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ECKELS FOR M'KINLEY Former Comptroller of Currency Firm Against Bryan. No Issue, Whatever the Platform, He Says, Can be Paramount to the Man Himself. Only Known Friends of Honest Money Should Guide the Ship of State. James H. Eckels, formerly of Ottawa, comptroller of the currency during President Cleveland's second administration and now president of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago, is as firm against the election of William J. Bryan as president as he was in 1896, and as a sound money Democrat I do his utmost to encompass the Nebraskan's defeat. In an interview Mr. Eckels thus defines his reasons for the course he has wanted: "I did not support Mr. Bryan in 1896, and I don't intend to now. I shall impose his election this year with all the vior and ability I possess. I do not feel that I could stand to my convictions by remaining merely passive and contenting myself with simply nudging against him. Bryan the Issue. "No issue set forth in any platform, no matter how cunningly devised and arranged, in this campaign can be made paramount to the issue of Mr. Bryan himself, his erroneous views of public questions, his numerous vagaries and his demonstrated desire to impart his authority in class prejudices absent appeal to class prejudices and supposed race hatreds. "I am still a Democrat, if believing in Democratic principles correctly interpreted and properly enforced as an agency for good constitutes true Democracy; but I am not one if the utterances of the platform adopted at Chicago four years since and reaffirmed in Kansas City are the rightful expression of what modern Democracy stands for." Isms of Populism "The many isms of Populism were abhorrent four years since to my sense of what was safe and sound in the operations of government and the general well-being of the people, because I viewed them as being fundamentally wrong, and, being so neither lapse of the law nor of the people, I reconcile me to their adoption or make it possible that I should support a candidate who not only approves of them, but is their best embodiment and most vigorous champion. "I have not read all of Mr. Bryan's utterances during the past four years, but I have not read enough of them to know that his views have not changed on any important question since 1896, and his determination to stir up class strife is not less manifest. Throughout all his addresses, public and private, is shown uniformly an apparent pleasure in preaching the desirability of discord between employee and employer, class and class. No appeal ever comes from him which is not with advice to those who must work to distrust those who must employ." "All this is not only un-American, but it is unjust, unfair and harmful most of all to the laborer, for whose well-being beyond all others it is necessary to labor, to labor, to labor, to labor and labor and not continual antagonism should exist. The interests of labor are never in such great jeopardy as when intrusted to a man who has the gift of oratory coupled with unbounded political ambition and no business experience. "No man is fitted for the presidency who day and day out proclaims, in the midst of a demonstrated better condition of affairs, the reverse to be true in order to foment a discontent, which himself and party a political advantage. Ignorant or Blind. Mr. Bryan, without the statesmanship to analyze the conditions as they exist and find a remedy therefor, gives utterance to nothing that would improve them, but only to that which must make them worse and cause greater injustice to the great mass of the people, whose lives are walle. I do not believe in the public value of any man who is under any and all circumstances, a faultfinder and more protester against all existing order of things. Mr. Bryan's friends insist that he is neither if not intellectually honest and grateful. Granted that their contention is true in acquiring public must then be forced to believe that he is either woefully ignorant or even blind. At no time since his coming into political power he has made an economic prediction which has not failed of fulfillment or laid down as an economic doctrine, which has not the course of quick events been demonstrated to be an economic fallacy. Dictation of Platform. If he does not study grave public questions in the light of past history and present facts and human experience, only views them in the glare of his own unconceived notions and flame of his own conceited oratory, he is unsuited either to advise the public as a teacher or guide them as a leader. He was unfit, because of his erroneous view and economic heresies, to be elected to the presidency in 1896, he is equally man now, for he boasts, with triumphant confidence, that he stands today on all the questions exactly where he stood and to make more manifest and clearly defined his position he compels his party to blazon such fact in a platform so constructed as to accord with his views. Ablance with Croker. "I can conceive of nothing more pliable than the sight of accredited delegates of a once great political party in a national convention supinely surrendering their own views on a vitally important economic question at the behest of those defeated presidential candidate, who was brought that party into disgrace and disqualified unless it be the sight of that presidential candidate and to be nominee appealing through his confidential agent to Richard Croker, Tammany dictator, to be his chief ald, trusted friend and lieutenant in the emergency which confounded him. "He held Democratic presidential candidates have gained solid respect and strength by having the unity of Tammany. Mr. Bryan, who more than any of them has boasted of his stand for a principle and his integrity of character, has done what Mr. Seymour, Mr. Tilden and Mr. Cleveland would not do. He has formed an open alliance, offensive and defensive, with him, and that, too, at a time when that man is known to be thoroughly corrupt and a constant menace to all the best interests of good government. Mr. Bryan hardly appeals to the thoughtful citizen, with whom political parties are only agencies for public good to the extent that they stand for fundamentally right principles and honest administration, when upon the one hand he is presented by the Populists and on the other by Tammany. The joining hands with the one constitutes political security in governmental administration, the alliance with the other an offense against political decency, making it doubtful as to his ability, no matter how strenuously he might try, to secure honesty in the conduct of public affairs in an administration over which he presided. "It is not difficult to predict what would be outcome of any administration based upon the socialism of Populism and the rapacity of Tammany. Reaffirming of 16 to 1. "I am told that not a few Democrats who refused to sanction the nominee and platform of the Chicago convention will aid the nominee and platform presented at Kansas City. I doubt if there are many who will do so. Why should they? The same candidate has been named, the same doctrines announced, only in a more offensive way. "It must not be forgotten that the reaffirming of the principles of the Chicago platform was the pledging of an intention, when opportunity is afforded to place the country on the court. It was reassaulting the supreme court of the country. It means a realliance with the elements of disorder, as against the properly constituted authorities of peace, integrity of property and person. It is the announcing once more of the desire to get into power that the sacred right of private contract under the guarantee of law must be progeny. It is the acceptance of the elements of socialism which works injury to both government and people. "In fine, the reaffirming at Kansas City was the reasserting of utterances made at Chicago, which, revolutionary then, are none the less so now. A source of menace to the civinity then, and a source of violence and man who stood out against them ought not on some new issue, which does not in any degree less the danger of these for harm, fail to denounce and defeat them. "I do not think that the fact that here and there may there be some element of menace, than seemed to be the case in 1896 makes any difference. Mr. Bryan still gives official voice to the party's views, maps out its campaigns and writes its platforms. Mr. Bryan's intimates and advisers are still Populists and self-seekers, with the added contingent of Tammany bosses. He has neither use of the man who is conservative in his views or careful in his utterances. Effect of Gold Basis. "If elected president the public must be prepared to see Mr. Bryan as chief executive and those associated with him as cabinet counselors construe every law bearing upon the currency and the powers of the treasury department in such a manner as to nullify as best they can its provisions in so far as they bear upon the question of the manner in which the gold standard "He can find and will keep the country in a state of ferment and uncertainty in an attempt to bring about the larger use of silver as a redemptive money. The experiment is too dangerous a one to be entered upon by any on the grounds that the gold standard is so fixed in law that it cannot be disturbed, no matter who may be president or secretary of the treasury. The law requires that the constitution favorable to it to fully carry out its provisions and not in a manner antagonistic to them. Bryan and Recent War "It will hardly do for any sound money man to support Mr. Bryan because of a supposed better position he occupies than Mr. McKinley on the question of the monetary standard, his worse position on the question of the monetary standard, the supreme court, the enforcement of law, and the right of private contract. Mr. Bryan's position can hardly be a satisfactory position, as anything growing out of the Spanish war. He and his friends, in order to put the administration to a political disadvantage, urged on the declaration of war with Spain, and when it was over Mr. Bryan, personally at Washington, through personal advice and solicitation, to declare his support of democratic senators to ratify the treaty of Paris, despite the fact that it provided for the purchase and taking sovereign possession of Porto Rico and the Philippines, without any provision for giving them any home government whatsoever. The evils and burdens of the present moment growing out of the Spanish war are to be laid as much at the expense of the people as at that of Mr. McKinley and his. The whole thing reflects, credit upon neither. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1900 B&W Policy on Philippines. "I imagine that self-government will come quite as readily through the administration of Mr. McKinley as through that of Mr. Bryan. It will not come under either until the Philippines are fitted for it, property rights safe and personal ones protected. I hardly believe Mr. Bryan could do more than send a commission there, as the president is looking to supplant the military government with a civil one. "The country will not sanction the immediate abandonment of those islands to disorder and pillage. When a time comes that there is safety in the country, the president remaining within the sphere of the influence of the United States, and public sentiment is to this end, it can be put down that Mr. McKinley's administration will readily grant it, for I believe it is generally admitted that no one is more ready to put himself in the public sentiment than the president or act in accordance therewith with aliquity. Would Not Trust Him. "If Mr. Bryan and his party had stood out, as they should have, against the unnecessary and useless Spanish war and had opposed instead of assisted in ratifying the Paris treaty, they would be in a better position to confront Republican plans and purposes. The difference is certainly not great enough to make any man surrender his convictions on other great questions to accept him upon one. "It may also be fairly doubted whether a man with so many erroneous ideas can conduct of the domestic affairs of the nation is trusted to have right ones when it comes to managing our foreign properties. "As to the question growing out of the Porto Rican tariff, I believe the administration made a most aggrieved error, but as Democracy is now constituted and controlled it stands for nothing so far as a tariff policy is concerned. I has abandoned all the vantage point he has offered the question by advocating in its silver policy the very worst kind of protection. "It is today, under Mr. Bryan's leadership, a party emphasizing a desire for special privileges and class legislation, appealing for the support of every element of discontent by falling in with and advocating the particular legislation which such element stands for, demagogy is manifest on every hand. Raising of Boer Jasue. "What thoughtful and inquiring person can possibly believe that either Mr. Bryan or the delegates at Kansas City are really deeply solicitous to the extent which it is made to appear that the Boers in South Africa alleged wrongs of the Boers in South Africa manifest, through the thin disguise of a love of human freedom, rights and republican form of government, that Mr. Bryan and his followers hope for the German and Dutch vote as a decreasing factor in the election because race is a real affiliation. Boers and a supposed race prejudice against Great Britain, and not because the question or the integrity if the Boer republics is so dear to them? It is absurd that the great question which we have to do affecting the vile States shall be overlooked in a debate upon how Great Britain shall conduct its own affairs, especially in the face of a proclaimed reaffirmation of the Monroe doctrine, which means, properly interpreted, that the people of the United States shall attend to their own affairs and set European nations look after theirs. Confidence in Germans. "Having voiced such a sentiment, the GIT convention, under the inauguration, " 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 proceeds, for political effect, to express a wish to interfere with a European government in a matter strictly its own. I think such politics cheap and unstatesmanlike, quite beneath the dignity of any great party or leader. "I shall be surprised if any German voter heretofore the bulwark of the country has any interest in the integrity of the country's currency system and protesting against any basement of the country's coin, will now aid and abet such a proceeding because of a belief in any injustice done by Great Britain to some affliction, ten thousand miles away. "It is all the same, and the constant reiteration of having here an un-American financial system, forced on us by and for the benefit of the English and against our own interests. He cannot but know that such statement is made for political purposes the good faith and patriotism of more than half the voters who do not agree with or support him. "If Mr. Bryan was a statesman and not a mere declaimer and dealt in a statesmanlike manner with American problems we would not be treated to the floods of petulant faultfinding and appeals to prejudice which are manifest in all that he says, but would have suggested solutions, upon princes and in accord with the facts of national history and national experience. Distrust His Wisdom. "I am sure the American people rightly distrust the executive and administrative wisdom of one who thus far in life has been a living expression, in every address he has made, of that best definition of the essential elements of stump speech to claim everything and denounce what it is. "I am sure the fact that there are many conditions in this country requiring careful, thoughtful and statesmanlike dealing with. There are many evils to which labor is subject that need to be remedied. Likewise there are many prejudices unjustly entertained against capital, but in neither instance can they be dealt with to the good of all by any one who is a statesman, or a statesman and all of those which wholly make up the successful stump speaker and campaignor. Where Remedies Lie. "I believe that more of the remedy lies without the pale of enacted legislation than within it, and that neither labor nor capital is benefited by public utterances on the platform, in legislative halls and through the columns of the press to the effect that there is an impressible conflict between them. "I do not believe any man benefits his country by being a preacher of discontent, strife between classes, social and political pessimism, financial error and continuous financial gloom, despite surrounding and widespread prosperity, and therefore I do not believe in it. "There is much in President McKinleys administration and official acts I am not in accord with. I do not accept Republican doctrines as against pure Democratic ones rightly interpreted and incorporated into the administration of public affairs. But as between Republicanism and Populism, I prefer Republicanism. I prefer Republicanism." "There is no Democratic doctrine presented this year and no Democratic candidate. Mr. Bryan was first named by the Poplists because he best stood for the deprived citizenry and indorsed by the coalition at Kansas City, called under alleged Democratic auspices, because Bryanism, Populism and Democracy as now made up are synonymous terms. "The combined forces of the elements of discontent of the country having got out a dissenting voice a candidate so many sided as to respond with an equal degree of satisfaction to each one's pe- courtroom. We come to the part of wisdom to meet them in another election and again demonstrate that the election will still be a real time always stands ready to do that which is wise, putting down the wrong thing and putting up the right. To Vote for McKinley. "I am going to vote for President McKinley and do whatever I consistently can to aid in his election, not because I favor all his policies or approve of all his political actions, but because under all existing conditions I believe the affairs of the country will be better off in his hands than in those of Bryan. "If I choose time to see the Democratic party recreated, advocating Democratic candidates and Democratic principles, but it cannot be more than a disturbing force in the country's daily history until it rids itself of a leadership which has brought it to its present low estate and ceases making itself the lying-in asylum of those elements of discontent which, if once intrusted with governmental power, would work injury at home and loss of standing abroad. Advice to Democrats. "It can live under defeat without complete and ultimate destruction, but a victory gained by it with a candidate holding the views of Mr. Bryan and a candidate holding the views of Mr. Bryan and a candidate carrying out the things advocated at Chicago in 1896 and in Kansas City while ago would work out such results to the country that it would pass forever out of political power at a recurring election, without the smallest of minorities in the honor, 'unwept unhonored and unsung.' "The Democrat who wishes to save his party's future will only aid to that end by now defeating Mr. Bryan and burying his platform. Its ultimate rejection would prestige lies in the independence of Democrats who are such on principle and not through expediency." LESSON IN CHINESE Rules for Pronouncing the Words Now in Common Use. There need be no serious difficulty in sounding the many Chinese names now appearing in the newspapers if the reader will remember that the vowels in the names are uniformly those of the Italian or continental alphabet, namely: (1) a always as a in machine or pin; o as either the o of song or how and u always as the u of rule. (2) Also, it should be remembered, syllable has an independeth value and should be given that value in pronunciation. (3) As for consonants, they are pronounced exactly as written. These three rules will secure as correct a pronunciation of Chinese names as can be secured without oral instruction. For example, under the first rule, one would say tah-hoo for Taku, not take-you, as one may frequently hear the word pronounced; lee-hoong-chahing for Li Hung Chang, not li-hung-chang pehking for Pekin, not peekin; shang-hah-ee for Shanghia, not Shanghigh; tsoong-lee-yaheng for Tsung Li Yamen, not tsung lie yaymen and so on. Under the second rule Tien-Tsin, accenting the yen syllable, teen-tsin, General Nieh's name is Nee-yeh. The Chinese coin tael is not tale, but talke pronounced quickly. Yun-Nau-Fu is yoon-nahn-foo, not yu-nan-fyu. In like manner all wores are pronounced with syllable distinctness and with uniform vowel sound. Under the third rule the province named Seez-Huan is sounded, not ze-kuan, but nearly as zechchooahn, touching the choo very lightly; Nganh-Wei is inggahghoo-wayee, dropping the initial i sound; Liautong peninsula is leeooh-tong, and German possession Kiau-Chau is Keea-hooo-hoo. However, without multiiyling examples, the reader of new from the much troubled far East will find his way through the many difficult names he is to meet in his reading in the near future, with sufficient safety, if he will but observe the three simple rules given for correct pronunciation. Prof. W. C. O. Jacques. The subject of this sketch is president of the Columbia Negro Art Company of Washington, D.C., also president of the Columbian Artistic Association, and founder of the Fine Art Studio, of Washington, bearing the same name. Prof. Jacques has been traveling for two years in the interest of his work, and has visited the principal cities in the United States and Canada. The interest in art, that he has awakened, is readily seen in the large number of Art classes now studying. Mr. Jacques comes to this city with a nartioal reputation, and it is but fitting to say that he is fully sustaining the same. His work speaks for itself. One of the pleasant features of Mr. Jacques' work, is the lectures that are given on the necessity of race enterprizes and unity. Mr. Jacques is ably assisted by his amiable wife, also Miss Eliza J. Lucky, both of pronounced ability. The Recorder will have more to say of the work of this school and its efficient promoters. Notes of the Wheelmen Richard Jackson and Oscar Mason enjoyed their trip last Sunday, notwithstanding the heavy rains. They rode to Shelbyville, Morristown, Green field and Rushville, a distance of 116 miles. Milton Mills and Samuel Tucker have signed articles for a match race, at the fair grounds, Aug. 16. Both contestants have good "reps." The management of Newby oval is making an effort to have "Major Taylor train on the track. If successful it will have a good effect on wheeling in the city. J. Walter Hodge, of "yellow streak" fame, circulated among the boys this week. Walt, is now a citizen of Boston and is suffering from the automobile fever. The cycling fever is on the wane. Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper State Meeting of the Odd Fellows. The twentieth annual session of the State lodges of Odd Fellows, will convene in Bloomington, August 7 to 9th forty-five lodges will be represented and the citizens of that place are preparing to entertain in a royal manner. Prof. R. A. Roberts of Shelbyville is the present grand master. The annual session of the Household of Ruth, will be held at the same time and place. Mrs. Ada Goins of Indianapolis is the present Most N. G. Missionary Meeting The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society met with Mrs. Williams, 888 Mnkingum street. The visitor was Mr. Upshaw. The paper by Miss Beasly was highly appreciated also the solo by Miss Ross. The next meeting will be held at 843 Superior-st. Mrs. Atkins will entertain. Alpha Home Picnic. The Alpha Home association will picnic at the Home, Thursday, Aug. 16 The officers are making strenuous efforts to royally entertain all visitors. Tuesday, Aug. 14, Mdesdames Roxie Bell and Susie Williams will receive donations at Knox's barbershop, and it is hoped that the public will give liberally. Soliciting papers are out the proceeds of which will be used in building two additional rooms. Bishopric Assignments First District—New England, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia Conferences, W. B. Derrick; D. D. Second District—Baltimore, Virginia West Virginia and North Carolina, B. F. Lee, D. D., LL. D. Ph. D. Third District—Ohio and Pittsburg, B. W. Arnett, D. D. LL. D. Fourth District—Indiana, Illinois Iowa and Michigan, Abraham Grant. Fifth District—Colorada, Kansas and Missouri, C. T. Shaffer, D. D. Sixth District—Georgia and Alabama, H. M. Turner, D. D., L.L. D., C. L. Seventh District—South Carolina, Wesley J. Gaines, D. D. Eighth District—Arkansas and Mississippi, Evans Tyree, D. D. Ninth District—Tennessee and Kentucky, B. T. Tanner. Tenth District—Texas and Louisiana Moses B. Salters. 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A MERCIFUL ART. HEALING HUMANITY'S WOUNDS AND DEFORMITIES. Tlv. Efficacy of the Divine Power—Rel- tions of Surgery and Theology—Christ the Healer—Dr Talmage's In this discourse Dr. Talmage puts in an unusual light the mission of Christ and shows how divine power will make the illnesses of the world fall back; text, Matthew xl. 5, "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear." "Doctor," I said to a distinguished surgeon. "do you not get worn out with constantly seeing so many wounds and broken bones and distortions of the human body?" "Oh, no," he answered; "all that is overcome by my joy in curing them." A sublimer and more merciful art never came down from heaven than that of surgery. But notwithstanding all the surgical and medical skill of the world with what tenacity the old diseases hang on to the human race, and most of them are thousands of years old, and in our Bibles we read of them—the carbuncles of Job and Hezekiah, the palpitation of the heart spoken of in Deuteronomy, the sunstroke of a child carried from the fields of Shumen, crying, "My head, my head!" King Asa's disease of the feet, which was nothing but gout; defection of teeth, that called for dental surgery, the skill of which, almost equal to anything modern, is still seen in the filled molars of the unrolled Egyptian mummies; the ophthalmia caused by the juice of the newly ripe fig, leaving the people blind by the roadside; epilepsy, as in the case of the young man often falling into the fire and oft into the water; hypochondria, as of Nebuchadnezzar, who imagined himself an ox and going out to the fields to pasture; the withered hand, which in Bible times, as now, came from the destruction of the main artery or from paralysis of the chief nerve; the wounds of the man whom the thieves left for dead on the road to Jericho and whom the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in oil and wine—wine to cleanse the wound and oil to soothe it. Thank God for what surgery has done for the alleviation and cure of human suffering! But the world wanted a surgery without pain. Drs. Parre and Hickman and Simpson and Warner and Jackson, with their amazing genius, came forward and with their anaestheties benumbed the patient with narcotics and ethers as the ancients did with hashheesh and mandrake and quieted him for awhile, but at the return of consciousness distress returned. The world has never seen but one surgeon who could straighten the crooked limb, cure the blind eye or reconstruct the drum of a soundless ear or reduce a dropy without any pain at the time or any pain after, and that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the mightiest, grandest, gentlest and most sympathetic surgeon the world ever saw or ever will see, and he deserves the confidence and love and worship and hosannas of all the earth and hallelujahs of all heaven. "The blind receive their sight and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear." I notice this surgeon had a fondness for chronic cases. Many a surgeon, when he has had a patient brought to him, has said: "Why was not this attended to five years ago? You bring him to me after all power of recuperation is gone. You have waited until there is a complete contraction of the muscles, and false ligatures are formed, and ossification has taken place. It ought to have been attended to long ago." But Christ the Surgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases. One was a hemorrhage of twelve years, and he stopped it. Another was a curvature of eighteen years, and he straightened it. Another was a cripple of thirty-eight years, and he walked out well. The thirty-eight years' case was a man who lay on a mattress near the mineral baths at Jerusalem. There were five apartments where lame people were brought, so that they could get the advantage of these mineral baths. The stone basin of the bath is still visible, although the waters have disappeared, probably through some convulsion of nature. The bath, 120 feet long, forty feet wide and eight feet deep. Ah, poor man, if you have been lame and helpless thirty-eight years, that mineral bath cannot restore you. Why. thirty-eight is more than the average of human life. Nothing but the grave will cure you. But Christ the Surgeon walks along these baths and I have no doubt passes by some patients who have been only six months disordered or a year or five years and comes to the mattress of the man who had been nearly four decades helpless and to this thirty-eight years' invalid said, "Wilt thou be made whole?" The question asked not because the surgeon did not understand the protractedness, the desperateness, of the ease, but to evoke the man's pathetic narrative. "Wilt thou be made whole?" "Oh, yes," says the man. "That is what I came to these mineral baths for. I have tried everything. All the surgeons have failed, and all the prescriptions have proved valueless, and I got worse and worse, and I can neither move hand nor foot nor head. Oh, if I could only be free from this pain of thirty-eight years." Christ the Surgeon could not stand that. Bending over the man on the mattress, and in a voice tender with all sympathy, but strong with all omnipotence, he says, "Rise!" And the invalid instantly scrambled to his knees and then puts out his right foot, then his left foot, and then stood upright as though he had never been prostrated. While he stands looking at the doctor, with a joy too much to hold, the doctor says: "Shoulder this mattress, for you are not only well enough to walk, but well enough to work, and start out from these mineral baths. Take up thy bed and walk." Oh, what a surgeon for chronic cases then and for chronic cases now! In our civilized lands we have blind- THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA ness enough, the ratto fearfully increasing, according to the statement of European and American oculists, because of the reading of morning and evening newspapers on the folling cars by the multitudes who live out of the city and come in to business. But in the lands where this divine surgeon operated the cases of blindness were multiplied beyond everything by the particles of sand floating in the air, and the night dews falling on the eyelids of those who slept on the top of their houses, and in some of these lands it is estimated that twenty out of 100 people are totally blind. Amid all that crowd of visionless people, what work for an oculist! And I do not believe that more than one out of a hundred of that surgeon's cures were reported. He went up and down among those people who were feeling slowly their way by staff, or led by the hand of man or rope of dog, and introducing them to the faces of their own household, to the sunrise and the sunset and the evening star. He just run his hand over the expressionless face, and the shutters of both windows were swung open, and the restored went home crying, "I see! I see! Thank God, I see!" That is the oculist we all need. Till he touches our eyes we are blind. Yea, we were born blind. By nature we see things wrong, if we see them at all. Our best eternal interests are put before us, and we cannot see them. The glories of a loving and pardoning Christ are projected, and we do not behold them. But this surgeon was just as wonderful as an aurist. Very few people have two good ears. Nine out of ten people are particular to get on this or that side of you when they sit or walk or ride with you, because they have one disabled ear. Many have both ears damaged, and what with the constant racket of our great cities and the catarral troubles that sweep through the land, it is remarkable that there are any good ears at all. Most wonderful instrument is the human ear. It is harp and drum and telegraph and telephone and whispering gallery all in one. So delicate and wondrous is its construction that the most difficult of all things to reconstruct is the auditory apparatus. The mightiest scientists have put their skill to its retuning, and sometimes they stop the progress of its decadence or remove temporary obstructions, but not more than one really deaf ear out of 100,000 is ever cured. It took a God to make the ear, and it takes a God to mend it. That makes me curious to see how Christ the Surgeon succeeds as an aurist. We are told of only two cases he operated on as an ear surgeon. His friend Peter, naturally high tempered, saw Christ insulted by a man by the name of Malchus, and Peter let his sword fly, aliming at the man's head, but the sword slipped and hewed off the outside ear, and our surgeon touched the incision and another ear bloomed in the place of the one that had been slashed away. But it is not the outside ear that hears. That is only a funnel for gathering sound and pouring it into the hidden and more elaborate ear. On the beach of Lake Galllee our surgeon found a man deaf and dumb. The patient dwelt in perpetual silence and was speechless. He could not hear a note of music or a clap of thunder. He could not call father or mother or wife or children by name. What power can waken that dull tympanum or reach that chain of small bones or revive that auditory small or open the gate between the brain and the outside world? The surgeon put his fingers in the deaf ears and agitated them and kept on agitating them until the vibration gave vital energy to all the dead parts, and they responded, and when our surgeon withdrew his fingers from the ears the two tunnels of sound were clear for all sweet voices of music and friendship. For the first time in his life he heard the dash of the waves of Galllee. Through the desert of painful silence had been built a king's highway of resonance and acclamation. But yet he was dumb. No word had ever leaped over his lip. Speech was chained under his tongue. Vocalization and accentuation were to him an impossibility. He could express neither love nor indignation nor worship. Our surgeon, having unbarred his ear, will now unlose the shackle of his tongue. The surgeon will use the same liniment or salve that he used on two occasion for the cure of blind people—namely, the moisture of his own mouth. The application is made, and lo, the rigidity of the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the tongue and teeth was born a whole vocabulary and words flew into expression. He not only heard, but he talked. One gate of his body swung in to let sound enter, and the other gate swung out to let sound depart. Why is it that, while other surgeons used knives and forceps and probes and stethoscopes, this surgeon used only the ointment of his own lips? To show that all the curative power we ever feel comes straight from Christ. And if he touches us not we shall be deaf as a rock and dumb as a tomb. Oh, thou greatest of all artists, compel us to hear and help us to speak! But what were the surgeon's fees for all these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and withered hands and crooked backs? The skill and the painlessness of the operations were worth hundreds and thousands of dollars. Do not think that the cases he took were all moneyless. Did he not treat the nobleman's son? Did he not doctor the ruler's daughter? Did he not effect a cure in the house of a centurion of great wealth who had out of his own pocket built a synagogue? They would have paid him large fees, and there were hundreds of wealthy people in Jerusalem and among the merchant castles along Lake Tiberias who would have given this surgeon houses and lands and all they had for such cures as he could effect. For critical cases in our time great surgeons have received $1,000, $5,000 and in one case I know of $50,000, but the surgeon of whom I speak received not a shekel, not a penny, not a farthing. In his whole earthly life we know of his having had but 62½ cents. When his taxes of a fish in the sea which had swallowed due, by his omniscience, he knew lowed a piece of silver money, as fish are apt to swallow anything bright and he sent Peter with a hook which brought up that fish, and from its mouth was extracted a Roman stater or 62½ cents, the only money he ever had, and that he paid out for taxes. This greatest surgeon of all the centuries gave all his services then and offers all his services now free of all charge. "Without money and without price" you may spiritually have your blind eyes opened and your deaf ears unbarred, and your dumb tongues loosened, and your wounds healed, and your soul saved. If Christian people get hurt of body, mind or soul, let them remember that surgery is apt to hurt, but it cures, and you can afford present pain for future glory. Besides that, there are powerful anaesthetics in the divine promises that soothe and alleviate. No ether or chloroform or cocaine ever made one so superior to distress as a few drops of that magnificent anodyne: "All things work together for good to those who love God." "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." What a grand thing for our poor human race when this surgeon shall have completed the treatment of the world's wounds! The day will come when there will be no more hospitals, for there will be no more sick, and no more eye and ear infirmaries, for there will be no more blind or deaf, and no more deserts, for the round earth shall be brought under arboriculture, and no more blizzards or sunstrokes, for the atmosphere will be expurgated of scorch and chill, and no more war, for the swords shall come out of the foundation bent into pruning hooks, while in the heavenly country we shall see the victims of accident or malformation or hereditary ills on earth become the athletes in Elysian fields. Who is that man with such brilliant eyes close before the throne? Why, that is the man who, near Jericho, was blind and our surgeon cured his ophthalmal. Who is that erect and graceful and queenly woman before the throne? That was the one whom our surgeon found bent almost double and could in nowise lift up herself, and he made her straight. Who is that listening with rapture to the music of heaven, solo melting into chorus, cymbal responding to trumpet, and then himself joining in the anthem? Why, that is the man whom our surgeons found deaf and dumb on the beach of Galilee and by two touches opened ear gate and mouth gate. Who is that around whom the crowds are gathering with admiring looks and thanksgiving and cries of "Oh, what he did for me! Oh, what he did for my family! Oh, what he did for the world!" That is the surgeon of all the centuries, the oculist, the aurist, the emancipator, the Saviour. No pay he took on earth. 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London cable: General De Wet has again succeeded in cutting Lord Roberts' communication both by railway and telegraph, and captured one hundred of the Highlanders. The story of the federal commander's bold raid comes in the form of a telegram from General Forester-Walker, dated at Cape Town, forwarding a dispatch from General Knox, as follows: "Kroenstad cable: Following is from Broadway, sent by dispatch rider to Honinggrunt, and wired thence to Kroenstadt: "Have followed commando. Hard sharp lighting at Palmiefontein. Prevented from pursuing laager by darkness. Eight hundred Boers found. Our casualties five killed and seventy-six wounded. Raek Vallakrantz to-day. Enemy doubled its way back through Paarde Kraal in darkness. Shall march to-morrow to Boeval station. Send supplies for 3,000 men and horses, also any news of the enemy's movements. I believe the commando consists of 2,000 men and four guards and is accompanied by President Steyn and both the De Wetts." General Knox continued: "The wire and main line of the railway north of Honinggrunt have been cut and also the telegraph to Pretoria, via Potchefstroom. According to my information De Wet has crossed the railway and is going north. "General Kelly-Kenny telegrams from Bloemfontein: The railway has been cut north of Honingspruit and a supply train and one hundred Highlanders captured by the enemy. A report was received that a large force of the enemy is moving on Honingspruit. All communication with Pretoria is cut off. The Second and Third Cavalry Brigade are following the enemy." The war office has received a telegram from Lord Roberts which repeats the news contained in the telegram from General Forestier-Walker, given above, and continues: "Methuen continued his march after the occupation of Heckport, and engaged the enemy's rear guard at Zindfontain. Casualties, one killed and one wounded. He attacked the enemy again at Aliphan't the nek, and completely dispersed them, inflicting heavy loss. Our casualties were slight. By these successes Rustenburg has been relieved and Methuen and Baden-Powell have joined hands. Hunter reports that Bruce Hamilton secured a strong position on the Spitray, with a battery and the Cameron Highlanders and 500 mounted men. Our casualties were three of the Camerons killed and Captain Keith-Hamilton, of the Oxfords, Captain Brown and Lieutenant Stewart and thirteen men of the Camerons wounded." WOOLLEY NOTIFIED PROHIBITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ACCEPTS. Makes an Address in Which He Claims to be a Color-Bearer in the Greatest Forward Movement of Humanity. Chicago special: John G. Woolley, Prohibition candidate for the presidency of the United States, was formally notified of his nomination at a meeting held Friday night. The hall was crowded by members of the party, and the speeches of Samuel Dickie, of Albion, Mich., and of Mr. Woolley were received with great enthusiasm. Oliver M. Stuart, chairman of the executive committee for the State of Illinois, presided and made a short address in opening the meeting. He then brought forward Mr. Dickie, who spoke in part as follows: "The duty assigned to me tonight is a purely formal one, and yet one which I am able to discharge with the utmost heartiness. We are here to give official notice to the presidential nominee of the Prohibition party that he has been chosen to lead what, to many, is sure to seem a forlorn hope." The speaker dwelt at some length on the humanitarian aspect of the nations of the earth rushing to prevent the outrages in China, and declared the woes and have created by rum far exceeded those of the "yellow terror" beyond the Pacific. Mr. Woolley, on rising to reply, was received with prolonged cheers by the audience. He accepted the nomination in a speech of considerable length. He said in the course of his remarks: I accept this nomination not as the leader of a forlorn hope, but as a color-bearer in the next and greatest forward movement of humanity. For it seems well within lines of the most studious moderation to believe that organized conscience, as represented by the church, and organized greed, as represented by the liquor traffic, are forming rapidly in American politics for the greatest pitched battle of the ages, and in that fight he is the chief of dullards who can not pick the winner. Our success depends on the advancement of no candidate. If it were so we might well feel discouraged at the prospect. Our issue is our real nominee, and if but a half a million Christian men be we will elect it on the 6th of next November. We do not need to create sentiment, but to collect it, and that can not be done quickly. Our fight is not against the people, nor even against the saloon primarily, but we fight to set up an ideal, and victory in such a matter neither halts nor buries. I say on the ground of both good morals and good politics the next great business of this country is to get itself upon a straightout conscience basis, trusting any 'civil service' that comes out of that to be reliable in minor things. "By the revolution of 1778 we set up the ideal of liberty; by the revolution of 1789 we set up the ideal of social confederacy; by the revolution of 1861 we set up the ideal of national unity. Not one of these ideals is yet realized in perfect fact, but they are coming on. By the revolution of 1899 we shall set up national righteousness, which, providentially, is ready to loyal hands in the issue of the Prohibition party." At the conclusion of the speech of acceptance by Mr. Woolley and after the band had rendered a medley of patriotic alrs, short addresses were made by different members of the notification committee. London cable: The Standard's correspondent at Tien-Tsin sends a curious statement to the effect that Russions claim that their force has occupied Pekin and that all the foreigners were safe. McKINLEY'S DEMANDS McKINLEY'S DEMANDS MEDIATION OFFERED UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. China Must Put Diplomatic Representatives in Immediate Communication With Their Governments. Washington special: The following correspondence between the President of the United States and the Emperor of China was made public by the state department Tuesday morning: "Translation of a cablegram received by Minister Wu on July 20, 1900, from the Taolat of Shanghai, dated July 19, 1900: "Have received a telegram from Governor Yuan (of Shan Tung), dated 23d day of this moon (July 19), who, having received from the Privy Council at Pekin a dispatch embodying an imperial letter to the President of the United States, has instructed me to transmit to your Excellency. The imperial message is respectfully transmitted as follows: "The Emperor of China to his Excellency, the President of the United States, Greeting: "China has long maintained friendly relations with the United States, and is deeply conscious that the object of the United States is international commerce. Neither country entertains the least suspicion or distrust toward the other. "Recent outbreaks of mutual antipathy between the people and the Christian missions have caused the foreign powers to view with unwarranted suspicion the position of the imperial government as favorable to the people and prejudicial to the missions, with the result that the Taku forts were attacked and captured. Consequently there has been clashing of forces, with calamitous consequences. The situation has become more and more serious and critical. "We have just received a telegraphic memorial from our envoy, Wu Ting Fang, and it is highly gratifying to use to learn that the United States government, having in view the friendly relations between the two countries, has taken a deep interest in the present situation. "Now, China, driven by the irresistible course of events, has unfortunately incurred well-nigh universal indignation. For settling the present difficulty China places special reliance in the United States. We address this message to your Excellency in all sincerity and candidness, with the hope that your Excellency will devise measures and take the initiative in bringing about a concert of the powers for the restoration of order and peace. "The favor of a kind reply is earnstly requested and awaited with the greatest anxiety. KWANG HSU. "Twenty-sixth year, of this moon, the 23d day (July 19)." "It is therefore my duty to transmit the above with the request that your Excellency, in respectful obedience of imperial wishes, will deliver the same to its high destination and favor me with a reply. YU LIEN YUEN This cablegram was at once communicated to the President at Canton, and the following is his reply: "The President of the United States to the Emperor of China. Greeting; "I have received your Majesty's message of the 19th of July and am glad to know that your Majesty recognizes the fact that the government and people of the United States desire of China nothing but what is just and equitable. "The purpose for which we landed troops in China was the rescue of our litigation from grave danger, and the protection of the lives and property of Americans who were sojourning in China in the enjoyment of right guaranteed them by treaty and by international law. "The same purposes are publicly declared by all the powers who have landed military forces in your Majesty's empire." "I am to infer from your Majesty's letter that the malefactors who have disturbed the peace of China, who have murdered the minister of Germany and a member of the Japanese legation, and who now hold bested in Pekin those foreign diplomats who still survive, have not only received not any favor or encouragement from your Majesty, but are actually in rebellion against the imperial authority. "If this be the case, I most solemnly urge upon your Majesty's government to give public assurance whether the foreign ministers are alive, and, if so, in what condition. "To put the diplomatic representatives of the powers in immediate and free communication with their respective governments and to remove all danger to their lives and liberty. "To place the imperial authorities of China in communication with the relief expedition so that co-operation may be secured between them for the liberation of the legations, the protection of foreigners and the restoration of order." "If these objects are accomplished, it is the belief of this government that no obstacles will be found to exist on the part of the powers to an amicable settlement of the questions arising out of the recent troubles, and the friendly offices of this government will, with the assent of the other powers, be cheerfully placed at your Majesty's disposition for that purpose. (Signed) "WILLIAM McKINLEY." "July 23, 1900." "By the President: John Hay, Secretary of State." Allen Nominated. Captain D. F. Allen, of Frankfort, was unanimously nominated for Congress by the Ninth district Democratic convention at Crawfordsville, Tuesday. Captain Allen is now in the army with his company in the Philippines, but it is understood will come home and make a forty days' campaign. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA MOWING THEM DOWN TWO HUNDRED FILIPINOS ARE KILLED IN A WEEK. American Loss, Twelve Killed, Eleven Captured-Signal Corps Ambushed. Manilla, July 22.—It is officially reported that last week 200 Filipinos were killed and 120 surrendered or were captured. Twelve Americans were killed and eleven wounded. This includes the casualties of Col. William E. Birkhimer's engagement with a force of the Twenty-eighth volunteer infantry, who attacked 200 insurgents armed with rifles, entrenched two miles east of Taal, killing thirty-eight. A detachment of the signal corps, while repairing wires, was twice ambushed. Capt. Charles D. Roberts of the Thirty-fifth volunteer infantry, who was captured by the Filipinos last May, has arrived here on parole. He will not return to captivity. Senor Buencantimo last Thursday sent to Aguinaldo, by means of Aguinaldo's mother, the amnesty resolutions adopted by the meeting of representative Filipinos here on June 21, together with Gen. MacArthur's answer to them, and other documents bearing upon the restoration of peace. It is understood that Aguinaldo will summon his advisers and that a reply may be expected within a month. Filipinos here will give a banquet next Saturday in celebration of President McKinley's order of amnesty. KILLED BY OFFICERS KILLED BY OFFICERS MERLIN MOON SHOT TO DEATH AT CARTERSBURG. He Armed Himself With a Double- Barreled Shot Gun and Revolver and Defied the Constable. Cartersburg, Ind., special: Merlin Moon, a young married man of this place, was shot and killed at his home, at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, while resisting arrest. Saturday morning he knocked down his brother-in-law, Harry Snodgrass; and choked him into insensibility. He afterward assaulted his mother-in-law and then fled. Affidavits against him were procured, but the officers failed to find him. Afterwards the officer deputized citizens to help him make the arrest. Later in the day Moon returned to his home and an effort was made to make the arrest, but night was coming and after an exchange of fifteen or twenty shots the attempt was given up. Sunday about 9 o'clock Moon returned to his home. After eating his breakfast he prepared himself for further resistance. Arming himself with a shotgun and a 44-caliber revolver he took his stand in the center of his residence, where he could see in every direction. The officers appeared and demanded his surrender, but he flatly refused to come out or disarm himself. Instead, he is said to have leveled his shotgun at the posse. Reports are conflicting as to whether he fired, but the officers assert he did. They at once fired three shots at him, one of which penetrated his left breast just above the heart. He placed his gun in a corner, and exclaiming he was shot, walked into the street, where he fell and died immediately. The result of the coroner's investigation is not yet reported, but it is the opinion that the officers will be exonerated. The trouble first started, it is asserted, while Moon was training a goat to drive. It is said he was treating the animal cruelly, and his young brother-in-law interfered. He assaulted the youth and when his mother-in-law intereferd he fought her. That is What the Chinese Invasion of Amur Means. New York special: A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from London Thursday says: The Chinese invasion of the Amur province is equivalent to a declaration of war against Russia. Construing it as such, the government has handed to the Chinese envoy at St. Petersburg his passports and requested him to leave the country along with the members of his legation. The importance of this Chinese declaration of war against Russia, and of this bold invasion of Russian territory, lies in the fact that as the matter now stands, it virtually releases the Czar from his obligations to the foreign powers to act in concert with them in China. He is placed thereby in a position to act independently and not only with reference to the defense of his dominions against the Chinese invasion, but also as regards the carrying of war into the enemy's country and an eventual march upon Pekin. Should a Russian army, proceeding from Siberia, reach Pekin and capture it before the allies could get to it from the Pacific coast, the Czar would be able to dictate terms to China independently of the other powers, and without any regard to their wishes, virtually establish himself as master of the country. The British and German governments alarmed at the idea of this eventuality, have decided to abandon the policy which they have pursued until now and to declare war upon the Chinese government, thus placing themselves in a line with Russia, and France and the United States are expected to follow suit immediately. DUEL WITH PITCHFORKS Two Russian Farmers Battle to the Death in South Dakota. Sloux City, Ta., special: An Aberdeen, S. D., special to the Journal says: "A terrible encounter occurred between two Russian farmers, whose names have not yet been learned, in Emmons county, which resulted in the death of both. There was no witness to the battle, but it is supposed the men quarreled over a tract of hay land and attacked each other with pitchforks. Their bodies were found in the field where the fight took place. There were evidences of a terrible struggle, the bodies of both men being pierced by the fork tines and covered with blood from their many wounds." PIRACY ABOUT CANTON. Li-Hung-Chang's Departure the Signal For an Outbreak of Lawless Actions. London cable: A dispatch to the Central News from Hong Kong, dated July 19 says: "The riotous spirit which it was predicted would show itself in Canton or Viceroy Li Hung Chung's departure, has already started. Pirates are infesting the river and they have seized a Hong Kong passenger launch and forced the passengers, who were mostly Chinese girls, to go aboard the pirate junk. Then they stripped the launch and proceeded to Canton. Pirates at Kamchuk robbed the passengers of another launch of $13,000. Two French gunbats have landed 300 Anamese soldiers to protect Chamien, a suburb of Canton." LOOT OF TIEN TSIN LOOT OF TIEN TSIN SCENES THAT RECALL THE HORRORS OF DARK AGES. Soldiers and Civilians Join in the Rapacious Plunder—Americans and Japanese Join in Attempt to Control Mob. Tien-Tsin, July 15, via Che Foo, July 19, and Shanghai, July 20. This day has been devoted entirely to the looting of the native city, and it is impossible to cable a description of the scenes that were enacted there. Millions of taels' worth of property have been taken. The whole city is filled with an indiscriminate mob of Chinese and soldiers of all nationalities who are breaking open stores, smashing chests and safes and rushing hither and thither with their arms filled with silks, furs, jewelry, silver bars and money. The residents of the settlements flocked to the native city yesterday morning after it had been captured by the troops. They impressed coolies with rickshaws and carts and donkeys into service and very soon the roads between the settlements and the city were lined with a long procession of looters carrying off their plunder. The American and Japanese troops were the only ones who made any attempt to restrain the civilian or soldier looters. The men of both these commands behaved well, the conduct of the Japanese being especially commendable under the circumstances. The British sent organized parties from the warships Barleur, Endymion and Orlando in charge of officers, to guard certain treasure. It was known that the Chinese had two official treasuries containing over 2,000,000 taels. The location of one of these treasuries was known. The allied authorities intended to seize the money and placed a guard in the wrong place yesterday. To-day, when the mistake was discovered, it was found that the silver had nearly all been taken away. The British guard began searching the houses in the settlement and found 50,000 taels. The search is still going on and guards were posted around the settlement this morning with instructions to seize all the loot brought in and also to confiscate all civilian loot that may be found in the settlement. Gen. Dorward, the British commander, says the property seized officially in the native city exceeds in value 1,000,000 taels. It will be sent to the British war secretary to be held for such disposition as the nations interested may decide on. The correspondent saw one civilian stopped in the afternoon. He had $10,000 in Mexican silver in a wheelbarrow, covered with old silks. Soon afterward a party of British sailors in charge of an officer came along with a warter cart loaded with silver. The officers of the Silkh regiment have been taking stretcher parties through the city, gathering everything of any conceivable value. Fires have been started throughout the city, and men are fighting in the streets over loot. Revolvers have been drawn and threats of shooting are not uncommon. The Chinamen sometimes offer a show of resistance against being plundered and in these cases are shot. The looters regard the pawnshops as special prizes. The British officers who are seizing the civilian loot say it is to be divided among the soldiers. There is no interfering with them by the French. Russians and Japanese. BRAVE BONUS DUEL Anna Gould's Freech Count Draws the Blood of His Antagonist. Paris cable: Count Bonti de Castellaine, who married Miss Anna Gould, of New York, fought a duel with swords Sunday with Count Orlowski, in the outskirts of Paris. In the first assault Count Orlowski was wounded in the thorax and the duel was stoped by the doctors. The conditions of the duel were that the contest should continue until one of the combatants was absolutely unable to go on. The cause of the duel was a newspaper article reciting a quarrel between the two in Count Bonti de Castellaine's house. Count Orlowski charged Castellaine with responsibility for the article. The Great Cunard Runs Down the Bar Embleton in a Dense Fog. London cable: A dense fog hung over the Irish channel Sunday morning and the Cunard line steamer Campania, en route from New York to Liverpool, struck the Liverpool bark Embleton, bound for New Zealand, cutting her in twain. The Embleton sank immediately. Seven of the crew were rescued, but it is believed the other eleven members of the ship's company, including the captain, were drowned. The Campania had her bows stove in, but arrived safely at Liverpool five and one-half hours late. NELLY WINS A POINT. He Can Not Be Extradited Under Indict- ment. New York special: Judge Lacombe, of the United States circuit court, Thursday rendered a decision in the case of Charles F. W. Neely, charged with having defrauded the postal department in Cuba, in which he declared that the mere presentation of an indictment can not be held sufficient for Neely's extradition, and that further testimony will be heard when the case comes up on July 23. INDIANA CHARITIES AN INCREASE IS NOTED IN THE NUMBER OF INMATES IN THE THIRTEEN BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. Tragedy at a Crossing-Shocking Condition of a Poor House Melon Crop in Knox County-A Negro Jew-State Notes. Indiana Charities. According to the Indiana bulletin of the Board of State Charities and Corrections, for the six months ending April 30, there were enrolled as inmates of the thirteen State and benevolent institutions 8,563 persons. The enrolment of the nine charitable institutions on the same date was 5,047, an increase of 222 over the preceding six months. Nearly one-half of the increase is found to be in the hospitals for the insane. On the other hand the enrolment of inmates of the correctional institutions has decreased during the same period from 2,678 to 2,515. During the six months there was expended by these institutions $95,857.07, of which $88,773.21 was utilized for the regular running expenses and $249,083.86 in the construction of new buildings and for extraordinary repairs. The insane hospitals of the State cost for regular maintenance, $244,506.25, or $7.22 per capita; the soldiers' home, $42,483.60, or $7.68 per capita; the soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home, $47,857.92, or $7.62 per capita; the institution for the deaf, $38,704.79, or $117.36 per capita; the institution for the blind, $18,511.87, or $137.23 per capita; the school for feeble-minded, $62,805.95, or $8.10 per capita; the State prison at Michigan City, $62,490.82, or $78.67 per capita; the reformatory at Jeffersonville, $72,084.78, or $78.09 per capita; the industrial school for girls and women's prison, $22,907.43, or $89.87 per capita; the reform school for boys, $35,274.84, or $78.35 per capita. Tragedy at a Crossing Shelbyville special: Misses Mary Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler, Josie Zoble, daughter of Michael Zoble, and Katie Schaeff, daughter of Nick Schaeff, three young ladies, aged about 17 or 18 years, met a horrible death Monday afternoon at Prescott, near their homes. The three young ladies were out driving and crossed the Big Four railroad track in front of the west-bound fast mall train, due here at 2:30 p. m. They were laughing and having a good time and something except their danger had attracted their attention. The engine struck the horse and buggy, killing the horse. Two of the girls were ground to pieces instantly, while the body of Miss Wheeler was thrown violently upon the engine and carried nearly a quarter of a mile, she dying within a few minutes. The train was moving at a forty-mile rate, but the crossing is not considered an especially dangerous one and no blame seems to be laid upon the train crew for the unfortunate accident. Conductor Connelly was in charge of the train. The young ladies, accompanied by a sister of Mary Wheeler and a sister of Josie Zoble, were out making arrangements for a neighborhood picnic, to be held Thursday. The second buggy came around the blacksmith shop just in time to see the front buggy thrown into the air. Engineer Henry stated that he did not see any of them until they were struck. Shocking Condition of a Poor House. Madison special: The investigation of Jefferson county's poor farm, made by a court-appointed committee, discloses shameful conditions. On both occasions that the committee called, the superintendent was absent, the farm being in charge of his 15-year-old daughter and a farm hand. The cooking has been done by a dirty, half-witted female inmate. There is no division of sexes, and men and women, many of them unaccountable, owing to their mental condition, mingle together with shocking familiarity, says the report. A woman, 104, blind and helpless, was found in a pititable condition. Her filthy garments were rotten and she was besieged with files and vermin. On a table was a tin plate with a mass of beans and a number of black and rusty tin cups with some mixture indistinguishable for flies. These dishes had been standing there for hours. Elizabeth Butler, 89, was placed in the same room with a violent epileptic, who frequently beat and choked her. A helpless idiot named Manley, covered with sores, and filthy with vermin, unable to leave his bed, was found in charge of an insane negro preacher. The atmosphere was so foul that the committee was driven into the open air. The charge is that the condition has been brought about to make political capital, by making a record for economy. Much of the money appropriated is untouched. Melon Crop in Knox County. Melon Crop in Rock County Vincennes special: The annual melon shipping from this county began Tuesday. Winkler, Vollmer & Bey Bros., of this city, are the largest shippers in the county, and have contracted for practically the entire crop of this section. Consequently Cypress, Purcells and Vincennes will be busy melon shipping centers for the next several weeks. They will ship from one to five refrigerator carloads of the Gem muskelmion every day of the season for points as far East as Utica, N. Y., and as far North as Mineapolis. None will be shipped to Chicago. Last year they shipped over 100,000 baskets of melons. This year there are over six hundred acres of Gems, principally in Johnson township, and a few in Vincennes township, and this will require 150,000 baskets. Last year these baskets alone representing an expenditure of over $5,000, had to be purchased at a long distance and at great inconvenience. The melon dealers have since persuaded a local lumberman to establish a basket factory here, and he will turn out the entire 150,000, selling them direct to the farmers as required. Several of the individual growers have twenty acres in melons and from that they run down to two acres. The largest individual --- growers, who ship direct to market, are Rose, Johnson & Yates and Decker. Rose is famed for introducing the juicy Rose watermelon; and the system of transplanting the melon vine, and to this end he has several melon "hothouses" on his farm, where many laborers are employed in the translating season. He is an Ohio capitalist. Shooting Affray at Kokomo Kokomo special: A sensational shooting took place in front of the Lindell Hotel, in this city Tuesday midnight between Deputy Fish Commissioner Oscar Welty and Night Policeman Jerry Kirkman. The latter, in an effort to keep Welty from assaulting a stranger, received a stinging blow from Welty. Kirkman used his mace with telling effect. It is alleged that Welty reached for his revolver, but that Kirkman was too quick for him and opened fire. Three shots took effect. Two balls passed through Welty's right arm and one through the scalp. Welty threw up his hands and was disarmed by the officer and landed in jail. The wounds are not necessarily fatal. It is said that this is the settlement of an old grudge. It is claimed that Welty had been drinking. A Lady Minister Mrs. Mary G. Rheubottom, of Wakarusa, pastor of the Christian Church, has gained considerable national reputation as a woman preacher. The South Bend Tribune says that one week ago, Mrs. Rheubottom officiated at the baptism of 104 converts to her church at Pleasant Hill, Elkhardt county. The ceremony was witnessed by over 2,000 people from various parts of the State. She has recently received ninety-seven new converts to her church at Belleville. Mrs. Rheubottom is said to be the most successful woman preacher in the State. For five years she has been the pastor of the Christian Church at Millersburg, and circuit preacher for the towns of Wakarusa, Pleasant Hill and Belleville. Helen M. Gougar is one of her intimate friends. Her only son is editor of the Wakarusa Tribune. A Negro Jew. Goshen is excited over a colored Hebrew. The South Bend Times says that a colored man claiming to be a Jew sought aid from the Jewish people of Goshen Saturday night. He had been refused accommodations at all the hotels. Rabbi Weinstein questioned him closely, putting him through every test and found him to be no imposter, but a real Jew. The stranger, whose name is Samuel Wolskowicy, is highly educated and speaks the Turkish, Arabic and Hebrew languages. He comes from Macomby, Egypt, 167 miles from Cairo, where there is a colony of 7,000 colored Jews. The Jews of that colony have free schools and synagogues and are an intelligent and progressive people. Wolskowicy was a soldier in the Greek army in the late war between Greece and Turkey. From Oxford to Denver On a "Bike." From Oxford to Denver On a "Bike", J. T. Titworth, 23 years of age, a school teacher, has measured on a bicycle every inch of the distance between his home, in Oxford, Ind., and Denver, Colo. The Oxford Tribune says that the distance as shown by the cyclometer attached to his bicycle, is 1.246 miles. The trip was undertaken merely for pleasure. Mr. Titworth's route was by Bloomington and Springfield, Ill., Jefferson City, Sedalia and Kansas City, Mo., Leavenworth, Kas, and then across the prairies to Denver. He says: "Not a single State through which I passed has even fairly good roads. They are either muddy or cut up in ruts, or else covered with great, loose rocks or dust. The road over the prairie is scarcely a trail, being traveled so little that the grass is not kept down. I rode from sixty- sight to seventy miles a day." Starke County's Ossified Man. Starke County's Ossum Mack. The people of Starke county are watching the development of a peculiar case of ossification. The Plymouth Independent says that the body of Edward W. Greer is turning to stone. His heart action has now become impeded by what medical experts believe is the formation of a crust of stone, which will sooner or later stop its action. The only portion of his body that emits any perspiration is his face. His body is rigid and there is now no evidence of any outward circulation. Medical experts who have examined him say that his case will give to medical science a perfect specimen of an ossified body. A Mother Deserts Her Family. A Mother Deserves Her Family. Mishawaka special: One of the most pitiful chapters of domestic life has just closed in this town by the return of Norman Weaver, a neer-do-well laborer, and his five children, ranging from 5 to 12 years, after a fruitless search for the wife and mother. The latter deserted the family here a year ago. Six months since a reconciliation was effected, but the wife and mother recently again disappeared. Weaver and the children walked to South Bend, thence to Niles. Benton Harbor, Mich., and return, a distance of 120 miles. The children were utterly exhausted by heat, fatigue and neglect. They were in such a pitiable condition that they were taken from Weaver and placed in the orphans' home. Princeton special: Mrs. John Mooney, 101, walked three miles to the postoffice, Saturday. It was the hottest day of the season, and offers were made by many to take her home in a carriage, but she refused, saying her folks would make fun of her. _ THE RECORDER. - ——S———————S————eT A Negro Newspaper, —— _ Pupusnep Every SaTompay at Inpramarorss, INDrawa. : SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Wine Year... o-..secnscceersees + veerseee SLO8 Bix Months... .......secece. renee recess rere sD Whree Momths..... -0.0..---ssenee-+ ceseesee | aS Subscriptions may be sent by postoffice money order, or registered letter. ‘Altcommunications for publication should bbe accompanied with the name of the writer— ot aecessarily for publication but as agruaran- tee of good faith, » ‘We solicit news, contributions, opinions ant Infact all matter fecting the Race. We will not pay for auy matter, however, uslesait is or- dered by us, All matter intended for publica tion must reach thie office not later than Wed: mesday of each week to insure insertion Im the current isaue, + ADVERTISING RATES ‘Will be furnished on Application. Entered at the Postoffice as second-class matter, All letters, Communicatlous an Business auatters should be addressed to WHE RECORDER, -- “7 -+-+-~2>, Geo. P. STEWART ,Publisher SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1900 EDITORIAL D> Ye pres) fe. 7) uel Thane y (an Lull J (epee del a] — Loa Ye ee an. f és Sete y, ‘ I ——— = * THE STATE TICKET. ~"" For Governor, Pot WINFIELD T. DURBIN, = Madison County. 13% For Lieutenant Governor, tah NEWTON W. GILBERT, Steuben County. a For Secretary of State, 5 UNION B. HUNT, mae Rahdolph County. 4:1 T33 For Auditor of State, WILLIAM H. HART, Clinton County. — . jE Zea For Treasurer of State, . LEOPOLD LEVY, * Huntington County. 4-157 For Attorney General, aoe WILLIAM L. TAYLOR, = Marlon County, 13 ‘Gar Superintendent Public Instruction, FRANK L. JONES, = Tipton County. 43 For State Statiatician, ic. F. JOHNSON, . Benton County, { (J. /'123 For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARLES F. REMY, Jackson County. IV1Ss For Judge of the Supreme Court, ‘ Pirst District, jae JAMES H, JORDAN, F * “Morgan County. 552A Fourth District, iene LEANDER J. MONKS Randolph County. ; Dologates-at-Large, CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, JAMES A. MOUNT, z CHARLES S. HERNLY, ‘Alternates, + NATHAN POWELL, WILLIAM AMSDEN, THOMAS ADAMS, i GURLEY. BREWER, x Electors, 5 HUGH H. HANNA, : ue C. W. MILLER. a COUNTY TICKET. For Prosecutor—John C, Ruckles- haus. For Treasurer--Armin ©. Koehne For Sheriff—Eugene Saulcy. For Commissioner, First Distriet— John McGaughey. For Commissioner, Third District- ‘Thomas Spafford. For County Assessor--Marion Eaton or Coroner—Dr. Alembert W. Bray- ton, For Surveyor--James Nelson. A surplus of over 881,000,000 for the fast fiscal yea is a pretty good show- ing for Republican party government considering that heavy war expenses, aswell as the ordinary expenditures of the Government were paid out of the receipts, When we add themation al debt has been decreased to some $40,000,000 in the same time, the show- gg becomes phenomenal. BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE Booker. T, Washington writes that the eff srt to organize a National Negro Business League at Boston, August 23 and 24 is meeting with most gratifying commendation and assistance from business men and women in every section of the country. It is to be un- derstood that this organization is for the colored people who are engaged in the most humble lines of business as well as for those who are engaged in the higher lines of trade. Few people understand how many successful col- ored men and women there are who are engaged in business of all kinds in remote towns and who are succeeding ina quiet way. The object of this meeting will be to get hold of such peo- ple and give them such encourage. ment and advice as will enable them tc do more and better business. At the same time a demonctration will be made of the enterprises of the , race that will do much to help strengthen itin the eyes of the world. All persons engaged in business whc have not yet communicated with Mr. Washington are urged to do s0 at ‘Tuskegee, Ala. at once. Such an ef. fort deserves and receive the hearty encouragement and assistance of every man and woman of the race in- terested in it futuro. ‘The crux of the campaign this fail will be the attitude of the colored voter who can elect either candidate by throwing his vote tohim, The claims of the democrats, upon investigation fall flat and are no doubt put forth to mislead. A careful study of the atti- tude of the Negro, and of the Negro press, seems to stow conclusively that they will stand pretty solidly by their old republican allegiance and friends. ‘There will be no extra session of Congress, There is no need for one at present. The United States is not technically at war with China and prob will not be, so that there is no necess- fiy for a formal declaration. Conse- quently, as long as the Presi¢ent has troops and money enough to meet the needs of the situation, there is no nec- essity of calling Congress to supply him with more, Every body knows what Bryan stands for; everybody thathe will bring about silver sronometalism if he can, and will scuttle out of onr new possession, leaving them to sink or swim as best they may. How then, can anyone who opposed him four years ago, support him today? rs ‘The treatment of the unfortunate foreigners by the Chinese is bad enough, but we shottld remember that it has not been so very long since free born Aimericans were burned at the stake, and, even to-day, in the South- land, are shot down and murdered | with impunity. | The difference between the Chinese of today and a few years ago, when ‘Japan walked allover them, is easily explained. It was the Chinese govern ‘ment that fought then; it is the Chin- ‘ese people who are fighting now. It's a queer thing that some people should insist that “imperialism” is the issue this year, although the demo- crats declare against it, and the repub- lieans do not declare for it, and to cap the climax, it realty doesn’t exist at all Race UNITY, is the one thing need- ed, toinsure success in the business world, Remember that every success. ful enterprise-whether great or small, helps you as an individual, —— | Perhaps the chinese boxers are imi- ‘tating the American southerner. —— Imperialism refuses to be paramount Negro Labor-Wanted. HONOLULU, July 1, via San Fran- cisco, Cai. July 10,—It is to the color- ©4 peopleof the Southern States that the plantation-owners of the Hawaiian islands will turn for relief in the wat- ter of the vexed labor question. John Hind and J, B Collins, of Kohala plan tation, leave to-day for the Southern States in quest of Negro laborers. It is hoped to recruit 300 or 400 at New Orleans. The plantation owners will bay their expenses and give them $30 a month, THE RECORDER,’ INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA SITIFSTSTEESS STENTS IN NETSTENETEDTTD EET ET ETEP ISITE ERIN HTD oN rio fois seco = AROUND THE CHURCHES3 = A Week’s Happenings in Religious Circles 3 SA ASSSSSSSSELSSESAASASSESS ASSESS ASS SAS ASS AESASSESSSSS SS ASSURE AAS ASS ALES SUUSSHIENSFINENNETTONNESSOONESTOIESTOODENT OS FTOEENSTO OSSD SENSN ID ENN ID ANN NTT PTE = has removed to its new quarters, : = T 2 E 414 INDIANA AVENUE: = Where we are equipped to do all Z 3s ' kinds of Printing on short notice. - 3 E Address all onatieks flor publication to The : Es Recorder Office, or call 3 = New Telephone, + 1563. ; rHidddds 444d 4dd ddd dASd44444Q4444sisssises$44ssdda da cd cdsdssigsdsgdseasasssaser se a AE) BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH RETAEL A mB Cauca Rev. C. W. Newton, pastor Hush don't say nothing! Office hours; 8 to9a,m:5to6p.m. Sunday services: early morning Prayer meet- ing, 6 o’clock’ Chas. Grant, leader. 10;30 a: m., Preaching. 12;30 M. Class es. 2:30, p. m., Sunday-school, John Carter, superintendent. Christian Endeavor society. from 6;45 to 7;45 p. m., Alphonso Beard, president. Preaching at 8 p. m.. WEEKLY MEETINGS. Monday, Y. P. A; second and fourth weeks; Amanda Mayne, president and Mamie Chavis, secretary. Tuesday; ‘Trustee meeting, first "Tuesday night of each month, Wednesday; Class meetings. Thursday; Prayer meeting, leaders appointed weekly, Friday; Classes. Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 EDREE RADTICT CHURCH (Werner Rhode Island and Newport Sts) ‘The members and friends are urged to attend the regular church services, also the sabbath school, Quarterly coaference convenes int Chicago next week. Sister Owens is quite 111 at her home Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 ‘ —— JONES TABERNACLE A, M: B. ZION CHURCH ly ee eS Sanday services as usnal, Sabbath school at 2p. m, and C. E, society. at 7;30 p. m. Next Sunday jis rally day. ‘The Connectional Council is near at Hand and we milist be prepared for the meet- ing. Let each member do their duty in this rally and our friénds will ¢o their part. ‘The Young Ladies Occassia club, had a very enjoyable time at their so- cial, held at the home of Miss Bertha | Williams, Monday night. ‘The art exhibit given by the Art clas Tuesday night was a success. The work done by the class, which repre- sents sixty-five pictures and drawings was very good. This is race encourag- aay | Be sure to attennd the third drill by the Ladies social club, next Tuesday ‘night. We urge every department to bend their energy in making preparations for the Connectional council, which is to meet in five weeks Let us be ready La them. ‘The annual conference will convene | in seven weeks. Let us have tue best quarterage report of the six years. | ‘Miss Annie Bird is able to be out. Sister Cornelia Woods is quite ill at | her home in West Walnut street. | Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topica ‘ofthe day. 2c for 3 months pp | WAYMAN CHAPEL. Yandes and 17th St. Rev E.L. Bell, Pastor. ‘The Christian Endeavor work under the leadership af Mr. Walker Johnson is proving successful. The topic for last meeting was “Lazarus, or the needy at our door.” The discussion proved interesting to the members and ‘eintiaee Read The Recorder. Last night a humorous cantata was given at our church to a very apprecia- tive audience: ‘The sabbath school picnic was large- ly attended by members and frieads- ‘The guests of honor were Rev. Dr. Hurley and Prof. William Lewis. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH (Cor, Prospect and McKernan Sts.) R.D. Leonard, Pastor. "The pastor will preach Sunday at 10;45 a. m., and 8p. m. You are wel- come. Rev. R. D. Leonard attended the 8. S conven'ion at Lafayette, aud from there went to Greencastle, where he preached last Sunday and baptized one person. Read The Recorder. As we are striving to pay off the en- ‘tire debt of the church, it is essential that each and every member attend all Services and do their full duty during this effort. | CORINTMIAN BAPTIST CHURCH ‘Gace Hast: sind incite Ottis Rey. Jno. J. Blackshear, Pastor. ‘The pulpit was fillet Sunday by the Rev. R. C. Russell of Shelbyville, Ky. who preached two interesting sermon: He also preached again Monday night. Rey Blackshear has returned. from the sessions of the Sunday School con- vention at Lafayette, and will preach tv-morrow as usual, Mrs. Nellie Morris and Miss Sidney Dupee will give a musical aed lawn fete Monday night, at the hcms of Mrs G. W. Prince, 422 Dorman street, for the benefit of the Pipe Organ club. Aspecial invitation is: extended to all young people to attend the B, Y. P. ‘U., sunday at 6;30 p. m., to hear the report of the delegates to the State leoerea tion ead cise imeatant mat ters, ‘Two additions to the church Sunday. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics vf the day. asc for 3 months 9th Presbyterian Church Michigan st., bet. Capitol avenue and Ilinols st ‘The f unday-school willmeet in the morning at 9:30 o'clock, Rev: Brister will preach at 11 a. m., and8 p.m, The public is invited. ‘The clubs are requested to meet and discuss plans for immediate work. It is hoped that good reports may be had from each club as our obligations are pressing. —E——— | SIMPSON CHAPEL M. B. CRURCH Ne Ve SRC RSS eke hy oa 5 aa a Rev. E, L. Gilliam = - Pastor Last Sunday at 11a m,; the pastor delivered an interesting sermon to the class of prodationers, who-were receiv ed into full membership. The leading points in the doctrine and polity of th Methodist church were set forth an¢ every one present appreciated the dis course. ‘The Sunday-school was well attend. ed and the indications point to a steady growth, ‘The pastor will organize 2 bible class, Sunday and invites the old. er members and others to join. He says t'iat it will be the largest class in the school, but the other teachers will probably have something tosay about that. | The funeral of Herbert Bruce was attended last Sunday by the pastor, at the residence, 48 La Salle street. -Quitea number of the members of ‘the Epworth league attended the Echo meeting, at Roberts Park church, on Wednesday evening. ‘Two additions to the church, Sunday W R. Rollins and Fred. Thomas, The Ladies Embroidery class and Sowing circle, meets every Thursday afternoon at the Church Mrs. Hattie Jackson, pres , Mrs. Katie Booyer sec. On Friday evening a mass meeting of the members were held quite a sum was secured in subscriptions to meet the outstand’ng indebtedness by the second Sunday in Sept. The church has been organized into stntes and the governors will at once proceed to put the machinery in work- ing order to collect the the necessary finances to meet their state obliga. Rey. Gilliam will leave Monday to at. tend the District Confereuce at Rock- port, Ind. He will return August 7. Subscribe for The Recorder and re posted on the leading topics lefthe day. 25c for 3 months Subseribe for The Recorder, ong year $1 = ST. PAUL A. M. E, CHURCH. Baltimore Ave. and 25th si, Rev. J.L. Craven. pastor. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH, Qn West Michigan st ) Rev.J.W.Carr =. Pastor Services were well attended last Sunday. ‘The pastor preached during the day. To-morrow will be grand rally day. . Rev. I. Toliver, D. D., of Washington, D.C , will preach for us Grand Rally! --AT THE-- Second Baptist Church Begining July 23, closing on the 29 We will be assisted by Rey. I. Toliyer, D. D., of Washing ton, D. D. Rev J.D. Rouse, D.D., of Evans. ‘ville. Ind. | Rev. J. R. Miller, D.D.. of Edine burg, Ind,.and the pastors of the City. | We will hold services #8 fotiows on the 29th; Praise service and preaching at 6a. m., by Rev. J. R, Miller Atl0a, m, by Rev. J. D. Reuse, DD. Preaching at 11;45 a, m., by Rev, I, Toliver; D. D. | Preaching at 3 p. m. by the pastor ‘of the city. - Preachihg at 8 p. m. by Rev. 1 Tole ver, D, D, Dinner will be served at the Church. Let all take their dinner and supper at the Church, and help the church, and help the church to pay off the entire debt. Be sureto get your pame ox the Roll of Honor. J. W. CARR, —- PASTOR MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, (Corner Eleventh and Fayette Sts) Rev. B. F. Farrell = Pastor The Recorder A Representative Paper Read by 20,000 Atfro- Americans each week Subscription price One Year $1.00 eh Will be sent to any address in the United States on receipt of | subscription price Agents Wanted. OUR CORRESPONDENTS, Marion Flashes The A. M. E. church rally will be held Sunday, August 5; every member is urged to give at least $1.00. August 1 is the great emancipation celebration at the fair grounds. This is expected to eclipse any thing of the kind ever given in this city. Chelca Frazier and sister, Alice Thompson, have gone to Portland, Org. on a visit. Mrs. Thompson will stay. Mrs. Ida Bass of Indianapolis, is here looking for a location for hair dressing establishment. John Thomas of Indianapolis, is here visiting his brother. Quarterly meeting Sunday; this is the last quarter. Rev. G. W. Carr and Dr. Thomas were at Lafayette attending the Baptist Sundayschool convention. Daisy Young is at Portland this week visiting friends. Virgia Bass is ill, and W. E. Weaver is also on the sick list. Prof. Robert, D G. Master of G, U. O. O. F., visited Mississineway lodge last Wednesday. Rev. C. W. Mossell and J. M. Nichols were at Fairmount looking after church work. John Burden was at Indianapolis Sunday. Mrs. Lindsey of Lebanon was in the city Sunday her son. Miss Alice Watson of Grand Junction, Mich., is visiting Miss Minnie Young in this city. Cornelius Hunt of Huntington, was in the city last week on business. Be sure to get the Recorder next week. Charlestown Notes. Sunday was quarterly meeting at A.M. E. church three interesting sermons were delivered during the day by Revs. Kelly and W. H. Saunders P. E. Mrs. Alexander Paris and Miss Betty Crabtree of Indianapolis, are visiting relatives and friends in this city. Mrs. Lucy Kirk after spending few days with Mrs. Sarah Wilson returned to her home at Cincinnati Monday. Ananias Garlin has returned to Kentucky after a pleasant visit in this city. Miss Kate Young is here from Indianapolis to spend awhile with her mother. Miss Mattie Mason of Louisville spent Sunday in the with her moth tr. Mrs. Cathrine Mason. Seymour Sights. Geo. T. Steward of Rushville, visited his sister, D. W. Goens, and his brothers, Richard and Filoling in this city. Rev. C. D. Lamb is quite ill with a fever. Mrs. Minnie Burten and brother, James Bass of Indianapolis, visited relatives here Sunday. Mrs. Susan Cobman remains low with dropsy. The Second Baptist church will have a cornerstone laying tomorrow afternoon. Rev. J. W. Clevinger of the Firt Baptist church, will preach the sermon. James Bass of Indianapolis was here Sunday visiting friends. Miss Minnie Burton of Indianapolis, was in the city Sunday visiting Miss Nellie Lamb. Blanche Clark of Indianapolis is spending a few days in this city. Miss Mary L. Dehoney, was in the city this week visiting her parents. She lives at Cincinnati. Shelbyville Notes. Richard Jackson of Indianapolis, was in the city Sunday. Robert Reed and Miss Mamie Johnson were at Indianapolis the first of the week. Miss Pauline Keller returned to her home at Indianapolis last Sunday. Earnest Montgomery was the guest of relatives and friends at Indianapolis Tuesday. Misses Laura Reed and Mable Johnson were the guests of Miss Anna Smith at Indianapolis Sunday. Oscar Mason of Indianapolis, was in the city Sunday. Leonard Johnson visited friends at Indianapolis Tuesday. Rev. Mrs. Jackson of Indianapolis, is the guest of Mrs. and Rev. T. R. Fletcher. She will assist the Rev. with his camp meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards of Franklin spent Saturday and Sunday in the city. Rev. Edwards preached two very interesting sermons, for Rev. Fletcher. Rushville Notes. Presiding Elder Sissle held quarterly conference Saturday night. Miss Cathrine and Janie Richardson and Ossie Summerville and Nannie Oreda spent Sunday at Woodale. Miss May Mitchell of Anderson, visited her cousin, Cora Smith during the Street fair in this city. Mrs. William and Miss Anna Lewis of Muncie, were the guests of Mrs. Richardson during the street fair. Chas. Roberts and Miss Juanita Byrd visited friends at Carthage last Sunday. There is an effort on foot to organize an A. M. E. church. Greensburg Notes. Messrs. Dixon and Goode of North Vernon were in the city Sunday as the guests of friends. The union picnic of Columbus and Greensburg was a success, The game of ball between Columbus and Greensburg was 31 to 28 in favor of Colombus. Miss Lula Peck has returned to her home. The concert given at the A. M. E. by Madam Josephine Eastern assisted by her vocal class was quite a success, and by request of the citizens she will repeat it in the near future. Rev. Irvin was at Columbus last Sunday. Mrs. Theo. Goddley has returned home from the Martinsville springs Fowler Notes. Misses Minnie Wilson and Zoe Hatton spent Sunday at Indianapolis, the guests of Mrs. C. Case. Misses Della Stanton and Cora Brown will soon leave for their homes in Tennessee. Miss Ida Johnson after a week's visit at Indianapolis returned home In this city Monday. Miss Mary Wilson is able to be out again after a week's illness. Greencastle Notes. Rev. R. D. Leonard of Indianapolis, preached three very interesting sermons at St. Paul Baptist church Sunday. Rev. Wm. Townsend pastor of the A. M. E. church of Washington died on the 20, and was buried here on the 22. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Miss Josie Ernest is visiting at Anderson. Spear Pitman is on the sick list this week. Miss Bessie Bellemay has returned from Indianapolis. She was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs F. Daniels whom she visited. Miss Jessie Ernest is visiting her sister. Mrs. Julian P. Smith at Cleveland, Tenn. Crawfordsville Notes. Miss Clara Bair has returned to Indianapolis after a visit with Mrs Cassie Day. Mr. John Oliver went to Danville, Ill, last week, to work. Mrs. John Hale spent last Sunday at Lake Maxinkuckee. Mr. John Hale of Decature, Ill., is spending a few days in the city with his family. Mr. Timothy Davis attended the Baptist Sunday School convention last week at Lafayette, Ind. Mrs. M. V. Sanders is visiting in Danville, Ill. Mr. Harry Jones is home from Danville, Ills. The A. M. E. church gave a social Monday evening. It was well attended. Miss Gace Patterson spent Sunday with Miss Juanita Russell at Browns Valley. Miss Belle Jones is quite ill at her home, with tonsilitis. Mr. R. A. Roberts of Shelbyville was in the city, Thursday. Edinburg Notes. Mr. William Garrett and William Johnson spent Sunday in Franklin. The two little children of Mrs. Birds of Indianapolis Lucy and Areila Larue visited their grand parents Mr. and Mrs. Sims. Miss Sallie Sims who is on sick list is now better. Misses Carrie Parker and Mayme Garrett Messrs William and Charles Mitchell of Indianapolis went to Cave Mills Sunday. Miss Fannie Hill attended the Sunday school convention in Lafayette, Ind., last week. Mr. John Mavety of Indianapolis spent Monday in the city. Mrs. America Graves left Wednesday for an extended visit to friends in southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. Lafayette Vaporings The Indiana Baptist B. Y. P. U. and State S. S. convention held their annual session in the second Baptist church here last week. The sessions were largely attended interesting, and harmonious in deliberations. Rev. J. W. Carr, S. C. Manuel, Dr. Blacklear and J. D. Rouse and many of the leading Baptist ministers of the State were presents. Sevsral of the ministers supplied the various pulpits of the city last Sunday. Prof. R. A. Roberts was in the city on G. U. O. O. F. Lodge business last week. Riley E. Anderson is visiting his grandmother at their summer home in Kalamazo, Mich. The Knights Templar commadery of this city is making extensive preparations to entertain the Grand Conclave the last week in next August. Quite a grand time is expected. Watch the columns of The Recorder. The Odd Fellows and Buffalo Bill will clean the boys on August 3 and 4. Mrs. Grace Hubbard of Fort Wayne, is in the city. Mrs. Sadie McClelland of Benton Harbor, is visiting Mrs. Rasburn Curtis of this city. Uncle Seamley is very low at his daughter home in the west part of the city. Mrs. Anna Lett and Susie Simpson of Jackson, Mich., are spending a few days with friends. Walter Smith has returned from the Epsworth hospital much improved. Little Alvin Johnson is in the a critical condition at his parents' home in Colfax ave. The Odd Fellows have secured half fare rates on all railroads within 80 miles of the city. Don't forget to eat a nice lunch at Oscar Higgin's stand at the fair grounds on Aug. 3. Miss Alice James spent Sunday at the country club near Elkhart. Mrs. Joe Cross' little three months old baby last Saturday morning. The Odd Fellows have made a big preparation for the celebration in this city on the 3 of Aug. General admission to the fair grounds will be 10 cents. No one should fail to hear Booker T. Washington speak at the auditorium next Friday evening Aug. 3. subject, 'Resolving the Negro Problem.' Let everybody turn out. Admission 25c, 35c, and 50c; box seats $1.00. Continued from the front page of last week. see at this moment the awrui tragedy that is following just exactly such a movement as that which the so-called anti-imperialists have championed in the Philippines. The Boxers in China are the precise analogues and representatives of the Aigualhian rebels in the Philippines. Had we adopted the "policy of scuttle" in the Philippines, the policy which our political opponents now champion, the streets of Manila would have witnessed such scenes as those of the streets of Pekin. To allow the Filipino rebels to establish their own so-called government and then to protect them against other civilized nations would be exactly as if we now sided with the Boxers in China, demanded for them the "liberty" to butcher their neighbors, allowed them to establish their own "independent" government, and then agreed to protect them from the wrath of civilized mankind. A more wicked absurdity than the Kansas City proposition for dealing with the Philippines was never enunciated by the representatives of a political party. I would ask those who by their word have encouraged the warfare of the Filipinos against us to recall the letter of Gen. Lawton written just before his death, in which he pointed out that the blood of his soldiers reddened the hands of the men at home who encouraged our ores abroad. Some years ago when certain easterners were clamoring in the name of humanity against the army officers who warred to protect the western settlers from the Indians, Gen. Sheridan wrote: "I do not know how far these humanitarians should be accused on account of their ignorance; but surely it is the only excuse that can give a shadow of justification for aiding and abetting such horrid crimes." The scheming politicians at Kansas City have not even the excuse of ignorance when they incite the insurgents to fresh warfare against our soldiers with the base hope that thereby they may further their own political advancement. Ther are doubtless many worthy and amiable gentlemen of humanitarian tendencies, especially in the northwest, who oppose expansion now, as men like them have always opposed expansion. In 1811 when Louisiana was on the point of being admitted to the Union, and the country beyond the Mississippi—the country now carved into the great states from which so many of my hearers come—was being governed territorially, a prototype of the modern anti-imperialists, the Hon. Josiah Quincy addressed the house of representatives in language that with very slight variation might be used by his successors today. In a speech that would be quite in place at the Kansas City convention, or in any anti-impansionist meeting of today, he stated that his anxiety and distress of mind were wholly unprecedented, for with the admission of the trans-Mississippi territory into the Union, the liberties and the rights of the whole people of the United States were so completely upset as to justify a revolution. He declared that if Louisiana was admitted into the Union, then the Union ought immediately to be dissolved. He denounced in unmeasured terms the "territorial avidity" of the Americans of the day. He asserted that the constitution was never constructed "to form a covering for the inhabitants of the Missouri and the Red river country," and finally when his prophetic vision brought be- continued next issue. 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THE COLORED AMERICAN... 459 C St. N., W. Washington, D. C. The years pass on, and more and more A miracle it seems to me To see the Spring come slowly up From Southern gulf and sea; To see the emerald grass arise From fields where snow lay yesterday. And see the bare brown boughs put on Their wealth of leaf and spray; To see the airy stalks of wheat To see the swaying boughs droop low With ruby fruit, the whole year's flower. And field and garden everywhere Yield up their precious dower; To see the Summer leave our home For shores where Mexic waters play, And stealthy Autumn set his feet Where she trod yesterday. And through our eyes may never see Again this grand procession come. 'We know the years will bring it still— The Spring and harvest-home— And other eyes will see it all, And other hearts with joy shall beat To see the sweet June roses bloom And watch the ripening wheat, —Ninette M. Lowater in N. Y. Sun. PEAR BLIGHT A Disease That Demands Prompt Attention, If Orchards Are To Be Savcd. The Maryland Agricultural College is justly urgent in advising all possible vigilance against pear blight, which has become such a dangerous pest in the pear orchards of the State. It is considered of importance enough to issue a second emergency circular by Prof. Charles O. Townsend. State Pathologist, which reads us follows: Two circulars have already been issued this season on the subject of pear blight, and the prevalence and destructive nature of this disease make a third circular necessary at this time. Within the past two weeks a great deal of blight has been cut out and burned in accordance with directions given in Circular No. 9. We can now see the result of that treatment. If the cutting was severe enough to remove all the blight-producing organisms the trees have a green, healthy appearance and are doing well. If the cutting was not severe enough the disease was only slightly checked in its course down the limbs and branches, as evidenced by the appearance of more dead leaves and by a discoloration of the bark toward the end of the cut branches. The failure to cut far enough below the point of attack to remove the disease entirely was due in part to the fact that the growers were desirous of saving as much of the fruit as they could, and of mutilating the trees as little as possible. In all cases where the trees were not cut severely enough it will be necessary to go over them again and cut back until the bark, wood and pith have a perfectly healthy appearance regardless of the loss of fruit or wood, since if the blight is left in the trees the blighted branches will die before the fruit has time to mature. In many instances no effort has been made to remove the diseased trees. This is due in a measure to the excess of work at this season and the inability to get the necessary amount of extra help, and also to a misunderstanding in regard to the nature of the disease. It is still the belief of some growers that pear blight is due to the effects of hot or cold winds, of bright sun, of frosts or other weather conditions, or of soil conditions, or that it is due to the effects of an insect's sting. A study of the disease, however, shows that it is produced by a minute organism (a bacterium) that usually, though not always, enters the tree through the blossoms and works its way downward in the sap between the bark and the wood. It is known that these organisms produce the disease; first, because we can see them by the aid of a microscope in the sap of diseased branches; second, because it is possible to take these organism from diseased trees and to inoculate healthy trees with them; third, because the disease when once introduced into a branch gradually spreads until the whole branch or even the whole tree may be destroyed. It is well known that the effects of winds, heat, cold, insect stings, etc., are not contagious, and do not spread in any way similar to the blight. The most important step in controlling the disease at present time consists in cutting out and burning the diseased branches, as stated in a previous circular. The longer this step is delayed the more the cutting is delayed to the greater is the danger to the life of the tree. Some trees at this time are in their most critical stage. If taken in hand at once they may be saved; if left a few days longer the blight will be so far down in the branches that no treatment will be of any use, and no alternative will be left to but to dig them up and burn them. Observation and experience also show that cultivation and fertilization have a tendency to increase the blight. As already stated, the blight-producing organisms live in the sap, hence those conditions that tend to increase the sap and produce a succulent growth favor the development of the blight. For this reason it would be advisable to get orchards affected with blight down in so as soon as possible, and to leave them in that condition for one or more years until the blight is eliminated or until it is reduced to a minimum. It need hardly be said that the blight is the most destructive enemy of the pear at present in this State, and that it seriously threatens the destruction of this important industry unless active measures are taken at once for its suppression.—Baltimore Sun. Women in the Harvest Field. Women in the Harvest Field. Last year, owing largely to the keen competition between mining and agricultural industries Western and Northwestern farmers had great difficulty in getting men to care for their crops, and the same problem seems likely to confront them again this summer. Owing, it is said, to the threatened repetition of last year's experience in this line, the applications of women at the employment agencies in Illinois and some other States of the Middle West for outdoor labor have lately been very numerous. The applicants are foreigners who have been accustomed in their native land to work in the fields and who prefer such labor to the ordinary routine of cooking, dishwashing, milking, etc., which when performed according to American ideas, are greatly multiplied during the harvest season. The spectacle of women planting, cultivating and harvesting the crops is one decidedly repugnant to the average American, even if it is not pursued to its logical sequence in neglected, disordered, unattractive homes. It is safe to say upon this score, without taking into account the fact that the physical strength of American women is wholly unequal to the performance of field labor, that if such work is performed in the United States to any considerable extent by women, the workers will be of the more unwomanly class of foreign immigrants who are not homemakers in the civilized interpretation of that term. While Americans may not, in the progress of events, be able to hold strictly to their ideals of womanhood as interpreted by woman in her protected state, it will (and may it) be long before the spectacle presented by women toiling with bared arms and bent bodies in the harvest fields of the country, their babes asleep or crying in the fence corners and the older children running riot over the disordered houses called homes, is viewed with pity that is strongly akin to disgust.—Portland Oregonian. It is an unpleasant fact to state that it is not necessary to go to the far West to see women working in the farm fields. In Pennsylvania, even in some of the banner agricultural counties of the State, women perform considerable field work on some farms. Whether the women thus work voluntarily or not has not, that we are aware of, been ascertained. The average farm wife has plenty of duties in and around the house, in fact, often too many, where a number of farm hands are kept to do any kind of work. It is doubtful whether any American-born farmer would allow his wife, or at least insist, on her performing field work. As stated above, to see women in the fields working on the farm in any section of the country is a most repugnant sight. Up-to-date farming has brought equal relief in the housework. Modern improvements have lessened and made home farm housework more pleasant—less drudgery. Yet there is still room for improvement on some farms. Too many prosperous farmers overlook the needed reform in the household. Home-Made Fly Nets. Every teamster knows what annoyance files are to horses and how much dissatisfaction there is in working them this time in the year unless they are protected from files, and especially their backs. Keep the files off of your horses while you are working them. I will give you a sure and a cheap method, but perhaps not a new one to many. Purchase five yards of 6 or 7 cent unbleached muslin for each horse, cut two strips as long as your horse, measuring from base of tail to two inches in front of harness, sow these together so they will be wide enough to cover both sides; then cut a strip one width for neck, measuring from harness to six or eight inches past ears; sow this to large piece, so that this single strip will cover both sides of neck. Cut a small hole near tail strip for a string to tie to tail strip; this is the only string you need. Be sure to let the seam follow the back. Make hame and hame ring holes, also make holes for ears and sew on ear stalls with cheap red goods; also bind all holes with this red goods and tie a strip sirinches wide to bit on either side and fasten to throat latch to keep flies from throat. Always put your bridle over the blanket and this will keep it on head and neck. Trim the strip going in front of ears to keep corners out of eyes, and yet enough left to protect forehead. This blanket is not near as hot as you would think. The cost of blankets for my team was only 75 cents (for both) and they paid for themselves last harvest. If you would try them once you would not do without them. They can be washed after fly season and put away for next year. —J. L. Buchanan, Carroll county, Ohio, in Ohio Farmer. How I Grow Rape. When the corn was plowed for the last time we took the broadcast seeder and sowed the rape seed on 12 to 14 acres and then turned in 500 sheep and drove them back and forth over where the seed had been sown. In less than a week the rape seed had come up and grew rapidly and to large size. It paid well for the cost in money and time seeding it. The next spring I sowed the seed before plowing the corn the last time. It was very dry and the seed did not come up for three or four weeks, and yet it gave paying returns. Last spring I bought $20 worth of rape seed and sowed 20 acres on top of oats, timothy and cloverseed. Sowed the rape before harrowing the last time. This paid, although we had 12 or 15 acres sowed and treated in the same way, where we had a good crop of oats, but no rape, timothy or clover, as the insects took all. I sowed another five acres, three pounds of seed THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA to the acre, about June 1, and no other crop in connection. This grew too much and we mowed and hauled out to the hogs each day until we got tired and quit, and then turned in hogs, cattle, horses and sheep.—Daniel Leonard, in American Agriculturist. A Cow's Food and Her Milk I have known wild onions to spoil completely the milk of cows which had eaten of them; that turnips fed to cows have a similar effect; that even when stored on the feeding floor in the stable they have had a bad effect on the milk and butter, and even cheese. Every dairy man or woman knows how the white clover improves the character of the milk in quality and flavor, while cotton seed meal does the same, but not favorably for all tastes. The same applies to gluten meals, which affect both flavor and color of the butter, while pumpkins do the same. Indeed, the whole cloud of witnesses to these facts might completely demolish the suggestion that dairy experts assure us, that "odors or flavors do not come through the cow." If they do not, what then causes the great variation in flavor of milk, cheese and butter? But there is sure proof that the food not only affects the quality and flavor of milk products, but distinctly affects the chemical reactions of the fats of the milk of cows. I have tested cottonseed oil and the butter made from it and the butter adulterated with it. The Washington Department of Agriculture did the same, and Dr. Taylor, then the chemist of the department, showed by colored illustrations that the reactions of butter so adulterated, either by actual addition of the oil to the cream in the churning or by feeding the cottonseed meal, were precisely the same.—H. Stewart, in Rural New Yorker. Where Storms Form. United States storms, according to Prof. Bigelow, have nine average places of generation, says a writer in Ainslee's Magazine. The great majority of them in Alberta, north of Montana, and after coming into the United States, travel eastward. A few come in over the north Pacific coast. A third group forms on the northern Rocky mountain plateau. A fourth forms in Colorado, being born on the very high mountainous elevations. A fifth forms in the Texas lowlands, and, catching the Gulf winds and moisture, moves eastward. West Indian hurricanes form the sixth class. The south Atlantic coast storms make up the seventh class. Storms which come in from the Pacific on the Southwest from the eighth, and finally a class of minor storms is generated in our central valleys. Some of these storms come across the Pacific from the Asian coast, and after sweeping the country go out over the Atlantic to Europe, and even to Asia again, but there is no record of a storm having circumnavigated the globe. But no matter where these storms are generated, they always converge toward New England. New England, in fact, seems to be the stormiest spot in the United States. A record of ten years ended with 1893 shows 1,143 storms, all of which headed toward, and most of which reached. New England. The forecaster must consider the general configuration of the country in reckoning for cold or hot waves, blizzards, norters, and other manifestations peculiar to certain localities. An experienced prophet might predict, for instance, a long record for a peculiar class of Pacific storm, whereas many of them come in over the seaboard, whirl violently until they strike the Rocky mountains, when, in endeavoring to climb the divide they are dried out and dissipated in the upper air and are never heard of in the valley beyond. Sometimes they break through and head wildly for New England. But the forecaster must know of the storm gateways. He must reckon with the climatic properties of the "cold pole" of temperate America, that peculiar region surrounding Lake Winnipeg, where the range of temperature is 150 degrees, the thermometer rising to 105 degrees above in summer and dropping to 45 degrees below zero in winter. As Prof. Bigelow puts it, the giants of heat and cold stagger back and forth across the country in perpetual contest and the forecaster must be a good judge of the staying power of each. One Way of Looking at It. "Look at this, will you?" exclaimed the estate and house-renting optimist, "In this paper there is a record of eighty-seven marriage licenses issued yesterday." "Well, what of it?" said his partner, the pessimist of the firm, who was leaning back in a chair with his hat pulled down over his eyes. "What of it?" echoed the other. "Can't you see? Those eighty-seven marriage licenses mean eighty-seven marriages. The eighty-seven marriages will lead to eighty-seven inquiries for houses, flats, or at least eligible apartments. It's bound to stimulate business in our line, and we'll get our share." "That doesn't follow at all. Those eighty-seven licenses represent 174 persons, don't they?" "Yes." "Probably all adults?" "Undoubtedly. What of it?" "Nothing." growled the pessimist; "except that 174 persons who have hitherto occupied 174 apartment will hereafter occupy eighty-seven. You give me a pain. Go away."—London Tit-Bits. A Dangerous Bill. The papers say there is an exceedingly dangerous $20 counterfeit bill in circulation," observed the financial editor. "Dangerous?" said the real estate editor. "O, I see. Microbes."—Chicago Tribune. The Real Hardship "Mr. Jones, it is hard to struggle for a livelihood in the country, isn't it?" "Mr. Jones, it is hard to struggle for a livelihood in the country, isn't it?" "Law bless ye, Miss Whifter, we don't have to struggle for a livelihood in the country; the thing we have to struggle for is to get ice." Indianapolis Correspondence St. Louis Post-Dispatch: One must turn to the pages of Victor Hugo to find a parallel for the case of Edward A. Cantley. He is an escaped convict, who has given himself up after eight years of freedom. During those eight years he had made of himself a new man under a new name. He labored and prospered until he had won a salary of $10,000 a year, the confidence of men of finance, the esteem of a community, the golden opinions of a church congregation, the love of a good wife. All these things he sacrificed—all except the love of his wife, which he knew he could not lose—that he might return to the scene of his crime to solace his dying mother. Or, to be precise, he was prepared for that lamentable sacrifice when he surrendered himself. But through the admiration and sympathy of the authorities he may be enabled to preserve his secret in the community, where, under another name, he is known as an upright man. What that other name is, where that community exists, shall not be revealed here. The hero of this story shall be designated Edward Cantley. It is the real name of the escaped convict. How this Jean Valjean of real life is known in his other character must remain a mystery, for the indications are that he will be mercifully permitted to retire to the other life—the new life that he wrought for himself so painfully—and thus round out his useful years with none to know the secret of his past. Of those among whom he spent his eight years of freedom, only one, his wife, knows the secret. And she is dying of consumption. Cantley will hurry to her deathbed from that of his mother. Governor James Mount, of Indiana, has released him on parole that he may fulfill these sad offices. That is Edward Cantley's retribution. Ten years ago he was a stenographer at the Long Cliff Insane Hospital, in the northern part of Indiana. He committed forgery for a small amount, was detected, convicted and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. In the penitentiary at Michigan City he proved an exemplary convict. After two months as a sorter in the shoe shop, the warden promoted him to the office of stenographer, where he enjoyed more liberty of action than usually falls to the lot of prisoners. He was a "trusty," whose pledge was equivalent to the parole of a soldier. He had been stenographer nine months when the impulse to escape seized him. In a statement he has made to Governor Mount he sas: "Through the promptings of some of my friends, who said I had completely ruined my life, and through the talk of other; convicts, I was led into violating my pledge, and escaped from the prison in a suit of clothes furnished me by another convict." It was night. Cantley fled from Michigan City in a westerly direction along the shore of Lake Michigan. A tramp of twenty-six miles, in constant terror of recapture, brought him into the suburbs of Chicago. There for two months he lay in hiding, never for a moment at ease. Realizing at the end of that time that unless he put a much greater distance between himself and the prison he would go mad from apprehension, he cautiously made his way east. The name of the city in which he found refuge shall not be divulged. Governor Mount, in supplying the Sunday Post-Dispatch exclusively with these details, was careful to make that stipulation. Cantley looked for works and found it. He became scrubber of a machine shop. He was happy and proud to be earning a living honestly. So faithful was he and so intelligent that after a short time the manager of the company took him into the collection department as stenographer and bookkeeper. He was constantly on the lookout for opportunities to improve his position. After several months he became stenographer to one of the highest officials of a large eastern railroad. For three years he remained in this position, strengthening his connections and winning the confidence of all with whom he came in contact. The old life was like a nightmare to him. He tried to imagine Edward Cantley dead. Sometimes he suffered agonies from the thought that he was Edward Cantley under a mask, that he had no right to the name he bore, to his freedom, his friendships, his prosperity, his happiness, and that some day it would all be snatched away from him, and Edward Cantley, convict, would be born again. Remorse for his crime and a longing to make atonement had given him a religious tendency. He joined a church and threw himself with fervor into unselfish service for the souls and bodies of men. But this, while it swallowed up his energies did not make him happy. He felt more keenly than ever that he was a sham, an impostor. He reflected that those for whom he labored would scorn him if they knew the truth. In fancy he saw their fingers pointed at him, and heard the cry: "Forger! Convict! Fugitive from justice!" No: happiness was not to be found in religion while his life continued to be a lie. Was it to be found at all? Yes. Cantley fell in love. He was loved in return by an innocent, high-minded girl. Love broke the seal on his lips, tore the mask from his face. He told her all because he could not help it—because it was impossible to love and not bare his soul before those clear, true eyes of hers. The telling made him happy for the first time since that right when he had fed from the jail. She loved him in spite of his crlme. loved him better for having made a new life for himself, loved him best of all for telling her his secret. She did not counsel him to denounce himself. She thought he had earned a right to his new life, to his new self, to her. She, at all events, was willing to risk throwing in her life with his. So they were married, and a year later a son came to them. Greatly strengthened in the path of rectitude, but with more staked on the preservation of his secret, Cantley attacked the problem of success with renewed vigor. After three years with the railroad magnate, he established himself as an independent stenographer, and soon had a large business in the transcription of speeches, lectures, sermons and the like. Two years later a financial concern whose name is a household word in the East, offered him the head book-keepership of a department, with a salary of $10,000 a year; he accepted the post. For two years it fell to his lot to handle $25,000 a month for the company, and never a dollar went astray. Then the president of the company gave him the management of its affairs in the State. In the early part of 1896 the late Claude Matthews, then Governor of Indiana, paid a visit to the city of which Edward Cantley was then leading resident. The escaped convict was one of the reception committee. This encounter with the chief executive of his native State was too much for Cantley's self-command. Obeying an impulse that he could not resist, he took Governor Matthews aside and made a full confession, concluding with the pleading words: "What is to be done? Must I continue to wear the mask and risk discovery? Is there no way of squaring my account with justice and yet escaping exposure and the breaking of my wife's heart?" The Governor, when he had recovered from his amazement, replied: "I would pardon you in a moment, but before I play my part you must play yours—you must give yourself up." Cantley said he would do so; but the years slipped by and he did not dare interrupt the continuity of his new life. Governor Matthews did not forget him. When he was succeeded by Governor Mount he told the latter of Cantley's case and besought him to extend clemency to the fugitive if he should ever surrender himself. And Governor Mount promised that he would. Cantley's real retribution began with the discovery that his wife had been stricken with a mortal illness. That meant the crumbling of everything under his feet. Then came the news a week or two ago that his aged mother in Logansport, Ind., was dying. He had kept up communications with his parents, both of whom are seventy-five years old, but he had not seen them since his conviction. Not to visit his mother on her deathbed would have seemed to him mounstrous. To go would be to court arrest. There was only one possible way out of the difficulty—to throw himself on Governor Mount's mercy. So it happened the other day that Edward Cantley walked into the Governor's office and told his story. It was a story already known there. The escaped convict was received handsomely. But he must fulfill his obligation to the letter. "Your act of surrender will not be complete," said Governor Mount, "until you go to Michigan City and give yourself up to the warden of the prison from which you escaped. When you have done that I shall be glad to parole you so that you may visit your mother." This letter from Warden Shideler to Governor Mount tells what followed: "On the night of June 14 the officer in charge of the prison told me he had found a man trying to break in instead of breaking out. I went over to the prison and found Edward A. Cauley, who was sentenced to this institution on October 5, 1891, for three years for forgery, and who, as a trusty, violated his pledge and escaped on the night of September 12, 1892, since which time he has been a fugitive from justice. "The records of the prison showed the name and description of the man, but nothing as to the disposition of his sentence, whether served or not. They showed nothing as to his escape. I made a written statement of the affair and he then petitioned me to place him behind the prison walls as an escaped prisoner until I should receive authority from you to release him. I relieved him of his valuables and money and placed him in a cell for the night, as per his request. "To-day I allowed him the use of the guardroom and will say that I believe him to be honest in his intentions, and I desire to congratulate you upon your fairness to this man, and I ask that you allow me to use this case occasionally as an illustration of the fact that it is harder to be an escaped prisoner than to serve time manfully, and that sometimes when an escaped prisoner decides to return and accept the consequences, if he has repented of his sins committed and desires to keep in the straight and narrow way the Governor of this great State will meet him half way on any proposition that tends to his redemption. "By this letter I acknowledge the receipt of the parole for Cauley. The man is patently awaiting a few words from me which will release him and will enable him to hasten to the bedside of his mother, who is dying with paralysis. Let us hope that your kindness to him has not been in vain, and that he will retain himself in the straight and narrow way for the rest of his natural life. I am much impressed with the personality of this man and firmly believe that he honestly intends to do what is right." 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. let us know. If you have anything to adve tise 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. 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When this is not the case, the poisonous products are absorbed into the system, causing headache, biliousness, nausea, vomiting, dyspepsia, indigestion. are a gentle laxative, suitable for any and every member of the family. One pill at bedtime will produce one good, natural movement the day following. 25 cents a box. All druggists. "Ayer's Pills have done me and my family great good. They are like a true friend in trouble. There is nothing equal to them for sick headache and biliousness."—Mrs. JULIA BROWN, St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 5, 1899. De Mice Ignite Matches. An investigation extending over a period of nearly three months has been made by the inspection department of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company in order to determine whether fire can be caused by rats or mice and matches. The tests were carried on in a cage made of iron pipe, covered with galvanized iron netting, in which a tin box partly filled with cotton waste was placed for a nest. Rats and mice, singly or several at a time, were confined, for longer or shorter periods, within this cage, in which sulphur matches, parlor matches, and safety matches were also placed. The creatures were alternately fed and allowed to go hungry. During the experiment with the mice apparently none of the matches were gnawed, but two of the safety matches were carried by them into their nest. On the other hand, the rats ignited the sulphur matches by gnawing them, which is indisputable evidence that common sulphur matches can be ignited by rats.—New York Post. Her Plan "I always get a cook as soon as I advertise for one," said Mrs. Fosdick. "I wish you'd tell me how to do it," added Mrs. Gazzan. "I advertise for a cook for a small family and so on, but get poor results." "I always advertise for a lady cook," explained Mrs. Fosdick.—Detroit Free Press. Her Instrument. "Does Miss Gliddy play?" asked Professor Daisegno of Mr. Hunter. "Oh, yes." She's playing Young Cali will now." Detroit Free Press. BIG FOUR ROUTE Annual Excursion to Niagara Falls, Thursday, July 26, 1900. $7.00 For the Round Trip $7.00. from Indianapolis, Corresponding rates from all other points. $6.50 More to Thousand Islands. Special train will leave Indianapolis 6:45 p.m. arrive Niagara Falls 9 a. m. the next morning. Tickets good returning for twelve days. Call at Big Four office for full information or address. H. M. BRONSON, A. G. P. A. THE PLACE TO GO. The Seashore is the Ideal Spot for Outings and Vacation Trips. It will cost only $15.00 for round trip from Indianapolis to either of the ten famous resorts: Atlantic City, Cape May, Angleton, Avalon, Holly Beach, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, New Jersey, and Rehoboth, Delaware, and Ocean City, Maryland. Tickets will be sold Thursday, August 9th, via Pennsylvania Lines, the all-rail route to the sea. For particulars apply to W. W. Richardson, D. P. Agent, Indianapolis. SEASHORE EXCURSION Choree of Ten Popular Resorts for $15.00 Round Trip From Indianapolis. Thursday, August 9th, is the date on which excursion tickets will be sold on Pennsylvania Lines to Atlantic City, Cape May, Avalon, Anglesea, Holly Beach, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, New Jersey, Ocean City, Maryland, and Rehoboth, Delaware. Return limit will cover the customary ten days vacation. This will be a grand opportunity for a delightful vacation outing. For details apply to W. W. Richardson, D. P. Agent, Indianapolis. DETROIT SLEEPING CAR Via 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 1st 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. The G. A. R. Encampment, Chicago. Don't forget the G. A. R. Encampment at Chicago. August 27th. It is time to begin to make plans. It will be the greatest gathering of the veterans of two wars that has yet been held, and will be be celebrated in true Chicago style. Inquire of Monon agent for particulars. $3.00 Denver and Return via Monon Route. Tickets on sale July 22 and 23; final return limit Aug. 24. Privilege of diverse route without extra cost. For particulars call on any Monon ticket agent. R. P. ALGEO, D. P. A. "Perhaps you can tell me," remarked the exchange editor, making another vicious lunge with his shears at the helpless paper he was dissecting, "perhaps you can tell me how the water gets into the melon." "Blamed vine know," replied the answers-to-correspondents man. "Wrong," rejoined the exchange editor. "They plant the seeds in the spring." And they didn't speak to each other again until one of them wanted to borrow a match.—Chicago Tribune. Quality. The teacher related how George Washington had decked that he could not tell a lie. "Now, Willie," said the teacher, "what noble quality did this reveal in Washington?" Of course there is no such person as Willie, but that is neither here nor there.—Detroit Journal. The Trust Problem To a thoughtful mind is one of serious import, for it creeps upon society before you are aware of its existence, in this respect much resembling the various disorders which attack the stomach, such as constipation, indigestion and dyspepsia. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the one reliable remedy for all such ailments. A Rash Observation Cassidy (meeting Mr. and Mrs. Cascy)—Ah, Pat! Tot baby is a perfect picture av ye. Cassey—Shut up, ye fule. Somebody left it on your front steps and Ol'm taking it to the police station—Judge. 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. Adalai E. Stevenson is one of the two surviving Vice-Presidents, Levi P. Morton being the other. Excursion to Bethany Park, Ind., via Penn- svilana lines. July 17th to August 18th, inclusive, excursion tickets will be sold account "Bethany Assembly" at Bettyhay Park, Ind, via Pennsylvania Lines; good returning until August 15th. Every day during the Assembly a special program of exercises is offered, in which talented men and women are specialists. 30-2t $24.75 Mackinac Island and Return Via Monon Route. Going via Chicago, Marquette and Munising, returning via any direct rail line. Tickets on sale daily to Sept. 30th; final return limit, Oct. 31st. For further particulars call on any Moon agent, or address. R. P. ALGEO, D. P. A., 3t Indanapolis, Ind. In order to be supremely happy one must have something to do, something to love and something to hope for. 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. A true genius is a man who, when he accidentally says a good thing, can make his hearers believe it was premeditated. The Bluest Blue makes the whitest white, that's Red Cross Bail Blue. A superstitious individual says it is a bad sign to write another man's name on a note. 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. A Western poet says he has succeeded in reducing the cost of living to a nominal sum, but his greatest difficulty is in securing the nominal sum. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA AN INCREASE IS NOTED IN THE NUMBER OF INMATES IN THE THIRTEEN BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. Tragedy at a Crossing-Shocking Condition of a Poor House Melon Crop in Knox County-A Negro Jew-State Notes. Indiana Charities. According to the Indiana bulletin of the Board of State Charities and Corrections, for the six months ending April 30, there were enrolled as inmates of the thirteen State and benevolent institutions 5,363 persons. The enrollment of the nine charitable institutions on the same date was 6,047, an increase of 322 over the preceding six months. Nearly one-half of the increase is found to be in the hospitals for the insane. On the other hand the enrollment of inmates of the correctional institutions has decreased during the same period from 2,678 to 2,516. During the six months there was expended by these institutions $85,857.07, of which $86,773.21 was utilized for the regular running expenses and $249,683.86 in the construction of new buildings and for extraordinary repairs. The insane hospitals of the State cost for regular maintenance, $284,506.26, or $87.22 per capita; the soldiers' home, $42,448.00, or $76.88 per capita; the soldiers and sailors' orphans' home, $47,857.92, or $76.82 per capita; the institution for the deaf, $38,704.79, or $117.36 per capita; the institution for the blind, $18,511.87, or $137.23 per capita; the school for feeble-minded, $62,800.95, or $8.10 per capita; the State prison at Michigan City, $62,490.82, or $78.67 per capita; the reformatory at Jeffersonville, $27,084.73, or $70.99 per capita; the industrial school for girls and women's prison, $22,907.43, or $89.87 per capita; the reform school for boys, $35,274.84, or $78.25 per capita. Shelbyville special: Misses Mary Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler, Josie Zoble, daughter of Michael Zoble, and Katie Schaeff, daughter of Nick Schaeff, three young ladies, aged about 17 or 18 years, met a horrible death Monday afternoon at Prescott, near their homes. The three young ladies were out driving and crossed the Big Four railroad track in front of the west-bound fast mail train, due here at 2:30 p. m. They were laughing and having a good time and something except their danger had attracted their attention. The engine struck the horse and buggy, killing the horse. Two of the girls were ground to pieces instantly, while the body of Miss Wheeler was thrown violently upon the engine and carried nearly a quarter of a mile, she dying within a few minutes. The train was moving at a forty-mile rate, but the crossing is not considered an especially dangerous one and no blame seems to be laid upon the train crew for the unfortunate accident. Conductor Connelly was in charge of the train. The young ladies, accompanied by a sister of Mary Wheeler and a sister of Josie Zoble, were out making arrangements for a neighborhood picnic, to be held Thursday. The second buggy came around the blacksmith shop just in time to see the front buggy thrown into the air. Engineer Henry stated that he did not see any of them until they were struck. Shocking Condition of a Poor House. Shocking Condition of a Poor House. Madison special: The investigation of Jefferson county's poor farm, made by a court-appointed committee, discloses shameful conditions. On both occasions that the committee called, the superintendent was absent, the farm being in charge of his 15-year-old daughter and a farm hand. The cooking has been done by a dirty, half-witted female inmate. There is no division of sexes, men and women, many of them unaccountable, owing to their mental condition, mingle together with shocking familiarity, says the report. A woman, 104, blind and helpless, was found in a pittable condition. Her filth garments were rotten and she was besieged with flies and vermin. On a table was a tin plate with a mass of beans and a number of black and rusty tin cups with some mixture indistinguishable for flies. These dishes had been standing there for hours. Elizabeth Butler, 80, was placed in the same room with a violent epileptic, who frequently beat and choked her. A helpless idiot named Manley, covered with seres, and filth with vermin, unable to leave his bed, was found in charge of an insane negro preacher. The atmosphere was so foul that the committee was driven into the open air. The charge is that the condition has been brought about to make political capital, by making a record for economy. Much of the money appropriated is untouched. Melon Crop in Knox County Melon Crop in Knox County. Vincentnes special. The annual melon shipping from this county began Tuesday, Winkler, Vollmer & Bey Bros., of this city, are the largest shippers in the county, and have contracted for practically the entire crop of this section. Consequently Cypress, Purcells and Vincentnes will be busy melon shipping centers for the next several weeks. They will ship from one to five refrigerator carloads of the Gem muskelmion every day of the season for points as far East as Utica, N. Y., and as far North as Mineapolis. None will be shipped to Chicago. Last year they shipped over 100,000 baskets of melons. This year there are over six hundred acres of Gems, principally in Johnson township, and a few in Vincentnes township, and this will require 150,000 baskets. Last year these baskets alone representing an expenditure of over $5,000; had to be purchased at a long distance and at great convenience. The melon dealers have since persuaded a local lumberman to establish a basket factory here, and he will turn out the entire 150,000, selling them direct to the farmers as required. Several of the individual growers have twenty acres in melons and from that they run down to two acres. The largest individual Indiana Charities Tragedy at a Crossing growers, who ship direct to market, are Rose, Johnson & Yates and Decker. Rose is famed for introducing the juicy Rose watermelon; and the system of transplanting the melon vine, and to this end he has several melon "hothouses" on his farm, where many laborers are employed in the translating season. He is an Ohio capitalist. Shooting Afray at Kokomo. Kokomo special: A sensational shooting took place in front of the Lindell Hotel, in this city Tuesday midnight between Deputy Fish Commissioner Oscar Welty and Night Policeman Jerry Kirkman. The latter, in an effort to keep Welty from assaulting a stranger, received a stinging blow from Welty. Kirkman used his mace with telling effect. It is alleged that Welty reached for his revolver, but that Kirkman was too quick for him and opened fire. Three shots took effect. Two balls passed through Welty's right arm and one through the scalp. Welty threw up his hands and was disarmed by the officer and landed in jail. The wounds are not necessarily fatal. It is said that this is the settlement of an old grudge. It is claimed that Welty had been drinking. Mrs. Mary G. Rheubottom, of Wakarusa, pastor of the Christian Church, has gained considerable national reputation as a woman preacher. The South Bend Tribune says that one week ago, Mrs. Rheubottom officiated at the baptism of 104 converts to her church at Pleasant Hill, Elkhardt county. The ceremony was witnessed by over 2,000 people from various parts of the State. She has recently received ninety-seven new converts to her church at Belleville. Mrs. Rheubottom is said to be the most successful woman preacher in the State. For five years she has been the pastor of the Christian Church at Millersburg, and circuit preacher for the towns of Wakarusa, Pleasant Hill and Belleville. Helen M. Gougar is one of her intimate friends. Her only son is editor of the Wakarusa Tribune. A Negro Jew. Goshen is excited over a colored Hebrew. The South Bend Times says that a colored man claiming to be a Jew sought aid from the Jewish people of Goshen Saturday night. He had been refused accommodations at all the hotels. Rabbi Weinstein questioned him closely, putting him through every test and found him to be no imposter, but a real Jew. The stranger, whose name is Samuel Wolksowick, is highly educated and speaks the Turkish, Arabic and Hebrew languages. He comes from Macomby, Egypt, 167 miles from Cairo, where there is a colony of 7,000 colored Jews. The Jews of that colony have free schools and synagogues and are an intelligent and progressive people. Wolksowick was a soldier in the Greek army in the late war between Greece and Turkey. From Oxford to Denver on a "Bike." J. T. Titworth, 22 years of age, a school teacher, has measured on a bicycle every inch of the distance between his home, in Oxford, Ind., and Denver, Colo. The Oxford Tribune says that the distance as shown by the cyclometer attached to his bicycle, is 1.246 miles. The trip was undertaken merely for pleasure. Mr. Titworth's route was by Bloomington and Springfield, Ill., Jefferson City, Sedalia and Kansas City, Mo., Leavenburg, Kas, and then across the prairies to Denver. He says: "Not a single State through which I passed has even fairly good roads. They are either muddy or cut in ruts, or else covered with great, loose rocks or dust. The road over the prairie is scarcely a trail, being traveled so little that the grass is not kept down. I rode from sixty-eight to seventy miles a day." Starke County's Ossified Man. The people of Starke county are watching the development of a peculiar case of ossification. The Plymouth Independent says that the body of Edward W. Green is turning to stone. His heart action has now become impeded by what medical experts believe is the formation of a crust of stone, which will sooner or later stop its action. The only portion of his body that emits any perspiration is his face. His body is rigid and there is now no evidence of any outward circulation. Medical experts who have examined him say that his case will give to medical science a perfect specimen of an ossified body. A Mother Deserts Her Family Mishawaka special: One of the most pittiful chapters of domestic life has just closed in this town by the return of Norman Weaver, a near-do-well laborer, and his five children, ranging from 5 to 12 years, after a fruitless search for the wife and mother. The latter deserted the family here a year ago. Six months since a reconciliation was effected, but the wife and mother recently again disappeared. Weaver and the children walked to South Bend, thence to Niles. Benton Harbor Mich, and return, a distance of 120 miles. The children were utterly exhausted by heat, fatigue and neglect. They were in such a pitiful condition that they were taken from Weaver and placed in the orphans' home. A Lively Centenarian. Princeton special: Mrs. John Mooney, 101, walked three miles to the postoffice, Saturday. It was the hottest day of the season, and offers were made by many to take her home in a carriage, but she refused, saying her folks would make fun of her. A Lady Minister The Best Prescription Is Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. The Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle, So That the People May Know Just What They Are Taking. Imitators do not advertise their formula knowing that you would not buy their medicine if you knew what it contained. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the malaria out of the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that Grove's is the Original and that all other so-called "Tasteless" chill tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows that Grove's is superior to all others in every respect. You are not experimenting when you take Grove's—its superiority and excellence having long been established. Grove's is the only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 50c ```markdown ``` The Weak Link. "Our woman's baseball club went to pieces." "Game too exhausted?" "No; but we couldn't find a lady umpire who would give a decision and stick to it."-Detroit Free Press. "I don't know about courage and ability, but it takes postage stamps." Chicago Record. "Not exactly, mamma. But he asked for an option on me for 30 days."— Cleveland Plain Dealer. By a Large Majority. A Chicago paper refers to "feminine butter." If there is really sex in butter, the large majority of us will prefer the weaker sex—Denver Post. Some people probably agree with you because it bores them less than your argument. 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. The price paid for a cradle is hush money. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Gen. de Gallifet, French ex-minister of war, declares that he has given up public life, never to re-enter it. Out of 140 samples of milk inspected in Chicago this week, twenty-three were found to be impure. Love is more apt to swell the head than the heart. Unless a man is generous he is seldom just. An Expert is the one whic Mr. Coy and Miss Fickle were wedded in Grundy county, Missouri, the other day. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Alla's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cure Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all drugstores and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Queen Victoria and the Czar of Russia own beautiful typewriters of white enamel and gold, with keys of jyvory. NIAGARA FALLS Don't Forget the date. Thursday, Aug. 2,1900 Special trains of Sleepers, Chair Cars, Coaches and Restaurant Cars leave Indianapolis at 11:15 a.m. For further particulars see Ticket Agent L. L. FRANKLIN COLLEGE New Athens 0 76th senators, governors and 453 inmates. Seat out U. S. year; books free; 8 courses; no saloons; catalog free, with plans to earn funds at home. W. A. WILLIAMS, D. D. Pres. Send for free Catalog of Indianapolis, Ind. The best house in the city. Seals, Stencils, Rubber Stamps. DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successful. F. R. W. Ogle, O. L. Pritching. Examine U. S. Pension Bureau. Syre in civil war, 18 adjudicating claims, atty since. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief & cures worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. Dr. H. H. Green's boon, Box 2, Atlanta, Ga. PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL USES C best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugstores. CONSUMPTION I. N. U. INDIANAPOLIS, NO. 30, 1900 sive "Tip" Get a Good Barbecued Dinner or Supper, at Second Baptist Church, Sunday. Fine Stationary FOR SALE Give us a call. 'Phone 1563 PERSONAL MENTION Whew! hot ain't it? Patronize our Advertisers. We print visiting cards 24 for 25c. It pays to advertise in The Recorder Rev. B, F. Farrell was in Rushville this week. Mrs Kathrine Blackshear has return ed from Henderson, Ky. Miss Sadie Weaver is visiting relat- ives in Frankfort. Attorney O. V. Royall was in Mattoon, Ill., this week. Mr. and Mrs. William Green of Leon street are the parents of a baby girl. Mr. Manuel Phillips, 2026 Martindale avenue, is ill. Miss Aleena Smitherman of Chicago Ill., is in the city visiting relatives. Read The Recorder for the nexs-the paper of the people. Have you heard of the Royal Legion of Peace? Miss Lucy B. Hoyle is the guest of Mrs Richey in Oak street. Call and see us in our new quarters-414 Indiana avenue. New phone 1563 Felix Boyd returned Monday from Davenport, Ia. Mr. W. M. Bell spent Sunday in Cincinnati visiting friends. Mrs. Allie Haydon and Mrs. Florence Skiller spent Sunday in Sandusky Ohio. Mrs. Fannie Edmonds, of North Indianapolis, is visiting relatives in Kentucky. Miss Sadie Dent of North Senate avenue, is recovering from her recent illness. Mrs. L. Claybrook of 1319 Lindon street has returned from a visit in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Mammie Phillips and sister Miss Cassie Reed spent Sunday in Cincinnati. Mrs. Leslie Philips will leave for Wawasee, Ind., Saturday to visit her mother. Mrs. Emma Parks after a very pleasant visit in Clinton, Ill., will return Wednesday. Mrs. Mattie Powers has gone to Martha Vineyard, N. J., where she will spend the summer. Tell your friends to read next week's issue of The Recorder. Miss Zenora Johnson of Maysville, Ky., is visiting her uncle, Robert Johnson, 428 Toledo street. Misses Albatha Crossan, Efle White Edna and Bertha Sweeney, will leave Thursday, for Niagara Falls. Mrs. Samuel Martin spent Sunday in Martinsville, Ind., the guest of Mrs. Hood. Miss E. T. Johnson of this city spent Sunday in Terre Haute, Ind, and Monday in Paris, Ill. The Hotel Boys club will give a picnic, at the State Fair grounds, next month. Booker T. Washington will be in the State August the 3. He will speak at South Bend. The State Grand Lodge and Temple of U. B. of F. and S. M. T. will convene in this city August 7 th. S. L. Taylor and Co. 17 Virginia ave. cleans, presses and repairs cloths. Read their adv. The Recorder is now located at 414 Indiana avenue. New telephone 1563 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beckwith of Martindale avenue are the proud parents of a bran new boy. Miss Kate Lewis of Louisville, Ky., is the guest of Miss Maud Bass in Fayette street. Mrs. DeWitt Kemp of Fremont, O, will arrive in the city Sunday to be the of Mrs. Charles H. Stewart, 1020 Fay- Robert Harper of Chicago and Maggie Peice of Cincinnati enroute to the respective homes spent a few days in Word has been received from Isaac DeVine who is sojourning in Paris, France. Mrs. G. W. Cable entertained at dinner at her home in N. West street in honor of Miss Viola White and Mrs Scott of Oblin O. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Sherman Davis spent Sunday n Lima, O., in company with Mr. and Mrs. T. P' Bond and daughter. Mrs. George Williams who has been very sick since the death of her son, Arthur, is now improving. Miss Carrie Abel of Louisville, Ky., is the guest of her sister Mrs. W. M. Jones in N. Missouri street. Mrs. Clarence Hines who has been the guest of friends at Lake Winono will arrive in the city Tuesday enroute to Buffalo. An old fashion Barbecue dinner will be seved at the Second Babtist church Sunday July 29 th rally. For Sale: A 9 room dwelling house 906 N. Senate avenue. A bargain at easy terms. Enquire, C. M·C. Willis Mr Thomas Lewis and daughter, Beatrice, have gone to Marshall, Mich, to attend the funeral of Mr. Lewis's brother-in-law, Arthur Taylor. Mrs. Susie Gentry and Mrs. Martha LaRue, will leave next Saturday for Louisville, Ky. They will be gone about one week. The general assembly of the American Mutual Aid Association, met July 25, at the office of E. B. Hampton 53-Baldwin block. Mr. James Neal has placed a new hair tonic on the market. It is said to be very effective, by those who have given it a trial. Mrs. Samuel Wade of Farmdale, Ky was in the city last week as the guest. of her brother, Osar Boclair, in West Walnut street. Mrs. William Weaver of Frankfort attended the Bowler-Smith wedding last week. She was the guest of her sister Mrs. Elizabeth Weaver in West Twelfth street. Wanted---Agents, gentleman for barber supplies etc., also agents to handle toilet goods; liberal commission apply 639 Indiana ave, Capital Supply Company, For Sale: One combination book care and desk; two square pianos; furniture and household goods. Will be sold for storage charges. J. A. Purcar, 122-124 W, New York street. The Original Star Colery-Seltzer Co offers good inducement to lady agents in every county in the State. Write at once for an agency, The committee on arrangements for the Afro-American Council, have secured the Senate Chamber in the State house, for the sessions. Sidney Kirk and Geoge Jones have opened a new barber shop at 1124 Prospect street. They invite their friends to call. Where are you going? I am going to Buckner's pool room, 519 Indiana ave. to buy a good five cent cigar and play a game of pool J.H. Hightower, mgr Mrs. R.B. Lakey spent Sunday in Fort Wayne visiting her brother. She was accompanied by her cousin, Mrs. Emory. Miss Sarah Dickerson of 1030 S. State ave. left Sunday for Louisville and other points in the South. While in Louisville she is the guest of friends. Miss Minnie Groves of Indianapolis is v sitting in Charleston and Louisville Ky., where she will be the guest of Mrs. Ada M. Slaughter. Mr. J. H. Bevridge, a business man of Georgetown, Ky., who has been visiting Mr. Robert Henderson of 219 W. Vermont; left Sunday for Columbus, Ohio. Mr. W. H. Furniss and son, Dr. S. A. Furness, accompanied by Henry Fleming, returned Wednesday from Mackinac Island, Mich., much improved in health. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Purveare, are contemplating spending about six weeks in Colorado, for Mr. Puryears' health. They will probably leave about August 15. The Woman's club will meet Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. C. Richardson 441 West St. Clair street Business of importance will be transacted. Mrs. Roxie Dixon, president. Bethel Sunday School will hold a picnic at Armstrong Park, Thursday, August 2. The public is cordially invited to enjoy a day in this pleasant park with the children. Miss Beatie and Berta Edmonds of 836 West twenty fourth street, entertained the following guest last Sunday evening: Misses Etta Turner, Mattie Miller, Mattie Palmer, Claio Thomas, Bertha Thomas and Mrs. Geo. Walker of Brooklyn N. J. Do not forget the "feast of lanterns" to be given by the Young People'e Alliance of Bethel church, at the home Mrs. Roxie Bell' 526 Bright street, Tuesday evening, July 31. The ladies will be dressed in Japanese costumes. The public is invited. Charles Love has returned from a very pleasant visit at Michigan City He visited the penitentiary and speaks flatteringly of the efficient management of that great institution. He was gone about about one week. Mr. Eugene Tendnend'n of Louisville Ky, was in the city this week as the guest of his cousin Madame Harris Hazelwood, 1138 Prescott street and THE RECORDER. INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA OZONO IS KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS TRADE MARK ence, and possessing the concurrence of the colored race, we have met with grand success, which has excited the cupidity of the unprincipled, who, to get your money, are putting on the market vile nocturnes, injurious to the hair and skin, and dangerous to health and life. Be warned; don't send your money to get only in return a mass of lard and tallow and animal fats, that injure your hair and cause it to fall out, destroy its growth, and cause you to become bald. Deal with a legitimate firm, who will treat you fairly and give you value for your money. We do solemnly swear that our remedies are true to all we claim for them; that they do not contain any animal fat or injurious drugs, and we will return the money for every case of dissatisfaction. We refer to Metropolitan Bank, Richmond, Va., or to the editor of this paper. The word OZONO and the cuts shown in this advertisement are registered as our trade-mark in U. S. Patent Office. Any infringement will be promptly prosecuted. OZONO positively straightens Knotty, Knappy, Kinky, Stubborn, Harsh, Refractory Hair. No injurious hot irons are necessary to produce this effect. OZONO does the work alone, and the use does not have to be kept up after the hair becomes strictr, and washing the hair hastens the treatment, doing it good in every way. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, and all itching, running, scaly, humiliating Scalp Diseases; causes the hair to grow long and straight, soft, fine, and beautiful as an April morning. Price, 50c a box; 4 boxes does the work. OZONO cannot fail. Read our grand offer: Cut out this advertisement and send to us with $1.00, and we will send you immediately four books of OZONO on the following: BLECIRCICAL SUN, BERMISH, which makes rough skin soft and brightens up black skin several shades; also one bottle of SKIN FOOD, which removes Wrinkles, Beaches, Moth Patches, Tan, Ivory Spots, Small-Pox Pits, Birthmarks, &c. It makes the aged look young, and the young look younger. We will also, to show our liberality, include a package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body—such as feet, arm-pits, &c.; cures Sore Throat and Mouth, Womb Diseases, Sore and Frosted Feet, &c. This grand combination, worth $3.50, we will send you on receipt of One Dollar, to introduce honest goods. Parties sending us $3.00 will receive four lots. Register your letters. AGENTS WANTED. The above word Ozono and the heads before and after, are our trade mark, registered. Any infringement will be prosecuted. OZONG KIN Miss Ida Miller of Yandes street. He returned home last Friday. Miss Sadie G. Harris of Decature Ala., and Miss Bessie Siler of Anderson who have been visiting Mrs, Geo. Davis 2010 Senate ave. N., left for thir respective homes Tuesday evening. A wise man is he who instead of vis summ: resorts, obtains with less expense, the same results, by visiting Malones' Barber shop 308 Indiana avenue. Baths and fans workmanship the pink of perfection. Dr. J. W. H. Powell a specialist in the manufacture of medicines, is in the city, located at 812 Blake street. The Doctor carries a complete line of medicines for the ills of the body and would be pleased to consult with any who may be suffering. Miss Anna York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. York, died Sunday morning at 8:45 after one day illness with congestion of the brain, age 29 years. Her sudden demise was quite a shock to a large number of her friends. The burial was in Crown Hill, Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Newton officiated. Mrs. T, H. Johnson of E. Tenth street entertained at dinner Tuesday. Mrs. Woodard Stewart of Nobleville, Mrs. H. E. Boone of Dayton, O., and Mrs. Ella Williams of 1725 Columbia avenue. Dinner was served in courses and the afternoon was very pleasantly spent. Miss Ada and Geneviere Bagby entertained 85 young laies at a reception at their home in Taltoh avenue Wednesday at 4 p.m. in honor of Miss Viola White of Oberlia, O., and Miss Cinnie Brown of Versailles, Ky. Others strangers entertained were Misses lona Smith, Jessie King and Mrs. Willson of L. xington, Ky., and Miss Brown of Louisville, Ky. The house was tastefully adorned in smilax and Flowers. The Rev, A. L. Murray of Chicago spent the week in the city He left yesterday for Chicago, accompanied by Mrs. Murray. The family will move to Chicago in the fall. Card of Thanks. Mr. and Mrs. York and daughter desire to thank their many friends for their kindnesses shown during the late illness and death of their daughter, Anna; especially Drs. Johnson ard Brown, Rev. C. W. Newton, Undertaker Willis, Messrs Edward sanders, M. Churohili, Will Holt, Wilson and Chas Duncan, also Bethel Sunday-school and C E. society and choir for floral offer. ings. Among the dainty affairs of the season was the marriage and reception of Mr. George Bowler and Miss Florence Smith which occurred at 7 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Wm Wright in Alvord st., Rev. Hurley officiating. The reception began at 8 o'clock. The house was decorated with sweet peas and ferns. The bride was handsomely gowned in pale fawn vieux and satin cloth and vandyke lace. Miss Pattie Dean, the maid of honor, looked pretty in white silk organdie and lace. The groom and the best man, Mr. Samuel Haddox were attired in the conventional black. Mr. and Mrs. Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Artist, received in in the parlor Mrs. Wright wore white silk organdie and white satin while Mrs. Artist wore a cream nuns veiling with organdie bice; Miss Ollie McCanley in green cloth with black lace. Those who presided over the punch bowl were: Misses Rosezene Davis, Sadie Weaver, Gertruda Crossen and Malissa Jackson. Many beautiful and useful presents were received The guests from out of town were: Mrs. Weaver of Frankfort, Mr. Benton of Chicago and Miss Snow of E. avensville. Mr. and Mrs. Bowler wreside at 2207 Arsenal ave where the will be at home after Aug. 2. FOR AN..... Easy Shave, First-class Hair Cut or Refreshing Bath Go To The Stone Front Shop Where you will find three well known and efficient tonsorial artists; Mr. WILLIAM BROWN. Mr. W. D FERGUSON. Mr. BENJAMIN DUNN. L. DUNF, Artistic Shoe Polisher. CHAS, RAPE, Prop. 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. LEWIS C. HAYES 502 and 504 Indiana Avenue The BEST Ice Cream Soda in "Bucktown. Sole Agent in the city for Ozonized Ox Marrow Soldier's Relief T A Sure Cure For Cramps In the Stomach --DIARRHOEA-- SUMMER Complaint and Indigestion. Call for it over the Bar. For Sale by Druggists. Meals, 15c; Lunches 10c. Good Service Everything First-class and Meals at all hours. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing Timberlake & Sellers. Merchant Tailors 413 Indiana ave All work promptly attended to. S. L. TAYLOR, Popular-priced Tailor (formerly of Taylor & Schneider) now at 17 Virginia Ave. Pants to order $3.00 up; Suits, $15. up, Pants pressed 15c; Suits, 50c. Fragrant Lasting THE ONLY GENUINE WOODBINE Perfume R. P. Blodau's Drug Store 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 Bald win Block. Money to loan on city property and farms, at low rates. fair dealings, together with the fact that OZONO nine Hair Grower and Hair Straightener in existance, we have met with grand success, which has our promise, meeting our mered. Any infringement will be prosecuted. Int H. Clay, M. D., Den- your work is Wanted, and receive the BEST OF SERVICE. 2.50 and $3.00 sets of teeth-- are good, but not the best. Gas deploy Dr. Clay as a Dentist. you get the ben- ference, 14 years with New York Dental. H Clay, M. D.; Den- 108 North Illinois Street. Peoples Excuse ake Manitou, Rochester, SUNDAY $1.00 Round Trip $1 the K. P. Band, Good Fishing, Boating and 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.) The Peoples Excursion To Lake Manitou, Rochester, Ind. Aug. 12, SUNDAY Aug. 12 $1.00 Round Trip $1.00 Music by the K. P. Band, Good Fishing, Boating and Amusements. THE MICROBES AND MICROSCOPIC GERMS and by thus purifying the blood, it prevents and cures Malaria Chills, Agnes and Fevere, and by thus purifying the blood, it prevents and cures Stomach, Liver and Kidney Troubles, including Indigestion, Rheumatism and Constipation. Without causing pain and gripping, it works gently on the Bowels, and by thus purifying the blood, it eliminates morbid mucus matter from the blood, and in this way it prevents and cures blood the blood, it prevents and cures Matarial Chills, phlephoid, and is pronounced one of the best Households and Kidney Troubles, including Indigestion, Rheumatic Fever and Nausea. These actions it relieves the Lungs by eliminating morbidity in way it prevents and cures BLOOD AND CONSUMPTION the blood it removes the cause, and speedy cures the Vitality and Nervus Weakness and all the long lapse action of the digestive and secretory organs and Compound, entirely free from any deleterious drug that could harm the organs. "LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICITY IS LIFE" and scientists, and in order to meet the demands of the supply of the blood, it is best to physician and physical prognosis. Next By cleansing the blood it removes the cause, and speedily cures the Sick Headache, Neurologia, Loss of Vitality and Nervous Weakness and all the long list of ailments induced by imperfect application of the digestive and secretory organs and, find, that they are a Family Medicine, sliker for both old and young, it is guaranteed to give complete satisfaction. **LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICITY IS LIFE** We are told by learned doctors that the supply of the Viz. Viscera, or Electrical forces by overwork, both mental and physical, and have been pronounced "A Nation of Dyspepties." We eat too much or too little, too fast or too great a variety; our food fails to properly digest and assimilate the supply of the Viz. Viscera, or Electrical forces. We all the numerous "Ills that flesh is heir to." The Lightning Specific has been care fully compounded by an expert chemist, and is designed to aid in charging the Physical Dynamos which supplies the system with the Vital, or Electrical Force, by means of pure, rich Blood is made and the morbid matter, which if retained, will surely cause **BRIGHTS' DISEASE, NEURALGIA OR RHEUMATISM, or some other Disease, complicated with a great or the most fearful Mental Malades, with the morbid matter provided to overflowing, Delays are often dangerous; any disorder may reach a stage in which it becomes incurable, but if you take **BRIVER LIGHTNING SPECIFIC ALTERATIVE according to the directions, and continue the Treatment as faithfully as you would if it had been prescribed by your Family Physician, you will find by giving it a fair trial for a period of time long enough to build up a new growth of cell structure, you may soon be restored to perfect Health, and your ailment, although it be chronic and of long standing, will be free from mineral poisons or any other dangerous drugs. Agents wanted everywhere.** Manufactured by the ORIGINAL STAR CELEBY-SELTZER CO. 226 Eden Place, North of Robes its Park Church, on Hudson Ave. Indianapolis, IN HENRY HUDER, DRUGGIST, cor. Pennsylvania and Washington Sts., general office for Indianapolis and vicinity July Clearing Sale Ladies Lace Hose ..... 15c and 25c Ladief Vests, ..... 5c, 10c, 15c and 25c Gents Straw Hats, ..... 25c Gents Silk Front Shirts, 4 ..... 9c to 98c; Percale shirts, ..... 25c to $1.00 Rubber collars, all styles, ..... 25c, Celluoid collars ..... 10c Washable ties, ..... 5c and 10c, Summer suspenders, ..... 15c to 25c Umbrellas, 49c to $1.50. See our new sizes of Traveling Bags, One Year $1 Six Months 50c Three Months 25 URE OZONO ement will beprosecuted. M. M. D., Dentist, This Wanted, and you are BEST OF SERVICE. 100 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. s Excursion You, Rochester, Ind. NDAY Aug. 12 Round Trip $1.00 Food Fishing, Boating and Amusements. 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 its and cures Material Chillies, Agnes and Fever, and one of the best House Tonicics in all cases including Indigestion, Rheumatism and Constipation, writes it well to give the bowels, and by recurses by eliminating morbid mucus matter from causes. NASH AND CONSUMPTION and specially cures the Sick Headache, Weakness and all the long list of ailments in leave it work gently on the bowels, and by recurses by eliminating morbid mucus matter from causes. INMORNIA DIPHONIA ELECTRICITY IS LIFE Order to meet the demands of the busy fasting have been pronounced "A Nation of Dyspeptics" to great a variety; our food fails to properly stomach trouble followed by A NORMAL NIGHT ir to it." The Lightning Specific has been cared and is designed to aid in charging the Physical in the Vital, or Electrical Force, by means of food is made and the morbid matter, which is URGULGIA OR RHEUMATISM, implicated with a great variety of the most masse Hospitals are crowded to overflowing, may reach a stage in which it becomes in- SPECIFIC ALTERATIVE the treatment as faithfully, as you would if it were not new growth of cell structure, you may soon be although it be chronic and of long standing remedy is warranted to be free from mineral nests wanted everywhere. STAR CELERY-SELTZER CO., Burch Church, on Hudson St., Indianapolis, Indiana and Washington Sts., general pools and vicinity. Sale 15c and 22c 15c, 10c, 15c and 25c 25c 15c to 98c; Percale shirts, 25c to $1.00 Celluloid collars, 10c Summer suspenders, 15c to 25c for new sizes of Traveling Bags. recorder" y to the interests of the apple of Indiana. ths 50c Three Months 25