The Recorder

The Recorder. What the world wants today is men: "God, give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the last of office does not kill; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; Men who will not lie; Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog in public duty and private thinking. For, while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, lo! freedom weeps. Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justic sleepers Manhood is the great mission of Odd Fellowship. Human energy nowhere outside of the church has done as much to make men good as Odd Fellowship. Odd Fellowship stands among the greatest institutions on earth as a teacher of moral duties. Odd Fellowship hangs on the wall of memory the lesson of mortality, it keeps before us the lesson of the open grave. It tells us we are but shadows floating for a moment over time, soon to be dissipated by the light of eternity. Our sight is darkened by ignorance, our understanding enthralled by passion. Yet how brief is our life. Odd Fellowship teaches that no man's life is worth the trouble of living CHARLES WILLIAM NEWTON: without God in it. It tells us that in the course of years many solemn changes pass before us. Man comes upon the scene of life; he flourishes, prospers, declines and dies; but if he is observant he will see and profit by the lessons of life. One of these lessons will teach him that the good man will never be forsaken by his God. And that even his children will reap the advantage of his conduct. In teaching the value of conduct it tells us that good conduct before the world will secure to us the esteem of the wise and virtuous. The example we show will have an important influence for good or ill. Faith and virtue are even admired by the bad; falsehood and vice are despicable even by those who practise. We must be honest. An honest Fellowship teaches us that appearances are deceptive; it tells us that men are not always what they seem. The poor man with the rough hard hand and humble God may be good and generous, while another with the manner and appearance of what the world calls a gentleman may be base and mean. We should therefore judge of men by their conduct, not by their appearance or profession. He who possesses a humane and benevolent heart, who is willing to do good to his neighbor, he closes not his hand against his brother, is a true man, be his situation in life ever so humble. For nineteen hundred years the light of Odd Fellowship has burned before the world a beacon to the lost, a comfort to the wanderer, and a protection to the thoughtless. Nineteen hundred years of work for humanity's sake; nineteen hundred years devoted to teaching men to love mankind; nineteen hundred years of earnest labor consecrated by friendship, cemented with love, and beautified by truth. Looking back along the pathway of the century behind us, we behold the wrecks of many orders. The morning of their life was beautiful and full of promise, but the evening came and they had perished. Rich costumes, impressive ceremonies. beautiful degrees and significant effects all lie buried and forgotten. It was not because their founders lacked energy or enthusiasm, not because their members are less susceptible to the beauty and poetry of tradition and ceremony, but because success and perpetuity come not from human effort, but are the growth of life-giving principles. Flashing swords, glittering helmets, jeweled regalias and beautiful degrees may touch the vanity and excite the admiration, but to win the heart we must satisfy its longings, [feed its hopes and lift it above the narrowness and selfishness of its daily experience. Odd Fellowship strives to touch the heart and better feelings, rather than feed the vanity of man, or arouse his admiration for gorgeous displays. Its work is an exemplification of the living, practical Christianity of today. Odd Fellowship has never tortured and deceived man by empty pretentions. Odd Fellowship is true to its great and invincible motto of friendship, love and truth. The obligation of friendship, love and truth is fulfilled in extending brotherly relief, in visiting the sick, in caring for the widow and orphan, and in burying the dead. I want to ask here two questions; Have you ever stopped to think of the awful magnitude of this obligation? Do you believe that Odd Fellowship is honestly performing the full measure of this obligation to its members? How does the outside world judge? We bring you the fruits. Here are the last annual reports of what Odd Fellowship is doing in this country alone every year. I have put together the astounding figures of charity dispersed by both the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in this country just for one year. Their last annual reports taken together shows the following figures: Number of brothers relieved, 104,572; number of weeks benefit, 573,469, equal to 11,028 years; widows' families relieved, 7,000; brothers buried, 13,339; paid for the relief of brothers, $2,211,646 26; for the relief of widows and orphans, $182,972 27; for burying the dead, $648,686.96. Alone in the United States and Ontario there is paid out to charity by the Independent and the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows annually the enormous sum of $3,302,437.14. How are we to account for this brotherhood felling that mocks the scepter of misery, how are we to account for this grand, good feeling that fills the world so full of sunshine; this strong arm of human sympathy that takes up the responsibility of human tears, this tender feeling that takes up the great service of relieving human pain, this divine feeling that takes up the universal burden that lies in the misfortune of decay and disease, this warm-hearted charity that lays its tender hand of sweet relief upon the misfortunes of the world's miseries? I ask, how are we to account for this great wave tide of Odd Fellow love that is floating the world out of the valley of tears, that is floating the world out into the sunshine of friendship, that is lifting the world out of the winter of selfishness into the fragrant summer of love? I say, account for this great white heat, tide-wave of Odd Fellowship that is lifting the world to the very hilltops of the glory of truth. It is the fulfillment of the prophets' voice; it is the noonday sign that Jesus has come to the world, The money, time, and care that Odd Fellowship is bestowing upon the happiness of mankind is one of the great signs of the times; it is the immutable sign that Christ has become a fountain of life in the world's great heart. It is the fulfilling of the prophets' voice that said (Isiah 35:1) For nineteen hundred years the great and all-powerful arm of Christianity has been gradually, slowly but surely raising mankind up to the high plain of fraternity. Let me tell you, the world may kick with the stubborn foot of prejudice against the granite hills of the world's fraternal advancement, but mankind are brothers. A conflict between God's law and man's displeasure is a significant sign. It is a happy phenomenon out of which shines the bright star of hope. Tillman, like the maniac of Gadara, may wander forth with the blood of his fellow-man upon his hands, he may temporarily quiet his race animus with the scent of roasted human flesh while he invades the north with the rabbies of colorphobia in his spittle to appear as an anti-bellum monstrosity in a lecture before the students of one of our respectable colleges. The South, garnished with the blood of the innocent and helpless; the South, echoing with the stifled ories of its murdered; the South, shaded by the spirit of Jefferson Davis, Robert Tombs and Pillow, may place upon their strut books their diabolical acts of disfrancisement; nations may vie with each other in building the most formidable war vessels and other destructive engines of war, but the races are nearer together today than they have ever before been in the world's history. All humanity are nearer together today than ever. Frateenities gathering together in organized centers to help humanity to higher conditions is one of the leading movements of the day. As fixed institution there has gone down in the history of this country forty fraternal organizations, the origin of which, none, dates further back than seventy years, and the great majority of which have come into existence within the last two decades, or twenty years. Odd Fellows, Free masons, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Improved Order of Red men, Royal Arcanum, Knights of the Maccabees, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Foresters of America, Independent Order of Foresters, Woodmen of the World, Ancient Order of Hibernians of America, Knights of Honor, Knights and Ladies of Honor, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Benevolent and Protected Order of Elks, National Union, Order of United American Mechanics, Ladies' Catnolic Benevolent Association, Improved Order of Heptasphas, Catholic Benevolent Legion, Sons of temperance. Ancient Order of Foresters, Independent Order of B'nal Brith, New England Order of Protection, United Order of Pilgrim Fathers, Knights of Malta, Tribe of Ben Hur, Catholic Knights of America, Royal Templars of Temperance, Order of Chosen Friends, American Legion of Honor, Brith Abraham Order, United Ancient Order of Druids, Irish Catholic Benevolent Union. These embrace a membership of five and one-half millions. In this mighty procession of fraternal armies, Odd Fellowship is marching at the head. Upon our banner, hoary with antiquity, written by the omnipotent figer of God, in the eternal immortality, blazes the divine principles. friendship, love and truth. In the light of our orb all others are following. Human prejudice is groaning under the death tread of 985,206 Odd Fellows in this country THE ORIGIN OF ODD FELLOWSHIP The origin of the Order of Odd Fellows is of an ancient date; it was established by the Roman soldiers in camp after the Order of the Israelites, during the reign of Nero, the Roman Emperor, who commenced his reign A, D. 55, at which time they were known as Fellow Citizens. The name of Odd Fellows was given to this order of men A, D. 79 by Titus Caesar, Emperor of Rome, for the singularity of notions and from their knowing each other by night as well as by day, and by their fidelity to him and their country. He not only gave them the name of Odd Fellows, but at the same time, as a pledge of their friendship presented them with a dispensation-engraved on the arch of Titus Caesar, the Ark of the Covenant, the golden candle sticks, the golden table, the sun for N. G., the moon and stars for B. G., a lamp for secretary, the lion for guardian, the dove for warden, and the emblems of mortality for G. M. It is very probable that the first Odd Fellows made their appearance in north Wales about that time, as an invasion was made by one of Titus Caesar's generals, Ajricola, on north Wales, and shortly afterward on the Island of Mona, now called Anglesea. The first account we have of the Order spreading into other countries is in the fifth century, when it was established in Spanish dominions under the Romish dispensation: and in the sixth The Newsiest, Spiciest and Best Edited Negro Journal in the State A Journal of Opinions. published in the interest of the Race. Correspondence Solicited Special Inducements to Agents Sample Copies on Application century by King Henry in Portugal; and in the twelfth century it was es. established in France; and afterwards in England by John DeNeville attended by five knights from France, who formed a Loyal Grand Lodge in London, which order remained until the reign of George III, when a part of them began to form themselves into a Union, and a portion of them remain unto this day; on this account the Lodges which remain are very numerous throughout the world, call themselves Loyal and Ancient Independent Odd Fellows, being a portion of the original body. ORIGIN IN THIS COUNTRY AMONG COL-ORED MEN Let me get at it in this way. We have 155,000 members distributed as follows among the different branches: whole number of active lodges enrolled, 3,000; Households of Ruth, 1,200; P.G. M., Councils, 175; Patriarchies, 90; Juvenile Societies, 75; *total active branches, 3,800; District Grand Lodges, 40; District Households, 20; total membership of all lodges, 115,982; Households, 40,000; Councils, 4,000; Patriarchies, 2,500; Juveniles, 2,000; whole number of members relieved during '96 and '97, 17,026; widows and orphans relieved, 8,342; members buried during the term, 4,342; total amount paid for sick and relief, $201,500; funerals, $130,260; expended for charitable purposes, $331,760; value of all funds and property of the Order, $2,100,000. Now all this started from the act of one man fifty-seven years ago. A gentleman by the name of Peter Ogden lived in New York. He ran on the ocean between New York and Liverpool, England. About 1840 he was made an Odd Fellow in Victoria Lodge No. 448, Liverpool. He found a number of colored men in New York begging the white Grand Lodge for a Charter to open an Odd Fellow Lodge, but they were refused every time they renewed their request. Mr. Ogden told them he could get a charter from his lodge in Liverpool. So these gentlemen made application through Mr. Ogden. Victoria Lodge heard their prayer and immidiately communicated with the Committee of Management of Leeds, Eng., to grant a colored club in New York City a charter to open a lodge of Odd Fellows. The charter was given and brought back by Mr. Ogden with authority to set them up as England's representative. The lodge was opened in 1844 under the name of Philomathean Lodge No. 646. I want to write one thing upon the skies. Odd Fellowship among colored men in the United States was not born of ignorance. In 1842 the Philomatheon literary and musical society of New York, organized themselves into an association for the purpose of petitioning the Independent order of Gdd Fellows for a dispensation to constitute them in lodge And now to you, dear sisters of the Household of Ruth, fortunate was it for the order, the day you were born unto it. In 1858 just fourteen years after our first lodge, we pledged our faith to each other. We have kept our p'edge to you. We have never had one single occasion to regret our marriage. We owe our matchless success to you. Like angel vigils, you rocked us in the cradle of our infancy. Your constancy supported us in all our struggles. If a brother reaches the highest pinnacle in the mount of our beatiful glory he must first win your approval he must be fitted and made ready by your influence. It is left for you to teach him how to wear his highest honors. He must mount up to promotion from the pedestal of your recommendation. By passing through the discipline of the Household Odd Fellowship would teach its men to be controlled by good women, but it is an elevation to them. The man who will be guided by the advice of a worthy woman will come to honors, and make few mistakes in this life. God never intended that a man should reach the top without woman's help. There is not a man in this world who has reached the highest eminence of greatness and success, but what will gladly say all that I am I owe it to my dear wife. She has made me all that I am. Wherever good, constant and virtuous women guard the affairs of men, the flowers of peace, harmony and prosperity bloom. Keeping things hid from his wife and mother, has been the ruin of many a man. Men and women The twenty-first quadrennial general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church opened in the Columbus auditorium Monday morning under the most favorable auspices. More than 400 delegates were in attendance, and they included many leading colored men from all sections. The conference was called to order at 10:45 a. m. by Bishop Henry M. Turner, D. D., LL. D., senior bishop, all of the 405 delegates being in their seats. Bishop James A. Handy made a most eloquent and fervent invocation, asking for God's guidance over the conference. Bishop Benjamin T. Tanner read as the Scripture lesson the LXXII, Psalm, "Give the king thy judgements, O God." And are we Yet Alive" was sung as lined by Bishop M. B. Salter. Bishop W. B. Derrick read the ritual, the delegates giving the responses. The quadrennial sermon was preached by Bishop Abraham Grant, it being a masterly effort. The delegates listened closely and gave frequent expressions of approval by hearty "Amen." Bishop Grant took as his text the nineteenth verse of the twenty-eighth chapter of Genesis. TUESDAY'S SESSION Devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev, R. F. Hurley, of Detroit, after which Bishop Turner made an announcement of historical importance, showin the church to have been founded September 15, 1796, instead of 1816, as commonly supposed. The color line was brought up by reports of discrimination in local restaurants and barbershops, and an effort was made to adopt resolutions, but the matter was finally smoothed over without action being taken. An attempt to take up the revision of the discipline was unsuccessful owing to the fact that no committee had been appointed on the subject. Committees on episcopacy, finance and boundaries were appointed, appointment of the latter being taken out of the hands of the bishops. The Indiana delegates who appear on the various committees are as follows ought to live in each others confidence. If they are living for each other, why keep back from each other. You cannot be one best so long as you are two. I tell you the part of Odd Fellowship is in the Household of Ruth because in its teaching are the honor, the purity the dignity, the peace, the happiness, and the prosperity of the home. Degrade the home and all is gone that we have on earth. Brethren of the Past Grand Masters' Council, in addressing myself to you I would remind you of the dignity of your body. The term council is loaded with every honor that the world can bestow. When this title is attached to a body, its functions become grave, responsible, important, conservative, and exalted. Bodies of council are where situations of peril are weighed in the balances of ripest, truest, and tried wisdom. Here issues of grave import become the burden of learned discussion and careful consideration. Where wisdom, justice, courage, honor and guidance are not implied the term has no meaning. We have academic council, Constantinoplitan councils, councils of administration, councils of acients, councils of appointment, council of censors, Council of Five Hundred Council of Safety, Councils of State High Councils, Councils of the Princes of Jerusalem, Councils Royal and Select Masters In the Past Grand Masters Council of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows your are to give the timely counsel of warning and protection to a worthy brother. In an association for mutual relief, men of all classes and conditions enter into covenant, contract or bargain to help and support, to protect and defend to advise and admonish each other. Such an association is surely needed for the strongest, wealthiest or the most prosperous man may in a moment, be crushed by adversity. The council is your covenant house. David and Jonathan pledged themselves in covenant of friendship and love. GENERAL CONFERENCE us, O.—Interesting Account L. Murray lows; episcopal committee, A. L. Murray; finance committee, T. E. Wilson; sub committees—itineracy, W. A. Kersey; foreign missions, Morris Lewis; temperance, Zack Williams; religious literature, A. L. Murray; ways and means, T. E. Wilson, general business manager's report, A. L. Murray; church extension secretary's "BISHOP" T. W. HENDERSON. report, T. E. Wilson; editor's report, Willis Kersey; educational department, Morris Lewis. WEDNESDAY The quadrennial address of the bishops, read at Wednesday's session, recommends complete revision of the book of disciples, the union of the woman's mite and woman's home and foreign missionary societies, the raising of $150,000 a year by the church for the next four years, and an agency to raise funds instead of the educational department, which is declared a failure without reflection upon the secretaries. The address says: "The African Methodist Episcopal church regards it as highly proper that the Philippines should be governed a part of the United States—not a dependency—in the final settlement of their status." Brethren of the council be true, and you can trust your lives with each other. Your secret mistakes, your wives, your daughters, mothers and sisters. The Past Grand Masters' Council is a place of big honor, here one brother will not deceive another, but true as steel, like Jonathan and David. To you most venerable Patrarchs: The Patriarch were the the best men he world ever had. Enoch was a patriarch. He walked with God three hundred years and was not for God took him. Noah was a patriach. He was God's preacher of nightearness for one hundred years. Abraham was a patriarch He was called the friend of God, Isaac was a patriarch. He placed upon the altar of Mount Marian, became the antitype of Christ, offered for the sins of the world. Jacob was a patriach. He became a prince with God in prayer. It takes good religion to make a patriarch. If I was a sinner you could never get me to take the Patriarchs degree till I got religion. It is a curse to any sinner to mock God by pretending to wa'k in the shoes of God's greatest giants, and best friend; the old Patriarch. When Moses approached the burning bush in the valley at the foot of ancient and grand Sinei the Mount of God's abode, he was commanded to take off the shoes from his feet, for the ground on which he walked was holy ground. When men approach the presence of God with sinful shoes from their feet God will commune with them in the fire of heaven and the face of his angel. And then you are called most venerable Patriarchs. Most worthy, most high, greatly esteemed. To be termed venerable means that one has lived long and useful, good and wise. And as a reward they are accorded as their due justly earned, respect, honor, confidence and love. Patriarchs, live! live!! Let your life correspond with the character of your ti- Advertising Medium THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, IND FOR THE PRODIGAL KINDNESS WILL RECLAIM MANY WHO FALL. The Sin of Self-Righteousness and the Foolishness of Jealousy and Their Sad Results—Dr. Talmage's Sermon. In this discourse Dr. Talmage pleads for a hearty reception to all those who have done wrong and want to get back, while the unsympathetic and self-righteous are excoriated. Text, Luke xv, 28: "And he was angry and would not go in." Many times have I been asked In this discourse Dr. Talmage pleads for a hearty reception to all those who have done wrong and want to get back, while the unsympathetic and self-righteous are excoriated. Text, Luke xv, 28: "And he was angry and would not go in." Many times have I been asked to preach a sermon about the elder brother of the parable. I received a letter from Canada saying: "Is the elder son of the parable so unsympathetic and so cold that he is not worthy of recognition?" First, this senior brother of the text stands for the self-congratulatory, self satisfied, self-worshipful man. With the same breath in which he vituperates against his younger brother he utters a panegyric for himself. The self-righteous man, was full of faults. He was an ingrate, for he did not appreciate the home blessings which he had all those years. He was disobedient, for when the father told him to come in he stayed out. He was a lair, for he said that the recurrent son had devoured his father's living when the father, so far from being reduced to penury, had a homestead left, had instruments of music, had jewels, had a mansion and instead of being a pauper was a prince. This senior brother, with so many faults of his own, was merciless in his criticism of the younger brother. The only perfect people that I have ever known were utterly obnoxious. I was never so badly cheated in my life as by a perfect man. He got so far up in his devotions that he was clear up above all the rules of common honesty. These men that go about prowling among prayer meetings and in places of business, telling how good they are—look out for them; keep your hand on your pocketbook! I have noticed that just in proportion as a man gets good he gets humble. The deep Mississippi does not make as much noise as the brawling mountain rivulet. There has been many a store that had more goods in the show window than inside on the shelves. This self-righteous man of the text stood at the corner of the house hugging himself in admiration. We hear a great deal in our day about the higher life. Now, there are two kinds of higher life men. The one is admirable, and the other is repulsive. The one kind of higher life man is very lenient in his criticism of others, does not bore prayer meetings to death with long harangues, does not talk a great deal about himself, but much about Christ and heaven, gets kindlier and more gentle and more useful until one day his soul spreads a-wing and he files away to eternal rest, and everybody mourns his departure. The other higher life man goes around with a Bible conspicuously under his arm, goes from church to church, a sort of general evangelist, is a nuisance to his own pastor when he is at home and a nuisance to other pastors when he is away from home, runs up to some man who is counting out a roll of bank bills or running up a difficult line of figures and asks him how his soul is, makes religion a dose of ipacuanha; standing in a religious meeting making an address, he has a patronizing way, as though ordinary Christians were clear away down below him, so he had to talk at the top of his voice in order to make them hear, but at the same time encouraging them to hope on that by climbing many years they may after a while come up within sight of the place where he now stands. I tell you plainly that a roaring, roistering, bouncing sinner is not so repulsive to me as that higher life malformation. Again, the senior brother of my text stands for all those who are faithless about the reformation of the 'dissipated' and the dissolute. In the very tones of his voice you can hear the fact that he has no faith that the reformation of the younger son is genuine. His entire manner seems to say: "That boy has come back for more money. He got a third of the property. Now he has come back for another third. He will never be contented to stay on the farm. He will fall away. I would go in, too, and rejoice with the others if I thought this thing was genuine, but it is a sham. That boy is a confirmed inebriate and debauchee." Alas, my friends, for the incredulity in the church of Christ in regard to the reclamation of the recreant! You do not know how to shake hands with a prodigal: you do not know how to pray for him: you do not know how to greet him. He wants to sail into the warm gulf stream of Christian sympathy. You are the iceberg against which he strikes and shivers. You say he has been a prodigal. I know it, but you are the sour, unresponsive, censorious, saturnine, cranky elder brother, and if you are going to heaven one would think some people would be tempted to go to perdition to get away from you. Be not so hard in your criticism of the fallen lest thou thyself also be tempted. Do you know who that man was who, Sabbath before last, staggered up and down the aisle in a church, disturbing the service until the service had to stop until he was taken from the room? He was a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ in a sister denomination! That man had preached the gospel; that man had broken the bread of the holy communion for the people. From what a height to what a depth! Oh. I was glad there was no smiling in the room when that man was taken out, his poor wife following him with his hat in her hand and his coat on her arm. It was as solemn to me as two funerals—the funeral of the body and the funeral of the soul. Beware lest thou also be tempted! An invalid went to South America for his health and one day sat sunning himself on the beach when he saw something crawling up the beach wriggling toward him, and he was affrighted. He thought it was a wild beast or a reptile, and he took his pistol from his pocket. Then he saw it was not a wild beast. It was a man, an immortal man, a man made in God's own image, and the poor wretch crawled up to the feet of the invalid and asked for strong drink, and the invalid took his wine flask from his pocket and gave the poor wretch something to drink, and then, under the stimulus, he rose up and gave his history. He had been a merchant in Glasgow. He had gone down under the power of strong drink until he was so reduced in poverty that he was living in a boat just off the beach. "Why," said the invalid, "I knew a merchant in Glasgow once, a merchant of such and such a name." And the poor wretch straightened himself and said, "I am that man!" "Let him that thinkketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." Again I remark that the senior brother of my text stands for the spirit of envy and jealousy. The senior brother thought that all the honor they did to the returned brother was a wrong to him. He said, "I have staid at home, and I ought to have had the banquet, and I ought to have had the garlands." Alas, for this spirit of envy and jealousy coming down through the ages! Cain and Abel, Esan and Jacob, Saul and David, Haman and Mordecai, Othello and Iago, Orlando and Angelica, Caligula and Torquatus, Caesar and Pompey, Columbus and the Spanish courts, Cambyses and the brother he slew because he was a better marksmans, Dionysius and Philoxenius, whom he slew because he was a better singer. Jealousy among painters—Closterman and Geoffrey Kneller, Hudson and Reynolds. Francia, anxious to see a picture of Raphael, Raphael sends him a picture. Francia, seeing it falls in a fit of jealousy from which he dies. Jealousy among authors. How seldom contemporaries speak of each other. Xenophon and Plato living at the same time, but from their writings you never would suppose they heard of each other. Religious jealousies. The Mohammedans praying for rain during a drought; no rain coming. Then the Christians begin to pray for rain, and the rain comes. Then the Mohammedans met together to account for this, and they resolved that God was so well pleased with their prayers he kept the drought on so as to keep them praying, but the Christians began to pray and the Lord was so disgusted with their prayers that he sent rain right away so he would not hear any more of their supplications. Oh, this accursed spirit of envy and jealousy! Let us stamp it out from all our hearts. A wrestler was so envious of Theoenes, the prince of wrestlers, that he could not be consolled in any way, and after Theoenes died and a statue was lifted to him in a public place his envious antionist went out every night and wrestled with the statue until one night he threw it, and it fell on him and crushed him to death. So jealousy is not only absurd, but it is killing to the body and it is killing to the soul. Besides that, if we do not get as much honor and as much attention as others, we ought to congratulate ourselves on what we escape in the way of assault. The French general riding on horseback at the head of his troops heard a soldier complain and say, "It is very easy for the general to command us forward while he rides and we walk." Then the general dismounted and compelled the complaining soldier to get on the horse. Coming through a ravine a bullet from a sharp shooter struck the rider, and he fell dead. Then the general said, "How much safer it is to walk than to ride." Once more I have to tell you that this senior brother of my text stands for the pouting Christian. While there is so much congratulation within doors the hero of my text stands outside, the corners of his mouth drawn down, looking as he felt—miserable. I am glad his lugubrious physlogonomy did not spoil the festivity within. How many pouting Christians there are in our day—Christians who do not like the music of the chuches, Christians who do not like the hilarities of the young—pouting, pouting pouting at society, pouting at the fashions, pouting at the newspapers, pouting at the church, pouting at the government, pouting at high heaven. Their spleen is too large, their liver does not work, their digestion is broken down. There are two cruets in their caster always sure to be well supplied—vinegar and red pepper. Oh, come away from that mood! Stir a little saccharine into your disposition. While you avoid the dissoluteness of the younger son avoid also the irasibility and the petulance and the pouting spirit of the elder son and imitate the father, who had embraces for the returning prodigal and coaxing words for the splenetic mal-content. Ah, the face of this pouting elder son is put before us in order that we might better see the radiant and forgiving face of the Father. Contrasts are mighty. The artist in sketching the field of Waterloo years after the battle put a dove in the mouth of the cannon. Raphael in one of his cartoons beside the face of a wretch put the face of a happy and innocent child. And so the sour face of this irascible and disgusted elder brother is brought out in order that in the contrast we might better understand the forgiving and radiant face of God. That is the meaning of it—that God is ready to take back anybody that is sorry, to take him clear back., to take him back forever and forever and forever, to take him back with a loving hug, to put a kiss on his parched lip, ring on his blasted hand, an easy shoe on his chafed foot, a garland on his bleeding temples and heaven in his soul. Oh, I fall flat on that mercy! Come, my brother and let us get down into the dust, resolved never to rise until the Father's forgiving hand shall lift us. Oh what a God we have! Bring your doxologies. Come, earth and heaven, and join in the worship. Cry aloud. Lift the palm branches. Do you not feel the Father's arm around your neck? Do you not feel the warm breath of your Father against your cheek? Surrender, younger son! Surrender, elder son! Surrender, all! Go in to-day and sit down at the banquet Take a slice of the fatted calf, and afterward, when you are seated, with one hand in the hand of the returned brother and the other hand in the hand of the rejoicing father, let your heart beat time to the clapping of the cymbal and the mellow voice of the flute. It is meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this, thy brother, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found. "ROCK ME TO SLEEP." Backward, turn backward, O time your flight, Make me a little child again, just to-night! Mother, come back from the echo shore, Take me again to your heart as yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrow Conan Doyle Was an Auth Conan Doyle Was an Author at Six. I was six years old at the time, writes Dr. A. Conan Doyle, in Success, and have a distinct recollection of the achievement. My first book was written, I remember, upon fool'scap paper in what might be called a fine, bold hand—four words to the line—and was illustrated by marginal pen and ink sketches by the author. There was a man in it and there was a tiger. I forgot which was the hero, but it didn't matter much, for they became blended into one about the time when the tiger met the man. I was a realist in the age of Romanticists. I described at some length, both verbally and pictorially, the untimely end of the wayfarer. But when the tiger had absorbed him I found myself slightly embarrassed as to how my story was to go on. "It is very easy to get people into scrapes and very hard to get them out again," I remarked, and I have often had cause to repeat the precocious aphorism of my childhood. On this occasion the situation was beyond me, and my book, like the man, was engulfed in tiger. There is an old family bureau, with secret drawers, in which lie little locks of hair tied up in circles, and black silhouettes and dim daguerreotypes and letters which seem to have been written in the lightest of straw-colored inks. Somewhere there lies my primitive manuscript, where my tiger, like a many-hooped barrel with a tail to it, still envelopes the hapless stranger whom he has taken in. It may be that my literary experiences would have ended there had not there come a time when that good old harsh-faced schoolmistress, Hard Times, took me by the hand. I wrote, and with amazement I found that my writing was accepted. Fifty little cylinders of manuscript did I send out during eight years, which described irregular orbits among publishers, and usually came back like paper boomerangs to the place that they had started from. Yet in time they all lodged somewhere or other. TO DETECT BOGUS MONEY Secret Service Man Invents Several Valuable Contravances. Capt. Thomas I. Porter, of the United States secret service, who was first to discover the Jacobs bogus revenue stamp and who is an expert on counterfeit money, both coin and paper, has recently perfected three devices for the detection of fraud in connection with the Treasury Department. One is an automatic coin counter, another a coin detector, and a third a fastening for bags containing money or valuables, which, if once opened, can not be replaced. The coin detector is an instantaneous tester. A suspicious looking coin is tried with a slot in a metal tongue at the top of a small steel box. If it is genuine it will pass through the slot, fall on an apron beneath and, rolling off onto a square of plate glass, will give the "ring" test. If the coin is under size it will not ring when it strikes the plate, and if overlarge it will not pass through the slot. In addition to this, in the case of a gold coin, the piece is placed on a disk attached to a bar working in an opening through the box. If of exact weight the coin will be dropped to the plate, but if under weight will remain held on the disk. The counting machine simplifies the process by the use of tubes made of but little greater diameter than the various coins. In this way each denomination is assorted and a plunger throws the coins out and simultaneously registers the number. The device for the securing of bags is a metal oval fitted with teeth on the inner side of jaws that are hinged at one end; a staple on one end pleces the other at the free end and a seal wired to it holds the bag intact. This necessitates the breaking of the seal before the jaws can be opened.—Chicago Post. Charles Reade's Motto. I propose never to guess what I can know." This motto was rigidly adhered to by the author, whose love of accuracy was so great that he spared no pains to verify every statement he desired to make in any of his novels; grudging no amount of labor which he expended in the accomplishment of this result. He was an indefatigable collector of newspaper elppings from all nations, which he carefully classified and arranged in many scrapbooks. Reports of institutions, police gazettes, accounts of trials and accidents and manifold descriptions of all sorts, were filed away for future reference. The contents of these scrapbooks were indexed with great care, and from them Charles Reade derived great satisfaction; if ever any of his statements were questioned or his facts denled, he would turn triumphantly to his classified scrapbooks and refute the objections with some positive proof contained therein.—Miss Ticknor, in Truth. Those Names! Gibson—I hear Crosby and his wife have separated. Millet—What was the trouble? Gibson—He wanted to name the baby after her, but she insisted on naming it after the sleeping car they took their bridal trip on—New York Press. THE HOUSEHOLD. Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! Take them, and give me my childhood again; I have grown weary of dust and decay. Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away; Weary of sowing for others to reap, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and faded, our faces between; Yet, with strong yearning and passionate pain, Long I to-night for your presence again. Come from the silence, so long and so deep— Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Over my heart in days that are flown No love like mother love ever has shone; No other worship abides and endures Faithful, unselfish and patient like yours; None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick and the world-weary brain; Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold. Fall on your shoulders again as of olds. Let it drop over my forehead to-night. Shading my faint eyes away from the light. For with its sunny-edged shadows once more Haply will throng the sweet visions of yore; Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep— Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Mother, dear mother, the years have been long Since I last listened your lullaby song; Sing then, and unto my ear it shall seem Womanhood's years have been only a dream. Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace, With your light lashes just sweeping my face— Never hereafter to wake or to weep— Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. —Elizabeth Akers Allen. AIRING THE HOUSE. How to Go to Work to Properly Do It. To air a house well is quite an art, and a very important one, inasmuch as the health of the inmates depends so much upon having it thoroughly done, and their comfort upon having it done with skill. To put the last (comfort) first, nothing will make a family much more uncomfortable in cold weather than to try to air the whole house at once. I have seen housekeepers who—of course considering their own convenience only, and that not wisely—thought it a great saving of time, and therefore good business faculty, to open the whole house except the kitchen at once, immediately after breakfast. This drives the shivering family into the kitchen, where they are oftentime most uncomfortable themselves, and very much in the way of whoever is trying to do the housework. It also wastes their time as nothing but housework can well be done in the kitchen, especially the early morning. It exposes to colds. It is not at all a necessary proceeding, nor does it really economize any one's time. The housekeeper or servant should open one room, preferably the dining-room, the first thing upon rising in the morning. If there is a stove in the room, let her shake it down and open the drafts that the fire may be coming while the room is airing. The air will become changed very quickly; then close everything again. The low temperature will not be noticed while active work, such as setting the table, is going on. If it can be arranged so that the dining room may be swept before breakfast, so much the better. I've known housekeepers who always had the downstairs sweeping done before the family were up. It is a very comfortable plan, but can only be managed where there are servants, and a not too early breakfast hour. If the dining room is not aired first, let it be the sitting room, that there may be one comfortable place for the family to gather while the rest of the house is open or getting warm again. When the family is safely and comfortably housed in one room open as much of the rest of the house at once as possible. There can be positively no thorough airing of any place without a draft—the stronger the better. So open both sides of a room, and doors as well as windows. The wind should sweep over the floors where the heavy, foul air lies. Foul air rises, you say? Well, I won't dispute with you; but I will assert that you can not have a sweet, fresh room unless you air the floor. The upper rooms and hall will never smell sweet and fresh unless the hall below has been open while the upper windows were. This is also a much quicker way of airing. On a breezy or cold day the house will be thoroughly aired in a few minutes. Each bed should be opened by its occupant on leaving the room. Then, going over the house after breakfast will be light labor, and will make short work of evil smells. The pillows should be shaken and hung through the windows or over chairs before them, for pillows absorb the breath greatly. Once a week the bed clothes must come off bodily and take their turn at the windows and the mattresses be turned. The beds should not be remade until the rooms have become well warmed. It is a curious working of the human intellect which leads a woman to air and close her house before the slops are emptied, though it is often done. All slops of every kind, should be carried off first. Furthermore, no slops should be allowed to stand uncovered in a room, especially at night. It is a most injurious practice, as well as prolific of foul smells. The effulva permeates everything—carpets, hangings, clothes and paper on the walls. From the last named it can not be aired out. There is no way of cleansing that but pulling it off and burning it. There is nothing that will absorb an evil or poisonous smell like paper. No amount of airing can make a house in which open vessels of slops are harbored smell sweet. Again, a house should be aired at night as well as in the morning. Nurses are expected to frequently air an invalid's room, and an observer can not fail to notice how it helps to bring roses and health into the pale faces. During foggy weather if you would avoid malaria do not open the house until the fogs are wholly dispersed. Do not open the ground floor until the fog is dried off the grass immediately about the house. Sleep with "one eye open," and if a fog steals upon you in the night get up and close every window until it passes off. They often rise in the night and pass off in an hour or two. It is hard to have the windows closed in summer, but it is harder to hc sick. If the doors are open through the house the atmosphere will hardly become so close that it may not be borne for a little while. After a fog it is wise to build a light fire for a little—only just enough to dry the air. Be assured these are excellent preventives and cheaper than quinine, or a trip to the mountains to recover from hay fever. AMUSING A LITTLE INVALID The Manufacture of Animals Gives Delightful Diversion. It is often a serious matter to find some quiet amusement that will keep a little invalid happy and contented. It is especially difficult to amuse a convalescent child who is naturally active and restless and who requires quiet and rest for rapid recovery. For the little ones who are too young for the enjoyment of books, or who are not allowed to strain the eyes by looking at bright pictures, amusement may be furnished by the manufacture of animals. Make little turtles of large raisins with cloves stuck in for feet, hands and tails. To make such a turtle, flatten a large raisin, stick a clove with the blossom on, in one end for the head, remove the bud from four cloves and stick them at the four corners for feet, and cut the end off one clove to make the tail. A still more fascinating process or manufacture can be enjoyed from firm apples or white potatoes, as there is a chance for allowing the imagination full sway. A knife and some well-washed potatoes will afford amusement for many hours when combined with a box of toothpicks. The potatoes may be cut in slices and from these slices all sorts of animals fashioned, using long and short lengths of toothpicks for feet and tails; and for the legs the toothpicks may be partly broken and bent into natural looking shapes, and still remain firm enough to support the small potato animal. Philadelphia Record. Gauzy Trimmings. Gauzy flowers and gauzy ribbons and gauzy rosettes or pompons are the natural trimming for one of the new hats of limp horsehair. "yedda" braid or soft silky straw. These have no appreciable weight and are a relief in hot weather, which makes a heavy hat a species of torture. Double-faced satin ribbon, bows and fans of velvet jetted wings and crowns, to say nothing of birds' plumages, make a hat or bonnet incredibly heavy to press upon the brow of a warm day. Sunshine Cake. White of eleven eggs, one cup unsifted flour, one and one-half cups of sugar, one teaspoonful of vanilla, yolks of three eggs, one teaspoonful cream of tartar; put the cream of tartar into the flour, and sift it. Beat the whites to a very stiff froth; beat the yolks and add them to the whites; add sugar carefully. Then the flavoring, and last, the flour; mix thoroughly, but lightly and quickly; turn into an ungreased pan and bake in a moderate oven forty-five minutes. When done turn it upside down on a rest, and the cake will fall out itself. It is best to bake sunshine cake in a *tunk*'s head, the center tube being longer than the slides, so when it is allowed over it rests on the tube, thus allowing the air to pass around the cake. Soft, Silky, Sailors Manila braid lines the brim of the new sailor hat, which is sewed of silky straw, and has a softness unknown to the brusque old-fashioned sailor. These soft little developments of the sailor shape are in request just now for young girls and will appear with the first wearing of wash frocks. If the princess of Wales, who is a grandmother many times over, is still photographed in a sailor hat, young American can women in the twenties may follow her example. Mature women eschew the sailor shape on this side of the water. Modish Finish to a Hat Plaited frills of lace, mousseline de sole, or of chiffon are employed to face the brim of large straw hats. These are broad-brimmed shapes, which seem to need some racing of fluffy material to take away the stiffness of a flat, smooth straw expanse. If the brim be not excessively wide, the shape in its modification may be adapted to the face of child, girl or woman. Her Abandonment of Feathers. "Well, my wife has decided to buy an Easter hat that hasn't a bird or a feather on it." "Good! Has she joined the Audubon Society?" "Oh, no. She picked out this hat because it was the most expensive one they had in the store.—Chicago Times-Herald. "Wall, good-bye Hanner. You bet them city folks won't play any gum games on me!" "Wall, good-bye Hanner. You bet them city folks won't play any gum games on me!" "Fur the land's sake, Hiram, but what's happened? Did you git gum-gamed down thar?" "Nope; of course not. I jest changed a hundred dollar bill fur a feller and had to walk hum." Gabby's little son. Small and Nervous Gent—Er—are you quite sure, cabman, that your horse won't bolt? Facetious Cabby—Lor', yus! Why, wiv all your weight in the keb, could not bolt tere save 's life; Judy, A Cynicus—Are you quick at figures? Miss Wanterwed—Fairly. Cynicus—Then tell me if you wait for me to propose how long it will be before you are married—Judy. NO VASSAL STATES. JUDGE LOCHREN ELABORATES HIS RECENT DECISION. Holds That Porto Rico is As Much a Part of United States as Arizona, Minnesota or Any Other State. St. Paul, Minn., special: Judge Lochen-Tuesday filed in the United States Circuit Court his decision on the application of Raafel Ortiz, a Porto Rican, to be released from Minnesota State prison. Ortiz was convicted by a military tribunal in Porto Rico. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The application for release was based on the claim that the military authorities had no jurisdiction over Ortiz, that peace had been declared, and he should have had a civil trial. Judge Lochen refused the application in an oral decision Thursday and Tuesday filed an exhaustive opinion thereon. The decision has evoked great interest throughout the country, as it bears largely on constitutional questions which have arisen on the position of Porto Rico as a territory of the United States. The decision in part follows: "Our general government was founded by the men of the revolution who had rebelled against the arbitrary power asserted by Great Britain to govern her outlying colonies at the will of her parliament. It will be, indeed, marvelous if it is made to appear that these men who then founded our national government so constructed it that it is capable of ruling with unlimited power a subject people who have neither guarantees to protect them nor any voice in the government. This is foreign absolutism—the worst form of tyranny. "If the Constitution does not extend to Porto Rica and our other new acquisitions of territory, Congress has the untrammeled absolute power to establish subject governments or make laws for such trammeled, absolute power to establish dependent monarchies or satrapies, state religions and even slavery. The argument of one of the Senators referred to that the last clause of the thirteenth amendment prevents the establishment there of slavery is obviously lame and impotent, for if the Constitution does not extend to those parts of the domain of the United States, nor limit Congress in its powers of legislation over them, by what process will this single clause of an amendment of that instrument detach itself from the skin of the parchment, and alone fasten itself upon these new territories? "The argument much repeated, that if the national government of the United States has not the power to deal with these new territories untrammeled by the Constitution, its power is less than that possessed by the other governments of the civilized world is admitted. It proves nothing. The national government of the United States is one of very limited powers. "The national government of the United States was created and its powers and jurisdiction granted and limited by the federal Constitution. Its powers can only be increased by amendment of that instrument. The power of the general government to acquire territory rests upon its constitutional power to make war, which may result in conquest, and its like power to make treaties, which may bring territory by cession. Numerous decisions are cited in support of his opinion, and be continues: "It must be held that upon the cession by Spain to the United States of the island of Porto Rico that island became a part of the United States, as much as is Arizona or Minnesota; and that the Constitution of the United States ex property vigore at once extended over that island; and that this extension of the Constitution gave Congress, whose every power must come from that instrument, the authority to legislate in respect to that island as a part of the United States territory. It follows that all the provisions of the Constitution in respect to personal and property rights, including the right to trial by jury in criminal prosecution, became at once, when the cession was completed, a part of the supreme law of the land." The decision states that military law, being the sole authority, the acts of a military court were entirely legal and the petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied. BUYING HORSES FOR BRITAIN Fontes Purchased in Texas For Use In South Africa. Marble Falls, Tex., special: F. O. Perry of San Angelo, was in Marble Falls Saturday buying horses for the British army. His purchases in this vicinity number 200. He will turn these horses over to Claude Anson of San Angelo, who will ship them direct to South Africa. Anson is a nephew of the British Secretary of War, the Marquis of Dowsdowne. He has already shipped several thousand horses to South Africa for use by the troops. Mr. Perry's purchase attracted a mad rush of sellers. Horses were brought in from a distance of nearly seventy miles in drives and separately. The prices paid range from $20 to $50. San Antonio, Tex. special: Captain Pile and Veterinary Surgeon Knight, of British army, arrived in San Antonio Saturday. They came to inspect and ship horses collected for them here by Annie Brothers. The horses will be shipped to New Orleans, from there to South Africa, where they will be used in the Transvall war. Both gentlemen expressed themselves as well pleased with South Texas horses, and more purchases will probably soon follow. BOER ENVOYS' MISSION and Papers Agree That the American Trip Will Be Frustrless. Paris, May 5 (Copyright, 1909, by the New York Tribune): The departure of the Boer mission for New York is the topic of discussion in the Paris papers. The concensus of opinion is that the mission will prove a failure. The Matin, which from the outset of the war has been a victorious defender of the Boers, declares editorially: "The Boers have not obtained the faintest promise of support in Europe. Will they have any better look on the other side of the Atlantic? We are afraid not. It seems pretty clear how their reception in the United States will cause them bitter disillusions." A Pullman Postal Cork Arrested After He Had Secured $5,400 By His Scheme. Joseph Brichter, a postal clerk at the Pullman station of the Chicago postoffice, was arrested at Cincinnati Tuesday in company with two women, for forging money orders. He had access to the blanks and had authority to issue money orders and the corresponding advice. It appears he covered his tracks at the Pullman station and his statement shows that until he reached Covington he had no trouble whatever in obtaining the money. It was discovered that he had cashed one set of three $100 orders at the Cincinnati office on April 24. Others were cashed in the East, including New York, Harrisburg, Pa., Camden, N. J., and other places. He admits having collected $4,100 in all and had just about closed the transaction when he met trouble. He was remanded to jail for a preliminary hearing. The collection of $300 at the Cincinnati office will hold him there for trial. "AGGIE" LOCATED. THE DICTATOR SAID TO BE IN MOUNTAINS. Has Rejoined General Tino in Northern Luzon and They Have Assembled a Considerable Force of In- Manilla, May 7: Telegrams received here from General Young report that Aguinaldo has rejoined the rebel General Tino in the north, and that they have reassembled a considerable force in the mountains. General Young desires to strike them before the rains, and asks for reinforcements there. The tenor of the dispatch indicates that General Young is confident that Aguinaldo is with Tino, and it is presumed they are planning to resume fighting during the rains. Company F, of the Forty-seventh Regiment, met and f. routed a band of the enemy, between Legaspi and Riago, province of Alba, April 13. Two Americans were killed and five were wounded, including two officers. The Filipinos lost heavily. The conditions around Legaspi and Sorsogon are reported to be continually disturbed. two rebel attacks on the American garrisons in the Visayan islands recently have resulted in the killing of 280 of the enemy and the wounding of two Americans. At daybreak May 1 400 rebels, 100 of them armed with rifles, attacked Catarman, in northern Samar, in the vicinity of Catubig, Company F, of the Fifty-third Regiment, was garrisoning the place. The enemy built trenches on the outskirts of the town during the night and fired volleys persistently into it until the Americans, charging the trenches, scattered the Filipinos and killed 155 of them. Two Americans were wounded. This attack was precipitated by the enemy's recent successful attack at Catubig. The garrison of Catarman has been removed to the seaport of Laguan. A force of Filipinos estimated to number 200 men armed with rifles and 600 armed with bolos and operating four muzzle-loading cannon, made an attack on Jaro, on Leyte island, April 15, which place was garrisoned by twenty-five men of Company B. of the Forty-third Regiment, Lieutenant Estes commanding. Estes left fifteen men to protect the town and with the remaining ten men he advanced on the enemy in two squads, sheltered by the ridges south of the town, whence they stood off the Filipinos for three hours. Then twenty armed members of the local police force sallied out to help Estes's Americans. The latter, with the police, charged the enemy, and together they dispersed the Filipinos, and after the fight was over captured 135 or them. There were no American casualties. Boors Place 'Backrock' Charges on Rall way Track But They Are Discovered. London, May S: The War Office has issued the following dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Smaldeel, May S: "General Hutton, with mounted infantry, reconnoitered yesterday to Zand river and found the enemy in considerable force. General Broadwood's brigade of cavalry, with General Ian Hamilton's force, performed the same operation, with much the same result. "General Hunter reports that he occupied Fourteen Streams yesterday, without opposition, owing, in a great measure, to the able dispositions made by General Paget on the left bank of the Vaal river, at Warrenton, where his artillery fire rendered the enemy's position practically untenable. A six-inch gun was found most useful. As the Sixth and half the Fifth brigades of infantry advanced, under cover of the artillery, the enemy retired precipitately, abandoning their clothing, ammunition and personal effects." An earlier dispatch from Lord Roberts said: "The railway from Brandfort to this place has been considerably damaged and the bridge over the Vet river has been hopelessly damaged. This delays supplies coming up. Every few yards charges of rackarock have been laid under the rails. This might have created loss of life, but was, fortunately, discovered by a West Australian infantryman. Winburg has been occupied by the Highland brigade." GARCIA CAPTURED Gen. Fonston Secures a Noted Prisoner and Important Documents. Washington special: The War Department has received the following cablegram from General MacArthur, at Manila: "General Pamtaleon Garcia, a prominent insurgent officer of the northern provinces, was captured Tuesday with some valuable documents, by Funston's troops. Regard capture important." Big Claim Allowed. Chicago special: The claim of the heirs of Jacob Dehoren against the government for $3,000,000 for the $50,000 loaned to George Washington, for the army at Valley Forge, 123 years ago, and the interest on this sum, has been allowed. A large number of the heirs live in Chicago. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA REIGN OF TERROR SAID TO EXIST IN PHILIPPINES. Ex-Consul Wildman's Report of Existing Conditions—Large Number of Patients New York special: Edwin Wildman, former vice consul at Hong Kong, contributes an article on "A Reign of Terror in the Philippines" to Leslie's Weekly, of which the following is an abstract: "Although General Otis would have us believe that the war in the Philippines is over, I learn from private sources of information of the highest authority that there exists a veritable reign of terror in most parts of the archipelago, within gunshot of our army posts. Either General Otis is blind to the situation, or is keeping the real facts from the American people. Aguinaldo's forces have scattered into marauding bands, and, leaguing themselves with the mountain Tulsanes and Ladrones, terrorize the country and effectually check the cultivation of crops and the sale of marketable products. "The few ports that have been opened have shipped away what supplies they collected and the tons upon tons of hemp, sugar and rice that are stored in the interior are beyond the reach of buyers. The money paid for the thousands of bales of hemp shipped from garrisoned ports has found its way into the insurgents' coffers and the revolutionary juntas at Hong Kong and Singapore are making extensive purchases of arms, preparatory to a renewed season of filibustering and general hostilities as soon as the rainy season is over. Our army is busy protecting its posts, while the insurgents carry on their operations in the interior and paralyze agriculture and trade. "Scattered bands of armed insurgents wage war against all who hesitate to acknowledge the Aguinaldo government, and the inhabitants are in a state of terror that prevents honest industry or open alliance with American sovereignty. The American troops make short work of these robbers, but our garrisons are so far apart and few in number that they invariably are obliged to fall back to a seaport town, where they can get supplies from Manila, for the insurgents have so thoroughly ravaged the country that it is impossible to supply even a small battalion with native products. "If we ever hope to put an end to this Indian warfare we must send additional forces to the islands. Our present corps is totally inadequate to cope with the situation and bring the war to a close. The islands, commercially or otherwise, will be utterly useless until life and property are made safe." FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. C. F. W. Neely of Muncie Arrested For Misappropriating Cuban Funds. New York special: C. F. W. Neely, of Muncie, Ind., chief financial agent in the postoffice at Havana, Cuba, was arrested at Rochester, N. Y., Sunday, brought here and arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields Monday on the charge of embezzlement of Cuban government funds. The exact amount of the alleged embezzlement has not yet been ascained, but it is believed that it will exceed $36,000. Neely was held in $10,502 bail for examination. Dispatches from Muncie, Ind., say his friends there think he will make a satisfactory explanation. When arrested Neely had $6,502 on his person. Major Rathbone, director of posts at Havana, has temporarily suspended Auditors Reeves and Reynolds, awaiting the result of the investigation. It is said other postoffice officials in Cuba will be arrested. Neely is said to have sunk several thousand dollars while financially backing the "Merry World," an opera company. He still holds large property interests in Muncie, including a printing plant which has turned out many tons of printed matter for the Cuban postal department. Neely has some valuable mining interests in the Missouri zinc belt. Adjustant General Corbin says the War Department has ample evidence to convict Neely. "There is no chance that it will turn out to be a technical offense," said General Corbin. "He took the money of the government and when arrested he was getting away with it as fast as he could. In his trunk were found $6,000 and a lot of bonds and securities. A man on a salary of $2,500 a year doesn't accumulate so fast that he has to carry it in his trunk. He had tried to cover up his tracks behind him. The Department anticipated that he would resist extradition, and that is the reason for the trip of the inspector general to Washington." LAST PHASE OF THE WAR. Military Expert Declares That It Is Now Approaching. New York special: The Sun's military expert Saturday morning says: "The passage of the Vaal river at Windsorton, without opposition, and the arrival of an advanced mounted force on the Vet river are both important incidents in the British advance. The first is designed to turn the Boer flank at Fourteen Streams and clear the way for the reopening of railway communication across the Vaal. The advance to the Vet river brings the British in touch with the Boer advanced position covering the railway to Kroonstad, and from now onward it is likely that the resistance will be continuous and spread over a considerable area. The Boer dispositions in Natal indicate that they intend to dispute an advance from Ladysmith through the Biggerberg, though with a considerably reduced force, detachments having been sent to reinforce the blockading force at Mafeking and the army in the Free State. The campaign is now entering on its last and most critical phase." Indiana University Endowment The semi-annual distribution of the permanent endowment fund of Indiana University was made by the Auditor of State Monday. This fund is raised by a half-cent tax levy and is distributed to the different counties to be loaned on real estate. The interest is used to pay salaries of the professors. The total amount apportioned among the counties Monday was $25,800.35. 56TH CONGRESS. The passage of the Nicaragua Canal bill in the House Wednesday came as an overwhelming triumph after a day of debate, which at times was very squally. Mr. Cannon and Mr. Hepburn at one time were on the point of personal collision, and the whole House was on the tiptoe of excitement. The lie was passed, and both men were trembling with rage for a moment, but they got cool before they reached the firing line. Shortly afterward Representative Mann, of Illinois, and John Wesley Gaines, of Tennessee, came near being embroiled, but the day finally passed with nothing stronger than talk. The majority for the bill, 190, shows now strong the canal sentiment is. Consideration of the army appropriation bill in the Senate Wednesday developed a debate in the treatment of the volunteer soldiers sent to the Philippines that at times was very bitter. Mr. Turner (Dem.), of Washington, made a very vicious attack upon the administration because of the accommodations afforded the volunteers on the transports returning from the Philippines. He was followed by Mr. Pettigrew, who in a long speech, violently arraigned the government for not discharging the South Dakota volunteers when their time had expired. Mr. Mason, of Illinois, delivered a speech on the investigations made by the committee on manufactures, of the adulteration of food. He strongly urged that Congress should take immediate action to remedy existing evils. The House Thursday, without division, passed the "free home" bill, which has been pending before Congress for a number of years. The bill provides that the government shall issue patents to actual bona fide settlers on agricultural lands of Indian reservations opened to settlement. These lands were taken up by settlers who contracted to pay for them $1.25 to $7.75 per acre. By the terms of the bill the government assumes the payment of the purchase price to the Indians and changes the existing law relative to agricultural colleges so as to insure the payment of the endowments, which heretofore have come out of the sale of public lands in case of deficiency. These payments involve $1,200,000 annually. Of the 29,000,000 acres in Indian reservations opened to settlement, for which the government is to pay or has paid $35,000,000, about 8,000,000 acres have been taken and about 2,000,000 are supposed to be still available for agricultural purposes. The Senate Thursday adopted the motion of Mr. Hoar to take up the resolution of the committee on elections declaring that Mr. Clark, of Montana, was not duly elected to the Senate and then postponed consideration of the question for a week. The army appropriation bill, after a rather spirited debate, was passed without division. The day closed with the passage of a number of private pension bills, including bills to pension Mrs. Julla MacV. Henry, widow of the late Gen. Guy V. Henry, Gen. James Longstreet, Mrs. Margaret M. Badger, widow of the late Commodore Badger, and Mrs. Harriet Gridley, widow of the late Captain Gridley, of the navy. When the House met Friday a message from President McKinley vetoling the bill authorizing the adjustment of rights of settlers on the Navajo Indian reservation was laid before the House. Much of the time of the session was consumed in an effort of the members of the naval committee to cripple the coast and geodetic survey in retaliation for the refusal of the House to agree to their recommendation when the naval bill was before the House to place the survey of the waters of our insular possessions in the hands of the navy. Friday's session of the Senate was rendered especially notable by the passage, after a debate lasting only three hours, of the army reorganization bill. The rank of the commanding general of the army is raised to that of lieutenant general, and that of adjutant general to major general, the latter being the incumbency of the present Adjutant General Corbin. The President is empowered to place on the retired list any officer who has been suspended from duty by sentence of court-martial or by executive order in mitigation of such sentence for a period extending to or within one year of the time of his compulsory retirement for age. This is well understood to apply to Commissary General Eagan. The House Saturday passed the sundry civil bill. It carries slightly more than $61,500,000, about $10,000,000 more than any previous sundry civil bill. The Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill were disagreed to. The Senate, in executive session, Saturday, ratified a treaty negotiated with all the maritime nations of the world, extending the Geneva conference regulations to naval warfare. These regulations have long applied to war on land, and under the treaty hospital ships will be under the same protection as hospital tents and buildings on land. Monday was suspension day in the House and quite a number of bills were passed. The most important was the Senate bill to amend the general pension laws so as to provide for aggregating disabilities under the act of 1880, without regard to service origin, and to increase the net income a widow may have without destroying her right to pension from 186 to $250. The purpose of the bill is to modify rulings of the pension office in accordance with the recommendation of the G. A. R. It was passed without a dissenting vote. The bill to increase the appropriation for the national guard from $400,000 to $1,000,000 also was among those passed. Mr. Sulzer, of New York, attempted to secure action upon his resolution expressing sympathy with the Boers, but was cut off by the Speaker. At Monday's session of the Senate Mr. Peller, of Colorado, delivered a speech in which he strongly urged the Senate to extend its sympathy to the Boers in their contest with Great Britain. The adoption of his resolution of sympathy, he maintained, could not be considered as an unfriendly act by the British government. He called attention to the fact that his resolution was a paraphrase of the Cuban plank of the Republican national platform in 1886. He was satisfied that it would be proper and right to pass such a resolution and he quoted a number of precedents for such action by the Senate. He found a precedent for it in the resolution offered in the House of Representatives by Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, in 1831, in the interest of the South American re- publics, and in many subsequent resolutions of a similar character. The House Tuesday adopted a resolution requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to reveal the processes and ingredients used in the manufacture of oleomargarine, this information to come from reports of manufacturers of oleomargarine as made to the commissioner of internal revenue. According to the majority report of the ways and means committee and the arguments of leading lawyers or the floor, the Secretary of the Treasury is disbarred by law from making public this information, which was given the department in confidence. Whether Secretary Gage will yield to the demands or seek refuge in the law and refuse to give up the trade secrets confidentially revealed to the department remains to be seen. The Senate Tuesday concluded consideration of the naval appropriation bill, with the exception of that section relating to armor and armament. This will be considered in secret legislative session. A SERIOUS SITUATION London, May 6: The Colonial Office has received the following dispatch from Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, Governor and commander in chief of Gold Coast Colony, dated Kumassam, April 27: "The situation, I regret to inform you, has changed for the worse. On April 25 a force was sent to clear the rebel forces to the eastward. Four members of the constabulary were killed and a large number of the rebels were killed and wounded. On April 25 the Ashantis surrounded the town in great force, probably 10,000, and made a determined attack. The Hausas were obliged to evacuate the cantonment and to concentrate around the fort. The engagement lasted four hours. Twenty of our native allies and two Hausas were killed. The present occupants of the fort number 358, inclusive of eighteen Europeans, six of whom were missionaries. It is necessary that further reinforcements be sent to the Gold Coast." Sir Frederic Hodgson, under date of April 30, telegraphed: "Tuesday a serious attack was made on the fort by the rebels, but they were routed on all sides with great loss. Two members of the constabulary were killed and ten wounded. A contingent of Lagos constabulary, under Inspector General Aplin, has arrived, after two days' severe fighting. The column was attacked at Asagua, which was taken with the loss of one killed and twenty-three wounded, among them Aplin, slightly. On the following day the contingent was attacked two miles from Kumassi by 8,000 rebels. There was great loss in taking the stockade across the road. The Ashantis fled. Two members of the constabulary were killed and thirteen wounded, including Assistant Inspector Read. Have been unable to send letters or telegrams through." SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY Some Startling Details of the Alleged Plot to Kill Senator Goebel. Frankfort, Ky., special: Wednesday afternoon, W. H. Culton, defendant, asking for ball, took the stand in his own behalf. He is the clerk of State Auditor Sweeney. He said he had never conspired with any one to kill Goebel. Cross-examined, Culton said: "I had a consultation with both Powers and Governor Taylor regarding the bringing of armed men here. Dr. W. H. Johnson, of Laurel county, told me he wanted to kill Senator Goebel. Johnson told me he could kill him with nitroglycerin. Continuing, witness said: "I laughed at him for making so foolish a statement. I told him he would get him self hung if he attempted anything of the sort. Henry Youtsey also showed me some steel bullets, which he said contained smokeless powder. He said they were procured for the purpose of killing Goebel. I told Youtsey that this would not do. I thought he had abandoned the idea. I told Governor Taylor about Youtsey's actions and what he had to tell me. Ex-Governor Bradley told me he had heard Goebel was to be killed. He said: 'By God, it must not be done.' "Three hours after the assassination I met Jim Howard in the State House yard. Howard's conversation convinced me he was implicated. I told him I heard the shot was fired from the Secretary of State's office. Howard pointed to a window where a piece of paper was pasted over a hole. He also showed me some bullets and revolver cartridges, and when I asked him what he meant he replied: 'Don't ask any more foolish questions.' "A few days after the assassination Youtsey came to me and said he was afraid of being implicated, as he was in the executive building at the time the shot was fired. I was called into the executive office several days later by Governor Taylor. He told me that if Youtsey remained in the State he would get into trouble and would bring others into it. He wanted me to go to Youtsey and make him a proposition to leave the State. I told him I did not think he would do it, but would think over it. He told me to tell Youtsey he would give him enough money to take him wherever he wanted to go." First Prostration From Heat Pittsburgh, Pa., special: Tuesday was the hottest May day since 1897, the thermometer reaching 34 degrees. Much suffering resulted and one man, Charles Malukiewicz, a pipefeeder in Carnegie's Thirty-third street mill, was prostrated by the heat and died shortly after reaching the hospital. St. Louis Street Car Strike A general strike of the employees of the St. Louis Transit Company was inaugurated at daybreak Tuesday. The strike practically involves the entire street car service of the city. About 3,400 men left their places. There was a great deal of rioting and a number of people were hurt. Ex-Secretary Endicott Dead. Boston special: William Crowninsheldh Endicott, Secretary of War under President Cleveland's first administration, died at his residence in this city Sunday afternoon, of pneumonia, aged seventy-three years. Is Prepared to do all kinds of Job Printing on short notice? 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We will not pay for any matter, however, untess it is or- dered by us. Allmatter intended for pubtica- ‘ton must reach thie office not tater than Wed= meaday of each week to insure insertion 4m the current iceue. » ADVERTISING RATES Witt be furnished on Application. Entered at the Postoffice as second-class matter, Alt eters, Communications ant Business aiattere shouid be addressed to ‘SHE RECORDER, 12 W New¥ «tcstreet. Geo. P. STEWART Publisher SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900 EDITORIAL COUNTY TICKET. For Proseeutor—John C. Ruckles haus. For Treasurer—Armin C. Koehne For Sheriff—Eugene Sauloy. For Commissioner, First District— John McGaughey. For Commiesioner, Third District— ‘Thomas Spafford. For County Assessor—Marion Eaton For Coroner—Dr, Alembert W. Bray ton. For Surveyor--James Nelson. oo aoe “The only dark spot on this record of the nation’s progress fs our fall- ure in the carrying trade upon the high seas. This record must, and will be improved. Political considerations compel a, solution of the shipping question. Our people, our law makers, ‘our Presklent, appreciate that our in- dustrial independence will not be es tablished, our geographical _ possibili ties will not be realized, our national aspirations will not be satisfied until ‘we can record as signal successes, in the most highly organized line of mod- ern activity, international navigation, as in agricultnre, manufaetures and transportation within our own con- fines.” ‘Thus spoke Secretary Gage in a re- cent address before a commerical body in Chicago. In the center of a picture of progress and prosperity almost fabulous and incredible in character Js to be found one bad blemish, that of the decadence of the American merchant marine from carrying $2 per cent. of American commerce in 1800 to carrying less than 9 per cent. in 1900, It is this way the crab pro- gresses—backward. In the matter of marine policies and practices it ‘would seem that we are a nation of crabs, or, as the current slang of the day would put it, a community of “lobsters.” We have done worse than stand still and do nothing; we have retrograded and lost ground. For lack of effective laws to protect the shipping industry equally with other American industries we have allowed almost the entire volume of our car- rying trade to pass into the hands of foreigners, and it is foreign, not American ships that now transport 92 per cent. of our oversea freights. It is, indeed, a “dark spot” on an other- wise bright and splendid picture of national advancement. Congress has the power to wipe off this blemish, and the people expect that it will be done without delay. Where Charity Begins. Charity ought to begin at home if it begins anywhere. But it is a long sight better not to have any call for charity to begin at all. The better way is for every one to have plenty of work at good wages, and so be able to.pay for everything needed. ‘This is the way it has been with the Ameri ean people ever since the enactment of the Dingley law started up the fires in the factories of the country and gave to every man who wants it a chance to work. ‘There has been very little need for charity. The old charity doling days and ‘free soup houses have gone. ‘The doctrine of Republicanism is “not to begin at home, or anywhere, with charity, but to begin at home. with the providing ‘of work for those who want ft, to see to It that the American people are not robbed of their chance to work, and that the American market is not giv- en over to the products ef foreign Ia- bor, but is'made secure as the ‘market for American products. In this. way ‘there is an end put to.all need for the Destowal of ‘charity on any one who 4s able and willing to work. ‘Time to Be a Republican. That tireless wanderer, William Jennings Bryan, while recently en route to ‘the enemy's country,” stopped off at Cincinnati and made a few of those passing observations which four years’ reiteration have not rendered unserviceable to him, even if they are somewhat hack- neyed and out of place. Among other things, he remarked that the time had come when no farmer or laborer could afford to be a Republican, and he proceeded to talk 1896 calamity, unmindful of the fact that he was in the midst of 1900 prosperity. What is tligre in this year of grace which would induce the reasonable farmer or laborer to abandon the Re- publican party for anything in the nature of reform or improvement rep- resented by Mr. Bryan? What dread- ful conditions exist now whielt war- rant the thoughtful farmer of labor er in attaching himself to Mr. Bry- an’s cause, when he could not see his way clear to do it in 1896? If, in the midst of the hard times of four years ago, which Mr. Bryan pictured 0 graphically and demagogically, the fair-minded farmer and laborer could afford to remain a Republican, what direful calamity has fallen upon us which renders it impossible for that farmer or laborer to continue loyal to that party? In spite of distressing conditions in some parts of the country, and not- ‘withstanding Mr. Bryan's miserable appeals to forsake order, good gov- ernment and national honesty, the American people in 1896 were true to themselves, dnd Bryanism was repu- diated for all time. The: people spoke and the effect was noticeable almost immediately. Public feeling was at once raised from the low state into which it had been plunged by the de- moralizing utterances of the cheap fellow set up as a leader, and, with the approval of honest policies by the American electorate, the people emerged from the darkness into which the viclous element of Democ- racy was leading them. From that time the country has ad- vanced morally, intellectually and materially. Our good name before the world was preserved; our apprecia- tion of the sanctity of obligations, national and private, was applauded; our determination to maintain the dignity of the law and its tribunals raised us in the estimation of men everywhere, and with the mischievous Bryan doctrines rejected and the era of unrest placed behind us, the peo- ple were free to take up confidently the work which a promising future offered, ‘The results are history. Better times set in, and there was a revival in industry om every hand. The idle found work. Mills and factories were reopened. Wages were raised. The de mand for manufactured products in- creased. New enterprises were pro- jected and established, and through: out all the Country there has been an era of peace and plenty such as has not been recorded since the time when Grover Cleveland was elected President in 1892. ‘The farmers were among the first to be benefited by the changed conditions, and since that blessed day in November which wit- nessed the downfall of the new Dem- ocracy and its Chicago platform the farmers have had substantial pros. perity, paid’ off thelr mortgages. ami lived in greater contentment than ev ler before. Juggling With Figures. The circumstance that Lancaster County, Pennsyvania, with an area of 1,000 square ules, has a population of 150,000 inhabitants, has twenty-six na- tional banks with a capital stock of $3,050,000, and a note circulation of $1,087,430, while the States of North Carolina, Sout Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama Mississipp! and Ar: kansas average only nineteen banks each, with $2,208,571 of capital and £596,171 of notes, is cited to show the iniquity of the Tariff as a means cf impoverishment for the South. Of course thore who have watched closely the progress of the country since the Civil War will not be misled by such clap-trap, which impresses only the unthinking. As has been demonstrated again and again, no other section of the country has made such gain as the South. That the transition from the old order to the new, from slavery to free labor, should have been accompanied by unfavorable factors was inevitable. But this transition also became the logical precursor of the change from agriculture to tndustrialism which {is now going on, Protection sentiment is cropping out in all the Southern States which have been benefited by the erection of factories and smelting works, Evi- dently the people there have aban- doned the view that Tariffs are bane- ful and redoun/ solely to the advan- ‘tage of the North. The industrial growth of the South is puzzling to those statesmen who have always opposed the ational pol- icies which have made this growth possible. In time the people in Dixie Will learn to appreciate the principles upon which their industrial prosperi- ty is to rest—Peoria (IIL) Journal. A United States senator has sent us fa request to petition bim to smash the tariff, We don’t want the tariff smashed. The tariff is all right. It’s the biggest industry builder and pros- perity prodacer on the Western conti- nent. There are not enough industries in Sheffield yet—Sheflield Exchange, Col. Willie Jenkins Bryan is still gunning for an issue which, will stick in the coming campaign. “The coon which once remarked to Davy Crock- ett, “Don’t shoot; I'll come down,” bas not yet put im appearance.—Phoe THE RECORDER; INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA sane ecaedeae Ms Rg ogg ym 5 __ There is no industry the develop. ment of which illustrates the benefits of the Protective policy more than that of the :nanufacture of paper, Ey- ery editor in the country. must recog. nize the fact that with development in manufacturing prices hate gradu- ally decreased. At the same time the United States has become the great- est paper manufacturing nation in the world. Recently, however, a prop- osition has been introduced into Con- gress, by"a Free-Trade Congressman, to place newspaper and pulp upon the free list. It is hut natural that there should be some following to this prop- osition, both on account of the minor- ity Free-Trade element in Congress and the ignorance of a large portion of the said minority. There are, how- ever, some fucts in this connection that are worthy of serious consider- ation,” On account of the great production of spruce in Canada aml the neyer- falling water supply, Canada with Free-Trade wovld become the paper producing uation, and our Industry, comprising xlmost one — thousand mills, would have to elther go out of business or move to Canada. The au- thor of the hill to place newspaper and pulp on the free list probably did not know that the duty upon paper from the United States to Canada is 25 per cent., and that our duty upon paper coming from Canada is equiva- lent to 15 per cent. He also probably did not know that in certain prov- inees in Canada an internal tax, known as a “stumpage tax,” is placed upon spruce, which amounts to $1.00 per ton of nulp or per cord of wood exported to the United States. Free. Trade in important papers, the Cana dian “stumpage” tax upon spruce, and the duty upon paper going into Canada would result in the absolute transfer of the paper industry to Car ada, thus building up the most gigan- tie monopoly of paper ever known. An increase in cost of paper to the consumer would follow as a matter of course. In view of these facts, which are so well understood by the greatest consumers of the product in this countryg!t seems astonishing that this industry should be singled out for slaughter. It Is safe to say, how- ever, that the bill introduced for the abolition of duty on newspaper and pulp will never Jeave the Ways and Means Comuittee of the present Con- atoms. Unanswerable. ’ “The excess of exports \over imports for three years of President MeKin- ley’s administration has Epa: 1897, $286,263,144; 1898, $615,431,676; 1899, $520,874,813. ‘That the United States sold far more than a Dillion dollars’ worth of products more than it bought during this period, despite the fact, that. a state of war existed during the great- er part of It,'is an unanswerable a- gument in favor of the Republican rule. During the last two years, under a wise and careful Republican adiin- istration, the people of the United States have sold more goods abroad than under any three years of Dem- ocratic administration, i During the past two years the ¢x- cess of the sales made by the people of the United States in foreign’ mtr kets over their purchases in foreign markets, over one billion of dollars, has been greater than in twenty years of Democratic administration. > During the past two years the peo- ple of the United States have sold In excess of their purchases in the mar- kets of the world five hundred mil lions more than the entire excess over imports during the eight years that Cleveland was President. Why They Gave In. “Work being brisk at present, the employers soon gaye in.” Such was the outcome of a demand by the Up holsterers’ Union*of New York for an increase of wages of 35 per ceut. on special work. “Work being brisk,” the employers could better afford ,to grant the increase than to close thelr shops, and the upholsterers profited accordingly. Had the same demand been made four years ago, when the industries of the country were stag. gering from the direful effects of leg. islation on Free-Trade lines, _ there would have been a vastly different ending to the story. Then the recital would have been: “Work being scare¢ at present, the workmen soon gave in.” ‘The value to! American labor 6f con: ditions similar to those which enabled the New York upbolsterers to obtain an advance of 25 and 50 per cent. in wages has been many times demon- strated since we stopped tinkering ‘Tar- {ffs for the purpose of increasing our foreign trade—that is, for the purpose of enabling foreigners to increase their sales to the United States. “Work being brisk” makes all the difference In the world to the man who orks. Wm, Hudelson of Mt. Vernon tells ‘us of a prosperity item that is a good one, As agent of the T. J. Moss Tie Company he has just ordered 150 empty cars for one shipment of ties to Chicago from points on the C. & ©. L Railroad, between Marion and Carter City. We doubt if this many tles were shipped on any one road during the whole four years of Cleve. land's administration—Benton {IL Republican. ‘The present prosperity of the coun. try has caused no relaxation of ef. forts on the part of the Republican administration and Congress to in. erease our prosperity and to provide for its continuance. The people know by experience that they can, always expect prosperity from the Repubii- can party.—Sonora (Cal) Indepencd. = : 3S ~s ~ = 3S = ay 3 = A Week's Happenings in Religious Circles = ULAR ee ee ¢ reports an enjoyable and beneficial|4ren membership, with secret Order: A trip: isa piece of silly nonsense and foolish, FA Grand rally Sunday. Preaching 8|N€88- Butlet us see; let us discuss th times by Rey. John Frank of Louis-|question. In offering an apology {o; ax) ville. The several clubs will make|Your place inthe Grand United Order q Ie aif good reports of their labor. of Odd Fellows I would say to the skep. = ane — 1) Our sick'are convalescing. tical children are not children in the ars rea S| Baptizing after Sunday morning ser-|!4 way any more. Conditions are mia a Ea vices by the pastor, changing. The methods and formsof Fi B] LL (H} sake, Cantata robearsal Monday uight,- |80¢ialeconomy are developing ideas Pee@re bar and thought in children’s age that re =M HE} SEES! S| quires something to do; that require, “aL GGG A Masterful Sermon executive action; that requires cme . M. Be CI s eiaieed Voncioc cs degree of independence; th ff (Corner Vermont and Toledo Sts} OST Ree the Stalot dexpoantvint. oe ev CWE NGG: tle. If you are to the Grand United] trainiog in the artof managan tev. C. W. Newton, pastor, =| oraer of Fellows what the Patriarchs| ope eee Management; that CLASS DUES. Class No. 1,°H, ©. Milliken leader eollection $2.00 No. 2, Wm, Abstome leader; colle- tion $1.25, No. 8, D. M. Black; collection $2.00 No. 4, H. Canter, leader; ¢oltection No, 5, John Sanders, leader; collec- tion 81.00. No. 6, H. L, Sanders, leader; colles- tion —— No.7, Dr. 8. A, Elbert, leader; col- lection $2 00, No, 8, John L. Dawson, leader; col- leetion $0.35. No. 9, John Carter, leader; collection $1.20 No. 10, Mr. Beard leader, collec- tion —— No. 11, Chas. Grant leader; collec "ion £0.30. , No, 12, 5, P, Hoy, leader; collection $0.70 No, 18, Eimer Donald, leader; colles- tion 80.60 No. 14, Wm. Parks, leader, collec jon 80.50. Subjects tor Sunday: morning 10.30, “The crumbs from the master’s table;” evening 7:45, ‘the leper wor. shiping at the feet of Jesus,” ‘9th Presbyterian Church Michigan st., bet. Capitol avenue | and Illinois st _ The Rev. J. E. Harper, of Cincia- nati, will preach Sunday, May 20, ‘both morning and evening. Every- ‘body is cordially invited-to be present. ‘Sunday school at 2:30 p m, Prof. W. 'T. B, Williams, superintendent _ CORINTAIAN BAPTIST CHURCH | Corner North and Spring Streata, | Rey. Blackshear has returned home after an extended visit in the East. He eee et nee reports an enjoyable and beneficial trip: Grand rally Sunday. Preaching 8 times by Rev. John Frank of Louis- ville. The several clubs will make good reports of their labor. Our sick are conyalescing. Baptizing after Sunday morning ser- vices by the pastor, Cantata rebearsal Monday night. A Masterful Sermon les dtuaad tea tle. If you are to the Grand United Order of Fellows what the Patriarchs were to the old worid, Odd Fellowship will sit upon the circle of the brightest light, that has ever blessed mankind through the means human agency. And now children a kind word of complement, encouragement, and pleasaat congratulation to you. Your department is the juvenile branch of the order. Your admission into the order makes Odd Fellowship a complete institution, You are to the Odd Fellow ship what the little finger is to the hand. The heart and the hand go to- gether in great purposes. With yon we have a prettier, a stronger and bet- ter hand to lift up to the world, The Odd Fellows heart. Children in all pictures of Odd Fellowship: you will see an open hand extended upward. In the palm of that hand isa human heart, That means that we will help each other, and our fellow men just as freely as we take a drink of wrter. ‘That heart aid hand means that an Odd Fellow must be of good and sin- ‘cere that he will not deceive his broth- er, nor anybody else. Phat heart and hand sayI am true. The world may ‘trust me, Children don’t you know ‘that if that band had only four fingers it would look ugly. Don’t you know if the little finger was left off that hand, it would be a crippled hand, People would not admire the picture, and the great moral lesson in that Odd Fellow hand and heart would be lost in the scorn of ridicule that people have for everthiog that isugly, You ure our little finger. The suborsinate lodge is the next finger, the Houseboid of Ruth is your middle finger; the Past Grand Masters’ Council, is your index finger the thumb is the most venerable pa- triarchie. I never want too sec an- other finger added to hand of Odd Fel- low fraternity. More than five fiagers on one hand makes adetormity. You have added to the rich jewels that im- mortalizes Odd Fellowship. Our first three priceless jewels are Friendship, Love and, Trath. ‘Then came the Household of Ruth and placed into the golden casket of moral wealth, the glittering gems of Peace, Happiness and Prosperity. And now you come bearing upon your juvenile banner, the sweet pearls of Innocence, Virtue and Obedience. With you dear children the Grand United Order of Odd Fel- lows has reached a triump that revolu- tionize Odd Fellow world. Modern Odd Fellowship is now the blessed heri- tage of the whole family, ‘The father, mother and the children, Children in taking you into our order Odd Fellow- ship has anorned itself with the most interesting, the sweetes and most bean- tiful class among the different stages ofhumanity. You are the sweet mora- ing of life, where the sun never passes into evening. Sometimes the little clouds come but the sun never goes away, The strain of responsibilities never wears the furrows in your smil- ing faces.’ ‘The great scars of car nev- er spoil the roses on your fresh brows: Your hearts are notes of joy, singing out nature’s sweet music from the sim- ple scale of childhood life. A large majority of people have never thought the children were intended or capable for anything but to eat and play, go errands and go to school. They have never thought of advancing childhood mind by clothing it with dignity of the independence of restricted tastes. Childhood mind is the world’s realm of surprises. Here the world’s genius has been startled, here the world is contin- wally being captured unsuspectedly and their only defense is the plea that Inever thought be or she could do so ‘well, I tell you the girls and boys rake the grown people ashamed some- times- Your essays. yourdeclamations and other duties display in yon unex- pected and surprising [judgment. Childhood and youth have in them the unfinished qualities of realiability. Moved by these observations, the Grand United order of Odd Fellows felt it our duty to have a department for the benefit of our children. And four years ago the plan went into op- eration. We have thus far had no oc. : | ) . ) ) . , ) : ) ; } ! ) : : dren membership, with secret Orders isa piece of silly nonsense and foolish. ness. Butlet us see; let us discuss the question. In offering an apology for your place in the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Iwould say to the skep. tical children are not children in the old way any more. Conditions are changing. ‘The methods and forms ot socialeconomy are developing ideas, and thought in children’s age that re. quires something to do; that requires executive action; that requires some degree of independence; that requires the trial of responsibility; that requires trainiog in the art of management; that Fequires the stimulation and vitality of competive pride; that require disci. pline and the early experience of the yalue and necessity of co-operative power, Thisis the latest moral ang mental premises taken on the phloso- phy of the great and broad problem of the mental realm of childhood and youth. Since we accept these ad vanced views the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows its. phitanthrophy; stepped apace the modern require. ments of human advancement and brought the children into the psle of our great order. And now lodge, councils, Households Partiarchs and juvenile, look at Jseus, Thave called your attention to every. thing but Christ. Christ is ail, You called me here today to preach your annual Thanksgiving sermon, Whoever heard of a sermon without Jesus in it? In these annual lodge sermons we are, compelled to speak of so manny things that we do not have much time to get Jesusin. But Iam geing to get Jesus in today if | have toleave somethicg else out, We try to tell how grand, how great, and good our orders are, but let me tell you there is not anything .yery much without Jesusin it. I elaim that allof these secret orders that claim to teach re- ligious principles, and who clain tobe founded upon the Bible, ought to hold revivals just the same as the church does, or close up during revivals sea- son and bring their unconverted men- bers to church that they may get Christ in then, Let me show you how much it adds when you take Christ in, Paul the great apostle of God; Paul the inspired writer of God. Paul the champion expounder of the doctrine and principles of Christ says,: 1 Cor, i-xxx, “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God has made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, sanctifica- tion, and redemption.” Members be true Christians. Get these fundamen- tal qualities in the miake up of your lives and of them will come a Friend- ship, Love and ‘Truth, that will kindle a fire upon our altars that will make the Grand United Order of Odd Fel. lows, the brightest light among all the great fraternal powers whose rays are piercing the dark billow on the mighty deep of life’s tempestuous ocean, Dear sisters of the Houschold of Ruth let your homes be. heavenly em- pires, built upon spiritual pillars of wisdom and righteousness and sanct- fications and redemption and in the family circle of their dominions will bloom the eternal flowers of Peace, Happiness and Prosperity, ‘The riches of whose perfurme will spread the breath of heaven every" where. And vice and sin like vapor béfore the sun on a summer morning, will disappear, Juveniles put into the firmament of your life the beantiful staes of Wisdom and Righteousness, and Sanctification and Redemption. And wherever you goupon: the high way of life, collee- tively or individually like tapers cat ried in the sinless hands of angels. Your beautiful principles of Innocence, Virtue and Obedience will tight the worid around up into the plains of day; and the sunlight of God's great and precarious love. ‘When the kingdom of God, upon the fiery wheels of spiritual Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption, moves through the world of Odd Fellowship with Christ on the throne, then it will measure to the lim it of every good answer. If-wesay liberty, it is this; if we say generosity, it is this; if we say comfort it is this; if we say nelp, itis this; if ¥e say moral, mental or social elevation, it is this; if we say human progress, it is this; if we say mercy and justice, it is this; if we say encouragement 1 noble and useful achievements, it this; if we say Peace on earth and goot THE WORLD IS BECINNING 7? REALIZE the Value of HOYT'S POISON” EDBLOODCURE, Geo. C. Morrison, Drif gist South and Eaat Sts, sold $110.00 worth © HOYT'S POISCNED BLOOD CURE, in sprit Omly $9, worth of all other blood remedite comdined, ‘This is brought about by ane clits ak tin wakicind. *OUR CORRESPONDENTS,* News, Incidents, Social * and * Personal Activities Jeffersonville Items. The funeral of Mrs. Nannie Miller took place at the family residence in Ohio street, last Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Rollins of. Wesley Chapel, will have his quarterly meeting Sunday. Mrs. J. L. Thomas spent last Sunday in Charlestown as the guest of Mrs. Smith. The Order of Good Saritans held its annual sermon at the Indiana ave. Baptist church Sunday which was preached by Rev. Dorsey of New Albany. The members of Silver Star Temple held a fair at their hall which was quite successful. Rev. McCray preached at Wesley Chapel Sunday morning. The funeral of the infant son of James Wilcoxson will held at the Illinois ave. Baptist church. Mrs. Frankie White who has been ill for quite a while is now improving. Miss Lucy McClain is quite sick at her home in Indiana ave. Seymour Sights. Excellent services at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Preaching by Rev. Jesse Hill and Rev. C. D. Lamb. A. Colbert and Miss Hicks of Iniapapolis, were the guests of Rev. Mrs. Allen Sunday. The Get-a-way club will give a good entertainment Tuesday night, Aunt Susan Coleman is very ill at her home south of the city. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church on the 20. Rev. E. L. Allen went to Shelby. ville last Sunday where he preached the Odd Fellows annual sermon Sunday evening. Mrs. Anna Litsey of North Verton, in the city Sity visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Ferman. Benton Harbor, Mich., Notes Mr. and Mrs. Wall Mitchell have returned from Mississippi where had charge of a hotel. They will spend the summer in this city. Mrs. Etta Mason has gone to Niles to visit her parents. Sacremental service was held at the Second Baptist church last Sunday afternoon. Carl Moore has returned from Chicago and reports having a good time. C. A. Bragg has begun his new house on Cenler st. The Boone Brothers have added another bath tub to the Wheaton barbershop also remodeled their shining parlors. Rev Saunders will hold his 3rd quarterly meeting next Sunday at the A. M. E. church. Jerry Moore has accepted a position at Warsaw, Ind. W. N. Brown of St. Joe is improving slowly. Mitchell Items. Albert Wilson of Bedford was in the city Monday. W. P. Henson of Bloomington, is visiting his family. Mrs. Julia Campbell and children of Bedford, were visiting her mother last week. Messrs Archie Goode of North Vernon, and Oscar Bonds, of Paoli, were in the city Sunday. Mrs. Burton and daughter, Mrs. Robert Pierce and Miss Debby Goode of Orleans, were in the city last Sunday. Miss Sallis Terrell of Bedford, was in the city last week visiting her parents. --- Rev. Terrell preached excellent sermons Sunday and evening at the Baptist church. There was baptizing in the morning at 11 o'clock and communion at 3 p.m. Collection $9.10. Charles Duncan and Alfred Jones and family were the guests of Mrs. Solomon Lewis last Sunday. Jas Lewis was at Bedford last Monday. Marion Flashes Sunday the Missineway lodge, No. 2104; P. G. M., 124; House hold of Ruth, 534; M. V. P., 77, and Juvenile Order, 78, formed a their hall and marched to the 5th street A. M.E. church with banners hoisted at half ma-t in honor of their dead members. At the church was a large audience and at 3 p.m. the piano with Miss Minnie Young presiding, announced the coming with a beautiful march. On entering the lodge sang: "And are we yet alive." Rev. C. W. Carr, led in a fervent prayer and Rev. C. W. Mossell read scripture 133 Psalms. After responsive reading the master of ceremonies J. M. Nichols, introduced the speaker, Rev. T. A. Edwards of Franklin, who delivered an able discourse and an earnest appeal to seek the Lord. After the sermon collection was taken up by the Orders, $16 50. And a collection by the congregation $6.50 was taken up and divided between the two churches this closed with memoral services of the deceased members which was impressing. Visiting friends Wm. Ferguson and wife of Wabash, Frank Moss, of Peru; Mrs Burnett, of Fairmount; Jane Linsey of Peru; John H. Weaver. and wife of Weaver. Elza West and wife of Detroit, Mich., are visiting Mr. and Mrs S. Holladay. Mrs. Richard West gave her husband a surprise on his birthday. Light refreshmenes were served. Mrs. Holladay left on the 7 to visit her father in Cloma, Mich. Quarterly meeting Sunday. P. E. expected to be present. Rev, C. W. Mossell reports a delightful trip and has many good things to say of the convention. The old maids' convention was of the funniest ever given. Read the Recorder and keep posted on what our people are doing. A reception was given John Johnson, 916 S. Galitan st., by his wife and relatives. Anderson Dots. The H. and F. M Society of Second Baptist church will meet at Mrs. Jennie Gowl Thursday afternoon in Park ave. Allen Chapel church gave a May fair which opened on the 8th and continued four nights. Mr. John Dunn spent Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Misses Bessie Siler, Norman Fouce, Ida Watkins, Alice Davis, Sallie Harris, and Thomas Reynolds, Robert Daniels, Emanuel Edlin, Will Mallory, Joe Watkins and Messrs. Joe Richardson, Steaples and wives spent last Sunday in Muncie attending the Odd Fellows Thankgiving services. Mr. Taylor of Corydon is working the city. Mr. Al Hester of Alexandria spent Sunday as the guest of Mr. and Mrs Raglan THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Fowler Notes Misses Minnie Burley and Zoe Hatton went to Lafayette Sunday. Joe Johnson of Swanington, removed to the city this week. James Pool and Will Wilson have gone to Judyville. Jame Wilson has resigned the janitorship of the M. E. church. Kalamazoo, Mich. James Clark of Columbus, O., returnee home Wednesday after visiting his sister, Mrs. James Bowlen. A grand literary and musical festival at the Second Baptist church Wednesday evening of the 16. Solos by Miss Florence Brown. Mrs. Bessie Woodford and A. N. Delong; a drama will be presented by five of the most talented young ladies. W. T. Lewis prepares the program. Mrs. Gilmer and Joseph Philips and Miss Parthenia Lewis are improving. Mrs. L. Gilman and Joseph Phillips and Mrs. L. Cousin is still very sick. W. T. Lewis elocutionist, read before the young people's society of the Second Reform church last Wednesday evening in the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. The Household was very nicely entertained Sunday at Battle Creek Mrs. John Poole has returned to her home at Doar. Connersville Sayings Mrs. Mollie Smith is on the sick list, Mrs. Mary E. Wilson will preach at the Mt. Zion Baptist church tonight. The entertainment and concert at Mt Zion church Monday was a success. Joseph Beard and Miss Clara Collina were united with the A. M. E, church last Tuesday evening. Dublin News The funeral of Mrs. Nancy Knox occurred at the Methodist church Sunday morning. Rev. R. D. Jones of Greenfield officiating. She was 55 years of age. John Knox, Mrs. Julia Henderson, Indianapolis; Omer Knox and wife, Muncie; Madison Knox and wife, Marion, and Mrs. Retta Curry of Greenfield attended the funeral. On the sick list: Mesdames C. Milton, R. M. Roberts and Wm. Isham. Edward Isham of Anderson. is visitin his father. Quite a number of strangers were in the city Sunday. Logansport Items. G. C. King, D. G. S. of Ind G. U. O. O. F. has returned from Bloomington where he had been taking a part in the anniversary exercises and making arrangements preparatory to the sitting Dist Grand Lodge, in August. Mr. Lilliard of Lafayette was in city last Sunday. Mr. Marshall has accepted a position at C. S. Jones. Mrs. Myers of Chicago is in the city. A. R. Taylor of Wabash has accepted a chair at the Alcazaar. Mr. Mitchem of Peru made his usual Sunday trip to this city. Fred Malone has purchased a Turkish bath tub for his shop. Messrs. S. L. Harris of Rockville, and T. B. Keis of Kokomo, have accepted positions there. Tom Asworth has taken the third work at the Murdock. Ohmer Jones has gone to Kokomo to charge of the Clinton as chef. George Parker was out of the city last week and the Recorder's agent would like to know where. Mrs. Bardary Taylor passed through the city Monday en route to her home in Marsnall, Mich., while here she was the guest of Mrs. W. P. Winslow. Mr. and Mrs. George Stone have returned from their wedding trip and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Janes. A May fair was held at the A. M. E. church last week. It was a success. Miss Elmer Russell was in Monticello last week. Miss Mary McClelland of La port is in the city as the guest of Miss Mabel Parker. Hanover Pickings. Quite a number from here attended the Odd Fellows' serman at Madison Sunday. Mr. Guy Harris of Madison spent Sunday with his mother Mrs. Susan Boiden. Rev. Scott Ward of Madison will preach at Grayville Sunday morning. Mrs. Nora Baker spent Sunday with her cousin, Mrs. Kate Clark at Madison. Sunday will be quarterly meeting at the Methodist church. Charlestown Musings. Last Sunday was gala day for the Odd Fellows and the community. To a crowded to overflowing audience a program of songs, recitations and scripture reading was after which Rev. William Kelly preached the sermon from $v_{1}-x_{2}$ Cor. The sermon was a masterpiece in subject, matter and delivery, many visitors from Jeffersonville and Watson were present. The financial report showed Plain Dealing lodge, No 1630, as one of the most prosperous lodges in the State. Quarterly meeting at the Methodist church will held the third Sunday. Shelbyville Notes. Mrs, Pearl Curry left for Rushville Monday. John Curtis of Muncie, was the guest of friends and relatives in Maplewood last week. Henry Davis of Rising Sun, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Stafford of Walkarville. Miss Stella Johnson who has been visiting at Indianapolis, has returned to her home in this city. Rev. Routte, pastor of the M. E. church, North Vernon, was in the city this week as the guest of Rev. T. R. Fletcher and family. Rev. Routte graduated from Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., last month. We bespeak success in his field. In our city eleciion last week the colored voters were represented in the list of election officers. Orange Dennis, Wm. Dudley and Telless Carter were election sheriffs of the 1, 3 and 4 wards. The Marine band has had great success in their entertainments and are now preparing to purchase new uniforms. The boys have some flattering prospects. The Odd Fellows held their anniversary on last Sunday. It was one of the finest turn outs that has been witnessed by the people of this city. Rushville and Franklin lodges were represented. Headed by the Marine band they formed a line of march to the Second M. E church. Pike st., here an eloquent discourse was delivered by Rev. C. E. Allen of Seymour, who portrayed the history and showed advantages of being a member of the Order. He solved the mysteries as we have never heard it done before. He is an orator of the first class and we shall not be surprised to hear of him in the higher ranks of like. Prof. R. A. Roberts who has been the principal of the colored schools for nine years, resigned in February. this was not made pub- lic, however, until April, as the school board wished to avoid the flood of applications that would have followed. His successor was chosen last Thursday night but his name will be with held until the first week in June. Watch The Recorder for the name. Prof. Roberts will attend school next year. Rev. Jame Holder of Indianapolis preached and able sermon at Second Baptist church last Sunday night. The congregation would like to see him back again, South Bend News Isiah Chandler and son of Dowagaic spent Sunday with friends and relatives in the city. Flint Michner is confined to the house with rheumatism. James Bowen is on the sick list this week. The Household of Ruth gave a rag social Tuesday evening. Howard Clark, being the most ragged person in the house, received a prize. Bert Boyd has opened a boxing school at Mishawauka and will give lessons to all comers. Mrs. Bessie Black of Hancock, Mich., is visiting her parents here. Andrew Price will leave Monday for Indianapolis to attend the G. A. R. encampment and visit friends. A crew of forty people went from here to Niles Sunday to attend the Odd Fellows' annual sermon. Fred Sanders and Anna Franklin were married several weeks ago. They are residing 549 S. Scott st. Ollie and Miss Verna Lee will give a reception on Friday evening in honor of their Sister Helen's return from Roger Willlams college at Memphis, Tenn. Vincennes Doings. The 57th anniversary of the establishment of G. U. O. O. F. in America, was celebrated Sunday afternoon by the Order. An able address was made by Rev. Summers of Lawrenceville. Gurley Brewer, one of the leading Negro orators of the Srate is spending a few days in Vincenness on official business. Abraham Wilson a barber of Franklin, is an able assistant to Frank Wilson on Main street. A baseball club is being organized by the colored boys of this city that promises to eclipse anything in southern Indiana white or colored. Mrs. Mattie Parter of Carlisle, and Miss Mahala Lewis of Sullivan, were called here by the serious illness of their sister. Mrs. Eliza Howell. Thursday night Roy Beard, Frank Cosby, Luther Purier, Henry Morris, Hubert Wilson, Tom Carter were initiated into the Cdd Fellows lodge. Rev. Summers and wife were in the city as the guest of Mrs. Carter Sam Brewer and wife are at home to their friend at 10th and Broadway. Mary Taylor of Cincinnati spent Sunday in the city. Edward Harper of Crawfords ville was home last week visiting his parents. Little Robert Kersey met with a painful accident last Friday. Miss Mabel Brown of Indianapclcs, is visiting Miss Carrie Harper. Elroy Cummings. Misses Emma Harper and Jessie C. Boon spent last Sunday in Chicago. Ernest Taylor of Lebanon, employed at Parkers barbershop. died very suddenly of a hemorrhage of the lungs Saturday morning 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. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months OBITUARY. Mrs. Emily Mallory, aged 59 years 1028 N. Missouri street, died last Sunday morning, after an illness of about ten days with pneumonia. The funeral was held from Simpson chapel, last Tuesday and the interment was in Crown Hill. A daughter and two sons remain. Mr. Thomas Crawford, died at his late residence 712 Roanoke street, Tues day evening. The funeral was held from Jones Tabernacle, Friday after noon. It was conducted by the U. B. F Rev. Newton of Bethel church preached the funeral discourse. Mary A, Fox, aged 20 years, wife of Travat Fox, died Tuesday morning at 607 W. North street, of tuberculosis The last rites and sacrament was ad ministered by Rev. Newton of Bethel. The remains were shipped to Viola, Ill for interment, by Funeral Director C, M.C. Willis. The church has been repaired and services are being held. The pastor preached to a good audience Sunday. The S. M. club will give a grand con cert Tuesday night. A good program has been arranged. The Sylphite club will give their con cert next Friday evening. See the Tom Thumb wedding. The Ministers meeting will be held at the church Monday at 10 30 a. m. ALLEN+CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH (Broadway, between Tenth & Eleventh St.) Rev. A. L. Murray, B. D. - pastor Two accessions last Sunday. Rev. A. L. Murray left last Saturday for Columbus, O., to attend the General conference. Rev. W. H. Taylor of Bloomington, preached two very instructive sermons last Sunday. Mrs. Emma Doke a stewareess is seriously ill. Mrs. Cora Dalton is quite ill. Rev. Taylor returned to Bloomington last Sunday night. James Neal and William Cabell were in Noblesville last Sunday. The K. P. Band assisted by local talent will give a concert jointly with the Steward and Trustee boards, May 17. Mrs. C. C. Townsend wife of our Presiding Elder is improving from her late sickness. Mr. John Kelly assistant pastor left Tuesday for Michigan. Rev. M. V. Saunders of Crawfordsville will preach for us to-morrow. Good for 25c. 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And behold, a woman in the elty, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment. 38, And stood at his feet hebind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them ‘with the hairs of her head, and kissed ‘his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 7 39. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake with- in himself, saying, This man, if he were a.prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman thir is that toucheth him; for she is a sin ner. 40. And Jesus answering said unte him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. 41. ‘There was a certain creditor which had two debtors; the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty, 42, And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? | 43, Simon answered and sald, I sup- ‘pose that he to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. 44. And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon, Seest thou this’ woman? J entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with, tears, and wiped them with-the hairs of her head. 45. Thou gavest me no kiss; but ‘this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 46. My head with ofl thou didst not anoint; but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. | 47. Wherefore'I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little. 48. And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. 49. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sias also? . 50, And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace, LIGHT ON THE TEXT. 36. Sat Down to Meat.—Rather, re- clined on a couch. Instead of sitting at dinner guests in those days reclined on couches, arranged on three sides of a square. Thus their feet were on the outside and easily reached by the woman. 37, Alabaster Box.—“An alabaster,” as we say “a glass.” Alabaster is a kind of gypsum something like mar- ble. The box was rather a flask. Oint- ment.—A costly mixture of oils and perfumes. 41. There Was a Certain Creditor— Wypitying God, to whom we owe obe- dience. Which Had Two Debtors.— ‘Typlfying sinners, who had failed to pay to God the obedience due. ‘The two debts owed were in one sense sin, unfulfilled obligations; but, as the ap- plication of the parable shows, the sense of sinfulness is meant. And this does not depend upon the actual guilt, which only God can measure. The best men, having a higher standard of right, and a more sensitive consctence, hre often more conscious of guilt for their small sins and failures than a bad man is for his crimes, for he has no conception of what he might and pught to have been. Five Hundred Pence.—Highty-five dollars. A penny {s about 17 cents. 42. Frankly.—Freely. 44. Gavest Me No Water—Not a necessary act for all guests, but usual to all who are honored. Note the con- trasts: Water and tears; kiss of greet- ing, kiss upon the feet; common oll, and ointment. Simon did not give even the usual honors; the woman gave the best possible. 47. Gorgiven; for She Loved.—Not forgiven on account of her love; but Simon could know that she was for- given, because she loved much. Little Suepes g, # HOEBIVED «ose: +, Lae eth Little —This is not that the great- est sinner loves most, but the one most realizing and feeling the greatness of sin, The best people have usually the deepest conscioitsness of sin. Golden Text.—Thy faith hath saved thee.—Luke 7:50. SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. Subject: Jesus the Friend of Sinners. Introduetory.—Where was Jesus at this time? What was the general char- acter of his work? In what period of bis ministry was this? I. Two Types of Sinners (vs. 36, 37). —With whom did Jesus dine one day? What was the character of the Phari- sees? (Matt. 23:2-8; Phil. 3:4-6.) Why did the Pharisee desire Jesus to dina with him? Why did Jesus visit with such men? What social lesson do we learn from Jesus’s conduct? Who came tothe feast with the spectators? What attraeted such a person? What warnings and invitations may she have just heard? (Matt. 11:20-30.) What have we learned of Jesus's pow- er to forgive sins? (5:18-24) By which of the two debtors éf v. 41 was she represented? What other par- ables express Jesus’s feelings toward the sinner? (Luke 15.) Il. Two Ways of Treating Jesus (vs. 87, 38, 44-46.)—What was the ar- rangement of the feast tables in thoca One Woman's Wisdom. Station Agent—Do you wish your baggage checked, madam? Lady—Certainly not. I want it to go.—Chicago News. Few College Students Die, ‘The death rate in colleges is extremely low. The strict attention to the physique is given as the reason. Others, as well, may have health and strength. Hostet- ter’s Stomach Bitters is recommended most highly for the blood, nerves and stomach disorders, and tt cures constipa- don, indigestion, dyspepsia, sluggish liver or weak kidneys, Almost every man who shaves off his mustache thinks he looks like Byron or Napoleon. Carter's Ink Is the Best Ink made, but no dearer than the poorest. Has the largest sale of any ink in the world. We are made great or small by our own acts. Piso’s Cure can not be too highly spok- en of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third avenue North, Minneapolis, Minn., Tan. 6, 1900. 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Mra, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for ohildrea {eething.softens the umes reduces infamntion Siaye pain, cures wind colle Sho per bata, ‘The woman who lkes to hear herselt talk ought to buy a phonograph. SEE TO THE WALLS. A Danger in Schoolrooms and How to Prevent It. Owing to the gathering of so many different classes of persons therein, the interior walls of churches, school houses, hospitals, ete., are apt to be- come repositories of disease germs un- less preventive measures are taken. ‘These walls should always be coated with @ clean and pure cement, such as Alabastine, which is disinfectant in its nature and more convenient to re- new and retint than any other wall coating. The first cost 1s no greater than for inferior work, while re- newals are more easily and cheaply made. A successful “bachelor girl” is an un- successful sweetheart, Try Grad! oe; aeuia-Ot Ask your Grocer to-day to show you @ ackage of GRAIN-O. the new food Shink that takes the piace of coffee. ‘The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult, Ali who try it like it GRAIN-O has that rich seal prown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure graing, and the most delicate stomach re- ceives it without distress, % the price of coffee, 15e and 25c per package. Sold by all erocers. Every woman bas her moments of weakness when she really thinks. Ask Your Dealer for Atlen’s Foot-Ease, Bissraes igus 0 your asm Tener the fuel Cares Corns, nous Sellen, re, Bee caiioes acaise: ovscute tore nee ie Pore tala ates ven mates ar mere alent io aaneres Sal choc ctor toe! Satpe Sates Faun, dares Alles & Olamted, Le Hoy, Ne. ie res DearS wate sleep ear fond fae poe To Cure « Cold in One Day Take Laxative Brome Quinine Tablets. All iy ee behets ateatae ing 250. E. W. 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Graln-O is made of pars are and when properly prepared tastes lity the cholce ‘grades of coffee, but cont about 4 ae much, All grocers sell it. tae and 25c. ‘The only way to GE B Women to be aulet is to let her talle Great Fame of a Great Medic Won by Aare nt, Medicine The fame of Hood's Sarsaparilia has been won by the good it has done to those who were suffering from disease, Its cures have excited wonder and ad- miration. It has caused thousands to rejoice in the enjoyment of good health, and it will do you the same good it has done others. It will expel from your blood all impurities; will give you a good appetite and make you strong and vigorous. Indigestion—*Atter sustering six months from indigestion, headache, nervousness and impure blood, I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and when I had taken six bottles 1 was well.” Frank Nolen, Oakland, Il. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is America’s Greatest Medicine, Libbys Peerless Wafer Sliced Dried Beef Try It. pee ere ae oe oa sl Reg. 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Bepartment of fusion, tama, casnse Write vo f, Pedy, Supt, Tamigration, Ot Site api ct ae no GSnspoli, Ind., agent for Goverament of Cauaih i CF pp Cured by « new method of CANCER frettinent, based syn GERM THEORY. , trons tne blood ad tenovates the eatie 538 chee ei pabtientans, hedress, ‘The Bacterolagionl Cancer Cur” 121 Capitol Ave, 3M Indianapuils, 194. ert Tomo tran nara ot Sern HLS Sinaia bok BeAr loan eet, _ ZAISER CATHCART C0. tt sedasagls, ln. The bet hove ia et Seals, Stencils,Rubber Stamps: AGRICUL TURE. SIGNS OF 8PRING. he snow has left the open field a month or more ago, re found the yellow cowslip where ‘the meadow brook runs slow, ‘nd all along the Intervale the blush. ing snowdrop twines; ‘he crows are shy and silent—they're nesting im the pines— gut winter'll maybe come again; ‘you're never sure "twill not il you hear the cuckoo calling In the pasture lot. . squckoo, cuckoo.” softly calling you, own bebind the pasture bars ini the warm day through. Rucsoo. cuckoo,” shy and sleek of pes the low-voiced harbinger iat wakes us sure of spring. No use to look for orioles, they haven't ‘come as yet, Although I've heard a Mnnet and the quail has eried “More wet,” Goo Uncle Zenas ‘Tompkins has been out and planted peas— He “doesn’t think "CML hurt ‘em if we have another freeze; Bot don't you put In corn or beans (fo1 if you do they'll rot) ‘ul you hear the cuckoo ealling in the pasture lot.” ‘vay over in the sernb-oaks you ear hear the partridge drum, ‘the girls are playing hop-seateh and the boys sty “tops have come,” Miss Abigail is making soap—that’s pretty nearly sure nat pleasant weather's right at hand and likely to endure. We're only lacking one more sign— and bark ‘tis on the spot! Don't you hear the cuckoo ealling in the pasture lot? “Cuckoo, cuckoo,” softly ealling you, Down behind the pasture bars All the warm day through. “Cuckoo, cuckoo,” shy and sleek of wing, He's the low-voiced harbinger ‘That makes us sure of spring. —Harper’s Bazar. COWPEAS AS FERTILIZERS. Their Value in Renovating Worn- Out Soils. I find that the growing of cowpeas for the purpose of soil improvement is rapidly gaining favor with progressive farmers. ‘There is no doubt in my nind but that cowpeas and chemicals will be the fertilizers of the future, and this is as it should be, for what is the use of buying nitrogen when we can get it by growing cowpeas and at the seme time add vegetable matter to the soil? As an Mlustration of what peavines will do. toward reclaiming wornout fll and inereasing the production of gin, L. R. Farmer, one of the many jrgressive farmers of Jefferson coun- ty, Georgia, had, in 1895, a field con- fuining 10 acres’ of very poor sandy hind, which he sowed to rye. ‘The yield was 82 bushels from the 10 acres. He planted cowpeas, sown broadcast, ifer the rye, plowed in the vines and fn 1806 again sowed the land to rye. The yield of 1896 was 42 bushels. Fol- towing the same rotation again the field of 1897 was 9244 bushels, and in 18%, 128 bushels. Here was a gain tery year, and considering that there tas no fertilizer used, only that which the peas furnished, I’ consider it a re- narkible gain, If Mr. Farmer had sel 75 pounds of muriate of potash tad 200 pounds of acid phosphate per tere the land would have produced fren better results at a nominal cost. 4s it was, the experiment shows the Yonderful power of the legume in re- Noring the fertility of wornout soils. ‘The Tennessee Experimental Station ys: “As the cowpea is a heavy feed- #, it draws freely on the phosporic fil and potash in the soll. It is nee- fsary, therefore, to supply these fer- Miiing elements’ tn a Mberal ‘manner. Eswelally on thin lands which It is feposed to improve systematically we Uirise the use of 200 to 400 pounds of Teinessee acid phosphate and 50 to 1 pounds of muriate of potash per kn.” The tendeney now with progres- ie farmers is to produce paying fps at the least cost of production, fod this must be the study of every himer. Not how much he can raise Many farm product per acre, but how Geap can he raise It. ‘This is working fe the same prineipte as the successful Rerhant, who, in purchasing his {eck of goods, Intends to make his Fott to some extent in buying, and so ft farmer should endeavor to make tat fo lessening cost of produe- 1 et and read of advice to farmers rit ove the cotton acreage and do Titlowt fertilizers. Some of this ad- toe 2s from high sources, from troy No ought to know better. With 2a, WY used less than the require- tun Nf ate robbing the soll of that fe aaiitllty. Retter reduce the aere- Rut double the fertilizers and tan, "7, SYstematically our poorest flares“? ©owPeaS and chemical fer- an Some change for the better Mois {his country. Farmers are fone 4 experimenting and are fey (htt the best ways of fertiliz- Men tie Aus. ‘The time is coming fej 4 Sut! will be largely inter- fae it eduction of butter and] Hic, all sing cattle tor. beef, | foregut! Seessitate the growing of fe ye ayn, TOPS and there will be use Be pac ttonseed as cattle food, while ML The git, be Feturned to the! ir, Wye cilo Will come with the daity | a rings at make ensilage with cow- © thee {M4 there will be no danger fe ype Tulned in curing for Piety cqai® Belp of stable manure] Wash ang ro! bY the addition of| Me ban or horie acid to balance} Weds Legace 24 with the growing | to furnish the neces-| sary amount of nitrogen and humus to the soil, we can safely say that so far as the cost of plant food ts concerned we have lessened the cost of produe- tion. There has not been much change in the methods of Southern agricultur- ists for the last generation. ‘There is need for radical reform. The South is suffering in many sections with an im- ‘poverished soil, yet susceptible to a better sofl fertility under proper culti- vation and the plant food which na- ture has provided for its use. How to build up these farm lands at the least cost is the study of the future. Let us begin now to improve Instead of fol- lowing the wearing ont process of the past—C. W. Morrell (Georgia) in American Agriculturist. HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON FARM Gardens, Not the Cities, the Place to Seek Wealth. ‘Wealth when it lies about you. In this wonderful age of improvement you must move on in the line of march, or let your next door neighbor dig the jewels from the soil. Many of our young men are not contented with the beautiful old homestead, the green fields, and much that makes one inde- pendent on the farm, but in their anx- iety for gain push out to large cities, or some distant land, where in nine eases out of ten they would have been happier and wealthier men had they put that same life and energy on the farm. The world demands men that will work. The curse of our country to-day is the multitude of idle ones who de- mand not only a living but even luxu- ries thrown in. Nothing in this life is’ gained without hard work. Be careful in choosing an occupation, start right, and the outcome will be frultfulness. If you are interested in your vocation and are industrious, your work, even though hard, will be @ pleasure. Try to Interest your boys in your work. To do this you must encourage them in small beginnings. Stake out one acre of land for your boy for his own use. By this I do not mean the poorest land on your farm, but the very best, and see also to commence with, that it is well enriched. Start them right as the first year’s trial will be apt to decide their future. Put in something that is in demand and that always commands good prices. How many farmers have tirst- class seed corn that will test 95 per cent. when planting time arrives? A fine grade of seed corn that your neighbors know is right in every re- spect will prove a very profitable in- vestment for you. When you have an article to sell, give your customers something that is value received, and your trade is established. The same hints may be applied to all varieties of grain. There is a good income awaiting you at your very doors. Seize this grand opportunity. There is always money to be made in growing early onions for bunching. Try a few of the best bottom sets to start with. They can be planted in rows one inch apart, fourteen inches between the rows, as soon as ground can be worked In the spring. Do not plant any crop until you have first given proper attention to the preparation of your ground. Plow thoroughly and do not leave any dead furrows, unless ground Is apt to over- flow. If such be the case, it is best to back furrow every forty feet, leav- ing dead furrows to carry off surplus water. By continuing this method for two seasons the land will be properly ridged, and will dry off quickly. This treatment applies to low land only. Harrow the ground as soon as practic- able, so as to pulverize all lumps, then plank one or both ways. If ground is not then in fine condition, harrow and plank again. Onions from seed are one of the | most profitable crops that can be planted. They do best in a rich, light, loamy soil and unlike most vegetables, succeed well when cultivated on the same ground for successive years. They may be planted as early in the spring as ground can be worked, al- lowing four pounds per acre. Sow tilnty in drills about one-fourth inen deep, and one foot apart between the rows. When the young plants are strong enough, thin gradually so that they will stand about three inches apart, keeping the surface of the ground open and free from weeds by frequent hoeing; take care not to stir the soll too deeply or to collect it about the growing bulbs. Peas are also money makers, and should be planted the very first day in the spring that the ground can be worked, as a few days make a great difference in your returns. Three or four hundred dollars an acre is often realized on this crop. One of the best early peas is the “Lightning Express” and for a heavy yield and earliness they are hard to beat, as they ripen very evenly and are a sure cropper. The sweetset early pea for family use is the “American Wonder,” or Mc- Lean’s Little Gem, and always com- mands the highest price in the market, but is not as heavy a yielder as the “Lightning Express.” For market use plant in rows three feet part, sowing quite thickly in the row, at a depth of three inches. From one to two bushels of seed are required to plant un acre this way. By a succession of sowings about two weeks apart, fine peas may be had all summer. By glv- ing your best attention to this crop, seeping free from weeds and well cul- ‘vated, you will feel richly repaid. Care should be taken to have your neas picked at the proper time, as cus- omers desire them fresh and tender. see that stock is clean and give good neasure, and cover baskets with rhu- sarb leaves so that stock will present clean and fresh appearance when ftered for sale. By a little such care ind forethought, you will very soon snild up’a reputation for your goods THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA SN of them at the highest market price. When peas have all been marketed plow your land and prepare for a crop ¥ of late cabbages and thus turn your soll to account each day of the season. One of the best late cabbages is the “New Christmas King.” Seed may be sown in May and transplanted to fields last of June of first of July, three to three and one-half feet apart, so as to admit of cultivation with horse cult! vator both ways. This crop needs rieh soil and good cultivation while grow- ing, thereby insuring you a profitable investment. These hints with others that will suggest themselves to you, will we trust crown your labor with =. |The Greatest I What ts know as government white wash and is considered the best that can be made, is made as follows: Take one-half bushel of nice unslaked lime, slake it with boiling water, cover it during the process \to keep in the steam, Stra the lqutd through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it ‘one peck of salt, previously well dis- solved in warm water; three pounds of ‘ground rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred in boiling hot; one-half pound Spanish whiting and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well and then hanging it over a slow fire in a small kettle within a large one filled with water. Add five gallons hot water to the mixture, stir well and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt— Baltimore Sun. ‘ies tete aati matte: ete The acting Vice President of the United States, Hon. W. P. Frye, of Maine, is something of a joker. In Sucess he is described as utterly im- pervious to the allurements of the magazine man: A representative of a leading maga- zine offered “him $400 for an article to be written by him in a reminiscent vein. “isn't enough,” declared the Sena- tor. “How much more?” asked the plead- er. “Twenty thousand dollars.” ‘The magazine editor nearly fainted. “And then,” chuckled the wreteb. “I wouldn't write it.” Still Wouia Save It, Blobbs—Poor Bjones has dyspepsia so badly he says his life isn’t worth living. Slobbs—But Mrs. Bjones says he in- sists upon calling the doctor whenever he has an ache or a pain, all the same. Philadelphia Record. ‘Mysteries of Life. Dibbs—A man ought to know when he’s got enough. ‘Jibbs—Well, I know when I’ve got enough work, but I never know when T've got enough recreation—Chicago Record. The Voice of Envy. ‘Upson—They say Miss Muchcash has rented a flat. Downes (one of the rejected)—Only rented? I heard she’d married him.— Kansas City Independent. Inlustrated Quotation. fd. II Hien = UO Wp See EDN zee" eae (POF GA RNS Hs BELH Man i783. 2: gi i os Cia aa / mele EWA LP cP V7 rs —~ MNS Vip <= MEN SEN mm, Wr We AN we ‘That music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. —Wordsworth, Mrs. Aguinaldo was a Christmas gift to the United States. She and her sister, along with three officers of Aguinaldo’s staff, and the two daugh- ters of Colonel Stiyar were captured FC, 9, , % f a f & ¥ 9 / ss /’ Be / fr y bk fC; \ : Pr Now. 4 7 aS \ere ee ae BS 4/7 “ (2 Wo a . 2 Waco” SENORA AGUINALDO. on Christmas day at Talabin, and the gunboat Wheeling landed them in Ma- nila on January 5. The Senora Aguin- aldo resembles the 10,000 or more na- tives one may see in the streets of Ma- nila, but she wears diamond earrings, her distinguishing characteristic. She is inclined to embonpoint, and her face is the round, fat, dusky, uninteresting face of the average native of Luzon's isle. Her hair is long and black—but all Filipino women have an abundance of hair. Her eyes are large and jus trous. TheGreatestofSpring Medicines y BAD GN UT Na The Greatest Medicine! - The Greatest Seller! eer a SE SES eee GEv., C. MORRISON, Virginia Avenue and South Strevt, Indianapolis SOLD IN MARCH x HOYT’S POISONED BLOOD RE iccsssyasaven valssnvaseepessaneveniocnsscias sah bottles All other blood remedies combined............scccccsscescesseeceecveceeseseee serene 13 bottles: Total.........100 bottles ‘The 87 bottles of HOYT’S POISONED BLOOD CURE sold in March gave such universal satr faction that Mr, Morrison has already SOLD IN APRIL 94 BOTTLES OF THIS MEDICINE, ané only SEVEN OF ALL OTIIERS COMBINED, while H.C. Roffensperger, the druggist right across the street, SELLS FROM THREE TO SIX BOTTLES IN AN EVENING: and J. P, Fritz, two squares: south, SELLS AS MANY AS TEN BOTTLES IN A DAY Eddie, the seven-year old son of Mrs. H, Armstead, 605 “Cincipaati street, was vaccinated February 99 and after- wards broke out in a mass of running sores, and remained so while under the local physician’s treatment. Tis suffering was intense, and the vac- cinated mark failed to heal. He started taking HOYT’S POISONED BLOOD CURE about. August 15 and immediaey grew heathier and stronger ‘To this medicine alone lit- tle Eddie Armstead owes his life, “I suffered untold agony with female weakness, and physicians said an op- eration would have to be performed. I can now do six washings a week atter using HOYT’S BOI ONED BLOOD CURE. I belong to Ames’ church and many ladies’ societies, and never miss an opportunity to recom- mend this valuable medicine,” Mrs. Sheets, 914 Charles street. A clean sweep of all impurities ALL DRUGGISTS here aod Ripaus Tebaies with so mock sat fection that I can cheerfully recommend them. Have deen troubled for about throe youre with ‘what Kcalled ei2tous attacks coming ob regularly ope a week, Was told by different physicians thet it was caused by bad teota, of which I bad seveal I had the tooth extracted, but the at- ‘aris continued. I had seen advertisements of ‘Ripane Tatules in all the papete but had no faith fm theta, but ebout six weeks since a friend fn: ‘duced mie to try them, Have taken Dut two of the (tuall fcont boxes of the Tabules and have had {Bo reourrence of the attacks. Have never given testimonial for anything before, but the great ioean of good which I elie hea been dope me ‘by Ripaue Tabulos induces me to add mine fo the many testimonials you doubtlees have tn your Quumintow, "st. DaWirs. : e RIP-AN'S & _ a ‘3 || The modern stand- @\|ard Family Medi- w|/cine: Cures the £ || commca every-day @ || ill of humanity. a ruoe z “| o ‘Tabules regularly. Bhekeeps afew cartons Ripans | Reading some of the testimonials in favor of Faoutos in the bovae and page thowill notte with. | Ripane Tabuien,Tirled them. Ripans Tables not aut them. The heartburn and aiceplesenees bave | only relieved but aovually cured my youngrter, Gheppeared with the indigestion which was | the headuohee. have Sisppeared, Dowsla age If fcrmery to great Durden for ber. ‘our wicie | good condition and be never complains of BF {italy tte fe Tavulce vepulary,ecbeciliy afer | Stomach, Hols now a rea chubby faced boy. Thi Shhuarty meats By mother le Afty years of age | wondortal change Tateribute to Ripans Pabulaa Sed'senjoyieg the beetot health and spirte;aiso | I'am satiated thst thoy wil nett any one (rom es hecegy sealn, am impoulbilty before abe | fe cradle to old age) if taken acoore'ng to dire: (Cok Ripans Tabalea asros i Baomme. | ous EW. Pace “Anew spl packet ocotaining Ti" APAN® PARCLG packed In paper carton (without yd now fr ale seme Greg over tox PIvr corms. Thi low-priced sort is ntended for the poor and the sceaumiea” Ont ffoma ot the doceat caons (0 tabu cat’ be bad by tall by sending for'y-oght cents te the R2PAne ‘Sattncat Gourust Ne. pete strove Now Tork-or s single carton (Fax P430LR wl be sent for Se ota Sirass tiscrss mayen Dena of was qromrn gener sorehanpers, news goats cad olson ques seret Sedtarber hope Thy banish pin inanen le and ovloma fe. Ona evar ovat Of Saint Douts, Mo., We need uot refer you to people in Europe, Asia,etc., for rccommendation, but can furnish testimonials from reliable persons in yourowncity. . . . We pay Sick accident and Death Benefits Also furnish Free Medical attention in case of Sickness or Accident Beon the safe side and Insure withus. . , - E, B, HAMPTON, Organizer. Roow 43 BAL>wm Brock, Indianapolis, Ind., SE FE | ge ‘ fF =) be eh it ae VS B LN Cea AT eS A’) \ 27 io aaah BEFORE. AFTER Ting of all Hairdressinaa| Ozomo ss. t.snest temedy “OZON0 Money refunded If dissatisfied. 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Twensgotited atzect. follows the use of 5S wand 00 informs you, ta Words of Bighont Profs, ben ave “derived fem Riganssabuiee'Tameg eetoaat nari aad EXthisprofessionsactear Bead i ciwape nesdos Sisene tubule Gone sitrece of my aot feanasactcompiey fon down asting be Elvis of as bs Bowe EPs, @, a Newark Seedy Cty Tock ipsa Soler with Sed reste Tse Boost Wonoaan, motor yan tonbied wih heartburn asd Beepintnce cated oy Imation, for» 920d Teun pears Otel aay eat a toon paper adoring Ripwo bases Etarninad tre tech tts, as grently felleved by thelr use tam sixty years of age, and for a Geo, Gibson, 2016 Hovey street suf- year suffered with headache and nerv-|fered ‘with constipation, whieh pro- Ousness all the time When I: com-|duced seriors nervousness, He was menced to take HOYT’S POISONED | unable to even ride in a buggy, but BLOOD CURE I could not doahalf|is now able to work—the first’ timo day's work, and I shook like an aspen. |since last July—the result of Two bottles made me feel better than | taking HOYT’S POISONED BLOOD Thad for years,” Mre. Sallie Ferguson | CURE. 335 W. 18ih street, —_— — Mrs E. C’cummons, 824 West street, Wm. J. Kennedy, 1902 Holloway |says: “I have suffered with eatarral avenue, had poisoned blood, the result |so long that it left big lu:nps on my of inhaling the airin a glue factory. | head the size of marbles. After tak- Six bottles of HOYT’S “POISONED | ing one bottleof HOYT’S POISONED BLOOD CURE relieved his system of|BLOOD CURE the lumps entirely every particle of the poison disappeared.” Mary Muler, 915 B. St, Clair, says} Mrs, Nancy Hinkle, 533 Patterson “Both of, my ‘little girls suffered for | street, says: “My little girl had in- years with Eczema, Physicians |flamatory rheumatism of the most treated with no benefit, and HOYT’S |severe kind. One bottle of HOYDS POISONED BLOOD CURE cured|POISONED BLOOD CURE did more both cases completely. I am now|to relieve hor than anything else I taking it for Eczema myself.” ever tried.” ‘ Hoyt’s Poisoned Blood Cure “gee kL ca ae eae a ee A Dave Deen @ erent nauerer trom eunsiparen for over five years, Nothing gave ms aay rellet MY fect and logs and abdomen were bloated 90 Toould not wear stioes on my feet aad only a loose drew, ‘Tsaw Hipans Tabules advertised im our ally paper, bought some and took them as direct fed. Have taken thom about threo weeks and there fa such a change! Tam not constipated any more ‘and I owe ft ail to Ripans Tabulos, Zaz thirty oven Fears old, havo mo oocupation, only. ousenold duties and nursing my sick husband He has had the dropey and am trying Ripans Tabules for him. He feels some better but it will take some time, he has been sick so long. oa ‘aay uso my letter and name as you tke, Me, Many Gomes Ccanen, 1X have been suffering from headaches eves stnce I was a little git Icould never ride tn a Roading some of the testimonials in favor of Ripane Tabules, I tried them. Ripans Tabules not only relieved Dut actually cured my youngster, the headaches avo disappeared, bowela age 17 good condition and be never complains of Bi Stomach. He isnow a rea, chubby-feced boy. This ‘wondorfal change Tattribute to Ripans Tebales. Tam eatisted that they will benedt any one (from {the cradle to old age) if taken scoord'ng to direo tions. ‘BW. Paice THE NEW YORK CLIPPER Contains a Reliable . Record Routan Le WORLD OF SPORTS, oe NON AT ae ee? Paar Ags Roa Lump and Crushed fickets can be obtained at the Office of the Indianapolis Gas Ce poe nab otra gctcn eect ‘without getting @ Readatnoand eiseat ay Stomach. T heard about ‘Ripans Tabules from an ‘aunt of mine who was {taking them for oatarra of thestomach. She had found such rellef from ‘hele use shewdvised me totake them too, andi have been doingso sinoe last October, and will say they have complote- ly cured my headaches Tam twenty-nine years ‘old, You are weloome fo tse this testimonial Ma 3.Be orem, My seven year-old boy (suffered with pains i Bis "head, constipation and complained of his ‘omach. He eould not set ike children of his age do and what be id eat aid not agree ‘with him. He wasthin Geo, Gibson, 2016 Hovey street suf- fered ‘with constipation, which pro- duced seriors nervousness, He was unable to even ride in a buggy, but is now able to work—the first. time since last July—the result of taking HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE. Mrs E. C’emmons, 824 West street, says: “I have suffered with catarrab so long that itieft big lumps on my head the size of marbles, After tak- ing one bottleof HOYT’S POISONED BLOOD CURE the lumps entirely disappeared.” Mrs, Nancy Hinkle, 533 Patterson street, says: “My little girl had in- flamatory rheumatism of the most severe kind. One bottle of HOYT'’S POISONED BLOOD CURE did more to rejieve hor than anything else I ever tried.” Curly Hair Made Straight By emis S. Len — Sa Pity) Oxy AES row Lave sevond ND 27808 HREraENT, OZONIZED OX MARROW Tite oRLGINAL—cOPERIONTED ‘a winds hale goad thn. gat oebttat the rete tony gl evnitivtt fo vltaeeatana ana eazeou doenty eieagmara yarn eal eked iia aga Siceetat at oesemcee eran rads cncubeiauecs daPace beat oa Seeicaater te cieeeca laa son witnovery boli, “Salvo cont i ietecv ar seid na Wa ao eoeat at Bre Pout hatha cree paints” PT OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ul. For sale by Lewis ©. Hayes, Drug vist, 502 Indiana ave; Indianapolis, It, bas alee boon claimed for The Enkdags "Peinns Uae Te aoian all probability, pass with the highest Shonceee ie tee te ee Stisad” the" chopuptee of he Uted SS cee eee At ete epel at “Bae Gath dit se a Werte a era et ate ges eae tee et Weasley ane UES Meme Wesalage, of hadi i Aerie peemparcs ctmingriered Sees THE FOLLOWING ARE THE HEADINGS: > Geet td ba en ergs a doinestic, presented attractively, “@ Best wa ‘presentation of “ nical appearanc 28 Ses ase oe “Rade itice netymne, i te ian nrpeen ta We Un atta cate ee eee Sorat pen eee eo Practically all ighalee. inaligont Spee a Behe, list ser echat Nesee ic Calcot eee ieee tie Chicaee Webases ee Ene oe cee et ae ote eae ee ‘The Chieago Tribune prints more ie Saleney Teteene fee eae yaceepeyeeia ha esl A Great Advertising Medium. z 650 YEARS’ — PAGE, EXPERIENCE = ‘Trace Marne: Desicns. Copyric? 1. &c. abyrevonlt gi onion forbear Epcpeun eee anes on det sea opasrparaa, “Scientific American, a earirer memateaeah ore oe entetg air aceite reg, tomes MUNA £.C,201ereaer, New York "Braned Ofie=. 65 ¥ St, Washington, PERSONAL·MENTION Our Women. We are living, daily moving In this grand, yet fearful age: We are acting; our part playing, On this world's mysterious stage. We are planting footprints, deeply On the sandy shores of time, And our acts will be recorded; In the world's historic rhyme. Oh! let every deed committed, Every thought, or word, that's said Be enobling, in its nature; Live to blossom when we're dead. For immortal souls are dwelling, In these human frames of clay; Thus, the need of perfect living; Rightly walking, day by day. Oft, too late, we see our duty, Fail to play the little part Which, by God, it was intended Ere he calls us to depart. Many souls around us stumbling, Falling in the pits of sin, We, by smiles and words of kindness From the deep abyss, may win. So, let every aim be noble; Every thought, the purest be, And our scenes of life, enacted, Will be fit for God to see. Virgie Whitsett. The Best Age For Men To Marry. Edward Bok, writing in the May Ladies Home Journal, on "A Boy for a Husband," contends that no young man under twenty-five years of age is in any sense competent to take unto himself a wife. Before that age he is simply a boy who has absolutely nothing which he can offer to a girl as a safe foundation for life-happiness. He doesn't know himself, let alone knowing a woman. He is full of fancies, and it is his boyish nature to flit from one fancy to another. He is incapable of the affection upon which love is based, because he has not lived long enough to know what the feeling or even the word means. He is full of theories, each one of which, when he comes to put into practice, will fail. He is a boy, pure and simple, passing through that trying period through which every boy must pass before he becomes a man. But that period is not the marrying time. For as his opinions of life are to change, so are his fancies of the girl he esteems as the only girl in the world to make him happy. The man of thirty rarely weds the girl whom he fancied when he was twenty." Telephone (old and new) 561. Note the 250 coupon on page 5. Ollie McCary is in Wawassee, Ind. Will Pierce and Sampon Keeble spent last Sunday in Cincinnati. Mrs. David Primus is the guest of relatives in Counersville. Will Johnson of Pittsburg, Pa., was in the city this week. Isaac Griffin, 1928 Lewis street, is suffering from a dislocated knee Abel Farmer, has recovered from a recent illness of the typhoid fever. Recent illness of the synod level. Bailey Pursley will visit in Pitts- butg, Pa., shortly. Miss Jennie Nelson is recovering after her late illness. The only medicine for Spring tonic- Hoyt's Poisoned Cure Read The Recorder for the news-the paper of the people. Choruses from The Grand Opera's, Ermina and Bohemian Girl at The May Musical at Bethel May 24. Mrs. Mattie Duggar of N. Missouri street, is visiting friends in Peru. Willis Mallory who wrs called from Chicago by the death of his mother, returned last Wednesday. The Woman's club will meet Monday with Miss Carrie Bck in Noble-st. Mrs. Allie Dawson of Chicago is visiting friends and relatives. Miss Gertrude Brown is on the sick list. Mrs. Nora Kincaid-Bell of Louisville is in the city visiting her mother. Miss Ida Thomas entertained in hon or of Mrs. Nora Bell, last Monday ever. Miss Ida Curtis, 515 Muskingum-st is quite ill. Miss Ester Mason of Chicago is the guest of relatives. Chas. Jordan and Louis Schoolboy of Chicago, spent a few days in the city. Albert Shipp of Columbus, O., was the guest of Robt. Wiggins this week. Dr. J. H. Ward has removed to 441 Indiana avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gentry and Mrs. Anna Quinn are visitors at the A. M. E. General Conference at Columbus, O. Harry B. Thompson has returned to his home in Michigan City, after a very p easant visit here. Recommend The Recorder to you friends. 3 months, 25c. Call on L. C. Hayes, 502 Indiana-av for a bottle of Hoyt's Poisoned Blood Cure. Wanted Agents. A liberal commission paid. Call at Hart Medicine Co. 234 W. Vermont street. Norbert Landgraf, Merchant Tailor, Designer and Maker of Ladies' Gowns, 123 N. Penn. street. Established 1873. Mrs. J. N. Blackwell; 1605 Alvord-st gave a birthday party last* Saturday eve About forty friends were entertained. There will be a May fair at Mt Zion Baptist church, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, May 22-23. Tickets 150. Mrs. Charles Brown accompanied by her son, F. Fowler, attended the May musical festival in Cincinnati. Mrs. Hattie Hicks of Washington Ind., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Colbert, 506 Odgen street. The Misses Martin gave a 6 o'clock dinner. Sunday in honor of their guest Miss Viola Jones of Cincinnati, O. Brutus Higgs. was knocked off his wheel Tuesday afternoon by a wagon and painfully injured. Miss Kate M. Burkett, left last Saturday for Battle Creek, Mich., where she expects to locate. She will be missed by her many friends. Miss Etta Evans left Tuesday for a three weeks visit with relatives in Columbus and Wilberforce, Ohio. Mrs. Sudney Dupee, 1321 North Senate avenue, who has been teaching in the public schools of Midway, Ky., returned to this city last Saturday. Mrs. Jae Bell, 921 North West-st will give a social next Wednesday eve for the benefit of the East-end Pleasure club. Mrs. A, C. Richardson left Sunday for an extended visit with friends and relatives in Louisville, Ky. Harry Fiddler has returned to this city after a prosperous season with the Ruscoe-Holland minstrels. The social entertainment at the Odd Fellows hall, Tuesday evening, by the Household of Ruth, was largely attended. Marion K. P. lodge No. 5, will hold initiatory work Monday and Friday nights of next week. Visiting knights are welcome. The service of Miss Ella Tillman, Cincinnati's great prima dona, known as the Second Black Pattii, has been secured for the May Musical at Bethel Thursdal May 24. SPRING IS HERE, and now is the time to take HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE. Rev. Quinn was called to Rushville, to preach in the absence of the pastor of the Second Baptist church of that city, last Sunday. Albert W. Hartley, manager for Mr. Charles S, Sager, melodrama, 'The Negro' left Wednesday night, for St. Louis, Mo. A parlor musicale will be given at the home of Mrs. Edward Davis, 1121 E. 17 street, May 18, for the benefit of New Bethel Baptist church. Have you noticed medicine manufacturers ads? You very seldom find a cure with in a thousand miles of your home. This is not the case with the manufacturers of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE. Mrs. Charles Whittiger of Logansport, who has been visiting Mrs. William Tucker and Miss Annie Wilson, 638 Superior street, has returned home Mr. Joseph Henderson was elected delegate to the District Grand lodge to represent O. P. Morton lodge. G. U. O, O.F. The meeting will be held in Bloomington in August. Mrs. Churchville of New Albany, arrived in the city Sunday to attend her brother, Louis Vaughn, 1021 Muskingum street, who is seriously ill. She will remain one week. Madam V. Gilliam Lewis the talented Elocutionist and Dramatic reader and Mr. Sylvester Overton the well known ShakesPerian will present scenes from Macbeth and Leah Mrs. Lillian Henderson 419 N, California-st, entertained the Topaz club, Friday afternoon May 4. The guests of honor were Mrs. Kathrine Armistead and Miss H. V. Davis. The club met yesterday afternoon with Mrs W. H. Corbin in N, West-st. The best people in the city will attend the Sager Benefit next Wednesday evening, at Bethel church. Watch for the progressive and wide-a-wake Knights of Pythians. Admission, 10c. The first annual band concert given under the anspices of the East-end colored republican club. Tuesday evening, May 15, at the Olivet Baptist church, promises to be largely attended. Admission, 10c. 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. Read The Recorder. The Grandest Musical event of the season will be the May Musical at Bethel A. M. E. Church Thursday evening May 24, noted Singers from Cincinnati, Chicago, and Louisville will be assisted by the best local talent of the city including a Chorus of thirty well trained voices. A Grand May fair at Shiloh Baptist church, the week of May 28. Season ticket 35 cents, the public is invited. The Sager testimonial, at Bethel A. M. E. church, tendered by admiring friends and appreciative citizens, Wednesday evening, May 16. An entirely new and original program will be presented under the management of Prof. Charles S. Sager. Admission, 100. Missionary Meeting. The ladies of the H. F. M society met at the residence of Mrs. Green, with a large attendance. The subject "I go to prepare a place for you" was opened by Mrs. L. B Smith. The ladies discussed the subject with great enthusiasm. The subject for next week will be "Woman's work" led by Mrs. Mamie Benson. The public is invited. Mrs. Margerite Johnson, president; Mrs. Mamie Benson, secretary; Miss Mary Martin, publisher. THE RECORDER. INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA 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 Mr. Abel Farmer and Miss Bertha Thompson were joined together in holy matrimony, last Wednesday evening. Botn the bride and groom enjoy the acquaintance of a host of friends, who wish them happy congratulations. Mr. Bailey Pursley and Miss Gertrude Meaux, who were married Wednesday evening last, are at home at 320 Bird street. Mr. and Mrs. Pursley were the recipients of many handsome presents. Mr. Thomas N. Sellers and Miss Lulu Creels were quietly married last Monday evening, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Caldwell, 407 N. West street, Rev. Newton officiating. The groom is one of our rising young business men and the bride is a shining figure in society circles. Invitations have been received in the city, announcing the marriage of Miss Bertha E. Smith to Mr. Walter Scott Brown of Washington, D. C., Tuesday May 15. They will be at home after June 17, at 1445 N. street, N. W. The Recorder extends congratulations, Invitations are out announcing the marriage of Miss Letitia Bess to Mr. J. A, Shepherd of Terre Hante, Wednesday evening, May 16. Maceo K. P. Lodge. The iniation of the 43 candidates of the new Pythian lodge of this city occurred Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening, under the direction of District Grand deputy, Al. W. Strickland, assisted by other Grand lodge officers The degrees were conferred in the Castle hall of Pride of the West No. 2. NEW YORK STORE Established in 1853 Sole Agents Butterick Patterns. $10.00 Tailor Made Suits $5.00 Special Tailored Suits that have the proper swing, snap and smartness. They come in the Eton tight fitting and fly front Jackets with box plaited skirts in both colors and black. Second Floor. PETTIS DRY GOODS CO. W. A. BIRCH, DENTIST 134 W. New York Street. LEWIS C. HAYES DRUGGIST 502 and 504 Indiana Avenue The BEST Ice Cream Soda in "Bucktown. Sole Agent in the city for Ozonized Ox Marrow R. STATON & M, BRIDGES First Class Bicycle Repairing and Work Promptly Delivered. All work guaranteed, and neatly done. I work guaranteed and neatly done Give us a call and you'll call again. 1229 N. Missouri street. DICK MILLER. 340 Inclana Avenue CIGARS and Tobacco CONFECTIONERY Fruits, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Ice Cream by the pint, quart or gallon. Milk and Cream Books, Periodicals and Newspapers. —CHARLES GREEN— General House Cleaning Carpets Rugs and Hard Wood Floors Cleaned CARPET LAYING A SPECIALTY 1211 Lewis St Indianapolis EDW, BREWER BUILDER. Shop, 1721 Alvord Street. 333 International C Pride of the North Meets the first and third Thurs hall, northeast corner of Delawa cordially invited to become memb your petition. Mrs. Emma L. Pern N. California street, Mrs. Auna Fayette street I am now receiving SPRING STOCK, for the Spring and I extend an invitation to my many friends and the Public, to call and inspect the same : : : : : : : CLEANING, DYEING, REPAIRING D. L Mesbitt, Merchant Tailor. 405 Indiana av FREE GOLD The Safety Deposit Gold Mining Company. desires to correspond with investors and others who can place a limited amount of treasury stock in one of the most promising free gold mues in Eastern Oregon. Mine will surely poy Dividends this year. Lots of other Mines to invest in also, Address, Cole & Wooten Agents. Vancouver Barracks, Wash. OPEN FOR BUSINESS CORNER NORTH & CALIFORNIA STREETS. Ice Cream and Soda Water Marlors 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 Wall Paper Cleaners. 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 We Guarantee Satisfactory Work R. P. Booth, Mn'gr. Office 618 Ogden-st New Phone, 2770. Old paper removed from wall and general repairing done. Our excellent work and reasonable prices keep us busy. I HAVE MADE a very careful test of the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow among our colored students and found it a most excellent hair condition. We 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 solely. 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 secret stock) please contact the office of the manufacturer, dress bk. E. THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 75 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Order of Twelve 777 In Tabernacle No. 94 Sunday nights in each month at its care and Ohio streets. Ladies are owners of said Tabernacle. Give us your son, High Priestess, residence 919 N. Griffin, Chief Recorder, 1111 We take the lead in Novelties of Rubber and Linen Collars. Our fine line of Neckties for Spring has commenced to move at 15c, 25c and 50c. Our swell line of Shirts are up to-date, with detachable collars and cuffs; price 50c, 75c and $1.00. We have just received a big line of Suspenders and underwear. We are right in line. Give us a Call. We will treat you rightr H. L. 206 Indiana Ave LADIES a much better SKIRTS We show everything We Sell on Easy... WEEKLY Men's and Boy's Clothing. Trunks Co 332- LADIES SUITS a much better line than we have ever shown before SKIRTS see the new skirts made with overskirt and accordion plaited, with aplique. We show everything that is new in Skirts and Waists. We Sell on Easy ... WEEKLY PAYMENTS You have the use of the Goods. Men's and Boy's Clothing. Trunks Conrad's Musical Instruments Jewelry and Watches 332-334 Mass. Ave. J. Grant H. Clay Go where your wor- sure to receive the I make $2.50 and $3 them. They are good, be When you employ Dr. Clay as experience. (Reference, 14 y Grant H. Clay 108 North Re-opened and Ready for The People's 537 Bright St [Cor. North We have a Complete and En- Meats Dressed Chickens a Speciality Orders deliv grant H. Clay, M. D., Dentist are your work is Wanted, and you receive the BEST OF SERVICE $2.50 and $3.00 sets of teeth--if you they are good, but not the best. Gas or employ Dr. Clay as a Dentist, you get the benefit of e. (Reference, 14 years with New York Dental Co.) ent H. Clay, M. D., Dentist 108 North Illinois Street. and Ready for Business People's Grocery St Night St [Cor. North] R. S. Street, M. Complete and Entirely New Stock of Groceries, Meats and Vegetables ckens a Specialty Ask for C Orders delivered to any part of the city Go where your work is Wanted, and you are sure to receive the BEST OF SERVICE. I make $2.50 and $3.00 sets of teeth--if you want them. They are good, but not the best. Gas or Air given When you employ Dr. Clay as a Dentist, you get the benefit of 14 years experience. (Reference, 14 years with New York Dental Co.) 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 THE MICROBES and by thus purifying the blood, it d Biliousness and Tytphoid, and is proof of the need for a special pation. Without causing pains and a moving all the secretions it relieves it the blood, and in this way it prevents By cleansing the blood it removes Neuralgia, Loss of Vitality and Nerv prompt and peperless Compound, enti dation like for the "LIGHTNING we are told the scientists, and age in which we live, overwork, both mental and physical, we eat too much or too little, too fast digest and assail the NERVOUS EXHAUS with all the "nills that flesh fully compounded by an expert chem Dyspnea which a daily supply of new, pau- retained, will surely cause NERVOUS DISEASE or some other form of Nervous Disease THE MICROBES AND MICROSCOPIC GERMS purifying the blood, it drients and cures Material Chills, Agree and Typhoid, and is pronounced one of the best Household Tom River and Kidney Troubles, including Indigestion, Rheumatism and Nervous Troubles, by giving them the secretions it relieves the Lungs by eliminating morbid mucus in this way it prevents and cures COLDS, COUGHS, CATARRH AND CONSUMPTION Colds, colds and congestion, Sufficiency of Vitality and Nervous Weakness and all the long list of perfect action of the digestive and secretory organs and furless Compound, entirely free from any deleterious drug, as for the Lungs, and the complete satire of "LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICTITY IS LIFE" learned scientists, and in order to meet the demands of the we live, we exhaust the supply of the Vis Vista, or Electro-mental and physical, and have been pronounced "A Nation of Manufactured by the ORIGINAL STAR CELERY-SELTZER CO., 236 Eden Place, North of Robes is Park Church, on Hudson ore, Indianapolis, HENRY HUDER, DRUGGINS, and Washington Sts. general arts ```markdown ``` M. D., Dentist, is Wanted, and you are BEST OF SERVICE. 10 sets of teeth--if you want not the best, Gas or Air given Dentist, you get the benefit of 14 years with New York Dental Co.) M. D., Dentist. Illinois Street. Business Grocery Store R. S. Street, Manager New Stock of Groceries, Provisions, Vegetables Ask for Cash Stamps The Oliver Lightning Specific This gentle laxative, aperient or mild cathartic is a purely vegetable compound. It contains pepsin, a peculiar organic substance required by the stomach to aid digestion, with podophyllum, or extract of mandrake, a remedy without a rival as a liver regulator. It readily assists in the assimilation of food, and therefore it never fails to increase the nerve force, giving tone and energy to the entire system. The specific destroys D MICROSCOPIC GERMS and turses Matalaria Chilal, Agues and Fevered, one of the best Household Tonicics all cases of the nerve force, and Constitutions, it works gently on the Bowels, and by reins by eliminating morbid mucus matter from ARRH AND CONSUMPTION a cause, and speedily cures the Sick Headache, Weakness and all the long list of ailments and secretory organs and function as a family guarantee to give complete satisfaction ELECTRICITY IS LIFE older to more than the demands of the busy, bustling life of the mandrake or Electo-virial forces by have been pronounced "A Nation of Dyspeptic