The Recorder

QUINN CHAPEL CELEBRATES TODAY ITS FIFTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY. Under Administration of New Bishop, Abram Grant, the Work Quinn Chapel, as the mother church of African Methodism in Chicago, celebrated its fifty-third anniversary last Sunday. Forty years ago and more it was a great agency in the "underground railway" system which sent so many blacks from the slavery-of the South to the freedom of the North. Today the new Bishop, Abram Grant, says it may become an agency for "railroading the political slaves of the South to the political freedom of the North." "It is through this institutional church that I hope to realize myplans for having colored men who are not wanted in the South transported to the fields of Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, where they are wanted. The South has a surplus. To start these black men North, where conditions are ripe for them to become self-supporting and assume the duties of citizenship, is the greatest work that has come to our hands. "To this end I would like to see the energies of the new church bent. Booker T, Washington is doing a great work, but it is not a beginning on what needs to be done." SMALL. HOPE IN THE SOUTH. "There is a small political hope for the colored man in the many parts of the South. He is not needed for his labor, and he is not wanted for his society and citizenship. We are trying to engraft a civilization upon the barbarians today, when there is a great work at home. Not only has the colored man suffered, but the white South has suffered from reactionary effects. Willmington, N. C., will not recover from the effects of its lawlessness in twenty years. Organization of the "Red Shirts" indicates that other sections have not learned the lesson. So if without antagonizing anywhere this institutional church in Chicago may be a means of transplanting the Southern black man to independence and comfort in the North, it will have fulfilled a great mission. Personolly and in every way sensible, I shall try to bring this great move to pass." Within a month Bishop Grant has come to this Fourth Episcopal District of the African Methodist church Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota are included in it. Previously the Bishop had been overlooking the church the in New England. The object of the anniversary celebration is to do something toward lifting the debt of Quinn Chapel. This debt is now $29,000, though in the two years' pastorate of Dr. A. J. Carey the original debt has been reduced more than $13,000. HISTORY OF QUINN CHAPEL HISTORY OF QUINN CHAPEL Quinn Chapel was organized on July 2, 1847, under the administration of Bishop William Paul Quinn. There were seven members in the church body. The first church building was on the east side of Fifth avenue, near Jackson street. Later, a lot was purchased at Jackson street and Custom-House place, to which the building was moved. The fire of 1871 destroyed this building and the church was rebuilt at Twelfth and Custom-House place, where two years later it was burned. Several temporary changes were made, until, under the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. J. T. Jenifer, the present church, one of the handsomest of the denomination in the West, was built at a cost of $55,000. In the history of the chapel it has purchased four lots, lost two buildings by fire, changed sites eight times, and had twenty-five different pastors. The church membership is now nearly 1,100, and Bethel church at Thirtieth and Dearborn streets, is at off-shoot of it. A surplus of over $81,000,000 for the last fiscal year is a pretty good showing for Republican party government considering that heavy war expenses, as well as the ordinary expenditures of the Government were paid out of the receipts. When we add the nation al debt has been decreased to some $40,000,000 in the same time, the showing becomes phenomenal. RO NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF INDIANA 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 M. N. G. A SAD INDIANA DEMOCRAT. Might Have Had Better Candidates and a Better Platform. Eli Perkins, in New York Sun. A tired delegate from the Bryan convention came into the smoker at Indianapolis. He was sedate, reflective and mournful. He didn't look like a man returning from victory. He didn't seem to be satisfied with anything. He sat down, put three fingers on his brow and looked down. Then he breathed a long breath and sighed. "Enthusiastic convention at Kansas City," I said. The delegate was silent. "Nominated strong man?" I said with an upward inflection. "Some think so, Eli," he sighed. "Why we Democrats haven't made any mistake?" I said. "Might have done better." Then he looked at me over his glasses as if he wanted to unburden himself. Then he scratching his ear and thinking two minutes, continued. "Yes, we all thought we did it, but on reflection we find the party wasn't in it. Do you know" he said slowly, that the delegates from the States that control 187 electoral votes out of the 447 votes did not want free silver 16 to 1, at all, but Bryan with 161 delegates behind him knocked us out. Is that Democratic? I call that Bryan monopoly." "Oh, that's all right." I said, "we will win on imperialism." "Imperialism? Why Bryan drew his colonel's salary to put the American flag in Porto Rico and Manila. Does he think we patriotic Americans are going to pull it down? Imperilism Why we can't have imperialism without an emperor. No its expansion or contraction; and we Democrats will not contract the Nation: We'll pull down no flag." "But the sympathy in the platform for the Boers—won't that catch the masses?" I asked. "Catch nothing! What have Boers in Africa, Eli, got to do with America? The fact is," said the broken-hearted delegate, "we've got no platform that an honest patriotic Democrat can stand on. Any boy knows that free silver is a 150 per cent. bonus on the product of the silver mine owner, and the loss to the government will have to be paid someday by the cotton and corn planter. The farmer and the manufacturer are not in it. Neither is the shop man or the cowboy. The old free trade and free silver platform is played out. It will not deceive the people again. Grover's old free trade proved a disappointment and a calamity and now what have they given us? Why a chance to have Adlai Stevenson with Grover's old free trade policy, which broke up factories starved the laborer made a deficit and sent gold out of the country. On the top of this they place free coinage and ask 5,000,000 Americans to double the price of silver for 1,400,000,000 people. "Yes, Eli, I'm a Democrat: but Tam many Hall, Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman have got us into trousers 'hind side before,' and we are walking backwards." "But we Democrats are down on the trusts." I said. "Yes, Eli, you are. Mayor Van Wyck resolutes against trusts with 2,700 shares of ice trust in his pocket—and the poor suffering in New York. Then there's Richardson, the 'Messages-of-the-Presidents' monopolist. These things, when I think about them, make me tired." Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1900 ```markdown ``` The American flag; what of the American Negro? M. Representative George W. White, of North Carolina, the only Negro in the American Congress. 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 vowe's in the names are uniformly those of the Italian or continental alphabet, namely: (1) a always as a in far; e always approximately as e in they or then i very like i 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, sylable has an independdeht 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-chang for Li Hung Chang, not li-hung-chang pehking for Pekin, not peekin; shang-hah-ee for Shanghia, not Shanghigh; tssoong-lee-yahmen 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. T, e The Newiest, 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 Chinese coin tael is not tale, but tah ale pronounced quickly. Yun-Nan-Fu is yoon-nahn-foo, not yu-nan-fyu. In like manner all wores are pronounced with syilabic distinctness and with uniform vowel sound. Under the third rule the province named Scez-Huan is sounded, not ze-kuan, but nearly as zehchooahn, touching the choo very lightly; Nganh-Wei is inggahgoowayee, dropping the initial i sound; Liautong peninsula is leeooho-tong, and German possession Kiau-Chau is Keea-hoocho-hoo. However, without multiiylying 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. Negro Labor Wanted. HONOLULU, July 1, via San Francisco, Cal. July 10. It is to the colored people of the Southern States that the plantation owners of the Hawaiian islands will turn for relief in the matter of the vexed labor question. John Hind and J, B Collins, of Kohala plantation, 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 pay their expenses and give them $30. a month. Free Trade in Paper. There is no industry the development of which illustrates the benefits of the Protective policy more than that of the manufacture of paper. Every editor in the country must recognize the fact that with development in manufacturing prices have gradually decreased. At the same time the United States has become the greatest paper manufacturing nation in the world. Recently, however, a proposition has been introduced into Congress, by a Free-Trade Congressman, to place newspaper and pulp upon the free list. It is but natural that there should be some following to this proposition, both on account of the minority Free-Trade element in Congress and the ignorance of a large portion of the said minority. There are, however, some facts in this connection that are worthy of serious consideration. On account of the great production of spruce in Canada and the never-failing water supply, Canada with Free-Trade would become the paper producing nation, and our industry, comprising almost one thousand mills, would have to either go out of business or move to Canada. The author of the bill to place newspaper and pulp on the free list probably did not know that the duty upon paper from the United States to Canada is 25 per cent, and that our duty upon paper coming from Canada is equivalent to 15 per cent. He also probably did not know that in certain provinces in Canada an internal tax, known as a "stumpage tax," is placed upon spruce, which amounts to $1.00 per ton of pulp or per cord of wood exported to the United States. Free-Trade in important papers, the Canadian "stumpage" tax upon spruce, and the duty upon paper going into Canada would result in the absolute transfer of the paper industry to Canada, thus building up the most gigantic monopoly of paper ever known. An increase in cost of paper to the consumer would follow as a matter of course. In view of these facts, which are so well understood by the greatest consumers of the product in this country, it seems astonishing that this industry should be singled out for slaughter. It is safe to say, however, that the bill introduced for the abolition of duty on newspaper and pulp will never leave the Ways and Means Committee of the present Congress. Unanswerable. The excess of exports over imports for three years of President McKinley's administration has been: 1897, $286,263,144; 1898, $615,431,076; 1899, $529,874,813. That the United States sold far more than a billion dollars' worth of products more than it bought during this period, despite the fact that a state of war existed during the greater part of it, is an unanswerable argument in favor of the Republican rule. During the last two years, under a wise and careful Republican administration, the people of the United States have sold more goods abroad than under any three years of Democratic administration. During the past two years the excess of the sales made by the people of the United States in foreign markets over their purchases in foreign markets, over one billion of dollars, has been greater than in twenty years of Democratic administration. During the past two years the people of the United States have sold in excess of their purchases in the markets of the world five hundred millions more than the entire excess over imports during the eight years that Cleveland was President. Why They Gave In. "Work being brisk at present, the employers soon gave in." Such was the outcome of a demand by the Upholsterers' Union of New York for an increase of wages of 35 per cent on special work. "Work being brisk," the employers could better afford to grant the increase than to close their shops, and the upholsterers profited accordingly. Had the same demand been made four years ago, when the industries of the country were staggering from the direful effects of legislation on Free-Trade lines, there would have been a vastly different ending to the story. Then the recital would have been: "Work being scarce at present, the workmen soon gave in." The value to American labor of conditions similar to those which enabled the New York upholsterers to obtain an advance of 25 and 50 per cent in wages has been many times demonstrated since we stopped tinkering Tariffs for the purpose of increasing our foreign trade—that is, for the purpose of enabling foreigners to increase their sales to the United States. Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper Price 3 Cents Negroes Are Disfranchised. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 2,—Special. After one of the most bitterly contested campaigns ever known in the old North State, the Democrats and white supremacy triumphed to-day by a majority of about 30,000. To-day's election disfranchised the Negro and insures a Democratic Legislature, which means defeat for the Republican senator, and also Congressman George H White, the only Negro in Congress. The Negroes, as a general rule, remain d away from the polls. U. B. F. Meeting Arrangements for the entertain ment of the Grand Lodge of the U. B. F, and S. M. T, which meetf in this city Aug. 7, are about completed. The delegates will meet in morning session in the hall, on Delaware street, and will be welcomed by Attorney O. V. Royall, in behalf of the local lodges. Sessions will be held daily. Thursday night will be devoted to memorial exercises Friday afternoon a grand picnic will be given at Armstrong Park, preceded by a street parade. In the evening at Tomlinson Hall a grand banquet will be given. Mayor Taggart will deliver the welcome address. Wednesday night the ladies will entertain and the Juveniles will execute a drill. Mr. Walter Jameson is the chairman of the local committee. B. B. A. exander of New Albany, is the Grand Master of the State. "Kld" Roberson Dead. "Kid" Robinson, the local pugilist, died Tuesday morning after an illness of three weeks' duration. He made a great fight for life, but the relapse that overtook him a week ago was too severe to ever come. The remains were shipped to his father's home in Los Angeles, Cal. for burial. Several handsome floral designs were sent by friends. "Because cigarettes are said to contain an admixture of certain drugs which are believed to be deleterious to health," said a western dealer in tobacco, "many benevolent ladies and well-intending gentlemen, the latter, in all probability, having never cut open, much less smoked, a cigar in their lives, think that the small roll of leaf so dear to the heart and purses of other men is loaded with all sorts of inflammable and dangerous materials. "As a matter of actual fact, cigars are, as a rule, made of pure, good tobacco, free from any 'doctoring' processes or manipulations which add to the already sufficient poisonous qualities of the active principle of tobacco—nicotine. There is enough of the narcotic in that element. "The so-called 'doctoring' is largely a matter of popular fiction. The real leaf of the tobacco is too cheap to attempt to palm off a smoking substitute. The poorer grades of the weed are rank enough without adulteration. The cigars put on the market nowadays are vastly superior to those smoked by men some years ago, and especially is this true of the domestic leaf, which, by improved cultivation and quality of the seed, and advanced methods of curing packing and handling has undergone a change in keeping with the times. Beyond a slight sprinkling of innocuous; flavoring extract, to enhance the aroma, as perfume on a handkerchief, cigars of today, are 'straight goods.' More than ever do men call for a certain brand, even in the cheaper and nickel grades, and it is oftimes difficult to get them to adapt a new one which we wish to introduce to the trade. "Several brands of nickel cigars are made from the clippings of a higher priced cigar. There are as many grades of tobacco as of woolen goods, some men don't know this. Some men don't know the difference between a Connecticut and a Havana cigar, and never will. In fact, the ignorance of some men about tobacco is conceived of only by those who deal in it. They are worse than some women buying dry goods—some men; not all. These men are great bors, as other men of observing bent of mind must notice, when the first kind are explaining to us what they think they know about tobacco when made in the form of a cigar.—Washington Star. Stubb—Which do you think is of the most importance—brain or bone and sinew? Penn—Well, it depends on who you are. If you are an inventor, brain. If you are a butcher, bone and sinew. INDIANAPOLIS, ND WHAT TO READ. ELEVATED LITERATURE IS A BLESSING TO THE WORLD. Immoral Books and Impure Pictures Death Warrants of the Soul— Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Dr. Talmage, who has been spending a few days in St. Petersburg, sends the following report of a discourse which will be helpful to those who have an appetite for literature and would like some rules to guide them in the selection of books and newspapers; text, Acts xix, 19, "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver." Paul had been stirring up Ephesus with some lively sermons about the sins of that place. Among the more important results was the fact that the citizens brought out their bad books and in a public place made a bonfire of them. Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities is a great bonfire of bad books and newspapers. We have enough fuel to make a blaze 200 feet high! Many of the publishing, houses would do well to throw into the blaze their entire stock of goods. Bring forth the insufferable trash and put it into the fire and let it be known in the presence of God and angels and men that you are going to rid your homes of the overtopping and underlying curse of profligate literature. I have to tell you that the greatest blessing that ever came to the nations is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of unclean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and penitentiaries and almhouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this infection lie in the hospitals and in the grives, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair! The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its vitulins by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions into the channel house of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the tracks was not long enough or large enough to carry the beastliness and the putrefaction which have been gathered up in bad books and newspapers in the last twenty years. Standing, as we do, chin deep in fictitious literature, the question that people are asking is, "Shall we read novels?" I reply. There are novels that are pure, good, Christian, elevating to the heart and ennobling to the life. But I have still further to say that I believe that 75 out of the 100 novels in this day are baleiful and destructive to the last degree. A pure work of fiction is history and poetry combined. It is a history of things around us with the licenses and the assumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to such writers of fiction as Hawthorne and McKenzie and Landon. The memories of the past were never more faithfully embalmed than in the writings of Walter Scott. Cooper's novels are healthfully redolent with the breath of the seawed and the air of the American forest. Charles Kingsley has smitten the morbidity of the world and led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscles and fresh air. Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing the pretenders to gentility and high blood. Dickens has built his own monument in his books, which are a plea for the poor and the anathema of injustice, and there are a score of novelistic pens to-day doing mighty work for God and righteousness. Now, I say, books like these, read at right times and read in right proportion with other books, can not help but be ennobling and purifying; but, alas, for the loathsome and impure literature that has come in the shape of novels, like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense! They are coming from some of the most celebrated publishing houses. They are coming with recommendation of some of our religious newspapers. They lie on your center table to curse your children and blast with their infernal fires generations unborn. I charge you in the first place to stand aloof from all books that give false pictures of life. Life is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not all either knaves or heroes. Women are neither angels nor furies. And yet if you depended upon much of the literature of the day you would get the idea that life instead of being something earnest, something practical, is a fitful and fantastic and extravagant thing. How poorly prepared are that young man and woman for the duties of to-day who spent last night wading through brilliant passages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness! The man will be looking all day long for his heroine in the office, by the forge, in the factory, in the counting room, and he will not find her, and he will be dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be nervous, inane and a nuisance. He will be fit neither for the store nor the shop, nor the field. A woman who gives herself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be unfitted for the duties of wife, mother, sister, daughter. There she is, hair disheveled, countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands trembling, hurting into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortunate lover; in the daytime, when she ought to be busy, starring by the half hour at nothing, biting her finger nails into the quick. The carpet that was plain before will be plainer after having wandered through a romance all night long in tessellated halls of castles. And your industrious companion will be more unattractive than ever, now that you have walked in the romance through parks with plumed princesses or loured in the arbor with the polished desperado. Oh, these confirmed novel readers! They are unfitted for this life, which is a tremendous disci- pline. They know not how to go through the furnaces of trial through which they must pass, and they are un fitted for a world where everything we gain we achieve by hard and long continuing work. Again, abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them—the good and the bad. Which stuck to you? The bad! The heart of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in awhile there is a mind like a loadstone which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally exactly the opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedge of burs to get one black berry, you will get more burs than 1. berries. You can not afford to read a bad book, however good you are. Again, I charge you to stand off from all those books which corrupt the imagination and inflame the passions. I do not refer now to that kind of book which the villain has under his coat waiting for the school to get out, and then, looking both ways to see that there is no policeman around the block, offers the book to your son on his way home. I do not speak of that kind of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out in polished style, and with acute plot sounds the tosicn that rouses up all the baser passions of the soul. To-day, under the nostrils of the people, there is a fetid, recking, unwashed literature, enough to poison all the fountains of public virtue and smite your sons and daughters as with the wing of a destroying angel, and it is time that the ministers of the gospel blew the trumpet and rallied the forces of righteousness, all armed to this great battle against a deprived literature. Again, abstain from those books which are apologetic of crime. It is a sad thing that some of the best and most beautiful bookbindery and some of the finest rhetoric have been brought to make sin attractive. Vice is a horrible thing anyhow. It is born in shame, and it dies howling in the darkness. In this world it is scourged with a whip of scorpions, but afterward the thunders of God's wrath pursue it across a boundless desert, beating it with ruin and woe. When you come to paint carnality, do not paint it as looking from behind embroidered curtains or through lattice of royal seraglio, but as writhing in the agonies of a city hospital. Cursed be the books that try to make impurity decent and crime attractive and hypocrisy noble! Cursed be the books that swarm with libertines and desperadoes, who make the brain of the young people whirl with villainy! Ye authors who write them, ye publishers who print them, ye book sellers who distribute them, shall be cut to pieces, if not by an aroused community, then at last by the hall of divine vengeance, which shall sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all ye murderers of souls. I tell you, though you may escape in this world, you will be ground at last under the hoof of eternal calamities, and you will be chained to the rock, and you will have the vultures of despair clawing at your soul, and those whom you have destroyed will come around to torment you, and to pour hotter coals of fury upon your head, and rejoice eternally in the outey of your pain, and the howl of your dumation. "God shall wound the hairy scalp of him that goeth on in his trespasses." The clock strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a romance. The eyes flash fire. The breath is quick and irregular. Occasionally the color dashes to the cheek and then dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shake the deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed up from the river of death. The clock strikes 4, and the rosy dawn soon after begins to look through the lattice upon the pale form that looks like a detained specter of the night. Soon in a mad-house she will mistake her ringlets for cudling serpents and thrust her white hand through the bars of the prison and smite her head, rubbing it back as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking, "My brain! My brain! Oh, stand off from that! Why will you go sounding your way amid the reefs when there is such a vast ocean in which you may voyage all set." Much of the impure pictorial literature is most tremendous for ruin. There is no one who can like good pictures better than I do. The quickest and most condensed way of impressing the public mind is by picture. What the painter does by his brush for a few favorites, the engraver does by his knife for the million. What the author accomplishes by fifty pages the artist does by a flash. The best part of a painting that costs $10,000 you may buy for 10 cents. Fine paintings belong to the aristocracy of art. Engravings belong to the democracy of art. You do well to gather good pictures in your homes. But what shall I say of the prostitution of art to purposes of iniquity? These death warrants of the soul are at every street corner. They smite the vision of the young man with pollution. Many a young man buying a copy has bought his eternal discomfiture. There may be enough poison in one bad picture to poison one soul, and that soul may poison ten, and ten fifty, and fifty hundreds, and the hundreds thousands, until nothing but the measuring line of eternity can tell the height and depth and ghastliness and horror of the great undoing. The work of death that the wicked author does in a whole book the bad engraver may do on a half side of a pictorial. Under the gulse of pure mirth the young man buys one of these sheets. He unrolls it before his comrades amid roars of laughter, but long after the paper is gone the result may, perhaps, be seen in the blasted imaginations of those who saw it. The queen of death holds a banquet every night, and these periodicals are the invitation to her guests. Young man, buy not this moral strychnine for your soul! Pick not up this nest of colled adders for your pocket! Patronize no newsstand that keeps them. Have your room bright with good engravings, but for these outrageous pictorials have not one wall, not one bureau, not one pocket. A man is no better than the pictures he loves to look at. If your eyes are not pure, your heart can not be. THE CENTER Of Population as Shown by Cen of 1900. Cherish good books and newspapers. Beware of bad ones. The assassin of Lord Russell declared that he was led into crime by reading one vivid romance. The consecrated John Angell James, than whom England never produced a better man, declared in his old age that he had never yet got over the evil effects of having for fifteen minutes once read a bad book. But I need not go so far off. I could tell you of a comrade who was great hearted, noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession, but he had an infidel book in his trunk, and he said to me one day, "De Witt, would you like to read it?" "Yes, I would." I took the book and read it only for a few minutes. I was really startled with what I saw there, and I handed the book back to him, and said, "You had better destroy that book." No, he kept it. He read it. He reread it. After awhile he gave up religion as a myth. He gave up God as a nonentity. He gave up the Bible as a fable. He gave up the church of Christ as a useless institution. He gave up good morals as being unnecessarily stringent. I have heard of him but twice in many years. The time before the last I heard of him he was a confirmed nebriate. The last I heard of him he was coming out of an insane asylum—in body, mind and soul an awful wreck. I believe that one infidel book killed him for two worlds. Go home to day and look through your library, and then, having looked through your library, look on the stand where you keep your pictorials and newspapers and apply the Christian principles I have laid down this hour. If there is anything in your home that can not stand the test do not give it away, for it might spoil an immortal soul; do not sell it, for the money you get would be the price of blood; but rather kindle a fire on your kitchen hearth or in your back yard and then drop the poison in it, and the bonfire in your city shall be as consuming as that one in Ephesus. Phenomenal Success of "Fritz" Heinze Who Went West Ten Years Ago. F. Augustus Heinze, the copper king of Butte, who has been a thorn in the side of those representing the Alamagated Copper Company, left New York for Montana last Sunday afternoon after a month's stay in this city. Mr. Heinze could not be persuaded to make any statement for publication previous to his departure, but it is learned that overtures were made to him while here, and that he was in constant communication with representatives of the Alamagated people. In the great legal fight that is now being waged over the Butte camp, Mr. Heinze employs no less than twenty-eight law firms, and more than sixty cases are already on the dockets of the Montana courts, a sufficient number to last for fifty years, so a prominent lawyer from Butte remarked the other day, should no compromise be effected. Heinze's last offer to the Alamagated was said to have been $25,000,000, or a 20 per cent. interest in the entire combine, and to be put in as manager, with complete control. Later, when approached, he stated his price as $30,000,000, and volunteered the information that it would advance $5,000,000 every time a price was asked for. Ten years ago Heinze, a graduate of the Columbia School of Mines, supplemented by a course in Germany, sought the Butte camp with no other influence behind him than an unconquerable ambition and a constitution of iron, coupled with a determination to succeed that enabled him to work untrifingly. Then, as now, the Anaconda, with Marcus Daly at its helm, and W. A. Clark were the two leading and dominant influences of the Butte camp, and so firmly entrenched were they that it was not thought that a third factor could seriously enter the field, and that all future discoveries must fall into the lap of one or the other of the two copper kings. Yet ten years later, as the result of modern science, coupled with a marvelous brain and an untiring ability to work, "Fritz" Heinze finds himself at thirty-one in control of properties in Butte valued at from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000—N. Y. Tribune. A Sermon Barrel A college professor of national reputation whose occasional sermons are a feature of the summer months in one of the Broadway churches was showing some visitors through the music room in his house last week, when one of them said: "This beer keg looks very attractive, professor, but there seems to be no chest under it and I assume that it is not for use." The keg was really a beautifully made barrel with a spigot inserted at one end. It stood on a rack like a sawhorse. "Have you ever heard of a sermon barrel?" asked the professor. "Well, this is the genuine article, and so far as I know it is the only one in this country." The professor turned the spigot and the front of the barrel swung back on its hinges, disclosing inside several shelves on which were stacked a score or more of sermons ready for use as emergency might require.—New York Sun. An Explanation. Singleton—I wonder why a spinster nearly always has a cat or a dog for a pet? Wederly—Oh, I suppose she wants something that will stay out at night occasionally so she will have something to worry about—Chicago News Not That Way. Waller—So Bilkins rents that £70 a year house of yours, do he? He pays too much rent. Landlord (sighing)—You don't know him. Of Population as Shown by Census of 1900. The center of population of the United States is, as nearly as the experts of the 1900 census can estimate at the present time, a desolate spot in Jackson county, Ind., a few miles east of Brownstown, the county seat. This new center is almost directly on the 86th degree of longitude and a few miles south of the 39th parallel of latitude. For 110 years the center of population has moved westerly across the country almost directly in the line of the 39th parallel. In 1790 the center was a point in Maryland, a few miles east of Baltimore. In 1800 it had moved to a few miles west of Baltimore. In 1810 it was about fifty miles further west in Virginia, and close to the Potomac river. Ten years later it had moved to the boundary line of Virginia and West Virginia, a few miles to the north of Woodstock in Virginia. In 1840 it had moved to a point half way across West Virginia and in 1850 was within a few miles of the Ohio river. During the next decade the greatest stride westward in any ten years was made, the center moving about seventy-five miles west into Ohio. In 1870 it was close to Chillicothe and in 1880 it had moved to a point close to Cincinnati, but on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river. In 1890 it was about thirty miles northeast of the present point—Terre Haute Gazette. Why Do We Wink? No satisfactory determination has been made of the reason we wink. Some suppose that the descent and return of the lid over the eye serves to sweep or wash it off; others that covering of the eye gives it a rest from the labor of vision, if only for an in-appreciable instant. This view borrows some force from the fact that the record of winking is considerably used by experimental physiologists to help measure the fatigue which the eye suffers. In another line of investigation Herr S. Garten has attempted to measure the length of time occupied by the different phases of a wink. He used a specially arranged photographic apparatus and affixed a piece of white paper to the edge of the eyelid for a mark. He found that the lid descends quickly and rests a little at the bottom of its movement, after which it rises, but more slowly than it fell. The mean duration of the downward movement was from 75 to 91 thousandths of a second; the rest with the eye shut lasted variously, the shortest duration being fifteen-hundredths of a second with one subject and seventeen-hundredths with another, and the third phase of the wink, the rising of the lid, took seventeen-hundredths of a second more, making the entire duration of the wink about forty-hundredths or four-tenth of a second. The interruption is not long enough to interfere with distinct vision. M. V. Henri says, in L'Annee Psychologique, that diffe-ent persons wink differently—some often, others rarely, some in groups of ten or so at a time when they rest a while, and others regularly, once only at a time. The movement is modified by the degree of attention. Periods of close interest, when we wink hardly at all, may be followed by a speedy making up for lost time by rapid winking when the tension is relieved—Popular Science Monthly. The "Seventh Day." Regarding the "seventh day," during which "He rested," there is a dispute as to which day in the week is the seventh. The Christians have one day, the Greeks another, and the Persians and the Assyrians and the Egyptians and the Turks and the Jews each have their Sabbath day, different and distinct, but with the same design, that of a day of rest from labor. E. C. Browning has epitomized this variance nicely in the following verse: Christians worship God on Sunday, Grecian zealots hallow Monday, Tuesday Persians spend in prayer, Assyrians Wednesday revere, Egyptians Thursday, Friday Turks, On Saturday no Hebrew works. The English names of the days of the week date from the conquest of Briton by the Angles and Saxons. These pagan conquerors of Henglist and Horsa brought into Ablaa the worship of the sun and the moon; of Tuo, the god of heaven; of Woden, the god of war; of Thor (thunder), the god of storms, and Friga, of Frea, the goddess of peace and plenty. 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ENTER My seven-year-old boy suffered with his head, constipation and complained of his stomach. He could not of his age and do what did it not agree with him. He was this FORMER DIRECTOR OF CUBAN POSIS BEHIND THE BARS. Four Criminal Charges Are Brought Against Him—Judge Declines to Accept Boudman and Prisoner in Locked Up Havana cable: Estes Rathbone, formerly director of posts of Cuba, was arrested Saturday by order of the Judge of instruction for the Northern District on four charges, involving, all told, about $4,000. The first charge is in regard to a draft for $500, indented by Mr. Rathbone, "for expenses of a journey round the island and on post office business," without any details as to how the money was spent. The second charge is in regard to another draft for $500, indented by Rathbone, "for expenses to Washington on business." This is also unaccompanied by any details. The third charge is that he allowed himself expenses at the rate of $3 per day after having received a letter from Postmaster General Smith in December last which raised his salary from $4,500 to $6,500 per annum. The prosecution claims that Postmaster General Smith in this letter told Rathbone that when the increase was made in his salary the per exemptions would cease. The prosecution claims that this letter from the Postmaster General was an official notice. Rathbone says it was a private letter, and did not cancel the original order, which allowed him $5 per day for exemptions. Therefore, he面问 the allowance should continue. The fourth charge is that Rathbone charged the salaries of his coachman and footman to the post office department. In regard to the first draft for $500 Rathbone says that he never received the money and has no recollection of having signed for it, though he does not deny his signature. In regard to the second draft, he admits having received the money in Washington, but he said he it back in Havana and failed to get a receipt. Bail was fixed at $25.00. Senor Gamba, a Spanish merchant, who has the reputation of being a wealthy man, offered to go on Rathbone's bond for that amount. The Judge, acting on the advice of the fiscal, declined to accept this surety, and referred the matter to Lieut. Col. Scott, who is acting Governor General. The latter had inquiries made as to the standing of Senor Gamba and as a result recommended that the Judge should accept the bond unless he had sufficient reasons for contrary action. The Judge again declined to accept him as a bondsman because the other members of the firm of which Gamba is a member had not given their consent to his going on the bond and Gamba alone had no right to pledge the firm's name. Rathbone was thereupon removed to the Viac. HELD AS HOSTAGES A NEW THEORY CONCERNING FOREIGNERS IN PEKIN. Said That Gen. Lung Fuh Siang Threatens to Kill Legationers if International Berlin cable: The Chinese legation in Berlin has received a message from Sheng, director general of railways and telegrams, saying that he has received a dispatch from Pekin announcing that Gen. Tung Fuh Siang threats to kill all the members of the legations if the international forces advance upon Pekin. Evidently the legation is embarrassed by the receipt of this dispatch, as the Chinese minister has not communicated to the German government. The legation has cabled the viceroy of Nan Knii, requesting him to get information as to whether the widow of Baron von Ketteler, the murdered German minister, is still alive. Tokio cable: It is reported from Shanghai that the Boxers attacked the missionaries and native Christians at Poa Ting Fa on July 8. A foreign physician and 1,000 converts were massacred. The Chinese general, Li Ho Keh, is now marching on Pokin. He has ordered his troops to exterminate all Christians. Already one French priest and from two thousand to three thousand natives had been shattered. THE NEW ORLEANS RIOTS the Negro Desperado Who Caused the Trouble Killed After a Desperate Resistance Which Caused the Loss of Four Lives. New Orleans special: Twelve persons killed, including one woman and twenty-night wounded, including a woman and a girl, is some so seriously that death is probable, the casualty list of the troubles in New Orleans which began with the attempt of Policemen Day and Lamb to arrest the negroes Charles and Pierce. The desperate negro, Robert Charles, whose crimes have caused the terrible events of the past two days, was located in a negro's dwelling on Saratoga street. Friday afternoon and in effecting his capture the lives of four more white men—two police officers and two citizens—were sacrificed. Charles's resistance cost him his life and with him was killed a negro companion, who has aided him in his defiance of the authorities. With the organization of the citizens' police force the turbulent element yielded and peace and order were restored. Feroclous William A large body of German troops sailed from Bremenherzog, Germany, last week for China. Their departure was attendee with imposing ceremonies. The Emperor made a farewell address in which he told the troops that when they were in battle with Chinese they were to show no quarter, but were to destroy their opponents to the last man whenever possible. A Berlin cable of Monday states that public sentiment in Germany does not contain the Kaiser in such instructions. The emperor is considered as being entirely too ferocious. Washington special: The fact has just been developed that one of the last acts of the late Colonel Liscum, before his death at Tien-Tsin, was to undertake the dispatch of a spy to Pekin. General Doward, the British commanding officer at Tien-Tsin, also sent out two messengers and it is believed that the Japanese did the same. Up to date not one of these messengers has returned to Tien-Tsin, nor has there been a single word heard from any of them. This fact, however, has not caused the abandonment of hope and this is true, in particular of the message expected from Mr. Conger. Minister Wu is perhaps the basis for this hope on our part, and he maintains an unshaken confidence in his original assertion that the news, when it does come, will show that the legationers are alive. HUMBERT KILLED HUMBERT KILLED ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF ITALY. The Foul Dued Perpetrated at Monza, Lombardy, by a Young Man From Tuscany-The Assassin Monza, Italy, cable: King Humberl has been assassinated. He was shot here Sunday evening by a man named Angelo Bressl, of Prato, and died in a few minutes. The king had been attending a distribution of prizes at 10 o'clock in connection with a gymnastic competition. He had just entered his carriage with his aldee-de-camp, amid the cheers of the crowd, when he was struck by three revolver shots fired in quick succession. One pierced the heart of his majesty, who fell back and expired in a few minutes. The assassin was immediately arrested and was with some difficulty saved from the fury of the populace. He gave his name as Angelo Bressl, describing himself as of Prato, in Tuscany. Humbert I., King of Italy, was born March 14, 1844, the eldest son of Victor Immanuel, afterward King of Sardinia, and the first King of United Italy, and the Archduchess Adelaide, of Austria. He took part in the movement of 1859, for the unification of Italy. Victor Immanuel died Jan. 9, 1878, when Humbert became the second King of United Italy. In November of the same year a man named Giovanni Passanante attempted to assassinate him while he was entering Naples in a carriage, but he escaped with a slight scratch. Several other attempts were made on his life, one no longer ago than last autumn, but he was unscathed. During the reign of King Humbert Italy has steadily advanced in wealth and standing among the nations. Recent budgets have shown surpluses and the army and navy of the kingdom are strong. Popular education has been improved, but illiteracy is still great. London cable: Angelo Bressli, the assassin of King Humbert, according to a special dispatch from Rome, is an anarchist. THIRTY LIVES ARE LOST. A Great Fire lu Mines Causes a Dreadful Catastrophe. Monterey, Mexico, special: The government authorities have been notified of a terrible catrophe at Matehula, a thriving mining camp south of Monterey, in the state of San Luis Potosí. Fire broke out in the La Paz mine, and before the miners could reach the surface many of them were entombed and either burned to death or suffocated. The fire raged fiercely for several hours. Eleven bodies have been taken out and others are known to be in the pit. It is thought the loss of life will reach thirty. There is great excitement in the mining town, and the number of missing men can not be accurately determined. When the fire was discovered Ramon Gomez, the foreman, boldly descended the shaft and went into the burning chamber for the purpose of alding the unfortunate miners. He was overcome by smoke and perished. His body has been recovered. Had Entire Charge of the Postal Funds in Cuba. New York special: Further hearing in the case of Chas. F W. Neely, of the Cuban postal service, on proceedings to extradite him, was continued, Monday afternoon, before Judge Lacomb in United States Circuit Court. George W. Marshall, connected with the bureau of finance, the headquarters of the Cuban postoffice department, testified that the money was kept in a large safe. Neely signed the receipts and Marshall made them out. Neely had entire charge of the receiving and disbursing of money. Lebanon, Ind., special: Will F. Wood, who achieved notoriety in the Pearl Bryan case some years ago, and who eloped with the only daughter of ex-Auditor of State A. C. Daily, July 3, returned to this city Saturday with his bride, and they are now at the home of his father, the Rev. D. M. Wood. They were married in Danville, Ill., and have been visiting his relatives in Lansing, Mich. Mr. Dally, who opposed the marriage, says that, while he will always be glad to see his daughter, he does not know what their plans for the future are. He says nothing in regard to Wood. Mrs. Wood and her brother, Dr. Earl Daily, of Wagoner, O. T., who is now visiting his father, are the only heirs to the latter's fortune of nearly half a million dollars. A Cigarette Fool Springfield, Ill., special: Ten persons were injured, two fatally so, by the premature discharge of the evening gun at the National Guard Encampment, at Camp Lincoln, about 5 o'clock Saturday evening. The explosion was caused by some one throwing a lighted cigarette into some powder which had fallen on the ground. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA GENERAL REVIEW OF THE CHINESE SITUATION. Latest Dispatches Indicate That Foreigners in Fekin Were Alive But in Danger and Anxiously Waiting Washington special: The dispatch of Minister Conger, sent from Peking Saturday, July 21, and other reliable dispatches dated July 22, convince the most pessimistic that the foreign ministers had made good their defense up to that time. The last letter sent from Pekin was dated nine days ago. What has happened in the meantime can only be conjectured. Hope mingles with fear as to the fate of the foreigners. It is not believed that the policy of this government as to a movement on Pekin will be changed. The threats, veiled as warnings, by Li Hung Chang and others, that the march of the allies on Pekin will be the signal for a massacre of the ministers and other foreigners in that capital has so far been disregarded by this government and all other governments represented in China. It is impossible to understand how amicable relations can be restored and maintained by acclescence in such conditions. Their very proposal would stamp China as a brigand among the nations and submission to them by other nations would be an abject surrender on their part to a policy utterly abhorrent to every sentiment that underlies the intercourse between civilized nations. This is the feeling in official circles here. Washington special: Adjutant General Corbill Tuesday received a dispatch from Lieutenant Colonel Coolidge, commanding the Ninth Infantry at Tien-Tsin. It came by the way of Chee-Foo and is as follows: "Tien-Tsin. July 27.—Following letter of Lieutenant Colonel Shiba, military attach at the Japanese legation in Pekin, dated July 23, evening, arrived at Tien-Tsin July 25 at 9 o'clock p.m. "We are all waiting impatiently for the reinforcing army. When are they coming? All legations have been blocked since the 13th of last month, and since the 20th we have been attacked continually night and day by the Chinese soldiers from more than ten encampments. By a supreme effort we are still defending. We are daily awaiting with the greatest anxiety the arrival of the reinforcing army, and if it can't reach here in less than a week's time it is probable that we will be unable to hold out any longer. Emperor and Empress dowager appear to be still at Pekin. Were our reinforcements to arrive it is very probable that they would flee to Van-Shoshan. Killed and wounded up to date: Eight killed, one a captain of infantry and an ambassador's attach; seven seriously wounded, the first secretary of legation being one of twenty slightly wounded. The number of Europeans killed is sixty in all." Washington special: The following dispatch from Admiral Remey, sent from Che-Foo Tuesday, was received by the Navy Department Tuesday morning: "Taku, July 28—Japanese military attack at Pekin, in a letter dated July 22, reports legations besieged since June 13. Continually attacked from June 20 until July 17. Attack then ceased and Chinese soldiers apparently diminishing. Sixty Europeans killed." "Telegram from Governor of Shan-Tung addressed to consular body at Che-Foo, says: 'Imperial edict state that various ministers except German minister, well, and provisions have been supplied them.'" WELCOME DISPATCH CONFIRMATION OF REPORTS OF MINISTER'S SAFETY. A Cipher Telegram From the British Minister at Pekin That Is Considered Reliable-An Armistice London cable: The Admiralty has made public a dispatch from Rear Admiral Bruce at Tien-Tsin, forwarding the following message from Claude McDonald, British minister at Pekin: "British legation, Pekin, June 2) to July 16, was repeatedly attacked by Chinese troops on all sides, both rifle and artillery fire. Since July 16 there has been an armistice, a cordon is strictly drawn on both sides of the position. Chinese barricades are close to ours. All women and children are In the British legation. Casualties to date, sixty-two killed, including Captain Strouts. A number of wounded are in the hospital, including Captain Holiday. Rest of legation all well, except David Oliphant and Warren, killed on July 21." The foregoing welcome dispatch, dated Pekin, July 21, and received in cipher, is accepted on all sides as dispelling any doubt that might still have existed regarding the gentuleness of the dispatch. Owing to an error in transmission the message fails to show the number of wounded. David Oliphant and Warren were two student interpreters. Messages Sent to Italy by President McKinley. Washington special: The following message: of condolence upon the death of King Humbert was sent from this country to Rome; "His Majesty Vittorio Emanuel, Romana—In my name and on behalf of the American people I offer your Majesty and the Italian nation sincere condolences in this hour of deep bereavement. Rathbone Gives Ball Havana cabale; Estes G. Rathbone, former director of posts, now under arrest on a charge of fraud, furnished ball Tuesday night, Senor Lopez, a wealthy Spanish, going on his bond. Several Spanish merchants came forward and offered to provide the necessary security. London cable: A Rome dispatch to the Central News says an authoritative organ of the Vatican, in commenting on the speech of Emperor William, in which he told his soldiers who were on the way to China to give no quarter and to take no prisoners, states that it is the earnest wish of the Pope and Cardinal Rampolla, the papal Secretary of State, that the powers shall not resort to nor permit a policy of retaliation and revenge. The Pope has issued, through the Cardinal Vivar of the Catholic missions, a letter which directs that general prayers shall be offered in the Catholic churches throughout the world for the safety of the Christians in China. The letter also expresses the hope that instead of motives of revenge, the Almighty shall inspire everybody with thoughts of concord and peace, which will prevent further massacre. J. C. RIDPATH DEAD INDIANA'S DISTINGUISHED AU- THOR EXPIRES. New York special: John Clark Ridpath, the historian, died in the Presbyterian Hospital at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening from a complication of diseases. He had been a patient in the hospital since April 26. His wife and son, S. E. Ridpath, were at the bedside. The body was later removed from the hospital. John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., was born in Putnam county, Indiana, in April, 1811. He was graduated from Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1833, taking first honors. After serving as principal of the Academy at Thorntown, Ind., and as superintendent of the public schools at Lawrenceburg, he was called, in 1839, to the chair of English literature at De Pauw. He was transferred later to the chair of history and political philosophy. In 1875 he published his first book, an "Academic History of the United States." In 1876 he published his "Popular History of the United States," and afterwards "The Life and Work of Garfield." His "Cyclopedia of Universal History" was published in 1885. In 1885 he resigned his professorship in De Pauw and the vice presidency of the university, in order that he might devote his whole time to writing. In 1893 he published his "Life and Work of James G. Blaine," and in 1894 his "Great Races of Mankind." He was engaged for ten years in preparing the material and four years in writing this work. In 1898 he published his "Life and Times of Gladstone," and a supplement to the "History of All Nations." He was for a time editor of the Arena Magazine of Boston. In 1896 he ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket in his home district in Indiana and was defeated by a small majority. PAINTED 'EM BLUE. A Pair of Dowle's Elders Mobbed at Mansfield, G., and Given Conts of Cox Mansfield, O., special: A. W. McChirken and E. W. Fisher, of Chicago, editors of Dowle's Zion, were mobbed Tuesday night by 4,000 citizens and given coats of blue paint from head to foot. The Zion flock, numbering about thirty, held services at the home of a Zion member, conducted by Elder McChirken, Mr. Stevens, an evangelical professor of Chicago, and Elder McFarland, of Marlion. A crowd gathered and the elders barricaded the house. Rocks were thrown through the windows and the doors battered down. Several members of the mob were struck by stones hurled back by the elders. Three were severely injured, Sheriff Pulver, the chief of police and a police detail arrived, but were powerless. Soon the mob forced an entrance, and Fisher and McChirken were dragged out, stripped and painted from head to foot. They were taken to police headquarters where they were turned over to the police. Elders Stevens and McFarland were taken by the police in safety to the police headquarters. The mob congregated again Wednesday morning in front of the jail. When the mayor ordered them to disperse they did so quietly, but a cheering mob of citizens thronged the streets until daylight. Many women were in the mob. The following telegram was sent to Dowle by the mob: "To John Alexander' Dowle, Chicago—Elder Fisher and his mate has been nicely painted. The police were so busy looking for the nut-speelers attached with the Nickel-Plate show, hence the elders were nicely dabbed with the original Ottermen blue. Waiting for more elders. MR. MORTON'S ILLNESS The Son of Indiana's War Governor Has Locomotor Ataxia and Will be Brought Home From Alaska. Washington special: Captain Shoemaker, chief of the revenue marine service, has received a letter from Lieutenant Cushing, in command of the revenue cutter Rush, which was at Dutch Harbor July 15, after having made an eleven-day trip around the Pribyloff islands. Lieutenant Cushing says he found Mr. Morton, the agent of the Treasury Department on the Pribyloff islands, seriously ill. The surgeon of the Rush pronounce d the alliment "locomotor ataxia." Mr. Morton is a son of the late Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana. Directions have been sent to Captain Roberts, of the revenue cutter Manning, now at Nome City, to bring Mr. Morton back when the Manning returns south in September. Senator Fairbanks has been informed by wire of Mr. Morton's condition. Fourth District Republican Convention The Fourth district Republican convention at North Vernon, Tuesday, nominated Nathan Powell, of Madison, for Congress by acclamation. Georgetown, Ky., special: The direct testimony of Caleb Powers, ex-Secretary of State, in his own behalf, was concluded Tuesday. Witness said the statements of Golden were false in every particular. The day after the assassination witness said he began an investigation to learn where the shot was fired from. The newspapers were intimating that the shooting was done from his office. He employed J. B. Matthews and Detective Griffin, of Somerset, to assist in the investigation. "I made no statement to Golden that I was satisfied the shots came from my office, and did not tell him I was thinking of going to the commonwealth's attorney to tell him all I knew. The witness admitted part of a conversation between him and Representative Hampton, of Knox county, but said Mr. Hampton had misconstrued the main point. What he said was that, if Goebel should become Governor and witness held on to the office of Secretary of State somebody might assassinate him, but did not mean to insinuate that Goebel would have that done. He also admitted that while in jail at Frankfort he urged Culton not to testify in the application for bail, but said that he made that recommendation for Culton's own good, and not because he knew anything that would injure witness. He denied that he had made certain statements to Miss Susie Snuffer, of Williamsport, or that he offered her any inducements to leave the State and not testify against him. MR. FAIRBANKS'S VIEWS. Indiana's Sen'or Senator Visits the President at Canton and Outlines the Features of the Campaign. Canton, O., special: Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks, with Judge and Mrs. Day, whose guests they are for a day or two, took dinner with President and Mrs. McKinley Tuesday evening. Senator Fairbanks will take an active part in the speaking campaign and will open his work in Maine August 25. He said in an interview that the McKinley administration would be the most conspicuous feature of the campaign. The people would be asked to uphold and approve the accomplishments of the administration and the manner in which the important questions of the past three years had been met and disposed of. He said the prosperity of the country is most agreeable to the people and he did not believe they would jeopardize it by voting for a change. He said that imperialism was a mere pretended issue and that the people will not seriously consider it, and that there is no issue on trusts, for no party upholds trusts. He spoke in the highest terms of the President's treatment of the Chinese question and said its solution would be a long and tedious proceeding because of the varied interests. He would not venture an opinion as to the ministers or as to the possibility of an extra session of Congress. KING HUMBERT'S ASSASSIN. Was Formerly a Silk Weaver at Paterson N. J., and Was Known as a Rad- er. New York special: Angelo Bressi lived in Paterson, N. J., for over a year. He appears to have had various names. The name he gave when taken into custody for the murder of the King of Italy was Angelo Bressi. Another was Angelus Bressi, and still another, the one by which he will be known to those who knew him in Paterson, was Gaetano Bressi. He was employed in Hamil & Booth's silk mills. His close friend there was Carlboni Speranza, the man who a few weeks ago shot down his foreman and then killed himself, leaving behind a letter telling how he had been selected by lot to kill King Humbert and, having a choice, owing to his living so far away from Italy, killed the foreman instead. WELLINGTON OUT OF LINE. Maryland Senator Against Imperialism and Mr. McKinley. Cumberland, Md., special: United States Senator Wellington said Tuesday night, with much warmth: "I am unalterably and forever opposed to imperialism, which I shall fight with all my power. I am opposed to President McKinley because he has deceived in national affairs and I shall oppose his re-election. I am not prepared to state just what part I shall take in the campaign, but I will attend the Liberty Congress at Indianapolis." The Senator was asked if it were true that he would take the stump for Bryan. He said that it was to a certain extent, but there were some things about Bryan that he did not like very well. He says he is still a Republican. SOLDIERS CAN NOT VOTE Secretary Heath Claims That a Majority of the Volunteers Are Republicans, Chicago special: American volunteers in foreign countries can not vote, next fall. "In order to allow these men to vote," said Secretary Heath, of the national Republican committee, "arrangements should have been made by State Legislatures and by the Congress. The States would have to authorize the vote for State officers, the Congress for members of Congress and presidential electors. In no instance, so far as I know, has this been done. It is an oversight to be regretted, because the vast majority of the thousands of volunteers in the field are Republicans." Export of Southern Steel. Birmingham, Ala., special: The first steel ever exported from the South has just been forwarded by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company from its Ensley steel mill to Copenhagen and Glasgow. The shipment to the former city was twenty-five tons of billets and to the latter thirty tons of ingots. Vice President James Bowerson, of the Tennessee company, is now in Europe and his orders for these trial shipments have been forwarded. The sales were made below European figures. THE CELEBRATION AT MANILA PROVES TO BE A FARCE. The Natives Saw No Reason For Rejoicing and Declined to Become Enthused —The Affair Considered Unfortunate. Manila cable (edited by the censor): The two days' fiesta in Manila organized by Senor Paterno and his political followers to commemorate the amnesty, resulted in a flasco. The people were passive, unenthusiastic and not even interested. Falling to perceive any tangible, effective results of amnesty, they say they can see no reason for celebrating. Judge Taft and his colleagues of the committee felt constrained to decline to attend the banquet, as they had been informed that the speeches would favor independence under American protection and they could not passively lend their acquiescence by being present. Senor Paterno, foreseeing the suspension of the banquet without the Americans, frantically appealed to them to attend, promising that there should be no speeches. The provost's precautions were extreme. The guard's were doubled both days, and the authorities forbade the display of Filipino flags and of pictures of President McKinley and Aguinaldo fraternally framed. The fiesta is generally considered to have been premature and unfortunate. New York special: King Humbert's life was insured for $7,000.00. Many American companies are interested, but the list is not obtainable. MET DEATH IN DESERT Professor Meneck Lost in the Sands o Arizona. Williams, Ariz., special: Prof. J. M. Meneck, mining and civil engineer, archaeologist, geologist and one of the representatives of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, has met a sad death upon the barren desert of southern Utah. Professor Meneck left here June 24 in company with others to go to the far-famed Lost Copper Mine, near the Southern Utah line. They journeyed north over the rough country of northern Arizona and across the Colorado river, and the Utah line, when Professor Meneck gave out from fatigue. The party went into camp until he could regain his strength. Becoming somewhat revived he started out on a prospecting trip, stating that he would soon return. This he failed to do, and the company at once began a search for him, which lasted four days and nights, ultimately without avail. They reported him gone insane and lost upon the barren desert of Utah. SCHEME TO DEFRAUD Chicagoans Planned to Bury Dummies to Secure Insurance Money. Chicago special: The written confession of Margaret Sheehan, admitting the charges that she and her four companions on trial conspired to defraud the Knights and Ladies of Security out of large sums of insurance money, is in the hands of Assistant State Attorney Harrison. The confession describes in detail how she and Mrs. Nora O'Brien, Mrs. Della A. Mahoney, James O'Brien, Dr. M. N. Regent and others arranged to bury bodies of dead paupers as dummies for living or fictitious persons whose lives were insured in the order. Miss Sheehan pleaded guilty, Monday. Her four companions pleaded not guilty. Export and Import Trade. Washington special: The annual report of the chief of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics on the foreign commerce of the United States during the year ended July 30, has been completed and will form a part of the June summary of Commerce and Finance, which will make its appearance during the coming week. The report shows the total imports of merchandise during the year were $491,714,670; the total imports, $1,394,156,371. Author Heyt Inseng New York special: Charles Hale Hoyt, author, actor, manager, politician, capitalist, bon vivant, has at least been declared insane. Broken in health from grief over his wife's death and unbalanced by overwork he has been taken to an insane asylum. His condition is critical. No Gold Democratic Ticket. At a meeting of the National Committee of the "National Democratic Party" at Indianapolis, Wednesday, it was decided that the nomination of a third ticket was inexpedient in the present campaign. State committees were advised to keep up the organization. Great Fire at Prescott, Arizona. Fire at Prescott, Ariz. Saturday night destroyed almost the entire business section of the town. Loss estimated at $1,500,000. INDIANAPOLIS, WHEAT, No. 2 red ..... $7.75 CORN, No. 1 white ..... .43 OATS, No. 2 white ..... $27.1 HAY ..... $12.00 @ $13.00 POULTRY—Hens ..... $0.07 Cocks ..... $0.04 Hen turkeys ..... $0.07 Young chickens ..... $0.15 Butter ..... $0.08 @ $0.12 Eggs, fresh ..... $0.09 Wool ..... $0.15 @ $0.30 Hides ..... $0.07 @ $0.08 CATTLE—Prime steers ..... $5.25 @ $5.60 HOGS—Heavies ..... $5.30 @ $5.35 Roughs ..... $4.75 @ $5.15 SHEEP—Good to choice ..... $3.50 @ $3.75 Good to choice lambs ..... $4.00 @ $5.65 CHICAGO WHEAT, No. 2 red..... .71 CORN, No. 2..... .38% OATS, No. 2 white..... .27% A Negro Newspaper, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN INDIANA PAPERS, INDIA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....50 Three Months.....25 Subscriptions may be sent by postoffice money order, or registered letter. All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer—not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact all matter affecting the Race. We will not pay for any matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office not later than Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. ADVERTISING RATES Will be furnished on Application Entered at the Postoffice as second-class matter. All letters, Communications and Business matters should be addressed to THE RECORDER. Geo. P. STEWART, Publisher SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1900 EDITORIAL For President. William McKinley. For Vice-President. Theodore Roosevelt THE STATE TICKET. For Governor, WINFIELD T. DURBIN, Madison County. For Lieutenant Governor, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Steuben County. For Secretary of State, UNION B. HUNT, Randolph County. For Auditor of State, WILLIAM H. HART, Clinton County. For Treasurer of State, LEOPOLD LEVY, Huntington County. For Attorney General, WILLIAM L. TAYLOR, Marion County. For Superintendent Public Instruction, FRANK L. JONES, Tipton County. For State Statistician, E. F. JOHNSON, Benton County. For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARLES F. REMY, Jackson County. For Judge of the Supreme Court, First District, JAMES H. JORDAN, Morgan County. Fourth District, LEANDER J. MONKS Randolph County. Delegates-at-Large, CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, JAMES A. MOUNT, CHARLES S. HERNLY, Alternates, NATHAN POWELL, WILLIAM AMSDEN, THOMAS ADAMS, GURLEY BREWER, Electors, HUGH H. HANNA, C. W. MILLER. COUNTY TICKET. For Prosecutor—John C. Ruckles- haus. For Treasurer—Armin C. Koehne For Sheriff—Eugene Saulcy, For Commissioner, First District— John McGaughey. For Commissioner, Third District— Thomas Spafford. For County Assessor—Marion Eaton For Coroner—Dr. Alembert W. Bray- ton. For Surveyor—James Nelson. The Democrats are finding it hard to combat the good times argument. President McKinley has unquestionably handled the Chinese situation mostably. Practically the only differ ence of opinion at present is to the advisability of calling an extra session of Congress and this may be done when the situation clarifies itself a little. Indianapolis is to be congratulated now that one of the leading churches of the race, is free from debt. The effort was heartily responded too and the result is gratifying. --- MORE LAWLESSNESS The killing of Robert Charles at New Orleans last week was a disgraceful affair in every sense of the word. The manner in which he was sought and murdered would have been discountenanced by the Chinese fanatics who are making trouble now in the far East, then, to think of an occurrence of this kind in the midst of civilization, committed and tolerated by supposedly Christian people, puts one to thinking;—what's next? When the fact is noted that the white people of the South make all the laws that govern that part of the country, and have power to inforce them to the letter, and are fully able to maintain the same with order, when necessary, leaves no room for the slightest excuse for allowing that lawless element to predominate in spite of law and order. Disturbing the peace and happiness of colored people—for no other reason than because they are Negroes and even club them and kill them. It is simply this, when a Negro does something that warrant his arrest, and attempts to escape, right there then he ceases, in the minds of the element that is productive of any and everything that exists out of law and order, to be a human being. For he hunted down by a howling mob of hoodlums and thugs as if he were a varmint. When arrested by "officers of the law," whose obligation and duty is to protect prisoners against such violence, they are thrown in prison to be taken out by these merciless fiends and put to death in a manner that would cause the barbarians of the Philippines to hide their faces in shame. When these facts are considered there is no room left to wonder why Robert Charles made such desperate fight. He knew that if he submitted to arrest he would have been dealt with summarily without judge or jury, and from point of view made up his mind to sell his life as dearly as possible--which he did. We don't refer this as an act to be followed, but to show how little chance a Negro has in the for a trial of any kind by law. As lawlessness begets lawlessness the conditions, as they are now in the South, will always remain. And the people of that section of the country will find out that while it is inhuman and unjust to the Negroes, it is detrimental to posterity and it future destination. BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE The movement put on foot some time ago, for the purpose of forming an organization of the colored business interests of the city; should be revived and carried out. It is essential to the community, that the plan not suffer failure. The colored men in business are moving upwards in the commercial world, and are building a foundation for industry and integrity that proves a blessing to the race and the community. One successful man or woman in business, is of inestimable value to any community. The plan as suggested, was for the organization of the business and commercial interests, in such a manner, that it would be a source of information and advice to its members, showing the necessity of unity in all things that affect the welfare of the race. Aside from this, such union would play a very important part, by encouraging the establishing of new enterprises, in our midst. Let it be to the advancement of the colored people, what what the Commercial Club is to the entire community. The suggestion in The Recorder, several weeks ago. for the organization of Rescue Riders' club, has been taken up, in a number of localities, with the result, that a number of organizations are now flourishing. The name suggests more to the valiant colored soldiers, than does the term "Rough Riders." The work of San Juan Hill, will have to be repeated this fall at the ballot box. The Negro, and especially the Southern Negro, may yet play a very important part in the National campaign With the cry of imperialism,—consent of the governed, etc, comes the echo of the many outrages and persecutions to which he is subjected. From present indications, the black man will be the entering wedge—and his reward? THE RECORDER. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA AROUND THE CHURCHES THE RECORDER has removed to its new quarters, 414 INDIANA AVENUE Where we are equipped to do all kinds of Printing on short notice. Address all matters for publication to The Recorder office, or call New Telephone, * 1563. THE MUSEUM Rev. C. W. Newton, pastor Hush don't say nothing! Office hours; 8 to 9 a. m: 5 to 6 p. m. Sunday services: early morning Prayer meeting, 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. Wednesday; Class meetings. Thursday; Prayer meeting, leaders appointed weekly. Friday; Classes. Sunday, August 19, will be Dollar money day. Bishop Grant will have charge and will preach morning and evening. Dollar Money Roll; Wm. E. Viney, Caroline Elbert, C. B Rape, Alfred McGruder, M. Rogers Col. Ky. Lawson, Martha Hall, D. W Davis, Jno. H. Allen, Rhoda Tutt, Julia A. Quinn, Susan Porter. Marriages: Squire Miller and Miss Anna Wells. Funerals: Mr. Isiah Banks, Tuesday Baptized; Mr. Hiram Jefferson, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Susie Clark, in State avenue. The lawn sootable given at the residence of Mrs. R. H. Bell, in Bright-st Tuesday night, by the Y. P. A., was a grand success. They will give another, next week. Borrowed food for thought; The Rothchild's are the most prosperous bankers in the world, and they have adopted two rules to which they strictly adhere: First, never to have any dealing with an unlucky man: Second, to give those with whom they are in business relations, a chance to make something also. A widow brought up two exemplary sons, both were merchants, One son was so lucky, that when he took sand into his hand, it turned to gold. The other was so unlucky, that when he took gold into his hand it turned into sand. The lucky son soon became very rich and the unlucky son very poor. In order to protect the poor son from pinching want, the mother requested the sons to always attend church and sit together in pew after she was dead. The sons complied with her dying request, and thereby she secured the protection of the rich brother for the poor one. The reasoning in this is, that by contriving this plan to keep them associated together, would naturally make the rich brother feel for his poor one. Sunday Subjects. Morning, Our image and its Eternity text, Luke 9-30 and 31. Night, The tribute money and the Fish. Matt, 17; 27 CLASS DUES. No. 12, J. P. Hoy, leader; collection $ .65 No. 18, Elmer Donald, leader; collection $ .50 No. 14, Wm. Parks, leader, collection $ — Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. The grand rally last Sunday, was the greatest in the history of the church. I also wish to say, that during our ministerial career of almost twenty-five years, that I have not seen a greater spirit of union manifested among the members of no church. It is true that some soliciting was done, but as a rule, the members contributed from their hard earned funds. Every indication pointed to the fact, that each member was to do all in his power to free the church from debt' Rev I. Toliver was invited to preach for us, and his masterly efforts will not be forgotten soon, At 3 p.m., the following pastors renedered great aid: Rev's. B. Farrell, R. D. Leonard, N. A. Seymour, J. R. Rainor, C. C. Wilson, A. Simmons, T. Byrd, A. Wakefield, William Underwood and last, but not least, C. W. Newton, D. D. The doctor is a large hearted mfister, who is greatly beloved by all who know him. He and his good people gave us $50,00. The other brerthren gave excellent contributions, for which we tender our heart felt thanks. The report of the bands is as follows: Bands, No. 9, Bro. Alexander, president, $17.08; No. 6, S. Marshall, pres., 23.75; No. 12, D. Milliken, 24.41; No. 4, A. S. Johnson, 25.25; No. 15, Mrs Rachael Allen, 24.30; No. 18, B Y. P. U., Mrs. Annie Griffin, 45.84; No. 13, R. Rice, 46.00; W. H. F. M. band, Mrs. M. Johnson, 50.00; No. 3, George Sneed, 66.79; No. 20, Mrs. L. V. Smith, 66;89; No. 11, G. L. Lane, 76.35; No. 2, N Genus, 85.86; No. 5, James Dickerson, 88.35; No. 19, William Franklin, 148.17; No. 14, Mrs. Amanda Davis, 100.20; No. 10, Mrs. Florence Goins, 400.21; No. 16, Mrs. Hənrietta Carr, 403.00; No. 1, J. W. Carr, pastor, 457.35. The grand total is $2,178.59. Rev. J. L. Craven. pastor. The services in the grove continue with growing interest. To-morrow is rally day and services will continue all next week. Rev. and Mrs. Craven entertained the Revs. Donohoo, Newton, Welch and Lewis at dinner, Tuesday evening Services at 11 a. m., 3 p. m., and 7; 45 p. m. Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 9th Presbyterian Church Michigan st., bet. Capitol avenue and Illinois st Sunday-school at 9:80 a. m. Rev. Brister will preach at 11 a. m., and 8 p. m., Sunday. Prayer meeting Wed- nesday at 8 p. m. All members are urged to pay their subscription Sunday. The public is invited, FREE BAPTIST CHURCH [Corner Bike Island or Nearby Site] The contribution boxes are out for the Sunday-school rally, the first Sunday in September. Help us, will you? Bros. Benjamin McIntosh, M. J. Turner, A. Wilson and the pastor, Rev Craven, left Wednesday night for Chicago, to attend Conference. Bros. Moses Patterson and J. Quinn will conduct services Sunday. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months Rev's. N. A. Payne occupied the pulpit at morning services and Rockhold in the evening. The services were interesting. Rev. Blackshear has returned and will preach to-morrow. Communion services in the afternoon. The Pipe Organ club social last Monday night was a success. We hope to have our new organ within the next few months. The B. Y. P. U. meets every Sunday at 6:30 p. m. All are invited, especially the young people. The sick members are improving. SIMPSON CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH Cor. Howard and 11th Streets) Dev. E. L. The services last Sunday were fairly well attended, the pastor was called from the pulpit Sunday morning, to the bedside of his father, who is seriously ill. Mr. James Y. Gilliam, a brother and Rev. and Mrs. Woolfork, are attending the bedside of Mr. Gilliam. The state organizations are actively at work, under the leadership of Governors Knox, of New York: Morgan of Kentucky; Boyer of North Carolina; Worthington of Indiana; Grysell of Tennessee; and Patterson of Ohio and the able officials, expect to raise sufficient for all obligations. $251 was paid last Saturday by the trustees in full settlement of amount due on the building. The city Epworth League will hold their next meeting at Broad Ripple park, and Simpson Chapel will be well represented. Owing to the illness of his father the pastor did not attend District conference at Rockport this week. The Sunday-school will render a special program to-morrow. Rev. Charles Jones preached for the pastor last Sunday. He will remain in the city for several days. Several new features may be introduced in the choir, which will greatly enhance the value of its work. The marriage of two of our members will occur on Aug. 9th. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months The pastor preached morning and evening to a good sized congregation In his sermons he urged that every one should read the Bible more, as that is essential to better manhood and womanhood. Rev. C, M, Thomas of Noblesville, preached an interesting sermon Thursday night. Friends, we are coming to you for help, to pay our church out of debt of $345.00. Keepon the lookout for the grand entertainment on Aug. 15. Preacning at 11 a. m., by Rev. C. Bothick, formally of Bowling Green, and at 8 p. m. by Rev. W. Harris. Read The Recorder. *OUR CORRESPONDENTS,* News, Incidents, Social * and * Personal Activities The Recorder A Representative Paper Read by 20,000 Afro-Americans each week Subscription price One Year $1.00 Will be sent to any address in the United States on receipt of subscription price Agents Wanted. Crawfordsville Notes. Mrs. Julia Patterson of Danville, Ill. spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. John Hale and daughter, Dorothy, spent Sunday in the city of Indianapolis. Clinton Patterson and John Oliver were in the city, Sunday from Danville, Ill. Mrs. William Pierce and niece Miss Mamie Williams of Chicago, spent Sunday at Indianapolis. Miss Irene Keen is visiting at Kokomo. Edward Hill of Anderson, is visiting in the the city this week. Misses Maude Fisher and Blanche Patterson spent Sunday at Indianapolis. Mrs. Jennie Lee of Danville, Ill. visited friends in the city last week. Edinburg Notes. Miss Clara Johnson and Mrs Mattie Johnson went to Danville, Ill., last Sunday to visit relatives and friends. They returned home Monday via Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Long drove to Franklin last Saturday evening to attend the social given by the band boys at Prof. Arthur Nickson's Miss Myrtle Bird spent Saturday and Sunday at Franklin. Miss Alice Hill and Mollie Spriggs spent Sunday at Columbus. Mr. Wm. Garrett and James Lane, Will Martin, James Hill spent Sunday evening at Columbus. Rev. Jno. H. Brown of Columbus, spent Monday and Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. T. Long. Seymour Sights. Rev. J. Thompson was called to this to this city last Friday to preach the funeral of Mrs. Anna Booker. He remained over Sunday to the cornerstone of the Second Baptist church. James Dorsey of Indianapolis and Mrs. Annie Holten of Louisville, attended the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Anna Booker; Mrs. Rosie Booker also was in attendance. The deceased was her mother. Miss Mary Dehoney returned to Cincinnati Monday. Mrs. Mattie Lutse of North Vernon, was in the city last Friday week. Miss Lettie Pierce of Indianapolis, was in our city Sunday. Sunday afternoon the corner stone of the Second Baptist church was laid with appropriate ceremonies. The sermon was preached by Rev. J. W. Clevenger and was heard with interest by a large audience. During the day the congregation realized about $73 to apply their building fund, which amount includes some subscriptions previously paid. When completed the building will be a credit to the congregation and that part of the city. In a receptacle in the corner stone was placed a box, containing daily papers and other articles of more or less value. About sixty cents in money was put in box which was sealed. Last night some thief, who is likely to be apprehended, broke the seal and took out the change and a few other articles such as have a cash value. The funeral of Mrs. Susan Coleman took place at the A. M. E. church last Monday. She was the oldest member in the church. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church, August 12. Mrs Vilola Goins has returned from Bedford where she visited relatives. Rev. C. E. Lamb is able to be out again. Clifford Cain will return home from Jeffersonville where has been visiting relatives. Connersville Items. Mrs. Holland is very sick this week. Mrs. West Ross of Oxford. O., visited her sister, Mrs. Frank Dean Sunday. Madams Clara Vest, Jakie Collins, Slena Young, Eliza Swop and Jas. Simmons spent Sunday at Cincinnati. Mrs. Alice Marshall is on the sick list. Butler Harris presented his wife a fine upright piano. Dublin Notes. Rev. Collins spent Sunday at Connersville. Miss Hattie Knox of Greenfield is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Speed in this city. Joseph Hoosier and Miss Ida Kiser of New Castle, were visiting friends in the city Sunday. Myra E. Burney after a week's visit at Muncie, returned home Thursday. Shelbyville Notes. Mr. John Marshall visited Indianapolis Sunday. Lee Owens of Indianapolis visited relatives in the city Sunday. Geo. Johnson visited Indianapolis Sunday. Quite a number of the city people visited Cincinnati Sunday. Miss Jennie Johnson of Indianapolis is visiting friends and relatives in this city. Messrs Montgomery and Johnson, who has been visiting at Indianapolis for a few days, returned home Wednesday. Mrs. Millie Dudley went to Covington Sunday where she will stay indefinitely. Messrs. Reed and Smith of Indianapolis were the guests of friends and relatives here Sunday. Mrs. Maude Routt of North Vernon is the guest of relatives. Miss Virgie Scott of Eminence Ky., is the guest of friends and relatives in city. Mrs. King and daughter of Nashville, Tenn., are the guests or Mr and Mrs. William Hines in Washing ave. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Greensburg Notes The juniors have about all arrangements made for their Indian social. On account of illness Rev. Irvin was unable to attend his duties at church Sunday. The vocal class assisted by Madam Easton gave a jubilee concert at Hartsville last Thursday to a crowded house. Messrs. Davis, Hood and Jones spent Sunday at Louisville. Mrs. Bettie Irvin and little grand daughter, Estella, are visiting at Indlanapolis. Miss Josie Eastern spent Sunday at Indianapolis. The social given by the choir at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Good on Monday was a success. Wm. Davis was among the excursionists to Benton Harbor Sunday. Domie Johnson of Shelbyville spent Sunday with relatives in the city. Miss Emma Langtson has gone to North Vernon to attend the teachers institute. Wm. Goins of Shelbyville was in the city Monday evening. Miss Sarah Rhim was the guest of Miss Anna Hardrick Saturday and Sunday. Those on the sick list: Mrs Sallie Mitchell, Mrs. John Goins and son Frank. The base-ball club will play at Columbus Thursday. Marion Flashes. Rev. C. W. Mossell will be assisted in his rally by Rev. Snelson and wife Sunday. Rev. Shelton and his congregation will attend. J. M. Nichols, Frank Gill, Martha Collins and Dr. Thomas will attend the District lodge at Bloomington next week. Robert Sanders and his brother are at South Bend visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Jas. Chavis was at Wabash last week visiting. Several of our society people spent Tuesday at the Soldiers Home. Ninety-two persons communed at quarterly meeting Sunday. B. C. Pettiford was home from Indianapolis Sunday to see his family. Chas Marshall of Milwaukee was the guest of Miss Minnie Young Sunday. Miss Daisy Young returned Saturday from a visit at Portland. Mrs. Coleman and daughter, Carrie, of Wabash, spent Sunday in the city. Miss Emma Weaver of Knights town, is in the city visiting relatives, Mrs. and Miss Evans of Milford Center, O., was in the city a few hours on the 30. Mrs. All Burden is ill at her home in South Marion. Mrs. Edith Pattiford returned to her daughter at Crawsfordsville Thursday. Miss Alice Milton of Kokomo is visiting Miss Minnie Chavis. James A Davis, Harry Hammonds, Henry Horniday, Garfield Boswell, Joe Murrel, Cliffrod Robinson and Alex Hammonds spent a few days at Kokomo last week. Joe Murrel of Wabash is visiting friends in the city. Mrs. Charlie Williams of Crawfordsville is in the city visiting her mother. Miss Ella Ash of Calvin, is in the city visiting friends and relatives John Artis is home from Detroit visiting hit mother. Miss Alice James has gone to Detroit, to spend several weeks with her sister Cora. Rev. Warren of Kalamazoo, filled the pulpit at Mt, Zion Baptist church last Sunday night. Miss Cora Rodinson is on the sick list at her home in Napier st. Bill Calaway is among friends and relattives in this city. Miss Anna Johnson is at Diamond Lake for a few weeks. Mr. Shamley died last Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clinton Kelly in the west part of the city. He was 55 years old. Miss Minnie Jackson of Chicago is in the city. Jasper Sanders was at Elkhart and Goshen Wednesday. Don't forget the big rally at the A. M. E. church Sunday. The Masons are preparing to have big conclave at Calvin Center, Mich. beginning on the 20 and continuing four days. The Baptist association will convene at Benton Harbor, Wednesday, Aug. 22. Mrs Dr. Hickman is improving very fast. Continued from the 5th page of last week fore him the awful picture or senators and representatives from west of the Mississippi arrogantly assuming a right to take part in the legislation of the country, he asked with a fervor worthy of the most pronounced ant-expansionist of today: "Do you suppose the people of the northern Atlantic states will or ought to look with patience and see representatives and senators from the Red river and Missouri country pouring into congress, managing the concerns of a seaboard 1,500 miles at least from their residence and having a preponderance in councils in which constitutionally they would never have been admitted?" And he continued further to harrow the minds of his hearers by stating that the expansionists of that day might even intend to establish states in California and at the mouth of the Columbia; and concluded by asserting that "the extension of the principle of expansion" to states contemplated beyond the Mississippi can not, will not and ought not to be borne. Well, I am addressing at this moment citizens from the very states, the possibilities of whose existence appeared so terrible to the excellent Mr. Quincy. You yourselves are the fruits of the expansion which he regarded as fraught with such immeasurable disaster to the nation. You yourselves represent the results of that policy which was followed from the days of Washington and Jefferson, through those of Jackson down to the time when Seward purchased Alaska—the great American policy which has again been applied under President McKinley. Absurd though the fears of men like Quincy seem to us now, they are no more absurd than the real or pretended fears of our opponents will seem not a score of years hence. Picture to yourselves the dreadful calamity that it would have been had our nation in 1811 listened to the counsels of the shortsighted and weakhearted; if California, Texas and Florida had been left as Spanish speaking communities, and if all the magnificent region from the Mississippi to the Pacific had been turned over to be quarrelled for either by the local Indian tribes or by the European nations. Hardly less would be the calamity if we now turn our back upon our duty, and with craven and abject shrinking from responsibility abandon our part of the world's work and incur the deserved contempt of humanity by deliberately refusing to take our place among the great nations of mankind. Remember that expansion does not bring war; it ultimately brings peace. It is of advantage to all and especially to the people thereby lifted out of savagery. We should hail the advance of every civilized nation over barbarous peoples, so long as that advance is not made in some form prejudicial to the rest of mankind. I wonder how many of this audience are aware that up to 1830 the United States paid tribute to Algiers to secure immunity for our sailors and commerce from the Algerian corsairs. The reason we did not pay tribute after that date was because in that year France began to expand over Algiers. War followed, and lasted a number of years, and there were foolish people who then wrote in praise of Algerian independence just exactly as there are foolish people now who talk about Aguinaldian independence. But lasting peace, the first for many centuries, came to Algiers through the French conquest, as it will come to the Philippines through our refusal to abandon the islands. So Russia has advanced over Turkestan and brought peace in her train. 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Her place, it was tacitly admitted, was in the kitchen of the Wittherspoons. This did not mean that she was the servant of the Wittherspoons—no! no! There were two respects in which she differed from the ordinary servant. One was that she received no salary. The other was that she was of high birth. A common person may receive pay for service and rejoice in it. But Miss Sessions, daughter of the Hon. Peter Sessions, now many years with his respectable and dull forbears, could not, even had she been offered money, have accepted it. What she did was to live in the home of her married sister, conscious morning, noon and night of the fact that she was the recipient of bounty, and to do anything and everything that other folks objected to doing. Sarah Witherspoon had not been one to let the distinguished name she bore die with her generation. She had given seven pawns to fortune in the shape of her sons and daughters, and for each and every one of these little ones Martha Sessions, her sister, had cared. In short, Martha was the lubricator of the domestic wheels and did everything for; the family that she could do, from hemming the napkins to sitting beside sick beds. She was the first up in the morning and the last to bed at night. She started the kitchen fire at dawn, and she locked the front door and wound the clock after the others had retired to their rooms. Yet it was generally understood in the Witherspoon household that Aunt Martha was to sit silent at the table, especially if there was company. If a dinner was given, she did the most difficult part of the cooking, and if she did not stay in the kitchen to direct the serving she perched uneasily on the edge of her chair ready to rush into the fray at the slightest sign of confusion. There was one cause of chagrin, however, which even this modern Griselda did not bear patiently. She was too much occupied on the Sabbath to attend church, for the large family dinners and the suppers at which friends were informally and generally invited kept the household drudge at her post at the hours of service. Moreover, she had the pain of hearing her own particular church and rector spoken of in terms of derision, and the unfashionable, cultivated and conservative congregation of which she would fain have been one was the source of much mirth to the Witherspoons, who went to the smartest of sacred edifices and whose preacher was renowned as an after dinner speaker and a social lion. But one day an astonishing thing happened. It is difficult to believe it, although it is now ancient history. Frederick Sessions, granduncle to Martha Sessions and to Sarah Witherspoon, died at so great an age that he seemed already to have been dead for a decade when his obituary was published, and in dying he bequeathed to "Martha Sessions, the most uncomplaining and self-sacrificing woman of my acquaintance, all lands, funds and properties of which I stand possessed." The news was brought to Martha Sessions one morning when she was sorting over the week's washing, and she came down to the parlor in her worn gray frock and white apron and met the intelligence with incredulity. But when she was quite convinced of the truth of the thing she astonished the little lawyer by laughing in a youthful way. He had expected nervous and grateful tears. "And when can I have possession of this property, sir?" she inquired. "The formalities are few, Miss Sessions, considering that you are the only heir. Within a few days you can do as you please with your own, and I can advance you money to-day to any amount you may desire. What would you like?" Miss Sessions did not entirely understand the drift of the question and answered with a vague smile: "I should like to ask the rector to tea." "Madam!" "The Rev. Mr. Ellison, you know. I'm not much acquainted with him, but he's the doctor of my church, only unfortunately I've not attended church for the last few years. But I can now. Do you think, sir, that I could have a new bonnet by Sunday?" "I will write you a check for any amount you desire." "Thank you. I should like to build a house, if possible, before I had Mr. Ellison to tea. It would be much pleasanter to entertain him at my own board, of course, than"— "Certainly, Miss Sessions. Why not build a house?" He was an astute and sympathetic little man, and he knew something of the story of Miss Sessions' life and understood by a sort of intuition that she was groping for her individual form of expression. To have the minister to tea was her dream, and the lawyer reflected that each human creature is entitled to his own particular sort of dream. But he was entirely unprepared for the decision with which this hitherto patient woman acted. "If you'll be good enough to wait for me a moment, Mr. Osterman," she said. "I'll put on my bonnet and go down town with you." "To the bank?" "To see a contractor about my house." It appeared that here was a rampant imagination, given rein for the first time in its existence. "Your family will be much interested in your good fortune," said the lawyer kindly. But Miss Sessions smiled an enigmatical smile and made no reply. That evening when the family sat in the drawing room Aunt Martha, to the amazement of every one, entered and took a seat as one having something to say. Every one looked up in surprise and waited. They knew the occasion could not be an ordinary one She told her news with dignity. There was a gasp, and the face of Saral Witherspoon turned scarlet. "Of course you will not permit such an unjust thing to happen!" she cried "It has always been my expectation that I would be Uncle Frederick's heir. Think of the times I have en tertained him and the favors he has received at my hands!" Martha Sessions smiled dreamily. "Of course you will see that the property is divided half and half, Mar tha," pleaded her sister. Martha shook her head slowly. "No," she said, "it is mine. I have never had anything before. I am going to keep what is mine." Her sister sprang to her feet, blazing with wrath and incredulity at the turn of the worm. "I shall contest the will," she screamed. Her husband pushed her into a seat "Sit down, Sarah," he said, in a magnificent voice, "and let me talk with this viper we have nursed in our bosoms, this beneficiary of our boundy, who forgets the little children who have played about her knee and all the years she has lived upon our generosity." But Martha interrupted him and arose. "I'm afraid I haven't time to listen,en" she said. "I know what you will suggest. You will kindly offer to invest my money for me. You will speak to me about sending the boys through college and the girls to the seminary. When have any of you young or old, come to the room where I sat alone, wondering what I had done to be put aside like an unloved dog? When have you spoken to me except to ask me to do some favor for you? What standing have you given me in the community? How have you allowed me to go clothed? What esteem do you suppose people have for me? Many do not know me from a servant—me, Martha Sessions! No I haven't time to listen. I've too much to think about." She started toward the door and then turned and held out her hand. "I'll take all my words back," she said, "if only some one will say—say he is sorry—that I am going." No one spoke. Her sister turned her back violently. Her brother-in-law wore a face of stone. The four boys, big and little, feigned to be occupied with other things, and the girl stared and made no reply, but at the last second David, the youngest boy who was 8 years old, ran to her and caught her hand. "Can't I come to see you some times after you go away, Aunt Martha?" he said. There were tears in his eyes. The lonely woman snatched him to her hungrily for a moment. "I think he has lifted my curse from your roof," she said and went out. The Witerspoons were still incredulous. But when they heard the front door slam they ran to the window to look out. Sure enough, Aunt Martha was walking down the path bravely, but with her handkerchief at her eyes. One of the girls was sent up to her aunt's room, but it was found that of her poor belongings none had beer taken from its place. Nor did she ever send for them. The town was all agog over the activity of Martha Sessions, the heiress. Within twenty-four hours she had purchased a village lot, much beautified by trees which had years before been planted about the site of a house since burned. She contracted for the building of a tiny home and herself directed the plans. She appeared dressed in simple but fine garments, and she wore an air of amiable distinction. It was the same air she had always had, except that her liberated spirit looked out of her eyes. People enjoyed the romance of it all, and they enjoyed Miss Martha, whom they discovered to be a singularly well informed woman and a lady of excellent taste. She was invited to tea at the most exclusive houses in town. She moved at last in the society to which she had been born. People offered to assist her in the buying of pictures and china and linen. And at the end of three months she was settled in her own home. She sat before her own fire, looked about at book lined walls, smiled at the pictures for which she had always longed and by touching the little bell at her hand could summon the white-capped maid, who was delighted to serve her. She could look with happy eyes at her own gold banded china and have the pleasure once a week of polishing her dainty silver and glass. She was full of domestic enthusiasm and as important as a child with a new toy. She had her charities and she was already recognized as an ardent member of the church. Moreover, there came the hour of the perfect climax—she had the rector to tea. It was a wonderful occasion. Mrs. Delivan, the widow, was there, and Mr. and Mrs. Wyant—he was the principal of the high school—and young Caroline Arnold, the artist, and the Rev. Mr. Ellison, of course, at Martha's right hand. What an hour! How the gold bands on the china shone! How the glass sparkled! How snowy was the linen! How delicate were the pinks! But what were these glories to Miss Martha herself in her gray silk gown with the honon lace and the garnet brooch, with her gray hair crimped and her hands decorated with two modest diamonds? What a lady! What a mistress of a fine occasion! Really it was a great hour. But it may be that the thing which made her happiest, even happier than the presence of the Rev. Mr. Ellison, was the fact that close beside her, in his Sunday best, with a smile of contentment on his face, sat David Witherspoon, dividing his delighted glances between his surprisingly beautiful aunt and the quince preserves.—Chicago Tribune. A Heart-Breaker Mrs. Seeside—Oh! I think divorces are simply awful! I never could bear to hear of another woman filling my place—never! Mrs. Breezy—You couldn't? Mrs. Seeside—No! It would simply break my heart to think of any other woman writing to Harold for money!—Puck. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (Written by the Famous Hero of Mafeking.) We had been out on a two days' reconnaissance, George Garbost and I, and were making the best of our way to rejoin the Fort Sailsbury column, which we calculated to find at the upper drift of the little Inyati River. But our horses were pretty well done and we were not able to make the progress we had hoped. Evening was already drawing on when we found ourselves still some twelve or fifteen miles from our point. And on that open, rolling velt, with nothing but the slight track to guide one, we had agreed that the safest way was not to try and push ahead in the dark; so, twilight being but a short entr-ace here in Africa, George and I were already beginning to look out for a suitable spot to make our bivouac for the night. Suddenly he exclaimed, "Heavens! there they are!" I saw nothing; but he had eyes like a hawk, and I always trusted him to see things, while I received his reports with an invariable calmness, which. I flattered myself, counterbalanced his usual impetuous, eager haste. So on this occasion I merely remarked: "It's rather a case for 'hurrah,' than 'heavens,' I think. "You idiot!" he replied. "It's not the column that I see; it's a lot of niggers, hang them! Right in our path, too, waiting for us. Here, we had better get out of this." And as we wheeled our horses sharply round several Matabele heads popped up among the grass and bowlers of the rough ground over which we were then travelling—much nearer to us than the first that he had seen. We could even recognize the nature of their head-dresses, of which there were two or three varieties, and thence we gleaned that several regiments lay close by. And so we cantered off with the idea of making a wide detour to work round their flank and to regain our road, if possible, beyond them. But in the meantime we meant to ascertain all we could about their strength and probable intentions. There is something of delight in the shock of surprise in coming suddenly upon an enemy. It is in its way not unlike a plunge into cold water and its invigorating after-effects. For a moment the heart tens, and then from a tired, dragging creature you are suddenly transformed into a man endowed with a fresh flow of life and keenness. And, in acting men against men, there is an excitement such as transcends anything one feels when contending with a mere wild animal—for again you have allied all the cruelty and cunning of the beast, coupled with the human intelligence and an aptitude for fighting as great, if not greater, than your own. So it was with George and me; put on our mettle, our fatigues were forgotten, and we proceeded with all thirsty to investigate more nearly the enemy's dispositions. But in doing so we very soon saw enough to make us consult our own present safety. At one point, indeed, we very nearly ran into a party of them who had crept rapidly down a donga with the intention of cutting us off; but just in time we viewed them, and as we wheeled about and galloped off we were saluted by a shower of assegals; luckily for us we were just beyond their range, but the ringing grate and clatter as they fell among the stones had a very ugly sound, more so even than the banging of the few rifle shots whose bullets whistled high and harmless overhead. And dodging in and out among the stones we cantered off, laughing at our escapade while still the same dropping shots were fired as in salute. I was riding slightly in advance, when suddenly I heard a crash behind me, and, turning, saw poor George's horse pitch heavily forward on to its head, half rolling over on its rider. The final parting shot had struck it. Through the twilight I could see the agony in poor George's face and eyes, and as the horse in its convulsions rolled back off him he tried to raise himself upon his hands, but dropped down flat, insensible. I turned back to him, slid from the saddle, and, flinging the reins over old Toulon's head, in a moment I was on my knees beside him. He was evidently in a bad plight, his horse dead, shot through the neck as it had turned to pass an ant heap, and George himself injured to an extent which I only discovered when, on passing my arm between his legs to raise him on to my shoulders, I found him bleeding from a crushed and broken thigh. As I approached my horse with my burden the old brute tossed his head, and, not liking my appearance, began for the first time in his life to walk anxiously away from me. For a moment it looked as if he would break into a trot and then into a wild senseless canter, and my heart sank within me; but luckily the dragging reins caught under his feet and jerked him back to reason and obedience. Shoudering my poor friend on to the pommel of the saddle so that he lay face down across the wallets, I mounted and headed Toulon away into the friendly darkness which was now gathering over the veldt. In spite of the horror of the situation I could not help for a moment of comparing it all to the fun known as the "zereza race" it gymkhana sports. A few shots were fired as we cantered laboringly away, and within a minute I could hear the bloodthirsty "chuggu" cry of the Matabeles as they went to work on the dead horse with their stabbing assegals. This like a carcass thrown to wolves, most luckily delayed them and gave me just the start I wanted, and not many minutes later we were well beyond pursuit. For an hour or more I steadily pressed along, keeping a straight course away from the enemy, and then turning in the direction of the Southern Cross, which now was beaming bright athwart the sky, once more I headed toward the probable line of our main force. All this time poor George had practically remained unconscious; now and again he would rouse himself and then with a quilvering cry fall back into limp insensibility. I had reined into a walk, and had got him more comfortably rested in my arms, when consciousness at length returned to him, but his anguish was evidently unbearable. His former sick insensibility was better far than this later train of torture spasms, mixed with deep-groaned curses. At first he held out manfully and, gawing the end of my wallet strap between his teeth he faced the pain; but nature could not stand it long, and finally he begged me just to drop him where we were. At first I refused to dismount, and pointed out to him the danger that our foes might still be hunting on our track, and happily once more he swooned away. But it did not last long; once more he awoke to consciousness and pain, and this time ordered me so earnestly to lay him down, that coming to a rocky donga, in which a small sprint gurgled invitingly, I halted there and, dismounting, lowered him as gently as I could upon the ground. I gave him a sup of whisky and water from my flask, and, after knee-haltering Toulon, lit a small fire in the hollow of the rocks and put the billy on to boil some Soup. And then I turned on George to try and dress his hurt. Poor chap! His eyes were open, but evidently without intelligence, and quick-drawn sobe showed how the pain was racking him. Ripping up his blood-soaked breeches I saw by the feeble glint of firelight enough of mangled thigh to show how hopeless was his case. I poured him out a stiffish dose of whiskey mixed with chlorodyne, and waited, miserably watching, till he should awake. What could I do? Those jagged ends of bone could never be so bound as to stand the moving and jolting of the horse. We could not rest here long away from food and friends, and close beside the enemy. His ghastly pain put such a thought into my head as made my better mind recoil in horror and yet—— Just then he spoke, but in a voice I hardly knew for his. "It's no good, James," he said. "I'm done for this time, old chap. And I couldn't have dreaded more pain about it than I'm getting now. I want your old boy, to—to be my good pal to the last—and—help me out." I shuddered that he had almost read my thought, and he gripped my head. my thought, and he gripped my hand. "I've not had a guaudy time in this world, and I don't suppose I should ever have improved on it much. I suppose it was partly my own fault. I feel no desire to carry it on. My people expected and wanted me to do great things—I preferred the veldt. That is my only regret—not the veldt, no there I have been happy, but my selfishness—that's what hurts me now. I wish I had done a little bit more for other chaps in my time. I only see now—when it is too late—what a useless lump I've been. But it is too late to cry over spilled milk now. Only to end this as soon as I can. Now, old friend, just get your revolver—I'm longing for it. Oh! for God's sake"—He grouned and again dropped into a swoon. Ah, the miserable tension of my indecision! Though he had prayed to me for it, I could not bring myself to do the thing he wanted. I reflected how, even if we were found by friends within the next few hours, which was more than improbable, it would not necessarily mean the saving of his life, and meantime he would have to drag on in this awful agony. And even as I pondered his pain-writhing had given a sickening twist to the limb. I waited no more. I kicked up the fire for a better light. I put the muzzle to his temple, steeled my heart, and in a moment his pains were ended by the hand that would have given itself to save him. There was a feeling rather than a sound of movement on the veldt beyond. In a few seconds I was beside my horse, and while I loosed his knee halter and tightened his girths I could hear the rattle as the wooden neckllets and the guard powder flasks of armed men running. A moment more and I was on his back and flying for my life. The Matabele had either followed closely on our tracks or a new party had been attracted by our fire. Next day I reached our main body, safe, but alone.-London Daily Mall, by arrangement with Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co. Father and Son in College Father and Sons in College. Dr. B. B. Lancaster, who was a practicing physician before he entered college, and who is thirty-five years old, is in the junior class at Wofford, while his son is in the senior, says a special dispatch from Columbia, S. C. Three years ago Dr. Lancaster moved to Spartanburg with his family, and he and his son entered college together. The son was able to enter one grade above his father, who started at the bottom, and both have done well. When asked his reasons for being in college at his time of life Dr. Lancaster said he had come to the conclusion that he was not sufficiently educated to go through life as he wished and concluded that the best way to remedy the defect was to go to college. He had not been able to afford a college education when a young man. He had practiced medicine for ten years, he said, before going to college, and now practices in the annual vacations. Dr. Lancaster thought it necessary to drop four years of his busy life as a physician to ease his conscience, he said. He felt that he did not merit the confidence of the people who put their lives in his hands. When he graduates, next June, Dr. Lancaster says he will spend a year at one of the best medical colleges in America. Young Lancaster was not interviewed as to his experience in college, but it is probable that no senior ever was quite so deferential to a junior. A Gloomy Outlook First Professional North Pole Explorer-You look worried, comrade. Second Professional North Pole Ex- plorer—Yes; I fear that one day one of those Relief Expeditions is going to discover the pole.—Puck. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL The Senior Bureau Lesson for Sunday, August 5, 1900. JESUS AND THE CHILDREN. (Matt. 18: 1-14.) 1. At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 2. And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them. 3. And said, Verily, I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. 6. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7. Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh! 8. Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut 'them off, and cast them from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life halt or mained, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 9. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. 10. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 11. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. 12. How think ye? if a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 13. And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. 14. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. Golden Text—Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.—Mark 10: 14. OTHER HELPS TO STUDY. 1. The Children's Friend, verses 1-6. 1. At the same time—Not long after the transfiguration, when Jesus and his disciples were in Gallilee, probably at Capernaum. Who is the greatest—Not "What character is the best?" but "Which class shall be the highest?" The kingdom of heaven—In the thoughts of the disciples this was an earthly kingdom which Jesus was expected to found. (1) Secular ambition jars badly with growth in holiness. 2. Jesus called—Jesus always taught by illustration when he could. A little child—He must have been old enough to walk. (2) The voice of Jesus calls every child. Set him in the midst—He took him in his own arms (Mark 9: 36). 3. Verily—Elegantly, emphatically. Ye be converted—Turned directly about; become in all things exactly opposite to what you are. As little children—Humble, simple, innocent, and harmless. Kingdom of heaven—the phrase is used by Jesus with reference to his true spiritual kingdom. (3) Before asking for the highest place in the kingdom of Christ we need to inquire whether we are fit for any place. 4. Humble himself as this little child—(4) He that is himself humble sees most of heaven and shall have most of it. 5. Shall receive—Into spiritual fellowship. One such little child—Referring literally to the little children, also to the lowly, poor, and weak among our Lord's followers. In my name—Because he is mine. 6. Shall offend—Cause to make spiritual decline or fall. Believe in me—Have absolute trust in the living Lord. Millstone—This is literally "a millstone turned by an ass," meaning a heavier millstone than one turned by a woman. (5) Better for a man to lose his life than for him to cause another to lose his soul. II. The Sinner's Saviour, verses 7-14. 7. Because of offenses—Because of occasions for stumbling. (6) A vast amount of the world's sin and misery comes from evil example and influence. It must needs be—The "needs be" is not in God's will, but in the fact of sinful human nature. Woe to that man—This had an awful meaning for one who was doubtless present—Judas—if he had only attended to it. (7) Is anyone present today to whom Jesus thus speaks? 8. Cut them off—The hand and foot are necessary organs, having their innocent uses, but these must be renounced if they will lead into sin. Many a conscientious Christian has left a profitable business because of the temptations to wrongdoing, and submitted to poverty. 10. Despise not one of these little ones—(8) No soul worthy of salvation is unworthy of regard. Their angels—A belief in guardian angels was at this time very common, and Jesus recognized it in these words. 1. The hundred sheep represent the souls saved and in the Church of Christ. 14. Not the will—Children are born with propensities to sin, but they are born redeemed in Christ, and only willful wandering can separate them from his fold. STUDY AT HOME. —Question.— I. The Children's Friend, verses 1-6. What spirit was displayed by the disciples in their question in verse 1. Of whom were they evidently jealous? What new occasion had there been to give Peter prominence just before this time? What others were ambitious to be greatest in the kingdom of heaven? What was the doctrine which Christ now for the first time preached? What does the New Testament mean by one's "being converted?" How can one become, as a little How can one become as a little child? By what figure did Jesus teach a similar truth to. Nicoedmus? signed trade to Incumbens. Find proof in this lesson of the doctrine that they who cause others to sin will receive penalty. Do You Know THAT HE RECORDER Is Prepared to do all kinds of Job Printing on short notice? 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Whereas Daver, with his other "progressive" ideas had introduced the custom of leading the line, which he did, very grandly, in a luxurious coupe, with old lettering. It was the ages-long struggle between the new and the old, this rivalry across the street. Elsewhere it was "land work versus steam," or "Puri-tan against Cavallier," or "stratified rock at war with the leaf of a book"; here it was "caskets against coffins," with all that these implied. Always, however, the iron rule is—with occasional exceptions — new conquerors, modified by old. So it was here, and job saw the evil day afar off—as many a conservative sees it—but held, with might and largely with confidence, to the old methods, to the accustomed ways. The two undertakers differed widely in their conduct of funeral services. Job did as his father had done; not because that way was best, but because it was his father's way. This rule of conduct became more absolute with him each year. Now that his wife and sons were gone he had no future; he had "the imagination of regret, having lost the imagination of hope." The star of success before him beckoned no longer; the star of experience, from behind, illuminated his sad path. Job had given up the idealism of purpose for his sons; he lived by the ideal of example, from his father. Often he brooded anxiously about that absent had, but his anxiety was not suspected by others; an undertaker is not supposed to have griefs of his own. Yes, it is a part of the public axiomatic knowledge that undertakers have no feeling; machines merely, necessary evils. Job felt his alienation deeply; felt it the more since his wife and children had gone away. The old-fashioned, sad-faced, silent man, in his rusty coat and high stock, went in and out among the homes of sorrow; he heard sighs and moans, saw bitter tears trickling, dropping, but always for others, never a breath of sympathy for him. He moved, a white shadow, in darkened rooms, yet a shadow with a heart. Oh, his heart was hungry often; for pity, for affection. He even envied, sometimes, the silent form in the coffin; it at least had love rained upon it. Voices, which spoke to him in stern command, sobbed there; faces, which turned to him in critical inquiry, grew distorted with anguish as they bent over that other face, scarcely whiter than his own. Thus Job lived and hungered, and was "in the world, but not of the world." His impassive, worn old face told little of the need of his desolate heart. He accepted his destiny, which was, "Not to be ministered unto but to minister." One early morning a drunken, disbelieved trump found rear entrance to the "coffin warroons" and lay in a stupor under a bench. The assistant pushed a big of plush trimmings under his head. Job entered hastily, preparing to journey to a distant city to bring back a "body" for burial. He glanced at the heavy, besotted face, partly hidden by an unkempt beard, and then said: "Let him sleep it off here! Afterward give him food and my old coat on that nail there!" Then he hurried stiffly down the street to catch his train. The tramp did not "sleep it off." He had " sleep off" too many such states before. He was a shattered wreck. There are two exits from stupor. One is back into this visible world, the other is forward into the unseen. The latter was the shortest exit for the soutertous tramp, and tramps prefer short routes. So he took it. "Poor devil!" said Job's assistant, and summoned the doctor and coroner. They tried pulse, opened eyelid, felt heart, voted the beast dead. Chuckled his own wisdom in selecting his lodging house. Affirmed that he had chosen his own undertaker; "the wishes of the dead should be respected"; then a loud laugh, and they departed. So "driver, City Undertaker," lost his case. Here was the ambitious assistant's opportunity. An assistant may not be trusted by a careful master to prepare regular cases," but a tramp—it was a rare opportunity. The assistant washed, shaved, clothed—in short, "bald out" the body. When Job returned that evening the assistant met him at the door, told him the unexpected and, with pride, led the way into the back shop to a painted pine coffin beside the bench. And Job Graves, undertaker, looked, then stared, then gasped and then recognized—the dead face of his wayward son. Death had done its purifying work, as assistant or even master could never have done it; the coarse trump face had dissolved, vanished; the fine features of innocent, hopeful, younger youth lay there revealed. And is patient, wounded old Job felt this awful blow upon his tired heart he looked about him appealingly; looked for someone to lean upon. There was nobody but the assistant and his hastily-offered arm. Not what the anunished man sought, but he accepted it then sand, drooping, upon a box, and cold drops beaked his brow. he sat in silence and the tall old-fashioned clock in the corner pointed out the seconds as a physician points out the drops from a vial at a besiege Job heard them and they seemed like years—his own weary years coming back to him out of the last. He realized now that he had been desperately holding a hope and a purpose in his heart; realized now, by its absence, that it had been there unarmed, unrecognized. He out his hand unconsciously to his side; something seemed to be going; the assistant saw that his lips were parted wide and that he breathed in gasps, but Job uttered no word, told nothing of the desolation that had come to him. Who was there to tell? Who cared about an undertaker's grief? That face! Oh, that poor, white face of his boy! The next day Job did not appear at the office; he was ill, in bed. A week later a physician stood by Job's bedside and told him that he had no aliment, and would be "out" in a few days. For answer Job looked calmly at him and said: "On your way to your office call at my attorney's! Send him here! I wish to make my will!" "But my good man, there is really not the slightest—" Job raised his white hand deprecatingly, closed his eyes, hesitated, then said, with an effort: "Please also send Daver to me! You know Daver? Does good work; has some new-fangled notions, but does good work." Then Job turned his face to the wall. He knew his own condition. He was dying. We all begin to die at our birth; that is normal dying. Nature does it skilfully, inexorably, gently. Job Graves had been dying with abnormal rapidity for twenty years; dying of hunger and solitary imprisonment for life; hunger for affection; solitary imprisonment within the gloomy walls of his strange vocation. Was this, also, Nature's doing? If not, whose? "Daver, neighbor," he murmured, putting out his thin hand, seeking in his last hours after that which he had vainly sought for many lonely years—a grasp of understanding and sympathy—"Daver, you-do—good—work, but you-know—what I would wish done. My way this time, Daver? That—is—all." Daver, mystified, but smiling, prompt but constrained, came the next day. Job's lips moved a salutation, but no sound came. Daver waited. He was ill at ease. He was in an unaccented position. He often was called to dark rooms and sheeted beds, but with the conditions different. This summons was premature; Daver was restless; cleared his throat loudly; fingered his hat. "To be called here! To this house of all houses! To this man of all men!" Daver's ruling principle was to please; always to gloss the painful stubborn fact; but ruling principles may be suspended; hearts, like states, may experience rebellion; souls, like nations, may suffer revolution; the governing power may be unseated. So it was with Daver. His round, red face grew anxious. A man's pity and tenderness looked out through a "Funeral Director's" eyes as they rested on that sick wan face. The old undertaker's eyes opened slowly. His gaze wandered restlessly about the bare room, then paused upon a crude crayon portrait of an old man near the foot of the bed. The face resembled his own. Job's gaze clung to it tenderly, trustfully. Then his gaze wandered, rested on the man beside the bed; he started as if with surprise, but recollected. "Daver, I have sent for you—you know why." He spoke feebly, the other nodded, looked constrained into his filmy eyes. "I wish I could take—this—old body—with me, or see to its burying myself, but I can't. We all have to ask help at last, Daver." The plain, direct appeal of the old man moved Daver strangely. He wondered at himself as he sat there. "We must depend on—on somebody else. Daver, when—when we are finally the 'case' ourselves; and assistants are not to be trusted—not to be trusted." He raised his eyes with inquiry toward the crayon portrait, then added, "Father never, slighted his work." And a faint smile of content flickered over the dying man's face, saying what the humble man's lips would not utter, that he, too, had never slighted his work. And the "Funeral Director's" strong, red hand closed over the "Undertaker's" wasted white one, and the grasp was a pledge. A long silence. Then Daver departed, and Job rested peacefully. Exactly when his last breath came nobody in the house could say, but it was about dawn the next morning the weary spirit slipped away. Job Graves left earth—an undertaker; he entered heaven—a man. A few days later a funeral procession passed along the street between the two offices. It was "A funeral of Daver's," but it was "Job Graves's funeral." Throughout all the arrangements the Old and New in funeral art were strangely blended, and a discerning Public felt injured, as it felt baffled in its attempt at explanation. The doorknob of the "Coffin Warerooms" was hung with a knot of black crape, yet the hearse was from the "establishment of Daver & Co., City Undertakers," whose assistant acted as driver; the assistant from the "Coffin Warerooms" rode in the mourners' carriage, and—strange to tell—inexplicable to the wise, allknowing Public, quite contrary to his custom, Daver, in his luxurious coupe, followed the few carriages, the last in the line.—"The Parsonage Porch," by Bradley Gilman. Copyright, 1900, by Little, Brown & Co. Easy Come. Easy Go. "I tell you." said the man with the cotton check shirt and high-water trousers, who had come to the city on his first vacation. "I've earned this $60 easy and I will goin' to make it fly." "Did you win it on a bet?" his new acquaintance asked him. 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J. VETER. Lowell, Mass. Excursion to Bethany Park, Ind., via Pennsylvania Lines. July 17th to August 13th, inclusive, excursion tickets will be sold account "Bethany Assembly" at Bethany 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. Giving 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 Monon agent, or address. R. P. ALGEO, D. P. A., 3t Indianapolis, Ind. DETROIT SLEEPING CAR 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. There are nearly 80,000 more women than men in Russia. 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. Ah who try it like it. GRAIN O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but 4 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. An ounce of love is better than a pound of law. VITALITY low, debilitated or exhausted caused by Dr. Kline's invigorating Toepe. FREE $1. Trial bottle containing 2 weeks treatment. Dr. Kline's institute, 616 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Founded 181. There are more or less miss-givings about a girl's affections. Mia. Winstow's Soothing Kyrap for children clothing, softens the gums, reduces infammation all's pain, cures wind colds 25s per bottle. A woman's curiosity will go twice as far as her pin money. Send for the beautifully illustrated catalogue of Heeb's Indianapolis Business University. It shows how quickly and cheaply you can prepare for a salaried position. Haste makes waste and waste makes strife 'twixt husband and wife. **Lane's Family Medicine** Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. The despicable thing about puns is that they are all old. SPECIAL OFFER: Cut this ad. out and send you this Violin Quilt by Quercus. Send it to examination. Examine it at your express office and if not exactly as represented, and the most wonderful bargain you can find, send it to our SPECIAL OFFER PRICE, $2.57 - less if $2, $10 - and express charges. This is a regular $9.20 Stradivarius violin, rosin and one of the best instruction books ever written, and jewelry catalog for $19.99, free containing 80 pages. T.M. ROBERTS 'SUPPLY HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN.' OLDEST, LARGEST AND BEST SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SHORTCASTING BILOGRAPHY. Fineest quarters of any Business School in America. Abstient faculty; best system; business practice from start; fineneman in Central States; expert accountant and reporter; most successful graduates; studs assisted to positions~ over 25,000 in good situations; open all year; new student positions; study opportunities on the cheap; low. National patronage to secure the best positions for its graduates. Write for beautiful catalog and specimens. Poor Fellow The following, from a forlorn maiden, on the death of her lover, is as interesting as it is pathetic: "Her hand for him the laurel twines—He died out there, in the Phillppines. Oh, comrades, leave him not alone—Hit by a bullet, he's dead and gone!" Doubtless, the verdict of the unprejudiced reader will be, "She should have followed him!"—Atlanta Constitution. THROUGH TO ATLANTIC CITY. Sleeping Cars Will Run via Pennsylvania Lines August 9th. For the annual seashore excursion over the Pennsylvania Lines, Thursday, August 9th, through car conveniences will be provided which will enable excursionists to go through to Atlantic City without changing cars. On that date train leaving Indianapolis at 3:05 p. m. will carry a sleeping car which will be run via Philadelphia and the Delaware river bridge route to Atlantic City. The round trip rate will be $15.00 to Atlantic City, Cape May, Anglesea, Avalon, Holly Beach, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, New Jersey, Ocean City, Maryland, or Rehoboth, Delaware. Tickets will be sold for regular trains of August 9th, with return limit of twelve days, including date of sale. For illustrated folder showing information about the seashore resorts, names of hotels, etc., apply to W. W. Richardson, D. P. A., Indlanapolis. When it is too hot to be foolish it is too hot not to be foolish. 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. Out of the corner of the eye a mosquito on the shoulder looks as big and majestic as the elephant. Carter's Ink is so good and so cheap that no family can afford to be without it. Is yours Carter's? It relieves hot weather insomnia to stop the clock and not humor wakeful hours by keeping track of them. Ladies who take pride in clear, white clothes should use Red Cross Ball Blue. In 1810 public balls and masquerades were prohibited in New York. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their ad, in another column of this paper. Some women's idea of summer travel is to miss the train by going out of the station at the last minute to buy three palm-leaf fans. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. At every picnic there is always one woman whose chief enjoyment of the day is to tell how she got up at 3 o'clock that morning to bake a cake. To be always happy, use Red Cross Ball Blue. Refuse imitations. An injury forgiven is better than an injury revenged. Like the Deadly Under-Current A man and a woman are in water. which grasps one without warning, the mucous membrane which lines the entire body suddenly becomes weakened in some spot and disease is established. It may be of the lungs, the head, throat, stomach, bowels, or any other organ. Wherever it is, and whatever it seems, it all springs from the same cause— CATARRH CATARRH or inflammation of this delicate pink membrane. The system is weakened in winter. The delicate lining is more susceptible to irritation or inflammation, and thus we have pneumonia, grip, colds, coughs, fevers, etc., all catarrhal conditions which may easily be checked by one catarrh cure—Pe-ru-na. That's the only way out of it. You may dose forever—you will not be well until you try the true cure and that is Pe-ru-na. You may think your trouble is some other disease and not catarrh. Call it what you will, one thing is sure, your system is affected and must be treated, and Pe-ru-na is the only remedy which reaches the right place and does cure. Children are certain cares, but very uncertain comforts. G. A. R. Oil. Best liniment. Dr. Small, 647 Prospect street, Indianapolis. A Skin of Beauty is a Joy Forever. DR. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S ORIENTAL CREAM, OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFIER. Removes Tan, Pimples, Freckles, Moth Paint, Diseases, and every blemish on the skin and detection. It has blood the test of 5 years. Beautifulness we taste is to be sure it is properly made. no counterfeit of similar rans. A Skin to to to to to a lady of the hant-to patient will use them. I recommend Gourand's Creme, the least harmful of all the Skin products. For sale by all - Druggists ran. Send for free Catalog of Indianapolis, Ind. The best house in the state Seals, Stencils, Rubber Stamps. FRAANKLIN COLLEGE New Athens, O. year, 2014. Lazoo free, with plans to earn funds. PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHEN ALL EASIL FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION BUSINESS UNIVERSITY Corporated) When Building, N. Pennsylvania St. BUSINESS SHOREHAND AND TELEGRAPHY. Series. Ablest faculty; best system; business prac- expert accountant and reporter; most successful 25,000 in good situations; open all year; new situ- ational patronage only; school in state having for its graduates. Write for beautiful catalog. E. J. HEEB, President. Ever Know looked the same kind cigar any length of but cigar smokers are need—always trying for something differ- s seems to be some- at the cigars they have Ask your dealer for nia Cheroots always good. ed this year. Price, 3 for 5 cents. H LOADING $15 SHOT GUN for $7.77. NEW WINCHESTER RIFLES, $8.07. NEW BREEGH LOADING SHOT GUNS, $4.47. NEW WINCHESTER SHOT GUNS, $15.97. Winchester and U. M. C. Located Shells, $1.77 per 100. Nitro Powder Loaded Shells, $1.77 per 100. MUNITION as wholesale prices to everybody. MUNITION consulting on pages xx914x14. Inclo- cents to any one returning this ad and mentioning this name will be paid for copies of this ad. OTHER Hats, Cap, Bees, Boots, Shell Boxes, Dog Jacke, all in our 95% x15%, 96 page FREE GUN CATALOGUE. Nicollet Avenue, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Fine Stationary FOR SALE Give us a call. 'Phone 1563 PERSONAL MENTION Patronize our Advertisers. Mr. Harris, of 412 W. Vermont street i seriously ill. Mrs Rosa Gray left Tuesday for lake "Jinona Mrs. Geo. W. Walker, is ill at her home in North California street. Furnished rooms to let, inquire 501 North West street. Mrs. Thomas Sellers is quite ill at her home in Fayette street. Geo. P. Sanders, 1223 Lafayette st., is at Lake Maxinkuecke. Tell your friends to read next week's issue of The Recorder. Miss Alverta Miller is ill at her home in West Vermont street. Miss Bertha Crecis is visiting relat- ives in Noblesville. Mrs. George Williams, 542 Drake st., is recovering from her recent illness. Mr. H. L. Sanders is spending a few days at Martinsville, Ind. Mrs. W. N. Corbin is sick at her home in N. West street. Mr. William Brown the popular bar- ber remains quite ill. For Rent—House, 4 or 6 rooms; 426 North California street. Have you heard of the Royal Legion of Peace? Call and see us in our new quarters- 414 Indiana avenue. New phone 1563 Albert Blackwell of New Albany Ind. is in the city the guest of friends and relatives. Lillian Harris has returned home from a very pleasant visit at Richmod, Ind. Furnished Rooms and board by the week, day or meal. J: B. Stradford 355 S. Meridian street. Mr. J. B. Straford left yesterday for Alexandria where he will open a newotel. Miss Lilly Easley of Toledo, O., was the guest of Mrs. Richard Easly, last week. Mr. Will Ford will leave Sunday for Louisville and other points of Kentucky. Mr. H. Edmonds, of North Indianaapolis, left Friday to join his wife in Barring county, Ky. Mrs. F. Hamton-Smith of East Ohio street, is the guest of Miss Tennie Edwards in Louisville this week. Mrs. Sheppard who has been visiting relatives and friends in Danville, Ky., returned Monday. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mr. Steward Williams and Miss Emma Taylor, which takes place August the 16th. Mrs. Lucy Vandyke was called to Frankfort, Ky., by the death of her uncle, M. A. Williams. Read The Recorder for the news-the paper of the people. Mrs. William Pace of Louisville is visiting her sister Mrs A. C. Richardson. Miss Eva Thomas of Dayton is the guest of Miss Eva Richardson in Mill street. Miss Lucinda Edwards left Thursday for Lake Maxinkuckee to spend the summer. S. L. Taylor and Co, 17 Virginia ave. cleans, presses and repairs cloths. Read their adv. Miss Nellie and John McClendon of Chattanooga, Tenn., are the guests of their cousin, Agnes Booth, 512 Roan oke street. Mrs Willa Williams and mother, will return Saturday from Greenburg Ky., where they have been visiting friends and relatives. Rev. Jno. Blackshear attended the B. Y. P. M. convention at St. Joseph, Mo., this week. He was one of the principal speakers on the programme. Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, accompanied by her daughter, Elinora Vercie, will leave shortly for Chicago; where they will visit relatives. Miss Annie Wells, of Louisville, Ky., was quietly married to Mr. Louis Miller, of this city, Monday evening at the Bethel parsonage. Miss Mable Kersey, after a very pleasant visit as the guest of Mr. and Mrs Willis Kersey, has returned to her home in Mt Vernon. Mr. Hiram Jefferson, after a long lingering illness, died at the home of his sister, in South State avenue, Thursday. His funeral occurs to day. Messrs William Russell and Richard Jackson spent last Sunday in Bedford Ind., the guest of Misss Tillie Larter and Zella Locklear. Mr. Emma Strickland and Mrs. R. L. Booth spent Sunday in Cin cinnati Mrs. Booth visited her son, who is attending school in that city. Prof. James A. *sterrett* the popular dancing mater will give his first annual outing at Hammonds' Park Tuesday August 21. The Propaganist club was defeated in a game of ball at Brighton Beach Thursday by the Delmo club; the score being 15 to 3. The Original Star Celery-Seltzer Co offers good inducement to lady agents in every county in the State. Write at once for an agency, Miss Viola Hodges, of Louisville, Ky., enroute to Chicago, visited Miss Mamie Morris, in Bright street this week. Miss Morris expects to join her in Chicago this week. Mrs. Roxie Dixon will leave Monday for Bloomington, as a delegate to the District Grand Lodges, Household of Ruth No. 34, which convenes August the 6th. Wanted---Agents, gentleman for barber supplies etc., also agents to handle toilet goods; liberal commission apply 639 Indiana ave, Capital Supply Company, Mrs. J. M. Robinson, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. R. Locklear 630 Agnes street, left Monday for Alex andria, where she will visit Mrs. D C. Duncan. M M. Gentry gave a very delightful stag party to a number of friends at his home 729 W. Eleventh street', last Wednesday evening. A happy time had by all who were present. The Recorder is now located at 414 Indiana avenue. New telephone 1563 The progressive club was entertained last Thursday by Mrs. Angie Brooks at 831 Roanoke street and will be entertained Thursday by Mrs. Fannie Jones in W. Eleventh street. Mr. Carter Temple and Miss Hager Hawkins were quietly married Thursday evening July 26, Rev. C. W. Newton officiating. They are at home to friends at 532 Minervia street. The Womans club met, Monday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. A. C. Richardson in West St. C'air street. The club will meet next Monday with Mrs. Bennett in West Twelfth street. Mrs. Georgia Walker and daughter Miss Etta M. Barnes entertained in honor of Miss Viola White of Oberlin O., and Miss Sims of St. Louis, Mo. last Tuesday evening in Irvington Aelthia Crossen, Bertha and Edaa Sweeney, Ellie White chaperoned by Mrs. Sweeney left Thursday for Niagara Falls and o her Eastern points. They will be gone about two weeks. For Sale:—One combination book case and desk; two square planos; form iture and household goods. Will be sold for storage charges. J. A. Purear, 122-124 m, New York k street. Miss E'la Van Cleave accompanied by her mother, left Sunday for Danville, Ill., where she will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. W. Simons. She will visit points in Illinois before her return. William H. Gilliam aged 72 years, father of Rev, E. L. Gilliam, pastor of Simpson chapel, died Wednesday. The funeral was held Friday afternoon from Simpson chapel, Revs. Charle Jones and A. Wakefield officicing. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Taylor, gave an informal reception, Friday evening in honor of their guest, Miss Charity Boyd of Frankfort, Ky. The affair was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay in West North street. Mr. Edward P. Smith of this city and Miss Florence L. Nunn of Louisville, Ky., were quietly married at the residence of Mr. Anderson Kincaid in Woodside, Thursday July 26. They will be at home to friends after Aug. 10. Mrs. G. T. Stephenson, Mrs. H. Williams and Miss L. Vandyke entertained Thursday in honor of Mrs. Chester Finn of Chicago and Miss E. Lilly of Louisville, Ky. The house decorations were sweet peas and palms. It was a very enjoyable affair. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bell, are in the city after having taken a trip to Cleveland, Detroit, Niagara Falls, New York, Canada and the lakes, Mr. and Mrs. Bell will spend the summer with their parents in Woodside. They were accompanied by Mrs. Florence Nunn-Smith. The Talladega Quartette of Talladega, Ala., by special invitation appeared at the summer home of General Harrison, at Old Forge, N. Y., last Tuesday evening. The quartette is from the college at Talladega, and was entertained at luncheon by General Harrison. Mrs. Harriet Bell and daughter gave a dinner in honor of Mrs. Sarah E. Lawson of Harrodsburg, Ky., last Thursday. The invited guests were Mesdame J. B. Stratford, T. P Miller and Miss Stratford. The affair was given at the home of Mrs. Jno Butler 1394 North New Jersey street. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Preston, 1416 East Nebraska street, celebrated their fifth anniversary Tuesday evening. The house was tastefully decorated THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA the capacity of the unprincipient, who to get your money, are putting on the market vile nostrums, injuctions to the skin and skin 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 behind and you to become bald. Deal with a legitimate firm, who will treat you fairly and give you value for your money. We do solemnly wear the our laws and we are told 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 use of disaffection. We refer to Metropolitan Bank, Richmond, Va., or 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 stricth, 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 boxes of OZONO. Read our BOOK OF BLEECORAL SKIN, REFINER, which makes rough skin soft and brightens up black skin several shades, also one bottle of SKIN FOOD, which removes Wrinkles, Freckles, Moth Patches, Tan, Liver Spots, Small-Pox Pits, Birthmarks, &c. It makes the aged young and the young look younger. We will also, to show our liberality, include a package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all remnants, all veins, veins from the 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. SPOTS, also, from Frost intr OZONO KIN with sweet peas and palms. Those who assisted in receiving were Mesdames L. Claybrook and Carrie Jackson. At the punch bowl were Miss Lillian Claybrook, Lucile Hampton and Bessie Sample. Mr. and Mrs. Preston received a number of handsome presents. Missionary Meeting The Womens Home and Foreign Missionary Society met at the home of Mrs. Martin and was entertained by Mrs Atkins. The meeting was largely attended and we were glad to see so many visitors. Mrs. Eiza Wisdom became a member and was appointed a journalist. The solos by Mrs. Wisdom and Miss Ross were appreciated very highly. The recitation by Miss Broyles was interesting. The subject for discussion next meeting, which will be held at the home of Mrs. Martin 834 Superior street, will be, "Was Judas justified in betraying Christ." The Wise Man. A wise man is he who instead of visiting summer resorts, obtains with less expense, the same results, by visiting Malones' Barber shop 308 Indiana avenue. Baths and fans workmanship the pink of perfection. Give Us A Call We are carrying a fine line of Sraple and Fancy Groceries, Meats and Vegetables. Fresh Stock Low Prices The Peoples Grocery Store, 587 BRIGHT STREET. United States, under exclusive American dominion and control, a ship canal connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific. Through it in time of peace the commerce of the world shall pass. If we shall be unhappily engaged in war, the canal shall carry our warships and shall exclude those of the enemy, and under conditions which shall violate no treaty stipulations. This is the brief account of our stewardship for four years. During a portion of that period we were involved in a war that for a time paralyzed business and commerce, and would have taxed heavily the resources and credit of any other country than ours; and for the past year or more we have been employing an army of some 50,000 men in suppressing an insurrection against our authority 8,000 miles away. No industry has felt the strain of these extraordinary expenses, nor have they affected the general sum of our prosperity. More than that, the conditions resulting from the legislation of the past four years have obliterated every issue that was raised during the last campaign. The Democracy, having therefore to find some rallying cry, seek it in the results of our late war with Spain, and upon that question, as upon all others, we stand ready to meet them in the open. During the weeks and months preceding the outbreak of hostilities with Spain, the president of the United States, who knew by personal experience on many a battlefield something of the horrors of war, and who realized the expense and suffering which war entailed, stood firmly upon the ground that a peaceful solution could be found. And when that awful occurrence took place in the harbor of Havana, and a hot frenzy of indignation swept over our people, and a conflict seemed inevitable, he faced popular clamor and heated counsels, and still believed that the wrongs of Cuba could be remedied and redressed without an appeal to the arbitrament of war. The folly of Spain and the indignation of the American people forbade a peaceful solution. Then the president seconded by a Republican congress, before a gun was fired, declared to the world the lofty and unselfish motives that alone actuated the nation. No man now, or in the centuries to come, when history, which alone "trumps over time," recounts the marvelous story of the war which changed the FOR AN..... Easy Shave, First-class Hair Cut or Refreshing Bath Go To The Stone Front Shop 216 INDIANA AVENUE Where you will find three well known and efficient tonsorial artists; Mr. WILLIAM BROWN. Mr. W. D FERGUSON, Mr. BENJAMIN DUNN, L. Dunn, 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. 502 and 504 Indiana Avenue THE BEST ICE Cream Soda in "Bucktown. Sole Agent in the city for Ozonized Ox Marrow Soldier's Relief A Sure Cure Cramps In the --DIARRHOP SUMMER Compl Indigestion Call for it over For Sale by Druggists. Meals, 15c; Lunches 10c. Good Service Everything First-class and Meals at all hours. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing Timberlake & elle s, Merchant Tailors 413 Indiana ave All work promptly attended to. S. L. TAYLOR, —THE— 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 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 uine Hair Grower and Hair Straightener in existrace, we have met with grand success, which has Entered. Any infringement will be prosecuted. Int H. Clay, M. D., Dentist 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 best. Reference, 14 years with New York Dental H Clay, M. D.; Dentist 108 North Illinois Street. Peoples Excuse ake Manitou, Rochester, SUNDAY $1.00 Round Trip $1 e 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 The Peoples Excursion To Lake Manitou, Rochester, Ind. 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The treatment of the disease is not as a family medicine, like for both old and young; it is guaranteed to give complete satisfaction. “LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.” We are told by leafy and white patients, and in order to meet the demands of the busy, bustling age in which we live. We are the best of this life. “The Electro-Vital Forces by overwork, both mental and physical, and have been pronounced “A Nation of Dyspeptics.” We eat too much or too little, too fast or too great a variety; our food fails to properly digest and assuring and hence we have Stomach trouble followed by an NERVOUS INDUSTRY IN SUSTAINING AND TRENDING. NERVOUS INDUSTRY has been carefully compounded by an expert chemist, and is designed to aid in charging the Physical and Physical Implies the system with the Vital, or Elertr,cal Force, by means of which daily supply, new, pure, rich Blood is made and the morbid matter, which is retained, will surely cause” BRIGHT'S DISEASE, NEURALGIA OR RHEUMATISM. or some other form of Nervous Disease, complicated with a great variety of the most fearful Mediplons of the whistler, which have taken a total of overstowing, Delays are often dangerous; any disorder may reach a stage in which it becomes incurable, but if you take THE OLIVER LIGHTNING SPECIFIC ALTERNATIVE, according to the persons and continue the Treatment 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 bull 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 an effective treatment. It is not possible to be free from mineral palsons or any other dangerous drugs. Agents wanted everywhere Manufactured by the ORIGINAL STAR CELERY-SELTZER CO., 226 Eden Place, North of Roberts Park Church, on Hudson - tr. Indianapolis, In HENRY HUDER, DRUGGIST, cor. Pennsylvania and Washington Sts., general al- gee for Indianapolis and vicinity Odd Fe J. A. STERRETT, Central ave. Dancing Free. A A. AN, Liver We will arising we and er, to ORE OZONG agreement will beprosecuted. M. M. D., Dentist, is 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. Excursion You, Rochester, Ind. SUNDAY Aug. 12 Round Trip $1.00 Bird 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 D MICROSCOPIC GERMS and cures Malarial Chills, Agues and Fever, one of the best Household Tonics in all cases including Indigestion, Rhenismatia and Constigues, it works gently on the Bowels, and by reducing eliminating morbid mucus matter from cures. ERRH AND CONSUMPTION Sick Headache, Weakness and all the long list of alliments inve and secretory organs and functions. As a tree from any deleterious drug, and as a Family LECTRICITY IS LIFE, to meet the demands of the busy, bustling family, it may have been pronounced "A Nation of Dyspeptics" a great variety; " our food fails to properly