The Recorder

Vol 4 No. 42 REPUBLICAN TICKET The Men Who Will Lead the Republicans In Indiana This Year. A NOTABLE CONVENTION Col. Winfield T. Durbin of Anderson, the Nominee for Governor. Newton W. Gilbert Occupies the Second Place on the Ticket---The Other Candidates. One of the Most Remarkable Political Gatherings In the History of the State Closed Last Night. For Governor, WINFIELD T. DURBIN, Madison County. For Lieutenant Governor, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Steuben County. For Secretary of State, UNION B. HUNT, Randolph County. For Auditor of State, WILLIAM H. HART, Clinton County. For Treasurer of State, LEOPOLD LEVY, Huntington County. For Attorney General, WILLIAM L. TAYLOR, Marion County. For Superintendent Public Instruction, FRANK L. JONES, Tipton County. For State Statistician, B. F. JOHNSON, Benton County. For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARLES F. REMY, Jackson County. For Judge of the Supreme Court, First District, JAMES H. JORDAN, Morgan County. Fourth District, LEANDER J. MONKS Randolph County. Delegates-at-Large, CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, JAMES A. MOUNT, CHARLES S. HERNLY, NATHAN POWELL, WILLIAM AMSDEN, THOMAS ADAMS, GURLEY BREWER, Electors. HUGH H. HANNA, C. W. MILLER. Second Day's Proceedings, Indianapolis, April 27.—The most largely attended as well as the most enthusiastic state convention in the history of the Republican party came to a close at Tomlinson Hall last night at 10:36 o'clock. As on the first day of the convention the weather conditions were perfect, and the convention hall was graced throughout the long session by the attendance of a large number of ladies whose presence lent a tone to the notable assemblage which was noted with much pleasure on the part of the delegates. Permanent Chairman Hanly called the convention to order promptly at 9 o'clock, at which hour the great hall was filled to its utmost capacity. The invocation was pronounced by the venerable Bishop McCabe, who offered an eloquent and feeling prayer for the divine guidance in the deliberations of the convention. Following this the following telegram from the Hon. A. J. Reveridge, junior senator from Indiana, was read: SANATORIUM, DANSVILLE, N. Y. Hon. J. Frank Hanly, Chairman Republic State Convention: Give to the Republicans of Indiana in convention assembled my fraternal greet- The Recorder. ang, and say to them now, more recently continued serious illness of Mrs. Beveridge could keep me from meeting them face to face, and on forth on a campaign of certain victory, led by Mrs. Beveridge, William McKinley, the last president of the 19th and the first president of the 20th century. We fight to perpetuate the prosperity his life brought to the country, to hold the domination of their blood has won for the nation, and to make the republic the greatest of all the powers on earth. No nobler purposes ever existed. We fight the judgment of patriotic citizens. Say to the publicans of Indiana that when the conflict is on I will be with them, battling at home for the honor and welfare of the nation and the onward march of the American people. ALBERT J. BEVERidge. The keynote of the campaign having been uttered the afternoon before in Chairman Hanly's notable address and the platform upon which the Republicans will fight during the campaign having been adopted there remained for the second day's session nothing but to transact the matters in hand by placing in nomination the men who will bear the banners of the party through the campaign, and the convention speedily settled down to this order of business. The gubernatorial contest proved, as had been predicted, one of the most interesting and closely contested ever known in the state. There were six candidates for this nomination, James S. Dodge of Elkhart, Winfield T. Durban of Anderson, William S. Haggard of Lafayette, Frank B. Posey of Evansville, Enoch G. Hogate of Danville and John L. Griffiths of Indianapolis. These names being placed before the convention balloting began. The first ballot resulted: Griffiths, 313%; Durbin, 325%; Posey, 254%; Hogate, 175; Dodge, 207%, and Haggard, 158. Second ballot-Griffiths, 337%; Durbin, 357%; Posey, 252%; Hogate, 157; Dodge, 101%, and Haggard, 138. Third ballot-Griffiths, 357%; Durbin, 401; Posey, 230%; Hogate, 148; Dodge, 189%, and Haggard, 107. Fourth ballot-Griffiths, 416%; Durbin, 454%; Posey, 213; Hogate, 136; Dodge, 178, and Haggard, 36. Fifth ballot—Griffiths, 454; Durbin, 539; Posey, 104½; Hogate, 80; Dodge, 163½, and Haggard, 3. Sixth ballot—Griffiths, 517½; Durbin, 700; Posey, 152½; Hogate, —; Dodge, 64, and Haggard, —. Seventh and last ballot—Durbin, 977; Griffith, 457. Mr. Griffith then moved to make the nomination unanimous and Col. Durbin was greeted by a storm of cheers, as he was escorted to the platform where he responded WINFIELD T. DURBIN. briefly and fittingly to the honor which had been conferred upon him. Interest then rapidly shifted to the contest in the matter of the nomination of lieutenant governor. The names L. P. Newby, John W. Baker, L. W. Embree, Frank B. Stutts, Newton W. Gilbock and J. N. Babcock were placed before the convention and the balloting began. It required four ballots to conclude this interesting contest, which narrowed down in the last ballot to Gilbock, Newby and Baker. Senator Gilbert receiving the nomination by a vote of 818, Newby G13 and Babcock 14. There being no contests for the office of secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state and attorney general, superintendent of public instruction and judge of supreme court for the Fourth district, the present incumbents in these offices were declared the nominees of the convention by acclamation. For the office of reporter of supreme court there was an interesting contest on. Charles F. Remy, present incumbent, was opposed by Jesse Welk of Greencastle and L. B. Nash. It required three ballots to determine this contest which narrowed down at the conclusion of the second by the withdrawal of Mr. Nash from the race and Mr. Remy was nominated by a vote of 942 to 492, which was made unanimous upon the motion of Mr. Welk. The baloting for reporter of the supreme court was delayed somewhat by a contention which arose in the Marlon county delegation regarding the alleged irregularity of contests W. H. proxies which had been voted, and the vote of the county was challenged, making it necessary to delay the proceedings while the roll of this county's 116 delegates was being called. For the office of state statistician there were three candidates, Benjamin F. Johnson, John B. Connor and T. J. Hudgin, this contest being terminated on the third ballot as follows: Johnson, 896; Hudgin, 308; Connor, 230. national convention Senator Charles W.tor Albert J. B. Mount and the Heily were named byvention. For alternates names of Nathan Amstden, Thomas win Bell, Gabriel ower. Gurley Bre Culbert were place For the office of judge of the supreme court for the First district there were placed before the convention the names of James H. Jordan and John H. Foster, which contest was determined before the close of the first ballot by Marion county throwing 100 votes to Judge Jordan, whereupon Judge Foster moved to make the nomination of Judge Jordan unanimously by acclamation which was done. For the honorable positions of delegates-at-large to the Republican na- The Newsiest, Spiciest and Best Edited Negro Journal in the State national convention in Philadelphia. Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Governor Mount and the Hon. Charles S. Herny were named by acclaim of the convention. For alternates to the above the names of Nathan Powell, William Amsden, Thomas Adams, Dr. C. Edwin Bell, Gabriel Jones, L. J. Landower, Gurley Brewer and Uriah Z. Culbert were placed before the convention and the following four receiving the largest number of votes on the first ballot were duly nominated: Powell, Amsden, Adams and Brewer. For presidentail electors Hon. Hugh H. Hanna of Indianapolis and C. W. Miller of Eikhart were named by acclamation. The convention then by acclaim adopted the cagle as the emblem of the party during the opening campaign and while cheers and the best of feeling adjourned sine die. A Journal of Opinion in the interest of the R Correspondence Solic A Journal of Opinions. published in the interest of the Race. Correspondence Solicited Special Inducements to Agents Sample Copies on Application NEGRO MELODY This is a time when the folk song of America is being lost. The tremulous old-time melodies, the croons and chants, too despised and too elusive to the ear of the cultured musician to be put into permanent form, are being forgotten—and, even more, the fad of explosive, ragtime coon songs is destined to surfeit the mind to disgust with everything claiming the atmosphere of Negro melody. Only the oldest generation of colored folks in the South can remember the weird airs and preposterous jumble of words that characterized those quaint plantation songs, and the memory of those aged people often fails to rescue from oblivion many of those songs now recalled merely by title. Occasionally some family of colored people with tuneful ears, has passed down, from generation to generation, a favorite song, and to hear one of these is a rare privilege. Not long ago in Laurel County, Ky., the writer heard a Negro whom his companions graced with the name of Jellico, sing a remarkable repertory of old-time melodies, songs he had learned from his father, who in turn had been taught them by his father Much of the verse was so ridiculous the other Negroes roared and shouted and not be outdone the entertainer would drop the thread of his song and laugh with them. On questioning him afterwards I found that his people had lived in the backwoods of North Carolina, just beyond the Cumberland range. He nothing of the history of the songs he sang, and when asked to repeat them slowly I found that he did not understand half the words he sang. It was a tedious task to get from him a few verses, since it took considerable rumination of the sentences to be able to digest their meaning, but he tenaciously insisted that his version was perfect, just as his father had handed it down to him. One song, a hymn, particularly interested me because I had heard it occasionally before, once at a colored camp meeting in Mississippi, and again among the steamboat roustabouts on moonlight nights when the landing had been cleared and there was no more labor till miles ahead. This hymn is of comparatively recent origin, evidently, as the first two lines are almost, identical with a well-known Moody and Sankey hymn, the one beginning: The Lord's our Rock, in Him we hide, a shelter in time or storm, Secure whatever ill betide, a shelter in the time of storm, O Jesus is rock in a weary land, a weary land, a weary land; O Jesus is rock in weary land, a shelter in the time of storm. But Jellico's family had a different version of the hymn, and these are the words he used, the chant accompanying it being impossible of reproduction even, I doubt, by one versed in musical arrangement: Was fed by de Hebunly budhs An' by his tempah and by his fee-ahs He's shiv'rin at the gates of hell Rock on Jesus in de weary lan' Jesus Christ rocked me in a weary lan' Sheltered in a mighty stohm: De sun gone down in de West'n hills, de moon refuse to shine. Eval little stah do shad a tear, Mastah Jesus shall be mine. By his temph, by his pee-alhs (peers) De good o'l man, was saved, Rock on Jesus in de weary lan' An' sheltah in de mighty stohm; Sister Mary at de altah axin' queshuns What is de queshuds? (declaimed) Where he come from? From' do fountain (declaimed) How did yo' know dis? Jesus told me, Got de witness in my bres'— Rock on Jesus in de weary lan' A sheltah in de mighty stohm. The fantastic setting given these words by Jellico included an occasional bit of declamation to vary the weired chant. He sang one hymn consisting of thirty-two verses and a chorus, and it seemed to me each verse had a different air. It was a version of Jonah's tribulations different from any I had ever heard. "Gowd," said Jonah, "how aht Thon? O Lawd, heah our vow." Gawd sen' Jonah to Ninevah lan' Jonah disobeyed, Gawd command. Jonah wen' dyown 'bout toh'd de sho', He paid his fa-ah an' got on bo'd— Price 3 Cents NEW YORK STORE Established in 1853 Sole Agents Butterick Patterns. TAILOR MADE..... suits $6.95 Good dependable quality too. Suits of all wool, Venetian Cloth-principally black, a few colors. Made with the natty fly front Jacket and new box plaited skirts. PETTISDRY GOODS CO. The ship-mabstah he got troub! 'n min! The did roll- Gawd'tempah did rise. He foun' a man lyin' fas' a-sleep, 'Gan cryin,' "Awake up sleepy man.' I got off 'Eaven; gwine destroy de lan' Jonah woke up in a mighty kin' shout. He prayed to Gawd to cast him out. He cast him out and ovahbo'd, The whale, some else. The whale come along an' swallowed him whole. him whole. He spewed him up on de sandy bank. De sun shine so hot in Jonah's face Dat Jonah prayed to de Lawd fo' shade A go'd vine grown ovah Jonah's face. An inch hwm come long, cut it down; It made one cross in Jonah's crown. An' that was the las' of Jonah's crown— Got you' glory an' honah—Praise my All that was the las of john's crown— Got you' glory an' honah—Praise my Jesus, Got yo' glory an' honah—praise my Jesus, Sistah Mary kin o' haht, To do willow tree she frowed it ovah, An' jibilee—Got yo' glory an' honah—Praise my Jesus. Vincennes Doings. The musical given at the A. M. E. church Easter Monday night was a grand-success, and every number on the program was well rendered especially those by Miss Luetta Freeman of Paris, Ill., why was repeated enceded she possesses a very sweet voice. Mrs. Dr. Buckner and daughter, of Evansville, accompanied Miss Blanche White home last Saturday. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Z. Whyte. The point entertainment given by the "Red Cross" club, and "Little Builders" was a success Mrs. Maria Remolds, and Mrs. Alvira Carter, captains. The Dramatic club was entertained Tuesday evening, by Mrs. S. B. Jones, in honor of Luetta Freeman. Last Sunday afternoon Mrs. Francis Whyte entertained at a six course dinner, in honor of Mrs. Dr, Buckner of Evansville, and Mrs. Elzy Hide of Des Mines, Ia., the others present besides the family, were Rev. and Mrs. S. B. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. George Whyte. Miss Lettie Clinton gave a delighted tea party last Wednesday in honor of Miss Luetta Freeman, of Paris, Ill., and all the delicacies of the season were served. Mr. and Mrs. Pettiford entertained in honor of Miss Luetta Freeman Thursday. Mrs. George White at tea Mrs. Hide her aunt, of Des Mines, Rev, H. H. Wilson, of Wabash, and Mrs. Buckner, of Evansville. Roy Beard and Frank Davis took in the excursion to St. Louis Sunday and the attraction was so great that they did not get back. The Bethel church choir adopted resolutions commemorating the death of Mrs. Josie Thomas who for 22 years was a devoted member and an ardent Christian worker. Rev, Chas. Hopkins, pastor of the Second Baptist church, held his rally Easter. Collection all day,$42 86. The Easter exercises which were held at the Second Baptist church were grand. Our Sundayschool progressing nicely. The attendance is growing wonderfully under the leadership of Mr. Reel. The A. M. E. Sundayschool program which was to have been given Easter Sunday, will be given at the church on the first Sunday in May. Mrs. Snell and daughter, of Indi anapolis, are the guests of her uncle, C Purier. Advertising Medium THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, IND INDIANA REPUBLICANS. State Convention Nominates W. T. Durbin for Governor on Seventh Ballot. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SENATOR N. W. GILBERT IS CHOSEN ON 4TH BALLOT. Chairman Hanly's Speech Received With Enthusiasm--The Ticket and Platform. THE TICKET For Lieutenant Governor—NEWTON W. GILBERT. For Secretary of State—UNION B. HUNT. For Auditor of State—WILLIAM H. HART. For Treasurer of State—LEOPOLD LEVY. For Attorney General—WILLIAM L. TAYLOR. For Reporter Supreme Court—CHARLES F. REMY. For State Statistician-BENJAMIN F. JOHNSON. For Superintendent of Public Instruction—FRANK L. JONES. For Judge of the Supreme Court, First District—JAMES H JORDAN. For Judge of the Supreme Court, Fourth District—LEANDER J. MONKS. Delegates at Large to Republican National Convention—CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, JAMES A. MOUNT and CHARLES S. HERNLY. Alternate Delegates at Large—NATMAN POWELL, THOMAS ADAMS, WILLIAM AMSDEN and GURLEY BREWER. Presidential Electors at Large-HUGH H. HANNA and CHARLES W. MILLER. District Electors-MARTIN W. FIELDS, First District; GEORGE COOK, Second District; W. W, BORDEN, Third District; FRANK LITTLE, Fourth District; ALLEN B. POWELL, Fifth District; WILLIAM A. HOUGH, Sixth District; WILLIAM A. JOHNSON, Seventh District; M. H. QUINN, Eighth District; ROBERT W. HARRISON, Ninth District; ELI STANSBURY, Tenth District; QUINCEY A. MYERS, Eleventh District; HARRY I. PARKS, Twelfth District; SIMPSON E. LOW, Thirteenth District. WEDNESDAY'S SESSION. WEDNESDAY 8 SESSION. The Republican State convention convened at Tomlinson Hail, Indianapolis, Wednesday, April 25, at 2 p. m. Chairman Hernly called the session to order and Rev. W. A. Quayle delivered the invocation. Chairman Hernly called for the report of the committee on permanent organization and it was read. It recommended J. Frank Hanly, of Lafayette, for permanent chairman and H. H. Keegan, of Ft. Wayne, for secretary. Also rules for balloting and conduct of the business of the convention. Committees' report was adopted and Mr. Hanly was introduced. On taking the chair Mr. Hanly said in part: MR. HANLY'S ADDRESS. "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention-I am not insensible to the distinction you have conferred on me by selecting me to preside over the deliberations of this convention. It is an honor I have not sought, but I obey your wish in this, as in all other things, and accept the responsibility. We are met in the closing hours of the world's greatest century to write another page of Hoosier history. For in what we do we here we must needs make history. I recognize in the delegates before me the bone and sinew of Republicanism in Indiana. For the purposes of this day you are the Republican party. "When we assembled in convention in 1866 the Democratic party was intrenched in power in the State and in the nation. Gold was being exported at the rate of more than $5,000,000 a year in excess of importations. Want, disaster and gloom, the ever-attending and triple concomitants of Democracy, were everywhere. Industries were paralyzed, commerce was at a standstill, cars designed for the transportation of freight were rotting on sidetracks, thrift was malmed, enterprise strangled. "These conditions still obtained on the 4th of March, 1897, when the Republican party was restored to power. Through the efforts of President McKinley and the work of a Republican Congress, we are living to-day under a new dispensation. The horrid nightmare of a Democratic administration has passed away, and we stand again in the broad sunlight of a better day. "Three years have gone by and the direful prophesies of the wordy litterant of the Platte remain unfulfilled. His eries of impending disaster are as loud as ever, but they are drowned amid the glad shouts of contented women and children and the joyful laughter of his well-fed countrymen. His theories have been crushed, one by one, by the stern, unyielding facts of actual experience, till he is left without an affirmative issue for the approaching campaign. The cherished dogma of '16 to 1' abandoned, he sinks to the level of his party, to become an apostle of negation—a destroyer of other men's policies, and a builder of none for himself. "Prudence, honesty and economy have characterized every fiscal act of the State government, and under the laws enacted by the late General Assembly, the same wise principles have been extended to the several county and township governments of the State. "Since the inauguration of Governor Mount, the State debt has been reduced $1,716,000, and we are given the gratifying assurance that before the expiration of his term of office, there will be a further reduction of at least $400,000, making an aggregate reduction of the principal of the State debt in four years, of $2,116,000, thereby saving to the taxpayers of the State an annual interest charge of $61,000, or $160 a day. "Gentlemen of the convention, the administration at Washington has kept faith with the people of the republic. Performance has not lagged behind, but on the contrary, has swiftly followed, the heels of promise. "In 1888, the Dingley law was rapidly replenishing the depleted treasury left to us by a Democratic administration. The revenue created by its provisions would have been adequate to the needs of the government but for the unexpected and extraordinary expenditures incident to the conduct of a foreign war. This new condition was promptly met by a revenue measure framed and passed in the face of bitter and partisan opposition waged by the minority in Congress. Under it the revenues of the government have been more than sufficient to defray the expenses of the war with Spain and in the Philippines. Other measures are still pending and are receiving the best thought of the President, his constitutional advisers and of the Congress. All the work could not be done in a day. "By war and by treaty we have acquired territory in the islands of the sea. It is now too late to discuss the propriety of expansion. We have already expanded. The opportunity of the anti-expansionist is past. He has had his day in court and can not now be heard. It will be useless for the Kansas City convention to ask the American people for an injunction. They will not undertake to enjoin an act that is already consummated. "There still remains, however, the question as to how we are to govern the territory which we have acquired. This presents one of those far-reaching, worldwide, history-making problems that come to a nation but once or twice in a century. In it is wrapped something of the destiny of all nations, and of all peoples. Yet I am not afraid." "Some of the members of the Indiana delegation differed on the Porto Rican measure. They said so bravely and eloquently. Feeling as they did, they were right in saying so. They could have done no less. Out of the discussion occasioned by their differences on the Porto Rican measure, there finally came the calm, conservative, patriotic and just judgment of the majority, which is now the law. The moment it became the law, our differences, and theirs, ended, and the Democrat who consoles himself with the thought that this act of the administration will not have the indorsement of Indiana Republicans, does not know us. Let him stand still and watch until the elides of November come, and he shall see the salvation of the Lord. "A few months and the nineteenth century will have passed into the eternity of the cycles that are gone. We sit already in the twilight of its last hours. As its shadows deepen the nations of the earth are writing the last pages of its history. "What the republic shall write in these last pages may depend upon the Republicans of Indiana. It may be for us to determine. The responsibility is ours. Shall we accept it and fill the bond? For one I am hopeful and confident of the issue. "When the last line shall have been written; when the great volume shall have been made up, and the word 'finis' inscribed upon its seals, it will contain no chronicle of thrift maimed, of enterprise strangled, of industries paralyzed, of greed unconfined, nor of avarice uncontrolled. Between its lids there will be found no story of a currency debased, of credit ruined, or of labor robbed by dishonest coif." (Great applause.) Following Chairman Hanly's address loud calls for Senator Fairbanks came from all parts of the hall. The Senator appeared and was given an ovation. He reviewed the achievements of the Republic party at some length and paid a glowing tribute to President McKinley. The committee on resolutions then reported the following: THE PLATFORM "The Republicans of Indiana, in State convention assembled, at the city of Indianapolis, adopt and proclaim the following declaration of principles: "We emphatically indorse the wise and patriotic administration of President McKinley. In the whole history of this country there has been no period so distinctively marked by prosperity and progress as that of this splendid Republican administration. "Indiana has been well and faithfully represented in Congress, and we point with special pride to, and congratulate our Senators and Republic Representatives in Congress upon their distinguished ability and the conspicuous part they have taken in shaping national legislation. "I. We mourn the death of Garret A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United States, a statesman of exalted character. "With reverence we refer to the absence from this convention of that grand old man, Col. Richard W. Thompson, whom we all loved and whose memory is firmly enshrined in our hearts. "In the death of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton, Indiana's famous fighter, we recognize the pathetic, yet glorious, ending of a soldierly career, full of years and honors. "2. The conflict with Spain was begun and carried on from humane and disinterested motives. The possession of the islands, which came to our hands as a result of that war, was a consequence of it not foreseen, but which could not be avoided with honor. We can not escape the responsibility resting upon us. "3. We unhesitatingly indorse and approve the policy and course of the administration and the legislation by Congress in respect to our newly acquired possessions, and express full confidence in the wisdom, integrity and ability of the administration. Durbin ..... Griffiths ..... Haggard ..... Hogate ..... Posey ..... The second ballot resulted: Dodge "4. The employment of the people is the contentment of the people. The greatest benefaction to men is the opportunity to labor. Our best hope for the continued employment of labor lies in the domination of the world's markets by American agricultural and mechanical products. "5. Combinations of capital having as their object or effect the control of the production of commodities, or the markets thereof, are hurtful and injurious to the best interests of the people. This evil should be overthrown without injury to honest trade. We therefore favor such additional legislation, both State and national, as shall establish the complete legal control over all trusts and monopolies. "6. We reaffirm our belief in the doctrines of reciprocity and protection to American labor and home industries, and point to the beneficial results which have come from the enactment of the Dingley law. "7. We recognize a debt of gratitude to the soldiers and sailors of the late war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands, and we tender to those now in the field pur fullest confidence, sympathy and support. Just and liberal pensions to all deserving soldiers and sailors are a sacred debt of the nation. "8. We again recommend the early construction of the Nicaraguan Canal, under the immediate direction and exclusive control of the United States government. "9. We favor the enactment and enforcement of laws restricting and preventing the importation of undesirable foreign population. "10. We indorse the clean and able administration of Governor James A. Mount in the intelligent, honorable and economical management of State affairs. We congratulate the people of Indiana upon the emancipation of the penal and benevolent institutions from partisan control, and the provision, through ample appropriation by the last legislature, for new buildings and appropriate maintenance to accommodate the unfortunate wards of the State. "11. The State's finances are carefully and economically managed. The State debt is being rapidly canceled. The growing demands of all our penal and benevolent institutions have been met. The State tax levy has been reduced, and with a continuance of Republican administration, we pledge that the State will shortly be free from debt. "12. We congratulate the people upon the fulfillment of the pledge of the Republican party for reform in county and township government, whereby in the first year of the operation of the reform laws over $1,000,000 will be saved to the taxpayers of the State, and we pledge such amendments thereto as experience has taught are useful to harmonize the laws with other existing legislation. "13. The Republican party pledges itself to do all in its power to bring about the adoption of an adequate primary election law. "14. The wisdom of the establishment of a labor commission by the present State administration has been abundantly verified. Vast good in behalf of the public weal has resulted from the substitution of rational arbitration for acrimonious contention in the settlement of differences between employers and employees. "15. At the beginning of the present State administration, thousands of Indiana coal miners were without employment, and in a condition of pititable destitution, owing to the universal business depression, directly traceable to the gross mismanagement of national affairs by a Democratic administration. The Governor or promptly appointed a commission of investigation. The result of that humane policy proved highly gratifying. "16. We congratulate the people of Indiana upon the passage by the Republican legislature of 1888 of the mortgage exemption law. "17. We refer with pride to the fact that at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war Indiana was first to report to the President that its quota was full and ready for the orders of the commander-in-chief. It was first to pay its volunteers in full without drawing upon any other source than a carefully husbanded treasury. "18. To the Indiana soldiers now patriotically serving their country in the Philippines, we send words of cheer and assurances of steadfast support. The American flag and the American soldier stand ever and always for liberty and humanity. The insurrection of Aguinaldo is kept alive by the 'hope of Democratic success, based on the false cry of 'imperialism.' We condemn this unpatriotic policy as being responsible for the continued war in the Philippines, with its cost of lives, suffering and treasure." At the conclusion of the reading of the platform loud calls were heard for "Landis." Mr. Landis responded in a brief and witty address, in which he announced his opposition to the nomination of Senator Fairbanks for Vice-President, stating that "we must save him for President in 1904." (Tremendous applause.) Following the conclusion of Mr. Landis's speech the convention adjourned till Thursday. The second day's session of the convention was called to order at 9 a. m. by Chairman Hanly. Bishop McCabe delivered the invocation. After the prayer the band played "America," and the big audience joined in singing. At the close of the hymn a telegram was handed to the chairman from Senator Beveridge. It read as follows: "Give to the Republicans of Indiana in convention assembled my fraternal greetings, and say to them that nothing but the continued illness of Mrs. Beveridge would keep me from meeting them face to face to-day." The balloting for Governor then began. There were six candidates, as follows: John L. Griffiths, Seventh district; James S. Dodge, Thirteenth district; W. T. Durbin, Eighth district; W. S. E. ggard, Tenth district; E. G. Hogate, Fifth district; Frank B. Posey, First district. The first ballot was completed at 10:15 o'clock. The taking of this ballot was frequently interrupted by cheering. The result in totals was as follows: Dodge Durbin ..... Griffiths ..... Haggard ..... Hogate ..... Posey ..... The second ballot resulted: Dodge ..... 1911% Durbin ..... 357% Griffiths ..... 337% Haggard ..... 138 Hogate ..... 157 Posey ..... 252% The third ballot was as follows: Dodge ..... 189% Durbin ..... 401 Griffiths ..... 357% Haggard ..... 107 Hogate ..... 148 Posey ..... 230% The vote on fourth ballot was: Dodge ..... 178 Durbin ..... 434% Griffiths ..... 416% Haggard ..... 36 Hogate ..... 136 Posey ..... 213 The fifth ballot began with all the candidates still in the race and resulted: Dodge ..... 153% Durbin ..... 539 Griffiths ..... 454 Haggard ..... 8 Hogate ..... 80 Posey ..... 194% It was 6 o'clock when the sixth ballot commenced. Messrs. Hogate and Posey were withdrawn. The result by totals was: Dodge ..... 64 Durbin ..... 700 Posey ..... 152% Griffiths ..... 517% When the seventh ballot began all the weaker candidates except Col. J. S. Dodge had been withdrawn. As the balloting proceeded the name of Colonel Dodge was also withdrawn. The result by totals of the seventh ballot was: Griffiths 457 Colonel Durbin was declared the nominee. As soon as the uproar subsided sufficiently to enable his voice to be heard two or three feet from the platform. Colonel Durbin said: "Gentlemen of the Convention—I must be frank and confess to you that the emotion of the moment overcomes the inspiration of this occasion. Hard indeed would be the heart, however, that would not respond. This magnificent convention has conferred upon me honors not my due. While I have been, I admit, an humble, consistent, faithful worker in the ranks of the party for years, I did it without expectation of reward. Truly, as Mr. Posey said, this has been a canvass without acrimony. The most cordial relations have existed between the candidates and I believe they will give me their loyal support. I say to you that they will give it to me no more heartily than I would have given my support to any one of them. You have other anxious hearts waiting to respond to your votes. I will see you between now and November; then, after that, there will be no door knobs or latchstrings on the Governor's office, but walk in and be welcome." (Tremendous applause and cheering.) Nominations for Lieutenant Governor were declared in order. "There were six candidates, as follows: Luchus W. Emree, Frank B. Shutts, Leonidas P. Newby, J. W. Baker, Newton W. Gilbert and J. N. Babcock. The band played "A Hot Time in the Old Town To-night," while the first ballot was being counted. It resulted as follows, by totals: Embrey ..... 154 Shutts ..... 238 Newby ..... 450% Gilbert ..... 260 1-6 Babcock ..... 111 2-3 Baker ..... 217 5-12 The fourth and decisive ballot was as follows: Newby ..... 613 Gilbert ..... 808 Baker ..... 14 In the midst of the cheering and cries for Senator Gilbert, Senator Newby arose and moved that his nomination be made unanimous. Senator Gilbert was then called to the stage and thanked his friends in the following language: "I want to say to you, gentlemen of the convention, that I have had to use my voice so much for the last two or three days that I do not believe I could make myself heard, if I were able in other respects. I thank you very kindly for this nomination. I trust that during the campaign I shall meet you all, and I know that next fall we will have a rousing majority for Durbin." At the close of Mr. Gilbert's address, Judge Albert O. Marsh secured recognition and presented the following motion: "Mr. Chairman—In the interest of saving time, I desire to move a suspension of the rules and that the following named gentlemen be declared the nominees of this convention by acclamation. I move that Union B. Hunt be declared the nominee for Secretary of State; William H. Hart for Auditor of State; Leopold Levy, for Treasurer of State; William L. Taylor for Attorney General (applause); Frank L. Jones for Superintendent of Public Instruction; Leander J. Monks for Judge of the Supreme Court from the Fourth district. These candidates having no opposition, I move that they be now declared the nominees of this convention by acclamation." When the delegates realized the import of Judge Marsh's motion, and that it was made solely for saving time, they began to demand that the motion be put. Temporary Chairman James E. Watson called for a viva voce vote, which resulted in the motion being carried overwhelmingly, and the nominations were made. With the uncontested places out of the way the struggle for supremacy in the race for nomination for Reporter of the Supreme Court began. The names of Jesse W. Welk, Leroy W. Nash and Chas. F. Remy (present incumbent of the office) were placed in nomination. The first ballot resulted by totals as follows: Nash ..... 362 1-3 Welk ..... 351 1-3 Remy ..... 570 1-3 The second ballot was: The second ballot was: Remy ..... 342 Weik ..... 492 Mr. Remy was declared the nominee. There were three candidates presented for State Statistician.. John B. Conner, the present Statistician; Thos. J. Hudgins, of Shelbyville, and B. F. Johnson, of Benton county. Following was the result of the first ballot: Hudgins ..... 428% Conner ..... 488% Johnson ..... 517 The third ard deciding ballot was: Hudgins ..... 308 Conner ..... 220 Johnson ..... 896 Mr. Johnson's nomination was made unanimous. It was after 9 o'clock when the convention began on the ballot which renominated James H. Jordan for the Supreme Court bench. Judge Jordan's opponent was Judge John H. Foster, of the Superior bench, at Evansville. The ballot was but little over half completed when Judge Poster, in a pleasant little speech, withdrew from the race. The incomplete ballot gave Judge Jordan 71 votes and Judge Foster 26. This was the vote of fifty-one counties. The convention next proceeded to the nomination of four delegates at large and this was done by acclamation. The delegates are Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge, Governor Mount and Charles S. Herny, chairman of the Republican State committee. Immediately after the nomination of the delegates at large the chairman began calling for nominations for four alternates. The following names were placed in nomination: Nathan Powell, of Jefferson county; William Amsden, of Grant county; Thomas Alams, of Knox county; Dr. J. Edwin Bell, of Lake county; Gabriel Jones, of Marion county; N. J. Landauer, of Miami county; Gurley Brewer, of Marion county; Senator W. R. Culbert, of Laporte county. The ballot resulted in the nomination of Powell, as alternate for Fairbanks, Amsden for Mount, Adams for Beveridge and Brewer for Hernly. A motion was made to suspend the rules and elect Hugh H. Hanna and Charles W. Miller, of Elkhart county, electors at large by acclamation. The name of Mr. Hanna was greeted with thunderous applause and the motion was unanimously carried. Following the selection of Messrs. Hanna and Miller as electors at large, the following electors from the various districts were nominated by acclamation: First district, Martin W. Fields, of Princeton; Second district, George Cook, of Vincennes; Third district, W. W. Borden, of Borden; Fourth district, Frank Little, of North Vernon; Fifth district, Allen B. Powell, of Parke county; Sixth district, William A. Hough, of Greenfield; Seventh district, William A. Johnson, of Johnson county; Eighth district, Martin H. Quinn, of Hartford City; Ninth district, Robert W. Harrison, of Lebanon; Tenth district, Ell Stansbury, of Williamsport; Eleventh district, Quincy A. Myers, of Logansport; Twelfth district, Harry I. Parks, of Kendallville; Thirteenth district, Simpson B. Low, of Elkhart county. A resolution extending the sympathy of the convention to Senator Beveridge and its hope for the speedy recovery of his wife, was unanimously adopted. After the adoption of the eagle as a device for the Republican State ticket one of the greatest conventions ever held in the State of Indiana adjourned with three rousing cheers for the candidates and the action of the convention. STANDS BY SILVER. WILLIAM J. BRYAN ADHERES FIRMLY TO 16 TO 1. Says That Newspaper Editors Nor Any One Else Can Force Him to Abandon That Issue—Imperialism Paramount. Wichita, Kan., special: "Neither newspaper editors nor any one else can succeed in getting me to abandon free silver. I favor it as much as I did in 1890. While free silver will not be the leading issue in this campaign, it will be one of the issues." William J. Bryan made this flat-footed statement during an interview here. When asked what would be some of the leading issues Mr. Bryan said: "Trusts and imperialism will be paramount." Tuesday night Mr. Bryan was a guest at a banquet tendered by the Sunflower League. Mr. Bryan, in the course of his banquet speech, said: "The public wonders why I have dropped the silver question. New measures are resting upon us, but I shall never drop the silver question until the little coteries of English financiers cease to meet in secret and plan the laws of this country." As to colonial affairs Mr. Bryan said: "We are unalterable for the republic and everlastingly against the empire, and denounce the present national administration for its shameless attempt to unsettle the foundations of our government. For its abandonment of the Monroe doctrine, for its attempt to thrust our country into European and Asiatic politics, against which we have been warned by the fathers; for its attempt to subjugate unwilling and liberty-loving people, not to make them citizens, but serfs; for its attempt to adopt for our country the Env.ish colonial system, as foreign to our plan of government as a titled aristocracy or a king; for its brazen disregard of our promise to the people of Cuba to give them their freedom; for its permanent increase of our standing army of 25,000 to 100,000 men, with no possible justification except to keep unwilling foreign people in subjugation; for its notorious secret alliance with England, to be used as a menace to other friendly nations, and for its carpeting government and unconstitutional tariff inaugurated in Porto Rico. All of these things, the natural sequence of Republicanism, and the first symptoms of a military imperialism, we will forever oppose." LAWTON SHOT BY A TRAITOR. A Sensational Story That a Deserter Planned the Ambush and Fired the Fatal shot. Los Angeles, Cal, special; Wendell McLaughlin, a stenographer, formerly employed by the Republican county committee, who went to the Philippines a few months ago as an attache of the Naval Construction Bureau at Cavite has written to friends in Los Angeles that Hamilton Howard, a deserter from the First California Regiment, planned the ambush for Mai, Gen. Henry W. Lawton, and, it is said or good authority, fired the fatal shot. He was made a major in the insurgent army as his reward. HANNA'S KEYNOTE THE DISTINGUISHED OHIO SENATOR ON THE ISSUES. Expansion the Destiny of the Country—Tribute to McKinley—A Great Administration Demonstration. Columbus, O., special: The Republican State convention made a great administration demonstration here Tuesday. Usually there is only one keynote speech that of the temporary chairman—but there were two to-day, and the one that caused more comment than any other convention speech in the history of Ohio Republicans was by Senator Hanna. It was very much of a Hanna day without discord. After prayer by Dr. W. O. Thompson, president of the Ohio State University, State Chairman Myron A. Norris, of Youngstown, called the convention to order, but made no reference to old issues in his address. Then Robert M. Nevin was introduced as the temporary chairman and he made a decisive hit in his forcible delivery and especially in the peculiar emphasis he put on the words "as an admiral" in referring to Dewey. After the demonstration at the close of his address Chairman Nevin attempted to proceed with the order of business in calling the Congressional districts for their respective selections of members of the committees, but the convention was bound to call out Senator Hanna. Mr. Hanna, although worn out by visitors, finally appeared on the platform. He said in part, "The results of the war with Spain are not accidental. The destiny which has been written for this country must be fulfilled in the natural order of things. It was but one step forward in the direction of the duty set for us to do and no matter what influences may be thrown around us to impede our progress, it can not and will not stop. (Renewed cheering.) "I do not care whether you call it imperialism or expansion. The destiny of this country is written and any party or combination of men that attempts, by any subterfuge or makeshift in politics to stop the power and progress of this nation will go down under it just as the Democratic party has gone down. (Renewed cheering.) We are proud of our record; we are proud of our business experience, and we are glad to have had the opportunity to demonstrate to the world that the policy and business principles of the American people mean the civilization and Christianization of the whole world. (Tremendous cheering.) "Now that we are embarking in this new policy, and now that this government is confronted with the responsibilities which are open to us, we ask the publican party in Ohio, as we did four years ago, to sound the keynote to the rest of the Union: to express her confidence in her great leader, our President (more cheering); to show by the interest they take and the efforts they make in this campaign their confidence in that leadership in their determination to stand loyalty by him and his policy. (Renewed cheering.) His courage during all the dark days of that war and many complications which succeeded it has never failed for one moment. And I want to improve this opportunity to stay in this presence that there has never been an hour—no, not a moment that he has not been in touch with his party in Washington. (Renewed cheering.) The consciousness that he is prepared for and is meeting every difficulty, determined to do what seems best and right for the people in our insular possessions, at the same time maintaining the dignity and prestige of our own country and protecting our labor and our industries—that feeling that he is doing right has enabled him to call to his support that aid which always comes to a strong leader of men and, no matter what collateral issues may appear in this coming campaign, I know that the people of the United States feel comfortable and confident when they know that William McKinley is at the wheel." (Tremendous cheering.) FURY OF A MOB Shoots Bullets Into a Negro While He Is *Beled Dragged to Death* Bluefield, W. Va., special: News has reached here that at Tazwell, twenty miles west of here, John Peters, colored assaulted Miss Katie Richie, a white sixteen years old, after brutally beating her, and escaped. Bloodhounds were used and he was captured and brought to jail. Shortly after midnight masked stormed the jail and broke open the doors with axes. The negro confessed, but begged that his life be spared. A rope was placed around his neck and he was dragged two hundred yards down the railroad track toward the woods. The infuriated mob could not wait till the tree on which to hang him was reached, but fired bullet after bullet into his body while he was being dragged, and before the woods were reached he was dead. The rope was then thrown over a tree and he was drawn up. GEN. WHEELER'S RESIGNATION Leaves Congress in Order to Become a Regular Army General Washington special: General Wheeler Saturday sent his resignation as a member of Congress from Alabama to Speaker Henderson. 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"Michael, old man, what have you been doin'; cleaning the streets with your face?" "Ah, back up!" sarcastically remarked "Pug" Connelly. "Dat face grew on him, and he's been filin' down the rough edges." "Vat could a gle do mit such ein gesicht?" put in Dietzebaum, the bartender. "He's yoost been cutin' his wisdom teeth mit a buzz saw." "Youse guys is in de wrong votin' booht wilt dem cracks," vouchsafed one of the crowd. "De trick elephant at de Zoo used him as a dangin' mat and den dey trun him to the lions. How about youse, Mikey, me boy?" "Laugh, ye nautrals, laugh, and may the divil tickle yez." replied Toohey. "Phwat harrum is me face doin' to yez?" "Toohey, mein frendt, it sours de beer," answered Dietzelbaum, and then he was so delighted with his jest that he set them up all around. A few more treats from the crowd who were anxious to know why Toohey was looking like a battered battle ax, a few smooth words of soothing tenor, and Toohey's usually placid spirits returned to their normal level. "Byes," said he, "if the truth was known, I'm a bigger fool than Kenedy's one-eyed hen, and that/sez much. I kin swing a pick an' lay pipe wit any wan av the ditch squad, but I'm dommed if I kin play a joke. Dan O'Connell was right when he said that an ould fool is the worst fool. This fa-ace of mine that yez do be makein' your discorteous jokes about comes from me thyrin' to do thricks which the saints knows don't belong to a mon av my age and character. Yer mound lasht Saturday night we had the political meetin' with the 'brass band and the speechin' and hashins av atin' and drinkin'. Perhaps that done it, and I may have taken a drap too much, but at all evints i sharts home wit me caneen on me nose and me humminl 'Bye Wather.' I was thinkin' phwat a fine thing it was to be in politics and have the Tollvars and Patsles cryin' yez up to the skies as the high muck-muck of the whole squad, an' thin given yez the hot touch for tin. I was thinkin' all this, dye moul, whin who should I see but me ould friend Grady, who r-runs the beat on me block. "It's you, Toohey,' se he. 'an' you're walkin' wide, like a doock." "Your tongue is your own worst intmy, Grady,' se I. 'Tis the glorious an' indipendent spirit uv free American woter that fills me an' lifts me up, se I. "Tis Dietzelbaum's pethroleum booze you're full av, an' the crew on the waggin' ull be lifitn' yez up az yez aln't careful,' sez he. "Have done wit' th' talk!" I sez. 'Have a seegar wit' me? "T'anks' sez Grady. 'I'll poison deoit wit' it, and he sticks it in his hat: Thin we converse on the jwints av the day, an' as I sez good-bye he tells me not to let thim sell me any good bricks in the mornin'. "Why should they sell me good bricks?' I asks. 'Do I look as simple as a polisman?' "Tis April Fool, ye know!' sez Grady. "Oh, hoh!' sez I; an' wit' that I has wan fine idea. 'Halt, there, Dan Grady,' sez I. 'I've a gran' thought come into me mould.' 'Maybe you're considherin' payin' that dollar yez owe me,' sez Grady. 'Dan, we'll fool the owl woman before morn' sez I. 'Shure, me mye, 'tis a great joke we be havin'. Listen to me now, me huckalohue! Walk wit' me to the house, then I'll borry your hat and coat an' I'll raise up the family sayin' that I've come to pull the jint. Oh, hoh, but Maggie Toohey will be a mad woman before the night's out.' 'Well, byes, Dan consinted, an' I, like an omadhum, dressed mesself up in his coat and hat an' takes his club. "Stand ye beyant. Grady,' sez 1. 'an' watch the fun.' 'Thin I mar-raches to the dure and bangs it wit' me club. 'Opin' sez I. 'Opin in the name av the law.' 'Maggie sticks her heade out av the windy, an' sez, sez she: 'Phwat's wanted below?' "Come down, me good woman an' opin the dure,' sez I. I 'have a warrant for the arist av your dooken husband.' "Stay there wan minnit!' sez she. "I was standin' there chucklin' to messilf like a polly, whin all at wanst the dure flew open, an' thin I thought th' city hall fell on me. "Take that, an' that, ye seut!' yells Maggie, layin' on manful wit' the poker. 'Come an' take me dooken husband, an ye dar' "Then she soaked me again, an", as I turned me daughter Katie opius alps' whiyd an' dumps a hod of coal on me head. Thin, all at wanst, me son Jimmy an' his bulldog comes pilin' out av the house, yellin' bloody mudmur. Me wife was shrickin' like a banshee, the neighbors was holerin' "Fire" 'an' "Murther" 'an' me an' the bulldog were rowlin' on the strate chinns out av each other. Oh, 'twas a nate little time we were havin'! Thin Grady comes over, an' when he sees the condition av his clothes he let out wan whoo, an', bedad' he kicked me tin times in svin thic seconds. A turrible hoof on him, has that man Grady. Phwat was lift av me was picked out av the gutther an' dragged to 'th' house, an' if I live till Carney, the backman, is elected President, I'll get no drissin' down as Maggles Toohey handed out to me that night! So, take me wan piece av advice, byes, an' if ye must play the fool, go out to tl'. White bridge, where they wilcomes such as you wilt' open ar-rums! April Fool! Oh, hoh! 'Twas named well, I'll go ball."—Enquirer. "Well, a delusion is your mother's idea that when she has gone shopping for all the articles she needs she will stop." -Chicago Record. REST "I wish I knew what was the matter with me, my cheeks are so pale, my lips so white, my muscles so weak, and my nerves seem to be all unstrung. I am just about as tired and depressed in the morning as I am at night. If I could only get some rest, but sleep seems to do me no good." Shall we tell you what is the matter? What's Anemia is another name for starved blood, thin d. 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The Republican State convention adjourned Thursday night after nominating an exceptionally strong ticket, thus bringing to a close one of the most spirited and interesting contests in the history of the party in Idaho. The remainder of the ticket having been practically decided upon before the convention convened all interest centered in the nominations for governor and lieutenant-governor with six candidates for the position at the head of the ticket, and the possibility of the numerous combinations that could have been effected it was impossible to forecast the result. The fight, however, was at no time bitter, and notwithstanding the intense interest display on every hand, the convention was particularly harmonious. There are no knives to sharpen, no sores to heal and the spirit of good fellowship precedes the Republican ranks. Col. Durbin, the choice of the convention for governor, is a Hoosier by birth and a stalwart Republican. He is veteran of the Civil war, and in the Spanish-American war, commanded the One hundred-and-sixty-first Regiment, the only body of Indiana troops to touch Spanish soil during the war. THE white people are eccentric. In Toledo, O., they threaten to place a Chinaman in the city council just out of "sheer devilry;" down in Georgia they will lynch a Negro under the same impulse. THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, in a reflective mood, commenting on the political conditions, takes time to remark: Politics makes strange companionships indeed. When you find men of national reputation associated with negro dive keepers in the same delegation it rather gives you that queer feeling We do not see why The News should go out of the way to cast this slur. Neither were we aware of the presence of any "negro dive keepers" in the recent convention, to which, no doubt, the lines quoted referred. The News is perfectly aware of the conditions which makes it expedient to send men of questionable character—both white and colored—to conventions. We can not see why association with disreputable colored men should grate any more harshly upon the fine sensibilities of "men of national reputation" than association with disreputable white men. However, politics is what the white man made it, and though beset --- with embarrassing situations, he must "grin and bear it." THE colored people of Chicago are one the alert. Through the efforts of a local council they are introducing colored labor in the large packing establishments of that city. Over three hundred colored men have already been employed and there is no indication of resentment on the part of the white workman. THE Washington correspondent to The Chicago Record terms as "drastic" a recent marriage law enacted in Germany which operates against Americans' Come to think of it, Indiana has a somewhat "drastic" marriage law, but as it operates only against the colored people it doesn't count. ONE Dr. Boyd, pastor of a little church over in Illinois is laboring under a strange hallucination caused by fear of Negro domination. Speaking on this subject, he says: "When these people have increased from 10,000,000 to 60,000,000 the question is not, 'What are we going to do with the Negro?' but 'What is the Negro going to do us?'" If these wind-jammers would just stop their jabbering and give the Negro a fair chance and then let him alone he will take care of himself. Jeffersonville Items Miss Clara Modest spent Sunday in Lagrange, Ky. The infant daughter of Bert Campbell died Friday morning ben died Friday morning The funeral of Miss Lucy Reed took place at the Illinois avenue Baptist church Saturday morning Thomas Haley, who has been very ill, is able to be out again Miss Rosa Thompson is somewhat indisposed The funeral of Miss Malissa Peake took place from her last home on High street last Monday. Mrs. Susie Coleman tried to commit suicide by taking arsenic; she also gave some to her baby. Mrs. E. F. McDaniel will spend the summer in Washington Miss Maria Parks will spend next week in 1ndianapolis Rev. J. L. Thomas and wife attened the Queen Esther Cantata at Library Hall in Louisville given by the Baptist College. Mrs. J. L. Thomas is preparing to give the Old Maids' Convention at Bethel church in May Illinois avenue Baptist church is preparing to have a May Fair. Rev. Irwin of the Zion A. M. E. church held his quarterly meeting Sunday. Rev. Tevis of the Indiana Avenue Baptist Church preached quite an interesting Easter sermon. Rev. Hatvey Johnson, of Louisville, preached at the Broadway Baptist church last Sunday. Mrs. E. F. McDaniel's school closes May 18th Rev. Irwin is holding a series of revival meetings at his church on Mullberry street Mrs. James Lee is somewhat indisposed. Mrs. Carter, of New Albany, was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. R. F. Taylor, last Thursday Rev. Wm. Rollins, of Wesley Chapel M. E. Church, preached the sacramental sermon at the Zion A. M. E. church Sunday The May Fair at Wesley Chapel begins the second week of May Rev. Rollins, of Wesley Chapel will preach on the subject of "Dancing" at his church Sunday night Mrs. Laura Webster, of Louisville, spent Sunday with relatives in Jeffersonville. Mr. Wm. McKee, of Louisville, spent Sunday with friends in this city, also Mr. Wren. Anderson Dots. Rev. Zella Johnson preached at Allen Chapel last Sunday morning and lectured on Home and Foreign Mission work Monday Rev Lankins of Kentucky preached at Second Baptist church last Sunday evening. Second M. E. church held their Easter exercises last Sunday at 2:30 o'clock. The church was beautifully decorated with flowers and a great many were out. Collection $10.31 for missionary. Corner Stone club of Second Baptist church gave a concert and supper Thursday evening. Last Sunday was rally day an Allen Chapel club, No. Captain, Mrs. Mary Coward, $15.00; Club, No. 2, Mrs. Mrs. Mary Hill, $18.53; Club, No. s, Miss Ethel Kersey, $39.50. Total $68.03. The church will be able in short time to pay off the entire indebtedness of $110. Allen Chapel will have a May fair beginning the 2 of next month. Second M. E. church will have a flower fair, beginning the 15 of May, and lasting two weeks. Mrs. Mary Brown of Indianapolis visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Able last Sunday. Will Hill has returned from Edenburg where was the guest of home folks, On the sick list: Joe Overton and Will Taylor. Several of the band boys left last Wednesday to join uncle Uncle Tom's Cabin show. Mrs. Dora Banks has returned from Brazil. Missionary Meeting. New Albany, Ind., April 18, 1900. To the editor of the Recorder. Please allow me space enough in your paper this week to speak a few words to the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society and the members of the State Convention of Indiana Baptist. To the societies first Dear Sisters: Whereas, the W. H. and F. M. State Convention will meet with the W. H. and F. M. Society of Howard Chapel Baptist, New Albany Ind., on Tuesday before the fourth Lord's day, in June 1900. We therefore, ask such societies to send us a once the names and number of delegates that each society will send, so we can prepare homes for them. The societies will please correspond with the secretary of our society, Mrs. J. C. Patton, 318 Green st., New Albany, Ind. To all of the churches throughout the State that compasses the State convention of Indiana Baptist will meet with Howard Chapel Baptist church some time between the 3rd and 4th Lord's days in June, 1900. We therefore ask all the churches to send us the names and number of delegates that each church will send to the convention so we can prepare homes for them. The members and friends of Howard Chapel are using every effort to entertain both of these conventions. Our church is spiritually alive and is moving along nicely under the leadership of Rev. J. C. Patton, who is worthy of his vocation. The churches will please correspond with our pastor, Rev. J. C Patton, 318 Green st., New Albany, Ind. We are yours in Christ Committee Mrs, Bell Ross, Mrs. J. C. Patton, Rev. J. C. Patton. Wanted a Housekeeper. Owing to the illness of my wife and daughter, I would like to employ a lady of settled nabits and kind disposition as a housekeeper. If satisfactory a a years employment is guaranteed. Address at once J. C. Ward, Farmland Indiana, P. O. box, 79. Have You a Mortgage If there is a mortgage on your property you should call on Lawyer R. B. Bagby, No. 633 Lemcke Building, before the 1st of May and have your exemption certificate filed this will save you money on your taxes next Spring. Mr. Bagby is a Notary Public and draws and executes all kinds of legal papers, Mr. Bagby practices in all of the courts and makes a specialty of civil practice, real estate matters, the settlement of estates, damage cases etc. Pensioners can have their vouchers executed by calling at Mr. Bagby's office on or after May 4. Office, No. 633 Lemcke Building, New 'Phone 022. Independent Order of Freedmen Independent Order of Freedmen. A Fraternal, Beneficial Association, organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Indiana governing F.aternal Beneficiary Associations, enacted by the last legislature and approved March 1, 1899. Offers insurance to its members al actual cost and it is the first order incorporated in the State that furnishes insurance, that will admit colored people to membership, and therefore ought to be liberally supported by them, for in so doing they can bring down the cost of insurance protection on their lives to what other people pay that have now and have had for a number of years, societies of this kind. G. L. Jones, ex-member of Indiana Legislature A Worthy Institution A number of prominent citizens of this community have organized the Mutual Aid Association, of Indianapolis, the object of which is to provide an easy and safe medium for the burial of its members. The membership will be composed of the aged and infirm as well as the young, in fact no discrimination will be presented. The object is indeed commendable and deserves the support of every man and woman of the race. The plan of organization provides for a membership fee of only $1 100, with no monthly dues or fines. On the death of a member an assessment of 50c is collected from all members. The sum of $75 100 is appropriated for each death. The following are the officers: Walter Jameson, president; Thomas Smith, treasure: Louis Williams, asst secretary; R. H. Smith, general secretary; C. M. C. Willis, chairman trustee board; Richard Teeters, trustee; J. H. Sweeney, trustee. Meets at 536 Indiana. Call or address for further information. AROUND THE CHURCHES THE CHURCH Rev. C. W. Newton, pastor. Rev. A. L. Murray, B. D. - pastor One accession last Sunday—Mrs. J. White, of Quinn chapel, Louisville. Quarterly meeting next Sunday. P. E. Townsend, will preach at 10:45 a.m. and at 7:45 p. m. At 2:30 o'clock the Rev. R. P. Christian, the gifted pastor of Walters chapel, A. M. E, Z. Church, will preach the sacramental sermon. Five collection tables will be arranged as follows; Bethel, presided over by its distinguished pastor. Dr Newton; Jones Tabernacle, by her princely representative, Rev. A. Wakefield, Simpson chapel, presided over by the renowned Dr. Gilliam; Walters and Phoenix chapel represented by Rev. s. R. P. Christian and A. Donahoo; Allen chapel by the presiding elder and the pastor. The ministers and their congregations are cordially invited to be present. Our church will unite with Jones Tabernacle, Simpson chapel and Way man chapel, and baptize our candidates in the canal, Sunday at 6 a. m. Old fashioned love feast Monday night. The How-do-You-do Club, Ida Mae Myller president, Report-Corra Brown, $20,66; Mami Avery 60c, Dora Saunders Booth, 3,05; Elijah Bybes, 270, Mayme Southern, 50c Jerome Scott, 5.00; Dr. C. W. Newton, 5.00; William Phillips, 1.30; Henriette Turner, 73c, Amanda Westen, 60c, Pattie Dean, 3.15, Ida Myller, 3.50. Total by books 28 20, by concert, Feb. 22.) 9.65 by socials and collections 12.81. Amount raised 59.66, amount required 50. Men's Club, Ella Williams, president—Ella Williams, $11.00, Benj. W. Lee, 10.40, Joseph Morten, 13.50, Archie Greathouse, 5.00 and the following named persons gave $5.00: Joseph Churchill, Melvina Smith, Parker Warfield, Henry Bolder, Wm. Watt, Jonathan Cary, Wm. Williams, Thos. Ashley, Robert Chas, Green, T. H. Johnson, Robert Lamont James Lewis, Chas. Miller, Mr. and Mrs Allen Elias Wabeton, Wm. Jackson, Joseph Henderson, Wm. Lovering, Wm. Wright, $10.00, Sara Ellington 15.00 Robert Alexander, 8.00, Mattie Powers, $7.35, Hanetta Wright 3.00, Jno, Early 3.20, Calvin Brooks, 3.00, A. Outland 2.50, Elli Coleman, 2.00, Emma J. Johnson, 1.00 Jefferson Thompson, 1.00, H. M. Joseph, 2.25, Benj. Bridges, 1.00, social by club, 11.05, M. Comer, 1.00, general collection, 2.00, Total $203.25, added since 5.00, 208.25. The amount raised by the Missionary scout y April 8. Ella Murray, President--Ella Murray, $12.50. Nannie Wright 10.50. Mary Bradshaw, 4.65. Jane Best 5.00. Clinton Nunn, 1.25. Rich Booth, 1.05. Wm. Grant, 40.cary Beckes, 50. Thomas Jordan 25.cra King, 2.00. Sallie Ballard 5.15. Rev. Wakefield, 1.15. Newton, 50. Mary Stewart, 5.00. Hannah Robb, 1.70. Mary Blakemore, 3.00. Martha Miller, 2.50. Lula Gurnell, 2.45. Rebecca Sanders, 60. battle Dean, 1.00. Ella Williams, 2.05. Maria Thompson, 6.83. Tabitha Alexander, 1.50. Maud Sanders, 1.00. Lucy Williams 6.25. Emmy Gee, 25. emily Brewer 2.00. Cornelia jones 25. Lizzie Bush 4.05. Lula Gurnell, 25c. Lottie Nunn, 6.25. Willey Collins, 5.00. Marta Colman 5.25. Allie Morgan 1.00. Mary Oliver, 1.00. Athletic Sewing Circle, Emma Doke president, acting president, Mrs. Harrison Brown-Tom Ashley, $7.00, Juda Zion, 6.48, J. T., and Ailian Williams 5.00, Helen Ashley, 5.00, Samuel Logan, 5.00, Harrison Brown, $5, Mattie Brown 5.00, Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd Hardrick, 5.00, M. E. Brown, 5.00, Anna Gramby 4.00, Mary Wilson, 3.20, Hallie Bright, 300, Matilda Perkins, 300; Lue Hartley 300; Melvina Smith 250; H. W. Bennett, $1; W. J. Brown $1; Daisy Stewart $1; Lena Brown $1; Mrs Henry Coburn $1; Linda Hardrick $1; J. H. Morton $1 Lizzie Cage $1; Martha Coleman $1; Mary Johnson $1. The following paid $0c: Matilda Smith, Laura Taylor, Jane Curry, Lucia Brown, Eli Coleman, Wm Lumkin. Paid $2c: Mrs Oscar Brown 'T. H. Johnson, Tom Redman, Bettie James. Entertainment money, $4, Collection ' 517; total, $90.35. Auxiliary society, Georgia Alexander, pres—Georgia Alexander, 6:10; Ellen Grant, 1:15; Addie Edwards, 3:25; Sarah Grant, 3:00; Sallie McGee 5:00; Mire' Mapp, 3:00; Julia Mack, 2:00; Annie Hall 50c; Hannah Robb, 5:00; Cornelia Jones, 5:00; Sallie Dudley 5:75; Estelle Watts, 2:55; Rev J, L. Craven, 1:00; J W Kelly, 3:60; Alice Brown 3:25; Hannah White, 4:75; Lucy Philpot 6:25; Lizzie Streat, 50c; Martha Miller, 2:50; Maggie Young, 4:60; Ellen Outland, 3:00; Hattie Pean, 4:51; Tobltha Alexander, 1:00; Katie Guy 51: Tillie Smith, 500; Mrs. T. Smith, 1,10; Maui tie Green, 5,00; Emma Middleton, 50c. Chorus of Forty Voices, Dora Alph, pres.— Alfred Mitchell, 5,50; Mae Jackson, 4,10; Nellie Payton, 3,10; Daisy French, 2,50; Fannie Mitch ell, 3,10; Gertie Davis, 1,35; Susie Young, 1,05; Rev. R. P. Christian, 1,00; Cora Warren, 1,00; Doye Banks, 1,00; Rev. A. L. Murray, 35c; Mary J. Jackson, 25c; Arthur Barber, 25c and Maud Sanders, 25c. Anxious Workers, Lula Gurnell, president— Pearl Bess, 1,20; Lula Morgan, 1,03; Maggie Parker, 31c; Glaude Gurnell, 30c. Bus Bees, Laura Ousley, president.—Laura Ousley, 1,20; Anna Goeus, 3,15; Myrtle White, 1,60; Lula Alexander, 1,35; Worth Alexander, 1,00; Charles Samuels, 1,00; Spencer Henderson, 50; James Naal, 50; Joaill Willie, 31c. The Get-up club, A. L. Murray, president—Bertha Turner, $21.05; Emma Gee, 12.00; Lulu Ellington, 6.00; Frances Fletcher, 5.60; Kate Admire, 5.00; Magnolia Meyers, 5.10; Priscilla Brown, 5.00; Thomas Allen, 5.00; E. Hampton 3.10; Lizzie Strett, 4.00; Sallie Holsey, 2.00; Erl Burris, 2.00; James Heron, 2.10; Alice Branch 3.00; George Knox, 1.00; A friend, 1.50; M. Wakefield, 50c; Jane Best, 1.00; Mattie Moore, 1.00; Laura Whitfield, 1.50; Mr. Bowers, 50c; Alexander Richmond, 1.50; melving Smith, 1.00; James Brookins, 65c; Pearl Turner, 1.10; Dora Kuykendall, 1.30; Beatrice Sleet, 1.00; Chas, Nunn, 1.00; D. L. Dalton, 50c; Sam Brown, 50c; Effe Hines, 1.00; sister Trouman, 1.00; Thos Jordau, 50c; Mary Wells, 50c; Bro, Parker, 1.00; Thomas Ashley, 50c; Allen Davis, 1.00; Delila Wilson, 50c; Dora Payne, 50c; Wesley Bridges 50; Mary Asbury, 3.00; A friend, 5.00; Walter Stark, 2.00; Essie Tucker, 1.20; Emma Hare, 3.00 and Robert King, five dollars. This last sum belongs to the men's club, but was paid to late to late to be properly classified. A. L. murray; by cash, 70.00. Not all paid in yet but the total will amount to $120.00. N, B:-All mistakes will be reported to the respective presidents, for correction in next issue. JONES TABERNACLE A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Union baptizing Sunday morning at 6 o'clock, in the canal. Be on time. Union baptizing Sunday morning at 6 o'clock, in the canal. Be on time. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sundayschool at 2 p. m. Let all the members and friends be present at all services, as the pastor will leave Monday for Washington, D. C., to attend the general conference, and he would be pleased to see a full attendance. The spring fair which was held on May 23, 24 and 25th, was a success. We return our thanks to our friends for their patronage. The Men's Willing Workers club, will give an entertainment May 1, at which time the Spanish-American war will be reproduced, also life-motion views and pictures. Don't miss this. Admission, 10c, children, 5c. The ladies of the Dorcas circle, presented the pastor with a new hat, for he returns thanks. Rev. A, L. Murray, will hold Quarterly meeting, Sunday at 2 p. m. and we are expected. Let us do as we always have, in the past. No services last Sunday on account of the repairs on the church. Services to-morrow as usual. At 10:45 a. m. pastor will occupy the pulpit. At 2:30 and 8 p. m. the Rev. C. M Thomas of First Baptist church of Noblesville, will preach for us. You are cordially invited. Don't forget the literary society on each Tuesday evening. You are welcome. There will be a grand Sylphite concert at this church. Monday evening. Among the attractions will be a real wedding. Rev. R. D, Leonard, has resigned the pastorate of the St. Paul Baptist church, of Greencastle. The Old maid's convention on the 18, was a success. Captain F. Young will make charge on the fort, May 9. Remember the $200.00 rally the fourth Sunday in June for the repairs on our church. The Missionary society will meet Thursday night. Mr. Fred. Daniels will sing a basso solo. Sunday night. SIMPSON CHAPEL M. E. CRURCH Cor. Howard and 11th Streets) Services last Sunday were largely attended and the pastor's sermon in the morning was greatly enjoyed by those present. Dr. D. A. Graham preached an eloquent and impressive sermon at 8 p. m. come again Doctor. The attendance at the Sabbath school is increasing. Preparations are being made for Children's day. The board of Bishops of the M. E. church is in session in this city. A reception was tendered them in Central avenue M. E. church which was well attended. The members of Simpson chapel were very much in evidence. Bishop Hartzell who has just returned ed from a four years trip in Africa, will occupy the pulpit to-morrow. If he arrives in time, if not, then one of the Bishops will preach. You are invited. our pastor, Rev. E. L. Gilliam will leave Tuesday for the General Conference in Chicago. He is the chairman of the Conference delegation. Dr. B. J. Morgan goes as the Lay delegate. The Divisions under the efficient leadership of Capt's. Rogister, Roney, Tribble, Stevenson and the pastor are at work, and hope to raise at least $1,000.00 on the fourth Sunday in June Union baptizing Sunday morning, in the canal, at Indiana avenue. Presiding Elder Sissle is out on the District, and reports good meetings and a cordial reception everywhere. 9th Presbyterian Church Michigan st., bet. Capitol avenue and Illinois st. Services Sunday morning; Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. The school is doing a good christian work. Several new scholars attended last Sunday, Prof. Williams, superintendent. There will be congregation meeting Wednesday, April 2, at 8 p. m. to hear the report from the Presbytery and also the financial report from the clubs on the last rally, and for any other business for the good of the church. Every member is solicited to attend NEW BETHEL BAPSTIST CHURC (Martindale Ave. Rev. N. A. Seymour or The coming events: May 1, "The New Woman of 1996," Miss Nana James. May 11, a wheel party at Mrs. Emma Crabtree's on Oak Hill. A nice time is expected. All wheel riders can go May 16, the Oriental May Feast. Miss Mama McDade and the young ladies and gentlemen of Simpson Chapel, it is something new. Be sure and see it. Lieut. McMaran will lecture on the Spanish-American war April, 30 and May 8. On the last named night he will exhibit a rapid firing gun that shoots 227 times. This gun was captured by Lieut. McMaran in the battle of San Juan Hill July 13, 1898. He will also give the full history of the rebellion against Spain and give incidents of his tour around the world. He speaks five different languages. The full dress chorus on May 8 promises to be one of the greatest of the season. You can not afford to miss it. See the programs in next week's issue. Admission 10 and 15 cents. Chorus under the direction of Prof. C. Suead, accompanist, Miss Mary Butler; Mrs. Don Causby, manager. Grand rally on the third Sunday in May. Rev. P. Everett, of Xenia, O., will be with us on that day. The committee is working faithfully to raise the desired amount In Memory of J. S. Hinton. Last Wednesday evening, at the Propagandist club, Mr. Felix Davis made a presentation to the Literary society, of a life-size portrait of the late Sidney Hinton, Mr. Davis spoke feelingly of the life's work of this good and great race man, and said that the gift was but a nucules, and was worry of emulation. President R. B. Bagby accepted the gift in behalf of the club The Palaceteen Cafe, meals, strictly first-class, extra large lunch, Goods the finest in market. The main thing is quick service. The public invited Open all hours. G. W. Bridgewater, proprietor. 419 Indiana ave. Good for 25c. Any subscriber can present this coupon to the following druggists it is good for 25c on a dollar bottle of Hoyt's Poisoned Blood Cure: A. M. Eyster, 1202 N. Senate Ave Geo. W. Sloan, 22 W. Wash. st Frank H Carter, 15 W. Wash. st Geo. C Morrison, South & Va-ave J. P. Fritz, 627 Virginia avenue. Park Theatre Pharmacy, Lewis Hayes, 502 Indiana Ave. Lewis Hayes, 502 Indiana Ave. C. C. Watson, 865 Virginia ave. Sarah Marshell VS. Benjamin J. Marshell STATE OF INDIANA, MARION COUNTY as in the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana, No. 10272. Complaint for BEIT KNOWN, That on the 12th day of April, 1900 the above named plaintiff by the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State Indiana, her complaint against the above defendant and the said plaintiff having involved a person in a competition person, showing that said defendant Benjamin J. Marshell is not a resident of State of Indiana; that said action is for duty of the person in a competition person, and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement said complaint required said def ant to appear in said Court, and that the person in a competition NOW THEREFORE, Byorder of said defendant last above named is hereby not competent to answer the complaint against him and that unless he appear and answer or demur thereto, at the ligation of said cause on the 21st day of June, 1962, he shall be held at a term of said Court to be begun and held at the Court House in the City of Indianapolis, on the 1st Monday in June, 1962, said complaint and the matters and things therein referred to will be heard and determined in his absence. 45 James T. V. Hill), Geo. B. Elliot, Attorney for Plaintiff. Clerk. OUR CORRESPONDENTS, News, Incidents, Social * and * Personal Activities South Bend News Jasper Sanders is very ill at his home on Pigan street Milton Calaway and Green Allen, of Calvin, Mich., spent several days in the city this week Miss Sarah Hoover was called to her home in Kalamazoo, Mich., last week by the death of her mother Rev. Alexander Martin, of Eypsilanti, Mich., attended the ministerial convection here this week Abraham Brown is on the sick list at his home on Monroe street William Bradley has sold his barber shop and left for parts unknown. His wife is diligently searching for him Mrs. Julia Byers died at the home of her daughter, Katie Johnson, Sunday night after a long illness. Deccased was 50 years old and leaves three sisters, two brothers, one daughter and a host of friends to morn her loss The Odd Fellows' will hold their annual service at Nile this year on the first Sunday in May Booker T. Washington will speak at the Odd Fellows' big celebration held here in August Erve Gradey, of Mishawanka, is very sick Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church tomorrow Knightstown Items, Louis Fox and Edgar Keemer were at Indianapolis last Wednesday day on business. William Trail, of Rennard, was in the city Wednesday. Dick Winslow, of Anderson, was in the city Wednesday Miss Eliza Brooke and Mrs. Matt Bass attended the funeral of Mr. Mayberry at Carthage Thursday Rev. Saunders, of Crawfordsville, was in our city las Friday Robt. Flemming is assisting Louis Hoosier at his new tonsorial parlor. We wish him success Louis Hoosier was the guest of Miss Kate Bailey at New Castle last Sunday Miss Chappie Burton, of Shirley, is residing in our city now G H. Keemer made a business trip to Louisville last Tuesday Miss Vada Brooks is in Rushville this week Dan Jones, of Indianapolis, was the guest of Miss Rosa Thomas last Sunday Sunday is rally day. Everybody is invited to attend. The Odd Fellows are making great preparations for their annual services to be held May 20 at New Castle. The address will be delivered by Rev. J. H. Fisher of Peru Nathan and Walter Bailey were the guests of young lady friends at Rushville Sunday Kokomo News Rev, Johnson Burton preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday Wm. Ellis, of Bass Settlement is quite popular in Deer Creek Mary E. Hargrove, of Frankfort, and Noah Thompson, of Rockville, were the guests of Horace Lewis and wife. Miss Margaret Roberts, who has been at Logansport for some time, has returned home The captains of the various tribes should watch W. G. Walden's tribe; they are on the move Ed Gaskin spent Sunday in --- Mrs. George Hardiman and Mrs. Eugene Gaskin were in New London Monday attending the deathbed of their sister, Mrs. Isaac Hardiman Harry Smitherman has returned to his home in Indianapolis Mrs. Ida Tanner gave a grand concert on the 24th; it was a success The reporter wishes his subscribers to have their money ready when the papers are delivered Rev, E. E. Gregory will preach the thanksgiving sermon for the Odd Fellows Miss Ida Williams, the elocutionist, visited friends in the city The Dunbar club was entertained at the home of Joe Gaskins Grandma Pulley is improving Mac Wheeler, of Terre Haute, has accepted a position as pianist at Morris' Board of Trade Mrs. Mary Nicholson was called to Muncie on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Ray Lenny Griffin is visiting his parents in this city The many friends of Frank Busby in this city will be grieved to learn of his death at Benton Harbor Edinburg Notes Harry Handerson and Miss Julia Davis spent Tuesday in this city. Will Ford and Branch Garrett spent Sunday eve in Columbus Mrs. Susie Miller is improving. Mrs. Tilman Long attended the Easter Carnival at Indianapolis on Monday evening Miss Sallie Sims is on the sick list Mrs. Susie Dixon is indisposed. Paris, III. Paris, Ill. Elder Faris is conducting a series of meetings at Allen Chapel Mrs. Wm. Banks has returned from a visit to friends in Decatur Mrs. Henry Artist has recovered from a severe illness Dr. Amie B. Marsh is building up a good practice Rev. marsh will soon begin soliciting for his new parsonage Clara Reed has organized a sewing circle among the young people of the Second Baptist church Leroy Wilson is agent for The Freeman Mrs. B. W. Levan will spend Sunday at Danville Frankfort Notes Sunday was quarterly meeting; Rev. Sanders preached two able sermons Mrs. Johnson has returned from Anderson Rev. J. W. Harper is home to spend a few days with his family D. Valentine has moved his family on South Second street Mrs. Mary E. Williams, the hair dresser, was badly burned at her home Monday. For a time it was teared that she would loose her sight, but it is found that she will recover with a slight injury to her eyes Jerry Harper has returned to his home in Tuscola, Ill., after a few days' visit with his friends Richard Harper was called home to attend the funeral of his sister Mr. B. Cummings visited his THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA wife in Indianapolis Sunday Elroy Cummings and Miss Emma Harper were in Thorntown last Sunday, the guests of Archie Cummings and wife Miss Blanche Radliff is visiting friends in Lafayette Miss Maud Emory visited friends in Michintow last Saturday Kalamazoo, Mich. James Hall and wife, of Chicago are visitin relatives at Osthemo. The 10-cent tea at the A. M. E. church Wednesday was a success Mrs. Hoover, an aged lady, was buried Friday Mrs. Poole, of Allegan, is visiting relatives in the city Mrs. Lavina Cousins is improving slowly The program of the B. Y. P. U. Sunday evening was very good Mrs. Battles, of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. Hedgebeth Crawfordsville Notes. Rev. M. V, Saundres was in Indianapolis last week. Mrs. M. A. Tiester is recovering from a severe illness. Mrs. Maria Patterson, Misses Patterson, Irene Keene, and Blanch Patterson attended the funeral of Mrs. Julia Jackson, at Indianapolis Sunday. Twenty young people gave a surprise on Miss Grace Keene Monday evening at the home of Mrs. N. S. Davis, on Jefferson st., it being her 19th birthday. She received many dainty presents. At a late hour all returned to their homes, wishing Miss Keene many more such birthdays. Mrs. John Hale spent Sunday in Indianapolis. Connersville Sayings Mrs. Ruth Stewart will leave for Terre Haute Saturday. Miss Hugh Norman is visiting her mother at Tichmond. Mrs Sadie Hill is quite ill at her home on Grand ave. Mr. Henry Vertreace has returned from Ligoneer. Mr. George Davis returned to Connersville Sunday from Indianapolis. Miss Anna Burns returned to her home last Tuesday from Richmond. The young ladies Aid association will give an entertainment at the club room. Mrs. Mary Wilson the wonder ful woman preacher. will hold revival at the A. M. E. church. The Baptist literary society has a beautiful program for next Tuesday night. We had a spiritual meeting at the A. M. E. church last Friday. Miss Amanda Rogers is visiting her brother, Henry, at Rushville. She will go to Indianapolis this week. Miss Mollie Smith is still seriously ill. Mrs. Sallie Turner and Charley Patton are convalescent. The entertainment given by the M, E. church, Monday, was a social and financial success. Mrs. Cora Goodson is visiting in Cincinnati this week. Le Roy Fletcher's grandmother is quite ill. She is about 115 years of age. Robert Meyer has been sick for several days, is better. The Odd Fellows are expected have a great time on the second Sunday in May. Their sermon to be preached at the M. E. church. George Washington is able to out again after several days illness. Mr. Louise Bass of Indianapolis is visiting her parents and friends here. Quite a number of the city people went to Rushville Sunday to attend the baptising. Mrs. Agnes Evans joined the M. E. church Sunday. Rev. E. A. White who was elected as ministerial delegate by the Lexington conference, will start for Chicago, Monday to attend the general conference. Logansport Items. Geo. Stone leaves today for Arcadia, at which place, at high noon the 29 inst, he and Miss Margaret Roberts are to be married, Rev.C. W. Roberts, cousin of the bride, will officiate. They will be at home to their friends in Logansport, after May 7th. Quite a neat little joke was turned upon two ladies, members of the B. T. W. club not long since. They got into their minds that they Knew enough about getting into societies and Their pass word would work O K. Accordingly they gained admission into a newly organized society, that we are not sure, but on a venture, we give initials of their names as 'P. L. D. C. The parties named thought as they had used E. B. C. G. I. with such telling effect; they were up-to-date But no sooner had they gotten fairly seated than a Russell of the wind was felt and it was found to be from an Easterly direction. Sargeant-at-arms, Smith, thinking it not prudent to throw a Stone at the intruders, as they were ladies thought best to use a little of Misses Winslow's Soothing syrup, a dose was administered amid the yells Turnher out we don't admit the King here without our pass word. The members of Second Baptist are making an effort to raise $75.00 next Sunday and they ask that the pastors and members of sister churches help them. All the friends and well wishers of the cause are asked to aid them. Rev. Carr, the pastor will be assisted by Rev. Elzy and other brethren. We hope to have a large attendance on this occasion so come out everybody and help us. Rev. C. W. Mossell left this week for New York City to attend the Ecumenical Missionary Conference now in session in that city, to which he was appointed by Rt. Rev. Bishop Arnett, D. D., represent the Indiana conference. At the close of the conference he will in all probability, report to the general conference of the A. M. E. church which will then be in session in Columbus, O. Rev. J. Burden of Brazil, was in the city and preached Sunday evening. Six candidates were recieved for initiation next Monday evening by the G. U. O, O. F. Whereas It has pleased the Almighty God to take from our midst our esteemed brother, James L. Weaver. While we most humbly bow to the wise and perfect ruling power of a great merciful Creator, we can nevertheless refrain from expressing our grief and loss by his death. He was a man among men. Being generous and kind he was r respected by the fraternity and esteem for his noble qualities of manly character by all who knew him, with words of praises where praises were deserving and expression of sympathy and love for those who needed it. In hours of adversity and sorrow. He was the light and life of a happy home, and when life and light went out, the darkness sorrow shrouded the sunshine of happiness and left a bereaved stricken widow and child. May God in His infinite goodness and grace, consol their troubled hearts, To his friend and fraternity, he has left that which will live for ever in the memories of the fraternity of those who love him and be cherished in heart of all who knew him Therefore, Be it Resolved that Mississineway Lodge, No 2104, extends to his bereaved family its sincere and heart felt sympathy and hope that they may cast all their care on Him who has promised to care for the widows and fatherless: Resolved that while we mourn his loss, we are not without hope. His seat is vacant in our hall and a link broken in our chain never more to return. But so saith the Holy Divine, "Blessed are they who die in the Lord henceforth yea saith the spirit they rest from their labor" and their work does follow them. Dr. W, T. Thomas. Benton Harbor, Mich., Notes The funeral of Frank Busby will took place at his home last Tuesday afternoon. Rev. F.,P. Green officiating. He was 21 years of age, and leaves a father, 4 sisters, 2 brothers and a host of friends to mourn his loss. The lecture given by Rev. R. F. Hurley, D. D., of Detroit, Mich., last Friday night was a grand success and was highly enjoyed by all attended. Miss Carrie Busbv was called here by illness of her brother Frank, her sister, Mrs. Belle Crutcher, is also expected here from Indianapolis to attend the funeral. Wins and son are doing a rushing business with their new steam carpet cleaning works. Rev, F P. Green and wife have returned from South Bend where they attended a reception given in honor of the deacons and ministers' convention. Rushville Notes. Rev. A. A. Woolfolk, pastor of Second M. E. church, preached two splendid sermons Sunday. He has gained many friends and is well liked bp the church. Rev. Farrell and Johnson baptized 23 persons last Sunday in the presence of a large number of people Francis Duerson and wife and John Mabra and wife were called to Carthage to attend the funeral of William Mabra. Mrs. Minnie Gooden, of Anderson, spent Sunday with parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts. Mrs. Lula Patterson is visiting her parents. Mrs. Emma stone and daughter Miss Sarah Praffit and Miss Dora Ashney of Andhhrson, were the guests of Mrs. Ella Smith and Mrs. Carry Rodney. Mr. Brown and Gurney Winslow of Carthage, were the guests of John Ferguson. Mrs. Brown of Indianapolis was the guest of Lizzie Duerson. Mrs. Lue Walton and Mrs. Nancy Wadkins and daughter, Miss Betty Saulsberry, visited Mrs. Georgean Turner Sunday. Mrs. Turner is slowly improving The Household of Ruth gave a musicale last Saturday night and all reported pleasant time. They will render a program next week. Seymour Sights The pink tea social given by the Y. P. A.'s, was a grand success. Wm. Payne went to Noblesville to see Wesley Loyd who is very sick. James Winslow of Washington, passed through the city last Friday The Second Baptist church is making preparations to begin building at once. Mr. Anthony went to Cincinnati and brought his daughter, Miss Florence, home sick Sunday. Shelbyville Notes. Mrs. Georgia Allen who has been visiting in Laural, has returned to her home in E. Locust street. Miss Alice Roberts visited friends in Indianapolis, Wednesday. The sicks are reported better this week. Those on the list are mr. Frank Allen, Grace Hines, Allen Sr., and Mrs. Pearl Curry. John W. Curtis is the guest of relatives in E. Locust street. Robert Roberts of Charlottsville, was the guest of his son and daughter. Alice and Robert, Sunday. Arthur Allen, Earnest montgomery, Leonard Jonhson, Thomas Blanton, C. W. maxie, Edward Georgia, and Robert Reed spent Sunday in Franklin. The "all star" entertainers under management of the Shelbyville, marine band, at Blessing's opera house was quite a success. The hall packed at popular prices, standing room being at a premium. The performances were highly entertaining, and the compliments, from all sources were numerous The boys are being urged to repeat their performance at an early date Dublin News. James Cain and Mrs. Nancy Knox are on the sick list. Mrs. H. Burney Jones, of Muncie returned to her home Monday after a stay of two days with her sister of this place. J. H. Tate is said to be the best paper hanger and wall decorator in this part of the country. Mrs. J. W. Reed who has been sick all winter is able to out again. Rev. Collins and wife went to Connerville Monday where they will hold a series of meetings. Myra Burney and Miss Grace Reed spent Sunday with friends in Newcastle and report a pleasant time. Lafayette Vaporings. Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 Miss Luella Drake and Alonzo B. McKinney were married at the residence of the bride's parents last Wednesday evening, in presence of a large number of friends. Rev. B. Farrell of Indianapolis performed the ceremony. After the marriage a sumptuous menu was served. Mr. and Mrs. McKinney will be at home on E. Salem street, after May 1st. On Thursday a reception was tendered the newly married couple by Mrs. Mary Ashworth. W. F. Anderson is in Indianapolis attending the graduation exercises of his nephew. W. A. Birch, of the Indianapolis Dental college. Mr, and Mrs. Motley of Springfield, Ill., have moved to this city for permanent residence. Sunday will be quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church, Rev. Townsend, P. E., will be present. The Recorder received many compliments in Lafayette on its enlarged edition last week. Charlestown Musings The services at the methodist church Sunday were grand. Rev. Tiller of madison, assisted by Rev. Kelly, conducted the meetings splendidly. There were services in the new Baptist church last Sunday and on Easter sunday. Quite a number of people turned out on these occasions which were pleasant for all. Mrs Adeline smith and Emily Wilson are recovering from their illness. Mitchell Items Mr. Charles Duncan has gone to Beach Fork, Ky., to see his little daugh ter, who is very ill. Miss Cora Russell left for Franklin last week. Noble Winters, of Bedford was visiting his grandmother last week. Mr. Hayes, of Louisville, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Nichols last Sunday. Miss Ettie Lamont left for Indianapolis last Sunday. Rev. Y. C. Terrell was at Paoli and Newburg last week. Mr. Horace Robinson was in Bedford last week. Revs. Patterson of Washington and Rogers of Bloomington were in the city last week. W. J. Henson is at Bloomington this week. The Romantic Story of Frances Slocum. Little Quaker Girl Carried Off by Indians and Found Fifty-seven Years Later in Indiana, the Squaw of a Miami Chief. The proposed unveiling of a monument over the grave of Frances Slocum, the famous "Lost Sister of Wyoming," on the 17th of May, near the village of Peoria, Miami county, Indiana, opens up anew the oft-repeated story of this woman, whose narrative is so replete with romance and curious incidents that, with all its repetition, there is still room for fresh and interesting treatment. Frances Slocum has now been dead fifty-three years. She began life under the loving care of white parents, being one of ten born to the white man's heritage. She ended it a squaw among the Miami Indians, a thousand miles from her birthplace, the wealthy widow of a chief, and alienated utterly from her own race, from whom she had been separated more than sixty-eight years. The account of this transformed life is one of the most remarkable to be found in all our Indian annals. The Slocums were Quakers who [From a Painting by George Winter.] came from Rhode Island to the Wyoming valley in eastern Pennsylvania, when Frances was four years old, and settled where the city of Wilkesbarre now stands. This was in 1777. The next year occurred the historic attack and butchery by the British and Indians which has so often been the theme of prose and verse. The Shocum home was assailed and pillaged by three Delaware Indians when the men were absent. The mother and most of her children fled and concealed themselves in the woods, but Frances who, in the consternation of the moment seems to have been overlooked, secreted herself under a flight of steps leading to the loft till one of the Indians discovered her feet protruding and dragged her out. A lame brother had also been left in the house, and as the manarders made off with the children their mother, forgetful of her own peril, came out and pleaded for their release. The boy was left, but the last she saw of her little girl she was thrown, bag-wise, over her captor's shoulder, and, with one hand outsretched, the other trying to keep the long, luxuriant hair from her face, was calling, piteously to her mother for help. The sorrows of this unfortunate woman were great. Frances was her favorite child, the pet of the household, and the memory of the little one's heartrending appeal never died away. To fill her cup to the brim, a month or so after the abduction both her husband and father were shot down, tomahawked and scaled by the savages. This new grief, terrible as it was, time assuged, we are told; but the fate of her child, from its very uncertainty, haunted her till her death, more than twenty-eight years after the separation. During those years repeated efforts were made to find the lost daughter. Her brothers made trips as far westward as Ohio and Detroit to meet Indians, agents and traders, hoping through them to get trace of their sister. Mrs. Sloeum herself, then fifty-three years old, braved the difficulties of wilderness travel to attend a gathering of Indians who were to return captives to their families. To facilitate the search liberal rewards were offered, but all of no avail, and in this connection one or two interesting facts come to light, indicative of the Indian character. In the first place the family and tribe into which Frances was adopted accorded her an unusual regard, as was revealed by her subsequent account. One reason given for this was the color of her hair, which is described as reddish, or auburn, and which to the Indians was so unusual as to be esteemed a mark of distinction. Hence, they were not willing to give her up. Again, the indications are that her foster-person knew of the search that was being made for her and the further supposition is that the Indians far and wide knew of this particular white, auburn-haired captive, yet, despite the profered rewards, never a one would reveal her whereabouts—an illustration of the fidelity with which a red man will keep the secrets of his fellows. Until the day of her death Mrs. Sloeum believed that her daughter still lived, and for years after that the family clung to the hope and instituted occasional search and inquiry but finally the question was laid at rest as one of the mysteries never to be solved. Now comes another chapter of this romantic story. Fifty-seven years after little Frances Sloeum had been carried off in eastern Pennsylvania, Col. George W. Ewing, a well-known fur trader of the Wabash valley, made an interesting discovery. He was traveling on horseback from Ft. Wayne to Logansport, and stopped over night at an Indian habitation known as the "Deaf Man's Village," on the Mississinewa river. This "village" consisted of a log cabin residence and various outbuildings that had been the home of She-pan-can-ah, a deaf Indian, then deceased, who was the war chief of the Miamis before Francis Godfroy. The place was now occupied by the venerable widow of She-pan-can-ah, Ma-con-a-qua, together with her family. They were quite wealthy from the Indian point of view, owning a great number of horses, cattle, hogs and fowls, and a large reserve of land. Several things about the old woman led Mr. Ewing to suspect that she was not really an Indian, and, gaining her confidence, he got from her the story of her life and her abduction in early childhood. She remembered her Christian name—Slocum—and that her father was a Quaker, but where her old home was she did not know, further than that it was somewhere along the Susquehanna river. Her story impressed Mr. Ewing deeply and he resolved to communicate his information to some one in eastern Pennsylvania in hopes of reaching some of Ma-con-a-qua's family. To whom or where to write was a puzzling question, but finally selecting Lancaster as an old and important town on the Susquehanna, he sent a letter at a venture to the postmaster of that place. Then happened one of those curious little freaks of fate which sometimes occur outside of the novelist's pages. It chanced that said post office was in charge of a woman, owner of the Lancaster Intelligencer. It further seems that this woman had not journalistic sense enough to know that Mr. Ewing's long and circumstantial letter made a good "story," to say nothing of the humane considerations involved. Instead of publishing it she cast it aside among a lot of old papers, where it lay forgotten for two years. It chanced again that it was not destroyed, and that in the course of time it was discovered by some one who recognized its importance. It now found the light of the Intelligencer, which had changed hands, and fate this time ordained that it should be published in a large extra edition of the paper, which was widely distributed. A copy found its way to Joseph Slocum, one of the brothers, at Wilkesbarre. The family there at once opened up a correspondence with Col. Ewing, and this resulted in two brothers and a sister, all old now, meeting at Peru, Ind., to identify their sister. Accompanied by an interpreter and Mr. James B. Fulwiler, who still lives in Peru, the trio followed an Indian trail ten miles up the Mississiwea to the rude home of Macon-a-qua. They were received by a stolled woman, to all appearance a thorough Indian, with the coldness and reticence of her adopted race. She had been apprised of their coming, but showed no feeling, either of curiosity or gladness. She asked no questions concerning either them or her parents, and during their visit treated them with a civil indifference. When they invited her to visit them at Peru she would not promise till she should consult with Francis Godfroy, the chief, but when he assured her that it was safe to make the visit, she and her two daughters and a son-in-law came, a pictureque cavalcade, riding their ponies single file and "decked in gay, barbaric apparel." In accordance with the formal Indian etiquette they bore with them a haunch of venison, and this being solemnly presented as a token of confidence and received in the same spirit, their reserve gave place to an open friendliness, and Frances talked of herself at length. To the request that she go back East to her kinfolks, even for a brief visit, she would not consent. To her resolution she firmly adhered, and her people, after this successful issue to their long quest, wenf sorrowfully back to their homes. The "white captive" lived ten years after this visit from her kindred, and died at her home on the Mississimawe in March, 1847, aged seventy-four years. Her life presents an interesting study of that much-mooted question, "environment" vs. heredity." While she became in all her tastes an aborigine, thoroughly alienated from the aspirations of her native race, she seems to have retained certain Caucasian qualities, among them a strength of character and a dominating mentality which gave her among the red people that prestige which the whites that mingled with the Indians have almost invariably commanded. She was free from the vices that are particularly common among the Indians, notably that of intemperance, and her cleanliness and orderly housekeeping were contrary to the slovenly habits of these dirty people. She had the Indian's fondness for picturesque apparel, and her industry and skill to this end is most interestingly shown by some of her clothes still preserved by Gabriel Godfroy, a well-known Miami, now living of Peru. These garments, some of them of the finest broadcloth procurable of the traders, are beautifully ornamented with bands and designs worked with narrow silken ribbons of different colors, the needlework looking like machine stitching. George Winter, the Indian artist, painted several portraits of Frances Slocum. Two water colors are now in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. C. G. Ball, of Lafayette, Ind., and two in oil are owned by Slocum families in Wilkesbarre, Pa. One of these latter is reproduced in Lossing's "Field Book of the Revolution." and the oth- THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA er in Meginness's "Frances Slocum." This Meginness picture was painted in 1839, and the sitting for it is described at length in a communication from Mr. Winter to the Philadelphia Press, an old proof-sheet of which is in my possession. CRUIT FILIPINOS. Imnate Barbarism as Displayed Their Treatment of Prisoners. A staff correspondent of the N "Frances Slocum," the artist says, "presented a very singular and picturesque appearance. She was dressed in a red calico 'pes-mo-kin' or shirt, figured with large yellow and green figures; this garment was folded within in the upper part of her 'mecha-koteh,' or petticoat, of black cloth of excellent quality, bordered with red ribbon. Her neither limbs were clothed with red fade leggings, 'winged' with green ribbon; her feet were bare and moccasinless. 'Kick-kle-se-quah,' her daughter, who seemed not to be without some pride in her mother's appearing to the best advantage, placed a black silk shawl over her shoulders, pinning it in front. I made no suggestion of any change in these arrangements, but left the toilet uninfluenced in any one particular. Frances placed her feet across upon the lower round of the chair. Her hands fell upon her lap in good position. "Frances Slocum's face bore all the marks of deep-seated lines. Her forehead was singularly interlaced with right-angular lines, and the muscles of her cheeks were of ridgy and corded lines. There were no indications of unwonted care upon her countenance, beyond time's influence. Her hair, originally of a dark brown, was now frosted. Though bearing some resemblance to her family (white), yet her cheek bones seemed to have the Indian characteristics—face broad, nose bulky, mouth indicating some degree of severity, her eyes pleasant and kind. * * * Frances Slocum was low in stature, beareth scarcely above five feet in height. Her personal appearance suggested the idea of being a half-breed Pottawattomie woman rather than a Miami souw." Of a piece with this narrative of the "White Rose of the Miamis" is the account of her marriage to She-pan-can-ah, the chieftain, which is as romantic as the fond fabrications of the Indian legend writers who love to talk about "dusky mates." Ma-con-a-qua found the young warrior by the wayside badly wounded, and he was taken to the lodge of her foster parents and nursed back to health. For a time he remained with them, and being a skillful hunter, furnished the family with meat. When he prepared to seek pastures new they prevailed with him to stay permanently, and the presumably fair Ma-con-a-qua was given him to wife. This sounds dangerously like the stock article, but it is given as bona fide history.—Geo. S. Cottman, in Indianapolis Press. Interesting Notes on Bookmaking Interesting Notes on Bookmaking. The best books are sewn with silk which is stronger than thread. The skins of upward of a hundred thousand animals are used to cover Oxford Bibles alone. In the leather store at the binding house all the better kinds of skin are kept in stock. Here is the genome Russia leather, the skin of small Russian cows being used in this connection. The undyed skin alone possesses the distinctive aroma of Russia leather in perfection. The odor is supposed to be derived from some gum, but, however this may be, the process is a secret one, and has been jealously kept for two centuries. Imitation Russia leather is often made of "English calf." Gorts's skins provide most of the best binding leather. The best goatskin mopoco is known as "levant": "Turkey morocco", is lighter and thinner and of a closer grain than levant: "Spanish morocco", an almost obsolete term, has a different grain—straight and cross. It is curious that "French morocco" should be really the poorest kind of sheepskin imitation since at the same time the best genuine morocco on the market comes from Paris—Oxford University Press Periodical. His Roundabout Way. A man was going home to his wife and family. It was growing dark. His road from the station was a lonely one, and he was getting along as fast as he could, when he suddenly suspected that a man behind him was following him purposely. The faster he went, the faster the man went, until they came to a graveyard. "Now," he said to himself, "I'll find if he's after me," and he entered the chareyard. The man followed him. Vague visions of revolvers and garroters grew upon him. He made a detour of a splendid mausoleum. Still the man after him, round and round. At last he turned and faced the fellow and asked: "What the dickens do you want? What are you following me for?" "Well, sir, do you always go home like this? I am going up to Mr. Brown's house with a parcel, and the porter at the station told me that if I'd follow you I should find the place, as you live next door. Are you going home at all to night?"—The Columbian. A Mightier Tribe. Once upon a time the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmhurst, N. Y., brother to Henry Ward Beecher, got into some sort of a quarrel with a man named Smith down at Cohoes, Thomas K. Beecher wrote the presumptuous man a defiant little note, saying curly: "Do you want to get into a quarrel with the Beecher family?" And the man wrote back, with a snarl: "Do you want to fight with the Smith family?" And no Beecher could stand that. Thomas K. laughed and hastened to make terms.—Los Angeles Times. Supplying Her Omission. "You are welcome," said the man who had just given up his seat in the crowded street car. "I didn't say anything, sir," haughtily answered the porly woman, who had just sat down. "I know you didn't, ma'am," he rejoined beaming upon her with great cordiality.—Chicago Tribune. Inmate Barbarism as Displayed in Their Treatment of Prisoners. A staff correspondent of the New York Tribune, in a recent letter from Manila, says: If anybody here has had any doubt on the subject as to whether the insurgents are capable of self-government that doubt has been dispelled since the American prisoners have been recovered and brought back to Manila. For some months past the Spanish prisoners have been pouring a by the hundred and thousand. Most of them are private soldiers of the Spanish army, some of them are officers, some men of business who were caught within the hostile lines after the outbreak of the insurrection, and some of them are friars. The stories which these people have told of their treatment in captivity have floated about Manila ever since their return. With the advent of our little band headed by Lieutenant Gillmore, all doubts on this subject must be laid aside. That Aguinaldo and many more individuals in the insurgent army are disposed to clemency, from policy as well as from personal feeling, may be admitted, but the bulk of the insurgents seem possessed of an innate cruelty which their veneer of civilization has failed to displace. They have taken delight in the mental torture of their vietims, and have not stopped at that, but have also applied physical torture of a nature to rival the ingenious methods employed by American Indians. But perhaps the most pathetic tale which could be told concerning American prisoners, or, indeed, about the war as a whole, is that embodied in a report made by an officer of the 9th infantry concerning the three men of that command who were captured by the insurgents a short time ago. In November last four privates absented themselves without leave, taking with them their guns and cartridge belts. The regiment was then at Capas, a small town on the railroad, below Tarlac, and the men proceeded to a "barrio" about two miles and a half southeast from that place, with the object of obtaining chickens. Suddenly they noticed a number of armed men in a wood near them, and they were immediately fired upon by these. They returned the fire, and realizing that they were outnumbered, they began to retreat, but discovered that their retreat was cut off. They were surrounded in the rear by another party. The enemy, some fifty or sixty in number, began closing in about them, and firing from all sides. They returned the fire till the enemy got close and Private Lee, one of their number, who was shot in the breast, apparently mortally wounded. Of the insurgents seven men had been hit—three killed and four wounded. This infuriated them, and one came close enough to be able to strike another of our men. Private Brown, on the head with the butt of his gun. Seeing that further resistance only meant certain death, the men surrendered, and were hurried away toward the river in the direction of the road leading to Concepción. Private Lee, who had been wounded in the chest, was left behind, but when the men were hurried off he was still alive, and wounded only in this one spot. When a party of the 9th, having heard the firing, arrived on the scene a few minutes later, they found Lee not only dead, but mutilated, having bobo wounds on his neck, arms and other parts of his body, and his clothing was on fire. All this was done by some insurgents who stayed behind a few minutes. The three American prisoners were taken across the river by their captors, the party being fired upon as they crossed by a detachment of American soldiers whom they afterward found to be from the 25th. They were rushed onward by paths and trails toward the mountain Aryat, and upon joining the main body found Sergeant Peterson and Private Norvall, of the 12th Infantry, already there as prisoners. The names of the three 9th Infantry men were Privates Brown and Joseph and Charles Cook. The report goes on to say: At the time of their capture and from that time on, their lives were daily threatened and the three 9th Infantry men were often told that they would be certainly killed for the stiff fight that they had put up and for killing and wounding so many of the insurgents. A favorite pastime of the Filipinos was to step up to one of the prisoners with a revolver cocked and snap it in his face, the prisoner not knowing whether the revolver was loaded or not. To add to the terror which these actions would inspire, a Macabebe who had been caught at the same time as Sergeant Peterson and Private Norvall, of the 12th, had his throat cut one day before their eyes. The Filipinos jocosely remarked that this was only done to show them what was to be done to them. While prisoners they were fed solely upon rice. Only once was the diet varied. Three spoonfuls of salmon were once issued to the five. They became very weak, emaciated and slick with the mountain fever, and sometimes some of them could hardly walk or stand. There were several hundred insurgents at Canausai (where they were taken). They thought that the evening of January 4 about six hundred had answered the roll call, and that by the morning of the attack of the 25th Infantry, January 5, there were one thousand of them. When this attack began early in the morning, the five prisoners were lined up by General Aguino himself and nine Filipinos lined up in front of them with rifles. When the firing (of the attacking party) continued to grow heavier, General Aguino himself gave the order and the five prisoners were shot. All had been obliged to kneel down except Sergeant Peterson, who had refused to kneel. The insurgents then boiled those that seemed to be alive and ran hastily away, as the Americans were already getting quite near. Lieutenant Schenck and Dr. Gillhooley of the 25th Infantry, in the attacking party arrived on the scene immediately after and describes the pit- iful condition of the five prisoner. They were all lying on the ground shot and wounded with bolos in various parts of the body. Private Brown of the 9th Infantry was dead. Private Cook was mortally wounded, being shot and having a bolo wound in the back of his neck which nearly severed his spine. He was quite rational, however, and lived for about an hour, giving the two officers directions as to what messages to send to his people. He first asked the doctor if he was going to die. The doctor replied that it was impossible for a man wounded as he was to live more than a short time. Then he said: "Tell father about it, and tell him that I died like a soldier." At the time of writing the report the three men were still alive, the two 12th Infantry men, Sergeant Peterson and Private Norvall, having a fair chance of recovery. The last survivor of the four men of the 9th Infantry, Private Joseph Cook, was so badly wounded with a Remington, which had made a big hole in his chest, that the doctor said that owing to his wasted and depleted physical condition there was small chance of his recovery. In relating the incidents of this affair this man said that after they had been shot, "I saw them cutting up the other fellows, so I played possum, and they did not bolo me much." He also remarked that he "supposed that he would have to pay for his rifle, as he had lost it by being absent without authority, but he hoped they would not be too hard on him." The bare outline of this story which was related alike by all the survivors separately and corroborated at many points by the officers of the 9th, who came upon the scene near Capas immediately after the capture was made, and by officers of the rescue party of the 25th, is so pitiful and gives such a revelation of the development of native character when possessing unrestrained power or authority that no comment is necessary. ECCENTRIC COLONEL EGE. He Had a Fondness for Shooting at Men's Hats. Colonel Ege was a famous character in the early days. Although living in Doniphan county, he was often in Atchison, followed by a pack of hounds. He was a high-toned Southern gentleman, with a kind heart, and one day while returning home from this city he came across a man whose wagon was stuck in the mud in Independence Creek bottom'. Colonel Ege at once started in to help the man pry out his wagon with fence rails. While both were working away, Ege became angry and yelled to the man: "Lift, you son of a gun; you are not lifting a pound." The man picked up the gate of the wagon and split it over Ege's head, laying him up for three weeks. Ege had his hat off when struck, and was so bald before coming to Kansas that he was known as the Bald Eagle of Maryland. Ege always carried a pistol and was always trying to shoot through somebody's hat without hitting him. One day at the Independence Creek ferry he shot at a man, but aimed a little low and creased him. But Ege was always a gentleman; he took the man to his home and tenderly cared for him until he recovered.—Atchison Globe. Norman French Terms in the Law. If the honorable member who suggested the abolition of Norman French in the process of legislation had glanced at Sir Erskine May's great work he would have seen how superfluous a piece of vandalism this would be. Hardly half a dozen phrases of this dialect now survive. Of these are well known, "la reyne le veult," "soit fait comme il est desire," and when the royal assent is refused "la reyne s'avisera"—a formula, by the way, not heard since 1707. When a bill is sent to the lords the clerk writes on it "soit balle aux selgeurs;" the indorsement "a ceste bleue avesque des amendements les selgeurs sont assentus" speaks for itself. Cromwell gave his assent to bills in English, but at the restoration the old monarchical custom was revived. In 1706 the lords passed a bill to abolish French in Parliament and the courts of law, but the parliament has only spoken English since the reign of Henry VI. The use of the Norman French is so closely intertwined with the early foundations of our constitution that purposeless destruction of its few relics would be mere iconoclasm. "It would be hardly too much to say," according to Messrs. Pollock and Maitland. "that at the present day almost all our words that have a definite legal importance are, in a certain sense, French words," and they point out that nearly all the technical terms of the common law are French. "The Middle Ages," these authorities add, "are just at an end before the records of the English Legislature are written mainly in English, and to this day, as we all know, what a lawyer must regard as the most solemn of all our formulas is French: La reyne le veuilt." The law reports of the sixteenth century, they tell us, are not Norman French, but "dog French"—Pail Mall Gazette. "Hence This Puff." "One of the pleasantest sights we have had in this town in a long time was the artistic flanner in which John Griffin, of Lawrence, buried 'Bill Krenger, who died since our last issue, Mr Griffin had his trade at his fingers' ends, and he handled our dead citizen with an utility that was startling in its originality. He was everywhere all the time, weeping with the afflicted widow, discussing weather prospects with the farmers, and soliciting business from other attendants at the funeral. He will doubtless be able to get all the business in these parts. Before leaving for home he subscribed for this great family weekly paper, paying a year in advance. Hence this puff." -Vineland (Ran.) Weekly Vine. Woman's Refuge when sick is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. No other medicine in the world has done so much good. No confidence has ever been violated. No woman's testimonial was ever published by Mrs. Pinkham without special permission. No woman ever wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice without getting help. No man sees these letters. Her advice is free, and her address is Lynn, Mass. She is a woman, you can tell her the truth. No living person is so competent to advise women. None has had such experience. She has restored a million sufferers to health. You can trust her. Others have. Lydia E. 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Digitatics Should Be Done Away With and the Scriptures Pure and Simple Substituted-Dr. Talmage's Sermon. At a time when the old discussion of creeds is being vigorously a n d somewhat bitterly revived this disc course of Dr. Talmage has a special interest. The text is John xi, 44, "Loose him and let him go." M. B. My Bible is, at the place of this text, written all over with lead pen-cil marks made at Bethany, on the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to the dead sea. Bethany was the summer evening retreat of Jesus. After spending the day in the hot city of Jerusalem he would come out there almost every evening to the house of his friends. Lazarus, the brother, was now at the head of the household, and his sisters depended on him and were proud of him. But one day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in consternation. Father gone and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. From the characteristics otherwise developed I judge that Martha prepared the medicines and made tempting dishes of food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus until the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that w went up from that household when the last breath had been drawn and the two sisters were being led by sympathizers into the adjoining room all of those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why was not Jesus there, as he so often had been? Far away in the country districts, preachin, healing other sick, how unfortunate that this omnipotent Doctor had not been at that domestic crisis in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been buried four days, and dissolution had taken place. At the door of the sepulcher is a crowd of people, but the three most memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sisters. We went into, the traditional tomb one December day, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, but the day spoken of in the Bible there was present an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do? He orders the door of the grave removed, and then he begins to descend the steps. Mary and Martha close after him and the crowd after them. Deep down into the shadows and deeper! The hot tears of Jesus roll over his cheeks and plush upon the backs of his hands. Were ever so many sorrows expressed into so small a space as in that group pressing on down after Christ, all the time bemoaning that he had not come before? Now after the whispering and all the crying and all the sounds of shuffling feet are stopped. It is the silence of expectancy. Death had conquered, but now the vanquiler of death confronted the scene. Amid the awful hush of the tomb, the familiar name which Christ had often had upon his lips in the hospitalities of the village home came back to his tongue, and with a pathos and an almightiness of which the resurrection of the last day shall only be an echo he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" "Take off these cerements! Remove these hindrances! Unfasten these graveclothes! Loose him and let him go!" I am glad that Christ commanded his complete emancipation, saying, "Loose him and let him go." The unfortunate thing now is that so many Christians are only half liberated. They have been raised from the death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but they yet have the graveclothes on them. They are, like Lazarus, hobbling up the stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their soul, and I shall try to obey the Master's command that comes to me and comes to every minister of religion. "Loose him and let him go." Many are bound hand and foot by religious creeds. Let no man misinterpret me as antagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them—a creed about religion, a creed about art, a creed about social life, a creed about government, and so on. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The Presbyterian church is now agitated about its creed. It is impossible that people who lived hundreds of years ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died 336 years ago. I could call the names of 20 living Presbyterian ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth. "But," you say, "it is the same old Bible, and John Calvin had that as well as the present student of the scriptures." Yes; so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but in our time it has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. It is the same old water, but in our century it has gone to running steam engines. It is the same old electricity, but in our time it has become a lightning footed errand boy. So it is the old Bible, but new applications, new uses, new interpretations. What a time we have had with the dogmatics, the apologetics and the hermeneutics! The defeat in some of the creeds is that they try to tell us all about the creeds of God. Now, the only human being that was ever competent to handle that subject was Paul, and he would not have been competent and he not been inspired. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations pure and simple. That would take the earth for God; that would be impregnable against infidelity and Apollyonic assault; that would be beyond human criticism. The denomination, whatever its name be, that can rise up to that will be the church of the millennium, will swallow up all other denominations and be the one that will be the bride when the bridegroom cometh. Let us make it simpler and planer for the people to get into the kingdom of God. But there are those who would add unto the tests rather than subtract from them. There are thousands who would not accept persons into church membership if they drink wine or if they smoke cigars or if they attend the theater or if they play cards or if they drive a fast horse. But do not substitute tests which the Bible does not establish. Again, there are Christians who are under sepulchral shadows and fears and hopped by doubts and fears and sins long ago repented of. What they need is to understand the liberty of the sons of God. They spend more time under the shadow of Stani than at the base of Calvary. What many of you Christians most need is to get your graveclothes off. I rejoice that you have been brought from the death of sin to the life of the gospel, but you need to get your hand loose, and your feet loose, and your tongue loose, and your soul loose. There is no sin that the Bible so arraigs and punctures and flagellates as the sin of unbelief, and that is what is the matter with you. Again, my text has good advice concerning any Christian hampered and bothered and bound by fear of his own dissolution. To such the book refers when it speaks of those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to the bondage. The most of us, even if we have the Christian hope, are cowards about death. If a plank fall from a scaffolding and just grazes our hat, how pale we look! If the Atlantic ocean plays with the steamship pitching it toward the heavens and letting it suddenly drop, how even the Christian passengers pester the steward or stewardess as to whether there is any danger. Backed up by the teachings of your Bible, just look through the telescope some bright night and see how many worlds there are and reflect that all you have seen, compared with the number of worlds in existence, are less than the fingers of your right hand as compared with all the fingers of the human race. How foolish, then, for us to think that ours is the only world fit for us to stay in. One of our first realizations in getting out of the world, I think, will be that in this world we were very much pent up and had cramped apartments and were kept on the limits. The most, even of our small world, is water, and the water says to the human race. "Don't come here or you will drown." A few thousand feet up the atmosphere is uninhabitable, and the atmosphere says to the human race, "Don't come up here or you cannot breathe." A few miles down the earth is a furnace of fire, and the fire says, "Don't come here or you will burn." The caverns of the mountains are full of poisonous gases, and the gases say, "Don't come here or you will be asphixated." And, crossing a track, you must look out or you will be crushed. And, standing by a steam boiler, you must look out or you will be blown up. And pneumonias and pleurisies and consumptions and apoplexies go across this earth in floocs, in droves, in herds, and it is a world of equinoxes and cylones and graves. Yet we are under the delusion that it is the only place fit to stay in. Heaven is 95 per cent, better than this world, a thousand per cent, better, a million per cent, better. Take the gladdest, brightest, most jubilant days you ever had on earth and compress them all into one hour, and that hour would be a requiem, a fast day, a gloom, a horror, as compared with the poorest hour they have had in heaven since its first tower was built or its first gates swung or its first song caroled. "Oh," you say, "that may be true, but I am so afraid of crossing over from this world to the next, and I fear the snapping of the cord between soul and body." Well, all the surgeons and physicians and scientists declare that there is no pang at the parting of the body and soul, and all the restlessness at the closing hour of life is involuntary and no distress at all. "But," you say, "I fear to go because the future is so full of mystery." Well, I will tell you how to treat the mysteries. The mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I do as the judges of your courts often do. They hear all the arguments in the case, and they say, "I will take these papers and give you my decision next week." So I have heard all the arguments in regard to the next world, and some things are uncertain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve until the next world my decision about them. I can there study all the mysteries. The only part of the journey I made years ago to Palestine that I really dreaded was the landing at Joppa. That is the port of entrance for the Holy Land, and there are many rocks, and in rough weather people cannot land at all. The boats taking the people from the steamer to the docks must run between reefs that looked to me to be about 50 feet apart, and one mistroke of an oarsman or an unexpected wave has sometimes been fatal, and hundreds have perished along those reefs. Besides that, as we left Port Said the evening before, an old traveler said; "The wind is just right to give you a rough landing at Joppa; indeed I think you will not be able to land at all." The fact was that when our Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore in the small boat, the water was as still as though it had been sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed as easily as I entered this pulpit. Weil, your fears have pictured for you an appalling arrival at the end of your voyage of life, and they say that the seas will run high and that the breakers will swallow you up, or, that if you reach Canaan at all it will be a very rough landing. The very opposite will be true if you have the eternal God for your portion. Your disembarkment for the promised land will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine. Christ will meet you far out at sea and pilot you into complete safety, and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and a halleluiah on the other. "Land ahead!" Its fruits are waving O'er the hills of fadeless green And the living waters laving Shores where heavenly forms are seen. Rocks and storms I'll fear no more When on that eternal shore. Drop the anchor, furl the sail! I am safe within the veil! CORRUPTION IN THE ORIENT. Bad Work. Slow Progress and Short- Sighted Economy on the Russo- Manchurian Railway. The construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russo-Manchurian line), would appear to be proceeding under many and seriously retarding difficulties. The Czar himself is said to be much displeased by its laggard progress. The chief engineer, M. Yugovitch, has been summarily dismissed by imperial order and replaced by the well known railway engineer expert, M. Ignatius. The constructive administration has, for the sake of shortsighted economy—and not improbably with a less worthy purpose—elected to employ Chinese in preference to Russian labor. The daily pay demanded by the Chinamen is from 30 to 40 kopecks, or from seventeen-halfpenny to ten pence, while the Russian workman declines to accept anything less than a ruble and 50 kopecks, or three shillings and threepecks per diem. The Chiamen make up for their scant remuneration by a wholesale and well organized system of petty lurcey, and, what is more serious, by a disgraceful scamping of their work. Long stretches of embankments have been so imperfectly built that, quite unnecessarily, they will occupy more than six months' extra labor before the sleepers and rails can be permanently laid. The Russian official supervisors are of course, equally culpable in this matter. On the Charbin-Ornski section the rails are not yet laid, and between the former place and the frontier station it is only as yet possible, and that with difficulty, to run light ballast trains carrying wagons, locomotives and other mechanical appliances is alike belated and dislocated. The telegraphists at twenty consecutive stations recently abandoned their posts and struck for higher salaries; they were previously receiving only 40 rubles per mensem. By special imperial command all these drawbacks are to be remedied forthwith, and it is hoped that the new line will be completed by the end of 1901, but the remaining bridges to be erected will consume at least another twelve months. The Russo-Chinese Eastern Railway will not, therefore, be opened for through traffic before 1902, or about fifteen months later than the time originally reckoned upon for the completion of the Manchurian system, to which Russia attaches so much political, strategical and commercial importance—Odessa correspondence of the London Standard. Strawberries on Trees At last M. Baltet the great French specialist, has been enabled to grow strawberries on plants of a decidedly treelike nature. The method is simplicity itself. The runners are trained up vertically and tied to a stake, in the same way that a pot tomato plant is, and then the lateral buds are pinched out. Result—a strawberry tree on a small scale. The system, as regards the strawberry plant, has been utilized in the production of tree heliotropes, or "cherry pie," as the fragrant flowers are usually called, on account of the strong cherrylike perfume they give out. The finest specimens of these are to be seen in the season in the lovely gardens of Walmer Castle, the late Marchioness of Sallisbury having been very partial to them. It is predicted by several eminent members of the Royal Horticultural Society that the tree strawberry will be a prominent feature of the coming fruit shows in England during the present year.—London Leader. Her Gentle Retort Judge Taft, of Ohio, who will be associated with General White in the Philippine Commission, tells this story of how his wife turned the tables on him when he attempted a bit of sarcasm at her expense: The Judge and Mrs. Taft attended church one Sunday morning, and after service Mrs. Taft was the center of a group of women who stood in the aisle and held a long and animated discussion on some topic of feminine interest, as women will. The judge grew impatient at the delay, and was very grum on the way home. At last he said: "Do you know you chattering women reminded me of Balaam's ass blocking the way?" "Oh, no," replied Mrs. Taft severely. "You are mistaken. It was the angel that blocked the way of the ass!"—Memphis Schmitar. Diplomacy in the Pu'rit. "Jes' one word," said Uncle Remus from the pulpit, as the collection was about to be taken, "dar's been a mighty sight ob chicken stealing 'bout here lately. Now don' any you nlg-gars dat help steal dem chickens put nuffin' in de 'lection box. It's not goin' hab any yo' 'sgraclin' de good Lawd in way, nohow!" -Harper's Bazar. AiStage Change. Property Man—Now that you intend putting on "A Tropic Night," what are we going to do with all those hanging leccles used in our "Polar Bear?" Manager—Have them painted green and let them go on as grapevines.—Chicago News. The Greatest of Spring Medicines HOYTS POISONED BLOOD CURE HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE.....87 bottles All other blood remedies combined.....13 bottles Total.....100 bottles The 87 bottles of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE sold in March gave such universal satisfaction that Mr. Morrison has already SOLD IN APRIL 94 BOTTLES OF THIS MEDICINE, and only SEVEN OF ALL OTHER'S COMBINED. while H. C. Raffensperger, the druggist right across the street, SELLS FROM THREE TO SIX BOTTLES IN AN EVENING: and J. P. Fritz, two squares south, SELLS AS MANY AS TEN BOTTLES IN A DAY REPUTATION AT HOME Eddie, the seven-year old son of Mrs. H. Armstead, 605 Cincinnati street, was vaccinated February 99 and afterwards broke out in a mass of running sores, and remained so while under the local physician's treatment-nt. His suffering was intense, and the vaccinated mark failed to heal. He started taking HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE about. August 15 and immediately grew healthier and stronger. To this medicine alone little Eddie Armstead owes his life. "I suffered untold agony with female weakness, and physicians said an operation would have to be performed. I can now do six washings a week after using HOYT'S POI ONED BLOOD CURE. I belong to Ames' church and many ladies' societies, and never miss an opportunity to recommend this valuable medicine," Mrs. Sheets, 914 Charles street. A clean sweep of all impurities follows the use of . . . ALL DRUGGISTS I have used Ripans Tables with so much satisfaction that I can cheerfully recommend them, when I see them attacking on regularly ones a week. Was told by different physicians that it was caused by bad teeth, of which I had several. It was continued. I had teeth teaks continued. I had seen advertisements of Ripans Tables in all the papers but had no faith in them, but about six weeks since a friend in them, who had taken two of our small s-event boxes, had no recurrence of the attacks. Have never given a testimonial for anything before, but the great amount of what I believe is joy and hope and joy of teaching induce me to add many testimonials you doubtless have in your possession now. A. T. D.WIRT. ONE GIVES RELIEF. R.I.P.A.N.S The modern stand- ard Family Medi- cine: Cures the common every-day ill of humanity. TRADE R.I.P.A.N.S MARK --- Tabules regularly. She keeps a few cartons Ripans Tabules in the house and says she will not be with them. The heartburn and sleepiness have disappeared with the indigestion which we are formerly so great burden for her. Our wk. family take the Tabules regularly, especially after she has been sick. The headaches have disappeared. Health is good condition and he never complains of his stomach. He is now red, chubby-brown. His body is enjoying the best of health and spirit; also is eating hearty meal, an impossibility before she took Ripans Tabules. ANTHO A. BLACKER. A new style pack contains maintaining the RIPANS Tabules packed in a paper carton (with Ripans Tabules in now for sale at some drug stores—FOR SUPPLEMENT). This low-priced sort is intended for the poor and the economical. One dozen of the five-cent cartons (150 tabules) can be had by mail by sending for 'y-eight cents to the RIPANS CHEMICAL COMPANY, No. 10 Spruce Street, New York, NY 10022. The company is a general store, news agents and as some liquor stores and barbers. They have印牌, indica and sleep aid. One gives relief. American Mutual Aid Association We need not refer you to people in Europe, Asia, etc., for recommendation, but can furnish testimonials from reliable persons in your own city. We pay Sick accident and Death Benefits Also furnish Free Medical attention in case of Sickness or Accident Be on the safe side and Insure with us. BEFORE AFTER Ozono King of all Hairdressings An honest remedy Ozono Positively straightens knotty, nappy, kinky, troublesome, refractory hair. Cures baldness and ruff and all itching, running, scaly, hum latting scalp diseases. Causes the hair to grow long, straight, soft, fine and beautiful as as April morn. Price 50 cents a box. Four boxes does the work. OZONO cannot fail. OUR GRAND OFFER, Cut out this advertisement and send with one dollar and we will send you immediately: Four boxes of OZONO, also one bottle skin refiner guaranteed to make black and rough skin soft and bright, also one bottle "Skin Food" cures all skin diseases, removes wrinkles, freckles, moth patches, tan, liver spots, also one package Antioxidor, removes all odors arising from the human body, cures chibblains, sore throat etc. This grand offer is made to introduce honest goods. The above illustration shows the result of using Ozone etc. Register your letters to protect them and write your name and address plightly. STON CHEMICAL CO. RICHMOND, VA No. 411 M. Twenty-third street. I want to inform you, in words of highest praise, of the benefit Hipas Tables. Hipas Tables. I am a professional nurse and in this profession a clear road is always needed. Hipas Tables does it. Found myself completely run down. Acting on the advice of Mr. Geo. Bowen, Newark Avenues City I Hipas Tables with grand results. MISS BESH WIEDMAR Mother was troubled with heartburn and sleeplessness, caused by indigestion, for a good many years. One day in the paper indorsing Ripans Tables. She determined to give them a trial, was greatly relieved by their use "I am sixty years of age, and for a year suffered with headache and nervousness all the time. When I commenced to take HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE I could not do a ha f day's work, and I shook like an aspen. Two bottles made me feel better than I had for years." Mrs. Sallie Ferguson 335 W. 18 h street. Wm J. Kennedy, 1902 Holloway avenue, had poisoned blood, the result of unhaling the air in a glue factory. Six bottles of HOYT'S FOISONED BLOOD CURE relieved his system of every particle of the poison Mary Moler, 915 E. St. Clair, says "Both of my little girls suffered for years with Eczema. Physicians treated with no benefit and HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE cured both cases completely. I am now taking it for Eczema myself." Hoyt's Poisoned Blood Cure I have been a great sufferer from constipation. My feet and legs and abdomen were blasted so I could not wear shoes on my feet and only a loose dress. I saw Ripans Tables advertised in our store. I had taken them about three weeks and there is such a change! I am not constipated any more and I owe it all to Ripans Tables. I am thirty-five and I have household duties and nursing my sick husband. He has had the dropy and I am trying Ripans Tables for him. He feels some better but it will take some time. I am doing strong. You may use my letter and name as you like. MARY MARY GORMAN CLASMAN I have been suffering from headaches ever since I was a little girl. I could never ride a Reading some of the testimonials in favor of Ripans Tabules, I tried them. Ripans Tabules not only relieved but actually cured my younger, more frail sister. I had good condition and he never complains of his stomach. He is now a red, chubby-boy. His wonderful change I attribute to Ripans Tabules. I am satisfied that they will benefit one (from the older to old age) if taken secondhand. W. E. P. Warm. THE NEW YORK CLIPPER Contains a Reliable Record of all the Events in the THEATRICAL WORLD AND THE WORLD OF SPORTS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY 54.00 A YEAR. SINGLE COPY, 10 Cts. For Sale by all Newsdoctors. SAMPLE COPY FREE. Address NEW YORK CLIPPER NEW YORK. I could never ride in a car or go into a crowded place without getting a headache and sit as my sister. Ripans Tabules from an aunt of mine who was taking them for cataract of the stomach. Bie had them taken and their use she advised me to take them too, and I have been doing so since last October, and will always say they are comfortable cured my headaches. I am twenty-nine years old. You are welcome to use this testimonial Mr. J. BR. ENTERED. My seven year-old boy has in his head, constipation and complained of his headache, and sat like children of his age do and what he did eat did not agree with him. He was this Total..... 100 bottles in March gave such universal satisf- tLES OF THIS MEDICINE, and superger, the druggist right across the ING: and J. P. Fritz, two squares HOME. Geo, Gibson, 2016 Hovey's street suffer- ed with constipation, which produc- ed serious nervousness. He was unable to even ride in a buggy, but is now able to work—the first time since last July—the result of taking HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE. Mrs E. C'emmons, 824 West street, says: "I have suffered with catarra- so long that it left big lumps on my head the size of marbles. After tak- ing one bottle of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE the lumps entirely disappeared." Mrs. Nancy Hinkle, 533 Patterton street, says: "My little girl had inflamatory rheumatism of the most severe kind. One bottle of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE did more to relieve her than anything else I ever tried." WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe person to have to be so good as to keep him straight as shown above. In nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on requests. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of initiations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. The test is for the best time and the gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most essential to keep it from being a body to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions for the use of the following: Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers and send 3 $240 Postal or Express. Mail Order: 8 both express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. For sale by Lewis O Hayes, Drugist, 502 Indiana Ave; Indianapolis. A GREAT NEWSPAPER. It has always been claimed, for The Chicago Tribune that it would, in all probability, pass with the highest authority among the newspapers of the United States for excellence in all departments of journalism. "Under date of Map 2, 1899, the World-Herald, editorially and swearing a letter from 'Inquirer', asking the newspaper in this country, points out that a newspaper may excel in journalism." The World-Herald gives lists under five general headings, leading to numerous specializations especially for excellence mentioning in all some twenty. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE HEADINGS: (1) Most and best news, foreign and domestic, presented attractively (2) Best picture presentation of news briefly (3) Classification of news by departments. (4) Classification of news by departments. (5) Classification of news by departments. The Chicago Tribune is the most widely known, which the World-Herald considers worthy of mention under four different headings."—From the October Paint Tape. Practically all high-class intelligent newspaper readers, comprising the best and middle classes in Chicago and vicinity, read The Chicago Tribune. A morning newspaper, they read no other morning newspaper. The Chicago Tribune prints more advertising year in and year out than any newspaper in the West 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGN COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may sell patented designs for sourcing patents. Information is probably patentable. Communications striately confidential. Handbook on Patents serves as latest security for sourcing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A laboratory illustrated weekly. Information calculation of any scientific journal. Terms. $3 a year; four months. 61. Sold by all newaders. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office. 65 F. St. Washington, D.C. --- Telephone (old and new) 561. Master Jerome Lonas is indisposed. Miss Lulu Todd of Madison is visit ing in the city. John Crossen is recovering from a recent indisposition. Attorney I. D. Blair is out of the city on legal business. Wanted Agents. A liberal commission paid. Call at Hart Medicine Co. 234 W. Vermont street. Wanted a bright boy to learn the printing trade. Inquire, The Recorder. For Rent—Furnished room for two gentlemen or man and wife. Inquire 416 West Eleventh-st. Recommend The Recorder to you friends. 3 months, 25c. Mrs. Hattie Whaley is sick at her home in Fayette street. Mrs. David Primus has recovered from her recent illness. The Topaz club met with Mrs. Stella Fisher, Friday afternoon. Mrs. Harry Cooper is indisposed at her home in Center street, Mrs. Major Gardner is much improved from her recent illness. Dr. Hickman of Crawfordsville was in the city this week, Mrs. Hettie Johnson is very ill at her home, 1118 S. State avenue. The bride. Miss Ednah Clark, groom Mr. Lloyd Cox—Monday evening: 'The Negro' Thursday and Friday evening's, at English's Opera house. Mrs. Ada Washington of Spokane, Wash., visited Mrs. Fretwell last week Mamie, daughter of Mrs. Maggie Puryear, in Martindale avenue, is ill. The only medicine for Spring tonic-Hoyt's Poisoned Blood Cure Note the 25c coupon on page 4. Don't miss the Tom Thumb wedding at Clivet Baptist church, Monday evening, April 30. The Easter carnival and ball last Monday night was fairly attended. It was a grand affair. Miss Julia McCampbell of Chicago, is the guest of Mrs. J. N. Blackwell, 1605 Alvord street. Don't forget the Tom Thumb wedding at Olivet Baptist church, Monday evening, April 30. Miss Lucinda Hill of Connersville was the guest of her sister, Mrs. David Primus, last Sunday. Walter Burden of Richmond spent Sunday as the guest of Miss Pearl Patterson in Fayette street. The annual opening of the Favorite English's Next Thursday & Frid English's Opera House The Assoc Knight Chas. And his Twe Dram ENTITLED The N A Magnificent Production, Represen Characterizing the Sterling the Cotton Fields to Special Attraction 'The Negro' A Magnificent Production, Represented with Grand Chrouses, and Characterizing the Sterling Qualities of the Negro from the Cotton Fields to a Place of Authority. Special Attraction . . . Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, Elocutionist, Impersonator and Reader, cf Washington, D. C. assisted by Mr. ALBERT YOUNG, the Western SPECIAL COSTUME 100 People and a Gran Prices: 75c, 50c and 75c Seats now on sale Prices: 75c, 50c and 75c Box Seats $1.00 Seats now on sale confectionary, will take place next Sunday, April 29. The public is cordially invited. Music and flowers. The Peoples Grocery store, R. S. Street, manager, will reopen for businesses next week. Mrs. Robert Henderson was called to Louisville, Ky., by the death of her sister, Mrs. Mary Sundusky. Mrs. Florence Elder of Madison, is visiting Mrs. Jas Thomas and Adah Smith, 516 W. Thirteenth street. The musicale and drill at Walters chapel, has been postponed to April 30 Miss Florence Edwards, manager. Mrs. Nellie Richardson of Muncie, was the guest of Miss Minnie Elbert in North Capitol avenue, Sunday. Costumes for 'The Negro' Thursday and Friday evening, are the finest ever gotten out by Kinklin the costumer. The Indiana Assembly of the American Mutual Aid association, met last Wednesday evening in monthly meeting. Rev, A. Wakefield will leave Monday for the general conference, which convenes Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The annual sermon of the United Brothers of Friendship will be delivered on the third Sunday in May, at the Tomlinson hall. The annual sermon of the G. U. O. O. F. will be preached by Dr. Newton of Bethel church, May 6, at the Second Baptist church. The annual sermon to the Sisters of Charity, will be preachdd by Rev. C. W. Newton, Sunday at the Second Baptist church. Mrs. Evelyn Mitchell-James will apear at the annual sermon of the U. B of F. next month. Mrs. James has a sweet contralto voice. The Indianapolis Silk Waist Co., at 34 Virginia avenue, are making an unprecedented offer of silk waists or skirts for 200. Investigate their line of goods. Messrs Will Keelum of the Knightstown Sun, W. V. Eagleson of Bloomington and John Mason were pleasant callers at this office this week. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Posten spent last Sunday out of the city, the former in Terre Haute and the latter with friends in Franklin. The Clytean club will meet next Thursday evening, with Mrs. Thomas Ashley in Ruckle street. All members are requested to be presented. Mrs. A. M, Washington of Spokane, Opera House day, May 3 & 4, 1900 The Associated Brotherhood Knights of Pythias PRESENT Chas. S. Sager And his Twentieth Century Melo- Dramatic Success Negro' sented with Grand Chrouses, and Qualities of the Negro from o a Place of Authority. ion .... M. ES AND SCENERY! and Chorus of 75 Voices c Box Seats $1.00 Wash., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Bazel, 519 Agnes street. She will remain about one week. The Select dancing class will not meet next Friday evening, on account of the Pythian benefit at English's Opera house. Members take notice. Dr. J. H. Ballard has been selected as the resident physician as the American Mutual Aid association of Saint Louis, Mo. Call new phone 2680, old 2 rings 26350. The solution of the Negro problem is in the hands of God. Hear it in sohg by Mr. Sager, Thursday and Friday evening, supported by the Hoosier Standard quartete. The Christian band No. 19, of the Second Baptist church, will give a sping tide concert at the church Monday evening, May 9. An interesting program has been arranged. Box parties are being formed by a number of well known ladies and gentlemen, who are bent upon making 'The Negro' a social as well as a strong dramatic attraction. A list of the notables who attend will be mentioned in a later edition of The Recorder, 'The Macedonia' is the name of the new Ice Cream parlor and Confectionary to be opened about May 1, at 415 Indiana avenue. Miss Henrietta Davis will be the proprietress of this new establishment. Norbert Landgraf, Merchant Tailor, Designer and Maker of Ladies' Gowns, 123 N. Penn. street. Established 1873. Mr. Finis Duncan and Miss Mattie Tribute were quitely married last Sunday evening at the residence of Mrs. L. Claybrooks, in South Linden street Rev. Charles Williams officiated. Mr. and Mrs Duncan are at home, 1339 S. Linden street Mrs, Maria Patterson, sister-in-law of the late Mother Jackson, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Lucy Patterson, grand-daughter, Miss Blanche Patterson, Miss Keene and Eliza Jackson, of (rawfordsville, attended the funeral Sunday. Indiana is well represented at Washington by Fairbanks, and at home by Hoyt's Poisoned Blood cure, One puri fires politics, and the other' purifies the blood. The beautiful Queen of Dahomey and her court of Maids in waiting, and a silent drill executed by 16 beautifully bedecked Amazons, in helmet and shielded and spears, while soft multicolored machine lights play upon the maneuvers. Come early for a good seat. K P. benefit next week. G. C. Morrison, South and Vlirginia avenue, sold 100 bottles of blood medicines during the month of March—87 were Hoyt's Poisoned Blood cure. Just think of it. Mr. John Mayo and Miss Anna Franklin were joined in matrimony, Thursday evening, at the home of the brides parents in West Twelfth street Rev. E, L. Gilliam officiated. The happy couple left immediately for Terre Haute, their future home. The wedding presents were handsome. See the beautiful 'Graduates' and the aristocratic Mrs. Morton assisted by the charming 'Harrison Sisters. Listen to those beautiful Mexican maidens in grand chorus, Watch for 'Flossie' and 'Sugar Cured Ham'—Mariah the cook, and Yard Wide' the yard man, together with the signified officers of the 20th Century club. You miss it if you fail to So to English's next Thursday and Friday evenings. The ladies of the Home and Foreign Missionary Society met at the residence of Mrs. Lue Smith in Agnes st. There was a large number present. The subject: "Can a man go to heaven without being baptized," was ably discussed. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Lula Green in Superior st. Mrs. M. Johnson Pres., Mrs. M. Benson, Sec'y. Miss M. Martinn, Publisher. Wall Paper Cleaners. Don't think your paper is too old or dirty to be cleaned. We make a speciality of cleaning Wall paper, Carrets taken up, renovated and relaid. Old Paper Removed. We Guarantee Satisfactory Work R. P. Booth, Mn'gr. Office 618 Ogden-st New Phone, 2770. Old paper removed from wall and general repairing done. Our excellent work and reasonable prices keep us busy. NOPAIN Experience is the Best Reference. The best work is the Cheapest. Get my prices and see my samples before you have your work done. Gas or Air Given. 14 Years Experience Grant H. Clay, M. D., Dentist. 108 North Illinois Street. ```markdown ``` I am now receiving SPRING STOCK, for the Spring and I extend an invitation to my many friends and the Public, to call and inspect the same : : : : : : CLEANING, DYEING, REPAIRING D. L. Mesbitt, Merchant Tailor, 405 Indiana av FREE GOLD The Safety Deposit Gold Mining Company. desuures to correspond with investors and others who can place a limited amount of treasury stock in one of the most promising free gold mines in Eastern Oregon. Mine will surely poy Dividends this year. Lots of other Mines to invest in also, Address, Cole & Wooten Agents. Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 31-4 David J. Kinney, 313 Indiana Avenue Bicycle repairing, enameling, nickel plating. Sundries of all kinds Work Guaranteed, Called for and delivered. OPEN FOR BUSINESS CORNER NORTH & CALIFORNIA STREETS. Ice Cream and Soda Water Parlors Cream by the pint, quart, or gallon, delivered to any part of the city. Special attention given to Parties, Church and public entertainments, L. B. SLACK, 531 W. North st. DICK. MILLER 540 Indiana Avenue. CIGARS and Tobacco CONFECTIONERY Fruits, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Ice Cream by the pint, quart or gallon. Milk and Cream Books, Periodicals and Newspapers. AIN Best Reference. Get my prices and see my work done. Gas or Air Given. 333 Pr Meets hall, north cordially in your petition N. California Fayette str C. M. Look How Quick! This Train Leaves Here at 8.25 p m Arrives at 12.50 p m $6.00 Silk Waists or Skirts 20c Pulley Belts and Belt SetsHalf Price. Large Display. INDIANAPO11S SILK WAIST CO. H. L. SANDERS, Established 1889. We take the lead in Novelties of Rubber and Linen Collars, Our fine line of Neckties for Spring has commenced to move at 15c, 25c and 50c. Our swell line of Shirts are up-to-date, with detachable collars and cuffs; price 50c, 75c and $1.00. We have just received a big line of Suspenders and underwear. We are right in line. Give us a Call. We will treat you rightr H. L. SANDERS, 206 Indiana Ave 108 West Ohio Street H. L. SA 206 Indiana Ave LADIES a much better line than SKIRTS see the and acce We show everything that b We Sell on Easy ... WEEKLY P Men's and Boy's Clothing. Trunks Conr 332-334 Dt. EMMA 333 International Pride of the North Meets the first and third Thur hall, northeast corner of Delaw cordially invited to become mem your petition. Mrs. Emma L, Pe N. California street, Mrs. Anna Fayette street C. M. C. WILLIS a much better line than we have ever shown before SKIRTS see the new skirts made with overskirt and accordeon plaited, with aplique. We show everything that is new in Skirts and Waists. We Sell on Easy .... WEEKLY PAYMENTS Meets the first and third Thursday nights in each month at its hall, northeast corner of Delaware and Ohio streets. Ladies are cordially invited to become members of said Tabernacle. Give us your petition. Mrs. Emma L. Person, High Priestess, residence 919 N. California street. Mrs. Anna N. Griffin, Chief Recorder, 1111 Fayette street Funeral Director Old and New Phone 1173 536 Indiana Ave Indianapolis, Idd Parlors We take the lead in Novelties of Rubber and Linen Collars. Our fine line of Neckties for Spring has commenced to move at 15c, 25c and 50c. Our swell line of Shirts are up-to-date, with detachable collars and cuffs; price 50c, 75c and $1.00. We have just received a big line of Suspenders and underwear. We are right in line. Give us a Call. LADIES SUITS You have the use of the Goods Men's and Boy's Clothing. Trunks Conrad's Musical Instruments Jewelry and Watches THE QUEEN OF KENYA EDW, BREWER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Shop, 1721 Alvord Street.