fl - . sion of all. w R F. R; Liv: I N «in. w. .A i. V * WWW“ , The illusion of lireams i WW! I“ OHN CUSCADEN sat in his office absorbed‘in the actuality of things. he was an importer of, Javanese prod- ‘u-cts and had his office on River street at. Chicago—a short but important street, sending out from its stores and offices communications to almost every port in the world. The smoke of the city shrouds it, the wagons and trucks, the drays and omnibuses lumber through it, making their way to the first of the bridges that cross the north fork of the river; and into the offices , come messages in many tongues, and linto the storerooms come the spices. the coffee and tea, cheese and wine, pre— served fruits and sugared ginger, "strange pickles, curious liquors and all manner of fine foreign foods and bev- erages. - . He entered his office one morning well groomed and well rested. His eyes were clear, cold and bright; his skin glowed; hiso brown business suit was perfect in its fit; he was unhampered by any superfluity—even a. cigar? There was time enough to smoke after dinner. He seated himself in his re~ volving chair and gathered in his hands the several piles of letters, postal cards and telegrams. His stenographer ap- peared at his side. l “The pile furthest that way contains the correspondence in need of immedi- iate attention, sir,” she said. “Thank you, Miss Warren.” He looked up at the girl. “Pardon me, are lyou quite well this morning?” 1 “Well enough, sir. A little troubled, though.” ‘ “I’m sorry. If I can be of any serv- ice—” “No, thank you. Father was married last night. We have a. stepmother in the house, and the three little boys look so forlorn. She’s sure not to like them—— MISS W'ARREN. they’re so mischievous. Somehow I couldn’t sleep. I seemed t6 he think— ing all night of what my dead mother would feel if she knew. And I think the dead do know. And I kept won~ dering if the dead weep and if she was weeping.” “Don’t. you worry about the dead, Miss Warren. The dead are dead, I think. As for the children, they will be all the better for a little discipline. Manly boys are spoiled every day by too much sentiment. Being a woman, I suppose you don’t believe that. Women only believe in the illusions—they pay- next to no attention to the facts. They are always under a spell, thinking some. ordinary man the finest creature in the world, or some brat of a boy the most marvelous prodigy. Women go about attaching fictitious values to things.” ' “Isn’t value a matter of opinion, sir?” “Values are established things in civilized countries, Miss Warren. At least among the men. But with women things are worth so much to one indi- vidual and so much to another. An im- palpable entity unknown to trade, called sentiment, enhances the value of all they possess. Now I know that even this sentiment has avnlro—paradoxi’ea‘. though I may seem to be. No country could be conducted without these sen- timents and illusions. We need to con- sider a ruler sacred; we require rcli- gion; we must respect authority— though all these ideas are illusions. Man made all these things and can dis- sipate them in a moment. It. is also necessary for a man to labor under the impression that. he is,of importance, though egotism is the most absurd illu- But- I take it that it is nec- essary to evolution—don’t you think so, ' Miss Warren?” - “1 think it. is an illusion that men have more than women. sir." "Ila. ha? Do you. Miss Warren '.’ Very .likely. Well, I snared myself in my own net that time! ladmit l have that. one illusion of thinking myself and my business of importance, whereas it wouldn’t make the slightest difference if l and my business went to pieces to- morrow.” “it would make a. difference to me, I sir, and at least 75 young men whose names are on the pay roll. And over in Java there are whole families who would care, I suppose. Will you look at these dispatches, sir?” ' “You wish me to go to work. do you? But I am always at work, Miss-Wan ren. You ought, to permit me to be. garrulous once in awhile, now that old age is creeping on me.” He smiled contentedly as he said it. for hé was superbly young. Miss War- ren smiled, too, blushing slightly. “He never was so friendly before,” she said to herself. “He is certainly an interesting man, but few persons seem to care‘anything about him. He hasn’t what. I would call a friend in the whole . world.” But at this point Mr. Cuscaden inter- rupted‘ her with a curt: "Ready. Miss Warren And she seized her pencil and pad and settled herself for three hours of close work. The merchant had hardly spoken _ a dozen words when there came a soft tap at the door~s tap which neither I t, I "1 , Mr. Cuscaden nor Miss Warren had ever heard before. Soft-as itlwas. it seemed ' to claim attention. and the merchant called “Come in!” in a tone in which there was more of curiOSity- than an- noyance. . g ' '5 . _ There entered two men. First, a thin, gracefulcrcature with opaque eyes,“ ho oved across the room with the motion of some sinuous wild creature, and be- hind him the Amsterdam correspondent of the house, whom both Mr. Cuscaden and Miss Warren had. seen several times before. “Mr. Turbu desires to meet you, Mr. Cuscaden,” said the gentleman from Amsterdam, “and he ventured to enter without being announced. He did not understand what. your boy said when he asked his name.” » Both proprietor and stenographer knew the man for a Javanese at Ba- tavia, one of their chief native im- porters. “Are Mr. Turbo and myself to speak without an interpreter, Mr. Maartens?” inquired the American. “He talks my tongue reasonably well, 'Mr. Cuscaden.” The American held out a cordial hand to the Javanese, addressing him in the fine old tongue they speak at The Hague. The Javanese extended, with an indescribable motion of shyness and fastidiouSness, a long, dark, flexible band and closed his fingers about Mr. Cuscaden’s broad palm with a'tenacious and electric grasp. A slight flush crept over Mr. Cuscaden’s face, such as is no- ticeable on the faces of these who have grasped a battery. They all sat down in silence, and the soft, deep eyes of the Javanese remained fixed in scrutiny of the merchant. Miss Warren waited impatiently. Mr. Maartcns looked sur- prised. But Mr. Cuscad en seemed in no haste. He sighed once or twice and leaned back in his chair. “Miss Warren," said he, at length, “there are surely some of these letters you can answer without my dictation. Kindly take them into your room and do so.” The young stenographer left. Then the American leaned forwa‘rd on his desk and looked the Javanesein the eyes. "‘Well?” said he, using the Dutch still. “Thank you,” responded the other, employing the same tongue, but with a soft and mitigating accent, “for un- derstanding me so well. I have crossed the seas of the cast and the seas of the west and come this far way, and from a. peaceful place, to sell you something that you need.” “Well?” , “The trifles I have sent you of aromat- ic spice, they are nothing. They do to make acquaintance with. But I have other business, sir. I am a merchant of another sort." “So? Of what sort?” “I am a merchant. of dreams.” “I have all manner of dreams for those who pay the price I ask—dreams of joy and love, of peace and beauty, of devotion and yet subtler things, the names of which you would not yet un- derstand. I can make you feel as if the world was young again and the fauns dancing on the hills; or I can persuade you quite that one woman is sweeter than all the women of the earth; or I can make you kneel beside an altar and pray all the night through and never weary, but send your soul from one sky to another till it is added to the Sun of Souls. But I have many dreams. Pray let me know what you desire.” As he spoke,things concerning which the American had never thought, or about which he had thought but dully, comprehending naught, came to his un- derstanding like visions, and he saw much that he had never seen, and yearned for more than he could ever tell. Tremors of many sorts of joy ran through him, shaking him. Now his feet danced among the flowers of spring,» at dawnrtime, on some mountain of the south; now he sailed with great sails along a, summer sea, mottled like the mother of pearl; now he swung the in-' cense boat and felt his soul mounting in mystic symbols to gates of porphyry; now he was drunk with the light of some luscious woman’s eyes. , “.Will you buy ‘2" asked the Javanese, smiling tenderly. He laid his satin- gift prehensile hand upon Cuscaden’s. "Why not?” asked the other. “Which ones will suit you best ‘3” "Two not excessive ones—a. dream of God and a dream of wife. Make them beautiful but not fanatical. I would not support too much ecstacy, if you please. Later—another time—perhaps -we shall see. But now only thesetwo temperate things.” “And the payment?" "To—morrow. Call at one.” The Javanese arose. “Farewell.” . "And when shall these dreams be' mine?” “They are yours. I See!" _ The door opened, and Miss Warren entered. Her face was still pale and her lips drooped slightly. She looked at her employer with troubled, patient advance them. eyes." “Have not the dreams “come?" ‘ breathed the Javanese. a John Cuscaden turned and beheld up- on the face of the woman a look of ut- most truth and loveliness; in her eyes was the message from God which good women hold for a memento ofthcirdes- tiny. And the face was lovely with a great loveliness. . “I shall light the fires upon my heart- stone in the name of God,” said John Cuscaden, find be opened the door for the Javanese. I “A marvelous man, Miss Warren.” “A strange man‘: indeed, Mr.,Cusca- tlen. I think it is be who imports your spices from Batavia. is it not?” “Why, yes. I believe it. is; But he has a greater vocation than that. He is a ‘merchant of dreams." “l beg your pardon ‘3" “Nay. another time. Miss Warren,r and you sliallunderstand. Now, shall we work together? It is sweet to werk together, .ls’it not ?“-—(‘hicogo Tribune. . . _ . . . TAX purines. [Real Estate Should Be. Re- IVIEWS OF NEW YORK'S COMPTROLLER l I! lieved of Its Burden. j \Vould Raise Funds by Indirect Tuxu- ‘1 tion, Induce Corporations to Come _ l to the._State by Reducing Tax ' and Tax Foreign Capital. ALBANY, Jan. 10.-—State Comptroller William J. Morgan, in his first annual report to the legislature, makes some highly important recommendations for legislation and advocates radical changes in the state’s attitude toward corpora- tions and in. the financial system of the state. Briefly enumerated, they are as fol- lows: . ~ The elimination of a direct tax on real . and personal estate, because real estate bears an extremely unfair proportion of . the burden, and the providing of money for support of the state government by indirect tax, as is done in Pennsylvania 3 and New Jersey. ,. The making of a tax rate large enough to provide a suflicient sum to pay.‘statc expenses during the early part of? each fiscal year, so as to avoid the necessity of borrowing money at high rates of inter- est. The elimination from the supply bills of items except such deficiencies as oc- cur through oversight in making up the general] appropriation bill. The taxation of capital “invested, em- ployed or held” in this state so as to pre- vent corporations from escaping a state tax by alleging that their capital is in- vested but not employed. The prevention of corporations from escaping direct taxation locally on per— sonal property through the payment of, a small indirect tax to the state. Providing that every incorporated com- pany, regardless of the business engaged in, except quasi public corporations, such as transmission companies, now paying on gross earnings, shall be taxed on their authorized capital, the tax to increase as dividends increase. The reduction of the organization tax in this state so as to encourage companies to organize here instead of in other states. The enactment of an amendment to the corporation laws that will be less onerous than the present one as to liabil- ity of directors of corporations, without permitting wrecking or swindling. Compelling religious and charitable in- stitutions to pay the inheritance tax on bequests, the same as widows and chil- dren. - The completion of the nine foot im-r provement to the canal, the installing of hydraulic locks and the introduction at once of electricity for propulsion, to be furnished by the state and sold for trans- mission at cost. Undoubtedly the most important part vof Mr. Morgan’s recommendations are. those which he makes in regard to the tax laws of the state. He says in his opening paragraph that the present laws are replete with inconsistencies and that they do not distribute the burden of tax- ation fairly and justly among the tax- payers. .I-lc points out that while it is conceded that personal property is great- er in value in the state than real property yet real property stands seven times as much taxation as personal. He demon- strates, by citing an instance in which a piece of real estate showed a practical loss on the investment, and continues: "This is no exaggerated statement of the desperate condition which real estate in the interior cities is in at the present time. It will hardly pay carrying charges on the average and hence is practically worthless for investment purposes. Should the direct tax be removed by the suggested revision, it would lift about $11.000,000 a year from the overburdened back of real estate, which would be a grout measure of relief.” Two Murderers Hanged.. MONTROSE, P., Jan. 10.-——Corneliu Show and James J. Eanau, the murden ms of Andrew J. Pepper, an aged and wealthy farmer of Bush township, Sus- quehanna county, were hanged here yes- 5 terday. The drop fell at 10:05:34 o’clock, 3 three minutes after the men left their cells. Sheriff Maxey was assisted in the execution by Ward Duell, a former sher- ifi', and Sheritf Charles Knapp of Wyo- ming county. Governor Voorhecs’ Appointments. TRENTON, Jan. 10.——Governor Vpor- hees sent to the senate yesterday aft- ernoon the following nominations: For supreme court justice, John H. Lippin- cott, reappointment; bank and insurance commissioner, William Bettle, reappoint- j meat; state prison supervisor, Edward J. ; Anderson, reappointment; prosecutor for- Bergcn county, Ernest Koester (Rep.),| ""to succeed Peter W. Stagg (Dem.). Fire In a Rubber Factory. . “’ILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Jan. 10.—Six hundred employees are thrown out of work temporarily as a result of a fire at l the Lycoming Rubber works. The fire' started in the cutting room, and before it was extinguished about $10,000 worth . of partly prepared goods had been dam- aged. The damage to the building is es- timated at $1,000. The Gun-diner Case. ALBANY, Jan. 10.—-Attorney'Geue1-al Davies has requested Ansley Wilcox of Buffalo to name a date when he will com- mence ,the taking of testimony in the matter of the charges against Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner, district attorney of New York county. Mr. Wilcox will prob- : ably go on with the case in New York 0‘ Jan. 30. t ’ New Jersey Legislature. TRENTON, Jan. 10.—-Thc One Hun- dred and Twenty-fourth New Jersey leg« islature convened at 3 o. ock yesterday afternoon. The corridors, galleries and floors of both houses were crowded, and there was a profuse floral display. Tho two houses organized by the election of the officers recently decided upon by the _ Republican caucuses. Senator Johnson : of Bergen, taking the chair in the upper house, made a short speech thanking the members for the honor. Assemblyman Jones of Essex, speaker of the assembly, also. thanked the members of that body. —.._——.——-'-——§—_. ’ Cotton For .Jupan. ‘ NEIV~ ORLEANS, Jan. 8.——The Not, wcgian steamer Ansger, Captain Amund. sen, will sail in a day or two for Kube, —Japan, with a cargo of 12,000, bales of’ cotton. ~This'is the third steamer this season for Japan. l l ; attend to it was called out. ELMlRA REFORMATOR'Y. Serious Reflections Concerning the Management of the Institution. ALBANY," J an.m10.-—Serious reflections upon the‘methods employed in the Elmi- ra reformatory are made by State Comp- troller Morgan, who has been investigat- ing the institution. Among other things he says: “A recent inspection of the Elmira re- formatory by this department disclosed the presence in a storero‘om. which was in a very untidy, dirty condition, of 4,304 pairs of pants, 1,580 coats, 425 vests, 1,116 pairs of shoes, 1,138 shirts, £612 pairs of drawers, 1,273 caps find much . other clothing, such as jumpers, overalls aprons, blankets, etc., all in an unwashed, ’ dirty condition and apparently abandon- ¥ ed." They had been used somewhat, but if prope'rl'y'cared for they were still fit for service. The superintendent profess~ ed to know nothing of these supplies and had made requisition for a large quantity of new cloth to make up into clothing. “The average number of inmates re- ported for last year was 1,475. Experi-. ence has shown that, 1,000 is the out'sid'e‘ number that can be preperly cared for in such‘an institution. " ‘ ' “The reformatory is organized and maintained at great expense Witha .view 'of reclaiming offenders against ~-..the.,law who have not become confirmed in vice, yet all shades, grades and conditions of male criminals may be found within its walls. Murderers and old offenders are there, mixed in with young men and boys iwhé‘with-‘propcr surroundings and Care might be reclaimed. And this is not all. Large numbers of the inmates are chron- ically affected in mind and body. On the 1st of December there were 100 well de-w fined cases of tuberculosis in the institu- tion. During the year 42 insane inmates , were sent from there to Matteawan, and 5 24 hardened criminals transferred to the state prison at Auburn. were recently Some imbeciles are also there.” Doctor Kills 8 Child. HAMPTON, 1a., Jan. 10.—~Dr. G. W. Applehy, for several years the leading physician at Bristow, Butler county, last night in a fit of insanity killed a 10- month-old ch‘ildof Henry “'carlcy of this place while making an examination of it in Dr. I-Iobson’s office in this city. The 'parents had brought the child to Dr. Hobson's office to he treated for some trifling ailment and before he had time to Dr. Appleby, who was visiting Dr. Hobson, was in the office, and the latter suggested that Dr. Appleby should make the necessary ex, amination, which, as soon as Dr. Hobson had left the office, he proceeded to do. He took the child in his arms and ham dled it so roughly that the parents pro— tested, but to no avail. Suddenly he put! his thumbs under its chin and, with his ' fingers on top of its head, crushed its face in so that the blood gushed out of its nose and mouth. Then, jumping up, be seized the child by one foot and began swinging it around his head, resisting all efforts of the terror stricken parents to stop him, and it was not until help was called in that the child was taken from him. It was quite dead. Applcl:_v declared that God had taken the child. Three Mlsslssippinns Shot. VICKSBURG, Miss, 'Jan. 10.——Oak- ridge, :1 little hamlet 18 miles northeast of this city, was the scene yesterday of a known residents of the county were kill-. ed. The dead are A. D. Rolland, R. S. Stephenson andDr. 0tho Austin. Only meager details of the encounter are ob- tainable, but it transpires that Dr. James Austin, his son, 0tho Austin, and his ’son-in-law, R. S. Stephenson, had been arrested on an afidavit sworn, out by Rol- land Eharging them with whipping one of Rolland’s negro tenants. The trial was set for yesterday morning in Justice Griffin’s court at Oakridge. The trial had hardly opened when the shooting be- gan. When the smoke had cleared away, Rolland, Stephenson and Otho Austin were stretched on the floor dead, and Dr. James Austin and a young son of R01- land were seriously wounded. 4' Democrats In Caucus. WASHINGTON, Jan“. 10.-—-A' well at- tendcd caucus of the Democratic mem- bers of the house of representatives was held last night. Mr. Newlands of Neva- da of the silver party was present by in- vitation of Mr. Richardson, the Demo- cratic floor leader, for the purpose of pre- senting a‘ plan for united action by all of the elements opposed to the Republican organization. The actual business trans- acted by the caucus was confined to the. ; adoption of a resolution for the appoint. ’ ment of the usual committee of Que mem- ber from each state to look after congres- sional elections. Five Million to Charity. BOSTON, Jan. 10.—B_v the will of the late Robert Breck Brigham, a veteran hotel keeper of this city, filed for probate here, the bulk of an estate estimated at $5,000,000 is given to charity. The chief feature of the document is the provision . made for the establishment of a new hos-. pital in Boston to be known as the Rob- ert B. Brigham Hospital For Incurables. Two Ofllcero Shot. , , RIPLEY, Tenn, Jan. 10. —- Marvin Turner and W. D.’ Turner, officers, ar- rested a desperate negro named Ginger-ly five miles north of here and were escort~ ing him to the Ripley jail when two ne- groes, brothers of the prisoner, shot both officers in the back, killing them. A posse is in pursuit of the murderers, and if caught a lynching will follow. A Kentucky Shooting. LONDON, Ky., Jan. 8.——News has reached here of a general fight on Otter creek, Clay county, in which Lige Lewis and General May were shot and killed and four other participants seriously wounded. The fight occurred at a school-‘ house where one of the Jacksons was on trial before a magistrate for' killing an. other Jackson. Negroes Leaving Georgia. COVINGTON, Jan. 8.——This section of Georgia is threatened with a labor fam- ine owing to the fact that the negroes_m large numbers are leaving for Misstssm- pi, Arkansas and Louisiana, where there is said to be a big demand for negro la- bor. Almost daily two or three carloads of negroes westward bound leave this section. ______________... Dr. Fee Not Dead. RICHMOND, Ky., Jan. 8.——The re- ports sent outlast week that the Rev. John .G. Fee, the founder of Berea col— lege and a noted abolitionist, was dead were not correct. Dr. Fee is recovering. Many floral tributes were sent to Bore; when reports were publishcd'_ that the noted divine Was dead. M'Govan BEATs DIXON. * ‘: In Now the Bantam and Feather- weight World Champion. ' NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—After holding' the featherweight championship of the world, which he won from “Cal” McCar- thy nearly nine years ago, George Dixon had to relinquish it to the little Brooklyn “terror,” Terry McGovern, last night at the Broadway Athletic club. McGovern in defeating Dixon possesses double championship hOnors. He is now the bantam as well as the featherweight champion of the world. The fight only : lasted eight rounds. Terry won the former title in short or—T sgfiby defeating “Pedler” Palmer in less off 'an halfa round at Westchester a few ! months ago, and his defeat of Dixon stamps him as a wonder in either class. In fact, McGovern stands now in a class by himself. He has met everybody dismissed each one of them in such a de cisive manner that some new phenome- non will have to be brought to the sur- ; face to wrest his honors from him. Dixon went down to defeat after the hardest battle of his life, but while beaten the dusky Nova Scotian had the sympathy of everybody and is as much thought of, though despoiled of his cham— pionship honors, as he ever was. Dixon’s career in' the ring during the last 12 years is a most enviable one. Only once during that time was he knocked out. TWO WOMEN CREMATED. Peri-bed In the Burning of Joueph Pulltuer’s New York House. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Two women were burned to death today in a terrible I fire that destroyed the palatial 'city house .of Joseph Pulitzer, Nos. 10 and 12 East Fifty-third street. There were many . thrilling escapes. At the risk of her own life Mrs. Pulitzer fought her way through smoke and heat up stairs to the nursery and rescued her 3-months—old baby, Her- bert. The fire started in the conservatory in the rear on the first floor. All the inside of the house is ruined. It was a store- house of costly w rks of art. The loss will be at least $200,000. Mrs. Jellett Was From Toronto. was burned to death in the fire that de~ stroyed the Pulitzer home in New York. was a Toronto woman and was well known here. Her son, Morgan Jellctt, is in the Dominion bank and very promi- nent in athletic circles, notably on the football field. A danghter also resides here. CONDENSED DISF’ATUHES. The Fifteenth United States infantry arrived at New York from Cuba. The Prussian diet was opened with the speech from the throne read by Prince Hohenlohe. The engineers have struck, and the en— tire railway system of Western Austra- lia is tied up. The United States cruiser Albany had ’ a successful official trial trip at Newcas- tle, England. ofVPrussia, brother of the emperor, gave birth to a son at Kiel. A silver loving cup made from the . t l f ht . h' h th f th b t l melted dimes of over 70,000 contributors DIS 0 lg to w 1c rec o e es was presented to Admiral Dewey. The Commercial Trust company of Philadelphia is said to be preparing for rivalry with the biggest banks of New York city. ' The session of the French chamber of deputies was (l;;l‘ll!‘5l. M. Paul Dcschanel was re-elected pll‘leUIlt of the chamber by a majority of 5.? votes. Another Handwriting Expert. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.——Another hand- writing expert was introduced in yester- day’s trial of Roland B. Molineux for the murder of Mrs. Katharine J. Adams, and he was on the stand for almost the entire day. This handwriting expert was Professor Pcrsifer Frazer of Philadel~ phia, who also is a geologist and chemist. In the beginning of'his testimony be ex- pressed his opinion that the author of the letters signed Roland Molineux was also the author of the letters signed H. Co'r- nish and H. C. Barnet and further that the address on the poison package was done by the author of the letters. Woodchopper Killed. UTICA, N. Y., Jan. 10,—Alfred Thiba- dean, a French-Canadian, was killed b3 a falling tree in the woods about seven miles from Nehasanc in the Adirondacks. He was a member of a gang of wood- choppers. ive Americans. fling cost of $1.00 per year. of any note under 122 pounds and has Princess Irene, wife of Prince Henry - TORONTO, Jan. 10.—Mrs. Jellett, who - l l l d , AT G'AMBEir‘rA‘S‘ ‘TOMB.’ Imposing Republican Demonstration In Paris. A ' PARIS, Jan. 8.-There was an impos- ing Republican demonstration yesterday on the occasion of the annual pilgrimage to Gambetta’s monument at Ville d’Av— ray, a suburb of Paris. Despite the in- clement weather an enormous crowd was in attendance. The premier. M. \Val- deck-Rousseau, and the minister of war, the Marquis de Gallifiet, sent representa- tives. . Senator Theodore Cazot delivered the prmcnpal speech, appealing in the name of Gambetta for “union and concord, of which France never stood more in need than. she does; today.” . The. meeting voted an address of con- gratulation to the premier upon his cam- paign in defense of the republic. Aged Woman Burned. WEBSTER, Mass., Jan. S.—-Mrs. Lucy Johnston, 105 years old, the only surviv- ing member of the Nipunk tribe, was burned alive last night, and it is generally supposed that the fire which caused her death and burned the old Johnston homes stead was the work of incendiaries. About 11 o’clock last night an alarm from box 32 turned in by William Fogar- ty brought the Webster fire department to the Johnston house in the Indian woods, about two miles from this place. Before. the apparatus could get to work Elbe flames had completely destroyed the case. ‘ To Stop Sunday Performances. TOLEDO, Jan. 8.——No arrests were made of actors'at Sunday’s performances ' at two theaters last night, but the Pas- tors’ union had two constables and sever- al detectives in the audiences, and arrests will be made. 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