and that the murdered man was overpowered by either one or two men and killed wltlh his own weapon. The fact has already been established that the gun was the propc-rty of Calvert, and no evidence has yet been found, according to Patrolman Gilbert, to show that Calvert intended going hunting on the day of the killing or had occasion to use the weapon other than in an emergency case or for the purpose of suicide. If he had intended committing suicide It is not believed in the first place that he would have discharged the weapon fn the ceiling, and in the next place that he would have gone to the dcor to discharge the fatal shot. "Everything points to murder," said Patrolman Gilbert, "and I am confident my suspicions are correct.

I will make an arrest as soon as I am sura f-of my ground." Barbour Cass Continued. The. case of John R. T. Barbour, who Is charged with murder In connection with the killing of Francis J.

Hagan, was called yesterday morning in the Bullitt Circuit Court, but was continued until Thursday. The continuance was taken on account of a crowded docket. It was understood in advance and nether the defendant nor the witnesses were in court- party on Democratic policies, mat done, it will be time enough to look about for a Democratic nominee. That done, a Democratic nomination will mean something, and will be worth something. But at present it would not be worth a circus lemonade to the Mayor of Auburn or to anybody else.

Impracticable Demands. The discontented workingmen in Russia are abstractly correct In protesting against the waste of war and the sacrifice of thousands of lives under Incompetent military leaders. In demanding a government by representatives of the people, as a substitute for autocracy, they get the sympathy of the friends of freedom in all lands. In asking for an end of the war they have a measure of reason on their side, though It is utterly unreasonable to expect this at once. But in calling out their forces to fight in the streets with the police they not merely make trouble for themselves, but they seriously handicap effort of more moderate people to secure some redress of grievances.

It may well be that the recent Zemst-vo movement was not destined to have the important results that were hoped for faintly rather than confidently expected. But at least there was a promise of some improvement. The recommendations of the Zemstvo representatives meant a fundamental change in the Government, though by peaceable means. It was not to be expected that all that was recommended could- be at once realized. Such changes in the character of a Government like that of Russia cannot be made in a day or a year.

They demand a process of growth, a period of preparation. It would be a distinct advantage If a start In this direction could be made, and of this there was a prospect. The riot of Sunday has gone far to discredit the well meant efforts of the moderate reformers, by showing that they do not fully represent and cannot control the elements of discontent. Army Sanitation. Dr.

L. L. Seaman, an American surgeon who saw service in Cuba and the Philippines, in his book of travels in Japan, and Manchuria dwells especially upon the excellent sanitary system in the Japanese army and -hospitals in the elimination of preventable diseases and the treatment of the sick and wounded. He says that in the Spanish-American War tthe United States lost fourteen men by disease to one killed In battle, while in the Japanese army fighting in Manchuria, a very unhealthy country, fatality from disease has been reduced lo a minimum. In the great hospitals of Japan, as those at Sasebo and Hiroshima, he found the physical condition of the wounded so well cared for and the medical treatment so skillful that the deaths were hardly one in a hundred.

Up to August 1 he states that 9.SG2 cases had been received at the hospital at Hiroshima, of which 6,636 were cases of the wounded, and of the entire number, up Ko that time, only thirty-four had died. From the navy there had been received 225, the wounds being much more serious than among those from the army, and yet but five had- died. He describes the arrangements of the hospital's, the discipline of the patients and the efficient work of the nurses, as of the most (thorough imaginable. In the army In the field the medical officer, he says, is omnipresent, and to toe found in countless places where in an American or British army he is never seen. He is always with the most advanced guard on the march testing and labeling and springs, so that.