The Recorder

The Recorder A Representative Paper Read by 20,000 Afro-Americans each week Subscription price One Year $1.00 Will be sent to any address in the United States on receipt of subscription price Agents Wanted. BROKEN BRIC-A BRACS Mr. Major, the famous cement mah, of New York, explains some very interesting facts about Major's Cement. The multitudes who use this standard article know that it is many hundred per cent, better than other cements for which similar claims are made, but a great many do not know the reason why. The simple reason is that Mr. Major uses the best materials ever discovered, and other manufacturers do not use them, be cause they are too expensive and do not allow large profits. Mr. Major tells us that one of the elements of his cement costs $3.75 a pound and another costs $2.65 a gallon, while a large share of the so-called cements and liquid glue upon the market are nothing more than sixteen-cent glue, dissolved in water or citric acid, and, in some cases altered slightly in color and odor by the addition of cheap and useless materials. Major's cement retails at fifteen cents and twenty-five cents a bottle, and when a dealer tries to sell a substitute you can depend upon it that his only object is to make larger profit. The profit on Major's cement is as much as any dealer ought to make on any cement. And this is doubly true in View of the fact that each dealer gets his share of the benefit os Mr. Major's advertising, which now amounts to over 55000 a month, throughout the country. Established in 1876. Insist on having Major's. Don't accept any of hand advice from a druggist. If you are at all handy (and you will be likely to find that you are a good deal more so than you imagine) you can repair your rubber boots and family shoes, and any other rubber and leather articles, with Major's Rubber Cement and Major's Leather Cement. And you will be suprised at how many dollars a years you will save. If your druggist can't supply you, it will be forwarded by mail; either kind. Free of postage. DUNBAR SPEAKS The Poet Answers Charles Dudley Warner It is a matter of some surprise to me that the article by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner on the education of the Negro should have attracted so much attention, for it is so evidently the work of one who speaks without authority. It might appropriately be called an essay, founded upon observations of the South from a car window It is a somewhat new view of the case to note the Nogro considered as one of the less "sensitive" races. Heretofore we have been told, and believed, not without reason, that his character was decidedly the opposite—malleable, yielding, sensitive to impression, good or bad. The argument has been made so frequently that it has almost become axiomatic that this was the cause of so many of his faults—even of the imitativeness that made him ape the voices and the foibles of the white race. Passing this, however, as a minor matter, another statement made by the writer that the higher education applied to the Negro in his present development has operated against his value as a worker and producer, is not borne out by the facts. Every graduate from a Negro college, it is true, does not become a Moses in the community where he is settled, but, on the other hand, in every section where a Negro college is located, and where there are Negro graduates it is proven, beyond dispute, whatever detractors may say to the contrary, that the moral, social and industrial tone of the people has been raised. They have gone into districts where the Subscribe for The The Recorder. people did not even know how to live, and by their own example taught the benighted the art of life, which they have learned in the schools of higher education. They have made their own homes attractive, and if by no other power than that of envy, which is prevalent in my own race, they have draw the people about them somewhat up to their own level. I believe I know my own people pretty thoroughly. I know them in all classes, the high and the low, and I have yet to see any young man or woman who had the spirit of work in them before, driven from labor by a college education Mr. Warner makes his greatest mistake in the city of New Orleans for an example. In the first place, in all but one of the schools there for the higher education of the Negro the moral training of the black race is in the hands of the whites as he recommends. And in all of them the industrial idea is insisted upon strongly and constantly. If he believes that the condition of these Negroes is lower than it was before then I am at a loss to know how he can reconcile the growth of industry, the widening out of their charitable organizations, and the larger and purest social life which is being instituted among the colored people there: Within the last four years there have been opened two new drug stores, patronized by both races; a hospital and training school for nurses has been started by the unaided efforts of the Negro people; a free kindergarten has been set going for the black children of the city who are shut out from such advantages as the whites are blessed with One more point that Mr. Warner cites is easily set aside. If he knew very much about this matter, I would fancy him smiling behind his hand, but I give him the benefit of believing that he is ignorant of the subject. Statistics may prove anything, but in this case, especially, they are very inadequate. No one has the right to base any conclusions about Negro criminality upon the number of prisoners in the jails or other places of restraint. Even at the North the prejudice against the Negro reverses the precedents of the law, and everyone accused is looked upon as guilty until he is proven innocent. In the South it if worse. Taking into account that some of the offenses for which a white boy would be reprimanded and released, would send a Negro to the chain gang or the jail. it is easy to see how the percentage of criminals is raised. A fight upon the street, picking up coal, with the accusation of throwing it off the cars, brawling generally, what with white boys would be called children's fights, land the black boy in jail, and so the percentage of criminals increases, and the Northern friend of the Negro holds up his hands in dismay at the awful thing he sees before him Mr, Warner's ill-advised article has done the Negro, who has looked to him as a friend, unuterable harm, more harm really than he knows. It is a pitiful thing altogether. He has observed badly or been misinformed, and until he is able to strike more closely at the heart of things, it were better for him to return to his easy chair A Grand Affair Miss Julia E. Robinson gave a delightful reception on Thursday evening, May 31st, at the beautiful residence of Mr. and Mrs. Isham Johnson, 419 West Fourteenth street in honor of Miss Mary E. Johnson, Mrs. Emma Wilson, Miss Matthews and friends who assisted in the music shower. The parlors were charmingly decorated with spring flowers; the mantel was banked with flowers. Mr. John W. Johnson had charge of Miss Robinson's music box, which played thirty-five beautiful selections during the evening. Spring flowers were used in profusion in the dining room. In the center of the table was a bouquet of lilies, white and red roses interwoven with ferns, and around the table was a border of smilax and white flowers. The refreshments were served in pink, white and brown. The favors were little Japanese fans. Mr. Joseph Johnson served the guests to refreshments. Mrs. George Goins invited the guests to the dining room and presented the favors. On the INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA SATURDAY; JUNE 9, 1900 SIOUX F'LLS DISPATCH: "THE MENTION OF BRYAN'S NAME BROUGHT FORTH UPROARIOUS APPLAUSE" I DEAR BROTHER DEMOCRATS—We have nominated him and will allow you to fuse. SIoux FALLS POPS. —Indianapolis Sun. porch, which was decorated with launterns and flowers, punch was served. Miss Minnie Johnson and Leola Crawford presided at the punch bowl. Miss Malinda Milliken invited the guests up stairs to rest their wraps. Miss Robin son was assisted in receiving by Mrs. George Goins, Mrs. Harry Rhodes, Mrs. Nathan Pierce. Mrs Flora Hayes, and Mary E. Harveson. Miss Mary E. Johnson presented the guests to the hostess and introduced everyone present. The gowns worn were unusually handsome. Miss Robinson looked charming. She wore white silk entrain with lavender bodice trimmed all over in lace. Mr. Harry Rhodes wore ner handsome wedding gown, Miss Mary E. Johnson wore a handsome blue and white Foullard silk trimmed in white and blue chiffon; Mrs. Emma Wilson wore a grey and black crepe trimmed in white chiffon; Miss Matthews wore a white organdie trimmed with satin ribbons; Mrs. George Goins wore a black skirt with a handsome silk bodice; Miss Mary E. Haverson wore a pink organdie trimmed in black lace; Mrs. Flora Hayes wore a pink organdie trimmed in white lace; Mrs. Nathan Pierce wore a handsome black gown. Everyone present spent a pleasant time. A Letter from the PhillIPines A friend in this city has received the following letter from Ed Brown, one of four boys serving with the 24th Infantry: CRANGLEN, P. I., APRIL 14 Dear Friend:--I received your letter and those papers and was glad you sent them. Those were the first papers I have seen since I have been here A newspaper from the States is worth 25 cents over here. We are up here in the mountains where you can hear or see nothing but wild Carabous, deer and ponies. We eat both the deer and the Carabous but not the ponies; we haven't come to eating horse flesh yet. This is a fine little place. The people up here are different from the other natives. They are called Negrites They don't wear any clothes except a gee string, and are strung from head to foot with brass band. They don't understand anything. They carry a knife called a bolo, and are a very mean people. They live on rice and dried fish. They are ruled by a president. They never stay in their huts at nights, but go into the mountains returning about 4 o'clock in the morning. They make fine cigars. You can get about fifty for four clackers, which equals one cent in our money. The government has about 400 working the road between here and San Jose and pay them $1 a week and their chow-chow; and they eat every hour. The soldiers are all doing well. They would have better health if they would 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 let that beno alone. It is a drink that the Filipinos make, Poco Tempo, Tell my friends that I am just the same as a Filipino A GOOD SHOWING Some of the Late Claims Paid by the American Mutual Aid Association M. M. Meadows, 719 W. 11th street, fell and skinned face, $8 58; Alfred Outland, 1430 Yandees, fell down steps, $7.15; W. H. Johnson, 623 W. North street, foot mashed, $15.70; Geo. H. Goins, 543 W. 12th street, fell and broke arm, $50.00; John Prince, 1606 Central avenue, foot mashed, $15.71; O. S. McGee, 1022 Senate avenue, hurt finger, $6.00; G. St. Clair, 320 Muskingum, nose mashed, $5.75; Andrew Smith, 824 Blake, foot hurt, $6.85; Jno. N. Beck, sick, $14.30; Mary Hampton, 845 Ft. Wayne avenue, nail in foot, $1; O. S. McGee, 1022 Senate avenue, injured arm, $3.00; Jno. N. Beck, exertion, $3.55; Ellis White, 1305 N. Alabama street, arm broke, $35.00; Mary F. Taylor, injured foot, $2.85; Rufus Allison, 18th and Delaware streets, sick, $3.50; John B. Gaskin, hurt knee, $4.00; A. L. Murray, 701 E. Pratt st., sick, $24.29; John Prince, 1606 Central avenue, back hurt, $2.15; G. St. Clair, 320 Muskingum street, sick, $8.57; Crecy Mapp, 418 Muskingum street, sick, $9.00; Sallie Richardson, sick, $8.00; Abraham Means, 524 Delaware, sick, $8.00; Geo. H. Goin, 543 W. 12th street, shoulder dislocated, $11.40 28th Anniversary. Sunday; June 17; the International Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor, Maids and Pages of REV. MOSES DICKSON. Honor of America, will celebrate their twenty-eight anniversary, with appropriate exercises at Tomlinson Hall. The services will be on the order of a general thanksgiving, with music, vocal and instrumental, essays, and a sermon, by the Rev. William Underwood, of Shiloh Baptist church. The Order which was founded and established by the Rev. Moses Dickson of St. Louis, Mo., to meet the necessities and wants of the colored people, has grown unjil it now has a membership of 148,000. The grand officers of the state are Sir. Rev. B. Farrell, C. G. M., Mrs. G. A. Coffee, C. G. P., Evansville; Sir W. H. Jones, V. G. M., Jeffersonville; Mrs M. Garrett, V. G. P., Mt. Vernon; Sir R. J. Person, C. G. S., Indianapolis Mrs. Emma J. Hines, C. G. R., Kokomo; Mrs. Ella E. Faison, G. Q. M., Indianapolis; Sir W. J. Harris, G. G. T., Indianapolis; Mrs Emma L. Perso, G. I. St., Indianapolis. Sir J. H. Hilton will be the Grand Marshall of the day. The following line of march will be observed: formation at Hall, corner of Delaware and Ohio streets at 1:30 p. m march west on Ohio street to Indiana ave. up. Indiana avenue to North-st east on North-st to Delaware-st; south on Delaware-st to Tomlinson Hall. The presiding officers and State officers will ride in carriages. Greencastle Notes. Mrs. William Herring Jr., is able to be out again. John Hale and daughter, of Crawfordsville, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rhoads Sunday. Mr. Henry Ricks and Miss Many Gill were married Sunday at 8:30 p. m. at the A. M. E, church by Rev. Hardiman. Mr. Dan Pittman and Miss Jessie Ernest accompanied them to the altar: Mrs. Jerome Smith played the wedding march. Mrs. Will Miles is on the sick list Kalamazoo, Mich The Ladies aid society of the A. M. E. church will open their Bazaar Thursday evening with a grand concert. Mr. Peter Jones is out after a short illness. A. J. White has been awarded the contract of arching over Arcade creek by the city council. The B. Y. P. U. was reorganized at Second Baptist recently. Mr. Cross of Battle Creek, was in the city as the guest of Mr. D. Walker last week. Miss Florence Dungill is the city visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. W. Phillips. Knightstown Notes. Ray Harris and Walker Bass of Rich mond, were in the city Sunday. John Brooks, Jr., of Indianapolis, was in the city Friday. Molphine Roberts of Carthage was in the city Tuesday. Martin Dean of New Castle, was elected delagate of Gem of Ind. lodge, to represent it at the Grand Lodge session in Bloomington the first week in August. Ray Lester was the guest of Shelbyville friends Sunday. Louis Hoosier and Nathan Bailey spent Sunday at Rushville. Next Monday evening is the last meeting of Arnett literary society. Ice Cream and strawberry social social everything free; everybody invited. Union Methodist Picnic Have you heard of the Picnic at Bethany Park, June 28? Who're going? Methodists, Baptists, Christians Presbyterians and the public in general. The greatest anxiety will be to secure sufficient cars to accommodate the crowds. Hundreds of people are waiting for the tickets. 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 NEW YORK STORE Established in 1853 Sole Agents Butterick Patterns. A MILLINERY SALE OF IMPORTANCE..... All the latest shapes colors and styles of untrimmed straw hats for Ladies and Children, made for this seas sons business. Styles that ordinarily bring from $2.25 to 2.50, in this sale for 10c, 25c and 50c. Second Floor. PETTIS DRY GOODS CO. Where to Locate? Why, in the Territory Traversed by the LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD, The Great Central Southern Trunk —Line in— Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama Mississippi, Florida, —Where— FARMERS, FRUIT GROWERS, STOCK RAISERS, MANUFAC- TURERS, INVESTORS, SPECU- CORRITIONS AND MONEY LENDERS will find the greatest chances in the United States to make "big money" by reason of the abundance and cheapness of land. LABOR-EVERYTHING! Free sites, financial assistance, and Freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farms at $1.00 per acre and upwards, and 500,000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Half Fare Excursions the First and Third TUESDAYS of each month. Let us know what you want, and we will tell you where and how to get it--but don't delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and information free. Address. S. J. WEMYSS. General Immigration and Industrial Agent, Louisville, Ky. We Brighten the Home. We'll clean your wallpaper And your frescoed walls, We make new your carpets Your ceilings and halls. If you want some work done, Just write us a line, We know we can please you Our work is so fine. Now be frank, drop a card, Or a message by phone. For we make families happy, And "Brighten the Home." The Jackson Home Brighten ers. 206 Ind.aye, Phone 2561 Eleventh Anniversary. Mr. H. L. Sanders will have his eleventh annual opening at 206 Indiana avenue, Saturday, June 23. Mr. Sanders wishes to thank all of his customers for their continued patronage. He has a larger and more complete stock of goods than ever before and co-dially invites the public to attend his anniversary opening. Miss Cora Warren entertained a number of young people at her home, 884 Adalaide street, last Wednesday evening. The occasion being a card party after which some time was spent in friendly chats. Then refreshments with ice cream and were served. At a late hour everybody left feeling highly pleased. Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 Advertising Medium THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, IND THE SUNDAY SCHOOL The Senior Berean Lesson for Sunday, June 10, 1900. DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. Mark 6: 14-29. 14. And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. 15. Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets. 16. But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded; he is risen from the dead. 17. For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. 18. For John had said unto Herod, it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. 19. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: 20. For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and a holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. 21. And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galliee: 22. And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee. 23. And he swear unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will it thee, unto the half of my kingdom. 24. And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. 25. And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist. 26. And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. 27. And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in prison. 28. And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel; and the damsel gave it to her mother. 29. And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. LIGHT ON THE TEXT. 14. Herod—Antipas. (See Bible Dictionary.) Heard of him—Of Jesus. Therefore mighty works—Because one coming from the spirit world would bring larger powers with him. 15. Elias—Greek for Elijah. 16. For Herodias' sake—On account of Herodias, with whom he was living in sin, and because Herodias hated John. 18. For John had said—In public, or private, or both. Herod's example was ruinous to morals. It was also involving the people in a cruel war, for King Aretas gathered an army to avenge the insult to his deserted daughter. John had to speak on account of the ruin Herod was bringing on the nation. 20. Herod feared John—Because he was a prophet, bold, fearless, and spoke God's word to his conscience. He was afraid God might smite him if he injured his prophet. He was afraid also of the people, who might revok and accuse him at Rome, if he slew their prophet. Observed him—Rather, preserved him, kept him safe. Did many things—Some of the moral acts John preached, to salve his conscience for not doing right by John. He was too afraid of Herodias to let John go. 21. A convenient day—For Herodias' purpose. Lords—The civil nobility. High captains—Army officers. Chief estates—Leading men not in office. 22. The daughter of the said Herodias—Salome, her daughter by her first husband, Philip. Danced—One of the sensual dances, before a crowd of men who had been drinking and reveling. 25. By and by—Old form for immediately, now, before Herod could change his mind. A charger—A platter, or large, flat dish. Golden Text—Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit—Eph. 5: 18. SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. Subject: True and False Success in Life. (A lesson from the careers of two famous men.) I. A Troubled Conscience (vs. 14-16). —What Herod is referred to here? In what castle was he at this time? What had he heard about Jesus? Why did this trouble his conscience? Can you give any illustrations from history? II. The Wicked King and the Falthful Prophet (vs. 17-20).—Of what crimes had King Herod been guilty? Who was Herodias? What great injuries was the conduct of these rulers bringing upon the people? (See "Helps.") Who was John the Baptist? What was the character of his preaching? (Matt. 3: 5-12). How did John reprove Herod? Did this require great courage? Was it wise? Why did John thus publicly reprove the king? What enemies did he make by his reproofs? Why did not Herod kill him? What did Herod do? Meaning of "observed him"? The Revised Version of "did many things"? IV. The King and the Martyr. True and False Success (vs. 26-29). What was done to John the Baptist? Was his life a failure or success? In what respects a success? What was his reward? (Rev. 2; 7, 17; 3; 5, 12, 21; 7, 18-17). Why was Herod sorry? What induced him to commit the crime? Did Herodias gain anything by his death? What can you tell of the further life of these people? Was Herod's life a success? Remaining Instances of a Once Common Method. A picturesque and interesting sight is presented at the coal mine of William Rook, in Crafton borough. The coal cars are all moved by dogs, the only mine in Allegheny county, it is said, where the little animals are used. Passengers on the Carnegie and Crafton branch of the West end traction system are treated to this sight as the mine is only a few yards away from the tracks. Old inhabitants recall with an inflection somewhat mournful that this is the only instance now existing of the old order of coal mining, when the pits around this city fairly bristled with dogs and carts. The pit dog is almost a relic of the old days. Ever since the Rook mine was opened two years ago dogs have been employed. There are four of them, all black dogs, one of the shepherd variety and the others a kind of Newfoundland and cur mixed. In days gone by dogs were used in all the mines in and around Pittsburgh, but when the capacity of the mine increased it became necessary to make use of more improved facilities to get out the coal. Dog power was too slow and cumbersome a method for a concern that does a very large business. With lesser companies it has its advantages. The dogs do not measure over two feet or two and a half in height and are not of leonine proportions in any respect, but it is remarkable the weight they can haul. A thousand pounds of coal is not considered a big weight for a pair of them, but a mule will easily pull eight times this much. The four dogs that haul the black diamonds out of the mine belong to James and Ab Shafer. These men are miners and work in the Rook mine. Strange to say the work in the mine does not affect the dogs' eyesight. The only trouble they have is with their feet, in case there is sulphur in the mine. The sulphur makes their feet sore and tender. In speaking about his dogs Mr. Shafer said: "Dogs are mighty valuable in a mine where there is not a great quantity of coal to get out. These four dogs Ab and I have will haul out an average of 225 bushels of coal a day. The little cars we hitch them in hold $12\%$ bushels each. That is about 1,000 pounds of coal. We work two dogs in a car and have two cars. The important thing is to get a dog that can pull good and travel fast. There are lots of dogs that are stronger than the ones we have in the mine—mastiffs for instance—but they are too slow in motion and would never do. These dogs—I don't know what breed they are—are splendid animals and know just what to do. Some dogs you can't teach to work in a mine. If a car runs off a plank my dogs pull it on again without any help from myself or men. They like the work for they keep up a prancing and barking when not busy hauling a car. The two that work now in the mines are Jack and Toss. This old fellow (pointing to a dog sleeping on the ground nearby) is about played out. His name is Rover. He is getting too old and is not working at all now." The pit dogs are intelligent, fine looking animals. Jack, who is regarded as the best of the trilo by his master, is a curly-halired, black dog of uncertain breed. He looks like a mixture between a Newfoundland and cur. Toss is a shepherd dog, or at least has that appearance, and has long, silky hair, beautiful brown eyes, and is shapely throughout. Rove is of a breed similar to Jack, but has short, smooth hair. Ab Shafer's dogs are also black and of a breed similar to Jack. Mr. Shafer says the keeping of dogs is somewhat expensive, but it pays. Two or three big healthy dogs eat a great deal of grub, especially when they work hard pulling cars of coal every day. He says he can make in a half a day twice as much as a day laborer can in a whole day. It thus seems that despite the low wages paid to miners in general there is some money in operating a mine even with dog power. Coal is now retailing at 12 cents a bushel. The chief advantage of using dogs is their cheapness. Where the mine has a small capacity they are as efficient as mules or steam power. If the owner has lots of time to get out his coal dog power is as good as any other and cheaper. The dogs at the Rook mine, as stated, haul about 225 bushels of coal a pair each day, or 450 a day for the four. This is a fair sample of the capacity of good dogs. Mr. Rook has been in the coal business quite a number of years. Previous to opening the mine that he is now working he operated one adjacent to it. Dogs were used in this also. The present mine is right at the Crafton terrace station of the traction company and runs under the latter's tracks. The mouth of the pit is quite small, in fact a mule could not enter unless on bended knee. The vein has not yet been worked very far into the hill. The dogs get used to the curious life in the pit. At first they object about going into the dark and have to be carried in. When placed in harness they howl and kick in most approved style and for several weeks they can hardly be broken in. A few months afterward they seem to like the darkness, for they will often run in and sleep there during the noon recess, or after working hours. The cars they haul are about four feet high by six long and have little iron wheels about six or eight inches in diameter. The animals are hitched tandem. As fur as is known, the darkness of the pit affects dogs' eyes the same as human beings. That is, they can see better outside when they emerge from the darkness, but can not see as well inside for a short time after entering from daylight. The pit, however, has no deleterious effect on the dogs' eyes. The labor is not so hard as it appears for in the pit most of the passage ways are level and a mere start of the car is about all the work necessary. Only when there is uphill work do the dogs have to exert themselves. The work is not wearing on them. They last in a good condition for many years. Thirty years ago nearly all the coal miners in and around Pittsburgh used dogs. On the South Side hills facing the Monongahela river when coal was taken out 40 or 50 years ago dogs were used almost exclusively. When business expanded pit mules were brought into play. Now all the big firms use steam power so even the pit mule is becoming a thing of the past.—Pittsburg Leader. "Oh! How Happy I Am." "HOW HAPPY I AM to be able say that I am free from pain after 9 years of severe suffering from neuralgia writes Mrs Archie Young, 1817 Or avenue, West Superior, Wis. "I am thankful to be able to say that your Drops' is the best medicine I ever got my life. When I received it from my last November, I used some of it ripe TENEMENT HOUSES. The Problem of the Poor Man's Home in the Big Cities. For 60 years there has been a tenement house problem in New York city. Since the first assembly committee was appointed in 1856 there have been various commissions selected to investigate tenement evils. All of these have agreed, I am informed, "that the building of tenements on single lots 25 feet wide by 100 feet long is the source of all the evil conditions that exist." You can see how this is if you will draw a parallelogram one think how you could occupy a space of this shape with a building six stories high, arranged to have four or more families on each floor, and to draw all the light and air from the front and rear ends. 100 feet or 90 feet apart. Naturally the law requires light and air shafts, but even when the shafts of two adjoining tenements are united their combined width is less than three feet. I think two feet four inches is the common measurement. These narrow, long pockets, six stories deep, are said merely to assist in the accumulation of foul air, the destruction of privacy and the communication of nausea odors and diseases. The rear tenement evil, as it is rapidly growing up in Chicago, one building crowded behind another on the one building lot, is fast disappearing from New York city. Instead are coming the modern "double decker, dumbbell type" of buildings, whose name you will understand by conceiving buildings 90 or 100 feet deep and six stories high, each with sides hollowed out a foot or two and all standing together in a close row. In Paris, within its fortifications, where land is especially costly houses are almost all built on plats 75 by 100 feet, with a large, open court in the center. In London, "if the lots are narrow, the buildings are low and shallow." In New York city a tenement house committee appointed by the Charity Organization Society has bravely struck at the root of the trouble by suggesting new ordinances with the view of making the construction of tenements on a single 25 foot lot so unprofitable that builders will commence building on lots of greater width. Forty thousand tenements there are said to be in New York city. As it is difficult to distinguish where "flats" or inch wide by four inches deep and "apartments" begin and tenements cease, these 40,000 are said to be "homes occupied by three or more families, using halls, etc., in common." The tenement population of New York city, as based upon the census of 1888, was 1,093,701 persons, including 143,243 children under 5 years, who were living in dwellings which contained each three or more families. Miss Lillian D. Wald, of the Nurses' Settlement, who has lived seven years in the tenement house district and nursed tenement residents, said: "The houses which should have no compromise with 'improvements' are innumerable, and their complete demolition is demanded by all who have knowledge of the only life possible within them." She went on to describe tenements as she sees them daily: "The halls are so dark that it is quite common to go on a bright day and feel along the hall until you find a door. Often in going up stairs the only knowledge one has of some one coming down is seeing a white hand on the rolling." Any person can imagine the filthy halls and personal immorality to which such obscurity would conduce. "The odors and the poor plumbing in the houses are the chief causes of complaint, and it seems to us that these conditions are largely productive of phthisis." Bitter things might be said concerning the merciless greed of many who have money and crave more. Together with the wealthy there are many persons of comparatively small means who invest their savings in tenement houses, because the latter, in return for the physical and moral degradation of the inhabitants, yield large financial profits.-Charles Frederick Weller, in Chicago Record. Sprouting of Prehistoric Seeds. Sprouting of Pilea An extraordinary fact, which is calculated to cause a stir in botanical circles, has been observed by Col. Thompson during the past two years, and is now made public for the first time. A little plant called Pilea microphylla has constantly come up in the pots in which jadoo fiber has been used, and as this plant is a native of the West Indies and tropical America, it is clear that it comes from the moss, which is obtained, solely from Yorkshire, and which is used in the preparation of jadoo, though in this clamite the pilea can not grow in the open air. The surmise of the Colonel is that the seed was deposited in the moss countless ages ago, when a tropical climate prevailed here, similar to what it was in the miocene period, when the celtis or nettle tree, the bread fruits, and the giant cacti flourished in Britain. If his conjecture is correct, we have some extraordinary testimony in favor of the great vitality of seeds, far surpassing anything that has been advanced in this connection before, including that furnished by the sprouting of the "mummy wheat." Thepilea genus is a most extensive one, and well known to be broadly scattered over and confined to the tropics. It is a curious coincidence that the temperature at the period referred to when the fan palms flourished to perfection and tropical forests at Bournemouth overlooked a lagoon, has been put at 70 degrees by eminent geologists, and it is at this same temperature that the pilea seeds were observed to have been awakened from their long sleep. Its appearance unexpectedly in the Yorkshire moss when potted and placed in the hothouse is certainly most interesting, and the subject is sure to be debated by scientists during the next few months—London Mail. "Ohl How Happy I Am." "HOW HAPPY I AM to be able to say that I am free from pain after five years of severe suffering from neuralgia," writes Mrs Archie Young, 1817 Oaks avenue, West Superior, Wis. "I am so thankful to be able to say that your 5 drops' is the best medicine I ever got in my life. When I received it from you last November, I used some of it right away. The first dose helped me. It is impossible to explain how I was suffering from neuralgia. I thought no one could get worse and that death would soon come. I am so thankful that I thought I could live to see my husband come back from his daily labor. Now I can say that I am free from pain, my cheeks are red, my appetite is good and I sleep well all night. Many of my friends are surprised, and say they will send for some 5 Drops." Sample bottles of this wonderful remedy 25c, large bottles, containing 300 doses, $1.00. For information write Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., 164 E. Lake street, Chicago. Young folks in love are very much inclined to waist time. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronouncements it is a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The woman who can appear to advantage on a rainy day is to be envied. Libby, McNeill & Libby Housekeepers frequently feel the need of luncheon meats which are either ready to serve or can be prepared for the table at a moment's notice. Such a need is abundantly supplied in the superior meats put up by the old reliable house of Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago, one of whose specialties is advertised in another column of this paper, and their booklet, "How to Make Good Things to Eat," is offered free on application. The man who rides a bicycle has lots of go. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs—Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The motto of the modern young woman, according to a popular author, is: Be a man if you can, and if you can't, be as much like one as you can. PENNSYLVANIA SHORT LINES. Through Sleeper to Michigan Resorts The Through Sleeping Car Line for Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Petoskey, Bay View, Harbor Springs, Mackinaw City, via Pennsylvania Short Lines and G. R. & I. R. R., will be opened about June 17th. The only Tourist tickets on sale over this through car line from Indianapolis through car line after June 1st to principal places of summer sojourn in the lake region. For particulars as to time of trains, rates, sleeping car space, etc., call on Pennsylvania Line agent, or address W. W. Richardson, D. P. A. DETROIT SLEEPING CAR Vla Pennsylvania Short Lines and Wabash R. R., will again be placed in daily service the latter part of May. This will be the only through sleeping car line between Indianapolis and Detroit. Tourist tickets will be sold on and after June Ist through Detroit to St. Clair River points, Niagara Falls and summer resorts in Canada. Full particulars may be obtained from any Pennsylvania Lines ticket agent or by addressing W. W. Richardson, D. P. A., Indianapolis, Ind. Good humor and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over.-Alexander Smith. What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about one-fourth as much. All grocers sell it. 15 and 25 cents. Some men are celebrated for their muscle; others are famous for their cheek. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, Zc. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The old-fashioned blond lace with a pattern scattered over it is revived again for vells. Binder Twine at Low Prices. If you want a special inside price on binder twine, either Sisal, Standard or Manila, cut this notice out and mail to Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Binder Twine Department), Chicago, stating about how much twine you will require and how soon you will want it, and they will save you money by ordering it online or by compel your order or compel the party who supplies you to sell to you at a lower price than be otherwise would. If you don't feel well to-day you can be made to feel better by making your blood better. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the great pure blood maker. That is how it cures that tired feeling, pimples, sores, salt rheum, serofila and catarrh. Get a bottle of this great medicine and begin taking it at once and see how quickly it will bring your blood up to the Good Health point. Weary Women Rest and help for weary women are found in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It makes women strong and healthy to bear their burdens, and overcomes those His to which women are subject because they are women. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is known from coast to coast. It has cured more sick women than any other medicine. Its friends are everywhere and they are constantly writing thankful letters which appear in this paper. If you are puzzled write for Mrs. Pinkham's advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass. She will charge you nothing and she has restored a million women to health. Transportation Arrangements Account Kansas City Convention. To Indiana Democrats: Arrangements have been made for special train from Indianapolis to Kansas City, to leave Indianapolis about 3:30 p. m. Monday, July 2d, reaching Kansas City at 7:45 next morning, via the following route: Vandalia line to St. Louis, Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis to Kansas City. This will be the official train, and will be known as the "Indiana Special." It will carry the State Committee and other officials, and a cordial invitation is extended to all Democrats and their friends to accompany this train. Complete circular of information will be forwarded upon application to either of the undersigned. PARKS MARTIN, Chairman State Democratic Committee. W. W. RICHARDSON, D. P. A., Vandalla Line. G. A. A. DEAN, JR. T. P. A., Missouri Pacific Ry. No stout woman ever thinks she is quite so large as some other stout woman. VITALITY low, debilitated or exhausted cured by Dr. Kline's Involving Tortoise FIRE $1. Trial Bottle containing $2 weed treatment. Dr. Kline's institute, 84 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Founded 1814. It is always easy to borrow trouble. LIBBY'S VEAL LOAF It was the Food Success of 1809, and the first of the kind ever offered the American People. Cooked. Seasoned and put up in convenient-sized, key-opening cans. Success attracts imitators. LIBBY'S VEAL LOAF Is the Original. All other brands of Veal Loaf in this are imitations of Libby's. When you want a delicious lunch or supper of daintily seasoned meat, get Libby's 'eat' Loaf, Chicken Loaf, or Libby's 'eat' Grill. 71 Varieties of Libby's 'eat' Foods in a New edition, "How to Make Good Things to Eat," sent free if you write LIBBY, McNEILL & LIBBY, Chicago. EVERY Farmer and Poultry Raiser should not fail to examine the Whittington Woven Wire Fence before buying any other. High best per rod, and all other heights in proportion; feeding is made of the best-guaranteed wire and all heights from 3 inches to 6 ft. Also a POULTRY FENCE, Prices very reasonable—within reach of everybody. Capacity of multi-machine roads is 10 hours. For prices of fencing and machines and name territory desired to cover which is sold on easy terms, or call and examine same. G. W. WHITTINGTON, Patentee and Manufacturer. Library 103 West South St. field, Brooklyn, Inc. PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, DESIGNS and COPYRIGHTS. Anyone sending a Rough Sketch Model or Description of their invention, will receive an option free, as to a probable patent on same. Anyone sending a Rough Sketch Model or Description of their invention, will receive an option free, as to a probable patent on same. Anyone sending a Rough Sketch Model or Description of their invention, will receive an option free, as to a probable patent on same. S. BLACK, 100 W. South St., Indianapolis, Ind. Long Dix Phone 230-755-8000 Send for free catalog of Indianapolis, Ind. The best house in the state. Seals, Stencils, Rubber Stamps. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief & cures worm crest. Book of testimonials & 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. Dr. B. H. Grom' $800. Box & Alaina, Gt. $10 Portrait How to obtain it for $250 How to obtain it for $250 Write to ISALP PORT TAIT Co., D. D. 1 West Market St., Indianapolis, Indiana. If afflicted with} Thompson's Eye Water sore eyes, use PISO 5 CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION I. N. U. INDIANAPOLIS NO. 23 1900 Do·You·Know THAT THAT THE RECORDER Is Prepared to do all kinds of Job Printing on short notice? We can make anything from a Bill Head, Letter Head, Minutes, Dodgers, Tickets, Business Cards, Visiting Cards, Book or Newspaper, In fact, everything in Job Printing We make a specialty of first-class Job Printing If you want anything done and are too busy to call, drop us a postal or call telephone 561. If You Want any kind of Printing done let us know. If you have anything to advertise send it to The Recorder. If you have a house to rent, If you have a room to let, If you want a situation, If you want to sell anything, If you want anything, Advertise in THE RECORDER We Want your subscription, your advertisement, We want a large number or Newsboys to sell the paper, We don't want much but we want to give you the best for your money. Send Us your news, word what your church is doing. Send us what your lodge in doing, Send us what your club is doing, Send us word what you are doing, and we will be glad to publish it. The Recorder belongs to no party. The Recorder belongs to no faction, The Recorder belongs to no sect. The Recorder belongs to no denomination. The Recorder belongs to the people and it represents them. We Want your trade, your patronage We want your encouragement: We want your co-operation; We want you to assist us in making The Recorder what it really is, the greatest, the most newsy, and the best Negro journal in the State If You Want to know any more, call or address The Recorder, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. INDIANA DEMOCRATS STATE CONVENTION NOMINATE W. KERN FOR GOVERNO FIRST BALLOT. NOMINATES HON. JOHN GOVERNOR ON BALLOT. STATE CONVENTION NOMINATES HON. JOHN W. KERN FOR GOVERNOR ON FIRST BALLOT. The Platform Reaffirms Chicago Platform Without Mentioning 16 to 1, and Instructs Delegates to Vote For Bryan—Sympathy For Boers Expressed. Cicago Platform Without Men Structures Delegates to Vote Empathy For Boers pressed. State convention convened at Wednesday, June 6, at 10 a. m. lon to order. Committee on per- amuel M. Ralston, of Lebanon, Johnson, Jr., of Versailles, sec- polls, sergeant-at-arms. tently took the chair. The platform platform, without mentioning silver are instructed to support Bryan colonial and imperialistic policy is alleged extravagance, and op- pressed. is denounced. pass anti-trust legislation and de- which will operate against the ademned. were called for. A letter was that he could not accept the nom- neses of Messrs. Kern, Burke, Bo- nomination, Hon. John W. Kern in the first ballot. The official 40½ for Burke, 276½ for Shively, The Platform Reaffirms Chicago Platform Without Mentioning 16 to 1, and Instructs Delegates to Vote For Bryan—Sympathy For Boers The Indiana Democratic State convention Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Wednesday, J. Chairman Martin called convention to order. Manent organization reported Samuel M. Rafor permanent chairman; John Johnson, Jr., retary; Myron D. King, Indianaapolis, sergeant Chairman Ralston immediately took the was read and adopted. It reaffirms the Chicago platform, without at 16 to 1. The convention delegates are instructed for the Presidency. The platform condemns the colonial and of the administration; condemns alleged ext poses a large standing army. The Indiana Democratic State convention convened at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Wednesday, June 6, at 10 a. m. Chairman Martin called convention to order. Committee on permanent organization reported Samuel M. Ralston, of Lebanon, for permanent chairman; John Johnson, Jr., of Versailles, secretary; Myron D. King, Indianaapolis, sergeant-at-arms. Chairman Ralston immediately took the chair. The platform was read and adopted. It reaffirms the Chicago platform, without mentioning silver at 16 to 1. The convention delegates are instructed to support Bryan for the Presidency. The platform condemns the colonial and imperialistic policy of the administration; condemns alleged extravagance, and opposes a large standing army. Sympathy for the Boers is e pressed. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty is denounced. The party pledges itself to pass anti-trust clauses in favor of tariff laws which will obstruct trusts. The Dingley law is condemned. Nominations for Governor were called in read from Mr. Shively, stating that he could not nomination if tendered. The nameses of Messrs. zarth and Taggart were put in nomination. P. of Indianapolis was nominated an the first vote for Kern was $819\frac{1}{2}$, to $380\frac{1}{2}$ for Burke $42\frac{1}{2}$ for Bozarth, The party pledges itself to pass anti-trust legislation and declares in favor of tariff laws which will operate against the trusts. The Dingley law is condemned. Nominations for Governor were called for. A letter was read from Mr. Shively, stating that he could not accept the nomination if tendered. The nameses of Messrs. Kern, Burke, Bozarth and Taggart were put in nomination. Hon. John W. Kern of Indianapolis was nominated an the first ballot. The official vote for Kern was 819½, to 380½ for Burke, 276½ for Shively, 42½ for Bozarth, mountain, illuminating the country for miles around. The nation joins in the toast, glorifying Lord Roberts and turbulently rejoicing in the victory. The dispatches of Lord Roberts, telling of the incidents before the surrender of the capital by three civilians, stands alone, as the correspondents with him have not had their turn with the wires. Lord Roberts's postscript announcing the loss of the yeomanry battalion came too late for the public to know it last evening. The newspaper commentators consider the incident deplorable, but as having no weight to speak of in the results. The battalion numbered between 400 and 500. Orange Free State Formally Declared a British Colony. Bloemfontein, May 22.—Amid salutes and cheers and singing of "God Save the Queen," the military Governor, MaJ. Gen. George Prettiman, at noon, formally proclaimed the annexation of the Free State under the designation of the Orange River colony. The ceremony was somewhat imposing and the scene in the market square inspiring. A CRISIS IN CHINA WAR HAS BEGUN IN CELESTIAL EMPIRE. A Sensational Dispatch From Admiral Kempff That Has Alarmed Washington Officials. Washington special: The Secretary of the Navy has received the following cablegram from Admiral Kempff, commanding the United States steamer Newark, lying at the Taku forts at the mouth of the Pel-Ho river, dated Taku, June 5: "Engagement has commenced. Have landed a force of fifty seamen more-battalions and marines." The break in the admiral's cablegram is caused by an illegible group of figures in the cablegram. Reading in one light it would seem that the Newark has landed fifty sailors to reinforce the marines already ashore, and in another aspect the gap might be read to state that fifty sailors had been landed with another battalion of marines. However that may be the admiral's news is regarded as of the utmost gravity. Secretary Long has cabled him to send his messages hereafter in plain English in order to avoid further misunderstandings and delays in transmitting the cipher. The admiral has said nothing about neding more force, but the department stands ready to supply this at once, supposing that he has not communicated directly with Rear Admiral Remey at Manila in quest of reinforcements. London, June 6.—The London morning papers have nothing from China regarding an attack upon Tien-Tsin, but the Times, in an editorial discussing the situation, says that everything was ready for such an emergency, the foreign settlements being protected by gunboats along the wharves of the Pel-Ho river. The Times goes on to say: "The Chinese troops who are supposed to be putting down the rebellion have been placed under the orders of a general whose soldiers have been for months past a standing menace to the safety of foreigners in the province of Pe-Chi-Li. This merely adds another touch of impudence to the sinister farce which is being played under the eye of Western diplomacy in the Chinese capital. Peking itself is believed to be safe, and though, no doubt, in any case, the foreign detachments which have been sent up to guard the legations may be trusted to give a good account of themselves, the safety of the city may presumably be attributed in an equal measure to the regard of the Empress dowager for her own personal convenience." ence. --- ```markdown ``` Expressed. FALL OF PRETORIA ROBERTS BEATS THE BOERS AND CAPITAL SURRENDERS. Officials of Pretoria Meet Lord Roberts With Flag of Truce and Invite Him to Enter—Captured by Boers— Rejoicing in England. London, June 5.—11:07 p. m.—The War Office has received the following from Lord Roberts: *Pretoria.* June 5.—12:55 p. m.—Just before dark yesterday the enemy were beaten back from nearly all the positions they had been holding, and Ian Hamilton's mounted infantry followed them to within two thousand yards of Pretoria, through which they retreated hastily. De Lisle then sent an officer with a flag of truce into the town demanding its surrender in my name. Shortly before midnight, I was awakened by two officials of the South African republic-Sandberg, military secretary to Commandant General Botha, and a general officer of the Boer army—who brought me a letter from Botha, proposing an armistice for the purpose of settling the terms of surrender. I replied that I would gladly meet the commandant general the next morning, but that I was not prepared to discuss any terms, as the surrender of the town must be unconditional. I asked for a reply by daybreak, as I had ordered the troops to march on the town as soon as it was light. In his reply Botha told me that he had decided not to defend Pretoria, and that he trusted women, children and property would be protected. At 1 o'clock this morning, while on the line of march, I was met by three of the principal officials with a flag of truce, stating their wish to surrender the town. It was arranged that Pretoria should be taken possession of by her majesty's troops at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Botha and Mrs. Kruger are both in Pretoria. Some few of the British prisoners have been taken away, but the majority are still at Waterval. Over a hundred of the officers are in Pretoria. The few I have seen are looking well." CAPTURED BY BOERS Thirteenth Battalion of the Imperial Infantry Taken Prisoners, London, June 5.—12 p. m.—Following is the text of a dispatch from Lord Roberts announcing a disaster to the Thirteenth Battalion of the Imperial (Irish) Yeomanry: "Pretoria, June 5.—12:55 p. m.—I regret to report that the Thirteenth Imperial Yeomanry had to surrender to a very superior force of the enemy on May 31 near Linden. On receiving information of the battalion being attacked I ordered Methuen to proceed with all speed to its assistance. Methuen was then on the march on the Helbron side of Kroonstad, and, half an hour after the receipt of my telegram on June 1, he started off. By 10 a.m. of the following day he had marched forty-four miles in twenty-four hours, but he was too late to rescue Colonel Sprague's yeomanry. Methuen attacked the Boers, who were between 2,000 and 3,000 strong, and after a running fight of five hours, completely routed the enemy. It is a very regrettable circumstance, but I trust it will not be very long before the Irish yeomanry are released from captivity." REJOICING IN ENGLAND Queen Victoria Drinks Roberts's Health and the People Celebrate. London, June 6—4:37 a. m.—Queen Victoria, surrounded by the Duke and Duches of York. Princess Christian, Princess Victoria and many other notables of the court, drank to the health of Lord Roberts and the army at Balmoral last evening. A great bonfire, lighted at her majesty's command, blazed on a nearby ANNEXATION CEREMONIES THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA TWO MEN ROB THREE STAGES. One of the, Boldest Hold-Ups in the History of California. Raymond, Cal., special: One of the boldest robberies ever committed in California occurred Saturday when three of the Yosemite Stage and Turnpike Company's stages, a private conveyance and two soldiers were held up by two highwaymen, who were not aware that Maj. Rucker and Capt. E. E. Wilcox, in command of sixty-seven men of Troop F, 6th Cavalry, from the Presidio, were close behind en route to the Yosemite National Park. The hold-up occurred at a point two miles this side of Grub Gulch. Sergt. Buchanan and another trooper had gone ahead of the cavalry to make arrangements for selecting a camping place. The highwaymen suddenly appeared, masked, and, getting the drop on the troopers, took away their guns and held the troopers till the stages arrived. The robbers handed the drivers of the stages a card, reading, "Black Kid," and said, "They fooled me on the Big Oak flat road, but you can't this time." The robber then took a hat belonging to T. H. Griffiths, of the Southern Pacific Company, a passenger on the stage, and collected $150 from the passengers, after which he ordered the driver to go on. Each stage was successively held up, the robbers getting about $350. The mail and express matter were not molested. ONE OF NEELY'S SCHEMES. Imported Paper Free of Duty and Sold it to Printing Firms. New Orleans special: A. P. Stubbs, an American newspaper man, who has been in Havana for over a year, has arrived here on the steamship Aransas. Mr. Stubbs throws some light on a feature of the Cuban postal frauds. He says: "Some months ago the Morning Post, of Havana, was a bidder for the printing of the stationery used in the several departments of the postoffices. This class of printed matter, frequently giving out, the postmaster used to let the contracts for the printing of it in Havana. We used to bid for the printing of these blanks, but, despite the fact that we bid very low, the contracts were always awarded to Spanish or Cuban firms. After trying for some time to arrive at a solution of the problem we at last unearthed the secret. It seems that Charles Neely was largely interested in some large jobbing house located in Ohio. In his office at Havana Mr. Neely could have the paper shipped from his Ohio firm, and passed through the Havana custom house duty free. Mr. Neely simply sold the paper to the native printing houses at a ridiculously low figure. On the other hand, as we were compelled to pay the high tariff we could not compete with them. As a matter of fact, it was a case of whack up between Neely and his paper customers." Gov. Roosevelt Sighs Papers Recognizing Demand of Cuban Authorities. New York special: Governor Roosevelt has signed the Neely extradition papers and they were forwarded to Washington Sunday. By the Governor's action in recognizing the demand of the Cuban authorities for C. F., Neely, who is charged with defrauding the postal department of many thousands of dollars, the prisoner, now confined in Ludlow street jail, is handed over to the island courts for trial. For some time it seemed doubtful whether Governor Roosevelt would honor the demand for extradition, as he has had the matter under advisement for several weeks. Roosevelt's action, together with the passage of the extradition bill by the Senate, seems to make Neely's trial in the Cuban courts a certainty. WRECKED BY ROBBERS Savings Bank Blown Up and $1,600 in Money Stolen. Des Moines special: The Savings Bank of Sheldahl, twenty miles north of here, was blown up by four robbers Friday night. They secured $1,600 and escaped after holding fifty or more citizens at bay with rifles, while they looted the wrecked vault. The explosion shook the town and wrecked the bank building. About fifty citizens rushed to the scene. Two of the robbers held the crowd at bay while their two confederates secured the money. Then the four backed off into the darkness and escaped. The loss on the bank building is estimated at $3,000. Added to this is the sum of $1,600, secured by the robbers. No trace of the robbers has been secured. Della Fox Insane New York special: Della May Fox, the well-known actress, was committed by Judge McAdam. in the Supreme Court, Friday, to the insane asylum at Wave Crest, Astoria. L. L., on the petition of her brother, William H. Fox, and on the evidence of Drs. Austin Flint, Jr., and Edward D. Fisher, which showed that she is laboring under delusions. Gen. Otls Arrives. San Francisco, special: The transport Meade arrived from Manila Wednesday night with Major General E. S. Otis and a number of gaily decorated tugs and bor a salute of thirteen guns was fired, and a number of gaily decorate tugs and launches went out to meet her. The quarantine officers boarded the Meade and she was headed toward the quarantine station at Augel Island. THE MARKETS INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT, No. 2 red ... $.72 CORN, No. 1 white ... .33% OATS, No. 2 white ... .28 HAY ... 12.50 @ 14.00 POULTRY—Hens ... .07 Cocks ... .04 Hen turkeys ... .071% Butter ... .03 @ .12 Eggs, fresh ... .10 Wool ... .18 @ .25 Hides ... .071% @ .081% CATTLE—Prime steers ... 5.20 @ 5.60 HOGS—Heavies ... 5.10 @ 5.171% Roughs ... 4.25 @ 4.75 SHEEP—Good to choice ... 4.00 @ 4.25 Good to choice lambs ... 6.00 @ 8.75 CHICAGO WHEAT, No. 2 red ... .71 CORN, No. 2 ... .371% OATS, No. 2 white ... .221% 56TH CONGRESS. The House Wednesday passed 190 pension bills, after which Mr. Dalzell said: "Having celebrated Decoration Day by the passage of these pension bills, I move as a further mark of respect that the House do now adjourn." The motion prevailed without division and at 2:10 p. m. the House adjourned. The Senate was not in session Wednesday. The House Thursday, under a special order adopted after an exceedingly hot debate, in which the leaders on both sides charged each other with playing to the political galleries, began consideration of the resolution reported from the judiciary committee proposing a constitutional amendment to lodge in Congress the power to "define, regulate, control, prohibit or dissolve trusts, monopolies or combinations." At the conclusion of a session lasting eight hours the Senate Thursday passed the sunday civil appropriation bill. The amendment providing for an appropriation of $,500,000 for the Louisiana purchase exposition, to be held in St. Louis, in 1903, was continued in the bill. An effort was made to reduce the amount to be appropriated, but it was unsuccessful. An amendment was incorporated providing for the beginning of the work on the memorial bridge between Washington and Arlington Cemetery, to be erected in memory of the dead of both the Union and Confederate armies. While the bill carries only $200,000 for the project it is expected ultimately to cost about $,500,000. The proposed amendment to the constitution to give Congress control of trusts received 154 votes for to 131 against in the House Friday afternoon. Despite this majority of 23 the proposition was lost, not receiving the two-thirds required by the constitution. All the opposition votes but two were cast by Democrats and Populists. In the course of the debate preceding the vote on the measure, Mr. Thayer, of Massachusetts, defined a trust as "a business bastard", which Mr. Hanna could not palm off as the result of thrift, push and fair dealing of the American people. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, devoted a few minutes in explaining that the failure of the Ohio Republi-cans to nominate Attorney General Monnell, of Ohio, did not indicate that they were opposed to the prosecution of trusts. Mr. Monnett had had two terms, and it was the well-established rule that no man should be a candidate for that office for a third time. Besides, he said, Mr. Monnett was not a candidate for relection. Mr. Lentz, of Ohio, said it was exceedingly pleasant for him to hear Mr. Grosvenor apologize for the third time for the Republican party of Ohio. Mr. Monnett, he said, had prosecuted one trust out of Ohio, in spite of the temptation of a bribe of $400,000, and in spite of the browbeating of the Republican press of the State. The debate in the Senate Friday was warm. Soon after the Senate convened a memorial was presented from the people of California, asking that the government provide some relief for the starving people of India. Mr. Hale, of Maine, with this as a text, severely arraigned Great Britain for expending hundreds of millions of dollars in crushing liberty and freedom in South Africa, instead of caring for the helpless and dying people of England's chief colony. Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, charged Mr. Hale with making political speeches on irrelevant matters and a little later, when Mr. Hale reported a further disagreement on the naval appraisal bill an exciting discussion arose over the armor-plate question. A sharp political twist was given to the debate by a speech which Mr. Hanna, of Ohio, delivered, in favor of leaving the whole matter in the hands of the Senate confeeers and by conferring discretionary power upon the Secretary of the Navy in accordance with the House proposition. He became involved in a controversy with Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, and Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, over the government's ability to manufacture armor successfully, in the course of which the sparks flew, to the intense interest of the auditors. The bill finally was returned to conference. The Military Academy appraisal bill was passed. It carries amendments making General Miles and all future commanders of the army Lieutenant Generals, and Gen. Corbin a Major General. The House Monday agreed to the Senate amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the Louisiana purchase exposition at St. Louis. The House also agreed to the Senate item for the Mississippi river with an amendment reducing the appropriation to $2,250,000 and adding a provision for the preparation of a comprehensive report on the levee system by the Mississippi river commission. The disputed items of the District of Columbia appropriation bill were agreed to and the bill went to the President, leaving only four appropriation bills still in dispute between the two houses. Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, is making an effort to delay final adjournment unless action is had on the Grout oleomargarine bill, but he met with no success. The Senate was in session more than ten hours Monday, nearly four hours of which were spent in executive session. The only features of the day were the speech on the Philippine question by Mr. Teller, of Colorado, and the effort by Pettigrew, of South Dakota, to obtain consideration for the anti-trust bill passed by the House last Saturday. At night a pictureless session was held—a sort of social session—at which many of the Senators appeared in full dress and the galleries were thronged by a gaily attired crowd of spectators. Mr. Pettigrew replied at length to the speech of Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, on the Philippines but did not conclude his remarks. The remainder of the session was occupied in consideration of conference reports and passing minor measures on the calendar. Partisan passion broke out in the House Tuesday, and hot words were banded across the political aisle. Mr. Hull, of Iowa, and Mr. Lentz, of Ohio, crossed swords, and later Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, and Mr. Gaines, of Tennessee, had a lively encounter. At the night session the galleries were thronged with gayly arrayed women, and the floor was a veritable bedlam. Hour after hour the conferences struggled on with the reports, the Speaker, firm and resolute, steering the House through the turmoil and confusion. Toward midnight the galleries thinned out but the tired legislators, with the prospects of an all night session ahead, remained in their place. The Alaskan code bill was adopted. A conference was ordered on the Neely extradition bill, and then the differences between the two houses on the military academy appropriation bill were considered, an hour being given each side for debate. A tornado of partisan debate swept over the Senate Tuesday with Senators Hanna, of Ohio; Pettigrew, of South Dakota; and Carter, of Montana, the chief figures. For sensational criminals and recriminations, for bitter personalities, and for polignant invective the debate exceeded anything heard on the floor of the chamber for many years. The lie was not passed directly, but the truthfulness of statements was challenged very sharply. Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, precipitated the scene by repeating a charge made several days ago by Mr. Pettigrew that Mr. Cramp, the Philadelphia ship builder, had contributed $400,000 to the Republican campaign fund in 1882 with the understanding that he would be reimbursed by contracts for the construction of warships for the government. This charge, Mr. Bacon said, had been denied neither by Mr. Hanna, the present chairman of the Republican national committee, nor by Mr. Carter, who was chairman of the committee in 1882. The storm broke, Mr. Hanna vigorously denied any knowledge of such a transaction and expressed his opinion that it was false. Mr. Cramp declared the statement properly could be branded only as a lie. Mr. Pettigrew not only reiterated the statement, but created a tremendous sensation by stating his authority was no less a person than Mr. Cramp himself, and that in a conversation with Mr. Carter that Senator had substantially verified the story. He also attacked Mr. Hanna relative to his election to the Senate. Mr. Hanna replied in kind, and expressed doubt of the South Dakota's sanity. He was followed by Mr. Carter, who not only denounced the charges as figments of Mr. Pettigrew's imagination, but warned the Democrats, who were now the associates of the Dakota, that if they would "lie down with dogs they would get up with fleas." The Senate went into executive session at 3 o'clock on the Bynum case. The vote was a tie—33 to 33—the effect of which is negative, in this case meaning a failure to confirm, so that Bynum's nomination to the office of general appraiser, the salary of which is $7,500 annually, failed. STUBBORN BOERS. STUBBORN BOERS. BURGHERS CONTINUE TO RESIST BRITISH ADVANCE. Gen. Roberts Suffers a Loss of Nearly Two Hundred Men Between Lindley and Senekal. London, June 3.-Gen. Roberts's bulletins contain evidence that the Dutch have not yet finished fighting, and that there is urgent need of caution in conducting the advance. The Highland Brigade, instead of being with Gen. Ian Hamilton, as was previously supposed, has been advancing from Ventersburg to Helibron, and skirmishing the whole distance. The naval guns and field artillery were used and the march was a trying one, with about fifty casualties. The persistent opposition offered to Gen. Colville's troops on the immediate flank of the railway line leading to the Vaal is proof that the Free State burghers are yet in the field, bent on harrassing the British army in its northward progress. Gen. Roberts's casualties in the operations between Lindley and Senekel have run up to 189, and the press dispatches show that the Free State troops were strongly re-enforced from Bethlehem, and that they fought with determination and skill, and were driven back at a stubborn resistance. Gen. Brabant is reported to have surrounded a small Boer force near Ficksburg. Gens. Colville, Rundle, Clements and Brabant now hold a long line on the eastern flank, from Helibron through Lindley and Senekal to Ficksburg, and the Free State troops are contesting strongly the general wheeling movement toward Bethlehem and Harrissmith. The Dutch resistance has not ended in that quarter nor in the "poor white" district of Cape Colony, where Gen. Warren has been confronted with a superior force of rebels. The details of this affair show that the rebels were repulsed after they had succeeded in surrounding Warren's force, but not until there had been hard fighting. Public interest centers on the advance line between Johannesburg and Pretoria. French's report of his operations on Monday and Tuesday did not reach Gen. Roberts until Thursday morning. He had driven the Boers from a series of strong positions, with thirty-one casualties, and was holding his ground north of Johannesburg in accordance with Gen. Roberts's instructions. OKLAHOMA'S WHEAT PEST. Director Fields Says It Can Do No Great Injury to the Crop. Guthrie, Okla., special: Prof. John W. Fields, director of the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment. Station, has made a careful study of the insect appearing upon wheat, and has caused so much alarm, and Saturday issued a special bulletin, in which he says: "The pest is not so serious as might at first seem to be the case. Either in the egg or mature stage the insect or louse, passes the winter and in the spring begins to multiply very rapidly by certain individuals bringing forth young alive. In a week or ten days this new generation begins to reproduce, so that in a comparatively short time thousands may be descended from a common single parent. The wheat would certainly be better off without them for they suck out the juice that properly belongs to the plant, and which should go to mature the grain. In some fields it is possible, judging from reports sent to the station that the yield may be reduced from 1 to 3 per cent. There are remedies that might be used on a small scale, but none that are practicable on large scale in the field at this time of the year." Author Crane Dead. London cable: Stephen Crane, the well-known American writer, died at 3 a. m., Tuesday. Crane had been ill for a long time. Recently he was removed to the "Black forest" in Germany, but the change did not benefit him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, N. J. Nov. 1, 1871. He entered journalism when 16, and for years acted as reporter and writer of newspaper sketches. Since 1586 he devoted his time chiefly to story writing. AGUINALDO DEAD. EVIDENCE THAT MARCH'S MEN KILLED FILIPINO CHIEF. Officer Supposed to Have Been Aguinaldo Hit and Carried Away in a Dying Condition—Documents Captured NEELY'S SYSTEM. He Kept Only One-Half Postal Receipts and Turned Over Balance to Havana cable: Acting Director of Posts Bristow Monday inquired as to the amount of postal funds taken by C. W. F. Neely in May, 1899, and ascertained that it was $31,313.95. Neely's monthly average was about $17,000. His system of bookkeeping was simplicity itself. Apparently, he merely divided the amounts received, taking one-half for himself and accounting for the other. Tuesday morning the examination of Estes G. Rathbone, former director of posts, was continued. It lasted more than four hours. The most startling fact developed was that on May 26 of last year Mr. Rathbone ordered Special Agents Leatherer and Sullivan to examine the accounts. They found a shortage, but it was not thought that anything had gone wrong. They reported, however, that there was no check upon the bureau of finance, and they recommended that certain blank forms be made, which would answer the purpose, such as all the post-masters use when making their reports to the department monthly. MOTORMAN GOES CRAZY New York special! A new horror in street car travel broke loose in Third avenue Saturday night when James Casey, a motorman on the Third avenue road, went crazy on his car at the crossing of Twenty-third street and madly sent it to destruction. One man was mortally injured and a score of other passengers had limbs broken. Several were knocked senseless. The motorman had been complaining of the heat during the day. As the car crossed the tracks of the Twenty-third street line with a whoop he swung around the controller until the full force of the electric current was on. The wild car collided with a grocer's van. The driver was hurled twenty feet away and ley unconscious. The roof of the car was torn off. The passengers were tossed into an indiscriminate heap. The mad motorman was shot over the dashboard and brought up unconscious against an 'L' pillar. BY 8,000 PLURALITY. Oregon Republicans Have Swept the State — Legislature Republican. Portland, Ore., special: Complete returns from twenty-two out of the thirty-three counties in the two State show that in Monday's elections the Republicans carried the head of the ticket by at least 8,000 plurality. Returns so far give Wolverton, Republican, for Justice of the Supreme Court, a plurality of 7.951. For Congressman in the First district, Tongue, Republican, has 2.421 plurality. In the Second district, Moody, Republican, for Congress, has 5.550 plurality. The Republicans will control both branches of the Legislature and will have a majority of twenty-two on joint ballot. The two houses will be made up as follows: Senate—Republicans, 20; opposition, 10. House—Republicans, 26; opposition, 24. The woman suffrage amendment is defeated. THE RECORDER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year. $1.00 Six Months. 50 Three Months. 25 Subscriptions may be sent by postoffice money order, or registered letter. All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer— not necessarily for publication but as a guar- tee of good faith. e We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact all matter affecting the Race. We will not pay for any matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office not later than Wed- nesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. ADVERTISING RATES Will be furnished on Application. Entered at the Postoffice as second-class matter. All letters, Communications and Business matters should be addressed to THE RECORDER, 122 W New York street. Geo. P. STEWART, Publisher SATURDAY, JUNE 9., 1900 EDITORIAL 1 THE STATE TICKET. For Governor, WINFIELD T. DURBIN, Madison County. For Lieutenant Governor, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Steuben County. For Secretary of State, UNION B. HUNT, Randolph County. For Auditor of State, WILLIAM H. HART, Clinton County. For Treasurer of State, LEOPOLD LEVY, Huntington County. For Attorney General, WILLIAM L. TAYLOR, Marion County. For Superintendent Public Instruction, FRANK L. JONES, Tipton County. For State Statistician, B. E. JOHNSON, Benton County. For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARLES F. REMY, Jackson County. For Judge of the Supreme Court, First District, JAMES H. JORDAN, Morgan County. Fourth District, LEANDER J. MONKS Randolph County. Delegates-at-Large, CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, JAMES A. MOUNT, CHARLES S. HERNLY, Alternates, NATHAN POWELL, WILLIAM AMSDEN, THOMAS ADAMS, GURLEY BREWER, Electors, HUGH H. HANNA, C. W. MILLER. COUNTY TICKET. For Prosecutor—John C. Ruckles haus. For Commissioner, First District— John McGaughey. For Commissioner, Third District— Thomas Spafford. For County Assessor—Marion Eaton For Coroner—Dr. Alembert W. Bray- ton. For Surveyor—James Nelson. THE democrats of this state have just held what in some respects was a remarkable convention. For instance, four gold democrats were sent as delegates-at-large to the Kansas City Convention with instructions to vote for William Jendings Bryan on a free silver platform THE COMING CONVENTION. The Republican National Convention which meets in Philadelphia June 19 can look back with keen satisfaction over the past three years of American history and feel a pardonable pride in the contrast between the conditions which confront the country today and those of 1896. When the convention met in St Louis and the country was under Democratic rule, business was stagnant, industry was paralyzed, and a feeling of depression and unrest prevailed the country. With the return of the Republican party to power came prosperity—the idle wheels in the factories began to turn and the compulsory idler of four years ago has been transformed into the contented workman of today. This great change is the outgrowth of confidence. The manufacturer, confident of the ability of the Republican party to protect his interests, has set his idle employees to work, and the well-filled dinner pails, more eloquent than words, tell how well the Republican party has kept its pledge made to the workingman in 1896. The successful maintenance of a sound currency has proved the utter folly of the 16 to 1 theory. Not since the rebellion has any administration been confronted with such vital problems as has the present one, and half a century has elapsed since this government had to treat with a foreign foe. But this trying ordeal has been safely passed. The war begun for humanity has accomplished its purpose and covered American arms with glory. At its conclusion we find ourselves suddenly in possession of new and valuable territory and are confronted with the momentous questions which the just government of these new island possession involve. The issue has been squarely met. Stable government has succeeded disorder in Cuba and Porto Rico, and the work of passification in the Philippines is going ssteadily onward. Despite the cry of imperilism and the prediction of dire disaster by the false prophet of the Platte the ship of state has weathered the storm and now rests at anchor in the calm of conservative republicanism. THE movement to establish a Negro national party is inconsistent and impractible. It is a harmful drawing of the color line which would be vigorously resented by its promoters hid it come from the white man's side Such a movement can not find justification upon any ground unless we wish to perpetuate the idea that the Negro is a separate and distinct part of this country. The promotors have probably deluded themselves with the idea that the movement is prompted by feelings of race pride. It is very unprofitable pride at best. It is unpractical for the very obvious reason that there are not enough Negro voters to elect the ticket. We see no reason why the Negroes should be solicited to throw away their votes to gratify the vanity of having one of their number a candidate for the presidency. The colored voters of Indiada prefer to cast their ballots for candidates who have a reasonable chance of winning. --- The color question has been raised in the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, now in session at Milwaukee, and Mrs. Josephine Ruffin is being made to feel the sting of race prejudice. Mrs. Ruffin is a member of the Massachusetts delegation, being the representative of the New Era club of Boston. The Southern women threten cecession if colored women are admitted while the Massachusetts and Iowa delegations insist the Mrs. Ruffin be seated. Mrs. Ruffin is a woman of education and refinement—a gentlewoman—and while not wishing to intrude her presence where it is unwelcome she would be untrue to here race should she voluntarily relinquish those privileges to which she is justly entitled. Mite Missionary Meets. Marion, Indiana, Special.--The Woman's Mite Missionary State convention of the A. M. E. churches of Indiana, convened in this city Thursday. Mrs. M. E. Tiester, of Crawfordsville is presiding. Mrs. Hattie Fosseff-Ferguson of Franklin, is the corresponding secretary, and Mrs. A. Clayborne of Indianapolis, recording secretary. About sixty delegates are in attendance. THE RECORDER INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA AID ASSOCIATION A Model Institution Organized and Conducted by Colored Men The organization of a mutual aid association under the direction of a number of leading colored men, which was mentioned exclusively in The Recorder several weeks ago has been completed and the association is now issuing certificates of stock 'to all applicants. The many good features about this new organization at once commends it to the public, and especially to those who are unable to provide for the "rainy day." As stated the object is to provide for a suitable burial for its deceased members, and at the lowest possible cost. The plan as offered shows that this has been accomplished. The memberseip fee has been placed at one dollar, upon the payment of which the payee receives a certificate of membership in the association. The fact that no dues, no regular meetings, no sitting up with the sick are embraced within the provisions of this association at once places it upon a favorable basis. Upon the death of any member all holders of certificates will be assessed the sum 50 cents for the purpose of paying the sum $65, which is allowed for the burial of each and every member. If after paying the assessment there remains any surplus the same will be used to create a reserve fund. Thus it will be readily seen that the organization is in reality a public benefactor. Under its workings the number of pauper or charity burials will be considerably lessened and this hitherto unwelcome duty will not befall those whose foresight and prudence will enable them to partake of this offer Again, the fact that the association was formed and is run solely by men of the race bespeaks much for it. The old and the young, the rich or the poor, black or white, in fact anybody of good moral character will be welcome to membership. In a recent circular issued by the directors the following reasons are given showing the necessity of the association: The Mutual Aid Association was organized after seeing the great number of pauper burials which occur constantly, and also those which require the assistance of the public. The entire object of this association is to give its members a respectable burial. The sum of $65 is appropriated to each member for this use, and it is our intention to increase this sum as the membership increases. It is an organization which does not require weekly or monthly meetings or tax its members any dues what ever. Any person paying one dollar will receive a certificate, which entitles him to $65 at death. All that is required of him is 50 cents assessment at the death of each member. Anyone is eligible to membership regardless of age or sex Reasons why every one should become a member of the Mutual Aid Association: 1 Because it is on the most improved plan, and is especially adapted to the circumstances and requirements of the working class and all who have small incomes 2 Because it is the most inexpensive organization in the city and gives a neat sum of money to its deceased members. 3 Because there are no dues to be paid, only the entrance fee of one dollar and 50 cents assessment at the death of a member. 4 Because everyone is eligible to membership regardless of sex or age 5 Because it is much cheaper than any lodge or insurance and at death gives $65. 6 Because our board is composed of men who are looking out for the interest of their race. 7 Because there are no meetings and it does not take its members out at night. 8 Because there is no regalia or uniform of any kind to be bought or worn. 9 Because those who have been barred from lodges and insurance on account of age can become members The officers are as follows: Walter Jameson, president; Thomas Smith, treasurer; R. H. Smith, general secretary; Louis Williams, assistant secretary; C. M. C. Willis, chairman trustee board; Richard Teeters and John H. Sweeney, trustees. The association meets at 536 Indiana avenue Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper Missionary Meeting. The Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society was intertwined by Mrs. Mammie Benson in 366 Smith st. The meeting was very largely attended and the members seemed to take more of an interest in the work. The inspiring words by the Rev. Thompson were very encouraging. The installation of officers also took place. The society will be intertwined next week by Mrs Margaret Johnson at 843-Superio street. AROUND THE CHURCHES BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH CORNER Vermont and Toledo Srl Rev. C. W. Newton, pastor. Sunday grand rally, Three services Morning 10:30; afternoon 2:30; evening 7:45. The following pastors have been envoited to take charge of the collection tables in the afternoon: Dr Carr, Dr. Wakefield, Dr. Gilliam, Dr. Murray, Dr. Blackshear, Rev. Craven, Revs. Christian and Rev. Bell. We hereby further extend an invitation to allother pastors and congregations of the city to be with us and help us. Dorcas Circle of Jones Tabernacle will turn out in their club colors and help with a club contribution The afternoon sermon will be delivered by Rev. R. W, Christain, of Bloomington, Ill. CLASS LUES. No. 12, J. P. Hoy. leader; collection $1.35 No. 18, Elmer Donald, leader; collection $1.05 No. 14, Wm. Parks, leader, collection $1.25. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH [Cor, Prospect and McKernan Sts.] R. D. Leonard. Pastor. A grand concert will be given by the K of P. Band and the Morning Star Club Friday, June 15th. The public is invited. Grand rally on the fourth Sunday in June. Brother ministers and pastors of the city, come over and help us in the re-opening of our church. Rev. Leonard has had the church beautifully papered and a fine reflector put in which illuminates the church very nicely. We are prospering very nicely under the pastorate of Rev. Leonard. The Rev. J. W. Carr, D. D., the able and much beloved pastor of the Second Baptist church, will preach for us on the fourth Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Rev. H. V. Taylor, of Cementville, preached an able sermon Thursday night. Let every captain arouse their forces and be prepared to make the charge on the fourth Sunday in June. The third tunday is the regular Lord's Supper and covenant meeting Every member is expected to be present. SIMPSON CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH Cor. Howard and 11th Street) Last Sunday was communion at this church and a glorious time was had. Rev. A. L. Murray, of Allen Chapel, preached the sacramental sermon, and many hearts were made to rejoice as he expounded the word. Nearly 250 persons communed. Mrs. Ida Childus, of Cincinnati, cast her membership with us last Sunday morning. All who were not at love feast last Monday night missed a rare treat. The Lord was certainly with us and we had a strong outpouring of the Holy Ghost. After the love feast the pastor read a report of all monies taken during the two months, one month of which he was away attending conference in Chicago, he has been in charge. The aggregate receipts were $345.27. This speaks well for both pastor and church The Red, White and Blue club will give a grand concert Wednesday, June 13. Please give them your assistance The Junior League is preparing us a treat for Wednesday, June 20. Everyone is invited The Senior Epworth League will give a wheel party to the home of Mrs. Irene Browders, 3205 Senate avenue Thursday evening, June 21st. All persons desiring to go will please meet at the church at 8 o'clock that evening. We are glad to state that no sickness or deaths have been reported to us this week—a red-letter week. Everyone wants to purchase a yellow ticket for the Big Four union picnic to be given at Bethany Park Thursday, June 23 FREE BAPTIST CHURCH Corner Rhode Island and Newport, Se Sunday services will be conducted by the pastor. Sunday school at 2 p. m. Christain Endeavor meeting at 7 p. m. Everybody welcome. Tickets are out for the Junior Club's concert on the 14th. "Help us he'p each other Lord Each other's cross to bear." JONES TABERNACLE A, M. E. ZION CHURCH Sunday morning the pastor preached an inspiring and interesting sermon, and at 8 p. m. he delighted his congregation with a talk on his trip to Washington. We are expecting this quarter to be the best in our six years. The clubs are all in line and are expecting to give a grand drill during the quarter. All eyes will be turned towards the Big Four picnic at Bethany Park on the 28th. Jones Tabernacle is expecting all her friends and well-wishers to assist her as they have always done in the past. Be sure and get a blue ticket. The Ladies Social Club met at the residence of Mrs. Kate Frye, Fayette street. Thursday afternoon The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society will give a social Tuesday, June 12th at the church. Admission free Sister Ellen Weathers is some better Brother Thomas Poole has laid off from work for a few days on account of being sick The Christian Endeavor Society had a very good business meeting last Friday night. Our Christain Endeavor is still alive Owing to the Afro-American Council meeting here in August it is absolutely necessary that the local council meet next Wednesday, June 13th at Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Zion church at 8 p. m. It is hoped that all the members and friends interested will be present. It is also desired that the executive committee will be present and be ready to report. By order of the president, Rev. A. Wakefield CORNTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH Corner North and Spring Streets. The pastor preached two eloquent sermons last Sunday In the afternoon communion services were held. The pastor was assisted by Rev. Walker and Rev. Payne There was quite a spiritual manifestation on the part of the members present. The bicycle social last Wednesday night was not as great a success as anticipated owing to the fact that the weather was very threatening on that night. There will be another social at our church in the near future in the interest of the Pipe Organ Club under the management of Mrs. Nora Wilson and Mrs. Sadie Dungy. Look for further particulars. The beautiful sacred cantata, "Jeptheth and His Daughter," will be rendered by a chorus of torty voices, June 12th and 13th. The tickets are selling fast and we look foward to a large audience each night. Don't fail to come We desire to appeal to the young men of our church to become more active and zealous in not only a spiritual but a financial and social way, as the welfare of the church demands it The sick are all convalescing slowly. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE. PATENTS TRADE MARKS, DESIGNS, COPYRIGHTS &c. Anyone sending a sketch or description may quickly assertain, free, whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly make matters. Space for securing patents in America. We have a Washington office. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, beautifully illustrated, largest circulation of any scientific journal, weekly, terms $0.00 a year; LAST MONTHS, LAND AND HAND BOOK ON PATENTS sent free. Address MUNN & CO. 261 Broadway, New York. Bradford's Lament. "Prospects in the American trade generally are not encouraging, for the exports of cotton goods are likely to fall away, America having got machinery by which they can produce special effects themselves." Such is the dismal forecast of the Bradford correspondent of the "Financial Times" of London. For the year 1899 cotton goods formed the principal part of Bradford's trade with the United States. The gross value amounting to nearly $3,000,000, but the export of woolen goods fell off from about $2,200,000 in 1898 to only about $6,000 in 1899. Five years ago Bradford sent us in one year over $8,000,000 worth of worsted coatings, while the amount for last year was a little over $300,000. The Tariff is to blame for it. Through its operations the demand for domestic fabrics has increased, and the trade losses lamented by Bradford and other European woolen centers are represented by the immense gain for American labor and material through the purchase and use of cloths made in our own country. Now it appears that by reason of the Tariff on fine cotton American mills are being equipped with machinery that will turn out these goods so successfully as to seriously diminish the amounts heretofore purchased abroad. It would seem that there is no end to the ravages wrought by the Tariff in that portion of our foreign trade which is included in the imports. Not so the exports. They keep right on growing year by year. The Tariff is a two-edged sword which cuts both ways for our prosperity. Another Orphan Child. From a financial journal of high standing we learn that the capital stock of a projected woolen combination will be $90,000,000, and that the scheme contemplates the consolidation of all the worsted spimming firms in the country. At a recent meeting to consider the plans of the promoters representatives of 104 firms were present. It was explained to those present that the basis of capitalization is that the good will is to be calculated at seven and one-half times the profits above five per cent. Where did this meeting occur, and in what country is it proposed to form a combination of woolen manufacturers with a capital stock of $300,000,000? "In the United States, of course, the country where, as we are told by Mr. Havemeyer, the customs Tariff is the mother of trusts." Not at all. You are more than three thousand miles out of the way. The leading financial journal which imparts the information referred to is the London "Statist," and the parties interested in the formation of this gigantic trust are the worsted spinners of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It will hardly be contended that the customs Tariff is the mother of this trust, for England, the home of a very large number of capitalistic combines, is a Free-Trade country. Work Instead of Mischief. A recent dispatch from Louisville, Ky., reports that the jeans clothing business in that section is booming. Shippings last month showed a gain of 25 per cent, over those for January, 1899, and manufacturers have more orders for spring shipments than they ever had before. There are eight or ten jeans mills in the vicinity of Louisville, and all are sharing in the general prosperity. There is very little doubt that the present trouble in Kentucky would have taken on a very much uglier aspect if there had been as many idle, discontented men hanging about to swell the mob on the one side or the other, as there would have been when Democracy had closed our factories, put business at a standstill and thrown men out of work. Men with work to do haven't time to hang around looking for trouble, and our policy sees to it that men have work to do—all they want of it. It sees to it in Kentucky as well as in the rest of the country. The result is peace and quiet instead of discontent and mob violence. Yielded to the Tempter. "Twenty years ago," said the man in the tweed suit. "I knew that gentleman who alighted at the last station. He was a man of rare promise, a graduate of college, of brilliant intellect, and shrewd mercantile ability. Life dawned before him in all the glowing colors of fair promise. He inherited money and invested it in a business which prospered. He married a beautiful girl who bore him three charming children. But in an evil hour the young man yielded to the temper. He began to drink beer. He liked it, continued drinking it, and encouraged others to drink. That was only ten years ago, and he was a perosous, wealthy man. To-day, what is he?" He paused, when a clergyman in the carriage, who had listened attentively, said, sadly: "A sot, perhaps a begar?" "Quite wrong, sir," replied the man in the tweeds. "He is a Member of Parliament, and partner in a brewery, worth half a million of money."—Ally Sloner. OUR CORRESPONDENTS, News, Incidents, Social * and * Personal Activities Mitchell Items. Mrs Sarah Brewer and Miss Leti tie of Corydon are the guests of Mrs. Mary Crain, Harry Robinson and Myra Lewis graduated from high school this yea. Mrs. Lizzie Withall of Shelby- ville, is the guest of Prof. Grissom and wife. Mrs. Susan Robinson and son, of Bloomington were at the graduat exercises last Tuesday night. Rev. Moorman and wife of Bed ford were in the city last Sunday. Aunt Fanny Churchil and Mrs. Bettie Lewis are on the sick list The closing exercises of the colored school were held at the Second Baptist church last Saturday. The exercises were well rendered and highly appreciated by all. Prof. E. Q. Grissom has been reappointed for the ensuing year. Mrs. Lula Grissom tendered a reception last Monday evening to the pupils of the colored school. Games and songs were indulged in after which refreshments were served. The little folks had delighted time. Frankfort Notes. Sundayschool was largely attended; J. D. Kersey, Superintendent. The entertainment given at the church last Monday night was a grand success financially. Rev. J. W. Haper the former minister of Jeffersville left last Saturday. Mrs. Johnson left Thursday for Marion to attend the missionary society. Edward Sanders was in the city last week on business. Mrs. Moxly of Middletown, O., is here visiting Mrs. Emory. Miss Mattie Parker is visiting friends in Marion. Mrs. Emory and daughters were at Indianapolis last week. New Albany Notes. Mrs. G. A. Ratliff attended the missionary convention at Marion this week. She has returned home. Mrs. Sidney Mucker is on the sick list this week. Miss Hattie Pinkston has returned to Huntingsburg. While here she was the guest of her uncle, Prof. C.A. Martin. A most successful rally was held at Bethel church on Sunday 27, ult. Quite a number of people came from Corydon with Rev. Brown. Special music was furnished by the Corydon choir. The clubs reported as follows: Must Succeed, $71.80; Widows, $44.00; Determined Workers, $40.00; Busy Bees, 17.75; Get There, 11.17. Total amount raised, $184.62. This is the greatest rally that has been held in this city during the 3 years pastorate of Rev. Rattiffe. John Williams a student of Me-Harry college, Nashville, Tenn., was in the city Monday. The contest at Second Baptist church ended Sunday in a grand rally. Miss Cora Peyton being awarded a fine folding-bed and Mrs. Pinkston a fine mirror. The following is the report: Cora Peyton, $86.23; Mrs. Pinkston, $74.55; Mrs. Cole, $66.25; Mrs. Isaac $35.70 Total. $262.73. Marion Flashes Miss Hattie Kox of Greenfield is visiting Mrs. Knox in Lomax st. The missionary convention was held here on the 5. The committee will have reception Thursday evening. The colored band would like to have a good teacher of music; one that would like to locate here. Address Dan' Burden. J. M. Nichols was elected delegate to represent Grand Household at Bloomington. Frank Gill will represent Missineway lodge a the District lodge. Miss Effie Stewart of Indianapolis, was the guest of Mrs. Arthur Martin in Meridain street last Sunday. Aunt Lucy Pulley's remains were brought here for burial. She was one of the oldest colored settlers in Grant county. The Recorder can found at J. M. Nicholson's barbershop, 516 S. Washington st., at any time. Several of our city people were at Anderson Sunday. Shelbyville Notes. Lee Owens who has been residing in Indianapolis visited his relatives Sunday. Miss Leona Harper who has been visiting in Cincinnati for the last two weeks returned to her home Sunday. Allen Johnson spent Sunday at Indianapolis. Robert Reed and Mamie Johnson spent the evening at Greensburg Sunday. Leonard Johnson spent Sunday at Indianapolis. Miss Mary Case who has been sick at her home in Circle st., for some time, is reported quite ill. Miss Anna Owens who has been spending a week at Indianapolis returned home Sunday. H. Hughes of Rushville, was a visitor in our city Sunday, Miss Susie Miles is reported better this week. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Elizabethtown, who have been visiting Chas. Bell and wife for the last week returned to their home, Tuesday. Mary Johnson is visiting relatives in Martinsville. The lawn fete given at the residence of Mrs. Georgia Allen, last Saturday night was a grand success Miss Alice Roberts leaves today for Benton Harbor to visit friends, and relatives, from there she will go to Chicago via the Lake to spend the summer with her sister, John Barker left Thursday for Terre Haute with Mr. Wm. Lockharts pacing horse. He will be gone all summer. Mr. and Mrs. William. Jones of Louisville, Ky., spent Sunday and Monday with Mrs. Lizzie Dudley and family. Lafayette Vaporings Miss Annie Wilson is seriously ill at the home of her brother on Salem street. Quite a number of our citizens spent Snnday with relatives and friends in Chicago. Mesdames Ida J. Biggs, Harriet Hoffman and several brethren of G. U. O. O. F. lodge, attended the annual services of Cass lodge, No. 4284 at Loganspart last Sunday. The public schools close this week. W. F. Anderson and Miss Trail have been retained as teachers for the next year. The members of Second Baptist Sundayschool are preparing to entertain the State S. S. convention here next month. Mrs. Nannie Nelson has returned from visiting sick relatives at Chic cago. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA South Bend News Cashier Lane was called to Calvin, Monday on account of his brother, John, who had several of his ribs broken by a horse falling on him. The ladies of Mt. Zion Baptist church will give a social at the church next Friday evening. Mrs. Lizzie Franklin and family left for Chicago Tuesday to make it their future home. Mrs. Emma Matthew has removed to Chicago. Sunday is children's day at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Ever Calaway, accompanied by Rev. J. H. Alexander, will leave Monday for Ypsilanti to attend the Sundayschool convention. Miss Minnie Matthew of Grand Rapids, are in the city spending a few days with friends and relatives. John Hays spent Sunday with his wife in Calvin. Geo. Irvin has returned to the city after several weeks' absence. Rev. T. S. W. Parker will preach at Mt. Zion Baptist church tomorrow evening at 7:30 The funeral of James Anderson, was one of the largest every held in the A. M. E. church. Many flowers were contributed by friends Rev J. H. Alexander preached a very appropriate sermon for the occasion. Rev, T. S. W, Parker a traveling missionary occupied the pulpit at Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday evening. He was assisted by Rev, J. A. Oglesby who preached a very able sermon during the morning. Mrs. Lucy Matthews and her two daughters left for Lorraine, O., Tuesday morning. Mrs. Wallace Walden is very sick at her home in the west part of the city. Last Thursday afternoon James Anderson was cut to death by John P. Hewit, a worthless white man who made his escape. Mr. Anderson was a barber by trade. He leaves a wife and several children. Seymour Sights. Mrs. James Brown went to visit relatives Tuesday. Rev. Rollins of North Vernon, was here on business Monday. Rev. A. J. Thompson preached an able sermon Sunday. Mrs. Jessie Hill and daughter, Bessie, returned home from Franklin Sunday, after a few days visit to her sister, Mrs. Massie Shelton. Miss Carrie Hines and a friend from Columbus were here Sunday afternoon. The A. M. E. rally last Sunday was a success. The following four clubs raised more money than has ever before been raised at this church: Club, No. 1, A. A. Goens captian, $52.91; No. 2, Mrs. Jennie Patterson, $29.91; No. 4, Bertha Dixon, $35.05; No. Mrs. Malinda Lamb, $32 20; public collection, $5.15; subscriptions collected, $26. Total amount raised, $181.25. The pastor, Rev. C. E. Allen preached a special sermon in the afternoon thanking the members and friends for their able assistance. Mrs. E. King, and Miss Carrie Hines of Columbus; Burley Maberry and Miss Eva Hartzel of Bedford attended the grand rally of the A. M. E. church Sunday. Mrs. Ida M. Alvin is recovering from erysipless. The U. B. F. and S. M. T. annual sermon will be preached at 3 p. m. on the 10 at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. McKee is still on the sick list. Miss Daisy Evans has returned from French Lick Springs. Vincennes Doings Rev. S. B. Jones has been invited to delivered the emancipation ovation at Cairo, Ill., Aug. 4. Mrs. Alice Jackson and children returned to Bloomington. She was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Clara Stewart. There will be an excursion to Indianapolis on the 10; many of our citizens will spend Sunday at the Capital. U. B. of F. and S. M. T. will have their annual sermon at the Second Baptist church Sunday. Dr. W. Dupee of Evansville, the most prominent colored physician of southern Indiana, and Attorney J. McMeekin will arrive in the city in a few days in route to the West for a vacation. Bishop A. Grant of the A. M. E. church, the newly appointed bishop of this district, will visit the city soon. There will be an old people's anniversary at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening. The choir will be conducted like choirs of old. O. W. Knight and Miss Ella G. Embry were quietly married last Monday at the Priest parlor. Vinnie Brown died Thursday, May 31 with consumption. The funeral was preached Sunday at the Methodist church by Rev, S. B. Jones. Eva Anderson the 10 years old daughter of Mrs. Sarah Bowles died Tuesday, after suffering nearly a year with consumption. Edinburg Notes Preaching by Rev Franklin morning and evening, sacrament in the afternoon. Quite a number of Norristown people spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. John Mority of Indianapolis, spent Sunday in the city with friends. Harry Watts spent Sunday in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Barnes of Flat Rock, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William Martin. H. Thurman, Ed Davis, Chas. H. Brown spent Monday in the city. Misses Bertie King and Katie Paterson spent Sunday in the city among friends. Miss Susie Miller continues very ill. Miss Mattie Simms of Indianapolis, is spending a week with her parents. Greensburg Notes Children's day will be observed Sunday. Miss Minnie Mitchell of North Vernon, attended the graduating exercises and is the guest of Miss Anna Hardrick. Rev, Irvin attended his regular duties at Columbus Sunday. Miss Mitchell was the guest of honor at a 6 o'clock dinner given by Mrs. Melvin Good Monday. The colored students of the high school are proud of their promotion certificates. All of the young people enjoyed the delights of music with the Misses Edwards Sunday evening. Samuel Echton is still in poor health. Mrs. Geo. Edwards was on the sick list last week. Mesdames Ellen Good and Josepine Easton spent Decoration day at North Vernon. William Goines of Shelbyville spent a few minutes with his mother Sunday evening. Last Monday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hardwick, at their home in S. Michigan ave, assisted by Miss Anna and David, entertained the Octo and Noven Pueri clubs in honor of Miss Mitchell of North Vernon. The Misses Edwards also assisted. Games and music were indulge in until a late hour at which time refreshments were served. Decatur, Ill., Notes The Willing Workers, and Cheerful Givers' literary societies held their regular weekly meetings last Thursday evening at the Olivet Baptist church. A good program was rendered consisting of solos, recitations and discussions. Logansport Items. Little Edgar Winslow is quite sick with malarial fever. G. C. Parker entertained last Sunday the following gentlemen: G. W. Wilson, James Ferguson, Ed Ashworth of Lafayette; Hiram Sorrell. New York; Geo. Stone and G. C. Hill of the city. Misses Winslow entertained at 6 oclock dinner, Wm. Lillord of Lafayette, H. Paytcn and Miss Gertrude Banks. Cass lodge of the G. U. O. O. F., held its anniversary exercises at Bethel A. M. E. church on last Sunday. Tippecanoe lodge 1992 of Lafayette, was present and took part in the exercises. Prof. W. F. Anderson responded to the address of welcome. The address was delivered in grand and eloquent style by the advocate of Cass lodge, Geo Parker. Jeffersonville items. Rev. Harper of Princeton, is the partor in charge at Bethel church. Rev. Woodruff preached at Wesley Chapel Sunday morning. Mrs. Susan Nelson is slowly improving. Mrs. J. L. Thomas left for Princeton last Tuesday morning. The "Old Maids' Convention" will be played at Wesley Chapel on the 16. Mr. Cary has returned from Sturgis, Ky., where he has been at the bedside of his father. Humphrey Nelson left Tuesday for Grayson Springs to play with an orchestra and to take charge of a barbershop. Silas Middleton will take charge of the kitchen at the Grayson Springs hotel. Shallcross Gaar who has been visiting relatives, has returned to his home at Anchorage, Ky. Mr. Bates of Louisville, was the guest of Mrs. Dock Harris Sunday. Humphrey Nelson was able to be out with Prof. Cunningham's band last week. Miss Marie Parks is somewhat improved. Two baseball teams were organized here. The "Two Toms," captained by Dave Smith; and "The Richards", by David Tyler The play ground Atheletic park. The two teams are great rivals. Mr. Wm. Burdette and Mrs. Alice Dunn spent Sunday at Charlestown. Charlestown Musings. Children's day at the A. M. E. church last Sunday. Miss Musett Smith is visiting in Jeffersonville. Mr. Warren Taylor of Tuskegee, Ala., is visiting relatives and friends in the city. He will visit his mother at Chicago next week. Miss Ella Brooks has returned from a visit at Jeffersonville. Bennie Hayden is sick with quinsy. Miss Annie Taylor is visiting her mother in Connersville. Miss Zolo Paynther visited at Louisville Sunday. Dublin News. Rev, Collins and family left last Monday for a weeks visit at Marion and Anderson. Mrs. Cross who has been visiting our city for some time, left last week for Dayton, Ohio. Miss Hattie Knox and niece, Ola Burney went to marion last Tuesday to visit relatives and frieds. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months PATENTS GUARANTEED DESIGNS, TRADIGRAPHS OPERATORS, COPYRIGHTS & C. Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sending sketch and description of any invention will promptly receive our opinion free concerning the patentability of same. "How to Obtain a Patent" sent upon request. Patents secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. Patents taken out through us receive special notice, without charge, in THE PATENT RECORD, an illustrated and widely circulated journal, consulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Send for sample copy FREE Address. VICTOR J. EVANS & CO., (Patent Attorneys,) Evans Building, WASHINGTON, D. C. I HAVE MADE a very careful test of the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow among our colored students and the students in our classroom, the thing to make the hair soft, yielding and straight. Kindly send me two bottles per person. Send me your Yours truly. J. M. Hoffman, Professor of Agricultural Biology, State A. M. College, Orangeburg, S. C. If your dealer cannot supply you with the genuine Marrow, send us $5c. We will ship you a bottle. Add $5c to your order. MARROW CO., 6 Wainshaw Avenue, Chicago, ill. 616 PATENTS GUARANTEED Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sending sketch and description of any invention will permit Patent to obtain the patentability of same. "How to Obtain a Patent" sent upon request. Patents secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. Patents secured for sale at our expense, notice, without charge, in the PATENT RECORD, an illustrated and widely circulated journal, consulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Send for sample copy FREE. Address, VICTOR J. EVANS & CO. (Patent Attorney's), Evans Building, WASHINGTON, D. G. EDW. BREWER BUILDER Shop, 1721 Alvord Street. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 A.M. 2 to 4 P.M. 7 to 8 P.M. DR J. H. BALLARD 1434 Hill Avenue Residence 1203 Woodruff Place Phone. Old, 2 rings on 26350. New 2680 C. M. C. WILLIS Funeral Director Old and New Phones 1173 536 Indiana Ave Indianapolis, DICK MILLER. 340 Indiana Avenue CIGARS and Tobacco CONFECTIONERY Fruits, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Ice Cream by the pint, quart or gallon. Ballards Ice Cream, 20c a qt. Milk and Cream Books, Periodicals and Newspapers. {8 to 10 a. m. Office hours {1 to 3 p. m. {6 to 8 p. m. Dr, J. H. WARD, Physician & Surgeon. 435 Indiana Avenue. Old phone. 1 ring-6490; new 1974. W. A. BIRCH, DENTIST 134 W. New York Street. ARROW BICYCLES $15.00 Now on Sale at 148 S. Illinois St. THE GUARANTEE TIRE AND BICYCLE CO. See them before you buy. Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper EVERY DAY HEROES AND HEROINES IN DOMESTIC LIFE. Sickness and Bodily Distress Extending Through Months and Years a Martyrdom—Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Dr. Talmage, who is now preaching to large audiences in the great cities of England and Scotland, sends this discourse, in which he shows that many who in this world pass as of little importance will in the day of final readjustment be crowned with Dr. Talmage, who is now preaching to large audiences in the great cities of England and Scotland, sends this discourse, in which he shows that many who in this world pass as of little importance will in the day of final readjustment be crowned with high honor; text, II Timothy ii, 3. "Thou therefore endure hardness." Historians are not slow to acknowledge the merits of great military chieftains. We have the full length portraits of the Cromwells, the Washington, the Napoleons and the Wellingtons of the world. History is not written in black ink, but with red ink of human blood. The gods of human ambition do not drink from bowls made out of silver or gold or precious stones, but out of the bleached skulls of the fallen. But I am now to unroll before you a scroll of heroes that the world has never acknowledged—those who faced no guns, blew no bugle blast, conquered no cities, charmed no captives to their charlot wheels, and yet in the great day of eternity will stand higher than some of those whose names startled the nations—and seraph and rapt spirit and archangel will tell their deeds to a listening universe. I mean the heroes of common, everyday life. In this roll in the first place I find all the heroes of the sickroom. When satan had failed to overcome Job, he said to God, "Put forth thy hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face." Satan had found out that which we have all found out—that sickness is the greatest test of one's character. A man who can stand that can stand anything. To be shut in a room as fast as though it were a bastile, to be so nervous you can not endure the tap of a child's foot, to have Inusolic fruit which tempts the appetite of the robust and healthy, excite our loathing and disgust when it first appears on the platter; to have the rapiper of pain strike through the side or across the temple like a razor or to put the foot into a vise or throw the whole body into a blaze of fever. Yet there have been men and women, but more women than men, who have cheerfully endured this hardness. Through years of exhausting rheumatisms and excruciating neuralgias they have gone and through bodily distress that rasped the nerves and tore the muscles and paled the cheeks and stooped the shoulders. By the dim light of the sickroom paper they saw on their wall the picture of that land where the inhabitants are never sick. Through the dead silence of the night they heard the chorus of the angels. In this roll I also find the heroes who have uncomplainingly endured domestic injustices. They are men who for their, toll and anxiety have no sympathy in their homes. Exhausting application to business gets them a livelihood, but an unfrugal switters it. He is fretted at from the moment he enters the door until he comes out of it. The exasperations of business life, augmented by the exasperations of domestic life. Such men are laughed at, but they have a heartbreaking trouble, and they would have long ago gone into appalling dissipation but for the grace of God. Society today is strewn with the wrecks of men who, under the northeast storm of domestic infidelity, have been driven on the rocks. There are tens of thousands of drunkards today, made such by their wives. That is not poetry; that is prose. But the wrong is generally in the opposite direction. You would not have to go far to find a wife whose life is a perpetual martyrdom—something heavier than a stroke of the fist, unkind words, staggering home at midnight and constant maltreatment, which have left her only a wreck of what she was on that day when in the midst of a brilliant assemblage the vows were taken and full organ played the wedding march and the carriage rolled away with the benediction of the people. What was the burning of Lattimer and Ridley at the stake compared with this? Oh, ye who are twisting a garland for the victor, put it on the pale brown. When she is dead, the neighbors will bleg linen to make her a shroud, and she will be carried out in a plain box with no silver plate to tell her years, for she has lived a thousand years of trial and anguish. The gambblers and swindlers who destroyed her husband will not come to the funeral. One carriage will be enough for that funeral—one carriage to carry the orphans and the two Christian women who presided over the obsequies. But there is a flash, and the opening of a celestial door and a shout. "Lift up your head, everlasting gate, and let her come in!" And Christ will step forth and say, "Come in! Ye suffered with me on earth, be glorified with me in heaven. What is the highest throne in heaven? You say, "The throne of the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb." No doubt about it. What is the next highest throne in heaven? While I speak it seems to me it will be the throne of the drunkard's wife, if she with cheerful patience endured all her earthly torture. Heroes and heroes! I find also in this roll the heroes of Christian charity. We all admire the George Peabodys and the James Lenoxes of the earth, who give tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars to good objects. But I am speaking now of those who, out of their pinched poverty, help others—of such men as those Christian missionaries at the West, who proclaim Christ to the people, one of them, writing to the secretary in New York, saying, "I thank you for that $25. Until yesterday we have had no meat in our house for three months. We have suffered terribly. My children have no shoes this winter." And of those people who have only a half loaf of bread, but give a piece of it to others who are hungrier, and of those who have only a scantle of coal, but help others to fuel, and of those who have only a dollar in their pocket and give 25 cents to somebody else, and of that father who wears a shabby coat and of that mother who wears a faded dress, that their children may be well appeared. You call them paupers or ragamuffins or emigrants. I call them heroes and heroes! You and I may not know where they live or what their name is. God knows, and they have more angels hovering over them than you and I have, and they will have a higher seat in heaven. They may have only a cup of cold water to give to a poor traveler or may have only picked a splinter from under the nail of a child's finger or have put only two mites into the treasury, but the Lord knows them. Considering what they had, they did more than we have ever done, and their faded dress will become a white robe, and the small room will be an eternal mansion and the old hat will be exchanged for a coronet of victory, and all the applause of earth and all the shouting of heaven will be drowned when when God rises up to give his reward to those humble workers in his kingdom and to say to them, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Who are those who were bravest and deserved the greatest monument—Lord Claverhouse and his burly soldiers or John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, and his wife? Mr. Atkins, the persecuted minister of Jesus Christ, in Scotland, was secreted by John Brown and his wife, and Claverhouse rode up one day with his armed men and shouted in front of the house. John Brown's little girl came out. He said to her, "Well, miss, is Mr. Atkins here?" She made no answer, for she could not betray the minister of the gospel, "Ha!" Claverhouse said, "Then you are a chip of the old block, are you?" I have something in my pocket for you. It is a nosegay. Some people call it a thumbscrew, but I call it a nosegay." And he got off his horse, and he put it on the little girl's hand and began to turn it until the bones cracked and she cried. He said, "Don't cry, don't cry. This isn't a thumbscrew; this is a nosegay." And they heard the child's cry and the father and mother came out, and Claverhouse said, "Ha, it seems that you three have laid your holy heads together, determined to die like all the rest of your hypocritical, cunting snivelling crew. Rather than give up good Mr. Atkins, plums Mr. Atkins, you would die. I have a telescope with me that will improve your vision." And he pulled out a pistol. "Now," he said, "you old pragmatic, lest you should catch cold in this cold morning of Scotland and for the honor and safety of the king, to say nothing of the glory of God, and the good of our souls, I will proceed simply and in the neatest and most expeditionary style possible to blow out your brains." John Brown fell upon his knees and began to pray. "Ah!" said Claverhouse, "look out if you are going to pray. Steer clear of the king, the council and Richard Cameron." "O Lord," said John Brown, "since it seems to be thy will that I should leave this world for a world where I can love thee better and serve thee more. I put this poor widow woman and these helpless, fatherless children into thy hands. We have been together in peace a good while, but now we must look forth to a better meeting in heaven, and as for these poor creatures, blindfolded and infatuated, that stand before me, convert them before it be too late, and may they who have sat in judgment in this lonely place on this blessed morning upon me, a poor, defenseless fellow creature, may they in the judgment find that mercy which the they have refused to me, thy most unworthy but faithful servant. Amen." He rose and said, "Isabel, the hour has come of which I spoke to you on the morning when I proposed hand and heart to you, and are you willing now, for the love of God, to let me die?" She put her arms around him and said: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." "Stop that sniveling," said Claverhouse. "I have had enough of it. Soldiers, do your work! Take aim! Fire!" And the head of John Brown was scattered on the ground. While the wife was gathering up in her apron the fragments of her husband's head—gathering them up for burial—Claverhouse looked into her face, and said, "Now, my good woman, how do you feel now about your bonnie man?" "Oh," she said, "I always though weel of him. He has been very good to me. I had no reason for thinking anything but weel of him, and I think better of him now." Oh, what a grand thing it will be in the last day to see God pick out his heroes and heroes! Who are those papers of eternity trudging off from the gates of heaven? Who are they? The Lord Claverhouses and the Herods and those who had scepters and crowns and thorns, but they lived for their own aggrandizement, and they broke the heart of nations. Heroes of earth, but paupers in eternity. I beat the drums of their eternal despair. Woe, woe, woe! What harm can the world do you when the Lord Almighty with unheated sword fights for you? I preach this sermon for comfort. Go home to the place just where God has put you to play the hero or the heroine. Do not envy any man his money or his applause or his social position. Do not envy any woman her wardrobe or her exquisite appearance. Be the hero or the heroine. If there be no flour in the house and you do not know where your children are to get bread, listen, and you will hear something tapping against the window pane. Go to the window, and you will find it is the beak of a raven, and open the window and there will fly in the messenger that fed Elijah. Do you think that the God who grows the cotton of the South will let you freeze for lack of clothes? Do you think that the God who allowed his disciples on Sabbath morning to go into the grainhead and then take the grain and rub it in their hands and eat—do you think God will let you starve? Did you ever hear the experience of that old man. "I THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA have been young and now am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread?" Get up out of your discouragement, O troubled soul, O sewing woman, O man kicked and cuffed by unjust employers, O ye who are hard beset in the battle of life and know not which way to turn, O you bereft one, O you sick one with complaints you have told to no one, come and get the comfort of this subject! Listen to our great Captain's cheer, "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." The New England Conscience. Now in the big silence of the snow is born, perhaps, not a little of New England conscience which ker children write about. There is much time to think, and thinking is a highly dangerous business. Conscience, fear, undigested reading, and, it may be, not too well-cooked food, have full swing. A man, and more particularly a woman, can easily hear strange voices—the word of the Lord rolling between the dead hills; may see visions and dream dreams; get revelations and an outpouring of the spirit, and end (such things have been) lamentably enough in those big houses by the Connecticut River which have been tenderly rechristened "The Retreat." Hate breeds as well as religion—the deep, instriking hate between neighbors that is born of a hundred little things added up, brooded over, and hatched by the stove when two or three talk together in the long evenings. It would be very interesting to get the statistics of revivals and murders, and find how many of them have been committed in the spring.—Rudyard Kipling, in Harper's Magazine. "Slim." Halliwell notes this word as existing in "various dialects" with the meaning "sly, cunning, crafty;" but it belongs also to the language of the Boers, from whom the Natal English seem to have directly adopted it. The Dutch slim is defined in "Killianus Auctus" (1642) "perversus, dolosus, fraudulentus, vafer, astutus; pervers, ruse, madre, cauteluxe"; in Hexham's "Netherdutch and English Dictionary" (1658) "craftie, een slim boeve, oftie slim gast, a Subtill, a Craftie, or a Cautelous Knave or Fellowe," and similarly in modern dictionaries. This word is in common use in the sense of crafty in several of our English dialects, and is duly noted in dictionaries and glossaries. Thus Bailey has: "Slim—Naughty, crafty, Lincolnsh; Halliwell, "Sly, cunning, crafty, var, dial," Skeat, "Orig. sense, sloping; thence weak, poor, thin, bad, slight; pro E., slim, crafty."—Notes and Queries. He Didn't Buy the Diamond. "Will you please examine that diamond," said a man who had stepped into a jewelry store, "and tell me what you think of it? If it is good stone I think I will buy it." The jeweler took the gem, which was unset, looked at it critically for a moment. Then, in confidential tones, he said: "Well, to tell you the truth, that isn't a very good stone. It hasn't much fire; it is badly cut, and there is something here that looks very much like a flaw." Then he held the diamond under a microscope and examined it carefully, finally observing: "No, it isn't exactly a flaw, but I shouldn't call it a perfect stone. Now, if you want, something really fine, I have here——" "Excuse me," the other man interrupted: "I don't think I'll buy a diamond today. This is a stone that one of your assistants let me take on Saturday on approval. I deposited £8 on it. Please let me have my money, and we will declare the deal off."—London Ttt Bits. "Yes," said the disagreeable man, "you used to make lots of fun of Peter's whiskers and Simpson's socklessness, but"— "But what?" "But can you tell me the names of their successors in Congress?"—Chicago Times-Herald. Pat—Shure, an' this is a moighty quare warruld. Miek—How's that now, Pat? Pat—Well, it's lolke this: Yez know how Dan Finnegan got £50 for the black eye he got in that accident, and here's me wid two black eyes an' me head all smashed up, and had to pay 10s at the police court for it. "A bird that can sing but that won't sing Should be made to sing" his part; The man that can't sing but that will sing Should be stopped right at the start. "Amella, this coffee is no account." "Don't say a word. Arthur; I have to get it, because it comes in such lovely enameled tin cans."—Indianapolis Journal. The Rev. C. M. Sheldon distributed $5,000 received for conducting the Topeka Daily Capital as a Christian newspaper among charities, $1,000 being donated to the India famine sufferers. "How do you keep your losses at the races from your guardian?" "Oh," replied the young rake, "I charge them up to running expenses."—Philadelphia North American. Mr. Newkid—Uncle Thomas has lost his entire fortune in Wall street. Mrs. Newkid—Oh! the ungrateful wretch Right after we had named the baby for him! The wheat crop in Manitoba is expected to exceed last year's by 2,500,000 bushels, and the oat crop by 600,000 bushels. The French government has liberated in Madagascar during the last four years above 1,000,000 slaves. The South African winter begins toward the end of April and lasts until September. TheGreatestofSpringMedicines HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE The Greatest Medicine! The Greatest HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE.....87 bottles All other blood remedies combined.....13 bottles Total.....100 bottles The 87 bottles of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE sold in March gave such universal satisfaction that Mr. Morrison has already SOLD IN APRIL 94 BOTTLES OF THIS MEDICINE, and only SEVEN OF ALL OTHER'S COMBINED, while H. C. Raffensperger, the druggist right across the street, SELLS FROM THREE TO SIX BOTTLES IN AN EVENING: and J. P. Fritz, two squares south, SELLS AS MANY AS TEN BOTTLES IN A DAY REPUTATION AT HOME. Eddie, the seven-year old son of Mrs. H. Armstead, 605 Cincinnati street, was vaccinated February 99 and afterwards broke out in a mass of running sores, and remained so while under the local physician's treatment. His suffering was intense, and the vaccinated mark failed to heal. He started taking HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE about. August 15 and immediately grew healthier and stronger. To this medicine alone little Eddie Armstead owes his life. "I suffered untold agony with female weakness, and physicians said an operation would have to be performed. I can now do six washings a week after using HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE. I belong to Ames' church and many ladies' societies, and never miss an opportunity to recommend this valuable medicine," Mrs. Sheets, 914 Charles street. A clean sweep of all impurities follows the use of . . . ALL DRUGGISTS I have used Ripans tables with so much satisfaction that I can cheerfully recommend them. Have been troubled for about three years with the Ripan tables, and I have been a week. Was told by different physicians that it was caused by bad teeth, of which I had seven. I had the teeth extracted, but the attorney said I had no teeth. Ripan Tables in all the papers but had no faith in them, but about six weeks since a friend insisted me to try them. Have taken but two of the tablets, and I have had no recurrence of the attacks. Have never given a testimonial for anything before, but the great amount of good which I believe has been done me with the Ripan tables. I have many testimonials you doubtless have in your possession now. A. T. DeWitt. R.I.P.A.N.S The modern stand- ard Family Medicine: Cures the common every-day ill of humanity. TRADE R.I.P.A.N.S. MARK --- Tabules regularly. She keeps a few cartons Ripans Tabules in the house and she says will not be with you. Tabules are not supposed to be disappeared with the indigestion which was formerly so great a burden for her. Our whole family take the Tabules regularly, especially after she has been sick. The headaches have disappeared, my younger, age in good condition and he never complains of his stomach. He is now red, chubby-faced boy. This is the best medicine and is enjoying the best of health and spirit; also is hearty meal, an impossibility before she took Ripans Tabules. ANTHO H. BLACKEN. A new style packet containing THE RIPAN'S TabULES packed in a paper carton (without paper) is now for all some drug stores—FOR SIX CENTS. This low-priced sort is intended for the poor and the economical. One dozen of the five-cents cartons (320 tabules) can be had by mail by sending for 'y'-right cents to the RIPAN'S TabULES. The RIPAN'S TabULES may also be had of some groceries, general store stores, news agents and as some liquor stores and barber shops. They banish pain, induce sleep and prolong life. One gives relief. American Mutual Aid Association We need not refer you to people in Europe, Asia, etc., for recommendation, but can furnish testimonials from reliable persons in your own city. We pay Sick accident and Death Benefits. Also furnish Free Medical attention in case of Sickness or Accident Be on the safe side and Insure with us. BEFORE AFTER Ozono King of all Hairdressings An honest remedy Ozono Money refunded if dissatisfied. Positively straighten knotty, nappy, kinky- troubleles, refractory hair. Cures baldness dandruff and all itching, running, scaly, hum tissue. Wash and dry. Grow long, straight, soft, fine and beautiful as an April morn. Price 50 cents a box. Four boxes does the work. OZONO cannot fail. Dosers and the FOAMER are required. treatment and send with one dollar and we will send you immediately: Four boxes of OZONO, also one bottle skin rinse" guaranteed to be safe. Four boxes of OZONO also one bottle "Skin Food" cures all skin diseases, removes wrinkles, freckles, moth patches, tan, liver spots, also one package Anti- dandruff cream. Also an anti-anxiety an body, cures chilblains, sore throats etc. This grand offer is made to introduce honest gooqa. The above illustration shows the result of nausea, wrinkles, freckles, moth patches, tan, cure chilblains, sore throats etc. Test them and write your name and address glossy. TON CHEMICAL CO., RICHMOND, VA 401. 411. Twenty-third street. I want to inform you, in words of highest importance, that I have derived from Ripan Tables. I am a professional nurse and board is always needed. Ripan Tables does you. After one of my cases I went to run down. Acting on the advice of Mr. Geo. Bower, Ph. G., 688 Newark and Ripan Tables with grand results. Miss BESSIE WIDMAR. Mother was troubled with heartburn and indigestion, for a good many years. One day she saw a testimonial from Ripan Tables. She determined to give them a trial, was greatly impressed and now takes the "I am sixty years of age, and for a year suffered with headache and nervousness all the time. When I commenced to take HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE I could not do a half day's work, and I shook like an aspen. Two bottles made me feel better than I had for years," Mrs. Sallie Ferguson 335 W. 18th street. Wm. J. Kennedy, 1902 Holloway avenue, had poisoned blood, the result of inhaling the air in a glue factory. Six bottles of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE relieved his system of every particle of the poison Mary Moler, 915 E. St. Clair, says "Both of my little girls suffered for years with Eczema. Physicians treated with no benefit, and HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE cured both cases completely. I am now taking it for Eczema myself." Hoyt's Poisoned Blood Cure I have been a great summer from constipation and I have been wearing me any relief. My feet and legs and abdomen. My feet and legs and abdomen. I could not wear shoes on my feet and only a loose dress. I saw Ripans Tables advertised in our store. I bought some shoes and took them as赠品. Have taken some shoes and taken them as赠品. There is such a change! I am not constipated any more and I owe it all to Ripans Tables. I am thirty- and I owe it all to Ripans Tables. I have household duties and nursing my sick husband. He has had the dropy and I am trying Ripans Tables for him. He feels some better but it will be hard to do. You may use my letter and name as you like. MRS. MARY GORMAN CLARKEN. I have been suffering from headaches ever since I was a little girl. I could never ride in a Reading some of the testimonials in favor of Ripans Tables, I tried them. Ripans Tables not only relieved but actually cured my youngster, who was sick with a cold. He was in good condition and he never complains of his stomach. He is now a red, chubby-faced boy. This wonderful change I attribute to Ripans Tables. I am satisfied that they will benefit any one from his aid to old age) when taken acclimatized. W. E. Pawson. THE NEW YORK CLIPPER Contains a Reliable Record of all the Events in the THEATRICAL WORLD AND THE WORLD OF SPORTS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. $4.00 A YEAR; SINGLE COPY, 10 LITRES. For Sale by all Newspoilers. SAMPLE COPY FREE. Address NEW YORK CLIPPER, NEW YORK. car or go into a crowded place without getting a headache and slak at my home. Ripans Tables from an anunt of mine who was taking them for carat审查, and I found such relief from their use she advised me to take them too, and I home for last October, and will say they have completely cured my headache. I am old. You are welcome to use this testimonial. M. J. BROOKENHURST My seven-year-old boy has seen his head, constipation and complained of his stomach. He could not do anything and what he did eat did not agree with him, he was thin. Geo, Gibson, 2016 Hovey street suffered with constipation, which produced serious nervousness. He was unable to even ride in a buggy, but is now able to work—the first time since last July—the result of taking HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE. Mrs E. C'enmons, 824 West street, says: "I have suffered with cataract so long that it left big lumps on my head the size of marbles. After taking one bottle of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE the lumps entirely disappeared." Mrs. Nancy Hinkle, 533 Patterson street, says: "My little girl had inflammatory rheumatism of the most severe kind. One bottle of HOYT'S POISONED BLOOD CURE did more to relieve her than anything else I ever tried." 50c and $1 PER BOTTLE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By This wonderful hair pomade is the only late preparation in the world that makes kinky hair prevent the hair from falling out and makes it hold over 40 years and used by thousands of women. Warm and soft, it is a guest. It was the first preparation ever sold in the Original Ozonted Ox Marrow, as she geniusly not only keep them from falling out, but also gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The greatest gift you can straighten your hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting quality you can produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle included. 11.40 Post or Express Money Order for 3 bottles, expired. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. For sale by Lewis C. Hayes, Druggist, 502 Indians ave; Indianapolis. It has always been claimed for the Chicago Tribune that it would in all probability, pass with the examination among the newspapers of the United States for excellence in all departments of journalism. "Under date of May 2, 1899, the Omaha World News, a letter from 'Inquarter' asking the names of the five best newspapers, out that a newspaper may excel in one way and be inferior in another. Five general headings of leading American newspapers distinguished, mentioning the event. It is a twenty九 THE FOLLOWING ARE THE HEADINGS " (1) Most and best news, foreign and news, best possible presentation of news briefly. " (2) Classification of appearance. " (3) Classification of news by departments. " (4) Classification of news by departments. "The Chicago Tribune is the newspaper of the United States which the World-Herald considers worthy of mention under four differ in heads." -From the October Rain Talk. Practically all high-class intelligent newspaper readers, comprising the best and middle classes in Chicago. The newspaper is a great majority of them read no other morning newspaper. The Chicago Tribune prints more advertising year year year cut than any other newspaper in the West. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & c. Anyone sending a sketch and description quickly ascertain our opinion free and free for any patentable. Communications satisfies confidential. Handbook on Patent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken. Through Mam. & Ment. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest collection of patent journals. Terms, 45 year, four months, $1. Sold by all new BUWW & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Brande Office, 625 F. St. Washington, D. C. ```markdown ``` RICH, BUT WRETCHED A gives them new life; then they act regularly and naturally; that is what you want— it is guaranteed to be found in— THE IDEAL LAXATIVE CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Must not be Imitated. JUDGE—(to imitator of Laxative Bromo-Quinine)—You have made limitations of Laxative Bromo-Quinine. You have tried to pass them off as the genuine. You have traded on a business reputation which has cost years of labor and thousands of dollars to upbuild. The United States guarantees to every man the undisturbed enjoyment of the fruits of his toil. and it will protect the public from fraud. You are, therefore, ordered and commanded to desist from your up- The "New York and Boston Limited" BIG FOUR NEW YORK CENTRAL TO EASTERN CITIES, (Effective April 29, 1900.) Lv. Indianaapolis.....2:40 p. m. Lv. Bellefonte.....2:40 p. m. Lv. Marion.....6:50 p. m. Lv. Marion.....6:50 p. m. Lv. Crestline.....7:30 p. m. Lv. Crestline.....7:30 p. m. Lv. Sheboyg.....8:00 p. m. Ar. Cleveland, O.....9:55 p. m. Ar. New York.....2:55 p. m. Ar. Boston.....4:50 p. m. Knickerbocker Special still runs on the old schedule. Ask for Tickets via Big Four Route. B. M. BRONSON. Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agt, Ind'ps WARREN J. LYNCH, Gen. Pass. Agt, Clin A Skia of Beauty is a Joy Forever. D. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S ORIENTAL BORN, OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFER Removes Tan, Pimples, Freckles, Moth Patches, Rash, and Skin diseases, and every blemish on beauty, and defies detection. It has stood the test of 40 years, and is so harmless we taste it to be sure it is properly made. Accept no counterfeit of similar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady of the haut-ton (a patient): "As you ladies will use them, I recommend 'Gour and's Cream' as the least harmful of all the Skin preparations." For sale by ali Druggista and Europe gives them new life; then t it is guaranteed to be found 10c. 25c. 50c. To any needy mortal suffering from bo Sterling Remedy Comp LAXATI JUDGE—(to imitator of limitations of Laxative them off as the genuine. tion which has cost year upbuild. The United St turbed enjoyment of the public from fraud. You assist from your unlawful practices under the extremest penalties of the law! Fight on for wealth, old "Money Bags," your liver is drying up and bowels wearing out, some day you will cry aloud for health, offering all your wealth, but you will not get it because you neglected Nature in your mad rush to get gold. No matter what you do, or what ails you, to-day is the day—every day is the day—to keep watch of Nature's wants—and help your bowels act regularly—CASCARETS will help Nature help you. Neglect means bile in the blood, foul breath, and awful pains in the back of the head with a loathing and bad feeling for all that is good in life. Don't care how rich or poor you are, you can't be well if you have bowel trouble, you will be regular if you take CASCARETS—get them to-day—CASCARETS—in metal box; cost 10 cents; take one, eat it like candy and it will work gently while you sleep. It cures; that means it strengthens the muscular walls of the bowels and LOOK IN OUT! For your family's comfort and your own. HIRES Rootbeer will contribute more to it than tons of ice and a gross of fana, 8 millions for six cents. Write for list of premiums offered free for labels. CHARLES E. HIRES CO. Malvern, Pa. CHICAGO AND The Great Northwest, VIA MONON ROUTE TIMES EXPRESS & CINEMAS RANWAY Four Trains to Chicago Daily. From Monon 47th Street Station, Chicago is but five minutes ride by street car to Union Stock Yards. Office, 25 W. Washington St. R. P. ALGEO, D. P. A. Indianapolis. THE RECORDER. INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA The Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo., recently won a suit in the U. S. Circuit Court for the district of Indiana, establishing the validity of Laxative Bromo Quinine as a trademark, and perpetually enjoining the defendant, Newton C. Davis, of Frankfort, Indiana, from using those, or any Western Amenities. A St. Louis man has been locked up for trial on a charge of insanity, because he believes he is in hell. That will be deale delicate point for a jury of his peers to decide—Denver Post. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. The soft young man is apt to be half-baked. Red Cross Ball Blue is the best in the world. Large 2 oz. package costs 5 cents. The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.-J. G. Holland. Egbert, Wyoming, May 18, 1900.-Dr. M. Small, 647 Prospect street, Indianapolis. Ind.: "Send me one dozen 50-ct. size G. A. B. Oil. I have used it for years and want it for la gripe. "MRS. M. E. LIMPUS." To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.-Johnson. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of That Setted Miss Black. Tess—I hear Iva Black is not going to marty Mr. Hart after all. Jess—No, it has just occurred to her how awful it would be for her to sign herself "Iva Black Hart."—Philadelphia North American. Electricity in Capsules Is made from cheap chemicals, and when added to a certain quantity of water will furnish electricity enough to light a house or drive an automobile. But this is nothing compared to the strengthening power contained in a bottle of Hostetler's Stomach Bitters. It cures indigestion, dyspepsia, billiousness, liver and kidney troubles. Lord Roberts' Title. The girls at Stockwell school were discussing the meaning of the letters G. C. B. after Lord Roberts' name. One girl settled the difficulty by saying that the initials stood for "Generally Called Bobs."—London Dally Chronicle. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15 and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Kindness is the secret of courtesy. Republican National Convention Excursions via Pennsylvania Lines. June 19th at Philadelphia, Pa., will assemble delegates from all sections of the United States to nominate a candidate for President. Excursion tickets will be sold June 14th to 18th, inclusive, via Pennsylvania Lines to Philadelphia; valid returning Tuesday, June 26th. Low Fare to Bluffton via Pennsylvania Lines June 12th and 12th for meeting Sunday School Association of Indiana, excursion tickets will be sold from Pennsylvania Lines Indiana ticket stations to Bluffton, valid for return trip Saturday, June 16th inclusive. Some people learn enough in six weeks foreign travel to bore others for a lifetime. A Boston institution. Among the unique institutions of this city is the Peabody Medical Institute, 4 Bulfinch street, established nine years before the death of the great philanthropist, the late Mr. George Peabody, from whom it takes its name. During the part thirty years it has achieved a wide and lasting distinction, and to-day it is the best of its kind in this country. The medical publications of this institute have millions of readers, and are as standard as gold. Their last pamphlet, ninety-four pages, entitled "Know Thyself," free by mail on receipt of six cents for postage. Send for it to-day.—Boston Journal. Never loan a thing you can not afford to lose. Wanted Babies. Send fifteen dentals for 3 beautifully enameled wooden rings. Red. White. Blue. No toy so attractive and hardiness for small children. LOUIS A. SHARE, Mgr. C W. Dept., Indianapolis, Ind. Those who feel deeply suffer deeply. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation slays pain, cures wind colic. Egg per bottle. Spoiled children are not confined to those of tender years. Carter's Ink Is Used Exclusively by the schools of New York, Boston and many other places, and they won't use any other. Green and white luncheons are fashionable. If you wish to have beautiful, white clothes, ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. When a dog dies there is one faithful friend the less in the world. REMARKARLE FEATS OF STRENGTH PERFORMED BY LEWIS YETT, A JET BLACK NEGRO. Lewis Yelt, a jetblack African, about thirty years of age, frequently astonishes the people of the frontier of Texas by exhibitions of his wonderful strength. If the many surprising feats of physical power accredited to this colored giant have really been performed he is without a doubt one of the strongest men in the world. He can at any moment easily demonstrate that he deserves to rank with Sadow and other giants of modern times, but he has done things on the farms and out in the corn camps which created greater surprise with those who witnessed such feats than one experiences over seeing him raise some great weight in the streets. He is an uneducated, common laborer, and very modest and timid about making any display of his strength. Lewis spent most of the years of his boyhood in a cattle camp on the frontier, and long before he was fully grown he had become famous as an expert roper, a daring rider and the best all around vacuero in the Southwest. He never boasted of his accomplishments as an equestrian, but up to the time that he was twenty years of age he had never been thrown from the back of a mustang. He won a gold medal and prize of $200 at Eagle Pass when he was about fifteen years old, by sticking to the back of a famous bucking broncho known as Blanco Diablo. This celebrated horse had thrown the best riders in Old Mexico and many of the most fearless Texan cowboys. Lewis stayed on his back for more than an hour, though the enraged animal bucked and bellowed until he was covered with foam and ready to fall from exhaustion. Some ten years ago there was a band of mustangs in the Llano mountains, led by a proud, splendid looking black stallion, with a bald face. Many a cowboy had dreamed of possessing this magnificent horse, but every effort made to capture him had ended in failure. Lewis determined to "walk" this fine animal "down." Setting out early one morning, mounted on the best pony on the ranch, and leading an extra one, the ambitious negro soon struck the trail of the king of plains his heiress. For two whole days and nights Lewis stuck close to the heels of the thoroughly puzzled mustangs, never giving them a drop of water or pause for a moment to rest their weared limbs. On the morning of the third day the mustangs began to fall and flounder upon the hot sands in a dying condition. The bald stallion still staggered forward as if determined to die upon his feet. After some hours, when the sun was nearing the zeuth and the heat of the desert was scorching the backs of the snakes and lizards and driving them to seek shelter in the shade of the cactus, Lewis' own horse stumbled and fell to rise no more. The gritty little mustang had expended the last spark of his vitality in the long chase. The bald stallion was now alone. The last member of his band had succumbed to thirst, hunger and exhaustion. The prize was almost within the negro's grasp, for it was evident that the proud spirit of the stallion was broken, and that he could not summon sufficient strength to strike a trot. Lewis was determined not to be cheated of the valuable prize so soon in his possession, and quickly loosening his lariat from the saddle he threw it across his shoulder and set out after the stallion on foot. He had been in the saddle for more than fifty hours, with wide open eyes, appearing his hunger by chewing jerked beef and satiating his thirst with an occasional swallow of hot water from his canteen. Another man would have fallen long before, but this wonderful negro, who possessed powers of endurance even superior to his giant strength, "shook the stiffness out of his joints," as he says, and striking a trot, he soon discovered that he was gaining on the tired stallion. Lewis was perfectly familiar with the geography of the country, and as soon as it became evident that the wild horse was aiming to strike a certain crossing on the Llano river, he took a short cut across the hills and got ahead of his prize. He barely had time to conceal himself by the side of the trail near the water before the tired horse staggered in sight. The proud old king of the plains was nearly exhausted, but the scent and sight of the cool waters of the Llano quickened his step, and with an eager whinny, he was about to plunge down the bank when a rope hissed through the air and a noose dropped over his neck. "I jes had to laugh," says Lewis, "for I never saw anything looked so surprised like that horse. 'Pearled like he wanted to say, 'Well, you are jes about the gamest and the slickest nigger I ever saw.'" Lewis had captured the famous wild bald stallion which had for years defied all pursurers. The negro easily famed the fine animal, and he was long known as one of the fastest long distance race horses in western Texas. Old time cattlemen—the boys who rode the plains before the days of locomotives and barbed wire—never tire of telling stories of this giant negro's prowess. No long horn grew too big for Lewis. Whenever he got his rope on a steer, that animal had to go his way. He could catch a big Mexican steer and drag him to the corral as another man would have handled a calf. Upon one occasion Lewis was riding an unruly mustang and upon approaching a bridge the animal "sulked," and though the cowboys applied quirks and ropes to his hide with great violence he refused to move out of his tracks. Lewis was in a hurry to catch up with the herd, and to the amazement of his comrades he dismounted, and coolly picking up the surprised mustang in his giant arms he threw him across his shoulder and carried him over the bridge. In another instance, where there was grave doubt as to the strength of a bridge, Lewis waded into the water, and making a pillar of his shoulder, he sustained the beams of the structure until the heavily loaded grub wagon passed safely over it. Having been told that a bear had been tracked into a cave in the mountains of the Colorado near a cattle camp where Lewis was employed, the venturesome negro, accompanied by several cowboys, all lovers of Bruin's flesh, went to the place to investigate the story. With a fanning torch in one hand and a revolver in the other Lewis boldly entered the bear's gen, and he did not go very far before he found just what he was looking for. Bruin had composed himself in his favorite position, with one paw in his mouth, for a long nap, and when the negro stole in so unceremoniously upon him he slept on unconscious of danger. Lewis gazed at his fat, oily ribs and his mouth began to water. Never did a bear hunter determine upon a greater risk. Lewis placed the pistol close to Bruin's head and touched the trigger. He did not have time to turn before the bear struck him with one paw and knocked him sprawling upon the floor of the cave. The light was extinguished and the pistol lost. Lewis grappled with his antagonist, and by some means in the darkness he managed to get on the bear's back, and the amazed cowboys saw this strange combination of man and beast emerge from the cave as if they had been ejected from the mouth of a cannon. Fortunately, the bear was fatly wounded, and with blood and brains oozing from his head he rolled down the side of the mountain dead. It is doubtful whether just such another feat has ever been accredited to a bear hunter in all the literature of the world embraced under the fascinating title of "bear stories." Lewis can easily take up a full barrel of whisky and drink from the bungehole, and he can throw a keg of beer into the air with one hand and catch it with the other, playing with it as a child plays with a ball. He can take a common dining room table in his teeth, and, while an ordinary man is seated upon it, he can raise it several feet above the floor. Not long since, at the Austin and Northwestern depot at Marble Falls, he picked up a bar of railroad iron in each hand and walked five steps forward, and then backward to the place of starting. An excursion boat with a party of tourists on board aground at the head of the lake a short time since, and while the crew was preparing to throw out spars Lewis sprang overboard and, putting his shoulder against the bow of the boat, pushed her afloat and then sprang aboard, seemingly unconscious of the fact that he had done something that amazed the boat's crew and passengers. Lewis is hardly six feet high, but he weighs 304 pounds, and his muscles are as firm and unyielding as a piece of wood. He says that he has always been able to lift more than any five or six men who were working with him, that he is stouter than any horse or steer that he ever handled, and that he is not afraid of anything on earth but his wife, and she only weighs 90 pounds.—Brazos, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Why the Water Was So Good "In small country communities," remarked a Mississippiian at Gaston's yesterday, "the water at some particular well or spring is the boast of the whole community, and becomes famed for miles around. "There was a well of this kind at a cross roads near my home, and a gentleman who lived some ten miles away knew the merits of this water, and never passed that way without stopping for a drink. "On one occasion, after he had quenched his thirst on a hot summer day, he said to the owner of the well "That water has always tasted better to me than any I ever drank, but this time it seems to surpass itself." "The gentleman then went his way while the old resident the same afternoon passed from the well a whisky barrel he had let down in the water to soak." —From the Memphis Sisclitar Grounds for Complaint Mrs. Starvem—You don't seem to like your coffee this morning, Mr. Slopay. Mr. Slopay—No. It don't seem to have settled. Mrs. Starvem—Well Mr. Slopay, you may not like the coffee, but the coffee's like you—Philadelphia Press. Better All Around. Smith—I understand you are working half time now. but then the Jones—Yes, and loafing the other half Smith—Well working half the time is better than nothing. Jones—Yes, and half a loaf is better than none.—Judge. Married Men and Bachelors. Quercicus—Let's see; the married men all have better halves, don't they? Cynicus—Yes. Quercicus—Then what do the bachelors have? Cynicus—Better quarters.—Tit-Bits. A Crying Need. "How would you define a 'crying need?' asked the teacher of the rhetoric class. "A handkerchief," replied the solenn young men with the wicked eye. —Chicago Tribune. Her Finish. "Your wife is a finished musician, I understand?" "You bet. Why, she hasn't ever had time to look at the piano since the baby came!"—Harper's Bazar. A Natural Supposition: "I suppose the Chinese are great lovers of golf." "Why do you suppose that?" "Why, because they are an authority on teas."—Philadelphia Bulletin. TIME AND so many different directions. "Foreign parts" are no longer foreign in the old meaning of the term. Europe, Africa, Asia, are "next door" to us. What happens there to-day we know to-morrow—if we read THE CHICAGO RECORD, whose Special Cable Correspondents are located in every important city in the world outside of the United States. No other American newspaper ever attempted so extensive a service; and it is supplemented by the regular foreign news service of The Associated Press. For accurate intelligence of the stirring events which are shaking the nations—of wars and rumors of wars—of the threatening dissolution of old governments and the establishment of new—of the onward sweep of the race in all parts of the world—the one medium of the most satisfactory information is the enterprising, "up-to-date" American newspaper, THE CHICAGO RECORD. FREE A large map of the world on Mercator's Projection, about 23% x 16% inches in size, beautifully printed in colors, with a large-scale map of Europe on the reverse side, will be mailed to any address free of charge on receipt of request accompanied by two 2-cent stamps to cover postage and charge to the company appropriately, and special cable service of THE CHICAGO RECORD covers the entire civilized world. Address THE CHICAGO RECORD, 181 Madison street, Chicago A novelty program at the Quakers Mass. Miss Amanda Rogers spent Sunday in Connersville. Read The Recorder for the news-the paper of the people. Miss Vena Scott is visiting her parents in Charleston, Ill. Miss Effie A. Stewart visited friends in Marlon last Sunday. Clyde Ratliffe of Frankfort visited his brother last Sunday. Augustus Carter spent Sunday in Wabash, the guest of friends. Mrs Lottie Morgan of this city, has left here for Greensaw, O. Quiet the timbals sound-Adah, Mrs. Bertha Young, June 12-18. Mrs Ora Tutt, of this city, has gone on a visit to Rising Sun, O. The U. B. of F and S. M. T. will give a pic nic June 21 st at the Fair Grounds. Jessie C. Stubbs, of Chicago, visited Miss Hattye Taylor this week. Mrs. Carter Smith, visited her brother in (hillicothe, O., this week. Mrs. Elwood C. Knox has returned to the city, from Shelbyville, Ky. Elon, now art thou ruler of all the land. Mr. E, W. Gibbs June 12-13. For Rent—Furnished room for two gentlemen, 626 Superior street. Miss Lena Kirk will graduate from Manual Training School next week. Miss Mamie Morris passed the examination for teacher in the city schools, Albert Shipp of Columbus, O., was the guest of Miss Maud Bass Sunday. Miss E. C. Lapy of Philadelphia, is visiting Mrs. L. Clark, 1034 Fayette Get ready for the Quaker's "Miss" at the Second Baptist church, June 14 The Union Metropolitan picnic will be held at Bethany Park, Thursday June 28, 1900. Mrs. Priscilla Ayers of Paris. Ky., is visiting Mrs. Robert Johnson, 428 Tole do street. The Topaz Cluster club met Friday afternoon with Mrs. Wayne in West Vermont street. Almost 1,000 tickets have been sold for the Quakers "Mass" at Second on the 14th. Mr. Samuel E. Gray had a surgical operation performed last week. He is much improved. Miss Clara Black of Bloomington, is visiting her sister Mrs. Susie Thompson, 523 N. Penn., st. Mr. B. Matthews of Greensville, Ky. was the guest of Mr. silas Pritchett the first part of the week. Miss Yyetta Williams of Fayette st returned to the city after an extended visit to Louisville, Ky. Prophet O! Israel Mr. John Morris at Corinthian church, June 12-13 Mr. Herman Gordon formerly of this city but now located in St. Louis, Mo., visited friends last week. A, Buckner has opened a cigar and pool room at 519 Indiana avenue. He invites his friends to visit him. Allan Scott a "typo" on the Freeman, fell from a moving train Sunday and sustained serious injuries. Mr. Pohattan Davis of Cincinnati, was the guest of Miss May Bell Bail ard 1203 Arsnel avenue, last Sunday. Did you ever witness the rendition of an invisible program? Attend the A well furnished Rooming house for sale; every thing first class 317 Ellsworth Street. A lasting feeling of contentment, after bathing in Malone's new bath tubs. Barbers all professionals. 308 Indiana avenue. Jepthal I'll give her liberty. Mr. M. C. Oliver, June 12-13. Misses Effle White and Ednah E. Brown will be the colored graduates at the High School commencement next week. Some of the best talent will partici pate in the Quakers Mass. "Truth crushed to Earth will rise again." Come to Malone's, 308 Indiana avenue. You're always welcome. To hear this great Italian Harp at the Quakers Mass. Admission 10c. "On to the battle field" chorus of soldiers at Corinthian Baptist church. Messrs D. H. Hall and W. Minter of Chattanooga, Tenn., are the guests of Mrs. Francis Smith, 309 Muskingum street. Eloni to Elon, behold we bring befor you Jephtha—Mr. John Preston, at the Corinthian church, June 12—13. Mr. Edward Brown accompanied by his nephew Russell Smith left Sunday for an extended trip to Kentucky to visit friends and relatives. Look! Look!! Look!!! Old men restored to youth, by using Malone's cleansing baths. Barbering the best. 308 Indiana avenue. The First Baptist church of North Indianapolis will hold a rally Sunday June 17. Everybody is invited. The Knights of Pythias will run their annual excursion to Lake Roches ter, Sunday, June 24. Wanted Agents. A liberal commission paid. Call at Hart Medicine Co. 234 W. Vermont street. Cards have been issued announcing the marriage of Miss Minnie Womack to Mr. Joseph Bell, June 12, at 1110 E. Thirteenth street. The dead lie strewn upon the field—Naomi, at Corinthian church, Mrs. A. B. Passmore. The Rev. F. Snelson, general superintendent of the work of the A. M E. church, in South Africa, will preach for Dr. Murray Sunday June 17. The Original Star Celery-Seltzer Co. offers good inducement to lady agents in every county in the State. Write at once for an agency, For Sale—Dress Suit, fancy vests, Address, E. Y. S., care The Recorder. We will strew their paths with flowers, Iphigenia-Mrs. Nora Wilson at Corintiuian church, June 12-13. Camp guard, No. 1. Halt! who comes there? Mr. James E. Dupee at Corinthian Baptist church, June 12-13. First Quaker's mass entertainment ever given in the city, remember the date June 14, 1900. Miss Mary V. Bush of Cincinnati, O. has been the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Max Berry Williams, 1083 Fayette st. Mrs. Ophelia Lamont of Milwaukee Wis., is in the city. The guest of her neices, Mrs. Geo. Evans and Mrs. J. Dickerson. Messra Lucius Oxford and C. E. McKnight from Buffalo N. Y., are visiting the latters sisters; Mrs. Rachel Ralston in Blakford stileet. The Committee has completed all arrangements for a grand days enjoyment at the Marion County Baptist Sunday-school Union picnic. The Italian Harp has been secured for the pleasure of all at the Quaker THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Mass, Hear Montesano, the great harpist at Second on the 14 th. Mrs. Geo. Griffin entertained Misses Maggie Hurt, Lydia Williams and Clariss Smith; attea Sunday evening at her cosy home in Fayette st. Dr. B, J. Hickman of Crawfordsville J. D. Kersey of Fraunfort and J. W. Oliver of Brazil; attended the Democratic convention Wednesday. Mr. Albert Venable an old citizen of this city, died at his late home in Oak Hill, last Friday, and was buried from St. Paul A. M. E. church, Sunday. Mrs. Burbridge gave a social last Thursday evening at her home 831 Adalaide street. Quite a number of friends were present and spent a nice evening. Mrs. Mary A. Teister, of Crawfordsville,, State president of the Woman's Mite Missionary Society, enroute to Marion, visited Mrs. A. L. Murray last Saturday. Mrs. Laura Smith, 760 Walnut street in attempting to alight from a street car last Saturday, was thrown to the ground and seriously injured by the car starting. Without an equal, with its newly added and superb departments and a well equipped force of professional barbers. Malone's, 308 Indiana avenue barbershop has no equal. The sixth annual picnic of the Marion county Baptist Sunday-school Union, will be held at Armstrong park Thursday, June 28. Admission, adult 15 cents; children, 10 cents. The North Indianapolis street cars run directly to the Armstrong Park every eight minutes, for the Marlion county Baptist Sunday-school Union picnic, Thursday, June 28. The "Jackson House Brighteners" will be in the city with their new art of wallpaper and fresco cleaning, on or about June 4. Carpets cleaned with or without removal from the floor. Sav all orders until their arrival. Edward Roberts a well known business man, died Saturday morning after a lingering illness. The burial was from Bethel church, Monday afternoon. The deceased was 58 years old and was a member of Trinity lodge, F. A. M. In holding their picnic at home this year, the Marion County Baptist Sunday-school Union, has done a wise thing. Everybody can spend a few hours in the woods and feel greatly refreshed, Thursday June 28. Mrs. John D. Morris assisted by Miss Ella B. Dunson and Rosa B. Fields gave an informal reception, Thursday evening May 31, at her home, 422 Dorman street, in honor of Miss Sidney Dupee. Music and singing furnished enjoyment for those present. A dainty luncheon was served. The Woman's Club met Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Nannie Crawford in West Eleventh street Mrs. Maria Mason of Chicago was a visitor and addressed the club. Miss Esther Mason played a few instrumental folos. Mrs. Aaron Scott in West Fifthth street, will receive the members next Monday. The death of Mrs. Sarah Alevander, for many years a resident of this city, occurred at Columba, O., yesterday, Mrs. Alexander attended the funeral in this city of her mother, Mrs. Emily Turner, about four weeks ago, and was at that time in her usual health. Her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Ringgold and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Walden, of this city, were with her when she died. She leaves three daughters. Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 Ice Cream and Confectionery Parlor Ice Cream Soda, only pure fruit used. Fine home-made Candies and Cakes. Good Service. Miss Henrietta Davis, Prop. 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 Cosmopolitan Barbershop 308 INDIANA AVE. JOHN MALONE, Proprietor. Baths I have added two first-class tubs to my shop.... When in need of a Hair-cut, Shave, Shampoo, Tonic, Hot or Cold Baths, or Shoes polished stop in and see us. This is the only Afro-American shop in the state, using the latest Improved Hydraulic chairs. See for yourself. 5 well known artists constantly employed to attend to your wants, as follows: John W. Starling, Samuel E. Gray, Samuel B. Harper, Charles Byrd and Charles W. Love. Cigars and Tobacco. LOOK! QUICKII Don't Miss It something you have never seen, The Delsarte's At the Free Will Baptist Church. corner Rhode Island and Newport sts. Thursday evening, June 14 Admission 10c. I am now making ..... Serge Suits at $15.00 and up have also an excellent line of Flannel and Crash Suitings. CLEANING, DYEING, REPAIRING D. L Mesbitt, Merchant Tailor. 405 Indiana av For Good Lunches Go to Mrs. Mary Wood's 1110 Prospect Street. Ice Cream Parlor in Connection. Lunches served at all hours. JOHN C. BOONE, Professional Sign Artist & Painter 720 Fayette Street Sign and House Painting, Carriage Work. See Samples of my work and then let me estimate on that job for you. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Orders can be left at the office of "The Recorder." GU-AR-AN-IN€ Safe, Sure and Reliable Remedy for Headache or any Nerve ache. Sold by all Druggists at 10c, 25c, $1.00 Made by Central Chemical Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Chicago Tribune is a newspaper for bright and intelligent people. It is made up to attract people who think. Is not neutral or colorless, constantly trimmed, and always polished, it is independent in the best sense of the word. It has pronounced opinions and is fearless in expressing them, but it is always fair to its opponents. Matters of national or vital public interest get more space in TEE TRIBUNE than in any other paper in the West. For these reasons it is the newspaper you should read during the forthcoming political campaign. THE TRIBUNE'S financial columns never mislead the public. Its facilities for gathering news, both local and foreign, are far superior to those of any other newspaper in the West. It presents the news in as fair a way as possible, and lets its readers form their opinions. While it publishes the most comprehensive articles on all news features, if you are busy the "Summary of THE DAILY TRIBUNE" published daily on the first page gives you briefly all the news of the day within one column. Its sporting news is always the best, and its Sunday Pink Sporting Section is better than any sporting paper in the country. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months A DRAMATIC CANTATA IN 3-ACTS Tuesday and Wednesday June 12. - 13 With following Cast of Characters:—— Jehpthia IX, Ruler of Israel, Mr. M. C. Oliver; Prophet Mr. Jno, D. Morris; Elon, Jewish Prince, Mr. E. W. Gibbs; Ibzan, Jewish Prince, Mr. Roboseh; Eloni, Jewish Soldier, Mr. John Preston; Arnold, A Messenger, Mr. Benj. Penn; Camp Guard, No. 1, Mr. J, E. Demp; Guard, No. 2, Mr. Fred Woodfolk; Iphigenia, Jehpthia Daughter, Mrs. Nora Wilson; Adah, Daughter of Elon and friend to Iphigenia, Miss Bertha Young; Naoma, Jewish Maiden, Mrs. Ada Passmore, Maidens Gileae, Ruth, Miss Ollie Dickson; Sarah, Miss Madge Vaughan Ahn Mrs. Mary Payne; Leali, Mrs. Ellen Robinson A large chorus representing Jewish soldiers, maidens, heralds etc. All of the characters and choruses here named will be in full costume. A sight well worth seeing. Don't miss it; come and bring the children. ADMISSION 15 CENTS Given under the auspices of the Pipe Organ Club of this church, Mrs. Nettle Morris, Pianist; Geo. W. Prince, Director; Rev. J. J. Blackshear, pastor Your Attention! Your Attention! We can save you money on Summer For the next 30 days. Read our prices. Celluoid shirt fronts for Waiters..... Gents Silk front shirts, latest novelties, 50c to $1. Percale Shirts, with cuffs and collars to match. Gents balbriggan underwear, per garment....25 Straw Hats, all kinds, 25c to $1.00. Bicycle Caps, Mens belts, 19c to 75c Ladies Dogchain Belts, g Ladies vests, 5c, 10c, 15c and 38c. All kinds of prices low. See our line of Umbrellas, Coats and H. L. SANDERS, We can save you money on Summer Goods For the next 30 days. Read our prices. Celluoid shirt fronts for Waiters.....50c, 75c. Gents Silk front shirts, latest novelties, 50c to $1.00. Percale Shirts, with cuffs and collars to match.....49c up Gents balbriggan underwear, per garment.....25c and 50c. Straw Hats, all kinds, 25c to $1.00. Bicycle Caps, 19c to 25c Mens belts, 19c to 75c Ladies Dogchain Belts, go at 500, Ladies vests, 5c, 10c, 15c and 38c. All kinds of neckwear, prices low. See our line of Umbrellas, Coats and Jackets, 206 Indiana avenue. Grant H. Clay Go where your woe sure to receive the I make $2.50 and $2 them. They are good, When you employ Dr. Clay a experience. (Reference, 14 y Grant H. Clay 108 Nor Re-opened and Ready to The People' 537 Bright St [Cor. Nor We have a Complete and En Meats Dressed Chickens a Specialty ant H. Clay, M. D., Dentist, for your work is wanted, and you receive the BEST OF SERVICE 2.50 and $3.00 sets of teeth--if you are good, but not the best. Gas or A uploy Dr. Clay as a Dentist, you get the benefit of (Reference, 14 years with New York Dental Co.) at H. Clay, M. D., Dentist 108 North Illinois Street. and Ready for Business People's Grocery St St St [Cor. North] R. S. Street, Ma complete and Entirely New Stock of Groceries, P Meats and Vegetables ens a Specialty Ask for Cash Grant H. Clay, M. D., Dentist, 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 Orders delivered to any part of the city 333 International Pride of the No Meets the first and third hall, northeast corner of D cordially invited to become your petition. Mrs. Emma D. N. California street, Mrs. A. Fayette street INTERNATIONAL Order of Twelve State of the North Tabernacle No. 94 first and third Thursday nights in each month at corner of Delaware and Ohio streets. L led to become members of said Tabernacle. Mrs. Emma L. Person, High Priestess, resid street, Mrs. Anna A. Griffin, Chief Recor 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 911 N. California street, Mrs. Anna A. Griffin, Chief Recorder, 111 Fayette street THE MICROBES AND MICROSCOPIC GERMS THE MICROBES AND MICROSCOPIC GERMS and by thus purifying the tissues and prevents and cures Malarial Chills. Arises and Fever. Biliousness and Typhoid, and is present in Tortoises in all cases of Stomach, Liver and Kidney Troubles, including Indigestion, Rheumatism and Constipation. Without causing paints and gripping, it works gently on the Bowels, and by removing all the secretions it relieves the Lungs by eliminating morbid mucus matter from the blood, and in this way it prevents and cures and by thus purifying the blood, it Billiousness and Tynphoid, and is preoccupied with pation. Without causing pains and moving all the secretions it relieves the blood, and in this way it prevent By cleansing the blood it remal Neuralgia, Loss of Vitality and Necided by imperfect action of the pation Medicine, slike for both old and yo we are told by learned scientists, as in which we learn overwork, both mental and physical We eat too much or too little, too fat digest and ask us to NERVOUS EXHAU with all the numerous "ills that has fully compounded an expert che rifying the blood, it prevents and cures Malarial Chills, Agnes Typhoid, and is pronounced one of the best Household Tonicer and Kidney Troubles, including Indigestion, Rhenomatism, it causing pains and grippings, it works gently on the Bowels, secretions it relieves the Lungs by eliminating morbid mucus in this way it prevents and cures COLDS, COUGHGS, CATARRE AND CONSUMPTION The blood it removes the cause, and speedily cures the Sickness of Vitality and Nervous Weakness and all the long list of effect action of the digestive and secretory organs and foe less Compound, entirely free from any deleterious drug, and for both old and young, it is guaranteed to give complete satis "LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICITY IS LIFE" earned scientists, and in order to meet the demands of the live, we exhaust the supply of the Vis Vista, or Electro-vit mental and physical, and have been pronounced "A Nation of h or too little, too fast or too great a variety; our food fails milate, and hence we have Stomach trouble followed by ERVOUS EXHAUSTION, INSOMNIA AND INSANITY nerous "ills that flesh is heir to." The Lightning Specific h eed by an expert chemist, and is designed to aid in charging By cleansing the blood it removes the cause, and speedily cures the Sick Headache, Loss of Vitality and Nervous Weakness and all the long list of ailments induced by imperfect effect of the digestive and secretory organs and functions, is a prompt and peerless Compound, entirely free from any deleterious drug, and as a Family Medicine silk for the best long term satisfaction. "LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICITY IS LIFE" we are told by learned scientists, and in order to meet the demands of the busy, bushy, and hectic lives of our patients, we must work overwork, both mental and physical, and have been pronounced "A Nation of Dyspeptics." We eat too much or too little, too fast or too great a variety; our food fails to properly digest and assimilate, and hence we have Stomach trouble followed by Gastrointestinal discomfort, pure, rich Blood is made and the morbid matter, which if retained, will surely cause BRIGHT'S DISEASE, NEURALGIA OR RHEUMATISM, or some other form of Nervous Disease, complicated with a great variety of the most meningitis, with which our Insane Hospitals are crowded overwhelming. Delays in treatment, any disorder may reach a stage that it becomes incurable, but if you take THE OLIVER LIGHTNING SPECIFIC ALTERATIVE according to the instructions, as we would if it had been prescribed by your Family Physician, you will find by giving it a fair trial, a period of time long enough to build up a new growth of cell structure, you may be restored to perfect Health, and your ailment, although it is chronic and of long duration, will not be free from mineral poisons or any other dangerous drugs. Actents wanted everywhere. Manufactured by the ORIGINAL STAR CELERY-SELTZER CO., 226 Eden Place, North of Robes's Park Church, on Hudson Ave. Indianapolis, I HENRY HUDER, DRUGGIST, cor. Pennsylvania and Washington Sts., general agen for Indianapolis and vicinity You money on Summer Goods days. Read our prices. Fair for Waiters.....50c, 75c irts, latest novelties, 50c to $1.00. cuffs and collars to match.....49c up underwear, per garment.....25c and 50c bids, 25c to $1.00. Bicycle Caps, 19c to 25c Bicycle Ladies Dogchain Belts, go at 50c, 15c and 38c. All kinds of neckwear, line of Umbrellas, Coats and Jackets. INDERS, New 'Phone, 2561. 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 to any part of the city Order of Twelve 777 In Tabernacle No. 94 Sunday nights in each month at its care and Ohio streets. Ladies are persons of said Tabernacle, Give u erson, High Priestess, residence 911 A. Griffin, Chief Recorder, 111 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 itts and cares Malarial Chains, Agues and Res, one of the most Household Tichons in all cases, and Constigs, it works gently on the Bowels, and by re-engining morbid mucus matter from the ARRH AND CONSUMPTION Weakness and all the long list of ailments live and secretory organs and functions of the Vesicle. A family is guaranteed to give complete satisfaction ELECTRICITY IS LIFE order to meet the demands of the busy bust of the Vesicle. Electo-vital force has been pronounced "A Nation of Dyspeptic" so great a variety; our food fails to properly Stomach is allowed by food to air it to." The Lightning Specific has been cat-ed and is designed to aid in charging the Physical