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TO COLORED VOTERS Consider Well This Able Appeal and Argument. Extracts From an Address on "The Negro's Place In American Politics," by Bishop W. B. Derrick. The institutions under which we live were founded in righteousness. It was by no mere caprice or accident that the author of the Declaration of American Independence wrote "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unilienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It is not by accident that the black man is found upon this hemisphere, dwelling among this great people. These things had their origin in the eternal council of God. In proportion as this germ thought is understood and appreciated to that extent will a solution be found to what men are pleased to call the "negro question in the United States." If there is to be a negro question because the black man elects, now that he is free, to reside in the land defended by his valor, developed by his brawn and nurtured with his tears, then, like Bancou's ghost, the negro and his question will not down. It is therefore for the people as a whole to say by their vote on the 6th of November next if the negro is to become the disintegrating element in the body politic or if the murderous methods of men like Senator Ben Tillman are to be condemned by the election of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. FROM WILLIAM'S SPEECH. FROM EANSA CITY PLAT. TO the took the government. KOM FROM TILLANAN'S SPEECH. We took the government away. We stuffed them. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it. With that system—force, tissue ballots, etc.—we got tired ourselves. So we conventionally eliminated, as I have said, all of the colored people whom we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. FORM. We declare again that all governments instituted herein derive their powers from the consent of the governed; that any government not based upon the consent of the governed is a tyranny and that to impose upon any people a government of force is to substitute gods of imperialism for those of a republic. In our determination to uphold the party of Abraham Lincoln and to support the Republican platform we are inspired by no craven fear for the future of the negro, who as long as the republic lests will find a place in it, but we are solicitous for the good name of the nation and the peace and prosperity of the whole people, which would be put in jeopardy by the surrender of Republican institutions to the forces of anarchy, repudiation and nullification as represented by Colonel William Jennings Bryan. We realize the reincarnation of the spirit which preceded secession, with all of its beneficial consequences. Had the results of the civil war been accepted in good faith by the south and had not the people of that section been encouraged by the Democratic party of the north to expect assistance in the reversal of the settlement, there would now be no negro question. It is futile, however, to evade the fact that nothing less is demanded by the Democratic south than the reduction of the negro in that locality to a state of peonage, without voice in its government, protection in its courts or security for life or property. It is equally certain that federal legislation, having as its object the utter degradation of the race, is the price which the Democratic party of the north is pledged to guarantee to the south in exchange for power. This insolent conspiracy is unrelieved by a single redeeming feature; this coward's blow is aimed at the people upon whom the south is dependent for the development of its soil and the conduct of its industrial system. Nor is it pretended by the party of Bryan, Ben Tillman and Bourke Cockran that the negro is to be superseded by a more efficient laborer. Their plan is that he should tell in freedom as he did in bondage, with little pay and without master to defend him from the abuse of the irresponsible and worthless whose lot under the old dispensation was worse than that of the slave. It is to deliver the southern black man from this living death as well as to protect the northern negro from the debasing influences of the Democratic machine that we desire Republican success. We have no disposition to detach the colored citizen from the whole Republican platform and to create new issues for his benefit, but the negro's paramount issue is now, and must forever remain until settled, his full citizenship as guaranteed by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution. If these amendments that were writ- "The Republican Party is the Ship, all else the Sea."— Frederick Douglass. "The Republican Party is the Ship, all else the Sea."- Frederick Douglass. ent into the constitution with the best blood of the people are to be set at raught throughout an important and wide area of the country, inhabited by millions of negroes, then it were of little consequence to the race whether the finances of the country were on a stable foundation or otherwise, whether Republican protection had filled the coffers of the nation or Democratic free trade had depleted them, whether the country had extended its borders or had abdicated its international functions. In either condition and under all the circumstances the negro would be a serf and not a free man, a pariah and not a political equal of other men, a hewer of wood and drawer of water for such of the outcasts of Europe as possessed virility and means enough to reach these shores. You mry rest assured that the Republican party, which placed the rife in the black man's hand and the uniform of the United States upon his person, will see to it that he retains the ballot as the seal of his power and evi- "The Republican Party is the Frederick Douglass. dence of his full and complete citizenship. We turn with contempt and loathing alike from those who would invigle us with perquisites of office to enter the ranks of our Democratic enemies and the poltroons who would solve our difficulties by deportation and expatriation. Guided by the principles of a great Republican party and protected by the constitution of our common country, we will continue to seek peace and prosperity under the ample folds of the stars and stripes. DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM The 30th annual session of the Daughters o' Jerusalem, Milton Council No.18, opened Tuesday morning at nine o'clock with Princess Royal Eliza J. Moore of Springfield in the chair. She made an opening speech which was interesting and well received by the daughters. In the evening, a reception was held in Zion's church for the delegates. Rev. John Hamilton, Jones and others made interesting speeches. The following are the grand officers present—Grand Princess Royal, Eliza J. Moore, Springfield; 1st vice Royal, Emma Madison, Piqua, Ohio. Second vice pro. tem., L. E. Tarry, of Hamilton. First Grand Steward, Louise Martin, Detroit. Second Grand Steward, M. J. Hall, Piqua. Grand Princess, Georgia Lawrence, Middletown. Grand Treasurer, Mary Dent. Spring field. Grand Secretary, O. C. Henderson, Springfield. Grand Chaplin, Emma Alston. Delaware. Gran Messenger, Mrs. Picket, Akron Grand Outside - entinel. Ellen Johnson, Springfield. The following are some of the delegates present: Mrs. Edmondo1 Spring field; Mrs. Kimmons, Hamilton; Mrs. Martin, Detroit; Mrs. Bean, Middletown: Mrs. Jackson, Dayton; Mrs. Thomas, Chicago; Mrs. Lindsey, P.qua; Mrs. Page, Toledo; Mrs. Morris, Akin; Mrs. M. F. Austin, Delaware. 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 The object of the Daughters of Jerusalem is the the up-building of their race and to promote their general welfare. They are also building a home in Springfield for their members and are progressing finely. Thursday evening they celebrated the One hundredth Anniversary of John Brown. The martyr of the Negro race was celebrated by the Daughter of Jerusalem at the A. M. E. chuveh, Thursday evening, Sept. 20. The following program was rendered: Opening chorus: "John Brown" in Openining chorus, "John Brown" by Choir and G. Body Prayer, Jones, Delaware. Introductory remarks, Mrs. L E Tarry, Hamilton. ry, Hamilton. Address, B. F, Thomas, Delaware. Solo, "Blue and the Gray" Mrs. Taylor, Toledo. Essay "Life of John Brown," Mrs. the Ship, all else the Sea."— Henderson Springfield, Selection, by the Choir Selection'on, Mrs. Blair, Indianapolis, Selection Mrs. Theo, Highwarden. Essay "Beginning, John Brown" Essay, Mrs Edmundson, Springfield. Remark, Miss Barnert. Selection, by the Choir. Doxology, by singing "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name." Benediction. The following officers were chosen for next year: Grand Outer Sentinel—Mrs Ellen Johnson, Grand Springs, O. Messenger—Mrs. Emma Jackson, Dayton. G. Princess—Mrs. Georgia Lawrence, Middletown. G. Chaplain—Mrs. Anna Alston, Delaware. 1st G. Steward—Mrs. Louisa Martin Detroit. 2nd G. Steward—Mrs. Francis Alston, Delaware. F. Secretary—M. C. G. Henderson, Springfield. 1st G. Vice—Mrs. Taylor, Toledo. 2nd G. Vice—Mrs. A. Finley, Dayton. G. Princes; Royal—Mrs. Eliza Moore Springfield. Business Brevites Watch our advertising columns and see who appreciates your patronage. Hydet's Studio, 878 Mass. ave. is one of the first-class places in the city, where you get low prices for a few days. Everything in linings and dress trimmings at the Lining Store, 5 North Meridian-at. Mohler & Metzger, 447 Indiana ave, have a new stock of up-to-date Millinery goods. A1 first-class barbers use Aristo, a fine sub-suite for bay rum and witch hazel. a rule for bay rum and witch hazel, A. Buckner has removed to 417 Indiana ave. Frank Lewis the well known colored salesman. has charge of Clark's Fish stand on Ind avenue. Their line will be found complete. J. Q. Brookins, has pushed the Cafe at 226 Indiana ave. He is giving first-class service to the public. Visitors to the Carnival will find every convenience at the busy store of H. P. Wasson. Mr. Clancey the general manager, is giving especial attention to their wants The Queen Millinery Co., 203 W. Wash. st, is showing the latest Paris Millinery patterns. They also carry a full line of Hair Goods. The Globe Grocery Co., offers great bargains to The Recorder readers at their 3 big stores. A Journal of Opinions in the interest of the Rail Correspondence Solicit Special Inducements to Sample Copies on Appl R. C. O. BENJAMIN WELL KNOWN EDITOR AND PUB LISHER OF LEXINFTON, KY. Was Shot to Death Tuesday Evening--Result of a Registration Quarrel. R. C. O. Benjiman, author, lecturer and editor of the Lexington, Ky., Standard, was shot and instantly killed by a man named Michael Moynahan, foreman at the registration place in Precinct 32 last night. The trouble started over a Negro who wanted to register and who became confused in answering questions of the judges. Benjamin was one of the most noted promoters of the Negro race in America. He was born in the Island of St. Kitts, West Indies, March 31, 1855, educated at Oxford University, England, and traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa. He entered the field of journalism in New York on the Star. He owned and edited a number of race papers, among them the Colored Citizen, Pittsburg; the Chronicle, Evansville, Ind.; the Negro American, Birmingham, Ala.; the San Francisco Sentuel, and the Standard, which he was publishing at the time of his death. He was a prolific writer and was the author of a number of historical work, poems, novels and essays. In 1896 he w.s on the stump against the Republicans. Benjamin, like the white leaders of the Republican party, with which he affiliated, was eager to to have the Negro race fully represented on the poll books. Earley in the morning he put a revolver in his pocket and went to the polling place in Precinct 82, commonly known as "Bloody B," All day he worked in the interest of the Negroes. Michael Monyhan was at the same place as a Democratic challenger. Shortly before 6 o'clock a Negro giving his name as Harvy Jackson asked for registration. He was suspected as a "floater." Clerk Doyle was questioning him as to his place of residence. The Negro got mixed in his dates, and to help aim out Benjamin said, "Don't question the man so closely. He's all right. Let him register and go about his business." Moynahan who had challenged the Negro, told Benjamin that it was none of his business how closely the Negro was question. This invoked an argument. Benjamin called Moynahan an "Irish —," and Moynahan struck him in the face, knocking him down. As he got up he drew his revolver. Moynahan was out with his weapon also. Clerk Doyle disarmed Moynahan and Police Officer Luke Doyle placed him under arrest. James Schooner, another colored lawyer, took Benjamin away. At the Police Station Moynahan was recognized for his appearance in Police Court. He returned to the registration place, Beojamin in the mean time had gone to Lavery's sa'ooa, drank a glass of beer, and then went to his home. He told his wife of the trouble, and said he was going back She tried to keep him at home. About 7 o'clock he left the house and stopped again at the saloon, where he made declarations that he intended to clean out the precinct. When he got back to the polling-place he was pretty drunk. At the sight of Moynahan he opened fire, but nissed. Moynahan returned the shot, and hit Benjamin in the left arm. Benjamin turned to run. Moynahan fired again. The ball entered Benjamin's back and went clear through him, lodging against the skin of his breast, killing him instantly. Additional Personals Throw away the cares of life for one evening, and join in and step to the light fantastic music of life at the Charity Ball. The Rev. v. Wakefield, former pastor of Jones's Tabernacle has returned from the annual conference of the Louisville district, at Henderson Ky. Rev. Wakefield has been appointed presiding elder of the Indianapolis district, with headquarters at this city. The Rev. W. H. Cnrmbers, a forms pastor of Jones's Tabernacle, has been assigned to that church for the ensuing year. Price 3 Cents Flanner Guild, in charge of Mrs. Verina Gilliam-Lewis, is exerting a helpful influence in its neighborhood. An undenominational Sunday school, average attendance of thirty pupils gath. ered from the streets in the vicinity is being carried on. The Sunday-school literature has thus far been furnished by Simpson Chapel, Jones Tabernacle and the Ninth Presbyterian church. A sewing class has been started with several pupils. The wedding of Miss J. Ella Valentine t and W. C. Gorden of st. Louis Mo be solemnized at the home of the bride 804 Oak street, Lebanon Ind., October 18th. Miss Valentine was superintendent and head nurse in Provident Hospital at St. Louis. Mr. Gordon is a successful business man of the Russell and Gordon undertaking establishment They will be at home to their many friends, at 4140 Lucky street, after Oct 25th. No cards. The Alpha Home Association, will meet at Walters Chapel Thursday Oct. 11. All members urged to be present, business of importance. Hulda Webb Pres. Ella Williams Sec'y. I wish to thank the following persons for helping us to make our rally a success: Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Tashe $2 50 Mesdames Mary Lindsey, $2.00; Anna Bowman, $1.00; Verina Lewis, $5; Alice Mason, 10c; Mattie Rich, 10; Murphy, 15c; Jackson, 25c; Miss Lillian Hill, 25c; Messrs Wm. Harvey, 50c W.T. B. Williams, 25c; Richerson, 25c; J Hightower, 25c; Patterson, 10; Burris, 10; and Mrs. Laura Martin, 10c. The Womens Home and Forcign Missionary Society, met with Mrs. Fryson in 411 Toledo st., the meeting was largely attended. The next meeting will be held with Mrs Ross in Smith st. Miss Susie Poindexter, of Washington, D. C. will be the guest of Miss Sadie Boyer, in 313 Ellsworthst. next week. Rev, J. J. Pierce, of Fisk University Nashville Teen, is in the city for three weeks. He will graduate next Spring, and will take up Foreign Missionary work. Come to the grand Old Folks Jubilee concert at Corinthian Baptist church Tuesday evening Oct. 9th, 1900. Come and hear them in Jubilee songs of years ago, also sketches, dialoues, etc., etc., and Mrs. Hanly as Buttetcup Mrs. Ella Walden and I. K. Johnson in "Now Moses" Billy Bell, H. A. Rogan, Ceil Tauders, J. W. Jones, Mrs. A. Glover, Mesdames Blai', Covington, Caldwell, Poe, Harvey and Hapdin and her "little grip". Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper 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. Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 HANNA ANALYZES BRYAN'S ACCEPTANCE. The Democratic Leader Again Switches His Issue. Bryan and Bryanism Punctured at an Enthusiastic Meeting Held at the Commercial McKinley Club in Chicago. Three thousand people tried to crowd into the quarters of the McKinley Commercial Club in Chicago, Sept. 18, to see and hear Senator Hanna. On that occasion Senator Hanna made the following speech: I take for my text Mr. Bryan's views on the minor issues of the campaign as set forth in his letter of acceptance published to-day. Just before the Democratic convention at Kansas City many pilgrimages were made to Lincoln, Neb., by Democratic missionaries at the urgent call of Mr. Bryan. This was for the purpose of putting Bryan's pet scheme of free silver in the platform. But, if you remember correctly, that issue was only placed in the platform by a majority of one vote of the committee. Now Bryan has relegated the silver issue to the rear, and brings out imperialism as the chief issue. Bryan gained this issue when the treaty was made with Spain in which the Philippine Islands were purchased. He went to Washington and by his own influence forced certain Democratic Senators to adopt the treaty, in order that the Democratic party might fight against it in the coming campaign. That proves that Bryan has not the courage to stand by his own convictions. Bryan's letter speaks of trusts. Yet he does not mention the ice trust or the cotton bale trust. In the latter Senator Jones is heavily interested. Every one knows the story of the ice trust. As Bryan declares that the trust is one of the main issues of this campaign, I can say that we are ready to meet him on that proposition as well as on any other. Hauna's Relations with Labor. Bryan also makes much ad concerning the conflict between capital and organized labor. For myself, I have this to say: I was the first man in Ohio to recognize organized labor. It was in 1871, when I was in the coal business in Cleveland, Ohio. John Seaney and John James, President and Secretary of the first bituminous coal miners' organization in the United States, called upon me and stated that the miners had organized into a union. As I was a leading coal operator, the two gentlemen urged me to use my influence in organizing the operators. That was my first experience with a trust. I organized the operators in the district in which I was interested, and during my entire experience there we never had a strike or trouble of any kind. I want to make this statement here, once and for all, in reply to all these charges and insinuations with reference to my aspect toward labor: If any man in the United States of America can bring into my presence a man who has ever worked for me and truthfully state and substantiate that I have refused to meet at any time and anywhere any man in my employ, that I have ever intentionally done any man a harm, that I have ever insisted on lowering wages to any man who works for me, or who can truthfully say that I have done evil to him. I will resign from the United States Senate to-morrow. (Great applause.) I made the proposition in 1807 I have found no takers, and it is still open. (Laughter and applause.) Republican Party Against Trusts Republican Party Against Trusts. Now, then, about this trust question, a few words more. I would like to have Mr. Bryan or any other Democrat tell me what a trust is. I don't believe there is a trust in the United States, for every State law and national law will destroy any trust that comes within its jurisdiction; and the only laws, State and national, that have ever been put upon statute books were enacted by the Republican party. (A voice—Never enforced.) Yes, they are enforced. (Voice—Put him out.) No, don't put him out. I don't want to put anybody out. (A voice—He is a good Democrat; he shoots in the rear.) We have no objections to the Democratic party being opposed to trusts, but they have got no patent on it. (Laughter.) Bryan's Policy for Philippines. Now, then, one word more with reference to the position of Mr. Bryan upon this Philippine question—and it has been so thoroughly exploded that I won't mention it except in passing. I recited to you the part that he took in the execution of that treaty, and the authority that he used with his party to ratify the treaty, and I think I have convinced a great many of my hearers that his purpose and motive was not patriotic. He tells the people of the United States what he will do if he is elected President of the United States. His first act would be to haul down the American flag in the Philippines. (A voice: "He never could do it.") Then he would establish a stable government—he doesn't say republican government—and probably put Aguinaldo at the head of it. Then he said that he would establish a protectorate by the United States, pull down the American flag, withdraw our soldiers from the soil, and leave our buried dead there under the supervision of Aguinaldo, renounce every vestige of power, which has come to us legally and lawfully, and then establish a protectorate—which means what? It means that the government of the United States would be obliged to protect the government of Aguinaldo from all foreign foes and interference. And what would be the result? Judging the future by the past, the next actions of Aguinaldo would be such as to shock the civilized world; and, if for no other reason, the nations would interfere in the interests of humanity as we did in Cuba. But if for selfish reasons any European people should make up their minds that they wanted a foothold in that archipelago, and propose to take it, what would be the duty of the United States government under Mr. Bryan's ideas? We would have to say, "No, hands off!" veys the Monroe doctrine to Asiatic waters. Whoever heard of such a thing? The Monroe doctrine is founded purely and simply on the determination on the part of the government of the United States that no foreign country should interfere in the western hemisphere. Mr. Bryan would do what? Spread it all over the world and we would stand behind and defend it. What do you call that if it isn't imperialism? As a result of that procedure we would find ourselves involved in all kinds of foreign wars. (A voice-That is right.) That is true—and yet Mr. Bryan is for peace. He was for peace when he resigned from the army and he has been for peace ever since. I am for peace. I'm a Quaker. I am for peace, but not at any price. I am not for peace, and I know that the majority of the people of this country are not for peace, with that brigand Aguinaldo as long as he is hiding in the bushes and shooting down from ambush our boys in blue. (Applause.) Bryan Switches Issues. But Mr. Bryan has already been driven from his position on imperialism. He knows now what many of us knew in the beginning—that it was only one rooster that he was going to put in the pit, and he would fight it as long as he could. Now he has got his last gamecock, Trust, and that goes into the pit for the next thirty days, and the Republican party will be prepared to meet him on all such questions, and if I had the time and voice and opportunity I would like to speak to every laboring man in the United States upon that question; because in warning the laboring people of this country against this huge monster, the trusts, in the same breath he says that the Dingley bill is the incubator of trusts. Now, we are getting to know where we stand with the laboring people when we come to the tariff, and we won't allow him to evade the issue that he has made on the bald proposition that the protective tariff principle goes hand in hand with trusts. We keep the protective tariff principle there and we will furnish our own definition for trusts. I say we are at home on that proposition because we have at the head of our national ticket that great advocate of protection, William McKinley; because in him we have the best friend of the United States; and there isn't a laboring man in the city of Chicago, or in the State of Illinois, or in the United States, who knows anything about public affairs, who knows anything about the career of President McKinley, that does not know from actual proof the fact that during his whole public life he is the only man that the workingmen of this country always felt at liberty to call upon to support their interests, and he never failed them. And he is just as much their friend to-day as he was fifteen years ago. Bryan and the Laboring Men. And now let me ask what has W. J. Bryan done for the workingmen of this country? (A voice: "Nothing." Another voice: "Yes, he charged us half a dollar to hear him talk.") Not a thing. Came near saying damn. Not a thing. His career in public life is available to every man. His short service was marked and made conspicuous by his opposition to the tariff bill. And what has he done since to show any particular interest in the working people of this country? He tells them what he would do. He is profile in promises, rosy in painting the picture as to what would be the result of his administration, but I charge you, workingmen, turn away from that picture and look upon the other; and the other is McKinley. Do not let us take any promise from any candidate or any man whose whole record has shown that his overawing ambition is to be President of the United States. He will ride any issue, he will climb on to any platform that is made for him, he will preach any doctrine, he will even abuse me to be President of the United States. Most Important Issues. Now, bringing these issues home to each and every individual, I want to bring them there because I expect and I know that every man who goes to the polls on election day having heard the arguments in the case, having considered how the decision of these issues will bear upon his personal interests and those of his family, will cast that ballot intelligently in his own interest and not in Mr. Bryan's. But there is a further responsibility which comes to every man and to every woman who can influence a man. I say that the importance of the issues in this campaign at this time and under these conditions is greater than ever before in the history of our country. I say so because I believe it, because I know that any reversing of the present policy of the administration of this government, any change in that administration, would bring about a condition of things in the business and industrial interests of this country that would dwarf the flood and storm at Galveston it would mean a hurricane that would carry before it every interest, it would be a flood that would ingulf the property and the material interests of every man, woman and child that enjoys the present prosperity. Where Interests Are. There is no question where your interest is, because every year, every month, and every day of the administration of William McKinley has been an object lesson. Every man who has an insurance on his life for the benefit of his family, every man who has his deposits in a savings bank or a loan association where he has gathered together perhaps the savings of a lifetime, where he believes it is safe, and it is, although that money that he deposits in a savings bank is not there, for they don't keep the money in their vaults. What do they do with it? They invest it in securities, in bonds and mortgages, satisfying themselves that the property good for the loan made—and it is under all normal conditions. But supposing that Mr. Bryan should be elected—God forbid. (A voice—Amen!) Supposing he should be. Remember 1893. Immediately capital is withdrawn from the avenues of business panic seizes and dethrones confidence and we find a condition of things that sends values down the toboggan slide until they are cut in two and quartered; and the property that is represented by the securities in the vaults of these banks covering your deposit is reduced in value. That is your property. It doesn't belong to the savings bank or the life insurance company. It is yours, you have put it in their custody for safekeeping. They are doing their duty. They have built vaults of deposit secure against the burglar and the thief, they have employed men of integrity and ability to invest your money and protect your interests, and therefore I say they have done their duty. MILITARY BURGERS I WILL HAWL DOWN THE WALL ANTI IMPERIALISM BURGERS BRYAN SOFT LOAD WHAT "BRYANISM" MEANS. Ming B. BAYONNE 1890 PEOPLE'S BANK DEPOSITS SHOW IMMENSE INCREASE. Urgues All to Work for McKinley. Now you do you. Do yours by not only depositing your vote for McKinley, but get as many of your neighbors who are undecided upon these questions, perhaps for want of knowledge, as you can, to vote as you do; make it your business to secure one more vote for the President of the United States, and that small effort will put us on a perfectly safe basis. Won't you do that much for your family? Won't you do that much for the national good? Haven't you pride enough to do that much for the national honor, integrity, and the flag? (Voices: "Yes, yes.") All right, then do it. Good-by. HUGO DENKENSPRUCT (By William E. Anderson.) "Yes, you are right, Jonathan, Mr. Bryan will do good to his own party talking about political equality, liberty and the rights of man, for it was always hard for his friends to make such things work in this country among the american-born colored citizens. But it is little late to do any good in those states where Mr. Bryan will get nearly all the votes cast. No, you are wrong, Jonathan. The very many kvotations he makes from Washington, Lincoln and others isn't quite a case of the "Devil kvoting scripture." It goes a long way ahead of that and just fits the case I am about to tell you. "During my term as justice of the peace in this town we had a great deal of trouble with tramps. They used to get into the school houses to sleep and at last they got so bold, a school house wasn't good enough for them. They began to profane the churches. Big Johannes, neighbor Smith's son, was constable and he at last arrested a gang in the Methodist church down there. He had not much experience, you see; and a schmart lawyer from the village was up before me to defend them. That man really was a fine pleader; and as he knew the Bible kotvations well, he made a good impression on the court. He said that his friends, the defendants, went from the school houses to the church to get religion; and that the Lord was where 'two or three were gathered together in His name,' and so on. Then he pulled out the notes of a sermon which he got MILITARY BUILDING IMPERIALISM BUILDING SOFT SOAP WHAT "BRYANISM" MEANS. PEOPLE'S BANK DE SHOW IN Prosperity Has Peo The one supreme test of prosperity is the money in the bank. This is a self-evident truth. If a man's family is well clothed and fed and in a comfortable home, and besides this he can put money in the bank, it must be admitted that he is prosperous. In the following unparalleled showing of the increase in the number of deposits from the dark days of the Democratic Wilson bill regime in 1894 to the glorious days of McKinley prosperity, the most marvelous of all is the increase in the number of depositors and in the amount of deposits in the savings banks of the country. These banks are particularly the ones where the wage earners of the country put their savings. Mr. Bryan says the people are not prosperous. So say all his calamity followers. We commend to them the following official figures from the report of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States for 1890. They are unanswerable: TOTAL UNITED STATES. —Total No. depositors.— Bank. 1804 1890. National. 1,424,906 1,991,183 State and private. 502,756 996,394 Loan and trust companies 205,368 443,321 Savings 3,413,477 4,254,516 Total 5,545,867 7,655,414 Increase in number of depositors ... 2,109,547 --- Democratic Platform Adopted at Kansas City, July 4, 1900. The Party (Democratic) Stands Where It Did in 1896 on the Money Question.-William J. Bryan at Zancsville, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1900. Nominated: For President—WILLIAM J. BRYAN of Nebraska. Vice-President—ADLAI E. STEVENSON of Illinois. PLATFORM. We, the Democrats of the United States, in national convention assembled, do reaffirm our allegiance to those great essential principles of justice and liberty upon which our institutions are founded, and which the Democratic party has advocated from Jefferson's time to our own—freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, the equality of all citizens before the law, and the faithful observance of constitutional limitations. During all these years the Democratic party has resisted the tendency of selfish interests to the centralization of governmental power, and steadfastly maintained the integrity of the dual scheme of government established by the founders of this republic or republics. Under its guidance and teachings the great principle of local self-government has found its best expression in the maintenance of the rights of the States and in its assertion of the necessity of confining the general government to the exercise of the powers granted by the Constitution of the United States. Recognizing that the money system is paramount to all others at this time, we invite attention to the fact that the Federal Constitution names silver and gold together as the money metals of the United States, and that the first coinage law passed by Congress under the Constitution made the silver dollar the monetary unit, and admitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based upon the silver dollar unit. WILDE HAWL DOWN THE ANTI BROWN MING MAYORNE 1909 POSITS COMMENSE INCREASE. Is Come to the People. Recognizing paramount the invite attention Federal Court gold together United States law passed the situation mat etary unit, coinage at a dollar unit. We declare etizing silver approval of the correspondin modities pro increase in the all debts, payment of the home and ad try and import. We are un monometallic the prosperity the paralysis metallism is adoption has financial service only un-America and it can States only and love of the independence war of the B. We demand coinage of the present legal waiting for other nation standard silver tender, equal public and public legislation as the demonetic tender money. We are oppose of surrection the obligation option reserve of redeeming silver coin or We are oppose hearing in time of pock ficking with in exchange mous profit Federal treat the policy of Congress and issue more declared that egated to cor therefore den We declare that the act of 1873 demonetizing silver without the knowledge or approval of the American people has resulted in the appreciation of gold and a corresponding fall in the prices of commodities produced by the people; a heavy increase in the burden of taxation and all debts, public and private; the enrichment of the money lending classes at home and abroad; prostration of industry and impoverishment of the people. We are unalterably opposed to gold monometallism, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It is not only un-American, but anti-American, and it can be fastened on the United States only by the stifling of that spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our independence in 1776 and won it in the war of the Revolution. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender, equally with gold, for all debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal-tender money by private contract. We are opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by law to the government of redeeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold coin. Bond Issues. We are opposed to the issuing of interest-bearing bonds of the United States in time of peace, and condemn the trafficking with banking syndicates which, in exchange for bonds and at an enormous profit to themselves, supply the Federal treasury with gold to maintain the policy of gold monometallism. Congress alone has the power to coin and issue money, and President Jackson declared that this power could not be delegated to corporations or individuals. We therefore demand that the power to issue notes to circulate as money be taken from the national banks, and that all paper money shall be issued directly by the Treasury Department, be redeemable in coin, and receivable for all debts, public and private. We hold that the tariff duties should be levied for purposes of revenue, such duties to be so adjusted as to operate equally throughout the country and not discriminate between class or section, and that taxation should be limited by the needs of the government honestly and economically administered. We denounce, as disturbing to business, the Republican threat to restore the McKinley law, which has been twice condemned by the people in national elections, and which, enacted under the false plea of protection to home industry, proved a prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies, enriched the few at the expense of many, restricted trade and deprived the producers of the great American staples of access to their natural markets. Until the money question is settled we are opposed to any agitation for further changes in our tariff laws, except such as are necessary to make the deficit in revenue caused by the adverse decision of the Supreme Court on the income tax. There would be no deficit in the revenue but for the annulment by the Supreme Court of a law passed by a Democratic Congress in strict pursuance of the uniform decisions of that court for nearly one hundred years, that court having sustained constitutional objections to its enactment which had been overruled by the ablest judges who have ever sat on that bench. We declare that it is the --- from one of the tramps and said his clients were in church to have divine worship. I remember the text. It was, 'Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every people.' Wasn't that a coincidence to remind me of Bryan's pious remarks on the same text? The lawyer got along so well that I about made up my mind to kvit the prizers. But the schmart young lawyer didn't know it so he began to go for big Johannes and cross-kestion him. Johannes was the only witness, you see, and didn't have much experience. By and by Johannes could not stand so much fun at his expense, so he got mad and yelled out: "That may all be, Mr. Lawyer, what you say. You seem to know that the notes of the sermon you got from that big hobo were his own notes; but I know what you don't know, and that is that the gang you say he was preaching to tore out of the pulpit Bible all the book of Genesis and Exodus, including the ten commandments, to light their pipes with while they listened to the sermon.' Then I reversed my decision, Jonathan, and sent those fellows to the calaboose." ARE SOLDIERS TO BE PAID IN SILVER? A Pertinent Inquiry from an Old Soldier Still Unanswered. In Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance, No. 1, he said that if he was elected to the office of President of the United States next November that as soon as he was inaugurated he would immediately call an extra session of Congress and give freedom to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands and recall the army of the United States, which would include the bringing home of the "Stars and Stripes." If elected President of the United States Mr. Bryan will become commander-in-chief of the army. This being the case, Will Mr. Bryan pay the soldiers of the United States of America in silver? It is very important that the soldiers of the American army understand this matter clearly and distinctly as to what Mr. Bryan's intentions are in the matere. OLD SOLDIER. New Castle, Pa., Sept. 1, 1900. | | —Total amount of deposits.—1894. | 1890. | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | National .. $1,155,191,588 | $1,830,116,140 | | State and private .. 214,442,510 | 418,281,267 | | Loan and trust cos. 239,504,892 | 576,724,117 | | Savings.. 1,265,450,416 | 1,782,974,481 | | Total .. $2,874,589,406 | $4,608,096,005 | | Increase in am't of deposits.. | $1,733,506,599 | | Average Deposits in All Banks. | | | 1894 .. | $520 | | 1899 .. | 602 | | Since the Democratic days of 1894 there has been an increase of 2,109,547 bank depositors in the whole United States. | | This number more people have had money to deposit during McKinley prosperity. The total amount of money deposited to the credit of the people was $2,874,-589,406 in 1894. In 1899 it was $4,608,096,005, showing an increase of almost one and three-quarter billions of dollars to the credit of the people who had bank accounts in the five years since the country was suffering the agonies of a Democratic administration. Not only has there been this vast increase in the aggregate amount of money placed in the banks, but the average amount of each bank account has increased from $520, in 1894, to an average of $602 per bank account in 1899. Who will say that the promises of the Republican party have not been fulfilled? Who will say that the advance agent of prosperity has not visited the American people under the Republican administration of President McKinley? PLATFORM. State Rights. The Money Question. Free Silver. Bond Issues. Tariff for Revenue. The Income Tax. duty of Congress to use all the constitutional power which remains after that decision, or which may come by its reversal by the court, as it may hereafter be constituted, so that the burdens of taxation may be equally and impartially laid, to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of the government. Immigration. We hold that the most efficient way to protect American labor is to prevent the importation of foreign paper labor to compete with it in the home market, and that the value of the home market to our American farmers and artisans is greatly reduced by a vicious monetary system, which depresses the price of their products below the cost of production, and thus deprives them of the means of purchasing the products of our home manufacture. Congressional Appropriations Congressional Appropriations. We denounce the profligate waste of the money wring from the people by oppressive taxation and the invisible appropriations of recent Republican Congresses, which have kept taxes high, while the labor that pays them is unemployed, and the products of the people's toil are depressed in price until they no longer repay the cost of production. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which best befit a Democratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the sauries of which drain the substance of the people. Federal Interference. We denounce arbitrary interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression, by which Federal judges, in contempt of the laws of the States and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges and executioners, and we approve the bill passed at the last session of the United States Senate, and now pending in the House, relative to contempt in Federal courts, and providing for trials by jury in certain cases of contempt. Pacific Funding Bill. No discrimination should be indulged by the government of the United States in favor of any of its debtors. We approve of the refusal of the Fifty-third Congress to pass the Pacific Railroad funding bill, and denounce the effort of the present Republican Congress to enact a similar measure. Pensions. Recognizing the just claims of deserving Union soldiers, we heartily indorse the rule of the present Commissioner of Pensions that no names shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pension roll, and the fact of an enlistment and service should be deemed conclusive evidence against disease or disability before enlistment. Cuba. We extend our sympathy to the people of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and independence. The Civil Service. We are opposed to life tenure in the public service. We favor appointments based on merit, fixed terms of office, and such an administration of the civil service laws as will afford equal opportunities of all citizens of ascertained fitness. No Third Term No Third Term We declare it to be the unwritten law of this republic, established by custom and usage of one hundred years, and sanctioned by the examples of the greatest and wisest of those who founded and have maintained our government, that no man should be eligible for a third term of the presidential office. Corporate Wealth. The absorption of wealth by the few, the consolidation of our leading railroad systems, and formation of trusts and pools require a stricter control by the Federal government of those arteries of commerce. We demand the enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and such restrictions and guarantees in the control of railroads as will protect the people from robbery and oppression. Admission of Territories. We favor the admission of the territories of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union as States, and we favor the early admission of all the territories giving the necessary population and resources to entitle them to statehood, and while they remain territories we hold that the officials appointed to administer the government of any territory, together with the District of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona fide residents of the territory or district in which their duties are to be performed. The Democratic party believes in home rule and that all public lands of the United States should be appropriated to the establishment of free homes for American citizens. We recommend that the territory of Alaska be granted a delegate in Congress, and that the general land and timber laws of the United States be extended to said territory. Mississippi River Improvements The Federal government should care for and improve the Mississippi river and other great waterways of the Republic, so as to secure for the interior people easy and cheap transportation to tidewater. When any waterway of the republic is of sufficient importance to demand aid of the government, such aid should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous work until permanent improvement is secured. Confiding in the justice of our cause and the necessity of its success at the polls, we submit the foregoing declaration of principles and purposes to the considerate judgment of the American people. We invite the support of all citizens who approve them, and who desire to have them made effective through legislation for the relief of the people and the restoration of the country's prosperity. Webster Davis on McKinley Webster Davis on McKinley "Listen, my Democratic friends and neighbors, for I have friends and neighbors in this city, which is my home; listen to what I am about to say. When the Democratic party antagonizes and attacks the administration of President McKinley, upon its policy in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS CAMPING IN THE GRAVEYARD OF DEAD ISSUES."—From a speech delivered by the Hon. Webster Davis in October, 1898, to the Republicans of Kansas City, Mo., when the first meeting was held in the first convention hall that was only partially completed. SUPPLEMENT TO Indianapolis Recorder. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Saturday, October 6, 1900. Only Question Is Whether Wage Earners Want Hard Times. Democratic Policies Drove Thousands to the Streets Before and Will Do So Again if Bryan Is Successful. In the eddying fight, amid din and roar of the fallen guns of imperialism and militarism, there is danger the people of this country may lose sight of the fact that the election of Mr. Bryan means the overthrow of the protective tariff system and the introduction of a free-trade program into the policy of the government. Our people have short memories and they sometimes forget and need to be reminded. Mr. Bryan was a member of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and took a very active part at once upon taking his seat. In the Fifty-third Congress, of which I was a member, the Wilson bill was under consideration. It was the passage of that bill which plunged this country into ruin. It does not make any difference what people say about the origin of hard times, the intelligent laboring man of this country knows very well that he ceased to earn a living for himself and family because of the demoralization of business caused by the repeal of the McKinley law and the passage of the Wilson act. It was that which precipitated wages to the lowest ebb that they have been for many a year. It was that which sent marching columns of hungry men over the country demanding food. It was the passage of that bill that made it possible for any intelligent man to listen for a moment to the speeches of such men as Bryan in 1896. On the floor of the House in the debates on the Wilson bill Bryan took the extreme free-trade ground. His speeches are on record and the laboring men of the country can find them and read them. He especially announced himself as in favor of absolute free-trade upon many of the leading products of the farm, notably wool, which he insisted should be put upon the free list of the Wilson bill. When that bill was passed by the concurrence of the House in the six hundred amendments of the Senate it was Bryan and Hon. Jos. Bailey, a representative from the State of Texas, who in their ecstasy seized the champion, who was the putative father of the law, the Hon. W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, and carried him on their shoulders in a triumphal procession through the House of Representatives into the cloak-room and a saturnalia of joy resounded from those premises. It was Bryan who favored the introduction of foreign material into this country free of charge. It was Bryan who demanded that all raw material such as wool, coal, iron, and everything which entered into the manufacture of goods, should be imported free, and it was his influence, more than any other man's, that brought about the terrible result with which we are so familiar. It was Bryan's earnest demand that put wool on the free list, and in that debate he declared that he did not care whether it benefited or hurt the wool grower. It was Bryan who drove the tariff on coal down to such an extent as to flood the Eastern markets with coal and stimulate the growth of the development of coal in the British possessions in the northeast, and practically drove us out of the seaboard markets with the softcoal of Central States. It was Bryan who advocated the low tariff on agricultural products and utterly refused to discriminate or allow discrimination in favor of the products of the West and Middle West. The laboring men of the country and the farmers of the country, before they plunge themselves into the vortex that is being held out, should get Bryan's record and read it. It is a very interesting chapter in the personal politics of that gentleman. The platform made at Kansas City is very adroit in laying the foundation for an enactment in Congress, should Bryan be elected, satisfactory to his history and record. Not daring to asseil protection directly he came at it in the platform which he personally conducted as follows: "Tariff laws should be amended by putting the products of trusts upon the free list. We condemn the Dingley tariff law as a breeding measure, skillfully devised, etc." That is the platform of the party denominated the Democratic party and whose nomination Mr. Bryan accepted. The original Populist party, whose candidate Mr. Bryan now is, I refer to the Sioux Falls nomination, also places itself on record in a similar attitude. So Mr. Bryan, without any apology for the past, stands upon a series of platforms all squinting in the direction of free trade, and in the event of his election, with a Congress subservient to his dictation, as was the convention at Kansas City, we may look for just such legislation as precipitated this country into the condition with which we are all familiar. It is therefore very unwise for the people of the country to be led away from the two great propositions of Mr. Bryan's life, the two propositions for which he stands, the two propositions which make up Bryanism, to wit, free and unlimited coinage of silver, and free trade, and follow off after the illusion and delusion of imperialism. If the intelligent agriculturist will take the prices of his products in 1896 and compare them with the present prices of the commodities, and then take the Dingley tariff law, he will at once discover to what he is indebted for the advance in prices. If the laboring man will take first the price of his labor in 1896 and then the price of his labor in 1900 and then take the table of imports of foreign manufactured goods in 1896 and back of that time and then take the imports of foreign goods now, as shown by the statistics of DEMOCRATIC ICE ADAPTED FROM HARPERS WEEKLY ANOTHER PARAMOUNT ISSUE the Treasury Department, he will at once discover that the present advantage which is accruing to him comes absolutely directly from the tariff law now on the statute books of the United States. And, then, if he desires old times, with old prices and old short days of employment, he had better vote for William Jennings Bryan. But if the laboring man wants a continuation of the present prosperity of the United States, he certainly cannot, without inconsistency, vote for Bryan. Another view of it. Let the laboring man take the present price of his labor and take the present prices of all the things he buys upon which his family is subsisted and supported and educated, and then take the price of his labor of 1896 and the prices existing then, he will discover, without any hesitation of intellect, that present conditions are far better than old conditions, that, waiving the little increase of cost of living, the balance sheet shows favorably to him. No man can deny that and there is no man in the United States who has done more to break down the interests of labor by promoting and cultivating unfair and unjust competition than has William J. Bryan, of Nebraska. C. H. GROSVENOR. Athens, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1900. When the Democrats were experimenting with free trade in the United States the consumption of wheat was 3.41 bushels per capita. That was in 1894. In 1899, under the McKinley administration, the consumption was 5.95 bushels per capita. This is ample demonstration to the farmer as to how prosperous manufacturing interests bring prosperity to the wheat grower. ANOTHER THIRTY TONS OF PENNIES SAVED BY CHILDREN. Chicago's Penny Savings Society has only been established for a few years, but its deposits have increased as follows: Year ending June 30, 1898.....$19,140 Year ending June 30, 1899.....33,960 Year ending June 30, 1900.....71,793 William C. Hollister, who is acting president of the Chicago Penny Savings Society, says that it is operated entirely on a philanthropic basis and supported by voluntary contributions. There are only two salaried officers, young ladies, at the office in the Schiller building. This system is in operation only in half the schools in Chicago, yet the amount of money deposited by the children last year averaged 20 cents for every child in the Chicago school district, and 60 cents per capita for all the children in the schools in which the Penny Savings Society is operated. The weight of last year's savings was thirty tons of American pennies, an enormous mass of money for the little ones to put by in the banks within one year. It will be noticed that the increase between the amount deposited in 1898 and 1899 was 70 per cent. But between 1899 and the year just ended the increase in the amount of pennies deposited was considerably more than 100 per cent. The children would certainly not be able to save their pennies if their parents did not have the money to give them, and the exhibit made by the Chicago Penny Savings Society is certainly a straw showing that the people of Chicago have experienced more and more good times and prosperity during the Republican administration of President McKinley. His Expectations Based on Hopes that Others Will Forget. Bryan argues that the Constitution extends in full by its own force to every foot of land under the American flag. He hopes that the American people won't find out before November that the United States courts, from the lowest to the highest, have decided by overwhelming and irresistible decisions that he is wrong. He is running on a platform declaring for the fraud of free silver. He hopes that the gold Democrats who have returned to the Democratic party on the issue of imperialism will not cease to believe in his readiness to betray it. He is running on a platform on which imperialism is said to be the paramount issue. He hopes that the silver men won't take this portion of the platform seriously. He is running as a Democrat. He hopes the Populists won't lay it up against him. He is running as a Populist. He hopes the Democrats will forget it. He is running as a silver Republican. He hopes that the silver Republicans, mainly men of the West, won't give him up because of their belief in expansion. He is running as the avowed friend of Aguinaldo. He hopes that this won't drive the American votes against him. So every Democratic hope of 1900 has error or humbug back of it. DEMOCH ADAPTED F R PARAMOUNT HARD TIMES ITEMS NEEDED BY BRYAN. Adversity of Others Will Be Welcome News to Democrats. "Wanted—Hard times items" is a "Help Wanted" ad Bryan ought to put in the newspapers to aid him in his laborious 'search for instances of industrial and commercial distress. Probably nothing would more please him just now than to hear of workingmen in the country whose dinner pails are not full. In his speech in Milwaukee he gloated over the fact that a dock man in New Haven had discharged some employees, that pig iron production is less now than at the high point of last year, and that Massachusetts cotton mill men are said to be thinking of reducing wages. After exploiting on these items, he said exultingly: "Even the prosperity that the Republican party has boasted of has not reached all the people, and even that which we have is on the decline." The reason Bryan is so anxious to know of misfortunes befalling workingmen is because he fears that they will perversely consider the maintenance of their present prosperity to be the "parumount" issue with them instead of "imperialism." If some great calamity could only happen to the workingmen between now and election time it would perhaps make it really sound plausible to say that "there is no prosperity now; therefore maintenance of prosperity is not the issue, so you can vote for me and Aguinaldo." A Cowboy Resents the Insinations Made Against Col. Roosevelt. Sioux Falls, S. D., is Senator Pettigrew's home, and the Senator said in a recent speech there that Col. Roosevelt did not lead his regiment at San Juan Hill, but was six miles in the rear. At the recent Roosevelt meeting in the town many of Col. Roosevelt's old regiment came to greet him, some of them traveling quite a distance, and one rough rider'came 150 miles. This particular cowboy heard of Senator Pettigrew's utterance for the first time while in Sioux Falls, and mounting his horse he would ride to a street corner and issue this challenge: "Ladies and Gentlemen—I have heard that there are people in this town who say Col. Roosevelt was away in the rear at San Juan and did not lead his regiment in the charge that was made that day. I was in that regiment and followed Col. Roosevelt up that hill. My captain was killed and several of my company. I saw that fight. I was in it. Whoever says that Col. Roosevelt did not lead his regiment in that charge is a liar, a scoundrel, a coward and dare not tell me so to my face." Then he would wait a minute, ride to the next block and repeat the same challenge. The incident will keep Senator Pettigrew quiet for awhile. He may be kept busy in explaining what he meant. RATIC UST FROM HARPERS WEEKLY T ISSUE He said: "You shall not toss Mankind upon a cross Of shining gold." "Ncr press his brow with thorns, Nor tread upon his corns When he is old." He said: "No fires will burn, No wheels, no spindles turn, Without my hand Is at the nation's helm; Dictator of the realm— Chief of the band." He said "the metal white Is strictly in the fight (I lugged it in). We're on free silver bent, Without the world's consent And it will win." The voters heard him shout, Then straightway went about To give him fits. To give him fits; They said "we want no stuff Half money and half bluff, A dollar worth four bits." It took his breath away When the people had their say In N-O-V. But he's got his second wind, Thinks he'll not again be skinned; Wait and see. C. L. FRAZER. Highland, Cal. Cotton Consumption Doubles. The cotton consumption' in the United States in 1894 was 15.91 pounds for every man, woman and child. Good times brought by the McKinley administration have raised the per capita consumption to 27.14 pounds. The people dress better and buy more articles made from cotton than ever before in the history of the country. --- --- CHAPTER IV.—(Continued.) "Certainly, I want good times, but if we got them I'd never thank a Republican administration for it." "Suppose Bryan had been elected and times improved, would you thank him for it?" "Indeed, I would." "Then you are partial, Simon. Why not think if such were the case that it was a Populist scheme to deceive the people?" "Because Bryan's an honest man." "How do you know?" "How do I know anything? My paper says he's honest." "But how do you know it's the truth?" "See here. How do you know he's dishonest?" "I don't. Neither do I know he is honest. I am not personally acquainted with the man, but I do know that he has charged outrageous high pay for making speeches over the country. It seems to me that a man who hates the rich, and so dearly loves the poor, would not care to accumulate wealth so fast, taking the dollars out of the laborer's pockets. I tell you, Simon, if times get better, you ought to change your politics." "Just wait 'till they get better. You'll have to wait 'till doomsday for times to improve under Republican rule." Political Simon then walked into the store and placed his basket of eggs on the counter. "What are eggs worth to-day?" he inquired of the clerk. "Two cents more than they were before election," the clerk quickly res- "Well," said Simon, who knew the clerk was Republican, "you needn't be so d-d glad to tell it. I see that Republicans like yourself are dreadful haughty because prices are a little better, but you'll grin the other way when this little McKinley wave breaks." "Mr. Grey, whenever this wave, as you call it, breaks, it will turn into foam of prosperity. Just notice." "How easy," said Simon, "some people are deluded. I see some fellows out there on the street a-shakin' gold coin. I expect they inherited the pieces as an heirloom in the family, and they have been keepin' them all these years to get a chance to show 'em now, to prove that all our gold isn't in England or the Government vaults." "Why, Mr. Grey, everybody can have gold now. Confidence is restored, and gold will once more circulate. Just take a check to the bank, and see if the banker won't cash it in gold." Political Simon doubted very much what the clerk said, and resolved within his own mind to go back home and bring two or three hogs to town, if they weren't very fat, just to prove in his own mind that the clerk was mistaken. Sooner than Cynthia expected, Simon came home. During the campaign it had been his custom to stay so long in town that she was surprised to see him return in an hour. "Cynthia," he said, "he entered the house, "I have decided to sell two or three hogs while this McKinley wave lasts, for no tellin' what they'll be worth after a while." "What did you get for the eggs?" "Two cents more than before. You make the hens hurry and lay before they go down." "Maybe times ain't goin' to be as bad as predicted," said Cynthia. "Now, Cynthia, women as a rule have weak minds, and are easily influenced, and I want you to be on your guard. Better prices for a few days is the bait these goldbugs set to catch people on their hook, but I trust none of my family will bite." "I suppose you are right, Simon, but time will prove all things. Accordin' to your brother Ezra, success of the Populist ticket would not bring any benefits." "Cynthia, don't you ever mention Ezra's idea of things. It has made me enough trouble without alluding to it. In an indirect way, Ezra's Republicanism is the cause of my sore head. If he knew how I have suffered for him, for the honor of the Grey family, I have an idea that he'd turn Populist." "Maybe we had better write and tell him then." "Great heavens, no! If I'd have licked the daylight out of Harrington, as I first intended to, it might do, but as he's able to be up and around it would be better not to refer it. Just let hard times prove his mistake to him. He'll be a Populist, body and soul—fore many years roll by." Simon and his wife continued to talk for some time, and then Simon went back to Boonsville with his hogs, returning in the evening with a $20 gold piece. "We'd better keep it for a curiosity," said Simon. "And hogs are a better price, too, are they, father?" inquired Vinnie. "Yes, everything is improving to delude people." It seemed to Vinnie a very pleasant delusion, and four months later it seemed to her to be lasting a long while; that the McKinley wave must be a large one, for times continued to improve. "Indeed, I would." CHAPTER V. The Road to the Poorhouse Missed, Inauguration day had passed and Wm. McKinley of Ohio was President of the United States. Vinnie Grey had acted in the capacity of County Superintendent of Public Instruction since the 1st of January and she was delighted with her new work and Warble County was proud of Political Simon's daughter. On this particular morning, Vinnie was in alone in her office looking over her morning's mail. There were business letters for her to answer; ah, yes, and there was another letter. It was from her Boonsville lover. How it filled her heart with joy! It seemed to her the happiest morning of her life. She felt that she had a thousand things to be thankful for. Glen Harrington returned her love; her folks at home were beginning to see better times; prices were getting better for farmers' products. "Yes," she mediated, "there are a great many things to be thankful for." She had great faith in Republican times, and she believed that in two years, at least, her father would be able to pay the mortgage on their home, without her assistance. If he wasn't able, she would take a part of her salary and pay it for him. The mortgage would never be allowed to take the old home. As she sat in her office, meditating over the prospects of the future, there came a tap at the door, and then it flew open, and Vinnie was surprised to see her father standing in the doorway. "Good morning, Vinnie. How are you?" he said, taking her hand. "Very well, thank you, father. How are the folks at home?" "We're all well. I thought I'd come down to the county seat this morning to see you on a little matter of business." "Very well; what is it?" "Why, Bob Wright, down there in Boonsville, has some calves he wants to sell, and I want to buy them. Though extremely anxious, I haven't the money to buy them with. Thought maybe I could get the money from you. I don't know as there's any money in 'em, or in anything else, as far as that's concerned, but Joe Harrington is countin' on buyin' these calves, and that's the reason I want 'em. I've been a lookin' all this time for a chance to get my revenge on that man, and now' my chance. My! but he'll get mud, if I step in ahead of him, and knock him out of the bargain by gettin' those calves he's been calculating to buy." "You shall have the money," said Vinnie, rather amused at her father's method of revenge. "How much will you need?" "Well, there's ten of 'em and he wants $7 anpiece. It's really an outrageous high price, but I won't stop for that. Why last spring a man couldn't get a bit over $5 for such calves." "Maybe they are worth more than they were then." "Well, the Republicans say they are, but I don't think so. We ain't hadin' a bit better times than we had, in spite of their predictions. I've been thinkin' of writing to Ezra and telling him that he is a false prophet." "Have you received any letters from Uncle Ezra lately?" "Yes; we received one just the other day." "What did he write?" that did the letter. One thing that disappointed me is the fact that he's still Republican. Every letter I get I expect to hear that he's turned Populist, but so far my expectations have been in vain. He wrote that he thought prices would get better for the farmer. He said if I wished to make money now was the time to speculate. Buy all the calves and other stock that I could, and hold them for higher prices. "So you are taking his advice?" "No, Vinnie; I am going to buy Bob Wright's calves for the express purpose of outwitting Joe Harrington. What does Ezra know about running a farm? He's lived nearly all his life in a city, and is green as a squash, when it comes to country life." "His judgment is good, though, on almost any subject." "It is on some subjects, to be sure, but still he doesn't know everything. He has his failings like all other human beings." "To change the subject," said Vinnie, "have you planted your corn yet? "Yes, we just finished planting a few days ago." "How does the wheat look?" "How does the wheat go?" "It looks splendid, but I don't expect to get much out of it, for silver's going down right along, and Bryan said whenever silver went down wheat went with it, or when silver went up wheat went up also. "I do wish Bryan had been elected, for if we had free coinage of silver, he said silver would rise in value, therefore wheat would rise. "If wheat would be worth what it ought to be, there would be a good prospect for me to pay the mortgage with it. I suppose now wheat will tumble, and we all know it was low enough last year." *(To be continue 1.)* AN IMPERIAL DECREE CHINESE MINISTERS CENSURED BY THE EMPRESS. Four Princes to be Degraded and Prince Tuan is Deprived of His Salary and Official Servants. Washington special to St. Louis Globe Democrat: There were two important developments in connection with affairs in China Sunday. One was the receipt by the State Department of a cablegram from Consul General Goodnow at Shanghai, stating that Sheng, Chinese Director of Railways and Telegraphs, had handed him a decree of the Emperor and Empress, dated Talignan, September 25, blaming their ministers for encouraging the Boxers. The second was the announcement by Mr. Hill, acting Secretary of State, that the instructions of this government to Minister Conger were forwarded to Pekin Sunday morning. The advices from Consul General Goodnow are to the effect that China goes further than merely issuing an edict denunciatory of the Boxer leaders. The edict orders the degradation of four Princes, deprives Prince Tuan of his salary and official servants, and directs that he be brought for trial before the imperial clan court. The manifestation by China of a disposition to punish the leaders of the recent insurrectionary movements by degrading Prince Tuan and his principal Heutenants has made a good impression in government circles here. The action of President McKinley and his advisers in refusing to co-operate with Germany in that government's proposition to deal summarily with China is justified by every succeeding event in one of the most perplexing questions which has confronted the powers for many years. It was assumed by this government that China would punish the offenders; and this promise has been justified by the trend of events. It is the intention of the officials to keep secret the instructions sent to Minister Conger until such time as developments shall warrant their publicity. State Department officials' believe that an agreement can be effected with the powers, and that negotiations may be entered into without delay. The instructions to Minister Conger are understood to contain the following stipulations: 1. That Prince Tanu be removed from office and lead one acceptable to the powers be appointed in his place. 2. That Minister Conger represents the United States as plenipotentiary, and has no connection whatever with mediation for China. 3. That any reasonable program outlined by a majority of the powers, the stipulations to be less severe than those of Germany, may be accepted by M.. Conger. 4. That, in the event of a continued disagreement among the powers and China, Minister Conger is to proceed to negotiate with Earl Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching solely, with regard to American interests, and with a view to determining the attitude of the United States as to future action. TO FIGHT SMALLPOX The State Board of Health Issues an Address to the People Warning Against the Dangers of an Epidemic. The State Board of Health has completed an address to the people, warning them against the expected appearance of smallpox in the State this winter. It will be the largest circular the board has yet issued on the subject of smallpox, and will contain numerous illustrations of smallpox patients, instructions as to vaccination, disinfection and diagnosis of the disease. The rules of the State Board of Health relating to smallpox will also appear in the circular. The board has discussed the subject thoroughly, and has decided first, to issue instructions generally to health officers, physicians and to the people at large, warning them of the disease, and then to attack the disease as soon as it appears. It is announced that more rigid regulations with regard to the treatment of smallpox will be observed this year than ever before, and that health officers who disregard instructions of the board will be summarily death with. The board is determined, it is announced, to have "no fooling" this year when smallpox breaks out. At the outset the board states that there were two thousand cases of smallpox in Indiana last year. That the disease was very mild, however, as shown by the statement immediately following the figures to the effect that out of the two thousand cases there were only about twenty deaths. But the Board of Health does not believe smallpox will continue in such mild form long. It has been the experience that where, for the first few years, the disease has appeared mildly, it has gradually grown more virulent, until patients die by the bordreda. The circular urges those in whose houses smallpox existed last year to clean up thoroughly and disinfect and burn everything that might breed smallpox germs. It urges, all, vaccination and the vaccination of those persons who have not been vaccinated within the last seven years. With vaccination, it says, there is no need of fear from smallpox. DUELIST WELL PUNCTURED. Young Lowrey Badly Wounded in an Alabama Encounter. Tuskaloosa, Ala., special: Rodney Lowrey, nephew of ex-Governor Lowrey, of Mississippi, fought a duel Tuesday morning, sixteen miles from here. Young Lowrey was shot four times. Lowrey is the agent of the railroad company at Moundville, Ala. Tuesday morning he had some words with W. H. White, the section foreman, over the movement of a car of cotton seed. White, it is alleged, threatened Lowrey and Lowrey procured a pistol out of his office. White was already armed, and as Lowrey returned to the platform the men began shooting at each other, advancing as they fired. Lowrey was shot four times, in the leg, right side, right forearm and chest. Each man fired five times, but Lowrey's last ball was the only one that struck White. Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company Offer Minors an Increase of Ten Per Cent. in Wages. Philadelphia special: An offer of an increase of 10 per cent. in miners' wages was Sunday inaugurated by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, and this move, it is stated, will be followed by similar notices at every colliery in the anthracite region. It is expected by the operators that this increase in wages will be satisfactory to the men, and they believe many of the strikers will return to work. Mining operations will in this event be given an impetus and the operators expect there will then be a gradual resumption until the collieries will again have their full complement of employees. Whether the miners will accept the proffer of the company and return in sufficient numbers to operate the mines can not be foretold. Reports from several points where the Reading collieries are located indicate that the mine workers will follow the instructions of their organization officials and remain away from the mines. President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, received no notice of the intention of the operators to offer the increase in wages and the intimation is thus given that the miners organization will receive no recognition from the operators. TO ACT AS MEDIATOR UNITED STATES MAY SETTLE CHINESE QUESTION. Minister Wu Ting Fang Strongly Seconds the Suggestion of Li Hung Chang - Favors the "Open Door." Washington special: The Chinese Minister, Wu Ting Fang, expressed his strong approval of the suggestion by Li Hung Chang that the United States act as mediator for the settlement of the entire Chinese question. The Minister was much gratified at the favorable character of the advices from China, particularly the reference of Earl Li to his constant communication with Mr. Wu and the specific reference of the Chinese envoy in favor of the United States as mediator. Mr. Wu has from the first urged that the United States should take a leading part in the peace settlement, and it is probably due to this position that Earl Li now takes the advanced attitude in favor of the United States as mediator. Since the suggestion has come from such a high source, the minister expresses his confidence of being able to secure any authority or requests for an American initiative which may be needful. In speaking of the matter Mr. Wu pointed out that while all the powers had taken a position against the partition of China, conditions might yet arise whereby one power would deem it expedient to occupy territory, thus leading other powers to take a similar course, and bringing on a general move toward a partition of the empire. He feels that it is essential to prevent such a contingency and that the United States is in the best position to guard against such a result. Should it occur the minister feels that the "open door" and open ports which now invite the commerce of this country would give place to the practical closure of China. He holds, therefore, that action by this government would not be only in the interest of China and all concerned, but particularly in the United States' own interest, and for the preservation and safeguarding of our avenues of trade in the Orient. MANY PENSION FRAUDS, A Tennessee Federal Judge Calls Attention to Their Prevalence. Chattanooga, Tenn., special: Judge C. D. Clark, presiding over the session of the United States Court for the Eastern district of Tennessee, in his charge to the grand jury, made special reference to pension violations, and said: "It is perfectly astonishing how bold applicants for pensions are becoming in forging affidavits, and especially the names of non-resident negroes who can never be found. This class of fraud is becoming so prevalent that even persons claiming to be Spanish-American war veterans are beginning to put in claims that are not without fraud." Judge Clark laid special stress on this class of fraud, and cited an instance of a case at Knoxville, Tenn., during the late session of the United States Court, where an applicant for pension produced affidavits that he was wounded in the charge at San Juan, but finally admitted, on being confronted by proof, that he had never been nearer San Juan than the State of Georgia." SMUGGLING IN ALASKA. Goods Purchased in British Columbia Taken Across the Border. Port Townsend, Wash., special: Two steamships, the Oregon and the Portland, have arrived from Nome. The former had 452 passengers and the latter eight-eight passengers, two boxes of bollon and a partial cargo of Arctic furs. According to the records of the quarantine officers, 2,000 people have arrived from Alaska and have been inspected during the past four days. Smugglers across the British Columbia line into the United States has been carried on extensively. The officers have been keeping a close watch. Collector Heustis has received a telegram from Sumas announcing the arrest of two men with a pack train of five horses laden with general merchandise and miners' supplies. The goods were purchased in British Columbia and were destined to mines twenty-eight miles from Sumas, in the Mt. Baker district. The customs officers think this capture important and believe that it may lead to other arrests. Prohibition Presidential Special Prohibition Presidential Special The Prohibition Presidential special train crossed Indiana Monday, stopping at Laporte, Goshen, Millersburg, Auburn and Fort Wayne. Saturday the train stopped an hour at Evansville, where the First District Congressional convention was held. An all-day Prohibition rally will be held at Indianapolis Monday, Oct. 8, the Presidential special arriving with the candidates in time for the night meet- MAN's Soul Lives in a Dog. A cablegram from Paris says: One of the most wonderful stories of the transmigration of souls ever told comes from L'Orient, an Eastern seaport, where seven persons of intelligence and reputation for truth swear upon their honor that a dog spoke to them intelligently. Ten years ago, according to their testimony, a mariner of the name of Kerbee, who had always been a firm believer in the transmigration of the human soul to the body of an inferior being, told his wife that after he died he would return to her in the disgulse of some domestic pet. he're men Bipap who do more action than I can cheerfully recommend to you. Have been troubled for about to 20 years what I called billious attacks coming on once a week. Was told by different payers that we caused by the teach of whom he served I. 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Everyone thought that the animal was dreaming, but presently he rose on his hind legs and spoke distinctly, in a faraway, unnatural voice, these words: "Adien, wife and children; adien, friends," the dog fell over stone dead. Nothing can shake the conviction of the witnesses of this scene that the dog really spoke. The schoolmaster even asserts that he saw the animal's jaws move as he uttered his uncanny farewell. Many of the citizens of L'Orient are deeply incensed because the Catholic Church authorities decline to hold religious ceremonies for the burial of the dog. Exhibits at Paris. There is a large exhibit from this country at the Paris exposition which will prove very interesting to all, but no more so than the news that the famous American remedy, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, will cure dyspepsia, indigestion and constipation. To all sufferers a trial is recommended. Never start a man who looks as if he hadn't much to say; he is merely bottled up awaiting his chance. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Good listeners often listen attentively so they will know exactly when it is their turn to put in. What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about one fourth as much. All grocers sell it. 15 and 25 cents. The most profitable style is the turnstile. A fish isn't necessarily crazy when it is in-seline. Friendship is too proud to thrust itself forward, but love is a beggar. Dr. Small, 647 Prospect street, Indianapolis: "Send two dozen G. A. R. Oll. C. O. D., $2.50." - J. Lookabaugh, Raccoon, Ind. High water doesn't necessarily raise the price of milk. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. Ah who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15 and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Many a poor bootblack has managed to shine in society. Mrs. Pinkham's Friends are everywhere. Every woman knows some woman friend who has been helped by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. What does this friend say about it? Read the letters from women being published in this paper. If you are ailing, don't try experiments. Rely on the reliable. Mrs. Pinkham's great medicine has stood without a peer for thirty years. Puzzled women write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice which she gives without charge. The advice is confidential and accurate. It has helped a million women. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. I have used Hipanus cases with no connection, that I can cheerfully recommend them, when I call them for about ten or twenty years with what I call them once a week. Was told by different physicians that it was caused by bad teeth, of which I had the booth at the dentist, but the teeth containing the infection ended up in Hipanus Tables in all the papers but had no truth in them, but about six weeks since a friend invited me to the booth but two of the $5-bottle boxes of the Tables had no recurrence of the attacks. Have never given a testimonial for anything before, but the great amount of good which I believe has been gone me many times, and I have many testimonials you doubtless have in your possession now. A. T. D. WRITER. 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"Bunting in use for flag making is of two kinds, the woolen bunting, which is the finest variety, and the cotton goods, which are the cheapest, less durable and less ornamental. The fabric comes in rolls usually of 40 yards, and it is worth from $1.50 to $8 per yard, according to the quality. "The most expensive bunting, such as is used by the United States government for the manufacture of naval flags, is composed entirely of wool of the finest quality. The fabric is absolutely free from imperfections and weighs just 5/4 pounds, avoidupois, per piece of 40 yards of 10 inches width. The yard is evenly spun, and the warp and filling contain not less than 34 threads to the inch. The colors must be as 'fast' as possible and not liable to be seriously affected by being soaked continuously for 24 hours in fresh water and then thoroughly washed in water with which is combined a good grade of laundry soap. "Only about one half of the bunting sold in this country is used for making flags such as the stars and stripes. The other half is used in the manufacture of small railroad, steamship and naval signal flags. Other flags in general use are for yachts, for use by contractors, railroad builders, auctioneers and social societies. In flagmaking the only work that is done by hand is the cutting, which is performed by a man with a sharp knife. The sewing, stitching and hemming are done on machines by girls and women, who make the most skillful and careful operators. "There are 30 flag factories in the United States. These concerns have an invested capital of $1,200,000 and pay in wages nearly $400,000 annually. The majority of the flag factories are situated in New York state. The others are located in Massachusetts, Louisiana and South Carolina."—Washington Star. "Finders Keepers" Was Good Law. A fat faced policeman stood on a Park row horse half asleep. A newsboy, one of the big ones, saw a dime at the edge of the curb. He stooped and picked it up. "What are you pickin up there?" demanded the policeman, with a sudden show of interest. "Found a dime in the gutter," replied the newsboy fearlessly. "Give it to me," demanded the policeman. "I'll do nethin of the kind," said the boy. "Yes, you will, or I'll 'non you in'." "Yes, you will, or I will run you in." "Say, you don't know who you're talk in to, do you?" was the answer to the threat. "I lives on the 'level' see? An what's more I can prove it. Finders keepers if I know anything about the game. You just run me in." "Move on! Move on!" said the police-man fiercely, waving his club as he saw a crowd was gathering.—New York Tribune. A Head to Fit the Facts. J. M. Barrie's story of how a telegraph editor, receiving a dispatch that the Zulus had "taken umbrage," headed the news "Capture of Umbrage by the Zulus," has been paralleled by an editor in the west. 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It occurred at the time of the celebrated "Arrow" affair, that ridiculous revenue aquabble which led the British into hostilities with the Chinese. I was busily engaged with my own vessel, running cargoes of tea from Canton down to Hong Kong, and taking back opium for the native merchants. There was big money in the trade; and had it lasted I should have made a fortune, but, unfortunately, the outbreak brought the business, for me at least, to a sudden and tragic termination. I was at Hong Kong taking on board my lorca, the most profitable cargo of the season, when the news reached us that the notorious Commission Yeh had arrived upon the scene of action and began his work by offering a reward of $5 for every white man's head, $20 for every prisoner, and $50 for every barbarian officer captured and brought before him. Following close upon this cheerful information came rumors of practical craft swarming the creeks and channels of the Canton river from the city to the sea; and of the capture of several traders and the inhuman butchers of their crews. In spite of these startling reports, however, I determined to make the trip for which the Marie was even then half aden. It would add several fascinating figures to my bank account, and for such an end a Yankee is willing to rina considerable risk. Moreover, I knew and loved my beautiful lorcha as an Arab knows and loves his steed. I felt that she could show a lively pair of heels to the fastest war junk aftail, and as for the smaller craft, she carried guns enough to blow them clean out of water. My chief mate was an American, a hurdy young fellow. Tom Hawkins, who had been in my service for a considerable time. My second mate was a tall powerful Frenchman, whom we called "Joe." Then there were six Mandla men, and twenty-five Cantonese, officiated by my father-in-law, A-Chong, Se-she, my pretty little Chinese wife, also was on board, for although she tried to persuade me from this perilous voyage, she would not consent to stay behind. And it was exceedingly lucky for me that she wouldn't. The Marie mounted two pivot guns, a long cighteen-pounder amidships and a carronade of the same caliber in the bow. In each of her broadside batteries were three nine-pounders, and besides all these she carried a goodly supply of small arms and also a number of those terrible suffocating hand grenades common to Chinese naval warfare. Everything being in readiness we weighed anchor and started up the river. It was a delightful morning, and Se-she and I sat on deck drinking in the soft, sweet air and enjoying the beautiful sunshine that danced and flickered upon the rippling water. Along about 4 o'clock we passed the Boca Tigris, and two hours later reached the mouth of the channel which I had been advised to take. As the darkness was approaching, however, I dared not enter the narrow stream, so I determined to anchor where I was until the next morning. Scarcely had our sails been dropped when a boat came alongside and the e' scrambled up to our deck a yellow-skinned, bony, squinting and altogether illuminous-looking Chinaman, who made its way aft and inquired whether or not we wanted a pilot. "Chi loh! (Be off!) you ugly sinner," I answered roughly for the fellow's countenance almost turned my stomach. The intruder did not budge, however, but gabbled away, offering to supply any need we might have, from that of fruit and vegetables to that of a gargol of cookies to work the cargo on our reaching port. As he talked I noticed that his horribly squinting eyes roamed around, as though taking a survey of our vessel, and her armament. "Look her, Hawkins," said I, satisfied that our ugly visitor was a spy, "this fellow is no more a pilot than I am. Give him a lift over the side." Tom was only too glad of the chance. Seizing the Chinaman's pigtail close up with one hand, and the ample bosom of his inexpressibles with the other, he ran the fellow to the bulwarks, and amid the laughter of the crew, pitched him unceremoniously into his boat. Never shall I forget the frightful expression of malice on the Chinaman's contenance as he looked up at us from his position below. He shook his fist at Tom, and chuckled to himself with a fendish sort of glee, as though revealing by anticipation in some awful revenge. Presently he seized his oar and scuffed hastily up the channel. Leaving a strict watch on deck, I retired to the cabin and joined my wife at the supper table, where we indulged in a hearty laugh over what had happened. I was just finishing a good cigar when the face of Joe, the Frenchman, appeared suddenly in the skylight. "Capitan! Capitan!" he yelled excitedly, "come up to de deck! Vite! Quick! quick! De Chinois!—de mandarins are coming!" Rushing on deck I beheld two big war junks sailing out from an ambuscade formed by a projecting point of land a little way up the channel ahead of us. "Up anchor there, Joel!" I shouted, taking in our chances at a glance. "Clap the sails on her. Hawkins! We must run for it. That infernal pilot is at the bottom of this!" Whilst my orders were being carried out the ti-mungs bore rapidly down upon us. Seeing that we were likely to escape, they fired several shots at us, one of which came crashing through our topsides. We relied to this with a broadside which swept the deck of the foremost junk, and must have killed a dozen of her crew. How long our men seemed lifting that anchor. On came the two war junks, their prows showing huge, hideous carven faces, with great gogglimg eyes, their colors flying, their gongs beating and crews yelling as though they expected to terrify us by their horrible ditch. At the mastheads of both were stationed men with "stinkpot" grenades, ready when they came close enough to cast the suffocating things down upon our deck. Beside me stood my plucky little wife, carrying in her hand a light rifle which I had given her and taught her how to use. "Se-shel!" said I, "pick those fellows off the masts yonder." Without a moment's hesitation she fired, and sent one of them hurling to the deck below. "Bravo! Well done!" I cried, patting her on the shoulder. "Here, Tom and Joe, do you the same to every steersman they send to their wheels." On delivering this order I loaded the forecaste gun and trained it upon the foremost of our enemies. Waiting until she was within about 100 yards I let drive. The double charge of grape and canister raked her fore and aft, and by the cries and confusion that ensued must have caused terrible havoc. Then leaving this gun to the crew to reload, I rushed aft to the long eighteen, and as the Marie's sails filled and she came around I blazed away at war junk No. 2, which was making for our quarter. Now came the imperialists' turn, and as they brought their ti-mungs broadside in order to rake us, I made all hands lie flat on deck to avoid the coming fire. Presently their two ten-gun broadsides roared almost simultaneously, but, being poorly aimed, their shot flew mostly over our heads, whistled through the ropes and tore huge rents in our sails. Scarecely had the last shot, whizzed and hurled through our rigging, when men were on their feet, and with a loud shout of defiance we drive our port broadside. Then, spinning our vessel around, we poured the contents of HALF AFTER'LANE AFTER "LANE" our starboard guns into the other war junk. The effect must have been dreadful, for we could see great gaps cam among the numbers crowding their decks, while the splinters flew from their bulwarks in clouds. The gallant little Marie was now gathering headway, and although the breeze was light, she promised soon to take us out of close quarters with our pursuers. Her handsome maneuvering must be accredited to A-Choong, who throughout the enemy's fire had stood courageously at the wheel. One great advantage we had over our assailants was the fact that our guns were moveable, while theirs were lashed as fixtures to the bulwarks. By picking off their steersmen, therefore, we could prevent them from getting into the station they required to train upon their full batteries. Consequently we poured three broadsides to their one. but it seemed that our had other plans. Over us stood the man of his officers. "Sar'z" (cut) said one significantly sawing with his hand. "No!" replied the man will take them alive to Yeh. The foreign dev able to pass off as an off tain the reward, as well gratification of seeing the ling chy (i. e., the cutting into ten the As for the woman, she he grace upon our nation an example of." A moment later they Scarcely had they vanish panionway when a slip against the bulkhead ad and I heard the voice of We were now drawing rapidly away from the ti-mungs and speeding down the river. As soon as we had gained half a mile our pursuers gave up the chase. Little did I suspect the cunning course they were about to pursue. At 10 o'clock, feeling that I might safely trust the lorcha in the hands of my Yankee mate, I turned in for a short nap. How long I had been sleeping I cannot tell, but suddenly I was aroused by a volley of firearms, and the hideous yelling of Chinese warfare. Snatching up my revolver I rushed on deck, followed by my plucky little wife. Once glance was enough. I saw at once that we were at the mercy of the imperialists. The decks were swarming with them, and still they poured upon our deck from the cocked-up ends of a couple of big trading junkts that were hanging fast to us, one on each side. We were lying at anchor off the coast, and I knew in an instant how our capture had taken place, for I had narrowly escaped the same trap before, but had somehow forgotten it. You see, our enemies, instead of continuing the stern chase in their heavy ti-mungs, had transferred their men to trading junks, leisurely sailed after us and passed ahead when we cleared the river without exciting my mate's suspicion. This done, their course was easy. They had simply waited until the flood tide made us anchor, had moved right ahead, and, connecting themselves together by a strong rope, had dropped silently down with the current until thy rope caught across our cable, when, of course, the strong tide instantly sheered them alongside. --- When I reached the top step of the companion ladder the glare of the lanterns and torches carried by the swarming boarders showed me my two mates in a desperate hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy. They were fighting furiously and endeavoring to cut their way aft. As I looked a tall figure crept up behind Hawkins and raised his sword to cut the mate down. Instantly I recognized the malicious and revengeful countenance. It was that of the Chinaman whom Tom had helped over the side. His uniform showed him to be an officer high in command. I raised my revolver and fired, but my shot went wide of the mark, and the blow fell, bearing poor Hawkins, fearfully wounded, to the deck, where the manda in stood over him and drove his sword into the poor fellow's heart. the fast boat and make the men behind their oars, for I am in a hurry to hail the ti-mungs brought round." Away went the bearer of the left and presently we heard the ropes call and the junks depart. My he bounded with hope and excitement. Only twenty-five men left on board, oh, if only my brave little wife set me free, and I could liberate them in the forecastle. These thoughts were suddenly intersupted by the mandarin. "Hi, foreign devil!" he cried. "Hi, muchee dollar have got? What pla keeper he?" I had only about $100 on board and flashed upon me that by giving it and indulging his passion of avarice might throw the wretch off his guard. "Dollar in top drawer, other cabi The Frenchman Joe fought like a tiger. I saw four Chinamen fall before his whirling cutlass, but the odds were too great, and he too fell and was quickly dispatched. Six or eight of my crew lay dead upon the deck, but A-Choong and the remainder of my men were not to be seen. I supposed that they had been killed and thrown overboard. Presently the ugly mandarin with a number of his followers came running aft to where I stood. I lifted my revolver, determined to shoot the wretch come what might, when Se-She snatched the weapon from my hand and hastily concealed it under her loose jacket. “Do not fight now,” she whispered, “it is too late! Our only chance is to submit quietly and then watch our opportunity to escape. Perhaps they will not kill us at once.” The scoundrels rushed upon us, and a few minutes later we were lying in the cabin, bound hand and foot. We had bidden each other a last farewell, expecting every moment to be slaughtered A man is standing in front of a door, reaching up to knock it. A woman lies on the floor, seemingly unconscious. but it seemed that our hideous captor had other plans. Over us stood the mandarin and three of his officers. "Sar?" (cut) said one of the latter, significantly sawing the air sideways with his hand. "No!" replied the mandarin. "We will take them alive to his excellency Yeh. The foreign devil we shall be able to pass off as an officer and so obtain the reward, as well as having the gratification of seeing him treated to the ling chy (i. e., the horrible torture of cutting into ten thousand pieces). As for the woman, she has brought disgrace upon our nation and will be made an example of." A moment later they went on deck. Scarecely had they vanished up the companionway when a slight tap came against the buikhead across the cabin, and I heard the voice of my father-in-law. "Hi, Captin!" said he, "me no have die. Twelve piece men have makee hide down foreside. "Spose by 'm by some mandarin man makee go ashore, 'spose you makee fight, can catche lorcha back again." "All right, A-choong!" I said. "Keep close where you are. I think likely some of them will go ashore with the plunder. Remain quiet till I give you the word, and then we will make a fight for the ship." The information that twelve men were stowed away in the forecastle was welcome news indeed, and for a moment my heart thrilled with hope of escape. But when I came to consider our chance and the dreadful fate that awaited us I grew despondent again. "Oh, Se-She!" I cried, "why did you prevent me from shooting? We should then have been killed at once, but now—" "Wait, my husband. Remember, I am armed. I have your revolver and my dagger. We have yet a chance. When the men have gone with the junks there will not be many soldiers left on board; then I will slip my hand out, cut the ropes that bind us and we shall be able to make a last effort. If we fail then it will be a quick death." Just as she finished speaking the mandarin returned to the caoin, accompanied by an attendant, who carried writing materials. Seating himself at a table he wrote a letter, which he handed to the man in waiting. "Be off now," he said, "and convey this to the officer in charge of the timings. Take half of the men with you; leave me the other twenty-five. Use --- the fast boat and make the men bend to their oars, for I am in a hurry to have the ti-mungs brought round." Away went the bearer of the letter and presently we heard the ropes cast off and the junks depart. My heart bounded with hope and excitement. Only twenty-five men left on board—oh, if only my brave little wife could set me free, and I could liberate the men in the forecastle. These thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the mandarin. "Hi, foreign devil!" he cried. "How muchee dollar have got? What place keeper he?" I had only about $100 on board and it flashed upon me that by giving it up and indulging his passion of avarice I might throw the wretch off his guard. "Dollar in top drawer, other cabin," I replied. Chuckling to himself, he marched into the cabin I had indicated and presently returned with the money in his hand. "More dollar!" he cried, no yet satisfied. "More dollar. What place have got more dollar?" "No more," I replied. "Dollar! Dollar! 'Spose you no talkee me what place have makee hid, me millee you wife," and he laid his hand threateningly upon his sword. I shuddered at this dreadful threat, and knew not what reply to make to satisfy him. But Se-she's mind was busy at work on a plan. "You havee my dollar," she said. "You find in smallo piece box under table." Again the avaricious mandarin turned toward the inner cabin. He had taken but a step or two when, quick as thought, Ss-she slipped her small soft hands from the rope which bound her, and, drawing her concealed dagger, she crept up behind him and drove the weapon with all her strength into his back. The blow was aimed with fatal precision and the mandarin fell lifeless to the floor. One low moan escaped him and that was all. The next instant the little woman was at my side cutting away the ropes from my hands and feet. This don' she handed me the revolver which she had concealed about her person when we were captured. It was now necessary for me to steal forward and release the men. Creeping stealthily up the companion stairs I peered cautiously around. It was just that silent, chilly, oppressive hour of the morning, between black night and gray dawn, when on a dark night the darkness is most profound, and its peculiar haziness makes all objects most invisible. The imperialists were assembled round a couple of big lanterns, following the usual and besetting vice of Chinese soldiers and sailors—that of gambling. They were so intent upon their small wooden cards and their flaring lanterns threw every other part of the deck into such deep shadow, that I managed to reach the forecastle hatch undiscovered. With infinite caution I removed the fastening and descended to my men. These were nine Cantonese and three Manila men. All were armed. In a few seconds I told them how matters stood and called upon them to follow me; then, one by one, we crept up the ladder. "Fire!'s I cried. The volley swept half the gambling guard into eternity and with bayonet and cutlass we drove the rest overboard, just as A-choong came running up from his hiding place to help us. We got up our anchor and spread sail as quickly as possible and before 8 o'clock in the morning we were riding safely at anchor in Hong Kong. He Couldn't Do It. "Naow," queried Uncle Silas Knowsome, the leading politician and chief expounder of political and every other kind of economy of the village of Bungtown, "why can't you fellers that sell for them there wholesale haouses in th' city sell d'rect to th' consumer a' save th' middleman's profit to th' poor, hard-workin' agreecultooralist? "Well," modestly answered the drummer as he felt of his chin to see if the shave was smooth, "in my business. I can't sell to the consumer!" "Don't tell me thet!" replied Uncle Silas, as he glanced triumphantly about the barber shop; "I see you've never steddied p'lticle' conomy. Why can't you sell to th' consumer?" "Because I sell coffins," was the answer, as the commercial gent floated out of the door.—Puck. Screens with Pockets. Screens with pockets are a spring novelty in the way of nursery and sewing room furniture. The screens are the common three-winged affairs with the customary filling of shirred silk or silkline. The pockets are made upon the shoe-bag principle, several tiers of them being applied to the reverse sides of the screen. Sometimes needle-books and spool-racks are also attached. The pockets are mostly used for stowing away mending and darning and other sewing of the postponable and pickupable sort. They make capital storehouses for playthings, too. Indeed, the screen with pockets will fill a long felt want in any household where, in order to carry out the good old rule of "a place for everything, and everything in its place," is the first necessary to catch your place. Artificial Willow: One of the curiosities at Chatsworth, the duke of Devonshire's place, is a weeping willow made of copper, and so dextrously fashioned that at a distance it resembles a real tree. It is actually a shower bath, for by pressing a secret tap, a tiny spray of water can be made to burst from every branch of the tree, to the discomfort of any who may be under it The Largest House. The Sultan of Turkey has just built at Mecca the biggest house in the world. It is intended for the accommodation of pilgrims and is capable of sheltering 6,000 persons. The next biggest house in the world is in a suburb of Vienna. It accommodates 2,112 tenants. Next comes the three Rowton houses in London, with 800, 677 and 600 tenants respectively. They had quarreled. At least she had tried her best to quarrel with him, but Jack's was one of those peculiar natures which is least prompted to speech when influenced by the deepest feeling. Furthermore, Jack was deeply in love with her, and he could not find it, even in the depth of his wounded heart, to say a shafp word to one who had so completely absorbed his affection. He had met her that afternoon as she was walking on the avenue with a girl friend, and she had made some light mention of a certain piece of gossip relating to Jack's behavior at college. When they reached her house Jack went in. After her friend had departed he asked Helen some questions as to what she had heard, hoping to have the pleasure of exonerating himself. She presuming upon Jack's good nature and whole-souled love, listened with a feigned incredulous smile to his explanations. Jack noticed her expression, which he thought genuine and was deeply hurt. When she began to find still more fault, expressing her belief that there must be some foundation for such stories as she had heard, adding that he, Jack, was dishonorable, Jack's lips were closed. He was mute. Exactly how he bid her adieu and found his way from the house, he could not tell. It all seemed to him a dream—an awful dream. He walked swiftly toward his hotel. In turning a corner he ran into a boy coming out of a florist's, and looking up beheld, not the boy, but a large window full of beautiful red roses. They seemed to bring him to himself. Had he not stolen a red rose from her one memorable night long ago? He entered the store, and ordered some of them sent her immediately. It was a strange action, but his love was the ruling passion of Jack's nature. That night he did not go to the dance where he knew she would be, and to which he had been looking forward so anxiously. It was but recently that love had proclaimed its sway over him; for Jack had, among his comrades, where he was termed a "jolly good fellow," always maintained a stolical exterior, and was considered proof against the darts of Cupid. What was the surprise then when he was at last captivated; and in this, his first love, his ardor far exceeded that of any of his companions. It had become his life. This evening, as Jack paced his room reviewing the successive events connected with his acquaintance with her, he learned for the first time the depths of misery resulting from the reaction of such an absorbing passion — misery which can not be described, which few can endure. It seemed as though he had descended to the lowest pit, where all was darkness and void. So surely do those natures capable of the deepest appreciation of happiness, in time of sorrow experience the extremity of pain. He paced his room in gloomy sorrow. Darkness came down. The objects about his room grew indistinct, but his miseries seemed only to press him more closely under the shelter of the darkness. He could not endure it—he would light the gas. That was still worse, and impatiently he turned it down. As he continued his nervous walk, his hand stole beneath his coat to a little pocket, whence he drew a withered rosebud. Ah! how the lights glowed, as the soft music rose and swelled through the long rooms, brilliant with color, and fragrant with the odor of flowers, as slowly, to the rhythmic strains of music, he waltzed through the throngs of dancers with her. Then he had obtained the rosebud which he now pressed in feverish fervor to his lips, his heart and his eyes. She did not believe him. She did not trust him. She thought him dishonorable. She, of all persons, she whom he dearly loved, for whom he lived, and for whom he would willingly die—Oh! it was too down upon the hard floor, as if there he would seek to make his external circumstances correspond to the agony which tortured him within. His hands clutched vainly at the hard board, and he pressed his face closely against them—the picture of despair. For hours he remained thus, until finally physical weariness brought him sleep. Such a sleep! The doctors pronounced the case a hopeless one. It had taken months to restore him to his physical health. But all efforts, were of no avail to bring again into those bright blue eyes that look of intelligence which distinguishes the rational being. Every effort had been put forth. Every device had been employed. In vain did his loving little sister come to him, keeping back the hardly restrained tears, while she played for him the music he had loved so well. No look of intelligence, no sign of recognition, as his ears heard the once well-loved tones, as his eyes gazed vacantly about upon familiar scenes and faces. All through the long winter his condition remained the same. As for Helen she had heard with dismay how Jack had been lying in an unconscious state on the floor of his room, a withered bud of a red rose clasped tightly in his hand. What she had suffered during those long weeks of illness, when Jack's life lung by a thread, had more than punished her for her cruelty. Many times she seen Jack of late: but every time she met the empty, meaningless stare of his eyes, she suffered anew the pangs of regret, which had for months been tempering and refining her heart, as only deep sorrow can refine. She had grown more beautiful. The calm blue eyes, which she hardly dared lift to Jack's meaningless gaze, were filled with sympathy and love. Entering one morning the little drawing room, the scene of so many distressing and sorrowful meetings with but the semblance of the Jack whom she had loved, she found him with his back toward the door, gazing out of the window. He had not heard her enter, and remained standing, motionless. Walking up noiselessly behind him, she took the bunch of red roses she was wearing—of the same variety as those sent her by Jack that memorable night, ages ago it seemed—and putting her hand over his shoulder held them before his face. For a moment he did not move. Slowly raising his hand and pressing the roses to his face he turned about and looked at Helen. He then clasped her hands. "Oh, Helen, darling, you did wear my flowers last night! You don't believe those awful stories, do you! Forgive me for being such a brute as —" But he could say no mote. A pal: of arms were clasped about his neck, a flood of penitent sorrow and loving devotion was written upon the face which looked up to his. M. E. H. A Boy's Letter On Masonry. His Own Conunbrum. The old captain of the little steamer, Maid of the Mist, which used to carry passengers right up into the spray of the falling waters beneath Niagara, says the Mail and Express, had just one conundrum, and like a college professor, he used it on every new "class." The pilot always led up to it in the same way. He would move his hand along the woodwork of the pilothouse, as if examining it, and remark: "Stranger, do you know what this little boat is made of?" An odd question, the stranger would say to himself, but he would reply, "Why, of pine and oak, isn't it?" "No, sir." Then would come a round of guesses, generally winding up with the acknowledgment of ignorance. And the old pilot's eyes would twinkle as he replied: "Why, she's Maid of the Mist, stranger!" Reputation and the Presidency. Reputation and the Presidency. Few Presidents have gained in public estimation by their incumbency. Many have lost. Grant would have occupied a higher pedestal had he remained at the head of the army, and Lincoln and Garfield both died at a fortunate time for their fame. But, nearing and grinding as are the stress and strain, few, if any, have been broken by the tension. The White House has been exceptionally free from tragedies. Taylor died from a surfeit of cherries and milk, and Harrison from a cold contracted by riding bareheaded in a snowstorm up the avenue from the Capitol the day of his inauguration. President Polk was the only President who succumbed to the wearisome burdens of his office. He died June 15, 1849, three months after the close of his term, at the comparatively early age of fifty-four—Ex-Senator Ingalls in the Saturday Evening Post. Ask any mother the question—What do you consider the most important quality to be developed in your child's mind? and the answer without doubt will be. Truth: for the cornerstone of character is truth, and there can be no success without it. Without truth there is no development. And how many ways there are of proving, without speaking, that absolute truth is essential in the first step a baby takes towards learning? Give him a box of bricks to build a house, and you can show him that unless the first bricks laid on the floor are in line, the whole structure will be crooked; give him a slate, and you can explain to him that in making lines, if the first is not straight, not true, the rest will all follow the first, or the spaces will not be true; in short, you can make clear to him that, in copying any work, exactness is the very foundation of success, and but another name for truth. C. R. 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All letters, Communications and Business matters should be addressed to THE RECORDER. Geo. P. STEWART, Publieher SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1900 EDITORIAL T. R. Congressional Ticket For Representative— JESSE OVERSTREET, Of Marion County. THE STATE TICKET. For Governor, WINFIELD T. DURBIN, Madison County. For Lieutenant Governor, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Steuben County. For Secretary of State, UNION B. HUNT, Randolph County. For Auditor of State, WILLIAM H. HART, Clinton County. For Treasurer of State, LEOPOLD LEVY, Huntington County. For Attorney General, WILLIAM L. TAYLOR, Madison County. For Superintendent Public Instructio FRANK L. JONES, Tipton County. For State Statistician, L. 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. Legislative Ticket. For Senators-- Frederick E. Matson. Charles N. Thompson. James T. Layman. For Representatives-- Joseph H. Clark. Joseph R. Morgan. Joseph A. Minturn. Carl C. Pritchord. William Reagan. Fredrick Ostermeyer. Henry Wessling. r Joint Representative-- Larz A Whitcomb. A SAD MISPORTUNE The news of the death of Editor R. C. O. Benjamin of the Lexington, Ky, Standard, coming as unexpectedly as it did, was certainly a shock to all the country. Editor Benjamin's loss will be felt far and near. And it was sally unfortunate that such a man as he should meet so untimely a death. He was strictly a race man in every sense of the word, and always championed the rights of the Negro, wherever or whenever questioned. He was courageous in asserting his rights and fearless—perhaps, to a fault—in their execution. ```markdown ``` He was simply performing his duty at one of the precinct registration polls when an argument arose. from the effort of a Negro trying to register, and who was being unnessarily questioned by a Democratic hinchman. Editor Benjamin, knowing the man, and seeing that he was unable to answer the superferless questions put to him, spoke in his behalf by saying: "Let him register. He's all right." Hot words were exchanged which led later on, to the awful tragedy. Although, it is very evident that a little precaution on the part of Editor Benjamin might have averted the whole trouble. That recklessness should cost so able and useful a man his life in so undeserving a manner, is a pity. Editor Benjamin was one of the most noted men of the race, being born in the St. Kitts Islands, West Indies, March 31, 1855. He was educated at Oxford University, in England, has travelled extensively through Europe, Asia and Africa, after which he came to this country, and entered into journalism, has, since, owned and published papers all over the country. He was an author of repute having written and published several historical works, novel, essays poems etc. We gladly welcome to our exchange desk, this week, the "Nashville Clarion" a six column folio, published by Mr. J. W. De Wees, at Nashville, Tenn. Mr. De Wees came to this city last year and was connected with The Recorder while here. The "Clarion" is newsy, cleanly edited and well made up. We predict a long and profitable future for this new journal. UNFAIRNE'S OF NORTHERN JOURNAL. In these days of modern journalism one is compelled to acknowledge that the only trial a poor Negro in the South ever has is through the large head-lines of Northern journals wreaking with the deadly passion of race prejudice. Too well and too willingly do these journals lend themselves to unfair use. They have tried and condemned thousands of poor black men, without knowing a single fact in the case. The cruel headlines of such nuscrupolus journals have laid upon the backs of the poor Negroes many cruel marks. They say little to lift up our race, but they never lose an opportunity to use their columns to make us criminals and to make our way hard. These colorphobia-journals ever keep their tanks filled to the brim with bitter water with which to add to our miseries. Nicodemus said to the prejudiced fanatics of the Jewish Sanhedrin court: "does our law condemn any man before it hears him?" But these journals attempt to believe that every thing that the white of the South say about the Negro is true. Just because one is black and the other white. A white skin in this country is made to be the embodiment of all honor, always and especially when an issue rets between a white and a black person of the South. Even though men are black, the right of trial before the law would give us a chance to know the truth of the matter. We cite the lynching of last Tuesday in the State of Georgia. The Southern dispatches which are always prejudiced, received full credence from our Northern press. Every case in ten thousand is true. It would be a bad thing if some times these things were not true. The journals must in the absence of facts and trial, mold the sentiment that makes them true. The custom in this country is to take for granted everything that is said against Negro. And the journals acting upon this rule of prejudiced sentiment, can without any compunction of conscience whatever, always prepare their drum headline trials and give their verdicts to the word the next morning. In the minds of fair minded people, where no trial has been had, the white man and women are just as culpable as the Negro, and if the truth could be found out through a fair and impartial trial, how alarming might some discoveries be. And this is just what the white people of the South seem to be afraid of. They know that the ashes of an incinerated Negro can not speak. They know that Negro dangling from end of a rope can tell no tales. But a fair trial might. The thousands of Negroes that have been killed in the South about white men and women the Negro has always been the wrong doer. Where the right of trial is abolished and the contention is between whites and blacks, North or South the Negro will always be the criminal. Twas Pitchfork Tillman who said: "If McKinley is defeated the democratic party will take the rascally supreme court judges by the throats and teach them that there is yet liberty in the land." Five states, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, have undertaken to deprive 600,000 of the "governed" of the opportunity to give or withhold that consent guaranteed as a right by the Declaration of Independence. Last week was "whiskers week" and the barbers' trade fell off. Men who intended to wear beards this winter neglected to shave. The fellow who made an election bet that he would not shave until Bryan is elected will not be of much use to the barbers. Curator Farrington, of the Field Columbian museum, says that the world is 100,000,000 years old. Mother Earth will be twice as old as she now is when Bryan or any man who represents the dangerous elements of society is elected to the presidency. It is said that the Goebelites in Kentucky are in favor of disfranchising the Afro-Americans in that state although there are according to the census of 1890 but 268,000 Afro-Americans to 1,860,000 whites. They can hardly say that there is danger of "negro domination" in Kentucky. The Chicago Afro-American democrats gave notice that they would celebrate emancipation day with a grand to-do at which Bryan would declare against disfranchisement of the race in the south. Emancipation day has come and gone but the big demonstration did not materialize and up to date Bryan has not declared himself. Twenty of the largest cotton mills of the Piedmont district of South Carolina have gone on half time because of the high price of cotton. The Afro-American planters are getting from two to three times as much for their cotton as they received under a democratic president. This is McKimley prosperity. In 1896 South Carolina, with a population in 1890 of 1,151,149, and with not less than 230,000 voters, cast for all candidates for president, 68,907 votes, and 58,798 of them went to Tillman's man Bryan. The black men of South Carolina were not allowed to poll more than ten per cent of their voting strength. That's Tillman's idea of "consent of the governed." About a month ago Hon. J. Milton Turner, the prince of Afro-American democrats, came to Chicago with great flourish of trumpets and opened an Afro-American annex to the national democratic headquarters for the purpose of catching any stray votes that might happen to pass that way. Now Turner has flown and there is no head to the headquarters. Bourke Cockran, the gentleman from Ireland, who has proposed the repeal of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, is now in the west speaking for Bryan. Four years ago Mr. Cockran said: "The American nation will never consent to substitute the republic of Washington, of Jefferson and of Jackson for the republic of an Altgeld, a Tillman or a Bryan." Two months ago the city council of Montgomery, Ala., passed an ordinance providing separate seats for white and Afro-American passengers. To the credit of the Montgomery Afro-Americans be it said that they are boycotting the cars and the company's receipts are falling off alarmingly. Montgomery is a democratic city and it was a democratic city council that passed the obnoxious law. By giving a number of good appointments to Afro-Americans, the Tammany democrats made many votes among the race in Greater New York, but when the race riots came the Tammany policemen clubbed and mistreated many innocent people simply because their faces were black. All of the New York democratic Afro-Americans except the men who hold jobs will vote the republican ticket this year. "The gentleman from North Carolina, Mr. Linney, has seen fit to criticise the south for her treatment of the negroes. I want to say to him and all others who think like him that this is white man's government, and we intend to rule in the south by whatever means it is found necessary to employ.—Congressman Talbert, of South Carolina, a democrat, in a Speech in the Fifty-Sixth Congress. In the states wherein Afro-American voters have been disfranchised, the whites are now discussing the idea of separating the school funds so that the taxes paid by Afro-American will go to support schools for the race. The southern democrats who claim they are the best friends of the Afro-Americans have a queer way of showing their friendship. First they disfranchise a man because he is illiterate and then take away his opportunity to acquire knowledge. A sagacious business man's ideas of the political situation are presented in the Financial Review by Henry Clows. It is asserted that the Chinese war, the New England elections, the Galveston disaster al. seem to have had little influence upon the stock market. It further says that no one is likely to buy stocks for the rise with any freedom until the outcome of the election is more certain than now appears. "As the country knows what to expect in case of Bryan's election prudence dictates a waiting policy." If the mere possibility of Bryan's election causes such a stagnation in stocks and AROUND THE CHURCHES THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH [Corner Vermont and Toledo Stal Rev. C. W. Newton, pastor hours; 8 to 9 a. m: 5 to 6 p. m. Sunday services: early morning Prayer meeting, 6 o'clock Chas. Grant, leader. 10;30 a: m., Preaching. 12;30 M. Class es. 2-30, p. m., Sunday-school, John Carter, superintendent. Preaching at 8 p. m. WEEKLY MEETINGS. Tuesday, Y. P. A; second and fourth weeks; Amanda Mayne, president and Wamie t havis, 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. SICK LIST Anna Smith, N. Missouri st.; Anna Rudd, 1739 Alvord st; Fannie Hill, 1521 Yandes st. PRAYER MEETING Topic: Mephibosheth or David's gratitude for the friendship of Jonathan." First Biblical: "True Service;" Matt 4; xxiv; second: disciplinary, "distribution of the Dollar Money." VOLUNTARY SOLOS Morning Miss Maud Bass: "Not Ashamed of Christ" Night: Prof. Ezra Roberts: "Caliest Thou Us Oh, Master? Sunday collection $23,50; for Charity $2 50; total, $26 00. Sunday subjects: Services will be conducted by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Abraham Grant, D. D., presiding bishop of the Dist. Night: Preaching by the pastor: subject "confusion of the enemies of God." Exo. 14: xxv ORIGIN OF VISITING CARDS. As is the case in many other instances, we owe the invention of visiting cards to the Chinese. So long ago as the period the Tong dynasty (619-907) visiting cards were in common use in China, and that is also the date of the introduction of the "red silken cords" which figures so conspicuously on the engagement cards of that country. From very ancient times to the present day, the chinese have observed the strictly ceremony with regard to the paying of visits. The cards which they use for this purpose are very large, and usually oil a bright red color. When a Chinaman desires to marry, his parents intimate that fact to professional, "match make," who thereupon runs through a list of her visiting acquaintance, and selects one whom she considers a fitting bride for the young man, and then she calls upon young woman's parents, armed with the bridegroom's card, on which are inscribed his ancestral name and the eight symbols which denote the day of his birth. If the answer is an acceptance of his suit, the bride's card is sent in return; and should the oracles prophesy good concerning the union, the particulars of the engagement are written on two large cards, tied together with the red cords. CLASS LUES No. 11, Chas. Grant leader; collection $ — No. 12, J. P. Hoy. leader; collection $1 85 No. 18, Elmer Donald, leader; collection $2 00 No. 14, Wm. Parks, leader, collection $ 35 OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH R. D. Leonard. Pastor. Services last Sunday were largely attended. Rev. C. N. Majors of Evansville preached a very instructive sermon. He returned to his home Friday morning. While here he was the guest of Rev. R. D. Leonard. Tuesday evening the Reyerenders were entertained at 6 o'clock dinner by Mrs. Booker; Wednesday evening by Mrs.'s ones; Thursday evening by Mrs Mary Daniels. 9th Presbyterian Church Michigan st., bet. Capitol avenue and Illinois st Preaching at 11 oclock and 7:30 p.m, m. Sabbath School 9 30 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. by Rev. R. D. Brister. The R. D. Bristow who has been with us as our temporary minister since the first of July, will preach his last sermons Sunday morning and evening. The members and friends are urged to be present at both services as the R-verend wishes to say good by to as many of the members and friends as possible. The members of the church wish to thank all the friends for their hearty support, in last Sunday's rally. Rev. Dr. Newton of Bethel church should be and is doubly thanked for his kind assistance. But his remarkable discourse on "wisdom," was one to be appreciated by any audience, regardless of its intellectual development or capacity. The Rev. Newton as pulpit orator, represents the new school of preachers among the Negroes, That is to say he gives more food for thought and less for excitement. His treatment of his subject: "wisdom" was highly philosophic and practical, with it he succeeded in carrying his audience. SIMPSON CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH Cor. Howard and 11th Street) Rev. E. L. Gilliam Pastor Services last Sundsy were well attended, and with the cooler weather will continue to increase. The pastor preached two strong and helpful sermons; there was an addition, Mrs. Lulu Pinkston, of Bloomington. The Sundayschool, under the leadership of Dr. B. J. Morgan continues to increase in attendance. The school meets at 9:30 a. m. The pastor has a class which he hopes to make the largest in the school. Special efforts are being put forth to increase the membership of the Epworth League, and following officers have been chosen for the next six months: G. L. Knox, pres; Abran Trioble, 1st v-pres; Mrs. Carrie Ross, 2nd v-pres; Abraham Hewit, 3rd v-pres; Mrs Fannie Collins, 4th v-pres; Miss Edna Scott sec.; John Greysell, treas.; Miss Mattie Boulden, sup't junior meetings will be held each Thursday evening. The public is invited. The pastor and quite a large numbers attended the reception tendered the M. E. pastors of the city by the city Epworth Union at the Central ave. M. E. church on Wednesday. The social on Tuesday evening at the residence of Mrs. Jackson on Fayette st. by the State of N. Y., and the Wheel Social at Mrs. Phillips on Martindale ave., Thursday evening by Kentucky, were largely attended and enjoyed by those pr. sxtt. The sick lbt this week includes Mrs. Cassie Jackson, Miss Nannie Hawkins Mrs. H. S. Johnson, Daniel Browder and the pastor. Services Sunday evening, at 7:30. At 11 a, m, subject, "The Old Church and the New." in the evening, "Woman's work in the Church." The Ladies sewing circle meets Thursday afternoon. ALLEN+CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH (Broadway, between Tenth & Eleventh Site.) Sunday services as follows; preaching in the morning by the pastor, subject, "The battle of the Gods." At night Bishop Grant will occupy the pulpit. All are welcome. CORNISHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH Corner North and Spring Streets. John J. Blackshear, Pastor. The celebration of our nineteenth anniversary, which closed last Sunday was a grand success. The church was filled morning and evening, to hear Rev. J. B. Anderson of Lexington, Ky. He also spoke on Tuesday evening. Rev. Anderson will return and assist the pastor in his revival. The rally netted $172.00 The clubs reported as follows; Mrs. Luella Cole- man; $13; Mrs. Pynlis Beck; 13.40; Mrs. Francis Smith, 19.50; Mrs. Saran co- nus, 22.00; Pipe Organ club, 55.00; Mrs. Kate Blackshear; 26.00; Miss Genevee Bagby; 57.00. All the clubs and their friends who so liberally assisted will accept our sincere thanks. Communion services next Sunday at $ p. m. If you want to have a good time be sure to see the Get-a-way club of Beth el church, in an "Old Folk of Concert" at this church, Tuesday eve, Oct. 9th. Music will be furnished by Prof. T. Q. Brown's orchestra and the K. P. Bald The members of the chorus of Jephtha, are requested to meet Monday even Indiana's Best Negro Newsman Next Lord's day begins our third pastoral year. It is expected that every member and every friend will be present at our service at 11 A.M., also at the family service at 3 P. M., at this latter service every member together with his family is asked to be present. There will be no service at night. On the Lord's day prior to Thanksgiving we want $300. We are going to have that money on the appointed day. If every member will do his duty in this one instance, we shall have more than we have asked for. The following clubs have been organized to raise the amount wanted: Club no 1. Mrs. Martha Milan, Pres: Mrs. R. Kirk, Vice Pres: Club no.2 Mrs. Anna Bumtmel, president; Lottie Banock, vice-pres; Club No. 3, Mrs. Biree Stradford, pres; Miss Nora Roberts, vice-pres., Club No 4, Robert Sith, president, Samuel Herron, vice-pres. I AM NOW RECEIVING THE LATEST FALL STYLES I extend a cordial invitation to the public and friends, to call. CLEANING, DYEING, REPAIRING D. L Resbitt. Merchant Tailor. 405 Indiana av LADIES TAILORING FOR AN..... Easy Shave, First-class Hair Cut or Refreshing Bath Go To The Stone Front Shop 216 INDIANA AVENUE Where you will find all well known and efficient tonsoral artists; Mr. W. D FERGUSON, Mr. BENJAMIN DUNN, L. Dunn, Artistic Shoe Polisher. CHAS, RAPE. Prop. JOHN MITHEN. 234 Indiana Ave. Open Evenings Suits, Overcoats and Pants, Cleaned, Altered and Repaired All Work First-Class and Guaranteed. The Cafeteria Restaurant Under New Management Messrs. N, & L, Murrough, late of North Carolina, announce to the public, that they have purchased and reopened the Cafeteria, and will conduct a first-class business. Good Treatment and Good Service OUR MOTTO IS TO PLEASE 425 Indiana Avenue. John Rosenberg MERCHANT TAILOR & OUTFITTER INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 354 East Washington Street. --- *OUR CORRESPONDENTS,* 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. John Ferguson, John H. Roberts and others from Rushville, attended the Republican rally Monday. Benj. Willis of New Castle passed through the city Sunday, enroute to Carthage. Will Cook of New Castle is in the city. Peter Hunt of Carthage was in the city Monday. Seymour News. A spirit of extreme friendliness exists between the members of the Methodist church and their new pastor, Rev. Irwin. The trustees of the A. M. E. church will build a new parsonage. Mrs. Tellis Carter of Shelbyville is visiting her mother, Mrs. Goens. The Second Baptist church will hold their reopening services Sunday. Rev. Thompson, the pastor will be present. Everybody invited Jeffersonville News. The new pastor of the A. M. E. church, is quite popular with the members. The collection last Sunday was $40.85. Rev. J. D. Barksdale of New Albany, preached the quarterly meeting sermon last Sunday. Edinburg Notes Rev. Teeters of Indianapolis preached at the First Baptist church last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Simms visited their parents last week. William Martin was the guest of Miss Fannie Hill last Sunday. A. Davis and John Barnes visited friends last Tuesday. Mrs. Susie Hill Miller was able to be out Sunday, the first time in eleven months. Charlestown Notes. The A. M. E. church is making great progress under the pastorate of Rev. Kelly. His sermons are always interesting. Miss Anna Wilson of Alexandria, is visiting Miss Musett Smith. Prof. C. F. Maxwell is a delegate to the B. M. C. meeting in Louisville, this week. Misses Berte Crabtree and Woods of New Albany, spent Sunday the guests of Mrs. Sarah Wilson. William Paris who has been ill for several weeks is better. Mattie Paris is on the sick list. --- Will Jackson celebrated his 21st birthday last Saturday at the home of Jno. Pettifords, Quite a nnumber were present, music and games were the features of the evening. Rev. Carr of Marion, preached at the Baptist chureh last Sunday. Misses Mae Jeffries and Nola Weaver spent Sunday in Marion. Mr. Constantine Stewart went to Dublin, Friday. Rev. Collins is convalescing. Jas. Weaver spent Sunday here Shelbyville Notes. Mr. Wm. Brooks visited in Indianapolis and Anderson, Saturday and Sunday. Jas. B.iley of New Castle, Ind. was the guest of Mrs. Sarah Dennis, Saturday. Misses Hughes of Indianapolis were the guests of Mrs. Yates and family, Sunday. Messrs Hammond and Brock of Irvington were the guests of friends in the city, Sunday. Mr. Benj. Yates of Indianapolis was the guests of parents, Sunday and Monday. Mr. Leonard Johnson is better. The festival given at the 2nd M. E. Church Saturday night was a success. Rev. Johnson of Iudianapolis conducted the quarterly meeting at the 2nd M. E. Church for Rev. T. R. Fletcher, Sunday and Monday. He was the guests of Mrs. Russel. All are invited to attend the supper to be given at the 2nd M. E. Church Saturday night. Mrs. Pearl Curry remains quite ill Prof. Taylor and pupils will give a concert also will exhibit their art work Friday, at the 2nd Baptist Church. Marion Flashes Harvey Guliford died very suddenly Oct. 1 while out in his yard, he has been suffering with enlargement of the heart for two or more years. He leaves a wife and one daughter, he was a contractor in city and county for years and was very successful. Age 47 years. Rlchard West remains quite ill. Robert Julius is convalescent. Mrs. W. O. Pettiford is visiting in Ohio. a few days Rally day at Second Baptist Church Oct. 7 Every body invited Rev. G. W. Carr pastor. Mesdams Mitchel and Thomas have opened a Dress-making establishment. The Recorder wishes them success. Rev. C. W. Mossell has his monthly rally. day Sunday. Every body is to give 50 cents. John H. Weaver and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Nickles Sunday. Sadie Fleming returned from Chicago Friday. Mrs Susan West of Lawrence Kansas, is in the city, visiting her sister Mrs. Millie Tate in E. 3rd st. Logansport News. The Republican Jubilee singers went to Twelve Mile last Monday to a political gathering, Geo. Barker has returned from Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. A. J Allen celebrated their ninth anniversary last Monday night. A very nice time was reported. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Turner have returned from Chicago. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Mrs Kate Turner is in Ft Wayne Jas. Chavis has accepted a position at Wandries Cafe. Mr. and Mrs. Will Childs are visiting in the city. Mr. Morton of Indianapolis has accepted a position at Malones barber shop. A sewing circle has been organized among the young ladies of this city. Mr. Chas. Hill who has been quite ill for some time is reported much better. Mrs. Will Anderson and son have returned from a visit in Dayton O. Gurley Brewer of Indianapolis was in the city for a few hours last Tuesday, he has been engaged by the Republican committee to make an address at Kenneth some time this month. The people of this city are anxious to hear him. Harry Gilmore is attending the races at Marion this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Russell spent Snnday, in FtWayne. Mrs. Wcodfork is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. Taylor. The young ladies of the city met at the home of Miss Catherine Goodwin last Thursday afternoon and organized, the Lotus Circle. the following officers elected, Ida williams, Pres; Catherine Goodwin, Sec't: Mary Freeman, Treas. Refreshments were served by the hostess. Miss Ida William elocutionist of Kokomo, will start on a reciting tour soon. Spiceland Brevities Wm. Winslow is convalescent. Mrs. Ellen Bird of New Castle is visiting her sister, Miss Katie Kizer, who is ill. Ex-Governor Taylor of Kentucky and Congressman Watson, spoke to an immense audience, Tuesday R. A. Roberts was unable to attend school last week on account of sickness. Charles Brandy and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Wash. Hausard of Clear Springs, last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fay Franklin visited in Knightstown Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Young of Irvington are visiting her mother, Mrs Susan Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin of Shirly, were the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Winslow, Sunday. Frank Modlin had his hand badly scalded at the canning factory last Saturday. Send all news items to Charles Brandy's residence or the Academy not later than Tuesday James Merida is working at Wilkinson, this week. Lafayette Gleanings. Rev. Cushon, of Richmond Ind. conducted a series of meetings at the Second Baptist Church this week for Rev. Slaughter. He was rewarded with much success. Miss Dora Biggs, of the Lincoln school, very appropriately represented the race, on the Educational Float, in the Carnival parade last week. Mr. Roland Jones has recovered from a severe illness. Rev. C E, Allen had two additions to the A. M. E. Church last Sunday evening. Miss Carrie Andrews is better. Greensburg Items Mrs. Campbell, wife of Rev. Campbell of the A. M, E. Church arrived in the city Saturday, Miss Anna Hardwick returned, home Tuesday from a visit in Ky The handsome residence of Odous Frazier on E. North st. is near completion. The colored quartet is singing for the McKinley and Roosevelt club. There was a good attendance at all the meetings Sunday. special music was rendered by the choir. Mr. Willie Davis returned home from Cincinnati last Sunday. Mrs. Thos. Gains returned from Cincinnati, last Sunday. The Vocal class of music will open Friday night. Mrs. Elizabeth Riley entertained a number of friends at 6 o'clock dinner Sunday evening. A number of clubs was organized Monday night to aid in raising the Church debt. Mrs. Caston who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. Milton Good has returned to her home in Morth Vernou Ind. Mrs. Josephine Morgan after a pleasant visit with her sister, Mrs. Thurman returned to her home in Frankfort Indiana. Crawfordsville Notes. Mrs. Nellie Williams who has been visiting her sister Mrs. Zach. Williams returned to her home in Kentucky Saturday, accompanied as far as Cincinnati by Meadams Zach Williams and Chas. Williams. Mrs Mary Hartwood entertained a number of friends Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Emma Taylor of Indianapolis. A pleasant evening was spent by all. Mr. Jas. Spaulding spent Sunday in Bloomington Lndiana. Mesdams Harry Colemen, Jessie Harris and Miss Gertrude Moore spent Sunday in Indianapolis. Mrs. Mattie Branks and Miss Anna Hill of Danville Ill. were in the city Sunday. Clinton Patterson attended the Carnival at Lafayette last Thursday. Miss Sadie Freeman left Thursday for a visit in Louisville Ky. Dr. Benj Rickman delivered a politrcal speech at New Richmond Ind. Thursday, evening. Mr. Geo. Olliver remains quite ill Royal Legion of Peace. Champaign III. Oct. 2 1900. Rev. G. W. Hardimon, the founder of the Royal Legion of Peace, lectured at my church last night with a very nice house. His lecture was very instructive and one the people can reap much good from. I as a pastor and leader of my people for 18 years, are very much impressed with the work and feel it to be a good thing and our people should take hold of the work with much pride. He organized in my church with 30 members, we hope him success where ever he goes. Our people must think, work and organize themselves and stand together. This age of rush, push and prejudice demands it. Education and money alone will not solve the problem. There must of all be, unity and peace among us. If we neglect these things we are a race of people out cast for ever. If each negro will put his money in the Royal Legion of Peace, instead of throwing it away, he will surely succeed and in ten years be able to give employment to his people like other races. Success to the founder, W. B. BROWN Pastor of the Second Baptist Churdh. LEWIS C. HAYES DRUGGIST 502 and 504 Indiana Avenue The BE T Ice Cream soda in "Bucktown. 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Mr. Major tells us that one of the elements of his cement costs $3.75 a pound and another costs $2.65 a gallon, while a large share of the so-called cements and liquid glue upon the market are nothing more than sixteen-cent glue, dissolved in water or citric acid, and in some cases altered slightly in color and odor by the addition of cheap and useless materials. Major's cement retails at fifteen cents and twenty-five cents a bottle, and when a dealer tries to sell a substitute you can depend upon it that his only object is to make larger profit The profit Major's cement is as much as any dealer ought to make on any cement. And this is doubly true in View of the fact that each dealer gets his share of the benefit of Mr Major's advertising, which now amounts to over $5000 a month, throughout the country. Established in 1876. Insist on having Major's. Don't accept any offhand advice from a druggist. If you are at all hardy (and you will be likely to find that you are a good deal more so than you imagine) you can repair your rubber boots and family shoes, and any other rubber and leather articles, with Major's Rubber Cement and Major's Leather Cement. And you will be suprised at how many dollars a yearon will save. has a year you will not If your druggy can'b supply you, it will be forwarded by mail; either kind. Free of post e. C. M. C. WILLIS Funeral Director Old and New Phones 1173 536 Indiana Ave Indianapolis, Ind Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper MAN THE LIFEBOATS THE CHURCHES SO MANY LIFE SAVING STATIONS. Skeptics and Seafollers Must be Treated With Kindness and Reasoned With —Many Fields For Christian Usefulness — Dr. Talmage's Sermon. In this discourse Dr. Talmage points to fields of usefulness that are not yet thoroughly cultivated and shows the need of more activity. The text is Romans, xv. 20, "Lest I should build upon another man's foundation." In laying out the plan of his missionary tour Paul sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. He goes to Corinth, a city famous for splendor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the sandherm were ready to leap with both feet upon the Christian religion. He feels he has especial work to do, and he means to do it. What was the result? The grandest life of usefulness that a man ever lived. My brother, what will you do in heaven? When a great multitude that no man can number assembles, they will put 50 in your pew. What are the select few to-day assembly in the Christian churches compared with the mightier millions outside of them? Many of the churches are like a hospital that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse than toothache or "runrounds," but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured things. Give us for treatment moderate sinners, velvet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on it. It is as though a man had a farm of 3,000 acres and put all his work on one hectare. He may raise never so large ears of corn, never 20 big heads of wheat, he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre and has raised splendid men and women in that small inclusion, but the field is the most inland. That means North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa and all the islands of the sea. It is as though after a great battle there were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the field and three surgeons gave all their time to three patients under their charge. The major general comes in and says to the doctors, "Come out here and look at the near 50,000 dying for lack of surgical attentance." "No," say the three doctors, standing there fanning their patients, "we have three important cases here, and we are attending to them, and when we are not positively busy with their wounds it takes all our time to keep the flies off." In this awful battle of sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen on millions, do not let us spend all our time in taking care of a few people and when the command comes, "Go into the world." say practically, "No. I can not go; I have here a few choice cases, and I am busy keeping off the flies." There are multitudes to-day who have never had any Christian worker look them in the eye and with earnestness in the accentuation say "Come," or they would long ago have been in the kingdom. My friends, religion is either a sham or a great reality. If it be a sham, let us disband our churches and Christian associations. If it be a reality, then great populations are on the way to the bar of God unfitted for the ordeal. Comparatively little effort as yet has been made to save that large class of persons in our midst called skeptics, and he who goes to work here will not be building upon another man's foundation. There is a large number of them. They are afraid of us and our churches for the reason we do not know how to treat them. One of this class met Christ. And hear with what tenderness and pathos and beauty and success Christ dealt with him: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it—namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as myself. There is none other commandment greater than these." And the scribe said to him: "Well, master, thou hast said the truth for there is one God, and to love him with all the heart and all the understanding and all the soul and all the strength is more than whole burnt offerings and sacraments." And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly he said unto him: "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved in one interview. But few Christian people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold of him with the gentle hand of love, we are apt to take him with the pinchers of ecclesiasticism. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew how he lost his faith in Christianity. Others were tripped up to skipticism from being grievously wronged by some man who professed to be a Christian. They had a partner in business who turned out to be a first-class scoundrel, though a professed Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith by what happened in an oil company which was formed amid the petroleum excitement. The company owned no land, or if they did there was no sign of oil produced; but the president of the company was a Presbyterian elder, and the treasurer was an Episcopalian vestryman, and one director was a Methodist class leader, and the other directors prominent members of Baptist and Congregational churches. Circulars were gotten out telling what fabulous prospects opened before this company. Innocent men and women who had a little money to invest, and that little their all, said, "I do not know anything about this company, but so many good men are at the head of it that it must be excellent, and taking stock in it must be almost as good as joining the church." So they bought the stock and perhaps received one dividend so as to keep them still, but after a while they found that the company had reorganized and had a different president and different treasurer and different directors. Other engagements or ill health had caused the former officers of the company, with many regrets, to resign. And all that the subscribers of that stock had to show for their investment was a beautifully ornamented certificate. Sometimes that man, looking over his old papers, comes across that certificates, and it is so suggestive that he vows he wants none of the religion that the president and trustees and directors of that oil company professed. Of course, their rejection of religion on such grounds was unphilosophical and unwise. I am told that many of the United States army desert every year, and there are many court-martials every year. Is that anything against the United States government that swore them in? And if a soldier of Christ deserts, is that anything against the Christianity which he swore to support and defend? How do you judge of the currency of a country? By a counterfeit bill? Now, you must have patience with those who have been swindled by religious pretenders. Live in the presence of others a frank, honest, earnest Christian life, that they may be attracted to the same Savior upon whom your hopes depend. Remember, skepticism always has some reason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe's irreligion started when the news came to Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov. 1, 1775. That 60,000 people should have perished in that earthquake and in the after rising of the Tagus river so stirred his sympathies that he threw up his belief in the goodness of God. Others have gone into skepticism from a natural persistence in asking the reason why. They have been fearfully stabbed of the fatal interrogation point. There are so many things they can not get explained. They can not understand the Trinity or how God can be sovereign and vet man a free agent. Neither can I. They say, "I don't understand why a good God should let sin come into the world." Neither can I. You say, "Why was that child started in life with such disadvantages, while others have all physical and mental equipment?" I can not tell. Such men are not to be scoffed at, but helped. Turn your back upon a drowning man when you have the rope with which to pull him ashore, and let that woman in the third story of a house perish in the flames when you have a ladder with which to help her out and help her down, rather than turn your back scoffingly on a skeptic, whose soul is in more peril than the bodies of those other endangered ones can be. Oh, skepticism is a dark land. There are men who would give a thousand worlds, if they possessed them, to get back to the placid faith of their fathers and mothers, and it is our place to help them, and we may help them, never through their hands, but always through their hearts. These skeptics, when brought to Jesus, will be mightily effective, far more so than those who never examined the evidences of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptic, Robert Hall a skeptic, Robert Newton a skeptic, Christmas Evans a skeptic. But when once with strong hand they took hold of the charict of the gospel they rolled it on with what momentum! If I address such men and women to-day I throw out no scoff. I implead them by the memory of the good old days when at their mother's knee they said, "Now I lay me down to sleep," and by those days and nights of scarlet fever in which she watched you, giving you the medicine in just the right time and turning your pillow when it was hot and with hands that many years ago turned to dust soothed away your pain and with voice that you will never hear again, unless you join her in the better country, told you to never mind, for you would feel better by and by, and by that dying couch where she looked so pale and talked so slowly, catching her breath between the words and you felt an awful loneliness coming over your soul. By all that I beg you to come back and take the same religion. It was good enough for her. It is good enough for you. Nay, I plead by all the wounds and tears and blood and groans and agonies and death throes of the Son of God, who approaches you this moment with torn brow and lacerated hands and whipped back, saying, "Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Again, there is a field of usefulness but little touched, occupied by those who are astray in their habits. All northern nations, like those of North America and England and Scotland—that is, in the colder climates—are devastated by alcoholism. They take the fire to keep up the warmth. In southern countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm they are not tempted to fiery liquids. The great Roman armies never drank anything stronger than water tinged with vinegar, but under our northern climate the temptation to heating stimulants is most mighty, and millions sucumb. When a man's habits go wrong, the church drops him, the social circle drops him, good influences drop him, we all drop him. Of all the men who get off the track but few ever get on again. Near my summer residence there is a life saving station on the beach. There are all the ropes and rockets, the boats, the machinery for getting people off shipwrecks. One summer I saw there fifteen or twenty men who were breakfasting after having just escaped with their lives and nothing more. Up and down our coasts are built these useful structures, and the mariners know it, and they feel that if they are driven into the breakers there will be apt from shore to come a rescue. The churches of God ought to be so many life saving stations, not so much to help those who are in smooth waters, but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the lifeboats! And who will man them? We do not preach enough to such men; we have not enough faith in their release. Alas, if when they come to hear us we are laboriously trying to show the difference between sublipsarianism and supraplipsarianism, while they have a hundred vipers of remorse and despair coiling around and bitting their immortal spirits. The church is not chiefly for goodish sort of men, whose proclivities are all right and who could get to heaven praying and singing in their own homes. It is on the beach to help the drowning. Those bad cases are the cases that God likes to take hold of. He can save a big sinner as well as a small sinner, and when a man calls earnestly to God for help he will go out to deliver such a one. If it were necessary, God would come down from the sky, followed by all the artillery of heaven and a million angels with drawn swords. Get one hundred such redeemed men in your churches and nothing could stand before them, for such men are generally warm hearted and enthusiastic. No formal prayers then. No heartless singing then. No cold conventionalisms then. BUCKWHEAT CAKES AND GRAVEN Of'n when we git to dreamin' o' happy days o' yore When the lifeboat was a-floatin' from boyhood's golden shore Treasures that were half-forgotome a salin' into sight, Startin' all the soul to dancin' to Destitute children of the street offer a field of work comparatively unoccupied. The uncared for children are in the majority in most of our cities. When they grow up, if unreformed they will out-vote your children, and they will govern your children. The whisky ring, will hatch out other whisky rings, and grog shows will kill with their heredit stench public sobriety unless the church of God rises up with outstretched arms and infold this dystopia in her bosom. Public schools can not do it. Art can not do it. Blackwell's island can not do it. Almhouses can not do it. Jails can not do it. Church of God, wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do it! Get somewhere, somehow to work! The Prussian cavalry mount by putting their right foot into the stirrup, while the American cavalry mount by putting their left foot into the stirrup. I do not care how you mount your war charger if you only get into this bat! for God and get there soon, right stirrup or left stirrup or no stirrup at all. The unoccupied fields are all around us, and why should we build on another man's foundation? I have heard of what was called the "thundering legion." It was in 179. a part of the Roman army to which some Christians belonged, and their prayers, it was said, were answered by thunder and lightning and hail and tempest which overthrew an invading army and saved the empire. And I would to God that our churches might be so mighty in prayer and work that they would become a thundering legion before which the forces of sin might be routed and the gates of hell might tremble. Launch the gospel ship for another voyage! Heave away now, kids! Shake out the reefs in the foretoss! Come, O heavenly wind, and fill the canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon us forward. Jesus on the shore will welcome us into barber! TEA RAISING IN THE SOUTH. Some of the Results That May Follow a Prolongation of the Chinese Troubles. It is suggested that one result of the effect of the Chinese troubles on the tea trade will be the direction of attention to the prospective importance of tea raising in this country. As is well known, Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, has taken much interest in this subject, and has established several experiment tea-growing stations in Southern and Southwestern States. So far, there is only one considerable tea plantation in the United States, and its product, a few thousand pounds a year, is, of course, not a factor in the market. Persons familiar with the enterprise, however, speak highly of the success attained thus far and predict that the ultimate results will be of great importance. The plantation in question is at Pinehurst, Summerville, S. C., and was established some six or seven years ago. It has been warmly commended by Secretary Wilson, and is now conducted under the auspices of his department. A tea broker who has visited this plantation says that it was started and is still managed by Dr. Charles U. Shepherd, a New Englander by birth, who had been a resident of Oriental tea countries and was thoroughly conversant with the methods of Eastern growers. He established the plantation primarily for the purpose of furnishing employment to the young negroes in his neighborhood, and he now has from 30 to 50 negro children engaged in tea cultivation and curing. For these he provides school facilities. Thus far, it is declared, Dr. Shepard has succeeded in proving the scientific fact that tea plants will grow as vigorously and produce as well in South Carolina as in any other part of the world. Now he is improving the methods of preparation, so as to make the teas more popular in this country, where certain tastes must be specially consulted. He raises both black and green teas. Some of the teas are readily retailled at $1 a pound, but the average price for them is less. Reduced prices will accompany a larger supply and the production of these American teas is steadily increasing from year to year. The informant referred to the insignificance of the tea crop in India and Ceylon 20 years ago and argued that its present importance might yet be rivaled in the market by that of the crop of the United States.—N. Y. Evening Post. Earmarks of the Tonsorial Artist Earnments of the Toussier Artist. "Is this a tonsorial parlor?" asked the hard-featured man, thrusting his head inside the door. "Yes, sir." answered the man at the first chair. "Come in. You're next." first chair. Come here next. "I guess not. You'll want to know what makes my hair so harsh, and try to get me to have it singed, and you'll want to part it in the middle, and charge me 35 cents. I think I'll hunt a barber shop. Good day.—Chicago Tribune. Convinced. "Do yer believe in Providence, Billy?" "Don't often come my way, Sandy." "Well, it comes mine. While I was eatin' de lightning struck de tree an' split it up small enough for firewood." —Chicago News. The Meanest Man. The meanest man up to date is Smiffkins. He sold Jones a half interest in a cow, and then refused to divide the milk, maintaining that Jones owned the front, end.-Tit Bits. O'f n when we git to dreamin' o' the happy days o' yore When the lifeboat was a floatin' out from boyhood's golden shore. Treasures that were half-forgotten come a sailin' into sight. Startin' all the soul to dancin' to the music of delight! An' there isn't one among 'em puts a yeargin' in the breast For another joyous season in the sacred ol' home nest Like them fragrant, smokin' jewels, different from the modern fake. Buckwheat cakes an' sassige gravy like our mother used to make! Used to of' n stand an' watch her beat the batter in the crock. "Comin!' Comin!' Comin!' Comin!" was the way she'd make it talk; See' her grease the smokin' griddle with a piece o' bacon skin. Then pour on the brownish batter with a dipper made o' tin. There' t' d lay with holes a breakin' out like measles from the top. Till she'd loosen it an' turn it with an ol' case knife, "kerflop!" Oh! there ain't a modern angel top o' all the earth kin bake Buckwheat cakes an' sassige gravy like our mother used to make! Eppycures may chip till doomsday o' the toney styles o' food. Modern chefs may work on dishes that a god'd think was good. Fancy printed menu programs in the taverns an' cafayes May be full of kitchen triumphs that'd win a angel's praise. But if they should spread a banket that'd make a god rejoice Side o' that ol' kitchen table 'an' d tell us take our choice. You would see no hesitation in our action as we'd take Buckwheat cakes an' sassige gravy like our mother used to make! Denver Post. THE AMERICAN BREAKFAST. One of the Most Important Events in the Daily Routine of the Household 一 For professional men and all who are engaged in brain work, the question of breakfast is a very important one. The standard American breakfast consists of beefsteak, potatoes, coffee and griddlecakes. The monotony of this bill of fare soon has its effect, and lack of appetite is sure to result. While the flavor of hotel cooking can not be compared to that of good home-made dishes, it gives one the advantage of variety and choice, and one is sure to find something in the large and varied list of dishes to tempt the palate and satisfy demands. One scarcely realizes how much of the enjoyment derived from partaking of a good breakfast is due to the taste and nicety with which the table and dishes are arranged. The coffee may be delicious and the steak done to a turn; but if the sense of nicety and refinement be offended by soiled linen, dull silver and careless arrangement there is lack of good digestion as well as appetite. On the other hand, if the table is arranged with taste and everything delicately served, the appetite is stimulated and one enjoys the most honestly viands. As the early morning meal is to prepare the household for the work of the day, the chief aim must be to provide sufficient nourishment to meet the demands upon the strength of mind or body. The refined home calls for frequent variations. When one has unlimited and varied supplies at their demand, it would seem an easy matter to cater to the most pampered appetite. Where resources are somewhat limited, then it is necessary to study frequent variations on the same thing, and depend on little accessories in the form of crisp salad of lettuce and cress, a dish of fresh garden radishes or whole tomatoes, peeled, chilled and served half hidden in the tender green of lettuce. This gives color and a suggestion of coolness that is most refreshing and inviting on a close, sultry morning. Whenever it is possible have some bit of brightness from out of doors and let the flowers be freshly cathered, if from your own garden. Nothing wearies the eye more than flowers that save lost their freshness, especially when they greet you at the early morning meal. They hint too strongly of lissitude to promote cheer at a well-ordered breakfast table. The first essential is promptness. Haste and friction of any kind must be avoided if the meal is a success. The housekeeper who looks well after the ways of her household will not leave the choice and preparation of her breakfast dishes until morning and then, with a hasty survey of her resources, prepare "anything" that can be cooked hastily, to the destruction of her own peace of mind and the tempers of her family. But she will make a careful selection of materials and have everything in readiness on the night before. To the woman who manages well it is not a difficult task to serve a dainty home breakfast, even when the wage-carner must be "on time" for an early morning train. There is a peculiar pleasantness in the thought of a home breakfast of fresh fruit, fresh eggs daintly cooked and served, a juicy chop or bit of delicately broiled fish or ham, a baked potato that turns out like white, glistening snow, freshly-made coffee, with its delightful aroma, to surprise you at the table, and not tantalize your custrills while still at your toilet. To most people, during hot weather, a well-cooked cereal, molded in individual shapes and served ice cold with rich cold cream, is much more inviting and enjoyable than the hot mush served steaming from the fire. Even hot rolls, muffins and biscuit are not impossible for an early breakfast, and are often preferred by many instead of a steady diet of hot meats. These are generally acceptable to --- even delicate eaters, and can be prepared in so many tempting ways. They are found on the table all the year round. The long list of omelets give variety. Tomatoes and eggs make many delightful combinations that are not only appetizing but nourishing as well. Never overload the breakfast table at any time, and least of all in hot weather. Make it a point to serve a few well-selected dishes perfectly cooked. A delicate or fastidious appetite takes alarm at a great array of heavy, hot foods and falls at the point of attack. Laundering Silk. Summer silks may be guaranteed to wash like a piece of cotton goods, but nevertheless it isn't worth while trying any experiments along that line. The silk needs a particular process and does not respond cheerfully to an ordinary washing. In the first place, all spots like grease spots should be removed by the use of chloroform. Then for every pail of water use a teaspoonful of ammonia and a small amount of soap, dissolving the latter in the water rather than rubbing it on the silk. Dip the silk in the water, working it up and down until it seems clean. Press the moisture out, but do not wring the silk. The rinsing water should be just tepid. Hang the silk where the sun will not touch it and when it is partly dry lay it between dry clothes and press with a hot iron. China silk should be washed in thick soap soils and should be ironed while still damp. The same point about ironing applies to most silk articles. Silk handkerchiefs, for instance, should not be allowed to dry before ironing since it is almost impossible to sprinkle them evenly. They should be put straight from the rinsing water into a cloth and rolled tightly. While still damp, iron them. Out of a Housewife's Diary. To-night I entered the parlor suddenly and found my husband lying on one of my lovely new sofa cushions. How impossible it is for a woman to make a home in the true sense when she is married to such an insensate man! Sometimes I feel that I should be glad to die.-Detroit Journal. The Stout Woman. It is a mistake for a stout woman not to have some fullness at the back of her skirt, and a small bustle directly at the back will make her look smaller than if the skirt is allowed to hang in below the waist. A small pad in half-moon shape that is fastened to the skirt at each end, just at the middle of the back, makes a surprising difference in the hang of the skirt and, oddly enough, seems to take away from the width of the hips and the size of the stomach. Vertical lines are in every instance the wisest choice for women who are at all inclined to stoutness. Especially in striped fabrics this question should be carefully considered, and the material made up according to some pattern which brings the lines mostly vertical. Should the skirt be so cut as to make the stripes run up to a point in the back, this will not interfere with the becoming effect, but they should never run horizontally on a stout woman. Tucks and plaits, too, should be planned with this fact in mind. The several styles of skirts in vogue this summer allow for all types of figure. The slim woman may be as fluffy as she chooses; the woman with no hips may have her skirts trimmed in yoke fashion; the stout woman may have tucks and vertical trimming—all may look well if they will merely give the matter a little thought—Harper's Bazar. Luncheon Dish Cold mashed potatoes will answer nicely for these. Take two cups of mashed potatoes; add two eggs beaten light; two tablespoonfuls of cream, a tablespoonful chopped parsley, a tablespoonful of onion juice, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, a grating of nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste. Mix all thoroughly, and place in a saucepan over the fire, and stir and cook until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. Then turn out to cool. When cold enough to handle, form into cylinder-shaped croquettes about two and one-half inches long and an inch thick. Dip into beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs, and fry in hot fat same as other croquettes. Linen Couch Covers We are bound to pause and bestow a pleased glance upon the new linen couch covers. Already have we had days when the touch of heavy upholsteries was even so disagreeable, and there are many more of these days coming when the feel of nice fresh linens will be a pure delight. Large enough to cover entirely, not to mention reaching fairly to the floor, the most generously proportioned divans, these covers are in the natural linen color, with a border of red, or blue, or dull green. They are ringed out all around the edge to the depth of a couple of inches, and may be had from $1.50 to $3. In addition to their comfort-giving qualities, the frugal housewife has the satisfaction of knowing that the upholstery underneath them is being well preserved from the plentiful sunshine and the dust. Cleaning Baby's Cloak Babies' cashmere cloaks can be cleaned at home with magnesia. Get an ounce of powdered magnesia from a chemist, dip a clean rag into it and rub the cloak well all over, turning the rag as it gets solled. When well covered with the powder take a clean brush and brush it well as it lies on the table. Some people use naphtha, but this is very inflammable, and is rather apt to turn the cashmere yellow. Dark muslims were never so much worn as at present. Large buttons are used for fastening morning gloves; small for evening. for evening. Machine-stitched ribbons are used on some of the latest French tailor costumes of hats and pique. Black hats. effective worn with white frocks, and also makes many colored ones more sturdy. Black and white checks and shepherd's plaids for taffetta gowns are very a la mode. As a rule these gowns are simply made and very little trimmed or elaborated. Strong contrast of orange or flame color used sparingly gives them a dash and go quite irresistible. Clothing Should be Aimed Every-day garments, particularly those which are not laundered, should be disinfected. Brushing is not sufficient, as it does not remove the unpleasant odor which come from long usage. Some women sprinkle their waists and dresses with scent and use sachet powders to perfume their bonnets and wraps. All this would be admirable if it were availing. Scent needs to be overpowering to conceal the unfragrant emanations from an old garment. Then the bouquet is fulsome and vulgar. Better than scent bag and potpourri are clothespole and an open window. Turn the garments wrong side out and let the air and sunshine disinfect and deodorize them. All night airing is good, but a day of blowing wings and purifying sunlight is better. THE ENGLISH TOY SOLDIERS An Important Addition to the Brit ish Army on the Nursery Floor. The British army—the army of lead and paint, whose battles on the island on the field, but the nursery floor is on the point of receiving an important addition to its strength. For many years past it has been "made in Germany," with more or less success in the matter of coloring and accoutrements, but, thanks to the inventive genius of a Frenchman who has lived nearly all his life in the metropolis, it will in future be "made in London." The small commanders-in-chief will no longer have their patriotism affronched by the reflection that their batteries and squadrons are mere foreign mercenaries. "We anticipate a very large trade," said a representative of Faudel Philips & Co., who have secured for five years the right to the output of the new factory. "The idea of Mr. Revoize is most ingenuous. The men and horses are cast in hollow form, thus reducing the cost of production and enabling us to place on the market miniature reproductions of all the famous regiments at a retail price below that of our foreign competitors. We have already some 60 regiments in hand, to say nothing of a naval brigade and a most ingenious mountain battery, the guns of which are 'prettyable,' and in course of time we shall be able to supply children with representatives of the whole British army." "Since the South African war began the demand for miniature soldiers has far exceeded the supply which even Germany could afford, and this led us to cast about for a method of home production which should render us to a large extent independent. How far we have succeeded will be seen when our army gets on the market, which will be very shortly, but we have no doubts on the point. One of our special points is attention to detail, and you will see from these specimens that our soldiers conform to all the army regulations in the matter of uniform and equipment. The Welsh Fuseliers have their goat, the C. I. V.'s their slonch hats, and he naval brigade their 4.7-inch. More than a hundred people are now employed in the production, the coloring being done by women who have been specially instructed in the process. Each regiment will be in a box, on the cover of which will be its colors and its achievements, and Made in London' will be a prominent line." London Chronicle. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Heather grows in many parts of South Africa. An inquiry has brought out a statement that "there is not a building in Chicago but is erected illegally." For the last ten years there has been an increase of 2,000 annually in the number of Great Britain's insane. Signals have been sent by wireless telegraph through a suite of seven rooms, the doors of which were closed. The King of Siam owns an "teleplant corps," numbering some 50 gray animals. They are all trained for army purposes. A general is in charge by the enlargement of a ship cannineen miles long Brussels becomes a port for ships of 2,000 tons. The oil limit was vessels of 300 tons. A Missouri farmer has gone into the business of raising quail. He says the birds are more easily handled than chicken and far more profitable. chicken and fat more pron. The new forts at Dover. England are to have six nine-inch wom- guns, having an effective range of elec eq miles. They are nearly forty fee long. According to the decree of March 10 1899, in Paris, the speed of motor cars has been fixed at twelve miles an hour in the streets and sixteen on the road. Train "butchers" report that there is no demand for campaign books. Four years ago at this date campaign liter ature formed the bulk of the trainbork trade. Reflection of a Bachelor. A woman never forgives a man for his kindness in bringing her husband dunked. home. You probably the love of the angels of man as tender and sweet as the love of a old maid for the new minister. A woman's way of getting even with her husband for showing her that she was wrong is not by admitting it. A man can't please all women part of the time or one woman all of the time, but he can always smile at all of their babies. Wizard A Very Bad Combine is that of A Very Bad Sprain and A Very Black Bruise It often happens, but just as often St. Jacobs Oil makes a clean, sure, prompt cure of both. Brother Dickey's Sayings. Wen Gabrul blows his trumpet I wonders ef some er de folks dat'll be lvin' den won't wish dey'd larnt mu- I hez come ter de conclusion dat de fire五oolish virgins must er been afflicted wid a gas bill w'le die couldn't pay on de tenth er de month. Dey aint no col' weather in dis worl' ef dey's des a lil' er summer in de heart. Give all yo' goods ter de po'; but don't aze de po' ter len' yo' a dollar after he opens a grocery sto'. Never give up. Mebbe de time you is feelin' de lowes' down in pocket some po' man is headin' yo' way ter borrer a dollar f'm you. Heaven look mighty high; but hit's never any higher dan what de heart is—Atlanta Constitution. Literary Prescriptions. For sublimity of conception read Milton. For vivacity read Stevenson and Kipling. For imagination read Shakespeare and Job. For elegance read Virgil, Milton and Arnold. For simplicity read Burns, Whittier and Bunyan. For smoothness read Addison and Hawthorne. For interest in common things read Jane Austen. For humor read Chaucer, Cervantes and Mark Twain. For choice of individual words read Keats, Tennyson and Emerson. For study of human nature read Shakespeare and George Eliot. For loving and patient observation of nature read Thoreau and Walton.—Kansas City Star. Wearing a rough rider hat doesn't give a man a war record. Back- Ache? If you have Backache you have Kidney Disease. If you neglect Backache it will develop into something worse — Bright's Disease or Diabetes. There is no use rubbing and doctoring your back. Cure the kidneys. There is only one kidney medicine but it cures Backache every time — Dodd's Kidney Pills. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Aunt Wood See Fac-Smile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION GENUINE MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. Price 25 Cents Purify Vegetable. CURE SICK HEADACHE. --- BERRIT BROTHERS Standing almost concealed from view at Forty-third street and Lancaster avenue, there is an old frame building. It is yet in a good state of preservation, and shows few signs of its long existence, although it is among the oldest residences in that locality. But apart from its old age and ancient history, it has a great store of reminiscence. Here live two brothers, Frank and Peter Oysterheld, who many years ago shut themselves in from the world so far as social relations go. Both brothers live a hermit life and are eccentric in their mode. The windows are always tightly closed, and the house looks as if it were the realm of the dead rather than that of the living. Many a passer by stands and looks into the front yard and peeps through the back fence into the rear yard speculating as to the manner of life within. The back yard is in itself a regular junk shop, for here have been gathered and stored for years such old truck of all sorts gathered by the brothers in their midnight rambles. They have a peculiar liking for old shoes, and old cast-off footwear of all kinds and in all states of dilapidation can be found carefully stored away. It would take many wagon loads to clear away the rubbish in the desolate premises at the rear. Old tin and tinware, crockery, glass, metal and even firewood is piled up to the top of the fences. The collection has become so large that the brothers have dug trenches in the yard and buried their odd treasure. No one has ever dared to invade the precincts of that back yard and come out without being roughly treated. One day an enterpriseing Italian rag picker, in going around the back alley, happened to look through and saw a rich harvest in the old refuse. He went to the front and tried at the rear to attract the attention of the occupants of the building. Falling to do so, he thought the house was vacant and that the way was clear for him for a rich haul. He scaled the back fence and hauled over his bag. He had, however, scarcely begun to cull out what he considered of value to him when one of the brothers appeared with a club. The rag picker escaped with his life, more from good luck and quickness than anything else. He lost his bag and hat, and when he limped from the back alleyway he congratulated himself that he had got out alive. He appealed to a policeman to get him his hat, but the appeal was in vain, for the bluecoat disliked intruding into the domains of the eccentric brothers. About four years ago one of the brothers became deranged and it required a whole detail of policeman to get him into the patrol wagon and send him to the Philadelphia Hospital—Philadelphia Times. --- Two Popular American Artists. The popularity of the two American members of the Royal Academy, Sargent and Abbey, has again been shown in a vote taken by the London Daily News as to the best pictures in this year's show at Burlington House. There was first a vote for the best picture of all and then votes for the best picture of various classes, such as subject picture, portraits, landscapes, sea picture, water colors, "the picture you would best like to live with, "the picture with the most heart in it. "the prettiest face," "the best-looking man," "the nicest baby" and "the prettiest dress." The number of votes cast was 1,094, and the picture which was chosen as being the best of all was Frank Dicksee's "The Two Crowns." This received 288 votes. Next came Sargent's "Three Sisters," with 181 votes, and then Abbey's "The Trial of Queen Katherine," with 141 votes. Curiously enough Dicksee's picture failed to get first place in its class of subject pictures, the choice in that going to Abbey's canvas, which received 383 votes to the 260 given to Dicksee's, which came second in that class, but many thought that the latter had a deal of "heart" in it and others that they would best live with it, so that it won out. In the portrait class Sargent had everything. His "Lord Russell" got 165 votes, his "Three Sisters" second, with 142 votes, and his "Earl of Dahloushe" third, with 121 votes. The fourth was Ouless "The Prince of Wales," which received 71 votes. To be sure, little value is to be attached to such a "plebiscite" as because little weight is to be given to the choice of the British matron, who undoubtedly sent the most votes, but the result is none the less interesting. Domestic Use of Solidified Air: DOMESTIC USE OF SOLIDIFIED AV. W. L. Alden, writing in Pearson's Magazine a financial article on the uses of solidified air, comments in the following strain on a certain possible inconvenience of introducing it into dwelling houses: There is, however, one danger in connection with solidified air to which the attention of the public has not yet been called. It is well known that 'all sorts of microbes that are found in water are preserved unharmed in ice and that when the ice melts they are set free to do their deadly work. Now sound is contained in air, and may it not very well happen that when the air is solidified whatever sounds may be contained in it may be preserved to be set free at some extremely inconvenient time? Thus solidified Swiss air may be full of yodelling, and a brick of it placed in a bedroom at night may suddenly give forth the unholy sounds in the middle of the night. Or air from Italy may contain compressed hand-organ music or the unprintable remarks of tourists who have received, their hotel bills with extra charges for "View of Vesuvius" or "Association with the memory of Milor Byron." Where H ; Had Met Him. "Are you acquainted with the prisoner at the bar?" "That's the only place I am acquainted with him."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA A NEW ERA IN CALIFORNIA. For Once, It Is Said, the Standard Oil Company Will Prove to be a Benefactor. A Los Angeles dispatch represents that the Standard Oil Company is preparing to purchase the product of the California wells. Tanks for its storage are said to be on the way from the East and will be erected in the vicinity of Bakersfield, where ground has been secured for their installation. Their capacity is also described as being great enough to hold the entire output of the Kern County oil fields. Assuming that the report is true, it ought to be very acceptable news to the mineral oil miners of this State. It broadens the market for the product, besides introducing a new and substantial buyer in the field. While it is true that the Standard Oil Company has established a monopoly over the output of other petroleum fields in the country, it does not seem possible for its monopoly to be extended over the California fields in a way to be detrimental to the well owners. The raw product is entering so largely into the various industries of the State as a fuel that a big demand for it has already been created at a price which is favorable to both consumer and producer. As the Standard Oil Company will probably confine its operations here, as it has elsewhere, to the refinable oil, the well owners will have the choice of the sale of their product for refining or for fuel purposes. The decision of this big corporation to enter the State as a wholesale purchaser of that part of the output which is susceptible of refinement for use in illumination ought therefore, to stimulate the industry. Evidently the company has in view the supplying of the Oriental trade with California oil, which will effect a big saving to it in the item of freight. The cost of overland transportation will be entirely avoided, and the voyage by sea will be shortened nearly 10,000 miles when cargoes are shipped from San Francisco instead of from Eastern ports.—San Francisco Chronicle. Not So Mad As He Seemed. A story, not merely amusing but absolutely true, is told by Sir Wenyss Reid. It relates to an incident observed by a distinguished public man, who has risen high in the service of the State. On the day on which he first entered a certain British Government office as a junior clerk he was a witness of a scene which filled him with amazement. An elderly man, who was seated at another desk in the same room, suddenly rose from his seat, dragged his chair to the fireplace, and seizing the poker, attacked the offending piece of furniture with what seemed to be maniacal fury. When he had broken a leg off the chair his passion seemed to be exhausted. He flung the damaged chair into a corner of the room, and getting another chair, calmly resumed his work as if nothing had happened. The junior clerk, on leaving his work that afternoon, ventured, with the hesitation of a novice, to ask another clerk who had been a witness of the scene what it meant. "Is Mr. X, subject to attacks of this kind?" he asked. "Mr. X!" was the response. "There was nothing the matter with him. You see, one of the castors had come off his chair, and the treasury won't replace castors; they will repair nothing less serious than a broken leg. So he broke one of the legs, and now he will get the castor put on again."—London Tit-Bits. Solid Comfort There are many ways to comfort the unfortunate. One of the most original of them is recorded by Sir David Dundas, once a Circuit Judge of England. In the earlier half of the century, in many of the rural districts, there was but one session of the court during the year, and it consequently became the Judge's duty to make a clean sweep of the prisoners' cases before a session ended. Sir David had just finished a session at Scarborough, and the court was about to be closed, when the gaoler approached. "What, your honor," said he, "is to be done with the man who created a disturbance in court last year? Your honor will recollect that you committed him for contempt." "Good heavens!" exclaimed Sir David, who had, of course, only committed the prisoner for the day. "Has the man been confined for a year? Release him at once." The gaoler performed his mission, and then the Judge anxiously inquired what the man had said. "Well, your honor," drawled the gaoler. "I told him I had known many a man transported for much less—and he was very grateful."—London Tit-Bits. Certain Dogs When in Pain. A foxhound, as every sportsman knows, if caught in a trap or suffering pain from an injury, is most dangerous to approach; even if you assist him out of a difficulty—say, from a pit or hole where, but for you, he would probably be drowned—he will show his gratitude by biting you. Pointers, setters and spaniels, though not quite so ready with their teeth, will, under similar circumstances, bite not only strangers but their own masters without scruple. The flat-coated retriever is totally dissimilar in this respect, and can be handled without the slightest risk. I have got them out of all sorts of difficulties and never once met with injury. In doing so you may fearlessly let their head rest on your shoulder or lie against your face. Quite recently a valuable dog of mine got hung up in a wire fence, and a dislocation of the stifle or some serious injury seemed imminent. Running up, I lifted him bodily, struggling and terrified as he was; yet the idea of biting occurred neither to the helper nor the helped. Blake-woods. Why He Wanted a New Doctor. A medical gentleman who had recently taken over a practice in a pro- vincial city relates the following experience: "Of course," he says, "I was prepared to meet the individual who thinks it altogether unnecessary to pay the doctor's fees, and I soon met him. I was summoned to his house in the early hours of a very wet morning. My patient, I found, was a boy some six or seven years of age. He had evidently been ill some time, and I expressed the opinion that a doctor should have been consulted earlier. "Oh,' replied the patient's father, 'we have had a doctor at him. Dr. B., you know; very clever fellow, too. Thoroughly understands the case.' "Then,' I asked, 'why call me in if you are satisfied with Dr. B.' "This was a poser, and the reply came from an unexpected quarter. "You see, doctor,' said a weak voice from the bed, 'Dr. B. wanted paying!"—London Tit-Bits. ...Funnities... Tenant—I think, sir, something ought to be done to my cellar. It's constantly full of water. Landlord—At $10 rent would you expect it to be full of champagne?—Heitere Welt. "I understand it is pretty generally conceded now that golf is not a good hot weather game," remarked the man who doesn't play. "Oh, the game is all right," replied the feminine enthusiast. "The trouble is we don't dress properly for it." "What kind of a costume would you suggest?" "A bathing suit." "Let's play," he said promptly. But of course she declined. If there had been nothing but sand on the links it might have been different.—Chicago Post. **** "What did the fortune teller say was in store for you?" "She said I was threatened with a considerable loss of flesh." "Well, what did you do?" "I took to drinking two quarts of milk a day and double locking my smokehouse every night."—Chicago Tribune. **** Miss Blugore—May Enchance says she hears a Russian count coming here this summer. Miss Hyupp—Of course, then, she's just crazy to learn the Russian language. Miss Blugore—Oh, she says she knows already how to say "yes," and that's enough.—Philadelphia Press. **** Mr. Henpeck—I wish they had never started this new "shirt waist man" fad. Mr. Wunder—What's wrong with it? Mr. Henpeck—My wife makes me wear all her old big sleeved shirt waists now. That's what's wrong with it.—Baltimore American. **** "Jaysmith is a sharp man," said Bloobumper. "I should use the comparative degree instead of the positive," said Spatts. "How's that?" "I should call him a sharper."—Chicago Chronicle. **** Homestay—So you were sick coming over from abroad, eh? Traveler—I should say. The only thing I could keep on my stomach at all was a small mustard plaster.—Philadelphia Press. *** Dissatisfied Customer—You said these crackers were rich with butter, Grocer—So they are, sir. Try them with butter once and you'll see. Anything I can show you, madam?—Chicago Tribune. *** “What did Freddy say when you caught him coming out of the pantry with his hands stained red?” “He told the truth by saying that he had jammed his fingers.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. *** The Father—Look here, my boy. you told me you would need only $500 for your college term, and now you want $500 more. The Son—But this is for the things I don't need.—Life. A Missourian. Sergeant Major—Now. Private Smith, you know very well none but officers and non-commissioned officers, are allowed to walk across this grass. Private Smith—But. Sergeant Major, I've Capt. Graham's verbal orders to— Sergeant Major—None o' that, sir. Show me the Captain's verbal orders! Show'm to me, sir!-London Tit-Bits. He Meant What He Said. "Do you mean to say that it is through no fault of yours that you appear before me for the second time?" demanded the Judge of the hard-faced culprit. "Yes, I do," replied the latter; "I did my level best to defeat you the last time you ran."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Used to It. Her Mother—You will assume a grave responsibility when you marry my daughter. Remember she was brought up in the lap of luxury. Her Adorer—Oh, she's pretty well used to my lap now—London Tit-Bits. "The sweet potato sings a neat parody that ought to make a hit," said the sugar beet to the roasting car. "What is it called?" "Just as I Yam," replied the beet—Cleveland Plain Dealer. No Cause For Joy. Brown-I hear you are the happy father of twins? Jones-You are mistaken. I am the unhappy father of twins.—London Tit-Bits. 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 medicine if you knew what it contained. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the malaria out of the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that Grove's is the Original and that all other so-called "Tasteless" chill tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows that Grove's is superior to all others in every respect. You are not experimenting when you take Grove's—its superiority and excellence having long been established. Grove's is the only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 500 The man who smokes Old Virginia Cheroots has a satisfied, "glad I have got it" expression on his face from the time he lights one. He knows he will not be disappointed. No matter where he buys one—Maine or Texas, Florida or California—he knows they will be just the same as those he gets at home—clean—well made—burn even—taste good—satisfying! Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents. Excursion to Chattanooga, Tennessee, via Pennsylvania Lines. October 7th and 8th, for General Ensignment of Spanish-American War Veterans, and reunion of Society of Army of the Cumberland, excursion tickets will be sold to Chattanooga, Tenn., via Pennsylvania Lines; valid returning until Sunday, October 14th. A snob is a man on a ladder who kisses the feet of the man on the round above him and kicks at the man on the round below him. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. H. H. J. CHENEY & CO., Propa, Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made to him. WEST & TRAUX, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, O. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, O. We cater the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all drugists. Testimonialis free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A minister of Cincinnati was recently paid a nickel for performing a wedding ceremony. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. The resorts are being rapidly deserted. The pleasure-before-business time has passed. Write President Heeb for new catalogue showing how quickly and cheaply Indianapolis Business University prepares you for a salaried position. It is already evident that the effort to confine Mr. Bryan to the front porch has failed. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. Ex-Presidents are entitled to privacy. So are all other men. Red Cross Ball Blue is better than bottle or box blue and also much cheaper. Large 2 oz. package only costs 5 cents. Life is sad because all our old hats are becoming and our new ones never are. Old Virgin The world likes a human heart lats bare, and then makes a fuss when a man tries to go around without his coat. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation slips pain, cures wind colic. 50 per bottle. Mixed ale causes many serious all- ments. TOWER'S FISH BRAND TRAD SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a mackintosh slacker cool. If you want to that will keep you dry in the hard- est storm buy the Fish Brand Slicker. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. 51ST YEAR Indianapolis BUSINESS UNIVERSITY Oldest, largest, cheapest in West. Positions so cured. Enter any time. Particulars free. Penn. St. opp. P. O. E. J. HEEB, Pres. Ely's Cream Balm QUICKLY CURES COLD IN HEAD Drugrists, 50 Cts. Apply Balm into each nostril. ELY BROS, & Warren St., N.Y. Druggists, 50 Cts. Apply Balm into each nostril. ELY BROS., & Warren St., N.Y. 25 CTS PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION I. N. U. INDIANPOLIS, NO 4', 1900. who smokes Fine Stationery ae FOR SALE Give us a call. ‘Phone 1563 PERSONAL: MENTION WS ris Sie atest ta, ee Bs et from 639 to 417 Indiana avenue. Mrs. Emma Smith left today for ‘South Bend to visit her husband, John Meyrs left Wednerday for Ken- tucky, tovisit re'atives and freinds. Miss Ada Burton of Marion, has lo cated im this city. Geo. J. Dawson is advertising solici- tor for The Recorder. Call and see us in our new quatters— 414 Indiana avenue. New phone 1563 * Mrs. Allie Wood Dawson is very ill at her hoae in Yandes streat. ‘Miss Carrie Winston‘ of Chicago, is the guest of relatives in the city. Richiird Long went to South Bend Ind, Monday morning on business. For Rent- Furnished room for two gontiemen 411% Bright street. ‘he Rev. R. D. Brister will leave, early next week for Washington D.C. ‘The Adelphi Club will remove to new quarters at 43514 Indiana aveaue. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Edward McClelland. are visiting in Louisville Ky. Jobn Vaughn who is working in La Fayette, visited his family last Sunday Rufus Allison is mnch emproveq from his recent s'ckness. ‘Read The Recorder for the news-the paper of the people. Mrs. Robert Kirk is seriously ill at her homein LaFayette street. Mr. and Mrs, Green and son, Wilbur spout Sunday with friends in Vernon Tad. Miss Dollie Coley has returned from St. Louis. where she sbent her vaca- tion. Miss Gertie Harris, of Liberty, Tex , was the guest of Mrs, Dr, Browa Tues day. Abel Lathrop, of Midway, Ky,. has come to enter one of the meaical col- leges of the city. : Mise Millie Hopper. of Madisonville ‘Ky., isthe guest of Mrs.Louis Ress 537 Massachusetts avenue. Fred Meaux willreturn to his bom at Lebanon, Ky.’ atter a visit to hi sister. Mrs. Josep Bowers. Mrs. Matilda Akers, of Quiney, Ill. awill speud two weeks with Mrs. Nanc} ‘Howe. at North Indianabolis. Mrs. Stella Wright has goneto Terr ‘Haute, where she will visit before joi fing her husband iu the Mast. ‘The Rev. J, W. Carr 1s conducting: revival meeting at Piovideoc R.1, Hi will retara to the city next week. Mrs. Steadman Smith, who spen the summer at Harbor Point Mich. an Mackinac Island returned last Monday Wanted Agents—We pay largecom ‘mission. Capitet Supply Company 417 Indiana avenue. i J. Milton Turner of St. Louis’ at tended the Democratic Conventior held here Wednesday and Thursday Mr and Mrs. Thomas Oglesby o Chicago were the guests of Mrs Harr} Bennett last week. * Miss Carris Pierson is very sick wit! typhoid fever, at her brother's home at White River Park. ‘Troy Porter, 2 promiuent busines: manof Patis, Ill., passed throngh th city Monday, enrout to Louisville Ky ‘Mes. Eaward Dupce, is building < five room cottage in West Fourteent! street. Rey. A. Wakefield, P. E. of the A. ME. Z. church was in\Chicago this week. Mrs. Lulu Anderson and Mrs. Ma mie Hawkins have opened a first clas: resjaurant at 1303 N. Senate avenue. Dr. B, J. Hickman of Crawfordsville wasin the city this week attending the Democratic club's convention. Mrs. Morrie of 529 Bright st. return. ed last week from an extended trig through Northern Michigan. Are you going? where? to the Chasity Ball; when? Oct. 23 who by? the Wom: ans Club, aclub composed of 90 mew. bers. Mrs. Roxie Dixon President, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McCarely o! Chicago, visited his mother, the fir Part of the week. Miss Mamie Adams returned Mon- day from a visit with friends at Chica: goand Benton Harbor Mich. Edward Sanders left Monday for Northern Indiana, in the interest of H. L. Sanders. ‘Mrs. Lucy Robertson and Miss Mat tle Finley of New Albany will visit ea iting her son Beverly Pettiford in W St Clair st. Miss Susie Thompson of Fayette st is the guest of friends and relatives ix jer Albany. | Mrs. Harry Cooper entertaines ‘Thursday from 3 to Sin honor of he mother, Mrs. Wade of Chrcago. Mrs: Jno. Evans of Wilberforce O i visiting her sisters, Misses Dora anc Etta Evans, 820 Muskingum, street. All members of the Enterprise Clut are requested to meet at three” o'clock ‘Thursday, Oct 11 at the home of Mrs J.D. Morris, 422 Dorman street. Mrs, Susie Rounds is sole agent for Solar Rayon Sketches and teacher of first and second courses in crayon and pastel, 861 Hadley street. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis of Mar- tinsville were the guest of their sister Mrs. J. H. Taylor in West Twelfth street. Mrs, V. C. Quian accompaned by C. ©. Crawford returned last week from a very pleasant visit with L. P, Quiin at Decatur Iu. ‘MesdameS Chas. H. Floyd, Andrew ‘Thomas and John L.. Evans attended the B. M. C. at Lonisville Ky., this week. Read The Recorder. Mrs. Harry E. Thompson, of Micbi- gan City spent Sunday with her moth- er, Mrs. Alice Battick, 1021 Fayette streer. Miss. Savannah Colemau. returned to her home, last week, after a very | pleasant visit of six weeks with Mrs. Mayne in Washington street. Mi. and Mrs. Isaac Sims have re turned from Edinburg, where they visited friends and relatives. Miss Sallis Sims is improving. Misses Lucretia Bennett, Fentor Hamilton, and Mrs. Mastin Frazier of Cincinati spent Sunday with Mis: Susie Willson in West Eleventh street ‘| Mrs. Mary Dunbar of Richmond Ind ‘| is spending a few weeks with her sis ter, Mrs. JH. Taylor in West Iwelftl | street. -| Mrs. Obanyan Yeager and Wrs Alice Hughley have returned from Ch |cago where they hada pleasant visi s| with relatives and freinds. Mr. and Ms. Henry Harper and Mr | Annie Webster and daughter were th -| guests of Miss Rosella Beachem las Suuday, at Lima 0. ,| Miss Clio Thomas is quite ill wit , | typhoid fever, at her home in Chicag street. Her aunt, Mrs. Bertha Re .|berts, has peen summoned from Bo: s|ton Mass, Samuel Brewer of Ottawa Can ha ,| accepted a porition in the Tonsoris y| parlors of W. Taylor in Wess Walnu street. where he will be pleased t _|meet his oldand uew freinds. n| Read The Recorder. Miss Esther Smith a graduate fror a|the Provident Hospital of traine g|murses, is the guestot Miss Letti Brewer in Arsenal Aye. Miss Siuith i _}enroute to her home in Vincennes. 4| Mrs. Opal Whitlock Leary, ¢ied 2 y |S o'clock, Monday afternoon. Her fu |eratozcurred at Franklin’ Ind., he "|former home. She was the wife o "| Robert Leary. .| ‘The marriage of Robert B Jobnso | of Cincinnati, and Miss Ella Guest, o "| this city, took place Monday evenin “at the home of George Ballard, in Eas {| Tenth street. Rev. J. J. Blackshes Y | officiated. : Mrs. Cinton Nanu entertained Bisho h! A. Grant’ the Rev. R'F. Hurley an *| family, and the Rev. C. W Newtona 6o'clodk dinner Tuesday. The sam s| party was entertained by Mr. and Mrs ¢| Cyrus Allen, in West Eleventh street - | Wednesday, at dinner- 2| ‘The Woman's Club met Monday af 1| ternoon at the home of Mrs Maym Shelton ia Douglas street. Busines ,|was carried on in the usual manne ,| after being served, the club adjourne to meet at the residence of Mrs. Gaine in Michigan street’ Mrs. Susie Wi ,|liams hostesa. .| Montgonery K. P. lodge No. 6 isor. ,| ganizing a Uniform Rank, from among |its memebrs. “Messrs Samnel Mat thews and Geo. Wade have charge o |the acrangemeuts. A meeting will b |held Thurspay night at thes home o Benjamin Smith, in Indiana avenue | The Y.P. A. of Bethel church wil _ THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Nineteanth Anniversary of Corinthian Baptist Church, 4° EE J Ne ZL ii, a ai ty, vf } K : ay = The CASH & DOVE Co's THE CASH & DOVE CO., 354-358 Massachusetts Avenue. Cpen Stard y evening anti ten o'clock. Enterpries Hotel Block. From the best data obtainable, the Corinthiaa Bap'ist church, of Indiena- Polis, was organized on Frdiay Sept. 2 1881, with 138 members Having griev ances in the Second Baptist church which could not be settled, we asked for our letters. and were refused, we therefore withdrew and went to an old schoolhouse then on New Youk street and organized a regular missionary Baptist church; moderator, R. B. Tur- ner; deacons, G. W. Prince, William Cole and R B. Turmer; trustees, And- erson Lewis, C. A. Webb and Thadeus Johuson; clerk, Chas, W. Lewis; treas urer, Stephen Doyle. We held our next meeting at Masonic hall where a Suvday school was organized with And erson Lewis, sup't; C. A. Webb, ass’t sup’t; Ida Webb Bryant, sec'y; G. W Prince, treas At our third meeting Anderson Lewis and C. A+ Webb were appointed tolook for a house of wor ship and they secured the present pro perty for $25 per month which wa: Tented for three months afterward pur chased at a cost of $3700. The nam Corinthian Baptist church was presen ed by Mrs. Mary James Scott and wa accepted. On Oct 7, 188, the hand o fellowship was exteuded toall the bor tist elders of the city Those presen were Rev. A. A, Simmons, C. C. Wi | son, J. A. Preston and D. A, Slaughte ‘That wasa meetong long to be re membered for the good spirit manifes ied: Ifor-two esontha we were withoc $1.00 for 161bs.. Granulated Sugar $1.00 for isibs Extra © Sugar. ac pee sn tot oa aceasta ta worth ae, Te per tb for Jepan Tea siftings. | Roper fb Guspomder Tea, regular price, Teper tb Sugar Cured Picnic Hams. Eo for inege fat Maier, | Oe wptace fos New Holland Herring. 7e 1b, New Croam Cod Fish, 10¢ por can, Red Salmon, doa yackagd fox Paier Matchen, Selb package Silver Joaf Soda. ‘ie per ib Star Tobacco, He per id, Battle Ax Tobacco, 35 pet gallon Countey Sorg ue. eee waltes Tabs Coca: Se aan Rae + mctor large Clothes baskets, 38 smal Gaivauized Tab, 4S for Medium Gatvantied Tub, Se for Largest size, Be, No.8 Tin Washboiler. ‘ Ss tor No, 8 Galvanized Washboite. 3¥ea bao Jackson Soap. Se for4 bars Independent Soap. 10¢ for 7 bars French Olive Soap. ge perio Rigia Creamery. > 15 per Ib Jersey Butter. tafe per 1b oweet Dairy Butter, The Globe Grocery Co. New ‘Phone 1682, ld, 2 on 118 Wholesale and Hetall Departmeats. at... 406 E, Wash, street. Branch Stores 52 MASS. AVE: 400 E, NORTHST, S2MASS.AVE' — 419. E. NOR Harts Orchestra, bas been engaged to idle the hours away with their sweet susie, at the Charity Ball. a pastor aud theservices were conduct- ed by Rev’ Walker and Nicholson and on Oct: 21, Rev. Peter Vertrees of Gal- latio, Tenn. was called. He wasa very able preacher and our congrega- tion remained large during his admin istration of six months. Forty converts were baptised and $1000 paidon the church debt and with sad hearts we ac cepted his resignation. Rev. Richard Basse't New Albany Ind. wasealled Oct.5, 1882, He was an able preacher and kaown as a grand defender of tde baptist doctrine. Sixty persons were baptised and $1,694 30 was paid onthe dept daring his stay of five years. In 1887, his resignation was accepted. Rev, P. H.Kennedy, of Hende.son Ky., was called and remained six months ten souls were added and his resigna- tion was accepted May, 4, 1888. Rev, E. B. Martin of Memphis Tenn, was chosen Dec. 1. 1888 as our pastor’ He remained seven years and under his administration the church raised $10,- 441.82 and the church debt of $2463.82 was cleared and quitew number of sonls were added. In 1895 he resigne¢ and Rev. H. H. Herris of Cinzinnati was called; his stay was very short but nine months but during that time the churoh was renovated and beautifiec and 1366.61 was paid. Rev-Harris: young man of much ability as a preacl er and a great church worker. He or ganized A King’s Daughters Societ; aud that beautiful window stands as: gift from it. Must be sold in Ten Days! WATCHES, DIAMONDS, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, SHOW CASES, SAFE AND FIXTURES, => Don't Miss This Sale, everything ‘The Club will spare no pains to make this the leading ball of the season, fuF Charity sake.The price will be only S0c, ‘The hall will be decorated in the club and national colors and neatly dressed ladies will wait upon Jou, at the Char- ity Ball. Don’t forget thedate Tuesday even- ing, Oct. 23. Tomilson Hall. is ros - i si és oe [25 mee Cloaks, Fars and Suits "____[PAxataN5 OF 508 AND S00 Pek wane We are ready for cold weather now any time it may; come. Our Stock is complete with ws | ‘Everything New. in skirts, suits, jackets, capes and ae ES a toanc. ZS) co | MEN & BOYS SO | sx Le Suits and Overcoats | ce \ all this Falls style--no ot Ae any stock, sizes from a3 yeor is Aree ect ola boy to the largest man CER ee ISS PT ox. Easy Payments ' S€€ OUR LING OF TRUNKS Ruitars, Mando- 91 SOLD ON Easy sa ag, ee Madam McNaitdee + 5 oe a y cB Se REA SER Oro As Rae: SS gee ae ee BR een ie te «Bren eae ee aS eer Teagan? i Lin, RRS Bee * % at whee ae oy i A io Seas Be SS AE A ate ae Be BT a2 Sear ae oa | — os m sev ae eae " a Lin ng 4 aa ie oie Address Madam _ McNairdee 417% Indiana-Avenue. | Has shocked this city with her prop- hetic power. Sheis still in our midst doing good for her many patrons, all that are heartbroken by family troub- les, or love affairs should call on her She challenges the world to excel her advice on love, losses, business, fami- ly and financial troubles. She unites those separated, causes speedy mar- riage, with the one of your choice. Lost affections positively restored, If you think that you've been hoodood or if in bad luck, give her a call. She will tell you past, present and futures No cards allowed in her place of business; no one’s ill wishes filled; strictly a Christian lady and depends entirely on her heavenly gift. Residence, 313.W North St. Ww. M. CLARK, .. PRIVATE DETECTIVE... phones :375"sSe2un, INDIANBOLISS D. Shalansky, --Dealer In— New and Second-Hand Gothing, boots, and shoes Highest Cash price paid for all kinds of Clothing. Send Postal Card. 435 Mass. Ave. Dr, GRANT H. CLAY, DENTIST. 108 N. Hlinois Street. Pi Saves Mansy sup piiyiietyeus brass and iron beds, mattresses and feather pillows from W. D, Shafier 929 Mass. Ave. If you are painful or ailing, think you have been w’tchcrafted go to see her, She spent eight years in the Jungles of Africa and has traveled through thirty-four States doing gocd wherever she went, Do you wish to know who will be the next President? Call on Madam and get the tip. Three Parlors so arranged that yuo meet no friend or stranger; every thing strictly confidential, owing 1 such crowds you may call mghtor day. Permanently located. N, B, Send lock of hair accompanied by one $1.00 and receive full life read- ing. Clip this ad. | J, P, KEETER, 420 West Washington Street | PHOTOGRAPHER Enlargening Pictures a Specialty. _ HAS I deal exclusively in CCFFEE and TEA, my constant stody is to give only the very best for the money—and I succeed Coffee Roasted Fresh Daily A. B. COFFY. vest Phone, 2321 430 Mass. Ave 4 a’ oe oe Millinery and Fashionable Dress Making. fume qasenpies . B47 Indiana Avenue. Mohler & Metzger ~ Subscribe for The Recorder, on€ year St DEMOCRATS KICK AT. | FARMERS’ PROSPERITY. farm Products Advance More than the Goods that Farmers Have to Buy at the Stores. EVIDENT CAUSE OF MORTGAGE CANCELING Since McKinley Has Been at the Helm Farm Products Have Advanced 45 Per Cent. While Articles Bought by Farmers Increased Only 19 Per Cent. The prices of Tem Principal Articles of Farm Production in New York Market at dates of Mr. Bryan's first and second nominations, shewing ‘the penicniie tal Sees tat eee es Articles of Farm Inte 2, Inv 5, Percent, of Production. 1806 1900. increase, Wheaty per Dushel..s..sccese 85 152 288 35, Corny per bushel ssc 18S 18 149 5-5 as Oatey per Wushel ccc Br a 2s 1-2 Bs Yard) Der Ieee vce | 20426 sons 6s Mens’ Pork, por bbi 00000 ¢ S75 $1400 6a Beef, famliyy por ibe Bt 12.00, a1 soltony per stews WG 18-16 "101-1656 Woot, Oba XK, per abe 2812! os hiss vee tom. wtntssesseccccceees MOR - 10.88 ir i fiuiter, per Wen aa a a7 ‘Averame increawe...s:sssssrssessssssceeesessssseseersesnseseseees 45.8 per cent, *Aat New Orleans. tix port prices. The prices of ‘Tew Principal Articles of Farm Consumption in New York Market at dates of Mr. Bryan’s first and sccond nominations, showing the per cent of increase or decrease: 2 Articles of Farm Jat> 3, Inte 5, Percent, of in- Consumption. i806. T0900, crease or decrease Rice, pectnMeearaiiceon a0 1a 203. 11 Sal, pemeboe ston) ne ie 05 3-4 oa Hondmer Pig Irony per tan. $12.25 S10 53 38 ‘etroleum, per gal.yin ble... <i 0785 Wie Plateitenneccncers . sO98T Tek 10488 40 Coffee, per ibe INI leis aa foots 31 Leather, Oat, per iBecc 12S 185, 25 Stuer per WWesersceccwsce. | 104680 0569 24 Tear BREADS eka tras -02 Kotton Cloth, unbieached, yd. 1004 1057 06 “Average increase ...<ss+sssceesssssnsvonsensnseessorssseesecessnsseA per comfy simport prices does mot include war tax, {hupart ries nn ree ee meee ee ae aa hy oe ae Quantity which Price on ‘one bushel of ARTICLES. wheat will buy July 10, July5, July 10, July 5, 1896," ” 1900. 1896. 1900. Cents. Cents. Pounds... Pounds Wheat, per bushel..sssereseesseeseee Gi, 88 sepeess mes files. per pound..... +. seeeereeenee 18 % 49-10 96-10 Teather (oak), per pound. +seeccee+++ 480 36 21-10 2410 Bee, per pouud.. .w<scrsuteueqceaueesidieus (66 138% 17% Petroleum, refined, per gallon.......-. 7810 93-10 482-10 We Xe" eranulated, per pound. .+.2¢22+. 44 5710 14410 154-10 Cut ber 100 pounds....+.sseeeeeeeeee 9FH0a 113-10 6H0 78 Citton cloths, uncolored, per yard....-. 5410b 57-10 11940 lS 4-10 Qh. ver pound... 4). seWiaemap ae dee: 21-10 321-10 419-10 MiLitils «2 i csseceeseguateneeceqas LSLOD) 2410 1°30 7-10 36 6-10 tckerel ....sssesesesaveveannnceenst BME 40:10 126-10 17 8:10 & Average import price during June. ¢ Yards. bAverage-export price during June. d Gallons. ‘The Democratic fault-finders base their eforts to create discontent among the farmers in 1900 upon a different plane frow that of 1896. ‘Then their complaint was that the priees of farm products were too low Now they complain that the farmers re too prosperous and the prices of their products are too high. Mr. Bryan was nominated in Chicago on July 10, 1896, and again at Kansas City on Juiy 5, 1900. Tet us take the quotations of the firet week in July, 1806, and July, 1900, the respective dates are irought as nearly as practicable to the dates of his respective nominations. Nobody wili question the fairness of seioc'ing wheat. corn, oats, Inrd, pork, eet, cotton, wool, hwy and butter as ten representative articles of farm pro- duction, nor will anybody question the fairsess of selecting sugar, tea, coffee, rice, petroleum, leather. cotton cloth, tin iste, sisal (from which binder twine is nuic) aud Bessemer pig iron (the basis of sl) agricultural requirements. in iron and stecl) as ten representative articles of form consumption. ‘The tables which follow show the rices of the ten articles of farm produc- tion and of an equai number of articles of farm consumption at the dates named tud the percentage of increase in each article, also the average increase, at the date of Mr. Brean's second nomination ts compared with the prices at the date of his first nomination: It will be seen by an examination of the tables that in every article of farm produeton named there has been an in- crease in price ranging (with « single ex- ception) from 35 per cent to 68 per cent, or an average increaxe in the entire se ties of articles of 45.8 per cent. In the list of the articles of farm con- ‘sumption there is a reduction in. price jo two of the articles named, while the jucrease in the other articles ranges much lower than that of the farm products, the average inerease for the entire series ot articles of farm consumption being 19 per cent, Thus we see that in ten representative articles of farm consumption, the aver- te increase has been 19 per cent, while in the ten equally representative articles st farm production, the increase has been 458 per cent. Now to take the single item of farm Moduction upon which the fault-finders tase their arguments’and by which they Beasure all articles of farm cousump- tion, namely, wheat. How do you sup- ese it happened that they have selected this particular article “wheat,” by which © measnze everything else? ‘There is com; its acreage in the United States fn 1800 was practically double that of “teat, its production four times as many (Compiiad: tess cliial vanovi and which has been widely discussed in the study of national economic questions of late years, Why not measure by this? A glance at the table which shows the relative prices of articles in 1806 and 1900 will answer this question. It hap- pens that the percentage of increase in the price of wheat is less than that of any other article of farm production, since wheat is more directly affected by the production in other parts of the world where crops have been generally good during the last two seusons. Wheat has only advanced 35 per cent from 1896 to 1900. while corn advanced 48 per cent, mexs pork G0 per cent, lard 68 per cent and Wool G8 per cent. Now it ix easy to see why the Democrats “happengd” to select this particular item “wheat bs which to measure eversthing else, simply because it shows a smaller increase in price than almost any other article in the list. Yet they are gravely marching through the agricultural regions of this country stating to the farmer that ‘‘a bushel of wheat in 1900 will buy less of the articles which you consume than a bushel of wheat would buy of those same articles in 1896.” Let us accept the challenge. Mr. Bryan's first nomination occurred on July 10, 1896, and his second nomina- tion on July 5, 1906. ‘The records of the bureau of statistics show that the high- est price of “No, 2 red winter wheat,” a standard grade by which all others may seit Webeeisa aeaaneatanana: tig eae Meant be measured, was, on July 9, 1896, in the New York market, 64%4¢ per bushel, and on July 5, 1900, was 88e per bushel. Now let us follow the same general plan adopted in the other comparisons and by seleeting ten principal articles of farm consumption, obtain their relative prices in the New York market in 1806 and 1900, at the dates nearest Mr. Brs- an’s nomination, and thus find out what quantity of each bushel of wheat, at the prices named at these two dates, would have bought. ‘The articles of farm con- sumption selected for this comparison are ‘equally representative with those of farm production above named, namely, sugar, coffee, petroleum, rice, salt, leather, cot- ton cloths, starch, mackerel and cut nails. ‘The authority for the prices is the same as that already utilized—the bureau of statistics. In every case the quantity of these representative articles of farm con- sumption which a bushel of wheat would buy in 1900 is greater than a bushel of wheat could have bought in 1896. Purchasing power of one bushel of wheat at the date of Mr. Bryan's first and second nominations, respectively, in ten different articles of ordinary farm consumption, basing the price of each article upon that quoted in the New York market at the respective dates: Be et EEE NS ee ena ees Ve 9 Men ; ~ , } HIGHER PRICES ; ; ; FOR THE FARMERS. ; : ——— BS ; g Hearst's Chicago American (Democratic) of Sept. 20, gives ; the following table, which shows how prices of farm products ; advance under McKinley prosperity? : AWeek Ago. Totay. ; y Flour, per barrel.......ccsseseesesesseeeeteees$ M40 $4.70 $ Commest, per ton....seeeseereesrecersseetneee 28,00 24.00 } Cheese. per pound. .......ssecescsesecceeeteees OE 1% ; y Breaktsst Bacon, per pound ........scscceeeeere IT WK $ Smoked Side Meat, per pound ....:s..ssesecseeee .09 09% y Abert ple pomed 65.004 0s. ccc cocsee vesdov Seen Oe 08% : et y POMS... eee seeeeeseesesereeeeeeeeeee sos Advance of 10 per cent. ; : 0099 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" : : Whi Sy AN eee a ees eee a+ > — heres = e- SON Weg Gee exports. | ee al a : 1895: hblota 1 ZB es AE ae $807,538,165 eae oN Ve OF | GPA we ee” er) Ae 741 = \ fa LW eh ye ae A ; ee ae Number of Af Weel lo LES" a BANK Yah hs \eee AY Accounts: za eo s&s PS) a 1894: 1 8 PS Se y # yo q eT Vgey yf Yi see 7,655,414 eg. ie Lo ye « y BEE a ahi i LOE MY WAY) FEL OLY LY] SOE ve ae ha w Proof of the Pudding sits : In the Eating Thereof. THESE ASSERTIONS WERE MADE FOUR YEARS AGO BY MR. BRYAN, WHO NOW ASKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 10 INTRUST THEIR GOVERNMENT 10 Hs DIRECTION FOR FOUR YEARS. “It Sort o’ Looks as If I’d Have to Expand.”’ Ir welare defeated tn\ this campugn nerelnnotng ber forbeperis bt fons as more gt tard tinceced se aa Boyer hink weharedraned ngayon SS as a Basnfs men complain tat vedanteccan ease ee ta Sas a Hous connect proc y faving poe Sa Sees eee tae Tapia pity pox aceapeiy at aiea a deer" Ritieeetoenaea tines Tite otto eee te Demos Shel Say weal Teeny Tt Pactra ree wintciecertimev inal Tscetcenaare! aegeesb hes gold stn: acre heer. ioncterie shprodectna Biees Uke ee inghntace ose eu Ebew the ead tenant secs eee Hyemtitacrgstes opps Teh to ap oe imine stay an Se ane eee fee teel he name teas spogrenitg” Tegal see Sing Foret te toate See eens ae ig cea peice and ay ter a Suse awe Bate» ola snare monuen tae eit Eeertaioaicce ns aoe “American dolar wi ey <comeemtaner re ee pe Serre See a See Soa Wy Rtrase meet Sie eecai Sores Sat tino sop SS ees a Perse eestor Sooeareueennat ye Scr oees Fa ee cits toe Lariat eee coer eee oe een Une bimetallie si you tate mtn tia ans ste oe Ryeauccmecrass seid siande INSTEAD, WE HAVE HAD FOUR YEARS OF UNPRECE- DENTED PROSPERITY, THERE HAVE BEEN NO DREGS IN THE cup. GOLD STANDARD, e000 TIMES AND ALL THAT MR. BRYAN PROMISED THAT WE SHOULD NOT HAVE, WE HAVE ENJOYED, “BRYARISM IN WEST, CROKERISM IN EAST.” Reasons Why James H. Eckels Will Vote for McKinley. Cleveland’s Comptroller of the Currency Urges All to Unite and Give Bryan- ism Its Deathblow as a Dis- turbing Factor. ~ ‘The political outlook in the West is, I believe, generally satisfactory to those who are opposed to Mr. Bryan and the things for which he stands in public life. In the extreme West his most ardent friends are ready to concedé that he has lost much ground since the campaign of 1896, and unless he can recoup himself in the Middle West and Hast, his defeat will become a matter of certainty. The Pacific States, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Kan- ‘sas will all be found to be against him, with a strong probability of Nebraska— unless State pride is extremely strong— Joining them, It is hoped to make up this loss by carrying Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Any one who knows Illinois poli- ties realizes that it is naturally a Repub- lican State, and has gone Democratic only once in forty years, and that when the business elements were favorable to the Democratic candidates, ‘The same is to be said of Ohio, with the added statement that if has never given its electoral vote to a Democratic candidate for the Presidency since the war. Indiana is the only close State, and those who know it best believe that the Democrats will not win there. In both Mlinois and Indiana, exceptionally strong men have been named as Democratic can- didates for Governor, and to an extent they will aid Mr. Bryan, but not enough to overcome the sentiment bell every- where against him by conservative and thoughtful people. All this apparent prospect of suecess over Mr. Bryan ought not to cause a lessening of the strugsle against him. It will not do in this contest to simply prevent his having a majority in the Electoral College by giving Presi- dent McKinley barely enough to win. DECISIVE DEFEAT FOR BRYAN. What ought to be accomplished is the decisive defeat of Brranism as a disturb- ing factor in the polities of this country. ‘The country cannot afford with each re- curring four years to be upset from one end to the other by the danger of a man of such vagaries as he entertains obtain- ing control of the nation’s affairs. ‘The plea that is put forth by some men of ability that he can be rendered harmless before election by the enactment of new laws is hardly statesmanship. Why place 4 man in the Presidency whom you must virtually put under bonds to keep the peace? Mr. Bryan has so grievously wronged the Democratic party that no Democrat who really wishes to see the party get back into publie confidence ought to aid and abet him at this time. He would de- stroy the country’s curreney system if he could by substituting the silver standard. Why give him indorsement ia that deter- mination? He would abrogate the right of private contract, overturn thegtradi- tions, practices, and high position of the Supreme Court, and make impossible the quick and effective maintenance of public order in times of excitement and stress. Why make it possible for him to even undertake so much that is revolutionary, even though he fail in it all? : ‘No Time for Experiments. I hardly think the thoughtful judgment of ang citizen will say that the possibili- ty that Mr. Bryan may do better in the Philippines than President McKinley is doing justifies an experiment fraught with so much danger to the stability of things at home. The question may ‘ve very properly raised whether a man who is wrong on every important problem which affects the citizens of the United Sentes st home can adjust and administer Fee On ar ne nee ee ea Jerly. Ido not myself believe he can. | Mr. Bryan's plea for the salvation of | this country by the destruction of what he | terms “imperialism,” ax exemplified im the administration of our affairs in the | Phitippines, toes Its force ‘then itis re membered what he pledg:s kiiself . to | carry out at home, in wasters which go to the personal and property interests of every citizen of the republic, no matter how small such interests way be. Tt would be the height of folly in this cam- paign to forget the very important effect which Mr. Bryan's election would have upon the business interests of the coun try. In the minds of those who carry om the affairs which make up our business World he ig associated with uncertainty and doubt.” Tr will not do to say. that these interests are selfish and ought to re ceive a lesson, for the greates sufferers j will be those who are most dependent upon the largest daily activity in busi- ness. No one would suffer so much as the laborer, for he must have :ceady work, day in and day out, He has no reserve capital from which to draw, and the eur tailment of business operations means the curtailment of emplosment of labor, with attendant distress and idleness, Dangerous to Labor Interente, T look upon Mr. Bryan at the most dangerous man to the labor interests to- day in public life, In the first iustance he is a demagogue, possessed of a certain quality of oratory which appeals always to prejudice. In the secutd, he is well grounded in no branch of political econ- omy and unsound in,ull, Ie would bo more unpopular with laboring men, if elected, than, it is claimed, he is popular with them now, because his witeoess Would paralyze business for a long time at Teast, during which time the Inborer of neces: sity would be without employment. ‘Then, too, the laborer would soon dis cover how utterly futile Mr. Bryan's ef forts would be to make better his condi= tion by making war upon his employers, ‘The laborer certainly cannot be benefited by a policy which is directed wholly to- ward the unsettling of values, the reduce tion of the purchasing power of his wage and the enactment into law of views Which, tested by experience and history, are wholly unsound. T beligve President MeKittes ought te be re-elected as largely as possible by Democratic votes, Under the present domination of Mr, Bryan a conservative Democrat ea find uo place of influence in the party. ‘Those who now return to it after rejecting Bryanism four years figo will find themselves without voice in the administration, ‘They go back to ae- cept Mr. Bryan's views. He does not accept theirs. ‘They indorse him—he does not Indorse them; und, once elected, they are not in a position, after changing front, to protest against his radicalism, By vot- ing for him they do, in fact, indorse him, despite a mental reservation that they do not approve of hia publie utterances and Populistic views. ‘They disarm. them- selves of @ right to criticise and draw down upon their heads more blame for Mr, Bryan's unsound views as a disturb- ing factor than does Mr. Bryan himself. For by their act in voting for Mr. Bryan they have made it possible for him to do the harm which they must know would follow the carrying out of the principles for which he stands. Bryan's Purty Popuilatic: ‘The Democratic party cannot be both Democratic and Populistic. Under Mr, Bryan it is Populistic. Tt is so out of power, It would be inore so in power. The best example of what be would do with the party if in power is shown in his own State, where even the kind of Democrats they have in Nebraska are only allotted one or two minor offices, while the Populists ave given all of ime portance, When Mr. Bryan is eliminated Demo- crate can readily assume a position of re- spect and influence in. the Democratie party, and until he is they ought to Sxhe against him. They ean aid the party best by rescuing it from Populism by defeat- ing Populistic candidates at the polls, not by electing their candidates with the rain hope that they can either reform them, render them haruiless, or prove them to be pretentious boasters, publicly standing for things which they never intended to carry out ‘As far os T am concerned, T am going to maintain my Democracy by voting and speaking against Mr. Bryan and those who have debauched the party and placed ‘it in the attitude of a defender of all the isms that disturb the country, I do not believe in Bryanism in the West or Oro- Kerism in the Enst. If a continuation of Bryanisal and Crokeriem constitute De- mocraey, sound political wisdom and hon- cst administrative ability, Ido not wish to be of it. But I do not believe it does, and, therefore, I have faith in there being enough Democrats who are Democrats from principle to defeat Mz. Brran s0 emphatically os to make impossible the things we have witnessed during the past years in alleged Democratic conventions. I really ‘would like to know. what & thoughtful Democrat thinks of reforms wrought in domestic and foreign affairs through the combined wisdom und expe- rience of Williain J. Bryan and Richard Croker. JAMES H. ECKELS, Comptroller of the Currency under Cleve- land. Victory and Valor. i care NORaey stene Serene ce tAir. Marching Through Georgia.) Keep the fruits of victory stainless ever more, Keep our banners flying on Manita’s dis tant shore; Keep our noble President within the White House door, Bringing prosperity and glory? oHORUS. Hurrah! Hurrah! Io honor we are bound, Hurrah! Hurrah! Our money all is sound: Honest golden dollars ringing all the world around, Bringing prosperity and glory! Cherish deeds of valor wreathed in mem- ories sublime, Cherish grand achievements wrought im Oriental clime; Cherish honest duty calling; now's the golden time, Bringing prosperity and glory! cHORUS. ©.P.R. On Foreign Trade. ‘We must know just what other people want before we can supply their wants. ‘We must understand exactiy how to reach them with least expense if we would enter into the most advantageous bosiness relations with them.--William McKinley.