The Recorder

NEW YORK STORE Established in 1853. Sole Agents Butterick Patterns. They wonder! at the phenomenal success of "Sorosis" Shoes There's really nothing to wonder at, unless it is that there should be any other shoe worn by women. "SOROSIS" value is not found in any other shoe, no matter what price $3.50 PETTIS DRY GOODS CO. THE NEGRO VOTE. Will be of Great Importance In the Presidential Campaign, WASHINGTON, July 19.—The Na- tional Republican Committee will commit a blunder should the campaign practices of 1896 be repeated this year. The campaign of four years ago was characterized by the practical elimi- nation of the Negro on the stump. Many of our foremost orators and politicians proffered their services, but for some unknown reason the National Committee declined to treat with them seriously. The result of that campaign is now ancient history, but notwithstanding the huge majority piled up for President McKinley throughout the North and East, we glean these facts from reliable figures: McKinley's majority in California, 3,291-colored voting population, 6,000; in Delaware, majority, 4,196-colored vote, 6,300; in Indiana, majority, 18,421-colored vote, 12,000; in Maryland, majority, 34,225-colored vote, 45,000; in Kentucky, majority, 958-colored vote, 58,000; in West Virginia, majority, 12,000-colored vote, 9,000. These States cast 54 electoral votes. McKinley's vote in the Electoral College was 271, the number required to elect being 244. By deducting the aforesaid 54 votes from McKinley's 271, we behold a defeated man. To it illustrate the importance of the colored vote, take the result in Indiana, for instance, where McKinley received 327,739, and Bryan 309,318. Fully 10,000 Negroes there voted the Republican ticket, while 2,000 is a flattering estimate for the Democratic candidate. A transfer of 10,000 votes would have given the State to Bryan by a majority of 1,579. The colored voters there still hold the balance of power; likewise in California, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and West Virginia. There will be an absence this year of the huge Republican majorities of 180%, since the monetary question is settled, and the gold Democrats passive in their support of the administration. It will thus be seen that the colored vote of New York, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, and other States must be held in line, or else somebody may be tendered a surprise party. There is every reason why colored orators should be engaged by the National Committee to spread political "gospel" throughout the North and West. Let such men as Judson W. Lyons, Geo. H. White, P. B. S. Pinchback, W. A. Pledger, H. P. Cheatham, John P. Green, Chas. W. Anderson, W. F. Powell, T. Thomas Fortune, T. T Allain, George A. Myers, W. A. Gaines, Edward D. Wright, and others be called upon to take active part in the present campaign, and voice the sentiments and opinions of the teeming millions of colored citizens of this country upon expansion, trusts, lynching, mob law, militarism, the Fifteenth Amendment, and other questions of national importance. A number of Tuskegee graduates, who are engaged in business throughout the country will be present at the organization of the National Negro Business League which will meet at Boston Aug. 23-24. The new barn, the gift of Northern Subscribe for The friends, is nearing completion. With this addition we will be able to give more care and study to our stock, which is increasing with the growth of the school. There are now fourteen Cuban students, and one Porto Rican student connected with the institution. They are learning the English language rapidly, and are making commendable progress at their varionf trades. Three thousand copies of the school's Annual Catalogue were printed last year by our Mission of Printing. Buys a Saloon. ANDERSON, Ind., (Special.)—The latest saloon trade in the city occurred Tuesday, whe1 G. W. T. Lawrence bought of E. C. Royal the Abadien saloon. Mr. Lawrence is a young colored man and is educated and a clever business man. He is now the proprietor of the place. Mr. Royal will probably remain and look after the hotel part of the business, while Mr. Lawrence will give his attention to the bar and billiard halls. Colored People Alarmed Legislative Conventions Aug. 22 Legislative Conventions Aug. 22 The date for the Republican legislative conventions has been fixed by the county committee--August 22. One is to select a candidate for joint Representative from Marion and Hancock counties, and the other is to nominate three candidates for Senators and seven for Representatives from Marion county. The precinct primaries will be held on the evening of the 21st. The delegates to the joint legislative convention will be chosen at ward and township primaries on the evening of the 20th. There are three colord candidates for the Representative nomination, and it is the belief of politicians that one of the three will receive a place on the ticket. Charles Brown, J. M. Morton and John A, Puryear are the avowed candidates. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Special.—The Negroes at Newburg, in Warwick county, are dying at an alarming rate, and many of the older of the colored population have come to the conclusion that the town is "conjured," and are preparing to leave. During the past month, three dozen or more members of the A. M. E. church have died. The remaining members are wondering who will be the next to go, and they have become better attendants at church in order that they might be prepared when the dark messenger comes. The preachers are taking advantage of the situation, and are working on the emotions of the members. With great fervor they exhort their hearers to "mend their ways" before it is too late. Refused Accomodation. Mr, H. L. Sanders, the well known Gems' Furnisher, has returned from Martinsville, Ind., where he went for his health. The mineral springs of A. B. that place, have a national reputation for their curative properties. On his arrival, Mr. Sanders applied for lodging and baths at one of the principal hotels, but was refused. and at all the other hotels met with the same answer. The fact of refusing to give accommodation to a reputable citizen, on account of his color, is unfair treatment, and uncalled for. Mr. Sanders was compelled to seek lodging at a private house. Recorder. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1900 WASHINGTON LETTER. Government Knows Little of Chinese Army—Lieutenant Long's Career—Educational News. [Special Correspondence.] It is understood that the bureau of military information of the war department is greatly lacking in any definite idea of what the Chinese army really consists of. Indeed its very form of organization is but poorly understood. Generalities are known and but little else. There is not that thorough understanding of the question that would allow one to judge something of the military capability of the Chinese people. The military bureau is now engaged in the preparation of a map of China for military purposes, but it is not likely that this map can be completed within a month. Men who know China well and who have lived in that country are not inclined to give credence to the wild speculations over the military possibilities of China in a war to be carried on in the near future. They declare that, while China would be enormously powerful with an unlimited store of arms and ammunition and with such discipline as her troops might secure by vigorous action during a term of five or ten years, yet that country is now helpless because of a lack of discipline and the possession of a very limited amount of arms. They believe that the Chinese being somewhat of a mystery themselves are able to impress the sensational mind with an indescribable power, yet they have no confidence in the materialization of any such power in the near future. There has been a good deal of exaggeration in regard to China's ability to manufacture her own arms. The fact is that so far as is known to well informed men here there were but two sets of arsenals in China for the manufacture of arms before the present warlike movement broke out. These arsenals were located near Tien-tsin and near Canton. The Tien-tsin arsenals have been destroyed, and now only those shops at Canton are in operation. The fact is pointed out that China has manufactured arms of modern type only by the use of machinery imported into that country and that when her plants are destroyed she will be helpless to continue the making of modern arms. If she is able to copy the machinery that has been set up in these factories and to duplicate it elsewhere, she will surprise those who are best informed in regard to her resources. Lieutenant Henry Long's Career. The senior lieutenant of Company D of the Fifth marine battalion, now en route to China by way of Nagasaki, is Henry Donnel Foster Long. Lieutenant Long is a Washington boy and has been in the corps about six months, having been appointed upon merit last February. The promotion was brought about by the moving up of 24 first lieutenants of the corps. Harry Long is one of the most popular young men in the service. He has lived in the city since he was a lad and has won, both among his fellow officers and his many acquaintances in civil life, the highest respect and esteem. His present position he has won through his own abilities. He is a son of the late Major A. K. Long of the United States army, who died when his son was a child. During his younger days Harry Long was a page at the capitol, and many men prominent in the affairs of the day remember the bright faced youth of that time. He was born in a military post and is imbued with a natural desire for things martial. Mr. Long took advantage of the opportunity for service during the war with Spain. He served with credit in the navy as a volunteer during the conflict, and at the close of hostilities he set to work to secure a commission in the marine corps. In the performance of his duties as an officer he has shown marked ability, as he has a special aptitude for military service. He leaves a host of friends who look to Lieutenant Long to acquit himself with bravery and honor in the service of his flag. District's Educational Affairs. The board of education has held its last summer session. Several matters of unusual interest were laid before the meeting for consideration. The board will not come together again until fall. A proposition to allow graduates of the high schools of the District who have subsequently taken a course in a university to graduate from the normal school after a course of one year was referred to the committee on normal and high schools. It is thought to be extremely probable that the recommendation will be made by the committee and that the board will take favorable action. The Newsiest, Spiciest and Best Edited Negro Journal in the State A Journal of Opinions, published in the interest of the Race. Correspondence Solicited Special Inducements to Agents Sample Copies on Application W. H. H. Hart, principal of the Hart Farm school, colored, of Prince George county, Md., had a communication before the board asking that two teachers for his school be appointed by the board and be paid by the District of Columbia as a contribution to the school. He also asked that a donation of old textbooks be made to the school. The board declined the first request on the ground that they had no power to appoint teachers for service outside the District of Columbia. The matter of the books was referred to the committee on textbooks. The Indian Difficulties. Most of the dispatches from Minnesota relating to the troubles of the Blanket Indians at Red Lake refer to Captain Mercer, the agent for these Indians, and to his probable influence in bringing them to terms. This confidence is based upon Captain Mercer's experience as an agent for other bands of Chippeway Indians, among whom he has made a great success. CARL SCHOFIELD. FACTS IN A FEW LINES. The Manchester (England) gravediggers are asking for more wages. California will raise 125,000,000 pounds of prunes this year. Boston's tax collector reports $563,422 of old and uncollectible accounts. The surplus of births over deaths in Switzerland amounted last year to 36,612. The demand for old, high back mahogany chairs with claw feet is now large. The 33 largest towns of England and Wales have a total population of nearly 12,000,000. The Bible was the best selling book of the past year. The American Bible society put out 1,406,801 copies. The German Shakespeare society offers a prize of $200 for an essay on Shakespeare's knowledge of literature. Cigarettes are smoked almost exclusively in Germany, Austria, Russia and Greece and generally throughout Europe. The city of Cleveland is the first to create a department whose sole object is the abatement of the smoke nuisance. A recent test of the salt water fire service of Boston gave abundant satisfaction. Fitted with the modern accessories it is no longer an experiment. The government stopped coling the old style of silver dollars and coined the first Bland dollar in 1878. The old style dollars are not available for public use. The enlarged use of crown fillings or complete gold teeth that has been developed in the last ten years has taken from our gold supply a very large quantity of the metal. The orange expert estimates Florida's orange crop for the season of 1900-1901 at 1,000,000 boxes. The average price for the coming season is approximated at $2 per box on the trees. The pie bakers of New York attribute the great demand lately for their product to a disappearance of the belief that pies are indigestible. Even athletes now eat pies in training. Half a century ago Belgium was scarcely known. Today its products and manufactures are in the markets of every known corner of the globe, and it ranks as the seventh industrial country of the world. Few houses in Uruguay are provided with stoves for heating purposes. No chimneys or fireplaces are provided as a rule, one house recently built at a cost of $14,000 having for its chimney a stovepipe from the kitchen. In many lines of trade there are practically no jobbing houses in Germany, and retailers obtain their supplies directly from the manufacturers, who employ traveling salesmen and give to their customers liberal discounts and credits. Scarcity of hemlock bark is reported to have caused the almost total extinction of the once prosperous tanning industry in Maine. Though there is a large growth of hemlock in the state it is so far from practicable tannery sites that the cost of hauling prohibits its use. Soda water fountains are unknown in Bahia, Brazil, ice cream is a luxury very seldom indulged in, and even when used it is always made to order, while the little water ice used by the whole city would not consume anywhere near 100 pounds of ice a day in its manufacture. The export of American washtubs is chiefly to the Argentine Republic and around up the west coast of South America to the Latin-American countries. Elsewhere in the world the English are selling a galvanized sheet iron tub that we don't seem to have quite met yet, but we sell all the world washboards. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING It is a popular belief that death from lightning is caused by internal burns or by the rupture of some vital organ, such as the heart, the lungs or stomach, but, though severe lesions may sometimes occur, post mortem examinations seldom reveal any serious affections of the viscera, or, for that matter, anything abnormal in the physiological conditions of the stricken person. The same also applies to people killed by contact with live wires. In cases of lightning stroke and electric shock some of the chief nerve centers are intensely stimulated. One of these, the medulla oblongata, situated at the head of the spinal cord, exercises considerable control over the movement of respiration, while the nerve which it sends out and which is called from its wanderings the vagus has a similar power over the action of the heart, so that when these nerve masses are subjected to any undue excitement the functions of respiration and circulation are at once interfered with. For this reason in all cases, whether of lightning stroke or electric shock, the sufferer is to be placed without delay in the most favorable position for breathing, so that by energetically rubbing all parts of the body, and especially by regular traction of the tongue, respiration may be restored if at all possible. Such attentions have recalled animation more than once when all hopes of recovery were given up. In one case 45 minutes elapsed before the patient gave signs of returning animation, and at the end of two hours he was able to speak. He experienced no other injury than burns on the hands and thigh.—Engineering. Painted English Women. Painted English Women. A woman who has just returned from London has not yet recovered from her astonishment at the extent to which English women are using paint. "I had heard so much of the beautiful English complexions," she says in the New York Sun, "that I was not prepared for the shock, and it was not easy to understand why the women used paint, for they seemed in reality to have very little need of it. The women I saw in the streets, the shops and the art galleries seemed to be entirely without it. They all had the high color I thought a peculiarity of the race and had no apparent need of paint. They had too much color for beauty according to my ideas, unless one accepted them as the out and out dairymaid type, and there was scarcely one of them who did not look as if she would be improved by the judicious use of a powder puff. They were free from cosmetics of any kind, however, and seemed natural. It was among the smart set of women that the use of paint seemed rampant. I say rampant because most of it looked as if it had been put on for its own sake and not as an aid to beauty. At the opera there was scarcely a woman to be seen who had not applied rouge with a liberality that suggested that she had taken into consideration the size of the building and wanted her cheeks to look as red from the box opposite her as to the persons seated with her. And the strangest thing about their cosmetics was that most of them would have looked better without them." "O. K." Passed on by the Court. After certain business differences the Davis Paint Manufacturing company and the Metzger Linseed Oil company came to an agreement. Their lawyers drafted in concert a judicial decree satisfactory all around, marked it "O. K." and appended their signatures. Subsequently one of the companies wanted to back out. It set up the contention that the letters O. K. in such a use are mere slang and not binding. An appellate court in Illinois pronouns this contention no good. The judges quote from the Century Dictionary the attempts to account for "O. K." by tracing it back to Andrew Jackson and (still further back) to Old Keokuk, whose name is borne by an Iowa city unto this day. They quote the dictionary definition, "All right; correct; now commonly used as an indorsement, as on a bill." They remark: "The definition undoubtedly gives that which is the universal conception and understanding. That is no doubt the sense in which the court understood it and the meaning the counsel intended to express."—Hartford Courant. "I am so glad, Harold, that you married me for my money." "What do you mean by that, Bella?" "Because you are going to be so beautifully left. Papa has failed"—Chicago Tribune. Two of a Kind. "It's pretty hard to tell what her rings are made of."—Chicago Times-Herald. Price 3 Cents Intelligence of a Cat. The latest story of the intelligence of pet cats comes from London. Mme. Portier, who owns the champion Blue Boy, tells an incident which happened recently and which, if true, undoubtedly pines her pet cat in the front rank for intelligence. While in Liverpool a short time ago she had occasion to speak to her sister in London through the telephone. Blue Boy heard her voice, recognized it and became most excited. She addressed him personally, and from that moment until her return he stuck close to the instrument. The Supreme Court. The United States supreme court, on adjournment recently for the summer, left 304 cases undisposed of on its docket. The same number were left undisposed of on its adjournment for the summer last year. Three hundred and seventy, new cases were filed during the term now finished, and in exactly the same number of cases the court heard arguments or accepted briefs. Glass Refuse Pavement. In Geneva glass refuse is pressed in paving blocks under a new invention that has recently been put into operation. Several streets have already been paved with this new contravariance, and it gives great satisfaction, not only in appearance, but also in durability. Several other cities in Europe have adopted the invention. Ice cream freezers of American manufacture are sold all over the world wherever ice, either natural or artificial, is used. The Ice cream eaten in Calcutta or in Melbourne or in any other city or country. European included, would be more than likely to have been made in an American freezer. The khaki craze has now gone so far that statuses in many west end London villas have been painted that color, and in one small area, the St. James Gazette says, one now sees two Mercuryys, a Laocoon group, an Achilles, an Aphrodite and a Hercules all resplendent in the popular hue. A traveler returning from Siberia says: "The prisoners are not chained. They eat at the same table with their guards. The government provides a pension of $0 a month to the family of each prisoner. At the expiration of his sentence the prisoner can take up his home in Siberia, and the government will assist him. It allows him a home and implements with which to work." An English school board has prepared a circular on the evils of cigarette smoking, which is to be distributed among the parents of the school children. It points out that smoking by boys impairs the eyesight, upsets the nerves, disturbs the digestive organs and stunts growth. Local doctors are to be asked to go to the schools and address the boys on the evils of smoking. Choate and the Baby. Joseph H. Choate, American embassador to Great Britain, recently delivered an address on the occasion of the opening of a free library at Acton. In one of the back seats was a woman with a baby which persisted in distracting the attention of the audience by making its voice heard at the most inconvenient moments. The first interruption occurred early in the speech. Mr. Choate was saying. "There is a special provision for children in your library, and I think when men come to make a choice of a residence in Acton they will not forget that fact." Here the baby screamed in such a manner as to drown the words of the speaker. There was some disturbance, but Mr. Choate said: "Don't be disturbed by the baby. Nobody knows better than my lord bishop (who presided) that out of the mouths of babes and sucklings cometh wisdom." Things went fairly well after this, the baby appearing to be flattered by the reference, until Mr. Choate was saying. "There is a book with which all of you"—Here the baby wailed loudly. "Except, possibly, the baby—are familiar," the embassador went on; "it is 'Ecclesiastes', and it says that of the making of books there is no end." Traits of the Khedive: Abbas II, the khedive of Egypt, who is visiting in England, is a splendid linguist, speaking English, French, German and Italian, in addition to Turkish and Arabic. The khedive is a hard worker, and his day usually begins at 5:30 in the morning. A story is told which illustrates this side of his character. His brother, Mehemet All, and himself had the same tutor in their childhood, but Prince Mehemet was indolent. A task was set them, but the younger brother shirked it. "Come, prince," said the teacher; "it must be done." "Prince, indeed!" exclaimed Abbas. "My brother is no prince when idle; he is only a fellah!"—New York Tribune. INDIANAPOLIS, RND THE VISION OF AMOS THE PLUMB LINE TYPICAL OF TRUE BELIGION. A Straight Up and Down Creed the Only One That Can Be of Benefit-to Humanity—Dr. Talmage's Dr. Talmage sends the following discourse, in which he shows that the world can never be benefited by a religion of human manufacture, but must have a religion let down from heaven; text, Amos vii, 8; "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line." What the world wants is straight up and down religion. Much of the so called plety of the day bends this way and that to suit the times. It is oblique, with a low state of sentiment and morals. We have all been building a wall of character, and it is glaringly imperfect and needs reconstruction. How shall it be brought into perpendicular? Only by the divine measurement. "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line." The divine plumb line needs to be thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ago Solomon discovered the tendency of buyers to depreciate goods. He saw a man beating down an article lower and lower and saying it was not worth the price asked, and when he had purchased at the lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck and how he had outwitted the merchant. "It is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth" (Proverbs xx, 14). Society is so utterly askew in this matter that you seldom find a seller asking the price that he expects to get. He puts on a higher value than he expects to receive, knowing that he will have to drop. And when he wants 50 he says 75, and if he wants 2,000 he asks 2,500. "It is naught," saith the buyer. "The fabric is defective, the style of goods is poor. I can get elsewhere a better article at a smaller price. It is out of fashion, it is damaged, it will fade, it will not wear well." After awhile the merchant, from overpersuasion or from desire to dispose of that particular stock of goods, says. "Well, take it at your own price," and the purchaser goes home with a light step and calls into his private office his confidential friends and chuckles while he tells how for half price he got the goods. In other words, he lied and was proud of it. To feel right and do right under all this pressure requires martyr grace, requires divine support, requires celestial re-enforcement. Yet there are tens of thousands of such men getting splendidly through. They see others going up and themselves going down, but they keep their patience and courage and their Christian consistency, and after awhile their success will come. There is generally retribution in some form for greediness. The owners of the big business will die, and their boys will get possession of the business, and with a cigar in their mouths and full to the chins with the best liquor and behind a pair of spanking bays they will pass everything on the turnpike road to temporal and eternal perdition. Then the business will break up and the smaller dealers will have fair opportunity, or the spirit of contentment and right feeling will take possession of the large firm, as recently with a famous business house, and the firm will say: "We have enough money for all our needs and the needs of our children. Now let us dissolve business and make way for other men in the same line." Instead of being startled at a solitary instance of magnanimity it will become a common thing. I know of scores of great business houses that have had their opportunity of vast accumulation and who ought to quit. But perhaps for all the days of this generation the struggle of small houses to keep alive under the overshadowing pressure of great houses will continue. Therefore, taking things as they are, you will be wise to preserve your equilibrium and your honesty and your faith and throw over all the counters and shelves and casks the measuring line of divine right. "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line." 4 want you to notice this fact, that when a man gives up the straight up and down religion of the Bible for any newfangled religion it is generally to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then you hear of some swindle he has practiced in a special mining stock, telling one one if he will put in $10,000 he can take out $100,000, or he has sacrificed his integrity or plunged into irreademable worldliness. His sins are so broad he has to broaden his religion, and he becomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the soul's darkness, as broad as hell. They want a religion that will allow them to keep their sins and then at death say to them, "Well done, good and faithful servant," and that tells them, "All is well, for there is no hell." My text gives me a grand opportunity of saying a useful word to all young men who are now forming habits for a lifetime. Of what use to a stone-mason or a bricklayer is a plumb line? Why not build the wall by the unaided eye and hand? Because they are insufficient, because if there be a deflection in the wall it cannot further on be corrected. Because, by the law of gravitation, a wall must be straight in order to be symmetrical and safe. A young man is in danger of getting a defect in his wall of character that may never be corrected. Remember that the wall may be 100 feet high, and yet a deflection one foot from the foundation affects the entire structure. And if you live 100 years and do right the last 80 years you may nevertheless do something at 20 years of age that will damage all your earthly existence. All you who have built houses for yourselves or for others, am I not right in saying to these young men, You cannot build a wall so high as to be independent of the character of its foundation? A man before 30 years of age may commit enough sin to last him a lifetime. "But,' you say, 'you shut us young folks out from all fun." Oh, no! I like fun. I believe in fun. I have had lots of it in my time. But I have not had to go into paths of sin to find it. No credit to me, but because of an extraordinary parental example and influence I was kept from outward transgressions, though my heart was bad enough and desperately wicked. I have had fun illuminated, though I never swore one oath and never gambled for so much as the value of a pin and never saw the inside of a haunt of sin save as when many years ago, with a commissioner of police and a detective and two elders of my church, I explored New York and Brooklyn by midnight, not out of curiosity, but that I might in pulp discourse set before the people the poverty and the horrors of underground city life. Yet, though I was never intoxicated for an instant and never committed one act of dissoluteness, restrained only by the grace of God, without which restraint I would have gone headlong to the bottom of infamy. I have had so much fun that I don't believe there is a man on the planet at the present time who has had more. Near it, men and boys, women and girls, all the fun is on the side of right. Sin may seem attractive, but it is deathful, and like the manchuel, a tree whose dews are poisonous. The only genuine happiness is in a Christian life. There they go, two brothers. The one was converted a year ago in church one Sunday morning during prayer or sermon or hymn. No one knew it at the time. The persons on either side of him suspected nothing, but in that young man's soul this process went on; "Lord, here I am, a young man amid the temptations of city life, and I am afraid to risk them alone. Come and be my pardon and my help. Save me from making the mistake some of my comrades are making, and save me now." And quicker than a flash God rolled heaven into his soul. He is just as jolly as he used to be, is just as brilliant as he used to be. He can strike a ball or catch one as easily as before he was converted. With gun or fishing rod in this summer vacation he is just as skillful as before. The world is brighter to him than ever. He appreciates pictures, music, innocent hilarity, social life, good jokes and plenty of fun, glorious fun. But his brother is going down hill. In the morning his head aches from the champagne debauch. Everybody sees he is in rapid descent. What cares of his family name? Turned out of employment, depleted in health, cast down in spirits, the typhoid fever strikes him in the smallest room on the fourth story of a fifth rate boarding house, cursing God and calling for his mother and fighting back demons from his dying pillow, which is be sweated and torn to rags. He plunges out of this world with the shriek of a destroyed spirit. Alas for that kind of fun! It is remorse. It is despair. It is blackness of darkness. It is woe unending and long reverberating and crushing as though all the mountains of all continents rolled on him in one avalanche. My soul, stand back from such fun. Young man, there is no fun in shipwrecking your character, no fun in disgracing your father's name. There is no fun in breaking your mother's heart. There is no fun in the physical pangs of the dissolute. There is no fun in the profligate's deathbed. There is no fun in an undone eternity. Praeluc, out of the ashes of a burnt rose, said he could recreate the rose, but he failed in the alchemic undertaking, and rosace life once burned down in sin, can never again be made to blossom. Oh, this plumb line of the everlasting right! God will throw it over all our lives to show us our moral defections. God will throw it over all churches to show whether they are doing useful work or are instances of idleness and pretense. He will throw that plumb line over all nations to demonstrate whether their laws are just or cruel, their rulers good or bad, their ambitions holy or infamous. God is now throwing that plumb line over this republic, and it is a solemn time with this nation, and whether we keep his Sabbaths or dishonor them, whether righteousness or iniquity dominate, whether we are Christian or infidel, whether we fulfill our mission or refuse, whether we are for God or against Him, will decide—whether we shall as a nation go on in higher and higher career or go down in the same grave where Babylon and Nineveh and Thebes are sepulchered. "But," you say, "if there be no thing but a plumb line, what can any of us do, for there is an old proverb which truthfully declares, 'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.' What, shall we do when, according to Isaiah, "God shall lay judgment to the line and righteousness the plummet?" Ah, here is where the gospel comes in with a Saviour's righteousness to make up for our deficits. And while I see hanging on the wall a plumb line, I see also hanging there a cross. And while the one condemns us, the other saves us, if only we will hold to it. And here and now you may be set free with a more glorious liberty than Hampden or Sidney or Koscinsko ever fought for. Not out younder or down there or up here, but just where you are you may get it. The invalid proprietress of a wealthy estate in Scotland visited the continent of Europe to get rid of her maladies, and she went to Baden Baden and tried those waters and went to Carlsbad and tried those waters and went to Homburg and tried those waters, and instead of getting better she got worse, and in despair she said to a physician. "What shall I do?" His reply was: "Mediche can do nothing for you. You have only one chance, and that is the waters of Pit Keathly, Scotland." "Is it possible?" she replied. "Why those waters are on my own estate." She returned and drank of the fountain at her own gate and in two months completely recovered, Ooh, sick and diseased and simming and dying, why go trudging all the world over and seeking here and there relief for your discouraged spirit when eloibly and at your very feet and at the door of your heart, aye, within the very estate of your own consciousness, THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA the healing waters of eternal life may be bead and had this very hour, this very minute? Blessed be God that over against the plumb line that Amos saw is the cross, through the emancipating power of which you and I may live and live forever. WEB FEET FOR SWIMMERS An ingenious Chicago Man Invents a Shoe to be Worn When in Deep Water. Webfooted men and women careening like ducks and swans through water will be seen on the beaches at the lake resorts and in the East this summer if the invention of Herman Horn should prove to be all that is claimed for it. The ingenious German has constructed on lines entirely new an appliance he calls a "swimming shoe." It is really an artificial webfoot in the form of a lightweight shoe, whose constituent parts are uppers of white "duck canvas" and a sole of cark wood. Among the merits claimed for it are that it makes swimming 100 per cent. easier, drowning 500 per cent. less likely and gives to swimmers an added speed of 30 to 50 per cent. The device which makes the "shoe" a human webfoot is an arrangement of two aluminum links adjusted to the sides near the ankles or "insteps". In the water these links work automatically, so that they cause outside uppers—duplicates of the uppers proper—to expand when the propelling or "back stroke" is given with either leg. In this respect the action of webfooted or swimming fowl is duplicated to an alceety. But this web-foot feature is even more closely a parallel to the duck's or swan's foot in the reverse action or so-called "forward stroke" of the swimmer's foot when incased in the new appliance. With the withdrawal of the human foot for every "back stroke" the weblike formation contracts and closes in around the inside upper of the swimming shoe. Thus is reproduced in most striking way the contractive and the expansive action of a duck's foot in swimming except that in the case of the swimming shoe the web uppers perform in the water automatically the function which the duck's webbed toes enact because of the directive movement imparted through the exercise of energy and volition or instinct on the part of the paddling fowl. As a parachute gives a sort of grip or hold on the air to an aeronaut descending from among the clouds, so Inventor Horn has figured out that through the expansion of the artificial human webfoot the swimmer obtains a sort of grip upon the water and gains a tremendous accession of propelling power. The laws of mechanics and hydrostatics uphold this theory, provided the webfooted apparatus works properly on human feet. That it works like a charm is the assertion of Inventor Horn, who declares that after a thorough test the professors of swimming at the Chicago Athletic Association and elsewhere have pronounced it an adjunct of the greatest value either in teaching beginners how to swim or as an aid to experts.—Chicago Special. Aid to One Struck by Lightning Aid to One Struck by Lightning It is a popular belief that death from lightning is caused by internal burns or by the rupture of some vital organ, such as the heart, the lungs, or stomach; but, though severe lesions may sometimes occur, post-mortem examinations seldom reveal any serious affections of the viscera, or, for that matter, anything abnormal in the physiological conditions of the stricken person. The same also applies to people killed by contact with live wires. In cases of lightning stroke and electric shock some of the chief centers are intensely stimulated. One of these, the medulla oblongata, situated at the head of the spinal cord, exercises considerable control over the movement of respiration; while the nerve which it sends out, and which is called from its wanderings the vague, has a similar power over the action of the heart; so that when these nerve masses are subjected to any undue excitement the functions of respiration and circulation are at once interfered with. For this reason, in all cases, whether of lightning stroke or electric shock, the sufferer is to be placed without delay in the most favorable position for breathing, so that by energetically rubbing all parts of the body, and especially by regular traction of the tongue, respiration may be restored if at all possible. Such attention have recalled animation more than once when all hopes of recovery were given up. In one case 45 minutes elapsed before the patient gave signs of returning animation, and at the end of two hours he was able to speak. He experienced no other injury than burns on the hands and thigh—Engineering. An Untimely Interruption. Mr. Softleigh—"Don't worry, Margy, love in a cottage has been the poet's theme. 'Twill be beautiful and grand!' Trees will shade the green of the yard, birds will sing among the branches—will sing to you and me. The dreams will come when you recline in the hammocks on the pretty little veranda and watch the blue rim of the sky melt into the fleece amber of the clouds. Ah, Margy, to you and me this little cottage will assume the proportions of a palace. hWat more could you desire, Margy? What more could you want?" Voice of passing peddler—"Potatoes, cabbage, turnips, beets, corn" That is why Margy laughed and Mr. Softleigh is mad. A Whooping-Cough Party. A whooping cough party was given by little Dorothy Sullah, of Huntington. L. L. a few days ago. 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It has always been claimed for The Chicago Tribune that it would, in all probability, pass with ease to two examinations among the newspapers of the United States for excellence in a.l departments of journalism. "Under date of May 2, 1860, the Omaha World-Herald wrote a letter from 'Inquirer,' asking the names of the five best newspapers of the United States, the newspaper may excel in one way and be inferior in another. The World-Herald wrote a heading of leading American newspapers distinguished especially for excellence, mentioning THE FOLLOWING ARE THE HEADINGS (1) Most and best news, foreign and (2) Best, possible presentation of news briefly. (3) Geographical appearance. (4) Classification of news by de- partments. (5) Citizenship. The Chicago Tribune is the only newspaper in the United States worthy of mention under four dif- ferent heads." -From the October Plain Prairie. 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He was this HORRIBLE IF TRUE gan Francisco special: ‘Phe most e- qurkable story that has thus far come mrp China is that told by Mrs. .. B. qrew, who, with her three daughters was erneeager on thé transport Logan, Aun arrived here from ‘Taku.> Mrs, Tow Is the wife of the Chinese customs amiseioner at Tien-Tsin. iris « shameful tale to Rarrate,” she gail "We escaped from a slaughter by Be yoxers, only to witness the barbarous weft by the Russian troops. | vimid, frightened Chinese mother quill ¢e hidden in @ corner of her Uttle Rie ‘she would have @ babe in her Ree A Russian marine or trooper jolt burst open the door. Having ‘ied the house of Jewelry or other val- Cols, he would then murder the fright~ sc woman hiding in the corner. A {ist of the bayonet would end her mis- rape existence, ‘Her babe would then be tossed from jayouet to bayonet until It was dead. ‘chinese women Were mistreated and monkired in house after house, It se-mted {though nothing could stay the mad suvry ot these Russians. Women and hiluen from varlous villages were now vw and then driven into the Yellow or porto rivers. The Russians stood on. the jack until every man, woman and child ta} either been shot and Killed or frowned. It was generally accepted as {rus at Tien-'sin that the Chinése com- panier at the Taku forts was murdered iy the Russtans As the story goes, when the Chinese uumander stepped forth with sword ex- vied to surrender, he was mercliessly soot down in hia tracks. ‘The member: xt his staif were atso shot down: by the WARNS THE WORLD Jondon cable: In ease the troops ad- vauce the Chinese must fight. ‘The sug- sstion that the allies ahould be allowed ipenter Pekin in order to escort the min- \wers to Tlen-Tain is absolutely tmpossi- te This is the decision of Li Hung Chang. ke mas tranamitted to Mr. William richard Morgan, member of Parliament foe Merthyr Tydvil, by his agent at Shunghal, ‘The agent had carried to Earl Lia message from Mr. Morgan urging eat the allied troops be allowed to enter tse capital, and stating that a settlement ould be made at ‘len-Tsin, whereby the war of the world against China would be Svorted, but even the optimistic LA falled (hold out the slightest hope of its feasti- bits, although he reiterated to Mr. Mor- 40's agent hls declaration that the min- Iwers had left Peking, fixing the date of tein departure as August 2 The agent sakes this comment: “The consuls are ithout confirmation.” These messages Save heen sent to Lord Salisbury, accom- panied by a statement by Mr. Morgan, Urging that the allies should take no step endanger the lives of the ministers. ‘\ mnesaage from the Belgian minister, dated Pekin, August 2, seems effectually ‘0 dispose of the rumors that the minis- ters have elther left oF ate intending to heave Pekin, 4 dispatch from Shanghal says: “The Japanese consul here received & message the effect that the foreign. ministers ere safe on AUgust 1, but that they éx- yeciot a renewal of the attack by the Chinese at any moment. It was added that only twenty-five cartridges each and x days! provisions were left, It was nso sald that the Japanese secretary had Sint of his wounds.” The Chinese minister in London, Sir iin Chen To Chen Lo Feng Luh, says fe hay received a telegram from China vnnouneing that a long imperial edfct was ‘sued on August 2 authorizing the imme- slate and safe conveyance of all Euro- Deans in Pekin to Ten Tal (ONDITION OF NATIONAL BANKS. Ad Nearly Five Billion Dollars of Aggre- gate Assets at the Close of Busl- eas June 29. Washington special: A summary of the >utition of all the national banks in the (sitol States at the close of business, June &, 190, has Just been completed by Wecontrolter of the currency. ‘The ag- sauce assets of the banks 1s shown to ~ H.014.005.828, the highest ever reached is the istory of the national system. Ths largest amount previously reported "8 on June 99, 1899, since which date Sere has been am tnerease of $255,391,719, number of banks reporting to the con- ‘roller on June 99, 1898, was 3,58, as ssalnst 3.782 on June 29 last, showing an ‘tease of M40 banks since the former te The increase In assets is shown © be in loans and discounts, the increase Sing about one-half of the total tout, the remainder consisting of {hte Sates bonds and cash held By the RUSSIA ASKS AMERICAN AID. Grr Sata to be Beoking Co-Operation of United States t» Well Defleed ‘Chinese Polies: «in tersburg cable: Russia fears that {eiterootional war fs Inevitable unless TS Ge crrive at an understanding with 12) Unitet States in regard fo a course tote toward China. Consequently tabi object of Russian diplomatic ins Yow is to Dring the two countries tiny eer relations. With this object in overtures have been made to, Wash= ng cently, Russia taking the ground tue, Oth countries earnestly desire fr vel’ O"Y way to bring it about 14 28 ae cg AETEY UOM a Chinese polley ct together BATILE WITH MOONSHINERS, Metcce dedtiney a sles tos en Fes varietal “na re een een enn aes as eas ete aa tae ears Paul's Valley, is missing. The band es- poeta eens) enn oe, Siete ee forcements was sent from here Tuesday. Roan Titeat ewe eet See eee a aaa ne per area ees eet meme ety oe ee ees Be ee een of bullets, and shots were exchanged for Se ee oa rsetniae agit, cera gra tearm uetae de tt ee a eae | will be a dangerous undertaking. CABLE FROM CONGER LEGATIONERS STILL IN DANGER ph lca rata ‘Treacherous Advice From Chinese Govern: mont Indleates That Chances of ‘Vianl Rescue Are ilu, ‘Washington special: The following ca- blegram from Minister Conger was _re- celved Tuesday by the State Department! “Tal-Nan Yamen-Still besteged. Chi- nese government insisting on our leay- ing Pekin, which would be certain death, Rifle ring upon us daily by imperial trqops. Have abundant courage, but It- tle ammunition of provisions. ‘Two pro- gressive Yamen minioters beheaded. All connected with legation of the United States well at the present moment “Conger.” ‘The fordgoing cablegram from Min‘ster Conger ts the second recelved from him since June 12, It is the first which has come direct from the minister since the above date, the other having been re- ceived through the Intermediary of the Chinese minister here, Mr. Wu, Tuesday's telegram shows that the sifuation in the Chinese capital is still of a very srious character, that the ministers are still In @anger from the Chinese troops and that thelr supplies of ammunition and pro- visions have been reduced to a very con- siderable extent, So important were the statements contained in the dispatch that & conference was held by wire between several of the officials here and the Pres- ‘Ident at Canton, lasting for several hours. “The cablegram came in the official cipher of the department, It is undated like his previous cablegram, but from the internal evidence furnished by his Fefer- ence to the beheading of two members of the Tsung Li Yamen and to the insistence of the Chinese government on the removal of the ministers from Pekin, State De- partment officials say 1€ may be assigned a date not earlier than July 90 and per- has not later than August 2 It Is checked by the telegraph company as having been put on the wires at Ts!-Nan, a largo city about eighty miles southeast of Pekin, on August 7. The dispatch Feached the department at 4:20 p. m., but was not made publle until late in the ‘enutne. - BRYAN AND STEVENSON. - dianapolis for Notifieation Cere- monies. Col. Willlam Jennings Bryan and Hon. Adlai E, Stevenson, accompanied by a large number of distinguished Democrats from all parts of the country, arrived at Indianapolis on a Big Four special train from Chicago at 7:30 Tuesday evening. ‘The streets in the vicinity of the Union Station were packed with an immense crowd of enthusiastic people. The visitors were escorted to the Grand Hotel with some difficulty owing to the vast crowd. On their arrival at the hotel Mr. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson appeared on the bal- cony overlooking the hotel office. For fully five minutes cheers followed cheers, Finally State Chairman Martin raised his arm and called for silence and @ hush fell upon the great crowd. ‘Then Mr. Bryan stepped to the railing. with Mr. Stevenson by his side, and said: “My friends, 1 need not inform you—for you must know it already—that Mr. Ste- venson and myself are quite wearied by our journey from the lakes. We shall both be proud to see you tomorrow, when we will be 1 better condition to talk to you, Mr. Stevenson and I understand that we were nominated about a month ago. We have not tonight entirely made up our minds as to whether we will ac- cept, but If you will give us until tomor- row I think*we will have reached a de- cision by that time.” COULD NOT . EA : DISSRACE, An Officer of the Deutschland, Reprime ded for Sleeping on the Wateh, Commits Suicide, New York special: E. Thele, fourth of. ficer of the Hamburg-American linet Deutschland, blew out his brains during the voyage of the big ocean greyhound that was finished when the steamer en- tered her pler in Hoboken Tuesday. ‘The second day out it was Thele’s turn to watch on the bridge. The air made him Growsy, and he fell asleep at his post. Captain Albers came upon him, ordered him to take off his coat, the ship's badge of office, and sent him to his cabin. ‘The young sailor went down in disgrace. Five minutes after the door closed behind h'm a shot was heard, and when it was forced open Thele lay on the floor with a bullet in his brain. Mr, Jestor Will Pronch. Oklahoma City, Ola. T. speviat: Alex ander Jester, the aged preacher who was recently acquitted of the murder of Gil- bert W. Gates, has taken up his residence in Norman, Okla. P., with his soz, Wil- fam Hill. He announces: that he will soon commence preaching, basing his inst ser- mon on the sixth ecmmandment, “Thou cis pe ee atom er THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Ss : EDICT DR KIDPATHS FUNERAL z AN IMPERIAL on into Hic ii Lald to Mest at Grereastle. YUNG LI ORDERED TO PROVIDE | Greencastle, Ind. special: The funet AN ESCORT, of the late John Clark Ridpath occurr from the family residence in this city ge. |}? O'clock Priday mogning. ‘The tuner Minloters Will be Fermitted te-Reave Fe-| |. .5 largely attended, with all his childr kin Whenever They Choose—Sur- | and all his Brothers and sisters, excey miso That They Will Renmin | ing Willines Ridpath of Spokane, Wa 3 ‘Wntll Accteal of Allies, the pao wake Chas ee ‘Washington special: A belated message ym Minister Conger was received at ie State Department Sunday.” It came fhraugh Consul General Goodnow,. at Shanghai, who transmitted: messages re- velved by Mr. “Ragsdale, United Statos consul at Tlen-Tsin, trom @pnger and Mr: jSquiers, Secretary of the United: States Hegation at Pekin. Mr. Goodnow’s. mes- sage was transmitted to President Me- Kinley at Canton, and Mr. Adee, acting Secretary of State, issued) the following statement concerning it: “Consul General Goodnow. in, a ‘cable- gram dated Shanghai, Aug: &, which was received at the Department of State at 4 o'clock this (Sunday) monning,, reports the receipt by Comsul Ragsdale, at Tier- Tsin, of messages from Minister Conger and the Secretary of the legation, Mr. Squiers, dated July % to, the following effect: ‘AU ‘well; wo fighting since. the 26th by agreement. Enough provisions. Hope tor speedy rellet.’ "Mr, Goodnow adds that the atrector o! posts, Sheng, had on the 5th communi. cated to him am imperial edict dated July 2, ordering Yung Ly to provide an’ escort for the ministers to Tien-Tsin when the ministers fix the date, ‘The edtet says the ministers can recetve messagex not ir cipher, but, notwithstanding thls, platr messages’ were returned to some consul: on Aug. 4." ‘While the messages trom Minister Con ger and Secretary Squters bear the dat ot July 1, the bellef, founded not only ot them, but also upon collateral and late information, 1s that the legationers ar yet safe from immediate harm. . At pres ent there is no means of knowing wheth er the ministers will accept the offer of the Chinese imperial government to pro vide an escort for them to Tien-Tsin, bu it Is surmised that they will prefer to re main within the British legation at Pe kin until the arrival of the allied forces. THE NOTORIOUS MRS. LUCY PARSONS ARRESTED. Serious Outbreak Among the Disorderly Classes in Chicago—Twenty-Five Pimentel: Chicago special: An anarchist riot oc- curred Sunday afternoon at the corner of Halstead and Twelfth streets, in which twenty-five people were bruised in a struggle with forty-five police, summoned to quell the disturbance. Five persons were arrested, among them being Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of Albert R. Par- sons, who was executed Nov. 11, 1887, in Chicago, for aiding and abetting the bomb-throwing in the Haymarket riot. Bhe was charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing the street and resisting ‘an officer. Her bail was fixed at $1,100. The others arrested were Paul Vandre, charged with distributing incendiary lt. erature; ball fixed at $2,000; Clement Pfuetzner, charged with assault, disor- @erly conduct and obstructing the street; Herman Goodman, charged with distrib- uting incendiar¥ jiterature; ball fixed at §2.000; Abraham Edelstadt, charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing the streets and resisting an officer; released on $1,100 bonds. A mass meeting had been called at West Side Turner Hall, at which speeches were to be made by Mrs, Par- sons and others on the topic, “The Execu- tion of the King of Italy.” ‘The eal con- cluded: “Workmen, come In crowds and show that the feeling of brotherhood is strong among you.” Mrs. Parsons was on her way to the hall, but, finding it had been closed by the police, she stepped into a doorway across the street. Soon a crowd formed and a police officer, push- Ing through the throng, caught a glimpse of Mrs. Parsons. Thinking she was mak- ing an anarchistic speech, he endeavored to disperse the crowd. His efforts were in vain, and the officer sent in a call for re- inforeements. Additional officers arrived and immediately a general fight was pre- cipitated. Fists and clubs were used and the officers, finding themselves being worsted, sent in a riot call, The number of police was increased to forty-five and they rushed into the throng, Mrs. Par- sons was seized. It is claimed she resist- ed arrest and her associates fought for her. Bricks were thrown, clubs were wielded and a flerce struggle ensued be- fore the crowd was finally disposed of, A MISSOURI FEUD. Four Men Killed amd One Fatally Wounded, Farmington, Mo., special: Four men Kilted and one fatally wounded is the out- come of @ shooting affair between Wil- Mam Dooley and his four sons on one side, and the four Harris brothers on the other, ag the result of a feud at Dee Run, one of the mining towns of St. Francisco. William Dootey, Wess Haris, James Harris and John Dooley are the nmies of the killed, and Prank Harris was fatally wounded. A young girl, Mary Littrell, was struck Just above the ankle with’ « rifte ball. A few days ago the Maris boys sent word to: the Dooleys that they would be at a ptenic at Daw Run, ana in. tended to run the Dooteys off the grounds. ust how the shooting Began is not clear, but once besun, it was deadiy. All’ the Harris boys excent one were shot. One [was Killed instantly. ‘Three’of the Dooley ‘boys. who were unhurt, came’ to’ Farm: ington and gave themselves up; They are th jail. Killed the Wrong Negro. New Orleans spectal: Last Friday when the mob riots here were at thelr height negro supposed to. be Butke Jackson was taken away from the police officers and! shot dead. It now turts ont that the negro’ killed at that time was-not Jack. son at'all, for he was'captired at Mage nol, Sins, across therlake; anid was tes tlirmed'to'this-city and lodged ‘in the pare teth petions, DE. KIDPATHS FoNeKAL The Distingotshed Author und Edacato Lald to Kest at Greemeastle. Greencastle, Ind.. special: ‘The funeral of the late John Clark Ridpath occurred from the family residence in this city at 1) o'clock Friday moyting. ‘The funeral was largely attended, with all his children ‘and all bis Brothers and sisters, except- ‘ing Willitm Ridpath of Spokane, Wash. ‘The remains were placed temporarily in the cttx vault at Forest Hill cemetery. ‘Rankin’ D. Jones, A. J. McDonald and ‘Venry'S. Smith, of Cincinnati, and Henry W. Knigitt, of New York city, members of the Janes Brox” Publishing Company of Cinutnnati, of which Dr. Ridpath was a member, were present: award Wililams of Kuightstown, represented the local chapeer of Phi Gamma Delta, Dr. Rid- path Detng an active member therein, ‘The Bedy of Dr. Ridpath was tying in state for hours and was viewed by hun- dreds of people. Dr. Ridpath was ex- tremely popular tn this elty amd county, and was the friend of everyone. Expres- sions of sorrow were particularly notice- |able from graduates of old Asbury, now | DePauw, University. As professor of his- | tory in old Asbury Dr. Ridpath was the | idol of alt students, encouraging them at Revers seo, INSURGENTS ACTIVE MANY SMALL PARTIES AM- BUSMED AND CAPTURED. Arbitrary Action of Maniln Banks Causes Many Dimoulties, Kor Commerce: and Miner Easiness. Manila cable: There has been an tn- crease of insurgent activity during the last three weeks, especially tn the way of ambushes and attacks on small partles. First Lieutenant Alstatter, of the engin- cer corps, with am escort of fifteen men, was taken in ambush tm the province of Neuva Ecija, Lugon, by a large force. ‘The Americans fought until their ammu- nition was gone, and, as they were sur- rounded, there was nothing to do but to surtender. Orie man was killed and three were wounded, General Lacuna, who was tn command of the insurgents, re- ‘turned the wounded, with a letter promis- ing to treat the prisoners well. Lieut. Rocton Hulesberg was ambushed and Killed near Santa Cruz, province of La- guna, Five men of the Twenty-fourth infantry were captured in Neuva Eelja, but Ser- geant Schmidt, of the Twelfth infantry, with seven men, trailed the captors an¢ killed five, ee Captain Lara, of the Manila native po: Nee, was dangerously shot by an unknown had been effectively enforcing regula. tions and had made enemies among. the Filipinos, some of whom have long thpeatened vengeance. Lara had beer generally accused of gross <orruption in offee, and specific charges were filed against him by an American officer, ‘The only three banks in Manila have formed a ring to reduce arbitrarily and without justification the rate of exchange for American gold. ‘This has caused wide- spread indignation and many difficulties for commerce and minor business, ‘The banks, however, aye obdurate. ON TO PEKIN. ‘The Allied Forces Begin the Advance on the Ancient Capital, en OE Brussels cable: M. de Favoca, Minister of Vorelgn Affairs, has received the fol- lowing dispatch dated Shanghai, August 1, from M, de Cartler de Marchienne, sec- retary of the Belgian legation, now act- Ing as charge d'affaires of Belgium at Shanghal: “The alles are marching on Pekin, ‘They are eighteen miles from Tien-Tsin, and should reach Pekin in eight days. All the Europeans have taken refuge in the inner inclosure of the imperial elty.”” YOUTHFUL DEGENERATE, ‘Thirteen-Yenr-Old Boy Confesses to Pol- soning His Father. Fresno, Cal., special: Fred Hines, 12 years old, has confessed that he poisoned his father, who fs lying dangerously iN at the county hospital. The boy said that his father treated him cruelly and had refused-to allow him to drive his team, He concluded to kill him, He and his younger brother bought the poison which Fred put into his father's coffee, beaks Sinan taeceed tk Aes Milan cable: Lieutenant Bresci, brothe: of King Humbert’s assassin, has in- formed the colonel of his regiment of his intention to leave the army and change his name. He will be provided with an appointment in the civil administration, ‘A duel with sabers has been fought be- tween Captain Tani and Captain Baccl- ali on the subject of Lieutenant Bresct's ‘course. Captain Tant had expressed sym. pathy with the Meutenant, whereupon Captain Bacciali declared that he could no longer offer his hand to Lieutenant Brescl. Bacclal! was wounded in the head during the sixth onslaught. Horsewhipped by British Clerks. Buenos Ayres cable: Guiseppe Castagni, a brother-in-law of Brescl, has secured passage for Montevideo after falling to sectire the return of passage mong to New York, which he paid three weeks ago. He’ boasts that Bresel committed a highly comritendable deed and’ asserts that Queen Victoria will be the next vic- tim. Some clerks-in a British’ shipping of- fice here gave him a\ horsewhipping’ for his remarks’ regarding the Queen. It is riot known whether’ he will sail for Mon- tevideo! or New York. . Huvgty Thiet Fined 685.00, Chicago special: For stealing a mia- night lunch of cold roast beef, sliced peaches and biscuits from the parish rest- dence of St, Rose's Church, Stephen Zav- odny, a Polish tramp, was fined $85. He had also taken some ornaments and a purse containing $4.83. After sentence ‘was passed on Zavodny, Father Hayes re- jented and begged for the prisoner's re- lease. The priest had been robbed sev- eth thakain AD WRECK ON THE MONON. South Bound Yassenger Train Collides ‘With an Kagine—Bive Mon Kitled. Lafayette special: At 12:40 a m., Tues- @ay, a south bound Monon passenger train collided with an engine at South Raub, ten miles south of here. The bag- gage car and mail car shot over both en- Sines, alighting on the track beyond. Tho complete list of the killed, amd injured is as follows: —The Kitled— Lewis Raub, engineer: Lafayette. James Hudlow, fireman, Lafayette. ‘Thomas Croft, fireman, Medaryville, Henry Whetsel, engineer, Lafayette. Eugene McCool, brakeman, Lafayette. —The- Injucea— Dan Schrader, baggageman, Lafayette. Mrs, Dan Schraden, Lafayette. ‘W. N. Tyson, passenger, Crawfordsville, Stephen Finley, passenger, Chicago. . H. Callahan, aonduetor, Bloomington, J. F. Pope, passenger, Williamsport. Chartes Davis; passenger, Crawfords- ville. Victor Belsen, bxakeman, home un- known. ‘Mrs, Lon Woodsom, passenger, Chicago. ‘This wreck has developed some sensa- tional as well us horrible Incidents. While there are contradictions between the trainmen living as to what was the caus> of the colliston, there seems no good rea- son for doubting that the switch had been left open. ‘This theory is confirmed by the arrest af Charles Kain tn this city, Kain was in chatge, of the switch and disap- peared Just after the wreck occurred. It ‘was at one time reported that part of sls body had been recovered from the debris, but this was disproved by his being dis- covered at his home in this city by the police, who were searching for him. ‘The freight, which consisted of only an engine and caboose, ts said to have been fon the sidetrack for half an hour, the train crew loafing around for the passing train. That the open switch should not have been discovered under such circum. stances {s a matter of wonder. Engineet Raub, of the freight, who was killed, was within sight cf the home of his parents. Ho invariably blew a certain shrill whis tle as he came upon the scene, and this morning, as usual, he was answered with alight from the window. Raub, it ts said, ‘was standing by his engine when the pas- senger train was sighted, and then started to climb into “ils cab, His life was crushed out and the mangled remains were not re covered until late in the afternoon. DOWLE BANDS RECEPTION, Met by a Mah at Mansfield, O, and Were ‘Nat Permitted to Leave the Train. Marsfield,”©., special: Overseer John Hamper Piper and Blders F, P, Fisher, A.W. McClurkin and A. Mciarland, of Dowie's Christian Catholic Chureh” in Zion, arrived here Sunday morning at 6:35 o'clock as scheduled. A mob of over 200) was in waiting, ‘The policemen refused to allow them to get out of the car, and amid cheers and shouts they went on to Ashland, fourteen milés east. ‘There they attempted to hire a carrlage to drive here, But all the liverymen refused thelr re- quests. They telegraphed back at noon that they would be Rere again at 2:2) p. m., and they came, Nearly 4,00 people were at the depot and again they were not permitted to leave the-ear. ‘They then sald: “If we can't get off here we will g0 on to Chicago, but we can not promise that we will not be back here next Sun- day.” The clty 1s quiet again for awhie at least, see "oe ‘awte faunnean oiickes. louie aes te oe ae ser oes Gee eee religious,” he said, “where every man can ee cece Asien dpe eels iene emactou Cee resattekc Soci 8 Hera San Francisco speciail: Captain Freder- ick Jerome,a n old-time sailor, who had the credit of saving over one thousand lives during his career, is dead in this city, He was born in southern England in 18%. He was presented with the free- dom of the city of New York and an ele- want snuff-box for saving hundreds of lives in the wrecks of the Henry Clay and Ocean Monarch in ths years 1816 and 1818. Captain Jerome also saved the lives of tho captain of the Lucky Star and his wife and children, who were wrecked on the coast of Formosa in 182. He was spe- ctally honored by a present from Queen Victoria for his heroism in the British channel. He was presented with a gold medal by the city. of Liverpool and was made a life member of the Pioneer So- ciety of California by unanimous vote. Killed by Her Nephew. Prandenburg, Ky., special: ‘The horri- bly mutilated dead body of Mrs. Annie Brunton, a widow thirty-five years old. was found on the Cedar Grove road Tues- day morning, Blood stains on the fingers cf Mrs. Brunton’s nephew, Jesse Durham, caused his arrest, and he later confessed the murder and was hurried to Louisville by Sheriff Hagan, as a lynching seemed certain. Durham killed Mrs. Brunton with a hickory clib while they were re- turning fronf d church wedding. He is twenty-seven years old and recently’ left the’ insane’ a¥yilim! ‘MWarriace of s King. Belgrade cable: King Alexander, of Servia, Sunday: wedded Mme. Draga Mas. chin, the cetemfony being performed with great pomp. In honor of the event the King granted’ aminesty, together with nu- merous political pardons, including the former Radical premier, Tauschanovich. AN OMINOUS NOTE srcnatAny Bava MaPLY to aida Guano acinomae nner rap oe antes ¢ ‘Washington spectal: The State De- partment has made public the following: correspondence between Lt Hung Chang and the department regarding the aban- donment of the campaign in Pekin: “Telegruin sent to the United States em- bassies' fn Berlin, London, Paris, Romo and St, Petersburg and to the United States minister at Toklo: “Department of State, Washington, Aug. L—In reply to a suggestion of Li Hung Chang that the ministers might be sent under safe escort to Tlen-Tsin pro- vided the powers would engage not to march on Pekin, the Secretary of State replied on the s0th of July: “Phis government will not enter into any arrangement regarding disposition oF treatment of legations without frst hay- ing free communteation with Minister Conger, Responsibility for thelr protec ion rests on the Chinese government. Power to deliver at Tien-Tsin presupposes power to protect and to open communt- cation, ‘This ts insisted on." “This message was delivered by Mr. Goodnow on the sist to Viceroy’ Li, who inquired whether: “If free communtea- tion were estabilahed between the min Isters and thelr governments {t could be arranged that the powers should not ad- Vance on Pekin pending negotiations.’ To this inqulry the following reply was sent on the Ist of August: “*Goodnow, Consu!-General, Shanghat “I do not think it expedient to submit the proposition of Earl Li to the other powers, Free communtéstion with our representatives in Pekin Js demanded a3 a matter of absolute right, and not as a favor. Since the Chinese government ad- mits that It possesses the power to give communteation it pute {tsel€ in an un friendly attitude by denying It. No ne- gotlations seem advisable until the Cht- hese government shall have put the dip- lomatic representatives of the powers in full and free communteation with the ro- spective governments and removed all danger to thelr lives and betty. We would urge Earl Li earnestly (a adviae the Imperial authorittes of China to place themselves in friendly communteation and co-operation with the rellet expedt- tion, ‘They are assuming a heavy respon- sibility in acting otherwise.” “You will communicate this information to the Minister of Foreign Affairs,” a a ‘The spectal Cabinet meeting Wednesday Igted about two gd g halt hours, There | weFe present, besldy the Psident, Sect%- tarles Hay, Root and Gage and Postmas- ter-General Smith. ‘The discussion was confixed almost exclusively to the Cht- nese situation, All the detalls of the alt- vation since the President went to Can- ton, two weeks ago, were carefully gone over, and a general exchange of views was had, ‘The definite information of the safety of the legatloners at Pekin and the hope for thelr final rescue were consld- ered the best features of the situation. ‘The administration desires. an immediate movement on Pekin if it can be inaug- rated without too much danger, ‘The failure of the allles thus far to agree on & commander 1s disappointing, but no new instructions: have been or will be sent to General Chattez Hels on the g-pund, nd the adminisicution its the Sroatest confidence in his ability and discretion, fand there Is no purpose here to handicap Rug with instructions. No change in the present volley of the government mgutt ed from ih¢ Meeting. The actidd of Secretary Hay (6 notifying the powers that the United States Zovernment Had informed Lt Hung Chang that we insisted on being placed In communication with our ministers was unanimously indorsed and commended as a step which must Impress upon Li and the Chinese govern- ment the fact that this country 1s not to be trifled with, The covert threaté thrown out by Li and the other viceroys as to the fate which might overtake the legationers if the advance of the allies was insisted on was characterized by one of the members of the Cabinet as @ bluff. What the Regicide Hresct Told the Wir- den of His Prison, , Rome cable: ‘The regiclde Brescl still maintains his excited demeanor and has to be dressed forcibly. ‘Thursday he ex- claimed to a warden: “It wil be the Czar's turn next!" Brescl_ has been moved from Monza to Milan. ‘The potlce have found evidence that Broset acted in collusion with others and numerous ar- fests have boen made. Breset's brother, & shoe dealer, another kinsman named Morozza, and several anarchists have been arrested at Prato. Natale Possan- ani, who was arrested at Ancona, admits traveling with Bresel from Milan to Monza, A Child Commits Suicide. Zanesville, 0., special: Noble Drumm, aged 12, sulcided by hanging in his grand- father’s smoke house at Fraziersburg, near here, ‘The deed was deliberately planned, and {t is thought to have been caused either by the fact that he was afficted with St. Vitus dance in a mild form or because his parents, who had been divorced, each remarried and he was left to live with his aged grandparents, ‘THE MARKETS. 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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. For Prosecutor--John C. Ruckless 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. Brayton. For Surveyor--James Nelson. --- THE RELIGIOUS CENSUS. The Director of the Census has received many letters asking whether the religious statistics of the population are to be taken in the present census, and if not, why not? The subject has also been discussed to a limited extent in the religious newspapers of the country. A very general misapprehension seems to exist regarding the methods by which the figures were obtained in 1890 for the volume on the statistics of churches. They were not procured through the enumerators. In an official circular published October 1, 1889, it was said that "This information cannot be gathered by the enumerators. * * It is necessary, therefore, to make church statistics a special inquiry, and they must be gathered chiefly by schedules placed in the hands of some competent person id each of the minor ecclesiastical subdivisions of the various churches." The Government of the United States does not concern itself with the religious opinions sf its citizens. It does not consider that it has any right to inquire into their hereditary or personal convictions regarding matters of faith, or into their ecclesiastical relations. Such an inquiry addressed to individuals, would be resented, and the information obtained' if the enumerators were instructed to ask this question, would be so incomplete and inaccurate as to be of little practical value. The value of a religious census of the population of the United States is somewhat p. oblematical. The publication of the volume in which the statistics of churches are contained has exerted, so far as can be judged, no ap preciable influence upon the religious thought of the Nation. The National Negro Business league which is called to meet at Boston, Aug. 23rd and 24th, has been so thoroughly endorsed by our people in all parts of the county, that its success now seems assured. The attendance will be large and representative. The colored business interests of Indiana, and especially of Indianapolis, should be represented at this meeting. 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 and the nation al debt has been decreased to some $40,000,000 in the same time, the showing becomes phenomenal. Mr. Bryan's devotion to the cause of the Filipinos, was so intense, that he really forgot the more important issues-issues that he himself forced, ovethe protest of the "conservatives." Well, he might have expressed his sorrow for the shameful treatment of the colored people of North Carolina, by the Democratic party of that state. President McKinley has unquestionably handled the Chinese situation mostably. Practically the only difference 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. In organization, will the Negro find the key to success and prosperity. Individual organization is more essential at this period, than racial unity. The average Negro does not understand or know himself. Well Bryan,s been notified. What's next? The Democratic party has notified Bryan of his selection, and the American people will cause him again to be notified—of his rejection. 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. 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 BISHOP'S HALL BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH (Corner Vermont and Tolteo Sial Rev. C. W. Newton, pastor hours; 8 to 9 a. m.; 5 to 6 p. m. Sunday services: early morning Prayer meet- ing, 6 o'clock' Chas. Grant, leader. 10;30 a. m., Preaching. 12;30 M. Class es. 2:30, p. m., Sunday-school, John Carter, superintendent. 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. Christian Endeavor society. 8 p. m., Alphonso Beard, president. Official Board, second and fourth Tuesday nights. Wednesday; Class meetings. Thursday; Prayer meeting, leaders appointed weekly. 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, CHINA. The eyes of the world have been drawn toward China. It is a land of of very ancient civilization, not a christian civilization, but a civilization that shows an inventive mind equal to that of any civilization in the world. We prove that in the evidence of one object; the beautiful porcelain tower in Nankin, China, was one of the wonders of the World. It was of octagonal form, 26) feet high in nine stories, each having a cornice and a gallery without. It cost $4,000 000 and was 19 years in building, being completed A.D. 1480. The outer face of this unique structure was covered with slabs of porcelain of various colors, principally of green, yellow, red and white. At every one of its nine stories, the projecting roof of the gallery was covered with green tiles, and a bell was suspended from each corner. There were 152 bells in all, which gave out sweet sounds when there was a brisk wind. One hundred and twenty-eight lamps were hung on the outside. On the top was a pinnacle in the shape of a pineapple, surmounted by a gilded ball. A spiral staircase led to the summit. This building was constructed for a gift to the Empress and the government kept it in repair. In 1801 it was struck by lightning and its three upper stories broken or thrown down, but the government repaired the injury. In 1856 however the Taiping rebels blew it up and carried away the material, fearing that the magic influence of its bells and lamps would work against the success of their cause. Our church believes in Christ anizing dear old China in the right but not with shot and shell. THE JEWISH BELIEF. THE JEWISH BELIEF. In their religious observances modern Jews adhere to the rules of the Mosaic dispensation. Their services consist chiefly in reading the law in their synagogues, together with a variety of prayers. They abstain from the meats prohibited by the Levitical law, and they continue to observe the Passover, as nearly as possible. They offer prayers for the dead, because they believe that the souls of the wicked go a place of tempory punishment, where they remain under trial a year, and they think that very few will be condemned to suffer eternally. We give a summary of the Confession of Faith, in which all the orthodox Jews must live and die. It is made up of thirteen articles, and was drawn up in the 11th century by a celebrated Rabbi Malimonides. These Articles declare in substance: 1. That there is one God creator of all things, who exist without any part of the universe, but without whom nothing can maintain existence: 2. That God is uncompoundable and indivisible, but different from all other unities; 3. that God is an immaterial being, without any admixture of corporeal subsistence; 4. that God is eternal, but everything else had a beginning in time; 5. that God alone ought to be worshipped, without mediators or intercessors; 6. that there have been inspired prophets, and may be more; 7. that Moses was the grandest prophet that ever appeared; 8. that the Law of Moses was in every syllable dictated by the Almighty, not only in its written letter but, in traditional exposition; 9. that the Law is immutable, neither to be added to nor diminished; 10. that God knows all of our actions, and governs them as he will; 11. that the observance of the Law is rewarded and its violation punished in this world, but in a greater degree in the next; 12. that a Messiah is yet to appear, the time of whose coming may not be prescribed or fortold and, 13th that God will raise the dead at the last and pass judgement upon all. SUNDAY'S PROGRAM. Morning services conducted by P. E. Saunders, At 2:30 p. m. Communion services. Preaching by the Rev. Dr. Gilliam of Simpson chapel. Consecration by the Presiding Elder. Communion by the visiting ministers. Collection by the pastor. Benediction. At night, preaching by the pastor topic, "Thoughts from Emerson's Essay on Compensation." Bishop Grant is now with his wife at Atlantic City, N. J. He will spend Sunday, Aug. 19, in this city at Bethel. This will be great Dollar Money day and the Bishop will preach morning and evening. East End No. 1; Ladies Alliance; Y. P. A; Lend a Haud; Getaways and No 10 clubs are coming to the front with their twenty-five dollar assessments. Conference meets September 5th. Read The Recorder. WAYMAN CHAPEL. Miss Lulu Thomas joined last Sunday. She is a valued addition to our membership. Every available effort is being put forth to raise our dollar money. The male members are taxed five dollars and the females, one dollar each. Miss Della Harvey has reported $4.00 Miss Lida Pate, an elocutionist of ability, appeared at our church last evening, to an appreciative audience Miss Pate is a graduate of the Adrian (Mich.) High School and has won several medals. CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH Corner North and Spring Streets. Rev. John J. Blacksnear, Pastor. The pastor preached last Sunday. The communion services in the afternoon was conducted by Revs. Payne Rockhold. The bicycle social at the home of Mrs John Carson, last Saturday was a big success. The Missionary society met with Mrs. N. A Payne, last Friday afternoon and was served by the hostess. The church will celebrate its nineteenth anniversary, the last of September, at which time we hope to have our pipe organ ready. The committee on arrangements is as follows; L. R. Mitchell, Irene Bagby, Lizzie Mitchell Mollie Lee, Mary Fretwell and Geo W. Prince, chairman. Bro. David Farmer, an old member of this church, was buried Thursday afternoon, Rev. Blackshear officiating The deceased was well known in the community. The sick are all improving. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months FREE BAPTIST CHURCH (Corner Rhode Island and Newport Sts) Rev. Craven will conduct services tomorrow. Communion services in the afternoon. 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 tomorrow at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Prayer meet- ing, Wednesday at 8 p. m. All who have failed to pay their sub scription will please pay tomorrow. Congregational meeting on Aug. 15 at 8 p. m., for the election of Elders. ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH. Baltimore Ave. and 25th St. Rev. J. L. Craven. pastor. The attendance at the grove last Sunday, was excellent. The Rev. Mrs Wilson preached in the morning, and Rev. Parker, preached in the afternoon and evening. Revs. Carpenter Hurley and Townsend assisted during the week. A great basket meeting will close the meeting tomorrow. Services all day. SIMPSON CHAPEL M. E. CMURCH Coron, Howard and 11th Streets) Rev. E. L. Gilliam Dastor The Children's service last Sunday was interesting and instructive. The older people should attend these services. Dr. W. A. Birch the efficient superintendent of the Sunday-school, has enlisted in the U. S. Volunteers and is assigned to the Hospital Corps, stationed at Jefferson City, Mo. He has the best wishes of the entire church in his new field of labor. Mr. Robert Genus, has recovered from his recent illness. Mrs. Lucinda Hayden was taken suddenly ill Monday, but is improving. A son of Mr. Ernest Smith has been seriously ill from the effects of a cut foot. The funeral of W. H. Gilliam, the pastor's father, was largely attended. The State organizations are all the talk, and from present indications will accomplish much good. Tomorrow the first installment of the subscriptions will be received. A good collection is expected. Next Sunday will be our second Quarterly Meeting. Rev. Dr. Hurley will preach at 3 p. m. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months ALLEN*CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH (Broadway, between Tenth & Eleventh St.) The pastor has returned Jast Saturday from Detroit, where he was called by the serious illness of his daughter, Mrs. Aurora Harris. He will preach tomorrow, morning and evening. Subject for morning services: "Our spiritual Household." Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 Fine Stationery SALE Give us a call. 'Phone 1563 OUR CORRESPONDENTS, News, Incidents, Social * and * Personal Activities ```markdown ``` 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. Wesley Gray and wife entertained Monday evening in honor of George Hodge and wife, who left Tuesday for New York. The out-of town guests were Mrs Henry Clay, of Cincinnati, mr. Jackson, of Bloomington, Ill., and Homer Tutt of Indianapolis. George Hodge and wife arrived from Kokomo on monday enroute for New York. While in the city they were the guests of John Taylor and wife. The Dunbar Club picniced at Pike Creek Falls Thursday. All report a good time. Chas. Harding, of Hoopston, Ill., was in the city the first of this week. mrs John Taylor gave a luncheon Friday evening in honor of mrs. Henry Clay, of Cincinnati. miss Manna Stewart left Tuesday for her home in Clarkswille, Tenn. mrs Stella Ford left Thursday for Chicago. Grandmaster Roberts was the guest of John Taylor and wife Sunday. miss Floretta Turner is spending the week at Kenneth. miss Seretta Wilson is home from Chicago. Miss myrtle Smith of Hartford City is in the city, the guest of relatives. Geo. Parker was out of the city this week. Seymour Sights. Mesdames McKee and Jane Brown accompanied by Miss Rosie Maddox and Albert Case were in Louisville last Sunday. Milton Booker is on the sick list. Miss Emma Lamb has returned from North Vernon, where she visited relatives. Mr. William Phillips is attending the State meeting of the U. B. F. at Indianapolis this week. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Church Sunday. Prof. D. W. Cain, G. M., has returned from Muncie and Alexandria. Madames Margaret Cain and Belle Goens visited relatives in Bedford last Sunday. Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper Rushville Notes. Mrs. Jane Gentry died last Thursday and was buried Sunday under the auspices of the Daughters of Tabernacle, of which organization she was a member. Rev. Clark, of Shelbyville, was the guest of Rev. Johnson last week. Read The Recorder. Miss Hickman, of Indianapolis, attended the funeral of Mrs. Gentry this week. Will Keys is cooking at the hotel. The band boys gave a concert at Carthage last Saturday night. A good time was enjoyed by all present. Miss Blanche Milton has returned from visiting friends at Indianapolis. Won' Ward, of Louisville, was in the city last Sunday. William Pettiford is on the sick list. Frankfort Notes. Mr. J. Jones, of Toledo, has taken permanent residence in this city. Five native African students of Wilberforce gave two concerts here last week. Rev. J. W. Harper, of Jeffersonville, is visiting his family this week. Miss Delia Walker is visiting friends in this city. Rev. Johnson is visiting his mother in Indianapolis. The Busy Bees are busy working in the interest of the church. Charlestown Notes The rally at the Second Baptist Church Sunday was a grand success. The report of the various clubs was as follows: No. 4. Capt. Martha Downs, $10.59; No. 3. Capt. Phenia ——, $16.95; No. 2. Capt. Sallie Garrison, $21.90; No. 1. Capt. Alice Wilson, $30.00. Total, $79.54. Collection for the day, $82.39. Rally at the Methodist Church Sunday. B. Harris is recovering from his illness. Mr. Samuel Young, Miss Maggie Green and Musett Sims spent Sunday in Jeffersonville. Revs. Harper and Sanders were the guests of Rev. Keliy Monday. Mr. Albert Lambert and Miss Taylor were joined in wedlock at Jeffersonville, Tuesday. Greensburg Notes Miss Lulu Saunders is seriously ill. Miss Josie Easton is visiting friends in Indianapolis. Mrs. Melvina Good has been called to North Vernon on account of the serious illness of her grandmother. Mr. Andy Meadows spent Sunday in the city. Mr. Easton was in the city last week. On account of the absence of the instructor the vocal class will not meet Friday evening. Mr. Wm. Fieldings, of Cincinnati is the guest of Wm. Davis. A new choir has been organized with Misses Josie Easton leader, and Georgia Edwards organist. Mr. Henry Rhun and family spent Sunday in the city. The vocal class gave a concert at Hope last Thursday. The Junior Endeavor has one more new member. Kalamazoo, Mich., News. Mr. Charles Smith and wife attended the celebration at South Bend, August 3d. Delegates to the Convention at Benton Harbor from Second Baptist Church Sunday School are H. Bailey, Supt., Mrs. Allen Thompson, Rev. T. C. Johnson, Miss Hattie Powers and Rev. K. Warren. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Mrs. Brown, of Richmond, Ind., is the guest at Mrs. Edwards, North Pitcher street. Mrs. Nora Waters, of Chicago, is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. W. Phillips, of Sheldon street. Mr, A. B. Ash and son will leave about the 16th for Benton Harbor, and there join his wife. From there they go to the National Encampment at Chicago. Excursions will run from all points to Kalamazoo Labor Day. LaFayette Vaporings. Mrs. W. C. Graves is visiting friends and relatives in Rising Sun. Mr. G. Milton Carter is attending District Lodge in Bloomington this week. Mrs. Ada Chambers has returned from a visit in Henderson, Ky. Don't miss the K. T. Conclave in this city August 27-31. Miss Minnie Hale, of Crawfordsville, visited Miss Pearl Powell Sunday. Subscribe for The Recorder. South Bend Notes. The big celebration is past. Joe Stewart and family will move to Pickletown, Ohio, in a few weeks. Rev. R. Gillard occupied the pulpit at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday. John Ortis left for Detroit, Mich., Tuesday. Wilbert Myers has gone to Chicago to make it his future home. Rev. Spotts, of Detroit, Mich., is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Miss Gertrude Howard, of Chicago, is in the city, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rasburn Curtis, on Longley Avenue. George Powell, of Calvin, Mich. spent Sunday in the city. visiting his sisters, Mrs. Higgins and Mrs. Howard. The Masonics will give a grand ball at the Occidental Hall on Labor Day, Sept. 3d. Richard Brewn was found dead in bed in Michigan City one day last week, and was brought to this city by J S. Mitchell and Newton Sanders, from which place his body was sent to Bay City for burial. Mrs. Sadie McCleland has returned home to Benton Harbor, after spending several days in this city visiting Mr. and Mrs. Curtis. The Odd Fellows' celebration passed quietly without a jar, and everybody went home happy. George Harper, wife and daughter, of Verlinia, Mich., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. Price, 505 S. Scott St. Mabel and Jesse James spent Sunday with their father, John James, 505 Scott street. The Masonics will give a big celebration in Calvin, Cass County, Mich.. beginning August 20th, and continuing for five days. Many strangers were in the city last week attending the celebration. Samuel Johnson was in the city last week visiting his brother. Edinburg Notes. Preaching at the First Baptist Church morning and evening by Rev Leonard, of Indianapolis He was greeted with a full house at each service. Mrs. Malinda Benson, of Columbus, spent Sunday here. Mr. Johnson, of Flat Rock Sundayed in this city. Mr. Harvey Watts and wife, of Louisville, came up Sunday to visit her mother, Mrs. Edwards. Rev. John R. Miller filled his pulpit in Columbus Sunday. Shelbyville Notes. Mrs. Laura Goode visited relatives in Columbus, Saturday. Mr. Joseph Robinson visited in Bloomington this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chelf visited in Indianapolis Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Tellis Carter visited in Indianapolis Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Arthur Allen attended the convention of the Grand Lodge of the U. B. F. and S. M. T., which was held in Indianapolis this week. Mrs. Mary Robinson and children are the guests of relatives in Indianapolis. Mrs. Nanie Green visited in Bloomington this week. Miss Mamie Johnson visited in Indianapolis Sunday. Mr. Ernest Montgomery is visiting friends and relatives in Indianapolis. Miss Stella Johnson returned to her home in this city Sunday. Mrs. Jennie Reed and daughter, Laura, visited in Indianapolis Sunday. Miss Josie Eston, of Indianapolis, was the guest of Miss Estella Johnson Monday and Tuesday. Miss Bertha Reed and Mr. Harry Taylor was in the city Monday. Messs N. Grissom, Charles Bell and Bud Maize are on the sick list Benton Harbor, Mich., Notes Rev. F. P. Green and J. W. Sanders, accompanied by a number of people from St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, attended the Emancipation celebration at South Bend, Ind., and had the pleasure of hearing and seeing one of the greatest men the world ever knew--Booker T. Washington. Quite a number of people from Chicago are visiting in Benton Harbor. Mr. Farrow is very sick at his home. Mrs. H. A. Woodson, of Bolden Green, Ohio, has returned to her home. She was the guest of Mrs. Carter. Mrs. Collies is spending a few days at Paw Paw Lake. Mrs. Mattie Wims, who has been quite ill at her home, is much better. Mr. Holems, who was taken suddenly ill Saturday, is much improved. Mrs. Mattie S. Davis was pleasantly surprised Sunday morning. On the arrival of the boat was her sister and husband accompanied by her friend, Mrs. Laura Overton. Mrs. Minnie Quarrels, of Chicago, is visiting her cousin and aunt, Mrs. Holland and Woodruff. Mrs. M. S. Benson, of Chicago, is the guest of Mrs. Copeland and daughter. Mr. Clarance Daily, of Grand Rapids, spent Sunday with old friends in St. Joe and Benton Harbor. Mr. Clarence Busby is visiting in Chicago. Rev. F. P. Green received a telegram to come to Rushville, Ind., to preach the funeral of Mrs. Gentry. Miss Myrtle Moore left on the morning of the 6th to spend a few days in Chicago. Mr. Squire Watson was in the city Sunday visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. Nancy Myres, nee Busby, is the guest of her son. Mrs. Mattie Mason and Miss Mattie Wheeler, John Gaskin and Fred Peterson, of Chicago, were the guests of Effie Gaskin Sunday. Noblesville. Mrs. Woodard Stewart gave a six o'clock dinner and porch party to her many friends at her beautiful home on Federal Hill. Thursday evening, in honor of Mrs. H. E. Boone, of Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. Caroline Gray, of Cinciunati. Miss White, of Muncie, was one of the out of town guests. About twenty-five of the leading society ladies of color of this city were present, and it is reported that many encomiums have been heard of the hospitality of the hostess. Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 Marion Flashes. The Rev. F, G. Snelson and wife assisted Rev. C. W. Mossell, in his church rally last Sunday. The morning collection was $97.95. Frank Gill, Dr. W. T. Thomas and J. M. Nickles represented the local lodges at the District Meeting at Bloomington this week. They report an enthuisistic meeting. Mr and Mrs. W. E. Weaver visited in Anderson this week. Mrs. Martha J. Collins attended the District Meeting of the Household of Ruth, at Bloomington, this week. The Emancipation Celebration at Marion on Wednesday was certainly a credit, not only to that city and the state of Indiana, but to the whole United State. It was a great affair and fully success in every sense of the word. Three thousand people or more, of all colors and classes, made up of the very best citizens, participated in the most friendly manner. The management who had this affair in hand and the committee of arrangements, are deserving of compliments from every citizen in the state. The procession was fully one mile long, headed by a platoon of six police mounted on on milk-horses. The escort consisted of two full brass bands of music. The route was through the city to the Fair Grounds. Too much praise cannot be given to the white citizens of Marion for their splendid hospitality to the visiting guest and their active support to bring about the success of the entertainment. The community of Marion proved to be fully civilized and intelligent. The principal speeches were delivered by Messrs Gurley Brewer and W. Allison Sweeney, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Retta Curry, of Greenfield, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Madison Knox, 104 Lonox street, Mrs. Frank Gill is visiting her parents at Newcastle, Ind. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months BROKEN BRIC-A BRCHS Mr. Major, the famous cement man. J New York, explains some very interesting facts about Major's Cement. The multitudes who use this standard article know that it is many hundred per coat, better than other cements for which similar claims are made, but a great many do not know the reason why. The simple reason is that Mr MajorNases the best materials ever discovered and other manufacturers do not use them, because they are too expensive and do not allow large profits. 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AGED FARMER KILLED SHOCKING TRAGEDY ‘ec A cae OF : QUARREL IN A BERRY PATCH NEAR CENTERVILLE. A Girl's "Phenomenal Power—The Lawyers Blundered—«The -Rough Rider” Newspaper —Death of Gen. Grose— Shot From Ambush—State Notes. ‘Aeod Farmer Kilied, “Centerville special: James R. Meek, vaged Seventy-eight years, a wealthy farmer living south of Centerville, was ‘killed Sunday by a man belonging to a warty of blackberry pickers. He had driven them out of his berry patch, and followed them to the road, where thelr conveyance was standing, when one of the men strack him a blow on the mouth, and the party drove away. A netghbor, “eho saw him fall, found him dead when Phe reached him. ‘The assailants live at sRichmond, and are under arrest. Richmond special: There were develop- “ments of interest Monday In the case of “James Rariden Meek, the resident of ‘Wayne county who Sunday met a violent ‘death at the hands of William Gates, a young man of this city. Coroner Watts viewed the body, but did not hold an au- fopsy until Monday. Monday morning, accompanied by Dr. Charles 8, Bond, of this clty, and Dr. King, of Centerville, he went to the Meek home and held the autopsy. It was thought remarkable that a blow from Gates’s fist should have pro- <luced death. Gates claims that he struck ‘with his open left hand, being right-hand- ed. It was found that the blow caused the rupture of a blood ‘vessel at the base of the brain, and that a cerebral hemor- rhage had been the immediate cause of death. ‘The heart was found to be in a healthy condition. Gates and George Jenkins, who was his companion, but who took no part in the killing, made sworn statements before the prosecutor. Their sstories agree pretty well. Gates says he swas greatly provoked by Meek's remark wto himself and to his and Jenkins's wives, ‘they also being members of the party, and that it was while in this fit of anger that he struck the blow; that he was imply too angry to control himself. They say they did not know the extent of ‘Meek’s injury when they drove away. The preliminary hearing has not been ar- rmanged for. The charge against Gates probably will be involuntary manslaugh- ter. There {s no case against Jenkins oe the women. The death of Meck ro- maves a prominent and influential man, He was a native of Wayne county, hay- ing been born tn 183. He was well edu- cate, and taught for many years. He :also served as Abington township as- ‘sessor and constable. :. wr" A Girls Phenomenal Power. ‘Muncie special: Miss Cora, the sixteen- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Himes, prominent residents of Oakville, ‘posuesses a mysterious power, which was ‘but roneaitly discovered by accident, The grt, it fe sald, is able to move a heavy -stand or any heavy article of furniture, ‘by simply laying her hand on it. She “has cured a number of people who have rheen.long affiicted by rubbing thelr bodies ‘with her hands. Her parents object to Vhef exercising the mysterious gift, as it appears to be a strain upon her nerves, and it is only by persisting that the girl sean be induced to exhibit her remarkable power. The gift was discovered recently, when a number of young people were playing “‘spiritualists.”” To the astonish- ment of all, the Himes girl was able to scanse a large stand to move about the vom at will by laying her hand upon it, She was terrified and refrained trom practicing it again, Her parents are ‘wealthy and object to thelr daughter ex- hibiting her power, unless some affilcted person prevails upon her, aie es ete en ‘Portland special: A peculiar state of sagaird exists im Adams county. Last ‘pring contracts were let for two stone oads—in bath, about ten miles—in Wa- Tash township, Just over the Jay county tine. One contractthis for a road three malice in length_—was awarded to Frost & Lally, of this city, and the other—from the Jay county line to Berne, a distance fot seven mailed tn length—wag let to Hoft- man, Augebarkger & Reynolds, of Linn Grove. Hoth companies have already teen at an expenso of several thousand @ollars. Monday morning the two road- ‘putlding firme were notifled {0 suspend ‘work at once. ‘The reason for this. was that in putting the bonds on the market ‘tt was discovered that the publication, ‘eiection and letting of contracts had al eon excuted Illegally. ‘The contract be- tween the Adams county commissioners fand the contractors held the county re- Sonsible for mishaps, and the county at tomney must share 2 portion of the blame. Gi a nee AY TARR Portland special: Hon. Charles Finley, ‘of Kentucky, will issue a newspaper, “The Rough Rider," from the office of ‘the Pennville Corn and Glass, the first number appearing August 9. In the ad- vance notice, Mr. Finley states his ideas ‘as follows: “The Rough Rider, a weekly, seven-column.folto, all home print, edited ‘wy the Hon. Charies Finley, ex-Seeretary ‘of State of Kentucky, but now a Tugitive from injustice and a resident of the loyal State,of Indiana: It will be devoted to Republicanism, justice, Uberty and the ‘retention of office by those chosen by the -suffrages of the people; for the repeal of ‘the: most {nfamous election law aver fas- ened on anintelligent prople. It will be Aedicated to the memory of those loyal Republicans who sleep on every hillside and in-every valley of the grand old com- jsaerwselinnfrors she Cumbericod xp to the Mississippi river. Loyal Republicans ‘whovhave died fighting with thels boots .2n, fighting in the harness, the batt'es of ‘freedom, It will advocate the election of BcKinley and Roosevelt. RA de Fiat Oy BWew Castle special: Gen “Wm. Grose, aged $8 years, died, Monday afternoon, from asecond stroke of paralysis, Helived tn Henry county since 189, Jacob Grose, ‘his grandfather, ‘was killed in the revo- lutionary war, and his father served un- der Gen. W. H. Harrison in 1812, Gen, ‘Grose taught school, later practiced law, took part in organizing the Republican party, and was a judge. He organized the Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, was ‘appointed colonel, and afterward | made brigade commander in Gen, Nelson's divi- sion. He took part in all battles of the Army of the Cumberland from Shiloh to Nashville. Madison Grose, Indianapolis, is his son. She Died For Love. Bloomington special: Maud Perceftela, whose parents refused to permit her to keep company with a young man of her choice, was found hanging to a rafter in her father’s barn Tuesday night. She had dled of strangulation. In the girl's dress was found a picture of herself and that of Alva Skirvin. With them was a note whieh read as follows: “I am going to hang myself this morn- ing. I would like to be with you, Alva, but I can't, s0 come and see me when I am dead, for I will love you till the last breath 1s gone out of my body. Good- bye, and love to all. MAUD.” ‘This is the third similar suicide from similar reasons in this locality in the dast two years, ectrietoii th Gite heded: Hammond special: C. UL. Marvin, a clerk in the employ of Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett, of Chicago, was drowned at Cedar lake Saturday evening. ‘The body was not recovered until Tuesday morning. Marvin came out from Chleago to spend Sunday at the lake. The same evening he went out for a row, but never re- turned. Later in the evening the boat and his hat were found floating on the water. No search was made until one was instituted by the Chicago friends. Monday evening. Efforts were fruitless until Tuesday morning. Deputy Coroner Osinski returned a verdict of accidental drowning. The remains were taken to Chicago Tuesday afternoon, where Mar- vin lived at 55 Warren avenue, with his mother. He was thirty-four years old, A Bitter Contest, Elkhart special: The race for the Re- publican nomination for judge of the Thirty-fourth judicial district, including Lagrange and Jlkhart counties, 1s the bitterest this section: has ever’ known, and {t will continue until the day of the convention, August 16. H. C. Dodge and Captain Orville T. Chamberlain, of this city, and L. W. Vall, of Goshen, are the present applicants, and there will be three special trains run to Shipshewana on the day of the convention. A peculiar feature of the struggle 1s that Col. James 8. Dodge, a brother of one of the candi- dates, has written a letter to Lagrange county, urging the Lagrange Republicans to support Captain Chamberlain. ‘The re- lations between the Dodges are of @ cor- mal cabere. Loon Lake Drying Up. North Manchester special: Loon lake, northeast of this city, which until recent- ly has been a very popular resort for fishermen and campers, {s rapidly drying up. Property owners along the banks are ditching the lake to get more ground, and though threatened with legal pro- ceedings, continue the work. The lake, formerly quite deep, is now dotted with islands, as the water recedes, and in a short time will become a mere stagnant pool. Cards and Dancing Denounced. Munete special: In a sermon before a crowded house, Sunday night, Rey. Hor- ace Porter, pastor of the Madison-strect Methodist Church, declared that cards and dancing are the open doors to eternal de- struction, and said that thousands of women owe their downfall to the balls of the so-called “'society crowd.” He then, in plain language, explained the influ- ences of the dance and cards upon young people. The plainness of his remarks caused much comment. a a a I Jeffersonville special: Wilifam Woods, a prominent farmer was the victim of an attempt at assassination, Friday after- noon, His physician says he can not re- cover. Woods was picking berries when he received the full charge of a shotgun in his head and neck. With a supreme effort he raised himself and looked around, but no one could be seen, He then fell, and he was found several hours afterwards, He was barely able to taik and was weak from loss of blood. Killed » Home Guard. Lebanon special: Andrew Clifton, 9, oldest citlsen of Boone county, died Tu:s. day. He formerly lived near North Sa- lem, Hendricks county, where, during the civil war, he killed a member of the home guards who came to tis home to arrest him for an expression of sympathy for the South, He was tried for murder, and acquitted on a plea of self-defense, the officer having exhibited no warrant. ‘He has since lived a peaceable life. Huge Inerease In Assexmonta, ‘The State Tax Board's assessment of railroad, telephone, telegraph, palace car and express companies {s Increased $2,237,- 700 over 189, ‘The greatest increase was in railroad property, $91,600. A decrease ‘of $1,500 was made in telegraph property ‘condemn: 08 Anowense ia: milians, THE SACRED ARNGHAR re Nr Captain Carus ‘Bentley, of the Elev- enth Artillery Regulars, imped down the gangway from the transport and stepped on pier 19 with the vague, in- definable satisfaction that after a year In the tropics he was getting back to God's country. He swayed a moment as he reached the dock and looked up at the ramparts of buildings along the river. No one met him at the dock of the steamer. ‘There were no tearful eyes brilliant with joy and tender arms to crush him with happiness. ‘There were no little feminine plaudits and girlish shrieks for greeting. How dif- ferent was his coming back from his going away. She had clung on his arm and sighed little heartbroken sobs. She was sad then. He had been exult- ant, gay, bappy, carried away with the enthusiasm of war and man’s love ot action. He had gone and won his spurs and got wounded and then lay for six months in the military hospital at San- tiago smitten down by fever, wavering between life and death, not knowing then of the agony which he inflicted on his dear one with silence unbroken by ‘a letter or message of any kind. Regularly and faithfully, with the devotion of her sex, she had written to him, and at the end of ten months. having received no reply, she had ceased. Some of the letters which she had written he carried with him. His hospital nurse had let him have them when she thought that he had the strength to comprehend their contents. Each was an unhappy, passionate cry (rom a wounded soul, an unconscious rebuke to him, and each revealed the pain resting heavily in the bottom of a neglected woman's heari, the pain which she could not help express when the natural warmth of her heart was repulsed by persistent silence, Bentley crawled into a cab and drove to his rooms. He had cabled his house- keeper from Cuba before the transport bad sailed, and he knew that his apart- ments would be in trim order when he arrived, that his bath would be pre- pared, the fire burning gayly in the erstwhile deserted hearth and dinner hot and steaming when he wanted it. When he reached the door, he fumbled in the pocket of his blue uniform for his Iatehkey, and he felt puzzled when he found that it was gone. He touched the electric button, It seemed funny to him to have to ring his own door- bell before he could get in. Presently the housekeeper opened the door, and Bentley's collie was alert at her heels. Mrs. Blossom could only ‘ejaculate incoherent sentences in the exuberance of her surprise and joy and Iook at lier returned soldier with fall the tenderness of her devoted old ‘age. “‘Happy and improving,’ your jrurse wrote last.” she said, “so I had ao fear for you.” _ “Happy and improving,” Bentley echoed under his breath. “I wonder ff she, too, heard that.” He had sank down into x big armchair before the fire. He was depressed and silent and stat weak from the wound in bis arm. ' “Let me alone to think now.” he said ‘to the woman, who stood waiting for orders. So she quietly and uncere- monionsly witlidrew and left Bentley alone with lifs dreams. The collie, too little noticed after the long separation, leaped on his Knees and whined piti- fully and Tay her gentle head against the faded, shabby sleeve of his cost. Bentley took her head between his hands and ws he looked at the quiet, faithful eyes two tears came into his own. “Litle old woman,” he said, “you've been Ionesome, haven't you? So have I. T've wanted to be back here mil- lions of times. Yes. I have. little wom- an, And TI had hoped when I did come that we might not be alone any more end that the hearth might not be 30 dreary. Yes, Jess, I actually began to imagine that some one would sit in that chair opposite and would answer me when I spoke and understand me when I was silent and love me al- ways, “Why, little woman, that empty hair has stood there opposite mine tor ten years now. Yes, ten years: You haven't kept such close watch of the time as I have.” He drew the collie close into his arms, and she lay there. vomplacently, blinking into the fire. “We used to think that she came and sat there and made us happy with her laughter and her bright talk. She was always a kind of airy ideal of ours, wasn’t she, Jess? But she was real for us—yellow ‘hair, blue eyes. low voice, slender figure and all, and she used to come and sit there and rest her elbows on her knees and talk nonsense to us and contemplate the burning embers just like a real woman. And then she used to jump up sudden: ly in her sweet, impulsive way and come and kiss us, Jess—you on that queer white spot and me right on the top where the hair has grown thin— ind disappear to make tea. Yes, Jess, it was all so gloriously dear, that dream ind that imagination, “Now, litle woman,” he continued nusingly, “I am going to tell you a se- cret. Don't get angry and bark, will you? I haven't told you before be- sause there wasn't time before I went away. But I met her at Mrs. Man- ton’s ball three weeks before I sailed. Yes, her, her, Jess; just think of it; the smbodiment of our dream—blue eyes. womanliness, grace, ah, everything hated to go without her, but it was war, and that meant duty, and {t was the one thing for which I’had worked and studied and fitted myself for twen- ty years. She wrote to me, Jess: yes, grand letters; and, lame minded dog that I am, I didn’t know how to au- swer ler in the way she wanted. I couldn't even grasp what she was driv- ing at, and I used to think at times that she was aiming at a smashup. Well, then I fell iff and couldn't write at all, But she wrote and kept on writ- ing for months, but I didn’t get the let- ters. I don't know what they were thinking of down there to hold them back. Here they are, Jess, in my blouse, and the last one is awfully bit- ter; yes, awfully bitter, Ifttle woman, and I guess the jig is up. Gad, I don’t blame her. Six months without a ‘word, and then she wrote and said she hated me and loathed me and detested me and that I was a coward and that I could never see her again.” Again the collie sprang up and bark- ed still more furiously. ‘Then Mrs. Blossom came in and asked him if he would not go and look at his room and see whether or not everything was all right. “I think there fs something whieh annoys the dog.” he said, as he got up to do her bidding. But she had disap- peared again. Bentley went to his rooms and stood at the door and looked in. It seemed dreary to him, He did not have the heart to Inspect Mrs. Blossom’s ar- rangements. He turned again to go back to the fire. As he reached the door of his den he glanced toward the chair at the other side of the hearth and then stepped back suddenly -and steadied himself against the door frame. For a moment he felt dizzy. He ran his fingers across his hot eye- lids to shut out the vision. A slender, girlish figure leaned back in its dreamy depths, Bentley looked again. and the vision seemed fuller to his tired, sur- prised brain, “Louise!” he whispered audibly. A yellow head turned and smiled at him in an old. familiar way. He stole over to his chair and sat down, look- ing at the quiet, graceful girl, “Louise. Louise,” he whispered feel-| ingly. The collie sprang at her skirts and barked indignantly. A. strange being filled the depths of the sacred armchair, which Jess had been taught never to use herself and to protect with religious vigilance against intrud- ers. Now ft was occupied, Bentley watched her curiously. She smiled again and dropped her bead in her ‘hands and watehed the fire crith cally. “Louise, Is It you, dearest?” “Yes, it is I,” she answered calmly. “The newspapers said thet you had been mortally wounded, but the sur- geon cabled other news, and I conclud- ed that he knew. I came to-day to in- quire for you of your housekeeper, and you surprised me here.” “Louise. do yon love me?” “That is not the question we ought to consider. I lave proved my love,” she said firmly. “Louise, I Tove you, and you know it?” he erfed out wildly. “Won't you come and occupy that armchair al- ways?” “Some time,” she laughed exultant- ty, with sudden gayety, as she got up to rum toward the door. She stopped in the middle of the room and came back and Teaned over to kiss the spot on his head devoid of its silken gray hairs and then the sunburned checks, seamed with lines of long suffering, and then the dear limp arm with its glorious wound. “Yes, some time,” she laughed hap- ite aia Effect of Number Thirteen. It is somewhat surprising to find the number of people who are beset by this dread of 13. The Inte Mr. Par- nell one absolutely refused to intro- duce a bill im Parliament because it consisted of 13 clauses, and insisted that another clause should be added. Mr. Pope, the great Parliamentary counsel, who is one of the most clear- headed ‘and broad-minded of men, was once offered a convenient house in Brighton. He at once refused it, tempting though the offer was. Its ummber was 13, And. yet there are just as many instances in which 13 could be proved to be lucky as there are to the contrary. ‘Thirteen was the number of the cabin of the one man, cither of the passengers or the crew, who was sayed when the Drummond Castle was wrecked off Ushant in June, 1896. The story of John Had- field is also testimony to the occa- sional blessings of the much-abused number, John died in the year 1770, when he had entered upon his one hun- dred and second year, but he had a narrow escape from ‘severe punish- ment as far back as the reign of Will. fam and Mary. He was military sen. try at Windsor and was accused of having fallen asleep at his post. Had. field strenugusly denied the charge and maintained’ that he had distinetly heard the clock at St. Paul's at mid. night strike 13, Witnesses were pro. duced to prove that the clock on the night In question had struck 13 and Hadsield was acquitted. ‘The incident was, by his express directions, record. ed on his tomb,—Mainly About People A Convict's Tame Robin. A convict in Sing Sing prison. who was in the bird business In New York and has made the taming of birds a study, has, while temporarily engaged at work ‘outside the north prison wall, caught and tamed a young robin, which comes to him when he whistles to It and fearlessly perches itself upon his finger. Sémetimes it goes with him to his cell at night and perches on the bookshelf. It is entirely at home in the prison. It goes out with him in the morning and stays near him while he is at work. A True Patriot. “Captain, dear,” sald an Irish ten- ant to his squire, who was off to the front at the head of the militia, “don’t be for goin’ to be massacred by them Boers.” “Oh, I'l escape right enough, Mick: if I'm to be shot, Il come bere and let my tenants do it.” “God save ye, Captain, 'tis a true Irishman an’ a lover o' yer counthry ye are, after all”"—St. James’ Ga- sabe Rival Undertakers Job Graves, with the slightest possi ble sigh of relief. put om bis rusty bat adjusted the striped cotton. necker chief around his old-fashioned: igh stock, climbed stiffly into his old chaise at the eurbstone and took up his position: at the rear of the’ proces: j sion. That was Job's custom torritle alone, at the end of the line. He had main: tained this custom through’ the funer- als of forty yeurs, buving Inherited it with other customs, ‘from. his father, undertaker before” him. Whereas Daver, with his otter “progressive” ideas, ‘had® introduced the custom of leading the line, which he did, very grandly, in x luxuribuy coupe, with gold lettering. It was the ages-long struggle be- tween the new ant tlie off this rivalry across the street. Elsewhere it is “hand work versus steans;” or “Purl- tan agalust Cavalier,” of “stratified rock at war with the leaf of a book;” here it was “easkets against coffins,” with all that these impled Always, however, the iron rule is—with occa: slonal exceptions — new conquers, modified by ollil, 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 con: selence, to the old’ methods, % the ac- customed ways. ‘The two undertakers differed wide- ly in their conduet of fimera?’ services. Job did'as his fatlier had done; mot be- cause that way was best, Int because it was his father’s way. | Mis rule of conduct became more absoltate with him each year. Now that lis wife and sons were gone he lind! no- future; lke had “the imaginatiow of regret, having lost the Imagination: of’ liope:"" ‘The star of success before liim beckoned no longer; the star of expertence,. from be- hind, illumined his sad:patti:’ Jot had given up the idealism of purpose for his sons; he lived by the ideal’ of ex- ample. from his father. Ofter be brooded anxiously about thist absent lad, but his anxiety was not’ suspected by others; an undertaker is not sup- posed to have griefs of his owm Yes, it is a part of the public: ax- iomatie knowledge that undertakers have no feeling; machines merely; necessary evils. Job felt his- allena— tion deeply; felt 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 {n 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 movedi a white shadow, in darkened rooms, xet a shadow with a heart. Oh, his heart was hungry often; for pity, for affee- tion, 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 deso- late heart. He accepted his desting, which was, “Not to be ministered! un- to, but to minister.” One early morning a drunken; dis- heveled tramp found rear entrance to the “‘coflin warerooms” and lay in a stupor under a bench. ‘The assistamt pushed a bag of plush trimmings. un- der his head. Job entered hastily, pre~ ‘paring to Journey to a distant city t ‘bring back a “body” for burial, "He glanced at the heavy, besotted: tace, partly hidden by an unkempt beard, and then said: “Let him sleep it off here! after- ward give him food and my old eoat ‘on that nail there!” ‘Then he: burried ‘stiffly down the street to cated his ‘train, _ The tramp did not “sleep it off.” He had “slept off” too many’ sueli states before. He was a shattered’ wreck. ‘There are two exits from stupor. One fs back into this visible world, the oth- cr is forward into the unseem The latter was the shortest exit for the stertorous 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 dena. Ohuckled over his wisdom im seleeting his lodg- ing house. Affirmed that he had chos- en his own undertaker; “the wishes of the dead shouti! be respected”; then a loud laugh, and they departed. So “Daver, City Undertaker,” lost his case, Here was the ambitions assistant's opportunity. Am assistant may not be trusted by a careful master to prepare “regular eases." but a tramp—it was a rare opportmnity. The assistant washed, shaved, ‘clothed—In short, “laid 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 rec- ognized—the dead face of his way- ward son. Death had done its purify- werd fom. Deatn had done its purity- ‘ ! : ‘ 1 ! ! ' t I i 1 i t ti i \ s v 0 I i ‘ f ; h " " : f 1 k ‘ ; ‘ h k i ‘ | I ‘ , ‘ ; : ; : " " : ; ; aht naw that Lite Go ees: the agate ant Saw that his ips were pare and that be breathed in: gasne. tug uttered no word, told nothing wt derolation that had come ty ha tt was there to tell? Who caret 94! an tdertaker’s grief? ‘Thar fyi that spor, white face of his pact! O% ‘The next day Job did not Dt the office; he was ill) in beg. ee a A week later a physician st Job's bedside and told’ him tha yes no ailment, and would te “sqs tt few days,’ For answer sop int eatmly at him and said: looted Your way to your my attorney’s! Send” him sca wit fo make my will” a “Pat my good man, not the slightest” Tere (> reany Job raised! his white hand go ingly, closed Mis eyes, hesina Pa said, ‘with am effort: te “Please also sem Daver to mot know Daver? Does good work, some new-fanyled notions ta; Qu good work.” » Dut Sew ‘Then Job turned his face to the w; He knew his own condiion. "al dying. We all begin to. aie," Dirth; that is normat dying. yu does "it skilfully: inexorabiy, Sut Job Graves had’ been dying with normal rapidity for twenty years: 4 ing of hunger and’ solitary imme, ment for life; limger for affection solitary imprisonment within tng gloomy walls of his strange vat Was this, also, Nature's doing? tt not, whose? al “Daver, neighbor,” he mnrn putting out his thin hand, seeking his last hours after that whieh leet vainly sought for many lonely yea a grasp of understanding ant aa, pathy—“Daver, you—do—gonk—won but you—know—what—1 would wish done. My way this time, bac’ ‘That—is—all.” Daver, mystified, but sniiog prompt but constrained, came. thy next day. Job's lips moved a salut tion, but no sound came. Daver walt ed. ‘He was ill at ease. Hie was nag unaccustomed position. He often may called to dark rooms and sheeted brig but with the conditions dittema This summons was premature; Deve was restless; cleared his throat lout ly; fingered’ his hat. “To be calla Kieret To this house of all houses! Tp this man of all men!” Daver's tiling principle was to. please; alwars j gloss the painful stubborn fact: bit rating principles may be suspend; hearts, like states, may experience we Dellion; souls, like nations, may siffer 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 resilesly about the bare room, then paused up- | om & erade crayon portrait of a0 old man near the foot of tle bel, Th face resembled his own. Job's sam lang to ft tenderly, trusttully. Thea iy gaze-wandered, rested on the man beside the bed; he started as if with surprise, but recollected “Dayer, I have sent for yor—rou now why.” He spoke feebly, the other noted, Tooked constrainedly into his tiny eyes. “E wish I could take—this—old boiy —with me, or see to its burying my: self, but T can't. We all have tu ask help at last, Daver.” |The plain, direct appeal of the olf man moved Daver strangely. He wondered at himself as he sat ther “We must depend on—on somelody else, Daver, when—when we ar int Iy the ‘ease’ ourselves; and assisan's are not to be trusted—not to be ttt ed.” He raised his eyes with inulty | toward the crayon portrait, then al “ed, “Father never slighted is work | And 2 faint sinile of content flickered over the dying man’s face, saying what the umble man’s lips woull mt utter, that he, too, had never slishtel his work. | And the “Funeral Director's” suns “red hand closed over the "Unlerale er's” wasted white one, and the 09 was a pledge. A long silence, Thea Daver departed, and Job rested peace fully. | Exactly when his last breath cum? _nobody in the house could say. but it “was about dawn the next momins tle weary spirit slipped away. J09 Graves left earth—an undertaker; entered heaven—a man. ‘A few days later a funeral proce sion passed along the street betwee the two offices, It was “A funessl of Daver’s.” but it was “Job Grave’ |funeral.” ‘Throughout all the arse. | ments the Old and New In funers st | were strangely blended, and ‘ | corning Public felt injured. as 1 “Datited in its attempt at explant |The doorknob of the “Cottin we rooms” was hung with a knot of Wek erape, yet the hearse was ftv 1? | “establishment of Daver & Uo. ON Undertakers,” whose assistant act as driver; the assistant from 1% “Coffin Warerooms” rode it | mourners’ carriage, an—stras* 9 tell—inexplicable to the wise, | knowing Public, quite contrary 0) custom, Daver, in his hreurivas cO7F followed the few carvinges. the in the line—*The Parsonase Pmt dy Bradley Gilman. Copyrigit } by Little, Brown & Co. Easy Come, Easy Go “¢ telf you,” said the man with 8 cotton check shirt and bah water trousers, who had come to ' city 09 his dirst vacation, “I've earned HAS? easy and Fm goin' to make & # “Did you win it on a bet!” bis acquaintance asked him. “No, It's my salary for the last 6m years as postmaster of Po:sum Bit Tlan't have mo wse fur it, you Ko an’ lald It aside. Now, be £302 goin* to have a good time wit Chicago Tribune, oo ‘In the Neck. . “Have you read Borus’ latest 0°" ‘Dolled Brains‘? even” “[ thought you didn’t li Bors style." “I don't.” ig “What did you read bis book [7 “Because 1 know some Diam A would be sure to ask mo if Tha {t."—Chicage Tribune. . i. Don’t, Don’t ont, on keep forever taking harsh cathartics, as salts, laxative mineral waters, and unknown mix- tures. The way to cure constipation, bilious- ness, sick headache, dyspepsia, and other liver troubles is to take laxative doses of the best liver pill you can buy, end that’s Ayer’s. Ayer’s Pills will never Abuse Your Liver. , They are laxative pills, purely vegetable; they act gently and promptly on the liver, pro- ducing a natural, daily movement, . 25 cents a box. All druggists. For ten years I suffered terribly with stomach trouble, I never, S in’all my food and had many hard hemorrhages from the . I then began taking Ayer's Pills. They promptly cured me, and T feel extremely grateful to you."— Joun Goon, Pro- Prieter Washington House, Washington, Ia, March 11, 1900. EEE (ugk WOMEN’S HUSBANDS. peir shortcomings Goa Long Way gecoucile Each Wife to Her eee Matrimonial Partner. Oe ee sie greatest waste ot sympathy ia ve rid is wadoubtedly that pity ex- ge ovtly me public upom the woman ee not married as happily as so- io Teiders she should be. Women rises when it comes to thelr ox Pimesti¢ grievances—Pharisees oo iy providence in thelr hearts enki ever tuay come to them, they wat Mjeast spared the mortification eH io the lot of certain other sehen they KROW. fom loubt this assertion, take {Sewing and make & round of vis- pu ue neighborhood as I did one Sing recently. Mrs. Jones, of the sey husband, Was the first one J oy ups. ler Home was Juxur- iy aul artistically furnished; it font cuir of material eounfortss Mas, wee gece me IM a, gorgeous em. feted kinona. She is @ worldly tows, axl although the things she Pe found oat through some lawsuit ta Bich ivr uusband Was proved a tas siete rorrowed hard lines of eyn- fen amd distrust fa Ber face, ee ns above and Dey is. expres: fan one of material | comfort “and Sounding self-satisfaction, Mimired the kimona, She smiled edapatiied vanity, "Yes," 1 think i Toanty. Tom bought it for me ox ts hst trip from Japan. Think just here Mrs. Jones saw tr ay eyes spoculacton as to what sort of aderiand business Yenture had taken Jon to tliat country, for she said, with {yulek ish of comprehension, “I de: see rom is the best fellow in the (oil to lis family, So generous, s¢ Foxiderace. Ile loves me.to have hand Garr clothes than any other woman tiats for hills, he never fusses abou fen, id {oll you he hax fast giver il a diamond necklace?” Msn t replied, Well, he did. You know she has pr coming-out party this winter, and ge was crazy for one; diamond neck fies are so Swell for debutantes.” “It is lovely,” I sald, “for ber te lave sucl a generous father.” “Yes” agreed Mrs. Joues compl xls, “I tell you a Woman can stam ie ot shortcomings = a = to put up at Feast with some dread fiealt when she marries, but I think Trould endure anything better thar siishuces and stinginess. If ¢ man i -handed and generou! Trother things can he forgiven. ‘hey wil be human, you know. Her hard lips gave a cold, compre iensive cynical twitch. ‘Then sh joked down at her glittering. ring: ‘rh a smile of cheerful complacency AVby,” she went on, “there are som things a woman just can't endure look at Mary Smith next door. Now fT bad a husband ike Fred Smith Ta have deserted him Tong ago. He f shat people call high-toned in a way at I don't call it honorable for a max wo live like the lies of the field, t tit of the little Income he has on his ti uf the litle Income he has on ‘hi: essed self, leaving a wife to strug de aud skimp out an existence an way she can for herself and a lot o dilien, ‘That's not my idea of hon f “Nor mine, either,” T agreed. An tie, after a bit of mere chat, I betoo! ayslf next door to see what Fre foith’s wife had to say about it. foal her darning beside a basket 0 sokings that must have seemed a lopeless as the sea did to the vesse vith the sieve, She smiled and offeres ora cordial greeting. Her face wa: worn and pinched, her gown out a stows; the room was bare and com foes “I have just been over to Mrs Ines," I said. “She wore a gorgeou: Amon’ ‘Tom Drought her from Japan.’ Mrs, Smith's lips curled Into a smile amused derision, “How can a wom acwpt anything from such a man?” % asked, impatient disgust in her ‘vie. “Why, how-ean she lve with Nia? Of course, she knows we all tow sie knows. Why, she doesn't frerve any more respect than he Sie seems to think he's all right, si ‘Oh, that’s pretense,"—confidentls ols ane degree of satisfaction— cx't be happy with him.” “He has just given Mabel a diamond ecklace,” 1 answered. “Well. can't have any respect for er Mabel or her_mother. Why,"— reves blazed, and I knew she was in fenies!—"f can understand a woman's feduring @ lot ina man, all women fs endure something more or less, Het to have him an unmitigated sharp- ess Tom Jones—that endurance Is ond me." htt think you'd get a divorce?” 1 “Certainly.” she answered. “All the Seer iu the workd would not keep me ‘ed to a man like that. Anythin, Gas nything but Her eyes fell on the basket of bulg ing stockings and her face flushed a ‘bit. “Of course,” she said rather Lsagienh as it.I had spoken, “men are hot perfect. Some have been accus- tomed to more indulgence than others. one has to concede in marriage to one’s husband’s peculiarities. He may have flagrant faults, but if he is upright, ‘man to man, in his business dealings, why, that fact makes up all foibles.” I gasped. I knew it would be this way, and yet it had turned out so ab: surdly true that the experiment gave me an amused and also a guilty feel: ie I felt as if I had lived long with ‘both these women through their alto ‘gether different marital experiences, And as if I could see and understand the point of view of each. “What in. finite solace we find,” I thought to my. self, “in the domestic miseries of out neighbors.” My theory became a rock of ada |mant when I had talked with the wom (an whose husband gambled most of ‘the time and was never at home, day (or night. She spoke with peculiar bit. ‘torness’ of a meddling man in the |house, and simply wouldn't stand it. he woman whose husband loafed ai ‘home and bossed, said—give her any: thing on earth but a gadding husband: | that no matter how much a man fussed around his own fireside a wife fell | mmach more comfortable to have hin ‘there, She knew then he was not get | Hing tn mischief somewhere else. ‘To cap the climax, on the very day | these conversations occurred, I called | Upon Maria, my washerwoman, and found her with her head tied up. "Pa hit “er,” sald one of the black imps of the wash pot. “Shet yo’ moaf, Jimmy,’ “interrupt. ed the woman. ‘hen tarnisig to me “An’ spose he did,” she added, defens ively. “Some menfolks dey get alkfirec mad :all ter gnet, but dat ain't no sign dey gwine to sulk ‘round de house al! time. _Espie's nigger, he nebber_ hit her no tine, but he dat grumpy all de time dat he seem tak ‘he gittin’ “ligion He sulk and sulk an’ mebber give ou a pleasant word. Dese chillun’s pa, he git savigrous, but most de tinge he Jokin’ and makin’ ns all laugh. Den my Gawd, ye know, miss, if a mar don’ git mad at yer an’ wanter kil yer now an’ den, hit’s er shure sigt he ain’ got no sho’ nuff lub fer yer.’ All of which goes to prove that the wife tn hard luck cares very little fo sympathy, high or low, the unhappy married woman can usually find | abumdant solace in the shortcoming: of husbands not her own.—St. Louk | Globe-Democrat. World to End This Year. ‘This is the recent decision of one of the societies of the world, and while there are few people who believe this prediction, there are thousands of others who not only believe, but know that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will cure dyspepsia, in- digestion, constipation or liver and kid- ney troubles. A trial will certainly con vince. Including Formosa, the Mikado rules over 49,000,000 subjects, No matter how worthless a man Is, he can always manage to get a kood recom- mendation from some man—who wents to get rid of him. Try Grain-O! Try Grai-*! Ask your grocer to-day to show you 2 package of GRAIN.O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. ‘The children may drink it without in- jury as well as the adult. Ah who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it Is made from pure grains, and the most delicate ‘stomach receives It without distress. One-fourth the price of tof: fee. 15 and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Hereafter boys who enlist in the navy will not have to buy their uniforms. Beware of Olntwents for Catarrh That nr ic ss mercury will surely destroy the sense of sme! and completely derange the whole system when contains no mercury, and is taken internally, Siete dh Raca es Saipan wearer able suivant Siwee/einhl wit) move inoue nee eee N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. ite, Tat unagind eoeine ou sce nparee Bees Cueva oe aresca etal, ce THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA a ee a at |) SOMGEE GH MEKIOANK THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. |. scmearan eas'rooe wae The Senior Bereau Lesson for Sun- eee ene day, August .-, 1900. Janes 9 Bavkec es Mimscs dee Matt. 18: 21-35. 21. ‘Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22, Jesus daith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Un- til seventy times seven. 23. ‘Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto e certain king, which would take account of bis servants. 24. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, whieh owed him ten thousand talents. 25. But forasmnch as he had not to pay. his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to made, 26. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all, 27, Then the lord of that servant was ntoved with compassion, and. looxed him, and forgave him the debt. 28. But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants. which owed him a hundred pence; and hie laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest! 29. And his fellow-servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I ‘will pay thee ol. 30. And he would not; but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. 31. So when his fellow-servants s1uw what was done, they, were very sorry. and came and told tnto their lord all ‘hat was done. 32. ‘Then his lord, after that he had called iim, said unto him, © thou wicked servant, [ forgave thee all that debt, becuse thou desiredst me; 83. Shotldst not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as Thad pity on thee? 84, And his lord was wroth, and de- Tivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. 35. So likewise shall my heavenly ‘Father do also unto you, if ye from ‘your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. Golden ‘Text—Forgive us our debis, ‘as we forgive our debtors, (Matt "6: 12) | OTHER HELPS TO STUDY. | J. Forgiving, verses 21-27, 21, Til) seven times—Peter thought there must be some limit to forgiveness, and yet oa be magnanimous. The number ‘seven, as a symbolic number, might ‘mean once for every day in the week, 22, Seventy times seven—An indefinic- Ip large number of times; not four hundred and ninety, simply, but that anany in comparison with seven; ak ways. 23, Take account of his ‘serv- ants—Make a reckoning with them, Count up the money he had intrusted toveach, and what they had done with it. So/God will make a reckoning with ‘Us of mental talents, conscience, influ: ence, the word of God. opportunities, and-so forth. 24, Ten thousand talents —An expression intended to indicate the immeasurable debt incurred, which could never be discharged. The sum has been estimated from $9,000,000 to $15,000,000. 26, Worshipped him—Did him reverence: as an Oriental suppli- ant would. 27, Loosed him—Set him free. 11, Unforgiving, verses 28-35, 28. 4 hundred pence—About fitteen dollars, ‘a very small sum when campared with what his servant had owed his lord 28, 1 will pay thee all—There was promise would be kept than that his own would be, for it was only about three months" wages that. this man owed, while his own debt was beyond, ordinary computation. 30. Til he should pay the debt—It this were not so ernel, it would be funny; but it is not more absurd than for modern so: ciety to shut up a young criminal among older criminals till he shall be reformed. 33, Even as 1 had pity on thee—-So we ‘pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” 34, ‘The tormentors—The tortures, or thos? who would subject him to tack and punishment. till he should pay—an awful pizture of retribution, since he could not pay. 35. If ye from your hearts—No rule of three times or s>vea times, but a hearty forgiveness should be shown, STUDY AT HOME. I. Forgiving, verses 21-27. What question about forgiveness did Peter ask? What answer did Jesus give? How can this be reconciled with Luke 17.42, What Is the condition of divine forgiveness? (Matt. 6: 14.) To what did Jesus liken the kingdom of heavew? What bankrupt was soon found? What did the Master propose to do? What plea and promise did the debtor mak +? How was the plea received? When only can we lope to be forgiven? (Matt. 6:14. 15.) IL. Unforgiving. verses 28-25. Whom did the forgiven’ servant once seek? How did he show an unforgiving spirit? To what plea and promises was he deaf? How did he treat the debtor? To whom was his cruelty reported? How did his lord address him? What ought the servant to have done? Whit fate befell the unforgiving servant? What lesson of warning dees this store. Heliographs in 1560. In “The Aart of Warre.” by Nicho- las Machiavelli, dated 1560. and trans- lated by Peter Whiteborne, at the end of the book the translator has added some originai matter. Here is “How to write, and cause the same that Is written to be read afar off without sending any message;" “A captain beSieged in any town or fortress un- able to communicate without by letter may, by night, so far as light can be seen, and by day, as far as burnished glass can cast the sun on a hut or such like, may be descried—he having ar- ranged with his friends the order of signal—one or two lights being flashed, hidden or displayed again.” What is this but the heliograph of the present Yav%—Landan Dallv Chronicle. TO FIGHT THE MEXICANS. Old Missourian Rode 1,000 Mites on Horseback to Do It. James 8 Barker, a Missouri farmer, is a veteran of the Mexican war, Hé rode on an old farm ‘horse 1,000 miles in the spring of 1847 to join Col. Jack Hayes, then at Austin, ‘Tex. recruit ing for Gen. Zachary ‘Taylor's army, says the St. Louis Republic. The dis tance is about 750 miles direct, but this patriotic horseman couldn't find all the roads running straight, and he frequently had to make wide detours to find ferries and good fording places. He crossed the Missouri river at Boone- ville on the'ice. He took provisions with him, ‘but the simple statement that he was bound for the war insured him a hospitable welcome wherever he could find 4 cabin in the thinly séttled country. Mr. Barker didn’t have to go to war. He was an independent Missouri farm. er and trapper, and there was no con- scription. But the news that filtered through to his little northern Missouri home led him to think his country needed him, and he lald aside his pur- suit of deer, foxes and wildeats ‘and the like for the more exciting one of hunting men, When he reached Austin, the horse that bad carried Mr, Barker so faith- fully on his long journey, evidently thinking it had done enough, lay down and died. Mr. Barker got a new mount and sallied forth with Col. Hayes’ reg: iment in quest of Gen. Taylor, but be- fore reaching him the regiment re- ceived orders to reinforce Gen. Win- field Scott, who was then pressing on to Vert Cruz. ‘This was the first reg: iment to reinforce General Scott after entering Mexico, and it was enthusias- tically welcomed by the weary Amer- ican troops. Vera Cruz fell in March, and there was hard fighting at Cerro Gordo, and at Jalapa, in both of wihich engage- ments the Americans were victorious. Mr. Barker fought in nearly all the great battles of the Mexican war until he was mustered out at Vera Cruz on April 30, 1848. He then went to New ‘Orleans and made his trip home on a steamboat, a ride far less interesting, he says, than his journey te the south on horseback, Mr. Barker's was the first regiment equipped with Colt’s revolvers, and this early invention of a repeating arm was regarded as something not far short of a marvel. The soldiers weve encouraged to practice pistol shooting while riding rapidly on horseback, and they became so expert that the Mext- ean officers found it hard work to keep their men In line when Jack Hayes and ‘is “double-sixers” got In among them. ‘Among the memenfoes of his Mex- jean war experience Mr. Barker has a cane from a bullet-riddled tree at Chur- ubusco, a gold ring with three dla. monds, a present from the alcalde of Mexico after the city’s surrender to General Scott, and a copper grape shot he found at the Alamo In July, 1847. Mr. Barker was born at Jersey Shore, Pa., April 21, 1821. He has been a Mis- gourian since his removal here on Jame 1, 1842, with the exception of the time he wasshooting at the Mexicans under General‘Santa Ana. He is yet strong and mentally vigorous, and can easily do a “full day’s work” on his farm or take a hand with the “boys” on a ‘hunt He now lives between Shelbina and Shelbyville, rear the proposed line of the Eldon & St. Louis railrond, A Remarkable Timepiece. A wonderful clock has just been erected in the Grand Arcade, Leeds, which hourly gives a representation of ‘the British empire, ‘The clock, which is claimed to be ‘the greatest horological feat of the cen- tury. is the work of Messrs. William Potts & Sons, of Leeds. As each quarter hour strikes numer- ‘ous Tittle figures, each representative of some portion of the empire, move forward «nd bow to the onlookers. Vntil the hands point to the quarters only two figures, representing mail- clad knights, with upraised batile-axes ‘are visible. Immediately they have chimed on adjacent gongs the real dis- play takes place. ‘A door opens and a British grena- Miler in full uniform marches forth, and ‘on reaching the center of the platform, faces to the front and salutes in’ pre- cise military fashion. He is followed by a smartly kilted Highlander, also a warrior; an Irishman, in the old_na- tional costume and carrying a shilla- Jah; a Canadian boatman with his pad- dle, and the dusky figure of a Hindu, with turban and join cloth, Fach makes an obeisance to the on Jookers in passing. and when the list figure bas retired the doors close auto- nratically. ‘Then a cock over the time- piece flaps {ts wings, raises Its head, and crows three times, Large crowds visit the Leeds Arcade daily to see this novel clock, which is undonbtedly one of the remarkable timepfeces In the world, combinitig as it docs some of the fextures of other famous clocks, togettier with many original improvements, The cock, for instance, flaps fis wings similarly to the one at Strasbure Cathedral, “and the time is shown upon a polished cop- per dial with blue figures, like the noted clock at Berne, ‘The escapement is the double three-legged gravity by Lord Grimthorpe—the greatest living authority on clocks and. Dells, Many parts of this remarkable timeplece are made of gun metal, but the automatic figures are of copper bronze.—Golden oanes Changed Her Mind. Mrs. Relletield—Do you intend to go to the Paris Exposition, Mrs. Bloom: field? Mrs. Bloomfield—I quite intended to go, Mrs. Bellefield, bat Tread in the paper that the Princess of Wales had decided uot to go; so Tam afraid that it isn’t quite the proper thing —Pitts- burg Chronicle-Telegraph. Day of All the Week the Best. Mrs, Bingo—Let’s go to chureb to- day, Instead of playing golf. Bingo—No, thanks. There's noe day jn che week T want to have a rest from t#at minieter.—Life. FOR MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER. The Best Prescription Is Grove’s: Tasteless Chill Tonic. The Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle, So That the People May Know Just What They Are Taking. Imitators do not advertise their formula knowing that you would not buy their medi- cine if you knew what it contained. Grove’s: contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The Tron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the malaria out of the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that Grove’s is the Original and that all other so-called «Taste- less” chili tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows that Grove’s is superior to all others in every respect. You are not experimenting when you take Grove’s—its: superiority and excellence having long been. established. Grove’s is the only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 50 OUOROEOHOROROROROHOROHO . The man who smokes. 5 a eae z $ Old Virginia Cherootsg = has a satisfied, ‘glad I have got it” © @ expression on his face from the time @ 2 he — one. He knows he will mi not be disappointed. No matter a 2 where he buys one—Maine or Texas, : @ Florida or California—he knows they @ z will be just the same as those he gets ; gi at home—clean—well made—burn gy @ cven—taste good—satisfying | @ @ Te: hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked ris Bm (ext: Ask your owndedler. Price, 3 for scents. @FoHOTORCHOCHOROHOHOHeHe Indianapolis BusinessUJniversit ¥ Diya 6 Siraton, Esaishe 9, (corprsed) Wes Badin, N Pears St OLDaret quartets of uu Wastavas Sohoch nr Atiezicn, \biest: mentor pet apetoens Baaioete pene gauges gre ptt oe ged aan, een gees a noe eee Wee WEBB, Vresideuss Credulous Being. “Does your wife believe all you tell her?” asked McBride. “Does she?” repeated Darley. “Why, sir, my wife believes all the weather man says.”—Detroit Free Press. Gen’'l McKinley and Col, Bryan. .. Will both be present at the great G. ‘A. R. Encampment at Chicago, August 26th to September Ist. Also. all the prominent veterans of the civil war and the Spanish war, from South as well as North, who will not be prevent- ed by active duty. It will be an his- toric and memorable oceasion, ‘The Monon Route makes a special excur- sion rate for the occasion. See agent for particulars. 1t-82 The fifty-first year of Heeb’s Bryan and Stratton’s Indianapolis Business University will begin September 5. A larger enrollment than ever before is expected. Very Little Space “My parents may come between us.” she faltered. “If they do.” he exelahned hotly, “they must be pretty small.” ‘And he pressed her still closer to his manly breast—Philadelphia Record. De Your West Ache aan Beet Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. Jt makes tight’ or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweat: ing Feet, At all druggists snd shoe stores, 25¢. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. ¥. A reasonable woman is one who isa't unreasonable all the time. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In or- der tobe healthy this Is necessary. Acts gently om the liver and kidneys Cures sick beadache. Price 25 and 50¢. ‘A false friend and your shadow attend you only when the sun shines. ‘The best Ball Biue is Red Cross brand. Large package, 5 cts, Refuse imitations. Tomatoes may be sliced thin, and’ served with salt, pepper and vinegar for breakfast, or sliced and strewn with sugar and grated nutmeg for tea. For: dinner they may be broiled or baked. SANDWICHES : The meat that we cook for sandwiches is as good as it can be. “The selecting, cooking and seasoning of meat is our busi- ness. We do more of it than diy. @@ anyone else in the world. oe POTTED HAM, - BEEF, - TONGUE Put np in small key-opening gf, cans to keep it just as we leave it. Just as economical as it is delicious, You, will never be without some of our lunchéon: meats when ee try them, Ask i your grocer; he will get them Libby, McNeill & Libby, Write for free book, How to: Make ‘Good ‘Things to Eat.” “aati, ZAISER CATHCART CO, TE dctgl ld. Tht et ii tees Seals, Stencils, Rubber. Stamps... FRANKLIN COLLEGE a3. 00" Ga Tog fasts plane tera ates EW DISCOVERY gives: DROP SY Sass PORT ae Bo rerc eee ) ff Peet Const Syrup.’ Tastes Good. Ove fa Pee inte. Sta y areca OB “CONSUMPTION. 4 J. #. U. INDIAWAPILIS. NO. 12 isan" PERSONAL MENTION ee Se. ey ie ee Furnished rooms to let, inquire 501 North West street. ‘Tell your friends to read next week's issue of The Recorder. For Rent—House, 4 or 6 rooms; 426 North California street. Have you heard of the Royal Legion of Peace? Miss Lillie Bell is visiting in Chicago ‘Mr, and Mrs. A. W, Strickland visit- ed in Louisville, Sunday. Ice Cream, confections and fruits at the Macedonia. 9 Miss Sneed left for Chicagoto visit friends. Call and see usin our new quarters- 414 Indiana avenue, New phone 1563 Mrs. M B, -Penniagton, spent last Snnday in Louisville, Ky, Miss Ora Richman is visiting at Bainbridg, O. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Stewart, have removed to 414 Indiana, ave. Will Phillips is now in the Pullman ear service. Farnished Rooms for Rent. 521 Sci- ota St., between North and Michigan. ‘Mrs. Mayme Wardentertaited Tues- day evening in honor of visiting guest. Miss Bertie Creels returned from Nobleville after quite a stay. Mrs, Metzger of Franklin, is visiting ‘Mra, Fannie Martin and daughter. ‘The Topaz Cluster club gave an out- ing at Riverside Park Friday. Samuel LaForce formerly of this city but now of Milwaukee is in the city. Bert Ward and James Harvey have located at Pittsburg, Pa. ‘Tom Morris of Alexandria is in the city. Read The Recorder for the news-the paper of the people. S. L, Taylor and Co ,17 Virgina ave. cleans, presses and repairs cloths. Read their adv. ‘The Recorder is now located at 4i4 Indiana avenue. New telephone 1563 Furnished Rooms and board by the week, day or meal. J, B.’ Stradfovd 355 S. Meridian street. ‘The Womans club will be entertained at the home of Mrs R.B.Shelton 1107 N ‘Mo.street. Mr. James Dickerson accompanied by his son, Carl, will leave Sunday for ‘Tennesse. Miss Mary E, Johnson is visiting in Detroit, Mich. She will be goae about three weeks, _Mrs.__ Felix Davis the well_known Gateress has assumed charge of the Macedonia. ‘The Eastern Asscistion of Indiana Baptists is in session at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. Mrs. Landers §Dvern of Wilkins Street returned Monday from # month stay in Kentucky. Miss Helen H. Allison of ‘Louisville is the guest of Mrs. Ada Passmore in Oriental street. Delicious Sodas at the Macedonia, Mrs. Nettie Mathews bas gone to Columb s, Ohio, on a six weeks visit to her parents. Mrs. Belle Coleman:of Louisville Spent Sunday in the city as guest of her cousin, Urs. H. L. Sanders. Mrs. G. W, Cable entertained, Wed- nesday evening at her home in North | West street, | ‘The Progress've club was entertain- ed Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Anna Manning, 511 qowman street, Mrs. Emma Brown is the guest of her Aunt, Mrs. S. Robinson, 718 West ‘Tenth street, this week. ‘Miss Susie Colbert has returned from. Washington D. C., where she shas been visiting friends. Joseph Henderson M. V.P., spent this week in Bloomidgton asadelegata to the District Grand Lodge. Miss Pearl Lett of Dayton. O., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F, Stoke, 515 West Thirteenth street. Anna C. Wellis, aged 2 months died Sunday. The remains was shipped to Crawfordsville for burial. Mrs, Victoria © Parham of New Al- bany is the guest of her brother Mr Charles Parham 1028 Lafayette Street. Mrs John Collins Marion is the guest of her sister Mrs N W Curry 757 Fay- ette Street. Misses Bertha and Albertha Christy PISS Mr. 8.G. Givens attended the Dis- triet Lodge meeting at Bloomington, this week. Misses Gussie Wells and Emma Tre- van left last Saturday for a extended visit in Chicago, Mrs. Susie Buckner will visit relat- ives and friends in Bloomington end Mitchell this week. Mr, Lonis Davey, 53! Wilkins street is able to resume work after six weeks illness caused by a felon. Mrs. James W. Jackson, of Chicago; is visitiag her mother, who is quite ill at her home in West Fourteenth St, William Brown after a lingering ill- ness has been removed to the City Hos- pital, He is a member of Marion lodge No. 5, K, of P. Richard Jackson accompanied by David Primus and Henry Bracken spent Sunday inNew Albany Ind., vis- iting his father. Mrs, Anna Johnson 419 Wost Four- teenth street, entertained for Mrs. Wagner of Evansville, Thursday after- noon. Try our fresh bread cakes and pies -The Macedonia, 415 Indiana avenue. Miss Julia Young, of Mayeville,Ky., anc Miss Henrietta Davis will take charge of the Macedonia Confectionery on the 14th. Artie Cole, six year old, white, fell into the canal, near Indiana avenue, ‘Tuesday and narrowly escaped drown- ing. He was recued by a colored boy. Miss Mayme Stewart entertained in honer of Miss Simm of St Louis Sat- urday afternoon at the home of Dr. El- bert in N Cap ave. Mrs. C. W. Jackson has returned from a plesant trip visiting in Toledo, 0., Detroit, Mich , and Windsor, Can- ada. Miss Lottie Dunbam of Bloomington Ind. and Josesh Dunham of Chicego are the guest of Mis3 Ly¢ia Williams in Muskingum street. Mrs. Mahala Sims of Louisville, who was the guest ot her cousin, Mrs. Ella Perkins in Eest Walnut street, return- ed to her home Sunday. Mr, and Mrs, R. Byron Shelton accompanied by F. Fowler Brown spent Sunday in Laporte the guest of Miss Hazel Harrison. ‘The best of service at the Macedonia Mrs. W. Pace who ha3 been spend- ing a few weeks, the guest of her sister Mrs. A.C Richardson returned home last Sunday. Adancing platform has been built at Lake Manitou for the benefit of those who goon the People’s Excursion to-morrow. The fare is only $1.00 Mrs, Easley and Mrs. Dunn enter- tained at a card party in honor of Miss Sneed of Harrodburg, Ky., last Friday evening. | Stephen Wiillams aged 75 years who lived at 2139 Parker street was struck by an engine on the Belt railroad Mon- day night and died Tuesday morning from his injuries. Mrs, Harriet E. Johnson widow of M. C. Johnson of Frankfort, Ky, died Friday evening and was buried last Sunday. Lemuel Johnson eldest son attended the funerl, ! Messrs Harry Brown, Harry Robin- son, and William Ford, accompanied by Fred Barry, of New York, spent last Sunday in Chicago, They report a pleasant trip. Miss Hazel Harrison of Laporte and Misses Kate and Mamie Childs of Cin éinnati, O,, will arrive, Sunday, to be the guest of Mr. aud Mrs. R. Byron Shelton 1107 North Missouri st. Mr. Homer Tutt has returned from a visit in Logansport. After the field day, which he has been summon to take partin, he leave for Louisville Ky. Carter Temple Sr. received a letter from Miss Ada Harris who is in Paris She describes her visit in a lenghty letter and speakes well of the way she is being received by the foreigners, Mr. William L. Wilson and Miss Susie Smith of Cincinnati were joined in marriage at 323 Wabash street at 8 oclock Taurday evening by Rev. C. W. Newton. The couple left immedict- ely for Chicago. Miss Ednah Brown entertained Sat- urday at her home in West Eleventh-St in honor of Miss Simms of St. Louis who is the guest of Miss Sadie Skinner in N Calafornia street. 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Be warned;.don't send your money to get only in tetuee ens, \PCR ier oa and tallow and animal fats, that ire your hair and cause it-to fall out, destroy its.growth, and cause os to Baconte bald Deal \\fa8 eo with a legitimate firm, who will treat you fairly and give you value for your money. We do.solemnly swear that our remedies are trues, \ ey us all we claim for them; that they do rot contain any animal fat or injurious drugs, and we. will return the money for every case of dicec, ae hss! isfaction. We refer to Metropolitan Bank, Richmond, Va., or to the editor of this paper. The word OZONO and the cuts shown in this ‘ee heel advertisement are registered as our trade-mark in U.'S. Patent Office. Any infringement will be promptly prosecuted. HR ioe OZONO positively straightens Knotty, Knappy, Kinky, Stubborn, Harsh, Refractory Hnir. No injurious hot irons are necessary to SS Ker produce this effect. OZONO docs the work alone, and the use does not have to be kept up alter the hair becomes strright, and washivg tie Dees hair hastens the treatment, doing it good in every way. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, and all itching, running, scaly, humiliating Scalp e Reon Diseases; causes the hair to grow long and straight, soft, fine, and beautiful as an April masming. Price, 50c. a box; 4 boxes does the work a ees 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 j Ra boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which makes rough skin soft and brightens up black : Ra skin several shades; also one bottle of SKIN FOOD, which removes Wrinkles, Freckles, Moth Patches, Tan, Liver wR Ke Spots, Small-Pox Pits, Birthmarks, Sc.” It makes the aged look young, and the young look younger. We wil Sone ete’ oe also, to show ‘our liberality, include a package of ANTI-ODOR, which remaves all smells and odors. arising pe vane ioe fs fe from the human body—such as feet, arm-pits, &e.; cures Sore Throat and. Mouth, Womb Diseases, Sare and cae Ei reat a Frosted Feet, &c This grand combination, worth $3.50, we will send you on receipt of One Dollan, to pf Or S\N Pe Gus, Wey | introduce honest goods. Parties sending us $200 will receive four lots. Register your letters. fa taed ES i iD AGENTS WANTED. ?2 Gap 2h) FB ya : a i ree TIDY y : i as CY BOSTON CHEMICAL GOMPANY. 4) 3544 AK AM ante ab ID 310 E.BROAD ST.RICHMOND,VA. B- c #9 TOR SILT Go RL oe SES ARCO IDE Beka USO IN One iG Ge An Made ee Nhe ARO bere be eu ri. by 20 Rs The above word Ozono and the heads before and after, are our trade mark, registered, Any infringement will beprosecuted, Mrs. Rebbeca Sims who has been sojouring in Louisville returned last Sunday. Miss Caussie Pilkle and Miss Mollie Faulkner, gave an informal reception Wednesday evening in honor of Miss '§, Beasley and Miss Dovie Eddington of Louisville at the residence of Mrs. G. Lane 1533 Cornell avenue. It wus a pleesant affair. Union Chapter held its regular meet ing and elected the following officers for the ensuing year. Gertrude Hill, RM; J. M. Porter R P; alice Pur- year, A. M; Lucy Rogers, Ses. Roxie Bell, ‘Treas. Josie Porter, Con. Nora Baird, A. Con. Mr. and Mrs. Felix Davis entertain- ed a few friends at a ten o'clock lunch- con last Friday, in honor of Mrs. Alex. Moss, of Peru, Ind., and Mrs. Rucher, of Evansville. Those present were Mesdamds Bishop, Henry Moore, Fan- nie Hill, Anthony Bradley, Henry amble, I,033 Moss, Misa Hattie Doty. The Wise Man, A wise man is he who instead of- vie- iting summer resorts, obtains with less exense, the same results, by visiting Malones’ Barber shop 308 Indiana ave- nue, Baths and fans workmanship the ‘sink ol nerfection: tam now maKing............ Saige Suits at $15.00 and up have also an excellent fine of Flannel and Crash Suitings, CLEANING, DYEING, REPAIRING D. L Resbitt, Merchant Tailor. 405 Indiana av DICK MLLER, 340 Indiana Avenue Clears and ‘Tobacco CONFECTIONERY Fruits, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Ice Sica eye plat uae oF eatin Ballards Ice Cream, 20c a qt. «MUR and Cream THE MACEDONIA 415 Indiana Ave. am Ice Cream and Confection» ery Parlor "Take home a box of our best candy to your wife or sweetheart gt ut ot Our Fine Ice Cream is unsurpass- ed, Delicious Soda Water-try our Fruit Flavors. Fine Home-made Bread. Rol!s and Cakes a Specialty. as GIVE US A CALL. as Misses Jnlia Young, of Maysville, Ky. and Henrietca Davis, in charge. Mrs. Felix Davis, Mn’g,r- Elizabeth Baker's Cafe 419 Indiana Avenue. Will open to-day, Aug. 11, Meals at all hours, Home Cooking. Good Service. Give Us A Call 4 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. 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, MMF-L.. Dunn, Artistic Shoe Polisher. CHAS, RAPE, Prop. Grant H, Clay, M, D,, Dentist, Go where your work is Wanted, and you are sure to receive the BEST OF SERVICE. | make $2.50 and $3.00 sets of teeth--if you watt them, Theyare good, but not the best, Gas or Air given When youemploy Dr. Clay as a Dentist, you get the benefit of 14 years experience. (Reference, 14 years with New York Dental Co.) Grant H Clay, M. D.; Dentist. 108 North Illinois Street. (8to10a.m, Office hours; 1to3p m. (6 to8p. m. Dr, J. H. WARD, Physician & Surgeon. 435 Indiana Avenue. Old phone, 1 ring~6490; new 1974, ‘The Peoples Excursion eT aes To Lake Menireu Rochester, Ind, Aug. 12, SUNDAY Aug. 12 $1.00 Round Trip $1.00 J&Music by theK. P. Band, Good Fishing, Boating and Amusements, DRUGGIST 502 and 504 Indiana Avenue ‘The BEST Ice Cream Soda in ‘‘Buck- town, Sole Agent in the city for Ozonized Ox Marrow Soldier's Relief diy A Sure Cure For Cox iy Cramps In the Stomach he R28 __-piaRRiona— RR ca pert’ 4, BYP SUMMER Compraint and ‘y al Indigestion. f WN Call for it over the Bar. v eee Manufactured by A. A. Nichols, 407 W. North St., Indianapolis, _ For Sale by Druggists. NX Cr N\’/, — Lightning Specific Vee ee catharticin a purely vegetable composi I =a contaiss pepsin, a peculiar organic sel~He | - Foquired by the stomache to ait desion, he with podophiytiums, or extract of mantic | EN Nad ey remedy without a rival as a ter ua ZEEE 7 Ie resdily ansian ta the ansetinton tn ZAIN fee = ee nec oon al . eee norveforce. giving tone and enerzy to seer | = tireoyatem, ‘Thespecticdes | HE MICROBES AND MICROSCOPIC GERMS and bs thus purifying the blood i proteateand coves Matagiot Cinta, Ascend Foe } Bitiousness and Ts phoid, and is-pronounced one of tue best Howsctiold' an ‘ Of Stomagh. Liver aud kidney Thoeblen iecleding Loaeenton Rises a pation.” Wiukont causing paing and gripings, Ke works weitly nthe Hoss \ moving all the secretions it relieves the Lungs by eliminating morbid mucus » | the Ui aod ie oy je eraee eae COLDS! CONCHR ERT Situ axp coxsumpri0n saz, BY eleguning the bloed t pomoves uiecctee, and anceaiy srecriy Sick I ) dhced Gy imperiect action of the digemie and sertotsry meee at ict proms ad peerless Compound, eaivly tite frum uy deletions due, . Rredigine, sttee for both cid and oun it puaramtead towite erento ) “LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICITY IS LIFE” } we are told by learned Salegtints anain erserGa meh Mo HeRde of the | Rie in witich we live we exaust che neppig’ of tie Vie Win ae Ee : grerwork, both mental and physical, and have Deen pasaoaind Sk Reston el sce | ‘erent too mach ar tao tie, tow fai rues rent arene oad fond car | digest and ansiatacs: nad ence we hate Seen tronehe uate NERVOUS EXHAUSTION TRSOMNTS ANDINA Srry } with all thennmerous “ie that Aosta hele tose the Rigbimien Sect hs Fels compounded bran etnen chemists G destpeod Grats Siese's Birtanno: which aufpitoe the ayciem with ute Wier ee aE ; mhich'a dite supply of mows pate ricu Blcod tn made’ sud the bia wis Faint. wily ate UelcHS DisBASE, NEURALGIA OR RIEUMATISN or some utter form of Merron Binetoe, cepioet Cte eee ve feartat Mental Saladien with walsh oar ianeas Heaps ace i : Baliye treoltendangarSan: any diver tay. teach 4 sage An Wich ) THE OLIVER LIGHTNING SPECIFIC ALTERATIVE abcording tothe dieection and contignetig Trestaene eee “ , Seabees pancrioed or pone act Peeatsc omen agaslialy, © : a pete of is ong adugh total ap ence sea eee Soleus to perfect Mcaise ned Yonehacer iguied igs Snes, is . milzemain persianentiy cared. tor the senicts ie manreaicd oe } poisons or any other dangerous drags, Agents wanted everywhere Manufiretured by the i} R ARC SELTZER CO, : In ) 220 Radon Pines, Northof Rover ta Park Church, on Hudson :¢r.Jntiona7sliel HENRY HUDER, DRUGGIST. cor, Penneyteania gud. Washington 5 s (oe lnatapelo sod ciciady Z The Mendenhall-Hines Cafe 226 Indiana Ave Meals, 15c; Lunches 10c. Good Service Everything First-class and Meals at all hours, Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing vt & vt st Timberlake & Sellers, Merchant Tailors 413 Indiana ave @@F All work promptly attended to. S. L.. TAYLOR; —THE— Popular-priced Tailor_4# - (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 ‘GENUINE WOODBINE Perfume R, P. Blodau's Drug Store = Meet Me At es ee HKlammond’s Grove Ese Tuesday, Lug. 21, 1900 29 TOR A GOOD TIME. THE FIFST [Seva Annual Outing Given by Prof, J. A. Sieret [a 3 Dancing from Noon until Midnight. Music eee oS Harry Taylor and Alonzo Gaten. Wagon e ‘ ° Odd Fellows Hall at 12 m., after that hou ee a J. A: STRRRETT, Central ave, cars to Fair Grounds, wagons wi . ae Dancing Free. Admission 25c Riis 1. D. Blair, Attorney, I D. Blair, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, damage suits, probate prac- ‘tice and abstracts examined a special- ty. 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 o-operty and farms, at low rates.