The Recorder

Public Library INDIANA APOLISI MAY 5 1900 Vol 4 No. 44 The Recorder A Representative Paper Read by 20,000 Afro-Americans each week Subscription price One Year $1.00 Will be sent to any address in the United States on receipt of subscription price Agents Wanted. RAPID PROGRESS Made by the Race Shown by the DuBois Exhibit ON ITS WAY TO PARIS Prof. W. E. B. DuBois has just sent the second Negro exhibit for the Paris exposition from the Atlanta University. This is an exhaustive social study of the Georgia Negro—Georgia, as having the largest Negro population of any state, being taken as a fair representative for the Negro—and is illustrated by maps, colored charts and other devices. The facts shown, on the whole, are decidedly encouraging, and not only in regard to the material progress of the race, but our intellectual progress as well. The increase in numbers has been steady from 1790 to the present time, while the proportion in relation to the whites has also grown from 37 per cent in 1800 to 46 per cent in 1890, there being at this time over 850,000 Negro residents in Georgia. They own at present 1,062,225 acres of land—an increase of over 700,000 acres since 1874—and their taxable property is assessed at about $13,500,000, having increased in value nearly $9,000,000 since 1875. In the various occupations the agricultural laborers are still in the great majority, although there is practically no occupation or profession that is not represented by a few at least Illiteracy has decreased from 99 per cent., in 1860 to 50 per cent., in 1890, and the number of children in the public schools has increased in the same period from 7,000 to nearly 190,000. There are 2,800 Negro public schools, with property valued at about $196,000, and about 3,500 public school teachers. The number of students in the different courses—business, classical, professional, scientific, normal and industrial—vary from 12 in business to 2,252 in industrial courses There are many other facts shown. For instance, the migration of the race, is illustrated by the Georgia Negro, Negroes born in Georgia are found in every State and Territory except one, while Negroes from over half the States and Territories are now living in Georgia. Other points brought out are the conjugal conditions, the numbers living in cities, towns and rural districts and the race amalgamation. Under this is shown that only 44 per cent. of the race are pure Africans, and 16 per cent. are more white than colored. There are maps of the principal Georgia cities, illustrating graphically the relative number of the poor and the well-to-do, and the living conditions of all, and there are large volumes containing much that is interesting in the way of Negro legislation—the "Black Laws" of Georgia from the earliest times. The work on the exhibit was done entirely by Negroes--Dr. DuBois and his assistants, most of whom are Atlanta University graduates. One of A NEGRO NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF INDIANA The A NEGRO NEWSPAPER D the most remarkable bits of work there is a carved wooden frame for one of the charts, made entirely by an unskilled, illiterate old freedman, living in Atlanta. The exhibit is thus, in itself as an artistic an scientific piece of work, an object lesson on what certain members of the race can do, as well as being in content an accurate account of what we have acbomplished and what the race has had to contend with in this representative State WHEEL NOTES. Sunday was an ideal wheel day and many took advantage of it, runs being made to Plainfield and Millersville. The road was somewhat dusty but the trip was heartily enjoyed * * A number of local cyclists are planning a trip to Richmond and return for the 27th * * Woody Hedgpeth and George Granger are riding the Outing racer. They have started in training and will make a formidable team. Woody's favorite expression is: "I never felt better in my life." He has gained his old time confidence and intends to eclipse his previous record. Granger is a likely young rider who has a great speed undeveloped. We wish the Outing team success, Jack Robinson has started in on a Tribune racer and intends to regain his old standing among the riders. Jack says, "Boys, I am not yet a 'has been' and I intend to prove my word" * * Davie Primus has given up his notion of purchasing a Gendron racer and will use a "Walker Special." He says it is "more speedier" * * That the Eastern made is in great demand is shown by the fact that so many are seen on the street and our famous boulevards * * "Hi there," yelled a bike cop at a dimmitive messenger boy who was riding along about dusk one evening with his lamp unlit, "light up that lamp," and the boy lit up the street ** If Sunday is a beautiful, balmy day a number of cyclists will ride to Shannon's Lake, which is situated south of the city a short distance. It is indeed a beautiful run and will be enjoyed by all who attend. * * Oscar Mason will soon enjoy the privilege of riding a National chainless. Oscar seems anxious about his wheel, as he has had his order in for some time and the wheel is always "on the way." * * "Crip" Jackson has another fresh one—the famous Eagle racer is his latest mount and is a wheel with a wide "rep." Henry Milliken is also mounted on an Eagle. Jerry McAfee, a well-known amateur rider, late of Indianapolis but now a resident of Cleveland, is visiting in the city. A. M. E. Z. CONFERENCE. Opening Session of General Meeting at Washington. Special to The Recorder WASHINGTCN, May 3.—The general al conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church is in session here, Bishop Lomax of Charlotte, N. C. presiding. The opening sermon was delivered by Bishop Hood of Fairville, N. C. There are 300 delegates at the conference, representing every state in the union, Africa, Bermuda and St. Christopher island. Bishop Small, the representative of the church in Porto Rico Cuba and the Hawaiian islands, also is present. The most important legislation to come before the body is the election of bishops and the consideration of a proposed change in the organic law of the church. A letter from President McKinley was read, in which he regretted his inability to be present at the opening exercises and expressed a hope that he might be able to attend some future session. Recorder Recorder. [Portrait of a man in formal attire, facing left, with a serious expression.] Pastor of Allen Chapel, M. E. Church and Chairman of the Indiana delegation to the General Conference of Indiana, Ohio, Dr. Murray, favors the election of Rev. T. W. Henderson, Indiana's Candidate for the Bishopric. HISSED BY HIS AUDIENCE A most sensational scene occurred in University Hall Saturday night when Senator Benjamin Tillman, of South Carolina, addressed the good government club of the university on "The Race Question in the South." The audience was the largest which has ever attended any number of the REV. A. L. MURRE Pastor of Allen Chapel, A. M. E. C. delegation to the General Conference Murray, favors the election of Indiana's Candidate course. It was comprised of students mainly. On next to the front seat and alone sat a colored student of the university. He was conspicuous to the speaker, and in making points against the race he would look down to him and then it would seem as if all his hatred of the Negroes would give full vent. His appearance in so prominent a place evidently aggrivated him. "You scratch one of these college graduates under the skin and you will find the savage. His education is only like a coat of paint, like his skin." said the senator There were hisses from several parts of the house. Senator Tillman then smiled and said: "Humph!" Then after a pause he retorted: "You must excuse me for my frankness. There is nothing of hatred in my nature against the Negroes. When that man who hissed gets ready to give his daughter in marriage to a Negro and proves by his actions and not by his hisses that he means it, I will apologize, and not before." The applause which greeted this retort from all parts of the hall was tremendous, and there was no more hissing during the evening Senator Tillman acknowledged that South Carolina whites had by force and fraud taken the elections from the Negroes, who outnumbered them in the State in 1876, and have held it ever since. "We repealed the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments," said he. His conclusion was: "Until you get ready to take them to you, don't let yourselves ever again be be encouraged to lend any interference between the Southern whites and blacks, who understand each other and who will settle this question between themselves." South Bend News Mrs, Harriet Burton is on the sick list at her home on Price Street. Mr. and Mrs, John Anderson of Calvin, Mich., spent Sunday with friends in this city. Miss Helen Lee of Memphis, Tenn. The Newsiest, Spiciest and Best Edited Negro Journal in the State A Journal of Opinions. published in the interest of the Race. Correspondence Soiicited Special Inducements to Agents Sample Copies on Application will arrive home some time this month. Albert Bunn, and wife of Cassopolis, spent a few hours in the city Monday. Paul Laurence Dunbar club met at the home of Me, and Mrs. Geo. Johnson on Colfax ave. Etta Avery and Cora Czar have gone to Dayton, O., where they will live in the future. Oscar Higgins went to Chicago Tuesday to witness the Dewey celebration which was a grand affair. Chas. Henderson with his Cuban girl, age 14 years, were in the parade. Miss Ella Scott and Stella Ash of Cass county, Mich., are spending a few days in our city. URRAY, B. D. Church and Chairman of the Indiana Conference, Columbus, Ohio, Dr. of Rev. T. W. Henderson, te for the Bishopric. Frank Wilson and wife have moved to Grand Rapids, Mich. Our young men are contemplating a grand May ball Little Albert Martin died Sunday night at 10 o'clock, age two months and 9 days. The members of the A. M, E. church are preparing to give a big rally on the first Sunday in July, to raise the sum of $250 to pay off an old mortgage on the parsonage. Mrs, Joe Stewart returned home from Pickle Town, O., Tuesday evening. Kokomo News Homer Jones has returned to the city, He has accepted a position at the Clinton house. Len Nicholson, Harry Hart, accompanied by Ike Murphy, returned from the Pickininy Minstel. Miss Hicks is visiting friends in the city this week. The supper given Monday night at the Odd Fellows' hall, by Mr. Walden's tribe, was a success. Miss Mattie Byrd wishes to return thanks to her many friend at Indianapolis where she was visiting Easter. A birthday surprise party was given on Miss Ada Hardiman, Friday night, last. A very nice time was had by all, Mrs. Sam Hardiman of Dear Creek, who has been very ill, is improving rapidly. New Albany Notes. Quarterly meeting was largely attended at Zion A. M. E church Sunday. Rev. Simms of Jacob st. Tabernacle, Louisville, preached a powerful sermon at 3 p. m, Mrs, M. E, Washihgton is in Washington, D. C. Dr. and Mrs, M, W. Sparks are proud of a little son. Rev. S. C. Manuel has just closed a very successfull administration of eight years at the Second Baptist church. At present the lecture room is undergoing repairs, A mass meeting was held at Social A Journal of Opinion in the interest of the Correspondence Soil Special Inducements Sample Copies on Ap A Great Advertising Medium Address THE RECORDER, hall to arrage for a fall celebration of the emancipation proclamation. Rev. J. C. Patton presided as chairman of the meeting, Prof. C. A. Martin, sec'y. Miss Alma Bush is recovering from a recent spell of sickness. Miss Blanche Sterrett will visit Chicago next week. A very successful rally was held at Howard Chapel last Sunday. Rev. Patton, the efficient pastor, succeeded in raising $102. Rev. L. W. Ratliff and his choir visited Corydon last Sunday and assisted Rev. Brewer in his rally at that place. Miss Pear Hicks and Chas Banks assisted the choir on this occasion. All who took in this trip report a fine time and having had more than they could eat. Hanover Pickings. Rev. E. M. Brown preached three able sermons Sunday to large audiences The rally Sunday at the A. M. E. church was a success. The Richard-Isle club, of which Miss Ida Sanders, is president, reported $19.42. The Derrick club, Mr. Amos Williams president, reported $19.21. Total amount, $38.63c. Miss Lena Humes, daughter, of Matthew and Nancy Humes, died last Sunday night. She was a member of A. M. E. church. Mr. Ira Jones left Tuesday for Indianapolis. Mr. Ellington died on 21 ult. He was 78 years of age. Olivet Church Entertainment. The following program will be rendered at the Olivet Baptist church, corner Prospect and McKernan streets Wednesday evening, May 9. All pastors and their wives will be admitted free: Welcome address.....Rev. Leonard Musis.....Superba Quartette Invocation.....Rev. Preston Music.....Superba Quartette Pedagogical Class.....19 Characters Essay.....Mrs. Bessie Samples Solo.....Mr. F. Daniels Address.....Mrs. C. A. Webb Duett.....F. F. Young, Miss J. "From Cradle to Grave" Miss L, Kirk selection.....Mrs. R. D. Leonard "My Ones and Two's".....Lloyd Cox Selection.....Mrs. F. Daniels Recitation.....Mrs. Claud Powell Hall of Curiosity, to be in charge Mrs. Josie Redman and Mrs. F. F. Young. Rose of Sharon Club, F. F. Young, president. Admission. 10c A Parlor Concert. A grund parlor concert, to be given May 9, at 363 West Fourteenth-st, the residence of Mrs. Sallie Locklear. The program will begin at 8 o'clock. Luncheon, 19 cents. Given under the auspices of W. H. F. M. society of Mt Zion Baptist church. Instrumental solo, Miss Mayne Morris Solo.....Mr. Josebh Staten Declaration.....Mr. Flishback Solo.....Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell Dr. Birch. Solo.....Miss Clara Mays Recitation.....Dr. Hummings Solo.....Mr. Clay Stofer Instrumental Solo.....Wm. Pierce Recitation.....Miss Sadie Mays Solo.....W. T, Good Porks by Daster Remarks by Pastor Admission. free. Miss Clara Mays, program committee. School Enumeration Finished The school enumeration for 1900 has been completed by George Wolf. About thirty-three people were engaged in preparing the enumeration. The work began on April 10. According to the report there are 800 more children of school age in the city now then there were when the enumeration last year was taken. Mt. Wolf thinks last year's enumeration was "padded" in some districts Mr. Wolf's report will show that there are in the city 18,364 white boys, 18,078 white girls, 1707 colored boys and 1,237 colored girls. Will Distribute tl.e Book. It is announced that the Republican state committee will purchase 5,000 copies of the new book, "Patriot or Pessimist," written by James S. Barcus, of Terre Haute, for tribution over the State. Price 3 Cents NEW YORK STORE Established in 1853 Sole Agents Butterick Patterns. BARNE'S WHITE FLIER $39.00 PETTIS DRY GOODS CO. THE BLACK VOTE Will be Eliminated from Virginia Politics CHANGE CONSTITUTION A report from Richmond, Va., says: "The question of calling a constitutional convention in Virginia, primarily for the disfranchisement of the Negroes, has been practically settled on so far as the Democrats are concerned Amajority-of the delegates to the Democratic State Convention, which met in Norfolk on May 2, were instructed in favor of making the call for the convention a party issue. This matter is now the absorbing one in Virginia, and the demand for the disfranchisement of the Negro and constitutional reforms has entirely obershadowed the original purpose for which the Norfolk meeting was called. The constitution under which the people now live was adopted in 1869 by what was known as the Underwood convention. That body was composed of Northern settlers and Negroes. The white people of Virginia, very many of whom were then disfranchised, had little or no part in formulating the organic law under which they have since lived. There is an overwhelming sentiment in the State in favor of eliminating the colored vote from its politics forever. This can only be accomplished by constitutional revision. The elimination of the blace vote is demanded not only from the great black belts of Virginia, but also by the white counties. Some of the largest and most influential of the latter elected delegations instructed to favor a convention. "The keynote of this radical suffrage reform has been sounded by the declarations of some of the great Negro counties: These, in effect, insist that the present conditions can not continue in the Old Dominion. The plain explanation of these declarations is that the people are tired of the means which they have been forced to countenance in order to retain white supremacy in the State. They now demand that a constitutional convention shall be assembled and the Negroes removed from politics. The elements opposing this movement are the great corporations, the local office holders and the Republicans. Some of the Democrats, including Governor Tyler, have taken the position that their party can not carry the convention at the polls on May 28. They insist that the elements named, with the addition of the illiterate whites will defeat it. I. D. Blair. Attorney. I. D. Blair, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, damage suits, probate practice and abstracts examined a specialty. Office, 45 Baldwin block, New Telephone, 1608. If you want to buy or sell a home, call at room 45 Baldwin Block. Money to loan on city, property and farms, at low rates. Advertising Medium THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, IND --- A NOMADIC RACE. THE PECULIAR PENCHANT OF PEOPLE TO MOVE. Moving Day and Its Lessons—Be Not Puffed Up With Transitory Grand-eur—Dr. Talmage's Sermon. This discourse of Dr. Talmage is pertinent at this time of year, when many people are moving from house to house, and it teaches lessons of patience and equipulse in very trying circumstances; text, Philippians iv. 12, "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to of Dr. Talmage is pertinent at this time of year, when many people are moving from house to house, and it teaches lessons of patience and equipose in very trying circumstances; text, Philippians Iv. 12, "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound." Happy Paul! Could you really accommodate yourself to all circumstances in life? Could you go up without pride and could you come down without exasperation? Teach the same lesson to us all. Thank God for your home, not merely the house you live in now, but the house you were born in and the many houses you have resided in, since you began your earthly existence. When you go home today, count over the number of those houses in which you have resided, and you will be surprised. Once in awhile you will find a man who lives in the house where he was born and where his father was born and his grandfather was born and his greatgrandfather was born, but that is not one out of a thousand cases. I have not been more perambulatory than most people, but I was amazed when I came to count up the number of residences I have occupied. The fact is there is in this world no such thing as permanent residence. My first word, then, in this part of my discourse is to all those who move out of small houses into larger ones. Now, we will see whether, like the apostle, you know how to abound. Do not, because your new house has two more stories than the old one, add two stories to your vanity or make your brightly polished silver doorplate the coffin plate to your buried humility. Many persons moving into a larger house have become arrogant and supercilious. They swagger where once they walked; they simper where once they laughed; they go about with an air which seems to say, "Let all smaller craft get out of these waters if they don't want to be run over by a regular Cunarder." I have known people who were kind and amiable and Christian in their smaller house. No sooner did they go over the doorills of the new house than they became a glorified nuisance. They were the terror of dry clerks and the amazement of ferryboats into which they swept and, if compelled to stand a moment, with condemnatory glance turning all the people seated into criminals and convicts. They began to ramp up the family coat of arms it would have been a butter firkln, or a shoe last, or a plow, or a towel. Instead of being like all the rest of us, made out of dust, they would have you think, that they were trickled out of heaven on a lump of sugar. The first thing you know of them the father will fall in business and the daughter will run off with a French dancing master. A woman spolied by a finer house is bad enough, but a man so upset is sickening. The lavender foot goes around so dainty and so precise and so affected in the roll of his eyes, or the whirl of his cane, or the clicking of the ivory handle against his front teeth, or his efferinate languor, and his conversation so interlarded with "Oh's" and "Ah's" that he is to me a dose of pecanunha. Now, my friends, if you move into a larger house thank God for more room—for more room to hang your pictures, for more room in which to gather your friends, for more room in which to let your children romp and play, for more room for great bookcases filled with reading or wealth of brie-a-brae. Have as large and as fine a house as you can afford to have, but do not sacrifice your humility and your common sense; do not lose your balance; do not be spoiled by successes. Years ago we were the guests in an English manor. The statuary, for fernies, the botanical and horticultural genius of the place had done all they could do to make the place attractive. For generations there has been an amassing of plate and costly surroundings. At half past 9 o'clock in the morning the proprietor of the estate had the bell rung, and some 20 or 30 manservants and maidservants came in to prayers. The proprietor of the estate read the Scriptures, gave out the hymn, his daughter at the organ started the music, and then, the music over, the proprietor of the estate kneeled down and commended all his guests, all his family, all his employees, to the Lord Almighty. God can trust such a man as that with a large estate. He knows how to abound. He trusted God, and God trusted him. But I must have a word with those who in this Mayday time move out of larger residences into smaller ones. Sometimes the pathetic reason is that the family has dwindled in size, and so much room is not required; so they move out into smaller apartments. I know there are such cases. Marriage has taken some of the members of the family, death has taken other members of the family, and after awhile father and mother wake up to find their family just the size it was when they started, and they would be lonely and lost in a large house; hence they move out of it. Moving day is a great sadness to such if they have the law of association dominant. There are the rooms named after the different members of the family. I suppose it is so in all your households. It is so in mine. We name the rooms after the persons who occupy them. And then there is the dining hall where the festivities took place, the holiday festivities; there is the sitting room where the family met night after night, and there is the room sacred because there a life started or a life stopped—the Alpha and the Omega of some earthly existence. Scene of meeting and parting, of congratulation and heartbreak, every doorknob, every fresco, every mantel, every threshold, meaning more to you than it can ever mean to any one else. When moving out of a house, I have always been in the habit, after everything was gone, of going into each room and bidding it a mute farewell. There will be tears running down many cheeks in the Maytime moving that the car men will not be able to understand. It is a solemn and a touching and an overwhelming thing to leave places forever—places where we have struggled and toiled and wept and sung and prayed and anxiously watched and agonized. But there are others who will move out of large residences into smaller through the reversal of fortune. The property must be sold or the bailiff will sell it, or the income is less and you cannot pay the house rent. First of all, such persons should understand that our happiness is not dependent on the size of the house we live in. I have known people enjoy a small heaven in two rooms and others suffer a pandemonium in 20. There is as much happiness in a small house as in a large house. There is as much satisfaction under the light of a tallow candle as under the glare of a chandiller, all the burners at full blaze. Who was the happier—John Bunyan in Bedford jail or Belshazzar in the saturnalia? Contentment is something you can neither rent nor purchase. It is not extrinsic; it is intrinsic. Are there fewer rooms in the house to which you move? You will have less to take care of. Is it to be stove instead of furnace? All the doctors say the modern modes of warming buildings are unhealthy. Is it less mirrors? Less temptation to your vanity. Is it old fashioned toilet instead of water pipes all through the house? Less to freeze and burst when you cannot get a plumber. Is it less carriages? More room for robust exercise. Is it less social position? Fewer people who want to drag you down by their jealousies. Is it less fortune to leave in your last will and testament? Less to spoil your children. Is it less money for the marketing? Less temptation to ruin the health of your family with pineapples and indigestible salads. Is it a little deafness? Not hearing so many disagreeables. I meet you this springtime at the door of your new home, and while I help you lift the clothesbasket over the banisters and the carman is getting red in the face in trying to transport that article of furniture to some new destination I congratulate you. You are going to have a better time this year, some of you, than you ever had. You take God and the Christian religion in your home, and you will be grudely happy. God in the parlor—that will sanctify your sociabilities; God in the nursery—that will protect your children; God in the dining hall—that will make the plainest meal an imperial banquet; God in the morning—that will launch the day brightly from the drydocks; God in the evening—that will sail the day sweetly into the harbor. And get joy, one and all of you, whether you move or do not move; get joy out of the thought that we are soon all going to have a grand moving day. Do you want a picture of the new house into which you will move? Here it is, wrought with the hand of a master: "We know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." How much rent will we have to pay for it? We are going to own it. How much must we pay for it? How much, cash down, and how much left on mortgage? Our Father is going to give it as a free gift. When are we going to move into it? We are moving now. On moving day heads of families are very apt to stay in the old house until they have seen everything off. They send ahead the children, and they sent ahead the treasures and the valuables. Then after awhile they will come themselves. I remember very well in the country that in boyhood moving day was a jubilation. On almost the first load we, the children, were sent on ahead to the new house, and we arrived with shout and laughter, and in an hour we had ranged through every room in the house, the barn and the granary. Toward night, and perhaps in the last wagon, father and mother would come, looking very tired, and we would come down to the foot of the lane to meet them and tell them of all the wonders we discovered in the new place, and then, the last wagon unloaded, the candles lighted, our neighbors who had helped to move—for in those times neighbors helped each other—sat down with us at a table on which there was every luxury they could think of. Well my dear Lord knows that some of us have been moving a good while. We have sent our children ahead, we have sent many of our valuables ahead, sent many treasures ahead. We cannot go yet. There is work for us to do, but after a while it will be toward night, and we will be very tired, and then we will start for our new home, and those who have gone ahead of us, they will see our approach, and they will come down the lane to meet us, and they will have much to tell us of what they have discovered in the "house of many mansions" and of how large the rooms are and of how bright the fountains. And then, the last load unloaded, the table will be spread, and our celestial neighbors will come in to sit down with our remitted families, and the challies will be full, not with that wine that sweats in the vat of earthly intoxication, but with "the new wine of the kingdom." And there for the first time we will realize what fools we were on earth when we feared to die, since death has turned out only to be the moving from a smaller house into a larger one and the exchange of a pauper's hut for a prince's castle and the going up stairs from a miserable kitchen to a glorious parlor. O house of God not made with hands, eternal in the heavens! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL The Senior Berean Lesson for Sunday, May 6, 1900. JESUS WARNING AND INVITION —Matthew 11:20-30. 20. Then began he to upbraid cities wherein most of his migr works were done, because they reped not. 21. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the migr works, which were done in you, been done in Tyre and Sidon, t A NEW MAHDL England Now Threatened With a Holy War in Northern Africa. England is getting worked up over the tidings that a new African Mahdi is preparing his 10,000,000 followers for a holy war which may break out this year. This successor of him who fell in the Soudan is Senussi, and he lives just now in Joffo, south of Thiolili. This cloud on the North African horizon has been gathering for some time. It is by no means generally known that at any moment a cyclone of Moslem fanaticism may sweep over Egypt, Algeria and Tunis. This is in the north. And further south in the tragic continent, owing to the same cause, civilization in Nigeria and the French Soudan may be put back for another generation. The rapid expansion of a Mohammedan secret society, with its inevitable Jehad, or holy war, among the Arabic, Berber and negroid races of the Western and Central Soudan, is a factor in current life in the Dark Continent which at any moment may assume a terrible importance. The year that Gordon's life went out at Khartoum, 1885, the followers of Senussi were estimated at about 3,000,000. Since then the movement has grown so enormously that probably over 10,000,000 sons of the Prophet are sworn members of this organization. Far away from the "White Man's Africa," buried in the heart of the long sandy wastes that spread in endless silence from Tripoli to Lake Tchad, is being accumulated vast stores of the most modern war material, without the possibility of interference by the Christian powers most concerned—England and France. Joffo, the headquarters of the new Mohamedan Messiah, is 500 miles west of the Nile and about 700 from the North African littoral. It lies a point due south of Tripoli and a little to the east of the caravan route to Bornou. There is reason to believe that at the front in South Africa, among the Indian bearers, there are several representatives of the new Mahdi, who have enlisted to report upon the events of the war. The most extraordinary feature of this conspiracy is that some of its members declare that they have acquired the strange secret of brain telegraphy, whereby they are enabled to send messages over vast distances. As a military force his followers are infinitely superior to the ill-armed Soudanee whom the Anglo-Egyptian army defeated at the Atbara and Omdurman. Twenty thousand Manlicher rifles, it is said, have been bought at Liege, Belgium, for the new Mahdi. Every one of these weapons was landed at Tripoli and carried on camel back to Joffo. The Italian War Office has lately been offering for sale a number of disused field guns. Several have been bought and, curiously enough, shipped to Tripoli. Always Tripoli, for there the Sultan of Turkey reigns supreme, and that astute monarch is too wise to run foul of the leader of 10,000,000 of the most reckless fanatics that Islam has enrolled. What is the policy, what are the alms of this truculent Moslem? In a word, to revive a great militant Mahometan empire in North and Central Africa and incidentally to turn out the two unbelieving powers. It is one of the qualifications of a great leader to bide his time. *Senussi has waited for a quarter of a century.*—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Story From Gibraltar. During the war stories in plenty have been current of the strategems and treachery which have imposed upon British officers charged with serious responsibilities. Changing the venue, we have the following story from Gibraltar. Some time ago a consumptive German gentleman arrived there with introductions from influential people in England. The Governor and other officials received him hospitably and every consideration possible was shown him on account of his health, but, of course, he could not be granted permission, as he requested, to go to the top of the rock for the sake of the purer air, as there is a regulation that "Foreigners are on or to be accounted to walk about the top of the rock." Further acquaintance, however, with the German gentleman, through the medium of dinners and other social functions, resulted in a relaxation of the strict rule, and he was granted a pass. The result of the visit is now to be seen at the German War Office, which is in possession of the most perfect plans from photos of all the works and defenses of Gibraltar—Saturday Review. CasteVersus Sausages Three messenger boys were testing their relative abilities as jumpers from the vantage point of a Twenty-second-street curbstone. Each had equaled his record, when the frankfurter man, standing near by, said he would try the game. "Aw, get out, yer Glinney, we can't jumpin' with no sausage men," said one of the boys, and the three left the place as unclean for persons of their caste. It was social inequality and democracy—New York Commercial Advertiser. A Doctor in the Family. "I see that Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has married her physician." "its cheaper, of course."—Cleveland Plain Denler. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. The Senior Berean Lesson for Sunday, May 6, 1900. JESUS WARNING AND INVITING. —Matthew 11:20-30. 20. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. 21. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsalda! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sack-cloth and ashes. 22. But I say unto you. It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. 23. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell; for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom it would have remained until this day. 24. But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee. 25. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. 26. Even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. 27. All things are delivered unto me of my father; and no than knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. 28. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 29. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall dind rest unto your souls. 30. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. LIGHT ON THE TEXT. 20. Upbraid.—To chide, to reproach with wrong-doing. 21. Woe Unto Thee.—Not a wishing of woe, but a statement of a fact. Chorazin.—Capernaum. (See "Bible Dictionary.") Tyre and Sidon.—Two celebrated cities on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, heathen cities, and very wicked. Sackcloth.—A coarse cloth of camel's or goat's hair, used for bags. It was worn as a symbol of sorrow, in a dress like a sack, with two holes for the arms. Ashes.—They used to strew ashes on the head as a sign of mourning. 23. Exalted Unto Heaven.—In privileges; more of Christ's miracles were done here than in any other place. The better reading is that of the R. V. "Shalt thou be exalted unto heaven?" Do you expect, on account of your exalted privileges, whatever you do with them, that you will be high in the kingdom of heaven, honored and prospered, a capital city? Do you, the inhabitants, expect that you shall have the highest enjoyment and all the blessings of heaven, without regard to your character, because I have done so many wonderful works among you! Shalt Be Brought Down to Hell—To Hades, the abode of the dead; that is, shall be utterly destroyed. The woes came upon these cities. They are utterly destroyed. And the inhabitants must suffer the consequences of their sins. Sodom.—Once the chief city of Palestine, just south of the Dead Sea. It was destroyed by fire and brimstone. (See Gen. chaps. 18.19.) 25. Hast Hld.—Because they would not receive them. These Things.—This mystery of God's dealings, the gospel truths. Wise.—Worldly wise, wise in their own eyes. Babes.—Child-like persons, willing to learn. The meaning is that religious truth is received, not through the intellect, but through a teachable heart. 28. Come Unto Me.—To himself, to his love, to his care, to his life to his character. Heavy Laden.—With sins, sores, sorrows. I Will Give You Rest.—The rest of forgiveness, of fatherly love and care, of the assurance that seeming evil shall work out good. 29. Take My Yoke.—A sign of service with Christ. A good yoke is to make work easy. 30. Christ's yoke is easy, because the service is one of love, it is free, natural, joyous and with him. My Burden—Refers to the duties he lays upon us, and they are light because he gives abundant strength to do them; they are done in love; the reward is abundant. It is like the burden of wings to a bird, or of ballast to a yacht. Satan's burdens are very heavy. Golden Text.—Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.—Matt. 11:28. SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. Subject:2 Two Great Motives Urging Men to the Christian Life. Introduction.—Where in the life of Christ does this lesson belong? Why did Jesus begin this new method of persuading men to enter his kingdom? I. Warnings.—The Choice of Right from a Perception of the Dangers of Sin (vs. 20:27).—Meaning of "upbraid"? What was Christ's object in doing mighty works? (v. 20; John 11:15). How had men treated Christ's message? Was Christ's "Woe unto thee" a wish, a threat or the statement of a fact? Why will woe come upon all who reject Christ? (Heb. 2:3.) Does Jesus utter these warnings from anger or from love? Show how it is love that utters them. What did Jesus say to Capernaum? What is meant by "exalted unto heaven"? What has become of it now? What can you tell about Sodom? Why are woes increased by resisting the light? In what respects are you exalted unto heaven? Why will it be worse for you than for those who have not had your advantages? For what did Jesus thank his Father? (v. 25.) Does real wisdom keep us from understanding religious truth? To whom is it revealed? Can all have this child-like spirit? EXCLUDING TRE CHINESE. Wu Ting Fang Asks Fair Play For His Countrymen. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States, has an article on "China and the United States" in the Independent. He suggests that American manufacturers make a special study of the wants of his countrymen, talks about American capitalists and the railroads in China (incidentally referring to the late Senator Brice as a "very good business man") and then proceeds to speak of the exclusion of the Chinese thus: "The Chinese question has not been studied thoroughly by the American people. A great deal of misapprehension exists in regard to the Chinese, and the subject is not looked at broadly and impartially. The Chinese who come here, whatever class they may belong to, do not come to steal American money; they come to work for it. They give an equivalent and do it honestly. They are excluded not because they are bad, but because they are too good. The chief reason I suppose for the agitation against the Chinese coming to the United States was because our workmen came here and competed with the white laborers and worked cheaper. Is that a good reason for excluding them, and are Americans consistent? Why should the Chinese be singled out and excluded when others are allowed to come and compete? Of course, the American people are free to adopt any restrictive policy that they like, but to be consistent they ought to exclude all classes of laborers who come here to compete with American laborers. But Chinese laborers are singled out because our government has not exercised its privilege of opposing this discrimination. The Italians and Hungarians who come here are not better than Chinese laborers, and it is hard to see why they should be admitted and the Chinese excluded. "The avowed object of the exclusion bill was simply to exclude Chinese laborers, but the restriction has now been extended to other classes. There was some reason, perhaps—I do not say just reason—for excluding Chinese laborers, based on the treaty negotiated in 1880 for the purpose of limiting the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States. It is expressly stated in that treaty that this restriction was to apply only to Chinese laborers. No other classes were atmed at. It is in black and white in the treaty, and the meaning of the words is as clear as day-light. But because in that treaty it says that 'officials, merchants, teachers, students and travelers' shall not be excluded; because these five classes are mentioned, new interpreters of the law say that only these five classes are exempt, and all other classes are excluded. For fifteen years American officials held that according to law only Chinese laborers were to be excluded and that all other classes might come here. This was the practice up to September, 1898, when a new interpretation was substituted, and it is now said that no Chinese have a right to come here except those specially exempted from exclusion. I think that is the last straw on the camel's back. What is the consequence? The Chinese banker, the Chinese doctor, the Chinese missionary, the Chinese lawyer, or private gentleman, are not admitted because they do not come within the five classes mentioned in the treaty. "Americans want to develop their trade with China, want to be good friends with China. That is very natural; we are glad to hear it, but is the present state of things satisfactory? How can you expect Chinese merchants to give you much business in the face of these facts?" "The proposition to have a commission to go to China to gather information would be a good thing to carry out. There are a great many things that Americans need to know. I ventured also in my address in Philadelphia the other day to suggest with regard to the government of the Philippine Islands that it might be a good plan to send some gentlemen to the neighboring colonies, especially those of the English and French, to study their history and methods. They have had experience in governing Asiatic people. They have paid for it dearly. Americans can profit by that experience. Theory is not always safe; experience is a very good thing." Jugtice for a Deserted Wife. Some years ago Captain Cootes, who had served in the war of the rebellion, eloped with a married woman named Hill, leaving his wife in Pleasantville, Schuyler county, where she still resides. Now comes the sequel. Several months since Congress passed a law giving to the deserted wife of a pensioner one-half of his pension. Friends of Mrs. Cootes interested themselves; they found that Captain Cootes was still living, his residence being in California, and that he was a pensioner. Then she made an application for pension under the law referred to above, and is now receiving $22.50 quarterly—one-half of her former husband's pension. The action of the department brought a letter from Cootes, who puts up a poor mouth, pleading poverty, with the additional burden of children to support, but the plea didn't win; and the deserted wife is getting some justice in her old age—so is he, but not the kind he covets.—Warsaw (III.) Bulletin. 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The Standard's announcement that General French's cavalry are returning to Bloemfontein is clear proof that there is no further hope of catching the retreating Boers, and the London papers are beginning to display impatience at the practical failure of the elaborate operations of last week. The Standard says: "It is disheartenting to find that these elaborate maneuvers have had so small a result." The Daily Chronicle remarks: "We are reluctant to criticise Lord Roberts, but it is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact that, during the last ten days, we have gained very little from our enormous display of force." Without doubt these operations have been of a very exhausting nature and will entail further delay. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Times, writing on March 3, after the Paardeberg affair, describes Lord Roberts's army as a "wreck," because it was without horses and without transports. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Post speaks now of the urgent need at present and always of more horses. There is very little news from other quarters. The Daily Mail publishes a statement from Colonel Long, who was blamed for the loss of guns at Colenso, that, in advancing the guns as he did, he merely obeyed orders, and that the staff was quite ignorant of the proximity of the Beer positions." Bloemfontenl, April 29. It is understood that the British will continue to hold Thaba N'Chu, owing to its strategic importance, and especially with a view of checking further raids. The commandees that had recently been operating in the direction of Thaba N'Chu are melting away, the Boers quietly returning to their farms, and many of them taking the oath of allegiance. Experience has shown, however, in many cases that this is only a pretense to enable the Boers to create disturbances on the rear of the British, and vigorous methods will probably be necessary to force real disarmament. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, telegraphing Saturday, says: "A cavalry reconnoissance twenty-five miles northeast encountered 400 Boers. The British drove them out of a kopje north of Karee. Our outposts are still brassaded by moving commandoes. In an outpost affair Thursday several Boers were killed. The enemy will certainly make a stand at Kroonstad, where they have constructed miles of trenches." The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Times, under Saturday date, describing General Botha's good generalship, which enabled the Boers to evade the intended cordon, says: "General Botha arrived at Dewetsdorp Monday and immediately sent a commando to oppose General French's cavalry. We appear to have been forestalled by Botha by just twenty-four hours. According to the latest reports from Thaba N'Chu, the enemy are still withdrawing their guns and wagens." BRYAN FAVORS BOERS Says That the Sympathy of This Country is Overwhelmingly in Favor of the Bishops Chicago special: William Jennings Bryan came to the city unheralded Sunday, held private conferences with prominent party leaders, among whom were Mayor Harrison and ex-Governor Altgeld, and left for Port Huron, Mich., without his presence having become generally known. What the Boers would be warranted in expecting in case the Democratic party were returned to power at the coming election was indicated by Mr. Bryan after his attention had been drawn to the day's cables from Europe saying that the hopes of the South African republics were centered upon America—should McKinley be defeated—and Russia. "The Democratic party," said Mr. Bryan, "would express sympathy for these burghers fighting for the right to govern themselves, and the sympathy of a great nation like the United States is a moral factor that has weight. The good offices of this nation can be tendered according to the terms of the new Hague treaty at the proper time and in earnest. These offers of friendly service would have a great influence. During my recent Western trip, in fact, wherever I have been, I find the sentiment overwhelming in favor of the Boers. Any statement that the natural sympathies of this country are for the British is a perversion of the facts that can not mislead observers, but whose sole effect may be the delusion of England in a way that is likely to end in an unpleasant awakening to the truth." PINGREE WITHDRAWS The Governor of Michigan Says the Hope of the People is in the Democratic Party. Detroit, Mich., special: Governor Pingree asserted in an interview Sunday that the hope of the people in this year's general elections is in the Democratic party. The Governor has always before been an independent Republican. Speaking of the increasing power of trusts, Governor Pingree said: "There is no use in hoping that the Republican party will do anything with them." "Are you preparing to announce your withdrawal from the Republican party?" the Governor was asked. "There is no announcement about it. I only say what I have said all the while. You haven't heard me say anything against the Democrats for some time. I believe that the hope of the people is in the Democratic party this fall." FRIENDS SAVED ELI FISHER. Yeung Indianian Acquitted of Murder at Benton, Mont. Wabash, Ind., special: A telegram was received here Saturday from Benton, Mont., announcing the acquital of Ell Fisher, a young man from Treaty, this county. Fisher was convicted last year of complicity in the murder of three ranchmen near Lewistown, Mont., and sentenced to death. William and James Calder were Fisher's associates and Fisher contended that the Calders murdered and burned the ranchmen, compelling him to assist them. James Calder turned State's evidence, and his testimony convicted Bill Calder and Fisher, who were condemned to die last May. Six hundred dollars was raised by subscription to secure an appeal in Fisher's case, and a retrial was granted. James Calder testified for Fisher in the last trial. Bill Calder was hanged in March. Depositions proving Fisher's good character were obtained and the jury acquitted him. Fisher and his father, who are very poor, started East. Young Fisher would have been hanged a month ago but for the aid of friends here. GEN GRANT'S ANNIVERSARY Birth of the Great Commander Commemorated at Various Places. The birthday anniversary of Gen. U. S. Grant was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies at various places Friday, April 27. At Pittsburgh Pa. Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, the widow of the famous soldier, was the guest of honor of the Americus Republican Club. Hon. Charles Emory Smith, postmaster general, responded to the toast, "National Developments" and spoke eloquently of the achievements of General Grant. At Galena, Ill., the old home of General Grant, the annual celebration was marked by the presence of Governor Roosevelt, of New York, Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris, General Grant's daughter, and Miss Sartoris and Capt. Algernon Sartoris, grandchildren of General Grant, who were the guests of honor of the city. Governor Roosevelt delivered the address and eulogized the "great, silent soldier, the Hammer of the North." At New York city the celebration was conducted under the auspices of the Grant Memorial Association. Secretary of War Root presided. At Boston the Middlesex Club gave a dinner in honor of the memory of General Grant. COLSON ACQUITTED The Kentucky Colonel Given an Ovation Following the Return of the Verdict. Frankfort, Ky., special: Col. David G. Colson, former member of Congress from the Eleventh Kentucky district, and who, like General Wheeler, gave up his seat to serve his country in the late war, was acquitted Saturday of the murder of Lieut. Ethelbert Scott and George Demaree, both of whom he killed in a sensational encounter in the lobby of the Capital Hotel, January 18, in which three men were shot to death and four others, including Col. Colson, wounded. A plea of self-defense was made and substantiated by the strongest evidence. The case was given to the jury at 6:00 c'clock the day having been devoted to arguments. In twenty minutes the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty. A great shout went up from the assembled crowd when the verdict was read, and there was a rush for the defendant, who was given an ovation. For fully half an hour the people crowded around Colson, shaking hands with him and his attorneys. THE SULTAN IS SLY. Offers to Rebuild the Burned Mission Houses Instead of Paying Cash. London cable: The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: "The Porte considers that its offer to rebuild the American structures burned at Harpoot will close the question. It bases this belief on news that Russia has intimated an intention to oppose any attempt on the part of the United States to enforce payment." Gov. Allen at San Juan Washington special: Governor Allen arrived at San Juan, Porto Rico, Friday, on the Dolphin. He was escorted to San Juan by the battleship Texas and cruisers New York and Machias. The dispatch received at the Navy Department announcing the arrival says Allen was received with great enthusiasm by the Porto Ricans, who joined in a demonstration in his honor. Negro Hanged By a Mob Webb, Miss., special: George Gordon, a desperate negro, was hanged at Albin early Monday by a mob. Gordon became involved in a difficulty with Manager Skinner, of the Robinson plantation, and the latter was badly shaken up by the negro, who also fired several shots at Skinner. Gordon was caught by a posse and hanged to the limb of a tree. Great Fire at Ottawa, Ont The suburb of Hull, at Ottawa, Ontario, was swept by fire Friday. Five square miles of buildings were consumed. Seven lives were lost and the property loss is estimated at $17,000,000. Vast quantities of lumber were destroyed. Seven thousand people are homeless and in destitution. THE MARKETS INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT, No. 2 red ..... $.71 CORN, No. 1 white ..... .40 OATS, No. 2 white ..... .27% HAY ..... 12.75 % 14.25 POULTRY—Hens ..... .07 Cocks ..... .04 Hen turkeys ..... .09 Butter ..... .10 @ .13 Eggs, fresh ..... .10 Wool ..... .18 @ .25 Hides ..... .06% @ .09% CATTLE—Prime steers ..... 5.00 @ 5.75 HOGS—Heavies ..... 5.45 @ 5.57% Roughs ..... 4.50 @ 5.10 SHEEP—Good to choice ..... 4.60 @ 5.00 Good to choice lambs ..... 6.50 @ 8.00 CHICAGO WHEAT, No. 2 red ..... .70% CORN, No. 2 ..... .39% OATS, No. 2 white ..... .21% THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA NEW OIL FIELDS. GOOD PROSPECT FOR A FINE GRADE OF PETROLEUM IN JASPER COUNTY. Generous Demas Deming—Demand For Health Board Bulletins—A Pioneer Squire Dying—Hero Williams Leighty—Indiana Crop Conditions- Jasper County Oil Fields Jasper County Oil Fields. State Geologist Blatchley returned Monday afternoon from Jasper county, where he has been investigating the new oil fields. He reports good prospects for a fine grade of oil and thinks the field will spread over a great deal of territory. The oil is found very near the surface, and as a consequence the wells are very cheaply operated. The oil is so thick that it is used as a lubricant and sells at $7.75 per barrel. At the present there are about thirty wells, all of which are producing from three to twelve barrels of oil a day.—Indianapolis Journal. Generous Demas Deming. Terre Haute special: Demas Deming, president of the First National Bank, Tuesday offered to the city a valuable piece of city property for a site and $50,000 with which to build a public library building, provided a viaduct shall be built over the railroad tracks at Ohio street, which is the street on which the site is located. The offer, coming at this time, has placed John R. Walsh's Southern Indiana Railway Company in a predicament, because the franchise it asks for, entering the city, does not include a provision the City Council insists upon inserting, looking to the building of a viaduct. The Evansville and Terre Haute tracks are alongside the projected route of the Southern Indiana. The first-named company is resisting in the courts an effort to open the street at grade, and has offered to divide the cost of a viaduct with the Southern Indiana, but the latter declines. If it persists in its position the city will not be able to avail itself of the Deming offer. The Council voted down the company's franchise, but agreed to take up the matter again. Demand For Health Board Bulletin. The Secretary of the State Board of "THE INDIANA MAN." In this column will appear from time to time of past or present prominence in potitical, official [In this column will appear from time to time portraits of "The Indians Man" typical—Hooless of fast or present prominence in political, official and commercial life of our great commonwealth.] EUGENE V. DEBS, Socialist Candidate for President Health received letters Tuesday from the German and Austrian governments requesting four copies of the board's bulletin every month, and complimenting its editor on the value of the statistical tables of contagious diseases. The chief of the Bureau of Health of the British government also wrote for one copy a few days ago and offered congratulations on the value of the publication. While the Health Bulletin has only been established since last October, nearly every government in Europe has written Dr. Hurty asking him to put it on the mailing list. It is now sent by request to all of the Canadian provinces, as well as to every country in Europe save one. The latest English province to request copies of the Bulletin was New South Wales. Complimentary letters have also been received from Dr. Pruden, of Columbia University, New York, who wrote that it was the best health bulletin issued by the States; from the head of the medical faculty of Johns Hopkins University, and from authorities of Princeton, Harvard, Yale and many of the lesser colleges. A Pioneer 'Squire Dying Plainfield special: 'Squire Johnson, elegy-seven, and for fifty-one years a justice of the peace, is at the point of death. He came to Hendricks county before railroad days and ran a sawmill business. He was once postmaster. He tells interesting tales of the days when the mail was carried on top of stages. When it was too muddy for the stage it was transported on the mud cart. Mr. Johnson says the first time he ever saw ex-President Harrison was when he came cantering into Plainfield astride a frisky colt, in the capacity of a collector. The old justice says the collector cut quite a swath among the fair sex, too. Indiana Crop Conditions. The weekly crop and weather bulletin issued Tuesday by Observer Wappenhans, at Indianapolis, has the following to say about the conditions in Indiana: "Slightly warmer weather and frequent local rains improved all crops and vegetation, especially in the southern half of the State, but the rains delayed plowing, gardening and farm work in general. Good wheat fields and meadows are green and growing nicely. Oats and early potatoes have come up and are growing rapidly. Tobacco plants are up and growing well. Rye is in good condition. Barley, millet and timothy are mostly sown. A large acreage of corn will be planted. Peaches are in bloom, and fruit trees in general are budding. At present the prospects for fruit are good. Sheep shearing began in southern counties. No pasture yet. Feed is scarce on some farms, but livestock is in good condition." Hero William Leighty. Auburn special: William Leighty, a brother of Pension Agent Leighty, was probably fatally hurt while trying to stop a runaway at St. Joe Tuesday afternoon. The horse was driven by a lady having with her a one-year-old baby. The mother was thrown out and the baby left alone in the buggy. Mr. Leighty ran into the street and in an effort to stop the horse was knocked down and trampled on. He was picked up as killed, but later regaled consciousness. His right shoulder blade was broken. Promised to Kill Himself and Did Municle special: George Phillips, an employee of Ault & Son, shot himself dead Sunday night. He was drunk for the first time in six years, and had previously told his wife that he would kill himself, and probably her, if he ever drank again. Phillips reached home at 9 o'clock and insisted on his wife putting the baby to bed before he entered. She kept the little one in her arms, however, and he staggered into the bedroom, where he removed his coat and vest and fired two bullets into his heart. Neither wife nor child were molested. Raid of Silk Thieves. Valparaiso special: The gang of silk thieves which has been operating throughout northern Indiana for the past two years, paid a second visit to this city Sunday night, stealing 1,000 yards of plain portraits of "The Indiana Man" typical—Hoosiers and commercial life of our great commonwealth.] sliks from J. Lowenstein's department store, valued at $700. They secured entrance through the skylight, going down forty feet. Bloodhounds were put on their track and tracked them several miles into the country, but they have not been caught. Youthful Twin Heroes. Auburn special: Willie and Wilber, twins, aged twelve years, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Stonestreet, living near Cedar, this county, are heroes. They prevented a fast express train on the Wabash Railroad from being wrecked while running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. While walking down the Wabash tracks they discovered a broken rail, hurried home, notified their father, and he went to the home of the Wabash agent, J. M. Smith, and reported the boys' discovery. Agent Smith reached the scene just in time to flag the St. Louis express. The train was brought to a stop just on the brink of the broken rail. Badly Crowded Poles. Muncie special: Health officers found fifty Poles huddled together in twelve rooms. Residents complained of their filth. The condition is due to high rent and scarcity of homes. Rald on Gamblers Superintendent of Police Quigley, of Indianapolis, has begun a crusade against gambling. The gamblers have had fair warning. During the last four or five weeks several gambling houses have been "pinched" by the police, and a wholesale raid was made Saturday night, resulting in the arrest of seventy men and boys. Statue of Late Wm. H. English J. H. Mahoney, sculptor of Indianapolis, in the employ of Capt. W. E. English, visited English, Ind., Saturday, to confer with the citizens as to a suitable location for a monument to be erected in honor of the late William H. English. The statue will be placed in the park adjacent to the sulphur springs, and will be unveiled on Decoration Day with suitable ceremonies. During his life Mr. English took a lively interest in the town. He secured a star route to the place, thereby establishing a postoffice, which was named in his honor, and eventually was largely instrumental in securing the location of a court house there. State Notes. APPLEJACK "INSPIRATION." An Amusing Incident of the Second Battle of Manassas as Told by a Tennessee Captain. On a fishing trip on the spreads of the St. Francis river in Southeast Missouri, last fall, William Curry, clerk of Judge Gates's court, met Captain Mallory, a wholesale merchant of Memphis, Tenn., and heard him tell the following story: "I was a captain of a Tennessee company in the Confederate army in General Jubal Early's command. At the second battle of Manassas we had been having a hard brush with the Federals, and after it was over one of our boys brought to camp a keg of mountain distilled apple brandy that in our then exhausted condition was like a gift from the gods. I wished to take some of the liquor onto the field with me, so I filled two bottles and fitted them in the cases of my field glasses, which I carried strapped around my shoulder. Then I went into the fight, and it turned out to be a stiffer brush than the first one. In the thickest of the fight General Early rode up to me and seeing the case of my glasses hanging by my side, he said hurriedly: "Captain, I want to borrow your field glasses a moment to look at the enemy on that ridge over vonder." "In the excitement of the battle I had forgotten that I left the glasses in my tent. I handed the case to General Early. He opened it, glanced in and saw the two bottles of liquor and frowned. He slammed the case shut rather angrily, I thought, and as he handed it back to me said: "I'll see you to-night in your tent, sir." "I expected trouble, and after the battle that evening I carefully hid the keg of apple brandy under a blanket in my tent, where the General would not see it when he called. At 10 o'clock that night General Early came into my tent and said: "Produce those field glasses, sir." "I handed them to him. There was only enough of the brandy left for a small drink. General Early put the bottle to his lips, tipped his head back and let the liquor slowly trickle down his throat. He smacked his lips and said: "I wish you had more." "I have a keg," I answered. "The General sat down and I rolled the keg out and we sat there and talked and smoked and drank until after midnight, and the next day we whipped the Federals. I believe to this day that the victory was partly the result of the inspiration that came to General Early from that delicious applejack."—Kansas City Star. Selling the Queen's Chocolate Boxes Prices realized for the Queen's chocolate boxes vary very much, according to the condition and the sympathetic interest to be found in the circumstances of each case. Thus, of Mr. Schwalbacher's gift in bulk, although the package unmistakably shows it came from the front, and probably was the result of a collection in a particular company of a battalion, some of the boxes are still unsold, namely, those that are partially full, although they happen to be in very good condition. Prices accepted for full boxes in this lot have, however, reached £12 13s, but the average offers have been ten guineas. Empty boxes have fetched either five guineas or £5. A box partially full brought £6 10s; but the same purchaser, rightly discerning the greater intrinsic value in a box from which some of the chocolate had been taken, but which bore the wrappings in which the soldier had secured the treasure before committing it to the post, and the Cape Colony stamp—the whole being tied with a piece of webbing, apparently from some Boer accoutrement—gave £9 for it, and the same man readily made the highest offer of £15 into guineas in order to secure the drummer's box, to which some little history is attached—London Telegraph. Prompt Decision: He (describing his journeyings)—Then, leaving Gibraltar, I made my way to Australia, and from there I went to the diamond mines in South Africa, where I made my fortune. Then—do you follow me, Miss Crynkle? She (with a vivid blush)—To the world's end, Mr. Rocksworthy.—Chicago Tribune. THAT THE RECORDER Is Prepared to do all kinds of Job Printing on short notice? 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ADVERTISING RATES Will be furnished on Application. Entered at the Postoffice as second-class matter. All letters, Communications and Business matters should be addressed to THE RECORDER, 122 W New Y k street. Geo. P. STEWART, Publisher SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1900 EDITORIAL COUNTY TICKET. For Prosecutor--John C. Ruckles haus. For Treasurer--Armin C. Koehne For Sheriff--Eugene Saulcy. For Commissioner, First District-- John McGaughey. For Commissioner, Third District-- Thomas Spafford. For County Assessor--Marlon Eaton For Coroner--Dr. Alembert W. Bray ton. For Surveyor--James Nelson. NOTICE. Beginning with the next issue, THE RECORDER will furnish its many readers, each week, a full account of the proceeding of the General Conference of the A. M. E. church which meets in Columbus, O., on the 7. Rev. A. L. Murray, pastor of Allen Chapel, of this city, and chairman of the Indiana delegation, will be the contributor and interesting reading may be expected. THE LEACK VOTE IN THE SOUTH The Negro is occupying the center of the stage in Virginia. The white people, or more properly speaking, the Democratic party of that State, have decided to eliminate the black vote from its politics. And so Virginia, the "mother of the presidents," will violate the Constitution and range herself by the side of Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina. In these States the Negroes have been disfranchised by the revision of the State Constitutions, and these instruments will forever stand as fitting testimonials of the rapacity of the Southern Democrats. This monumental rascality is to be attempted because the whites "are tired of the means which they have been force to countenance in order to retain white supremacy in the State." The so called white supremacy" is not in jeopardy in Virginia and a fair ballot and an honest count could never mean Negro domination. It has been the custom of the Southern Democrats to pave the way for this nefarious disfranchisement and quiet the just indignation of the country by flaunting in the face of the North the ignorance of the Negro, with the query, 'shall these people rule us?' No one knows better than they the fallacy in the cry of Negro domination. Why must the black man's right of franchise be offered up a sacrifice on the altar of the white man's rapacity? In 1888 Hon. John M. Langston, a man of refinement and a lawyer of marked ability, was elected to Congress from the 6th District of Virginia after a memorable contest at the polls, in which many of the white Republicans joined with the Democrats to defeat him. And be it said in praise of the race that Mr. Langston was a credit to his state—the equal of any member of Virginia's delegation. --- The following is a comment on a speech delivered in Congress by Mr. Langston January 17, 1891, as clipped from a white daily of that date: * * Mr. Langston made a speech that was eloquent and effective. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was brilliant. * * There are not five men in the House that can talk as well as Langston. He speaks extemporaneously, which even notes, and his command of language is masterly. We doubt not that there are scores of Democrats in that body who would give a year's salary for half as good a gift of oratory * * It is carlys screditable, but it is true that he caused the eyes of case-hardened Democrats to moisten by his impassioned appeals for justice to the black men and the white men of the South who are proscribed because they are Republicans. This is a fair representative of the class of colored men the Southern Democrats fear when they raise the cry of Negro Domination. Bruce, Langston, Lynch, Cheatham, Miller, Murray and White make up that bright galaxy of able Negroes which have represented the great black belts of the South in Congress; and they have acquitted themselves nobly. The Southern Democrats should halt in their mad rush to disfranchise the Negro long enough to consider well the words Mr. Whipper, uttered at the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina in 189: "You boast of what the white race has done. What have you made of this State? We have here a climate equaled to that of any the world over, a soil that responds bountifully to the husband-man, water power sufficient to turn every spindle in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. What have you done with this magnificent domain? Since 1865 you have seen great States arise in the North and Northwest, outstripping you in wealth, population, education and influence, while you remain poor and impotent. In 1865 you had it your power to use the Negro. He was your laborer and your natural friend, as he is now. You might have raised him up to bless and enrich the commonwealth. But while new States have been born and have passed you in the race you have wasted your time crushing the Negro instead of moving up on a higher plane where there is more room and leave some field open for him. Is it not so? Can you deny It? Why do you seek to disfranchise us? Because you know the car of Negro progress is approaching. You hear the rumble of its ponderous wheels, the screech, of the whistle and the sound of the steam, and you know that it is freighted with educated men who have been coming forth to grapple with the new idea of the world, men who will make themselves felt. You listen and you fear." TILLMAN RAMPANT Senator Tillman has been upon another rampage. This time the scene of his operations was the Ann Arbor (Mich.) University, and the occasion an invitation to address the good government club of that institution. The subject of his address was: "The Race Question in the South," and owing to the conspicuously obnoxious part that Senator Tillman has played in the politics of South Carolina, culminating in the practical disfranchisement of the entire colored vote of that [State, he is eminently fitted for a discussion of the race question. The presence of a young colored student of the university exasperated this relic of anti-bellum days and he launched forth upon one of his characteristic bitter tirades against the colored race. He did find time, however, in the course of his remarks to acknowledge that the whites of South Carolina had by force and fraud taken from the Negro every election since 1876. The spectacle of a United States Senator, before a "good government" club of one of the leading universities of the country, boasting of the part he had taken in the overriding of the Constitution of his country is a novel and inspiring sight indeed. This brazen admission of the rascality of the whites was merely a diversion, the main part of the discussion of "the race question in the South" being devoted to brutal attacks upon the Negro. To any one acquainted with Senator Tillman's record and his vindictive style of oratory it must forever remain a mystery why he should have been selected to address a "good government" club. The race question in the South can not be settled by bitter charges and counter charges. Neither does Northern interference appear to exercise a good influence. The conditions, however, are daily growing better, owing to a better understanding between the whites and blacks of that section. The coloerd people and the country at large have been brought to understand that some of the Negro's best friends are to be found among the white men of the South—but Senator Tillman is not one of them. HAPPY FARMERS. Claimed That They Are More Prosperous Than Ever. According to the latest statistics, the farmer has good reason to spell Prosperity with a capital P in the closing days of this century. Never before has the agriculturist been so blessed. The "Agriculturist" estimates that the number of farms in the United States has increased about 400,00 during the decade 1890-1900. Farm real estate, which depreciated wofully during the hard times of 1892-95, is now estimated to be worth $1,220,000,000 more than it was ten years ago. The total investment in American agriculture is now placed at $17,550,000,000, a gain of nearly ten per cent, over the comparatively high valuation of 1889. It is believed that 69 per cent, of these farms are now occupied by their owners, while the number of farms under mortgage is no greater than a decade ago. Mortgages now average only about 27 per cent, of the farms they are on, the rate of interest has declined and the great bulk of mortgages now in force were incurred to buy the farms or to improve them. The produce of farms in the United States for last year was worth to the farmers $1,600,000,000 more than in the hard times six or eight years ago; live stock is worth $700,000,000 more, staple crops $400,000,000 more, and other crops $200,000,000 more. Horses are worth one-third more than they were four years ago, milch cows 45 per cent, more, and sheep are worth more than at any time for twenty years, the total value for the country being 140 per cent. more than in 1890. Taken as a whole, American agriculture was never in a stronger position. In no other country on earth are farmers so wealthy. FROM WESTERN WATERS. New York's Fish Market Largely Supplied by the Lakes. Most of the fish consumed in New York and its vicinity are of salt water varieties, and large numbers of them are shipped from here to a great number of interior points, says the New York Sum. Limited quantities of salt water fish and lobsters and soft shelled crabs go even to the Mississippi and beyond. But while the market here is mainly supplied with, and the demand is chiefly for, salt water fish, there is a market for black bass, trout and some other fish from local fresh waters and from the great lakes and western rivers. The busiest season here in the trade in lake and other western fresh water fish is from March 1 to June 15, but these fish, from one source and another, either frozen or fresh, come the year round. This trade has increased greatly in recent years, and it is still increasing. Of the lake fish the largest quantity comes from Lake Erie. In winter many fish are shipped frozen, otherwise they come in refrigerator cars. At various points on the lakes there are refrigerating plants, where storage is afforded for the care and keeping of fish awaiting shipment. Such plants are not new there, but they are now more numerous than ever. The lake fish that come here are lake herring, mainly from Lake Erie. In winter it is shipped frozen. Trout come from the upper lakes, from the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron and from Lake Erie. There are large sales here of German carp, taken from the western rivers. The carp can be had at all seasons. Book Scorchers Those of our young readers who know how much wholesome fun and profit there may be in sensible bicycle riding, says the editor of St. Nicholas, are also aware that there is a class of riders known by the slang name "scorchers." Frank B. Stockton recently applied the word to those readers whose idea of literary accomplishment is to run through as many books as possible in as little time as may be, and to keep up this task as long as they can. There is no truth in the report that the Sultan of Turkey or any other potentate has offered a purse of goldpieces and a priceless ruby ring to the boy or girl who shall read the most books in the shortest time, and with the least idea of what they contain. Neither has any university or other learned institution given notice that it will present to such misled young people the degree of B. S.—"Book Scorcher" The real B. S. degree is given for acquirements of a different sort, and means Bachelor of Science, as you know. No Use For a Throne Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted in the April Centruy as saying to Dr. O'Meara at St. Helena: “If I was in England now, and the French nation was to offer me the throne again, I would not accept of it, because if I was to do so I would be obliged to turn bourreau [executioner]. I would be obliged to cut off the heads of thousands to keep myself upon it, which would not be pleasing to me. Oceans of blood must be shed to keep me there. No; no. I have made enough of noise already in the world; perhaps more than any other man will make; perhaps too much. I am getting old, and only want retirement. What could I do in France? Alone, to set myself against all the powers of Europe. Madness!” AROUND THE CHURCHES ```markdown ``` BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH (Corner Vermont and Tolteo Sial Rev. C. W. Newton, pastor. Christianity reaches out in a thousand and different ways—wherever it reaches, it takes hold. Wherever the loving hand of Christ takes hold [of humanity, through human efforts, to save, to help and to comfort; this is charity. Organized charity among the christian ladies of Indianapolis, is the most promising of all the movements for mutual protection in the state. They are divided into two great factions—the Sisters of Charity and the Daughters of Charity. Their combined membership is about 700. The sisters are the oldest, they were organized about 25 years ago. Both numbers are prosperous and healthy. They are not secret orders, but are banded together for mutual help. They pay sick dues and bury their dead, and they do this beautifully and generously. They have accumulated money enough above their general expenses, to invest in property. Under their present growth, the Charities are destined to become the strongest and wealthiest among the societies of the city. On the 22nd, the Daughters had their annual sermon preached at Bethel. They were a fine body of ladies and made an impressive showing. The altar was beautifully decorated for the occasion. The solos and papers were in structive and entertaining, Mrs. Emma Shepherd read a fine paper on charity. The ladies donated the table collection of $11,05, to the Trustees. On last Sunday the pastor was honored with the distinction of preaching the annual sermon to the Sisters of Charity at the Second Baptist church, Lodges 1, 2 and 4, and the Juveniles were present, in numbers about 400. Their turn-out was a beautiful sight, they looked as terrible as an army with banners. Their altar decorations were immense, and the society gave to your pastor and the various lodge officers, seven dollars worth of cut flowers, made into bquets. The choir ser vice controlled by members of the order, was of especial merit. The papers read by the ladies, were of unusual high merit. The sermon, fortunately gave such salisfaction that the ladies have voted your pastor a member of their organization, a distinction held by only a few men. The pastor was requested to publish these two sermons but as the space necessary would take more than our column, we are unable to do so, but will give a few extracts from both sermons; Sisters, since you last met upon an occasion of this king, another year has rolled into the vastness of eternity. The great mercy of the allwise God, in his inexpressible love, has brought us again, to the holy altar of praise, thanksgiving and worship. Your presence here to-day, like the coming of an invading army, into the country, has invaded the wide attention of the public eye. The attractive gaze of public admiration, is fastened upon you. The admiring gaze of a fond community, is a valuable prize to capture; because it stimulates the healthy vigor and burning energy of your great work There comes to you in the eye of public notice to-day, the communities interest, the communities confidence, the communities approval; the communities admiration; the communities passonage; the communities love and good will; the communities praise and vindication. It is an excellent feature to have a cause, so broad and so lofty, so invincible, so needful and so successful, so capable and so reliable, so amiable and so tender, so unselfish and so generous, that you can march out in the name of God, once a year and capture the hearts of the people, and return to the arena of your great and landable work in triumph. Sisters of Charity the church greets you, the peo ple greet you. The public holds in high esteem, the kind arrangement and respect of your annual thanksgiving visit, and like sunbeams dancing along our way, I can see sweet signs of happy welcome, welcome, sisters on every face. And now ladies, before I further go I must in justice to you, speak of your beautiful, beautiful appearance. People who expect to be a controlling influ- ence in this world, must look like some body. It is a pleasant thing to the eye to behold the grace of your fashion. I am not extravagant when I say, that you are an ornament upon the bosom of the public pride. You are a gem up on the brow of the dignity of the community. You are a star in the firmament of the communities social and fraternat-orders. You occupy a high place in the communities affection. You are a treasure of their best love and as a deserved tribute of your worth and love, I believe that I have unburdened the anxious wish of the people by bestowing upon you. for them, the tribute that I have just impartially paid to you. It is a happy thing to be the promoters of a work, that puts you in touch with the best love and confidence of the people. It is a most enviable fortune, to serve a cause, that draws so many of you together in the mutual tie of one interest, one purpose, one protection, one effort, one triumph, one love, one help, one weal or one woe. Yea, the one grand human achievement of doing your whole duty by each other. Charity is the only thing that can cover the entire measure of this broad ground. Your whole duty by each other, and your whole duty by your fellow man. Charity is the angel of benevolence, that follows in the footprints of every landable human asperation. Charity is that dispassion, that would immortalize every grand human achievement Charity is that friend; that would encourage the desponding heart of every actor in the drama of human life. It is that keen eyed vigil, that sees and sympathises with every tear of sorrow Charity is that faithful sentinel that keeps watch at the door of a friend's reputation. Charity is the landmark by the wayside of human life that reminds us not to wrong our fellow man Charity is the fearless hero who dares to attack the wrong when the helpless are oppressed. Charity is the true friend that flies to the rescue, when the unfortunate, becomes a prey to the iron hand of retribution. Charity is the kind hand that gives help to the wretched, that gives comfort to the sick; that gives consolation to the broken hearted. Charity is that uncompromising principle, that walks into the temple of life; and with the keen lash of honor, drives out everything that would ruin and degrade the exhalted purposes, to which human hope lies on the wings of filmsy inducement, through the mists of disappointment. Charity remembers every kind deed, laid at the door and pays the tribute of gratitude without limit. The East-End circle was entertained by Mrs. Case. 708 North Senate-ave, last Friday. The attendance was large Mrs. Perkins told the story of the Holy Grail and explained its religious moral with such sweet simplicity and touching pathos that it brought tears to the eyes. Prof. George the dramatic reader of Chicago, was a guest and delivered a pleasing address which delighted the club, Rev Newton related the 'Table of the Truth' spoken in jest. A fine lunch was served by the hostess. Thursday night April 26 Prof George appeared in the church auditorium in his great role as a dramatic reader. His renditions were fine and his abilities cannot be questioned. The benefit tendered last Tuesday night by his many friends was a tribute of honor. The program was contributed to by some of the best local talent, and Prof George recited Fra Yaama. He was master of his piece. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis was in the audience and after several rounds of hearty applaws came foward and excused herself in a very sweet and eloquent manner. Monday night Prof. Riching the European traveler and lecturer, the friend and benefactor to our race appeared at the church, in his interesting stereopticon views and lecture on leading colored men and women and the various leading business enterprises, which mark the progress of the race. Every one was delighted and hope that Prof Richings will come again. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis of Washington, D. C., worshiped with us on Sunday morning. At the close of the sermon the pastor escorted her to the pulpit stand, introduced her as one of the brilliant luminaries of the race and gave her a seat on the rostrum. Miss Davis will hold an endeavor meeting at the church Sunday evening. The meeting will be supported by an interesting program. The pastor will preach the annual sermon to the Odd Fellows. Juveniles and Households, Sunday at the Second Baptist church, at 2;30 p. m. Sunday morning sermon, Jelius furious driving. No. 9, John Carter, leader; collection $1.50 No. 10, Mr. Beard leader, collection $0.25 No. 11. Chas. Grant leader; collection $0.55. No. 12, J. P. Hoy. leader; collection $0.50 No. 18, Elmer Donald, leader; collection $1.10 No. 14, Wm. Parks, leader, collection $1.05. ALLEN*CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH (Broadway, between Tenth & Eleventh St.) Rev. A. L. Murray, B. D. - pastor Sunday at 6 a. m., the Revs. C. C. Townsend and A. Wakefield, baptized the candidates from Jones Tabernacle Wayman chapel and Allen chapel. On the banks of the canal were hundreds of people who witnessed the solemn service and the presence of the Holy Spirit was noticeable. At 10:45 a. m. Rev. C. C. Townsend preached a soul stirring sermon to a vast audience. At the close, several infants and persons were baptized in full membership. At 2:30 p. m. Rev. R. P, Christian, the able divine of Walters chapel, preached a grand sermon which electrified the audience, Brevity was the pleasing feature. At 8 p. m. Rev. Townsend preached again and we wish to return our sincere thanks to our P, E. for his faithfulness to his various charges. The love feast on Monday night was all we were looking for. It was a pentecostal shower. All seemed to enjoy the wonderful presence of the Lord. The public collection and classes excelled anything on quarterly meeting occasion, in the history of the church. The total amount raised being $136.79 for which we thank the public. The following ministers were present and gave loyal support: Revs. Wakefield, Gilliam, Bell, Graven, Christian and Donohoo, for which we feel grateful and at the proper time return our compliments in a more befitting manner. During the pastor's absence at the General Conference, the church will be under the control of the Steward board. Brothers Shepherd Hardrick and John T. Williams to look after the Sunday morning services and Brothers C. F, Brooks and Alfred Outland to look after Sunday evening services The local deacons to look after prayer meeting. The Stewardess board to look after the sick and who need attention. The various other departments to look after their respective departments, all being subject to the direction of the Steward board. To the church: nothing preventing I shall return at the close of the conference and remain for the conference year, as I have completed the arrangements to that effect. I will have ample time in arranging the boards and filling all vacancies before my year expires. I wish here to thank my many friends for their kindness in contributing to assist me in preparing for general conference. The benefit on last Thursday evening by Hon Gurley Brewer, Mr. Alfred Outland and Mrs. Evelyn Mitchell-James and others will be kept in found remembrance. Tomorrow the pulpit will be filled by Rev. W. H, Taylor the great preacher and theologian of Bloomington. Come and hear him and I know you will be pleased. OLIVET BAPSTIST CHURCH [Cor, Prospect and McKernan Sts.] R. D. Leonard, Pastor. The repairs on the church have not been completed. The Sylphite concert was postponed until the 18th on this account. The sermon by Rev. C. M. Thomas of Noblesville was a gift of the Holy Ghost. (Come again, Rev. R D. Leonard attended the funeral of Mr. Henry Bellimany at Green-eastle, last Sunday at 2 p.m. Mesdames Hetty Johnson of South State-ave and Lulu Hazelwood of East Prospect street, are on the sick list' CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH Corner North and Spring Streets. The Rev. Mr. Macksberry of Lexington, Ky., preached for us last Sunday. His two sermons were listened. (Continued on last page.) BLUES Ever have "the blues"? Then you know how dark everything looks. You are completely discouraged and cannot throw off that terrible depression. A little work looks like a big mountain; a little noise sounds like the roar of a cannon; and a little sleep is all you can secure, night after night. That's ave Exhaustion matter is, your nerves have been poi- with the impurities in your blood. The is to get rid of these impurities just as -purifying medicine.—a perfect Sarsapa- you want. You want a Sarsaparilla that best nerve tonic you can buy, too. S AYER'S made under the personal supervision of a graduate in pharmacy, a graduate y, and a graduate in medicine." a bottle. All druggists. suffering from nervous prostration. For weeks I grew not sleep, had no appetite, and was in a wretched con- linal kinds of medicines without result. I took Ayer's unpleasing results. My appetite returned, I slept soundly, increased, and now I am well and strong without the bubble. Indeed, I would hardly believe it possible for a change in any person."—CLARA MEALEY, Winter c. 21, 1899. TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. If you want a coat that will keep you dry in the hard- sure storm by the Fish, Brand Slicker. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. EVERY Farmer and Poultry Raiser should not fail to examine the Whittington Woven Chicago New To Cure Take Laxative druggists ref. 250. E. W. G. Char "Guess I the cradle." "Why?" "I've new Cleveland Try G Ask your package of drink that the children may wear the GRAIN-O. Mocha or Ja- grains, and ceives it with coffee. 15c by all grocers. It's the st milk of hum The readers learn that the that science has hages, and that is the only cure fraternity. Care ease, requires Catarrh Cure upon the block system, thereby the disease, and building up nature in the so much faith offer One Hurt fails to cure. Address Sold by drug Hall's Family. Give the b and he'll form Ask Your Do A wider to the feet. Curse Hot, Callous, growing Nail new or tight to and shoe store Address Alien. The Friend tle a quartz est daughter forehead. The Fool- cash—Kans The truth of the matter is, your nerves have been poisoned and weakened with the impurities in your blood. The thing for you to do is to get rid of these impurities just as soon as you can. You want a blood-purifying medicine—a perfect Sarsaparilla,—that's what you want. You want a Sarsaparilla that is the strongest and best nerve tonic you can buy, too. That's AYER'S "The only Sarasaparilla made under the personal supervision of three graduates: a graduate in pharmacy, a graduate in chemistry, and a graduate in medicine." $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. "During last year I was suffering from nervous prostration. For weeks I grew worse, became thin, could not sleep, had no appetite, and was in a wretched condition. After taking several kinds of medicines without result, I took Ayer's Sarasaparilla with more than pleasing results. My appetite returned, I slept soundly, my strength and weight increased, and now I am well and strong without the slightest trace of my old trouble. Indeed, I would hardly believe it possible for medicine to bring about such a change in any person."—Clara MEALEY, Winter Hill, Somerville, Mass., Dec. 21, 1899. Office, 25 W. Washington St. R. P. ALGEO, D. P. A. Indianapolis. A NEW TRAIN EAST! 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The life of luxury does not produce vigor. Indigestible suppers, constant nerve strain and lack of exercise upset the stomach. The blood that makes heroes must come from healthy stomachs. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters purifies the blood and strengthens the stomach. It cures constipation, indigestion and dyspepsia. Facts in the Case. Father (gruffy)—Get away from the fire. Tommy. The weather isn't cold. Tommy—Well, I'm not warmin' the weather; I'm warmin' my hands.—Chicago News. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure, 25c. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. Changeless Changeling. "Guess I must have been changed in the cradle." "Why?" "I've never had any change since." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Try Grain-O! Tr; Grain-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it, GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. $ \frac{1}{4} $ the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers. It's the stolen thunder that sours the milk of human kindness. $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease, sciatica, that is Catarh. Hall Catarh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medicat fraternity. Catarh being a constitutional disfellowship, it does not have the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they believe it will cure the disease, and it does not cure it to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggist, 756. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Give the business man plenty of rope and he'll form a cordage trust. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes the feet feel better. It is sold by shoe stores, Zc. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Ro, N. Y. C. O. D. The Friend—They say he had to settle a quarter of a million on his oldest daughter because of a mole on her forehead. The Fool—That was a case of spot cash.—Kansas City Independent. Double Trouble The complication of SPRAINS and BRUISES is a very sore trouble, but doubly, or separately, as sprain or bruise, there is no remedy known the equal of St. Jacobs Oil for a PROMPT, SURE CURE ```markdown ``` A Change of Heart. "You're a dreadful shiftless man, Zadoc Tirrell, if you are my husband, and you're getting more shiftless every day of your life, n' some day I don't know what'll happen." Mrs. Tirrell spoke with considerable asperity as she halted in the doorway and her nervous eyes scanned the disordered room. Zadoc, in his shirt sleeves, sat comfortably reading, surrounded by the pages of a Sunday paper dropped in chaos about him. His shoes were off. One had been kicked into the farthest corner, the other lay on its side under a table. A pitcher of sweetened water stood on the table at his elbow, but the glass from which he had drunk was in an unsteady position on the seat of a haircloth chair, while on another stood a pile of cookies. "I just wish you could see yourself!" she went on, coming into the room with an energetic movement that caused him to draw his feet up hastily as she rescued the tumbler, placed a sheet of paper under the pitcher and began to pick up the papers. "You're a sight to behold, Zadoc Tirrell." She creased the papers precisely, arranged them according to order and placed them in a little pile on the table. He watched her movements complacently. "I expect I rest you considerable, don't I, Serissa?" he queried. "I'm dreadful speech, but somehow I can't seem to help it. I suppose I'm a pretty poor stick of a husband, and I wish I was better." The almost childlike smile on his face passed unheeded. "You are a dreadful trial," she confessed. "If I wa'n't so fond of you I'd be thinking I'd made a pretty poor bargain when I married you, Zadoc; but somehow"—Here she stopped. "I'll warrant you ain't mended that north pasture fence yet," she concluded. "No I ain't. I'm going to pretty soon." This from behind his paper. "N' the cows will be straying off and be put in pound, and you'll have to pay for getting 'em out. It cost you $3 last week, and $3 would mend that fence and do a lot more things that need being done about the house that never get done; and don't never seem likely to 'less I do 'em, and I ain't come to that yet." He stirred the sheet uneasily. "I'm going to 'tend to it to-morrow morning. I really am, and you won't need to bother any more about it. I wish you didn't take things so hard, Serissa." "N there's that sink drain needed hooing out for two weeks, and you didn't get around to it. I had to hire Alonzo Butler to come out and do it, and to 'tend to the front door laten, and put up the swinging shelf for my preserves, and carry off that truck I gave you last house-cleaning time and you said you'd 'tend to next day. When I think of it I get considerable riled. It's put off and put off, and drop things here and shove things there, and no system or order nor nothing. Most women would get exasperated." "You don't never, do you? You're a pretty patient woman, considering all things, Serissa." He gazed at her reflectively. "I guess perhaps I'll go long now and do one or two things I 'ain't finished yet. I might as well, I suppose." He arose slowly, dropped the paper and started from the room. His feet struck the bare floor of the kitchen. "You 'ain't seen my shoes, have you, Serissa? You 'ain't gathered them up in some of your slicking up, have you, Serissa? They don't seem to be anywhere." "When did you have 'em last?" "I don't know. When I came in, I suppose. I don't remember, but I suppose I had 'em. I haven't been going stocking-foot, have I?" He looked at her perplexed. Then he glanced at his feet. "Those stockings don't look 's if I'd been outdoors without any shoes. I must have had 'em somewhere, Serissa?" "Where do you generally put 'em?" "Most any place. Just where I happen to be, I guess. It 'ain't very systematic, I know, but I've got kind of into the habit of it." "You were in here, wa'n't you?" "Yes." "Well, you 'ain't looked here, have you?" "Why, no! I didn't think. Somehow it didn't seem to me I'd a' left them in the setting-room. I don't generally, do I, Serissa? I don't mean to, I'm sure." The perplexed look on his face broadened into a smile as he esploded one shoe and groped for it under the chair. He gazed about helplessly for its mate. "The other isn't here." "Have you looked everywhere?" "Yes." "What's that in the corner?" "It appears to be my other shoe. I should really say that it was. Did I put it there?" "I suppose you did. It was there when I came in." He opened the door shortly and turned, one hand on the door knob. Serissa was putting the last of the wood into the fire. "I'll fill that woodbox right off, now," he said cheerfully, "and I say, I wish you'd kiss me just once, Serissa, even if I am shiftless." * Zadoc was dead. The house was quiet and in perfect order. Never had it been so, even at festive occasions such as Thanksgiving, for Zadoc had always been present. The funeral was over and the relatives departed. Serissa was alone. She tried to drink some tea. It would cheer her up and steady her nerves. She was trying to be resigned—everyone had told her she must be—but somehow she did miss Zadoc dreadfully. "I believe—I believe I'd even like to see some of his clutter," she said mournfully as her eyes took in the priminess of the room in its perfect order. "It looks dreadful cold and funeral like this way. Just's if someone was dead and 'twould always stay just so and never look lived-in again I can't stand it, anyway." She jumped from her chair and seizing the neat pile of papers on the table with a wild toss of her arms sent them broadcast through the room. They fell with a rustle that sent a thrill of gladness through Serissa's sore heart. "That crackle does sound kind of comforting and natural," she mused. "But things 'ain't all right yet." She twisted the chairs around in all sorts of positions, put the headrest on the big armchair askew and pushed the tides off the sofa. Suddenly she paused. There was a sound, a footstep. Some one of the neighbors was coming. But how it sounded like Zadoc's step. It was unmistakable. It was Zadoc. She awoke from her dream with a start. "I guess you're right about my being shiftless," he said "I had ought to have fixed that fence before, Serissa. I really ought. The cows got out again and one of 'em I can't find anywhere. I stayed long enough to mend things so 'twouldn't happen again,' n" I harnessed up and thought perhaps you'd like to drive down with me and see if we can't find her. It's going to be a dreadful pretty evening. Why, Serissa!" She was crying on his shoulder, "You don't never need to call yourself shiftless again," she sobbed. "I don't care how you do things. I don't care one mite. I guess there's things worse 'n' being shiftless, and—and it's you, Zadoc."—Harper's Bazar. A SUCCESSFUL LIBRARIAN. The Diplomacy and Tact That Mastered Difficult Problems in His Career. In his brief but successful career as a public librarian, Herbert Putnam, the new Congressional Librarian, has faced three varied problems of which he has mastered two and holds the solution of the third in his grasp. Hq established a public library in Minneapolis, popularized another one in Boston and now in Washington he has begun to make the National Library as comprehensive and powerful an institution, so far as this country is concerned, as the British Museum is in Great Britain. One of the chief factors in Mr. Putnam's success is his tact. He has the rare ability of saying "no" without giving offense. In his intercourse with his employees as well as with the public, he is the personification of placidity. As an illustration of his tact the following story was told the other day by an intimate friend in New York: When Mr. Putnam was at the head of the public library in Boston a ward leader of that city called on him to recommend a henchman for a place in the library. There was no reason why the librarian should not have refused at once and peremptorily to appoint him, but he chose to follow another course. After a few minutes' talk with the politician, Mr. Putnam asked him whether he had ever been through all the departments of the institution. "I never have, but I'd like to see it," replied the politician. "It will give me much pleasure to go with you," said Mr. Putnam. Mr. Putnam took him behind the counters and through the building from top to bottom, explaining the character and the magnitude of the work in detail. He further pointed out without seeming to do so, the varied duties of the employees and the attributions they must possess to do the work. When the tour was ended Mr. Putnam said: "I'm pleased to have had a chance to show the library to you, and if your friend will fill out an application blank and send it, and if he passes the necessary examination, I think there will be no difficulty in placing his name on the waiting list." The politician, however, had seen enough of library work to convince him that his constituent could find no place on the staff, and the blank was never filled out. But, to the day he left Boston, Mr. Putnam had no warmer admirer in that city than his same ward leader. Mr. Putnam is still under thirty-nine. He is a native of New York, and a graduate of Harvard. He is a member of the bar and has practiced law three years in Boston—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. Solomon in Turkey. The other day I witnessed an amusing instance of Turkish police justice. An Armenian and a Kurd had quarrelled over the ownership of a tobacco box. As their language grew more expressive and their speech louder a crowd collected, delighted with the dispute. The Kurd had picked up the box in the street and the Armenian declared it was his. When they were about to come to blows, a policeman came up and tried to effect a compromise, but neither disputant would give way. At last the Armenian suggested that the Kurd should be asked to declare what was in the box. The Kurd promptly answered "Tobacco and cigarette paper." The Armenian smilingly informed the officer that all the box contained was a 25-cent piece. The policeman gravely opened the mysterious case, then, turning to the crowd with the air of a Solomon, said: "The Armenian is the owner of the box. I return it to him. The Kurd is a liar. (Here he smote the man from the mountains over the head.) Allah be praised! For my trouble in deciding this complicated affair I keep the 25 cents."—Constantinople letter in Chicago Record. Second Nature With Him "I suppose you see some funny things about here?" said the visitor to Niagara. "Indeed we do," replied the guide; "why, only yesterday there, was a Kentucky colonel here, and as soon as he saw the rapids he wanted to shoot 'em."—Yonkers Statesman. DAN. GROSVENOR SAYS: "Peruna Is an Excellent Spring Catarrh Remedy—I am as Well as Ever." Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor of the Famous Ohio Family. Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor, Deputy Auditor for the War Department, in a letter written from Washington, D. C., says: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from one bottle of Peruna. One week has brought wonderful changes and I am now as well as ever. Besides being one of the very best spring tonics it is an excellent catarrh remedy." Very respectfully, Dan. A. Grosvenor. Hal P. Denton, Chief National Expo Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa. "We '1 was completely run down from overuse and the responsibility naturally connected with the opportunity of great international exposition. My perusal recommended an extended vacation. When life seemed almost a burden I began taking Peru with the use of the fifth bottle I found myself in a normal condition. I have since enjoyed the best of health. My body made a tonic in the spring. Something to brace the new invigorate the brain, and clean the blood. That Peru will do this is beyond all question. Everyone who has tried it has had the same experience as Mrs. D. W. Timberlake, the body's host. The second letter, made use of the following words: "I always take a dose of Peru after business as it is a great thing for the nerves. There is no better spring tonic, and I have used about all of them." We freeze on "Summer Caterain," address The Peru Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. AN OUTING AT THE OCEAN. Seashore Excursion via Pennsylvania Line Will Be Run August 9th. The annual low rate excursion to the seashore will be run via Pennsylvania Lines Thursday, August 9. On that date reduced fare tickets will be sold to Atlantic City, Cape May, Anglesea, Avalon, Holly Beach, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, New Jersey, Hebron, Del, and Ocean City, Md. The round trip from Indianapolis will be $15 to either of the ten resorts mentioned, which constitute the most popular summer honeys along the Atlantic coast. No more enjoyable vacation outing can be planned than a visit to the seashore in mid-summer. Arrangements may be made for participating in the pleasures offered by this excursion by communication with W. W. Richardson, D. P. A. Indianapolis, Ind. Statistics enable a man to prove anything except the truth of the figures. What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about 14 as much. All grocers sell it. 16 and 29c. The knowledge a man doesn't possess always crops out when a child questions him. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.-Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. But few women could get into heaven on the testimony of their dressmakers. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation all pain, cures wind colds. 520 per bottle. Still water runs deep, but still whisky can be measured by two fingers. FOR WOMAN'S HEALTH Earnest Letters from Women Believed of Pain by Mrs. Pinkham. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Before I commenced to take your medicine I was in a terrible state, wishing myself dead a good many times. Every part of my body seemed to pain in some way. At time of menstruation my suffering was something terrible. I thought there was no cure for me, but after taking several bottles of Lycia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all my bad feelings were gone. I am now well and enjoying good health. I shall always praise your medicine."—MRS. AMOS FESCHLER, Box 226, Romeo, Mich. Female Troubles Overcome *DEAR MRS. PINKHAM*: I had female trouble, painful menses, and kidney complaint, also stomach trouble. About a year ago I happened to pick up a paper that contained an advertisement of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and when I read how it had helped others, I thought it might help me, and decided to give it a trial. I did so, and as a result am now feeling perfectly well. I wish to thank you for the benefit your medicine has been to me."—MRS. CLARA STIEBER, Deller, Neb No More Pain "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Your Vegetable Compound has been of much benefit to me. When my menses first appeared they were very irregular. They occurred too often and did not leave for a week or more. I always suffered at these times with terrible pains in my back and abdomen. Would be in bed for several days and would not be exactly rational at times. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and menses became regular and pains left me entirely."—Mrs. E. F. CUSTER, Briswu, Wis. spring Bids thee forget the narrow days be- hind. The winter weather and the winter wind. Nor thus with cold and bookish thought sit still. When pipes the thrush and flames the daffodil. Up, then, O heart! above the funeral snows A western wind of resurrection blows, Charged with the spirit of new flowers to speak "Rest if thou stay," "Nay, rapture if thou seek." This way the mountain, that the val- ley track. With fancy forth, or with remem- brance back. Wind-blown from evening and from over sea Their plumes repainted in a tropic sleep. The dream-flocks gather, thou shalt hear to-night. High overhead the whispers of their flight. 0h. listen! homeward fits each beating wing And in the spirit's country it is spring —The Saturday Review. FOR HOG CHOLERA. A Warning Against Many of the So-Called Remedies Now On the Market. Several years ago when lecturing before Indiana Farmers' institutes, Mr. H. Todd, of Ohio, advocated the feeding of meat from hogs that had died of cholera, to healthy pigs. The claim made was, that feeding this disease flesh produced a mild form of disease, and the pigs fed the same thereafter would be free of cholera. This view advanced by Mr. Todd caused considerable comment. Apparently, however, the method of treatment adopted by him was not entirely a success, for in March, 1899, he wrote the undersigned that his hogs took sick and died so easy. I say it was not the cholera. It was much worse. I lost 40 head of hogs. This, however, was perhaps just as much a cse of cholera as many swine breeders report on. At the present time an attempt is being made by Indiana parties to sell on the market much such a method of treatment as that adopted by Mr. Todd. The claim is made that pregnant sows fed flesh from cholera diseased swine, will have the malady in a mild form, and that the unborn pigs will also be affected, so that thereafter they will be free from cholera and be "immune," as it is termed. While no experiments have been conducted by disinterested parties to prove the effectiveness of this method, reasoning from comparison, as shown by experience with other diseases, both with humans and animals, it is entirely unlikely that this method will prove a preventive. Further, this station is in possession of facts proving that pigs born from sows affected with cholera while pregnant, have died from the disease long after. Recently numerous communications have been received by this station inquiring concerning this method of treatment, and we now have a letter which implies that this station has endorsed this practice. Hog cholera is a contagious disease, and when once it secures a foot hold in a herd, usually runs a course, and after much fatality, becomes more or less extinct, especially where serious attempts are made to stamp out the disease. for generations hog cholera has ravaged herds of swine in America, and for many years the disease has been carefully studied by the best authorities on animals' diseases, and thus far certain remedy, based on extended trial for a term of years has been brought out. The cause of the disease is understood, but a fairly certain method of prevention or cure is not as yet determined. Nothwithstanding this fact, numerous men calling themselves doctors, many of whom are quacks, are constantly foisting on the farmers at exorbitant prices, what they claim to be sure cures for cholera. Inno­mous sums of money have been sold in the aggregate, by farmers for so-called cholera remedies that cost a mere trifle to manufacturers. The Indiana Experiment Station will endorse no hog cholera remedy now on the market, and this bulletin is a reply to the numerous inquiries addressed by swine breeders on this subject. The most that we can recommend is adequate cleanliness about the pig beds and lots, and the liberal use of disinfectants. C. S. PLUMB, Director Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station. It Affects Uniform Growth and Becomes a Weed Destroyer. It is natural for the soil to become impact. The rains assist in bringing particles together, while the tramping of animals, and even the pressure the atmosphere, assist. Clay soils more subject to this agglomeration than soils that are sandy, and frequently the soil becomes so hard that during a dry season even the plow cannot be used to loosen it. Plants can only with difficulty penetrate a soil that has been plowed if the plowing was not done just previous to planting the seed, and it is therefore necessary for the growth of the plant that the soil be made loose and also kept in that condition throughout the season. By loosening the soil nutrition is rendered more available to plants, and they also secure more moisture and warmth. The fibrous roots of plants do not penetrate clods, hence the finer the soil the more evenly the roots spread and the greater their feeding range. Plowing and harrowing is not performed in order to simply break and loosen the soil, but also to pulverize it and lessen the number of clods. Some soils can be so loosened that in a short time they will settle, but such land can be improved with the roller. The harrowing of the soil also has an effect that is sometimes overlooked, which is the mixing of the soil. Where there has been an accumulation of humus and the lower soil has been brought near the surface by plowing, the harrow mixes the top and the lower soils and distributes the available plant food more evenly. Unless this is done there can be no uniformity of growth, for the reason that the plants which have been forced to feed where the lower soil predominates will be feeble and sickly, while plants growing on the richer top soil will be luxurant. Imperfect harrowing, therefore, is at fault for many of the failures to derive good crops from land that should give more satisfactory results. The finer the soil the more moisture it is capable of absorbing and retaining Moisture cannot and does not penetrate into heavy, tenacious soils, and when clods in such soils are not pulverized and become dry they retain their dryness in the center during the entire summer. When land is made fine and free from clods the water does not readily flow back to the surface, nor is it so rapidly dried up during the season, but is delivered to the surface in proper proportions. The moisture which is inclosed in the interstices of the soil and which accumulates in large quantity when land has been plowed in the fall expands and contracts during the winter, according to the temperature, and many of the coarse portions are pulverized; but in spring, should the plowing of a field composed of heavy soil be performed and the work followed by dry weather, even the harrow will sometimes fail to reduce it. Plowing and harrowing must, therefore, be done at proper times, and the judgment of the farmer must be exercised to guide him. The condition of a field should be similar to that required for a garden. With a small garden, where the spade and the rake are used, care is taken to make the soil as fine as possible. A field should be considered as a garden on a larger scale. It requires more labor on a garden plot than for a field, but the garden produces twice as much in proportion to the area as the field. Labor bestowed in a field, so far as the preparation of the soil is concerned, will be amply repaid in the gain of yield in the crop. The soil always responds to good treatment—a fact which at one time gave rise to the claim that a well-cultivated soil required no manure, which claim, however, is not correct; but cultivation without doubt largely increases the yield. There are two classes of weeds—those that come from seeds and those which are propagated principally by means of their roots. Weeds which spring up from seeds can be destroyed by successfully bringing the seeds in the soil to the surface, where they germinate. The seeds of some weeds have great activity and remain in the soil for years. Some are inclosed in cloaks and retained for other seasons, but when the cloaks are broken and the weed seeds exposed to warmth near the surface they are put out of existence by the harrow as soon as they germinate, for which reason it is impossible to clear a piece of land from weeds in a season, unless every cloak is pulverized. The oft-repeated inquiry, "From whence come the weeds?" may be answered, "From the cloaks." The weeds that spring from the roots are cut up, checked and prevented from growing by frequent cultivation, because they cannot exist for a great length of time if not permitted to grow. If no leaves are allowed on such plants they perish from suffocation, because they breathe through the agency of the leaves. The advantages derived by the soil in the work of weed destruction reduces the cost of the warfare on the weeds, for every time the harrow or cultivator is used the manure is intimately mixed with the soil, more cloaks are broken, a greater proportion of plant food is offered to the roots, the loss of moisture is lessened, and the capacity of the plants of the crop to secure more food is increased. The cost of the destruction of the weeds shoul not be charged to the accounts of a single year only, as through work during a season may obliterate the weeds entirely or so reduce their number as to make the cost of their destruction during succeeding years but a trifle—Philadelphia Record. Peaches, Potatoes and Beets. Mrs. I. V. L. says: "On no consideration put potatoes or beets near peach trees unless you wish to kill them, as I know by experience." I know how ungallant it is to contradict a lady, but facts are facts. In 1890 I set out a peach orchard. That same orchard has produced four fair crops of potatoes and four crops of mangels and sugar beets alternately. Trees were set out 20 feet apart each way. Last year (1899) the trees had become so large and shaded the land so much that I planted one hill of pumpkins, or squash between each four trees, and at the last working sowed cow-peas, working them in with the cultivator, and got a good crop of pumpkins and squashes, but cow-peas failed to ripen. The trees commenced to bear in 1893, and have done splendidly since then. In 1898 and 1899 they gave me from 5 to 15 baskets per tree, of fine peaches—baskets holding about 15 quarts each. Varieties, Early and Late Crawford, Smock, Stump-the-World, Wheatland, Lord Palmerston, October, Rareripe, Old Mixon, Elberta, Champion, Early York and Globe. TheGreat The soil is a medium loam, with northern general slope. Of course I give thorough tillage and never let a weed ripen, and don't forget to fertilize, using potash, bone meal, ashes and any kind of manure that I can economically obtain. I contrive to get some kind of cover crop on almost every winter, sowing rye after the potatoes were dug, and even oats in the mangels at last late cultivation, and when beets were too large in foliage, have sown rye broadcast with very good results. Of course the shade of the trees is more or less detrimental to the crop of potatoes and beets, but the beets and potatoes don't seem to hurt the trees. I don't trim up my orchards, but I trim them down from the tips. I don't like to go up to the clouds for fruit. Another peach orchard of same kinds planted at same time, with very similar treatment, but a different soil and a southern exposure, has been a comparative failure. The reason for my peculiar system is satisfactory results in experimenting for practical and economic returns, financially and in labor.—W. T. Meinikheim, in Country Gentleman. THE ROMAN CATACOMBS. Funds Wanted for a Further Exploration of Them. Monsignor Crostarosa, secretary to the Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, has issued from Rome an appeal to archaeologists and to all those who are interested in Christian antiquities to subscribe toward the further exploration of the catacombs. These monuments, which are of the greatest historic importance to Christianity, and so vast in extent that they form an underground city, were places of pilgrimage for Romans and strangers till the ninth century. But from the ninth century until the nineteenth the catacombs were neglected, the entrances were blocked and in time hardly site was remembered. In the sixteenth century a pioneer was found in the person of Boslus, but it was not until the present century that a new world was laid bare to the student by the excavations of De Rossi, who rediscovered the great cemetery of Callistus, and opened, or partially opened, several of the principal historic catacombs, making discoveries which exceeded all expectations in their interest to the antiquary, the liturgist and the theologian. The chief catacombs on the Applia, Nomentana, Salaria, and Ardeatina are open, but are not completely explored; of the forty-five catacemies about five only are permanently accessible to the visitor to Rome. After the death of De Rossi the Commission of Sacred Archaeology continued the excavations with excellent results. The work of De Rossi had been encouraged and aided by Pius IX, who willingly entered into the former's plans for excavating and provided the money. Leo XIII has continued this generous aid, but the means at the disposal of the Commission are inadequate to the great task still to be performed. "Notable discoveries of the greatest importance to history still await us," says Monsignor Crostarosa. "The Commission hopes that it may be enabled to carry out some of these in the course of the current year, and appeals to the generous of all nations to assist in work-arduous and costly as it is—the results of which can not but prove in the future, as they have proved in the past, of the first value to the Christian historian and the archaeologist." Those interested are requested to apply for all further information to Monsignor P. Crostarosa, via del Quirinale, 24, Secretary of the Commission. A list of subscribers will be published in due course in the "Nuovo Bollettino di Archeologia Cristiana."—London Times. Malcolm Didn't Object. The proprietor of a Glasgow ship yard, having heard that his men did not start work at the appointed time, recently paid an unexpected visit to the establishment at 6:30 in the morning. He caught sight of a joiner idling in the yard, with his kit unopened, and asked his name. Being informed that it was Malcolm Campbell, the shipbuilder called the man into the office, handed him four days' pay and told him to leave at once. When the joiner had departed the head of the establishment went to the foreman and told him that he had made an example of Malcolm Campbell by paying him off for not starting his work at the proper time. "Great Scott!" exclaimed the foreman: "that man was only looking for a job!" From a Business Point of View "What is the usual cost of board in a college town?" asked the father who was planning to send his son to one of the higher educational institutions. "It all depends," replied the retired boarding-house keeper. "Depends on what?" "Whether or not it is a coeducational institution. You see, rivalry is so intense now that it becomes necessary to figure in the effect of love on the appetite."—Chicago News. A Business Disappointment Merchant—That woman owes me $50. Clerk—What for? Merchant—She came in here saying she wanted to buy a sideboard, and then didn't do it. Cut Off Entirely "Don't you think her voice ought to be cultivated?" "No; think it should be harvested." —Chicago Post. TheGreatestofSpringMedicines 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 OTHERS COMBINED, while H. C. Raffensperger, the druggist right across the street, SELLS FROM THREE TO SIX BOTTLES IN AN EVENING: and J. P. 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P. lodge held an iniatiation, Tuesday evening. Haywood Hamilton, 429 Toledo-st is on the sick list. Read The Recorder for the news-the paper of the people. Miss Bertie McWain will go to Boston, Mass, next Thursday Recommend The Recorder to you friends. 3 months, 25c. Attorney W. C, Henderson was called to Louisville, Monday. Mr. Abe Burris who fell and broke his right arm, is improving. Mrs. M. Phillips, 2026 Martindale-av is recovering from her recent illness. Geo, Walker, who was severely scalded a few weeks ago, is able to be out. Call on L. C. Hayes, 502 Indiana-av for a bottle of Hoyt's Poisoned Blood Cure. Chas. Marshall is learning the 'art preservative' in the office of The Recorder. Mr. Smith Crawford, the faithful old sexton of Bethel church, is on the sick list. Mrs. Martha Hall in Bright street, is able to be out, after a slight indisposition. For Rent—Furnished room for two gentlemen or man and wife. Inquire 416 West Eleventh-st. The Select dancing class will meet next Friday evening. Harry Taylor will furnish the music. For Sale—Piano, washing machine, desk, couch and other things, 616 Adelaide street. Wanted Agents. A liberal commission paid. Call at Hart Medicine Co. 234 W. Vermont street. Miss Daisy Evans of Seymour was the guest of Mrs. B. J. Morgan, last Saturday and Sunday. Dr. W. H. Birch, a recent graduate of the Indiana Dental college, has opened an office at 184 W. New York-st. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bowers entertained a few friends Wednesday eve, at their home in Brookside ave. The Macedonia Ice Cream parlor, at 415 Indiana ave, opens to day. Music and cut flowers. Read their adv. Miss M. Quinn accompanied by Miss Evans, will leave Tuesday for the General Conference at Columbus, O. The Crazy social, given at the home of Mrs. Maria Spears on the 27 ulc., was a success, socially and financially Norbert Landgraf, Merchant Tailor, Designer and Maker of Ladies' Gowns, 123 N. Penn. street. Established 1873. Mr Willis Mallory was called from Chicago, by the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Mary Mallory in N. Missouri street. Messrs Carter F. B. Temple and Benj. Lee have been appointed patrolmen. Mr. Temple succeeds his father on the force. Mr. and Mrs Chas. Bass will spend Sunday in Richmond. Mrs. Bass will remain for a few weeks, the guest of friends. Mrs. James N. Ash and Miss Evangeline Pierce were joined in wedlock last Wednesday evening, at 504 West street. Mrs. J. N. Blackwell gave a coffee Thursday afternoon, the guest of honor being Miss Julia McCampbell of Chicago. Missrs J. Q. Brookins, Ausustus Mc Farland, Samuel Watkins and J. B. Stradford have been appointed as census enumerators. Mrs. Harry Jackson entertained last Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Thurman, who left for Louisville, Wednesday, Miss Jenette Norton who was the guest of Mrs. A. G. Clayborn, 527 N. Bright street, left Tuesday for her home in Mattono, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Day have purchased a beautiful residence at 85 N. Keystone ave. There are only three colored families in the neighborhood. Miss Cora Christy entertained Wednesday evening, at her home in Blake street, in honor of Mrs. Catherine Armistead of Henderson, Ky. Miss Myrtle Henderson of Noblesville attended the opening performance of 'The Negro.' She was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Clarence Dun lap. Indiana is well represented at Washington by Fairbanks, and at home by Hoyt's Poisoned Blood cure. One purifies politics, and the other purifies the blood. G. C. Morrison, South and Virginia avenue, sold 100 bottles of blood medicines during the month of March—87 were Hoyt's Poisoned Blood cure. Just think of it. The Indianapolis Silk Waist Co., a 34 Virginia avenue, are making an unprecedented offer of silk waists or skirts for 20c. Investigate their line of goods. A musical symposium and dinner will be given at the residence of Rev J. W. Carr, May 24. It will be under the management of Messrs Valentine and Tyree. Readers of The Recorder should bear in mind that the testimonials pub lished for Hoyt's Poisoned Blood Cure are within a few minutes ride of any resident of this city. The many friends of Miss Bessie Mok er, formerly of this city, will be pleased to learn of her marriage to Mr. C. H. Miller, of St. Paul, Minn., on last Thursday evening. Miss Louise Archer entertained a number of friends. Monday evening at, the home of Mrs. William Fisher in W Walnut street. It was in honor of her cousin, Mrs. Jennate Norton of Mattoon, Ill. The Woman's club met Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Dora Payne, and was entertained by Mrs. Bertha Turner, from 2 to 5 o'clock. A menu of five courses was served. The house decorations were superb. In the prize guessing contest, Mrs. Dora Payne received the first prize and the second went to Mrs. Nannie Crawford Mrs. Ada Goens, in West Twelfth-st will receive for the club members Mon day afternoon. 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. "The Negro." "The Negro," a melo-drama, by Charles A. Sager, played Thursday and Friday nights at English's Opera house, was a grand affair. And too much can't be said in praise of the manner in which every one executed their part. It by far exceeded the expectation of those who were given to criticism, Full account will given in next week's issue of The Recorder. CHURCH NOTES. to with much interest. Rev. Blackshear will return the second Sunday, at which time we will hold our grand rally. Rev. John Frankes of the Fifth-st Baptist church, Louisville will assist. Our choir has been requested to sing for the U B. F. lodges at their annual sermon at Tomilinson Hall the third Sunday in May. Cantata rehearsal Monday night. The sick are all improving. 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 years employment is guaranteed. Address at once J. C Ward, Farmland Indiana, P. O. box, 79. Sarah Morsbill VS. Benjamin J. Morsbill STATE OF INDIANA. MARION COUNTY ss: In the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. No. 10272. Compplain for the BEHIT KNOWN. That on the 12th day of April, 1900 the above named plaintiff, by her attorney, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State defendant and the said defendant have filed in said Clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendant is a party to the action of the State of Indiana; that said action is for divorce and the said defendant is a necessary party thereo and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement meton said complaint required said defendant to appear in said Court, and answer or defend the complaint, the 21st day. NOW THEREFORE, By order of said Court said defendant last above named is hereby not convicted of the crime and is placed against him and that unless he appear and answer or demur thereto, at the call of said cause on the 21st day of June 1900, he shall be held in the term of said Court to be begun and held at the Court House in the City of Indianapolis, on the 1st Monday in June, 1900, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained will be heard and determined his absence 4-28 James T. V, Hill Geo, B. Elliot, Attorney for Plaintiff. Clerk. What's in a Name? There is more truth than poetry in the following; Call a girl a chick and she smiles; call a woman a hen and she howls. Call a young woman a of any class a witch and she is pleased; call an old woman a witch and she is indignant. Call a girl a kitten and she rather likes it; call a woman a cat and she hates you. Women are queer. If you call a man a gay dog it will flatter him; call him a pup, a hound or a cur and he will try to alter the map of your face. He don't mind being called a bull or a bear, yet he will object to being mentioned as a calf or a cub. Men are queer, too.—St. Paul Globe. From Kentucky "Before you go in, sir, you will have to leave your weapons with me," said St. Peter, in his firm yet courteous tones. "In that case, sah," said the cunnel, with equal firmness and equal courtesy, "I shall be obliged to decline your proffered hospitality, sah. Good day, sah."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. CLEVER ESKIMO DOGS. Will Steal Food From Strangers' Tents But Not From Their Own. "Talk about dogs," said the old Alaska miner to a New York Sun reporter, "why, these curs of high and low degree in the East are not in it when compared with the sly Alaska mamaloot. 'Musha' him and a broad smile spreads over his face, while his tail curls majestically over his back, and, with head and ears erect, every step he takes is a poem in Arctic snows. "From puppyhood up he takes to harness like a duck to water. He goes at it with vim and vigor characteristic of his ancestors. Rig the pup in any old harness, and it's amusing to see how good-natured he would be, possessing stress, staying with it like an old stager never tiring, never feeling discouraged. "When we pitched our tents on Nome last summer we had a little experience with huskies from the Eskimo huts. In our absence from the tents these dogs were inclined to take liberties with our provisions, but they did it in such a scientific manner that we felt more amused than outraged. The dogs would form a skirmish line on the outside, and then send their most skilled tails into the tent to reconnoitre for meat and bread. If this thief failed they would send another, and if he was successful they would divide the plunder in as intelligent and equitable a manner as dog thieves were capable of doing. These dogs were honest Injuns at home, but they would pilfer from the stranger. When they became better acquainted with us we could leave the mess chest open and they would never touch anything; they were on their dog honor, and never violated it, only accepting food when it was offered to them. "I'm led to these remarks," said the old miner, "from seeing men and boys on the street endeavoring to break all manner of domestic dogs to harness. They can't do it; it's utterly impossible, because the poor brutes were not born that way. The Newfoundlands or St. Bernards don't appear to have any interest in their new calling, and they show it in their downcast tails and dejected countenances. You must remember that dogs have very expressive faces, and show their feelings in a remarkable degree; they are the only animals that laugh and cry. They have shared my joys and sorrows in the bleak Arctic, and this is why I have a tender heart for dogs." Evading Jury Service. "I find it not generally known," said a New York commercial traveler last evening, while commenting upon the Mollineux poisoning case, "that a man is not eligible to be a juror in New York unless he receives a salary of $1,200 a year. I have been bothered by being summoned to serve on juries. My name was on the sign in front of our business place on Broadway, and while it properly belongs there, my profits consist entirely of commissions on what I sell, my partner being the office man. The county officials got hold of my name, probably from that sign, and I was hauled into court for jury duty about every time I got back from the road, when I ought to have hurried away again. Finally a lawyer friend of mine gave me a tip, and I acted upon it. "The next time I was called as a juror I was asked how much my annual income was. "'Nothing,' I answered. "'What is your salary?' "'Nothing.' "What do you mean by that, sir? asked the judge, sternly. "It means," I calmly answered, that the only money I earn is in the form of commissions, and if I have to spend my time serving on juries my income and salary are nothing. "The judge scratched his head, looked thoughtful, and then excused me. I had my name taken off the sign at once."—Cleveland Leader. DICK. MILLER 340 Indiana Avenue. CIGARS and Tobacco CONFECTIONERY Fruits, Bread, Cakes and Ples. Ice Cream by the pint, quart or gallon. Milk and Cream Books, Periodicals and Newspapers. CHARLES GREEN General House Cleaning Carpets Rugs and Hard Wood Floors Cleaned CARPET LAYING A SPECIALTY 1211 Lewis St Indianapolis THE MACEDONIA Ice Cream and Confectionery Parlor Ice Cream Soda, only pure fruit used. Fine home-made Candies and Cakes. Good Service. Miss Henrietta Davis, Prop. Opening to-day. Music and flow- ers. You are invited. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 A.M. 2 to 4 P.M. 7 to 8 P.M. DR J. H. BALLARD 1434 Hill Avenue Residence 1203 Woodruff Place Phone. Old, 2 rings on 26350. New 2680 ```markdown ``` Look How Quick! 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 Hesbitt, Merchant Tailor. 405 Indiana av FREE GOLD The Safety Deposit Gold Mining Company. deaires 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 pay Dividends this year. Lots of other Mines to invest in also. Address. Cole & Wooten Agents. OPEN FOR BUSINESS CORNER NORTH & CALIFORNIA STREETS. Ice Cream and Soda Water Darlors 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. David J. Kinney, 313 Indiana Avenue Bicycle repairing, enameling, nickel plating. Sundries of all kinds Work Guaranteed, Called for and delivered. DON'T have your wall paper cleaned until you have consulted The Busy Bee Don't think your paper is too old or dirty to be cleaned. We make a specialty of cleaning Wall paper, Carpets taken up, renovated and relaid. Old Paper Removed. We Guarantee Satisfactory Work R. P. Booth, Mn'gr. Office 618 Ogden-sf New Phone, 2770. Old paper removed from wall and general repairing done. Our excellent work and reasonable prices keep us busy. I HAVE MADE a very careful test of the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow among our colored students and found it a most excellent hair tonic. It is just the thing to make the hair soft, yielding and straight. Kindly send me two bottles per express at once. Find enclosed Postal Order. Yours truly, J. M. Hoffman, Professor of Agricultural Biology, State A. & M. College, Orangeburg, S. C. If your dealer cannot supply you with the genuine Original Ozonized Ox Marrow (copyrighted) send us $00, and we will ship you a bottle. Address Dept. E. THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 8.30 a. m. 2.30 p. m. arriving at Columbus at 7.35 p. m. 12.50 p. m. 5.00 p. m. arriving at Columbus at 11.40 p. m. 3.00 p. m. 7,10 p. m. arriving at Columbus at 12.05 p. m. L. MURRAY, B. D., Chairman of the Indiana Delegation 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 LADIES SUITS LADIES SUITS a much better line than we have ever shown before SKIRTS see the new skirts made with overski and accordeon plaited, with aplique. We show everything that is new in Skirts and Waists We Sell on Easy .... WEEKLY PAYMENTS 333 International Order of Twelve 777 Pride of the North Tabernacle No. 94 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 * NO PAIN * * NO PAIN * 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. Re-opened and Ready for Business The People's Grocery Store 537 Bright St [Cor. North] R. S. Street, Manager We have a Complete and Entirely New Stock of Groceries, Provisions, Meats and Vegetables We take lars, Our to move Our sw collars a We l derwear H. 206 Indiana Ave LADIES a much better line th SKIRTS see th and ac We show everything that We Sell on Easy ... WEEKLY P Men's and Boy's Clothing. Trunks 333 International C Pride of the North Meets the first and third Thur hall, northeast corner of Delaw cordially invited to become memb your petition. Mrs. Emma L. Per N. California street, Mrs. Anna Fayette street NO P Experience is the best work is the Cheapea samples before you have your w 14 Years Exp Grant H. Clay, 108 North Re-opened and Ready for The People's 537 Bright St [Cor. North] We have a Complete and Entirely Meats and Dressed Chickens a Specialty Orders delivered C. M. C. WILLIS • Funeral Director Old and New Phones 1175 536 Indiana Ave Indianapolis, In 108 West Ohio Street SUITS we have ever shown before new skirts made with overskirt ordeon plaited, with aplique. new in Skirts and Waists. AYMENTS we have the use of the Goods. Mad's Musical Instruments Jewelry and Watches Mass. Ave. Order of Twelve 777 Tabernacle No. 94 my nights in each month at its and Ohio streets. Ladies are of said Tabernacle. Give us High Priestess, residence 919 Griffin, Chief Recorder, 1111 AIN Best Reference. Get my prices and see my ask done. Gas or Air Given. Exience M. D., Dentist. Illinois Street. business Grocery Store R. S. Street, Manager New Stock of Groceries, Provisions, Vegetables Ask for Cash Stamps any part of the city EDW, BREWER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Shop, 1721 Alvord Street.